Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8

The developers at Microsoft also have a sense of humor. Well-known Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8 got a funny look. Now on the floor of the display sad smiley, and, of course, information about the problem. Smile in half the screen looks really funny. Especially when you consider that it appears in the difficult moments of your computer.



In addition to the smiley blue screen of death in Windows 8 hits and others - so that the screen is actually blue. Sounds like nonsense, but if you have installed previously leaked to the network copy of Windows 8 , you may notice that there was a blue screen of death is not blue, and black. Many speculated that he will remain so, but the color came back to the usual range. This is not the first difference of colors blue screen of death. The beta version of Windows 98 blue screen of death was red, but in the final release yet again changed to blue. Why the software giant is so played with the flowers, it is unclear whether the developers are hesitant to change the color, whether it is constructive osobennsot predreliznogo versions.

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Windows 8 was launched on the Microsoft Surface

Once the first build of Windows 8 has been published on the official site, inquiring minds have started to test as soon as possible. Joshua Blake, the world's first tried to install Windows 8 on Microsoft Surface - and he did it! Blake used the version provided on the first day of the conference Build. After simple manipulations guy installed a Microsoft Surface a new operating system ... he intended no compatibility or big problems with work, but got the OS "as a native." All the basic functions of Windows 8 work fine; it can be seen on the video made by Blake.



However, there are some missing functions, so for example, initially the touch screen Microsoft Surface can be used from any angle, but when running Windows 8, available angles decreased dramatically. Blake praised the system for what it is so well initially compatible, as is expected in the future will be a special build of Windows 8, specifically for Microsoft Surface. But praise is not without its critics is something useful, so Blake and added a drop of censure. For example, sometimes the unit responded to the command only the second time, or conversely too responsive to the casual touch. But in general, Microsoft Surface has shown excellent results, even with non-native OS.



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Windows Store

All Metro applications will be distributed through a special store of Windows 8. Before hitting "to showcase" all applications will be tested for malicious content - it will help to minimize the viruses your computer.



Download your application in Windows Store can any developer by filling out the required fields. In addition to information, Ted Dworkin, responsible for Windows Store, opened another and the system interface. It is built on the same API, and that Win RT, and technology is made on HTML5 and java script. All applications have not only a full description, but short - it will help consumers quickly navigate through all the proposals. In addition to the basic information required by paragraph is an indication of the developer bit system, each application would be contrary information, it supports 32-bit system or 64. Dvorkin has refused to disclose the monetary aspect; we are unknown plans Microsoft on the distribution of income and expenses.



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500 000 downloads Windows Developer Preview 8

One day, Windows 8 is available for download, as it has already downloaded more than half a million people. This is a real sensation, apparently, the system will be successful with customers, if so many people interested in Windows 8 Developer Preview, how much will be interested in the final version! CEO of Microsoft - Steve Ballmer, in the second day Build announced from the stage, which was downloaded 500,000 copies of Windows 8. Video about Windows 8, added June 1 by Microsoft on YouTube, viewed by more than 6 million people, and such high levels of Windows 8 seeks, wherever he came, now we see a huge number of downloads in such a short period of time.


At the moment of speech, the popularity of Windows 8 , the screen shown quote the people who shared his opinion on Twitter. Share your thoughts and you can, add enough to record the tag # bldwin.

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Windows 8 will support NFC

NFC stands for Near Field Communication, in practice, and looks like a transfer of content from your device, the "neighbor" with his own fingers - Touch gestures. Content by "zapulivaniya" can exchange all devices equipped with NFC chip. So if you own a modern stitch, you'll be happy too early, most likely, he does not have the right chip. However, in the future, the widespread installation of NFC. Such a move by Microsoft, as an addition to the operating system function that is not supported by one-hundredth share of all the devices, means that the company has a good sight for the future.



The main developer of NFC - NXP Semiconductors, confirmed that work closely with the software giant, while creating the drivers for Windows 8 . Plates, presented at the conference Build, were equipped with these chips. On the technological innovations that have been shown at the conference, read the next articles.

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System Requirements Windows 8

Today, however, became known specific minimum requirements. So, in order that the system was working and the computer must have a minimum: - 1 GHz (GHz) processor or better for both versions (32-bit (x86) 64-bit) - 1 Gigabyte (GB) memory for the (32-bit) and 2 GB of RAM (64-bit) - 16 GB of free hard disk space for the 32 bit version and 20 GB for Windows 8 64-bit - DirectX 9, WDDM 1.0 or newer versions - If the device is a touch screen, it must support multi-touch.



Agree, a truly ridiculous claims, the modern personal computer meets them at least 200%, but there is a reason why Microsoft has been forced to make just such an unpretentious system - this cause tablet. They are often the device is not as powerful components, as desired, and that would have Windows 8 had the opportunity to capture market Tablet PCs, the software giant originally developed the system with an eye to the power of touch devices.

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Download Windows 8 with an official source

Microsoft will lay out a network build of Windows 8 to third-party software developers and the curious people could learn from them. Stephen promised - Stephen did. Already a few hours from the Microsoft website to download an official build of Windows 8 . There are three versions: - 64-bit with a set of development tools, - 64-bit - 32 bit - all the links are to direct download.


Enjoy, and test the new system. No other activations and is not required, simply place and start work. Microsoft is not providing support according to the versions, so that in case of problems, in a support pointless to ask for support, but the report your bugs on the contrary you need it you can help make the system better.

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BUILD: The speed of Windows 8

Do you think your fast is Windows 7? Far from it! Microsoft's managed to significantly improve Windows 8, now that the system consumes much less resources and can run even on older computers.

Steven Sinofsky did not just say that the system of taxing, but also from some old laptop got Lenovo, showing his audience, and make sure everyone that Windows 8 is able to run properly even on the "outdated" hardware.

But the rant is desirable to confirm something, Steven Sinofsky knows it, and so as not to be unfounded, he led a comparative graph, the consumption of resources in Windows 7 and Windows 8 - the difference in the face. 8 Windows to easily wipe away the nose of his predecessor, and really start even the old, weak or iron. Of course, we should not expect miracles in such a case, but the fact that the new system has become less gluttonous than the old one is amazing.

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Champions League, Lazio only a par with the Vaslui

Milan, September 15, 2011 - Lazio 2-2 draw at the Olympic against Romania in their opening game of Value in the Champions League group D. Raja’s team, just back from 2-2 in the league with Milan, collect different scoring, but is facing a tricky team capable of exploiting any indecision of the hosts.

Lazio, after having touched the advantage to 15 'with Gonzalez and the 18' with rocks, super Cerniauskas in both cases, the advantage is at 34 ': Djibril Cissé to make us think a penalty kick for a foul in the penalty area on Captain Rocchi . Before the interval it becomes dangerous with Vaslui Adailton but Marchetti controls.

In the second half , Gonzalez after nearly doubling the head, the Romanians are launched forward and 59 ', after a series of corners, are the draw with Wesley, who head the network's cross deflects Adailton.

Lazio is a doll and three minutes later Zauri fouls by rigor of Temwanjera and is also ejected. Wesley realizes for Vaslui 2-1 (two goals from Brazilian) and Biancocelesti are below a goal and a man. Reja change something, but to sign the Kozak part of it Sculli. At 71 ', the former Genoa, he may be found well placed at the far post on the net and gored nell'angolino cross from the right of the instance Cissé.

Lazio is thrown forward in pursuit of 3-2 and opens the way for the counterattack of Vaslui: luck and shoots Zmeu Sanmartean drifting out. The last chance is the hosts ': '89' does not hold a cross Cerniauskas, Kozak but hits the crossbar and deflects Diakite, acrobatic, high places. It ends 2-2. In the other group match, beat Sporting Lisbon 2-0 against Zurich.

In the other match of the day Udinese suffer, swerves, goes under, but in the end takes home the three points in the first day of group I. The Friuli beat Rennes 2-1 at home thanks to goals by Di Natale (39 ') and Armero (83') that respond to the initial advantage of Hadji (18 '), but the French would have deserved at least break even and pay for the many goal failed.

After a hint of Fabbrini , Rennes has been to become dangerous with a right Pitroipa that makes me shudder to Handanovic. It 'the first alarm bell, the second pass with the French Hadji who served as Dalmat, go away and opened the scoring on the counterattack. Udinese are feeling the pinch, the midfielders are always tricky, and the Rennes Hadji, a 33 ', is close to 2-0.

On the flip in front , good mix-Christmas Island, but the captain wasted all oversized with a lob. Udinese grows, but Hadji has always feared (Handanovic good on his right). 39 'Di Natale is the goal of 1-1 with a precise diagonal right-click launch of Abdi. In the final time saying no to Kembo Handanovic.

In the second good start for Udinese with Fabbrini committing the goalkeeper, but then becomes the master of the field and Rennes is more 'close to doubling times. At 9 'Hadji hit the post, then many other dangerous conclusions do not materialize between the parades and Handanovic aiming errors. Rennes 10 remains in for injured Boukari that, with three substitutions already made, and immediately after the last touch on 2-1, the shoulder is injured and is forced to exit.

Udinese understand that it is time to dare: Domizzi and Dubai are the French rejected the defenders on the line, but at 38 'nothing stops Armero who served as Asamoah, left, and signed the 2-1 beats Costil which closes the game. Udinese lucky and successful, Rennes beautiful but wasteful.


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Mebrom, the malware that infects the BIOS

The malware has a polymorphic nature by definition: those who develop malicious code it does always looking for new solutions difficult to identify and, increasingly, in order to reap economic benefits. One of the most dangerous forms of malware consists of the root kit components that can undermine the 'MBR system and render ineffective the most popular anti-virus tools.

In recent days, security experts have identified a new malware even more difficult to remove from your system. The name of this malicious code is and how Mebrom main feature is the ability to write code directly in the memory that is allocated by the BIOS. The peculiarity of Mebrom has already been exploited by other malware years ago but in the past it was destructive actions on the BIOS itself, quite different from the current scenario.

From the information currently available Mebrom can add code in the memory used to store the BIOS, then set up a procedure through which the PC is a root kit installed. It is then also changed the 'MBR with all potential consequences. The malware in this way creates an environment in which to operate while difficult to detect blocked resulting from common security suite.

Where even the root kit component is detected and removed the portion of source code to the BIOS level and executed at every boot of the PC is able to re-infect your system. According to the information in this analysis from Web root, the Mebrom currently has no payload worrying and, above all, to become a real threat requires administrative privileges on the PC. In addition, compatibility with the multitude of BIOS and hardware in circulation could be a further obstacle to this kind of malicious code.

But Mebrom poses new problems for security experts, a truly effective solution may be acting at a very low level by hardware manufacturers.


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Self Refresh: screens also increase the autonomy

One of the most interesting demonstrations held during the Intel Developer Forum keynote of his 2011 is based on self refresh technology, which will be adopted in future LCD panel developed by LG based Shuriken and perspective from other companies.

The purpose of this technology is to contain the overall consumption through more efficient management of the connection between PC, GPU and display the same depending on the type of images that are displayed by the latter. If the play is in motion must be constantly updating the screen, such as when playing a video stream, but if you see something static, like a gallery of images, the screen will continue to play the same image for a long time.

Self Refresh technology operates in a very simple way: when the screen should display a static image is interrupted direct connection between the display and GPU, allowing the GPU and CPU to enter sleep mode. The static image is loaded directly from local memory integrated into the display, conveniently placed for this purpose.

The result, according to advance during the keynote from Intel, is a reduction in consumption of up to 500mW , which amount may seem small but that according to the pattern of use of the system can lead to an increase in battery life between 45 and 60 minutes .


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Open the Web store dedicated to Chrome

Google has announced a few hours before the opening of the Chrome Web Store, a resource from which to download the application for use within the browser. This approach offers the possibility to access a personalized work environment by using their Google Account and the Chrome browser.
In the U.S. it is already active for months a Web Store for Chrome and applications are available at over 40,000. The availability of a resource that could bring all companies and developers in creating their own applications. The areas in which applications for the browser may be very interesting are manifold, in particular solutions for information, entertainment or communication could be achieved particular success.
Google currently reports have important collaborations that have led to some applications already available at launch:

AC Milan

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Donna Moderna

FGA (with Gucci and 500 by New Lancia Ypsilon)

Finelco (with Radio 105, Radio Monte Carlo and Virgin Radio)

Il Sole 24 Ore

Juventus

MutuiOnline.it

Bravofly

There is also a short video showing some more details.



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Nintendo: we will never make iPhone games (DS)

The leader of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, has denied the possibility that the company decides to devote himself to developing titles for the mobile market to improve their profits.

Analysts and investors were convinced that the Kyoto Company should broaden their horizons by going to occupy even the end of the smart phone market, but Iwata told the Nikkei that his main responsibility is the development of a long-term planning and to obtain quick and immediate profits.

"This was not entirely taken into account," he said. "If we had made this move, Nintendo would be stopped. Owning a team of hardware development within the company is our main strength. And 'a duty of our management to exploit these opportunities."

"It is probably the correct decision in the sense that if we had started to publish games on smart phones would have realized profits. However, I believe that my primary responsibility is to pursue profits in the short term, but to prepare a competitive strategy for Nintendo in the long run ".

Iwata also talked about the launch price of 3DS as an "obstacle" that the company has eliminated through the cut made in recent weeks. During the conference that preceded the TGS were unveiled several new products including the new Circle Pad accessory that will add a second analog stick to the handheld console, the PlayStation aligning Life, and will introduce two new buttons back. Investors, however, have reacted quite skeptical shown by the plans.

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In strong push sales of tablet solutions

If PC sales continue to highlight some difficulty, with a reduced annual growth rate estimated at less than 3% for 2011, are the solutions to benefit from a tablet market demand extremely high. The most recent data released by IDC this address show a sales increase of 88, 9% on a quarterly basis, with a boost of as much as 303.8%, taking as reference the same period last year.

Overall the second quarter of 2011 saw sales of 13.6 million devices, tablet, with an estimate for the full year 2011, which provides a total of 62.5 million devices. The previous estimate for the sector had shown sales expectations for 53.5 million tablets in 2011.

The brilliant result for the second quarter of 2011 was made possible by the sale of solutions Apple iPhone 2, with 9.3 million units accounted for 68.3% of the total against a share of 65.7% stake in the previous quarter. Result negative for the tablet-based Android operating system in terms of market share, increased from the previous 34% in the first quarter of 2011 to 26.8%, to justify this result, even the good result of RIM, which with their own solutions collected Playbook 4.9% of the total.

The estimates for the third quarter of 2011 are not good solutions for tablet-based Android operating system. In fact, IDC predicts a decline in market share up to 23% in the next quarter, with expected growth up to 25.9% of the total in the fourth quarter. Interestingly enough, the price reduction practiced by HP to its Touch Pad solutions will allow the company to score in the third quarter U.S. market share of 4.7% to about 1 million devices to be sold by the end of the year . It is however only indicative of a result, since the tablet Web OS proposals are not intended to remain on the market once the promotion, HP.

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Production technology to 14 nanometers by 2014 for Intel

Production technology to 14 nanometers? Intel confirms its technology roadmap at its IDF 2011 San Francisco, pointing out how this process will debut during 2014.

The transition to 22 nanometer technology is only a matter of a few months; Intel plans to make available the first solutions of this type, belonging to the family Ivy Bridge, in the first half of 2012. Afterwards, in 2013, we will find the proposals Has well with a new architecture and the maintenance of the production process to 22 nanometers, while the next generation of CPUs will adopt 14-nanometer process with evolution of Has well.

Similar dynamic is waiting for the Atom solutions, for use by systems with lower consumption as well as smart phones and tablet. The transition to 32 nanometers for the Atom architecture will take place during the fourth quarter of 2011, with the solutions to 22 nanometers Silver Mont expectations in the market during 2013.

After that, again in 2014, we will find Atom architectures built with 14-nanometer manufacturing process, based on the architecture known by the codename of Air Mont. Thus we can see how Intel intends to play a more and more convergence between traditional CPU architectures, belonging to the family core, and proposals Atom lowest power, proposing the same for both production technologies in a period very close. Earlier proposals Atom has always been developed on the previous generation of production technology respirator to that developed for the proposed Core.


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Heat Problems for Sony NEX-5N in the video recording?

These days he is doing really talked about a video posted on YouTube that highlights a problem related to the new mirror less Sony NEX-5N , credited with 16.1 mega pixels and is particularly aimed at those looking for a camera with advanced video capabilities. Although the upper limit on the movie recording is equal to 29 minutes, for reasons of customs and trade name (otherwise the machine should fall into the category of video cameras), the video shows how the car is turned off as a measure to prevent overheating after about 23 minutes of recording.




The test was done indoors with a temperature of about 30 ° C and a slow stream of air, recording a full HD 1080p video at 60fps (the newly introduced with the new AVCHD format Progressive 2.0), leaving the display swivel slightly away from the body. The machine was displayed on the display the icon of the principle of overheating after about 12 minutes, then powering off automatically at 23 minutes and 22 seconds.

At first glance it might seem an important issue, but an interesting piece published by Photography Bay helps to draw conclusions more considered. First, it is recognized that a given digital sensors should be met by using heat: this was the first reason that has kept away for a long time, and the Live View video from the cameras with larger sensors.

This is true not only during movie recording: also a session of intense volleys and close-ups can lead to overheating of the cameras; the source cites several instances where this has happened to his Canon SLR. Secondly, other cameras, as a matter of file size, have much lower limits to video, such as 12 minutes. In third place is not a common situation to record HD video at 60fps for a long period of time, often the clips are much smaller in terms of time. Moreover, as can be seen from the video, the biggest problem in this area of application is the battery life of videos in one of the things that strikes you most is the speed with which the indicator falls in the percentage of remaining charge.

To summarize the issue definitely exists, but has practical implications in a number of cases that we believe content: probably also with the increase of interest in the capabilities of video cameras by the public is likely that producers are already working to limit this type of defect.

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New to the collection A / W 2011-2012 Pam & Arch, showing the first pictures

Pam & Arch London offers us the first images from its collection fall winter 2011-2012, a line that plays on the idea of femininity and romantic but also decided that leaves plenty of space to the shape of mini-dress, re-thought in order to enhance the silhouette without losing touch typical of the sophisticated and elegant creations of the brand. Inspired by minimalist aesthetic, the collection focuses on a palette of earth tones that rewards and warm autumn colors without too much excess and with a style appropriate to everyday life and to our coming and going underground.

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A collection of solar and lively for the P / E 2012 of Carolina Herrera at New York Fashion Week

Carolina Herrera took its beautiful collection on the catwalk spring summer 2012 at New York Fashion Week opened with models in fabrics and colors and typically cool spring, the kind of inevitable outfits for holidays especially if you love a touch more romantic. The line then is lively with geometric patterns for clothing sculptures; it is not the color blocks as well as more vivid colors from yellow to emerald green, while among the celebrities in the front row applauding Renee Zellweger and the inevitable Anna Wintour.

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Kate Wins let beautiful on V Magazine

Kate Wins let is an ' actress very beautiful and elegant, is a woman of sound principles and with his head on his shoulders and a loving mother. The beautiful star of the film Contagion, released in theaters soon, posing for the cover of V Magazine’s October issue, 2011, a cover and a special photo shoot very intense player on the tones of ' animal, a modern Indian Queen immortalized by the excellent Mario Testing, a photographer who is able to convey perfectly the beauty and style of the people it portrays, in this case, beauty, class and elegance.

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Angelina Jolie for Vanity Fair in October 2011, a fascinating and beautiful

Angelina Jolie is the muse of the October 2011 Vanity Fair, the lovely Mrs. Pitt is wonderful and 36 years seems to have found a way to have everything: the perfect husband, you're adorable children and a career that gives rise to a success after another. Angelina Jolie makes a nice interview to Vanity Fair and a photo shoot that portrayed in all its aspects, as a mother, a volunteer of the United Nations, as a professional and obviously as a woman, a beautiful woman!

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Fantastic Man on shoes and fashion

Fantastic Man is a glossy magazine for true connoisseurs; the latest issue (268 pages) is a special on Raff Simons, a focus on David Copperfield and a photo shoot as many as 37 pages of fashion inspiration like the men they see in Beijing. In addition, style tips for fall-winter 2011 and inspired conversations with men such as interior designers, contemporary gentleman and famous guitarists. But not all.

The duo of Dutch artists Lernert & Sander has created for The Daily Recommendations section of the site of Fantastic Man series of video at 360 ° of which include ice skating athletes, engaged in developments of Olympics, however, and viewed in slow motion extreme.

A great way to learn-as well as doing some acrobatics on skates to drill-tops Prada Men's A / W 2011 for one thing (see video above), here you will see instead of the skater in a leather suit by Hermes, and here with a coat / jacket by Calvin Klein Collection.

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First look at Windows 8: two misses and one success

Microsoft published the first official demo video of Windows 8. The user interface is impressive, but the company is still trying to create a universal operating system, Windows 8 tablet and desktop computers, and it threatens to spoil the standard version of Windows. Microsoft opened the curtain on Windows 8. The new system boasts an interesting visual effect, but apparently the company has not learned any lessons from his many failures over the last decade. In my opinion, the developers of Windows 8 make two big miss, but in some ways than the old software giant all the same rights. For a start I suggest you look first five-minute demo of Windows 8, and then share their impressions about it. The demo video of Windows 8 This movie was released the first of June, with the first public demonstration of Windows 8, which the president of the Windows Steven Sinofsky (Steven Sinofsky) held a conference at All Things Digital (D9). In a video demonstration of Jensen Harris (Jensen Harris), the chief program manager for User Interface Windows, briefly covers the major innovations and promises that will soon be published the following demos.



One success
So I'll start with the good news. Microsoft finally obsessed with multi-touch interface that many users love the convenience and simplicity. The new interface is Windows, as shown in the D9 and the demo video, obviously inspired by recent developments in the Microsoft Zone and Windows Phone 7. Argued that it will be used on computers and laptops, and tablets. The official video interface is demonstrated by a 10-inch plate, and this is clearly a response to the success of Microsoft iPad, which sadly affected the sales of computers running Windows. The new user interfaces, according to the demo video, high-quality, intuitive and offers some interesting solutions in the field of multi-tasking that surely will satisfy users of tablets. Microsoft has long been developing touch interfaces. The basic sensor functionality was implemented in the first Windows CE (aka Windows Mobile). Flatbed desktop support Microsoft Surface complex simultaneous touch and multi touch interface. However, the company has allowed Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung and other manufacturers beat themselves, giving them victory in the mass market multi-touch devices. This is well illustrated by the following example. Four years ago at D5 and Bill Gates (Bill Gates), and Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) presented new multi-touch products. Jobs demonstrated the iPhone, Gates - Microsoft Surface. The audience was enthusiastic about both innovations. It has since been sold to more than 90 million iPhone, which in turn contributed to an active sales and iPod Touch iPad. A Microsoft Surface now available only in a dozen Las Vegas bars. Two slip Microsoft's approach to the development of Windows 8 has two big drawbacks are reduced to the fact that the company is still trying to create a universal product for a universal audience. What you get as a result, is unlikely to fully satisfy at least someone. The first error Microsoft - unsystematic development. In his speech, the president of the Windows Steven Sinofsky said: "We will not tolerate any compromises - for us it is very important." "No compromise" - it usually means "no discipline". Microsoft is so afraid to offend at least someone from your potential customers that piles up on the existing code base a whole bunch of functions and receives as a result of such a monster frank entity nonskid go Microsoft Office. Heard about Microsoft's plans regarding Windows 8, I posted on Twitter the above idea: “no compromises "- means any discipline. Many experts agree with me, but better put it all @ dgackey: «When they say" no "to something that does not exist, it usually means the absence of any idea of their target market." Claiming that the company will not tolerate any compromises, Sinofsky has mind that tablets running Windows 8 will be run Tablet application, the application of HTML5 and traditional programs for Windows, the operating system can run on traditional computers, and on plates. And I think that Microsoft has finally learned my lesson. The company has already tried to transfer the full version of Windows 7 on a tablet, and these so-called "thin PCs" suffered a crushing defeat on the iPad. Now Microsoft is going to radically redesigned user interface Windows, to optimize the system for tablets, and plans to implement these innovations in the standard version of Windows for desktops and laptops. What kind of nonsense? And this brings me to my second major problem: this approach can simply destroy the basis of the operating system that is used on most modern PCs and laptops. At the touch interface used large icons and images that do not require high-precision control - based on the fingers of different sizes. Meanwhile, the traditional user interface for keyboard and mouse is to use small elements of navigation for a more complex and precise gestures. By implementing the tablet user interface in a standard version of Windows 8, Microsoft will deprive users the opportunity to commit complex, requiring high-precision operation to carry out their daily tasks. I wish the company has developed a separate operating system for tablets, while continuing to improve in parallel with the traditional operating system for users who require high power, precision and flexibility of the software. Of course, many only one tablet, and some want to use the tablet as a second computer, but to deprive the standard version of Windows for the sake of the traditional benefits of a successful competition with the iPad - this is the wrong approach.

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Razor Blade firsthand at IDF San Francisco

We talked a couple of weeks ago: Razor makes its way into the world of portable gaming presenting Blade , a mega-portable 17.3-inch screen with solutions designed to meet the demanding gamer. Already looking at the specs, though, the new laptop does not seem to do much of last generation hardware, the technology Switchblade to best suit the needs "practice" of the gamer.

Then we find a monitor / touch pad extra, just to the right of the keyboard, able to adapt dynamically based on the running game, including 10 buttons into consumers, they also adaptable. The monitor / touchpad LCD with 480 x 800 has two operating modes: when the mouse is in use shows information from the game, but when the mouse is not connected to the system is transformed into a new way of interfacing, or in a panel multi-touch.

Specifications are those already described on these pages: 2640m Intel Core i7 2.8GHz, 8GB of DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GPUs with 2GB GDDR5 555m and 17.3-inch panel with a really high resolution, 1920x1080 pixels.

Present at IDF in San Francisco, we did not miss the opportunity to get their hands on this portable discussed. The first impression is of being in front of a monitor really well done, with a yield of color and a very good viewing angle. The Switchblade section there seemed to expectations, while the PC is generally lighter than they are solutions of gaming competition of similar features.

There remains some concern about internal hardware equipment (chassis nothing to say, seems to be in front of a Mac Book Pro in black robes), in consideration of the purchase price of 2799.00 dollars, confermatoci here at IDF. A figure that seems excessive, even considering the impeccable construction, the excellent panel and the Switchblade integration Della technology.

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uTorrent under attack: two hours to spread Malware

A group of as yet unidentified hackers managed to take hold of the web server utorrent.com, the website of one of the most used client, coosciuti and disseminated on the Internet for downloading torrent files. The bad guy’s avrebebro replaced the normal client for the download with malware.

The breach was open during the day on Tuesday and would have also involved the portal bittorrent.com. The directors of the two sites, however, have identified the problem and promptly put down the servers within a short time.

"This morning, around 4:20 (Pacific Time, our 13) web server and bittorrent.com utorrent.com have been compromised. Our standard software for download has been replaced by a fake anti-virus scare ware”, the company announced on its official blog at this address.

The dynamics of the attack, carried out successfully, provided for the replacement of the torrent client with a program scare ware: users who downloaded the application you are found to install a program that will alert, completely false, that it has found viruses on the PC, promoting the purchase of antivirus software. Infections of this type to get, in most cases, by the Trojans.

Bit torrent warns users that all those who had downloaded the uTorrent client from the site in the timetable between 4:20 and 6:10 in the morning on the day of Tuesday 13, they had better control with an anti-virus updated your system

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Symbian smart phones still leads the rankings in Europe

In a year its market share fell by 16 percentage points, but despite that Symbian continues to be the first in the standings between the operating systems for smart phones in the five major European countries. In sharp growth Android, that 16 percentage points of market share in one year instead of them earned. The data are those published by Com Score.


An increase of about one and a half to head Apple and RIM, down by almost 5% on Microsoft, which leaves the podium and is relegated to fifth position. A year ago, Symbian held more than half of the market, and now rivals the most direct (Android and iPhone OS) are much closer, in second and third.



Looking in detail the portion held by Android is detected as two thirds of the EU market of smart phones target Top 5 Google (19.7 million units in July) are branded HTC and Samsung, with a slight majority of Taiwanese, 34, against 6% share from Samsung, 31.7%. HTC terminals are by far the favorite among the Android in the UK, with the reverse situation in France.


Sony Ericsson is the third player in the Android Market and divides about 15% of the market, except that in our country, which must be satisfied by 8, 3% market share of Google target terminals. More than a third of android gives his preference to Samsung, HTC and 1 buys four. In our country, LG is the fastest European success (only one in which is located on the podium), with 10% of Android Market.

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The Canon CMOS sensor is located in a 202x205 mm telescope

Last year, Canon had surprised with the presentation of a CMOS sensor of colossal dimensions, and some have wondered what could serve as a sensor of about eight inches on each side, about 40 times the area of the elements used on full frame SLR. About a year later the answer is the one many had pointed out as the most likely: the CMOS sensor 202 x 205 mm was installed in a telescope, to be precise Schmidt telescope located at the observatory of the University of Tokyo.



The sensor will be dedicated to the observation of meteors, due to its ability to record images at 60 frames per second even in low light conditions. The combination of multiple sensor telescopes should enable the observation of phenomena previously too weak to be detected, thanks to its high (for the specific field) viewing angle of 3.3 ° x3.3 °.

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MSI and Gigabyte motherboards with x79 chipset

Technical features of the Intel motherboard DX79SI solution based on LGA-2011 compatible with future Intel's Sandy Bridge-E family. These platforms will debut in the segment-end enthusiast market in the fourth quarter of 2011, going to take the place of platforms based on Socket LGA 1366 Intel X58 chipset and the market for a long time.
MSI and Gigabyte showed at IDF 2011 some of its proposals based on the new socket for Core i7, their analysis allows us to highlight some basic specifications. The top models, like MSI x79-GD65 (8D) integrate up to 8 slots for DDR3 memory modules, thus allowing to extend the provision of onboard memory compared to the proposals with only 4 slots. Recall how the LGA-2011 CPU will incorporate DDR3 memory controller type quad channel, thus requiring the presence of 4 memory modules to be exploited to their maximum theoretical capabilities.
The proposals show compatibility with Gigabyte NVIDIA SLI configurations, up to a maximum of 4 cards in parallel depending on the implementation made in the specific motherboard. Dynamics similar to MSI, which however does not specify compatibility with the corresponding Cross Fire X AMD Radeon HD video cards, however we believe that this is an oversight as Cross Fire X compatibility is a technical element to this for some time on motherboards based on Intel chipests.


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San disk is paired with Eye-Fi for the European market

Interest in the SD memory card with Wi-Fi connectivity is high, but the products have not yet exploded in terms of sales: Eye-Fi is on the market for some time overseeing the niche and taking the field of Toshiba could reinvigorate the market. Smelling the business opportunities in the sector, San Disk has decided to enter the market, making the choice not to develop a product from scratch, but alongside the European market on its name to the Eye-Fi.



The choice has several good basic reasons: Eye-Fi is a tried and tested product, but outside the U.S. has had little hold on consumers, while San disk is recognized in our continent as a leader in memory cards. With so little effort San disk makes sure to enter what analysts consider one of the markets of the future and Eye-Fi makes sure a key to enter the Old Continent, counting on the distribution network of San disk.

Eye-Fi cards allow, through the Wi-Fi, the wireless transfer of images to your computer or to use hot-spot for quickly and easily share your images on the Web, filling a gap the strongest cameras towards their phones, some users also preferred by the photographic point of view because of the possibility of direct upload of pictures you just took. When the cards are available in denominations of 4GB and 8GB


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Intel SSD Series 710, now with official prices

Solid State Drive Intel 710 series: we have already spoken extensively on these pages, but now come the official press release from Intel. Designed to replace the now obsolete series X-25E, the new family memories expensive SLC 710 waiver for the benefit of the previous series of chips at 25 nm MLC NAND, meanwhile evolved into something much more refined than during the presentation of x -25E.


NAND Flash chips in the series 710, in fact, we find the technology Intel High Endurance (HET) , designed to provide the strength and performance necessary for data centers, financial services, comprehensive solutions, Internet portals, search engines and other applications demanding Storage and server. Intel says a resistance 30 times higher than the NAND flash chips without HET, referring to the different pitfalls that undergoes a form of NAND flash in his life, such as the cycles of writing and rewriting, but not only.

The resistance of default with respect to writing well reaches 1.1 pet bytes (1 PB), a parameter that is gradually replacing MTBF at least for Enterprise SSDs. The cuts are available in 100 GB, 200 GB and 300 GB, while when I / O states for the new Intel SSDs Intel 710 up to 2,700 IOPS (Input / Output Operations Per Second) performance in the random write 4 KB and up to 38,500 IOPS random read performance of 4 KB for the entire life cycle of the unit. Note that for the discs you use enterprise values of I / O certainly more accurate and less optimistic than those typical of the consumer world.

The official prices, virtually identical to those already reported on our pages, so they are more advantageous than those of the old units when compared to the X-25E capacities, but they remain very high. It starts from 100 GB of 649.00 dollars, passing for 200 GB of $ 1,289.00, finishing the drive with 300 GB 1929.00 Dollars, all in 1,000-unit quantities. Prices from sector enterprise, certainly not for all pockets.

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Diablo III without latency problems in combat? (PC, Mac)

Diablo III Lag-Free? is the conclusion to which the journalist arrives Inc Gamers has contacted some of the participants 'friends and family beta test' of Diablo III that is taking place these days and before the open beta testing expected by the end of September. Inc Gamers According to sources, therefore, not be felt latency in communications between clients and servers.

They argue that Blizzard is using a new system of client / server communication that provides a safe and tamper-proof for the local client to manage their own calculations and sends the data to the server for verification. The client, during operation, does not require that the server responds, and this would avoid the latency problems. That is true only for the fighting, which then would present problems of latency.

Inc Gamers sources do not know, however, the technical details of how the system functions mainly on how to protect against tampering with the client. They believe, however, that the server controls all data from the client only when there are fights, and if you detect corrupted data or tampered with, interrupt the connection. This is the only type of relationship between client and server, while in the rest of the game, as mentioned; the client is able to continue to operate without response from the server.

It is especially important news for those nations that do not have servers located, and which must therefore rely on foreign servers. On the other hand, the combat in Diablo III, as well as in the predecessors, is very fast and a slight braking effect impairs the performance of players. The other game features, such as looting or finding in the coffers, however, remain subject to possible latencies.

Inc Gamers believes the news confirmed by the testimony of some players in Australia, which have no local game servers: report, in fact, that their actions do not notice delays in combat, despite having at least 200 ms of latency. Also according to Inc Gamers, the video below, confirm the presence of the new technology of Blizzard on the management of client / server communications:



The new technology is required by the necessity of Diablo III to have permanent internet connection , designed by Blizzard to prevent tampering with the characters and allow new features such as persistent friends list, cross-game chat, persistent characters that will be stored in servers, and more again.

Blizzard has not yet revealed the launch date of the beta of Diablo III which has made frequent reference. Should be available, however, by the end of September. Here you will find new information on computer skills Della Diablo III

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HP compensates European customers who bought or touchpad Pre3

Its decision to spin off the branch for the world to give products such as PCs and Touch Pad and Pre3, we talked about in recent weeks. He had attracted a lot of buzz from the strategy applied: the announced end of the product, with particular reference to the solution tablet, touch pad was sold on the North American market at extremely low prices (down up to $ 99). Touch Pad is so sold out within days.



Just a week since the announcement of sale of some products, however, HP continues the saga: the well-known American company, in fact, now offers compensation in part to all users who bought the tablet or smart phone at full price. Unaware of the intentions of HP, in fact, are now holding a product discontinued. The compensation figure includes coverage of the promotional purchase and originality.

This is certainly not a new policy, which HP has already been applied in the United States as a result of aggressive pricing offered by the chain Best Buy Touch Pad. The compensation should, in theory at least, going to make it less "traumatic" the abandonment of the products from HP.

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Thunderbolt to PCs from 2012

Presented by Intel a few years ago with the code name of Light Peak, Thunderbolt is now a communication interface has already been adopted on the latest generation of Apple machines. Thunderbolt is born from the collaboration between Intel and Apple, with the aim to propose an interface that will replace all existing ones on the current machine (USB, FireWire and eSATA, for instance), obviously with appropriate values of bandwidth.

Thunderbolt, in this respect, does not miss anything: each connector incorporates two channels of 10Gbit / s each (with the possibility of the coexistence of copper and fiber optic), with room for expansion up to 100 Gbit / s in the future. The connector is the same as Apple mini Display Port, and combines in a single data stream data transfer protocols Display Port and PCI Express.

This is to give a brief summary. Up to now, as mentioned, only the Apple machines are equipped with the latest generation of that interface, thanks to agreements of exclusive use of which have asked us not to talk. Mooly Eden, during his keynote address, said that Thunderbolt is also coming to PC in 2012; with almost all the brands are ready to embrace the standard, although most probably without abandoning those "historical".

The real problem is the very low diffusion Thunderbolt devices. It's not a surprise considering that the rapid worldwide spread of Apple machines reaches about 5% and that only a part of this consists of machines of last generation, it is easy to understand the attitude of wait-producers. With the arrival of Thunderbolt PC all, probably will change.

At the Intel Developer Forum, there was still a section entirely dedicated to Thunderbolt, where they were exposed to perfer available today. There are boxes for converting audio and video (I XT Hague), passing through the dock door conversion Belk in.

More interesting than the Sonnet models Echo Express 2.0 PCIe Expansion, which allows you to use a PCI Express to connect to external systems, as well as the external drive Seagate Go Flex Mobile removable terminals, can communicate with USB 2.0, FireWire 800 and a Thunderbolt depending on the connector installed. High prices of all units on display, but with higher things will change.


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Has well: great attention to fuel economy

One of the first day of the announcements at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco about a specific technical feature of known solutions with the code name of Has well, a family of CPUs that Intel plans to make available on the market since 2013.

One of the first objective concerns the decrease in consumption of the processor up to 30% of the so-called stand-connected: this should allow you to bring your notebook to have a standby better than is possible with the Sandy Bridge architecture currently available.



This, however, is not all: according to various optimizations that Intel will be implemented in the platform Has well as a whole will achieve a reduction in the total consumption in the standby platform connected up to 20 times, to allow a notebook to remain in this condition up to 10 consecutive days, while keeping the notebook connected to the cloud for the synchronization of the messaging services such as email.

A feature of this type would alter the patterns of use of notebook systems, the emphasis being placed on standby for use in connected a long time without fear of running out the batteries quickly.

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Intel Ivy Bridge: The main new architectural

On the occasion of its Intel Developer Forum, an event that is taking place these days in San Francisco, Intel has provided some of the technical characteristics of future CPUs belonging to the family Ivy Bridge . These solutions, with CPU and GPU components in house, will be built with 22 nanometer technology, first used in the construction of processors. The debut is expected during the first half of 2012, presumably early in the second quarter.

They are well 1.4 billion transistors that will make up the Ivy Bridge solutions, we believe in the quad-core implementation. This is a quantity of more than approximately 20% compared to that of Sandy Bridge solutions currently on the market: it is conceivable that this increase is mainly due to the innovations implemented in the GPU part, that in which we expect major innovations.

Ivy Bridge maintains a structure similar to that of solutions Sandy Bridge and this is evident as early as the socket connection, which remains the LGA 1155. We find then on a single die CPU and GPU components, linked together through the ring bus. Do not miss Controller PCI Express and DDR3 memory controllers, dual-channel type.

Among the main changes implemented by Intel in future architectural solutions Ivy Bridge signal the presence of a specific L3 cache for the GPU component, an element that was unified with the other hand, the Sandy Bridge CPU solutions. This approach would reduce the resources in terms of bandwidth internal bus to the processor of the ring, bringing direct benefit as a reduction in consumption.



Changes were also implemented technology to Intel's Quick Sync videos, which would use the component inside the processor to GPU to speed up conversion and Trans coding of video streams. This feature was first introduced in the proposed Sandy Bridge with good performance results, but unfortunately limited to a small number of such scenarios. Ivy Bridge with Intel on the one hand wants to overcome these limitations, the other trying to further improve the conversion time.

We also find Digital Random Number Generator and Supervisory Mode Execution Protection features that enhance the approach to data security inside the processor.

Deserve a specific mention of the information provided by Intel with regard to over clock these processors. The memory controller has been amended to also accept the use of memories up to DDR3 2,800 MHz maximum clock , with increases in clock frequency that will be in steps of 200 MHz. Sandy Bridge, by way of comparison, the maximum clock frequency of the memory is configurable to 2,133 MHz frequency will be increased by the multiplier selected as the most, going from 57x to 63x today, Intel did not specify, but we think it plausible that this will happen Ivy Bridge CPUs only unlocked by default, so belonging to the K-family .

Various internal optimizations related to the reduction of the consumption function were also implemented in the memory controller. Specifically this component, the CPU intended for mobile systems, will also use low-voltage DDR3 (DDR3L) as well as implement optimizations that reduce the active power.

We have already had occasion to talk about the TDP configurable, another characteristic of specific solutions for the mobile segment Ivy Bridge that will have levels of TDP differentiated depending on the type of cooling system that is coupled to the processor. Intel indicates the TDP with 3 different ranges: nominal, configurable lower TDP (down CTDP) and upper configurable TDP (CTDP up). The first is the standard value for the CPU and the second is a lower value to allow mobile devices to further reduce consumption. The third, finally, is worth more than that requires a cooling system is adequate but that gives you higher performance levels. The TDP variable is independent of the Turbo Boost technology, which continues to be present regardless.

Various innovations, then, are those that will be built by Intel in Ivy Bridge, far more than we would have expected considering that with this architecture is the real novelty is represented by the production technology to 22 nanometers. This is also why Intel refers to as a tick + Ivy Bridge, that is an update that is higher than normally seen in the past by adopting a new production process.

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AMD shows the first 28 nanometer GPU

In conjunction with the Intel Developer Forum, AMD has shown according to the first prototype of next-generation GPU built with 28-nanometer production technology . This is a mobile chip, belonging to what should be listed as Radeon 7000. AMD did not provide any specific information, but the following pictures published on your Face book profile.



David Cummings, Director of Technology Management, Division of AMD GPUs, has shown a feature test platform notebooks in which they combined the new discrete GPU, mounted on what appears to be a MXM module, and a series APU Llano. Not surprisingly, the form of this test system: this is the platform for internal validation of AMD's mobile solutions, which will later be taken as a reference for the development of notebook.





It remains now to see when AMD will release these new mobile GPU architectures, and of course the desktop counterpart. The demo, based on the game Dirt 3, confirms Taiwan's TSMC has begun production of sample with 28-nanometer technology, but it now remains to understand in what volumes, and how effective marketing period in the market.

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DX79SI Intel, motherboard reference for Sandy Bridge processors

Intel IDF uses the window to show, work, the new reference motherboard processor Sandy Bridge And equipped with the new chipset Express x79. Let us briefly recall that this card is in the field enthusiast, where fans and gamers go to seek more powerful hardware for their needs.

The new card is called DX79SI and has many upgrades compared to the Intel platform that preceded it in the field, characterized by well-known and appreciated chipset X58 Express. First of all comes with the new socket LGA2011, perfect companion for Sandy Bridge processors E (Extreme) and the upcoming high-end market for the "home".



One can immediately notice the integration of as many as 8 memory banks in order to take full advantage of quad-channel memory. In the IDF we have seen similar solutions from other partners, as well as versions "quiet" with fewer slots. We will discuss elsewhere. Returning to DX79SI is easy to see how the cooling system of the CPU has to abide by stricter laws in terms of size, than we used to do with other solutions of the previous generation.

The proximity of the memory banks, as well as the mounting of the socket, give a headache to producers of aftermarket heat sinks. Intel still has abnormal thought of a solution for the company; why not bring along a cooler to the card water cooled? Idea certainly not be discarded, having regard to the customers who will pay attention.

He then lists his entry in Intel RTS2011LC CPU Water Cooler, Ascetic conceptually very similar to the models, which offers fans the opportunity to stay home from Intel for this type of cooling used by clackers and beyond. To signal the presence of three 16x PCI Express slot and two PCIe 1x, and is confirmed to be compatible with PCI Express 3.0.

Appears to lack the equipment instead of SATA ports, given the nature of high-end card. There are only four SATA ports, two of which are compatible with standard SATA 6Gbps. Is it an adaptation of the last hour, as in the past months had emerged as voices that gave even the integrated SAS ports, which are absent in this official version. If there were even these, the total number could actually be aligned to what the motherboard manufacturer’s offer in their range soluzionitop.

The location, fully functional, showing a processor and Sandy Bridge (probably the model that will be called Core i7 Extreme 3960X, nominal 3.3 GHz, 6 physical cores, 15MB L3 cache), engaged in a session of overclocking, which has brought to the operating frequency of 4.72 GHz well Ok, the 8.4 GHz AMD away (There are the lost? Find it here ) but here we are talking about a location in the house entirely manageable without resorting to liquid nitrogen, and other devices ... Below is a gallery of the motherboard, as well as screens photographed during the session overclocking. Enjoy.

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Ugg Australia - Collection A / W 2011-12

We had already given a preview and now we present the new advertising campaign officially Australian brand that is crazy celebrities (but not only). The setting is one of the lagoon city of Venice, now the place for field shoots and of course romantic setting for any product launch in the feminine. Venezia by Laura Biagiotti is just one example.
Romance and ambience of yesteryear, then. But, given the pieces of the new line, not only that many animal patterns and references to a woman with a mysterious charm. The leathers used are leather and fur, the lines a little 'harsh but still feminine, the colors chosen range from the classic shades darker winter, until you get to that very clear, almost spring. The models are the coolest trunks and boots over the knee, the calls are more attractive than the military. A mix of aggressive and women's all-new brand for the Australian, best known for sheepskin. The purpose of UGG is indeed to raise awareness of the wide range of collections and not be tied only to the image of sheepskin boots. Which, frankly, have a little ‘tired? Will aim to undermine a fashion so widespread? We'll see. I suspect that, whatever happens, it will be a success.

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