PLEASE, PLEASE, take a look at Lotus Approach before you even THINK of mimicking ms abscess. If you want END USERS to benefit from a niche database application ABSCESS is NOT the way to start. Access has SOME widgets (horizontal slider for detail tables, better table-linking INFORMATION GUI and links), but Lotus Approach is hands down VASTLY easier for end user.
"KDATA", or whatever it'll be called, would benefit from mimicking an AWARD-WINNING end-user relational database application. Access (to my knowledge) has NEVER won ANY awards, and is condemnable in that to "really get work done" in Access, one is pretty much going to be FORCED to become a semi-formal developer. Approach was even mimicked to some extend by theKompany's "Rekall", by people who used to use Lotus Approach, and sorta had to roll their own since IBM (my opinion in these next words) was doing NOTHING to help out Linux users with a mature, likable, stable, award-winning end-user database application.
KDE devs, go to a computer surplus store or go on-line and buy a few (sub $50) copies of Lotus SmartSuite and SEE what OpenOffice has (to their PERIL) been ignoring for half a decade. PLEASE, do not repeat or magnify the mistakes or ignorances of OO.o when it comes to interface usability in Word Processing, end-user databases, and such.
On page 15 of my copy read in "CHINDIA: How China and India Are Revolutionizing Global Business", I read that one:
"Google principal scientist Krishna Bharat is settin up a Bangalore lab complete with colorful furniture, exercise balls, and a Yamaha organ -- like Google's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters -- to work on core search-engine technology."
Maybe write him directly and ask him to supply some of those $10,000 a year developers, unless, that is, they've been re-tasked...
But, the book will set you back (see it as an investment of) $18.95, is 384 pages, and is worth it. It's by Newsweek, and mainly is a narrative compendium of many articles that give hints about what MAY be coming. It's not alarmist, but it IS illuminating and sobering for a LOT of people.
However, I'm tired of the bellyachers who forgot some/many of these prognostications/predictions in Weekly Reader from as far back in 1974. I'm not shocked. I HAVE been hurt (due to poor/non-existent savings) by the downturn, and spent years trying to recover, and earn only about 70% of what I did in 2001, but, I'm not shocked. The REAL problem is too many in the US aren't preparing.
Google drowning Urchin is just Google doing business. But, it might be nice if they return some bodies to the project/software, or release it to Open Source/Community developers, and then sponsor it. Ah, but then that might conflict with their existing plans. Well, Google should spin it off and sponsor or invest in Urchin.
Humourless clod. ALL the anti-or sour-vista commentary, and ALL the other articles out there that are ready in funny ways due to the eye movement, and you, you clod, display a DEARTH of humour. Pity.
"Now he's going to court as the GPS record shows he wasn't speeding, unlike the police officer who wrote him a ticket."
Now *THAT* is the cool part. THAT also is probably the UNSPOKEN reason the police WANT (read DEMAND) this be enabled by default. It enables them to know WHICH cars and drivers they can f*ck with with near impunity. Had the falsely ticketed kid pre-warned the cops he had OnStar, they might have just cracked his tail light and written him a fix-it ticket.
I wish *I* had had an OnStar like system back in '90 when two rogue CHP officers accused me of speeding when they saw my car weaving down 101, southbound, near Moffett Field south of Embarcadero Expressway. There were cars (maybe 5 of them) about 2 miles ahead of me, OPENING in distance, closing in on Lawrence Expressway or already beyond. There were cars BEHIND me, CLOSING distance, about 1 mile behind me. there were NO cars abreast of nor in any proximity to me to be hit within 1 minute (assuming I would slow down gradually to enable those behind me to hit me, or if I were to speed up to hit those well ahead of me).
Now, let me interject here: I do NOT harbor anti-cop feelings, except the 1% or 2% that's dirty AND allowed to interact with the non-criminal population in the public. I like uniforms, some models of cop cars, flashing lights, and hard-core weapons (but I own NO firearms, and haven't discharged one in a range in maybe 10 years), and find MOST cops with whom I've interacted to be nice, congenial and so on.
Now, to continue....
I'd leaned over to adjust the heating louvers to keep my friend and his wife warm, and the changed angle between me and the steering wheel causes my gripping hand to allow the car to drift more than I'd anticipated. But, I did NOT weave appreciably (not enough to BE or LOOK like a DUI driver) NOR cross over any Botts dots. I'd stayed completely in my lane, but must have gotten their attention nevertheless. They closed in, turned on the "take-down" lights, and I warned my friends we were being pulled over, to check their seat belts, and to NOT be looking around (yeh, I know about "furtive movements" getting people into more trouble with cops than they bargain for).
The elder CHP officer had a rookie with him, and must have wanted to give him some experience writing a ticket.
They gave me a field sobriety test. I told them I was not drunk, that I had ONE drink that night (I think I had one, or none), and it was more than 3 hours earlier, maybe 10PM or so) and that we had left the Edge only about 8 minutes or that earlier. I passed the FST, of course, and then they must've had enough of me (I offered to recite the US mil general orders, and other stuff), so the rook said, "I'm going to cite you for speeding..."
"WHAT???!!!" Speeding. HOW was I speeding? You paced me, at under 55, on a clear, dry, uncongested road. You and that pack of cars behind me were CLOSING, and that 5 or 6 ahead were OPENING. If ANY body is speeding, it's that pack ahead of us, long gone..."
They weren't having any of it. I told them to the side of my car, at the right rocker panel and look at the damage. I told them I KNOW the CVC handbook states that damage over $500 MUST be reported to DMV. I had NOT done so. I was in clear violation of a vehicle code that they COULD happily write, and have stick against me. But, no, NOT another ticket. I'd had had too many moving violations already, and any more would have possibly lead to revocation of my license.
They continued to write the ticket, and I became furious as hell. THOSE are the kind of uniformed personnel you Jet-Li-style take down and cuff to their cars. So I ripped off from my car an antenna I'd installed (to replace the original that was torn off by drunkards at another club), and hurled it to the ground. I was right, and they were WRONG! That I threw tantrums could have gotten my ass shot, but they KNEW they were wrong, had written a bogus ticket, and incited my rage. So, of course, they didn't want any unjustified shooting
Seriously, though, eBay should modify the page so that the ad is popped up AFTER the user submits a bid, or if the user decides not to bid, then present the ad. Maybe these ads should be triggered or presented only AFTER the bidder/prospective bidder drills down to a certain depth in the bid. Ad sponsors won't like it, but hey, this DO have placement, which they might not have had previously. So, they still get their "impressions" made.
But, the UI should first tell the bidder/prospective bidder that a number of related adverts will appear after they go through with the bid or back out of the bid.
However, on the chance that the ads won't produce sales, maybe a *tiny* fraction of sales from auctions and other ad conversions should prop up the remaining ads placements. eBay may have already considered this, but something more balancing and less intrusive/obtrusive should be presented.
BTW, I wonder if the page changes will happen in Hyderbad or Bangalore, or San Jose/First Street/Bascom Avenue
Hopefully DO NO evil will translate into UNDO evil.
If Google charges reasonable or no fees to the carriers, but then allows the carriers to still make a living with reasonable caps, then the carriers should shut the hell up, since it appears Google won't be charging them a fee, unlike mshaft. Afterall, they, like the smaller of us, have an OPPORTUNITY, not a RIGHT to do business. They need to update their aging business models.
Meanwhile, Chinese on the mainland (and possibly in Japan, Korea, and a few other places, customers replace their cell phones every 3 or 4 months to the tune of $300 to $400 a pop so as to not look behind the times.) Here, I pick a phone that is not FUGLY, one that I can live with for 2 or even 4 years and not get screwed upgrading a phone which I didn't like in the first place. (I recognized that not ALL upgraders get screwed, or pay a ton to upgrade the phone-- well unless they do it too soon or are trying to upgrade to too expensive a handset.)
Speaking of employee theft, you may want to search for or consider making a bill acceptor and scanner and rerouting path.
When I visited Tokyo in 2004, there was a Wendy's restaurant that had cash registers with bill acceptors. I am not sure what the reason was, but I assume to deter or reduce employee theft of a bill here, a bill there. OTOH, it might have been an anti-counterfeiting scanner to immediately reject bogus bills, forward the phony serials, and maybe even activate the security camera to shoot a pic of the person/s before the triggered register.
If the bills are scanned, (and the serials recorded, not just scanned for security strips), then certain denominations could be routed to the clerk office, or into a container for later retrieval. Others could be shunted/diverted back to the register. Automatic draw balancing could be done, too.
If you're REALLY crazy, you could build a bill sorter-by-serials engine.
*I* am NOT Janice LESTER! *I'M the CAPtain. *I* *AM* CatTAYN KURK! *Spock, you BACK stabber!*
Was Dr. Lester Lester the mole-esther? A/A, she DID hijack Kirk's body. Anyone remember Shatner filing his nails in character as Janice Lester? And, that sway Kirkner did in the passageway... Would make Harry Mud jealous... AND probably drove Spock into Palms Farr, hands down (or was that Ponn Farr?)
Shatner jealous? Hell, lots of Kirk-Spock lover stories still exist...
I just assume that *IF* I were a "person of interest", there's not much I can do. They have technical means (wire taps, phone logs, telescopes, microscopes, motions sensors, chemical kits, etc...) and the law and plain old will power and guns.
Those who have power, money, access, crooked friends, massive amounts of technical, dual-use knowledge, political activists with capacity to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, (or, whackos who spurt ideas but can't enact things on their own, I guess "instigators") and lots of other people have something to worry about as long as they use technology, can't be at home 24/7, and fear another Ruby Ridge...
(BTW,I heard the acronym for the Waco incident stood for: "We Ain't Comin' Out!)
Is it possible, or likely that the NSA/FBI/DIA/DIS/etc. want to be able to ACCESS the encrypted disk/host when the system IS online, and presumably the disk IS encrypted disk? They know they *might* have the keys (by forcing the s/w vendor to turn them over, "or else"), but they want to keep to a minimum the talk that they DO have the keys.
Now, assume they can set up a honey net, one which explicitly mimics the targets presumed safe haven. The target logs in, may be operating as root/administrator (and, FTSOA, assume the NSA/FBI/DIS/DIA/etc. DON'T have the keys in the event of a home-grown kit being used to protect the machine), but for some reason has previously been logging in to a network that had weak challenge/authentication protocols. Now, the target (victim, if you like) logs in to the honey net and all sorts of memory structures are exposed. It may be necessary to spoof or delay or finagle the user/machine to do more things to cause a better fingerprinting of the target machine to occur. Then, at some point the alphabet-soup agency/ies finally can penetrate the sacred area and disable the encrypt-on-reboot or, alternatively, CHANGE the password to THEIR choosing, effectively denying the target from wiping his/her own machine or even changing the password before the alphabet soup agencies can kick in the door.
Sounds like the REALLY paranoid better operate their computers where the disks are inside a liquid nitrogen-filled flask/container which requires physical interaction and passwords at predetermined random intervals or, the disk gets frozen and smacked under owner-duress.
Maybe someone can think of a better way for the paranoid to seal, freeze, and destroy their precious little disks. Chances are, for all they know, those agencies already have a technical means of using magnetic inferometer type devices to read their disks from across the street (typically claimed), or they may have actually posed as electrical repair crews and WRAPPED ultra sensitive coils or wires around the targets domicile (say, if it's an apartment, or an area being supplied with new cable access...)
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PLEASE, PLEASE, take a look at Lotus Approach before you even THINK of mimicking ms abscess. If you want END USERS to benefit from a niche database application ABSCESS is NOT the way to start. Access has SOME widgets (horizontal slider for detail tables, better table-linking INFORMATION GUI and links), but Lotus Approach is hands down VASTLY easier for end user.
"KDATA", or whatever it'll be called, would benefit from mimicking an AWARD-WINNING end-user relational database application. Access (to my knowledge) has NEVER won ANY awards, and is condemnable in that to "really get work done" in Access, one is pretty much going to be FORCED to become a semi-formal developer. Approach was even mimicked to some extend by theKompany's "Rekall", by people who used to use Lotus Approach, and sorta had to roll their own since IBM (my opinion in these next words) was doing NOTHING to help out Linux users with a mature, likable, stable, award-winning end-user database application.
KDE devs, go to a computer surplus store or go on-line and buy a few (sub $50) copies of Lotus SmartSuite and SEE what OpenOffice has (to their PERIL) been ignoring for half a decade. PLEASE, do not repeat or magnify the mistakes or ignorances of OO.o when it comes to interface usability in Word Processing, end-user databases, and such.
On page 15 of my copy read in "CHINDIA: How China and India Are Revolutionizing Global Business", I read that one:
"Google principal scientist Krishna Bharat is settin up a Bangalore lab complete with colorful furniture, exercise balls, and a Yamaha organ -- like Google's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters -- to work on core search-engine technology."
Maybe write him directly and ask him to supply some of those $10,000 a year developers, unless, that is, they've been re-tasked...
But, the book will set you back (see it as an investment of) $18.95, is 384 pages, and is worth it. It's by Newsweek, and mainly is a narrative compendium of many articles that give hints about what MAY be coming. It's not alarmist, but it IS illuminating and sobering for a LOT of people.
However, I'm tired of the bellyachers who forgot some/many of these prognostications/predictions in Weekly Reader from as far back in 1974. I'm not shocked. I HAVE been hurt (due to poor/non-existent savings) by the downturn, and spent years trying to recover, and earn only about 70% of what I did in 2001, but, I'm not shocked. The REAL problem is too many in the US aren't preparing.
Google drowning Urchin is just Google doing business. But, it might be nice if they return some bodies to the project/software, or release it to Open Source/Community developers, and then sponsor it. Ah, but then that might conflict with their existing plans. Well, Google should spin it off and sponsor or invest in Urchin.
Humourless clod. ALL the anti-or sour-vista commentary, and ALL the other articles out there that are ready in funny ways due to the eye movement, and you, you clod, display a DEARTH of humour. Pity.
At first I'd read:
"STALL cars on Vista..."
"Now he's going to court as the GPS record shows he wasn't speeding, unlike the police officer who wrote him a ticket."
Now *THAT* is the cool part. THAT also is probably the UNSPOKEN reason the police WANT (read DEMAND) this be enabled by default. It enables them to know WHICH cars and drivers they can f*ck with with near impunity. Had the falsely ticketed kid pre-warned the cops he had OnStar, they might have just cracked his tail light and written him a fix-it ticket.
I wish *I* had had an OnStar like system back in '90 when two rogue CHP officers accused me of speeding when they saw my car weaving down 101, southbound, near Moffett Field south of Embarcadero Expressway. There were cars (maybe 5 of them) about 2 miles ahead of me, OPENING in distance, closing in on Lawrence Expressway or already beyond. There were cars BEHIND me, CLOSING distance, about 1 mile behind me. there were NO cars abreast of nor in any proximity to me to be hit within 1 minute (assuming I would slow down gradually to enable those behind me to hit me, or if I were to speed up to hit those well ahead of me).
Now, let me interject here: I do NOT harbor anti-cop feelings, except the 1% or 2% that's dirty AND allowed to interact with the non-criminal population in the public. I like uniforms, some models of cop cars, flashing lights, and hard-core weapons (but I own NO firearms, and haven't discharged one in a range in maybe 10 years), and find MOST cops with whom I've interacted to be nice, congenial and so on.
Now, to continue....
I'd leaned over to adjust the heating louvers to keep my friend and his wife warm, and the changed angle between me and the steering wheel causes my gripping hand to allow the car to drift more than I'd anticipated. But, I did NOT weave appreciably (not enough to BE or LOOK like a DUI driver) NOR cross over any Botts dots. I'd stayed completely in my lane, but must have gotten their attention nevertheless. They closed in, turned on the "take-down" lights, and I warned my friends we were being pulled over, to check their seat belts, and to NOT be looking around (yeh, I know about "furtive movements" getting people into more trouble with cops than they bargain for).
The elder CHP officer had a rookie with him, and must have wanted to give him some experience writing a ticket.
They gave me a field sobriety test. I told them I was not drunk, that I had ONE drink that night (I think I had one, or none), and it was more than 3 hours earlier, maybe 10PM or so) and that we had left the Edge only about 8 minutes or that earlier. I passed the FST, of course, and then they must've had enough of me (I offered to recite the US mil general orders, and other stuff), so the rook said, "I'm going to cite you for speeding..."
"WHAT???!!!" Speeding. HOW was I speeding? You paced me, at under 55, on a clear, dry, uncongested road. You and that pack of cars behind me were CLOSING, and that 5 or 6 ahead were OPENING. If ANY body is speeding, it's that pack ahead of us, long gone..."
They weren't having any of it. I told them to the side of my car, at the right rocker panel and look at the damage. I told them I KNOW the CVC handbook states that damage over $500 MUST be reported to DMV. I had NOT done so. I was in clear violation of a vehicle code that they COULD happily write, and have stick against me. But, no, NOT another ticket. I'd had had too many moving violations already, and any more would have possibly lead to revocation of my license.
They continued to write the ticket, and I became furious as hell. THOSE are the kind of uniformed personnel you Jet-Li-style take down and cuff to their cars. So I ripped off from my car an antenna I'd installed (to replace the original that was torn off by drunkards at another club), and hurled it to the ground. I was right, and they were WRONG! That I threw tantrums could have gotten my ass shot, but they KNEW they were wrong, had written a bogus ticket, and incited my rage. So, of course, they didn't want any unjustified shooting
Seriously, though, eBay should modify the page so that the ad is popped up AFTER the user submits a bid, or if the user decides not to bid, then present the ad. Maybe these ads should be triggered or presented only AFTER the bidder/prospective bidder drills down to a certain depth in the bid. Ad sponsors won't like it, but hey, this DO have placement, which they might not have had previously. So, they still get their "impressions" made.
But, the UI should first tell the bidder/prospective bidder that a number of related adverts will appear after they go through with the bid or back out of the bid.
However, on the chance that the ads won't produce sales, maybe a *tiny* fraction of sales from auctions and other ad conversions should prop up the remaining ads placements. eBay may have already considered this, but something more balancing and less intrusive/obtrusive should be presented.
BTW, I wonder if the page changes will happen in Hyderbad or Bangalore, or San Jose/First Street/Bascom Avenue
And then someone hacks, umm, cracks the database and steers them both to Chez Poosay, right in the middle of a police raid on massage parlors...
Hopefully DO NO evil will translate into UNDO evil.
If Google charges reasonable or no fees to the carriers, but then allows the carriers to still make a living with reasonable caps, then the carriers should shut the hell up, since it appears Google won't be charging them a fee, unlike mshaft. Afterall, they, like the smaller of us, have an OPPORTUNITY, not a RIGHT to do business. They need to update their aging business models.
Meanwhile, Chinese on the mainland (and possibly in Japan, Korea, and a few other places, customers replace their cell phones every 3 or 4 months to the tune of $300 to $400 a pop so as to not look behind the times.) Here, I pick a phone that is not FUGLY, one that I can live with for 2 or even 4 years and not get screwed upgrading a phone which I didn't like in the first place. (I recognized that not ALL upgraders get screwed, or pay a ton to upgrade the phone-- well unless they do it too soon or are trying to upgrade to too expensive a handset.)
http://www.toilettissue.us/
Is probably where the RIAA should go. Well, once musicians once and for all stop being co-opted by the RIAA, PRS and the other soupy names can go...
It could descend to lower, muddier depths when people sue for breach of merchantability/fit for purpose for over-clocked use of toilet paper.
With names like these, we should sue (or could be sued for making fun of):
Encore (give a hand, bravo, bravo)
Windsoft (windy day in Arizona?)
White Cloud (certainly not heavenly)
Scotch (don't wipe too fast)
I wonder if there is one called "Ogive", Octave, Harmony, Spiral Graph, Heap...
There's a camouflaged paper design (or pun)
http://www.productdose.com/article.php?article_id=6567
Victoria's?
Or, of the construction labor/Home-Depot/grocery clerk secrets. Oh, theirs is to reduce expansive gut success...
First CRASH!? What's the DOT, umm GOD crash safety rating sticker/certificate?
I was just thinking about how this might be used to coat the intestines, or trachea or bowels. I wonder what kind of rejection the body might offer.
(How long before government employees spec this for Air Force One-grade toilet paper? Imagine the various ramifications...)
BM transplants.. uh, huh... Oh, wait. BONE MARROW.... Whew...
http://www.trekmania.net/diplomatic/others.htm
Chimera, or Malon or Vidiian? Depending on how it's handled, he may even become a Mimera, Chalon. Or, a Chidiian, or whatever.
If he develops a phage, he'll wonder if he's going to become a Vidiian.
All I know is "I'm in no mood to donate organs today," as Janeway said.
http://www.trekmania.net/diplomatic/others.htm
Search for "vidiians" in the site...
If he committed and "licked" (beat) a crime, would you say:
HeLicks or
Helix
is his name
Oh, quiddit...
....o-something
I was going to suggest quatloos:
Quasi-Universally-Accepted transaction-logistics-organized
Speaking of employee theft, you may want to search for or consider making a bill acceptor and scanner and rerouting path.
When I visited Tokyo in 2004, there was a Wendy's restaurant that had cash registers with bill acceptors. I am not sure what the reason was, but I assume to deter or reduce employee theft of a bill here, a bill there. OTOH, it might have been an anti-counterfeiting scanner to immediately reject bogus bills, forward the phony serials, and maybe even activate the security camera to shoot a pic of the person/s before the triggered register.
If the bills are scanned, (and the serials recorded, not just scanned for security strips), then certain denominations could be routed to the clerk office, or into a container for later retrieval. Others could be shunted/diverted back to the register. Automatic draw balancing could be done, too.
If you're REALLY crazy, you could build a bill sorter-by-serials engine.
My $0.02
names were being given out for stellar humans...
They'll attach to his hip with a deep-a-ccord...
*I* am NOT Janice LESTER! *I'M the CAPtain. *I* *AM* CatTAYN KURK! *Spock, you BACK stabber!*
Was Dr. Lester Lester the mole-esther? A/A, she DID hijack Kirk's body. Anyone remember Shatner filing his nails in character as Janice Lester? And, that sway Kirkner did in the passageway... Would make Harry Mud jealous... AND probably drove Spock into Palms Farr, hands down (or was that Ponn Farr?)
Shatner jealous? Hell, lots of Kirk-Spock lover stories still exist...
I just assume that *IF* I were a "person of interest", there's not much I can do. They have technical means (wire taps, phone logs, telescopes, microscopes, motions sensors, chemical kits, etc...) and the law and plain old will power and guns.
Those who have power, money, access, crooked friends, massive amounts of technical, dual-use knowledge, political activists with capacity to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, (or, whackos who spurt ideas but can't enact things on their own, I guess "instigators") and lots of other people have something to worry about as long as they use technology, can't be at home 24/7, and fear another Ruby Ridge...
(BTW,I heard the acronym for the Waco incident stood for: "We Ain't Comin' Out!)
Introducing the NHEUUW QX-314? Burns rubber like hell at 400 h.p., and for qualified buyers, a free barrel of Capsaicin...
Is it possible, or likely that the NSA/FBI/DIA/DIS/etc. want to be able to ACCESS the encrypted disk/host when the system IS online, and presumably the disk IS encrypted disk? They know they *might* have the keys (by forcing the s/w vendor to turn them over, "or else"), but they want to keep to a minimum the talk that they DO have the keys.
Now, assume they can set up a honey net, one which explicitly mimics the targets presumed safe haven. The target logs in, may be operating as root/administrator (and, FTSOA, assume the NSA/FBI/DIS/DIA/etc. DON'T have the keys in the event of a home-grown kit being used to protect the machine), but for some reason has previously been logging in to a network that had weak challenge/authentication protocols. Now, the target (victim, if you like) logs in to the honey net and all sorts of memory structures are exposed. It may be necessary to spoof or delay or finagle the user/machine to do more things to cause a better fingerprinting of the target machine to occur. Then, at some point the alphabet-soup agency/ies finally can penetrate the sacred area and disable the encrypt-on-reboot or, alternatively, CHANGE the password to THEIR choosing, effectively denying the target from wiping his/her own machine or even changing the password before the alphabet soup agencies can kick in the door.
Sounds like the REALLY paranoid better operate their computers where the disks are inside a liquid nitrogen-filled flask/container which requires physical interaction and passwords at predetermined random intervals or, the disk gets frozen and smacked under owner-duress.
Maybe someone can think of a better way for the paranoid to seal, freeze, and destroy their precious little disks. Chances are, for all they know, those agencies already have a technical means of using magnetic inferometer type devices to read their disks from across the street (typically claimed), or they may have actually posed as electrical repair crews and WRAPPED ultra sensitive coils or wires around the targets domicile (say, if it's an apartment, or an area being supplied with new cable access...)
Yeh, I over-think things a lot...