Recipes created by Marcia Kiesel
Each one of these fabulous post-Thanksgiving dishes uses three leftovers: roast turkey, string beans and mashed potatoes.
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Recipes created by Marcia Kiesel
Each one of these fabulous post-Thanksgiving dishes uses three leftovers: roast turkey, string beans and mashed potatoes.
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I am quite sure that many of us would have already heard about the likes of Oppo of China, as that country is certainly on the rise when it comes to consumer electronics, although their branding exercises would need to be enhanced even more if they were to follow in the footsteps of Samsung and LG. Gionee is definitely not a name that most folks would have heard of, but the Gionee Elife E7 does bring something special to the table that other smartphones do not – it will feature a 5.5” 1080p display alongside the Android operating system, not to mention being the first smartphone that will feature the 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset (MSM8974AC) alongside an extremely sensitive 16-megapixel camera thanks to the Largan M8 lens which has a 1/2.3” sensor and large 1.34µm pixels.
Gionee has faith that this version of the OmniVision sensor will be able to offer the best balance when it comes to resolution and pixel size, and has touted that it will still blow the unreleased and speculated 1.12µm, 16-megapixel sensor that is rumored to make an appearance on the yet unreleased and definitely unannounced Samsung Galaxy S5. What do you think o the Gionee Elife E7?
Gionee Elife E7 Has 16-Megapixel Shooter original content from Ubergizmo.
By Irene and Klotz
(Reuters) – The launch of an unmanned Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 9 rocket was aborted one minute before liftoff on Thursday due to an unexplained technical issue, company officials said.
It was the second attempt this week to launch a communications satellite for SES, which operates the world’s second largest fleet.
An initial attempt on Monday was called off after unusual pressure readings in the rocket’s liquid oxygen tank.
The company’s next launch attempt is on Friday.
Perched on top of the rocket was a 7,000-pound (3,175 kg) communications satellite owned by Luxembourg-based SES S.A., which operates a 54-satellite fleet, the world’s second-largest.
The satellite, known as SES-8 and worth about $100 million, will be positioned to provide television, cable, broadband and other services to customers in India, China, Vietnam and other markets in Asia.
“It’s an extremely important satellite for us,” Martin Halliwell, chief technology officer of SES, told reporters at a prelaunch gathering on Sunday in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
“We know that as we go forward into these very significant growth markets that it’s absolutely critical that we have a cost-effective and efficient way to get to orbit. That’s really what SpaceX has brought us.”
Previous SES satellites were launched primarily aboard Russian Proton and European Ariane rockets, which cost far more than the approximately $55 million the company paid for its ride on SpaceX’s Falcon booster, Halliwell said.
He would not say exactly how much SpaceX undercut the competition, but did say SES got a discount by agreeing to fly on Falcon 9’s first mission to the high altitude that communications satellites require.
In addition to a September 29 test flight of an upgraded Falcon 9, older versions of the rocket have flown successfully five times, including three missions for NASA to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, which orbits about 250 miles above Earth.
QUARTER OF THE WAY TO THE MOON
SpaceX aims to put SES-8 into an elliptical orbit that reaches more than 50,000 miles from Earth, about a quarter of the way to the moon.
That altitude requires less fuel for SES-8 to fly itself into its 22,369-mile (36,000-km) high operational orbit, thereby extending its service life.
SpaceX hoped to demonstrate its ability to fire up the Falcon 9’s upper-stage engine twice during the September test flight, but that did not work. Engineers later realized that liquid oxygen, used for chilling, had come into contact with the motor’s igniter lines, causing them to freeze.
“It was not a complicated issue to fix. Obviously, we were glad we caught it on a mission where we were only demonstrating that second burn, as opposed to one where we have to get it done,” SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell told reporters during a prelaunch conference call.
The company needs three successful launches of its upgraded Falcon rocket before it will be eligible to compete to carry the U.S. military’s largest and most expensive satellites, a market now monopolized by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
“There’s always some risk associated with the flight not working. So we’re very appreciative that SES would place a bet on SpaceX,” said Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive.
SES has options for three more Falcon flights, including one on the firm’s heavy-lift rocket, which is under development and expected to debut next year.
SpaceX’s launch manifest includes nearly 50 other launches, worth about $4 billion. About 75 percent of the flights are for commercial customers.
“Our prices are the most competitive of any in the world,” Musk said. “We will force other rocket companies to either develop new technology that’s a lot better or they have to exit the launch market.”
Halliwell said SpaceX competitors were “shaking in their shoes.”
“There are a lot of people who hope that SpaceX is going to fail,” he said. “This is really rocking the industry.”
The global satellite industry had revenues of nearly $190 billion in 2012, including nearly $90 billion in television services alone, the Satellite Industry Association trade group reported in October. The U.S. share of the market is 45 percent, the report said.
(Editing by Christopher Wilson)
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Usually, if you’re building your own synthesizer, you have aspirations of composing the next great techno track. But this kit—available from the Maker SHED for just $20—lets you build a wonderful toy ray gun that generates electronic "pewpew" sound effects. And, instead of just cycling through various sounds like you would with a cheap toy, you can use the gun’s three adjustable knobs to tweak the wub, bwoop, and bip bip sounds however you like.
Spire has introduced another mid-tower PC case to its line-up, the LUGEN 1603. Supporting both micro-ATX and ATX motherboards, this steel case is equipped with a front-placed I/O panel with 2x USB 2.0 and 2x audio ports, three 5.25-inch external drive bays, four 3.5-inch internal drive bays and seven expansion slots, and can accommodate up to three fans (2x 120mm side, 1x 120mm rear). The LUGEN 1603 is priced at $27.95. [Product Page]
Crime does not pay, and certainly it is a crime to steal something that does not belong to you in the first place. Software piracy is a very big issue that needs to be tackled, and Apptricity, the maker of logistics software that is used to track down the location of soldiers as well as shipments in critical missions, has decided to bring the US Government to court after the defaulted on software license fees. This means that the US military had been running on unlicensed copies of the software, which would be tantamount to piracy – and the kicker is this – it has been going on for nearly 10 years!
Apptricity claims that the US Government had unlawfully installed the software on 93 servers and approximately 9,000 devices, not to mention another 500 licenses which were paid for. The license fees for the software alone stood at $1.35 million for each server, while it should cost $5,000 per device – and taking out our trusty calculators, it would amount to roughly $224 million in lost revenue. The US Government has since decided to settle this lawsuit by handing over $50 million to Apptricity, which the latter accepted. It does seem as though their working relationship is set to continue in the days and years ahead though.
US Military Caught Pirating Software, To Pay $50 Million In Fines original content from Ubergizmo.
PNY is offering you their newest line of USB 3.0 flash drives, the Wave. Coming in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities, these capless flash drives feature a retractable USB 3.0 connector and promise to deliver read and write speeds of up to 80MB/s and 20MB/s, respectively. The 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models are available now for 19.99 GBP (about $32), 29.99 GBP (about $49) and 59.99 GBP (about $97), respectively. [PNY]
Expert Oriented has listed a new graphics card ‘GF-GTX760-E2GHD/FF14′ on their product page. Specs-wise, the card is packed with 1152 Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1058MHz (Boost Clock 1110MHz) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz, and features 2x DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The GF-GTX760-E2GHD/FF14 will sell for 30,000 Yen (about $295) and will come with a free download coupon of Final Fantasy 14: Shinsei Eoruzea (free for 30 days). [Product Page]
The folks over at Facebook have introduced the latest version of its Windows 8.1 app update, which has already happened several times before ever since the first version rolled out in slightly more than one month back. Right now, the Facebook app for Windows 8.1 happens to be the most popular free app in the Windows Store, so do expect it to remain somewhere at the top after the latest version has already been released, sporting a slew of new features and improvements to make your social network experience a more complete one.
The Windows Store page points to a change log that shows how the Facebook app will now be able to support tagging – a first for it, actually. You can download and upload both files and photos from Facebook messages using this latest update, not to mention being able to set up not only your cover but profile photos as well straight from the app. Hopefully the many bug fixes which were proclaimed but not revealed will also do their bit to make it all the more enjoyable. You can download the app here. For those who have already done so, how did you find your experience so far? Has it been a rewarding one?
Facebook Introduces Windows 8.1 App Update With Slew Of New Features original content from Ubergizmo.