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Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Windows 8 sales hit 40 million
Microsoft said Tuesday it sold 40 million licenses for its Windows 8 operating system in the first month after a launch which got a mixed reception.
One of the new heads of the Windows unit, Tami Reller, made the announcement to an analysts' meeting and Microsoft provided the information on its Windows blog.
"Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades," the blog post said. "We built Windows 8 to work great on existing Windows 7 PCs. And we also set out to make upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 super easy."
Microsoft released the new operating system worldwide on October 26 as a way to help the dominant PC software maker get a bigger share of the market for mobile devices such as tablets.
But some say the new system may be hard to adapt to both PC and tablet format and that businesses may be slow to adopt Windows 8.
It's not clear how many people are using Windows 8, because the licenses may be sold to PC makers and not yet in use.
Earlier this month, Microsoft said the head of its Windows unit was leaving.
Windows president Steven Sinofsky will depart Microsoft and, effective immediately, his duties will be divided between a pair of executives who will answer directly to chief executive Steven Ballmer.
Julie Larson-Green was promoted to lead Windows software and hardware engineering. Reller will run the business side of Windows in addition to her duties as chief financial officer.
Microsoft has not disclosed sales data for its new Surface tablet computer, which uses Windows 8, and was launched at the same time as the operating system.
The Redmond, Washington giant said it was also boosting the number of apps in its Windows Store as part of its mobile strategy.
"There were more apps in the Windows Store at launch than any other app store at their launch and since then, the number of apps in the Windows Store has doubled," the blog said.
"A number of apps in the Windows Store have crossed the $25,000 revenue mark and the developer keeps 80 percent of the revenue they make off downloads for the life of their app. A lot of great new apps have been added to the Windows Store since launch."
(c) 2012 AFP
Source: http://phys.org/news273260055.html
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Singer Mary J. Blige, media personality Oprah Winfrey and singer Jennifer Hudson prepare to cut the ribbon to signal the start of the ?Live Your Best Life Walk? to celebrate O, The Oprah Magazine?s 10th Anniversary at Intrepid Welcome Center on May 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Media personality Oprah Winfrey (center) jumps in celebration at the start of the ?Live Your Best Life Walk? to celebrate O, The Oprah Magazine?s 10th Anniversary at Intrepid Welcome Center on May 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Singer Mary J. Blige, singer Jennifer Hudson and media personality Oprah Winfrey at the start of the ?Live Your Best Life Walk? to celebrate O, The Oprah Magazine?s 10th Anniversary at Intrepid Welcome Center on May 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Singer Mary J. Blige and media personality Oprah Winfrey celebrate at the completion of the ?Live Your Best Life Walk? to celebrate O, The Oprah Magazine?s 10th Anniversary at Intrepid Welcome Center on May 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Media personality Oprah Winfrey attends the ?Live Your Best Life Walk? to celebrate O, The Oprah Magazine?s 10th Anniversary at Intrepid Welcome Center on May 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Gayle King, editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine, arrives at the White House Correspondents? Association dinner on May 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. The annual dinner featured comedian Jay Leno and was attended by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Oprah Winfrey appears on the cover of the September 2001 issue of ?O, The Oprah Magazine.? The publisher of the German erotica magazine ?O Magazine? filed a lawsuits in federal court August 20, 2001 in New York claiming Winfrey?s magazine is guilty of trademark infringement and unfair competition. (Photo by Getty Images)
A signature ?O? marks the location of The Oprah Store, the first free-standing retail store for Oprah Winfrey?s Harpo, Inc. February 8, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. The store is located across the street from Harpo Studios where Winfrey tapes her talk show. Some of the proceeds from sales at the store will benefit various Winfrey supported charities. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Singer Mary J. Blige, media personality Oprah Winfrey and singer Jennifer Hudson prepare to cut the ribbon to signal the start of the ?Live Your Best Life Walk? to celebrate O, The Oprah Magazine?s 10th Anniversary at Intrepid Welcome Center on May 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
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Oprah Winfrey recently announced at the annual conference of O magazine that she had experienced a breast cancer scare, shocking audience members including her best friend Gayle King. When Winfrey related this fact to the crowd, King became perturbed, because she had not been previously informed by her closest pal of this troubling milestone.
In a dramatic scene that took place in front of thousands in a packed auditorium,?The New York Times reports that:
When Ms. King grew visibly upset, one woman chided Ms. Winfrey for not telling her friend ahead of time and ordered her to apologize to Ms. King ? all before an audience. Ms. Winfrey also did not hide her dissatisfaction with the criticism she had faced. She told the audience, ?the press tried to cut me off at the knees? in its coverage of OWN, and bristled at questions about the challenges her magazine confronted.
Winfrey?s scare was a false alarm in the end, yet made an interesting launching point for discussing what the future holds for the 58-year-old mogul. According to New York Times writer Christine Haughney, the stakes are high for the billionaire, who seeks to maintain her level of media power while appealing to younger women.
Additionally, as she works to build her OWN network, the future of Winfrey?s magazine remains uncertain without the power of her now-defunct eponymous show buoying it.
RELATED:??Oprah?s Organics? trademark application reveals mogul?s plans for food market
The print publication has experienced a roughly 22 percent decline in newsstand sales since the end of Winfrey?s broadcast television program, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ran for 25 years.?If business constraints demand it, Winfrey might shutter the glossy that bears her image on the cover every month.??Obviously, the show was helping in ways that you know I hadn?t accounted for,? Winfrey told the Times. ?I?m not interested, you know, in bleeding money.?
Despite these challenges, the luminary is confident that she can make the transition to promoting positive messages in her remaining platforms. Oprah currently attracts a middle-aged crowd, which is not good for expanding her business. Yet, younger fans will come, Winfrey believes, because she is totally focused on the sincerity of her uplifting content.
?You?re never going to run out of people who are looking for a more joyful life,? she concluded.
Follow Alexis Garrett Stodghill on Twitter at @lexisb.
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Linda asks?If two independent experiments failed to replicate the Abiogenesis Theory does it falsify the Theory?In natural science, abiogenesis or biopoesis is the study of how biological life arises from inorganic matter. (Not ignorance matters, That?s an atheist fundie term)
The two independently conducted experiments one by an agnostic and the other by an atheist team both failed miserably.
The agnostic bashed two rocks together in pond scum and failed to make life or dinosaurs.
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Eurasianet.org spreads misinformation about the Armenian church in Nakhichevan
14:47, 28 November, 2012YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian church built in the 19th century in Nakhichevan has not been merely turned into a cattle shed, but also was introduced as an "Albanian sacred place." The Chairman of a fund studying Armenian architecture Samvel Karapetyan referred to the misinformation published in Eurasianet.org website in his videoblog. As reports "Armenpress" Samvel Karapetyan stated that in the picture of the Eurasianet article is depicted St. Gevorg Church of Dashbulag village, which was entirely Armenian populated before 1918. The church was built in 1823, when "the Albanians" had left the stage 1000 years ago.
Samvel Karapetyan states: "Azerbaijan paid USD 4, 5 million to import cows from Germany and Austria, the photographer took the picture of these cows in Dashbulag, which was entirely Armenian populated before 1918. During Musafat administration the Turkish army massacred all the Armenians of the aforementioned village on their road to Baku. One can clearly see in the picture that the church became a cattle shed without doors. Under the picture there is an inscription saying that this is an Albanian church. According to Azerbaijani fabrication the Albanians are their ancestors. Hence, it becomes a monument constructed by the Turkish Christians, which is being treated as a cattle shed.
But the fact is that the church in Dashbulag was called after St. Gevorg, built in 1828. Among other things it is noteworthy that there had been records about the construction works. There is information about the aforesaid church in "the Albanian Country and its Neighbors" by Bishop Makar Barkhudaryants."
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Korg MicroStation shrinks down the synth for first-timers
Nowadays, anyone with a laptop, a dream and a vague grasp on tonality can lay down their own DIY demo. But for those with more serious musical aspirations, Korg's MicroStation might be worth a look. The shrunken-down sequencer arrives as a $399 My First Synth of sorts, combining dual arpeggiators, 480 effects and 61 "natural touch" keys in a compact form factor that should play nice with novice musicians. The keyboard also features an SD slot for saving and transporting your future Top 40 (college radio) hits, a USB port for easy connection to your home or studio computer and comes packaged with editing software: MicroStation Editor and MicroStation Plug-in Editor. If any or all of that rings your bell, you can snag it now at the source below.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Mining for Gigantic Fossil Snakes
Attendees view a replica of the prehistoric Titanoboa, the largest snake to ever live, devouring a crocodile, on display at Grand Central Terminal? in New York.Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images.
For scientists interested in what the world looked and felt like millions of years ago, coal mines are as good as it gets. While coal may be a major culprit in global warming, there is no place like a coal mine for studying climate change in the past and its likely effects on our own world. Mining companies know this, and for whatever reason, be it good citizenship or simply good public relations, they frequently lend paleontologists a hand.
Consider, for example, Cerrej?n, an immense set of open pit coal mines in northern Colombia near the Caribbean coast. The pits are huge, circular, moonscape scars in the earth with shaley slopes that dump runoff water into green crater lakes where no plant dares grow and no bird dares swim. Once in a while, dynamite collapses part of the surrounding wall, and enormous cranes collect the coal while methane fires belch from fissures in the cliffs high above.
But there?s something else. The shale slopes at Cerrej?n have preserved the fossil record of an entire tropical ecosystem as it existed 58 million years ago. By looking at the fossils, paleontologists can tell what the ancient climate at Cerrej?n was like (hotter and wetter than it is today) and what the foliage was like (very lush and similar to today?s Amazon jungle). The animals were huge. Cerrej?n had river turtles with shells the size of kitchen tables that could seat six, and at the top of the food chain was Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a 45-foot, 2,500-pound serpent. Titanoboa was a true river monster?the largest snake ever known to have existed, and about five times the size of the Amazon anaconda, the biggest snake alive today.
What the coal shows is that Cerrej?n produced these giant creatures at a time when mean ambient temperatures in the tropics were in the high 80s, about six degrees warmer than today and about as warm as temperatures can be without risking a massive die-off. Yet Titanoboa and the forest where it lived apparently thrived.
And what coal mining gives you is access to such a place. Cerrej?n is the only complete ancient tropical ecosystem that is available for study. We can assume that there are plenty of fossils in the tropics, but they are buried in the jungles somewhere in the middle of nowhere. University grants can?t pay for big excavations on spec, but coal companies will, because coal is well worth the investment.
And since paleontologists and coal companies have known for at least a century that the mines are treasure chests of ancient secrets, many companies have staff scientists who look for unusual formations and alert researches when they find something good. When I traveled to Cerrej?n a couple of years ago, the multinational company that runs it, Carbones del Cerrej?n Ltd. did as much as possible to assist visiting paleontologists, providing everything from hard hats to radio-equipped truck drivers who knew when the dynamite was ready to go off and where to seek shelter when it happened.
Coal deposits are compressed peat swamps that began as dry-land tropical forests. Temperatures grow colder in the early phase of a natural climate cycle, and polar ice sheets expand and sea level drops. When the cycle begins to change, the ice has not yet reached its maximum extent, but rains increase in lower latitudes, changing the dry forest into swamp. The ice warms but does not melt immediately. When it does, it happens quickly and dramatically, causing sharp rises in sea level. Salt water floods the swamp, the forest dies, mud, silt and sand tamp down everything, and coal forms. Then the cycle begins again.
The good stuff?spores, seeds, pollen, cell walls and bones?is not only in the coal itself, but in the layers of sedimentary rock on the floor and the roof of each coal deposit. Think about the layers as a sandwich: The coal is the filling and the sedimentary layers are the bread. The bottom slice shows us what was in the forest when the cycle began; the top slice has everything that was there when the forest died. Each cycle, known as a ?cyclothem,? lasts about 100,000 to 400,000 years, depending on where it is.
There is nothing on Earth any better than a coal mine for analyzing ancient ecosystems. The information contained in the coal is ?so dense? given the compressed volume of vegetation, notes Illinois State Geological Survey geologist Scott Elrick, ?that it goes with without saying that you?re going to have a huge fossil presence.?
Elrick is part of an informal network of scientists who monitor coal mining throughout the United States and the world for opportunities to study new strata as they are exposed. In 2006, Elrick and a colleague discovered four square miles of fossil forest in the ceiling of Peabody Energy?s Vermilion Grove tunnel mine in eastern Illinois, preserved elegantly 306 million years ago when a series of earthquakes allowed the sea to bury the entire forest in a single catastrophic event.
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