Buy Nokia 6301: the Need of the Hour

Author: Austin David

Today technology has entirely changed the life. Mobile phones are one of its byproduct and have become compulsory for us in this fast moving time. Nokia 6301 is a new outcome from the Nokia’s kit. It has stylish look as well as well organized features which are simple to use and quite durable.

Hence, buy Nokia 6301 to take the full advantages of latest technology in your hand. Nokia 6301 is very innovative in its looks as it comes in a stainless steel frame and sports a hand-hugging design. It offers the users to have seamless experience of voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks via UMA technology. UMA technology and worldwide Tri- band GSM coverage have made the excellent coverage both at office and in home. Its 2 inch QVGA screen enchants the users in using the handset to a major extent. It is ready to float in your hand or pocket with its light weight of 93g. Its TFT screen displays 16M colours with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.

Buy Nokia 6301 for taking everlasting experience with its 2 Mega-pixel digital camera. The 8 x digital zoom and full screen viewfinder makes the camera wonderful to a common user of mobile phones. It also supports resolution of up to 1600 x 1200 pixels. Its 30 MB of internal memory is expandable through microSD card support and it allows you to store a wide range of your memories as well as important data and even you can share them with your friends.

If you want voice dialing, copy voice commands and video recording in your handset then you simply need to buy Nokia 6301, as it is the single device but capable to fulfill your requirements. You can buy the handset through many plans provided by various retail online mobile shops. You can go with PAYG deal, PMMP deal and contract mobile phone deals according to your need and interest. This handset also allows you to listen to your favourite music as it has MP3 as well as FM Radio. Now you are capable to have entertainment whenever you need of it.

Beowulf's Vanquished Monsters

How does anyone entertain themselves without cable TV or high-speed Internet? This was a major problem facing many people centuries ago. After a hard day of gathering food, people want to be entertained, and this was accomplished by the “Old English” heroic epic poem (Tolkien 41). A storyteller would stand before the crowd and tell marvelous tales by the use of these heroic epic poems. If you were a storyteller of any worth, he did not tell stories about Bob going up the hill to get a pail of water. You told tales that were bigger than life. The poet needed to have a hero, magic, and monsters to do this. In the poem of “Beowulf,” the readers are taken on an excursion of grandeur and needs to know if Beowulf would overcome his struggle against the evils of this world (Greenblatt 29-100)? In Beowulf, the poet demonstrates his skill by pitting the hero against three evil monsters Grendel, Grendel's mother, and 50 foot dragon that is virtually indestructible. All this was done to bestowed hefty honors onto hero named Beowulf; however, there would be no epic poem about Beowulf without monsters. The character Beowulf would not develop. The audience would lose interest and would forget. Hence, if there were no monsters to vanquish, there would be no “Beowulf.”

The first monster of the three monsters to face Beowulf was Grendel. Grendel was “a large, man-eating monster who lived in a swampy lake. He may be a kind of troll. He hated human joy and lived only to wage war against the Danes” (Stavor 24). What made Grendel very special was the devastation “for the space of twelve years” done by this “demon” (Token 83). “He had no difficulty killing and eating a man” (Stavor 30). Grendel was a very “fierce, evil monster” that needed to be killed (Stavor 34). This evil is notice in other kingdoms. It opens the door for a hero to come save the day, and if a monster needed to be killed, Beowulf would be summon because “fighting monsters is Beowulf specialty” (Stavor 101). Beowulf did have some experience killing sea monsters; however, he had never faced an evil like Grendel. Beowulf performs his duty, and Grendel is killed with his hands. The legend of Beowulf is born and is tested right away. Another monster is lurking in the woods, and it is Grendel’s mother.

The second of the three monsters is Grendel’s mother. The purpose of Grendel’s mother is to keep the substain elavation to the poem and grab hold of the readers once more. “Grendel’s mother, seeking vengeance for the death of her son, renews the attacks” (Tolkien 43). If Grendel’s mother did not arrive, Beowulf would have no reason to stay with the Danes. The legend would have disappeared; however, the evil has returned yet again, and this monster seems to be greater than the first. The mood of the poem is changing. Beowulf now has to enter into the “enemie's hall” (Stavor 75). This fight would not be won as easily as the first. When Beowulf slip, “Grendel’s mother does not play by the rules and puts a knife on to him” (Stavor 75). This monster uses weapons! Beowulf performs his duty for a second time; “he takes a” magical “sword from the wall and brings it down on her neck, beheading her” (Stavor 75). The readers cannot believe it. Beowulf wins, but by the use of this magical sword. The legend of Beowulf is enhanced because the robust Beowulf is now very intelligent too. Now, Beowulf’s mission to the Danes is fulfill, and he returns home with his Geats. Beowulf continues to build on his legend, but the cycle of the poem goes into a trough. The audience would start to lose interest because “the hero is not occupied killing monsters” (Tolkien 52). At this point, after many years in the trough, a 50 foot dragon that is virtually indestructible enters the poem.

The third and the last of the three monsters is the dragon. “Beowulf, King of the Geats, is now about seventy-five old” (Stavor 99). The dragon takes vengeance on the Geats, and “Beowulf royal hall is burnt to the ground” (Stavor 99). The audience sees that the Fates or the wyrd have turn against King Beowulf as seen in Beowulf canto 2341 to 2344:

After many trials, he was destined to face the end of his days, and in this mortal world, as was the dragon, for all his long leasehold on the treasure.
(Greenblatt 83)

The poet has placed the pieces on the sixty-four squared board. The mood of the poem has changed once more. The audience knows what is going to happen, and has become incarcerated. King Beowulf knows what is going to happen. The audience wants to know if King Beowulf is still the great warrior that defeated Grendel and his mother. Both the audience and the protagonist have doubt which keeps the tale in substain elavation. King Beowulf performs his duties and kills the dragon. The dragon dies and this “is important cheifly to Beowulf himself. He was a great man. Not many even in dying can achieve the death of a single dragon” this bestowed hefty honors to King Beowulf (Tolkien 52). Like Beowulf, the epic poem about “Beowulf” has to come to an end; however, grand excursion is still alive in the audience (Greenblatt 29-100).

The epic poem of “Beowulf” is a very simplistic tale which delivered a hero, magic, and monsters (Greenblatt 29-100). The audience could enjoy after a hard day’s work. The epic poem entertained the people and fulfilled its purpose, but it could not do this feat without the monsters. In the epic poem of “Beowulf,” the monsters are a very crucial element in the poem (Greenblatt 29-100). The monsters keeps the poem going and gives it sustain elevation. They even change the mood of the poem. The monsters keeps the people entertained. And most important, the vanquished monsters developed the character of Beowulf. The skill of the poet is seen during these conflicts, and the poet developes King Beowulf into a great man even onto his death. This is a death that echoes into the minds of the readers or listeners. So, truly it can be said, if there were no monsters to vanquish, there would be no “Beowulf” (Greenblatt 29-100).

Works Cited

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. “Beowulf.” Literature: The Norton anthology of English literature.” Trans. Seamus Heaney. 8. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1962.

Stavor, Route Johnston. “A Companion Beowulf.” Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

Tolkien, J.R.R. “Beowulf and the Critics.” Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, 1937.

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Java becomes Open Source

Java is finally Free and Open
Jun 19th, 2008 by sharps

At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.

At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun announced that the work was largely completed and so OpenJDK was launched. What was less newsworthy was the fact that on release - OpenJDK still relied on code that was encumbered - between 4 and 5 percent of the code was closed, non free source that Sun didn’t own.

Richard Stallman described the encumbered code as :

“The one last obstacle [which] remains in liberating JDK and disarming the Java Trap completely”

and rallied the FOSS and Java communities to

“… work together to replace that code with free software”

So, who would step up to the challenge of making Java truly free and open ?

In June, 2007 - Red Hat launched the IcedTea project with the goal of making OpenJDK usable without requiring any other software that is not free. That in turn would allow OpenJDK to be included in Fedora and other Linux distributions without restrictions. The IcedTea Project made use of previous work developed under the GNU Classpath Project which had been independently driving towards a free and open implementation of the Java class libraries.

This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides all the required Java APIs and behaves like any other Java SE 6 implementation - in keeping with the portability goal of the Java platform. As of writing, Fedora 9 is the only operating system to include a free and open Java SE 6 implementation that has passed the Java TCK. All of the code that makes this possible has been made available to the IcedTea project so everyone can benefit from the work.

The Java TCK is a complex suite of tools and documentation that verifies that Java implementations conform to the Java specification. It consists of more than 80,000 tests and over 1 million lines of code.

From here the initial plans are to make OpenJDK part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and to expand the platform support. Beyond that our plans are still evolving, but clearly this creates some great opportunities for both Red Hat and Java. For example :

Improving Java for virtualized, hosted environments - an area where Red Hat Linux has excelled but Java has struggled.
Optimizing the performance and scalability of the full stack of Java-based JBoss Enterprise Middleware for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux in general
Being able to better manage the lifecycle of JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and the Java Virtual machine on which it depends
A more fundamental opportunity is for Red Hat to be able to increase the depth of support for the JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Over the coming months, we’ll continue working with our communities of users, customers and partners to better understand the opportunities that OpenJDK and IcedTea present to us.

Working with Sun Microsystems and the broader Open Source Java community; Red Hat’s OpenJDK team included Tom Fitzsimmons, Lillian Angel, Gary Benson, Keith Seitz, Mark Wielaard and Andrew Haley.

Tom Fitzsimmons will be at the Red Hat Summit in Boston between June 18th and 20th, so if you want to chat about the project - swing by the Exhibit Hall, grab a beer, and ask him how much fun the Java TCK testing was.

Java, Java SE, OpenJDK and Java TCK are all Trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc.

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