The iPhone 4 is here bringing with it video calling, a three-axis gyroscope, and an improved battery life.
It can record 720p high-definition video and its display is four times the resolution of previous iPhone models. Check out the video and pay special attention to "FACE TIME".
iPhones, iPads, and iPods, ohhh my.
6.11.2010
The New iPhone
6.09.2010
A Small Chance
From Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture Blog:
The big flaw in the business critique of regulation is not so much that it overstates the costs, but that it understates its benefits — in particular, the benefits of avoiding low-probability events with disastrous consequences.
Think of oil spills, mine explosions, financial meltdowns or even global warming. There is a natural tendency of human beings to underestimate the odds of such seemingly unlikely events — of forgetting that the 100-year flood is as likely to happen in Year 5 as it is in Year 95. And if there are insufficient data to calculate the probability of a very bad outcome, as is often the case, that doesn’t mean we should assume the probability is zero.
-Steven Pearlstein
Fascinating quote that explains the game theory — and mathematical foibles — of the deregulatory free market extremists. This perfectly sums up the rationalizations used by those people who have emphasized the costs of regulation, but not the upside.
In a Democracy, when taxpayers have attempted to collectively protect themselves against corporate (and other) monied interests have had to argue against a growth storyline. That of course, turns out to have been a false narrative, but it carried the day for decades.
Pearlstein adds:
The biggest oil spill ever. The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. The deadliest mine disaster in 25 years. One recall after another of toys from China, of vehicles from Toyota, of hamburgers from roach-infested processing plants. The whole Vioxx fiasco. And let’s not forget the biggest climate threat since the Ice Age.
Even if you’re not into conspiracy theories, it’s hard to ignore the common thread running through these recent crises . . . regulators who were blinded by their ideological bias against government interference and their faith that industries could police themselves.”
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/06/understating-the-benefits-of-avoiding-low-probability-disastrous-consequences/
6.07.2010
6.04.2010
Links
Worldwide Beer Production and Consumption: http://www.lunch.com/beercommunity/reviews/Beer_Production_and_Consumption_Around_the_World-3-1466543.html
Knock-Off Foreign Toys: http://www.urlesque.com/2010/06/01/26-hilariously-inaccurate-knock-off-toys/?sms_ss=digg
Thanks to Megan for the links.
6.02.2010
Fountain of the Future
It's been called "the fountain of the future" and "the most advanced soda fountain ever".
Coca-Cola is in the process of rolling out a new machine called Freestyle. It's a fountain drink dispenser that resides in fast food restaurants, but it's hard to believe what it does. This high tech gadget actually allows customers to mix their own flavor concoctions from more than 100 Coca-Cola drink brands.
Freestyle not only dispenses unlimited flavor choices, it's also downright cool-looking. Housed in a Ferrari-designed sleek metal shell, Freestyle boasts touchscreen technology and releases "digitally-controlled amounts of concentrate flavor from dozens of plastic cartridges." The machine is also a marketing wizard of sorts. Wireless technology allows it to beam back information to the company about beverage usage patterns.
5.31.2010
Together at Last
2 of mankind's greatest inventions, together at last:
The possibilities are endless...
5.28.2010
Wheaton College
As a graduate of Wheaton College (in NORTON), the following story was all the more interesting:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100525/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2234
5.26.2010
5.24.2010
5.21.2010
40 Yards Right
From: http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/When-losing-a-golf-tournament-really-makes-you-a?urn=golf,238912
There are times to be competitive. Moments when all you want to do is humiliate your opponent as you defeat him. It's the nature of sports, and what our internal competition meters usually read. But, at times, and these are few and far between, we see acts that defy wins and losses.
That is what happened between two collegiate golfers, vying for a spot in the NAIA National Championship.
Grant Whybark, a sophomore at the University of St. Francis, had locked up a spot in nationals with his team, which won the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship, but was in a playoff against Olivet Nazarene's Seth Doran for individual honors.
As championships go, both the winning team and winning individual are asked to move on to nationals, so if Whybark won the playoff against Doran, he'd be honoring both spots and Doran wouldn't be asked to move on.
Whybark stood over his tee shot on the first playoff hole, looked down the fairway and back at his ball, and hit it 40 yards right of the fairway, out of bounds by a mile. He made double bogey, Doran made par, and Olivet Nazarene had a man in nationals.
What makes it so incredible? Whybark intentionally did it, because he felt Doran had earned a spot in the next round.
"We all know Seth very well," Whybark explains, "and he not only is a very good player, but a great person as well. He’s a senior and had never been to nationals. Somehow, it just wasn’t in my heart to try to knock him out.
"I think some people were surprised, but my team knew what I was doing and were supportive of me. I felt Seth deserved to go (to nationals) just as much as I did.
"It was one of those things where I couldn’t feel good taking something from him like this. My goal from the start was to get (to nationals) with my team. I had already done that."
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