Sunday, January 31, 2010

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financial crisis

How was that same date but with the financial crisis ?

The U.S. central bank had after the stock crash at the beginning of the century, lowered its key interest rate considerably. This allowed the economy supplied with cheap credit and a watchtower be maintained. More and more banks financed more and more private customers their homes. the policy was intended. For decades: every American his own house. Less and less was seen on the risk, as housing prices rose. The lazy real estate loans were packaged into complex lily plant objects and passed to other banks and investors worldwide. Many banks have the risk underestimated and were suddenly unable to pay.

Then in September 2008, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the banks did not trust each other and the world borrow any more money. A worldwide economic disaster became apparent, because of the lack of confidence among the banks collapse of the global payment systems has been feared. In response, and fear of a new Great Depression , governments large sums of money put into the ailing banks. The central banks lowered interest rates, banks have been working with the borrowed money by the states.

also the real economy came under pressure, because the companies less and less money could borrow from the banks. Orders from the accident; stock prices fell, short-time work or business failures were the result. The government once again put large sums into stimulus to prop up the economy. The countries are heavily indebted.

Currently, many economic experts see growing signs of recovery. Cheap available money had made possible the financial crisis and is now the basis for the next crash. This is not where it is necessary that interest rates will rise again and the banks must repay their borrowed billions from the state, even if this means that the growth slowed down. Otherwise, it comes instead of the dreaded deflation to a inflation.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

What Happens If You Dont Treat Herpies

iPad

For months, there are rumors and speculation about a new toy made by Apple . For months, supporters of the brand will wait with the bitten apple on a tablet computer. Not less than one unit, that trigger the next big hype in the IT industry is. The print media saw that was not already existing product as a possible platform to earn money on the internet. The expectations were incredibly high. And were disappointed.

Yesterday it was finally over. Apple invited to a Keynote: "Come see our latest creation". Steve Jobs, the charismatic " Chief Imaginative Officer , "the visionary and perfectionist, stood on the stage and promises a" magic "product: the iPad

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Steve Jobs at the presentation of the iPad. (Photo: iLounge)

Positioned between the iPhone and a MacBook the device appears like a large iPhone with a 9.7-inch display (1024x768 pixels, 132ppi). It is 1.2 cm thick and about 700 g heavy. touchscreen (the iPad as a multi- touch screen) and a virtual keyboard reminiscent of the iPhone. The operating system, and thus the control concept is being used by this device. This allows and the 140,000 applications from the App Store be used on the iPad. Thus, the successful concept of the apps will continue on the iPad.

is surprisingly affordable price. The basic model costs $ 499, the top model (with 64 GB storage and mobile) $ 829th In March, the devices will be able to buy the world without a subscription option. With Mobile Option (Apple calls these models "3G") about a month later.

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The bookcase in the iPad (Photo: iLounge)

hardware and software

The processor is a chip developed by Apple for use. This Apple Night of the chip manufacturer. The lithium-polymer battery will provide up to 10 hours of operating time. The model range includes 16 to 64 GB memory with Wi-Fi and optimal mobile connection.

applications for Internet, mail, calendar, contacts, photos and video are integrated, as is a Google Maps-based application and of course an iPod . And of course, access to iTunes on the content offered by Apple is possible. New iBooks is , a platform to download books, there will probably first in the U.S. only. iWork, one for the iPad optimized software suite for writing, calculating and presenting, can be purchased in the App Store.

Revolution

The all awaited, revolutionary new device Apple has not introduced. The iPad is based instead on the proven iPhone with its simple, fluid and consistent use. This also means that a system is not an open iPad. Applications are installed via the App Store. Inahlte on iTunes.

completed by this concept Apple controls the content of an iPad. This is a kind of censorship . On the other hand, by a certain standard of technical quality is ensured. Finally, even the Apple iPad be a perfect system. In this world would Apps malfunctioning, do not follow standards.

But that will iPad a device that everyone must have? It does not replace a smartphone nor a laptop . If the customers buy in bulk, a third mobile system? That remains to be seen.

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The large, high-quality display is well suited for games and videos (Photo: iLounge)

minimalism

The iPad is missing some features that are now incorporated as standard in almost any mobile device such as a camera or a USB interface. Apple has not forgotten these things safely and the costs for individual components should not have led to exclusion. Rather, the marketing idea could be: Each year a better iPad bring to market. Even the successful iPhone is classified by the technical equipment rather mediocre and has improved with age. But this is set according to Steve Jobs iPad do that already much better than a smart phone or a laptop. "The best tool for web, email and photos," as Apple claims. But something seems to be missing:

  • multitasking. It can not simultaneously run multiple apps . Write a text and research alongside the internet and music ? Stream Can not. An update of the operating system could do wonders here. Maybe Apple has fear that he might suffer the smooth and fluid operation.
  • Adobe Flash . A full-fledged Internet browser without Flash ? Although with HMTL5 Flash unnecessary in the future, and today we still need it. But Apple will not. Therefore, many areas remain empty on websites. 75% of all videos on the Internet are based on Flash, as many games. Farmville on the iPad? Currently not.
  • camera. A camera need not everybody. But who needs them, they will miss. Snapshots: not possible. Video chat: not possible.
  • video quality. For a modern device, which is unlike any other mobile TV, video and presentations, Apple has given up two things: playing high-definition HD -video in best quality (1080p) and no HDMI connector for an external monitor . This can only be connected via a special composite video cables with poor quality.
  • USB interface. Data with a USB stick, external hard drive or other computer exchange: not possible. IPad files and documents on iTunes with the synchronized. With an optional Apdapter photos from cameras can be given.
  • GPS . The iPad enthältet not a full satellite-based positioning , it requires a cellular connection, which can mean higher costs and / or reduced operating time.
  • Open system. The iPad is a closed world. Apple checks the Apps and is on iTunes / iBooks, the primary supplier of content. The exchange of personal data is complicated because it only works on the synchronization with iTunes.
These are some issues with the full-fledged iPad as mobile Computer disqualified. Or that minimalism will change our attitude towards mobile applications? Is the simplicity in look to the future? Simple, intuitive operation and Beschränkng to the necessary. A complete break in information technology, away from the traditional, complex and error-prone all-rounder PC?


The video for the iPad (Video: Apple)

audience

The question remains, what target group Apple in the visor added. And the answer is quite clear: the multimedia users. The iPad is less suitable to create or edit content. And the system does not replace a laptop and a mobile phone.

stands first, the simple and intuitive eye. This could, as Konrad Lischka writes spiegel.de , reach new user groups who are looking for easy-to-use "everybody's computer."

A high-resolution display in combination with motion sensors and touch-screen. The iPad will shake up the world of mobile games. Sony and Nintendo have no similar unit in the program. And the next time the owner can train a iPads watch a video film in passable image size, which could, in future, more mobile live television.

The Amazon Kindle seems to have at first glance as a pure e-book reader in the cold. But for longer read the display of the Kindle is probably better suited for a longer battery life. Occasional readers would buy the other hand, no Kindle and publishers could do with the apps on the iPad added value to attract new readers. Whether it succeeds remains to be seen.

Do you need an iPad, if you already have a smartphone and a laptop? Probably not. The iPad is from today's perspective, a nice, attractive toys with obvious limitations. Who can live with that is, its fun have.

Whether this can open up new applications in the medium term iPad? Possibly. Apple yesterday announced a hardware platform. Its success rises or falls with the coming applications. Will there be a mass product? Can it attract new target groups? We'll see.

Also the iPhone was criticized three years ago. Today, Apple is the most profitable provider of mobile devices from Sony, Samsung and Nokia. And for safety's sake we have a strained look on the tablet of Google ...

UPDATE:

Frank Schirrmacher wrote in an article in the FAZ about the power Apple and the politics of the iPad. Away from the specifications could change the concept of the iPad familiar forms of communication and are a serious departure from the desktop PC. "The hardware changes the content. The tool of thinking changed." Interesting approach.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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Avatar

Sun One month after the start of the new film by James Cameron I am now also gone to the cinema to me to watch the spectacle. Actually, I was interested in the story is not so, but all my friends and all the critics were of the opinion: View file. The film critic Adrian Prechtel said after a preview that Avatar will split the world of cinema more, in complex, expensive and high-tech blockbusters on the one hand and the classical narrative cinema on the other.

And of course I bought tickets for a 3D -Vostell. So, glasses on and into the seat early in the teaser I avoided any knee-jerk things that are suddenly very quickly and came very close to me. That was promising. However, it took me several minutes to get used to the optical conditions of 3D technology . But the process is today much better than the systems a few years ago with the red / green glasses. Only fast motion in the picture are still very blurry.

The film's story is not overly new: In the 22nd Century exploits of the Space Group RDA on raw materials from a very hostile world called Pandora. A group of scientists tried the humanoid inhabitants of Pandora, the Na'vi to proselytize and to understand their world. These send the scientists artificially, they thought about being controlled, which avatars to the Na'vi. Jake Sully, a paraplegic ex-Marine takes part in the program. He wins the trust and respect of nature people, learns by Neytiri know, the daughter of the tribal leader, their culture and their world, and is eventually incorporated into their community. As the Group destroyed a sacred place of Na'vi and further rolls on center of their lives, to propose to the side of Sully erupts fought the invaders.

Terminator II was the 1991 already as revolutionary, even though the film contains only a few minutes of digitally generated images. matrix 1999 was another milestone in visual effects. The film trilogy of Lord of the Rings then has made clear within three years (until 2003) the rapid development of film technology. Suddenly it was possible animated sequences with real images in an amazing way to mix.

Avatar now drives the technical standards of Cinema to a new peak and gives, I am inclined to say that a new, groundbreaking film experience. The film meets the high expectations. The high cost of production is clearly visible, and that's a good thing. The revenue at the box office breaking all records. In the next few days Avatar Titanic will replace a commercially successful film traveled. Although the film offers is primarily a visual experience, he also conveys a lot of feeling. Thus ultimately are greed, power and warmongering of the positive values of love, hope and glory over.