Let’s just go wide-open this week. We’ve got 10 Otterbox Commuter Series cases for the Motorola Droid to give away. And so, Droid owners, we ask you: What are your must-have apps for one of the most popular Android devices around?
Reply in this forum thread and you’ll be automatically entered to win one of the 10 cases. We’ll take entries through Thursday, April 29. Good luck, everyone!
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Teachers can use the following resources for students that are in the first grade who are learning about money with a total value up to 100 cents or less (Virginia Standards of Learning for 1.7 a & b).
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The Coin Counting Book written by Rozanne Lanczak Williams is a fun rhyming book for students to learn about counting money and it’s value. The book introduces pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters as a way for students to do simple math with rhyme:
“Let’s count our five pennies just one more time. If we add five more pennies we’ll have…one dime.”
Actual size coins are spread out over the pages showing both front and back for student learning. If the book says to count five pennies as an example, there are five pennies laid out on the page with a addition sign in between each coin to help with student visualization. The book ends by showing a hand placing coins in a piggy bank making the statement: “If we save some of it- the rest we can spend!”
Pigs will be Pigs, Fun with Math and Money written by Amy Axelrod and illustrated by Sharon McGinley-Nally is about a family of hungry pigs looking for money in their house so they can go to their favorite place to eat a snack. This is a great book for introducing students in the first grade to money. The pig family is hungry and realize they do not have enough money to go out to eat; so Mrs. Pig decides that everyone will “Hunt for Money!”. The book describes where in the house and how much money everyone in the family finds while on the money hunt. In the end, the Pigs have enough money to eat out and when they arrive home they find their house in a mess from their hunt. Pigs will always be pigs.
The book, 26 Letters and 99 Cents written by Tana Hoban provides photos of numbers from 1-30, counting by 5’s from 30-90 and 99. Beside of each number there is a photo of coins that shows the value of the number when added. The book can be shown to the whole class while identifying each coin and the value. This would also be a great book for students to look at during the day as a center activity, etc. The book shows students both the front and back of real American coins: pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters in their actual size. This helps students to visualize the size and identification of each coin.
The book If You Made A Million written by David M. Schwartz and illustrated by Steven Kellogg is a book where students can really use their imagination. Readers are given different scenarios with spending anything from one penny to purchase a peeble all the way up to one million dollars with the option of saving the money at the bank. This would be a great way to ask students for ideas about what they would purchase with different amounts of money. Schwartz gives differnet forms of measurement for various amounts of money. For example, one hundred dollars in pennies stacked up would be equal to fifty feet or a million dollars in quarters would equal a whale’s weight. This is a great book to help students realize that a paper bill is sometimes easier (and lighter) to carry around instead of coins.
The last text would be a great resource for students who are in need of a more challenging way to think about money and its uses. Money Madness written by David A. Adler and illustrated by Edward Miller explains how money first originated and how money is now used to purchase different items from around the world. The book starts off by asking:
“What’s all this money madness? People talk about money and work for it. They seem to always want more of it…”
The book gives examples of why people now use money to purchase a variety of items. If people did not have money then they would have to make their own bread. Adler explains at a child’s level how people first started to trade by introducing the word, barter. An example that Adler used was when a person would trade an animal in exchange for berries. Even though the person receiving the berries might not want them he knew that someone else would want to trade the berries for something that he wanted or needed in return. The book explains how rocks were used as an early form of money and then replaced by metals (silver and gold). The silver and gold pieces were made into coins but were at times difficult to carry if someone had a lot. Paper money was then invented. Adler explains how each country has it’s own form of money and that the value of the money can vary from place to place. ”You know with money you can buy things you want. With money you can buy things you need.”
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Students can play the game Change It for additional practice on adding up different coin values. Teachers can create each game to specifically fit each students instructional level.
GPB Kids has created a web-site for students to play a game where they are given nine different items that they need to buy. Players are instructed to buy one of the nine items by dragging the correct coin(s) to the matching picture in the chart. If the player is right then they can move on to the next problem; if not, they have the chance to try again.
Teachers can create different tutorials for students by selecting any combination of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters for practice. For each category chosen, students are provided a picture of real money on the left side of the screen and need to select the correct value of the money from the right side of the screen. If the student selects the correct amount of money they can move on to the next problem. If an incorrect answer is chosen, then the student can try again.
HMH School Publishers created a great money practice tool for students. For the activity, coins are lined up in decreasing value from largest to smallest. Students need to count the value of the coins and type the correct amount of money in the blank provided. Students then need to click on “check” to see if they have typed in the correct amount. If so, the student will hear chimes, if an incorrect amount is typed in then the student will see a screen flash up that explains the amount is either greater or less than the answer that was entered.
Kid 20/20 has an activity, Coin Sort that students can play on-line. Students are given 280 seconds to properly place different coins in the corresponding piggy bank. Each piggy bank is labeled with either pennies, nickels or dimes on the side. Students must click on each coin and drag it to the proper piggy bank. If the coin is taken to the correct piggy bank then the coin will disappear and the value of the coin will be added to the amount already in the piggy bank. Students can visually watch as the amount increases by either one, five or ten cents.
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The United States Mint has a great web-site that teachers can use for various reasons. The site contains ideas for lesson plans, coin programs which give detailed information about each coin and coin curricula. Teachers can also use the site for class activities: game centers, web gadgets (worksheets), learning centers (ways to bring in different areas of the curriculum and financial literacy).
Scholastic has a great web-site for teachers. Teachers can download different activities from worksheets, foldables, mini-books, and even lesson plans. Click on “Teachers Resources” and select lesson plans, printables or mini-books. Narrow each search by selecting 1st grade, math and then money from each category on the left hand side of the screen. *This web-site requires a yearly paid subscription.*
Teaching Money Skills by Grade Level: First Grade is an article that teachers can read prior to teaching first grade students about money. The article provides a review and instructional method for teaching a lesson or unit on money. The article recommends that teachers use play/fake money with their students for a hands-on learning experience. After the unit lesson on money, students should be prepared for second grade math: addition and subtraction of money.
I understand why there’s so much roto-hate out there for Barry Zito(notes). He crushed you in 2007, he let you down in 2008, and that picture to the right should make all of us a little bit angry. But his comeback story has been out there for nine months now, and it’s time to accept the reality of the situation, the lefty is mixed-league worthy in any format.
Zito’s first three starts this year were excellent if not dominant; he had a tidy 1.86 ERA working but just nine whiffs over 19.1 innings. But the eccentric lefty brought out his best stuff in his fourth turn, an eight-inning gem against the Cardinals Saturday (3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 10 K). When you shut down Albert Pujols(notes) & Company, you’ve done something impressive. Here’s your video scouting report.
When you add up all of Zito’s 2010 work, we’re looking at a 1.32 ERA and 0.84 WHIP, numbers that are clearly unsustainable for any pitcher (this isn’t 1968, after all). It’s easy for the lazy internet scribe to play the "regression coming!" card with Zito – everyone knows he won’t maintain a .205 BABIP and an 82.6 percent strand rate all season. But can Zito keep his ERA below 4 and maintain mixed-league worthiness all season? Parked in that roomy San Francisco park, I’m betting that he can.
The comeback story hasn’t come completely out of nowhere – Zito was very useful in his final 15 starts of 2009 (2.83 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 74 K in 86 IP). He got the feel of his curveball back last summer and so far this year he’s been outstanding with the curve and change, while putting his fastball where he wants. Mix that together and you’ve got a trustable arm for the middle of your make-believe staff.
There’s one other thing we need to mention in a Zito piece: his contract. Yes, Brian Sabean made a gigantic mistake when he handed a seven-year, $126 million deal to Zito after the 2006 season. But why should we sweat the package? We don’t have to pay him every two weeks, the Giants do. (And while we’re on the subject, cut Vernon Wells(notes) and Alex Rios(notes) a break, too.)
The whopping contract probably had a role in Zito’s 2007 and 2008 collapse. It’s a massive burden to walk to the mound every fifth day trying to justify that you’re worth an $126 million paycheck. But Zito’s finally gotten over that mental hurdle, and it’s time for fantasy owners to get on board, too.
I’m calling Zito a $13 arm from here on out – ranking him over guys like Rick Porcello(notes), Rich Harden(notes), Edwin Jackson(notes) and anyone on the Reds. Coming along for the ride, or is Zito still fool’s gold in your estimation? Let’s discuss in the comments.
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This is a MAJOR paper that Hans Schreuder informed Alan Siddons about today
A few choice plums:
#Everyone knows what the greenhouse effect is. Well … do they? Ask someone to explain how the greenhouse effect works. There is an extremely high probability that they have no idea.
#Beware of wheels within energy diagrams as these usually constitute the energy creation mechanism of perpetual motion machines. One such gem of clarity, used uncited by Plimer (2009, p. 370), was offered by Kiehl and Trenberth…
#The mechanism by which the addition of carbon dioxide warms the atmosphere has no empirical basis. Therefore the assertion that global warming is anthropogenic, may well be philosophical and perhaps political, but it is most certainly not scientific.
#Increasing visible radiation, even by quite a large amount, results in no measurable rise in temperature because no appreciable amount of visible radiation is converted into infrared when absorbed and re-emitted – contrary to Arrhenius’ hypothesis.
Pollster Frank Luntz says charges from Democrats that his talking points memo sets the GOP agenda are dead wrong. Luntz told Fox News this Sunday, “I dont even live in Washington anymore. My business is all corporate. I write one memo, which I thought was pretty good. I took the language that was being used at the time, and the language worked. And because I used the language, I verified it because I have a reputation of being right”
The memo being referred to was a 17-page memo Luntz wrote in January entitled “The Language of Financial Reform.” The premise of it basically boils down to this: “The single best way to kill any legislation is to link it to the Big Bank bailout.”
In recent weeks, several leading Republicans have referred to bank reform bill as just that — another government bailout. But Luntz says he was late to the game in terms of financial reform legislation language. He says, “Congressmen [Scott] Garrett (R-NJ) and Mike Pence (R-IN) were first. I just happened to get more of the attention.”
Luntz went on to say that what he does for a living is nothing new. “We know the Democrats and the White House did it last year with health care reform and I remember a top pollster for the White House going out and finding people don’t like insurance companies and that is the way the debate was framed, calling them villains and putting it on their doorstep, the problem … Don’t the parties look to pollsters for help on the issue?”
Luntz is the president of The Word Doctors communications consulting firm. He’s an expert at figuring out key words and phrases that will resonate with the American public. And Luntz insists he does it for both parties, “It is funny. I have presented to democrats on several occasions, the very people making criticisms who have listened to my work in the past. My work is nonpartisan and nonpolitical. It talks about what American people think and feel and what we all know.”
So what is it that he says all Americans think and feel? Luntz says it’s simple, “Number one: America hates these buyouts. Number two: they don’t believe a bigger Washington puts Wall Street under control. And number three, they don’t want legislation, healthcare legislation and financial services legislation.”
Luntz doesn’t want credit for the bank bailout language, but he does want some credit for past successes. “I am behind the phrase ‘death tax’ when talking about the Estate Tax. And when talking about health care, I was the one who called it the ‘Washington takeover’ of health care. So I write a memo two months ago using language that was already out there, and because of my reputation I verified that language. “
Luntz regularly appears on the Fox News Channel. Time magazine recently named Luntz one of the 50 most promising leaders aged 40 and under in America.
You can check out Luntz’ Talking Points Memo
“Price competition will drive Electric Cars mass market. Chinese companies will have yet to prove that they can claim auto brand properties, but costwise they are out of competition. Once thousands of engineers working in China on lithium batteries, safety and design of Electric Cars convert quantity into quality this market will take off in Ipod fasion.”
Nissan Motor, Daimler and local brand BYD are expected to show electric cars at the upcoming 2010 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, which opens tomorrow, Century Weekly reported Sunday.
Peugeot and Audi will also show hybrid and electric cars at the exhibition, according to the China Auto Show website.
Last January, the Ministry of Finance announced tentative measures to subsidize energy-efficient and alternative energy cars used in applications such as public transportation and taxi service.
Subsidies on individual purchases of hybrid and electric cars are expected to come out later in pilot cities.
State Grid Corporation, the country’s largest operator of power grids, also announced early this year that it plans to build 75 charging stations for electric vehicles nationwide in 2010.
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European buyers looking to get their hands on a Corvette ZR1 may find them in short supply. Fortunately, GeigerCars is there to save the day with the next best thing. The German tuner of American iron has taken a crack at the Corvette Grand Sport and boosted it to near-ZR1 levels of power and performance.
Starting with the Grand Sport’s 6.2-liter LS3 V8, Geiger bolts on a supercharger to increase output from the stock 430 horsepower to a prodigious 588, helping the Geiger GS hit 60 un under four seconds. That may not be quite as powerful or quick as the ZR1’s supercar numbers, with its 638 horsepower and 3.3-second sprint, but it’s nothing to scoff at, either.
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If you’re ready to dissect a full take-down of the Chinese economic and political model, well here it is, from the author Gordon G. Chang. (Who will have an upcoming book, The Coming Collapse of China).
The main thrust of his argument is that China has already peaked.
Thus those who predict China’s ascendancy as a global superpower are predicting far too much based on the country’s recent performance.
They also fail to realize that China got a bit lucky:
So will ours be the Chinese century? Probably not. China has just about reached high tide, and will soon begin a long painful process of falling back. The most recent period of China’s fast growth began with Deng’s Southern Tour in early 1992, the event that signaled the restarting of reforms after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Fortunately for the Communist Party of China, this event coincided with the beginning of an era wherein political barriers to trade were falling and globalization was kicking into high gear, which set the table for a period of tremendous wealth generation.
It worked before, but now times are changing:
China’s economic model, which allowed the Chinese to take maximum advantage of boom times, is particularly ill suited to current global conditions. About 38 percent of the country’s economy is attributable to exports—some say the figure is higher—but global demand at this moment is slumping. (Last March, the normally optimistic World Bank said the global economy would contract in 2009 for the first time since World War II and that global trade would decline the most it had in eighty years.) Globalization, which looked like an inevitable trend in early 2008, is now obviously going into reverse as economies are delinking from each other. So China is now held hostage to events far beyond the country’s borders.
While we take issue with the idea that globalization is heading in reverse, at the very least the point about China facing some serious economic adjustment challenges holds. Globalization will continue and world trade will grow at a multiple of global GDP growth, as it has for decades. Yet it’ll be far less driven by U.S. consumption than before.
Anyhow, Mr. Chang predicts a Chinese recession followed by stagnation. I think few would argue against the notion of a recession happening at some point. What makes Mr. Chang’s assertion unique is that he predicts economic stagnation afterward, rather than continued robust growth.
But the economy could fail before stagnation eventually sets in. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, to fund his stimulus plan, has forced state banks to create the greatest surge of lending in history. One state manager, Lin Zuoming of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, publicly complained last April that central government officials forced him to borrow the equivalent of $49.2 billion from twelve Chinese banks, saying he did not know what to do with all the cash.
Moreover, after listing China’s many economic challenges, many of which readers of this site are now well aware of (Asset bubble risks, bad loans in the banking system, overcapacity in many industries, employment challenges, etc), he describes the unsustainable nature of China’s political system with razor sharp succinctness.
Worse yet, even if the Communist Party could solve each of these specific problems in short order, it would still face one insurmountable challenge. The economic growth and progress of the last three decades, which makes so many observers believe in the inevitability of China’s rise, is actually a dagger pointed at the heart of the country’s one-party state.
Change, in general, is tough for reforming regimes. As Tocqueville noted, it was rising prosperity that created dissatisfaction in eighteenth-century France and paved the way for revolution. These same trends played out more recently in Thailand, South Korea, and Chinese-dominated Taiwan. And they are at work right now in China itself.
Senior Beijing officials now face the dilemma of all reform-minded authoritarians: the economic progress that legitimates their leadership endangers their continued control.
He ends with this anecdote, hinting that a political revolution might be sooner than many expect.
I was in a dingy walk-up in my dad’s hometown, Rugao. It’s a backwater town in Jiangsu Province. I was trying to talk to a group of residents, some young and a few elderly, about the Olympics. Nobody wanted to discuss the Games, which were dismissed as just another government-staged event. All they wanted to hear was news from the American campaign trail. They wanted to hear about John McCain and Barack Obama. They wanted to hear about the workings of democracy.
We have a feeling that Mr. Chang’s long-term forecast is overly bearish. China will become an enormous superpower (While the U.S. will remain one as well, and could easily remain economically larger through 2050 thanks to excellent demographic trends)
We’re more of the view right now that China could have an extremely tough adjustment period within the coming five years, perhaps involving a GDP recession and political turmoil, before then growing further. Yet at the same time, we find Mr. Chang’s essay compelling. If you have some time, read the entire thing here.
(Via Abnormal Returns)
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The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) recently published new preliminary figures for aid in 2009.
It showed official development assistance (ODA) aid from wealthy governments had increased to just over $123 billion in 2009 (at constant 2008 prices). This is roughly 0.31% of GNI (Gross National Income) of the donor nations.
Yet, almost 40 years ago nations promised to reach 0.7% of their GNI. While each year the amount of aid falls quite short of that 0.7% target, the quality and effectiveness of that aid is often questionable, sometimes benefiting the donor more than the recipient due to the types of conditions attached to this aid.
This update includes a number of new and updated charts and graphs.
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Almost 40 years ago, rich country governments agreed to give 0.7% of their GNI (Gross National Income) as official aid to poor countries for development assistance.
The average aid delivered each year has actually been between 0.2 to 0.4%. The shortfall has therefore accumulated to over $4 trillion dollars at 2008 prices, while total aid delivered in that same time frame has reached just under $3 trillion.
This update includes updated charts and graphs that look into this further.
Read full article: Official global foreign aid shortfall: $4 trillion
Do you want to see a new Darkstalkers game as badly as Super Street Fighter IV director Yoshinori Ono? If the answer’s yes, then you better start letting Capcom know.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on “Fox News Sunday” that while he supports Florida Governor Charlie Crist today, he will not continue to support him if he decides to leave the party. Crist, who is trailing Republican Marco Rubio for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, has indicated he may skip the GOP primary and run as an independent. Crist only has until Friday to decide what letter is going to fall behind his name, but that hasn’t stopped Republican heavy hitters from weighing in early.
The Kentucky Republican, who endorsed Crist a year ago, suggested he should, “compete as a Republican. He has been a Republican all of his life and to remain within the party. I hope he will do that.” So will he take back his endorsement? McConnell said, “Not today…I think if the governor were to decide to run as an Independent, he’s not going to have any Republican support.”
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who endorsed Rubio, said in a statement earlier this week, “Lately it seems Charlie Crist cannot be trusted even to remain a Republican…I strongly urge him to either stay in the Republican Party or drop out of the race. The only winners from an independent bid would be Barack Obama and Harry Reid.” McConnell seems to agree saying, “I would be troubled if the governor decided to run as an Independent. I think that would be a serious problem. And he would certainly not have my support and not have the support of any other Republicans that I know.”
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It was only a matter of time before the WiFi-less, Sprint bound Pixi dropped to "free with a 2-year contract" pricing on the America’s 3rd largest network, and you can now hit Sprint’s online portal to get the diminutive smartphone for the sweet sweet price of zero dollars with a new contract. As is generally the case with Sprint, brick and mortar corporate stores can’t match the web pricing on these kinds of deals, so if you want your free Pixi through Sprint proper you’ll have to wait a few days after ordering, or wait until in-store pricing inevitably follows suit.
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Llegamos ya a la última parte de la prueba del Citroën C5 equipado con el potente propulsor 3.0 HDI V6 de 240 CV y cambio automático de seis velocidades. Del motor y sus prestaciones, así como consumos y comportamiento en general, os hemos hablado en la primera parte de la prueba y en la segunda parte hemos visto el diseño del C5, más que nada aquellos elementos que lo diferencian de un C5 con menor motor y detalles curiosos del interior.
Ahora llegamos a la tercera parte de la prueba donde hablaremos del equipamiento y de los precios, así como nuestra valoración general sobre el modelo. En cuanto al equipamiento nos vamos a centrar exclusivamente en la dotación de serie de este modelo de 240 CV que va asociado únicamente al nivel de equipamiento más elevado, Exclusive. Pero en la prueba que realizamos hace unos meses de un Citroën C5 nos metemos afondo con el equipamiento base de un C5 y los elementos de serie.
Podemos acceder a un Citroën C5 equipado con el motor HDi de 110 CV y el acabado Millenium desde los 21.290 euros con un completo equipamiento de serie, pero nuestra unidad equipada con el motor V6 HDI de 240 CV y el nivel más completo de equipamiento tiene un precio de partida de 36.400 euros.
Equipamiento
El equipamiento base de seguridad de un Citroën C5 es muy completo, desde el nivel base cuenta con elementos como ESP, ABS, sistema de pedales retráctiles, antinieblas delanteros, airbags frontales, laterales, de rodilla para el conductor, y de cortina delanteros y traseros, equipamiento inalterable desde el nivel base y, como es de suponer, ha obtenido las famosas cinco estrellas en el test EuroNCAP.
Pasando a nuestro modelo de 240 CV, por 36.400 euros tenemos de serie un completo equipamiento, donde podemos destacar: los faros bi-xenon direccionables, cromados de los marcos de las ventanillas, suspensión Hidractiva III, sensores de aparcamiento delanteros y traseros, radio MP3 con seis altavoces, toma USB y conexión bluetooth para telefonía, climatizador bi-zona, freno de mano eléctrico, entre otros elementos.
Pero el equipamiento a destacar de nuestro C5 de pruebas no acaba ahí, puesto que a ese equipamiento de serie del modelo Exclusive hay que sumarle el pack Exclusive Cuero integral (6.050 euros) que suma los asientos de cuero microperforados y eléctricos, el salpicadero forrado en cuero, el sistema de navegación con disco duro y lector de DVD, sistema de sonido HI-FI, la alarma y la pintura metalizada. Con todo este equipamiento donde no entra ni un sólo extra más tenemos un C5 con un motor diesel V6 de 240 CV por 42.450 euros.
Del equipamiento había que mencionar algunas cosas, primero el sistema de navegación que funciona realmente bien y se trata del modelo más alto de gama del Grupo PSA,el Navidrive 3D, que cuenta con lector de DVD (ver detalle), disco duro integrado y mapas en 3D. Eso hace que unido a la toma USB y al sistema de sonido HI-FI tengamos un completo equipo de sonido para aquellos amantes de la música y es curioso además la reproducción de DVD que lo puede realizar en parado o en marcha sólo el sonido. Si no necesitamos tanta sofisticación de sistema de navegación, siempre tendremos disponible el My Way que cuenta con USB también desde los 739 euros.
También nuestro C5, incorporaba el sistema de aviso de cambio involuntario de carril, uno de los sistemas que en su momento fueron punteros en la anterior generación del C5 si mal no recuerdo, y que te avisa con una vibración en el asiento (del lado de donde te sales) si te sales del carril de manera involuntaria.
Valoración general
En principio cuando pedí este Citroën C5, quería ver la evolución de este motor V6 que desarrollan en conjunto con el Grupo Ford y por tanto con Jaguar y Land Rover. Y mi sorpresa fue mayor al ver los acabados del C5, que estaban por encima de lo que ya había visto en la anterior prueba, algo que me sorprendió gratamente.
Pese a su motor de 240 CV, no es un vehículo para sensaciones deportivas al volante, su dirección y suspensión no están orientadas hacía ese uso. Pero lo que por una parte es un defecto, se convierte en toda una virtud para viajar con un confort máximo y rapidez, porque al mismo tiempo el motor ofrece mucha fuerza y mueve con total soltura al C5.
Por otro lado, pese a que el pack que traía nuestra unidad de pruebas es caro, para aquellos que quieren un vehículo full y les da igual la marca que llevan en el capó, tendrán un modelo con un equipamiento que ningún premium ofrece por 40.000 euros, es más, ciertas soluciones de conectividad (toma USB y sistema de navegación y sonido) ya les gustaría equiparlas algunos modelos mucho más caros y denominados premium.
En mi opinión personal este C5 con estos acabados es toda una declaración de intenciones, se aleja de la idea de marca generalista y da toda una lección de calidad y equipamiento, muchos pueden echar de menos la deportividad de un motor de ese tamaño, pero si viajas mucho en carretera o autovía y buscas un coche cómodo, rápido, potente y equipado con todo, pocos modelos verás en este rango de precios.
Incluso es una alternativa al C6 por tamaño y precios, ya no es el primer C5 que veo destinado a coche oficial o formando parte del PME como vehículo de subdelegados del gobierno y similares.
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Guía rápida y sencilla para aquellas personas que todavía no se animaron a entrar al mundo GNU/Linux y quieren comenzar con algo fácil, intuitivo, amigable y no morir en el intento con instalaciones engorrosas.. aclaro que esta instalación la hago en una maquina virtual con Virtualbox así que si alguien no se anima a probarlo directamente en su maquina lo puede probar con virtualbox hasta que esté totalmente seguro 
Primero debes conseguir el cd de Ubuntu, descargandotelo o haciendo un pedido para que te lo envíen de forma gratuita a tu casa.
Ahora que tienes el cd/dvd de Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx lo pones en tu lectora, reinicias la maquina y la configuras desde la bios para que booté desde cd.
Comienza a iniciar desde el cd y automáticamente veremos la siguiente pantalla
Una vez que carga elegimos nuestro idioma y hacemos clic sobre “Instalar Ubunu 10.04″
Nuestra ubicación horaria ..
Distribución de nuestro teclado.. automáticamente el instalador selecciona uno, si es el correcto seguimos, sino selecciona el que corresponda para tu teclado.
Esta es la única parte de la instalación ”complicada” y en la que deberías tener conocimientos previos mínimos sobre particionar un disco rigido.
Si tienes un disco “fisico” libre para ubuntu puedes seleccionarlo y tildar la opcion “Borrar y usar el disco entero”.
Lo mas recomendable es especificar las particiones manualmente. Así que seleccionamos y clic en adelante.
Bien ahora asumiendo que leíste algo o tienes una idea de lo que es instalar un windows xp o vista y sobre como crear particiones en un disco, quiero que vean en la siguiente tabla como Linux nombra a los disco y a las particiones..
Tipo de disco———–Nombre por disco fisico —————particiones SATA ——————————sda (primer disco fisico)———— sda1, sda2, sda3,etc.. ——————————sdb (segundo) ————————-sdb1, sdb2, sdb3,etc.. ——————————sdc (tercero) —————————sdc1, sdc2, sdc3,etc.. PATA ——————————hda (primer disco fisico)————- hda1, hda2, hda3,etc.. ——————————hdb (segundo)————————- hdb1, hdb2, hdb3,etc.. ——————————hdc (tercero)————————– hdc1, hdc2, hdc3,etc..
En Linux todo es un archivo. Desde los archivos de datos hasta las particiones de los discos pasando por el ratón y la tarjeta de sonido. Los directorios también son archivos. Existe un directorio raíz (/) del que cuelga todo de la siguiente manera:
• /: Raíz.• /usr: Aquí se encuentra la gran mayoría de los archivos existentes en un sistema Linux, tales comodocumentación, casi la totalidad de los comandos de usuario, juegos, librerías, etc.• /bin: Aquí están los comandos que pueden usar todos los usuarios (incluido el administrador o root).• /sbin: Aquí están los comandos que sólo puede usar el administrador o root.• /dev: Ahí están todos los dispositivos de nuestra máquina.• /home: Lugar donde se almacenan las cuentas de usuarios.• /lib: Enlaces a las librerías que se necesitan para el sistema.• /var: Contiene información variable, como por ejemplo los logs del sistema (/var/log), correo local, etc.• /tmp: Directorio temporal.• /etc: Configuración global de los programas.• /root: Cuenta del administrador.• /boot: Aquí está todo lo necesario para arrancar el sistema.• /media: Punto de montaje para sistemas de archivos montados localmente.• /mnt: Antiguo punto de montaje para sistemas de archivos montados localmente. Hoy en día está en desusoy se conserva por razones históricas.• /proc: Sistema de archivos virtual de información de procesos y del kernel.
Para instalar aquí voy a usar 3 particiones: “sda1” para el directorio raíz (/) ( que seria donde va ir todo mi sistema operativo.. ) , “sda2” que seria la partición swap ( esto seria el disco de intercambio.. el cual Linux utiliza como si fuera memoria RAM..) para elegir el tamaño que tendrá esta partición lo mas recomendable seria seguir los siguientes valores en base a la cantidad de RAM que tengamos..
128MB hacer una partición de 256MB256MB hacer una partición de 384MB512MB hacer una partición de 640MB1GB puede ser una de 640MB como una de 1024MB, hacer una partición mas grande seria totalmente en vano y nos jugaría en contra..2GB o mas de ram, con esa cantidad casi no necesitaremos de la partición swap, así que una de 1024MB estaríamos bien..
Y la tercer partición ”sda3” seria (/home) donde estarían todos nuestros datos, imagenes, themes, musica, etc, etc..
Ahora que masomenos quedo explicado el porque de cada partición podes ir creando segun el tamaño que dispongas libre en tu disco..
El sistema de archivos que utilizaremos sera ext4 y con darle un tamaño de 7 a 15 GB a el raiz estaria mas que bien.
El punto de montaje es donde elijen que partición va a ser.. si la raiz (/) 10GB, swap (area de intercambio) 1024MB o (/home) mas de 8GB.
Una vez que tengamos correctamente particionado como la imagen anterior.. seguimos con la instalación..
Aquí ingresamos nuestros datos, contraseña y si queremos que nos pida la contraseña al iniciar o inicie automáticamente..
Miramos si esta todo bien y le damos intalar..
Comenzo a instalar. Esta parte va rapida, es recomendable mantener conectada la pc o notebook a internet porque mientras instala desde el cd tambien busca alguna actualizacion o paquete de idioma si es que los hay e instala.
Cuando termina el proceso reiniciamos, sacamos el cd y listo el pollo..
Con ustedes Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, espero lo disfruten.
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