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When I was in college, I had internships nearly every summer of the year. In each of those internships, I was paid a decent salary and never once had to decide whether or not to take an unpaid internship. I remember what I was like back then and if the right opportunity opened up, chances are I'd have worked for free if I could convince my parents to stake me for the summer.
I was fortunate in that I was in college during much of the dot com boom so all my internships were paid. It also helps that the idea of an unpaid internship, for "experience," isn't popular in technology. It happens a lot more in other industries where the need for experience trumps all.
In most instances, unpaid internships are illegal. The Department of Labor has really tight criteria for what internships can be unpaid and very few internships apply. There was no chance of my internships would've been legitimately unpaid, though there are plenty of illegal unpaid internships!
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The January night Raisina Hill was spooked: Two key Army units moved towards Delhi without notifying Govt
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By Shekhar Gupta with Ritu Sarin and Pranab Dhal Samanta
This is a story you would tell with extreme care and caution. But it so starkly characterises the current state of top-level politico-military relations that it is a folly to keep it under wraps, as the entire establishment has tried to do for a full 11 weeks now.
It has also taken this team of The Indian Express reporters that long to establish the story and the dramatic developments during, say, about 18 very difficult hours on January 16-17 earlier this year.
While many, including the spokesmen for the defence establishment, say it was much ado about nothing (see box), it is a story of a most unusual night when Raisina Hill was spooked as never before in peace time.
Essentially, late on the night of January 16 (the day Army Chief General V K Singh approached the Supreme Court on his date of birth issue), central intelligence agencies reported an unexpected (and non-notified) movement by a key military unit, from the mechanised infantry based in Hisar (Haryana) as a part of the 33rd Armoured Division (which is a part of 1 Corps, a strike formation based in Mathura and commanded by Lt Gen. A K Singh) in the direction of the capital, 150 km away.
Any suspicion was still considered much too implausible, but lookouts were alerted as a routine step. This was part of a protocol put in place in June 1984 when some mutineers from Sikh units had moved towards the capital in the wake of Operation Bluestar.
The lookouts confirmed the movement of what looked like a sizeable unit. It was soon identified as an entire unit of Mechanised Infantry, with its Russian-made Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs), carried on 48 tank transporters. The movement was towards the capital, which was odd.
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How many times have you seen a man on a steam grate dressed for winter except for his swollen bare feet? Everyone collects coats, but who thinks to give socks?
And yet doctors and homeless advocates say the feet suffer the cruelest fate of life on the streets.
Spending day after day in wet, sweaty, or soiled socks leads to fungus, bacterial infections, and gangrene. Wearing no socks or plastic bags hastens diabetic neuropathy and frostbite, which alcoholics or addicts may not realize they have until it's too late.
"The feet are a portal to the rest of the body," explains Kathya Zinszer, chair of Temple University's School of Podiatric Medicine, who runs clinics at area shelters.


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The University of Texas-Pan American College of Education was awarded $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education Wednesday, Nov. 6. The funds are for the Supporting Teachers Across Rural Schools (STARS) program, a five-year program that will assist local education agencies in addressing the teacher shortage in rural school districts.
The grant - presented by Congressman Rubén Hinojosa - will allow the UTPA College of Education to recruit, prepare and certify 90-100 teachers, and then place them in school districts across the Rio Grande Valley, Corpus Christi and the surrounding counties.
"This is another example of how our University is working to help create what I call great programs that help alleviate teacher shortage facing low income schools and students throughout the country," Hinojosa said. "The program that we are celebrating today will provide many qualified teachers."
The funds will be distributed over five years. The program will receive $350,000 each year for the first three years; $300,000 the fourth year; and $150,000 during the last year.
UTPA President Miguel A. Nevárez said the University has worked vigilantly with Hinojosa to help provide the needed resources for Valley school districts, including certified teachers.
"Congressman Hinojosa has been a strong advocate for education," Nevárez said. "Our priority is to provide the best educational opportunities for students seeking certification, and it is always a pleasure to participate in these creative and innovative programs."
Students participating in the program will receive training in areas such as bilingual education, English as a Second Language, math, science and special education. The innovative training sessions will be presented using web-based courses, field-based courses and other technological resources.
"I think this program is very unique. The significance of this program is that it takes advantage of the technology that this campus has developed over the past 10 years," said Dr. Rodolfo Arévalo, provost/vice president for the Division of Academic Affairs. "This grant will allow us to follow those individuals in the program, continue to provide a service to them and make sure that they are integrated in the teaching profession."
The program is expected to begin with a three-weekend orientation seminar during the months of April and May 2003, and recruitment will begin this month.
"This grant will have a definite impact on our area," said Dr. Hilda Medrano, dean for the College of Education. "In the College of Education we try to have programs to accommodate the diverse population, and now we add Project STARS, which will help prepare teachers by using technology."
For more information, contact the College of Education at 956/381-3627.


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MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama -- Crestline Village might soon be home to a new drive-thru.
When CVS/pharmacy vacates its current space at 49 Church St. and moves to the former site of the Piggly Wiggly Supermarket at the corner of Euclid Ave. and Oak St., it might bring the convenience along with it.
Dana Hazen, Mountain Brook's City Planner, told AL.com that she received an email on Wednesday, Jan. 8 from an engineer representing CVS/pharmacy inquiring about the city's plan submittal process.
Following the initial inquiry, Hazen received the following engineering plans for review.
The plans, which now designate the former Piggly Wiggly space as the site of CVS/pharmacy, indicate the inclusion of a drive-thru with a canopy along the left side of the building.
Now that the plans have been submitted, CVS/pharmacy will need the approval of the City's Planning Commission to move forward.
Their case, said Hazen, will be heard by the Planning Commission on Monday, Feb. 3.
The news comes just months after the Piggly Wiggly, which had operated out of the space for 30 years, closed its doors on Nov. 2.
Although rumors about a CVS/pharmacy move into the space began circulating when word got out that the city might be in talks with another company about the implementation of a drive-thru in the Piggly Wiggly space, the pharmacy maintains that it did not begin talks with Scott & Scott until after lease negotiations with the Virciglio family ended unsuccessfully.
"CVS/pharmacy understands that members of the Crestline Village community are disappointed about the closure of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket that previously operated at the future location of its new store," read today's release. "However, CVS was approached about the availability of the property only after lease negotiations between the property owner and the supermarket owner concluded unsuccessfully. CVS did not play any role in these negotiations and it signed a long-term lease last week."
In June of last year, at the height of the rumors regarding the Piggly Wiggly, City Manager Sam Gaston confirmed that an engineering firm had indeed met with city officials inquiring about a potential drive-thru service at the location, though the firm did not specify whether they were there on behalf of the Piggly Wiggly or another business.
When news about CVS/pharmacy's move became official last week, Hazen confirmed that it was in fact, engineers working on behalf of CVS/pharmacy who had inquired about the drive-thru in the summer of 2013.
February's Planning Commission meeting regarding the CVS/pharmacy will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers.
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SOLD: According to the final count, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ sold 4.1 million DVDs by Wednesday after only one day in stores, reports the Associated Press. While impressive, the sales figure falls short of the record holder, Disney's animated Finding Nemo DVD, which sold about 8 million. For a live-action movie, Spider-Man holds the one-day record with 7 million. Still, FOX Home Entertainment, which is distributing The Passion, calls the release the best-selling R-rated film of all time and best-selling non-English language film of all time.
UNVEILED: U2 has revealed the names of six of the 11 tracks on its as-yet-untitled album, due Nov. 23, reports Billboard. This includes the first single, "Vertigo," scheduled for radio play later this month. Other songs include "A Man and a Woman," "Crumbs From Your Table," "Yahweh," "City of Blinding Lights" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." The new CD is the follow-up to 2000's All That You Can't Leave Behind, which has sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. A world tour is expected to launch early next year.
CAST: NBC's ER will attempt a real-time taped episode for the first time in its 10-year history, guest starring Ray Liotta as a hallucinating alcoholic ex-con, says the Hollywood Reporter. The episode is set to air Nov. 11 and "is 44 continuous minutes of this man's treatment and his interactions with the staff in the ER and how those 44 minutes determine whether he's going to live or die," said executive producer David Zabel, who wrote the script. ER first experimented with real-time action in 1997 when the fourth-season premiere aired live on both the East and West coasts.
LOST: The New Mexico state Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled against Val Kilmer and his ex-wife, actress Joanne Whalley, in a dispute over a tax refund of more than $300,000 sought by the couple on the 1995 return, AP reports. The court said the Taxation and Revenue Department had no authority to act on the refund claim because the time period for doing so had expired. Kilmer has a ranch near Santa Fe. The couple said they were due the refund because Whalley – who had filed for divorce – had moved to California in the latter part of 1995.
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Skip to comments.Pearl Harbor visitors now get Japan and US view
Posted on 04/30/2011 12:48:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teenage baseball players while on tour with other American all-stars.
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This is an insult of the highest order. I don't give a G-Damn what the F pre-War Japan looked like. There's an American warship still sitting in the mud of Pearl Harbor with the remains of over 1,400 young Americans who never stopped being nineteen and the ''smiling faces of kimono-clad women'' is the nation that put them there. Screw the ''smiling Japanese''..
I agree, this IS disgusting! The Japanese of that time were SAVAGES, there IS NO "other side" to the story of WWII in the Pacific! IT WAS GOOD VERSUS EVIL, and THAT is THAT!!!
Can't wait to see the exhibits in Japan showing other views of the Pacific War. Say a model of Nanking, an exhibit on Unit 731. Or how about the Bataan Death March. The Allied prisoners burned alive?
Hell, I'd settle for an admission of their guilt, and factual history books in their high schools!
I gather our leadership never heard of "The Rape of Nanking."
The Japanese were egocentric monsters.
There is no "Japanese side" to the outrageous and cowardly sneak attack.
We should have stuck with Admiral Halsey's plan;
"By the time this is over, the Japanese language will only be spoken in Hell!"
Excellent. I hope to muster as much emotion if I am ever in a similar situation.
Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley
I guess these people have never been to the "Peace Museum" in Hiroshima. Their side of the story is that there were some disagreements, a little war broke out, and then America nuked Japan. When they discuss Unit 731 or Nanking (which troops from Hiroshima took part in) they pass them off as allegations that haven't been proven.
Is there now a Japanese thinking that they were right then? This just legitimizes that way of thinking and it is alright to rape other lands in search for resources for home.
Or a tribute to Harry Truman for ending the war
Superman's fault.
Leaving aside the question of whether it is appropriate to discuss the Russo-Japanese War during this trial, it was very much with the help of Britain and the United States that the war was carried out and was successful. At the time, the Japanese people felt grateful to those two nations.
Teddy Roosevelt was an imperialist and warmonger. His attitude was diametrically opposed to that advocated by our Founding Fathers.
That attitude is not unique to Japan. It's the way many great powers have behaved throughout history. It's the way Red China is behaving now, yet we created that situation by bestowing "most favored nation" status on China and transferring much of our manufacturing there. History is not as simple as some people think, and few nations are either villains or heroes.
My mom was ten years old living at Pearl Harbor during the attack. She got a good view of the Japanese as they strafed her house.
God Bless you for that. I'll never forget looking in my local paper one day, around the first week of August a few years ago and here was a letter to the editor from some middle-aged peacenik, going on about how terrible it was that the United States dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how war is just so terrible and the United States is... well, you get the jist. This woman represented some peace group and she put her phone number in the letter. Short of the story is I called her and gave her such a ration of poop she never put her phone number in that paper again. I said to her 'You're making common cause with a nation of people who put over a thousand kids into the mud of Pearl Harbor and you're complaining about Hiroshima?'' I said "Listen Madame, if Japan had won the bloody war, would you have been happier?' I said "Are you sorry my country won WW2''? She said "It's my country too''. I said "You could have fooled me''. Suffice to say she never wrote that stupid paper again.
Images of 1930s Japan reflecting: "Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teenage baseball players while on tour with other American all-stars."...{snip]..."clips from Japanese theater newsreels, including festive scenes of Ruth playing baseball during a tour.
Images of U.S. Japan relations honoring: "a broader, more in-depth view of the Sunday morning attack nearly 70 years ago." after the "passage of time and with " the efforts of Japanese pilots and American survivors" who reached "out to each other and overcome deeply ingrained bitterness.
The problem is not the material or the approach. The problem is it represents a different kind of museum; one that does not belong in a U.S. government museum with a mission to represent the tragedy of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The old museum "was more of a shrine than a place that analyzed a pivotal moment in 20th century history"
And a "shrine" is what a war memorial museum IS SUPPOSED TO BE.
The Marxist/Progressive "historians" from academia HAVE taken over this museum, in a manner like they attempted to do at Ground Zero in New York City.
"Abe told The Associated Press in an interview before his death in 2007 that Japan's aviators took off from their aircraft carriers that morning believing their government had delivered a declaration of war. He said it was dishonorable and went against Japanese traditions of "bushido," or the way of the samurai, to strike before declaring war.
"Even if you are executing an early morning attack, you may not hurt your opponent if he is sleeping. You must make him stand and then go at him with your sword. This is bushido," Abe said in 2006. The assault "violated our nation's ideals. I felt bad," he said.
If you read the above material to someone of the WWII generation from Korea (which had already been made a Japanese colony for nearly 40 years), the Philippines, or many of the other nations and Islands invaded by Japan in WWII, they'd probably, with anger and sadness, laugh their heads off.
Not really that disgraceful. Since that attack, we wiped em out, nuked em twice, and have had 65 years of first class friendship. And i've seen numerous US veterans interacting with Japanese Aircrews from that day. They seemed to be getting along fine.
As another aside,,, After World War II ended, Fuchida who lead the Japanese planes became a evangelist Christian preacher and frequently traveled to the United States to minister to the Japanese expatriate community. He became a United States citizen in 1966.
If you actually read the article, it doesn't seem to make any excuses. It is a gallery describing the deterioration of the relations from the Mid-30s on. Newspaper headlines from both countries, etc. Lots of photos of coffins from the attack, burn victims, etc. Sounds like they told the story right IMO.
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The construction, conducted by R.C. Becker & Son, is set for completion on July 14 and will help to allow for safer pedestrian travel for students around the Canyon Country school.
The city of Santa Clarita kicked off its Safe Route to School improvements at Canyon Springs Elementary School after school let out for the summer on June 22.
Work includes sidewalk, curb and gutter removal and replacement, paving, crosswalk striping, sign installation and construction of bulb-outs -- devices that widen curbs and sidewalks to narrow streets and calm traffic -- at selected intersections.
"The city's Safe Route to School projects seek to increase the safety of students traveling around schools and and encourage them to bike and walk to class," Mayor Frank Ferry said. "The project at Canyon Springs Elementary School will help to slow traffic, decrease the distance kids travel across crosswalks, and increase overall pedestrian safety."
The work around Canyon Springs Elementary School is part of the city's overall Safe Route to School Infrastructure Project that also includes Emblem Elementary School and Meadows Elementary School.
Project improvements are already in place at Newhall, Cedar Creek and Santa Clarita Elementary School, with six more city elementary schools set to receive Safe Route to School improvements over the next two years.
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Doretta Royer 315 464-4833
Alumni return for reunion Sept 15, 16
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Nearly 300 SUNY Upstate Medical University alumni from classes as early as 1946 are expected to return to campus Sept. 15 and 16 for the university's 131st reunion of the College of Medicine.
"For most of our alumni, Upstate Medical University was a turning point in their lives," said Vincent J. Kuss, executive director of medical alumni relations and giving at SUNY Upstate. "Reunion weekend is a time for our alums to re-connect with that life and to visit with friends they have not seen in quite some time."
While the reunion weekend includes various class-specific gatherings, such as class dinners, two events are open to the public. They are the Weiskotten Lecture, "What's Rembrandt Got To Do With It?" Sept. 15, to be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Ninth Floor Auditorium of Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave., Syracuse; and a free showing of the documentary "Visioning Tibet" that spotlights American ophthalmologists and their work in Tibet, to be shown Sept. 15, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Medical Alumni Auditorium in Weiskotten Hall.
The Weiskotten Lecture will be presented by Ruth Hart, M.D., class of 1980, clinical associate professor of family medicine and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at SUNY Upstate. She will discuss the role and impact of the humanities in medical education and how issues such as medical error, professionalism, epidemic and end-of-life issues can be examined through art, literature, theatre and film.
Reunion also provides SUNY Upstate with the opportunity to recognize outstanding alumni. Recipients of this year's awards include a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Awards will be presented Sept. 15, following the Weiskotten Lecture at 4 p.m.
Frank E. Young, M.D., Ph.D., class of 1956, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus award. As commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1984 to 1989, Young presided over several major agency events, including passage of the Drug Price Competition, the Patent Term Restoration Act and the Prescription Drug Marketing Act; the approval of the first drug to combat AIDS; and for instituting a fast track approval system for AIDS drugs. Young also served as assistant secretary for Health, Science and the Environment, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, from 1989 to 1993; and as director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness from 1993 until his retirement from federal service in 1996. He lives in Bethesda, Md.
Elizabeth R. McAnarney, M.D., class of 1966, will receive the Distinguished Alumna award. McAnarney, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is recognized for her work in developing community programs to improve the health and well-being of children; developing and overseeing integrated medical care programs for children; and for mentoring of academic physicians. McAnarney lives in Rochester.
Sheila M. Lemke, M.D., class of 1986, SUNY Upstate associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology, will receive the Outstanding Young Alumna award for her clinical and humanitarian efforts in the area of breast cancer awareness and treatment. Lemke lives in Syracuse.
Ernest M. Scalzetti, M.D., class of 1986, SUNY Upstate professor of radiology and chief of the Thoracic Radiology Section in the Department of Radiology and the E. Robert Heitzman Endowed Professor of Radiology Research, will receive the Outstanding Young Alumnus award for his initiatives in medical education and in the clinical practice of and research into lung cancer. Scalzetti lives in Manlius.
Reunion weekend is sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association at Upstate Medical University and the College of Medicine. For more information, call 315-464-4361 or e-mail: murphyl @upstate.edu.
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At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl
QSynth and QJackCtl are essential components of my Linux sound studio, and I certainly can't imagine working in X without them. Yes, you can do everything with their host applications at the command prompt. But, these helpful GUIs make the work much easier, which means I get to make music with less hassle in configuring the gear.
These applications are easy to learn and use, and they serve their humble purposes simply and directly, so there's not much to criticize in QSynth or QJackCtl. I'd like to see MIDI activity indicators in QJackCtl, perhaps in the MIDI connections tab, but that's hardly a pressing need.
So how does this little studio sound ? Check out the demos and let me know what you think. Personally, I'm impressed by the power now available to Linux musicians. I hope this article has revealed some of that power to you.
The author wishes to thank Peter Hanappe and all the other developers of fluidsynth for that marvelous software. Vast thanks also to Paul Davis and all JACK developers for one of the finest achievements in open-source audio software. And of course, great thanks to Rui Nuno Capela for his work on QSynth and QJackCtl.
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Latency w. Delta 66 and Fluidsynth?
What kind of latency do you get from the Delta+Fluidsynth combo? I have a MIDI instrument (Akai EWI 4000s) and I'd like to send MIDI from the EWI to the computer and have it render the sounds. But with my current, (and crappy) onboard soundcard, the latency is simply terrible. I'd like a MIDI-in => audio-out latency of something < 10ms; is that feasible at all?
akai 4000s
I've been trying to edit the patches on my EWI 4000s from my Debian box with no success. I successfully got the Uniquest software installed under Wine, but can't seem to get it to find the EWI. I configured it with OSS drivers to my emu10k (SB Live) card, but no luck. Any pointers? Thanks!
cant find ewi
My Uniquest software can't find my ewi too.
Do you know how to solve this?
You forgot to put Hammersound in the Resources. Here is the URL:
Thanks for this article.
In the soundfonts-list (Figur
In the soundfonts-list (Figure 7 - Soundfont Selector)
select a soundfont with right mousebutton and choose edit.
You now can set the offset (wich is the bank number !)
This way you can play different soundfonts on different banks, without
adding another qsynth-engine.
doesn't work in ubuntustudio default install
tried, but that edit button shows up under the mouse cursor, but doesn't work. nothing happens, no dialogs or choices.
Author's reply
Thank you, I didn't realize that's what the Offset label meant.
I'm still learning something new everyday... :)
Dave Phillips
Author's addenda
Two additions:
To select a new synth engine in QSynth click anywhere in the bottom strip of the GUI. You don't have to click on just the qsynth1 tab (see Figure 4).
The Options dialog also includes a selector for a very handy VU meter (not shown in the screenshots, sorry about that). The meter indicates the sum of amplitudes from each engine, making a handy tool for avoiding clipping (i.e. amplitude distortion).
Best regards,
Dave Phillips
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The 16-year-old boy, whose name was not disclosed because he is a minor, lives in nearby Canton and was released by police to his parents after he admitted to stealing the scarecrow, the Cherokee Tribune reported Wednesday.
Uncle Si was one of 20 scarecrows created by students and parents as part of a contest to raise money for science and technology programs at Ball Ground Elementary School, according to a local TV station.
After the Si scarecrow was reported missing last week, neighbors spotted it sitting on a house porch at a nearby community. But before police could retrieve it, the life-size replica was moved and burned in what authorities believe was an attempt to cover up the theft, which had sparked a $1,000 reward for information on its disappearance.
"We discovered after a little investigation that a juvenile had taken it," Police Chief Byron Reeves told the Tribune. "It was nothing but ashes. It was completely gone."
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Durham, NC-- Police have charged a man with killing his sister-in-law nearly 12 years after her body was found in a burning garage in Durham.
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Your sunrise summary of everything you need to know about weather in H-town.
A blustery day and one of the last very cold nights of the season.
After a cold front moved through the region early this morning today's weather will be sunny, blustery and cool. A wind advisory is in effect until 7 p.m.
The front will drive temperatures to about 40 degrees tonight in the city, and into the upper 30s to the north of the metro area. But even areas around Huntsville are unlikely to see a freeze.
Thursday will be a really nice day, with highs in the mid-60s, before a gradual warming trend heading into the weekend. This warming trend will also see returning moisture, clouds and a chance of rain — but not a great chance. If it does rain this weekend it will most likely come Saturday night, when there's a slight chance of thunderstorms.
It appears as though the region's next front will arrive Sunday, likely pushing low temperatures early next week into the 40s.
The middle of next week looks really nice, with sunshine and highs in the 70s.
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Think it's cold out today? On this date a late season cold spell moved into Southeast Texas in 1948. Huntsville recorded a high temperature of only 29 degrees with an overnight low of 19 degrees.


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An Intertwine Feature | July 2014
How can today's youth become tomorrow's environmental stewards? Show them some green!
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For five weeks this summer, Lucy Aldisert is working harder than she ever has in her life.
"The first day was just hiking and clearing things from the path. By the next day we were moving rocks. I was pretty sore but I'm adjusting," Lucy said.
Lucy, a 15-year-old student at Grant High School, has just scored her first real job. Starting in mid-June, she and eight other Portland-area teens joined a full-time work crew out on the Sandy Ridge Trail System: building berms, retaining walls, and jumps for the mountain bikers who ride these rugged singletracks at the foot of Mt. Hood.
Lucy's employer (and early morning shuttle service) is Northwest Youth Corps (NYC), an Oregon-based nonprofit that since 1984 has employed over 17,000 teens in educational work projects across five states.
According to Tom Helmer, an NYC project manager, the program aims to empower youth through job skills, education, and plain hard work.
"People think teenagers are lazy. Our job is to break that stereotype so these kids feel they can go out there and make a change," Helmer said.
"We've found that the outdoors is the most effective way of delivering those teamwork skills," he added. "Building a trail is a team effort. And, you can see the result right away."
Studies have shown that an early exposure to nature is its own reward: fostering a lifelong affinity for outdoor recreation, with all the associated physical health benefits, and promoting stronger social connections, mental acuity, and psychological wellness.
But for the teens that Helmer works with, there's an additional motivation for getting outside: compensation. Thanks to "cost shares" with partners like the Bureau of Land Management, which operates the Sandy Ridge Trail System, and grants from programs like Metro Nature in Neighborhoods, NYC can pay each crew member an educational stipend of up to $1,500.
"We look at it as a jobs training program. Paying these kids for their hard work shows them that they can get a job doing this, that there's a future there," Helmer said.
The nonprofit isn't the only organization within The Intertwine that gets teens outdoors by showing them some green.
While NYC offers a stipend, other programs pay an hourly wage, like Groundwork Portland's Green Team and Metro's Youth Ecology Corps -- a collaboration with Mount Hood Community College's Project YESS, a program that serves GED-seeking youth from families at or under the federal poverty line.
Portland Parks & Recreation also runs summer work programs for teens. The park bureau's Youth Conservation Crew engages field teams like the No Ivy League, Tree Crew and Trail Crew in citywide restoration projects, while the Teen Naturalist Team hires youth ages 14-18 to teach environmental science and lead activities for children in area schools and day camps.
"Basically we hook them with the money," said Kelly Rosteck, who works with the bureau's Environmental Education Teen Program.
"Some of these kids are motivated by knowing they'll get a paid job. Then they decide they like the community. Some come back to work summers with us all the way through college."
Ultimately, these jobs offer teens far more than a paycheck, Rosteck said. Because these summer positions are often a teen's first professional work experience , the bureau's youth programs -- like Northwest Youth Corps and others -- also emphasize job training, life skills, and career counseling.
To get a guaranteed job with the Youth Conservation Crew, Rosteck said students must first join the park bureau's Greenspaces Restoration & Urban Naturalist Team, or GRUNT. This volunteer extracurricular program runs during the school year on Saturdays and some holidays, and entails training in subjects ranging from wildlife tracking to financial literacy.
"Anyone can apply, but the whole point of GRUNT is to have more diversity in our parks bureaus, diversity in all its forms: economic, racial, ethnic," Rosteck said.
That's why, Rosteck said, the GRUNT program primarily operates in Portland schools with high enrollment in federal free lunch programs.
Diversity is also why the nonprofit Groundwork Portland is seeking funding to expand its summertime programming, which targets kids from low-income or otherwise disadvantaged families, into restoration and maintenance work that can employ teens year-round.
"As an environmental justice organization, we note that there's not a lot of diversity in the environmental movement. If you only offer kids volunteer opportunities, well, a lot of the young people we want to reach don't have that kind of time," said Solamon Ibe, coordinator of Groundwork Portland's Green Team.
"There are issues around the lack of opportunities for kids, and the evils of idle hands. We give them something to do with a positive trajectory. We're trying to mold future leaders," Ibe said.
From her crew leader's phone while on lunch break at Sandy Ridge, Lucy Aldisert shared that she was hesitant at first to sign up for the Northwest Youth Corps program.
"None of my friends are really interested in the outdoors. I thought it would be a good way to get job experience for later, but I was also nervous about being on a team with people I'd never met before, and all the manual labor," Lucy said.
Now, after three weeks of moving rocks and building jumps, berms, and retaining walls for future riders, Lucy -- a street cyclist who'd never before seen a singletrack trail -- said she's feeling strong, and even considering picking up mountain biking herself. She's also thinking about the future.
"I have no idea what I want to do when I grow up, but this makes me think I want to do something outdoors," Lucy said.
According to Helmer, reactions like Lucy's are exactly what the Northwest Youth Corps is looking for.
"I had a similar experience when I was a young man. It changed my life. There aren't a ton of jobs in the natural resources world, but those kids that do go on to find them have often been in programs like ours," Helmer said.
Lucy's gig with the Northwest Youth Corps ends in mid-July. That's about the time when Groundwork Portland's Green Team gets rolling. Meanwhile, the first cohort of Metro's new Youth Ecology Corps started training back in April, and as of press time, Portland Parks & Recreation is still accepting applications for its 2014 Youth Conservation Crew.
But the range of outdoor work programs available to youth like Lucy simply wouldn't be possible, Helmer notes, without strong public investment -- investment like that committed last spring with the passage of Measure 26-152. This five-year local options levy, approved in May 2013, allows Metro to expand funding for community grants and conservation education programs that target skill-building for underserved youth.
Such support helps Helmer, Rosteck and Ibe stay focused on what really matters: nurturing our next generation of leaders and land stewards.
"We're all in this for the same reason," Helmer said. "We teach teenagers about the outdoors, their place in the world, their community. We need to keep teaching them how to take advantage of these opportunities, so they can go on to do great things."


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The recent article by Geldmacher et al1 describes the peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor γ (PPARγ) agonist pioglitazone trial for patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Pioglitazone was generally well tolerated during 18 months of exposure, but no efficacy was demonstrated on clinical outcome measures.
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A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fuelled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining handset rivals such as Nokia.
Samsung sold more smartphones in the first three months of the year than Apple and raked in more than 70% of its operating profit from mobile businesses. Shares in Samsung shot up nearly 3%.
Net profit nearly doubled from a year earlier to a record 5.05 trillion won (£2.75bn) for the quarter to 31 March.
Operating profit also hit a record high, at 5.85 trillion won, which was in line with expectations. Sales rose 22% from a year earlier to 45.3tn won.
Strong demand for high-end smartphones, such as the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy S2 introduced last year, helped mask lower profit from memory chips, another Samsung flagship business.
"It was a shock for semiconductor, a surprise for handset," said Lee Ka-keun, a Seoul-based analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities.
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Samsung's mobile communications division, which includes smartphones, pocketed 4.27tn won of operating profit in the quarter after seeing significant sales growth of high-end smartphones in developing markets including China, a key battlefield for mobile phone makers.
After narrowly beating Apple last year, Samsung's smartphone sales exceeded Apple's by a large margin in the first quarter. Strategy Analytics said Samsung became the world's top smartphone maker, selling 44.5m handsets in the January-March period, followed by Apple's 35.1m.
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It was 1984 man. There's only so much that could be done with a piece of computing the size of a deck of cards. They did it. It was a PDA. Not a fancy PDA, not a touch screen PDA, but it was still a PDA. Apple, like always, WAS NOT FIRST.
[singing] People that you meet, along the street, are using Samsung...
The biggest, all but certain, feature of the next iPhone will be LTE 4G, because the new iPad has it. That's the main reason I'm sticking with the iPhone 4, not even considering the 4S. LTE is going to give you much faster data, faster than most DSL and some cable modems, if you happen to be someplace that has 4G service. It's also going to burn through that monthly data cap a lot faster.
Other than that, you can pretty much count on a faster processor, faster graphics, more memory and an improved camera. I would be surprised if there's anything as big in the next iPhone as Siri was in the current one.
Best decision the 0bozo regime ever made was to effectively stop the crappy AT&T from taking over T-Mobile. I love my service and the very good rates I get from T-Mobile. The last thing I need is for AT&T to take over T-Mobile and ruin it. And I am speaking as a guy that used to have AT&T several years ago. I managed to escape from their clutches. Never again!
By being the first to make it useful.
I simply pointed out that smartphones existed at least a decade before the iPhone so saying Apple invented the market is simply, oh lets use your words, deliberately obtuse.
The market for smartphones before the iPhone was limited to a tiny market of geeks, and I say that as someone who owned three Treos. You could say the same thing about digital music players before the iPod and tablets before the iPad.
With the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, before Apple's product came out, nothing on the market looked or worked like it; within a year, every product on the market looked and worked like it (or was trying to). That might not constitute a giant technological leap, but it's certainly creating a market.
Record profits fr Samsung are record profits for Samsung. It has nothing to do with record profits for IBM, or Apple or whoever. You need to try a bit harder mate.
"And even then we'll still have to acknowledge that Samsung's (and everyone else's profits) were made possible by Apple's effective innovation"
Apple neither invented the cell phone, or touch screens or the smart phone. In fact if anything, it is Apple who's profits have been made possible by the people who invented the cell phone in the first place:
Not necessarily. Plenty of times the competition was more useful, but they didn't have the market penetration. Apple is really good at making sure the faithful know about the new stuff.
The smartphone market is still actually pretty small and still actually dominated by gadget geeks.
No that's not creating a market, that's creating a style and having a bunch of competition that's dumb enough to think that's why Apple products sell. Notice their most successful competition AVOIDS looking like Apple products, because they're smart enough to realize that's a dead end, people that want stuff that looks like Apple want Apple, people who don't want Apple don't want Apple knockoffs either, they want something else. Probably, especially in the current market conditions, something that isn't touchscreen, OK that might just be my bias talking as I absolutely loathe touchscreens. But really a lot of the successful competition in the smartphone market is avoiding the touchscreen, so maybe it isn't just me.
Wish me luck and no regrets..... not more than 30 minutes ago I went ahead and ordered the iPone 4S... it will be here Tuesday.
I got to try out the Siri on my daughters 4s tonight.... I think that is going to work very well for me.
You hoid it here: Apple was invented by Commies. CPUSA members. Gus Hall was around then, he must have been the "angel investor", pardon the religious inference. And Apple didn't invent shiite (didn't even invent the word 'shiite' substituting for you know what word.)
But seriously. I don't know any more whose products to use: Lenovo - Commies, Google - Commies (one of the two founders in fact arrived from the Commie land), Microsoft - Commies, shall I go on?
(Full disclosure: Apple products owned: 0.)
More useful, like the Archos Jukebox? The Treo? The endless Windows tablets that amounted to laptops with the keyboard hacked off?
The smartphone market is still actually pretty small and still actually dominated by gadget geeks.
Half a billion smartphones shipped in 2011 alone. There aren't that many gadget geeks.
Notice their most successful competition AVOIDS looking like Apple products, because theyre smart enough to realize thats a dead end, people that want stuff that looks like Apple want Apple, people who dont want Apple dont want Apple knockoffs either, they want something else.
Capacitive multi-touch screen covering nearly all of the face, no hardware keyboard. That describes no smartphone before the iPhone, and the vast majority of smartphones now. That describes no tablet computers sold before the iPhone, and every one trying to compete with it now. If they're trying to avoid looking like Apple products, they're doing a piss-poor job.
More useful like all their GUI competition before they finally did it right with OSX. Or many of the Symbian based phones.
Part of the smartphone growth now is they're all smart. Tried buying a non-smart cellphone lately? Heck even $20 disposable trackfons can browse the freaking web now. But the high end of the smarts still aren't that big, iPhone is at under 5% of the handheld market.
I didn't say their weren't knockoffs, but look at the phones actually doing well in the market vs the iPhone. You've got a lot of mini-keyboards a lack of touchscreens. And a lot of the tablet competition is avoiding it too. You're suffering from confirmation bias, only paying attention to the stuff that looks like Apple. I'm probably suffering from it too since "looks like Apple" means touchscreen and I won't buy stuff with touchscreens. There's plenty of "doesn't look anything like Apple" out there.
I follow the facts, not the hype. When it HAD NOT, I pointed out the correct facts. When it did, I also pointed out the correct facts. In this instance, in the US, AT&T's last quarter figures show 75% of their smartphone sales were iPhones, better than 50% of both Verizon and Sprint sales, in the same quarter were iPhones...
AND, in this last quarter, the world wide figures, when researched, AGAIN show that they are comparing Apples to a combination of Apples and Oranges... Apple only sells smartphones while Samsung sells both smartphones and also sells feature phones and basic phones and reports the combination in their Mobile phone sales numbers. Apparently, this article is using that combined gross sales figure, confabulating the total sales of Samsung phones sold with Samsung SMARTPHONES sold. . . AND, Samsung shipped a piss-pot full of un-sold Samsung Galaxy III phones into the inventory stream in the last two weeks of the quarter, stuffing the warehouses and shipping lanes. Out the door, but not into consumer's hands. Apple only counts iPhones as sold when they are sold to end users.
The New Samsung Galaxy S III phone costs about the same or more to manufacture and the subsidy from the carrier's is actually HIGHER and the per unit cost from the subscriber is MORE at a reported $249 per handset on introduction (that's what the Galaxy II was, and is now available in India at 12,000 rupees [$246] with 2 year contract), than it is for the iPhones... and APPLE picks up the support costs of the iPhone and iOS while the carrier has to pick up the support costs of the Android OS AND the phone for Samsung!
Now, let's look at the sales profits... Samsung's profits for the quarter, with 70% of that profit tagged to Mobile Communications was $4.47 Billion versus Apple's $11.7 Billion with 67% tagged to the iPhone. $3.13 Billion in profits from Samsung's entire Mobile Communications division v. $7.83 Billion for Apple from just the iPhone... you must see the dilemma. The numbers don't fit.
Samsung is shipping a lot of cheap phones... feature phones and dumb phones.
There are LOTS of non-smart phones out there that don't require a data plan. You just have not looked. The ability to get on the internet is NOT the defining ability of a smartphone. Feature phones have been able to do that for a long time...
But the high end of the smarts still arent that big, iPhone is at under 5% of the handheld market.
You are wrong in your "under 5%" of the handheld market. In the 4th Quarter of 2011, Apple's world wide share of ALL phones, smart and non-smart was 8.7%... and it has climbed since then. In the last quarter, Nokia was knocked out of 1st place... and Apple has climbed. It is over 9% but less than 10%. Your figure was accurate in the last quarter of 2010... way out of date for a company growing now at a 120% year over year average rate each quarter.
I'm a little confused by this. We were talking about a more-useful alternative that pre-dated, and was outsold by, Apple's version. "all their GUI competition" didn't pre-date the classic MacOS.
Or many of the Symbian based phones.
Are you arguing that many Symbian phones were more useful than the iPhone?
Part of the smartphone growth now is theyre all smart. Tried buying a non-smart cellphone lately?
I count five from AT&T, half a dozen each from Sprint and Verizon, and a couple from T-Mobile. The line between a "smartphone" and a "feature phone" can get a bit blurry, and I think that a lot of what you're calling smartphones are what I -- and the people who compile the sales statistics -- would call feature phones.
Heck even $20 disposable trackfons can browse the freaking web now.
If you're talking about the kind of WAP browser I had on my Qualcomm phone back in 1999, sure. A usable HTML browser, not so much. I don't think that $20 Tracfone is included in the analysts' smartphone figures.
I didnt say their werent knockoffs, but look at the phones actually doing well in the market vs the iPhone. Youve got a lot of mini-keyboards a lack of touchscreens.
Assuming we're talking about actual smartphones and not feature phones, those are called Blackberries. Don't ask how that company is doing. Other than Blackberry, I counted maybe ten models with a physical keyboard, some of which were old, discontinued models (Palm Pixi? Really?). Maybe four of five of those lacked touch screens. Sure, those phones still exist; so do computers that boot to a command line. So do horses. They're not driving the market.
Look at the Web sites for the carriers. Look on the shelves at their retail stores, or at Best Buy or Radio Shack. Five years ago, you would have seen flip phones galore, with one or two smartphones tucked back in the corner. Now, the ratio is reversed. That is creating a market.
I know for a fact that after WW II th Russians invented everything, their revised text books debunked all that stuff Edison invented.
Personally, I don't care, the only people that seem to are patent trolls. If they make a product that I like and can afford,.I buy it. You should try that.
I had a Casio data watch that had more functions than your Psion and it included a phone dialer, long before your Psion.
As far as I'm concerned if it does anything more than make phonecalls and texts it's a smartphone. Maybe not as smartphone as other smartphones, but I did make the distinction between the high end and low end of the market.
According to here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395951,00.asp#fbid=SLgcdJun7IU Apple has 4%. And that's Nov 2011.
I LOVE watching Netflix while my wife shops, so I would love to get a Galaxy. But Verizon doesn't have it. They don't have anything with a big screen.
There was quite a bit of GUI competition that predated Mac 1. And some of them were pretty kick butt (DESQView being one of my all time favorites). Add to that the fact that the Mac OS really blew until OSX, and there's plenty of competition doing stuff well before Apple got around to doing it well.
I'm arguing that Symbian phones were useful. That was your argument that nobody did anything useful in these markets before Apple. Oh and Symbian had a touchscreen in 2000 so the idea that Apple was first to put a touchscreen on a smartphone is wrong.
Browsing the internet on a phone is smart enough. This smart/ feature thing is a distinction without a difference. At best it's low end high end. If it's a phone doing a heck of a lot more than making phone calls it's a smartphone. Maybe not a high end smartphone, but it's still smart.
There's plenty of non-blackberries with keyboards.
No that's not creating a market, that's GROWTH in a market. The market already existed. There were smartphones before the iPhone, there were touchscreen smartphones before the iPhone, the market existed BEFORE the iPhone. It was smaller, but that's as much about all the other companies as it is about Apple.
Well take it up with wiki, and other places. They count the Psion as the first PDA.
Siri sounds very cool. Just when I think, "what's left to do? " I should know better...
Siri sounds very cool. Just when I think, "what's left to do? " I should know better...
Naaaah. You follow your heeart, not the facts.
"When it HAD NOT, I pointed out the correct facts. When it did, I also pointed out the correct facts"
More like, when it had changed, you refused to accept the facts and instead blamed the tracking agencies like Gartner, IDC etc for being anti-Apple(lol). You were finally forced to accept the reality of Androids outselling iPhones when the evidence became too overwhhelmimng for even the most fanatic of Apple-bots to ignore.
"In this instance, in the US, AT&T's last quarter figures show 75% of their smartphone sales were iPhones, better than 50% of both Verizon and Sprint sales, in the same quarter were iPhones... "
Luckily, the US makes up only a fraction of the world's smarphone market, with Europe and Asia accounting for vastly more smartphone sales. This article is not about US smartphonbe sales, its about worldwide smartphone sales.market share. In China alone, more smart-phones are sold than the entire US market.
&ldquoAND, in this last quarter, the world wide figures, when researched, AGAIN show that they are comparing Apples to a combination of Apples and Oranges... Apple only sells smart-phones while Samsung sells both smart-phones and also sells feature phones and basic phones and reports the combination in their Mobile phone sales numbers. Apparently, this article is using that combined gross sales figure, confabulating the total sales of Samsung phones sold with Samsung SMARTPHONES sold. ."
Ummm..how about NO?
It's, you who is confused, not the analysts.
In the last quarter, Samsung did two things.
They first of all overtook Nokia to become the top overall cell phone seller on the planet(feature and smart-phones). Then they did something else: Samsung also overtook Apple to become the top SMARTphone seller on the planet.
The Daily Telegraph, UK:
"The Korean electronics giant saw sales of its handsets surge in the first three months of the year, helping to knock the beleaguered Finnish mobile company from the position it has occupied for 14 years.
It also managed to widen its lead over Apple as the biggest producer of smartphones, as sales of high-end handsets like the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S2 outstripped the iPhone by nearly 10m units.
Samsung shipped 44.5m smartphones during the first three months of the year, compared with 35.1m iPhones, according to research company Strategy Analytics. It is not the first time that Samsung has outsold Apple, but it is the first time that it has done so with anything like this sort of margin, which may well widen further after Samsung launches its latest device, expected to be the S3 smartphone, next week"
Strategy Analytics:
" AND, Samsung shipped a piss-pot full of un-sold Samsung Galaxy III phones into the inventory stream in the last two weeks of the quarter, stuffing the warehouses and shipping lanes"
Been seeing that being piece of wishful thinking posted by Apple fangirls, in a desperate rearguard action to try and stem the Samsung juggernaut. Care to share any authentic source(not fan-girl tittle tattle) for this piece of fiction?
"The New Samsung Galaxy S III phone costs about the same or more to manufacture and the subsidy from the carrier's is actually HIGHER and the per unit cost from the subscriber is MORE at a reported $249 per handset on introduction "
Ummm...the Galaxy III has not even been announced yet, let alone introduced to the market. Funny, you already know how much they cost to manufacture, and the subsidies that the phone companies give on a product thay are neither selling, nor have even officially announced. You have way more clairvoyant powers than previously thought. :)
"Now, let's look at the sales profits... Samsung's profits for the quarter, with 70% of that profit tagged to Mobile Communications was $4.47 Billion versus Apple's $11.7 Billion with 67% tagged to the iPhone"
True. That is why the phone companies(who are being screwed by Apple), are busy looking for alternatives:
Why AT&T and Verizon Are Rooting for Windows Phones
But then this is not about Apple profits versus Samsung profits. Its about Samsung overtaking Apple in worldwide smart-phone sales. Way to try and change the topic. Typical bait and switch tactics.
Well I guess I can fix wiki so it Psion was invent in 1741 if ti would make you feel any better. How about making something better than the iPad/iPhone, sell it for half the price, you could make a killing.
Congratulations, you made a 100% logic free, point free, content free, meaningless post. Quite a feat.
Who on God's Earth wants to fight the war of 1812 again?
I'm not tearing down anything. Simply pointing out reality. Reality is that Apple is not first in their markets. And there's nothing wrong with that, very few companies manage to be first at anything ever, and usually the company that is first at something can't figure out how to monetize it and goes under, if they're lucky they get bought by somebody that sees the money possibility. Apple wasn't first at the PDA, first to call it that sure, but not the first with the functional concept. In general Psion is considered to have been first to that market in 1984, maybe there were other companies with similar stuff out, maybe even before then, but all those things you want to throw out there doesn't change the basic fact that 1992's Newton was not first.
Now it doesn't bother me that Apple wasn't first, just like it doesn't bother me that the company I work for wasn't first into the technology market of the product I work on. If it bothers you then you probably shouldn't be such a fanboy with parts of your ego tied to some company you're probably not even a part of.
Verizon does have the Galaxy Nexus with a 4.65 inch screen, which while a good deal smaller than the Galaxy Note's 5.3 inch screen, is pretty big. I love mine thus far. A leaked roadmap for Verizon says they will be releasing an HTC made phone similar to the Galaxy Note.
Verizon does have the Galaxy Nexus with a 4.65 inch screen, which while a good deal smaller than the Galaxy Note's 5.3 inch screen, is pretty big. I love mine thus far. A leaked roadmap for Verizon says they will be releasing an HTC made phone similar to the Galaxy Note.
Looks like someone was aiming to copy the market leader, the RIM Blackberry. Then the iPhone came out, and the first Android phone to hit the market a year later looked like this:
That's all Android is, a copy of those who actually innovated, dangling a free OS to handset manufacturers so Google can make money on the back-end.
Apple is popular, which is why they're expensive, but people are catching on to the shortcomings.
iPhones cost about the same as high-end Android phones. I had an Android for two years, dumped it for an iPhone. No way am I going back.
Actually, the term "PDA" was coined by Apple for the Newton in 1992, and the Newton was nothing like the preceding Psions. It makes you wonder what the Newton could have been had the project not been mismanaged so badly from its inception in 1987 (it was supposed to be a tablet, it was supposed to have a different OS, and management feared cannibalization of Mac sales).
At least one good thing came from the Newton to dominate today's PDAs (smart phones): the ARM architecture.
I believe many of us were saying it had to eventually happen. It's no surprise that the combined sales of some of the biggest names in phones -- Samsung, HTC, Motorola, LG and Sony -- on all US carriers with dozens of models with price points starting at free could surpass the sales of one company, Apple, that for the longest time didn't sell a new phone for under $200, and that only on one carrier.
Like I always say, Apple isn't usually the first to do it, but often the first to do it right.
-—A leaked roadmap for Verizon says they will be releasing an HTC made phone similar to the Galaxy Note.-—
Excellent! I will wait. I was thinking of switching to AT&T.
ATT is the only company that has cell coverage at our house. We tried T-Mobile and had to work very hard to get out of the contract. We had to go outside every time we wanted to use our phones.
ATT is the only company that has cell coverage at our house. We tried T-Mobile and had to work very hard to get out of the contract. We had to go outside every time we wanted to use our phones.
I hate Verizon more than ATT. They are the only company that provided land lines at our house, but sold that to Frontier. Both companies refuse to provide internet or cable services. So, we are very dependent on ATT and we are happy with the service.
Verizon makes a practice of trying to collect uncollectible bills from people who had the number at an earlier date, if one client doesn't pay, they go back to the previous client. We were being hounded by a Verizon collection agency because the people who had our number after us never paid their final bill. We weren't even Verizon customers when we had the old number, and they told us to prove that we were not Verizon customers at the time. Who keeps old phone bills for years?
Why don't you get some knowledge before you spout off? DESQview was released in JULY of 1985, one and a half YEARS after Apple released the Macintosh GUI... nor was it a full GUI.
Apple put a MULTI touch screen on a phone... not a touch screen... and phones prior to the Apple used STYLUS to interface... that could get lost. You make it dang obvious you really don't know what you are talking about...
DesqView still worked better than Mac (and Windows). And we ALL know about PARC, so regardless of which came before Mac we all know there was GUI before Mac.
And if you think a multitouch screen is that massive a difference you need to think again. It's still a touch screen interface. And no they didn't all need stylus, most of them what the stylus did was add precision, just like the styluses you get on the POS card machines in stores today, you don't need it, it's just there.
You really make it dang obvious you just thrash around desperate to find one little thing that's beside the main point so you can claim Apple invented stuff everybody knows they didn't. Which is why you need to constantly lie, throw insults, then whine that everybody else is a troll. I know your MO, I've seen it before, from you, abandon a section you've clearly lost, scramble about, find one little thing, usually by twisting what was said, and pretend that means you were right about everything. Meanwhile you're actually wrong about everything because you're pretending Apple did it first and they didn't, not anything that actually matters. Ooh they added multitouch over the touch screens everybody else had on there, big effen deal, still a freaking touchscreen on a freaking cellphone with others did first. Get over yourself, get over Apple.
If you're not going to accept that there's a difference between a multi-touch capacitive screen and a resistive screen, if you dismiss the difference between smart phones and feature phones, if you make no distinction between a windows-icons-menus modern GUI and a multi-tasking environment with boxes of ASCII text, then you're trying to win an argument no one else is having by defining Apple's innovations out of existence.
I mean, a rotary dial was a touch interface when you get right down to it, the Motorola StarTac did more than just make calls and was therefore a "smartphone", and when you get right down to it there was nothing innovative about the Model T. It was basically just a faster, wheeled horse.
PARC did NOTING with their GUI. They were a research organization. Apple did... and Apple did indeed invent a lot of the GUI that PARC had nothing to do with. You really don't know. I bet you believe Apple "stole" what they learned at PARC. Apple did not. They paid for the rights to what they learned from merely OBSERVING. . . they paid over $1 million in pre-IPO common stock which was later sold by Xerox for over $7 million dollars, and had it been kept till today, would be worth BILLIONS!
And if you think a multitouch screen is that massive a difference you need to think again. Its still a touch screen interface. And no they didnt all need stylus, most of them what the stylus did was add precision, just like the styluses you get on the POS card machines in stores today, you dont need it, its just there.
And AGAIN you demonstrate your ignorance. Multitouch IS a massive difference over a mere single touch screen. . . and Apple has the patents on multitouch. Even today the cheapie touch screen phones are suggesting using styli to interface. The key that Apple added was ACCURACY... with multitouch.
When somebody like you says "everybody knows" it means that it likely IS NOT TRUE!
Ooh they added multitouch over the touch screens everybody else had on there, big effen deal, still a freaking touchscreen on a freaking cellphone with others did first. Get over yourself, get over Apple.
Do you realize how HARD it is to detect MULTIPLE contacts on a screen and to accurately locate those touches? And then to be able to handle the directionality and vector of the multiple movements of those touches? Microsoft used CAMERAS on their BIG TABLE to try to accomplish the same thing! Until Apple's engineers did it, no one else was successful in doing it. That is why APPLE has the patents. Lots of them. . . and deserves them.
You pick out a minor thing and claim that the minor thing is the same as the complex whole... when it is not even accomplished anywhere nearly the same... and then claim you have won... when you have only demonstrated your complete lack of understanding of the subject. A good example being the Limited features of the Psion's 4K, single line display, hand held electronic address book and calculator and YOUR claiming it is the same thing as the far more sophisticated Newton Personal Digital Assistant of years later when it lacked even basic time keeping functions like a calendar or a clock! YOU claim that because it had one or two minor features of a much more complex device, and is handheld, it must be counted as being identical. IT IS NOT... nothing could be further from the truth.
YOU do not understand at all what an invention is... not at all.
I accept there's a difference, I just point out it's not a difference that matters when you're talking about whether or not a gadget is new. It's like the difference between 3 on the tree and 4 on the floor, yes they're different, but they're both still stick shift cars. A smartphone with a touchscreen and a smartphone with a multi-touchscreen are still both smartphones with touchscreens.
And I wasn't comparing DesqView to a "modern" GUI, I was comparing it to a clunky black and white GUI from the same era that was actually dramatically worse.
See that's the problem with you guys, you always have to lie about what the other person said.
Oh look lots of yelling and lies and insults. The usual crap from the guy that insists everybody else is a troll.
PARC did one very important thing with their GUI: they made it BEFORE Apple did. thus Apple didn't invent it, didn't do it first.
Multitouch is no more different than 4 on the floor is from 3 on the tree. It's still a touchscreen interface on a smartphone. Multitouch is adding a widget to a gadget, NOT inventing something actually NEW.
Just because it's hard doesn't make it a NEW device. See that was the contention that Apple doesn't invent new devices. That's what I said then you go off on some BS rant about patents on multi-touchscreens all of which are things they ADD to EXISTING concepts. Not NEW devices, not INVENTIONS.
I didn't pick out a minor thing YOU'RE the one that keeps picking out minor things. My point was about the BIG things the things they don't do first. They DIDN'T make the first smartphone, they DIDN'T make the first smartphone with a touchscreen, they DIDN'T make the first PDA, they DIDN'T make the first GUI. See these are all BIG things, you're the one spazing out about little things multi-touchscreens trying to make them big.
Oh and it's NOT me claiming the Psion was first:
The first PDA was released in 1986 by Psion, the Organizer II. Followed by Psion's Series 3, in 1991, which began to resemble the more familiar PDA style. It also had a full keyboard. [4][5]
That's reality. And I never said it was the same thing, I said it was the same category of device, which they are. From the same link:
A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant,[1][2][3] is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager.
See they're both portable devices for managing personal information. Notice how there's nothing in that definition about memory size or interface, just the concept of what the device is for. Was the Newton more sophisticated? Yes. Was it first? No. That's once again the difference between the little things YOU obsess on (memory) and the big thing I'M pointing out (device concept). The first PDA is of course not going to be as sophisticated as one that comes a decade later, but the fact that the one a decade later has a bunch of whizbang features doesn't make it first in the field.
I understand entirely what an invention is. And I know that you understand it too, which is why you constantly resort to lying about what I said and insults. Because you know the facts don't back you up. The facts back me up. Apple is not an inventor of devices, they are an inventor of improvements. Which is great, improvements are a wonderful thing. But anybody thinking these markets wouldn't exist without Apple, that Apple did the creating and everybody else is following is ignoring what came before Apple, who Apple is following.
It's more like the difference between a three-speed manual without synchromesh and an automatic. The difference in usability, and appeal to a wide audience, is massive.
Since you're using an endlessly reductionist definition of what is "new," I'll ask you: Has anyone created anything new in computing or consumer electronics in the last twenty years?
When it works, its cool.
Its definitely beta at this time.
Not sure what principles you are trying to uphold here, but I own and develop for both platforms.
Apple created the market, and the first successful app store, I give Apple far more credit for that, than anything else.
Now I can take my ideas and turn them into apps, and sell them easily and quickly without all the overhead and nonsense I have had to do in the past when I developed and sold software.
I like that Android is open and allows more access to the operating system etc, however for consistency of the user experience and ease of use for the User, Apple wins hands down.
I was a life long person who was anti apple, their products are and still are overpriced, particularly in the destop realm. However, there is a reason the iPhone and iPad are so successful, and they deserve credit for that.
But it's not a difference in the concept of what is a car.
Actually I've been very consistent in my definition of what new is, you guys just don't like the answer. New is a new device concept, a new gadget, not an improvement on an existing concept, not even a really awesome improvement on an existing concept. It's really not that difficult an idea. Miniaturizing computers to the point that they become the smartphone is new, that is a new device, a new concept, a new gadget; making the interface with smartphones better by adding multiple touch capabilities to the smartphone is not a new device, it is a better version of an old device. If it has to have a new name (HAS to mind you, not we gave it one anyway) there's a good chance it's new. Smartphone, new name, new device. MP3 Player, new name, new device. Smartphone with multitouchscreen, not new name, not new device.
Which is just a long version of what I said that got you guys whiny in the first place. Apple takes stuff that was already out there and adds some features and style and makes them pretty and popular. And there's nothing wrong with that, the guy that moved car starting from an external hand crank to an internal button/ trigger put in one of the big leaps that allowed 20th Century America to be what it was. An awesome add on to an existing device, but it was still a car after he was done making it awesome.
See post #17
I'm going to call that the Psion clause. It's new if it requires a new name, unless Apple gives it a new name.
Our lives have been radically changed by advances in technology in the last 20 years. I have a simple question: What has been new in that time? Name one company that has created something new, by your definition, in the last twenty years. The smartphone might squeak in, as the IBM Simon was released in 1992. The MP3 player is legitimately new, unless you consider it just a glorified CD Walkman. Other than that, nothing since 1992 qualifies as "new."
It's not just Apple that like to give existing technology a new name. But certainly in this discussion it's them that forced the clause.
I already said MP3 players and smartphones were new. Though technically the first digital music player pre-dates analog walkmans that thing was so archaic and had so little market penetration we can pretend it didn't happen and MP3 players are recent. And I don't really feel like look up which companies were first in those, we know it wasn't Apple.
Most companies don't do anything new. I've never had any product I've worked on in any company be the first of its kind in the market place. Best yes, first to have certain big features we were surprised nobody else did a surprisingly high number of times, but first in the market no. Most technological advances are incremental, taking something existing and adding a killer tweak. Look at what I was talking about with cars. If you teleported somebody from the 1920s or 30s to today, a very skilled driver even, they probably wouldn't even know what to do in a modern car. There's all these new controls and keyless entry and keyless starting, except for the steering wheel and pedals there's nothing really the same. And forget letting them peek under the hood to try to fix the damn thing. Cars have evolved incredibly in that time frame, heck they've evolved incredibly in your pet 20 year time frame. But they aren't new, because they're still cars.
Which is really the same for the vast majority of our advances and changes. Yes life has changed dramatically, but largely not because of anything completely new, instead because of old things made dramatically better. This interweb thing you and I are using now has changed almost everything about any form of entertainment you can think of, and it's older than me, but it's a lot different now. All the various toys of our life are radically different but also clearly just incremental evolutions of stuff we already had. Even the stuff that's really new, like smartphones, aren't really new. Usually the stuff we call new, that's really new, is only new in so far as it joined two evolutionary paths. Smartphones are the ever shrinking computer merged with phones, both old technologies, but together they make something new.
New is a rare thing in this world.
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