Does Inbox Zero help you manage your emails?

Inbox Zero is a productivity system that was developed by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. In a nutshell, Inbox Zero is exactly what it says on the label. It?s a system which is used to keep your email inbox as empty as possible, as a means of staying productive. Implementing Inbox Zero should help you stay on top of your emails, and deal with them efficiently.

It consists of five labels you should keep in mind when processing your messages: delete, delegate, respond, defer and do. Assign yourself certain times of the day to process your emails, and approach each incoming message with that list in mind.

It?s important to remember Inbox Zero is a process not a one-time event. It?s not about getting your Inbox down to zero because obviously it?s not going to stay there.

Inbox Zero Tools

Aside from the games we?ve looked at before at The Next Web like 0Boxer and The Email Game, which attempt to make getting to Inbox Zero a little bit more fun, there are other tools that you can use to keep your inbox under control.

Gmail?s filters are a huge help for managing your incoming messages before you go anywhere near them. It takes some of the effort needed in processing out of the way. You can create filters to label specific message, based on who they?re from or based on certain keywords in the subject or the email body.

A productivity system that ties straight into your inbox is a great way to manage your email overload. For Gmail users, Taskforce is a great little extension which plugs into your inbox. If you need a more elaborate system, Mac users can benefit from a direct link between the desktop app Things and Mac Mail. Mailplane users can download a plugin to connect their email to Omnifocus. Whatever your system is, the chances are there?s an easy way to plug a task list into your email account, so you can get messages out of your inbox and onto your to-do list.

You can also put together a system that works well with your pace and work load, like Tim Mile?s 7 step list to reaching Inbox Zero.

The Argument for Inbox Zero

Inbox Zero is a great way to stay stress-free. It?s exactly the same as keeping up with your task list. If you?re keeping up with the flood of messages that are making their way into your inbox, you won?t be haunted by messages waiting to be processed, answered and archived. Just like having a task list that just keeps growing, an inbox that keeps getting bigger isn?t going to do your stress levels any favors.

Inbox Zero can make you more productive because you are painfully aware of just how much you might have on your plate. An inbox full of unread messages is daunting. If you go through that inbox, find that many of your unread messages are useless newsletters, that?s bound to make you feel better. And as you reach the important emails and delegate, defer or reply, you?ll have a much better grasp of how much work you need to do.

After using the method for a while, it can also make you more aware of how much time you need to complete a certain task. And there?s no denying the importance of time management when attempting to stay organized. So in other words, Inbox Zero can help you with your time management.

By setting certain times for checking your email, it can potentially be a more distraction-free way of getting through your work day. If you?re working on something, and a notification comes in for a new email, that can be the biggest distraction that stops you from completing the task in hand. Constantly letting yourself be distracted by new incoming messages can be incredibly detrimental to your productivity. With Inbox Zero?s scheduled email checks, you can easily stay focused on each task and finish it, before moving on to the next item on your list.

Inbox Zero is not set in stone. It?s a system which you can tweak to suit your personal needs. Merlin Mann gives you the foundation and you can build on it as you see fit. Since you don?t have to use a specific application to set the system in motion, you can easily drop and add bits and pieces of the system as you see fit, making it more suitable to your working style.

If you do it right, you?ll feel relieved. Or as Merlin Mann so eloquently puts it, it?ll feel great to suck less.

The Argument Against Inbox Zero

You could end up wasting far more time putting a system in place than actually using it. This is, of course, entirely subjective. Some people can spend time working on a system, and will eventually put it to good use. With many others, the entire productivity world is far more interesting and enamoring when coming up with a system rather than actually using it.

Inbox Zero can potentially make you spend more time focusing on your email at the expense of other parts of your working day. Email isn?t the only tool we use for communication at work and you simply can?t be preoccupied with keeping your inbox under control all the time. Depending on your email load, you could end up spending more time processing than you should.

Inbox Zero can lull you into a false sense of security. Processing your inbox is only half the task. Even after you?ve emptied your inbox, you?ve still got quite a few messages that have been delegated and deferred. The delegated messages can often require followup on your part to ensure the task is completed.

The deferred messages are the real problem because they require noone but you to deal with them. Inbox Zero may give you the sense that things are under control, but unless you actually deal with those deferred messages, they really aren?t.

How different is your inbox to your task list? Are your emails better off on a to-do list that still needs doing? I often find that keeping the email message in my inbox is an important reminder of what I need to do. While others might find that it?s stressful and unnecessary if you?ve already got it on your task list, I find it a handy reminder, provided that there aren?t too many of these reminders in my inbox.

What happens if you continue to receive emails as you are processing your inbox? Do you leave those messages out of the processing system until your next scheduled email session? What if you receive an urgent email as you?re processing? What if your job requires you to keep an eye on your inbox all day so you don?t miss any urgent messages? All of these questions are problematic for the Inbox Zero system, which requires you to process only at certain times of the day.

While you can keep your inbox under control, you don?t have the ultimate control. You can?t stop emails from pouring in, short of switching off your Internet connection. Trying to have complete control over something which you simply cannot have complete control over may seem futile to some, and in fact, could be the complete opposite of stress-free.

Conclusion

There is no single cure for email overload and Inbox Zero doesn?t claim to perform miracles. At the end of the day it?s a system, and it?s nothing without your own personal input. It might work for you and it might not. It?s important to remember that productivity systems are subjective beasts and that can be their ultimate downfall or the reason for their success.

What works for you won?t necessarily work for me. And for that reason you can?t say wholeheartedly that Inbox Zero works or it doesn?t. That?s just like saying that having cornflakes for breakfast doesn?t work. It?s simply a matter of personal preference or taste. Now if you?ll excuse me, as I have a few unread messages in my inbox that need dealing with?

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The Caucus: Working With New Script to Stop a Train Wreck

At the last instant, a hero intervenes to stop the locomotive. It happened with tax reform in the 1980s, deficit reduction in the ?90s, and the health care overhaul last year.

Odds remain good that because of the immense pressure for action on all involved, the pattern will repeat itself this week on raising the debt limit and averting a default by the United States government. But Washington?s capacity to recreate that narrative arc faces an unusually demanding test.

One set of reasons involves the continuing evolution of the American political culture in ways that make bipartisan compromise more difficult. In 2008, Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate, made changing that culture a signature objective; if anything, it has grown more dysfunctional during his presidency.

Another set involves specific near-term circumstances and the characters attempting to resolve the crisis.

The House speaker, John A. Boehner, has lived through many political storms during two decades in Congress. His relatively inexperienced leadership team, and the ideologically ardent freshmen in his caucus, have not.

President Obama has earned the gray spreading through his hair since reaching Washington in 2005. His chief of staff, William M. Daley, is in his seventh month on the job after a 10-year absence from Washington.

None of the institutional players hold power securely. The Democratic president, the Democratic Senate, the Republican House ? each could get tossed out in the 2012 elections.

As all three reach for a solution, their margin for error has grown very small.

Powerful Boundaries

What most complicates the chances for compromise is the broad political realignment that has played out over the decades since World War II. Once, partisan differences were blurred by intraparty factions in a Democratic caucus with Southern conservatives and a Republican caucus with Northern liberals.

Now, partisan and ideological boundaries are powerfully self-reinforcing ? a double-layered Great Wall of Division, buttressed by fund-raising patterns and gerrymandered House districts.

A National Journal analysis of voting patterns earlier this year showed the trend essentially perfected. The 2010 record of the most liberal Senate Republican lay to the right of the most conservative Senate Democrat.

The attitudes of average voters are not quite that polarized. But they are nearly so. The ascendant methods by which they receive political information ? cable television, the Internet, Twitter ? reinforce divisions.

In a crisis, skilled leadership and fortuitous circumstances can overcome them. That happened in the fall of 2008 when Congress passed the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.

The request then came from a Republican president, with strong free-market credentials, whose term was nearly over. Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress and were heading toward Election Day positioned to gain strength.

Even then, passage came only after one market-rattling floor defeat. This time, the pro-bailout votes cast by many incumbents make them doubly gun-shy about supporting a debt limit increase.

Senate Democrats, with at least 10 incumbent seats in jeopardy, could easily lose their majority next year. House Republicans could lose theirs too; after taking a big risk by overhauling Medicare in their budget plan, they have doubled their bet on the debt limit.

Another Wild Card

Mr. Obama, too, is vulnerable. He hopes to repeat the deftness that President Bill Clinton displayed in facing down the speaker then, Newt Gingrich, and securing a second term in 1996.

Mr. Clinton benefited from the prior Congressional experience of Leon E. Panetta, who was his White House chief of staff and is now Mr. Obama?s defense secretary. At the moment, some senior Democrats on Capitol Hill believe Mr. Obama misses the legislative savvy of his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago.

Similarly, some veteran House Republicans fret that the ?young guns? of their leadership team may lack the ability to command the votes of recalcitrant caucus members the way Tom ?The Hammer? DeLay, as majority leader, and Roy Blunt of Missouri, as whip, did during the Bush era.

Institutional strains between the House and the Senate, which do cross party lines, add another wild card. That much was clear when a fallback plan written by the top Senate Republican, Mitch McConnell, yielded no support from House Republicans.

The Tea Party-influenced House caucus poses the biggest obstacle because so many members have declared themselves impervious to normal political pressures. Disdaining the White House, the Senate, Wall Street and re-election concerns all at once, they reflect the declining confidence in established institutions that has transformed political debate for a half-century.

As the first unsuccessful bailout vote showed in 2008, legislative leaders sometimes bring critical measures to the floor without knowing for certain where all the votes lie. Even a slight miscalculation, at the White House or the Capitol, could produce a devastating financial market reaction.

The race to brake the locomotive of economic chaos proceeds hour by hour now. And as Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, a Republican member of the so-called Gang of Six, said on the CBS News program ?Face the Nation? on Sunday, ?Frankly, we don?t know what?s going to happen for sure.?

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Deadline Passes as Debt Ceiling Talks Languish

The dueling plans emerged after Mr. Boehner walked away from negotiations with the White House on Friday, leading to a frustrating weekend of talks in heat-scorched Washington. The leaders of both parties variously negotiated together over the phone, talked separately, conferred with their caucuses and tried to plot an end to the debt crisis that would assure the capital markets around the world that America would meet its debt obligations.

As the Aug. 2 deadline for lifting the debt ceiling nears, warnings are growing that the nation?s economy may be damaged by the protracted stalemate. A downgrade of the nation?s credit rating, which could raise the cost of borrowing, seemed more likely, deal or no deal.

Mr. Reid, the Senate?s top Democrat, was trying on Sunday to cobble together a plan to raise the government?s debt limit by $2.4 trillion through the 2012 elections, with spending cuts of about $2.7 trillion that would not touch any of the entitlement programs that are dear to Democrats or raise taxes, which is anathema to Republicans.

President Obama could endorse such a plan, even though it would fall far short of the ambitious goal of deficit reduction and entitlement changes that he says are necessary to shore up the nation?s finances.

At the White House on Sunday evening, Mr. Obama spent about an hour meeting in the Oval Office to try to hash out details of the Democratic proposal with Mr. Reid and the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi. The two emerged from the meeting with nothing to say to the throngs of reporters who had been encamped there for the third consecutive weekend, awaiting an agreement on the debt ceiling.

But administration and Congressional officials said that during the meeting, Mr. Obama and the Democratic leaders had resolved to hold firm against any short-term agreement that did not raise the debt ceiling beyond next year?s presidential elections.

?You see how hard this is right now,? one administration official said Sunday night. ?Can you imagine going through this again in six months??

That means, officials say, that Mr. Reid?s proposal may gather steam as the only viable alternative that is palatable to the administration.

The contours of Mr. Boehner?s backup plan were not entirely clear, but it seemed likely to take the form of a two-step process, with about $1 trillion in cuts, an amount the Republicans said was sufficient to clear the way for a debt limit increase through year?s end. That would be followed by future cuts guided by a new legislative commission that would consider a broader range of trims, program overhauls and revenue increases.

?The preferable path would be a bipartisan plan that involves all the leaders, but it is too early to decide whether that?s possible,? Mr. Boehner said in a ?Fox News Sunday? interview. ?If that?s not possible, I and my Republican colleagues in the House are prepared to move on our own.?

In a conference call with Republican lawmakers that lasted over an hour on Sunday night, Mr. Boehner said he was seeking ?a vehicle that can pass in both houses,? according to someone on the call, who added that Mr. Boehner had made an emotional appeal to his fellow Republicans to stick together. ?If we?re divided,? he said, ?our leverage gets minimized.?

One freshman lawmaker on the call described Mr. Boehner as sounding weary and said many Republicans were focused on some version of a balanced budget amendment, which was already passed by the House as part of broader legislation but then rejected by the Senate.

For the White House, the Reid proposal represents a Hail Mary pass that is meant to, at the very least, avoid putting the country through a repeat of the debt ceiling negotiations next year, an election year.

Jackie Calmes contributed reporting.

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Legal Memo: The 14th Amendment, the Debt Ceiling and a Way Out

He pointed to an obscure provision in the 14th Amendment, saying he would unilaterally invoke it ?without hesitation? to raise the debt ceiling, ?and force the courts to stop me.?

On Friday, Mr. Obama rejected the idea, though not in categorical terms.

?I have talked to my lawyers,? Mr. Obama said. ?They are not persuaded that that is a winning argument.?

Adding another element of uncertainty, and possible court battles, to the debate do not seem to appeal to the White House. And it is, in any event, not clear that the nation?s creditors would continue to lend money to the United States were the president to take unilateral action.

The provision in question, Section 4 of the amendment, was meant to ensure the payment of Union debts after the Civil War and to disavow Confederate ones. But it was written in broader terms.

?The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payments of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,? the critical sentence says, ?shall not be questioned.?

The Supreme Court has said in passing that those words have outlived the historical moment that gave rise to them.

?While this provision was undoubtedly inspired by the desire to put beyond question the obligations of the government issued during the Civil War,? Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote for the court in 1935, ?its language indicates a broader connotation.?

In recent weeks, law professors have been trying to puzzle out the meaning and relevance of the provision. Some have joined Mr. Clinton in saying it allows Mr. Obama to ignore the debt ceiling. Others say it applies only to Congress and only to outright default on existing debts. Still others say the president may do what he wants in an emergency, with or without the authority of the 14th Amendment.

The words of the provision are in important ways quite vague. ?Nobody would argue,? said Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas, ?that Section 4 is clear in its meaning, other than at the time everyone thought that the South, if they ever got back in control, would not pay Civil War debt.?

But Jack M. Balkin, a law professor at Yale, said it was possible to infer a broader principle.

?You?re not supposed to hold the validity of the public debt hostage to achieve political ends,? Mr. Balkin said. He added, though, that ?Section 4 is a fail-safe that only comes into operation when everything else is exhausted.?

Mr. Obama?s statement largely dismissing the possibility of invoking the provision may have had a strategic element to it. A deficit reduction deal would seem to be more likely, after all, if both sides thought there was no alternative but economic chaos.

Mr. Obama?s reference to ?a winning argument? suggested the likelihood that the courts would weigh in if he took unilateral action. But that is not certain.

?This is not a circumstance,? said Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, ?in which the courts have any plausible point of entry.?

Professor Balkin agreed. ?This is largely a political question,? he said. ?It is unlikely courts would decide these questions.?

Some law professors have put forward possible legal claims that might overcome threshold requirements for lawsuits, like the one in which plaintiffs show that they have been directly injured and so have standing to sue. ?It?s unthinkable,? Professor Tribe responded, ?that the courts would allow a gimmicky lawsuit to proceed.?

The president, moreover, can move quickly, but court cases take time. ?At the point at which the economy is melting down, who cares what the Supreme Court is going to say?? Professor Balkin said. ?It?s the president?s duty to save the Republic.?

Another possible reaction to unilateral action from Mr. Obama is impeachment. Professor Tribe said that was ?not politically a very plausible scenario.?

Professor Levinson was less certain. Impeachment by the House of Representatives ?seems to me quite likely.? But, he added, ?it is also literally unimaginable that the Senate would convict.?

A third possible response is what some law professors call ?popular constitutionalism.? The meaning of the Constitution, these professors say, is in the end what the public believes it to be. The president and members of Congress may thus pay a political price for taking stands at odds with what the public understands to be their constitutional obligations.

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WOF: Do you know what your CPU's clocked at?

Considering TechSpot's audience mix of techies, hardware enthusiasts, IT pros and gamers, the question above sounds overly simplistic, if not insulting, but is it? Over the last decade, the MHz measurement in your PC's processor has lost much of its meaning, in part because it's no longer an absolute reflection of performance, but that may not the end of it.

For example, I know I'm running a Core i7 870 processor in my workstation, but I have no clue what exact frequency the CPU is running at. I don't think that would have been the case 5 or 10 years ago when I ran my overclocked Celeron 300a or Athlon dual-core processor. Back then I cared about clock and bus speeds, RAM timings, and other details that today I barely pay attention to before upgrading to a new platform.

With devices like smartphones and tablets invading the consumer space in sheer numbers, bringing potential irrelevancy to component specifications, do you think this is a trend that will inevitably hit computers sooner or later?

How about yourself, off the top of your head (DON'T LOOK IT UP), do you know what's your PC's CPU clock speed? Discuss.

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Gaming 29 - The Post-Pub Podcast

Gaming 29 - The Post-Pub Podcast

Posted on 17th Jul 2011 at 08:23 by Podcast with 13 comments

Custom PC veteran Phil Hartup and PC Pro's Mike Jennings join Joe and Paul for a late-night, post-pint rant. This episode of the podcast, perhaps because it's sponsored by alcohol, stumbles along with vague coherency through topics such as BioShock Infinite and Just Cause 2.

Mass Effect 2 is obligatorily drawn into the discussion too, as is tradition.

Boozy fumes aren't enough to stop us tackling the thorny issues, however - Phil explains why he expects Battlefield 3 will be a shoddy console port, while Joe shoots down the defence that 64-player multiplayer is something to be proud of.

*hic*


On top of that, Phil brings us a report on how APB: Reloaded is faring after being brought back from the dead, while Joe orates further on his favourite topic of the moment; Frozen Synapse.

As always, we've also got our weekly competition, which this time gives you a chance to win yourself a copy of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on the PC and Raving Rabbids on the Nintendo 3DS. You can also find out who won the last competition and bagged themselves a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset.

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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Does Inbox Zero help you manage your emails?

Inbox Zero is a productivity system that was developed by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. In a nutshell, Inbox Zero is exactly what it says on the label. It?s a system which is used to keep your email inbox as empty as possible, as a means of staying productive. Implementing Inbox Zero should help you stay on top of your emails, and deal with them efficiently.

It consists of five labels you should keep in mind when processing your messages: delete, delegate, respond, defer and do. Assign yourself certain times of the day to process your emails, and approach each incoming message with that list in mind.

It?s important to remember Inbox Zero is a process not a one-time event. It?s not about getting your Inbox down to zero because obviously it?s not going to stay there.

Inbox Zero Tools

Aside from the games we?ve looked at before at The Next Web like 0Boxer and The Email Game, which attempt to make getting to Inbox Zero a little bit more fun, there are other tools that you can use to keep your inbox under control.

Gmail?s filters are a huge help for managing your incoming messages before you go anywhere near them. It takes some of the effort needed in processing out of the way. You can create filters to label specific message, based on who they?re from or based on certain keywords in the subject or the email body.

A productivity system that ties straight into your inbox is a great way to manage your email overload. For Gmail users, Taskforce is a great little extension which plugs into your inbox. If you need a more elaborate system, Mac users can benefit from a direct link between the desktop app Things and Mac Mail. Mailplane users can download a plugin to connect their email to Omnifocus. Whatever your system is, the chances are there?s an easy way to plug a task list into your email account, so you can get messages out of your inbox and onto your to-do list.

You can also put together a system that works well with your pace and work load, like Tim Mile?s 7 step list to reaching Inbox Zero.

The Argument for Inbox Zero

Inbox Zero is a great way to stay stress-free. It?s exactly the same as keeping up with your task list. If you?re keeping up with the flood of messages that are making their way into your inbox, you won?t be haunted by messages waiting to be processed, answered and archived. Just like having a task list that just keeps growing, an inbox that keeps getting bigger isn?t going to do your stress levels any favors.

Inbox Zero can make you more productive because you are painfully aware of just how much you might have on your plate. An inbox full of unread messages is daunting. If you go through that inbox, find that many of your unread messages are useless newsletters, that?s bound to make you feel better. And as you reach the important emails and delegate, defer or reply, you?ll have a much better grasp of how much work you need to do.

After using the method for a while, it can also make you more aware of how much time you need to complete a certain task. And there?s no denying the importance of time management when attempting to stay organized. So in other words, Inbox Zero can help you with your time management.

By setting certain times for checking your email, it can potentially be a more distraction-free way of getting through your work day. If you?re working on something, and a notification comes in for a new email, that can be the biggest distraction that stops you from completing the task in hand. Constantly letting yourself be distracted by new incoming messages can be incredibly detrimental to your productivity. With Inbox Zero?s scheduled email checks, you can easily stay focused on each task and finish it, before moving on to the next item on your list.

Inbox Zero is not set in stone. It?s a system which you can tweak to suit your personal needs. Merlin Mann gives you the foundation and you can build on it as you see fit. Since you don?t have to use a specific application to set the system in motion, you can easily drop and add bits and pieces of the system as you see fit, making it more suitable to your working style.

If you do it right, you?ll feel relieved. Or as Merlin Mann so eloquently puts it, it?ll feel great to suck less.

The Argument Against Inbox Zero

You could end up wasting far more time putting a system in place than actually using it. This is, of course, entirely subjective. Some people can spend time working on a system, and will eventually put it to good use. With many others, the entire productivity world is far more interesting and enamoring when coming up with a system rather than actually using it.

Inbox Zero can potentially make you spend more time focusing on your email at the expense of other parts of your working day. Email isn?t the only tool we use for communication at work and you simply can?t be preoccupied with keeping your inbox under control all the time. Depending on your email load, you could end up spending more time processing than you should.

Inbox Zero can lull you into a false sense of security. Processing your inbox is only half the task. Even after you?ve emptied your inbox, you?ve still got quite a few messages that have been delegated and deferred. The delegated messages can often require followup on your part to ensure the task is completed.

The deferred messages are the real problem because they require noone but you to deal with them. Inbox Zero may give you the sense that things are under control, but unless you actually deal with those deferred messages, they really aren?t.

How different is your inbox to your task list? Are your emails better off on a to-do list that still needs doing? I often find that keeping the email message in my inbox is an important reminder of what I need to do. While others might find that it?s stressful and unnecessary if you?ve already got it on your task list, I find it a handy reminder, provided that there aren?t too many of these reminders in my inbox.

What happens if you continue to receive emails as you are processing your inbox? Do you leave those messages out of the processing system until your next scheduled email session? What if you receive an urgent email as you?re processing? What if your job requires you to keep an eye on your inbox all day so you don?t miss any urgent messages? All of these questions are problematic for the Inbox Zero system, which requires you to process only at certain times of the day.

While you can keep your inbox under control, you don?t have the ultimate control. You can?t stop emails from pouring in, short of switching off your Internet connection. Trying to have complete control over something which you simply cannot have complete control over may seem futile to some, and in fact, could be the complete opposite of stress-free.

Conclusion

There is no single cure for email overload and Inbox Zero doesn?t claim to perform miracles. At the end of the day it?s a system, and it?s nothing without your own personal input. It might work for you and it might not. It?s important to remember that productivity systems are subjective beasts and that can be their ultimate downfall or the reason for their success.

What works for you won?t necessarily work for me. And for that reason you can?t say wholeheartedly that Inbox Zero works or it doesn?t. That?s just like saying that having cornflakes for breakfast doesn?t work. It?s simply a matter of personal preference or taste. Now if you?ll excuse me, as I have a few unread messages in my inbox that need dealing with?

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Hardware 25 - What, no Tanks?

Hardware 25 - What, no Tanks?

Posted on 8th Jul 2011 at 14:20 by Podcast with 11 comments

It's been a while since our last podcast so James, Paul, Antony and Harry had plenty to talk about when they took their seats in the studio this week.

First on the agenda was James and Paul's trip to Computex in Taiwan, where they got to see what the industry had planned for the next six months. Certain things were of particular interest to us though such as the LGA2011 boards being shown at the exhibition.

The other big slice of news that's hit since our last podcast is the launch of AMD's new desktop Lynx processors. The APUs (as AMD calls them) are potentially interesting for those looking for a low cost rig that's also capable of gaming.

Finally, we sneak in a little discussion about Intel's new 50-core maths co-processor card and attempt to answer a reader question about thermal compound.

As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a brand new Corsair VX550W PSU.

Hardware 25 - What, no Tanks?

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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Hardware 25 - What, no Tanks?

Hardware 25 - What, no Tanks?

Posted on 8th Jul 2011 at 14:20 by Podcast with 11 comments

It's been a while since our last podcast so James, Paul, Antony and Harry had plenty to talk about when they took their seats in the studio this week.

First on the agenda was James and Paul's trip to Computex in Taiwan, where they got to see what the industry had planned for the next six months. Certain things were of particular interest to us though such as the LGA2011 boards being shown at the exhibition.

The other big slice of news that's hit since our last podcast is the launch of AMD's new desktop Lynx processors. The APUs (as AMD calls them) are potentially interesting for those looking for a low cost rig that's also capable of gaming.

Finally, we sneak in a little discussion about Intel's new 50-core maths co-processor card and attempt to answer a reader question about thermal compound.

As always, we've also set up our weekly competition, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a brand new Corsair VX550W PSU.

Hardware 25 - What, no Tanks?

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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Default Seen as Unlikely, but Markets Prepare

Some debt traders said they were looking for evidence of progress toward a deal before markets open on Monday.

?This press conference was a pretty significant moment,? said Ajay Rajadhyaksha, head of United States fixed-income strategy at Barclays Capital, referring to President Obama?s announcement after markets had closed for the week that talks had broken down. ?I would be pretty surprised if investors did not exhibit a greater degree of worry when we walk in Monday morning than they have shown so far.?

Aware of the pressure of Monday?s market opening, Speaker John A. Boehner said Saturday that Congressional leaders were working on a new deficit-reduction plan that would resolve the impasse and allow the debt ceiling to be raised. He said he hoped the plan could be announced within the next 24 hours.

Even if a deal is reached, investors have become increasingly worried that the rating agency Standard & Poor?s may reconsider its certification of government securities as an ultrasafe investment. The company has said there is a 50 percent chance it will downgrade the rating in the next three months, depending on whether the federal government adopts a long-term plan to pay down its debts. Such a move could send interest rates higher for a broad range of government and consumer loans.

Some of the options still on the table to raise the debt ceiling, involving smaller packages of spending cuts, might not be sufficient to satisfy S.& P. or Moody?s and Fitch, two other rating agencies that have expressed concern over the debt negotiations.

?I think the market still has confidence that the debt ceiling will be raised in time,? said Terry Belton, head of fixed-income strategy at JPMorgan Chase. ?The focus is on downgrade risk.?

A downgrade would raise the government?s borrowing costs, exacerbating its financial problems, because investors generally demand higher interest rates to hold riskier debt. Consumers and businesses also would face higher borrowing costs because the rates on Treasuries are widely used as a benchmark to set the rates on other kinds of loans.

The government cannot borrow more than $14.3 trillion, the current debt ceiling, a limit that it reached in May. Since then, however, Treasury has continued to repay securities as they come due and issue new debt in their place, a process known as rolling over debt. Officials are concerned that it will become harder to find investors willing to participate in the weekly auctions, and that the remaining buyers will begin to demand higher interest rates.

Over the last few weeks staff members in the Office of Debt Management, a part of the Treasury, have been phoning the desks of the 20 major Wall Street dealers for Treasury bonds to assess investor demand for coming debt auctions, and to seek assurances that the dealers themselves will buy any surplus.

About $87 billion in federal debt comes due on Aug. 4, and roughly $410 billion comes due throughout the rest of August. If interest rates climbed even a tenth of a percentage point, the added cost to roll over the debt would be an extra $500 million a year.

Wall Street is also worried about the effect that a ratings downgrade would have on various assets that are implicitly backed by the federal government, including agency mortgages or municipal bonds.

The heightened uncertainty is prompting financial firms and other companies to stockpile cash. Walter Todd of Greenwood Capital, a wealth management firm in Greenwood, S.C., said that so far he had advised his own worried customers not to do the same, operating under the assumption that a deal would be reached. But after the talks fell apart on Friday, Mr. Todd said he and his partners began to discuss a more pessimistic possibility.

?If nothing changes, if the headline out of the weekend is that the talks have broken down, I think you?ll start to see assets reacting to that,? Mr. Todd said. ?It blows my mind that it?s come to this. It?s incredibly irresponsible what?s happening, on the part of both sides.?

Other investors said they did not view the opening of markets on Monday as a critical deadline, as they still expected a deal, but that each passing day would put a little more stress on the markets. Bond prices fluctuated last week on the news from Washington, falling Thursday after S.& P.?s latest warning, then rising on Friday amid renewed talk that a deal was imminent.

?Every day without an agreement increases the risk of default,? said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies & Company. ?Congress likes to go to the edge of the precipice with the debt ceiling, and we are headed toward the edge again.?

Binyamin Appelbaum reported from Washington, and Eric Dash from New York. Louise Story contributed reporting from New York.

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