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Indonesia hates the famous U.S. pop singer Lady Gaga

2012-05-27T05:00:00.002-07:00

The great stonewalling shows the great opposition against Lady Gaga. Boys heart stealer, Lady Gaga's concert is supposed to be held in June 3rd near to the US embassy in Zakarta, Indonesia. but the huge amount of Indonesian people are against the concert.

Police officers Say : "Lady Gaga's sexiest dress up and her boldness style, and bold songs can demolish all the Islamic values and destroy the system of Indonesian youth." thats the fact reason why the people are stonewalling against the Lady Gaga's Concert in Indonesia.

Thus Lady Gaga may cancel all the program that going to be held on june3 in Jakarta.

"It's unfortunate," one said. "But with threats if the concert goes ahead, Lady Gaga's side is calling it off. This is not only about Lady Gaga's security, but extends to those who will be watching her."
Indonesia, a secular nation of 240 million, is often held up by the U.S. and others an example of how democracy and Islam and can coexist. In many ways they are right. Since emerging from dictatorship just over a decade ago, sweeping reforms have resulted in direct elections, while vastly improving human rights and freeing up the media.

But a small extremist fringe has become more vocal and violent in recent years, attacking Christians and members of other religious minorities, transvestites, atheists and anyone else deemed "immoral."

New Zealand taxes on Smoking

2012-05-24T03:00:00.002-07:00

Many places are smoking free in New zealand .. like : smoking free street, smoking free parks, smoking free colleges, campuses, and even bars, hotels. Thus. now New zealand whole country is gonna make smoking free country. ! it s really omg. question mark . (!?) . Health officials had rated the price of 1 pack of cigrette 100 new zealand dollor, but however it was rejected by governement of new zealand and lastly government decided to rule on that shopkeepers are advised to put their ciggrete packet under the counter and not allowed to display on the front of people. this rule is supposed to be effective by July month means within almost one and half month. recently the government has taxed 70 percentage much on cigarattes.

for more detail visit this site below:
http://news.yahoo.com/smoke-free-country-zealand-taxes-aim-063909666--finance.html

DEMAND OF AKHANDA SUDURPASCHIM

2012-04-29T00:02:00.000-07:00

All the Far western Development people of Nepal has been struggling, demanding Monolithic Farwestern Development Region rather than that of Government's two state (1) Tharuwan and (2) Khaptad state. most of the hilly region's people are living in "Terai" region. Tharuwan is one of the part of Terai region, where there is a lot enough of fertility place for Nepal. Most of the Business people of this place is "Pahadi" ( Hilly area people). They have been living in Terai for Ancient time, that can be the reason for "Pahadi People" to make one rather than two state of Far western development region. still they are demanding to the Government.

(Note: the date on photo is wrong due to date setting on digital camera)

Akhanda sudurpaschim strike at Seti District, farwestern.

Stirking even women, grandy, and all of the society of farwestern.

some what photos, that days of "Strike", some people injured and some thing are supposed to be jammed on the way, some vehicles are destroyed by the strikers.

(being a far western people "pahadi boy" i am wishing the same too)

"1 not 2"

Strike striked a truck... truck destroyed by stiekers at attariya, Kailali, truck driver injured, as well as owner.

Destroyed truck on 29 april 2012 by akhanda sudurpaschim strikers

injured people on 29 april 2012 by akhanda sudurpaschim strikers

CISCO 2012, SAN DIEGO, EXHIBITION

2012-04-27T06:38:00.002-07:00

CISCO 2012, SAN DIEGO is gonna be held on June 10 to 14 of the year. It has great preparation for the exhibition, thus many Cisco people will get together over there...it would be great pleasure.. if you interested people come over there....for registration click the link below http://qa.ciscolive.com/us/index.php ,
BEING A CISCO STUDENT I AM FEELING PROUD..AND WISHING TO BE THERE.. :)

Samsung vs Apple

2012-04-26T23:21:00.006-07:00

Samsung is on a tear and dominating worldwide mobile phone shipments, according to two market research firms.

Samsung's smartphone shipments soared over the same period last to easily grab the lion's share of the global market, a market researcher said Thursday. While another market researcher put Samsung No.1 in the overall cell phone market.

The South Korean electronics giant's share went from 12.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011 to a whopping 30.6 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to Strategy Analytics (see chart below).

Apple's growth isn't too shabby either: it jumped from an 18.1 percent share last year (which at that time was larger than Samsung's) to 24.1 percent.

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Overall global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent annually to reach 145 million units in the first quarter of 2012. More than half of that being Samsung and Apple combined.

"Samsung and Apple are outcompeting most of their major rivals and the smartphone market is at risk of becoming a two-horse race," Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement.

Samsung's growth is coming from its Galaxy models, among other products. "Samsung's global smartphone shipments rose 253 percent annually...as demand surged for its popular Galaxy models such as the Note, S2 and Y," Strategy Analytics said.

(Credit: Strategy Analytics)
The loser in all of this is Nokia, whose share dropped like a rock from 23.5 percent in the first quarter of last year to 8.2 percent this year.
"This is Nokia's lowest market share level in the smartphone category since 2002," Tom Kang, director at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement. "Nokia's new Microsoft Lumia portfolio has recently gotten off to an encouraging start in the critical United States market, but shipments there are not yet large enough to offset the firm's tumbling Symbian volumes in the rest of the world."
iSuppli puts Apple at No. 1 in smartphones but Samsung No. 1 in the larger cell phone market
A second market research firm, IHS iSuppli, ranks Apple No.1 in smartphone market, while placing Samsung in the No.1 spot for cell phones (see charts below).
In the "smartphone segment of the cell phone market," iSuppli shows Apple shipping 35 million units in the first quarter, while Samsung shipped 32 million.
"Apple remained in the same position in smartphones that it captured in the fourth quarter of 2011 -- at No. 1 --while Samsung held on to second place," iSuppli said.
That said, iSuppli ranks Samsung No.1 overall in the cell phone market, with 92 million cell phones shipped in the first quarter, compared to Nokia's 83 million.

ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77

2012-04-26T02:22:00.000-07:00

Introduction

ASUS is the world’s largest motherboard manufacturer claiming around 40% of the motherboard market share. Their website further states that 1 in 3 computers sold today come with an ASUS motherboard. So that number is about in line with the 40% market share statement. Regardless even if you haven’t heard of them, you’ve probably owned one of their boards without realizing it. Now much of their work is in the OEM market, but they command a significant presence in the do it yourself market as well.

The ASUS Sabertooth Z77 is based off Intel’s new Z77 Express chipset. The chipset is largely identical to the Z68 chipset released not too long ago. The main difference is that Z77 Express has native USB 3.0 support. And on that all I have to say to Intel is "about time." For whatever reason the drive controllers weren’t updated significantly so we still only have 2 native SATA 6G ports. Intel Rapid Storage Technology or iRST 11 is supported now. So it’s a slight upgrade at best, but what we really wanted was more SATA 6G ports which we didn’t get.

Another interesting fact is that Z77 finally drops the legacy PCI bus. Motherboards can still be equipped with PCI slots, but they’ll have to rely on 3rd party controllers and adapter type interfaces to do so. So it is very likely, due to cost factors and a lack of demand that the Z77 Express chipset will mark the final nail in the coffin for dated PCI devices. Motherboards that have the legacy interface are sure to be few and far between. Onboard display capability has improved as it now supports up to three independent displays as opposed to only 2. The final improvement is with regard to flexibility of the PCIe 2.0 lanes provided by the CPU. It supports 1x16 and 2x8 lane configurations as before, but now supports a 1x8 + 2x4 configuration as well.

The ASUS Sabertooth Z77 is part of the TUF series. Boards in this series are built to various military testing standards and specifications which are listed on a card included with the board. These include shock tests, vibration tests, moisture tests and more. I’m not sure this is anything more than a marketing gimmick, but one thing you can take away from the marketing speak is that the board is well built. More importantly it uses all solid electrolytic capacitors and alloy chokes. It is also built to Intel’s VRD 12.5 specifications.

As for its actual features, the Sabertooth Z77 has a lot to offer without too much unnecessary fluff. Onboard GPU support, SLI and Crossfire support, along with dual card Quad-SLI and CrossfireX support. Intel Quicksync, LucidLogix Virtu MVP technology, PCI-Express Generation 3.0 support (Ivy Bridge CPU required), eSATA, Intel Gigabit networking, 8-channel audio, USB 3.0, SATA 6G, and more. Among the features unique to the TUF series are the thermal armor and thermal radar features. I’ll get into those in more detail later.

Main Specifications Overview:

Detailed Specifications Overview:

Packaging

The board ships in a faux stainless steel themed box and comes with quite a solid bundle of accessories. Included in the box are the following items: User guide, thermal armor slot covers, 2x 35mm fans, fan mounting screws, SLI bridge, I/O shield, Q-connectors, SATA cables, driver disc, certificate of stability, and a single sheet of paper which covers the installation of the thermal armor covers. The driver disc is not pictured as our version was pre-retail. The hardware here should be what’s shipping now however.

Board Layout

Due to the thermal armor ducting system, the Sabertooth Z77 has an interesting look to it. It has this diamond plate thing going on. You can still see some of the alloy chokes and I/O connectors spread out across the board. Because of the cover, the board has a very clean and basic look to it. The layout of the board is excellent with no real problem areas to speak of. I’d like a little more room around the CPU socket but I always say that.

The CPU socket area is standard fare for the LGA1155 socket and Z77 platform. There is adequate room for most cooling solutions. Large CPU coolers may block one or more memory slots depending on their orientation and fan options. This is virtually unavoidable on all platforms these days so I can’t slam ASUS too hard on this particular point. I realize that CPUs with integrated memory controllers all have issues when the DIMM slots are mounted too far away.

The Sabertooth Z77 has four DIMM slots which are directly in front of the CPU socket. These use the single sided locking tab retention system other ASUS boards use. They are color coded for proper and easy dual channel mode operation. Directly in front of these you’ll find the 24 pin ATX power connector and the MEM-OK button. This is used for forcing memory compatibility between the board and memory modules should the timing values provided in SPD cause issues with system POST.

Being a unified design, the Z77 Express chipset is a single chip solution located where the south bridge was traditionally located. It is cooled by a flat passive heat sink. The heat sink is designed to allow for maximum clearance for installed expansion cards. Directly in front of this are the front panel USB 3.0 headers and the onboard SATA ports.

The expansion slot area is well thought out. As I said before Z77 doesn’t natively support PCI slots so this board is legacy free. The setup ASUS employed here works well as there is a free PCIe x1 slot above the primary PCIe x16 slot, which also has nothing directly below it. This is a nice thing to see because this means that most video cards will never block an expansion slot. The secondary PCIe x16 slot is done much the same way, though there is an additional PCIe x1 slot which a secondary video card could block. The last PCIe x16 form factor slot is a little less useful in general as it wouldn’t allow for the use of a dual slot video card in most cases. Not that you’d want to do that with this board anyway.

The rear I/O panel is a nice clean solution. Either to save room or as a cost cutting measure, there is no legacy DVI port. Video connectivity is provided via a display port and an HDMI port. There are 8 USB ports here 4 of which are USB 3.0 compatible. We have a single optical output and the usual mini-stereo jacks for audio. The board also features a single RJ-45 port and dual eSATA connectors. You may have noticed a ton of wasted space here on the I/O panel. The open area you see just to the right of the standard USB 2.0 ports is an open air passage where one of the included 35mm fans can be mounted to pull air into the thermal armor system.

SpaceX, NASA looking for new Falcon 9 launch date following slip

2012-04-24T05:47:00.001-07:00

Following SpaceX’s announcement that their Falcon 9 launch date will be slipping from its April 30 target, evaluations are taking place – in cooperation with NASA – to ascertain when the Dragon spacecraft can make its debut attempt to berth with the International Space Station (ISS). With an unofficial NET date of May 7, Dragon may yet have to dodge an upcoming Soyuz mission.

Falcon 9 Slippage:

Being ready to launch is always a challenge, regardless if one is launching sounding rockets out of Wallops or Space Shuttles out of KSC. As such, any slip prior to launch should not be seen as a negative, but as a necessity of ensuring no stone is left unturned ahead of a launch and its subsequent mission.

Although SpaceX’s growing fan base sometimes treat the Californian company as an invincible force of nature in the spaceflight arena, their need to work within the decades of mission experience – provided by the likes of the Space Shuttle – has at least been proven by their own decision to slip the launch of their key Falcon 9/Dragon mission, not only past the April 30 target, but also the May 3 reserve date, despite some confidence they could have made the latter.

China seeks settlement on apple

2012-04-23T04:36:00.001-07:00

Proview "ipad" trademark, CHINA

The Guangdong High Court in southern China heard Apple’s appeal of a ruling against it by a lower court on February 29, and is looking for the two companies to settle. Proview had accused Apple of using its ‘IPAD’ trademark for its tablet device, while Apple maintains that Proview sold Apple the trademark years before.

Proview sued Apple for 10 billion yuan ($1.6 bn) in October 2011 for alleged copyright infringement, likely spurred on by its 400 million yuan ($64m) debt.

“It is likely that we will settle out of court. The Guangdong High Court is helping to arrange it and the court also expects to do so,” a lawyer for Proview said quoted by the associated press. A local state-run newspaper cited the court’s deputy chief judge saying that settlement talks were on the table.

But Apple, staunch in its defence, earlier this year released a wealth of documentation and evidence to seemingly support its case in the ongoing trademark dispute to .

Proview also brought its suit against the Cupertino-based technology giant to the United States earlier this year, alleging that Apple created a company named ‘IPAD’ — an acronym for “IP Application Development Ltd.” — to conceal Apple’s involvement in buying the trademark.

Buying the trademark directly could have blown the lid off the product launch.

All eyes are on China. It has three issues to contend with, and the two remain both politically and judicially a delicate balance to meet.

Either China can help the two companies settle out of court, a decision likely to enrage Apple as it believes whole-heartedly that it was not at fault. The company also seemingly carefully and methodically complied with all applicable laws while it tried desperately not to give any clue away to the name of its upcoming tablet, as per the evidence it released.

Or, Apple may fall on the sharp end of the stick knowing that the company will not export its Foxconn operations elsewhere, despite it falling unfairly on the wrong side of the Chinese authorities.

Having said that, China can favour its own laws as it previously has done in a bid to protect Proview, which would save the company from collapse, and would potentially save tens of thousands of jobs.

ZDNet’s Hana Stewart-Smith explained China’s protectionist attitude towards patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property:

“It has been suggested that Chinese patent law is deliberately designed to favour Chinese based companies, in efforts to protect Chinese intellectual property. This has resulted in Chinese versions of Western brands being protected by patent law, such as Weibo in place of Twitter, and Baidu in place of Google.”

Settling, logically and economically, makes more sense for China. But whether it actually can or not is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Apple has a history of standing its ground. If it settles, it partly admits guilt. In the case of the alleged collusion with five other e-book publishers in the U.S. and Europe, as antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic continue their investigations, Apple refused to back down and vowed to battle on until the bitter end.

An Apple spokesperson said the company would not “knowingly abuse someone else’s trademarks” but failed to elaborate further, or comment on settlement talks.

AMD Phenom™ II Processors Product Brief

2012-04-23T02:42:00.001-07:00

AMD got higher speed than that of I7.

Visual Experience

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Superior technologies for HD video. Enjoy a superior high definition experience for HD videos on you PC. AMD Phenom™ II processor are the powerful engine behind your fidelity, high definition video entertainment experience. Only AMD puts the Ultimate Visual Experience™ for HD video within your reach.

Enjoy entertainment beyond your media library. Get HD content online, offline, wherever you want it, however you want it. Your system can handle whatever you dish out - and serve it up on screen in full, high definition glory.*

Perfect chemistry. Combine AMD Phenom™ II processors and ATI Radeon™ HD graphics to really see the difference. Enjoy smooth video, brilliant videos and immersive games. AMD unleashes visual clarity and responsiveness for what you want to do.

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Do it all. AMD Phenom™ II processors have the power to do it all. Featuring next-generation quad-core design, they crush even the most demanding tasks. So design it, render it, play it, create it, stream it, HD it.* With AMD Phenom™ II processors, if you can imagine it, you can do it.

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Make a choice you can feel good about. AMD Phenom™ II processors were designed with energy efficiency in mind. Capitalizing on AMD's leadership in energy efficiency, they incorporate all of the latest technology that gives you performance when you need it and save power when you don’t.

Look for ENERGY STAR® with AMD. Thanks to AMD's power-saving innovations, you can count on machines based on AMD Phenom™ II processors for the energy efficiency you want and the performance you need.

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