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Paging Mike Huckabee.
*Obama Must Go, by David Solway.
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Any of a group of disinfectants containing iodine in combination with a surfactant.
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AIP Publishing congratulates this year's Nobel Prize 2014 winners in Chemistry Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, William E. Moerner
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A new ultra-high-throughput screening assay for the detection of cellulase activity was developed based on microfluidic sorting. Cellulase activity is detected using a series of coupled enzymes leading to the formation of a fluorescent product that can be detected on a chip. Using this method, we have achieved up to 300-fold enrichments of the active population of cells and greater than 90% purity after just one sorting round. In addition, we proved that we can sort the cellulase-expressing cells from mixtures containing less than 1% active cells.
We present a simple microchip device consisting of an overlaid pattern of micromagnets and microwells capable of capturing magnetically labeled cells into well-defined compartments (with accuracies >95%). Its flexible design permits the programmable deposition of single cells for their direct enumeration and pairs of cells for the detailed analysis of cell-cell interactions. This cell arraying device requires no external power and can be operated solely with permanent magnets. Large scale image analysis of cells captured in this array can yield valuable information (e.g., regarding various immune parameters such as the CD4:CD8 ratio) in a miniaturized and portable platform.
We present an analytic technique for probing protein-catalyzed transient DNA loops that is based on nanofluidic channels. In these nanochannels, DNA is forced in a linear configuration that makes loops appear as folds whose size can easily be quantified. Using this technique, we study the interaction between T4 DNA ligase and DNA. We find that T4 DNA ligase binding changes the physical characteristics of the DNA polymer, in particular persistence length and effective width. We find that the rate of DNA fold unrolling is significantly reduced when T4 DNA ligase and ATP are applied to bare DNA. Together with evidence of T4 DNA ligase bridging two different segments of DNA based on AFM imaging, we thus conclude that ligase can transiently stabilize folded DNA configurations by coordinating genetically distant DNA stretches.
We report the Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) of antibodies from a liquid donor film onto paper receivers for application as point-of-care diagnostic sensors. To minimise the loss of functionality of the active biomolecules during transfer, a dynamic release layer was employed to shield the biomaterial from direct exposure to the pulsed laser source. Cellulose paper was chosen as the ideal receiver because of its inherent bio-compatibility, liquid transport properties, wide availability and low cost, all of which make it an efficient and suitable platform for point-of-care diagnostic sensors. Both enzyme-tagged and untagged IgG antibodies were LIFT-printed and their functionality was confirmed via a colorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Localisation of the printed antibodies was exhibited, which can allow the creation of complex 2-d patterns such as QR codes or letters for use in a final working device. Finally, a calibration curve was determined that related the intensity of the colour obtained to the concentration of active antibodies to enable quantitative assessment of the device performance. The motivation for this work was to implement a laser-based procedure for manufacturing low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic devices on paper.
Detection of individual target cells among a large amount of blood cells is a major challenge in clinical diagnosis and laboratory protocols. Many researches show that two dimensional cells array technology can be incorporated into routine laboratory procedures for continuously and quantitatively measuring the dynamic behaviours of large number of living cells in parallel, while allowing other manipulations such as staining, rinsing, and even retrieval of targeted cells. In this study, we present a high-density cell self-assembly technology capable of quickly spreading over 300 000 cells to form a dense mono- to triple-layer cell arrangement in 5 min with minimal stacking of cells by the gentle incorporation of gravity and peripheral micro flow. With this self-assembled cell arrangement (SACA) chip technology, common fluorescent microscopy and immunofluorescence can be utilized for detecting and analyzing target cells after immuno-staining. Validated by experiments with real human peripheral blood samples, the SACA chip is suitable for detecting rare cells in blood samples with a ratio lower than 1/100 000. The identified cells can be isolated and further cultured in-situ on a chip for follow-on research and analysis. Furthermore, this technology does not require external mechanical devices, such as pump and valves, which simplifies operation and reduces system complexity and cost. The SACA chip offers a high-efficient, economical, yet simple scheme for identification and analysis of rare cells. Therefore, potentially SACA chip may provide a feasible and economical platform for rare cell detection in the clinic.
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To over indulge by eating mass quantities of food, increasing fat storage whereby a state of bloating has occured.
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Forgiving, according to editor Therese Borchard, is an eight step process.
1, Acknowledge the problem. What is the root of the disagreement? You might be surprised.
2. Don't just share your dispute with the individual, tell them how it makes you feel.
3. Switch places. It boils down to the old wise saying that says, "Put yourself in their shoes."
4. It is what it is. Accept it. Don't wait for an apology or understanding. The quicker you find healing, an actual apology isn't necessary, just an extra special bonus.
5. Don't dwell. Move on. Rekindling flames just builds bigger fires.
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7. Let it go. A repeat of step 5 is in order here.
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Murdered women's sad stories skilfully told
Although this true crime book is set in Long Island, N.Y., it has special relevance to western Canadians.
A much expanded version of an article that contributing editor Robert Kolker wrote for New York magazine in May 2011, Lost Girls is about "the missing missing" -- young sex-trade workers who disappeared and whose absences were hardly noticed.
This is always a sad story, as we Prairie residents know only too well, but the book is especially depressing because the killers have not yet been found. And it's unlikely that they ever will be.
At least four of the young prostitutes, Kolker writes, "were victims of "the most skilful and accomplished serial killer in New York since Joel Rifkin and David Berkowitz."
This tragic saga begins when, in the spring 2010, Shannan Gilbert, a 20-something "escort" (the new term for prostitute) runs screaming for her life from a "client's" house in Oak Beach, Long Island. She disappears into a nearly impenetrable nearby marsh.
Neighbours take notice and the police are called.
In the lengthy but spotty process of searching for Gilbert, the police discover four more bodies of young escorts, each wrapped in burlap, clearly the work of a serial killer.
Before Gilbert's body is found, more than 20 months later, the police find the remains of six more people in the same small "dumping zone."
Gilbert and her companions in death -- Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello -- were part of the new regime of prostitution: those plying their trade via the Internet.
Advertising from Craigslist and Backpage websites, the escorts did not have to endure endless streetwalking and the humiliation of sidewalk bargaining in bad weather, hassles from the police, or thralldom to abusive pimps.
Internet prostitution is easier and more lucrative, but also much more dangerous.
For clients, ordering an escort is like ordering a pizza online.
It's anonymous, with fixed prices and free delivery to your door, and review websites to ensure quality control.
Anonymity and door-to-door service are a boon to sexual predators. It's almost impossible to trace a hookup.
Because of this and because of the often meagre efforts of the police, for whatever reasons, it is important to tell the stories of the victims. This is where Kolker's book fits in.
Unfortunately, despite minor variations, the young women's stories are so sadly similar that the opening half of the book, devoted to their lives, is slow going. It's confusing and there's little narrative drive.
The lost girls are all from dysfunctional families, all desperately needy dreamers, all falsely confident that they can take care of themselves.
The book is gripping, however, in its second half because of the weird and colourful secondary characters and the mystery of the hunt.
Lost Girls does not put Kolker in the same league as Caitlin Rother, the U.S. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote a much-awarded book with exactly the same main title and subject matter in 2012.
Nor will it unseat Anne Rule, the queen of true crime books, despite its skilful and important contribution to the genre.
Gene Walz is a retired film studies professor at the University of Manitoba.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 13, 2013 A1
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Havin Chili here!! its to dang cold to have anything else! :)
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Posted 01/24/2013
Home made Minestrone Soup with sour dough bread. I'll probably do a salad also.
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Lin Chung
Lin Chung is known by some as the most accomplished, most skilled warrior in all of Big Green. He possesses the legendary Panther Vision, which allows him to see great distances, or to see the world in slow motion while he moves with terrific speed. He wields a staff and occasionally shoots the tips of bamboo out at enemies. He is also somewhat obsessed with drawing, sometimes dropping out of battles just to draw when he finds inspiration, and he can't take criticism.
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Mystique Sonia is a tough, seasoned warrior, but also a stereotypical girl. Her attack involves attacking and spinning her long tongue around to perform gusts of wind. She also has the seeds that she can spit on and grow into plants with cooked buns instead of flowers. Since she is cursed with a spell, anyone who tells her they love her three times in a row turns into a Yaksha as seen in "Liger Castle" and "Peacock Castle."Her companion, Yaksha, is a purple and pink, non-speaking creature which rests upon Mystique Sonia's head like a hat. A Yaksha is created when anybody tells Mystique Sonia that they love her three times in a row, and only as long as they are in love. It is also extremely flexible and stretchy, being shown to turn into a ball, a purse, a dress, a trampoline, a fan, and even extend its arms. It also occasionally sits on Mighty Ray's head whenever Mystique Sonia's incapacitated or when she's mad at him. It's almost completely different than the Yaksha in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist mythology.
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Titling was chosen with the expectation that History of Rome would be either WP's general history or history of the city, plus there are several works titled History of Rome. Mommsen's German title is translated variously, but History of Rome without "The" seems most common. Stan 14:41, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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Not only is there Churchill, whose History of the English-Speaking Peoples was certainly precticing history, there is also Bertrand Russell, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his History of Western Philosophy. Can we tone this down to only professional historian or only classicist to win the Nobel Prize, with the same footnote for the pseudo-Nobel. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:59, 11 May 2010 (UTC)


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Cooking for 35 at work?
I got tasked to do BBQ for a going away party for a co-worker who is leaving to join the Navy. I'm cooking for about 30, but there are always stragglers so it could be as many as 35.
Here's what I have so far
14.5 lb brisket
4 lbs pinto beans
75 buns
They want a selection, so I'm also doing pulled pork. How much pork butt do I need? I was thinking at least 15 lbs of pork, but I'm not sure. Keep in mind, most of the people I'm feeding are mechanics and these guys can eat a lot... especially if it's free! I just need to make sure everybody gets fed well. Also, is that enough beans? I bought a 10 lb bag, but I've only soaked about 4 lbs, do I need more?
I also need to come up with another side. I don't think cole slaw will fly with this crowd. Mac and cheese is always a favorite, but I need to prep it the night before and the way I make it doesn't reheat well and I don't have access to an oven. I doubt anyone will complain with just a bunch of meat and beans, but another side would be nice.
Thanks in advance for any help!
What about potato salad or macaroni salad?
I'd add another brisket or at least a flat. And 3 butts. That will give the men about 6 oz of each meat and that is a good large serving that you say you want.
Sides - do you have anything to reheat pans in? If not then it's cold sides. You could reheat green beans casserole while pulling pork and slicing brisket. They will need to rest at least a hour before starting. Maybe even reheat baked taters. Or if you have a turkey fryer maybe do Onion Rings. Think outside the box.
I was mainly worried about the meats. I'll get 3 more butts and if I can find a flat I'll do that, otherwise I think I'll have to stick with 1 brisket, because I have a hard time finding small packers.
Am I OK for beans or do I need more?
I would get a tub of mac salad or potato salad as suggested, figure a tub or two from Costco. I add some fresh chopped onions and celery to the salad to freshen it up. Add a little black pepper as well.
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The Red Potato salad from Costco is awsome. Just spruce it up a bit as suggested in the previous reply...
Thanks for all the help everyone. My co-worker and I just got done prepping the brisket and 25 lbs of pork shoulder, the beans (8lbs after they soaked), and 8lbs of potato salad. Went store bought and spruced it up as suggested. The brisket is on the smoker now and I'm going to throw the pork on around 10 and cook it all night on the FEC-100.
Sounds like a great luncheon. Just as a suggestion, i always use white pepper in potato salad and slaw. its there, but nobody sees it. Kind of a hidden kick, but thats just me. Good luck to your buddy joining the Navy. God speed.
Thanks for the input everyone! The food was a hit. I probably should have had more brisket since that was what everyone kept raving about and it went quick. I had 25 lbs of pulled pork and I'm taking home a whole butt that I didn't even pull. There's also about 3 lbs of beans leftover and all the potato salad is gone. Because of timing and our work schedule and everything I fed about 8 less guys than I anticipated.
It was definitely better to have too much food than not enough!
Heck, that sounds about right for the end leftovers. There are almost always a few beans left over and one butt left after not serving three guys, you were almost spot on.
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ZX Spectrum cassette player lost? There's an app for that
Re: HOW DARE YOU!
"It was also easy to copy the tapes with my Dad's Amstrad tape-to-tape deck, not so the C64 tapes with their crappy turbo loaders"
Any difficulty in copying was completely intentional ;)
I think the reason it worked better at making copies fail on C64 is better hardware. A suitable hardware timer and nothing stealing CPU cycles meant we could use much tighter timing. I remember setting turbo speeds based on its effect on copying as much as the speed improvement. It's a miracle anything every loaded!
Coke? Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Vista moment'. Again
Re: @Asok Asus
I think you're missing the big issue: with horizontal screens comfortably within reach, where would I put my coffee?
Come to think of it, where would the keyboard go? Or would I be swapping a cheap physical keyboard for wasting expensive screen estate on an inferior touch version...
Re: @qwarty
Are you suggesting the addition of multitouch magically makes holding arms out easier to endure?
re:"Windows 8 boots up and is usable an order of magnitude faster than XP"
On my dual boot, Win8 v XP: boots to desktop in 45s v 60s. Then takes another minute or so before either actually responds to input. So a tiny (zero orders of magnitude) speed up and the same 'pretend to be ready' trickery we've got used to.
Of course you may have set XP up really badly or let it decay. Most people do ;)
telemetry - just stats and stats are what you lie with
The telemetry is arguably just a smokescreen they used to justify an existing plan. If they noticed the problems interpreting the data Sinovsky would have ignored the problems and ploughed on, because Win8 is about owning new markets, not making Windows better.
My stats would show that 90% of launches are double clicked documents in File Explorer. Should the entire UI just become a File Explorer... of course not. The next 7-9% are pinned apps on the start bar or desktop. Microsofts claim is the remaining 1-3% of launches from my Start Menu are insignificant. But in reality they're launching from my Menu because I might only run an app once a month (or even once a year), these are the 100+ tools so infrequently used pinning makes no sense, that would overflow any flat organisation on limited screen space - especially if every link is a tile. These are the tools that fit perfectly in a hierarchical menu tree like the Start Menu.
Apparently my substantial use of drag'n'drop is also wrong, bypassing Windows awful file selection dialogs. But full screen apps in the shiny Metro world makes it unusable so clearly I'm doing something wrong. Just can't quite work out why taking advantage of multiple large screens to improve my workflow is wrong...
MS choose to pretend that infrequent use means a feature has no value. They're completely wrong. But removing desktop features isn't about usability, it's about bludgeoning their way onto phones and tablets through monopoly abuse, not value to end users.
The Win8 internals are an improvement on XP in some respects, they finally got network and USB performance good, equalling where the house Linux PC and NAS servers have been for years. It uses RAM a lot better.
In other respects all that's changed is what triggers mysterious slowdowns and outright stalls and the File Explorer is more broken than ever. My install is riddled with compatibility problems, with apps, drivers and codecs, if they added a big 'run EVERYTHING in XP compatible mode' it would save me a lot of time. HyperV is broken on my AMD board, it looks like it works but subtly breaks BDA support.
After all these months tweaking problems Win8 is *near* the uptimes I had with XP. That's not something Microsoft should be proud of.
Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back
Re: oh dear AC, you forgot MS instrumentation...
The fact they've waited so damn long to pretend to offer concessions (Start *button* not the *menu* we actually want for example), all the while denying there's a problem, all go to demonstrate they weren't listening to 'shouty people' when it was hatched, weren't listening to them after it launched and aren't pandering to them now.
The underlying reality is: MS justified vandalising the XP then Win7 UIs based on instrumenting Windows installs and logging user usage patterns. If change is coming it will be driven by the same sort of feedback. Given the overarching 'by hook or by crook, Win8 everywhere' corporate plan, there must be a serious difference between actual usage and what was expected/planned to trigger any backpeddling.
Can't help MS that the 'shouty people' are so pissed off this time many deliberately opted in to the usage feedback to make sure the weasels at MS can't hide behind the same excuses. The majority of users may well be using a tiny fraction of the UI or OS and careless about what their PC reports back to MS, that's still not an excuse to take it away from those that use more.
Next Xbox won't need always-on internet after all
Re: @Homer 1
Though I hate to give the impression I'm defending them, the phrase that kicked off the shitstorm was 'always on', not 'online only'. The 2nd is a sensible extrapolation based on current industry practices that Microsoft chose not to deny.
My personal belief is Microsoft gave no serious consideration to whether misuse of online as DRM was an issue for customers and had no policy either way. It is however a serious issue for shitty developers Microsoft cannot ignore, like EA, so it will be allowed.
The social network features of Durango (video sharing, in game messaging etc.) clearly do require a permanent connection *for them to work*. Microsoft leak still doesn't clarify completely whether that will be used as camouflage for DRM or whether we can disable that and still play games.
We've done it - we've gone and made LONG-LIFE BEER
Re: Hops
The problem is *oxidisation* of lipids to form trans-2-nonelal, not bacterial action. You stop it by removing oxygen and live yeast does a good job of sucking it up in live beers - draught or bottled. The last thing commercial factory lager producers want is anything live in their 'product' and the near total absence of flavour makes faults easy to taste.
Hops are used less for preservation than flavour nowadays. However they react badly to UV light, officially the flavour is 'skunk', I normally describe it as cat's piss. Which probably helps explain why beers often drunk outdoors in a sunny country are notoriously devoid of hops ;)
I already have a cellar full of very long life beers
I can see how this would help flavourless piss, by keeping it flavourless.
The real secret of long life beer has been known for a long time, give it lots of flavour, more alcohol=longer life and keep it out of the light. Light kills beer, destroying the hop oils first - though hardly an issue in the mostly hop free watery piss sold as lager outside Germany ;)
Most of the Belgian beers in my cellar need 3month to a year maturation to develop their flavour. The 25yr old Thomas Hardy Ales aren't ready to drink yet, we tried at the recommended 21 years and they're still too sweet. Then again, the 42yr old bottle we shared was also too sweet for my liking!
I hate to think what will happen if brewers of existing, more flavoured, long keeping beers jump on this, knocking out a bit of the maturation process along the way.
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The problem is Microsoft bet the future on RT. More accurately they bet on the wall garden RT brings and perceived user lockin that creates.
Pro doesn't really help that. Yes having an RT mode is part of the crazy cross promotional, Win8 everywhere plan but 'full fat' Windows doesn't really help the walled garden part. It's hard to see Pros actual appeal extending much beyond use of desktop mode.
Apple designer Sir Jony Ive holding up iOS 7 development: Report
skeuomorphic has 1 big advantage
More abstracted graphical elements are potentially much easier to get trademark or design patent protection for. Skeuomorphic designs by definition have obvious precedent from real life.
If the company that design patented 'rounded corners' abstracts it's UI design its a near certainty they will do the same to every possible individual element of iOS7.
Just what the world needs, balkanised UIs all the way down to individual icons, graphical flourishes and basic control elements. I already struggle to remember WTF each Google icon means, having icons with shared meaning across all OS and GUI combinations would be a bloody good idea. Even better if it was an obvious meaning to most of us... a bit like skeuomorphic!
BlackBerry: THE TRUTH about that 5.1 per cent UK market figure
Re: "One million shipped..."
Innovation is driven by *effective* competition, the stronger the better.
I see Google innovating Android under Apple pressure.
Apple innovating legal theory under pressure from Android.
I cant see anything suggesting WP or BB are creating any competitive pressure or driving innovation outside their own products... and for one of them that innovation seems headed in the wrong direction!
Google 'will be pulled back in front of MPs' on its UK tax affairs
In reality Google have consistently demonstrated that they buy very good legal advice before doing anything, set corporate policy and external contract terms from it, then walk right on the edge of what's legal based on it.
They've also been remarkably good at getting light punishments when employees overstep policy (the WiFi slurp) or contractors ignore their contracts (Java v Android). Probably because the legal system and regulators seem to believe those many mistakes are just that, not malicious.
Who do you want to believe: poorly informed chatter from outsiders, impotent politicians and Fairsearch sponsored lies OR the professionals that actually investigate each incident? Google aren't good guys but they aren't evil either, just doing what they can legally get away with for their own good first but with less of the corrupt shit we've come to expect from the Microsoft,Apple&Oracles of the world.
Peak Apple: Cupertino belatedly spends some money on R&D
Re: buying in innovation ain't as cheap as it was
Here we have another effect of excess polish fumes on thinking ability.
Many of today's smartphones are indeed rapidly converging on the artists mockup I remember of what pocket PC's would look like, a mockup printed in a PC magazine back in the 1990's. They haven't yet dispensed with the bezel around the display or gone for a solid glass body but the grid of icons, the touchscreen control, the ability to make phone calls (yes, that was predicted), they've achieved all that. At the time the only slightly surprising prediction was putting a voicephone in the device, everything else looked pretty obvious.
And of course polish fumes wipe out memory, of things like the LG Prada, so like the iPhone Apple were accused of copying it. A phone shown publicly *before* any iPhone details were revealed.
Apple are so very good a polishing they've completely polished away history for so many of you. Those of us that lived through the entire Apple era remember a lot...
buying in innovation ain't as cheap as it was
In the good old days innovators were falling over themselves trying to demonstrate their new shiny to Apple or Microsoft. Nowadays they're putting a lot more effort into trying to get paid if the shiny gets used, before showing anything to the circling sharks. And there are more sharks in the hunt.
That's got to increase the R&D spend a lot ;)
Apple: polishing other peoples innovating for decades.
Galaxy S4 radiant, but has black holes
Re: Lag?? @ Paul Shirly
"should manage it (rotation) itself", while I appreciate having 180&270deg rotation without relying on devs explicitly supporting it. I think we can assume at least some would manage to display upside down if they tried ;)
Non-standard rotations few have available but so very useful if your OEM foolishly put the notification LED in the power button on the phones top edge, carefully hidden from sight!
Re: Lag??
I've had a few ROMs installed that exposed the delay in settings but it's only part of the problem, usually a very minor part.
The major issue is by default Android handles rotation of apps by restarting them and that can be very expensive, especially for container apps like the launcher. Since the rotation animation doesn't start till the app finishes reinitialising you see a lot of lag if the app takes a long time, even though actual rotation detection isn't laggy! On the same device simple apps switch quickly.
It's possible to work around this and internally deal with rotation but few apps bother. Not sure a launcher could do it while supporting widgets anyway and most simply disable landscape mode to avoid the issue.
It's probably the 'right thing' to do by default, completely reinitialising is more reliable and automagic but with an unfortunate effect on lag.
Re: Galaxy SII was superb! But I covet a pure Linux phone Stack!
Real geeks will be dual booting.
Real Alpha geeks will be triple booting Android,Ubuntu and Mozilla.
Insane geeks will throw in another version of Android and quad boot, for those moments you just need a faster running game.
Eadon will remain a beginner, aspiring to geekness but lacking any clue how to achieve it.
Review: Nokia Lumia 720
Re: "if somebody managed to port something like Go Launcher"
And right there is one strength of Android, if you don't like something about Android or it's UI, there's a good chance ordinary users can install a replacement and change it. Very few phones run stock Android, whether it's a carrier mangled, OEM skinned (which many users like) or user hacked version.
Want to do that on WP,iOS or BB? Not an option. In the Android ecosystem users have direct influence on how Android evolves while others get to take what's given them and try to like it.
Over the years my Android phones have looked/behaved like iOS, WP7, HTC Sense, whatever Sony call their Xperia skin... and half a dozen 3rd party home replacements including truly different 3D launchers. Rarely lasts long before choosing something closer to stock Android.
I've drawn the line firmly at trying Facebook Home though and didn't like Go Launcher at all ;)
Hedge fund invests $2bn in Microsoft, thinks Redmond is undervalued
Re:"MS stock price went up significantly after they posted their results last week."
...and then promptly sank back the next day. Probably when the herd of speculators noticed profits had actually fallen substantially after accounting for deferred revenue.
I'm actually surprised they didn't drop further. Some of that deferred revenue was Win7 sales MS wanted to book as Win8, use of the $14.99 upgrade voucher magically converting the sale into a full price Win8 sale with bragging rights attached. The silence from MS tells me that didn't work, that MS couldn't even fake Win8 sales.
Investors apparently haven't noticed that yet, more accurately most haven't. But the more volatile the stock gets the more gamblers will flock to exploit it and todays news could easily signal the start of the stampede.
Microsoft become a plaything for gamblers
When investors can have this effect on share price your company is in a little trouble. When a single investor, however large manages it, that's a lot of trouble.
When that investor is from a sector more interested in share price than the actual business, with a clear way to profit from stock manipulation... you're well on the way to losing control of the company and its future.
...still, with the direction Ballmers lackeys have take Windows recently, losing control might be the best thing for everyone apart from the chair thrower ;)
Eric Schmidt defends Google's teeny UK tax payouts - again
Re: It's not a tax ...
I fear you complete misunderstand what's really going on here. There are very, very few actual holes in the laws they passed because most of the holes were intentional.
What's stirred them into mock outrage is multiple realisations:
Half the MP scum realising that their friends and financial supporters aren't the only ones benefiting (as intended). They aren't in control of the handouts any longer.
That they've botched the whole bent enterprise so badly it's now possible to completely avoid contributing any value back to the country even as a side effect - and that removes the fiction they justified much of the plan with.
That the public have started asking awkward questions that won't stop at preventing excessive avoidance, killing quite a few retirement directorships for the crooks in parliament if their 'friends' actually end up paying tax.
The system is working almost as planned, they just expected not to get caught. ES has done us a big favour, by being so open and outspoken the politicians are forced to respond and not just with the usual bullshit. They need to decide whether the things they said to justify enticing internationals to the UK with tax reductions are bullshit or real, but neither position is compatible with the squealing complaints now emitting from parliament.
Londoners in mass test of telly tech savvy as 4G filters mailed out
Re: @Paul
They might not be as good but they can do the job 'well enough' for many, especially if the cabling is good. Hell of a lot cheaper than hiring an installer to fit a masthead system unless you're already replacing the aerial. A lot quicker as well, quick trip into Argos and seconds to plug in for instant gratification.
There must be millions of them from the years of reduced power digital transmission though arguably just disconnecting them will solve the problem. I suspect the owners will find it more appealing adding a filter than removing a redundant booster though!
There are also distribution amps, sometimes it does make sense keeping them close to the receivers, cuts down the downleads needed. I have a 4 way one feeding my HTPC, could probably just get away with going passive since the least sensitive tuner died.
Re: @joseph
Masthead amps tend to use f plugs, the shitty diy ones plugged in at the tv end usually don't. There's a lot of capacity for mismatch here.
Smart metering will disrupt weather forecasts, warns Met Office
Re: Switching off the washing machine?
"How would switching off a washing machine save electricity?"
Saving electricity is not the point, saving the fuel used to generate it (supposedly) is. Reducing demand peaks allows less excess capacity to be on standby wasting energy. Standby generators that may be less fuel efficient than base load stations.
In reality it allows less *expensive* standby capacity to be used and ultimately less to be even built. Energy suppliers are so keen because they can save a lot of money on capital expenses and a bit more on running costs. They still come out ahead even if somehow (despite their best planning) they end up selling less electricity.
Re: real savings?
In one of my short excursions into 'normal work', the entire company could tell when the CEO was visiting from the US - the thermostat jumped up to US levels and everyone else started sweating in the heat wave.
Combined with the low use of AC any saving from thermostat manipulation is unlikely to be very effective here in the UK compared to the US. Wonder how much else of the 'savings' are artificially inflated by measuring in the US?
Remember Streetmap? It's suing Google in a UK court
Re: Take a look... a long disappointed look
Just tried typing 'Euston Flyer' into the search on that new page. No results. Epic fail.
Since my main use of mapping is to get me to and from pubs I may only know by name, StreetMaps is a non starter. The steady alcoholic intake makes a usable navigation mode another essential and again they fail.
When some of those pubs are in the middle of Belgium, I think I might pick some other, more comprehensive service...
Google U-turn DID preempt ICANN's block on corporate gTLD-snatchers
ICANN need a good slapping
It remains true that these domains should not have been made available this way, this is a colossal ICANN screwup. It doesn't just open the door to massive abuse, it almost compels it, for defence even where there's no malice.
Hard to tell if ICANN see a goldmine or were just too fscking lazy to quickly identify and reserve the most obvious cases - like all the ones Google applied for. They should have been dealt with in weeks before anyone wasted much money on the process.
Operators look on in horror as Facebook takes mobe users Home
Re: Not for the likes of us
@Ledswinger: yes, FB have a long and disgraceful history of battery sucking Android apps with unparalleled levels of bugs. They haven't even needed GPS to achieve record power drains, just a complete inability to play nice with the system and let it manage power use.
They're the last people I'd trust to run my lock screen responsibly. Also the last people I'd trust to not open gaping security holes to make life easier for the FB sheeple.
MoneySupermarket: Google never warned us about payday loan AD BAN
weren't Google forced to hilight their own search results?
Oh yes, whining that Google was showing it's own services as normal search results forced them to highlight them in results... that didn't work quite the way the competition expected did it ;)
Unless they seriously believe Google can be forced to hide it's own services completely I can't see how everyone can be satisfied. Won't stop the whining though.
Microsoft: 'Facebook Home just copies Windows Phone'
'people' is not what I want from my phone
Long, long ago, I actually tried a small pile of apps/skins designed to aggregate communications and make contacts the centre of my Android phone. Hated them all. Disordered information overload getting in the way of using the stuff I want.
Today the Jelly Bean notification bar gets it about where I'm happy, by telling me there's all sorts of crap waiting, even putting them all in one place but crucially only bothering me with them when I choose to look. Then it fires up my chosen handler for each type instead of pretending one interface handles them all.
I know I'm at an extreme but I'm convinced the few that love the MS way are equally rare. Facebook are treading a dangerous path, 'people' is just one of the things smartphones do. In some cases one of the minor features ;)
Freeview telly test suggests 4G interference may not be a big deal
Re: I checked last week
...and replacing my Freeview equipment with Freesat equivalents will reach around £500+ even if I install it all myself, Freeview tuners are cheap, satellite not so... but I really hate climbing ladders, drilling holes in the building and pulling cable through an uncooperative building.
I don't think the rate they found counts as 'vanishingly rare' and I do question whether the test area is actually representative of real problem areas.
Where I live, on the boundary of 2 main transmitters coverage in the suburbs, after switchover and full power, reception is just possible without boosters. Just, on many days I have a couple of unusable muxes on Waltham. That's a high density of houses in a very problem area.
Also worth remembering there are likely to be amplifiers in any daisy chained devices - set top boxes with passthru to the TV for example. Wonder if any of them will get swamped, even with no aerial booster to blame?
Remember that until recently those 800Mhz frequencies were legitimate TV channels that amplifiers *should be amplifying*. Shitty or not, anything older than the freq reallocation announcement is legitimately designed to handle the 800Mhz 4G frequencies and these things last a long time. My last amp died last year in a thunderstorm after 10+ years.
What's depressing is boosters covering 470-862Mhz are still being sold.
Smartphone running 'Facebook OS' said to debut this week
Depends on what they remove or replace.
Sony Ericsson manage to infest their devices with FaceBook integration and multiple FB apps, multiple Sony owned app stores, customise many default apps and reskin the UI. But they remove nothing Google cares about - maps is still there, the Play Store is still preinstalled and so on.
Nokia rejected Android because G wouldn't let them *replace* Google Maps. At the time Orange had no problems shipping devices with their own maps app prominently displayed along with the full G package - crucially including G Maps.
It's so easy to replace or modify key parts of the system you don't even need to fork to heavily customise Android. That said I expect FB will fork to ensure they capture as much profit as possible. With every app store containing the same apps it wont be too hard populating a shiny new FB version and they won't even need to pressure devs to include FB support since every damn app I see seems infected already.
Review: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2
It's a Win8 device. The pen is the after thought or more accurately the work around for an inprecise, work unfriendly touch interface.
Revisionism. Only works when everyone that lived through it is dead or senile. Come back in 50 years.
Re: muddying the waters with Windows RT
Bear in mind Intels persistent failure to deliver on power consumption promises. Even when they get close ARM moves ahead anyway. It's wasn't unreasonable for MS to target ARM, wouldn't stand a chance in mobile or basic tablet against IOS/Android, even in RT mode, the battery life isn't there yet and that was entirely predictable.
It's the idiotic and deliberately deceptive confusion created between ARM Win8 and x86 Win8 that needs questioning. ARM RT devices are necessarily crippled by having insufficient CPU power to emulate x86 support and with desktop mode denied to 3rd parties no apps will be recompiled for native ARM. Pretending they're more similar than the reality is a scummy marketing lie.
Next from Microsoft: 'Blue', the Windows 8 they hope you don't hate
Re: Wrong move
Ubuntu is not the solution. Microsoft are *following* it down the same hole Ubuntu has been digging, copying the same design errors, ignoring the same user complaints. Only ahead on deploying to phones, where Canonical are now chasing Microsoft despite the evidence WP is failing.
Both screwing their existing customer base.
Re: Start Menu?
Just tried it and as expected, it didn't bring up all the launch shortcuts my Classic Shell menu shows, most significantly it won't show the 'open on screen N' shortcut variants of my media apps.
Metro Start isn't just a deficient UI design, it's functionally inferior to the old Start Menu, which can take a wider variety of link types, is easier to edit and offers more control of launch properties.
"How many programs can a ARM toy tablet run at the same time?"
Why should your cheap, battery dependent, small screened, input deficient ARM toy dictate the behaviour of my high end, hex core, multimonitor, mains powered PC?
Microsoft cross promotional marketing requirements is not an acceptable answer.
Re: I don't miss the start menu
It's a reasonable position and you're doing nothing wrong. You don't need it, that's fine.
The retards who tell me I'm wrong for using it are the problem and unfortunately some of them work at Microsoft. Taking away features because only a minority use them is barely justifiable, taking them away when there's no need to do so at all is unbelievable.
Taking features away because it serves Microsoft marketing plans is simply abuse.
Re: desktop
WOW! Must have missed the bit where Metro apps now work on the desktop...
Win8 is a schizophrenic OS and MS will not maintain both halves of it. I have no intention of staying quiet while they let the half I need rot, however many halfwits they hire to shout for Metro.
Nanowires boost photovoltaics sunlight capture by 15X
Re: Not sure about this - a further thought
It looks like it's lensing the light in free air/vacuum onto the junction. That would give a small improvement over traditional lensing with glass or mirrors. The big gain would be concentrating light directly onto the junction from the sides without needing to penetrate layers of semiconductor.
Review: Sony Xperia Z
Re: "nobody else is doing high end waterproof phones right now"
Sony certainly do high end pricing however I don't believe they do real high end devices. More halfway between mid and high range with a hefty Sony branding tax.
They're firmly down in 5th place because few believe the Sony brand justifies a 10-20% premium.
Re: After so many many SE phones...
The innovation was last seen when they buried the R800 (Xperia Play) in a shallow grave...
Though I'm not convinced having around 14 unremovable apk's supporting FaceBook is innovation worth having ;)
Sysadmins: Let's perch on Microsoft Santa's lap, show him our wish list
a MS wet dream
Not seeing how lubing our wallets is a compromise...
Samsung's new co-CEO: 'Windows isn't selling very well'
It's hardly surprising there's so little difference between WP phones, the spec is tightly locked down by Microsoft. Specifically the software can have almost no customisation.
While I actually quite like the idea of near stock devices, phone makers put more into distinguishing their brand and individual devices by software than hardware spec (which is now less tightly specified by MS). Android sales show the public disagree with me, voting for variety over conformity. Meanwhile the carriers selling most devices simply can't resist messing with (and messing up) the software.
It's should surprise no-one that manufacturers and carriers aren't keen on a device so locked into Microsoft branding. Unlike iPhone they can afford to boycott it, to make half hearted designs to test the water (and fend off license blackmail over Android).
Samsung don't need these sales and the mainly "big screen+heavy skinning" strategy that got them to #1 in smartphone is a poor fit for WP license restrictions. HTC and Nokia are fighting for survival, they need to try harder - and it's winning them a bigger slice of a microscopic pie.
Microsoft Surface Pro sales CANNIBALIZING Surface RT
not cannibals
I too doubt there's much cannibalizing going on. IT insiders were already waiting for pro, I suspect 400k may seriously overestimate ingoing interest, with the fans now satiated.
The ordinary public meanwhile have seen RT and ignored it. All they know is Pro is heavier and more expensive. A few know RT is crippled a as a traditional Windows machine and will assume Pro is also. Microsoft's deliberate ploy to confuse RT and Pro versions is hurting them badly, not cannibalism but devaluing the entire product line to its LCD.
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Have any of the fanboys who study the game so closely bother to do any research on Kolanos? This guy is the AHL's answer to Brent "the suitcase" Ashton. Since the lockout this guy has played for a dozen teams. Kolanos was so good he wasn't even in the game last season. But he should still be considered a prospect.
Well this "fanboy" has researched Kolanos enough to know that he wasn't in the game last year because he took a year off to have hip surgery and properly rehab. It had nothing to do with him not being any good.
Did you know that he had two major concussions? Both early in his career and it set him back considerably.
Says something to me about a guys heart and determination when he comes back from all of that and puts up well over a point per game in the second best professional league in North America.
He went to the Heat's camp without any contract whatsoever and EARNED a PTO.
Then he played for the Heat and EARNED an AHL contract when his PTO ran out.
Then he continued to play for the Heat, did everything the organization asked of him and EARNED a two way NHL contract.
He's also EARNED a call-up to play for his hometown Calgary Flames.
.......and even if it only lasts for a few days at least he came back from tremendous adversity and worked his way back up the ladder to a legitimate NHL call-up, when probably no one but he himself thought it was possible.
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