The Endeavors of Endeavour

Today?s planned launch of the space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed until Monday at the earliest; engineers detected a malfunction in a unit that provides the hydraulic pressure needed to control the shuttle during takeoffs and landings. With luck, it will be the last glitch in the long story of Endeavour, which has flown 24 times since its maiden voyage in 1992 and will be retired after a final 14-day mission to the International Space Station.

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Government?s Disaster Response Wins Praise

In numerous interviews in the low-income Alberta neighborhood here on Friday, shortly before President Obama and other officials toured what is now an unimaginable wasteland, residents said they had few complaints about the handling of the aftermath by state, local and federal agencies.

Many expressed mild frustration about limits on their access to damaged homes, the pace of road clearing and power restoration, and traffic jams caused by roadblocks and nonfunctioning signals. But most agreed that government and charitable agencies were coping as effectively as feasible with immediate demands for shelter, food, water and medical care, along with search and rescue operations.

?It ain?t like Katrina,? said Darius Rutley, 21, whose house in Alberta was obliterated. ?We?re getting help.?

Axavier Wilson, 20, who survived the storm in a closet as the rest of his house blew away, said he had been impressed that both Gov. Robert Bentley and Mr. Obama had visited right away. ?I don?t think there?s much to mumble and grumble about,? he said. ?Everybody feels secure about getting help.?

There was a single cry of ?Help us!? on Friday from a man who watched the president?s motorcade roll through a treeless lunar landscape, but hardly the wails of stunned desperation shouted from New Orleans rooftops.

It was a very different kind of storm, of course, with different demands for response. And clearly, disaster recoveries should be judged over months, not days. But the early moments of this operation suggest that certain logistical and political lessons have been learned.

Stung by criticism that he waited 12 days to tour the Gulf Coast after last year?s BP oil spill, Mr. Obama took barely 40 hours to land in Tuscaloosa, the hardest-hit area in the eight Southern states struck by tornadoes last week. The death toll stands at 349 people; Alabama officials said that included 250 in their state, with 39 in Tuscaloosa County.

?I?ve never seen devastation like this,? Mr. Obama said after Friday?s tour. ?It is heartbreaking.? ?We?re going to make sure that you?re not forgotten and that we do everything we can to make sure that we rebuild,? he added.

Top federal officials, including Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, were in touch with Mr. Bentley shortly after the tornadoes landed Wednesday, according to a timeline from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

FEMA officials contacted the White House about the need for a federal emergency declaration even before Alabama had submitted a formal request that evening, said Art Faulkner, the state?s emergency management director. It was quickly granted.

Mr. Obama spoke to Mr. Bentley, a Republican, on Wednesday night and to the governors of four other affected states on Thursday. He sent the FEMA administrator, W. Craig Fugate, to Alabama on Thursday. Five members of the cabinet are expected in the state on Sunday.

?We can?t control when or where a terrible storm may strike,? Mr. Obama said Thursday afternoon, ?but we can control how we respond to it.?

By late Thursday, Mr. Obama had signed the disaster declaration for Alabama, and later did the same for Georgia and Mississippi. The declarations mean the federal government will pay 75 percent of the uninsured costs of repairing public buildings, like a damaged fire station here; that residents can qualify for modest recovery grants; and that businesses can apply for low-interest loans, Mr. Fugate said in an interview.

As of Friday afternoon, FEMA had placed liaison officers in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, according to a spokesperson.

In Alabama, as in other affected states, the White House was winning early praise from state, local and Congressional leaders of both parties.

?I like what we?re doing thus far,? said Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, a Republican.

?They seem to be taking this very seriously,? said Representative Robert B. Aderholt, a Republican from northern Alabama. ?They have been very proactive and very reactive to our requests.?

Kevin Sack reported from Tuscaloosa, and Timothy Williams from New York.

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Google's Android now has more free apps than Apple's iPhone

Google's Android Market now offers more free apps for download (134,342 apps), than Apple's App Store for iPhone (121,845 apps). This is great news for Android consumers, although Android developers probably aren't too thrilled. Furthermore, the number of paid apps on the Android Market is about one third of the total number of paid apps available in the Apple App Store for iPhone, according to app store analytics provider Distimo.

The analytics firm predicts that in five months, the Android Market will be the largest store in terms of number of apps, followed by the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad, Windows Phone Marketplace, BlackBerry App World, and Nokia Ovi Store, assuming all the app stores maintain their current growth rate. Interestingly, Windows Phone Marketplace will pass Nokia Ovi Store and BlackBerry App World before it even celebrates its first birthday that is quite an achievement given the saturation of the app market.

Distimo says it only saw moderate growth in most of the app stores over the course of the past several months, but overall growth picked up again in March. Here are the app stores in decreasing order of growth: Mac App Store, Windows Phone Marketplace, BlackBerry App World, Android Market, App Store for iPad, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, App Store for iPhone, and GetJar.

Google's Android Market passed the 200,000 apps mark in December 2010 while Apple's App Store passed the 300,000 apps mark in September 2010. Because Android is open, the platform's users can download apps from more than one app store.

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Hardware 22 - The Second Day Magazine

Hardware 22 - The Second Day Magazine

Posted on 23rd Apr 2011 at 09:52 by Podcast with 7 comments

It?s podcast time again, and this time we?re talking about all the lovely hardware we?ve seen in our labs over the last few weeks. Clive starts off by telling us all about the AMD Radeon HD 6790, and why it?s only likely to be around for a relatively short period of time.

We also get chance to quiz Antony on the Silverstone TJ11, which it was his pleasure to review. The case is humungous, but isn?t quite the water-cooling behemoth we expected. Paul then gives us an account of his recent trip to Istanbul to cover the MSI Master Overclocking Arena European finals. Extreme overclocking and benchmarking is a funny old world, and it?s always interesting to get to see the action first hand.

Finally, we find time to discuss some of the larger tech news stories such as Seagate swallowing up Samsung?s hard disk production division, and the rumour that AMD is planning to mass produce its Radeon HD 7000-series GPUs in May.

Hardware 22 - The Second Day Magazine

As always, we've also set up our weekly competition too, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Speedlink Strike FX wireless gamepad. This game pad is compatible with both the PC and PlayStation 3, and functions at distances of up to 10m.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Going Solar: Green tech for the geek set

Some around the 8th heavy storm of this spring, it occurred to me that I?m woefully unprepared for power outages in this area. As someone who makes their living off the ability to have always-available power, that thought worried me somewhat. It?s not at all uncommon to have storms, floods and the like that bring power down in this area for days on end. Add to that fact the rising energy costs worldwide and I realized that I needed to start thinking up some alternatives.

For many parts of the world, and Nashville, Tennessee included, solar is likely the most viable option. Though wind farming is a great way to go ?off the grid?, stories-tall windmills aren?t exactly convenient nor do they make my local HOA very happy. I?d heard stories about parts of the world that use solar very efficiently (in Israel, for instance, it?s very common to have solar-heated water) and so I started doing some digging into the viability of solar systems to at least keep a minimally-viable workspace.

What I found was both interesting and somewhat depressing. Obviously this idea can be very cost prohibitive, but for those of you who tend more toward the monthly payment versus cost of ownership style of living, it just might work.

Grid or No Grid?

To start, you need to get an idea of what sort of system you?re wanting. At the very least, you should be aware that there are two types:

Off-Grid: These systems are designed to provide you with 100% of your power needs. They store power in batteries for dark hours and ideally will allow you to remove yourself from the municipal power system (and monthly electric bill).

Grid-Tie: A grid-tie system is one that is intended to connect to your municipal power. Depending on its size, it can either simply supplement your existing power lines, or it can even (in some cases) send unused power back onto the grid. With a participating provider, you can get paid back for producing power that can be used in other homes.

Off-Grid (OG) systems tend to be more popular with the groups of people who are either building a new residence or simply want to be removed from a monthly bill. However, as you would expect, these systems can be wildly expensive. In what I found, my modest $90-per-month electric bill would require a system that cost in excess of $25,000 in order to take me completely off grid. In case you haven?t noticed, I?m a blogger and business consultant. In other words, I?m not the type of person to have $25k just laying around.

Obviously then I was left with the idea of a Grid-Tie (GT) system. I thought that I?d be quite happy with something that could reduce my monthly bill by 20 or 30 percent, and I found this to be a considerably more reasonably-priced option. In order to do this, I was looking at somewhere around a $10,000 investment, and it was entirely possible that I?d even make some of that back in low-use times by feeding back into the system.

Clearly your milage may vary. What is right for me in this instance is not necessarily what is going to be right for you. As such, you?ll need to do more reading and homework than what I?m putting into this piece to find out exactly the right solution for your home.

But Wait!

Then a phone call with a solar installer got me thinking. I told him the premise behind my idea (remember, this wasn?t as much about saving money as it was about being able to continue working) and he had another suggestion entirely ? Go off-grid, but don?t do it for your entire house.

By our estimation, roughly 30 percent of our electricity use is taken up by the computers and electronic devices that are in this office. What?s more, if things got a bit hairy for a few days, this office is big enough to be a comfortable living space. It has good ventilation, a fireplace, fans and plenty of room for a couch or two. It can be closed off from the rest of the house, keeping it cooler or warmer as necessary. With the simple process of switching around a couple of wires in my basement, I could take this room entirely off the grid. Adding in a switching box would allow me to take it back on the grid with the flip of a lever, should something go wrong with the solar system.

Maybe you?re not in such a position. It?s worth noting, though, that many solar systems can be non-permanent and require very little room inside of your house for the storage and inversion of electricity. As such, even if you don?t have a room that you can completely wire for solar, you might have an area that could provide at least some power for emergencies without being in violation of an HOA, a lease or other such agreement.

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Meet Heather Poe


This is Heather Poe. She?s a young woman, living in Los Angeles and attending college there, though it isn?t her hometown. She?s kind, happy, eager to please and a little bit geeky. She?s also one of the best features of one of my favourite games, Troika?s Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

You find Heather in the hospital, where she?s been rushed into the emergency room for some strange neck wound. As a newly turned vampire yourself, you know that there?s more to this story than meets the eye, but your heightened senses also tell you that she?ll survive her undead encounter if she just gets some fresh haemoglobin. Unfortunately, there isn?t a doctor to hand and the hospital is criminally understaffed.

Earlier, a friend of yours told you that vampire blood has certain special characteristics when drunk by humans ? mainly as a healing elixir. You pause, then slit your wrist to save her young life before disappearing back into the night. You have errands to run, after all. Little do you know that this isn?t the last time you?ll be seeing Heather.

She shows up a few nights later, grabbing you on the street and desperate to thank you. She?s babbling and doe-eyed and she knows far too much about you and your kind ? you?ll suffer reprisals if you don?t take this matter in hand, but now is not the time. You send her back to your haven ? that grotty motel in Santa Monica ? and tell her to wait for you.

You have a choice now. Your blood is mixing with Heather?s and creating a potent, mind-altering brew. The more time she spends with you, the more she falls under your thrall, whether you want her to or not. You know you should send her away, break the bond and tell her to forget all this silliness about vampires. You know you should, but a lot of reasons run through you mind for why you shouldn?t ? a lot of excuses.

You?re little more than a servant for others at the moment, so the idea of cultivating your own slave does have a certain appeal. Letting her go may bring the wrath of your superiors if she exposes you. You wonder about the direction you could steer Heather, making her serve you in a way that seems repugnant in the daylight hours.

That?s what's great about being a vampire; not casting a reflection. You can avoid a lot of guilt and shame when you don?t have to meet your own gaze.


Over the next few days or weeks, Heather changes. Sometimes you're the one pushing, telling her how to dress or to surrender her life savings. At other times, it?s the blood that changes her. She was eager to please at the beginning, but now her devotion is fanatical. One day you find she?s bought you home some food - still alive and locked in the bathroom. The longer the ?relationship? lasts, the more you get the idea that it isn?t going to end well, but the harder it becomes to end it.

Heather?s fate ultimately lies in your hands. She?s a nice, likeable person and you want to do well by her. At the same time, though, the rest of LA is working to reshape you. You may have been just an average guy a few weeks ago, but now you?re a vampire; suffering and cruelty is your stock and trade.

As you acclimatise to this new existence, you start to adapt. You already don?t have to look at yourself in the mirror, but now you?re learning to hide the rest of yourself behind your new definition of what you are. You are a demon. Once you accept that, it becomes very easy to do very nasty things to a very nice person.

Then, when the game ends, you realise what?s happened and you learn something about yourself. That?s why Vampire: Bloodlines is one of my favourite games.

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SocialCam will only settle for replacing your video camera

The video sharing app market is exploding right now. Partially as a result of cameras getting better in integrated devices like iPhones and Android devices and, as Justin.TV?s Micheal Seibel pointed out to me, the puzzling closure of casual camcorder company Flip.

People are turning to their phones to shoot video more than ever before. SocialCam was designed specifically to cater to those people that use their smartphones like a camcorder. The app is simple and minimally featured for now, aimed at replacing the camera app entirely for shooting video.

If this were a year ago, that would probably be enough to warrant it?s existence on the App Store or Android Market. But now people don?t just want to shoot video, they want to share it instantly with friends on Facebook and Twitter and wherever else they post stuff.

That?s why it?s imperative that any app that shoots video on a mobile device make it as easy to share it as it is to shoot it.

We covered SocialCam?s launch previously on TNW but I had the chance to talk to Seibold a bit about what sets SocialCam apart from the competition.

For Justin.TV the motivation to build an app that made it incredibly easy to share video after it was shot came from analyzing the stats of their live streaming app. They found that people used the app more to share video after it was shot than to broadcast live. So, like The Kinks, they decided to give the people what they want.

With SocialCam, you pop open the app to be greeted by a large shoot button that lets you grab video quickly. You also see your feed of videos, either yours or those of your friends. In a unique move, SocialCam shows you not just a single preview frame of video but a preview split into four quadrants that sample various frames in the video.

This wasn?t a random decision but one reached after considerable trial and error including one unfortunate version that just grabbed the first frame of the video for a preview. There were a lot of fairly uninteresting thumbnails in those feeds.

In fact, those four frames are carefully grabbed by code written into SocialCam that seeks out faces in the video, prioritizing those moments with people, presumably your friends, in them. This leads to a stream of videos that give you a far better idea of what?s contained within and that are more enticing for you to tap on and watch.

An extensive suite of sharing options rounds out the SocialCam video flow. Facebook and Twitter are there but also less common options like Posterous, Tumblr and, surprisingly, Dropbox. The Dropbox option is used to store a full res version of the videos you shoot in the cloud. SocialCam actually produces three resolutions of the video that it can use appropriately to share via the various services.

The app is also incredibly fast. The video begins uploading to Justin.TV?s servers the moment that you begin shooting it. This allows you to finish the clip and begin sharing it nearly instantaneously. Seibel says that this behavior is the result of the considerable experience that  Justin.TV has in this area, having shared over 60 million hours of video through their network.

Although you currently log in to SocialCam via your Facebook account, Seibel says that he feels that ?logging in at all is silly? and that they?re currently developing a way for people to use the app without logging in at all.

I must confess this intruques me deeply as I hate logging in to anything on my phone, it?s annoying. No details on how this process will work yet but Seibel said he?ll share details when he can.

Justin.TV has a massive barrier to overcome if it hopes to replace it?s biggest competitors, which Seibel considers to be ?the standard camera app? and ?still photos?. But Justin.TV has the 30 million users of their video network to leverage and with more people looking to the devices that they already have in their pockets for easy ways to shoot and share video, the opportunity is there.

You can grab SocialCam on the App Store or Android Market free.

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Republicans Are Pursuing a Wider Field for 2012 Race

?I?m getting letters from all over the damn country, and some of them are pretty moving,? Mr. Daniels said in an interview last week at the Capitol in Indianapolis, where his friends believe he is inching closer to exploring a candidacy. He added, ?It can?t help but affect you.?

The first contests of the primary are about eight months away, and most of the candidates have yet to fully open their campaigns. But some party leaders worry that Republicans are making a bad first impression by appearing tentative about their prospects against Mr. Obama and allowing Donald J. Trump to grab headlines in the news vacuum of the race?s early stages.

?The race needs more responsible adults who can actually do the job,? said Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who leads many polls despite taking few steps to organize a campaign, is quietly asking supporters to be patient. And Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former governor of Utah and a relative moderate in a party that has moved to the right, has just returned from his post as ambassador to China to decide whether to join a campaign-in-waiting built by Republicans who see an opening for him.

The wish list among Republicans is wide and varied. Sarah Palin, a former governor of Alaska, retains a devoted following. But activists also express a longing for others to step off the sidelines, including Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Budget Committee.

The first debate of the nominating contest is Thursday on Fox News, and party officials believe that the presidential field will be all but set by June, giving urgency to the call for more candidates.

Parties facing an incumbent president often have trouble establishing the stature of their candidates in the early going. But the challenge for Republicans this time is especially striking given Mr. Obama?s vulnerabilities and the passion of the grass-roots conservative movement that helped propel the party to big gains in Congress and statehouses in 2010.

The party lacks the establishment-anointed candidate that has led it into every presidential cycle for decades. Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, may come closest to that role, but he has kept a relatively low profile to avoid becoming a target. Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker, is well known but has political and personal liabilities. Newer faces like former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota are barely known to most voters.

There is no guarantee that any Republicans on the sidelines would energize the party, but they seem to be getting almost as much attention as those clearly in the race. Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, said last week that the race was still unformed and that he expected others to join.

The loudest and most persistent entreaties are directed toward Mr. Daniels, who for two terms as governor has shown that fiscal conservatism and political popularity can go hand in hand.

Mr. Daniels, who says Republicans should be more focused on addressing the country?s fiscal condition, worked in the Reagan administration and as budget director for President George W. Bush. An alumni network of those administrations, ranging from top contributors to field operatives, has elevated a whisper campaign into a forceful effort to enlist him.

The decision last week by another establishment favorite, Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, not to pursue a presidential bid has increased pressure on Mr. Daniels, who drew national attention on Friday for saying he would sign a bill that cuts off Medicaid financing for Planned Parenthood in Indiana. His allies have started mapping out a campaign structure that could be fully in place this month, including a campaign headquarters in downtown Indianapolis.

?What sets Mitch apart from the other candidates who are currently running, he is very, very direct and very open about what needs to be done,? said Al Hubbard, a director of the National Economic Council. ?I?m disappointed that the other candidates who are currently talking about running are reluctant to do that.?

The call for new candidates, which was the topic of some conversation here Friday at a Republican dinner, is hardly universal. Some Republicans point to the 1992 Democratic field, initially derided as uninspiring, which produced President Bill Clinton.

But there has been an undercurrent of concern in the party for months. The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer called the field ?split and weak? two weeks ago on Fox News.

Peter Wehner, a former adviser to Mr. Bush, credited a ?lack of fizz? in the field so far with letting Mr. Trump gain attention as a potential Republican candidate despite previous contributions to Democrats and even a suggestion for the nation to examine a single-payer health care system.

?At this point, there appears to be a flatness to the field,? said Mr. Wehner, who has been highly critical of Mr. Trump. ?There?s a void right now, and even clowns can fill voids.?

In interviews, Republican governors, state party leaders and prominent activists urged the candidates to engage more directly.

?We?ve lost enough time ? let?s start talking about the issues that matter to the people of this country,? Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina said. ?I think they?re all waiting for ?go time,? but the people of South Carolina are saying ?go.? Let?s start hearing about the issues.?

Mr. Pawlenty, who was among the first in the race, said candidates had plenty of time to excite voters. He said a fierce opposition to Mr. Obama would unify Republicans and strengthen the field, adding, ?The faster, the sooner, the more aggressive we can do that, the better.?

As of late last week, it was still unclear how many potential candidates would show up for Thursday?s debate. Mr. Pawlenty, who will attend, was urging more of his potential rivals to join him.

While some Republicans have expressed impatience to get the race started in time to raise ample campaign financing, veterans of races past said the money would flow when the field finally settles.

?Hardly anybody?s declared yet, so who are you going to rally around?? said Fred V. Malek, an investor and longtime Republican fund-raiser, who added that he was not concerned about the slow start. ?Contributors are waiting until the field is fully formed.?

Monica Davey contributed reporting from Indianapolis.

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The Endeavors of Endeavour

Today?s planned launch of the space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed until Monday at the earliest; engineers detected a malfunction in a unit that provides the hydraulic pressure needed to control the shuttle during takeoffs and landings. With luck, it will be the last glitch in the long story of Endeavour, which has flown 24 times since its maiden voyage in 1992 and will be retired after a final 14-day mission to the International Space Station.

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