Adobe is currently receiving flack for selling software at inflated prices in Australia, where Creative Suite costs $1,400 more than in the US. In this interview, Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, completely refuses to explain why, Politicians could learn something from this guy. He is more slippery than a fish coated in Crisco. [YouTube via Verge] More »
In a world where most couples have at least 10 ways to communicate with each other, it’s hard to remember a time when having to make regular long-distance phone calls could end a romance. But that was the case for Wendi and Gerd Nitschmann, who met in college in Switzerland in 1982. The pair began dating when Wendi was an incoming freshman and Gerd was a junior and the two were soon engaged, but circumstances kept them apart and eventually ended their romance. Twenty-four years later, the two found each other again via Facebook and married in 2008. Wendi wrote about their whirlwind romance in “The Long Engagement.” She wrote Huff/Post50 to share their story.
I was 17 when I boarded an airplane bound for college in Switzerland in 1982. I had been about to drop out of boarding school, but instead I got that last credit I needed (Senior English) in summer school so I could go to college early. My mother suggested The American College of Switzerland (ACS) since she had visited the town it was in and had been charmed. Plus, I would be closer to home (Saudi Arabia) than if I attended college in the States.
Gerd was 20 and a junior at ACS. He says he noticed me immediately and began trying to figure out how to win my affection. He asked a boy he knew who lived downstairs (my room was on the second floor of a villa) about me. The boy
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“I’ve never colored my hair — I’m a little bit afraid that if I color it and don’t like it, I’ll never be able to get it back, so I just keep it,” says Kristen Aiken, the Taste editor here at The Huffington Post. After seeing the natural redhead around the newsroom, we have to say we’re in agreement. “I have ringlets naturally. I just use a big round barrel curling iron to straighten my hair — it takes less time and I think it’s less damaging. When we pressed her for more hair tricks, she offered up this awesome bit of advice:
“My one hair tip doesn’t control how it looks, but how it smells. There’s an episode of ‘My So-Called Life‘ where Brian Krakow told Angela Chase that her hair smelled like a grove of orange trees. I remember hearing that in 7th grade and thinking it was the greatest thing ever. So every morning I put a little bit of orange extract in my hair serum, and I rub it through the ends of my hair. It’s a nice boost throughout the day.” Amazing.
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A teenage boy is in critical condition after being shot inside his Kendall townhome.
An adult and two other minors were home at the time of the shooting at 11849 SW 99th Lane, but police have so far declined to confirm whether the children were handling the gun.
But Miami-Dade Police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta did issue a stern warning to parents: “It’s very important for those that own firearms is to educate your teenagers and let them know the dangers that are involved in handling a type of gun,” he said.
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This is a guest post by our current Rioter in Residence, Kevin Smokler. Kevin is the author of forthcoming essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (Prometheus Books, Feb. 2013) and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His work has appeared in the LA Times, Fast Company, Paid Content, The San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly and on National Public Radio. Follow him on Twitter @weegee.
Most authors support public libraries – but not Terry Deary, author of the children’s series Horrible Histories. He told The Guardian that “the concept behind libraries… is no longer relevant.”
He went on to say,
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Are you looking for something special to do for your Valentine this year? Something other than the clichéd box of heart-shaped chocolates or dinner at an over-priced restaurant? Check out these tips from bestselling romance authors that will spice up your Valentines Day. And maybe your night!
Compiled by Tamera Alexander (www.TameraAlexander.com), bestselling author of nine novels, including To Whisper Her Name and A Lasting Impression
In the future American astronauts may make their way into deep space or to the international space station using NASA’s Orion capsule and Orion’s Space Launch System. The first flight for Orion is expected to occur in 2014. That flight will be unmanned and aimed at launching the spacecraft 3600 miles above the surface of the Earth.
If that launch is successful, it would mark the farthest mission from Earth since Apollo 17 returned from the moon in 1972. NASA’s goal with Orion is to put Americans back on the moon by 2021. This week NASA has been testing parachutes and rocket engines for the Orion spacecraft and its launch system. During parachute tests, NASA engineers intentionally kept one of the three parachutes from opening with a test capsule attached underneath.
Rather than being an actual Orion capsule or a mockup, Wired reports that the “test capsule” was a rocket-shaped object of the same mass as the Orion capsule. For the test, the faux capsule was dropped from 25,000 feet above the ground out in Arizona desert. NASA says that even with only two of the parachutes fully functional and the third flapping in the wind, the capsule descendent at a rate that would have allowed astronauts inside to survive.
The test marks the eighth parachute test for the Orion program. Later in 2013 NASA will begin testing the recovery process used to retrieve the Orion capsule and the astronauts inside after they splashed down in the ocean. Rather than using a helicopter to fly the capsule back to a ship as happened in the Apollo era, a recovery ship will be used to fetch the Orion capsule from the water. NASA also plans to continue testing the J-2X engine’s at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. There will be a hot fire test conducted this month to establish performance parameters for the engine and various liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen inlet pressures will be explored.
[via Wired]
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Have you heard of Sonos before? Surely you have, as they are the leading manufacturer of wireless audio systems, and have decided to take the plunge where wireless audio is concerned with the introduction of the beautiful, eye-catching Sonos Playbar. The Sonos Playbar can be said to be the soundbar for music lovers, delivering immersive HiFi sound to the TV. Not only that, since it is a full Wireless HiFi system, it is capable of streaming all the music on earth via a solitary easy-to-use player. In a nutshell, HiFi, meet HiDef. HiDef, stick your hand out for HiFi.
John MacFarlane, CEO, Sonos, Inc., said, “Sonos has transformed the way people listen to music throughout the home and now we’re bringing our wireless HiFi approach to home theater. PLAYBAR will change everything about the sound experience in your living room, bringing together amazing HiFi sound for your TV and wireless access to the world’s music in a radically simple way.”
The sophisticated all-in-one design of the Sonos Playbar will merge exposed aluminum with high performance speaker fabric, delivering a look that is not only timeless, but also understated. After all, since it will not need a subwoofer or speaker wire, it is capable of fitting easily into any room and setup. Thanks to the integrated sensors, it will be able to assist the Sonos Playbar to automatically adjust EQ and channel orientation, allowing it to lie flat on the TV stand or rotate for low profile wall-mounting above or below the TV.
When you open up the Playbar, those who are from an engineering background will find nine individually amplified speakers, where half a dozen mid-woofers help deliver deep, rich low-frequency sounds, with three tweeters pumping out crystal clear high-frequency detail. It does not matter whether you are watching a movie, playing a game or streaming a song from Pandora or Spotify, the Sonos Playbar is equal to the task with clearer and louder audio. Of course, for such premium performance, you will have to pay through your nose, and we are looking at a $699 price tag for the Sonos Playbar.
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Apple’s iOS and Microsoft Exchange Server have been cronies for quite awhile now, but since iOS 6 there’s been some issues. The latest rift is a version 6.1 recurring calendar event bug that causes “excessive communication” if you respond to an exception error. Cupertino’s identified the problem and says a fix is incoming, though it didn’t specify exactly when — and iOS 6.1.1 just hit devices to fix network connectivity issues, so it may not be imminent. Meanwhile, Apple advises that you not respond to the exception and to disable, then enable any Exchange calendars that run amok — which should keep you BYOD-ing in the interim.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Apple
Via: The Verge
Source: Apple
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