iPad 2 Retina Display evidence mounts, this time a .png of wood is to blame
January 17, 2011 No Comment
So, we heard from our source that the iPad 2 would have a “super high resolution” Retina Display , we heard from AppleInsider that the iPad 2 is getting around 4X the graphics performance of the iPad, and of course there’s the fact that the iPhone 4′s Retina Display offered a pretty impressively painless upgrade path for developers — an iPad 2 with a 2048 x 1536 screen is starting to sound less and less like the crazy dream of naive fanboys. But wait, there’s more! A .png has been found in the iBooks 1.2 source files, dubbed Wood Tile@2x.png. It’s sized at 1536 x 800, while the old and busted Wood Tile.png in iBooks 1.1 was 768 x 400 — that’s 2X in each direction, or 4X the pixels, for anyone who’s counting. Incontrovertible evidence? No, but we want to believe. iPad 2 Retina Display evidence mounts, this time a .png of wood is to blame originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver was in critical condition this morning after being admitted yesterday to a Maryland hospital, a family spokeswoman said. No other details about the 95-year-old’s ailment were released, but Shriver announced in 2003 that he had Alzheimer’s disease.
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An Egyptian man set himself on fire outside the country’s parliament on Monday, in an apparent protest emulating the self-immolation of an unemployed Tunisian man last month that helped trigger a popular uprising. (Jan. 17)
Continue reading …Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are parents again, TMZ reports —despite the noticeable lack of telltale baby bump. The high-profile Aussies went the surrogate-mother route this time around, and daughter Faith Margaret was quietly born in Nashville on Dec. 28. Kidman and Urban are her biological parents, and she’s home…
Continue reading …In Time Forum on Civility, Markos Moulitsas Repeats Line That Palin, Angle Will Eventually Get People Killed
January 17, 2011 No Comment
Time magazine asked a panel of 16 experts to answer the question “Are We Becoming An Uncivil Society?” While Time's selected Republicans and conservatives (including Glenn Beck) stayed civil and didn't point explicit fingers at liberals for trying to smear the Tucson shooting on conservatives, leftist Daily Kos blogger Markos Moulitsas rudely predicted (again) that one side of the aisle, inspired by people like Beck, Sarah Palin, and Sharron Angle were going to get Americans killed: We have always been an uncivil society. Just ask John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. But being harsh and passionate in one's political discourse isn't the same as walking around with guns intimidating the opposition, or using apocalyptic and Armageddon-style rhetoric to paint your opponents as terrorists and enemies of democracy and freedom. Problem is, we now have a side that is gun-obsessed, whipping people up into a frenzy with lies about Obama taking their guns away and interning conservatives in FEMA concentration camps (to name just two conspiracy theories). When Sarah Palin tells her followers not to retreat, but to “reload,” when Sharron Angle says people should resort to “Second Amendment remedies” if they don't get their way at the ballot box, and when Glenn Beck spreads the latest insane conspiracy theory, well then, it's only a matter of time before people start getting killed. This is not an April Fools' Day joke. Time invited Markos Moulitsas to speak of civility in a civil tone. Were they shocked he just kept frantically slinging mud? Is the Kos Kommandant incapable of decorum even as his bete noire Beck accomplishes it? It seems bizarre to many that a forum on civility truly needs someone whose ethical views include “killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.”
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ECOtality teamed up with Best Buy a few months back to expand its network of Blink EV chargers, and it’s now finally announced which company will actually be connecting that network. ECOtality will be relying on Sprint’s Command Center M2M solution, which will handle things like monitoring and electronic payments, and allow ECOtality to display digital content for advertising or other information, among a host of other network-related things. From an end-user perspective, that also means that folks will be able to keep watch on the Blink network from various devices, find chargers near them with GPS, and receive notifications of a charge interruption or completion. Head on past the break for the complete press release. Continue reading ECOtality teams with Sprint to connect Blink EV charging network ECOtality teams with Sprint to connect Blink EV charging network originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A spokesman for Tunisia’s central bank denies a Le Monde report that the wife of ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali left the country with almost $60 million of Tunisia’s reserves. Below is a summary of the charges, which a bank spokesman denied. BBC: Citing French security sources, Le Monde reported that Leila Trabelsi went to the bank in December, the month when the protests against her husband’s government began. It said the bank’s governor refused her demand and asked for a written request for the gold, said to be worth 45m euros (£38m). It said the president initially refused to make such an order before giving in to his wife. The paper said she then left Tunisia before returning to the country, and that the gold bars were reportedly taken to Switzerland. Read more Related Entries December 27, 2010 Banking Regulation Team Pitches New Payment Rules November 29, 2010 WikiLeaks Going After Big U.S. Bank
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Click here to view this media Divine inspiration from somewhere in the heartland. I’ll just let it speak for itself. And Sarah. Here are the lyrics: She’s a cold blast from Alaska Ingrained with common sense She’s not a Harvard lawyer But she knew what the Founders meant A cold blast from the north That freezes Congress in their tracks With God and the Tea Party She’s gonna take it back [Chorus] Sarah Palin, she won’t listen to their bunk Sarah Palin’s comin’ south to hunt some skunk Sarah Palin, she’ll throw them all in jail And when she gets to Washington It’ll be cold as hell Sarah has the wisdom To walk through an open door She is stomping out the wretches Where the evil lines are stored She will scrub the floors and sweep the riff raff into cracks With God and the Tea Party She’s gonna take it back [Chorus] [Spoken] Congress patted themselves on the back For some new bill they just passed I watch as my freedom slowly runs through an hourglass They think they spend our money better than we do But they can talk until they’re blue and old ‘Cause if they ever gave us anything They always wanted something in return Sarah knows. Sarah’s marching home YouTube version is here.
Continue reading …Brett Favre is making it official, again: The 41-year-old quarterback has filed retirement paperwork with the NFL, Fox Sports reports. He’s unretired more than most people send racy photos to massage therapists, but the third time might just be the charm: Favre has consistently said 2010 would be his last…
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