To make the chip faster, IBM has turned to a more advanced manufacturing process, increased the clock speed and added more cache memory, but perhaps the biggest change heralded by the Power8 cannot be found in the specifications.
After years of restricting Power processors to its servers, IBM is throwing open the gates and will be licensing Power8 to third-party chip and component makers.
IBM has moved away from some proprietary board-level technologies with Power8, and has included a connector so third-party graphics processors and other components can be easily linked to the chip.IBM recently announced it would open up the Power chip intellectual property and license it to third parties including Google.women shoes manufacturer The IP is being opened up as part of a development alliance called OpenPower Consortium, and one of the members is Nvidia, which is expected to develop a graphics processor that connects to the Power8 processor. Tyan is building a server based on the Power8 chip.
The previous Power7 chip was perhaps best known for its place in the Watson supercomputer, which famously competed against humans on the U.S. TV quiz show "Jeopardy" -- and won.
Watson also found use in areas like health care and the financial sector. Beyond IBM's traditional market of Unix servers, the Power8 chip is also designed for areas like cloud and big data."Big data is something that is driving ," said Jeff Stuecheli, chief nest architect of IBM Power Systems in the Systems and Technology Development Group. "You have big data, you need big performance."The Power8 chip will support up to 1TB of DRAM in initial server configurations and will offer 230GB per second of sustained memory bandwidth, Stuecheli said.
The external components will be connected via the CAPI port. The CAPI port interfaces with the PCI-Express slot for external components such as GPUs or FPGAs to communicate with the chip.The chip is made using the 22-nanometer process. Power8 has a large cache memory, including 512KB of cache per core, 96MB of on-chip shared L3 and 128MB off-chip L4 cache. The L4 cache was removed in Power7, but it comes back with Power8. Each processor core will also support eight threads, giving the chip the ability to run 96 threads simultaneously.IBM wants to share the Power8 technology with a larger ecosystem, and is also working on an open software stack for the processor, Steucheli said. A lot of the tools will help develop high-performance applications.
"This industry-first solution enables VMware virtualized data centers to benefit from flash-level performance while retaining network accessibility and fault tolerance using our 40GbE NIC interconnection to handle the server-to-server enterprise storage loads," said Motti Beck, Director of Enterprise Market Development for Mellanox Technologies. "We are very pleased to extend our collaboration with OCZ enabling virtualized environments to benefit from highly available, low latency SAN-less deployments."
"The combination of on-host flash with our VXL Software enables lower TCO in the software-defined data center by increasing VM density and server utilization," said Dr. Allon Cohen, Vice President of Software and Solutions for OCZ Technology. "Our collaboration with Mellanox to enable lower latency and increased bandwidth connectivity between servers enables these environments to enjoy the TCO and performance gain improvements while retaining all of the benefits of a SAN-less, software-defined deployment without compromises or limitations."
The Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN 40/56GbE NIC delivers high-bandwidth and industry-leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in enterprise data centers, High Performance Computing (HPC) and embedded environments. Its low power and application acceleration for converged I/O infrastructures eliminate the need for multiple Ethernet connections to the server while maximizing server and storage performance throughput. This results in reduced operating costs and network complexity.
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2013年8月26日星期一
2013年8月22日星期四
I felt an intense pressure to dress well
"That girl needs some new clothes," says one boy in my grade to another, without realizing I can hear. "Some very new clothes," his friend agrees. I am in sixth grade and my father has been dead for one year. As always, I am wearing hand-me-downs: an oversized purple top, matching patchwork-print leggings and basketball sneakers. I'm about as interested in sixth grade boys as I am in fashion. Middle school is weird; it's like all of a sudden I'm supposed to start wearing bras and makeup and shoes that aren't basketball sneakers.
Two years later, I have grown eight inches and hips. I have glasses, braces, a report card of straight As,wholesale fashion shoes and all of the poise of Cosmo Kramer. It is at the end of the school year at my confirmation party that I have my first Cinderella moment. I am wearing a lilac silk sheath dress and shimmery pink lipstick with my hair done up in a French twist. My usual high-waters are nowhere in sight. I feel beautiful and it shows. The prettiest girl in school tells me I look like Barbie and my longtime crush asks me to dance. For the first time, I experienced the transformative effect of the right clothes.
My hometown of White Plains, New York, is a Manhattan suburb that Forbes once ranked as the third most expensive city in America. My father used to say that we weren't rich, but we were rich in love. After he died, my mother and I fought often, especially about money. I wanted a clothing allowance and she wouldn't give me one. Most of my classmates were well-off and well-dressed; I resented our frugal lifestyle. By the start of high school, I was earning enough money from babysitting to buy all of my own clothes. The newly-opened Westchester Mall became my favorite place to go with friends and escape from my house.
Once I got to college, my shopping habit became difficult to maintain. The people around me seemed carefree with deep-pocketed parents and I felt like could never keep up. I couldn't afford to go on spring break or a wardrobe of cute going-out clothes on my student-worker salary. I felt cheated but also lost. I was supposed to pick a major, a path, an identity, but all I wanted to do was go shopping. During my senior year, I started charging purchases here and there, figuring that after I started working, I could pay off my credit card.
A few months later, I started my first job in Manhattan as a financial news editor. I decided that I wanted to write for a fashion magazine, but I needed money and health insurance and could not afford to hold out for my dream job. I was happy to be earning a living, but frustrated and feeling stuck. I felt that my father would have been most proud of me in a business or legal career. I tried to cure my bad days with Marc Jacobs dresses and Chanel makeup.
As a Manhattanite, I felt an intense pressure to dress well, and my bills skyrocketed. A starting salary of $42,000 doesn't go far on 5th Avenue, so I used credit cards to make up the difference between what I could afford and what I wanted. I stuck to the sale racks at first, because no one loves a bargain more than I do, but sometimes I saw a bag or dress I liked on Gossip Girl and just couldn't say no. If I was the only girl willing to stimulate the economy during a recession, so be it. I started a fashion blog about shopping in Manhattan. I'm not sure if the blog fueled the shopping or the shopping fueled the blog, but both felt like my only escape. Celebrity style and my latest purchases were all I wanted to talk about. I kept thinking that one day, I would have a better, higher-paying job and I will be able to pay all of my bills and finally focus on having the life I want. But that day never came.
The credit counselor pulled my credit report and was quiet for a long time. I didn't breathe. In order to be eligible for a payment plan, he said, I would need to bring in an additional $700 per month. "Otherwise, you're looking at a bankruptcy," he said.
The word hung in the air. I tried to envision myself facing a judge in court and, more terrifying, telling my mother what I had done. I couldn't bear to move back home or to give away the cat I rescued. That would mean I had failed. I had dreamed of living in New York for years and I there was no way I was going to leave now. If I was going to live on a small salary in America's most expensive city, I would have to make some serious changes.
Gone too are the days of dropping $60 on beauty products every time I hit the drugstore. I started clipping coupons from the Sunday paper and shopping around for the best prices on groceries, food for my cat and cleaning supplies. I applied to a few part-time jobs, but since I already worked late nights, it was too difficult to find anyone who needed part-time help only in the mornings. I was secretly glad about this because my day job exhausts me, but getting turned down by a gym and multiple thrift stores is a new low.
Click on their website www.beralleshoes.com for more information.
Two years later, I have grown eight inches and hips. I have glasses, braces, a report card of straight As,wholesale fashion shoes and all of the poise of Cosmo Kramer. It is at the end of the school year at my confirmation party that I have my first Cinderella moment. I am wearing a lilac silk sheath dress and shimmery pink lipstick with my hair done up in a French twist. My usual high-waters are nowhere in sight. I feel beautiful and it shows. The prettiest girl in school tells me I look like Barbie and my longtime crush asks me to dance. For the first time, I experienced the transformative effect of the right clothes.
My hometown of White Plains, New York, is a Manhattan suburb that Forbes once ranked as the third most expensive city in America. My father used to say that we weren't rich, but we were rich in love. After he died, my mother and I fought often, especially about money. I wanted a clothing allowance and she wouldn't give me one. Most of my classmates were well-off and well-dressed; I resented our frugal lifestyle. By the start of high school, I was earning enough money from babysitting to buy all of my own clothes. The newly-opened Westchester Mall became my favorite place to go with friends and escape from my house.
Once I got to college, my shopping habit became difficult to maintain. The people around me seemed carefree with deep-pocketed parents and I felt like could never keep up. I couldn't afford to go on spring break or a wardrobe of cute going-out clothes on my student-worker salary. I felt cheated but also lost. I was supposed to pick a major, a path, an identity, but all I wanted to do was go shopping. During my senior year, I started charging purchases here and there, figuring that after I started working, I could pay off my credit card.
A few months later, I started my first job in Manhattan as a financial news editor. I decided that I wanted to write for a fashion magazine, but I needed money and health insurance and could not afford to hold out for my dream job. I was happy to be earning a living, but frustrated and feeling stuck. I felt that my father would have been most proud of me in a business or legal career. I tried to cure my bad days with Marc Jacobs dresses and Chanel makeup.
As a Manhattanite, I felt an intense pressure to dress well, and my bills skyrocketed. A starting salary of $42,000 doesn't go far on 5th Avenue, so I used credit cards to make up the difference between what I could afford and what I wanted. I stuck to the sale racks at first, because no one loves a bargain more than I do, but sometimes I saw a bag or dress I liked on Gossip Girl and just couldn't say no. If I was the only girl willing to stimulate the economy during a recession, so be it. I started a fashion blog about shopping in Manhattan. I'm not sure if the blog fueled the shopping or the shopping fueled the blog, but both felt like my only escape. Celebrity style and my latest purchases were all I wanted to talk about. I kept thinking that one day, I would have a better, higher-paying job and I will be able to pay all of my bills and finally focus on having the life I want. But that day never came.
The credit counselor pulled my credit report and was quiet for a long time. I didn't breathe. In order to be eligible for a payment plan, he said, I would need to bring in an additional $700 per month. "Otherwise, you're looking at a bankruptcy," he said.
The word hung in the air. I tried to envision myself facing a judge in court and, more terrifying, telling my mother what I had done. I couldn't bear to move back home or to give away the cat I rescued. That would mean I had failed. I had dreamed of living in New York for years and I there was no way I was going to leave now. If I was going to live on a small salary in America's most expensive city, I would have to make some serious changes.
Gone too are the days of dropping $60 on beauty products every time I hit the drugstore. I started clipping coupons from the Sunday paper and shopping around for the best prices on groceries, food for my cat and cleaning supplies. I applied to a few part-time jobs, but since I already worked late nights, it was too difficult to find anyone who needed part-time help only in the mornings. I was secretly glad about this because my day job exhausts me, but getting turned down by a gym and multiple thrift stores is a new low.
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2013年8月20日星期二
The prosecutor stated the teens discussed
That’s how Chief Deputy Prosecutor, Vicki Becker kicked off the trial in her opening statement. She went on to detail how the day progressed, painting a vivid picture for everyone in the courthouse of what the defendants were doing before they broke into the home.
“Five individuals” the prosecutor explained, “came together and they were just hanging on the porch of Jose Quiroz.” Quiroz lives directly across the street from 1919 Frances, the home hit by the break-in. The prosecutor stated the teens discussed ‘robbing’ the guy across the street and planned how it was going to happen.
“Robbery” later became a term of contention referenced by Blake Layman’s attorney, Mark Doty. According to Doty, “robbery” incorrectly implies that the teens intentionally applied force to take possessions from Rodney Scott, the homeowner at 1919 Frances, as opposed to burglarizing a supposedly empty home.
Prosecution continued establishing the scene by explaining how one of the five perpetrators, Levi Sparks, stayed behind with a cell phone to look out in case something might happen. Then, the prosecutor said the remaining teens knocked on the door of Scott’s home before going around back to an area that was “a little more secluded” for the break-in.
“It was at that point,” said the prosecutor, “that Danzele Johnson used significant effort—he was a big guy” and kicked in the back door and an interior door of Scott’s home. Leading the way Johnson and the three others went inside and proceeded to rummage through Scott’s possessions. Referencing Jose Quiroz’s testimony before and during his plea agreement, the prosecutor told the courtroom the defendants actively searched and tore through the rooms and drawers “because Mr. Scott was old school” and kept his money inside his house.
As the four intruders were downstairs, Scott awakened from a nap, “felt a ‘boom’ and it startled him.’” When Scott heard a second loud noise, the prosecutor stated he grabbed not just his cell phone but a hand gun as well.
“It wasn’t his first thought, but it was enough to provoke him to get his handgun,” explained the prosecutor. She said it isn’t one of Scott’s “fond” possessions but rather a “what if” possession.
The details of what happened next, we may never fully know explained the prosecutor. Scott said he loudly made his way down the stairs, armed with a pistol, and saw two individuals standing in the doorway to his spare bedroom, one in his kitchen and another in front of him. She said that at that point in time all Scott remembers is firing his gun.
“We will not know how Danzele Johnson was struck with a bullet right above his sternum,” Becker added.
The prosecution went on to state how Johnson was one of the two individuals standing in the doorway, and once shots were fired the two made their way into a closet with Jose Quiroz.
“While they were in that closet they were hiding as Rodney Scott was holding them at gunpoint as he called police…no other shots were fired,” Becker claimed.wholesale fashion shoes It was then, prosecution argued, that Sparks came over to aid his friends. Becker stated Quiroz dialed the cell phone that was left behind with Sparks while he was inside the closet, and asked Sparks to create a distraction.
Sparks saw Scott inside the home with a gun and took off, stated the prosecutor. After calling police, she noted how Scott recognized Quiroz as his neighbor from across the street. Quiroz denied the familiarity and, in a “desperate attempt” to get out of there, the prosecutor explained that he knocked over an entertainment center and dove through a window into the alleyway.
Witness statements from later on in the trial covered the chase and arrest of Quiroz in greater detail, and the prosecution refocused its attention on wrapping up its account of the day’s events.
“When you break into somebody’s home, you violate their sanctity and security,” the prosecutor added before turning over to the defense.
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“Five individuals” the prosecutor explained, “came together and they were just hanging on the porch of Jose Quiroz.” Quiroz lives directly across the street from 1919 Frances, the home hit by the break-in. The prosecutor stated the teens discussed ‘robbing’ the guy across the street and planned how it was going to happen.
“Robbery” later became a term of contention referenced by Blake Layman’s attorney, Mark Doty. According to Doty, “robbery” incorrectly implies that the teens intentionally applied force to take possessions from Rodney Scott, the homeowner at 1919 Frances, as opposed to burglarizing a supposedly empty home.
Prosecution continued establishing the scene by explaining how one of the five perpetrators, Levi Sparks, stayed behind with a cell phone to look out in case something might happen. Then, the prosecutor said the remaining teens knocked on the door of Scott’s home before going around back to an area that was “a little more secluded” for the break-in.
“It was at that point,” said the prosecutor, “that Danzele Johnson used significant effort—he was a big guy” and kicked in the back door and an interior door of Scott’s home. Leading the way Johnson and the three others went inside and proceeded to rummage through Scott’s possessions. Referencing Jose Quiroz’s testimony before and during his plea agreement, the prosecutor told the courtroom the defendants actively searched and tore through the rooms and drawers “because Mr. Scott was old school” and kept his money inside his house.
As the four intruders were downstairs, Scott awakened from a nap, “felt a ‘boom’ and it startled him.’” When Scott heard a second loud noise, the prosecutor stated he grabbed not just his cell phone but a hand gun as well.
“It wasn’t his first thought, but it was enough to provoke him to get his handgun,” explained the prosecutor. She said it isn’t one of Scott’s “fond” possessions but rather a “what if” possession.
The details of what happened next, we may never fully know explained the prosecutor. Scott said he loudly made his way down the stairs, armed with a pistol, and saw two individuals standing in the doorway to his spare bedroom, one in his kitchen and another in front of him. She said that at that point in time all Scott remembers is firing his gun.
“We will not know how Danzele Johnson was struck with a bullet right above his sternum,” Becker added.
The prosecution went on to state how Johnson was one of the two individuals standing in the doorway, and once shots were fired the two made their way into a closet with Jose Quiroz.
“While they were in that closet they were hiding as Rodney Scott was holding them at gunpoint as he called police…no other shots were fired,” Becker claimed.wholesale fashion shoes It was then, prosecution argued, that Sparks came over to aid his friends. Becker stated Quiroz dialed the cell phone that was left behind with Sparks while he was inside the closet, and asked Sparks to create a distraction.
Sparks saw Scott inside the home with a gun and took off, stated the prosecutor. After calling police, she noted how Scott recognized Quiroz as his neighbor from across the street. Quiroz denied the familiarity and, in a “desperate attempt” to get out of there, the prosecutor explained that he knocked over an entertainment center and dove through a window into the alleyway.
Witness statements from later on in the trial covered the chase and arrest of Quiroz in greater detail, and the prosecution refocused its attention on wrapping up its account of the day’s events.
“When you break into somebody’s home, you violate their sanctity and security,” the prosecutor added before turning over to the defense.
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2013年8月18日星期日
Things seem to be moving online
Why are they doing this? I have no idea - it makes no sense to me.
Well, that isn't entirely true. I asked TVNZ why they had scheduled
Orange so late; their reasoning was that it was part of a push toward
on-demand content, which makes a little sense. Online viewing has become
a big part of what TVNZ does, and the success of online shows like
local comedy Auckland Daze and teen drama The Carrie Diaries has made it
a much more viable distribution method.
A recent example would be Scandal, the Kerry Washington-led drama written by Shonda Rhimes (of Grey's Anatomy fame); TVNZ has been showing a new episode each week through their on-demand portal, while promoting it through traditional broadcast channels. As a result, it's the second-most-popular show on the site.
The focus on on-demand isn't a mere excuse either. TVNZ have poured money into developing mobile apps for Apple and Samsung devices. I actually watched the third and fourth episodes of Scandal on my phone. It was fun trying it out, though I don't know how often I might go back to my mobile phone for a telly fix. The screen is too small.
There is a danger, though, that TVNZ could just be alienating viewers by scheduling a show like Orange Is the New Black at the ungodly time of 11.40pm, or launching a critical darling like Scandal (which picked up an Emmy nomination for Washington) through online outlets.
Let's face it: faith in broadcast networks is at an all-time low. Online content might be more popular than ever, but the overwhelming majority of viewers are still watching channels through traditional methods (albeit time-shifted in many cases). Does it really make sense to annoy the overwhelming majority of your viewers by scheduling at such an unsuitable time a show that they've been reading about for months? Or holding back a show so it can sit on a website?
Heck, I'm technologically capable of finding shows, and even I'm annoyed that Scandal is sitting on a website. If TVNZ has the show, why wouldn't they just play the damn show on a channel somewhere? Why make us wait even longer?
This isn't just a TVNZ thing. Mediaworks had a play with online-only fast-tracking by playing the first ever episode of New Girl on the Four website for a week before it aired (a marketing ploy adopted from US network Fox), and some SoHo shows have been available online ahead of their launch date.
Things seem to be moving online more and more often; even Orange Is the New Black lives exclusively online in most parts of the world, thanks to the emergence of Netflix. I believe that, eventually, online will be the only place to find good television (if not all television).
But I also think it's a bit soon to be abandoning traditional viewers entirely. On-demand is a shiny new toy, but we're still in the early-adoption phase. A better wholesale fashion shoes between the old and the new needs to be found.
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will meet US Trade Representative Michael Froman this week to discuss India’s concerns related to additional visa restrictions on IT professionals, increased cases of visa rejections and expiry of duty-free benefit scheme for its exporters.
While the US is likely to raise concerns over ‘lax’ implementation of India’s intellectual property laws, Sharma will be on a stronger wicket this time as the Obama administration is itself facing questions for overturning telecom giant Samsung’s patent rights recently.
Sharma and Froman are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the ASEAN Economic Community Council Meeting in Brunei beginning Monday.
“We have raised the issue of visa restrictions earlier. But things continue to be bad for our IT professionals. The Minister will discuss these in addition to problems related to expiry of the duty-free export scheme,” a Commerce Department official told Business Line.
The US has, over the past two years, made it difficult for Indian IT companies such as Wipro, Infosys and TCS to carry out its work in the US. Under tough visa norms, not only have fees been increased several-fold for companies that have more than 50 per cent non-American employees, the Immigration Bill being debated by the US Congress could also impose steep fines on US-based Indian IT companies.
“Although IT body Nasscom has received assurances from various quarters that the Bill is being diluted and harmful provisions targeting Indian companies would be deleted, the Minister would also like to get the same assurance from the USTR,” the official said.
Read the full story at wwww.beralleshoes.com!
A recent example would be Scandal, the Kerry Washington-led drama written by Shonda Rhimes (of Grey's Anatomy fame); TVNZ has been showing a new episode each week through their on-demand portal, while promoting it through traditional broadcast channels. As a result, it's the second-most-popular show on the site.
The focus on on-demand isn't a mere excuse either. TVNZ have poured money into developing mobile apps for Apple and Samsung devices. I actually watched the third and fourth episodes of Scandal on my phone. It was fun trying it out, though I don't know how often I might go back to my mobile phone for a telly fix. The screen is too small.
There is a danger, though, that TVNZ could just be alienating viewers by scheduling a show like Orange Is the New Black at the ungodly time of 11.40pm, or launching a critical darling like Scandal (which picked up an Emmy nomination for Washington) through online outlets.
Let's face it: faith in broadcast networks is at an all-time low. Online content might be more popular than ever, but the overwhelming majority of viewers are still watching channels through traditional methods (albeit time-shifted in many cases). Does it really make sense to annoy the overwhelming majority of your viewers by scheduling at such an unsuitable time a show that they've been reading about for months? Or holding back a show so it can sit on a website?
Heck, I'm technologically capable of finding shows, and even I'm annoyed that Scandal is sitting on a website. If TVNZ has the show, why wouldn't they just play the damn show on a channel somewhere? Why make us wait even longer?
This isn't just a TVNZ thing. Mediaworks had a play with online-only fast-tracking by playing the first ever episode of New Girl on the Four website for a week before it aired (a marketing ploy adopted from US network Fox), and some SoHo shows have been available online ahead of their launch date.
Things seem to be moving online more and more often; even Orange Is the New Black lives exclusively online in most parts of the world, thanks to the emergence of Netflix. I believe that, eventually, online will be the only place to find good television (if not all television).
But I also think it's a bit soon to be abandoning traditional viewers entirely. On-demand is a shiny new toy, but we're still in the early-adoption phase. A better wholesale fashion shoes between the old and the new needs to be found.
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will meet US Trade Representative Michael Froman this week to discuss India’s concerns related to additional visa restrictions on IT professionals, increased cases of visa rejections and expiry of duty-free benefit scheme for its exporters.
While the US is likely to raise concerns over ‘lax’ implementation of India’s intellectual property laws, Sharma will be on a stronger wicket this time as the Obama administration is itself facing questions for overturning telecom giant Samsung’s patent rights recently.
Sharma and Froman are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the ASEAN Economic Community Council Meeting in Brunei beginning Monday.
“We have raised the issue of visa restrictions earlier. But things continue to be bad for our IT professionals. The Minister will discuss these in addition to problems related to expiry of the duty-free export scheme,” a Commerce Department official told Business Line.
The US has, over the past two years, made it difficult for Indian IT companies such as Wipro, Infosys and TCS to carry out its work in the US. Under tough visa norms, not only have fees been increased several-fold for companies that have more than 50 per cent non-American employees, the Immigration Bill being debated by the US Congress could also impose steep fines on US-based Indian IT companies.
“Although IT body Nasscom has received assurances from various quarters that the Bill is being diluted and harmful provisions targeting Indian companies would be deleted, the Minister would also like to get the same assurance from the USTR,” the official said.
Read the full story at wwww.beralleshoes.com!
2013年8月13日星期二
The news comes after multiple reports of iPhone
Now it's been confirmed the trade-in plan will be valid in the UK, Australia and Canada in addition to the US and China.
In the UK, a on-genuine charger can be exchanged for a genuine charger, although it will cost ￡8 to make the swap. A genuine Apple iPhone charger usually costs ￡15.
You can get a replacement charger per device you own (your device's srial number will be entered into the system) at the discounted rate and the offer lasts until October 18.
The news comes after multiple reports of iPhone owners being electrocuted by their charging iPhones.
This started with a 23-year-old flight attendant in China being killed by the shock from her charging iPhone after she answered it following a shower. Subsequently a 30-year-old man went into a coma after being zapped by his iPhone and most recently a woman in Australia also suffered an iPhone electrical shock which put her in hospital,wholesale fashion shoes though her injuries were the least severe of the three so far.
Investigations by Apple and local authorities have suggested that each incident was the result of the use of an unofficial third party charger, so Apple is taking action to try to prevent further injury to its customers.
As well as putting up guide pages on its websites showing what to look for to determine whether a charger is official or not, Apple has now announced its exchange program, starting from August 16 and running until October 18.
Under the scheme, users with unofficial chargers can go to an Apple Store or certified Apple service provider and trade their potentially dodgy unit for a shiny new Apple branded version at a cut price of $10 (￡6.51). After having your iPhone’s serial number validated you can get the reduced price for one charging cable for each of your iPhones, iPads or iPods.
Is Apple overreacting? Perhaps, but it’s also understandable given modern litigation culture that the company should want to minimise such incidents. It’s also bad for its PR and product image if people keep getting shocked by the devices even if it’s not actually Apple’s fault.
The increase in iPhone injury incidents is also being paralleled in rival products from Samsung, with multiple reports of Samsung Galaxy devices overheating and ‘exploding’.
A woman in Switzerland sustained extensive burns to her leg when a Samsung Galaxy S3 battery went supernova in her jeans pocket. Most recently a Samsung Galaxy S4 owner in China claimed his whole house burnt down when his device burst into flame.
Several of these incidents are believed to have been caused by third party battery packs.
It’s difficult to think of a way Apple, Samsung and other key mobile players could deal with the production of dodgy third party chargers and batteries, particularly as the majority will be being made in China, somewhere where the production of cheap, copycat clone products is very much the norm.
While in some cases there must remain an element of personal responsibility on the part of the buyer,it’s also likely true that in plenty of cases the cheap clone chargers are being pedalled as the real deal and the customers are understandably oblivious.
Click on their website www.beralleshoes.com for more information.
In the UK, a on-genuine charger can be exchanged for a genuine charger, although it will cost ￡8 to make the swap. A genuine Apple iPhone charger usually costs ￡15.
You can get a replacement charger per device you own (your device's srial number will be entered into the system) at the discounted rate and the offer lasts until October 18.
The news comes after multiple reports of iPhone owners being electrocuted by their charging iPhones.
This started with a 23-year-old flight attendant in China being killed by the shock from her charging iPhone after she answered it following a shower. Subsequently a 30-year-old man went into a coma after being zapped by his iPhone and most recently a woman in Australia also suffered an iPhone electrical shock which put her in hospital,wholesale fashion shoes though her injuries were the least severe of the three so far.
Investigations by Apple and local authorities have suggested that each incident was the result of the use of an unofficial third party charger, so Apple is taking action to try to prevent further injury to its customers.
As well as putting up guide pages on its websites showing what to look for to determine whether a charger is official or not, Apple has now announced its exchange program, starting from August 16 and running until October 18.
Under the scheme, users with unofficial chargers can go to an Apple Store or certified Apple service provider and trade their potentially dodgy unit for a shiny new Apple branded version at a cut price of $10 (￡6.51). After having your iPhone’s serial number validated you can get the reduced price for one charging cable for each of your iPhones, iPads or iPods.
Is Apple overreacting? Perhaps, but it’s also understandable given modern litigation culture that the company should want to minimise such incidents. It’s also bad for its PR and product image if people keep getting shocked by the devices even if it’s not actually Apple’s fault.
The increase in iPhone injury incidents is also being paralleled in rival products from Samsung, with multiple reports of Samsung Galaxy devices overheating and ‘exploding’.
A woman in Switzerland sustained extensive burns to her leg when a Samsung Galaxy S3 battery went supernova in her jeans pocket. Most recently a Samsung Galaxy S4 owner in China claimed his whole house burnt down when his device burst into flame.
Several of these incidents are believed to have been caused by third party battery packs.
It’s difficult to think of a way Apple, Samsung and other key mobile players could deal with the production of dodgy third party chargers and batteries, particularly as the majority will be being made in China, somewhere where the production of cheap, copycat clone products is very much the norm.
While in some cases there must remain an element of personal responsibility on the part of the buyer,it’s also likely true that in plenty of cases the cheap clone chargers are being pedalled as the real deal and the customers are understandably oblivious.
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2013年8月11日星期日
The companies have wielded an array of patents
The ruling could put pressure on the Obama administration, which only a few days earlier took the unusual step of vetoing an ITC ruling in favor of Samsung that would have barred the sale of some older Apple iPhones and iPads.
The administration will now have 60 days to decide whether to let the Samsung ban take effect. The impression of favoring domestic over foreign companies could raise trade tensions with Samsung's home country of South Korea.
Samsung, while expressing disappointment with the ruling, said the order won't hurt the availability of its products—an apparent reference to design changes made to remove infringing features from its smartphones and tablets.
"We have already taken measures to ensure that all of our products will continue to be available in the United States," a Samsung spokesman said.
Specific Samsung products affected by the ITC order weren't spelled out, though an earlier ruling by an agency judge pointed to older products that include the Galaxy S II smartphone and Galaxy 10.1 tablet. The order potentially could have an impact beyond older Samsung devices that Apple challenged at the time.
Friday's ruling is another setback to Samsung in its global patent battles with Apple. Earlier Friday, Samsung appeared to have a difficult time during an appeals court hearing in another patent fight between the two companies.
Legal experts say the Apple and Samsung cases are based on different kinds of patents that would justify different conclusions by the administration.
The ITC found that Samsung infringed on parts of one Apple patent that covers elements of swiping a finger across the display of a device, a key feature of nearly all smartphones and tablets. It also cited parts of another patent related to headphone jacks.
The ITC decision isn't a complete victory for Apple. The trade body rejected some claims made by Apple and absolved Samsung from infringing on patents associated with the most basic design of the iPhone.
In trying to persuade the ITC not to impose a ban, Samsung and partner Google Inc.—whose Android software is used by Samsung—warned of potential dire consequences for consumers and competition in the mobile market. Samsung, for example, argued that the ruling could cause widespread shortages of mobile phones, particularly among smaller U.S. carriers, "that would take many months to rectify."
But Samsung also has been working on adapting products so they would no longer infringe on Apple patents, a process known as designing or working around an order.
The ITC said Friday that its ban doesn't apply to the "adjudicated design around products" found not to infringe on claims of the two patents.
Apple and Samsung have been tangling in courts around the globe over patents since 2011. Tensions began building after Apple shook up the mobile-device market in 2007 with the iPhone and Samsung followed up with competing products.
The companies have wielded an array of patents against each other. For the most part, wholesale fashion shoes Apple has chosen to sue Samsung over patents covering the aesthetics or particular software features of its mobile devices. As part of its findings, the ITC overturned an administrative judge's earlier finding that Samsung infringed on a potentially important Apple patent on the shape of the iPhone.
"We are disappointed that the ITC has issued an exclusion order based on two of Apple's patents," said Adam Yates, the Samsung spokesman. "However, Apple has been stopped from trying to use its overbroad design patents to achieve a monopoly on rectangles and rounded corners."
Apple expressed satisfaction with the ruling. "With today's decision, the ITC has joined courts around the world in Japan, Korea, Germany, Netherlands and California by standing up for innovation and rejecting Samsung's blatant copying of Apple's products," a company spokeswoman said. "Protecting real innovation is what the patent system should be about."
Last week's veto by the Obama administration was the first of an ITC order in more than 25 years.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman made the decision based on policy concerns about companies obtaining product bans based on patents that cover technology used in industrywide standards. A spokeswoman for Mr. Froman said the trade representative would "begin a thorough interagency review process."
Friday's case doesn't raise the same issue about so-called standard-essential patents, but it still may raise political and trade sensitivities for the Obama administration. After last week's veto, the South Korean government said it would be closely watching the ITC's ruling Friday.
But Lyle Vander Schaaf, a specialist in ITC matters at the law firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, predicted the order against Samsung won't be vetoed because of the different legal issues involved.
Read the full story at wwww.beralleshoes.com!
The administration will now have 60 days to decide whether to let the Samsung ban take effect. The impression of favoring domestic over foreign companies could raise trade tensions with Samsung's home country of South Korea.
Samsung, while expressing disappointment with the ruling, said the order won't hurt the availability of its products—an apparent reference to design changes made to remove infringing features from its smartphones and tablets.
"We have already taken measures to ensure that all of our products will continue to be available in the United States," a Samsung spokesman said.
Specific Samsung products affected by the ITC order weren't spelled out, though an earlier ruling by an agency judge pointed to older products that include the Galaxy S II smartphone and Galaxy 10.1 tablet. The order potentially could have an impact beyond older Samsung devices that Apple challenged at the time.
Friday's ruling is another setback to Samsung in its global patent battles with Apple. Earlier Friday, Samsung appeared to have a difficult time during an appeals court hearing in another patent fight between the two companies.
Legal experts say the Apple and Samsung cases are based on different kinds of patents that would justify different conclusions by the administration.
The ITC found that Samsung infringed on parts of one Apple patent that covers elements of swiping a finger across the display of a device, a key feature of nearly all smartphones and tablets. It also cited parts of another patent related to headphone jacks.
The ITC decision isn't a complete victory for Apple. The trade body rejected some claims made by Apple and absolved Samsung from infringing on patents associated with the most basic design of the iPhone.
In trying to persuade the ITC not to impose a ban, Samsung and partner Google Inc.—whose Android software is used by Samsung—warned of potential dire consequences for consumers and competition in the mobile market. Samsung, for example, argued that the ruling could cause widespread shortages of mobile phones, particularly among smaller U.S. carriers, "that would take many months to rectify."
But Samsung also has been working on adapting products so they would no longer infringe on Apple patents, a process known as designing or working around an order.
The ITC said Friday that its ban doesn't apply to the "adjudicated design around products" found not to infringe on claims of the two patents.
Apple and Samsung have been tangling in courts around the globe over patents since 2011. Tensions began building after Apple shook up the mobile-device market in 2007 with the iPhone and Samsung followed up with competing products.
The companies have wielded an array of patents against each other. For the most part, wholesale fashion shoes Apple has chosen to sue Samsung over patents covering the aesthetics or particular software features of its mobile devices. As part of its findings, the ITC overturned an administrative judge's earlier finding that Samsung infringed on a potentially important Apple patent on the shape of the iPhone.
"We are disappointed that the ITC has issued an exclusion order based on two of Apple's patents," said Adam Yates, the Samsung spokesman. "However, Apple has been stopped from trying to use its overbroad design patents to achieve a monopoly on rectangles and rounded corners."
Apple expressed satisfaction with the ruling. "With today's decision, the ITC has joined courts around the world in Japan, Korea, Germany, Netherlands and California by standing up for innovation and rejecting Samsung's blatant copying of Apple's products," a company spokeswoman said. "Protecting real innovation is what the patent system should be about."
Last week's veto by the Obama administration was the first of an ITC order in more than 25 years.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman made the decision based on policy concerns about companies obtaining product bans based on patents that cover technology used in industrywide standards. A spokeswoman for Mr. Froman said the trade representative would "begin a thorough interagency review process."
Friday's case doesn't raise the same issue about so-called standard-essential patents, but it still may raise political and trade sensitivities for the Obama administration. After last week's veto, the South Korean government said it would be closely watching the ITC's ruling Friday.
But Lyle Vander Schaaf, a specialist in ITC matters at the law firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, predicted the order against Samsung won't be vetoed because of the different legal issues involved.
Read the full story at wwww.beralleshoes.com!
2013年8月8日星期四
while not turning on the full processor
Take the Moto X. On paper, the specs are fairly mid-range. The 4.7-inch, 720p AMOLED display would have been high-end a year ago, but now it falls behind the 5-inch 1080p screens we've seen from others. But it does allow Motorola to offer a smaller phone, and many people like that. The 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro was similarly high-end a year ago, but has since been supplanted by more powerful processors, even within the Snapdragon family. Motorola chose to supplement this in its "X8" chipset, which adds two digital signal processors (DSPs), one for "contextual processing" to handle sensors, and another for voice processing.
And rather than just offering the standard selection of two or three colors, Motorola introduced its Moto Maker program in which you can customize the colors of the front and back covers, choose an accent cover for buttons, and add a unique signature. It sounds like the difference between ordering a car and just driving one off from the showroom. For now, this will only be available on the AT&T version, but it's certainly different.
Perhaps more impressive are the software features, some of which take advantage of that new chipset.
To take a picture, you don't have to unlock the phone or even click a special button. Instead, you can just twist your phone in a particular way and the camera app opens. The rest of the phone remains locked so there isn't a security issue. When you pick up the phone, it shows a minimal display with the time and some basic information, while not turning on the full processor.
It's also constantly listening, so you can say "OK Google Now" and the phone will immediately start processing your request, assuming, of course, it has Internet connectivity and can understand what you are asking for. Again, this is easier than unlocking the phone and looking for the app.
The LG G2 has much better specs. It has a 5.2-inch IPS LCD display with a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution and a dual-controller touch panel that allows the display to be thinner,women shoes manufacturer with a bezel that is only 0.1 inches (2.65mm) wide. It says the display uses lower power graphics RAM and has more subpixels than OLED displays, which typically use some form of Samsung's PenTile technology for subpixels, and thus it looks better close up. A 5.2-inch display with a small bezel gives it a width of 2.7 inches, which LG says is the largest a typical person can navigate with one hand.
The G2 has a battery that fits around the available space behind the screen in a new fashion, allowing more capacity in the same space. In both of these areas, it looks like LG is taking advantage of being part of a family of companies including one that makes displays (LG Display) and one that makes batteries (LG Chem), much the way that Samsung has used its expertise in OLED displays, memory, and in some cases processors to define its phones. In addition, this will be the first worldwide phone to use the latest Qualcomm processor, the 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800, which supports LTE-Advanced with channel aggregation. I'm sure that's going to be in many other devices but for now, LG gets bragging rights.
What really stood out was the emphasis on usability features. LG uses the slogan "Learning from you" and LG Mobile CEO Jong-seok Park stood up to say, "technology without empathy can no longer be considered innovation."
The biggest change in the design is that all of the buttons have been removed from the side of the phone, replaced by a single rear key. This button sits about where you would normally place your index finger on the back of the phone and serves as a power button, volume control, and camera trigger. LG says removing the button from the side makes you less likely to drop the phone. It's a little change, but certainly interesting.
Click on their website www.beralleshoes.com for more information.
And rather than just offering the standard selection of two or three colors, Motorola introduced its Moto Maker program in which you can customize the colors of the front and back covers, choose an accent cover for buttons, and add a unique signature. It sounds like the difference between ordering a car and just driving one off from the showroom. For now, this will only be available on the AT&T version, but it's certainly different.
Perhaps more impressive are the software features, some of which take advantage of that new chipset.
To take a picture, you don't have to unlock the phone or even click a special button. Instead, you can just twist your phone in a particular way and the camera app opens. The rest of the phone remains locked so there isn't a security issue. When you pick up the phone, it shows a minimal display with the time and some basic information, while not turning on the full processor.
It's also constantly listening, so you can say "OK Google Now" and the phone will immediately start processing your request, assuming, of course, it has Internet connectivity and can understand what you are asking for. Again, this is easier than unlocking the phone and looking for the app.
The LG G2 has much better specs. It has a 5.2-inch IPS LCD display with a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution and a dual-controller touch panel that allows the display to be thinner,women shoes manufacturer with a bezel that is only 0.1 inches (2.65mm) wide. It says the display uses lower power graphics RAM and has more subpixels than OLED displays, which typically use some form of Samsung's PenTile technology for subpixels, and thus it looks better close up. A 5.2-inch display with a small bezel gives it a width of 2.7 inches, which LG says is the largest a typical person can navigate with one hand.
The G2 has a battery that fits around the available space behind the screen in a new fashion, allowing more capacity in the same space. In both of these areas, it looks like LG is taking advantage of being part of a family of companies including one that makes displays (LG Display) and one that makes batteries (LG Chem), much the way that Samsung has used its expertise in OLED displays, memory, and in some cases processors to define its phones. In addition, this will be the first worldwide phone to use the latest Qualcomm processor, the 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800, which supports LTE-Advanced with channel aggregation. I'm sure that's going to be in many other devices but for now, LG gets bragging rights.
What really stood out was the emphasis on usability features. LG uses the slogan "Learning from you" and LG Mobile CEO Jong-seok Park stood up to say, "technology without empathy can no longer be considered innovation."
The biggest change in the design is that all of the buttons have been removed from the side of the phone, replaced by a single rear key. This button sits about where you would normally place your index finger on the back of the phone and serves as a power button, volume control, and camera trigger. LG says removing the button from the side makes you less likely to drop the phone. It's a little change, but certainly interesting.
Click on their website www.beralleshoes.com for more information.
2013年8月6日星期二
If you turn on the Assist feature
An unfamiliar phone alarm noise interrupted a comedy show in Huntington Beach on Monday night, said Allison Sciulla, a 24-year-old writer and stand-up comic, who performed at the show.
The blare interrupted the routine of another comic speaking on stage, Sciulla recalled, causing the comic to turn toward the guilty audience member and ask: “What kind of ringtone is that? Do you have a tiny ambulance in your pocket?"
California issued an Amber Alert to cell phones across the state on Monday night — and in some cases early Tuesday — causing many devices to beep and buzz.
The man in the audience, looking embarrassed, said he had no idea what the sound was, Sciulla said.
“People laughed when he called it out because we didn’t really know what was going on,” she said.
Sciulla had also received the message, which notified Californians of the license number for a suspect believed to have abducted two missing children in San Diego.
She thinks such messages are important and excused the audience member's mishap.
“You get a free pass. Someone’s in trouble,” she said.
The alerts woke up some people as they tried to sleep Monday night.
Renae Bowman, 25, of Granada Hills, says she received the alert 12 times overnight. Even after turning her Samsung Galaxy to vibrate, the vibrating noise continued to disturb her sleep.
“If I only get it once, I think it’s an amazing idea,” said Bowman, noting that the alerts could have included more information. “I don’t want to have it over and over and over again.”
Florida resident Karina Motes, 32, heard the sound when her plane landed at LAX airport and she turned on her phone.
The noise was alarming to hear on a plane, she said.
“I think everybody is already jumpy on an airplane,” she said. “A couple of people might have heard it and maybe even become a little disconcerted.”
Her husband, Bart, also received three messages at once, "like bam, bam, bam," he said, but his were silenced.
Waiting in the LAX airport for his next flight toward home, he received seven more.
"The system maybe needs to be refined a little bit," Bart said, but he noted that once his initial annoyance subsided, he found the message helpful.
While you’re online, you can also order color-matched cases and earbuds, specify the wallpaper you want or request an engraved message for the back. For now, only AT&T offers the color choices. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile will offer only black or white until later this year.
You get your customized phone within four days, courtesy of Feature 2: it’s assembled right here in these United States. The components are still made in Asia, but they’re put together in Texas — you can lose less sleep worrying about underpaid Chinese workers.
Feature 3 is the most useful: touchless mode. As with Siri on the iPhone, you can command the phone to dial a number, send a text, open an app, set your alarm, look up a fact on the Web, and so on.
But unlike Siri, you don’t hold down a button to speak. The phone is always listening, even when it’s in your car’s cup holder.
It works remarkably well, as long as you precede your command with the salutation, “O.K., Google Now.” Without ever taking your eyes off the road, you can say, “O.K., Google Now. Give me directions to the Empire State Building.” Or, “O.K., Google Now. Remind me at 8 p.m. to give the dog his pill.” Or, “O.K., Google Now. Make an appointment for Thursday at noon with Bob.”
This truly inspired idea is a leap forward in both safety and convenience. It owes its success to a special chip that does nothing but listen all day long. It does, however, come with fine print.
For example, you have to train the phone to recognize your voice. In a silent room, you have to say “O.K., Google Now” exactly the same way three times.
If you’ve password-protected your phone, this feature loses much of its power. It won’t execute most commands until you first pick it up and unlock it. So much for touchless.
And Android’s voice commands are still no match for Siri. The phone recognizes the basics, like “Wake me at 7:30 a.m,” “Open Angry Birds,” “What’s Google’s stock price?” and “Check the forecast for Memphis on Friday.”
Unlike Siri, though, it can’t speak answers to queries about movies, sports and restaurants. It doesn’t recognize “Read my new text messages,” “Add pickles to my grocery list” or “Tweet, ‘I just saw a double rainbow.’ ” Android just doesn’t have the smarts.
Or the personality. Try saying “Tell me a joke” or “Do you believe in love?” or “Open the pod bay doors, Hal” to Siri; you’ll get hilarious replies. By comparison, the Moto X feels lobotomized.
But the Moto X does come with superb situational awareness.If you turn on the Assist feature, the phone changes modes according to the time and place: Driving, Meeting and Sleeping.
In Driving mode, the phone detects that you’re in motion. It starts reading new text messages aloud, routing calls to the speakerphone and, if you like, responding to calls with an automatic text message: “I’m driving and will get back to you soon.”
In Meeting mode, the phone knows when you’re in a meeting or at a show by consulting your calendar. During those hours, the phone mutes itself and can respond with a text message. (“In a meeting. I’ll get back to you soon.”) Smart little software!
Sleeping mode, as the name implies, mutes the phone during bedtime hours that you specify. (In Meeting and Sleeping modes, you can choose to make exceptions for Favorites and when a caller urgently redials.)
Feature 4: Motorola observed that many people wake their phones many times a day just to check the time or missed messages. The Moto X displays this information briefly — the time and an icon for a missed event — every time you move it. You don’t have to press a button; just pull it from your pocket or lift it from the desk. The company says that there’s practically no penalty to the battery life (which is about the same as its rivals: you have to charge it every night).
If that screen shows an icon, you can hold down your finger on it to view the details. Or swipe upward to open the corresponding app to reply. Sadly, this feature shows you only one notification — the most recent.
Feature 5: You can fire up the Camera app by twitching your wrist a couple of times, as though trying to dislodge a mosquito; it works whether the phone is on or off. Within two seconds, you’re ready to take a shot by tapping anywhere on the screen.
That’s wonderful,women shoes manufacturer and so is the streamlined app itself. But the camera leaves something to be desired. It does a ridiculous amount of focus hunting, so you get blurriness sometimes, and the videos are a bit soft.
It’s nice that Motorola is focused on polishing up a few innovative features that you’ll really use; this isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S4, weighed down by a bunch of unreliable gimmickware. It’s nice that the phone has a splash-resistant coating. It’s also nice that, because this is a Google phone, you’ll be able to upgrade it promptly to new Android versions as they come along. That’s often untrue of the Android phones from other companies.
Read the full story at wwww.beralleshoes.com!
The blare interrupted the routine of another comic speaking on stage, Sciulla recalled, causing the comic to turn toward the guilty audience member and ask: “What kind of ringtone is that? Do you have a tiny ambulance in your pocket?"
California issued an Amber Alert to cell phones across the state on Monday night — and in some cases early Tuesday — causing many devices to beep and buzz.
The man in the audience, looking embarrassed, said he had no idea what the sound was, Sciulla said.
“People laughed when he called it out because we didn’t really know what was going on,” she said.
Sciulla had also received the message, which notified Californians of the license number for a suspect believed to have abducted two missing children in San Diego.
She thinks such messages are important and excused the audience member's mishap.
“You get a free pass. Someone’s in trouble,” she said.
The alerts woke up some people as they tried to sleep Monday night.
Renae Bowman, 25, of Granada Hills, says she received the alert 12 times overnight. Even after turning her Samsung Galaxy to vibrate, the vibrating noise continued to disturb her sleep.
“If I only get it once, I think it’s an amazing idea,” said Bowman, noting that the alerts could have included more information. “I don’t want to have it over and over and over again.”
Florida resident Karina Motes, 32, heard the sound when her plane landed at LAX airport and she turned on her phone.
The noise was alarming to hear on a plane, she said.
“I think everybody is already jumpy on an airplane,” she said. “A couple of people might have heard it and maybe even become a little disconcerted.”
Her husband, Bart, also received three messages at once, "like bam, bam, bam," he said, but his were silenced.
Waiting in the LAX airport for his next flight toward home, he received seven more.
"The system maybe needs to be refined a little bit," Bart said, but he noted that once his initial annoyance subsided, he found the message helpful.
While you’re online, you can also order color-matched cases and earbuds, specify the wallpaper you want or request an engraved message for the back. For now, only AT&T offers the color choices. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile will offer only black or white until later this year.
You get your customized phone within four days, courtesy of Feature 2: it’s assembled right here in these United States. The components are still made in Asia, but they’re put together in Texas — you can lose less sleep worrying about underpaid Chinese workers.
Feature 3 is the most useful: touchless mode. As with Siri on the iPhone, you can command the phone to dial a number, send a text, open an app, set your alarm, look up a fact on the Web, and so on.
But unlike Siri, you don’t hold down a button to speak. The phone is always listening, even when it’s in your car’s cup holder.
It works remarkably well, as long as you precede your command with the salutation, “O.K., Google Now.” Without ever taking your eyes off the road, you can say, “O.K., Google Now. Give me directions to the Empire State Building.” Or, “O.K., Google Now. Remind me at 8 p.m. to give the dog his pill.” Or, “O.K., Google Now. Make an appointment for Thursday at noon with Bob.”
This truly inspired idea is a leap forward in both safety and convenience. It owes its success to a special chip that does nothing but listen all day long. It does, however, come with fine print.
For example, you have to train the phone to recognize your voice. In a silent room, you have to say “O.K., Google Now” exactly the same way three times.
If you’ve password-protected your phone, this feature loses much of its power. It won’t execute most commands until you first pick it up and unlock it. So much for touchless.
And Android’s voice commands are still no match for Siri. The phone recognizes the basics, like “Wake me at 7:30 a.m,” “Open Angry Birds,” “What’s Google’s stock price?” and “Check the forecast for Memphis on Friday.”
Unlike Siri, though, it can’t speak answers to queries about movies, sports and restaurants. It doesn’t recognize “Read my new text messages,” “Add pickles to my grocery list” or “Tweet, ‘I just saw a double rainbow.’ ” Android just doesn’t have the smarts.
Or the personality. Try saying “Tell me a joke” or “Do you believe in love?” or “Open the pod bay doors, Hal” to Siri; you’ll get hilarious replies. By comparison, the Moto X feels lobotomized.
But the Moto X does come with superb situational awareness.If you turn on the Assist feature, the phone changes modes according to the time and place: Driving, Meeting and Sleeping.
In Driving mode, the phone detects that you’re in motion. It starts reading new text messages aloud, routing calls to the speakerphone and, if you like, responding to calls with an automatic text message: “I’m driving and will get back to you soon.”
In Meeting mode, the phone knows when you’re in a meeting or at a show by consulting your calendar. During those hours, the phone mutes itself and can respond with a text message. (“In a meeting. I’ll get back to you soon.”) Smart little software!
Sleeping mode, as the name implies, mutes the phone during bedtime hours that you specify. (In Meeting and Sleeping modes, you can choose to make exceptions for Favorites and when a caller urgently redials.)
Feature 4: Motorola observed that many people wake their phones many times a day just to check the time or missed messages. The Moto X displays this information briefly — the time and an icon for a missed event — every time you move it. You don’t have to press a button; just pull it from your pocket or lift it from the desk. The company says that there’s practically no penalty to the battery life (which is about the same as its rivals: you have to charge it every night).
If that screen shows an icon, you can hold down your finger on it to view the details. Or swipe upward to open the corresponding app to reply. Sadly, this feature shows you only one notification — the most recent.
Feature 5: You can fire up the Camera app by twitching your wrist a couple of times, as though trying to dislodge a mosquito; it works whether the phone is on or off. Within two seconds, you’re ready to take a shot by tapping anywhere on the screen.
That’s wonderful,women shoes manufacturer and so is the streamlined app itself. But the camera leaves something to be desired. It does a ridiculous amount of focus hunting, so you get blurriness sometimes, and the videos are a bit soft.
It’s nice that Motorola is focused on polishing up a few innovative features that you’ll really use; this isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S4, weighed down by a bunch of unreliable gimmickware. It’s nice that the phone has a splash-resistant coating. It’s also nice that, because this is a Google phone, you’ll be able to upgrade it promptly to new Android versions as they come along. That’s often untrue of the Android phones from other companies.
Read the full story at wwww.beralleshoes.com!
2013年8月4日星期日
This is business and these are contracts
exing questions continue to swirl around the fate of the largest forest restoration project in history, but news of the reopening of a two shuttered power plants in Snowflake have boosted the hopes of advocates.
Supporters of forest restoration hailed the announcement this week that a company controlled by Arizona State Sen. Bob Worsley will reopen the 24-megawatt Snowflake Power Plant, which will provide a market for small trees and restore about 100 jobs to the hard-pressed rural White Mountains community.
Worsley said he would also reopen an adjacent 80-megawatt coal-fired plant, after converting it to natural gas or installing pollution control equipment.
However, an adjacent, shuttered recycled paper mill will be dismantled by its Canadian owners.
The opening of the 24-megawatt power plant will provide a local market for the millions of tons of small-diameter trees that must be harvested to restore Northern Arizona’s sapling-choked forests.
“This is very good news,” said Cathie Schmidlin, a Forest Service spokesperson.
spokesperson. “There will be material going to this plant” from the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI).
Worsley said he has 10-year agreements with Arizona Public Service and the Salt River Project to buy power generated by burning wood in the Snowflake plant. Not only will the harvest of those pine thickets provide energy, but the thinning will remove enough trees to increase runoff — restoring streams and ultimately putting more water in SRP’s reservoirs along the Salt and Verde rivers.
Worsley said local investors put up $12 million to restart the two energy-producing plants and buy 7,000 acres nearby to serve as a landfill for the ash produced. The move should immediately restore 35 jobs in the wood-burning power plant and create another 65 jobs for crews to thin the surrounding forest.
Previously, the struggling White Mountain Stewardship Project provided wood to the operation. That project relied on a Forest Service subsidy of about $800 per acre and federal budget constraints sharply limited the amount of forest thinned. However, buffer zones created by that thinning project essentially saved Alpine and Springerville from the Wallow Fire. The thinned areas forced a racing crown fire to drop to the ground, where fire crews stopped it.
However, reopening at least one of the Snowflake facilities still doesn’t solve the problems facing the massive 4FRI project, tangled in a dispute about whether the Forest Service picked the wrong contractor.
The U.S. Forest Service continues to contemplate a request to transfer the contract to thin 300,000 acres from Pioneer Forest Products to a still-unnamed other company. Ultimately, the project will encompass some 2 million acres on the Tonto, Coconino, Kaibab and Apache-Sitgreaves Forests.
Gila County Supervisor Tommie Martin said a long delay on a contract transfer that winds up with another flawed business plan puts the future of the county at risk.
She noted that Northern Gila County generates 65 to 75 percent of the economic activity in the county, but remains “100 percent vulnerable to wildfire. We’re talking about people’s homes,wholesale fashion shoes which are their nest eggs. Not only will it bankrupt the county were it to burn, but it will bankrupt a whole lot of people at the same time. This is not some esoteric argument — the value of our homes is at stake. Even if your house doesn’t burn — and the forest burns around it — you’ve lost major assessed value.”
Critics initially greeted the news of a contract transfer with optimism, but for some that hope waned as details emerged.
Martin played a key role in developing the 4FRI consensus. She said she feared the new contractor will stick with Pioneer’s controversial plan based on using small trees and brush to make finger-jointed furniture and either diesel or jet fuel. She cited a recent presentation to the 4FRI stakeholders by one of Pioneer’s partners — a European firm called Concord Blue. The company claims it can make $2-a-gallon jet fuel from wood chips, which Martin characterized as “horsefeathers.”
Speaking for the Forest Service’s regional contracting office, Schmidlin said federal contracting rules require the Forest Service to negotiate for the contract transfer privately and preclude release of Pioneer’s business plan — or the identity of the company Pioneer wants to transfer the contract to.
“This is business and these are contracts,” she said. “What we do is guided by federal acquisition regulations and I don’t believe that regulation allows for public comments. We must make the decision in terms of what is in the best interests of the government. I recognize there’s a lot of interest in this and there are a lot of people interested in seeing this moving forward so we can see these forests thinned.”
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Supporters of forest restoration hailed the announcement this week that a company controlled by Arizona State Sen. Bob Worsley will reopen the 24-megawatt Snowflake Power Plant, which will provide a market for small trees and restore about 100 jobs to the hard-pressed rural White Mountains community.
Worsley said he would also reopen an adjacent 80-megawatt coal-fired plant, after converting it to natural gas or installing pollution control equipment.
However, an adjacent, shuttered recycled paper mill will be dismantled by its Canadian owners.
The opening of the 24-megawatt power plant will provide a local market for the millions of tons of small-diameter trees that must be harvested to restore Northern Arizona’s sapling-choked forests.
“This is very good news,” said Cathie Schmidlin, a Forest Service spokesperson.
spokesperson. “There will be material going to this plant” from the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI).
Worsley said he has 10-year agreements with Arizona Public Service and the Salt River Project to buy power generated by burning wood in the Snowflake plant. Not only will the harvest of those pine thickets provide energy, but the thinning will remove enough trees to increase runoff — restoring streams and ultimately putting more water in SRP’s reservoirs along the Salt and Verde rivers.
Worsley said local investors put up $12 million to restart the two energy-producing plants and buy 7,000 acres nearby to serve as a landfill for the ash produced. The move should immediately restore 35 jobs in the wood-burning power plant and create another 65 jobs for crews to thin the surrounding forest.
Previously, the struggling White Mountain Stewardship Project provided wood to the operation. That project relied on a Forest Service subsidy of about $800 per acre and federal budget constraints sharply limited the amount of forest thinned. However, buffer zones created by that thinning project essentially saved Alpine and Springerville from the Wallow Fire. The thinned areas forced a racing crown fire to drop to the ground, where fire crews stopped it.
However, reopening at least one of the Snowflake facilities still doesn’t solve the problems facing the massive 4FRI project, tangled in a dispute about whether the Forest Service picked the wrong contractor.
The U.S. Forest Service continues to contemplate a request to transfer the contract to thin 300,000 acres from Pioneer Forest Products to a still-unnamed other company. Ultimately, the project will encompass some 2 million acres on the Tonto, Coconino, Kaibab and Apache-Sitgreaves Forests.
Gila County Supervisor Tommie Martin said a long delay on a contract transfer that winds up with another flawed business plan puts the future of the county at risk.
She noted that Northern Gila County generates 65 to 75 percent of the economic activity in the county, but remains “100 percent vulnerable to wildfire. We’re talking about people’s homes,wholesale fashion shoes which are their nest eggs. Not only will it bankrupt the county were it to burn, but it will bankrupt a whole lot of people at the same time. This is not some esoteric argument — the value of our homes is at stake. Even if your house doesn’t burn — and the forest burns around it — you’ve lost major assessed value.”
Critics initially greeted the news of a contract transfer with optimism, but for some that hope waned as details emerged.
Martin played a key role in developing the 4FRI consensus. She said she feared the new contractor will stick with Pioneer’s controversial plan based on using small trees and brush to make finger-jointed furniture and either diesel or jet fuel. She cited a recent presentation to the 4FRI stakeholders by one of Pioneer’s partners — a European firm called Concord Blue. The company claims it can make $2-a-gallon jet fuel from wood chips, which Martin characterized as “horsefeathers.”
Speaking for the Forest Service’s regional contracting office, Schmidlin said federal contracting rules require the Forest Service to negotiate for the contract transfer privately and preclude release of Pioneer’s business plan — or the identity of the company Pioneer wants to transfer the contract to.
“This is business and these are contracts,” she said. “What we do is guided by federal acquisition regulations and I don’t believe that regulation allows for public comments. We must make the decision in terms of what is in the best interests of the government. I recognize there’s a lot of interest in this and there are a lot of people interested in seeing this moving forward so we can see these forests thinned.”
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2013年8月1日星期四
RootMetrics has no network bias
RootMetrics. AT&T noted that RootMetrics awarded it best overall
call, text and data performance in several markets when it claimed the
title of “nation’s most reliable” network in a press release that drew
response from Verizon. “Reliable” looks good on a network even if it can
leave consumers scratching their heads.
But as RootMetrics CEO Bill Moore pointed out, the rigorous tests his company runs on the nation’s wireless networks are first and foremost in the public interest.
“We’re out to represent the consumer. It’s all about consumer advocacy,” Moore said. “Everything we look at is from that consumer perspective.”
That means that all the data RootMetrics generates from its testing is provided for free to consumers. And it’s a lot of data, coming in the form of reports (for each market and in summation) and coverage maps. It’s all available online or via free mobile applications for iOS and Android.
RootMetrics just completed the first half of its year, covering 125 of the top markets in the U.S., a geographic segment home to 177 million wireless consumers. RootMetrics takes an off-the-shelf Android device—whichever benchmarks as the best for each network, that in most cases was a Samsung Galaxy device—and tests the voice, text and data service of each network in all conceivable locations, times and conditions.
“When we go out and do our direct testing, we do it on a level playing field for all the carriers,” Moore said.
RootMetrics time-syncs the tests as well to make sure the four big carriers are all being tested simultaneously. Running the same tests in the same place at the same time on the same device on all four carriers is the big distinction that sest RootMetrics apart from other network testers, Moore said. He added that running the call, text and data test on the same device is important for RootMetrics because that’s exactly how consumers use their devices.
When the testing is finished, the reports are made and the maps are updated and RootMetrics begins the next six-month cycle of testing, hitting the same 125 markets again. But first, RootMetrics hands out awards for call, text, data and best overall in each market. Not too surprisingly, AT&T and Verizon trounced Sprint and T-Mobile in RootMetrics newest reports. Still, Moore is careful to reiterate that RootMetrics has no network bias.
“All of our methodology is transparent in our reports. We are not only a consumer advocate, if you will, we are fiercely independent,” Moore said. “No one tells us how to do our methodology. We get it validated and we have PhD statisticians on staff on ensure we do this with high statistical integrity. And we’re very transparent about what we do.”
Moore added that RootMetrics is much more comprehensive than the “woefully inadequate” tests performed by its competitors. He was equally skeptical about the lofty claims of reliability some carriers throw around.
“There’s a lot of claims out there right now about what reliability is,” Moore said. “And we think there’s a small amount of definition about what [reliability] means or no definition at all.”
Moore said RootMetrics aims to shore up the ambiguity by soon publishing a set of standards defining network reliability. RootMetrics’ definition of reliability will be based on its own findings as well as consumer input.
“We’re going to make very clear what we think is not very clear as a standard in a consumer’s mind,” Moore said.
their first new flagship product since partnering with Google last year. Moto X will be assembled in America at a new plant in Texas and will try to muscle into a hyper-competitive mobile market dominated by Apple and Samsung. One of the key selling points for the Moto X is customization. Buyers can select from more than 2000 combinations of exterior case colors, wholesale fashion shoes,wood covers, even special wallpaper and inscriptions. Motorola also partnered with Sol Republic to create a line of Moto X accessories like headphones, speakers, cases and docks. The Moto X runs on Android and features technology like enhanced touchless voice controls, active displays, and a quick camera capture mode triggered by a flick of the wrist. The starting price of the Moto X is $199 with a two year contract and will be available in the U.S. starting in late August or early September.
A $60 million research ship funded by a Google executive is setting sail from San Francisco to study a so-called "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean and other mysteries of the sea. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the 272-foot vessel called Falkor was scheduled to leave port Thursday. The ship carries an unmanned submarine that will travel deep into the ocean off Vancouver Island to study an area where all sea life dies each year from a periodic lack of oxygen. And scientists working aboard the Falkor are treated to amenities not found on the usual research ship: a sauna and down-filled bunks among them. The Falkor is funded by the Schmidt Ocean Science Institute, which was co-founded by Google executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy.
Netflix is introducing a long-awaited feature that will make it easier for the Internet video service to track and analyze the viewing habits of people sharing the same $8-per-month account. The tool coming out Thursday can splinter a single Netflix account into up to five different profiles at no additional charge. The Los Gatos, Calif., company is hoping its 37.6 million worldwide subscribers will use the profiles feature because it will help Netflix's recommendation system gain a better understanding of the different tastes of viewers using the same account. The feature initially will only be available on Netflix Inc.'s own website and several other viewing outlets, including the iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Apple TV and some smart TV models.
Click on their website www.beralleshoes.com for more information.
But as RootMetrics CEO Bill Moore pointed out, the rigorous tests his company runs on the nation’s wireless networks are first and foremost in the public interest.
“We’re out to represent the consumer. It’s all about consumer advocacy,” Moore said. “Everything we look at is from that consumer perspective.”
That means that all the data RootMetrics generates from its testing is provided for free to consumers. And it’s a lot of data, coming in the form of reports (for each market and in summation) and coverage maps. It’s all available online or via free mobile applications for iOS and Android.
RootMetrics just completed the first half of its year, covering 125 of the top markets in the U.S., a geographic segment home to 177 million wireless consumers. RootMetrics takes an off-the-shelf Android device—whichever benchmarks as the best for each network, that in most cases was a Samsung Galaxy device—and tests the voice, text and data service of each network in all conceivable locations, times and conditions.
“When we go out and do our direct testing, we do it on a level playing field for all the carriers,” Moore said.
RootMetrics time-syncs the tests as well to make sure the four big carriers are all being tested simultaneously. Running the same tests in the same place at the same time on the same device on all four carriers is the big distinction that sest RootMetrics apart from other network testers, Moore said. He added that running the call, text and data test on the same device is important for RootMetrics because that’s exactly how consumers use their devices.
When the testing is finished, the reports are made and the maps are updated and RootMetrics begins the next six-month cycle of testing, hitting the same 125 markets again. But first, RootMetrics hands out awards for call, text, data and best overall in each market. Not too surprisingly, AT&T and Verizon trounced Sprint and T-Mobile in RootMetrics newest reports. Still, Moore is careful to reiterate that RootMetrics has no network bias.
“All of our methodology is transparent in our reports. We are not only a consumer advocate, if you will, we are fiercely independent,” Moore said. “No one tells us how to do our methodology. We get it validated and we have PhD statisticians on staff on ensure we do this with high statistical integrity. And we’re very transparent about what we do.”
Moore added that RootMetrics is much more comprehensive than the “woefully inadequate” tests performed by its competitors. He was equally skeptical about the lofty claims of reliability some carriers throw around.
“There’s a lot of claims out there right now about what reliability is,” Moore said. “And we think there’s a small amount of definition about what [reliability] means or no definition at all.”
Moore said RootMetrics aims to shore up the ambiguity by soon publishing a set of standards defining network reliability. RootMetrics’ definition of reliability will be based on its own findings as well as consumer input.
“We’re going to make very clear what we think is not very clear as a standard in a consumer’s mind,” Moore said.
their first new flagship product since partnering with Google last year. Moto X will be assembled in America at a new plant in Texas and will try to muscle into a hyper-competitive mobile market dominated by Apple and Samsung. One of the key selling points for the Moto X is customization. Buyers can select from more than 2000 combinations of exterior case colors, wholesale fashion shoes,wood covers, even special wallpaper and inscriptions. Motorola also partnered with Sol Republic to create a line of Moto X accessories like headphones, speakers, cases and docks. The Moto X runs on Android and features technology like enhanced touchless voice controls, active displays, and a quick camera capture mode triggered by a flick of the wrist. The starting price of the Moto X is $199 with a two year contract and will be available in the U.S. starting in late August or early September.
A $60 million research ship funded by a Google executive is setting sail from San Francisco to study a so-called "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean and other mysteries of the sea. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the 272-foot vessel called Falkor was scheduled to leave port Thursday. The ship carries an unmanned submarine that will travel deep into the ocean off Vancouver Island to study an area where all sea life dies each year from a periodic lack of oxygen. And scientists working aboard the Falkor are treated to amenities not found on the usual research ship: a sauna and down-filled bunks among them. The Falkor is funded by the Schmidt Ocean Science Institute, which was co-founded by Google executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy.
Netflix is introducing a long-awaited feature that will make it easier for the Internet video service to track and analyze the viewing habits of people sharing the same $8-per-month account. The tool coming out Thursday can splinter a single Netflix account into up to five different profiles at no additional charge. The Los Gatos, Calif., company is hoping its 37.6 million worldwide subscribers will use the profiles feature because it will help Netflix's recommendation system gain a better understanding of the different tastes of viewers using the same account. The feature initially will only be available on Netflix Inc.'s own website and several other viewing outlets, including the iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Apple TV and some smart TV models.
Click on their website www.beralleshoes.com for more information.
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