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Subsidized and unsubsidized loans are federal student loans for eligible students to help cover the cost of higher education at a four-year college or university, community college, or trade, career, or technical school. The U.S. Department of Education offers eligible students at participating schools Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans.
What's the difference between Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans?
In short, Direct Subsidized Loans have slightly better terms to help out students with financial need.
Here's a quick overview of Direct Subsidized Loans:
- Direct Subsidized Loans are available to undergraduate students with financial need.
- Your school determines the amount you can borrow, and the amount may not exceed your financial need.
- For a subsidized loan, the U.S. Department of Education pays the interest
○ during a period of deferment (a postponement of loan payments).
*Note: If you receive a Direct Subsidized Loan that is first disbursed between July 1, 2012, and July 1, 2014, you will be responsible for paying any interest that accrues during your grace period. If you choose not to pay the interest that accrues during your grace period, the interest will be added to your principal balance.
Here's a quick overview of Direct Unsubsidized Loans:
- Direct Unsubsidized Loans are available to undergraduate and graduate students; there is no requirement to demonstrate financial need.
- Your school determines the amount you can borrow by considering the cost of attendance and other financial aid you receive.
- For an unsubsidized loan, you are responsible for paying the interest during all periods.
- If you choose not to pay the interest while you are in school and during grace periods and deferment or forbearance periods, your interest will accrue (accumulate) and be capitalized (that is, your interest will be added to the principal amount of your loan).
Am I eligible for a Direct Subsidized Loan or a Direct Unsubsidized Loan?
You may be eligible if you are an undergraduate who is enrolled at least half-time at an eligible school in a program leading to a degree or certificate. If you are a graduate or professional degree student, you may be eligible to receive a Direct Unsubsidized Loan.
How do I apply?
How much can I borrow?
Your school determines the actual loan amount you are eligible to receive each academic year. However, there are limits on the maximum amount in subsidized and unsubsidized loans that you are eligible to receive each academic year (annual loan limit) and over your academic career (total loan limits). These limits depend on
- what year you are in school and
- whether you are a dependent or independent student.
If you are a dependent student whose parents are ineligible for a Direct PLUS Loan, you may be able to receive additional loan funds.
The following chart provides maximum annual and total loan limits for subsidized and unsubsidized loans as of July 1, 2012.
Dependent Students (except students whose parents are unable to obtain PLUS Loans)
Independent Students (and dependent undergraduate students whose parents are unable to obtain PLUS Loans)
First-Year Undergraduate
$5,500—No more than $3,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
$9,500—No more than $3,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
Second-Year Undergraduate
$6,500—No more than $4,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
$10,500—No more than $4,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
Third-Year and Beyond Undergraduate
$7,500 per year—No more than $5,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
$12,500 per year—No more than $5,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
Graduate or Professional Degree Students
Not Applicable
Maximum Total Debt from Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans
$31,000—No more than $23,000 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
$57,500 for undergraduates—No more than $23,000 of this amount may be in subsidized loans.
$138,500 for graduate or professional students—No more than $65,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans. The graduate debt limit includes all federal loans received for undergraduate study.
Note: The maximum total loan limits include any Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans or Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans you may have received under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program. As a result of legislation, no further loans are made under the FFEL Program as of July 1, 2010.
Graduate and professional students enrolled in certain health profession programs may receive additional unsubsidized Direct Loan amounts each academic year beyond those shown above. For these students, there is also an increased aggregate loan limit of $224,000 (maximum $65,500 subsidized).
What are the current interest rates?
Here are the interest rates for loans first disbursed between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.
Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students
Direct Subsidized Loans
Direct Unsubsidized Loans
Got other questions about interest? These tips might help:
- Prior federal loans and financial aid history—If you already have federal student loans and would like to check the interest rate, servicer information, and other financial aid history, go to the National Student Loan Data System.
- Understanding interest rates and fees—Find out how interest is calculated.
- Information for military members—If you are a member of the military, you may be eligible for special interest benefits relating to your federal student loans.
Other than interest, is there a charge for this loan?
Yes, there is a 1.051 % loan fee on all Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans. The loan fee will be proportionately deducted from each loan disbursement.
What additional steps must I take to receive my loan?
If your financial aid package includes federal student loans, your school will tell you how to accept the loan.
If it is your first time receiving a Direct Loan, you will be required to
- complete entrance counseling, a tool to ensure you understand your obligation to repay the loan; and
- sign a Master Promissory Note (MPN), agreeing to the terms of the loan.
Contact the financial aid office at the school you are planning to attend for details regarding the process at your school.
How will I receive my loan?
The school will first apply your loan funds to your school account to pay for tuition, fees, room and board, and other school charges. If any additional loan funds remain, they will be returned to you. All loan funds must be used for your education expenses.
When do I have to pay back my loans?
When you receive your first Direct Loan, you will be contacted by your loan servicer (you repay your loan to the loan servicer). Your loan servicer will provide regular updates on the status of your Direct Loan, and any additional Direct Loans that you receive. After you graduate, leave school, or drop below half-time enrollment, you will have a six-month grace period before you are required to begin repayment. During this period, you'll receive repayment information from your loan servicer, and you'll be notified of your first payment due date. Payments are usually due monthly. Learn more about repaying your loan.
What types of loan repayment plans are available?
There are several repayment options available that are designed to meet the individual needs of borrowers. Your loan servicer can help you understand which repayment options are available to you. Generally, you'll have 10 to 25 years to repay your loan, depending on the repayment plan that you choose. Learn more about your repayment options.
What if I have trouble repaying the loan?
If you are unable to make your scheduled loan payments, contact your loan servicer immediately. Your loan servicer can help you understand your options for keeping your loan in good standing. For example, you may wish to change your repayment plan to lower your monthly payment or request a deferment or forbearance that allows you to temporarily stop or lower the payments on your loan. Learn more about deferment or forbearance options.
Can my loan be canceled, forgiven, or discharged?
Yes. Before your loan money is disbursed, you may cancel all or part of your loan at any time by notifying your school. After your loan is disbursed, you may cancel all or part of the loan within certain time frames. Your promissory note and additional information you receive from your school will explain the procedures and time frames for canceling your loan.
Under certain conditions, you may have all or part of your loan canceled, discharged, or forgiven. Find out about loan cancellation, discharge, or forgiveness.
Default Facts and Repayment Tips
Students have the right to cancel a loan up to seven days after the loan has been credited to their student account. Click here for a loan cancellation form.


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The bellows compensation formulas require us to define subject distance = film-to-subject distance.
At subject distance = 8f, the light falloff is 0.46f.
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Christian Ponder is no longer one of Minnesota's most eligible bachelors. Not only does the Vikings quarterback have his team at 4-2, but his personal life seems to be going just as well. In a tweet Thursday, Ponder confirmed to the world that he is dating ESPN college football sideline reporter Samantha Steele. A fan tweeted "Is @cponder & @Samantha_Steele dating? If not, they should. Noles" About a half hour later, Ponder responded "@kking @samantha_steele actually yes they are". It's quite the catch for Ponder as Steele has quickly become a heartthrob since her quick rise to becoming ESPN's Thursday night football sideline reporter and host of the first hour of "College GameDay." Steele, 26, was one of the first hires at ESPN's Longhorn Network in 2011. She added the additional college football duties last summer.
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2010 Disappointments - Threebie edition
By sarahsdad 11 Comments
Inspired by Epic Steve's blog about his biggest letdowns of the year, I figured I would put in my own top three disappointments of the year. I have a somewhat up to date list of games I just didn't like, but I think there's a difference between not liking something, and being disappointed in it. Y'know I wanted to like Halo:Reach, but when I didn't, I wasn't really disappointed. On the Flip-side, I wanted to like Transformers: War For Cybertron, and was pretty disappointed when I didn't. I kept much better track than usual this year of which games I played, and why I did or didn't like them. So, here's a list of three games I was disappointed in this year, along with the notes I made as I played through them.
Fable III:
11/01 - Picked up over the weekend. Only a couple hours in. Doing several fetch quests. Have a sword, a gun, and one magic.
I should maybe go back and play part of Fable II for comparison, but otherwise I'm having fun so far. The menu room may get old after a while, but so far I like the ability to move around the map, and zoom in on towns to fast travel there. The interface for changing clothes, weapons, etc. is well done. It's nicer than having to go to a specific shop to try on new pants, or to dye something.
I haven't had any serious fights so far, but the combat seems smooth and easy enough; it's nice having a single attack button that works contextually with a click, press-and-hold, or press-hold and aim with a thumb stick.
Based on the other games I've played so far this year, It's opening at #4, below ME:2, SC:Conviction, and Alan Wake.
11/09 - At a week in, I'm really not liking the inability to look at a list of active quests without going into the sanctuary. It's not bad when following the story, since that quest is always defaulted. When trying to run through multiple smaller quests, it's annoying to have to keep going back to the sanctuary and pick one of those instead of the main story quest.
I can understand that they wanted to not have a standard menu just pop up, but with the design flourishes the game already has, why not have an option where your character pulls out a scroll, and writes things down, or crosses them off?
Still pretty high on my list, but I can see where some of Brad's three-star rating came from. There are parts of the game I really like, so the parts that get in the way stand out that much more.
11/16 - Finished the main storyline, and got a couple of achievements I was hoping for. Still planning to get all the Road To Rule chests open, but that may take a bit of a back seat to Assassin's Creed, which is opening at #4 based on a heck of a good time I had in the first 10-15 minutes.
Moving Fable down at least to 5.
You can see the progression there, where it went over about two weeks. So far I haven't gone back and finished the game, and I guess I'm really not likely to, unless there's a sudden huge dry spell where I've finished all the other games I'd like to check out from this year (While I'm suspicious of scripted events in shooters, I'd like to try cod blops just for the story).
FWIW, Fable III actually ended up at #5, but I'm disappointed that the things I didn't like by the end seemed so obviously easy to fix.
Red Dead Redemption:
06/15/2010 - Pretty good. I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying this, even though I'm probably not even a 1/4 of the way through the story.
06/18/2010 - On hold for a bit, while I have some other games in from GameFly, and looking forward to Transformers next week.
07/14/10 - Picked back up last night. Very easy to get back in to.
08/16/10 - Picked up again about a week ago after rounding out the first DLC for Alan Wake.
Don't remember his name, but the govt. guy that is holding his family's safety over Marston's head is so hateful that, taken in combination with having finished slogging through Mexico so soon before, I'm having to push myself into playing.
Maybe this is a problem with trying to make a game too much like a movie. I know that guy gets dealt with in the end, but if RDR were a movie, I'd have a reasonable idea that things would resolve in about the next 20-25 minutes. As it is, I'm looking at probably a good hour or two. At this point, the redeeming thing about this game is everything other than the story.
11/09 - Moving down a few rungs. The first part of the game was good. The middle section was not fun, and the mission system really dragged things down. As well, the ending(s) didn't seem too fun.
I think it's telling, the number of times I put the game aside for something else. Also, I suppose you could say that it was good storytelling on Rockstar's part that I had enough interest or investment in a character that I could actually hate the govt. guy who's holding the reins, as it were. My counter to that is I never understood well enough why Marston didn't shoot the guy's deputy dead, then put a bullet in the foot of the offending person as a start to working on 'where is my family'. Marston doesn't seem to have a lot of respect for the law, so why bother with all of these shenanigans?
This was also the game that helped me realize the criteria for when I shouldn't keep playing a game. If I have to make myself keep playing, it's time to stop. There are too many other things I could be doing to spend my time playing a game that I'm not having fun with. It's interesting. I think If I had stopped before getting too far into Mexico, I probably would have rated this higher than the #10 spot it ended on.
Transformers: WFC:
06/28/10 - Been Playing for a few days. Single player, campaign only, so far. Disappointed. lots of nice little graphical touches. The movement of the parts for each character has individuality. I got distracted during one fight just watching Megatron's back and side plates move.
Similar to Dark Void though, having AI buddies that don't seem to hit anything more than 1 time out of 5, nor react to getting hit just seems stupid. I don't want to be able to stand back and let the AI win the game for me, but if I'm playing as Bumblebee, I should NOT be racking up that many more kills than Optimus, even if he isn't a prime yet. There are also a few times where I've felt like I was getting targeted simply because I wasn't an AI. Maybe there's a logic there; the enemy AI attacked me because technically the friendly AI wasn't actually doing any damage.
The targeting also seems intentionally broken. With the exception of a rocket launcher weapon that locks on to vehicles, everything is just a reticule on screen that has to be aimed manually. If I'm playing a robot, I would expect at least some sort of lock-on feature. I could even see having the lock be more or less effective depending on class, but not having one at all makes me wonder what the design philosophy was that made High Moon decide to take it out.
06/29/2010 - Just noticed that having played through about 3/4 of the single-player, and none of the multi, I have a B grade for this game on the GiantBomb scale.
This ended up all the way down at #18 for the year, based mostly on disappointment. Friendly AI that did little to no damage to the enemy, and enemy AI that . . . .this is the weird part, is I can actually understand why the enemy AI attacked me more often than my AI buddies; THEY WEREN'T BEING HELPFUL.
Also, why not have more of an auto-targeting system? They're all robots, how unreasonable would it have been to have a bit more snap-to on the guns?


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As it happens, I have that day off...
I am so excited for Dapper Day!! I went in February too and had an incredible time. Everyone looked so lovely and we got so many wonderful compliments from other park guests.
Myself (pictured on the left) and my friend (on the right) will be attending. We took advantage of the Dapper Day room deal so we will be at both the Dapper Derby and the drinks afterwards. I would love to meet some fellow MiceChat folks too!
I am planning on going for my first time. I hope the outfit I have planned still fits! I've been on vacation LOL.
unfortunately i wont such sadness.... but i will make it to the other one they have in the spring! have fun everyone!
already the pictures shown from other times are AMAZING! and yes please post pics after the event.
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i love this.
That's as it should be.
I would love to find some gloves... any ideas anyone? Also don't know if they should be cream or black. I have a brick red sheath dress with black shoes and a black wrap if it gets chilly.
You can wear contemporary clothing or whatever you prefer! It's really about dressing up and looking nice for the evening in Disneyland.
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You can wear whatever style of clothing you want, when it comes right down to it, but the key is to wear something nice. Dress up for the evening in the park!
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Sounds great I only wish I could attend. If only we had a Disneyland in London!
<3 There are a million cupcakes in the world but only one is Cupcake Terror. <3
Im going! I went last year in fall. Everyone looked so awesome. I cant wait! 1 week away!
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I went last year, but it just happened to be Dapper Day and we were not dressed up. I would love to go and dress up this year, but can't but I might in the spring.
By the way BroadSword, I LOVE that your kids dressed up too! I am thinking of doing that with my kids in the spring!
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So very excited that Dapper Day is Friday! I am basically doing the last bits and bobs on my dresses.... just wish that sewing wasn't so labor intensive. LOL!
While I have no idea how to know who is on MC and who isn't, I hope you all have a wonderful time! See you in The Park!
<3 There are a million cupcakes in the world but only one is Cupcake Terror. <3
Im practicing with my hair now. I should have made an appt @ a.salon like last time, but i wanted to try on my own. There are many easy style but i have unruly hair. Lol.
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Chili Beef Puffs With Peanuts & Fresh Basil
|Minced basil
|2 Tablespoon
|Chopped roasted peanuts
|2 Tablespoon
|Green onion
|1 , minced
|Egg puff paste
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (Golden)
|Lemon grass stalks/2 teaspoons freshly grated lemon peel
|Ground cloves
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Cumin seeds
|1 Teaspoon
|Grated nutmeg
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|Black pepper
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Vegetable oil
|2 Tablespoon
|2 , minced
|4 Clove (20 gm), finley minced
|Minced ginger root
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried red peppers
|2 Small, stemmed, seeded, minced
|Lean ground beef
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Preheat oven to 400F (205C).
Prepare Chili-Beef.
Stir Chili-Beef, basil, peanuts and green onion into Golden Egg-Puff Paste.
Using 1 tablespoonful of mixture per puff, fill 3 nonstick miniature muffin pans.
Bake in preheated oven on middle rack 18 to 20 minutes or until puffy and golden-brown.
Do not underbake or puffs might collapse.
Cool 2 to 3 minutes.
Remove from pans.
Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Chili Beef: If using lemongrass, remove tough outer stalks.
Smash inner stalks, thinly slice and mince finely.
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To me, he looks great out there. He has made a few rookie mistakes but that is to be expected. On offense, he comes in from the point, he's not afraid to join the rush. If he sees an opening, he goes right for it like he did last night on his goal. He came in from the point and just put it right by Luongo. He also has a very good shot from the point on the powerplay. Him & Johnsson have done really well for us on the points. They aren't waiting as long they did last year. If Joni is open, he fires it right towards the net and usually guys like Zeus and Leclair are camped out there. Then they just chip it in. He has played well on defense, he can take the man and not the puck. In the past few games, he has single-handlely taken the guy right out of the play. Like I said, he has made some rookie mistakes but they are to be expected.
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characterized Americas war against drugs? Licit drug abuse has consistently dwarfed street drug use, yet drug war scholarship focuses mostly on heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. I explore the long history of the licit drug cultures that are regularly discovered as new and ominous social threats.
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"Addiction to prescription drugs," Addictions Old and New, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, October 22-23, 2015
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I change my mind about the GTX280
I kept saying that my two 9800GTx running in SLI was better and faster then my one BFG GTX280 OCX.I ran my two 9800GTx in SLI for about a month and it would get 16,350 in 3DMark06 running at 780/1900/2200 and running Crysis at very high settings at 1920x1200 would get 37FPS ,plus it was a few frames higher in other games.But I decided to put my BFG GTX 280 OCX back in and see if I could tell that if it is any better.It maybe just my eyes but even 2D look better.Running 3DMark06 I would get 16,006 and in Crysis I would get 35FPS ,but it look so much more sharper and in Crysis my lows did'nt dip as low as it did with my two 9800GTx running in SLI.It may be a placebo effect but ever game I ran just looked so much better.So I will be sending my two ASUS EN9800GT ULTIMATE/HTDP/512M back to newegg.com,I got lucky and they are not going to charge me the 15% restocking fee.But I can't make up my mind if I want to get another GTX 280 or wait or buy something else.I would like to get a Q9550 but then I would have to get a new mother board.I thought about buying another Q6600 since I would more then likely get a GO and be able to overclock a little more.I have a B3 that I run all the time at 3240gigs at 1.37v.I just don't know if getting another GTX 280 running at 1920x1200 would be worth it without a faster CPU.
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
You have 2 9800 GTX's AND a GTX 280?!?!?
Overkill much? :headexplode:
To answer your question, a faster CPU would probably be a wise investment if you're thinking about going SLI GTX 280's.
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
What else is new mate? This has been reported by a lot of users with 9800GX2 cards after upgrading to a single 280. Average FPS never offer the real picture. SLIed cards always suffer lower minimums versus a slower on average single card that is faster than a single of the 2 SLIed cards... It has been said time and again, 2 cards does not equal double the frame rate. That's why I said in another post, that if you are faced with a choice between two solutions of the same speed, but one is a single card and the other is two cards together (even if the two cards are slightly faster), the single card will always offer a better experience, in terms of less problems and better gameplay...
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
Lfctony do you have two GTX 280's running in SLI on the Q6600 running at 3.2gigs and if you do how much does running two help.
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
Well, its less smooth than one card. There's severe stuttering from time to time. The motherboard does make a difference in smoothness etc. The CPU takes a hit from SLI, 200-300mhz I'd say for syncing the cards... Also, you only notice a difference where you are GPU limited. In CPU limited scenarios, your system is slower because of the extra burden on your CPU. If I had a choice to get 500e back and return one of these cards I would. I prefer a single card experience with lower details...
Say Crysis(Crysis scales quite bad, suffers from stuttering due to the load it places on the cards and your system in general) on High looks good and plays good.Add a second card and run on High, performance is actually lower (at 1680x1050 with one 280 the game is CPU limited).Take it up to Very High, the game looks better, plays better than with one 280, but still, it doesn't play as smooth or as fast as I would like. Warhead would dip to 19fps in DX9 from time to time, it would have been worse with DX10...
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Actually I'd bet it's more due to your RAM limitations on the 9800GTX cards versus the GTX 280. In 3dmark it's not going to touch your ram, where Crysis turned up the way you have it will likely tank because of the 512MB vram.
Also, I don't think a CPU upgrade is going to get you very far. Unless it's to a E8600 or something you can get to 4.0Ghz, it will probably be a moot point.
Far Cry 2 has already shown it likes 4 cores, so for future games you're already sitting pretty well.
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
SLI is working fine, the cards are also fine as far as I can tell since they are working in all games as they should. My P Vantage score is above 20000. Warhead does utilise SLI somewhat, my average FPS are higher with two cards vs one. Can you run a couple of benches for me?
Download the Warhead Benchmark tool and run the Frost (plain) level and the Airfield Flythrough at Enthusiast DX9 1680x1050, let me know what it scores.
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
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Min FPS: 15.77 at frame 62, Max FPS: 59.46 at frame 180
Average Tri/Sec: 28846766, Tri/Frame: 588349
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I would say the min. FPS is caused from loading all the textures into memory as its in the first 100frames each time more along the lines as 28-30fps lows.
Guess i should add i normaly run my shadows on gamer as they are the system killers.
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
All dual card solutions, SLI, 9800GX2, 4870x2 have micro stutter which make good frames seem choppier, less smooth, etc. Stick with a single GPU, problem solved!!!
Re: I change my mind about the GTX280
I have not seen this myth on my system as of yet. :headexplode:
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Nexus 7 is going to be bestseller.
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The Nexus 7 is extremely tempting at £159 - I hope the sales don't get hit when Amazon release the Kindle Fire or its successor here which is rumoured to happen soon.
As for the Nexus Q - underneath it is running full Android so I am looking to see what the devs/hackers can do to unlock its full potential.
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Unfortunately at that price Nexus Q is simply impossible to be a successful product. Apple TV is $99. Other streamers like xtreamer, wd tive live etc are all sub $200 products, most are sub-$100 products. Nexus Q is even priced higher than most Atom+ION/E-350 based miniPC's.
In short, Nexus Q priced itself out of the market. Like if someone would try to sell you a $3000 ultrabook with specs corresponding to the other $600 ultrabooks.
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I'm sorely tempted by a Nexus 7 to compliment the iPad my wife has basically requisitioned.
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Nexus Q looks fantastic. but why would people spend that much money when RaspberryPi with XBMC and Airplay plugin could do the same thing?
i loved the idea of pushing media to TV from the moment Microsoft demonstrated it on their xbox. bought into Apple's airplay using an AppleTV. i don't see how Q could compete with ATV at that price with less features and less cloud media.
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I read up a lot on the announcements yesterday but never figured out what the hell the Nexus Q actually was and after watching that video I have no idea why I would buy one, especially at that price. It seems utterly pointless IMO and as Faugusztin said DOA.
The Nexus 7 looks decent. I am still not convinced by the tablet form-factor for my uses but could see how something like that so well priced would have its place in the home. I wonder how much storage I would need though. I won't be putting music on it as that will be on my phone but 8GB seems like very little, maybe 16GB would be fine? I have no idea and its not like you can just add more...
Which leads me to a little rant. I know everyone is pushing the cloud but the cloud is NOT a replacement for local storage, its a compliment. Would many people care if the price went up £5-£10 for a microSD slot to be included?
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If the Nexus 7 had a micro sd slot I would already have ordered one.
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At a third of the price of a Windows RT unit, it's going to interest a lot of people, and that is what Google wants: market penetration of its ecosystem.
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Android might be making waves with smartphones, but I still think there's a lot of work to do in order to convince the mass market consumer to get this tablet over an iPad. "Joe Average" may well look at the price of the Nexus 7 and instantly think: "There's no way this can be better than an iPad, just look how cheap it is". That is, assuming Joe Average is able to stumble across one in the first place, which isn't likely to happen unless there is a wider distribution channel than just the Play Store. Otherwise they'd have to be actively looking for a tablet, and in that case it's going to be very hard to see past Apple's marketing.
It looks like a fantastic product and, if my own experience of Tegra 2 is anything to go by, the Tegra 3 SoC should make it blisteringly fast. Plus it has the advantage of being a reference implementation of Android, so you don't have any operator/manufacturer cruft getting in the way and slowing things down. Of course there could still be poor driver implementation hampering performance, but I doubt that would be the case; I'd like to think that they paid more than a little attention to that sort of stuff for a flagship/reference product. Even if it was £100 more expensive, it would still be a tempting prospect.
Of course, the previous paragraph is from the point of view of a complete nerd; I can see the value in the product, but none of that makes a difference to Joe Average wandering round Tesco or Currys in the mood to do a bit of impulse gadget buying.
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Have they explicitly stated it'll only be on the Play store? My local Tesco has a huge range of tablets from both the main OS players, they even had a Blackberry one for a while.
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any rumour of a 10.1" model?
|29th Jun 2012, 09:55
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|29th Jun 2012, 10:01
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@steveo_mcg: i am pretty sure it is a vanilla Android with a huge special Play Store widget on main screen. And if not, there is nothing easier to do than install Nova Launcher or Apex Launcher and you have the stock Android experience. There is no reason why it should disable any 3rd party markets.
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This is what the market has been asking for. A decent quality android tablet that's much cheaper then an iPad. I expect it'll sell millions - personally I pre-ordered one so it'll be my first tablet.
|29th Jun 2012, 13:45
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Hopefully it will take off because then developers can work on apps and stop the play store from becoming really fragmented. However, I can see it going the way of the kindle fire, and not being that successful.
Personally, if it sells well and more quality tablet apps appear on the play store and if google can sort out the basic performance issues in android then I can see myself replacing my iPad with it.
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Though I'm not sure what you mean by "basic performance issues". My experience of poor performance in Android is usually down to a shoddy driver implementation (or no driver implementation at all) or needless bloaty cruft being added to the AOSP code; though neither of which I'd expect from the company that owns the Android platform. I'll admit that is a problem with Android though: most major manufacturers have their own ideas for stuff they want to add, and they're quite free to do so because everything except Google Apps is open source. But devices such as the Nexus range are supposed to serve as a reference implementation: Look at this shiny thing of ours, this is how you're supposed to do it - now you do the same or better.
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What bugged me about ST V (on the exactly two occasions I've watched it) is just how muddled and unfocused the narrative is. The movie makes a big deal about those three ambassadors, then pretty much forgets about them until the end of the movie, when it suddenly remembers that, hey, isn't David Warner in this film? Sybok is kinda, sorta of a bad guy, who kinda, sorta brainwashes the crew, except when he doesn't (and the idea that Sulu and Uhura and the rest would actually choose Sybok over Kirk of their own quasi-free will is beyond the pale right there). And Kirk wants to stop Sybok's insane quest, except when he doesn't. The whole thing is such a muddle of confused, ambiguous motives that the story struggles to acquire any sort of urgency or momentum.
I get that, with Sybok, they were deliberately trying to make him morally ambiguous, instead of just a two-dimensional black hat, but they didn't pull it off. There's a fine line between ambiguous and unfocused and ST V crossed it . . . which, as I recall, is an even bigger problem than some ill-advised attempts at humor.
And, yeah, I cringed at "row, row, row your boat," too. Thank God they made another film so the TOS saga didn't end on that note . . . .
Very true, and it's why I wouldn't have bothered with the Klingons at all or the Romulan representative or the David Warner character. The crew's behaviour only makes sense if it's some sort of mind control. But because it isn't depicted as outright mind control then their behaviour is bullshit.
Part of the problem with Trek films, and sci-fi movies in general, is this mindset that the story always has to be huge, and consequently some interpret that as there has to be a lot of different things going on. Sure that can work, but unless you're adept at juggle a lot of elements then you're best to stick to something more straightforward and tell it the very best you can.
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Switching exempt events to the CBE Classic also cost Fisher a game against Arizona, which was tentatively scheduled in mid-November. Then Arizona, looking for a replacement game against someone from the Southwest, booked New Mexico State — which effectively nixed Fisher's verbal agreement to play the Aggies, coached by former Aztecs assistant Marvin Menzies.
"In essence, I lost two games," Fisher said. "That added to my woes."
Duke offered to host the Aztecs, but only on Dec. 8 or Jan. 5, and those dates conflicted with the Cal game and conference opener. Attempts to play Arizona State fell through, too. On and on it went, through June, into July, now heading into August.
The Aztecs' recent rise to basketball prominence probably works against them. It's one thing to lose to a traditional college basketball giant. But lose to, as Cal quarterback Dave Barr so infamously said about 15 years back, "San Diego Stinkin' State"?
"There are some coaches that are concerned if they lose to us, what will their uniformed alumni say who don't know the nuances of modern-day basketball?" Fisher said.
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There also is the money. Even schools from mid-major conferences, Fisher said, can offer close to $100,000 guarantees for teams to play them at home, about $30,000 more than he can.
So if you're a small school that's going to play a so-called "body-bag game" for the check, why not do it for $95,000 instead of $65,000? And if you're paying someone to come play you, why get someone like SDSU that might beat you?
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Just wanted to say that Fiona really made us feel welcome and always made us feel that there was someone we could call if we needed any information or assistance. Plus, she is so nice and friendly that it set a positive tone for our whole trip.
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Once again, we had a wonderful stay at Nautilus! From the moment we arrived until we departed, we received exemplary service from everyone whom we encountered and dealt with. Fiona was amazing and an invaluable ambassador for Terra Caribbean. The professionalism, knowledge, personality and client relations are second to none. She dealt quickly and efficiently with a couple of problems we encountered, going the extra mile (with her colleague Keisha). Rica our housekeeper, was a joy to have around and her service and care was much appreciated. Catherine, who was often about, taking care of our premises in general, was her usual professional, efficient and friendly self. The whole team was truly a credit to your organization. Thank you so much.
|Jim & Carole Springer
We had a fantastic time at Nautilus, thanks Fiona you're a gem! We enjoyed having the privacy of 'our own front door' but knowing help is available if needed. We liked having quiet accommodation, which it was, and a great location for us to go out and about too! Would not hesitate to recommend and definitely want to stay here again please! All the staff during booking and pre-holiday contact were great too.
|Jeff & Elizabeth
Jeff and I want to say "thank you" for such a wonderful location and such discreet and professional service.
|John Airton
Our Property Manager at Nautilus Fiona was very helpful and responded quickly to all queries. Very good to know she is there if needed.


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Provides a single callback for multiple asynchronous calls
Finish is a node utility module that provides a simple straight-forward way to catch the completion of multiple asynchronous tasks.
You can install using Node Package Manager (npm):
npm install finish
var Finish = require"finish";var finish = ;finishasync // Open an asynchronous region // Now you can make any asynchronous calls // Just wrap each asynchronous call with function 'spawn' 'file1' 'file2' 'file3'forEach spawn pathexists // Your async function should call done in its callback // 'result' passed into 'done' will be collected in the final callback doneerr result; ; ; ; // This callback is fired after all asynchronous calls finish // results now equals an array of results received from by each 'done' ;
There are more detailed examples in the examples directory.
Finish can be use within recursive function calls. Just be sure to create a new finish instance in every recursive call.


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Nonprofit insurers struggle in new marketplaces
And while the federal government has loaned $2 billion to the 23 co-ops, officials are not expressing concern with their enrollment figures or their ability to repay the loans. Jenkins said her agency is encouraged so far but will be monitoring the co-ops' progress.
The struggles have been pronounced for the newly created co-ops, and some congressional Republicans have voiced concern about their long-term financial viability. HealthyCT, for example, only ran TV ads after it began bringing in money from premiums. Near the end of March, it had signed up about a quarter of its original, modest goal of 10,000 customers. The two major insurers on the state's exchange, including Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, had 97 percent of the market.
For Maryland's Evergreen Health Co-op, lackluster enrollment numbers — about 650 people had signed up for coverage through early March — were blamed on technical issues with the exchange's website. Until recently, the exchange failed to even give shoppers the actual costs of Evergreen's policies that included out-of-pocket expenses.
The slow starts prompted some smaller nonprofits to adjust their enrollment goals and change their business plans. HealthyCT is now selling insurance outside the state's marketplace to larger employers and hopes to educate the public about its patient-centric model of care in time for the next open enrollment in November. Evergreen changed gears to focus more on offering small group insurance plans rather than individual ones and enrollment picked up, said Dr. Peter Beilenson, its CEO and president.
Beilenson said he's confident the added business will enable his co-op to enroll greater numbers of people with less effort, and he hopes Evergreen will be able to return to its priority of offering high-quality care to working and middle class families, once Maryland's enrollment system is improved.
"I would hope that it works vastly better next year than this year," he said.
But if enrollments do remain low, there are some protections over the next several years. The law included temporary programs that basically provide money to participating insurers to help them financially balance the risk and offset rising insurance premiums, said Dylan H. Roby, director of the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
The competition to date might not be what Obama envisioned but it's also not fatal to the exchanges because the law is so new. But all nonprofits selling plans on the exchanges, including the co-ops, will need market share eventually, acknowledged Roby.
Sharp Health Plan, owned by a San Diego regional health care provider, has received about 10,000 applications, or a 10 percent market share. CEO Melissa Hayden-Cook said the financial viability of competing on the Covered California health exchange won't be clear until months after the first year people have policies.
"It takes time to know how the business model is going to perform," she said. "But with federal protection to help offset some of those risks, we're cautiously optimistic."
Most people buying plans through the exchanges are getting subsidies that lower their premium costs, but deductibles remain costly, so the enrollment numbers will likely grow as people become more aware of the law's requirement to have coverage or risk larger and larger financial penalties.