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Many of the rewards are aimed at new users, meaning Microsoft's goal is get more users to enroll in Xbox Live, though keeping current users hooked is probably still part of the strategy. The biggest payouts come from staying enrolled.
It took Microsoft quite some time to launch the loyalty rewards program. Just last week, the Xbox 360 console turned five years old.
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Superb what did you say? Kinetic Typographic Animation, I know, it?s a mouthful. But then again it is super cool. It?s a way to animate text or lyrics using appropriate fonts or typography to better communicate the message. Jonathan Coulton made a song called ?Shop Vac? which lends itself perfectly for this kind of animation, go see for yourself:
Now I know most of you have already seen clips like these but in my opinion; this is one of the best I?ve ever looked at. Do you know a better one? Please let us know!
Source: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/12/02/superb-kinetic-typographic-animation/
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Many of the rewards are aimed at new users, meaning Microsoft's goal is get more users to enroll in Xbox Live, though keeping current users hooked is probably still part of the strategy. The biggest payouts come from staying enrolled.
It took Microsoft quite some time to launch the loyalty rewards program. Just last week, the Xbox 360 console turned five years old.
Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/41389-microsoft-introduces-xbox-live-rewards-program.html
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Just like everyone pitching a book wants to get a slot on the Daily Show, every phone wants to land face time on Attack of the Show, G4?s headline television production for nerds. Perhaps the most popular Windows Phone 7 handset, the Samsung Focus hit the show, and we have the clip.
What did the hosts have to say about the Focus? They called the phone a ?buy,? saying that it was fast loading, easy to use, and a big bargain for its $50 price tag (shop around, vendors are selling the handset at different price points). They also dropped the phone, showing that it is durable while light.
They did note that the screen was not quite as good as the iPhone 4?s, but that it was still ?vibrant.? They did say that ?we are big fans of the new Windows Mobile,? and congratulated the Microsoft team. Watch the clip:
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"Through this discussion, we established a mutual understanding of our intent to enable homebrew opportunities and to open the Windows Phone 7 platform for broader access to developers and users," the developers said in a statement. "To pursue these goals with Microsoft's support, Brandon Watson has agreed to engage in futher discussions with us about officially facilitating homebrew development on WP7. To fast-track discussions, we are discontinuing the unlocking tool effective immediately."

Zheng, Rivera, and Walsh will likely become more involved with the shaping of the Windows Phone platform but ChevronWP7 will not be the way to do so. The app caused a lot of controversy as the developers argued with Microsoft and bloggers in regards to the unlocking process and potential piracy applications.
In the meantime, the trio has made available a WP7 custom ringtone manager (download tool, download source) the first WP7 homebrew application taking advantage of unlocked phones. The application has two components: desktop, used to build a custom XAP package with five custom ringtones you select from your computer (requires .NET 4.0 Framework), and XAP, deployed to your WP7 device to install the custom ringtones. Ringtones have to be in the WMA format at 48KHz (a WP7 requirement). Also, the XAP has to be deployed using the Microsoft Application Deployment tool with the Windows Phone 7 Developer SDK.
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In the genteel parliamentary history of the House of Representatives there lurk rowdy days of rough-and-tumble brawls, beatings, chokings, fistfights, upended hairpieces, stentorian demands for apologies unheeded and a lot of sneaky conduct and foul-mouth talk. Some did nothing bad, or almost nothing.
But they all wound up where Representative Charles B. Rangel, a Democrat from Harlem, is expected to find himself this week: in the well of the House, facing the shame of formal censure. The choreographed mortification ritual has played out more than a score of times since 1832. Convicted by peers, the transgressor ? all have been men ? stands before the assembled members and a packed gallery of spectators and reporters as the speaker reads the rebuke.
?What it?s saying is you?ve brought disgrace to the House of Representatives, you?ve discredited the institution that you serve in,? said Ilona Nickels, an author and expert on Congressional affairs. ?You have impugned the integrity of our proceedings. You?re a disgraceful person. And you?re going to stand there in the well of the House and we?re going to read these charges against you and we?re going to, in essence, say, ?Shame on you.? It doesn?t really help your résumé, or your obit for that matter.?
It is also a moment of truth, not for the fainthearted.
On Oct. 27, 1921, Representative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat of Texas, faced it with deep anxiety. He had been convicted of entering in The Congressional Record a letter that was, in a colleague?s words, ?unspeakable, vile, foul, filthy, profane, blasphemous and obscene.? It involved a squabble between union and nonunion printers, and by today?s standards was relatively mild stuff.
As the speaker finished his condemnation, Mr. Blanton turned ashen and fled the chamber. ?In the corridor he fell exhausted, striking his head on the marble floor,? The New York Times reported. ?He rested a few minutes on a couch, refused medical aid and shuffled to his office, tears running down his face as he forced his way between spectators and members who were leaving the session.?
Not all of them cry and carry on. Depending on the offense, its probable fallout and the thickness of a politician?s skin, censured members have shown humility or defiance, perhaps relieved that the practical consequences are only dishonor and a need to face voters at the next election, well short of immediate expulsion, if slightly more humiliating than a slap-on-the-wrist reprimand. (Officially, there have been 22 acts of House censure, but some are debatable because the censures appear to have been politically motivated.)
As censurable violations go, the seriousness of Mr. Rangel?s fall somewhere in the middle. He was convicted by a subcommittee of the House ethics committee of 11 violations, including improper fund-raising, failing to pay taxes on rental income and failing to report income on Congressional financial-disclosure forms ? not of stealing fortunes, battering colleagues or cornering pages in the anterooms.
It was much worse in 1873, when Representatives Oakes Ames, Republican of Massachusetts, and James Brooks, Democrat of New York, were censured for bribery in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, in which millions were skimmed from stock sales during construction of the nation?s first transcontinental railroad, the Union Pacific.
In 1870, three Republican congressmen ? Benjamin F. Whittemore of South Carolina, John T. Deweese of North Carolina and Roderick R. Butler of Tennessee ? were censured for selling appointments to Annapolis and West Point. And in 1979, Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr., Democrat of Michigan, was censured and resigned after being convicted of mail fraud and padding his staff payroll.
Many 19th-century censures were for ?unparliamentary language,? a grab-bag for name-calling, mud-slinging and insults, mostly in Civil War-era debates. But in 1864, Representatives Alexander Long of Ohio and Benjamin G. Harris of Maryland, both Democrats, were cited for ?treasonable utterances? ? backing the Confederacy.
?When you look at the list for all the various reasons people were disciplined, it really is a function of the times,? Ms. Nickels said. ?Every era has its own ethos ? what?s considered horrible and what?s not considered horrible.?
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Here's a card trick to impress your friends. Give a deck of cards to a pal and ask him or her to cut the deck, draw six cards and list their colours. You then immediately name the cards that have been drawn.
Magic? Not quite. Instead, it's the next best thing: mathematics. The key is to arrange the deck in advance so that the sequence of the card colours follows a specific pattern called a binary De Bruijn cycle. A De Bruijn sequence is a set from an alphabet in which every possible subsequence appears exactly once.
So when a deck of cards meets this criteria, it uniquely defines any sequences of six consecutive cards. All you have to do to perform the trick is memorise the sequences.
Usually these kinds of tricks come about as the result of some new development in mathematical thinking. Today, Travis Gagie from the University of Chile in Santiago turns the tables. He says that this trick has led him to a new mathematical bound on data compression
Gagie achieves this new bound by considering a related trick. Instead of pre-arranging the cards, you shuffle the pack and then ask your friend to draw seven cards. He or she then lists the cards' colours, replaces them in the pack and cuts the deck. You then examine the deck and say which cards were drawn.
This time you're relying on probability to get the right answer. "It is not hard to show that the probability of two septuples of cards having the same colours in the same order is at most 1/128," say Gagie.
He goes on to consider the probability of correctly predicting the sequence of cards pulled at random from a deck of a certain size and after a few extra steps, finds a lower bound on the probability of doing this correctly.
This turns out to be closely related to various problems of data compression and leads to a lower bound than has been found by any other means.
"We know of no previous lower bounds comparable to [this one]," he says.
That's impressive, a really neat trick in itself.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1011.4609: Bounds from a Card Trick
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Here's a card trick to impress your friends. Give a deck of cards to a pal and ask him or her to cut the deck, draw six cards and list their colours. You then immediately name the cards that have been drawn.
Magic? Not quite. Instead, it's the next best thing: mathematics. The key is to arrange the deck in advance so that the sequence of the card colours follows a specific pattern called a binary De Bruijn cycle. A De Bruijn sequence is a set from an alphabet in which every possible subsequence appears exactly once.
So when a deck of cards meets this criteria, it uniquely defines any sequences of six consecutive cards. All you have to do to perform the trick is memorise the sequences.
Usually these kinds of tricks come about as the result of some new development in mathematical thinking. Today, Travis Gagie from the University of Chile in Santiago turns the tables. He says that this trick has led him to a new mathematical bound on data compression
Gagie achieves this new bound by considering a related trick. Instead of pre-arranging the cards, you shuffle the pack and then ask your friend to draw seven cards. He or she then lists the cards' colours, replaces them in the pack and cuts the deck. You then examine the deck and say which cards were drawn.
This time you're relying on probability to get the right answer. "It is not hard to show that the probability of two septuples of cards having the same colours in the same order is at most 1/128," say Gagie.
He goes on to consider the probability of correctly predicting the sequence of cards pulled at random from a deck of a certain size and after a few extra steps, finds a lower bound on the probability of doing this correctly.
This turns out to be closely related to various problems of data compression and leads to a lower bound than has been found by any other means.
"We know of no previous lower bounds comparable to [this one]," he says.
That's impressive, a really neat trick in itself.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1011.4609: Bounds from a Card Trick
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