Make sure you are counted!!!
Well I like this, but I would LOVE x64 support more.
We’re announcing an update to Windows XP Mode today that will make it a more accessible to PCs in small and midsize businesses who want to migrate to Windows 7 Professional but have applications that still require Windows XP. Windows XP Mode will no longer require hardware virtualization technology to run.
Windows XP Mode now accessible to more PCs - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog
Keith Olbermann has become a voice of sanity in our news/politics. thanks in part to him the issues of the Iraq war, Health care, and financial reform have all come front and center in the lives of Americans. it is unfortunate that he has suffered losses like this back to back. I hope his family stays uplifted and he takes solace in the fact that the lessons his parents taught him have helped create not only a good person but a treasure for the nation.
By the way, I was miffed when he left ESPN I wondered why, well now I see his true calling.
My father died, in the city of his birth, New York, at 3:50 EST this afternoon.
Though the financial constraints of his youth made college infeasible, he accomplished the near-impossible, becoming an architect licensed in 40 states. Much of his work was commercial, for a series of shoe store chains and department stores. There was a time in the 1970's when nearly all of the Baskin-Robbins outlets in the country had been built to his design, and under his direction. Through much of my youth and my early adult life, it was almost impossible to be anywhere in this country and not be a short drive to one of "his" stores.
My Dad was predeceased last year by my mother, Marie, his wife of nearly 60 years. He died peacefully after a long fight against the complications that ensued after successful colon surgery last September at the New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. My sister Jenna and I were at his side, and I was reading him his favorite James Thurber short stories, as he left us.
I can't say enough about Dr. Jeff Milsom and his team at the hospital, and all of those physicians and nurses and staffers in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit who looked after my Dad all this time, and kept him in their hearts. And I feel the same way about all of you who have expressed your best wishes and prayers to him, and to me, and to our family.
My Dad was my biggest booster. A day after I was hired by CNN in the summer of 1981 as a two-week vacation relief sports reporter, I traveled by train to my childhood hometown, and walked from the station towards my folks' house. I was stopped half a dozen times before I got to my Dad's office by people congratulating me on my impending television debut. There was, of course, only one way they could have known. My Dad, the press agent.
Of course it was he and my Mom who took me to my first Yankees games (even though my father nursed a delightful grudge against the team for trading away his favorite players, Steve Souchock and Snuffy Stirnweiss - in 1948 and 1950). But as my interest in the sport began to take the shape of a dreamt-of career, it was my Dad also sacrificed family vacations so we could buy ever more tickets to Yankee games. When we could afford both games and vacations, four times those vacations were to Spring Training.
He was my inspiration, and will always remain so. His bravery these last six months cannot be measured. He is as much my hero now, as he was when I was five years old.
Baseball Nerd: Theodore C. Olbermann, 1929-2010
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What’s even more amazing, perhaps, than the cross-platform support was that Rudder was able to continue playing his game on the Xbox from where he left off on the mobile device.
Microsoft Demos Game Playing on Windows Phone 7 Series, Xbox, and PC | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10
Over the past days I have reflected on many things I learned and was taught over the years. Many times I keep drifting back to my early years in Kappa Alpha Psi. Some of the things I was taught are summed up below.
Most of my feelings and the quality to which I was taught are summed up in the article in the Kappa Journal* (February 2010 - pg. 54) and the article is titled "Who Taught You to Guard the Secret Kappa Valut?"
In it Brother George Chavis says the following (only excerpts printed for copyright and length reasons):
When it comes to [just] revealing our secrets, I'm definitely against that...
A good brother said to me: 'I could care less if an outsider knows what Phi Nu Pi is-- I understand it, I live it, and I know what it means to thousands of good brothers who have gone before me, and to thousands of brothers with whom I share it.'...
It shouldn't be what we KNOW, but what we DO that defines us...
Clearly, knowing the translation of 'Phi Nu Pi' does not make you a Kappa, neither does understanding its meaning...
does the possession of this knowledge make anyone a Kappa in the sense intended by our revered Founders? And what about the thousands of us who faithfully discharge our oaths and regularly sustain the fraternity and its goals--does our knowledge of the translation and understanding of Phi Nu Pi alone make us Kappas?
I say it does not...
The "knowing" is not the end, it is the "doing" and the "being" of "Phi Nu Pi" that makes us Kappas. If every person in the world knew the definition of "Phi Nu Pi," it wouldn't interfere with "... who we are, and what we do..." And, if by their knowing, the world acted upon that knowledge as we do, that that's all the better for the world and Kappa Alpha Psi.
So to all those who hate on us and to those who look upon us with disrespect think of it like this.
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What are YOU doing to change this world?
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What are you doing to leave a better legacy to the next generation?
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Are you just surviving through life or are you taking steps to change the world for the better?
Those are some of the things Kappa Alpha Psi stands for. Those are the things we try to achieve. And those are the things that, when you really look at it, really matter.
*the Kappa Journal is published by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated. Subscriptions are done through Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in Philadelphia