Pentru cei care vroiau sa participe la Eurovision 2010 am o veste proasta. Deja s-a descoperit castigatorul.Canta incredibil,este prea bun,deci nu aveti nicio sansa.
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3D, or Not 3D? That Was the Question at CES
CES should have issued attendees 3D glasses along with their name badges when they registered for this year’s gathering in Las Vegas. Nearly everywhere you went on the main show floor, people were sporting polarized shades or queuing up to try on the full wraparound 3D goggles that HDTV makers had laid out to experience their new 3D-enabled sets.The real question for the industry, though, is whether consumers will be queuing up at Best Buy to get 3DTVs when sets start hitting retail floors later this year from such major manufacturers as Sony, Panasonic, LG and Samsung. And the answer is anything but clear.
There is certainly reason to believe they will. According to research conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association, along with the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, there is strong consumer interest in 3D technology (GigaOM Pro, subscription req’d.). According to their findings, 25 percent of consumers plan to buy a 3DTV set in the next three years. That would represent 28 million sets, including 4.3 million that CEA estimates will be sold just in 2010.
Consumers are also willing to pay a premium of 15-20 percent for 3D, according to the study. “The big question is, do consumers think 3D is real?” said ETC’s executive director, David Wertheimer. “And the answer is, yes they do, and they’re willing to pay for it.”
Others in the TV ecosystem are less convinced, however. “I think over-the-top video is really the big story that’s getting overlooked here,” Harold Geller, managing director of Ad-iD and senior VP of the Association of American Advertising Agencies, said during a panel discussion on media monetization strategies. “There are always early adopters who will jump on whatever is the cool new thing, which in this case is 3D. But if you look at all the devices here [at CES] that have app stores, that have Internet connectivity, these are the common technologies. It’s all about discovery, about finding new content and bringing it into your living room. Over-the-top video is how you’re going to reach the mass consumer, not 3D.”
That view was seconded by Nic Covey, director of cross-platform insights for The Nielsen Company. “In terms of where the consumer is, over the top is where the action is going to be in 2010,” he said. “That’s what they’re looking for.”
For all the attention paid to 3D at this year’s CES, in fact, there was a certain surreal quality to the discussion. While consumers may be intrigued by 3DTV, there’s no question that at least some of the apparent buzz around the technology is being juiced by hardware makers eager for a sock-o new feature to push to consumers.
Panasonic’s chief technology officer Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, in an unguarded moment, admitted as much. “It’s a challenging market,” he said on a panel titled “3DTV: Hope or Hype.” “We need something to kick us out of this. To me the thing that’s going to get us there is 3D.”
Panasonic, in fact, is going so far as to largely bankroll DirecTV’s foray into 3D broadcasting, as the “exclusive presenting partner” of the three planned 3D channels, to try to make sure consumers have something to watch on their new 3D plasma TVs.
Sony is also bankrolling 3D content creation, partnering with Discovery Communications and IMAX on a new 3D channel and signing on as the main sponsor of one planned by ESPN.
Yet even ESPN seems uncertain about the channel’s prospects. “We need to be able to get 2D and 3D [versions of live sporting events] produced in the same truck,” ESPN’s Chief Technology Officer Chuck Pagano said. “If we have to do side-by-side production, with two crews and two trucks, it could end up being a very long putt for us in terms of making this work economically.”
It’s not unheard of for hardware makers to underwrite the cost of content creation early in a new format’s rollout. Sony is still subsidizing the costs of Blu-ray Disc replication for some studios. But it can’t do it forever. If 3D programming can’t stand on its own at some point, CES attendees can toss aside all the 3D glasses they’ve accumulated this week.
Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr user Lucas Hoyos.
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Happy Moments at CES [Ces2010]
Through the photonic assault, I saw a patch of green in a booth. I walked up and touched it. The grass, it was real, and cool and fresh for the moment. I could not have smiled more broadly. Happy Moments……at CES are rare for attendees, in my experience. It’s hard work and a monumental commercial achievement at the expense of sanity, holiday vacations and sleep. But these moments of joy do exist.
Dell showed a 5 inch Android tablet. It’s too small to be more useful than a smartphone, and can’t be pocketed as easily, but for some reason, I found it sexy. And that one of the most mainstream makers of PCs made something so cool, well, I was impressed. I’m not sure I would buy one, but it made me happy.
I miss my dogs. They’re being watched in Japan for the month by Lisa’s parents, and I’m going back to pick them up in a week. They’re black and brown, and these mascots also happen to be black and brown. I guess they reminded me of my pets without me realizing it, and I decided to give them a hug. Cozy.
I made fun of 3D HDTV a lot. Then I tried it on a really good set with fast refresh rates, by Panasonic. I loved it and to me the difference between 2D and 3D is as profound as the difference between black and white and color TV. I got excited at the thought of playing games and watching movies with lots of explosions and lush scenery (Planet Earth, HD!) with a third dimension.
Another great moment of happiness came when I felt we were hitting our stride, as a team, covering the show. No trailer, no booth, no place to set up and write in peace. But since we were all here, together, I was able to ask everyone how they were doing without typing it. It’s nice to communicate without a keyboard, once in awhile.We bought pizza for ourselves and since the lunches were cold, got some for our pals in the press room.
Seeing the Gizmodo junior team learn so much so fast has been inspiring. I got especially happy watching Don and Kyle nail their shorts and Rosa, well, Rosa found the best story of the show. And the veterans are just so good, they’re always surprising me with astounding finds and speed of insightful writing.
I bumped into a lot of friends here, not only those I work at Gizmodo with. Chris Null, Sean Captain, Leander Kahney, Charlie White, Dylan Tweeney, Joe Brown, Steve Leckart, Danny Dumas, Ryan Block, Veronica Belmont and Pete Rojas, naming a few. And this is actually the first time I’ve worked side by side with Joel Johnson, who returned to Giz only last month.
In a few hours, this show will be largely done for us. Everyone who worked on the blog will have a nice dinner together. Then I’ll go home. That will be my most happy moment.
*We noticed these people were having a good time at CES, too. If you look closely, most of them have to do with people interacting with each other, not the machinery.
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A ‘remote chance’ of snow in South Florida
Snow in South Florida? Could it really happen? Probably not, but there is a slight chance parts of Palm Beach County could see “frozen precipitation” Saturday, the National Weather Service said.“There’s a very remote chance,” said Brad Diehl, a forecaster.
But even if all the sub-freezing temperatures and expected precipitation intersected somehow, it would hardly look fluffy and white — and might not even reach the ground, Diehl said.
The last time it snowed in South Florida was Jan. 19, 1977.
— TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miam…y/1416554.html
Just saw the Weather channel predictions are for Saturday/Sunday timeframe of 30F in Miami!!!!.
BTW for anyone who rides the bus like I do, going to wait for the bus at 6:30 am in cold weather absolutely sucks!!!
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FCC chariman echoes commissioner’s sentiments, says Verizon’s ETF response ‘raised more questions than it answered’
FCC chairman and general ass-kicker Julius Genachowski is siding with his commissioner Mignon Clyburn this week, noting that Verizon’s response to the Fed over its $350 “advanced device” early termination fee didn’t really satisfy everyone’s curiosity. He’s not ready to talk about the FCC’s next move in the case — we’re guessing another lengthy open letter is in order — but he assured media on hand that “the bureau is looking into” the situation. In the meantime, just don’t get tired of that Droid too fast, alright?FCC chariman echoes commissioner’s sentiments, says Verizon’s ETF response ‘raised more questions than it answered’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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VIZIO’s new LCDs (and upcoming iPhone remote app) eyes-on
Since we can’t drool over sets without release dates forever, our attention at VIZIO’s CES event turned to flat-panels we actually expect to hit shelves in 2010. Still, we couldn’t have expected a sneak peek of the company’s planned iPhone remote control app (video after the break,) and the shock of seeing a 22-inch VIA & WiFi packing 22-inch LCD nearly overshadowed the massive 72-inch 3D set picture above. Also represented were a new soundbar surround package with HDMI 1.4 / Audio Return Channel due in May, a video-prioritizing wireless router and powerline networking setups, and of just to round things out, some iPod dock / touchscreen clock radios.
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The fantasy sequence also shows her telling Mike Delfino (James Denton), who is still her plumber, “You know what would serve him right? To come home and find me in bed with another man!” Also in the episode, airing Sunday, January 3, at 9 p.m. on ABC, Bree (Marcia Cross) imagines what her life would be like if she divorces Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) and marries Karl; Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) fantasies that Gaby (Eva Longoria Parker) is an over-protective mom; and Angie (Drea de Matteo) wonders what her life will be like if Mona (Maria Cominis), her blackmailer, survives.
“You know what would serve him right? To come home and find me in bed with another man!” Also in the episode, airing Sunday, January 3, at 9 p.m. on ABC, Bree (Marcia Cross) imagines what her life would be like if she divorces Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) and marries Karl; Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) fantasies that Gaby (Eva Longoria Parker) is an over-protective mom; and Angie (Drea de Matteo) wonders what her life will be like if Mona (Maria Cominis), her blackmailer, survives.
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Photo for Today: Near Eight Bells, Western Desert
Spot the kitchen car.
The camp was being taken down for departure as we headed north.
In the foreground you can see a pile of red mattresses, with
the tents in the stripy white bags to their right and a growing
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Periyar University Results 2009 Information
Periyar University is a good university and many student are studying regularly and Periyar University is a huge university and announced result 2009.
Periyar University ResultsThe University has setup a different website for result, which is a good move. Even if the university website is down, students can still check result on different website.
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Periyar University Results
The University has setup a different website for result, which is a good move. Even if the university website is down, students can still check result on different website.
To view the result of Periyar University please visit : Results
recently university has announced APR – MAY 2009 – U.G RESULTS
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Devil Wears Nada Live
Maybe it was that we finally got to see Mr. Burns again; he was always my favorite. Yes, he only had a bit part, and in fact the part of maniacal boss was played by Carl instead of Burns, but his presence set up the stories of the entire episode. I’ll go so far as to say everything about that episode worked, from Marge’s sexy calendar to Ned Flander’s role in the final moments.
Even the brief encounters with Bart at school fed the main story, and were handled perfectly. This is what The Simpsons is capable of, and despite a few moments that were a bit more crass than I recall the Simpsons of yore being, it was classic Simpsons all over again.
Speaking of crass, I was a little surprised when “ass” came up on the dice. I know it’s a more accepted word today than it was when this show first started, but it still surprises me when the envelope is taken that far on certain shows. I’m certainly not offended by it, just surprised that The Simpsons has that kind of a censorship edge these days.
I guess I shouldn’t be, though, because when the series premiered it was constantly under fire for pushing the envelope of what you could do in animation and on prime time. I guess now that the collective envelope is already further over the line than it was, The Simpsons can always push it a bit further.
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The Devil Wears Nada Live, Devil Wears Nada
Maybe it was that we finally got to see Mr. Burns again; he was always my favorite. Yes, he only had a bit part, and in fact the part of maniacal boss was played by Carl instead of Burns, but his presence set up the stories of the entire episode. I’ll go so far as to say everything about that episode worked, from Marge’s sexy calendar to Ned Flander’s role in the final moments.
Even the brief encounters with Bart at school fed the main story, and were handled perfectly. This is what The Simpsons is capable of, and despite a few moments that were a bit more crass than I recall the Simpsons of yore being, it was classic Simpsons all over again.
Speaking of crass, I was a little surprised when “ass” came up on the dice. I know it’s a more accepted word today than it was when this show first started, but it still surprises me when the envelope is taken that far on certain shows. I’m certainly not offended by it, just surprised that The Simpsons has that kind of a censorship edge these days.
I guess I shouldn’t be, though, because when the series premiered it was constantly under fire for pushing the envelope of what you could do in animation and on prime time. I guess now that the collective envelope is already further over the line than it was, The Simpsons can always push it a bit further.
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Which social class would you say you’re from?
As title ^^^Seems to be very difficult to define these days as what criteria do you use – wealth, attitudes, education, aspirations, values, or all? what if you change your job, or your parents chnage status, move house etc etc, but then again does it matter? and what purpose does classing people serve?
So what do you all think???
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Folic Acid for Prevention of Birth Defects
It’s National Folic Acid Awareness Week. Yes, folic acid is special enough to get its very own week! Do you know why?
If you get enough of the B vitamin folic acid before and during pregnancy, you can reduce the risk of some serious birth defects like spina bifida or anencephaly. Even if you don’t plan on becoming pregnant, the CDC urges you to get your folic acid fix anyway. Accidents happen. In fact, half of all pregnancies are unplanned!
To prevent neural tube defects caused by incomplete development of the brain and spinal cord, women of childbearing age should consume 0.4 mg or 400 micrograms of folic acid each day as recommended by the CDC. Women who get at least 400 mcg of folic acid daily will reduce the risk of a pregnancy affected by a neural tube by up to 70%.
To be helpful, folic acid must be taken at least one month before pregnancy, but you should consider beginning even earlier. One reason experts suggest taking folic acid early is that birth defects of the spine and brain occur during the first few weeks of pregnancy — usually before a woman knows she’s pregnant.
You probably don’t get enough folic acid in the everyday diet. There are a couple of ways to make sure you’re getting the recommended amount. You can take a multivitamin or a supplement with folic acid, but ensure that it has 400 mcg of folic acid. The typical multivitamin sold in the US has that amount. Getting your folic acid may even be as simple as eating a bowl of the right cereal. Check your cereal’s nutrition label to make sure it has 100% of the recommended amount of folic acid.
Do you know if you get the recommended amount of folic acid each day?
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CES attendance is up, and so is its optimism about technology
Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association, said tonight that the tech industry’s biggest trade show in North America has grown its attendance in spite of the ongoing economic uncertainty.At a leadership dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show, Shapiro (right) said that attendance figures so far in the show, which ends on Sunday, have hit 112,000. At this time last year, there were only 92,000 attendees. The numbers are preliminary and are not yet audited. Last year’s final audited number was 113,000, down from 141,150 the year before. This year, the attendance figures suggest CES will almost certainly beat last year’s number by a healthy margin. Shapiro was actually expecting a decline in attendance when I talked to him in December, though he said anything was possible.
Shapiro said that this year’s show seemed far more upbeat than a year ago, reflecting a return to optimism for the industry. There were fewer exhibitors this year: 2,500 compared to 2,700 last year. But Shapiro has repeatedly pointed out that there are 330 new exhibitors this year, a huge bump that reflects some of the growth of startups and the churn in the industry caused by economic turmoil.
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Skype’s CEO talks about accelerating innovation and who stands in its way
Skype chief executive Josh Silverman said that disruptive innovation is accelerating from upstart companies, but that innovation is threatened by those who want to protect their current businesses.Skype’s free voice and video calling on the Internet is threatening incumbent companies who charge for that now. And those companies, such as Comcast, don’t want Skype users , wh0 are a minority of the network users, to take up a lot of their bandwidth without paying for it. So the question is what the government should do to foster innovators such as Skype without damaging the network owners to the point where all innovators suffer.
Today’s debate between network owners and network app makers reminds Silverman of history.vHe made the remarks at the leadership dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in front of industry leaders and lawmakers.
The debate over disruptive innovation goes way back to when Henry Ford invented the automobile. In the early 1900s, Pennsylvania passed a Red Flag law that required any “horseless carriage” to be preceded by someone carrying a red flag to warn horses, livestock and others that something disturbing was coming their way, Silverman said. The analogy today is that carriers and other interests don’t want an unfettered Skype — and its free voice and video-calling benefits — to burden their networks with unpaid traffic.
Silverman said that progress in technology is incremental, until it isn’t. Users have articulated needs, like how they want longer battery life and cheaper goods. Innovation that delivers on those needs is incremental. But every now and then, unpredictable changes happen where new inventions address unarticulated needs. For instance, Silverman joked, it would have been nice to know who was coming to a dinner before deciding whether or not you want to attend it. If someone invented something to do that, it would be a big hit. No one predicted that Skype, launched in 2004, would now have 520 million users worldwide.
Skype, which has recently been liberated from its owner eBay in a spinoff, is growing like gangbusters. Silverman said in the month of December alone, Skype users used 5 billion minutes of video calls on Skype. Now Skype is moving forward with high-definition video calls on TV. This week, both Panasonic and LG Electronics said they would build Skype software into their web-connected TVs to enable video calls in the living room.
But Silverman doesn’t want any red flag laws to slow down the innovation of Skype. Silverman said he was pleased with a talk by Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency that oversees policy related to communications. Genachowski favors an open Internet and Net Neutrality, where innovators should be free to use and innovate upon the communications networks.
“For the first time, we are seeing communications policy articulated as innovation policy, and that is a welcome change,” Silverman said.
But a cable industry executive came up to me and expressed his frustration with Silverman’s view. Right now, the executive said, it isn’t fair that Skype uses so much bandwidth on a cable or phone company’s data network and doesn’t have to pay for it. That takes away the incentive from the network owner to invest in and improve the network, because it only means that Skype will expand to use more of the bandwidth. And if Skype ruins the network, then all others who want to innovate can’t use the network for their own innovations. It’s good to encourage innovators, but five percent of the users shouldn’t ruin the network for the other 95 percent. Or so the network owners say.
Silverman said the keys to innovation policy should include universal, affordable access to the network. He also said there is a compelling and obvious need for new spectrum. This needs to include allocation currently set aside for broadcast. And he said it’s import to have a free and open Internet.
In closing, Silverman said that communications technologies are accelerating disruptive change and that policy should lean forward and “err on the side of disruptive communications.”
He said, “If we get the policies right, we can unleash a new era of innovation.”
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VIZIO’s new LCDs (& upcoming iPhone remote app) eyes-on
Since we can’t drool over sets without release dates forever, our attention at VIZIO’s CES event turned to flat-panels we actually expect to hit shelves in 2010. Still, we couldn’t have expected a sneak peek of the company’s planned iPhone remote control app (video after the break,) and the shock of seeing a 22-inch VIA & WiFi packing 22-inch LCD nearly overshadowed the massive 72-inch 3D set picture above. Also represented were a new soundbar surround package with HDMI 1.4 / Audio Return Channel due in May, a video-prioritizing wireless router and powerline networking setups, and of just to round things out, some iPod dock / touchscreen clock radios.
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