Another intriguing new product introduction that took place at the 2012 Winter NAMM show was from Lauten Audio, which announced the new FC-387 “Atlantis”solid-state multi-functional, large-diaphragm condenser microphone. Created for audio pros needing an extremely diverse FET studio microphone, the Atlantis features multiple switches for three different polar patterns, gain, and unique timbre settings. It [...] SonicScoop – Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC’s Music & Sound Community
Another intriguing new product introduction that took place at the 2012 Winter NAMM show was from Lauten Audio, which announced the new FC-387 “Atlantis”solid-state multi-functional, large-diaphragm condenser microphone. Created for audio pros needing an extremely diverse FET studio microphone, the Atlantis features multiple switches for three different polar patterns, gain, and unique timbre settings. It [...] SonicScoop – Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC’s Music & Sound Community
Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits : The incidence of bladder cancer has risen over the past 20 years. Currently, around 54 500 new cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed in the USA each year, and 15 000 cases in the UK. Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men in the USA and the tenth most common in women. It is one of the most frequent causes of cancer death, accounting for about 10 000 deaths annually in the USA and 5000 in the UK.
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The incidence of bladder cancer varies among different patient groups. For example, there is a 3:1 male-to-female ratio, though the prevalence among women appears to be rising.
The incidence is higher in elderly populations, with a median age at presentation of 60-65 years. No evidence exists for a familial or inherited pattern among any patient group, although occasional family clusters have been recorded. In black people the incidence is lower than in white people; in Asian races it appears to be intermediate. The lifetime risk of developing bladder cancer is:
2.8% for white men
0.9% for black men
1.0% for white women
0.6% for black women.
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Five-year survival for both black and white people during the period 1986-92 (60% and 82%, respectively) was significantly better than the equivalent rates for 1974-76 (47% and 74%, respectively; p < 0.05). It is not really known why there are substantial ethnic differences in incidence and prognosis, although putative factors include differences in diet and nutritional status, differences in gene expression (especially of enzymes that may metabolize carcinogens) and differential access to healthcare.
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The Amazon S3 storage device is great for a number of reasons. It is flexible–you can use it as a remote storage device or a backup server, and it is perfect for large media files, housing business files, and storing personal files. But guess what else? It is cheap.
SIMPLICITY ITSELF
“S3″ stands for Simple Storage Service, and simple it is. This very user friendly web services interface can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from any Web location. It gives any developer access to the highly scalable, reliable, fast, and inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to for running its global network of websites. S3 was developed with the objective of maximizing benefits of scale and passing those benefits on to developers.
You can have the Amazon S3 up and running on your computer in about 15 minutes. You just hop online and take a few minutes to create a free Amazon S3 account. Next, you download and configure Jungle Disk. Lastly, you download and configure Net Drive. With this, you will create a “New Site” and set the Site Address/URL to: [http://localhost:2667/] (or the value configured in Jungle Disk). Then set the Server Type as “WebDav”. Choose a drive letter for accessing your new remote storage–and you are set up.
Amazon S3 allows you to write, read, and delete objects containing anywhere from 1 byte to 5 GB of data each, with the number of possible stored items unlimited and with each item stored in a bucket in either the United States or Europe and retrieved by a unique, developer-assigned key. Any of your items can be made public, private, or shared with only specified users. In addition, standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces that work with any Internet-development toolkit are built in. Amazon S3 is compatible with any platform that can run Firefox, which includes Mac.
Just think what this might mean for you if you want to do away with limits on your storage capacity on a portable music player device, be able to get your music no matter where on the planet you are, and get it with direct access to download to your laptop. Store all of your music on Amazon S3 and your troubles are over.
COUNTING THE COST
What is really exciting is, you only pay for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and there is no start-up fee. Amazon’s fee scale lists like this for the United States:
STORAGE
.15 per GB-Month of storage used
DATA TRANSFER
.100 per GB – all data transfer in
.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
.130 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
.110 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out
.100 per GB – data transfer out / month over 150 TB
If you’ve got a ton of data in storage and you’re using external hard drives and RAID configurations, and you plan to keep on using that kind of backup and storage, calculate your server costs, disk costs, hard drive upgrade costs, and let’s not forget your electricity costs, along with the non-financial costs such as Amazon’s speed and availability, and you’ll likely find the Amazon S3 to be a money saver for you.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
How does Amazon S3 compare to other popular personal tools? If you got Jungle Disk alone, the one-time cost would be , you are limited to Mac, Windows, or Linux, and it acts like a mountable disk drive for ease of upload and download rather than giving you bazoonga storage and backup power. You can get Transmit 3.6 for your Mac with its OS X system for about 30 bucks. This is easy to use and allows you to copy files between your local system and any system that you can reach on your network, and it can support S3. There is also an S3 Beta out there that you can get free-for now (it will expire) and it works only with a Windows operating system. It is a user-friendly upload and download utility with an interface that operates a lot like any other FTP software (like the Transmit 3.6).
For your storage, security, and remote accessibility needs, Amazon’s S3 is probably the most cost effective and comprehensive solution to be found.
How to edit your Hosts file to bypass Apple’s signature server
If you have an iPhone 3G you should be able to downgrade to 3.1.2 by downloading or finding your 3.1.2 firmware. Open iTunes and hold down “Shift” and click on Restore (if your on a mac it’s “Option” then Restore) and select your old firmware. If you have an iPhone 3GS its a little more trickier then that and would only work if you had your SHSH backed up via Cydia. You will need to edit your hosts file located here – C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (Windows) or /etc/hosts (Mac OS X) and add 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com to the bottom. Now, when iTunes thinks it is talking to Apple, it is talking to Cydia instead. Doing this will allow iTunes to access signatures already stored by Cydia’s “on file” feature… Full post at www.iphone-enthusiast.com johnconn: Apple Training site back up. Mac OS X Lion Server and Support Essentials books from Peachpit out soon. Lion exams available next quarter.
Real Software Adds OS X Lion Support with Real Studio 2011 Release 3 – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Real Software Adds OS X Lion Support with Real Studio 2011 Release 3 San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Real Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and the web, today announced the latest version of its flagship product, Real Studio. The new Real Studio 2011 Release 3 – updating both …
Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: From Solo Install to …
Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: From Solo Install to Enterprise Integration This book is intended for those who need to get things done with Mac OS X Server 10.6. As such, you can use this book two ways.
Release Group: UnknowN ( P2P ) Release Name: Dirty.Little.Trick.2011.DVDRip.Xvid.AC3-UnKnOwN Release Date: 26-01-2012 Filename: Dirty.Little.Trick.2011.DVDRip.Xvid.AC3-UnKnOwN Source: DVD Size: 1 GB Genre: Crime | Thriller Video: 680×384 – 1280 Kbps Audio: English – 448 Kbps Subs: NA IMDB Rating: Not Rated yet RT Critics: NA Directed By: Brian Skiba Starring: Dean Cain, Christie Burson and Michael Madsen
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Michael Anderson (Dean Cain) makes the mistake of picking up a pretty hitchhiker (Christie Burson) who has just ripped off a violent criminal (Michael Madsen), and finds himself caught up in a volatile situation that\’s about to explode in this sun-scorched thriller from director Brian Skiba (Blood Moon Rising). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
I am officially back from SCALE 10x (Southern California Linux Expo), and I have a few photos and experiences to share with everyone. We (myself and a few co-workers) arrived on Thursday (Jan 19th) at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles. We spent most of Friday in PostgreSQL training (unrelated to OpenShot, but really awesome). Andy Finch arrived Friday afternoon (from London), and we finally got to meet in person, for the first time. Andy is a great guy, and it was awesome to hang out with him and talk OpenShot! We spent the rest of Friday setting up our booth, and enjoyed a few beers (that got expensive quick)!
On Saturday (Jan 21st), the expo floor opened at 10 AM, and we got to work. Andy and I worked the booth and got to meet tons of OpenShot fans, introduced it to some people that had never heard of it, and met a few Hollywood post-production professionals (which was really cool). At 3 PM, I made my way into the largest room at SCALE (the la Jolla room), and setup for my presentation, “Create Stunning Videos with OpenShot!” The presentation was streamed live, but apparently we overloaded the servers, and the stream buffered continuously… so most people were not able to watch the entire presentation. Hopefully, I’ll be able to edit a full version, with all my tutorial videos included, and make that available on YouTube soon. After the presentation, I was interviewed (and recorded) by Suite 500 Inc, which was a first for me =). Later on, at 6 PM, I gave my 2nd presentation to “The Next Generation”, a youth conference that SCALE was also running. This presentation was targeted at kids, and was much shorter.
On Saturday night, we attended “Game Night” at SCALE, enjoyed some android cookies and ice cream sandwiches (from Google), the history of Nintendo (which was very cool), and even played some air hockey. There was also a full size laser tag arena, but I did not want to crawl around shooting people after the long day.
On Sunday (Jan 22nd), we once again worked the booth, met lots of nice people, and towards the end of the day left for the airport. Andy flew back to London, and we flew back to Dallas, Texas. We all had a great time, successfully promoted OpenShot at the largest Linux expo in the United States, and were happy to spend our free time promoting and supporting the larger open-source community!
The following photos were mostly taken with cell phones… so… keep your expectations low with respect to quality. =)
Applied Software, a leading and nationally recognized Autodesk Value-Added Reseller, announced today that it has earned the new Factory Specialization designation for value-added resellers from Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. As an Autodesk Specialized Partner, Applied Software has shown that it has made significant investment in its people, has a solid business plan specific to its specialization area, has customer references and can provide a high level of expertise, experience and support to customers in the manufacturing and AEC industries.
The new Autodesk Partner Specializations enable value-added resellers to highlight and brand their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas. By completing the required curriculum and training, as well as meeting required levels of service and standards set by Autodesk, Applied Software demonstrates through its strong customer service and support what it means to be a trusted adviser to Autodesk customers throughout the world.
“Applied Software has been an Autodesk Value-Added Reseller representing Autodesk products and solutions for over 26 years,” said Carl White, director, Digital Design Group, Autodesk. “As one of the first partners to earn the Autodesk Factory Specialization, Applied Software further exemplifies its commitment to the industry with its exceptional team of personnel and desire to support Autodesk customers.”
“We’re pleased to be recognized by Autodesk through the granting of its Factory Specialization designation,” said Richard Burroughs, president, Applied Software. “With our Autodesk Gold Partner certification and an elite staff of Architectural, Mechanical and Engineering experts, we are well-positioned to implement exceptional design and project management tools on-site and to train, service and support plant designers and engineers in the Southeast.”
Pro .NET Best Practices is a practical reference to the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. You will learn standards, techniques, and conventions that are sharply focused, realistic and helpful for achieving results, steering clear of unproven, idealistic, and impractical recommendations.
Pro .NET Best Practices covers a broad range of practices and principles that development experts agree are the right ways to develop software, which includes continuous integration, automated testing, automated deployment, and code analysis. Whether the solution is from a free and open source or a commercial offering, you will learn how to get a continuous integration server running and executing builds every time code changes. You will write clearer and more maintainable automated testing code that focuses on prevention and helping your .NET project succeed. By learning and following the .NET best practices in this book, you will avoid making the same mistakes once.
With this book at your side, youâll get:
Real-world, no-nonsense approaches to continuous integration, automated testing, automated deployment, and code analysis
Tips and tricks youâll need to clear hurdles that keep others from putting these common sense ideas into common practice
Guidance from the minimal, essential approach all the way to whatâs necessary to deliver at the highest levels of quality and effectiveness
Benefit immediately, even before finishing it, from the knowledge, workable advice, and experience found in Pro .NET Best Practices.
What youâll learn
How to set up a continuous integration server that executes builds every time code changes
How to create automated tests that are easier to write, easier to maintain, and focused on making sure the code-under-test works the way itâs intended to work
How to write a common automated deployment script that deploys to all target environments
How to perform meaningful code analysis that gives the kind of information you can take action upon
Why some best practices, which were once fresh, are now stale; avoid this trap by following best practices grounded in correct principles that endure
How to gain support for following best practices from all project stakeholders by recognizing and overcoming biases, highlighting gaps, and demonstrating value
Who this book is for
Pro .NET Best Practices is for the .NET developer who is ready to learn realistic, practicable, and truly helpful best practices. Itâs for the .NET developer who wants to take the initiative and get started following best practices today, quickly producing results. Itâs for .NET developers who want to stay away from practices that only have theoretical benefits and move toward ones with real value, especially within a skeptical project environment. Itâs for the technical lead who has seen best practices get started only to fall out of practice, and wants to understand what goes wrong and how to implement suitable best practices likely to be followed by project teams.
Table of Contents
Ruthlessly Helpful
.NET Practice Areas
Achieving Desired Results
Quantifying Value
Strategy
.NET Rules and Regulations
Powerful C# Constructs
Automated Testing
Build Automation
Continuous Integration
Code Analysis
Test Frameworks
Aversions and Biases
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Scorecard
Book Details
