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The end of the year is an important time for organizing your financial affairs, examining your business and determining what your tax bite will be.
By the time you read this, you'll have less than a month to get your financial house in order or to continue the smart planning you've engaged in throughout the year and gather your records for tax preparation.
This year it's been especially important to stay on top of your finances. Freight is down, business is tough and income is harder to come by. Every receipt you can find, every expense dollar you paid, will help reduce your tax bill. If this has been a good year despite all odds, you can use this month to search for ways to cut your taxes and get ready for next year, which might not be as profitable. If you have struggled this year and are considering your options, use this time to talk with your tax adviser to set up a plan to keep you going. You may be overlooking financial moves that could mean the difference between staying in business and not. Either way, you don't have time to waste.
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Pull out your budget. Are you having the kind of year you budgeted for? Ask yourself why you didn't make the money you thought you'd make, says Eric Cook, owner of Peak Trucking Consultants. Are your expenses higher than predicted? Frank answers to these questions will help you do a better job in 2009.
If you don't follow a budget, now's the time to start one, whether you're an owner-operator or company driver. Sit down with your spouse or tax adviser or both and put together a budget for the coming year. It'll take an hour or so to create one and an hour a month to update it, says Russell Fullingim, president of Truckers Financial Service. "Truckers have time to do this," he says. "You can also go on the Internet and find programs that can help you."
Mark Miller, tax manager at owner-operator business services firm ATBS, says there's a correlation between keeping a budget and profit-and-loss statement and success as an owner-operator. "You put the work in, you put in the discipline, you're more successful," he says.
Owner-operators, if the road has been tough this year, gather all your paperwork and look at your profit-and-loss statement to see where you could make improvements. Cook says this is a time for hard questions: Why am I not generating more revenue? Are my expenses too high? An outside consultant might be able to help you identify the areas that will improve your business.
"You can look at your cash flow and decide what bills you can put off, which you need to pay now and which you can postpone until you get back on your feet," Cook says. "You might look at a restructuring of your business, maybe talk with creditors like your credit-card company or see if you can refinance your house to go from an adjustable-rate mortgage to a fixed-rate mortgage. If you've been putting money in an escrow account and you're struggling to make your house payment, that's maybe something you can put off for a couple of months."
You have to set priorities in your spending. Fullingim says he has clients who are in danger of losing their homes, and part of the problem is they are spending too much money in some other areas. One client in this predicament is spending more than $1,100 each month on two personal vehicles.
December is a good time to assess your retirement planning. Many truckers, especially owner-operators, aren't putting anything aside for retirement. Others aren't contributing the maximum to their retirement accounts, whether an individual retirement account or a 401(k). And many truckers are operating without health insurance for either themselves or their families. "They need to put money in a retirement plan and a medical plan," Fullingim says.
He reminds owner-operators that you can set up a solo 401(k) in your business, setting aside a maximum of $50,000, depending on your age, which is tax-deferred. You can set up an account for your spouse if he or she is involved in the business. As with an IRA, you can make contributions to a 401(k) as late as next April 15, but the account must be established by the end of this year. You could open an account with, say, $500 and make additional contributions until April 15 for the 2008 tax year. If you're already in a retirement account, contribute as much as you can afford.
"Looking to the future, when do you want to retire?" Fullingim asks. "You don't want to be driving a truck when you're 70 years old."
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Be a part of this new generation who is taking a stand against extreme poverty with a heart to change the world. Taxi Drivers 4 Clean Water started by Ibrahim Abdurahman, a taxi driver from DeSoto Cab Company – the oldest cab company in San Francisco California – is rallying drivers throughout the nation to make a difference with clean water.
Taxi Drivers 4 Clean Water is an innovative program of Water 4 Kids International. A program with heart and soul designed to bring awareness to the millions of people suffering and dying because they lack safe drinking water. Taxi Drivers 4 Clean Water leverages the taxicab community to collectively raise money to drill deepwater wells in remote villages, while restoring hope and health to a hurting world.
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Something as simple as clean water to drink, preventing death and disease, had to come to the people of these remote villages throughout the world. He took this dream to heart and an idea was birthed. As a cab driver for DeSoto Cab Company in San Francisco, he has brought his fellow drivers together, many who have experienced the very background that Ibrahim had witnessed.
Many of these cab drivers come from developing nations, living in remote villages where their water source was nothing more than a contaminated open pond, a place where human as well as livestock bathed and drank. Watching a loved one suffer and die was not uncommon. Maybe their sister was unable to go to school because they were burdened with the family responsibility of fetching water everyday. We hear often, that families think they are walking for water, in reality, they are walking for disease. The irony is nearly unbearable, fetching water to sustain life, only to bring a life of suffering and despair. This scenario is played out over and over, time and time again.
They have committed a portion of their paycheck monthly to help bring clean safe drinking water to these remote communities – similar to ones where they may have been raised.
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Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai review
The constantly shifting allegiances provide an absorbing backdrop, but the most fascinating part of Fall of the Samurai is the slow evolution of clan warfare, from the mass melee encounters and arrow volleys of Shogun to the thundering gun lines of Empire and Napoleon. This all takes place across a much more concentrated time period than previous Total War games: each turn represents just a few weeks. This means you have to contend with more protracted winters; armies camping outdoors in the frozen months lose men to the cold, so it's smarter to plan sorties for the milder climes of spring. Happily, the condensed timespan means your generals aren't likely to die of old age before the campaign is done. They level up with each victory, earning experience points to spend on a skill tree that can improve their effectiveness as raiders or defenders.
Time moves slower in Fall of the Samurai, but the pace of change feels faster than ever.
For a time the deadly arcs of welltrained samurai bowmen have the range to outmatch the inaccurate early firearms of the first line infantry. That all changes when you're rich enough to set up international trade ports.
In Shogun 2, establishing merchant ties with foreign powers meant sending a trade skiff to a trading icon at an irrelevant, watery corner of the map. In Fall of the Samurai, you build a port big enough to cater to the demands of international trade and the route establishes itself. Much more sensible.
These mega ports are very expensive, but provide enormous income boosts once they're up and running, and can be used to recruit well-drilled troops from abroad. In the endgame, battles consist almost entirely of gun-wielding variants on these foreign regiments, but Fall is at its best just before this, when these modern troops and Japan's most iconic warriors fight side by side.
As the campaign progresses, pop-up boxes will notify you of the odd dilemma that needs resolving. You can either pay to solve the problem, or ignore it and go back to shuffling your armies around the campaign map. A request for a trade meeting from foreign businessmen might have upset your population, for example, or foreign nationals might have been kidnapped by disgruntled traditionalist peasants. Deciding one way or the other can appease or annoy your populace and occasionally earn useful rewards. In my campaign, I chose to pay to help rescue those hostages. A few turns later, I received a present from a grateful US government: a unit of a hundred or so US Marines sporting magnificent moustaches and state-of-the-art firearms.
They instantly became my most powerful unit. I used them to crush samurai uprisings and smash incoming enemy armies. As in previous Total Wars, units gain experience for killing men and surviving battles. Before long my Marines had become master marksmen, deadly at medium range and unshakeable in combat, but they were only one unit, and they needed protection. The solution was an honour guard of my finest Samurai warriors. Any foe that made it through my Marines' hail of shot would have to face the blades of history's finest swordsmen. It was the perfect balance of old warfare and new technology and served as an elegant payoff for Fall of the Samurai's vision of Japan caught between the old world and the new.
As history demonstrated, bigger guns win out in the end. Eventually, well trained Imperial Guard units overwhelm the spears and swords of the old guard.
By the time you're fielding gun lines four units wide you'll probably be ready to embrace Fall of the Samurai's final, game-changing technological advance: railways. Stations are extremely expensive, and building a line takes forward planning: you have to seize a series of adjacent territories first. But if you do manage to get a route up and running, you can move troops and agents along it instantaneously – the Japanese rail system put the British to shame even 150 years ago. In this way you can completely outmanoeuvre the enemy.
Like the international trade ports, a railway is a pricey piece of infrastructure. They're costly to repair if damaged, too, making them perfect targets for agents skilled in sabotage. In practice, train lines only start to appear towards the end of a campaign. They're a great reward for building a successful empire, and limited enough to stop factions from being able to constantly teleport units to your doorstep.


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Curbing the Impulse: How to Resist Buying for Yourself at Christmas
It starts with the best of intentions: I go to a craft fair, Christmas market, or boutique to pick the perfect presents for my kith and kin, but instead, I walk out with several items for myself, and with a reduced budget, my shopping list no shorter than before. How to buck this trend?
• Limit the amount of impulse shopping you have to face. I know that one of the biggest impulse spots for me is flash sale sites, so I've stopped reading their emails until the holidays are over. Yes, I love some of those sites, and I'm sure there are some great bargains, but the barrage of coupons and discount codes makes me much more liable to buy something on impulse, and chances are, I wouldn't be purchasing Christmas gifts there anyhow. If you have any similar weak spots, consider cutting them out or limiting your exposure.
• Shop in a very pointed fashion. Think of the general type of gift that you'd like to get someone and then go seek it out. This will help you avoid aimless browsing, which can lead to aimless purchasing. To an extent, this takes the fun out of browsing, but it could be just as fun to sit and ponder the ideal gift before really shopping for it. It also prevents what I like to call "the library phenomenon": if you allow yourself to look too much at the shelves around the desired book, chances are, you're going to take more books home.
• Shop online.This is an extension of the above point. For me, if I don't have shelves to look at, then I don't get as distracted by neighboring items. Sure, there's the endless rabbithole of related products, but I find it much easier to be directed in my online shopping. Or maybe you're the other way around, and when you go to a store, you just want to get in and out. Pick the shopping method where you, personally, will linger the least.
• Make a budget for yourself. Rather than trying to cut yourself out of the equation entirely, decide on an acceptable amount that you can spend on yourself before you start shopping. That way, you're less likely to impulse buy, there's not a sense of guilt when you do, and you've already set some reasonable limits on yourself, so it can't get out of control.
• Change your gifting patterns.This involves more people than just yourself, but if your family or friends are facing similar concerns, then you may want to talk to them about doing a Secret Santa exchange, a charity donation, or some other gift exchange that cuts down on the amount of shopping you have to do.
• Reconceptualize and rethink before you buy.Tess recently wrote about a shopping experience she had where her ideal of the item got in the way of its reality. Stopping to think about why we want it, what we'll do with it, and whether it's perfect or just the effect of rose-colored Christmas glasses can help us get some distance between the pull of desire and the reality of the thing at hand.
• Take time away. With the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it's easy to develop an equally bustling shopping mantra that makes you feel like it's now or never to make that purchase. But don't let the "carpe diem" feeling get the best of you. As with any shopping, it can help to take time away from the item and see if your mind keeps going back to it. If it does, then perhaps it's something that you would really enjoy and cherish, but if not, then the chances are good that it was just an in-the-moment purchase.
Not all of these are fun, and certainly you don't want to rob the shopping experience of all its joy, but keeping some of these considerations in mind or tailoring a set of expectations that fits your shopping style might help you save a bit of money this season. Do you have any other good tips?
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Those are all great ideas. Perhaps an additional one - have each member in the family make a list... a long list. One with so many wants/needs that it's ridiculous to fulfill them all. Then, go shopping and pick and choose items from each list. This way, you know what you're shopping for and since you can't get every item on the list it still is a surprise to the gift recepient. You also avoid gifting "the errand" (recepient doesn't like it so you basically gave them an errand to do.. [returning their own gift]).
Online shopping is the worst for me. I end up adding extra stuff (for me) in the cart to meet a free shipping minimum or to receive additional discounts....
Mm, how about just buy people gifts when you want to, and when you see something that makes you think of them, and show them you care about them all the time, not just once a year when you have to buy everyone and their brother gifts. Seems like it's easier on the budget, less stressful, and more surprising for them when they aren't expecting it and loving all around. Just my thoughts, anyway.
I've found that Christmas shopping at craft fairs is a joke--I end up only buying things for myself and Christmas ornaments for my niece and nephew, which are always nice but maybe not exactly enough. Therefore, I have begun skipping the craft fairs to save my wallet.
Whether you buy gifts throughout the year or whenever you happen to see things you like to buy for other people is besides the point. This advice is about curbing impulse buying for yourself and that can be an issue throughout the year, not just Christmas. If you adhere to "one for you, one for me" chances are you have trouble with impulse buying and accumulating things for yourself throughout the year and Christmas exacerbates the problem. This is good advice and it's especially important that people identify their weaknesses before shopping at any time not just Christmas.
Promise yourself you'll go shopping for yourself after the holidays to get stuff on winter clearance!
I, too, delete the "Sale, Sale, SALE!" emails, and throw out the catalogs before they even get in the house.
BUT, I tell my inner-greedy Christmas child that she can have ANYTHING she wants, after New Year. Usually by then I've come down from the holiday hype, however a little, "Thank-God-I-Made-It-Through-Everything" Gift for myself can be nice.
And don't watch TV ads! We have one in Hawaii for a car seat cover maker that in the very first line of the ad is telling us to buy for ourselves first. At the end of the commercial, they say that their products make great gifts for others. Oh the shame!
I get the stuff I want the old fashioned way: tell Santa, drop hints like mad and leave magazines open of the stuff I want.
Too late for me :) Though now that I'm done getting myself a few new things (dress, blouse, lipstick), I am totally focussed on completing the shopping for everyone else. Except for today, when I was in the kitchen store & got a couple of really cute dog cookie cutters for our house.... but I will use those to make treats to give as gifts, I swear!
I've always had trouble with Christmas shopping (one for you, two for me!). However, this year is the first year that everyone in the family has made a wishlist, and I've managed to get gifts for all 26 people and only a CD and a cookbook for myself! It took a while to talk everyone into the wishlist thing (years), but it's pretty much awesome.
I always buy a few things for myself during the holidays. I do most of my shopping online and there are always big sales + free shipping this time of year. Last year I got myself a nice Land's End parka for 40% off and free shipping. I do love a good deal.
I am already cringing at how much I spend on all the purchases for other people. WHY would I want to add to that for myself? Then again, I am about as far away from having a "spending problem" as you can get. I am insanely frugal when it comes to myself. I treat myself to a new holiday outfit (on sale of course) every year but the rest is all gifts for others! Just think about your credit card bill (or debit balance, or skinny wallet) before you add anything to your cart!
I don't see any problem shopping for yourself. Everything is on sale this time of the year, buying for oneself makes economic sense.
For me, "gifts" always mean inferior products. They're rarely things I like. In fact, they are often things I can hardly tolerate. It is therefore my generosity, my gift to others to not put any expectation on the gifts I receive. I buy for myself so that I can treat their gifts as "extra". I feel happier and more grateful even when they are inferior.
When I see things I want I just pin them on Pinterest on my "Buy Me This For Christmas" board. My family knows it exists and can consult it to know that they're going to buy me something I'm really going to love.
I just can't! I MUST buy myself something for Christmas every year. One strategy I use is purchasing items that come in sets, and then using promo codes to get free gifts along with that. So one purchase gets split up into gifts for 3 people, literally!
Watch an episode of Till Debt Do Us Part prior to heading out to the stores.
I love this idea! Thanks!
Having barely enough money to cover buying for others makes it pretty easy to not buy for myself.
I don't really see the problem of shopping for yourself. If you can afford whatever it is you're buying, oftentimes you get the best prices now.
First, I've heard that 40% of gifts at this time of year are re-gifted! That means people don't like them enough to keep them. Think about this when you shop!!!
My solution is that I simply don't exchange gifts with anyone except my partner, and we both try very very hard to give things the other will actually like. He earns more and likes to give me technology (iPhone, iMac, probably an iPad this year...) I earn way less and like to give him unexpected cool things I scour the Internet for (among other things, this year some "rapid prototyping, 3-D-printed" metal D&D dice -- they are like jewelry, very detailed and amazing! And expensive, but within my budget.) I set a budget I can afford, and don't go over. He does what he chooses to do, knowing that. We are both content. (I wish I could do more, every year, but reality is what it is.)
I don't exchange gifts with other family or friends. If we celebrate with each other we do dinners or cards or something that isn't a "gift". It takes some campaigning to get family members to accept this plan, but after years of getting disappointing junk (or, in my family, exchanging equal value gift cards!!!), they can be persuaded. (And then if somebody just can't stand the pressure and breaks down and give you something, you can just say "we agreed not to do this, remember? Thanks very much, though" and let it go. Reciprocation then becomes a guilt game -- don't fall for that!)
So if you limit your gift budget and purchasing of gifts to only the really special people in your life, then you CAN splurge on yourself a little! Think of it as getting what the people you stop exchanging with would have gotten you if you cleverly planted the idea in their heads somehow! (I just ordered some glass icicle ornaments from Overstock.com that I have been admiring for about three years. I just want them. My gift to me.)
Amen. Case in point--last year's gift exchange at work. Even tho' we gave each other lists the person who drew my name ignored mine (all consumables; coffee, choc, etc) saying she thought Christmas gifts should be something you could see all year & be reminded of the person. Firstly, I loathe her. Secondly, I took one look at the "cute doggy" picture frame & dropped it in my donation bag. Not in my house, thanks. The person whom I drew, who had specified "scenty things" was looking awfully polite about the handmilled scented soaps. Both of us wasted $20.
So this year I opted out. I've got $20 to buy books on Amazon, & they've got all the fun of complaining about what a Grinch I am. Win/win.
Hey 3 dogma,
I signed up for similar gift exchange at work (Secret Santa). Only a handful of people signed up, but our cap on the price is $10 (plus 13% tax). I put under my "hints" that I have 2 dogs. So if I get anything for the pooches, I am fine with that. I would actually much prefer it to anything for myself (I am very picky about chocolate, has to be at least 85% cocoa) etc. The recipient of my gift is a woman so I will probably get her a $10 gift card for Home Sense (most women love the store and if not, it is easy to regift).
I've found that creating wish lists can actually be a helpful way of limiting spending and getting the satisfying feeling of having purchased something without actually doing it. Whenever I see something for myself that I have the urge to buy, I look it up online and add it to my wish list (you can use Amazon for global wish lists; I also use evernote, which has the benefit of letting you add photos of things that aren't available online). This way I feel like I've acted on something, but haven't spent money. Every few months I'll check out my wish list and see if I still want any of that stuff; a lot of the time I don't.
I also make gift lists throughout the year for the people that I want to give gifts to -- either for the holidays or birthdays. When I'm with someone and they mention something, or if I just think of something randomly, I'll put it in their gift list. Then when a birthday or holiday comes up I can look over the ideas I've collected and see which one makes the most sense at the time. I find this not only helps me in the spending department (because I'm not doing the frantic "I don't know what to get you so I'm going to just buy a bunch of stuff at the last minute and hope you like something"), but it also means the gifts I give are much more personal.


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We're in the midst of Lent — a season of giving up and taking on, of being formed inwardly to bear fruit outwardly, a season of acknowledging our bondage to sin and celebrating the freedom of forgiveness by God's grace.
For many of us, Lent is a season of intense prayers of self-examination, of listening intently for God's continuing call, of repenting. Such a season allows us to greet Easter with rejoicing for forgiveness, for healing, for clarity of purpose, for assurance, for love, for all that God gives through Jesus Christ!
This year I ask you also to make the remainder of Lent a season of prayer for The United Methodist Church and to continue into Easter and through General Conference, April 24-May 4. You can share prayers with your brothers and sisters by using the "50 Days of Prayer" materials available on the General Conference website, GC2012.umc.org.
Separately and together, the proposals the 988 delegates to General Conference will consider hold the potential for major change in the way the denomination organizes to make disciples, to support congregations, to engage in ministry and mission in the name of all United Methodists. Without a doubt, there will be some changes.
And, yet, my concern is not so much with what the actual decisions on emotionally charged issues will be, but how they will be made. How will we, as a church, hear and be faithful to God's call? How will the delegates and the rest of us who gather in Tampa, Fla., and those who join the conversations from other places treat each other? Who will be hurt? How will healing begin?
So, please, pray for:
As you pray, let these verses be your guide:
"Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:15-22, NIV)
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It has been almost six weeks since Google announced changes to AdWords designed to improve campaign management in the complex world of multiple devices. (Read extensive coverage from every angle yet on Search Engine Land.)
Touting how often searchers switch between computers, desktops, and mobile devices, and how location and/or time can play a crucial role in serving ads, Google says that allowing advertisers to use these factors to customize ads is of primary importance.
But there is one big change that can't be explained by a desire to better serve targeted ads: removing the separation between desktops and tablets.
Google claims that these devices are essentially used the same way, and that its data supports this claim when examined at " Google scale."
At @WSP, we know that accounts are not managed "at scale," but case-by-case. We manage very specific accounts with very different target audiences and use cases. Many other agencies and in-house teams approach their accounts in the same way.
We took a quick look at the performance of 10 of our own e-commerce clients and reviewed how conversion rates for three device types manifested in the real world.
The results were surprising:
For our e-commerce subset, there is not a single instance when Tablet conversion rates approach Desktop conversion rates. (And this is true for our complete client list, not just this sample).
In our test sample, one client's ads to Tablets converted just 20% below Desktops. But overall, the average was a 40% lower conversion rate.
As we are now forced to aggregate the bids for the two device types, advertisers are left with two bad options:
- Pay too much for tablet traffic, and see their ROAS (return on ad spend) decline, or
- Bid lower for desktop traffic to maintain their ROAS, and watch their ad positions, traffic, and overall sales decline.
By taking away the ability to separate and accurately bid Tablet traffic, Google's enhanced campaigns are sure to drag down what we were otherwise willing to bid for desktop traffic.
We hope Google will reconsider that this is not an improvement – it's a real loss to advertisers' ability to control campaigns, and will surely hurt both Google and advertisers in the end.


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Huawei: There'll be BLOOD spilled in the smartphone sector soon
OnePlus One
Except you can't buy a OnePlus phone, it's only available if you have an invite from entering competitions, promoting them via social media, etc.
IF they start shipping them in numbers at that price while that's still considered a high spec, then great, lets start taking them seriously.
But at the moment, it's pure marketing. I'm guessing they're making a loss on the very low number of phones sold at the moment to try and build hype, and will then release on scale when/if the bill of materials approaches the break even point.
BlackBerry not afraid to throw its mobe biz under a bus, says CEO Chen
Re: Chen: Give Us What We Want
Are you suggesting that the way for BlackBerry to compete with iOS and Android is to let them run BB7 apps? Seriously?
Re: Apps apps apps
Sort of... developers need to bother to publish them (ignoring people sideloading the .apk). Which means buying some BB handsets to test your converted app on.
You also need to remove and potentially replace any Google service based features (Google Maps, push notifications, game/Play centre, etc.).
We've got a fairly popular app on Google Play (around 400,000+ installs), that has an Android Runtime version in BB World that has had 4,000 downloads.
It's a free app with adverts. We're not going to recoup the cost of getting handsets to test it on, never mind the time to test it or the time it took to create a custom build with Google Maps, etc. disabled.
I certainly wouldn't recommend any small to medium sized company to bother (maybe if you're BBC iPlayer, Facebook, etc. where 1/100 of the downloads is worth it).
Apple RESURRECTS the iPhone 4: report
Re: New refurbished?
A) I can't be bothered looking it up, but you could work out Apple's profit margin by taking the profits (documented in their quarterly reports) and dividing it by the number of units sold (documented in their quarterly reports). They're not a private company. It's not an internal doc.
B) The figure that I heard at a Deloitte event was 60% profit margin on a 128GB iPad Air.
Apple coughs up 7 hours of profit to refund kids' $32.5m app spend spree
It's made slightly worse, that you also need to enter your password to install free apps opening the same 15 minute window.
Android antivirus apps CAN'T kill nasties on sight like normal AV - and that's Google's fault
Re: Crazy Platform
"At least XP allows a modestly competent user to reinstall from scratch if necessary" - also known as a factory/hard reset on Android (and other smartphone OSs, Symbian had it, Windows Phone has it, etc.).
SLAPPING an iPhone out of a corporate drone's hand: You're not the only one who longs to do it
WP8 released in Nov 2012
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Windows_Phone_8_devices
So we're actually at the one year mark, not two.
Build your OWN Apple iBeacon with a Raspberry Pi
I presume this setup also works with Passbook (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/Reference/PassKit_Bundle/Chapters/LowerLevel.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012026-CH3-SW4)?
Microsoft: Everyone stop running so the fat kid Win RT can catch up
Re: Success???
3.3% was Windows Phone market share in Q2 2013 according to Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2573415). As it was Windows Phone's best quarter to date, the actual share of Windows Phone devices in use is probably significantly lower.
Re: Glacial?
It's not market share, it's sales share in the last quarter. Given that most people keep a smart phone for 2 years (contract length) the market share is roughly the phones sold in the last 8 quarters.
The increase in the EU, which is the figures I presume you're talking about (http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Windows-Phone-nears-double-digit-share-across-Europe - I've not seen the 5% world wide mentioned anywhere else and my guess is that's a little high), is encouraging for Windows Phone, but as a developer they need several more quarters like that before they're considered as a requirement along with iOS and Android.
Sorry fanbois, no supersize Apple fondleslabs for you
Re: The dogs bark
Not really similar to BlackBerry, in that Apple are still selling significant numbers of devices at a much higher margin that everyone else. I predict a PC-esque smartphone market where Apple = Apple (~10% market share, but at the high price end) and Android = Windows (the other ~90%, everything from dirt cheap upwards), with anomalies in countries with high number of contract / subsidised "free" phones where people don't realise or care (as it's such a small fraction of the cost of the network service, e.g. USA) how much they're paying for the Apple kit. Apple may never hit the peaks they've previously seen, but they'll be making lots of money for the foreseeable future.
Microsoft: Oh PLEASE, HTC. Who says Windows Phone can't go on an Android mobe? – report
Re: I fell for this once
Isn't judging Windows Phone on how Windows Mobile worked a bit like saying I'm not getting an iPhone as I didn't like the Newton?
Nokia's 41Mp Lumia 1020 'launches' in UK - but hoi polloi must wait
But people (mostly) don't but OEM's products, the networks do. They see an advantage of having exclusive deals to attract people to switch, and so offer incentives (bigger orders, more prominent promotion, higher unit price, etc.) to the OEMs to take these deals.
For PITY'S SAKE, DON'T BUY an iPHONE 5S, begs FSF
Re: Should we trust Android more though?
"Hypothetically, if an Android phone was released with fingerprint reading capability (now a likely outcome in response to apple)" - Motorola Atrix (http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_atrix-3709.php) - released in Jan 2011.
Five SECRET products Apple won't show today
Re: @AC 07:12 (Who the hell cares?)
What's a vulnerability in the app signing mechanism got to do with the language the app was written in?
It's the software, stupid: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch bags big apps
Re: Bastards!
The new Sony works with any Android 4.0+ device.
Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business
Re: Oh, great!
Microsoft have bought both the Lumia and Asha brand names, and have rights to use the Nokia brand name on mobile phones until 2016 (Nokia can also use the Nokia brand name in that time, but not on a mobile phone/tablet/whatever).
Finally, someone's fixed THAT Android hole. Was it your mobe network? No
Genuine question
Have I misunderstood this vulnerability or is it:
- Hacker could take Facebook/Twitter/etc. APK.
- Add malicious code into it.
- Distribute the app (via 3rd party sites unless they have access to the companies Google Play login) and it would be installed as a valid update to your already installed Facebook/Twitter/etc. apps.
But if you could get people to install your app from a non-Google Play source, couldn't you just as easily have them install any app that's labelled as Facebook/Twitter/etc. and just have the app open a web view or crash on startup (once you've done whatever you wanted to)?
So what's the real vulnerability to end users? Not suggesting it shouldn't be fixed, but how does this make it easier to infect a phone?
Living with a 41-megapixel 808 PureView: Symbian's heroic last stand
Re: Wifi hotspot
Haven't used it in years, but this used to work really well: http://www.joiku.com
Android device? Ooohhhh, you mean a Samsung phone
Re: Fragmentation?
We have an app with 100,000+ downloads in Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.attidomobile.passwallet). They come from 1637 device models. 56% of the downloads are from the 10 most popular models, 5 of which are which are Samsung (Note, S1/S2/S3 and Nexus).
Fragmentation is a problem in that people with obscure devices (we have 520 different models with a single download on that model) will shout quite loudly when it doesn't work perfectly, but in reality you can test on 5-10 devices and pretty much cover you user base (either using the same device or something similar enough so as not to see issues).
I'm sure this is a bigger issue if you're using native code or writing the Facebook/Twitter apps where you'll have 100m+ users, but they they have larger resources for testing.
Compared to developing PC software, where people could be running on hardware they've put together themselves, the number of variants of Android is trivial.
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Not sure which version of Android it was introduced in, but you can "disable" pre-installed apps. It's in the app manager where you'd normally un-install 3rd party apps.
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1. https://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/PadFone_Infinity
2. Think you can still use normal MicroUSB.
Original PadFone had the keyboard as well (https://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/PadFone/) so you might be in luck.
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Re: Fiddling the results?
I think they're probably concerned about people on the other side of London calling the helpline as they're having trouble with their FreeView.
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If anyone's interested in trying out the apps; PassWallet (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.attidomobile.passwallet) & codeREADr (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skycore.android.codereadr).
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Surface Pro vs MacBook Air not iPad
Surely the Surface (running WinRT) is competing with an iPad, and the Surface Pro's main Apple competition is the MacBook Air? In that they both run the full versions of Microsoft and Apple's OSs, and are both spec'd to run full applications. You just get a touch screen thrown in with the Surface Pro.
By all means continue to criticise the Surface Pro for using more space for the OS than the MacBook Air does, but at least compare like for like.
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Do you think it's possible the marketing company was hired to do the campaign before the phone was ready?
Asus doubles up phone-slate combo's specs with Padfone 2
Re: Whats not to like here?
But if you see them both as your personal devices, do you need to be able to use them both at the same time?
For me the main two advantages are (1) I only pay for one SIM & (2) when I plug my phone into the tablet over lunch / on a train / whatever my phone gets recharged from the tablets battery (Admittedly, I'm presuming that's the case on the Padfone2, as that's how the Padfone one worked when I saw it demoed at MWC).
Plus other benefits like watching a video / playing games / writing an email / etc. on the tablet and you can then just carry on with the phone.
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Which country is that? Genuinely interested, as I've used Nokia Maps for years (N80 first phone I had with it I think) and have never had any issues.
WinPhone 8 preview SDK limited to established developers
Re: Way to go.....
Windows Phone 7.x apps will work on Windows Phone 8. It's the other way around that may be a problem (if your app uses the new features or contains native code for example).
The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?
Have you ever actually used Windows Phone for more than 5 minutes? Serious question, as people seem to have very strong opinions for how awful it is but very few seem to have ever owned / borrowed an actual device.
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I recently switched from a Nokia Lumia 800 to a Samsung Galaxy S3.
Yes the "resuming..." of apps on Windows Phone got annoying, and any improvements in the multitasking would be a huge benefit.
But I've seen the S3 fail to respond significantly more times than I ever saw on the Lumia 800.
Bringing up the list of apps and returning to the desktop are prime examples. I don't even have a lot of widgets on the S3 (mostly full screen task / calendar / mail / etc.)
Admittedly there may just be something wrong with my device, it's just an observation.
But my impression from using WP devices (I've also used a HTC Pro 7 in the past) was that the processing power (or lack of) wasn't a huge issue. It's almost like it's been designed to run with that (locked down) spec.
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Two questions
1) How does it perform using OpenGL on Windows? Is this performance boost down to them optimising the app for the OpenGL version?
2) How many of the app optimisations done for OpenGL would also be applicable to the Direct3D version?
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I thought the apps will be compatible with WP8, and it's the other way around that's the (potential) problem?
So you write an app now and it works on WP7.5 & WP8.
You write an app in future, and if you use some new features, such as native C/C++, it'll only work on WP8.
Or did I miss something / get the wrong end of the stick?
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Re: Erm yes it is
You can choose to output the 1:1 pixels if you want, which results in 34 or 38 MPixel images depending on the aspect ratio (Nokia have released a paper detailing the tech), so yes you're right that you can't output 41 MPixel images, but you can easily choose not to have the scaled down ones.
However, I think one of the main selling points is that you either get digital zoom that's reasonable quality (as it's not stretching the image) or you get low noise 3/5/8 MPixel images due to the over sampling.
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Or the fact that's all Symbian supports?
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They won't be unfamiliar with the code, part of the Symbian outsourcing was that Accenture took some of the Nokia staff on.
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re: Have you seen my phone?
I think you might be missing the point. Your girlfriend will watch TV using her core gadget.
The screens just become peripherals anyone can use.
You walk into a hotel room, and the TV links to it.
You get on a plane/train/car and the display mounted in front of you links to it.
You sit at someones desk and you get your desktop on their display / keyboard / mouse / whatever.
You give a presentation and the projector links to it.
You're going out climbing/skiing/biking, so you take a bulky ruggerdised display to link to it.
You're going to work so you take you thin, large screen, iPhone-esque handset to link to it.
You upgrade to the new 4G 8-core version, and all the other screens/peripherals still work.
Lots of practical issues (battery life mostly) others have mentioned. But a very cool idea.
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We've had other websites offering downloads of our FREE apps. Some even charging for them (we've had customers email us asking for a refund!)
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"In theory, buying an HP Touchpad was – and still is, if you manage to get your hands on one – a huge risk."
I really don't get this. Yes, if you're going to spend £500 on a tablet, I can see why most would buy an iPad. More apps. Better support. Future updates. Etc. (I'd personally buy an EeePc Transformer, but you get the point).
But people didn't spend £500, they spent £89 / £115.
Given that there's not likely to be a new web, image, video or audio format to become popular overnight, I really don't see why getting a pretty solid device that covers most of the use cases for a tablet for a fraction of the price is "risky".
Nokia snubs UK with N9
If Nokia / Microsoft are worried that the WP7 devices won't be able to compete with the N9, it doesn't say a lot for their chances against iOS & Android.
And @StrictlySocial, I've only had a brief play with a Mango device, and to be honest I'll reserve judgement until the app updates have come out to make use of the multitasking and the bugs are ironed out (I can't actually get it to add Twitter / LinkedIn accounts, even though the authorization completed, etc).
But the current release is basically a feature phone with a big screen and large price tag. I got one to try out through work that cost £450: using RunKeeper was a joke (brush any of the buttons and it shuts down), Last.fm client that shuts off when you want to do anything else, no Twitter/FB notifications for messages, etc, etc.
Seagate's flash-disk hybrid crosses the chasm
Why isn't this more common?
Seems like a really good solution in theory, is it just not beneficial in practice?
Remastered 4K, 3D Titanic steams towards cinemas
re: cosy
"U really think that producing a film in 3D doesnt cost any more that producing one in 2D, SERIOUSLY ????"
Which other films have the ticket price linked to the production cost? Do low budget films for £1 to see in your cinema and the summer blockbuster £10?
Generally if you spend more making a film you hope to make the money back by selling more tickets, not by making the tickets more expensive. Why should 3D films be treated any differently?
Nokia C7 'Astound' in US debut - all ready for touchless payment
NFC in US C7-00 or in PR 2.0
Is the NFC functionality added exclusively in the Astound, or is it a feature added in SW update PR 2.0, which the European C7-00 will get eventually and the Astound is launched with?
Five Reasons to be cheerful about Nokia-Microsoft
re: Sigh.
"Don't hold out much hope for M$ if they want to make themselves look serious competition when they can't update their coding to at least change a name in a text file."
I'm not aware of any APIs that actually return the name of the OS, just the version number. So I'd say the problem lies in Steam having not been updated to handle version numbers greater than 6.0.
Photo loss blogger to Flickr: You're f*cking kidding
Using the Flickr APIs? Not saying he should have to, but you can access all your metadata (tags / groups / sets / etc) through them. Re-adding comments / restoring the original photo URLs I don't think are possible though.
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Sounds like I need to get lifting. Might get 2 or 3 as I sit now.
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Link to my change http://www.wannabebigforums.com/showthread.php?t=85798
He doesnt start fights he just operates on high speed in a low speed zone all the time .-BRAWL
Nice! I will give this a shot in March
Last edited by LiftingKid; 01-24-2007 at 07:28 PM.
btw, the people who wanted 365 put up a better argument as to WHY it should be 365 instead of 315, hence the reason that is the weight. good luck!
i still say 315. 365 is a good weight but it rules out a large number of this board. I doubt many people will get more than 15 reps in this challenge so why not just keep it at 3 plates per side and let people go crazy. look at the 225 for reps. stump got 50 reps. sure that weight seems really easy, but it included alot more people and it was alot more interesting. besides, more people voted for 315 than 365.
i'm not bitching or complaining, more just giving suggestions so there is more interest.
April first eh?
I'm going to take a shot at this. I know I wont win, but it is great motivation for me.
I tried deadlifts for the first time in six months last friday and I got 315lbs for 3reps on my last set.... Hopefully I should be able to attempt 325 this week. My goal for the april fools deadline is 10 reps of 365.
^ good luck with your goal, that would be impressive.
i think i could get it 3 times, who knows i have till april
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sounds good, ill try this soon and tape it.
2000 or bust
I might get it twice.
Forever Goal: Strength
Weightlifting sucks. I just like to lift heavy things.
i would love to see some of the bigger deadlifters here, like chris mason and belial...
stump boy's got that endurance though, i think he could crunch out around 20 reps.
then after that go kill a bunny and start growling
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Bench:225x5, 255x1
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What are the rules in terms of pausing or resetting grip between reps?
i had a few questions:
1) is a weight lifting belt allowed?
2) does sumo stance qualify for this?
3) i have here a clip from sept 2006 of me sumo deadlifting... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-cGf6qQ0o
is that bouncing? can you please elaborate more on that
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i think some people might get screwed because there grip will give out before there back and legs, i dont know its just my opinion ill do it either way
2000 or bust
I don't think Stumpy will get to 20. He has the grip of a little girl hahahaha.
Fuck, fight, or hold the light.
Anyway, even if you can't get 365 even, I'm sure you could get close. You have smaller plates don't you. Just tweak it. I don't know what sizes you got, but an example would be eight 20Kilo plates (four on each side) comes out to 352lbs. Add six 1Kilo plates (three per side) and you'd be up to 365lbs.
But I don't know what plate sizes you have there.... so I dunno if you have 20 and 1 kilo plates
Last edited by zen; 01-25-2007 at 08:59 AM.
chub - 405 double overhand is not a weak grip, thats much better than most people, you are wrong
fuzzy - that comes out just short but maybe make it right with some locks, only fair to make it exactly 365
Vicious - i have no idea what your talking about..think my avatar may need changing though
And are we comparing bodyweights?
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In the newly released list of World's Most Respected Companies in 2013, Barron's featured several non-U.S. companies, including Unilever (NYSE: UL) and Nestle (NASDAQOTH: NSRGY). While Unilever ranked eleventh with mean scores of 3.24, Nestle was in the sixteenth position. Should we invest in these highly respected non-U.S. firms at their current prices? Let's find out.
Unilever has been performing quite well under the leadership of Paul Poleman. Since June 2012, Unilever has experienced a decent gain of nearly 31% on the market, from $31 per share to around $40.50 per share. Unilever has benefited from its growing business in the emerging markets. Asia/AMER/RUB is considered the most rapid growth cluster, with 10.6% growth, while the Americas and Europe experienced lower growth of 7.9% and 0.8%, respectively.
The company reported that around 55% of its turnover was derived from the emerging markets, a much higher percentage compared to its direct global competitor, Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), with 37% of the total revenue coming from emerging markets. Unilever could benefit in the future by the recent increase in Hindustan Unilever's stake, from 52.7% to 75% with a total investment of $5.4 billion. Harish Manwani, the company's COO, mentioned that Unilever has great growth opportunities in rural India which has a population of 700 million people.
Paul Poleman has restructured Unilever's business, divesting its food business to focus on Beauty and Personal Care in the emerging markets. Unilever had divested North American Frozen Foods for $267 million and Skippy peanut butter for $700 million in cash. In the first half of 2012, it expanded its footprint in beauty and personal care sector by spending $694 million on Concern Kalina, the Russian owner of Black Pearl and Silky Hands creams. The market values Unilever at around 17.3 times its forward earnings.
P&G and its $10 billion cost savings program
Unilever has a lower valuation than P&G. The market values P&G at 17.8 times its forward earnings. Despite its higher valuation, P&G could deliver a lot of value to its shareholders with its business restructuring and improvements under the leadership of CEO A.G. Lafley. Lafley would be expected to accelerate P&G's $10 billion cost reduction program. Activist investor Bill Ackman, one of the largest P&G shareholders, mentioned that a $10 billion cost cutting included $6 billion in COGS reduction, $1 billion in overhead savings, $1 billion in marketing efficiencies, and $2 billion in operating leverage.
Ackman estimated that with an EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) margin of 4% and organic sales growth of 6%, P&G's EPS might reach $6 per share in 2016. When a simple multiple of 20 was applied, its share price might rise to $125 per share, a whopping 62% to its current trading price.
Nestle ranked sixteenth in the list of the world's most respected companies with a mean score of 3.17. Nestle has also grown its emerging market revenue share significantly, from 30% of the total revenue in 2001 to 45%. The company has undertaken a lot of effort to drive the business forward with its long-term approach, including building capabilities in terms of R&D, cost savings and channels, expanding its presence and performance in both emerging and developed markets, and doing further to enhance the company's capabilities and its global leadership position.
In the first quarter of 2013, Nestle experienced good organic growth of 4.3% with total sales increase of 5.4% to CHF 21.9 ($23.21) billion. For full year 2013, the company confirmed its market outlook with an organic growth estimate of around 5%-6%, with improved margins and underlying EPS in the constant currency terms. The market values Nestle at around 16 times its forward earnings.
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All three consumer giants mentioned above could fit well in the long-term portfolios of investors. With their growing businesses in the emerging markets, Nestle, Unilever, and P&G could deliver decent returns for their shareholders in the long run. Unilever, with its recent business restructuring and the expansion in Indian markets, could experience significant growth. P&G's business could improve substantially with a $10 billion cost cutting program, which could happen sooner than 2016 under A. G. Lafley's leadership.
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Lightsphere® Universal, Half Cloud (Neutral Color)
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Only: US$ 49.95The famous Gary Fong Lightsphere® - A UNIVERSAL size to fit almost ANY on-camera flash! (including Nikon SB910 and Canon 600ex-rt)
Available in Half-Cloud and Cloud versions. Learn More