Who I Am In Christ

Who I Am In Christ

 Matthew 4:19; Mark 1:17—I am a fisher of men.
 Matthew 5:13—I am the salt of the earth.
 Matthew 5:14—I am the light of the world.
* Matthew 28:19; Luke 14:27; John 8:31; 13:35; 15:8; Acts 6:1, 7; 11:25-26, 29; 14:20-22; 16:1—I am a disciple of Christ.
 Luke 24:48; Acts 1:8—I am Christ’s witness.
* John 3:16-18; 10:28-29; 17:3; Romans 5:21; 6:23; 1 John 5:11—I have eternal life in Christ.
 John 8:32, 36—I am set free from sin in Christ.
 John 10:10—I have abundant life in Christ.
 John 14:26; 16:13—I have been taught all things by the Holy Spirit.
 John 14:27; 16:33—I have peace in Christ.
 John 15:3—I am clean in Christ.
 John 15:4, 5, 8, 16; Romans 7:4—I bear much lasting fruit in Christ.
 John 15:5—I am a branch abiding in Christ the Vine.
 John 15:11—My joy is complete in Christ.
 John 16:33—I have overcome the world in Christ.
 John 17:16—I am not of this world.
 Acts 2:44; 4:32—I am a believer.
 Acts 5:20—I have new life in Christ.
 Acts 8:3; 2 Corinthians 1:1—Together with all the saints, I am God’s Church.
 Acts 11:26—I am a Christian, a little Christ.
* Acts 13:39; Romans 3:24, 26, 28, 30; 4:25; 5:1, 9, 18; 10:10; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Titus 3:7—I am justified freely and fully.
 Acts 20:32; 1 Corinthians 6:11—I am sanctified.
 Romans 1:6—I am called to belong to Christ.
* Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 6:1, 2; 2 Corinthians 1:1; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; 4:21, 22; Philemon 4; Jude 3—I am a saint.
* Romans 3:24; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14—I am redeemed in Christ.
* Romans 3:21-26; 4:3, 5, 6, 9, 22, 23, 24; 5:17, 19; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 3:9—I have been credited with Christ’s righteousness.
* Romans 5:17—I am a recipient of God’s abundant provision of grace.
* Romans 5:18—I have new life in Christ.
 Romans 6:2—I am dead to sin.
 Romans 6:3—I am baptized into Christ’s death.
 Romans 6:4—I am buried with Christ in his death to and over sin.
 Romans 6:4—I have been raised to new life in Christ.
 Romans 6:5—I am united with Christ in his resurrection.
 Romans 6:6—My old self is crucified with Christ.
 Romans 6:6—My body of sin has been done away with.
 Romans 6:6—I am no longer sin’s slave.
 Romans 6:7—I have been freed from sin in Christ.
 Romans 6:8—I died with Christ to sin.
 Romans 6:8—I live with Christ.
 Romans 6:11—I am dead to sin.
 Romans 6:11—I am alive to God.
 Romans 6:13—I have been brought from spiritual death to spiritual life.
 Romans 6:14—Sin shall not be my master.
 Romans 6:14—I am not under law, but under grace.
 Romans 6:18, 22—I have been set free from sin.
 Romans 6:19—I am a slave to righteousness, righteousness masters my being.
 Romans 6:22—I am a slave to God.
 Romans 7:4—I have died to the law.
 Romans 7:6—I serve Christ in the new way of the Spirit.
 Romans 7:22—My inner being delights in God’s law—his holy standards.
 Romans 7:25—In my innermost mind, I am a slave to God’s law.
 Romans 8:1—I will never suffer condemnation because I am in Christ.
 Romans 8:2—I am set free from the law of sin and death in Christ.
 Romans 8:4—I have met the righteous requirements of the law in Christ.
 Romans 8:5—My mindset is on spiritual affections and passions.
 Romans 8:9—I am not controlled by the flesh, but I am controlled by the Spirit.
 Romans 8:29—I am predestined to be conformed to the image of the Son.
 Romans 8:37—I am more than a conqueror in Christ.
* Romans 9:23—I have been prepared in advance by God to be glorious.
 Romans 10:9, 10, 13—I am saved in Christ.
 Romans 15:14—I am full of goodness in Christ.
 Romans 15:14—I am complete in knowledge in Christ.
 Romans 15:14—I am competent to disciple others in Christ.
 Romans 15:16—I am sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
 Romans 15:16—I am acceptable to God in Christ.
 1 Corinthians 1:2—I am sanctified in Christ Jesus.
 1 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 5:26; Colossians 3:12—I am holy in Christ.
 1 Corinthians 1:8—I am blameless in Christ.
 1 Corinthians 1:30—I am wise in Christ.
 1 Corinthians 1:30—I am holiness to God in Christ.
 1 Corinthians 2:16—I have the mind of Christ.
 1 Corinthians 3:9—I am God’s fellow worker.
 1 Corinthians 3:9—I am God’s field.
 1 Corinthians 3:9—I am God’s building.
 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:16—I am God’s sacred temple.
* 1 Corinthians 6:11—I am washed in Christ.
 1 Corinthians 6:19—I am the temple of the Holy Spirit.
 1 Corinthians 6:20—I have been bought and redeemed with a price.
* 2 Corinthians 2:14—Christ always leads me in a triumphal victory march.
 2 Corinthians 3:6—I am a competent minister of the new covenant in Christ.
 2 Corinthians 3:10—In Christ I have surpassing, lasting glory.
 2 Corinthians 3:18—I am a growing reflection of the Lord’s glory.
* 2 Corinthians 3:18—I am increasingly being transformed into Christ’s likeness.
 2 Corinthians 4:16—I am being renewed inwardly day by day in Christ.
 2 Corinthians 5:17—I am a new creation in Christ.
 2 Corinthians 5:18—I am a minister of reconciliation.
 2 Corinthians 5:20—I am Christ’s ambassador.
 2 Corinthians 5:21—I have the righteousness of God in Christ.
 2 Corinthians 8:9—I am spiritually rich in Christ.
 2 Corinthians 11:2—I am Christ’s spiritually pure virgin.
 Galatians 1:4—I have been rescued from this present evil age.
 Galatians 2:20—I am crucified with Christ.
 Galatians 3:13-14—I am redeemed from the curse.
 Galatians 6:1—I am spiritual in Christ.
 Ephesians 1:1—I am faithful in Christ.
 Ephesians 1:4—I have been chosen to be holy in Christ.
 Ephesians 1:4—I have been chosen to be blameless in Christ.
* Ephesians 1:17-19—I have God’s resurrection power actively working in me.
 Ephesians 2:5—I am alive with Christ.
 Ephesians 2:5, 8—I am saved by grace.
 Ephesians 2:6—I have been raised up with Christ.
 Ephesians 2:6—I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms.
 Ephesians 2:10—I am Christ’s workmanship, his opus, his poem, his masterpiece.
 Ephesians 2:10—I was prepared in advance in Christ Jesus to do good works.
 Ephesians 2:15—Together with all the saints, I am a new person in Christ.
 Ephesians 2:21—Along with all the saints, I am God’s holy temple.
* Ephesians 2:22—I am a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
* Ephesians 3:16—I am strengthened with power through God’s Spirit.
* Ephesians 3:17—Christ dwells in my heart.
 Ephesians 3:17—I am rooted and established in love.
 Ephesians 3:18—I have power to grasp God’s great love for me in Christ.
 Ephesians 3:19—I am filled to the measure of all the fullness of God in Christ.
 Ephesians 3:20—Christ’s immeasurable resurrection power is at work within me.
* Ephesians 4:13—I am maturing to the full measure of the fullness of Christ.
 Ephesians 4:22—My old self is put off in Christ.
 Ephesians 4:23—I have been made new in the attitude of my mind in Christ.
 Ephesians 4:24—My new self is put on in Christ.
 Ephesians 4:24—I am created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
 Ephesians 5:8—I am now light in the Lord.
 Ephesians 5:9—The fruit of my life is goodness, righteousness, and truth.
 Ephesians 5:26—I am cleansed in Christ
 Ephesians 5:26—I am washed in Christ.
 Ephesians 5:27—Together with the Bride of Christ, I am presentable, radiant, ​without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
 Philippians 2:1—I am united with Christ.
 Philippians 2:1—I am in fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
* Philippians 2:13—God works in me to accomplish his good purposes.
 Philippians 2:15—I am blameless and pure, a child of God without fault.
 Philippians 2:15—I shine like the stars in the universe in Christ.
 Philippians 3:9—I have a righteousness that comes from faith in Christ.
 Philippians 3:10—Christ’s resurrection power conforms me to his image.
 Philippians 3:20—My citizenship is in heaven.
 Philippians 4:13—I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
* Philippians 4:19—God meets all my needs through his riches in Christ Jesus.
 Colossians 1:2—I am a holy and faithful brother/sister in Christ.
* Colossians 1:12—I am qualified to share in the inheritance of the saints.
* Colossians 1:13—I have been rescued from the dominion of darkness.
* Colossians 1:13—I have been transported into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son.
* Colossians 1:22—I am holy in God’s sight, without blemish, and free from accusation.
 Colossians 2:10—I have been given fullness in Christ.
 Colossians 2:11—My old sinful nature/man/self/person has been put off.
 Colossians 2:12—I have been buried with Christ in baptism.
 Colossians 2:12—I have been raised with Christ from the dead.
 Colossians 2:13—God made me alive with Christ.
 Colossians 2:14-15—In Christ, sin is defeated and disarmed in my life.
 Colossians 2:20—I died with Christ to the world.
 Colossians 3:1—I have been raised with Christ.
 Colossians 3:3—I died with Christ.
 Colossians 3:3—My life is now hidden with Christ in God.
 Colossians 3:9—I have taken off the old self with its practices.
 Colossians 3:10—I have put on the new self in Christ.
* Colossians 3:10—The new me in Christ is being renewed in knowledge in the image of the Creator.
 1 Thessalonians 3:13—I am blameless and holy before God’s presence.
 1 Thessalonians 5:23—God is sanctifying me through and through.
 1 Thessalonians 5:23—God keeps my whole spirit, soul, and body blameless.
 2 Thessalonians 2:14—I am called to share in the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 2 Timothy 1:7—God placed within me his spirit of power, love, and wisdom.
 2 Timothy 2:3-4—I am a good soldier in Jesus Christ.
 2 Timothy 2:5—I am a victorious athlete in Jesus Christ.
 2 Timothy 2:6—I am a disciplined, hard working farmer in Jesus Christ.
 Titus 3:5—I am saved, washed, re-birthed, and renewed in Christ and by the ​Spirit.
 Hebrews 1:3—I am purified from sin in and by Christ.
 Hebrews 2:10—I am brought to glory in and by Christ.
 Hebrews 2:11—I am made holy in and by Christ.
 Hebrews 7:25—I am saved completely.
 Hebrews 8:10; 10:16—God’s law is in my mind, written on my heart.
 Hebrews 9:12—I have eternal redemption in Christ.
 Hebrews 9:14—My conscience is cleansed in Christ.
 Hebrews 9:15—I am set free from sin in Christ.
 Hebrews 9:26-27—My sins are done away with and taken away in and by Christ.
 Hebrews 10:2—I am cleansed once for all, guiltless in Christ.
 Hebrews 10:10—I have been made holy once for all by Christ’s sacrifice.
 Hebrews 10:14—I have been made perfect forever in and by Christ.
 Hebrews 10:22—I am cleansed and washed in Christ.
 1 Peter 1:3—I am born again, given new birth in Christ.
* 1 Peter 1:18-19—I am redeemed from my old empty way of life by Christ’s precious blood.
 1 Peter 1:22—I am purified by faith in Christ.
 1 Peter 1:23—I have been born again of imperishable seed.
 1 Peter 2:5—I am a living stone, being built into a spiritual house.
 1 Peter 2:5—Along with all the saints, I am a holy priesthood.
 1 Peter 2:9—Along with all the saints, I am a chosen people.
 1 Peter 2:9—Along with all the saints, I am a member of a royal priesthood.
 1 Peter 2:9—Along with all the saints, I am a citizen of a holy nation.
 1 Peter 2:9-10—Along with all the saints, I am a people belonging to God.
 1 Peter 2:9—I am called out of darkness into Christ’s wonderful light.
* 2 Peter 1:3—God’s Divine power has given me everything I need for life and godliness.
* 2 Peter 1:4—Through God’s great and precious promises I participate in the Divine nature.
* 2 Peter 1:4—Through God’s great and precious promises I have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
* 1 John 2:20—I have an anointing from the Holy One and I know the truth.
* 1 John 4:4—I have overcome the world, the flesh, and the Devil because greater is he who is in me, than he who is in the world.
 1 John 4:4, 6—I am from God.
 1 John 4:7; 5:1—I am born of God.
 1 John 5:4-5—Born of God, I overcome the world by faith in Christ.
 Jude 24—I stand before God’s glorious presence without fault and with great joy.
 Revelation 1:5—I am freed from my sins by Christ’s blood.
* Revelation 1:6—God has made me, together with all the saints, a kingdom of priests.
* Revelation 19:7-8, 14—Along with all the saints, I am the pure Bride of Christ, clean, white, and righteous.

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Understanding iPhone Multitasking

Daniel Eran Dilger

Vendors in the smartphone market desperately need to offer unique strengths that can offer a credible alternatives to Apple’s blockbuster iPhone and its App Store. A primary strategy of Palm’s new Pre is to advertise the potential of “multitasking apps” as a key differentiator. The problem is that Palm and its boosters don’t seem to understand what multitasking is.
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This is nothing new. “Multitasking” as a concept has been stretched into an almost meaningless buzzword for decades. It joins a variety of other abstract technical ideas that are used to distract attention away from usability and toward pointless features that can be worse than the problem they are attempting to solve. Here’s why, following a story arc that begins over thirty years ago.

Multitasking on the Mac
Multitasking is a great idea; why not enable computers to do more than one thing at once? The primary reason, of course, is that some systems can’t handle doing more than one task at a time. The original 1984 Macintosh was designed primarily to make computing accessible by presenting an intuitive graphical interface. Its early 80s hardware couldn’t really handle doing anything else at the same time.

Once users grasped the concept of launching a graphical application, say MacPaint, then quitting it to launch MacWrite, the obvious next step was to want a faster way to jump between the two applications. The original Mac was a lot like the iPhone: users had to quit the foreground app in order to launch the next one from a central launching pad: the Home screen on the iPhone or the Finder on the first Mac.

Almost immediately, the desire to accelerate the use of multiple applications resulted in Switcher, a hack for the Mac that enabled the system to pause the foreground app, load the next program into memory, and then jump back and forth between the two. The next step was the MultiFinder, which enabled users to instantly jump between applications presented on the screen in overlapping windows.

Neither solution was true preemptive multitasking, which required a more sophisticated operating system than the original Mac OS delivered. However, to users who needed to get jobs done, switching back and forth between different applications solved most of the problem without introducing significant disadvantages, at least until applications stopped cooperating.

iPhone 2.0 SDK: The No Multitasking Myth

Real Multitasking
After successfully delivering the premise of an intuitive graphical computing environment in a commercial product, Steve Jobs wanted Apple to aggressively move the Mac environment on top of a more sophisticated foundation. A new “Super Mac” operating system was explored, as was a partnership with both AT&T (then the owner of commercial Unix) and a joint engineering project with Apollo, a workstation vendor that produced a Unix-like, sophisticated operating system called Domain/OS.

Apple’s conservative management rejected new investment in the Mac’s underlying operating system, resulting in a split where Jobs and many of the company’s best engineers left to develop the next thing in computing: a pairing of the essence of the Mac with the technical sophistication of a true multitasking operating system: Unix. Jobs’ NeXT shipped its first computers in 1988, and continued to advance the state of the art into the 90s, albeit being commercially unsuccessful.

Nothing successfully rivaled the Macintosh user interface until Windows 95 appeared more than a decade after the original Mac. Within that decade, while Apple shipped lots higher-level technology from QuickTime multimedia to advanced typography and effortless networking, the company did very little to advance its core operating system technology. It certainly recognized the problem, and took stabs at delivering so-called “modern operating system features” in the Pink, Taligent, and Copeland projects.

However, by the time Windows 95 became available, Apple had not enabled the Mac OS to preemptively schedule applications; essentially, this meant that a rogue app could hog the system’s resources, preventing any other program from running. In order to deliver true multitasking, a system needs to centralize command in a kernel process capable of taking back control from a failed app and distributing the computer’s processing resources among the apps that need to access them.

Steve Jobs and 20 Years of Apple Servers

Multitasking in Windows
Unix systems like NeXTSTEP could do this, as could certain other platforms including Commodore’s Amiga. Neither of these niche players could command significant enough sales to bring true multitasking into the mainstream, which was then dominated by the Mac in graphical computing and MS-DOS in the larger market outside of Apple’s professional graphics and education-oriented business.

When Microsoft announced that it would bring Unix-style multitasking to the PC with Windows, the tech media ignored the fact that this technology was already widely available on both the low end represented by the Amiga, and the sophisticated higher-end represented by NeXT and other Unix-based workstations. Instead, they uncritically presented Microsoft as an innovator in bringing true multitasking into the mainstream.

Microsoft’s first effort to ship its own multitasking operating system was Windows NT 3.1 in 1993, a half decade after NeXT. Microsoft had earlier shipped its own branded version of AT&T’s Unix under the name Xenix, and more recently had worked with IBM to deliver a true multitasking kernel to replace the more simplistic DOS named OS/2, but Microsoft had not developed any of the core kernel technology for either of those earlier efforts.

Windows NT was new to Microsoft, although it was largely derived from VAX/VMS, a high performance operating system developed by DEC as a competitor to AT&T’s Unix. Microsoft hired Digital’s VMS development team, led by Dave Cutler, and paid them to create an original operating system for Microsoft that could itself be pitted against Unix.

There were key differences between Windows NT and Unix; NT was heavily influenced by Microsoft’s efforts to clone the Macintosh, resulting in a graphical-orientation and a self-tuning design philosophy. Microsoft hoped to essentially take its copy of the Mac environment and pair it with its commissioned copy of VMS, creating a credible alternative to NeXTSTEP, which similarly paired the essence of the Mac with Unix.

1990-1995: The Rise of Windows NT & Fall of OS/2
1990-1995: Microsoft’s Yellow Road to Cairo

NeXT vs NT
Jobs achieved his goal with NeXTSTEP in 1988 and established it as the most stable and productive development system by the early 90s, creating a platform sophisticated enough to be used in high-end research and mission critical industries ranging from the banking industry to the NSA and CIA.

In contrast, Microsoft’s NT was a continual disappointment throughout the 90s. It ultimately couldn’t replace DOS as the mainstream operating system for PCs until Windows XP appeared in 2001, nor could it even pose as a reliable alternative to Unix in servers; NT was notorious for suffering abysmal uptime, even in a carefully controlled server environment, well into the late 90s. Mission critical systems from telephone PBXs to ATMs typically relied upon the use of IBM’s OS/2, as NT was simply not up to the task.

Anyone who was paying attention throughout the 90s was fully aware that Microsoft’s terrible NT software was only suitable for companies that could afford to throw ridiculous amounts of hardware at it. When Microsoft bought Hotmail and then WebTV, both systems originally built using Sun’s Unix servers, it ran into a major boondoggle of needing to build out massive PC server farms to account for the terrible performance and reliability of NT.

Microsoft’s monopoly position enabled it to eventually shovel sufficient billions into NT development until it could compete as a worthy competitor. Windows 2000 (aka Windows NT 5.0) could reasonably be compared against IBM’s OS/2, commercial Unix, and NeXTSTEP in terms of sophistication, but only because those alternatives had been repressed from competing in the market over the previous decade. By 2000, Microsoft had only caught up with the state of the art from ten years’ prior.

During this period that fixed such great attention upon the supposed catch-up in technical sophistication by Windows NT, Microsoft was actually selling something else to the mainstream market: Windows 95 and later variants of the DOS-based (as opposed to NT-based) system: Windows 98/98SE/ME. Microsoft claimed that Windows 95 offered something that the Macintosh didn’t: preemptive multitasking.

This was sort of true, as Windows 95 could preempt control of certain applications. In practice however, Windows 95 was not significantly better than the increasingly creaky classic Mac OS. Users didn’t care about how the kernel worked, they cared about the symptoms caused by a lack of proper multitasking: crashing, locked-up applications, and the general inability to do multiple actions at once. Windows 95 did not outshine the performance of the Mac OS from the 80s, and was far behind the technical superiority delivered by NeXT and the Amiga OS many years prior.

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Feature dependance: memory protection
Before ever really achieving technical superiority in its operating system, Microsoft began making severe compromises to boost performance and maintain backward compatibility. A key partner technology to preemptive multitasking is protected memory. It doesn’t matter if your applications are preemptively scheduled if a rogue application can stomp on the memory in use by other applications; a lack of protected memory erodes any benefit of scheduling multiple processes at once.

Under Windows 95/98/ME, applications could stomp all over critical shared memory that belonged to the operating system, resulting in frequent crashes and general instability. It wasn’t just Windows 95 that suffered from a lack of effective memory protection. The design of Windows NT also took liberties with memory protection in an effort to make it run acceptably fast. Even after delivering its NT-based Windows XP to mainstream PC users in 2001, Microsoft continued to shove all types of unrelated tasks into a single process running within a shared (unprotected) memory space.

This was due to the fact that, unlike Unix, the NT kernel was not designed to accommodate lots of concurrent processes. Instead, NT was designed to run tasks as threads within a limited number of concurrent processes. Spawning a new process in NT is an expensive job requiring significant resources. For this reason, third party developers are forced to avoid kicking off independent tasks as their own processes, and instead must typically package them up as single a multithreaded process, defeating the purpose of having preemptive multitasking or protected memory.

Larry Osterman’s WebLog : Shared Services

NT’s Shared Services contradiction
Microsoft itself bundles a variety of Windows system tasks into the mysterious svchost.exe process, a practice known as “shared services.” The company describes this as if it were a good idea, but in reality it is a terrible idea forced by the inability of the NT kernel to launch lightweight processes the way Unix does. And unlike Unix, it becomes harder to identify which process is causing a problem, harder to isolate processes and assign them the least privileges necessary on the system for security purposes, and harder to manage system resources in general.

The point of preemptive multitasking and memory protection is to put the kernel in charge of the system. By bundling up tasks into fat shared services with a communal memory space, Microsoft has turned NT into a beast from the 80s. In fact, the main reason Windows users complain about iTunes is because it spawns a variety of independent processes that work fine on Unix but cause Windows to kneel over and beg for mercy because it isn’t designed to handle multitasking with the same level of modern sophistication as Mac OS X.

And so, for the last decade and a half of Windows, Microsoft’s enthusiasts have been trumpeting accolades for Windows’ “multitasking,” a buzzword feature that wasn’t novel, wasn’t the best implementation, and most importantly, wasn’t contributing to security, performance, and stability as it was supposed to. Simply put, a feature that does not achieve what it is supposed to do is not a real feature.

Five Windows Flaws: Shared Services

This is all happening again.
During the late 90s, Palm introduced its Pilot PDAs with a striking similarity to the desktop Macs from the previous decade. Like the original Mac, the Palm Pilot was largely an effort to introduce simplicity and ease of use using a graphical environment. Also like the Mac, the original Pilots had limited resources, and conserved these by only allowing one process to run at once.

The original Palm OS used a kernel capable of true multitasking, but only licensed it for use in a single-tasking environment. This meant that Palm devices could only run one app at once. This wasn’t a big problem until users began to desire increasing sophistication as PDAs began to morph into smartphones. By 2005, Palm was in the same position as Apple’s Mac in the early 90s: an inherently single-tasking core OS with a demand for true, preemptive multitasking that would be difficult to bolt on as an afterthought.

The Palm OS was blindsided by the iPhone, which like Mac OS X, was based on a Unix kernel and therefore inherently capable of running multiple processes at once. Like the original Mac and the Palm Pilot before it, the iPhone’s hardware was far more limited than what currently existed on desktop computers. It made no sense to try to run multiple windows of applications on a small mobile device with a 3.5“ screen, a lesson embarrassingly hammered into Microsoft after a decade of failure in trying to deliver exactly that with Windows CE.

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Apple’s iPhone approach to multitasking.
Instead, the iPhone only multitasked things that made sense: users could surf the web while taking on the phone, or listen to music while playing games, but third party developers couldn’t install their own background processes to sap performance and battery life or introduce unanticipated security issues. This engineering trade off was politically unpopular among the tech press, which has lambasted Apple for not ”supporting multitasking,“ as if the company had simply forgot to include it.

In reality, the iPhone goes beyond simple preemptive multitasking and memory protection to deliver a tightly secured environment for applications that strictly what individual third party applications can do. The much publicized downside is that apps can’t do things like regularly report your location to a service like Google’s Latitude; the unstated upside is that applications can’t do things like regularly report your location to a service you have not approved, without your knowledge or consent.

The iPhone’s kernel is a particularly strict overseer. It refuses to run code that hasn’t been cryptographically signed by a party known to Apple; it does not permit apps to stomp on system memory or memory of other apps, and it makes the installation of viruses and spyware effectively obsolete, expressly because it does not delegate away multitasking control to third party software. In a jailbroken phone, all bets are off because the system’s security is bypassed to allow anything to happen.

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When multitasking isn’t.
Two years after the iPhone’s debut when the Palm Pre arrived, the inevitable accolades surrounding the new phone’s ”unlimited multitasking“ began to bellow like clouds of steam from a whistling teapot.

The Palm Pre does indeed offer some novel user interface features that include the presentation of multiple types of data together, such as email from multiple accounts and contacts and calendar items. It also enables users to flick between views of data. However, the Pre’s ”applications“ are so limited that it becomes a joke to compare them to the iPhone’s. There is no support for hardware accelerated graphics in real games, and in place of sophisticated application frameworks, Palm has simply exposed a way to build applet widgets using HTML and JavaScript.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, but simply an easier-to-accomplish alternative approach to delivering a mobile platform. It is not comparable to an actual application development framework where real applications run however. There are advantages and disadvantages, but hiding all this meaningful subtlety behind a dummy buzzword is simply irresponsible reporting.

Even more shocking, however, is the conspicuous lack of attention to the reality that the Palm Pre, currently running on Sprint’s CDMA network and expected to reach Verizon Wireless’s CDMA network early next year, can’t do simultaneous voice and data. This isn’t a limitation in Palm’s operating system, but rather a major lapse in Qualcomm’s CDMA/EVDO network technology.

CDMA (voice) and EVDO (3G data), unlike GSM/HSDPA, can’t perform simultaneous voice and data at once. It also lacks GSM’s inherent ability to conference multiple parties at once into the same call. ”EVDO rev A“ has the technical capacity to handle a voice and data connection at once, but this requires handling the voice conversation via VoIP as data rather than a normal cellular voice circuit, something the Palm Pre can’t do (and apparently no other Sprint or Verizon phones can do either).

How AT&T Picked Up the iPhone: A Brief History of Mobiles
The iPhone isn’t coming to Verizon

The features we do not speak of.
All those iPhone ads that show useful multitasking scenarios, where the caller jumps on the web, looks up a restaurant, and then emails their friend a picture of some adorable child, all while talking on the phone, are impossible on CDMA networks like those operated by Sprint and Verizon. This ironically seems to be a huge secret, despite the fact that everyone also seems to know this. Call it M. Night Shyamalan’s Village Taboo.

While everyone seems to be emotionally in tune with the flaws of AT&T’s network, including its regions of threadbare 3G service, nobody seems to recognize that Apple has a variety of very strong reasons to want to stay on a GSM/HSPDA network rather than jumping ship to a voice-multitasking impaired one that is slated for obsolescence within the next couple years.

Would Apple prefer that AT&T get to work to fill in the remaining holes and bolster its mobile backbone? Certainly, and AT&T is working to do that. It also seems to be forgotten that AT&T is really an amalgam of regional networks that is no older in name than the iPhone itself. Apple invested in where the puck would be, not where it is. This is particularly annoying for users like me in San Francisco or New York, where AT&T’s already imperfect network coverage has been hammered to death by legions of iPhone users each incessantly and mercilessly pounding the network.

There’s no need to make excuses for AT&T’s seeming lack of rapid progress, or its delay in releasing a competitive femtocell, or its apparent inability to recognize the demand for tethering or MMS data features. But ignoring the inherently multitasking crown jewels of the GSM technology portfolio while criticizing the iPhone for not being able to swipe between fake apps like the Pre is absurd.

What’s the point of having a fast data network when you can’t even browse the web to occupy yourself while on hold with Sprint over handling the return authorization for your faulty Pre hardware due to its defective return rate rivaling the troubled Xbox?

Once again, ”multitasking“ is being confidently thrown about in a way that ignores half of the story while falsely presenting the weakest of implementations in an unfair comparison with something that works at least as well, if not better in many respects. Is it too much to ask that those presenting technical comparisons do so evenhandedly and accurately?

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New Strings on DeVoe

Finished restringing the DeVoe Negra with D’Addario EJ45c’s and T2 Titanium Trebles. It’s almost been a year with this guitar and I love playing on it. I’m looking forward to getting a Blanca soon as well. The stings come in a new plastic package to seal in the string freshness.

They really are sounding very good to me. There’s a nice definition in tone there’s a nice brightness yet warmth at the same time. They tuned up right away, they did not take a long time for the stretch and stay in tune to take place.

Caribbean Breze Lunch

We stoped in Farfax for lunch

Made it to Arlington VA

Rumba 4 Fun

I have been working on a new fingering of the rumba strum that Rapheal Brunn has been showing me to use when I play the rumba. This little snippet has three different strum patterns and a 3 finger rasgado at the end. Im getting their maybe in 20 years Ill be playing right. Kathy recorded this on the iPhone 3Gs this am.

AES Looking forward to the NYC event 127th Oct 9-12

Are You Thirsty?

Are You Thirsty?
07/16/2009
In the gospel of John, Jesus extends the offer to anyone who realizes that his life just isn’t touching his deep desire: “If you are thirsty, come to me! If you believe in me, come and drink! For the Scriptures declare that rivers of living water will flow out from within” (John 7:37–38 NLT). His message wasn’t something new, but it confounded the religious leaders of the day. Surely, those scripturally learned Jews must have recalled God’s long-standing invitation to them, spoken seven hundred years earlier through the prophet Isaiah,

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
(55:1–2)

Somehow, the message had gotten lost by the time Jesus showed up on the scene. The Jews of his day were practicing a very soul-killing spirituality, a lifeless religion of duty and obligation. Desire was out of the question. No wonder they feared Jesus. He came along and started appealing to desire. To the weary, Jesus speaks of rest. To the lost, he speaks of finding your way. Again and again and again, Jesus takes people back to their desires. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” (Matt. 7:7). These are outrageous words, provocative words. Ask, seek, knock—these words invite and arouse desire. What is it that you want? They fall on deaf ears if there is nothing you want, nothing you’re looking for, nothing you’re hungry enough to bang on a door over.

(Desire, 37–38)

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ICON at Dal Pro Audio

Was in NYC today and stoped by Dal Pro Audio on 19th St. I was allowed to step into the ICON room and control the main deck of the space ship. This control surface is bigger than me. It was fun to touch and see. These go for 80,000.00 and up. Much bigger than my Command 8. I did purchase 10ft of small mic cabel and two mini xlr plugs.

Bag Amp Hope to try one in Aug or my trip out to CA

“BagAmp makes other small amps obsolete.”

We can’t make this point strongly enough. No other PA product on earth breaks as much new technology ground as BagAmp. We’ll give you the highlights and see if you agree.

Due to some finical issues I recently had to see my Bose L1 and Fishman Solo amp. I am really hoping that this may be able to replace them. For 700.00 it seems like a very good deal you can read more about them at http://www.bagamp.com/index.html Looks like they may finally be hear in Aug 2009.

Vicente Amigo Paseo do Gracia I can’t wait to listen to this. I hope my copy comes soon. Tomorrow its released in USA

Since he published his first album in 1991, Vicente Amigo has been considered one of the great minds of the flamenco guitar and his career has progressed continually until the release of the much awaited “Paseo de Gracia”, marking the creative summit for the Andalusian artist. “I felt like I was growing as a musician, finding new ways of expression”, says Vicente Amigo about “Paseo de Gracia”. “I have let my imagination fly and my hopes and my music with it, and what can be listened to is part of me “ Amor de nadie The tracks that opens “Paseo de Gracia” has a rumba-tango rhythm, with the vocals of Niña Pastori and the magnificent balance that the drummer Tino di Geraldo and the bassist Antonio Ramos has accustomed us to. Listen to an audio clip Autorretrato With the voice of Enrique Morente and the guitar of Vicente Amigo as backbone of a long, deep, serious and vertical track. It’snearly nine minutes of beautiful music, where the guitar shows its imagination and inventiveness in the instrumental development that are an original brand. “I have had the roots of Autorretrato for a while but I hadn’t developed them, they are a reflection of my experiences” says the guitar player. Listen to an audio clip Bolero del amigo This is a serene track, featuring Vicente Amigo discovering some details of himself on the electric guitar, very well orchestrated with violins and mandolins. “The bolero melody – well that’s how I call it anyway  – is very interesting. It develops very naturally but it isn’t easy to manage. You have to find the harmony, it’s like maths, you have to find the way to order the notes”, says the guitar player. “I picked up the electric guitar as an experiment, it’s a musician thing. I liked the experience, to be a chameleon in a territory that isn’t yours, with that Metheny or Benson thing”. Listen to an audio clip Azules y corinto Track dedicated to the bullfighter Manzanares junior. The vocals are by Rafael de Utrera and Nani Cortés and have a bulería vive with Vicente Amigo showing an exceptional sense of rhythm Listen to an audio clip Y será verdad With the collaboration of Enrique Morente, Alejandro Sanz(“Enrique said he is singing more flamenco than ever “, said the guitar player smiling) and Pedro Heredia on vocals. An exquisite, undulating and sinuous rumba in half time on which the drums by Tino di Geraldo give it a bright and southern pop sound, accompanied by the percussion of another great Paquito González, that also run through the whole album. Listen to an audio clip Luz de la sombra Another bulería with Vicente Amigo’s special perspective with the vocalists Miguel Ortega and José Parra to give character. An essential, naked and complex track, with a full on Vicente Amigo. Paseo de Gracia Track that gives its name to the album. Offers another great balance between high calibre flamenco and a poppy beat on an instrumental tango-rumba that’s all frills. A demonstration of how a simple melody can be developed and branch out to fantasy, seeming always new and original. Pan caliente This is the greatest thing on the album. Agile, dynamic and rumbeado, Vicente Amigo once again demonstrated his talent with the electric guitar Pat Metheny style, while the violin is Grappelliesque that gives it both a modern and old style flavour. La estrella And to finish off, Estrella Morente appears to take hold of this long tango that is incredibly elegant and delicate. “Estrella was going to do another track, but she didn’t like it. I showed her a few ideas and when Enrique Morente Heard these tangos he said immediately: this would be great for Estrella”, says Vicente Amigo. A final gem for a brilliant, open, and subtle album that’s going to be a huge hit.

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Set Up for Disappointment

Set Up for Disappointment
07/12/2009
Choosing love will open spaces of immense beauty and joy for you, but you will be hurt. You already know this. You have retreated from love countless times in your life because of it. We all have. We have been and will be hurt by the loss of loved ones, by what they have done to us and we to them. Even in the bliss of love there is a certain exquisite pain: the pain of too much beauty, of overwhelming magnificence. Further, no matter how perfect a love may be, it is never really satisfied . . . In both joy and pain, love is boundless. (Gerald May, The Awakened Heart)

Desire is the source of our most noble aspirations and our deepest sorrows. The pleasure and the pain go together; indeed, they emanate from the same region in our hearts. We cannot live without the yearning, and yet the yearning sets us up for disappointment—sometimes deep and devastating disappointment. One storm claimed the lives of eight of Krakauer’s companions in the Everest disaster of 1996. Should they not have tried? Many have said they were foolish even to begin. Do we reach for nothing in life because our reaching opens us up to tragedy? Because of its vulnerable nature, desire begins to feel like our worst enemy.

Taken From Ransom Heart Daily Blog on 7.12.09

The Unwavering Intensity of Desire by John Eldridge

The Unwavering Intensity of Desire
07/11/2009
I am haunted by the stories of people who make the summit of Everest. Such incredible devotion is required, such total focus of body, soul, and spirit. Reaching the top of the world’s tallest mountain becomes for those who try the central driving force of their lives. The goal is so remarkable and the journey so uncertain. Many climbers have been lost on the mountain. Those who reach the summit and return safely are among a rare and elite group of mountaineers in the world. Why do they do it? How do they do it?

John Krakauer recounted the desperate tale of the ill-fated ’96 expedition in his book Into Thin Air: “There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act—a triumph of desire over sensibility.” It is a feat begun in desire that can be accomplished only through desire. Krakauer explained how one of his climbing partners attained the summit: “Yasuko had been propelled up the mountain by the unwavering intensity of her desire.”

Desire—it’s the only way you will ever make it. Take marriage, for instance. Or singleness. Either makes for a far more difficult and arduous ascent than Everest, in large part because it does not seem so. The struggles are not heightened and focused into one month of do or die; rather, they stretch on across a lifetime. So it is with any act of faith or of hope—anything, in other words, that makes a life worth living. How can we possibly sustain such an intrinsically irrational act as love if we’ve killed our desire?

(Desire , 18–19)

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New iPhone app Color Splash

Tried a new iPhone app for pictures called color splash it allows you to remove or add color in this case I made the photo black and white and colored the goggles blue.

My King of Old

My King of Old
July 9, 2009

“The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.” (Psalm 74:16-17)

The 74th Psalm is a sad lamentation over the apparent triumph of the enemies of God, but its central verse is a beautiful statement of faith: “For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth” (Psalm 74:12). Then, in support of his faith, the psalmist remembers the mighty creative acts of God in ancient times, giving assurance that He could, indeed, work salvation in these present times.

Those who believe that man is the measure of all things, sufficient unto himself, ignore how dependent all people are on God’s provisions. The very rotation of the earth, with its cycle of day and night, has set the basic rhythm of biological life, and it was God–not man–who “divided the light from the darkness” (Genesis 1:4).

There is even the testimony in Genesis that God “prepared the light” before He prepared the sun (Genesis 1:3, 14), thus rebuking all those who later would worship the sun as the source of the earth and life.

God also “set all the borders |or ‘boundaries’| of the earth.” This refers both to the emergence of the continental land masses after the Flood, and then also to the enforced scattering of the peoples from Babel into all the world, when He “determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.” (Acts 17:26).

He has even made “summer and winter, and day and night |that| shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). God did all this–not man! Evolutionary humanism is futile foolishness, and one day soon God will answer the cry of the psalmist: “Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily” (Psalm 74:22). HMM

From Institute for Creation Research July 9 2009

Obsidian Ridge 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon

My good friend Jay was over on Monday night and he brought over a bottle of Obsidian 2006 Cab that was fabulous it’s flavor was on par with Fay of Stags Leap Wine Cellars or an older Ravins Wood Cab. We really liked it so I picked up two more bottles and one was not so good to my palet however this bottle is wonderful again I have given them 45-60min to open and they are just pleasure to the wine palet. One of the best things about this wine is you can pick it up for 25.00-28.00 a bottle. A few of my friends have been looking for a 25.00 bottle of wine that is a plesure to drink. Jay I think we found it.

Insta-Fix Nail Repair Kit

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Practicing Outside

Palm Recording T Shirts “Staff” for sale with your name on them

When you record at Palm or are one of our friends you can get a shirt with your name on the back as well as be a part of our staff.

My Business Card Spelled Right

Lightning Bugs in NJ

Savoy Madagascar Rosewood Humidor

I really like how Madagascar  Rosewood looks to the eye.  I have a guitar that Lester DeVoe made that has Madagascar Rosewood, back and sides.   So when I was at Windsor Cigar and I found out from Paula that you can get a Humidor that is made out of Madagascar Rosewood I ordered one.  I picked it up yesterday and hear it is.

My Two Friends Blanca & Negra

I was thinking about the brighter crisper sound of the Blanca guitars yesterday. They are the flamenco guitars that are traditionally made with Spanish Cypress. I remembered that my buddy Charlene helped me get a 1965 Flamenco guitar that I found while on my Honeymoon in 2007 while passing through Santa Cruz CA. While the guitar is old and has a few cracks it just sounds magically warm. It’s a 1965 Miguel Company no. 70 Series Flamenco Guitar with friction pegs. I took it out yesterday and decided its time for it to get fixed and be back to life. I love the way this guitar sounds (its the one on the left in the picture)  and the fact it’s the same age as me is cool too. I wish I could get fixed up too or I’d settle for shedding  a few pounds. Well, hears a pic of the guitar next to the 2008 DeVoe hopefully in 2010 I will be getting a DeVoe Blanca.

Sals Pizza Brooklyn NY

This is where I had lunch yesterday and the Brooklyn Style Pizza as well as the Sicilian was fantastic.  Nice place two blocks from the Subway and its AC as well nice place to get a slice when it’s hot

Ordered Vicente Amigos new CD Paseo de Gracia ( cant wait for it on iTunes)

The new album by Vicente Amigo, “Paseo de Gracia”, will be released on the 5 May. It is an open, rhythmic, high quality flamenco album focusing especially on the harmonies and on which Vicente Amigo’s guitar finds unique expression. It is enriched by amazing arrangements which make this album particularly outstanding and different. It’s an exquisite piece that has the potential to be very popular and maintains the essence that Vicente Amigo is known for.

“There is a lot of melody and it’s risky because I step out of flamenco a bit sometimes”, says Vicente Amigo. “Half the album are tracks with a flamenco perspective, because that is what I have lived. I develop them differently, as a challenge of singing with the guitar and the harmonies that I think is interesting“.

Produced by Vicente Amigo, en “Paseo de Gracia” there are collaborations that are really special. It features the full Morente family, headed by the patriarch Enrique along with Estrella, Soleá and Enrique junior. With them are Niña Pastori, Alejandro Sanz, Rafael de Utrera, Pedro Heredia, Miguel Ortega, José Parra, Lin and Nani Cortés, who also bring their vocals, wisdom and flamenco to the album.

And lovingly enveloping Vicente Amigo’s music are a host of great musicians like Tino di Geraldo (drums and percussion), Antonio Ramos “Maca” (bass), Alexis Lefêvre (violin) and Paquito González (percussion) making up a truly great cast of musicians.

“It’s an album with lots of collaborations “, says Vicente Amigo. “I had the lyrics and wanted to use them because they are very personal. All of those on the album have put their heart into it and I’m very happy. I think we’ve managed to make it so when you listen to it; it goes very deep and forms part of your life . Some of the tracks have been composed to offer my music to other audiences, but although sometimes some of them sound poppy, I’m the one that’s behind it all and I’m flamenco. Flamenco is a form of expression, a feeling, not just playing soleá or bulerías”.