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Poor Riri! Rihanna may not be very "Loud" during her highly anticipated performance at Sunday's Grammy Awards, as she's battling combination of bronchitis and laryngitis.
The Barbados-born singer Tweeted a friend on Thursday saying, "Bronchitis and laryngitis boo! I'm still goin to rehearsals tho! Sunday is everything."
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The 22-year-old superstar is set to take the stage for music's biggest night with Drake and is reportedly seeking medical help in preparation for the show, according to RadarOnline.
"Rihanna is on steroids and antibiotics to get her as prime time ready as possible for Sunday night," a source reportedly told the site. "[She is] scheduled to rehearse again on Saturday at Staples.
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"But she probably won't be using her voice a lot at that time," the source reportedly added. "She is saving it for Sunday night."
The "Only Girl In The World" singer is definitely feeling the pressure to find a remedy as quickly as possible.
"I CAN'T STOP thinking about tomorrow!!!," she Tweeted on Saturday morning. "#AnxietyF--k!!!!!!!"
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As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Rihanna is one of the performers scheduled to take the stage along with Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Cee Lo Green, Katy Perry and country star Miranda Lambert.
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will air live on February 13 at 8 PM on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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BENEFITING: SoundWaters
EVENT: SoundWaters Flotilla
EVENT DATE: Jul 22, 2017
Put your kayak or paddle board to good use.
Get great exercise, have a ton of fun on the water and and help SoundWaters protect Long Island Sound. Now that's a full day!
Join the Flotilla. We're hundreds of people paddling kayaks and paddle boards 4.5 miles from Cove Island Park on Stamford's east side to Boccuzzi Park on the west side. We'll start the morning with breakfast and celebrate our finish at Boccuzzi with a fun party on the beach. At the same time, we'll all be raising money to help SoundWaters introduce underserved kids to the incredible resource of Long Island Sound. These kids may live in coastal towns, but they might never actually get to the Sound without help like yours.
Don't have a kayak or paddle board? One of you friends does so borrow theirs!
Paddle with friends. Paddle with family. Get your co-workers together and paddle as a company team. Just don't miss the Flotilla.
We'll see you on the water.

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Top 5 Predictions on Cloud Computing for 2012
After finishing up my reflection of 2011 predictions , it's time to make my predictions for 2012 as today is the last day of 2011.
1. Virtualization war will be heated between VMware and Microsoft. The trigger will be the Hyper-V 3.0 which is expected to ship in the middle of 2012 with the Windows 8 server. According to many people, the 3.0 release will bring it on par or better than latest VMware hypervisor.


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December's Petit Vour Beauty Box Review
Yahooooooo, Christmas came early! December's Petit Vour beauty box is here, and this month's box is one of my all-time faves! If you're new to Petit Vour, it's a monthly subscription box that comes loaded with mini samples (and often full-sized samples) from fancy, vegan and cruelty-free brands. This service is only $15 a month (that includes free shipping). Pretty sweet, right?
- Modern Minerals Eye Shadow in Twilight, $10: This shimmery warm brown shade with bronze highlights can be used to create a smokey eye or add a little sparkle to your lids. It's all-natural and only contains 4 ingredients: Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Tin Oxide, Iron Oxides. Love it!
- Be Natural Organics Gentle Face Lotion and Deep Cleansing Oil Samples , $6: I'll be using these travel-sized goodies on my trip back home for Christmas. Will keep y'all posted, but I can already tell they're gonna be awesome!
- Pacifica Enlightened Gloss in Beach Kiss, $12: This is a GORGE pearly pale pink shade of lip gloss. It has the perfect amount of shimmer and shine, all while being super smooth and non-sticky. It's infused with coconut and antioxidants to help make your smackers extra supple and kissable this holiday season. Pacifica's products are entirely vegan, cruelty free, and non-toxic (formulated without carmine, FD&C color, talc, phthalates, parabens, sorbital, or petroleum).
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Petit Vour is far my favorite! Their boxes are awesome!


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FAA temporarily grounds Dreamliners
The FAA is temporarily grounding all Boeing 787 Dreamliners registered in the U.S., further adding to the troubles of a groundbreaking aircraft that has suffered a spate of problems involving fire and smoke.
The FAA said Wednesday evening that it was taking the action "to address a potential battery fire risk." It's also issuing an emergency Airworthiness Directive that will require inspections of the aircraft.
"Before further flight, operators of U.S.-registered, Boeing 787 aircraft must demonstrate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the batteries are safe," the agency said in a statement.
The grounding and inspection mandate were prompted by a problem involving batteries Tuesday night in Japan that required an All Nippon Airlines flight to make an emergency landing.
The FAA's order applies only to the six Dreamliners registered to United Airlines, although the agency's statement implied that aviation regulators in other countries could follow suit.
"United Airlines is currently the only U.S. airline operating the 787, with six airplanes in service," the FAA said. "When the FAA issues an airworthiness directive, it also alerts the international aviation community to the action so other civil aviation authorities can take parallel action to cover the fleets operating in their own countries."
United and All Nippon both offer nonstop flights between Tokyo and Dulles International Airport near Washington. But none of those flights scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday were using 787s, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.
The FAA's action came several hours after the National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending as investigator to Japan to help authorities look into Tuesday's emergency landing, which was made by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner owned by All Nippon. According to the NTSB, the flight was forced to land after reports of "smoke in the cockpit and an odor in the cabin" possibly stemming from the "battery and other systems."
The plane landed safely and passengers and crew were evacuated via the plane's emergency slides.
The NTSB is assisting the Japan Transport Safety Board in its investigation. It's not unusual for the NTSB to send an investigator to help other countries with transportation investigations.
Tuesday's episode marked the second incident in as many weeks related to battery fires in Dreamliners owned by Japanese airlines. Last week the lithium-ion battery on a Japanese Airlines 787 caught fire.
All Nippon Airways has grounded its fleet of 17 Dreamliners, and Japan Airlines suspended all of its 787 flights from Japan, according to the Financial Times.
Last week, following several other Dreamliner incidents, FAA initiated a review of the design and manufacture of the 787 Dreamliner, though officials insisted the planes are safe to fly.
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Asus, are you listening?
No, thought not.
I'll buy another eeepc when you go back to using SSDs and stop bundling an operating system.
You may have a market for the current offerings. My suggestion opens another market for you.
Will someone please do something interesting with the netbook. Even Asus, the company that created this category of computer, doesn't appear to be able to do anything with it, if it's latest Eee PC, the 1015PEM, is anything to go by. Asus Eee PC 1015PEM Asus' Eee PC 1015PEM: latest netbook tech on board That's not to say …
The original Eeepc was made with low end components and had a paltry 4GB of storage. It was about £129 (yes, the price of a low end Android phone).
But for some people the specs were too low, screen was too small etc. These people were missing the point.
What Asus ended up doing is making a netbook with more expensive higher spec components when they really should have just waited for improved components to reduce in price.
In the end Microsoft must have bunged them some cash or threatened to hike their OEM fees for their Windows laptops as Asus stopped doing the Linux versions too.
I can't say I've found Linux to be a problem, though I've sometimes had to do a lot of hunting for info. But I don't think that Asus made a good choice: the Linux distro they chose was somewhat obscure, they had to provide support, and it all turned sour.
After an upgrade to Firefox, via Asus, prevented a couple of other programs from working, and there was no way to back out, short of reinstalling from the DVD, I switched to Ubuntu.
I suspect that Asus didn't have enough sales of Linux to maintain the staff needed to support it. I wonder how much of the hardware could have had the drivers open sourced. Did they try to keep Eee PC Linux under their control, and missed the point of Open Source?
Windows, on the other hand: no supplier of chipsets is going to ignore Windows support.
Giles Jones wrote:
"In the end Microsoft must have bunged them some cash or threatened to hike their OEM fees for their Windows laptops as Asus stopped doing the Linux versions too."
The Atom netbook running XP was competitively priced with substantially better specs. It was an easy sell for the big box retailer like Walmart.
With good prospects for after-market sales of products like MS Office Home.
I still use a couple of Eee 900's, one as a video playback machine on an external monitor (main screen is smashed) controlled through VNC and a 2nd which is my carry-everywhere machine.
10 inch notebooks are too big to be portable for my needs, I find the keyboards on the 700/900 machines ideal sized and the SSD wins over spinning discs hands down, with how I treat my Eee's (they're a lot more rugged than you think) a traditional HD would have died eons ago.
R.I.P. availability of cheap 9" SSD netbooks.
Hey look at this chair I'm sitting on, they haven't advanced much in centuries, neither has this spoon I'm using. It's a netbook for zeus's sake, it's merely a tool, it does what it says on the lid and not much more. I don't expect to be blown away, I wasn't expecting a full hd display, dual ssds, three week battery life, some super duper new UI that's so innovative that a 3 month old baby could operate it to tweet for a nappy change, just what are you hoping for ?
Ah yes. But the chair and spoon industries (along with the chair wheel makers etc) don't all go titsup if you dont buy a new chair, spoon or whatever every year. Thus they don't have to keep dreaming up ways of making you think you must have the latest spoon to live.
Someone's gotta pay Intel to keep making ever better specified Atoms and that someone is you and me.
Back in the day, Intel and their cronies just used to bung MS a few quid to add some cruft into the next round of updates and force everyone to upgrade. These days we all howl like SOBs when a new OS release drops a clog onto our systems and they can't get away with that one any more.
OK, perhaps I'm a purist on such matters, but in my view, the "netbook" ceased to exist when they started fitting such machines with hard drives, and installing hamstrung versions of MS Windows instead of Linux (around, ooh, 2008, IIRC). From that time on, AFAIC, they became "small laptops".
Perhaps the Google Chrome OS machines due in 2011 will resurrect the original "netbook" concept (small, lightweight, solid-state data storage, etc.), but I still won't be buying one while my Asus Eee 701SD* is still running.
Light blue touchpaper, dive for cover... ;-)
* - Ironically, I think the "perfect" netbook was the original Acer Aspire One, though I would've slapped Ubuntu on it as soon as I got it home...
If it's anything like the 12** series, a bit of a PITA. You have to void the warranty, remove the keyboard and top of chassis and then swap em. Takes about 1/2 an hour if you're fairly happy taking the thing apart.
Performed this operation on my 1201n, originally had a 5400RPM, swapped for a 7200RPM and the laptop was noticeably snappier. Still, no where near the performance of an SSD (my old 901 could boot ubuntu in about 15-20s on its 4 and 16GB SSDs)
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And they are made like hotcakes too.
I've been giving advice to people not to get a netbook for their kids and get a cheap full sized laptop only to have them try and sell it to me after they ignored my advice.
I have now got almost 20 netbooks now and I see so many offered for sale. Other than my orginal 701, I haven't bought a new one because there is always a slighty used one offer. They just don't live up to peoples expectations and many people are looking to off load them after a few months.
Still, they make great security cameras units and cheaper too although taking the camera out of the unit and attaching them to longer wires is getting harder with some of the newer ones. They seem to be trying to stop people from modding these things.
This is a netbook at a notebook price point - I can buy a real computer for 349 quid! The excitement of early netbooks was small cheap lightweight computers that redefined the model. Now they're just small screen notebooks at big screen notebook prices.
The netbook market needs manufacturers that don't have Wintel notebook products that would get cannibalised by true netbooks. So the next successful "netbook" may be a clamshell tablet with a keyboard.
PS has anyone tried buying a notebook without Windows (or OSX) on it recently?
that if you want a thin quality product you have to pay for it. None apple PC tards do not seem to grasp the concept of you-get-what-you-pay-for, I buy Apple, i get top quality (ahem!) gear.
ok, some self mockery there, but if i want a thin and powerful netbook(!!), buy a macbook air 11.6...
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They don't need to do something exciting. They just need to make the machines small and cheap, like they're supposed to be, instead of costing as much as a laptop.
The fact that these companies never integrate a 3G modem (at least as an option) is also completely unfathomable to me. These are machines that are made to be used on the move - living without internet access, or having a huge great dongle poking out of the side are not great options.
I bought a rather fetching golden brown A110-A in August'09 which came complete with 16Gb SSD, 1Gb RAM and 3G modem for £197 inc vat and delivery from eXpansys complete with a version of linux pre-installed - I think this was an EU import version. I've added an extra 512Mb of RAM (tenner), a huge 7800mAh battery (30 quid), Intel Wireless N pci-e card (4 quid!), Bluetooth (£2) and installed Ubuntu netbook remix ... topped off with a Three £5/month for 1 gig of 3G usage SIM card .. sweet.
The review of this Asus netbook is seriously flawed, simply because the reviewer assumes that the only way for this computer to have acceptable performance is by running Windows OS, and to do that the Netbook needs to become bloated.
If the reviewer runs one of the Netbook optimized Linux distributions, that will prove the computer is quite "snappy" and needs less bloat.
The argument/case of "popularity" of Windows over Linux is not the question or even important, but fair, intelligent and competent technical reviews are. Not stupid Microsoft shills with one point of view, and little broad technology experience.
I agree with The Brave Sir Robin - about the 9" screen and SSD - but mine's an irreplaceable Dell Mini-9 that has a 16GB SSD, 16GB SDHC and the 3G modem (also sat-nav enabled) and it runs XP, perceptibly as fast as Linux, once booted.
Netbooks are the right size for sitting on the arm of chair for reading - don't have to hold it as I would a tablet, and obviously quicker than tablets as well as Flash & iPlayer etc capable. Dells are easy to maintain, I swapped keyboard for larger keys US-version, as well as SSD and memory.
In order to save wear and rear on SSD, part of 2GB memory is configured as a RAM drive for Firefox and other temporary file use - which significantly speeds up browser use too. Only fault is battery life away from home, but not a problem now because of use of Android phone for some functions.
I imagine most netbook users upgrade to 2GB memory despite Microsoft - so reviews might better reflect this rather than Tony Smith's:
"We review the products as sold, not as a handful of nerds - this one included - might like them to be."
Surely you could take a review model, and test it with the maximum possible memory, with how easy, or not, it is to upgrade being a valued part of the review.
It should only take a few minutes to change memory - and the point is that DDR3 should be making a difference compared to first generation DDR2 netbooks.
there seems to be an army of us out here that want the same and no manufacturer seems to have the courage to go near it or if they do they put a crippled Windows on it make sure its a dog.
If there's anyone at the reg with a usb stick they can boot the thing up into, say, ubuntu netbook edition and see how it flies. This things more powerful than any of my desktop machines at home and I have no performance problems with any of them.
You published it in the Hardware section - be nice to hear about the hardware not the crap it comes with,
You guys sure are enamored with tablets aren't you. O_O;;
With a tablet I can't sit on a bus typing out my latest what-ever-I'm-working-on or run any of my productivity software yet.
Most of the programs as of now are just play toy software for entertainment only making the tablets nothing more than a wonderful computer toy or adults. I hope real programs to actually get real business done find there way to the tablet some day. ^^;;
Yeah I always thought that. Using my netbook now to type this and there's a 2cm plastic margin round the screen.
I think the reason is that since Asus don't make screens themselves, they're probably dependent on what size/resolutions of screens are available in sufficient quantities. If there's no companies producing screens of particular dimensions then there's not much they can do about it.
Microsoft won't let them ship more pixels.
The netbook-class (cheap) MS license stipulates a 1024x600 screen. If they sold one with more pixels it would need a full license and cost more. Of course they could ship it with Linux and no MS license at all, but they won't. Some day we'll find out if they are being strong-armed by MS - or whether the Linux market is just too small and the return rate from the clueless just too high.
The next wave might be Android netbooks (ie with a keyboard, rather than a tablet. and finding out whether they can be reloaded with Linux instead.
"you can see the difference shifting up a gear from "High Performance" mode to "Super Performance" makes by looking at the PCMark 05 scores for each, but it's not going to make applications load any more quickly."
I'm a happy user of an Asus Eee PC 1005. And I accept that for the impressive batterylife (7 hours with Wifi on, more than 9 without it) I have to sacrifice on snappiness. The "gear shifting" I use for running those applications, that would otherwise not run properly, e.g. Skype or playing high-res video's. Esp. Skype, with its varying demand on CPU cycles, doesn't work well in Auto-Performance modes.
You don't buy a netbook because it's very fashionable (there are iPads and Airs for that). You buy them because you want a versatile tool while on the road, without getting your shoulder dislocated from carrying it, and without having to plunder your savings when buying it.
Well Reg, all due respect, but you keep bundling netbooks with high percentages for the same drivel over and over again. Oh look another netbook, same as the past three years with minor changes. Oh, the price is higher on this one. Goody. Lets dole out yet another 75%
Netbooks should have been downmarked some time ago. Rising prices on the same parts is a no no. Even the slow changes are minor.
Bluntly, no netbook should get over 60% - unless it has ION. Unless it has gig ethernet, unless it breaks the mould.
And you should long ago have doled out a hammering on units that tried to lock out upgrades. Bones points should have gone to units that had hard disk slots and memory slots for upgrades. Bonus points for being able to boot from the SD card slot and so on.
Having an upgradable netbook is a huge bonus over ones that have vendors who are playing nasty. Its really time the reg started kicking back hard on vendors who play such games. And I suspect people would happily pay less for a model that had an 80GB drive that was easily upgradable later and could take 3GB of ram (ION) later.
And lastly, ION has been around a long time now. If vendors want to charge over £250 for these units, its time they shipped with ION, or got down marked.
Reg take note.
...after the EEE PC 901. I have one of these and I love it. SSD, came with Linux, fairly good battery life, 9" screen, white keyboard which can be seen in low light using light from the screen. The 9" screen makes it nice and small and usable more or less anywhere.
I dread the day when it dies as there is no current equivalent replacement for it. No a tablet is NOT a suitable alternative.
The 901 is about the most useful and best gadget I've ever owed. I wish they'd go back to the original netbook concept.
The only netbook I'd be in the market for now would be a revamped 901.
9 (maybe 10) inch, a decent amount of solid state storage, 2+ GB of RAM, nVidia Ion GFX, decent battery life. I can cram linux on afterwards but would prefer not to give money to MS.
Yeah, the 901 was and still is a fantastic machine. I've replaced most of the parts in mine over time so I now have one with 2GB of RAM, 68GB of fast solid state storage and a replacment wireless card and camera so it's now MacOS X compatible :)
I wonder how comparable these scores are to previous reviews ones. Specially since the machines used different OS. But in case they are comparable, netbook makers are sure taking the piss...
I just went to look at the numbers in the 1000HE (running Win XP) review, and there isn't much difference compared to this "new" netbook... TWO years later! Battery life was actually quite a bit better then than now.
Funny how the netbook market does not follow the common trend in all the rest of computing.
Asus eee 1005HA-H here for the last 18 months and it's brilliant.
So at £260 it was a bit more than the original netbooks... but did anyone actually use those? The tiny screens with massive black borders, cut-down Linux-based OS, 2hr battery life and joke of internal SSD? They were like one of those chunky Psion PDA things.
Anyone who thinks current netbooks are overpriced then clearly the device is not for them... stick to an iPad for double the price or a massive beast Retard Bell laptop from PC World.
Mine cost £60 more than a frapping iPod MP3 player!
I actually set up a friends original eee and I could not believe how slow the SSD in there was, 8GB or something, with another 20GB of even slower SSD.
I'd rather have a conventional 2.5" HDD with the option to put an SSD in myself, than a glorified Compact Flash card, which is what it felt like was shoved in there.
So on to my experience with the netbook...
I get over a full week of 45min commutes to/from work out of the battery and it does everything I need. I still use Office XP which goes like the clappers these days on netbook hardware. Web browse, email, spreadsheet, putty, jedit, media player classic, VLC, bit of GIMP/Inkscape. You have to be realistic with the screen, the 600px vertical res takes a bit of getting used to but I think Asus released a newer version about 4 months after mine which is 1024x768.
Also you need to not be a moron and install every program/application ever made on there, but that should be a standard warning for all Windows XP installations.
And all that for a mass of just under 1.2Kg and full 9hr battery life? Winner!
If anyone else can find anything else with the same battery life, mass, size, performance and usability; then let me know. Seriously.
"So at £260 it was a bit more than the original netbooks... but did anyone actually use those? The tiny screens with massive black borders, cut-down Linux-based OS, 2hr battery life and joke of internal SSD? They were like one of those chunky Psion PDA things."
Ahem... I did, and still do :-)
Granted, I occasionally wish the screen on my Eee 701SD had an extra inch or two on it, but as the 701 is just about the only machine which will fit on a typical train's "tray-table", I can forgive it. Also, the Eee's version Xandros Linux (quirky, outdated and not updated) lasted barely two months before I stuck Eeebuntu on it, and now the machine flies.
2-hour battery life... you're not a SETI/Folding@home user, are you? Again, with typical use, my 701 averages three to four hours on battery (it's the "stock" one); maybe Eeebuntu is particularly adept at managing power use? SSD... well, I have no complaints, though occasionally I wish for a 16Gb one...
And one more thing: I'm a former Psion owner - don't knock 'em :-)
I haven't seen my 701 back since she laid a hand on it. She uses it for all girlies related things, out my basic geek's understanding capabilities. Shopping from the couch, chatting with friends in the bedroom, hunting down cooking recipes and trying them outright following the instructions with the eeepc near the chopping slab.
She loves the pearly colour and the fact it fits in her handbag. She's got a regular notebook and a desktop PC, but she barely uses them anymore. She coaxed me into turning her PC into a kind of NAS for storage only over wifi. She likes the very straightforward linux environment, too. Easier than a phone to use, as she says.
I tried for a while to get it back, to no avail, and even lured her recently toward 'better' or 'shinier' tablets, but somehow the feeble resolution of the eeepc is what's holding her back, because /per pixel/, it's better than many alternatives (she wears glasses and appreciates not squinting at the screen ; there are few pixels on the 7", but they are *big*).
I had to buy myself a 900A to replace this loss.
to MS and Intel for killing the netbook market deader than dead.
When they first arrived, netbooks were very small, robust, underpowered and very cheap.
Who would want that?
Wintel and their army of shills and fandboys, being much smarter than us realised how bad those netbooks were and, thankfully, put them to the sword.
Of course our Wintel friends didn't just kill those horrible netbooks off and leave us with nothing.
Once they got rid of them we were all allowed to purchase their replacements, the large, fragile, underpowered and expensive notbooks.
Notbooks are sort of like netbooks, without any of the things that defined netbooks in the first place.
People across the world rejoiced at being now able to use their new notbooks to run Photoshop and MS office on their new device. The fact that they could buy a proper laptop for the same price and run these things 10 x faster doesn't matter at all.
At least I don't think it is. It's just a crippled laptop with a smaller screen, smaller keyboard, smaller hdd, less memory, slower cpu, just as bad battery life and the same or greater price. On any other planet that would be called a rip off. If you want a dinky laptop and are prepared to pay a premium for it great, but other wise I can't see how it relates to the original EEEEEEEEEEE Pc.
A netbook to my mind should be all about Internet connectivity, mobility and ease and speed of use. That means a low power cpu, lightweight OS (not Windows), 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth, Instant on, online storage for email, docs etc. with an SD Card instead of a hdd for temporary storage when offline and automatic syncing when back online all for £99 a pop.
An iPad covers most of this criteria (albeit not price). Obviously that's not for everyone and if that doesn't do what you want then you need a laptop not a netbook (maybe even a small over priced laptop).
Fortunately Google seem to have this sussed out. Give them a few more months and I expect Googles Chrome OS machines to be selling by the container ship load, whilst the usual naysayers will completely miss the point and be decrying the lack of a 1TB hdd and GeForce 10Petaflop GPU.
I have never actually tried one but the Mio Lightbook looks like the best netbook, it has:
32gb ssd!
Windows XP
8.9" screen
950 Grams weight
Slim dimensions
Costs only gbp189!!
Got to be the best allround spec for a true Netbook and can be bought from Maplins.
Only weak area is the battery, which I suppose is in the interest of lightness.
Some models even have GPS although Maplin make no mention of that.
If I did not already have an Aspire one I'd buy one of these like a shot.
Please test one Reg. the makers deserve a bit of promotion for producing just what people have asked for.
I just Googled to find out more, and discovered that there is supposedly a Mio 1210N as well, which is its big brother with the 12 inch 1366x768 screen. (Well, not quite, it also has an Athlon Neo CPU and Chipset)
This model appears to be unobtainium. Is that a conspiracy I'm smelling?
> The fact that these companies never integrate a 3G modem (at least as an option) is also completely unfathomable to me.
My HP Mini 210 has a built in 3G modem from Qualcomm. Works well (as soon as I removed the horrible bloated HP Connection Manager, at least)
349 for a netbook is ridiculous.
I recently got a Packard Bell (Acer) with 7 hrs batt life (way better than the original Asus 701) and 10in screen for 229
Would have been even cheaper without the window tax of course but at least it's closer to the proper netbook concept. It even has a dinky charger like the original Asus ones
I run it with Linux Mint 9 and it does the job admirably
By the way, since someone questioned lack of 3G modems in these things - Cost is one thing of course but also it is good not to need a separate 3G contract, esp if you gave a smartphone already. Just plug the phone into the netbook and off you go (using android phone & mint anyway), and no need for a sticky-out dongle either, just a wire
I've used an Android phone for net access as well. HTC Hero (T-Mobile G2 Touch version, stock os, no mods)
I had an Acer Aspire One, with Ubuntu remix installed.
I just plugged the phone in via USB, and the phone prompted me for the USB options, Flash drive, Charge Only etc. One option was to share internet access. I just selected that option. I didn't do anything at all on the Linux box, just launched Firefox and it had access to the Internet immediately! (Unlike Win 7 on the same netbook, which took a lot of coaxing to get it to do the same thing!).
It worked!
I'll be damned - never even thought to investigate.
Not quite as straightforward as you said - when I plugged in the phone, it just gave me a buttone to share my files. But then go to Settings/Network & Wireless, and there is an option called "Tethering". Click on that - and I'm typing this using my tethered phone on my old AA1 using Ubuntu. (Not NBR - I hate it - but that's a different story.)
Thanks a lot! I can get rid of my separate wireless dongle now.
And yes - anything over £250 is silly money for a so-called netbook.
The reason for the lack of differentiation between netbooks is the stupid restrictions Intel, and to a lesser extent MS, enforces.
If it's an N-series Atom you are restricted to 1024x600 resolution, 10" screens and no HDMI output. If you use a Z-series Atom you aren't restricted. It's not a technology shortfall, it's Intel protecting it's laptop interests.
The MS angle is the stoopid Windows 7 Basic restriction even though many people have been running Premium and Professional without problems or degradation of experience.
But is that a case of 'No, Mr Netbook Vendor, we will not sell you Windows at all to preinstall on your netbook, if it doesn't meet the Redmond criteria'.
Or 'No we won't cut you a special knockdown price for Windows 7 Starter to maximise your profits, if your netbook doesn't meet our criteria' ?
So in order to make a living, vendor takes the cheap OS deal, restrictions and all.
Anyone hear that rumour that Microsoft basically gave away copies of Windows XP to its manufacturing customers in the early days of the netbook, to discourage them from dabbling with Linux?
Built in 3G modem need not require a separate contract just use SIM card from data enabled phone. Breaches T&C but who is to know. No dongle required! Built in modem has major advantage of massive aerial compared to phone or dongle so there is much better connectivity too. Both Dell 910 & Advent 4213 3G modems are "unlocked" and I have used Vodafone 3 and Tesco data SIMs in them, as well as tethering to smartphone without changing SIMs which is usefull on high speed trains with rapidly changing cell coverage (Main charge is for data used not connection) when it is useful to have two connections enabled at the same time on different networks.
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I like the idea about the Styrofoam and spike (as wheels are costing a lot within our budget), do you have an illustration by any chance of how it should look based on your comment.
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Gluten Free Vegan Newbie!
Hi! My name is Sammy, I am 22 and a senior in college. I am study Physiology and Neurobiology. About two years ago I fell ill and had to take time off from school to spend my days in hospitals and doctors offices. After two years I was diagnosed with visceral hyperalgesia, and Celiac Disease! Because of the damage done to my gut from the prolonged exposure to gluten, my doctors and I decided a vegan diet would be best for the time being. However I have fallen head over heels for my new vegan lifestyle and slowly but surely it has become more than a diet for me! The more I learn the more I am convinced this is the way to go! I have now been vegan since about August of 2012.
Any other gluten free vegans on here? I would love the support and to chat with more of you!
Hello Sammy congrats on going vegan! I too am actually a gluten free vegan newbie and i was never diagnosed by a doctor for having celiac disease, but i have repeatedly experenced symptoms and signs of the disease. The great thing about being vegan is there are alot of really great foods that you can eat that can satisfy your gluten free needs as well as your tastebuds :) Any favorite vegan/gluten free recipes/meals???
Hi Sammy! I am more familiar with the gluten free than the vegan, but if you are looking for some good bread or treats, try www.newgrains.com under the Gluten Egg and Dairy free section. :) Nice when you find something that is working and when you fall in love with it! Cheers!! Keep up the good work.
Hey Sammy,
I'm new as well, and very similar to lalaglitz's story. I am also still in learning phase (although I think I will always be!). Let any of us here know if you have any questions etc. I find eating gluten free to be much more work than eating vegan, but you find your way around after some time and it gets easier. And you feel so much better! Which is the best part for me.
I am a gluten free vegetarian but hope to go vegan soon. I have been gluten free for right at 1 year now and have been vegetarian for 3 going on 4 weeks. I hope by the end of this year to be fully transitioned to a vegan.


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3 years ago now my boyfriend & I decided to leave…. well go travelling, he had been made redundant but had found another job and I just decided to quit mine. We decided almost on a whim where we wanted to go and both, luckily, wanted to go to the same places. Antony was going out 2 months before me to work on the national parks in America; I was staying here to earn a bit more money, as we weren't planning on working whilst we were away. So I bit the bullet and moved back in with my Mum & commuted two hours a day to work, to try and save as much money as possible.
|We made it! Machu Pichu
Booking our round the world tickets was one of the most exciting things I/we had ever done,(until we went away of course), and we celebrated with a much earned beer. I was 24 & Antony was 28 when we went away, and we both agree that it was the best thing we have both ever done.
|The Routeburn Track
Our Australasian journey started with 2 months in New Zealand starting in Auckland and finishing in Christchurch. We well and truly used our hiking boots by doing the Routeburn, Abel Tasman, Franz Joseph & Tongariro crossing. We camped for almost two thirds of our time there to save as much money as possible, really noticing the price difference to South America. In hind sight we both agreed that 6 weeks would have been more than enough time here and we would have spent the other 2 weeks in South America as there was soooo much we didn't have time to do.
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The next 4 weeks were spent going from Sydney to Cairns, again on a tight budget we used relocation websites to find campervans and cars that needed to be moved up the coast conveniently to the places we wanted to go. This was by far the best way to travel as we diverted as much as we wanted and had a great time seeing places they don't take you on buses. 4 weeks were enough to do the East Coast, and we found Australia extremely expensive, a bunch of bananas were £13!!! They grow them too! We did however get up close and personal with Kangaroos & went snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, one of my life ambitions.
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The next 4 months were spent traveling around South East Asia. Our senses were bought back to life with almost overwhelming combinations of sights, colours, smells and sounds. Food became colourful again and our first meal in Singapore, Indian Curry eaten off banana leaves with locals, was so good I can almost taste it now. We had basically spent 3 months living of instant noodles, value bread and instant soup in Australasia. We spent 3 days in Singapore enjoying the Eastern and Western influences and feasting on amazing cheap, colourful & delicious food.
|Sunset from our £5 per night beach hut in Thailand
Malaysia was our next stop, where we went to Kuala Lumpur and spent 3 days there, we stayed in a hostel which cost £2 each per night, located right next the one of the biggest markets in Asia quite a feat. We grew to like the hostel but to begin with I refused to touch anything and slept on a large scarf I had been using as a beach towel. Tioman Islands were our next destination; the island is STUNNING with white sand secluded beaches, no cars and no electricity. We enjoyed great cheap food, cheap accommodation and snorkelling, straight of the beach, to our heart was content. Penang a foody heaven was our next stop we weren't over keen but it was a good base to get our Thai visas and to get into Thailand.
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On arrival into Thailand we went straight to Koh Phangan for the full moon party. We decided we didn't want to stay near the main strip as it was meant to be dirty and expensive. Instead we went to Hada Salad beach and found the most amazing beach huts right on the beach. The huts consisted of a double bed, bathroom and balcony with a hammock, it cost us £2.50 each per night, a bargain for amazing beach views and perfect peace. Our days before the full moon party were spent snorkelling and sun bathing uninterrupted and peaceful. The full moon party in my eyes was over rated with just a stupid mix of western teenagers & 20somethings getting stupidly drunk. But that's just my opinion.
|Angkor Wat Cambodia
The main highlights of our Asian experience were the Angkor Wat temples & Elephant ride in Cambodia and the laidback beach life & Captain Chims great food in Shilankovilla. Vietnam was a busy loud and bustling yet intriguing country with many great and beautiful places to see, we spent a month here but hiking in Sapa and our tour of Ha Long Bay were my favourite activities. Laos is the opposite of Vietnam; it is quiet, peaceful but just as intriguing. We saw stunning temples and even got caught in a landslide on top of a mountain, a point where I really thought our luck had run out, we spent around 2 & half weeks in Laos and felt very relaxed for it. The remaining two weeks we spent getting ourselves back to Bangkok for our return flight home. Our 1st experience of Bangkok was not great and we weren't looking forward to returning, but we upgraded to accommodation with AC! (The 1st time in 4 very hot and sweaty months) thanks to a very lovely Christmas present from my Mum. It was also rainy season so the city was actually starting to look cleaner and was less busy. The notorious Koh San Road became our base for our last 4 days where we explored the area went to a roof top bar in our "best" clothes and just savoured our last few days of our epic journey.
|Vietnamese Food.. All This for £5!
All in all we spent £10,000 each that's including our round the world ticket.
We went to 14 countries in 10 months.
We had the most amazing adventure and talk about it every day, even two years down the line. It is without the best decision I ever made and I think Antony would agree with me too. We have so many great memories that we can look back and think yes we actually did do all of that!
|Me Feeling Very Tall In Sapa Vietnam
The two questions that I get asked the most are; would you do it again?
Yes I would love to do it again but probably for no longer than 6 months.
What was your favourite Country?
Almost impossible to choose from but my favourite continent was South America, I would love to go back to learn Spanish properly and hope to do so before or for my 30th Birthday!
Yes I would love to do it again but probably for no longer than 6 months.
What was your favourite Country?
Almost impossible to choose from but my favourite continent was South America, I would love to go back to learn Spanish properly and hope to do so before or for my 30th Birthday!


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Well, for the sake of conversation, I'm willing to hold that he was fluent but with a small vocabulary.
I think, like a lot of things, we try to overload one term with meanings that are best described with other terms. We say fluent when we mean fluent and large vocabulary and good grammar and perhaps "thinking in the language" and maybe other things. But fluidity of speech (which, again, I am holding the side of the conversation that says it's mostly the physical skill with the language), is an independent quality. The quantity of those other variables does not directly affect the quantity of it.
I have a large vocabulary in English, but in person I tend to stammer, hesitate, search for words, and, as in my writing, I often get lost in parenthetical remarks. But some folks with a tenth of my vocabulary can talk circles around me. I'm going to say that they are more fluent.


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Google's flagship Android phone, the Nexus 4, is going on sale next week and the first reviews are beginning to appear online. We took the time to round-up some of the best reviews and then look at what the critics were saying about each aspect of the device. Read on to see how Google's latest Nexus device performed.
Nexus 4 Review round-up
- Sophie Charara on Stuff: 5/5
- Nathan Olivarez-Giles on Wired: 9/10
- Phil Lavelle on TechRadar: 4.5/5
- Chris Hall on Pocket-Lint: 4.5/5
- Andrew Hoyle on CNET UK: 4.5/5
- Luke Jonhson on Trusted Reviews: 9/10
- Joshua Topolsky on The Verge: 8.3/10
- Armando Rodriguez on TechHive: 4/5
- Brent Rose on Gizmodo: 4/5
- Lynn La on CNET: 7.8/10
- Daniel Berg on Laptop Mag: 3.5/5
- Phil Nickinson on Android Central: No score
- JR Raphael on Computer World: No score
- Walt Mossberg on AllThingsD: No score
- Ron Amadeo on Android Police: No score
- Vincent Nguyen on SlashGear: No score
- Joanna Stern on ABC News: No score
- Wilson Rothman on NBC News: No score
- Brad Molen of Engadget: No score
- Steve Kovach on Business Insider: No score
- Chris Velazco on TechCrunch: No score
- Chris Burns on Android Community: No score
- Matthew Panzarino on TheNextWeb: No score
- Eliane Fiolet on Ubergizmo: No score
- Matt Warman on The Telegraph: No score
- Thomas Tamblyn on T3: No score
- Jonathan Geller on BGR: No score
- Florence Ion on Ars Technica: No score
- Devindra Hardawar on Venture Beat: No score
What critics are saying about the Nexus 4
- Design: "I took a set of keys, a fork and a pocket knife to the front and back glass panels of the Nexus 4 and couldn't get a scratch to show up anywhere." "It's quite grippy thanks to a rubberized band of plastic that runs in a ring around the whole device." "The screen is coated smoothly from edge to edge, and it almost feels like the glass is melted over the sides."
- Display: "I wouldn't say it's the absolute best, as I still prefer the colour reproduction of the One X and the sharpness of the iPhone's Retina display, but it's very close" "Clean and crisp in just about any light setting." "It's one of the nicest displays we've ever viewed in the midday sun." "Let's not mince words here: the Nexus 4's screen is awesome."
- Audio: "The rear speaker isn't very loud and doesn't sound very good." "The external speaker sounded weak and it's worse when you aren't holding the phone because it's located on the rear." "Call quality and reception was excellent on the phone." "We loved making calls on the Nexus, as our friends came through loud and clear. It was static-free and neither side of the conversation had any difficulty hearing each other."
- Performance: "I couldn't find a single stutter or hiccup during my week with the phone." "Performance and responsiveness on the device is second to none." "For the most part, it was responsive and fast, multitasking was smooth and we only rarely had any lag." "The Nexus 4 has been extraordinarily snappy during our time together."
- Camera: "The photos it takes aren't quite as clear or detailed as the ones we've seen from the cameras on the HTC One X and iPhone 5." "The phone's most touted new capability, the ability to capture 360-degree pictures, worked poorly in my tests." "The back camera worked well, certainly much better than the Galaxy Nexus, and was able to produce vivid images with a relatively low amount of noise and excellent color clarity." "Google has greatly improved its photo editing options, making tweaking your images easier and faster than before." "There are a few areas in which the Nexus 4 bests the GS3, and others in which it's still very good, but loses to its Samsung competitor."
- Battery: "When it comes to battery life, the Nexus 4 is also performs just below the One X and the iPhone." "Since it uses the Qi wireless charging standard, you can use a charging pad from another manufacturer" "The Nexus 4 lasted a full workday in mixed use" "To say it's holding up for full work days would be an understatement; even with heavy use, this battery more than pulls its weight."
- Android 4.2: "There is simply no better Android experience than Android as Google has built it." "Android 4.2 is largely the same as 4.1 Jelly Bean." "In my testing, Google voice search outperformed Siri in the majority of queries, and not only did it get the answers correct and offer up perfectly worded responses." "Besides all the terrific changes in Android 4.2, I did notice a couple of software issues with third-party apps."
Overall, it looks like the Nexus 4 lived up to the high expectations that we set for it. Most reviewers were in agreement that the Nexus 4 is Google's finest smart phone ever produced. The only major complaints we have found are things we were well aware of – there is no LTE, no microSD slot, and the battery is not user replaceable. The absence of 4G LTE might be a deal killer for sure, but if you can get past that then the Nexus 4 delivers the best pure Android experience.
Video reviews of Nexus 4
Most underrated feature: Miracast wireless display
We have been talking about Miracast for awhile, but it's nice to see it finally enabled on an Android phone. Not many other devices are Mircast-enabled yet, but this should be changing over the coming months. Look for Google TV to add Miracast support so you can share your smartphone with your TV.
6 Word Wrap Up: "Buy phone first, then choose carrier"
The Nexus 4 is a great Android phone, and it represents a new movement for unlocked smartphones sales in the US. In the past consumers have signed a 2-year contract with a wireless carrier and then picked one of the devices they offer. Now customers in the US can buy their phone first, and then choose the carrier that best fits their needs.
Priced at only $299, the Nexus 4 could become the most successful unlocked Android phone in the US. Unlocked phones have slowly been growing in popularity the last year, but most high-end devices sell for over $500-600. Now that US consumers can get a premium Android smartphone at an affordable price and match it with pre-paid service at half the cost of most post-paid plans, we may see the US wireless market shift to a more European model.
Time will tell if an open, unlocked wireless world works best for consumers, but it already offers some nice benefits. Prices of smartphones and wireless plans have come down, we have more choices for premium unlocked devices, carrier bloatware is removed from phones, and Android updates flow directly from Google.
What do you think of Google's latest flagship device? Do you plan on buying one when it comes out next week?
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HOUSTON — On Saturday, BBVA Compass Stadium will come to life as the Houston Dynamo host D.C. United in the first match at Houston's sparkling new soccer-specific stadium (4:30 pm ET, NBC Sports Network, LIVE CHAT on MLSsoccer.com).
But as everyone comes together in downtown Houston, there will be two men in attendance who will have wider smiles than most on their faces: former Dynamo president Oliver Luck (above left) and his successor Chris Canetti (above right), both of whom played an integral part in bringing a very complex and diverse deal together.
WATCH: BBVA Compass Stadium unveiled
"I'm very proud of what the team has accomplished," Luck told MLSsoccer.com. "The challenge was to put together what I would call a politically palatable deal and we were able to put together a political deal that was responsible to the different constituents we had which was the soccer franchise, the taxpayers and the like."
Luck was tabbed to usher the Dynamo to Houston in part for his ability to navigate these types of deals. The former Houston Oilers quarterback headed the formerly named Harris County Sports Authority for five years and understood what bringing a professional sports stadium to life would entail.
To concentrate on that, Luck found a partner in Canetti who could handle the day-to-day operations of the club while he worked to put together a deal that was facing immense political, economic and social pressure.
"Oliver's a great guy and means a whole bunch to this team and deserves a lot of credit for everything that's happened here, especially the stadium," Canetti told MLSsoccer.com. "He was the big man on campus if you will when it comes to being able to focus on the stadium and training complex and had the faith in me to run the team and the business. It was a great partnership and was valuable for the club."
Canetti picked up on Luck's work when the former left the Dynamo two years ago to take the athletic director position at his alma mater, the West Virginia University.
Combined, the two Dynamo presidents laid the groundwork for a stadium deal telling the Dynamo's story in the halls of the city and Harris County government, while the club was busy winning championships in their first two years. In the end that was a winning formula.
"It was guys like Brian [Ching], Dwayne [De Rosario] and Eddie [Robinson], those guys really captured the imagination of the city and helped us gain some traction as we put this plan into action," Luck said. "They're very responsible for the way the city and county first embraced the Dynamo."
Six years after starting work on a deal that looked to be in dire straits as the city and county went through administration shifts and economic stress, the pair will be on hand Saturday to take in the fruits of their labor and get a deserved handshake or pat on the back from anyone with knowledge of the process.
"There was a lot of tenacity but results are what matter in life," Luck said. "We, we being everyone including the soccer community, taxpayers, sports fans, we got the result that will make Houston a better sports town."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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Audio equipment maker Bose will have some new in-ear headphones available on at the end of the month: The IE2, the MIE2, and the MIE2i. The latter two headphones are designed specifically for mobile phones—in-line microphones and all.
The IE2 and MIE2 will be available on August 23rd for $100 and $30 respectively while the MIE2i will be available in October for $130.
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Bose has introduced three new in-ear products: the IE2 audio headphones for listening on-the-go, and the MIE2 and MIE2i mobile headsets, designed specifically for music-enabled mobile phones. Each is engineered with proprietary Bose technologies for improved audio quality, and feature new Bose® StayHear™ tips for greater stability and a comfortable fit.
The IE2 audio headphones, and MIE2 and MIE2i mobile headsets (which are not noise cancelling or sound isolating) offer an enhanced acoustic design using a more sophisticated application of proprietary Bose TriPort® acoustic headphone structure. Music sounds smoother and more natural, instruments have better detail and definition, and high frequencies and vocals are reproduced with improved clarity.
For improved stability — during exercise or other rigorous activity — each new model debuts proprietary Bose StayHear tips. They attach more securely to the headset itself, and then remain more securely in the ear while in use. Designed with soft silicone and a rounded profile, they fit easily inside the bowl of the ear, while naturally conforming to the upper ridge of the ear. Three sizes are included — small, medium and large — ensuring a comfortable fit for hours of listening.
The IE2 audio headphones can be used with a variety of audio sources, including MP3 players, personal computers and digital music players. The MIE2 and MIE2i mobile headsets offer an additional benefit — taking calls with ease from music-enabled mobile phones. They feature a convenient in-line microphone and one-touch answer/end button for seamless switching from music to calls and back. While the MIE2 is compatible with many mobile phones — including all iPhone models and many BlackBerry devices — the MIE2i was designed exclusively for listening to and control of select Apple products, including the iPhone, iPod, iPad and MacBook Pro. Its in-line microphone provides access to certain voice applications in Apple products, and the in-line remote lets users adjust volume and navigate through stored music directly from the headset.
The IE2 audio headphones and MIE2 and MIE2i mobile headsets were constructed and manufactured for lasting quality. From the ear tips to the cables, they have been tested to meet demanding standards for durability. A carrying case is included for added protection and convenience.
Bose® IE2 audio headphones replace the Bose in-ear headphones, and are available on August 23, 2010 for $99.95. The Bose® MIE2 mobile headset replaces the Bose mobile in-ear headset, and is available on August 23, 2010 for $129.95. The Bose® MIE2i mobile headset will be available in October, 2010 for $129.95. Along with the new StayHear™ tips, each new model comes with the original ear tips for a more traditional fit and look. They will be sold at select authorized Bose dealers, Bose retail stores, www.Bose.com, and toll free at 1-800-444-BOSE (2673).


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Why Stop Now? tells the bittersweet story of Eli Smith (Jesse Eisenberg), a piano prodigy who, on the day of his audition for a prestigious music program, plans to enter his loving mother (Melissa Leo) into rehab for drug addiction. But, things don't quite work out as planned and Eli soon finds himself having to work with her drug dealer Sprinkles (Tracy Morgan) while trying to make his own dream come true.
During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, actor Jesse Eisenberg talked about why he was interested in being a part of Why Stop Now?, what made his character so relatable, preparing to do the piano playing himself, getting to work so closely with Melissa Leo, and what surprised him about Tracy Morgan, as a dramatic actor. He also talked about what he's looking forward to with the animated sequel Rio 2, working with Richard Ayoade on The Double (a comedy about a man who is driven insane by the appearance of his doppleganger), creating the unique world of Now You See Me (a thriller about FBI agents tracking a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances), getting ready to shoot Night Moves (in which he'll play an eco-terrorist), and being mistaken for Mark Zuckerberg at the Olympics. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Collider: Did you have any idea that an NBC commentator mistook you for Mark Zuckerberg at the Olympics? Did any of your friends text you to let you know?
JESSE EISENBERG: I actually found out from the previous interview.
So, how did you come to be a part of this film? Were you offered the role?
EISENBERG: Yeah, they sent me the script and said, "Melissa Leo is doing this other role." I thought it was a really wonderful dynamic between the mother and the son. I thought it was really unique. It just seemed totally authentic to me. I know these people. And so, the fact that Melissa was doing it made it that much more appealing. I really wanted to work with her, so I approved immediately.
Could you identify with the aspect of this character having a talent and passion, but not quite having the belief that he could live his dream?
EISENBERG: Yeah, exactly. That's what's driving him. He has this great ability and, at the same time, this great feeling of worthlessness that comes from having a troubled situation and the guilt that accompanies being great at something, in a situation that doesn't always encourage you to be comfortable with that. That's a sad rut to be stuck in, but is a really great story because it really centers on this guy figuring out that he's good at this thing, and that's okay. All these terrible personal circumstances can be separate. I see that all the time. Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have this incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.
What were the biggest challenges in playing someone who is trying to be disciplined while living in such a chaotic lifestyle?
EISENBERG: He is that kind of a kid who had to grow up too quickly because his mom is not responsible, even though she's a loving mother. He's had to be her parent, in a way, and engineer her life while he's trying to pursue his own goals and dreams. That's just too much of a burden for a person. The story takes place mostly in a day, and it's just this awful day where he's both trying to do the greatest thing in his life, and dealing with the worst thing in his life. But, he has a good and constructive attitude, so the movie ends up being funny and sarcastic because he's able to have this flustered reaction to all of it.
Do you feel like most true artists really teeter on that edge of genius and madness, much like this character does?
EISENBERG: I don't know. I've met a lot of healthy people who are talented. I also feel like what drives somebody to have a unique perspective on something and be able to express it is maybe seeing the world in a way that is dissimilar to other people, and I guess that could cause them to look eccentric. So, maybe there is a correlation.
What was it like to do the piano playing scenes? Do you actually know how to play the piano, or were there logistics involved with making it look like you could play?
EISENBERG: I've played the piano since I was a kid. When I finally had the piece that we were going to do in the movie, which was written by a great composer named Jay Israelson, I was able to just practice it every day and be prepared for the shooting.
With a story like this, did it help that the directors (Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner) were also the writers, so that you could ask them any questions you had?
EISENBERG: Yeah, with a movie like this, where it's such a personal story and it just feels very specific and authentic, you want to be able to work with the people who lived through it, as opposed to doing a big action movie where the writer probably didn't have all the experiences of the guy disarming the bomb, or whatever. That was an advantage. It just created even greater specificity for what we were doing.
How was it to spend so much of the movie with Melissa Leo and get to work so closely with her?
EISENBERG: She was just incredible. Our relationship in the movie was fueled by our off screen relationship. She immediately embraced me as her son and immediately entered the relationship, in the same dynamic that the characters have. We were contentious and joking around, in the same way that the characters do. It was one of the thrilling experiences of my professional life because we had an immediate bond and dynamic that totally mirrored and fueled the movie, and that's really rare. She's just the greatest. I was so lucky to work with her, and I can't wait to again.
What surprised you about Tracy Morgan, as a dramatic actor?
EISENBERG: I guess the first thing is that he is interested in doing that kind of thing because he has a really successful comedy career. The fact that he's interested in doing that is already impressive because it's a risk. And then, he does it well and he works at it. That's the second most important thing. Just wanting to do it is not enough. He came prepared and worked at it, and he was aware of what makes it effective. He's a really bright guy, so he knows how to use what's in him to accomplish that.
No matter the chaos that was going on in Eli's life and with his family, the relationship between him and Chloe (Sarah Ramos) is really sweet. Was it always on the page that way?
EISENBERG: Yeah, she was supposed to be the one light in this awful day. It changed a lot, over the course of rehearsing and figuring out exactly what that dynamic would be, and who would be pursuing who. And Sarah has this great balance of being really sweet to Eli, but at the same time, being suspicious of him and having a feeling of self-respect. She's not going to chase after this guy, if he's not going to be nice to her. That balance was so wonderful because it makes my character even more eager to get his life on track. If he gets his life on track, it could be so good, in every aspect, but he's just so mired in self-doubt. That was a nice aspect of the story, and a good thing for my character 'cause it motivates him to do well.
What can you say about Rio 2? Is it fun to get to further explore that character?
EISENBERG: Well, we haven't started it yet, but I look forward to it. It's a pretty strange process that you do over the course of a year. I think the new story they have is really cute and funny. They allow me to bring my own sense of humor to it. It's a lot of fun to do, but it's hard to see, at the beginning, what it will be. It's this extremely painstakingly long process. Every blade of grass in Brazil is drawn, so it takes so long to do. It's hard to see what it is, as an actor, because I'm not there for the day-to-day stuff. But, it's really cute and the characters that they've created are so sweet. Tracy Morgan was in the first one, and I don't know if he's in the second one, but it would be nice to be with him again, too.
Do you think it will be any easier, the second time around?
EISENBERG: Yeah, since I know what I'm doing, a little more. When I first started recording it, I downplayed it a little bit 'cause that's just my natural instinct. But, when I watched it back with that voice-over, over the course of the several months of recording, I realized that it probably works better, if you don't downplay things too much. Because it's not a visual medium for the actor, you can push it a little bit. You can be a little bigger and do a little more, as an actor. So, I know what I'm doing, a little more.
What was it like to work with Richard Ayoade on The Double? Submarine had such a very unique style. How would you describe this film and its visual style?
EISENBERG: They built an entire world for the movie. Every set was built. They basically built an entire city. It's incredible! So, the style is so unique. It's a funny movie, but it's very dark and terrifying. This character that I play, his life is overtaken by his doppleganger, so he's struggling for not only his identity, but his life. The style of it is so consistently dystopian that I think it will be just fantastic. It was really a weird world to inhabit, as an actor, and I imagine that, as an audience it will be as well because you won't see the camera and it won't take you out of it, like it did for me.
What attracted you to Now You See Me, and what was it like to work with Louis Leterrier?
EISENBERG: It's a really unique movie. The cast was huge and, for each character, they cast these incredible actors. It was a surreal experience. Every day, there was somebody really interesting coming in. It was a really fun time. I played the world's greatest mind magician. He's able to manipulate people through these very elaborate tricks. It was such a creative experience because the filmmakers created these very elaborate tricks that were interwoven into this complicated plot where the FBI is trying to figure out how they're doing it. So, on the one hand, you're seeing these incredible things, as an audience, in the same way that an audience would be watching these magicians. And then, on the other hand, you're trying to figure it out from the perspective of the FBI. It was a really interesting process.
With all of the places you got to shoot in for that film (including New York, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Paris), which was your favorite?
EISENBERG: We were in New Orleans for three months, and it was incredible. It's such a wonderful city, full of its own unique culture. The magical aspect of the movie really fit there because it seems like a city that would just be perfect for magic. Strangers talk to each other on the street, and people perform all over, so it was perfect for our story and my character.
What is it that attracts you to a particular project or role, these days?
EISENBERG: I don't know. I sign on to a lot of things, and then wait for them to happen. I'm signed on for a lot of movies that may not happen. If it seems like the character has something interesting to do, it seems like an obvious thing to look for, but it's rare, too. With Why Stop Now?, the dynamic between my character and Melissa Leo's character was so unique to me and so authentic. It seems obvious to say that something seems authentic, but you just never see that. Most movie relationships are contrived versions of other movie relationships, and that wasn't. It was like a real, lived-in thing. And then, to be able to do it with an actress like that, made it that much more interesting. With The Double, I got to play two characters who are very different guys. It was really interesting to be able to do that. Everything offers its own aspects and challenges.
Do you know what you'll be shooting next?
EISENBERG: I think I'll be doing this movie called Night Moves, that's about an eco-terrorist. I think I'm shooting that in Portland, in a few weeks. I'm in England right now because The Double just ended.


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There was an article in the Oregonian Newspaper on January 10, 2010 in which UCLA Professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda claimed his research showed that wages in the United States went up after amnesty for undocumented workers was granted in November 1986. Apparently the good professor didn't know that real private sector hourly wages began rising earlier than that, in January 1986. Real wages reached $7.99 an hour during November 1986, and then immediately began a seven and a half year decline starting in December 1986. Real wages didn't reach that November 1986 level again until February, 1999.
If there is a link between amnesty for undocumented workers and real wages, as Hinojosa-Ojeda claims, it is that granting amnesty will lower the standard of living for everybody for years and maybe even decades to come.
I don't know where Hinojosa-Ojeda got his numbers, but I got mine in less than ten minutes, on-line, at the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Real wages measure the true standard of living. When wages rise, inflation is subtracted from it, and that is the real wage. For example, if your wage is ten dollars an hour and then it rises during a twelve month period to $10.20, your wage went up 2 percent. However, if inflation went up 5 percent, you lost fifty cents of spending power out of that $10.20. Therefore, your real wage declined because you need to subtract that fifty cents from your $10.20. Your spending power is only $9.70. Your real wage declined.
Real wages dropped like a rock for seven and a half after the last amnesty. Although it is conjecture, as illegal workers acquired a path to citizenship, the legal labor force swelled and depressed wages.


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Just now, I was trying to send a message with an attached file. When I went to upload the file (which is a .zip with a size of 8 MB), I received a warning saying that only files that are 2 MB or less can be accepted. This is a bit odd, considering that a lot of files (particularly compressed folders) can be significantly larger than 2 MB. I was wondering why the limit was so small, and if perhaps it might be raised a bit.
Thanks in advance.