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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Why This Apple Lover Sold His iPad (AAPL)
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images These people are not me. They're some Apple customers at an Apple store. ?
But whenever I want to spend my hard-earned cash on a new gizmo, it almost always comes from Apple. I have an iPhone 5, Apple TV, and a MacBook Air. I still think Apple makes the best stuff (they won't forever though, trust me), and that's why it gets my money.
I used to have an iPad (the third-generation model with the super-sharp Retina display), but I sold it last week.?I got a cool $400 for it, just $100 less than what I paid for it on launch day in March 2012. (Say whatever you want about Apple, but its products hold their value very well.)
Something changed this year though. For months, my iPad remained on my nightstand, untouched. The battery was dead, not from overuse, but from weeks of neglect while it was in sleep mode, which barely sips power. I didn't feel a need to recharge it.
It was a strange twist in my computing habits. When I first got my iPad, I found myself using it more than my MacBook. I would come home from work and use my iPad to catch up on news and Twitter. At night, I'd use it to stream Netflix in bed. I really only used my MacBook if I needed to do some work from home. It was essentially just a word processor to me.
So, what happened??
I started using my iPad less and less this year mostly because I started working a lot more when away from the office. For writers, an iPad isn't an ideal device to get things done, even with one of those cool keyboard accessories. I still need a full-fledged PC to do my job well, as I suspect people in many other professions do.
So I found myself spending much more time on my MacBook, and I realized I could still do a lot of things on it that I could do on my iPad, and then some. I could still catch up on the news, keep up with Twitter, and plow through my exhaustive Gmail inbox. Since the MacBook Air is so thin and light, it was just as easy for me to use on the couch or in bed like I used to with my iPad. It was like rediscovering an old beloved toy.
Before long, I only had two devices in my daily rotation: My iPhone (for checking email and Tweets when away from the computer and playing games or listening to podcasts on the subway), and my MacBook (for work and just about everything else). I realized my iPad was better off in someone else's hands and that someone else's $400 was better off in my checking account.
Yes, iPads and other tablets appear to be cannibalizing the traditional PC market. PC makers like HP, Dell, and to an extent, Apple, have all blamed the popularity of smartphones and tablets for the decline in PC sales. However, in most cases, if you need to get work done, an iPad or other tablet really doesn't cut it. They're great devices for browsing the web, light emailing, and playing games, but still don't offer the full suite of productivity a regular PC does.
That's a problem Microsoft is trying to solve with Windows 8 and devices like the Surface Pro, a tablet that can double as a regular laptop thanks to a handy snap-on keyboard accessory. Unfortunately, most Windows 8 devices don't do a great job at being both things. There are still far too many compromises in weight, thickness, battery life, and apps that manufacturers have to deal with when making these hybrid PCs. As a result, most Windows 8 hybrids are pretty mediocre right now.
Until someone figures out the perfect hybrid device, I don't see a need to carry around three different computing form factors. And iPhone and MacBook Air is the perfect combination for me.?
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-sold-my-ipad-2013-7
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Monday, July 29, 2013
This Psychedelic Fever Dream Is Made Of Ink, Soap And Oil
You may not interact with ink as much as you used to, but you have to give it credit for powering millions of pens and a crap ton of printing. We still consume a lot of media that exists because of ink. And a good way to celebrate it might be to just let it flow and see what happens. Ruslan Khasanov, a Russian graphic designer, felt the same way so he mixed ink, oil and soap to make this trippy and awesome video called Pacific Light. Khasanov was inspired when he watched black beads of soy sauce form in oil while he was cooking. There are great stills and gifs on his Behance. Kind of makes me long for a tie die comeback. [Colossal]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-psychedelic-fever-dream-is-made-of-ink-soap-and-o-944812577
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Explore an Interactive Map of Every Meteorite Seen in the Past Century
As long as you're not in the immediate landing path, meteorites are really fascinating. Over the past century, The Meteoritical Society has confirmed 606 eyewitnessed meteorite landings around the world. Designer Sebastian Sadowski maps them all out in a great interactive infographic that's tons of fun, until you realize you're a meteorite's sitting duck no matter where you live.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
In A Galaxy: Games People Play: Do you play board and video ...
So you all know it, we're a game-y family. ?No, I don't mean the kind that tastes slightly off or smells a week old (although the boys are getting a bit ripe..summer, you know.) ?I mean the kind that plays all kinds of games...together and alone. ?The boys were practically born with a Nintendo DS in their hands and Rodney has been a video game lover since he was a kid too. ?I was an Atari generation child so I can't pretend that I grew up a video gaming pro, but I was a serious master of Pong, just ask my sister (ahem....). ? I think part of how I managed to snag the hubby's affections was the fact that I liked to play video games, owned a Super Nintendo system, and had beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time before I met him. ?Before we were dating, when we were in the "just friends" phase still, we used to get snacks and appetizers and have video game nights. ?Ahhhh the courting rituals of the young.
There wasn't really any chance at all of our boys not growing up to be serious game addicts...and not just video games. ?Hubby loves role playing games, board games, any game at all really. ? Shaman Boy was a master of Clue before he was even in Kindergarten. ?Hip Hop Boy has been wrecking Star Wars LEGO galaxies since he was old enough to hold a controller. ?I'm okay with it all. ?I loved board games and card games growing up (my Granny taught me to play solitaire and gin rummy as soon as I was old enough to count to 10) and I really enjoy playing video games once in awhile.
There wasn't really any chance at all of our boys not growing up to be serious game addicts...and not just video games. ?Hubby loves role playing games, board games, any game at all really. ? Shaman Boy was a master of Clue before he was even in Kindergarten. ?Hip Hop Boy has been wrecking Star Wars LEGO galaxies since he was old enough to hold a controller. ?I'm okay with it all. ?I loved board games and card games growing up (my Granny taught me to play solitaire and gin rummy as soon as I was old enough to count to 10) and I really enjoy playing video games once in awhile.
I was highly skeptical of World of Warcraft when it first burst onto the scene. ?Hubby really wanted it, and as his birthday approached I decided I'd purchase it for him and have it all set up for him when he arrived home from his business trip to Texas. ?Of course I wanted to make sure that I had it set up properly so I logged in to make sure he was all ready to go....and I was hooked. ?I was 6.5 months pregnant with Shaman Boy at the time, alone at home with a 2.5 year old Hip Hop Boy, so I thought "I'll just play a little here and there until hubby gets home." ? We had to buy another copy because once Hubby was home I didn't want to share.? My 'hunter' was up to level 10 and I was just settling into my groove!
For quite awhile before Shaman Boy came along the Hubby and I bought each other video games for
Long story short? ?We like to play games.
To that end, I have been feeling a bit left out of the boys geekier game playing sessions, lately. They have something now called Dungeon Command and the best I can tell each person gets his/her own army and then does their best to totally wipe out other family member's armies. ?Bonding at it's best. ?They also play Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons quite often (the latter was something I played a bit way back in middle school but not enough to call myself a role player...just enough to impress Billy Gardener and Danny Black who really liked D&D and who I had major middle school crushes on.) ?And this all has me thinking...am I missing out on something fun?So in order to have more fun game time with my husband and kids I am setting out on a new adventure...Adventure into Role Playing games. ?Since we are headed to GenCon Indy in about a month or so I reckon I need to get acquainted with what I'm going to be experiencing once we arrive at our destination. ?More on GenCon next week...but for now I have a question: ?Do you play games with your kids? ?Did you love games as a kid, too? ?And if so...which games were your favorites? ? Would you ever pick up a role playing/table top type game to play with your kids? ?Why or why not? ?Looking forward to hearing about your experiences, and to sharing my own!
Source: http://in-a-galaxy.blogspot.com/2013/07/games-people-play-do-you-play-board-and.html
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Trying to install windows 7 but not success
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I just bought new ASUS laptop and I want to install Windows 7 into it. But Im really lost the tail since my last laptop it was easy. CD in and press f key an start installing. Anyway now what Im facing is following. I plugged new HDD in to laptop I tried my old win 7 cd but it wasnt listed boot option then I tried with usb stick but not success, first with ntfs and then fat32. It regonized fat32 but not ntfs. You dont install OS with fat32 right but I just tested everything before posting. I made little bit researching and I found I need to change some options at BIOS. But Im not actually sure what I need to press over there. Laptop is ASUS N56DP. Need some help to get running win 7 :thumbsup: ...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
A personal finance book | Bankers Anonymous
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Email. It pains me to write this[1], but Andrew Tobias' hyperbolically titled[2] The Only Investment Guide You'll EVER Need actually lives up to the name. Tobias delivers solid personal financial advice, but in a playful tone.
Source: http://www.bankers-anonymous.com/book/book-review-the-only-investment-guide-youll-ever-need/
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Friday, July 19, 2013
Analyst: Apple shipped 29 to 32 million iPhones last quarter, boosting revenue to $36B
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Cuba's Raul Castro backs asylum offers for Snowden
HAVANA (AP) ? Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder Sunday with Latin American countries that have expressed a willingness to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no apparent reference to whether Cuba would be willing to offer him refuge or safe passage.
Venezuela and Bolivia both made asylum offers to Snowden over the weekend, and Nicaragua has said it is also considering his request.
"We support the sovereign right of .... Venezuela and all states in the region to grant asylum to those persecuted for their ideals or their struggles for democratic rights," Castro said in a speech to Cuba's national assembly, according to state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
The foreign media was not given access to the session, but the speech was expected to be broadcast in its entirety later Sunday.
Snowden has been out of sight in the transit area of Moscow's main airport since he suddenly appeared there on a plane from Hong Kong two weeks ago.
His simplest route to Latin America would be on one of five direct flights that Russian carrier Aeroflot operates to Havana each week. However those flights normally pass through U.S. airspace, raising the possibility it could be grounded.
It is also not clear, despite Castro's speech, whether Cuba wants to risk torpedoing mildly improved relations with the United States by letting Snowden transit through the island.
Snowden had been booked on an Aeroflot flight two weeks ago, but did not board the plane.
Castro also voiced support for Bolivian President Evo Morales, whose presidential plane was diverted to Austria recently after taking off from Moscow.
Morales has accused the United States of pressuring European governments to deny his plane permission to enter their airspace amid suspicions that Snowden might have been onboard.
Castro said Sunday the case "shows that we live in a world in which the powerful think they can violate international law, endanger the sovereignty of states and trample the rights of citizens."
In his speech, Castro said Cuba was aware of the kind of secretive NSA programs Snowden revealed. He said that as a longtime enemy of Washington, the Caribbean nation has been "one of the most harassed and spied-upon nations on the planet."
The Cuban leader also brought up the case of Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castro militant wanted in both Venezuela and Cuba for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane that killed 73.
Posada Carriles has been living in the United States since 2005. Multiple legal efforts to deport him have failed.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cubas-raul-castro-backs-asylum-offers-snowden-221244238.html
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Venezuela?s president offers asylum to Snowden
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CARACAS - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Friday in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs.
Snowden, 30, is believed to be holed up in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport and has been trying to find a country that would take him since he landed from Hong Kong on June 23.
"In the name of America's dignity ... I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to Edward Snowden," Maduro told a military parade marking Venezuela's independence day.
"He is a young man who has told the truth, in the spirit of rebellion, about the United States spying on the whole world."
Russia has kept the former National Security Agency contractor at arm's length, saying the transit area where passengers stay between flights is neutral territory and he will be on Russian soil only if he goes through passport control.
It was not immediately clear how Snowden would react to Maduro's offer, nor reach Venezuela if he accepted.
There are no direct commercial flights between Moscow and Caracas, and the usual route involves changing planes in Havana - to which there is a flight from Sheremetyevo at 1005 GMT. It is not clear if the Cuban authorities would let him transit.
Given the dramatic grounding in Vienna of the Bolivian president's plane this week over suspicions that Snowden was onboard, using European airspace could prove problematic.
Russia has shown signs of growing impatience over Snowden's stay in Moscow. Its deputy foreign minister said on Thursday that Snowden had not sought asylum in that country and needed to choose a place to go.
Moscow has made clear that the longer he stays, the greater the risk of the diplomatic standoff over his fate causing lasting damage to relations with Washington.
Both Russia's foreign ministry and President Vladimir Putin's spokesman declined to comment on Venezuela's offer.
"This is not our affair," Dmitry Peskov told Reuters.
The White House also declined to comment.
Raising the possibility of at least one other option, Nicaragua said it had received an asylum request from Snowden and could agree to it "if circumstances permit".
WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization, said on Friday that Snowden had asked six more nations for asylum, bringing to about 20 the number of countries he has appealed to for protection from U.S. espionage charges.
WikiLeaks said on Twitter it would not reveal which six new countries Snowden had applied to for asylum, due to "attempted U.S. interference".
Maduro said Venezuela was ready to offer him sanctuary, and that the details Snowden had revealed of U.S. spy programs had exposed the nefarious schemes of the U.S. "empire."
"Who is the guilty one? A young man ... who denounces war plans, or the U.S. government which launches bombs and arms the terrorist Syrian opposition against the people and legitimate President Bashar al-Assad?" he asked, to applause and cheers from ranks of military officers at the parade.
"Who is the terrorist? Who is the global delinquent?"
'COLONIES OF THE UNITED STATES'
Since narrowly winning a presidential election in April that followed the death of his mentor, Hugo Chavez, from cancer, Maduro has often lambasted the United States - even accusing the Pentagon and former U.S. officials of plotting to kill him.
But the former bus driver and union leader has at times also struck a much more conciliatory note, saying he is ready for better relations with Washington, based on mutual respect.
Already one of Snowden's most vocal supporters on the world stage, Maduro has sharpened his rhetoric in recent days.
It peaked after Bolivia said France, Portugal, Italy and Spain banned a plane carrying its president, Evo Morales, from using their airspace because of suspicions Snowden was aboard.
Latin America's most vocal leftist leaders denounced that as a disgrace and a serious breach of protocol, and Maduro said the CIA, the U.S. spy agency, was behind it all.
Snowden had revealed that the United States was spying on its European allies, Maduro said on Friday, and yet European leaders still caved under U.S. pressure to ground Morales' jet.
"The European people have seen the cowardice and the weakness of their governments, which now look like colonies of the United States," the Venezuelan president said.
Venezuela's opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, accused Maduro of making a fuss about Snowden to distract voters from a dismal economic picture at home, and a host of other problems including one of the highest murder rates in the world.
"Nicolas, you can't use asylum to cover up that you stole the election. That doesn't give you legitimacy, nor make the people forget," Capriles said on Twitter.
Speaking in Managua, President Daniel Ortega said he would gladly give Snowden asylum in Nicaragua "if circumstances permit". He did not say what those circumstances might be.
Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Americas, has benefited greatly from financial support from Venezuela, and Ortega was a staunch ally of Chavez.
A bid by Snowden for Icelandic citizenship hit an impasse on Friday when the country's parliament voted not to debate the issue before its summer recess.
Source: http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/07/05/venezuelas-president-offers-asylum-to-snowden
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Asiana Airlines Plane Crashes At San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO ? An Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety as flames tore through the plane.
One person was unaccounted for from among the 307 passengers and crew, said airport spokesman Doug Yakel. He said 181 people were taken to local hospitals. There were 291 passengers and 16 crew members.
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the investigation has been turned over to the FBI and terrorism has been ruled out.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing before noon PDT. A video clip posted to YouTube showed smoke coming from a jet on the tarmac. Passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides.
The top of the fuselage was burned away and the entire tail was gone. One engine appeared to have broken away. Pieces of the tail were strewn about the runway. Emergency responders could be seen walking inside the burned-out wreckage.
It wasn't immediately clear what happened to the plane as it was landing, but some eyewitnesses said the aircraft seemed to lose control and that the tail may have hit the ground.
Stephanie Turner saw the plane going down and the rescue slides deploy, but returned to her hotel room before seeing any passengers get off the jet, she told ABC News. She said when she first saw the flight she noticed right away that the angle of its approach seemed strange.
"I mean we were sure that we had just seen a lot of people die. It was awful," she said. "And it looked like the plane had completely broken apart. There were flames and smoke just billowing."
Kate Belding was out jogging just before 11:30 a.m. on a path across the water from the airport when she noticed the plane approaching the runway in a way that "just didn't look like it was coming in quite right."
"Then all of a sudden I saw what looked like a cloud of dirt puffing up and then there was a big bang and it kind of looked like the plane maybe bounced (as it neared the ground)," she said. "I couldn't really tell what happened, but you saw the wings going up and (in) a weird angle."
"Not like it was cartwheeling," she said, but rather as though the wings were almost swaying from side to side.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of investigators to San Francisco to probe the crash. NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said Saturday that NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman would head the team.
Boeing said it was preparing to provide technical assistance to the NTSB. The maker of the plane's engines, Pratt & Whitney, said it was cooperating with authorities investigating the crash.
Asiana is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the Star Alliance, which is anchored in the U.S. by United Airlines.
The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing. The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from one continent to another. The airline's website says its 777s can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.
The flight was 10 hours and 23 minutes, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. The 777 is a smaller, wide-body jet that can travel long distances without refueling and is typically used for long flights over water.
The most notable accident involving a 777 occurred on Jan. 17, 2008 at Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways Flight 28 landed hard about 1,000 feet short of the runway and slid onto the start of the runway. The impact broke the 777-200's landing gear. There were 47 injuries, but no fatalities.
An investigation revealed ice pellets that had formed in the fuel were clogging the fuel-oil heat exchanger, blocking fuel from reaching the plane's engines. The Rolls-Royce Trent 800 series engines that were used on the plane were then redesigned.
Bill Waldock, an expert on aviation accident investigation, said he was reminded of the Heathrow accident as he watched video of Saturday's crash. "Of course, there is no indication directly that's what happened here," he said. "That's what the investigation is going to have to find out."
The Asiana 777 "was right at the landing phase and for whatever reason the landing went wrong," said Waldock, director of the Embry-Riddle University accident investigation laboratory in Prescott, Ariz. "For whatever reason, they appeared to go low on approach and then the airplane pitched up suddenly to an extreme attitude, which could have been the pilots trying to keep it out of the ground."
The last time a large U.S. airline lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300 taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in 2001.
Smaller airlines have had crashes since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a house.
Flying remains one of the safest forms of transportation: There are about two deaths worldwide for every 100 million passengers on commercial flights, according to an Associated Press analysis of government accident data.
Just a decade ago, passengers were 10 times as likely to die when flying on an American plane. The risk of death was even greater during the start of the jet age, with 1,696 people dying ? 133 out of every 100 million passengers ? from 1962 to 1971. The figures exclude acts of terrorism.
Asia remains one of the fastest-growing regions for aviation in the world. Even with slowing economies in Japan and China, airlines there saw 3.7 percent more passengers than a year ago, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Finding enough experienced pilots to meet a growing number of flights is becoming a problem. A 2012 report by aircraft manufacturer Boeing said the industry would need 460,000 new commercial airline pilots in the next two decades ? with 185,000 of them needed in Asia alone.
"The Asia-Pacific region continues to present the largest projected growth in pilot demand," the report said.
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Associated Press writers Joan Lowy in Washington, D.C., Scott Mayerowitz in New York and Pauline Arrillaga in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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China signals will cut off credit to rebalance economy
2013-07-06 ? reuters.com
``China said on Friday it would cut off credit to force consolidation in industries plagued by overcapacity as it seeks to end the economy's dependence on extravagant investment funded by cheap debt.''
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