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Logitech, one of the first backers of Google TV, is walking away after losing millions of dollars on its Revue set-top box.
With Google TV on the Revue, Logitech "executed a full scale launch with a beta product and it cost us dearly," a slide (pdf) from the company's analyst and investor day said.
The Revue's failure, combined with operational problems in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, cost Logitech well over $100 million in operating profit. It also prompted CEO Gerald Quindlen to step down last July.
So it's no surprise that Logitech is running away from Google TV. Current CEO Guerrino De Luca didn't rule out returning to the platform eventually, but for now De Luca said Logitech plans to sit "on the bench," according to The Verge. A "grandchild of Google TV" may have a chance at success in the future, De Luca said.
The first version of Google TV took criticism for its complicated interface, buggy and slow performance and lack of Web-based content, thanks in large part to TV networks blocking the software from their streaming video sites. And compared to cheap set-top boxes like Roku and Apple TV, Logitech's $300 Revue wasn't an easy sell. Logitech had to drop the price to $100 over the summer.
Google has updated the software with a simpler interface and support for Android apps, but with Logitech out and Sony showing interest in building its own connected TV platform, Google must now find new hardware partners. I wouldn't be surprised to see new Google TV boxes from Motorola Mobility, which Google is in the process of acquiring. Motorola is best known for its phones, but also produces set-top boxes for TV providers. But after seeing Logitech's failure, third-party device makers may be skittish about backing Google TV now.
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When it comes to forecasting potential Apple product launches, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo may be one of the most credible and accurate experts in the field. He correctly predicted that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company would release the iPhone 5 in September, and added that a refreshed third-generation iPad and iPad Mini would follow soon after.
His roadmap for 2013, however, may be lacking this element of surprise or excitement for most Apple fans. Kuo's projections seem fairly safe and basic, but the report does serve to intensify rumors that have been circulating the Web in recent weeks. According to Kuo, Apple plans to release a successor to the iPhone 5 in the third quarter of 2013. This would presumably be the iPhone 5S and would mark almost one year since the current-generation iPhone made its debut.
This rumor isn't anything new – whispers of another iPhone release have been spreading since November when DigiTimes reported that Apple would plan its next-generation smartphone for the middle of 2013. The site obtained this information from analysts watching Apple's supply chain, but didn't specify any particular sources.
Apple could potentially introduce a redesigned iPhone 5 in the same quarter as well, Kuo predicts. This could prove to be the highly speculated low-cost iPhone that has made headlines in recent weeks, and Kuo isn't the first analyst to make this assertion. Researcher at Topeka Capital Markets Brian J. White told Reuters this month that Apple could launch a smaller and cheaper iPhone to penetrate further markets.
"We think Apple will have to launch an iPhone Mini at some point over the next three years to address the hundreds of millions of pre-paid users worldwide that cannot afford the current iPhone," he said.
Kuo doesn't specify how much the iPhone 5 would change beyond a "redesign," but his notion would seem to align with White's projections. This low-budget iPhone would come in six colors according to Kuo, and would feature a body made of plastic rather than the premium finish found on Apple's current line iPhones.
As for the iPhone 5S, the upcoming smartphone would keep the same form factor as the iPhone 5 but would come equipped with some technical upgrades such as an A7 chip, a fingerprint sensor and an improved camera with an f2.0 aperture and a smart LED flash. A modified fifth generation iPod Touch and iPod Nano are also projected to debut in the same portion of the year.
In addition, Q3 2013 is expected to herald in the fifth generation iPad and a successor to the iPad Mini. To little surprise, the iPad Mini 2 would sport a Retina Display screen while the standard sized iPad would come in a slimmer and lighter flavor with sleeker bezels.
Kuo certainly seems to have Apple's plans for the year mapped out, but we're not necessarily shocked to learn this information. The first major product launch should be coming soon according to Kuo's predictions, which indicate that an Apple TV refresh is headed our way this quarter.
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Trying to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has wiped out more than 100 species, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute continue to discover new frog species in Panama: Pristimantis educatoris, from Omar Torrijos National Park, and P. adnus from Darien Province near the Colombian border.
In 1989 researchers realized that frogs were dying around the world. Then they identified the cause: a fungal disease called chytridiomycosis. In 2004 Karen Lips, associate professor at the University of Maryland, sounded the alarm that the disease was devastating highland frogs in Central Panama and spreading across the country to the east.
"We are working as hard as we can to find and identify frogs before the disease reaches them, and to learn about a disease that has the power to ravage an entire group of organisms," said Roberto Ibanez, research scientist at STRI and local director of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project.
Since 2005 research institutions and zoos from Panama and the United States have scrambled to collect healthy frogs east of the infected area—to save them from extinction. The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project unites eight institutions including STRI and the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, along with Panama's environmental authority, ANAM, in a new effort to raise captive frogs in Panama at Summit Nature Park with support from the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center.
While collecting at Omar Torrijos National Park, Lips' team noticed a common frog much bigger than specimens collected elsewhere. Mason Ryan and Tom Giermakowski, from the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the University of New Mexico, compared the frogs' feet and toes with frogs in museum collections, concluding that the bigger frogs were actually a new species.
They named this new species P. educatoris. The species name, educatoris, honors Jay M. Savage, emeritus professor of biology at the University of Miami, who taught several generations of students about tropical frogs. Educatoris actually has a double meaning, because females of this species also nurture and care for their developing eggs.
In 2008, researchers first detected the fungus to the east of the Panama Canal. During a collecting trip in November 2009 to Chagres National Park, even further to the east, researchers were dismayed to find that most of the frogs there were already infected and dying.
On May 20, researchers from the PARC project returned to what they hope are still fungus-free, healthy frog habitats in Darien Province. On an earlier trip organized by members of Eldredge Bermingham's lab at the Smithsonian, another new frog species was collected by researchers from STRI, the University of Panama and the Círculo Herpetológico de Panamá.
Its name is based on ADN, the acronym for the Spanish acido deoxiribonucleico, meaning deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, in English. "We chose this name to underscore the usefulness of genetic techniques as we identify these new frog species and determine the relationships between tropical frogs that may look very similar," said Andrew Crawford, professor at University of the Andes and research associate at STRI.
These two reports bring the total number of frog species described in Panama and Costa Rica to 197. Nearly 15 percent of these new frogs have been described in the past seven years.
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Radiohead have suffered a set back after the tragic stage collapse incident that claimed the life of their friend and drum tech earlier this month in Toronto. The U.K. band was forced to postpone several European tour dates that immediately followed the June 16 show, but have now announced the rescheduled itinerary.
Radiohead pulled out of shows in multiple cities across Italy, Germany and Switzerland starting this Saturday (June 30). Fans hoping to see them live will have to wait an additional three months or receive a refund for their ticket. The new leg of the tour will start on September 20 in Vaud, Switzerland and end 10 days later in Berlin, and it will feature Caribou as the opening act. See the new dates below.
Radiohead are still mourning the loss of their companion Scott Johnson, who was killed when the stage at their Toronto, Canada show collapsed and injured three others. The incident has prompted many concert promoter veterans to speak out and criticize the way the industry handles stage safety precautions.
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- Hundreds of people showed up at Webster Hall in the East Village for a pop-up Kanye West concert.
- The concert was announced late Sunday following the cancellation of the Governors Ball Music Festival due to bad weather.
- There was chaos outside Webster Hall as energetic fans climbed on cars and light posts. No arrests were made, but some cars were damaged.
Hundreds of people packed the streets outside Webster Hall in Manhattan's East Village after Kanye West teased a surprise concert there early Monday — but the concert was ultimately canceled as the crowd grew and grew, leading to a frenzied scene that left behind smashed cars and piles of trash.
Despite high energy at the unplanned event and a heavy police presence, no one was arrested, according to the NYPD.
Photos and video posted online show hundreds, possibly thousands, of people gathered outside the concert venue. Some fans climbed on top of cars and others scaled poles and light posts. East 11th Street was jam-packed end to end down the block as people clapped and cheered.
A police car and a taxi cab could be seen trying to make their way through the throng of people. East 11th Street was ultimately closed between Third and Fourth avenues as more fans streamed in.
Concertgoers said other rappers and West's management gave clues something would happen at Webster Hall around 2 a.m. Within minutes, the streets were packed with fans and police.
West took to Twitter at 1 a.m. to announce that the 2 a.m. pop-up concert had sold out. But by 1:45 a.m., Webster Hall tweeted, "There is no late show at Webster Hall tonight. Please get home safely."
A Webster Hall employee said the concert was never officially scheduled. One employee was seen with a bullhorn telling the crowd: "Go home! Go home!"
No official announcement was made about what led to the show's cancellation, but it was likely the enormous crowd, which ballooned quickly after word of the concert got out.
"It was an energy. It wasn't that people were bugging out, but it wasn't that people were calm. People just saw their idol, so it was almost like excitement," said Dante Moreno, from New Rochelle.
As the energy grew, West appeared on top of a car that was quickly surrounded by fans. The musician could be seen driving by amid a wave of cellphones as fans tried to get a photo of the Grammy Award-winning musician.
By 3:30 a.m., East 11th Street had cleared out and re-opened to traffic — but smashed cars were left behind. Some of the vehicles had shattered windows and others had dented roofs. The crowd also left heaps of trash.
Nareem Rigaud, of Brooklyn, said despite some destruction, a positive atmosphere surrounded the event.
"It wasn't a crazy riot or anything. People was just eager to see Kanye. The energy was high but there wasn't fighting or anything like that," Rigaud said.
But East Village resident Michael Gomez saw it differently. He said that both of his cars were vandalized during the chaos. Now, he said, he's stuck paying his insurance deductibles.
"They are animals," Gomez said. "No reason to do something like that. No reason at all."
It's unlikely West or Webster Hall will be culpable for any of the damages, however. Attorney Michael Bachner said that he could have let police know he was going to announce the performance, but there was know way he could have predicted the crowd's behavior.
"The only way to hold Kanye West liable would be to prove he had knowledge or intention or at least acted negligently," he said.
Later on Monday, Mayor de Blasio tweeted to West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, urging them to plan future events with the city.
".@kanyewest @kimkardashian Great block parties are planned. @Chirlane & I can throw one w/ you to benefit NYC kids," he tweeted.
West's surprise announcement came after the third day of the Governors Ball Music Festival was canceled due to stormy weather. West was scheduled to perform at the Randall's Island event before it was rained out.


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What's the first thing you think of when you think poetry readings by a Poet Laureate and a Pullitzer Prize winner? Well, whatever it is, I'm sure you weren't thinking dogs.
Nonetheless, pet dogs were brought up more than anything else during poetry readings by Billy Collins and Mary Oliver at the Strathmore in Bethesda, Md. on Sunday. They managed to bring up their dogs in a beautifully poetic way, of course.
But perhaps the most important take away from the evening came from Oliver during a question-and-answer time after the readings. She said something like this: "Pay attention. Be astonished. And tell about it. We're soaked in distractions. The world didn't have to be beautiful. We can and should think about that beauty and be grateful."
Those are words I have tried to live by for the last year.
Both poets demonstrated that attention in their work — even in poems about dogs.
Take Oliver's poem For I Will Consider my Dog Percy, where Oliver learns from her dog's constant engagement with life: "For he came to me impaired and therefore certain of short life, yet thoroughly rejoiced in each day./ … For when he came upon mud he splashed through it./ … For when he sniffed it was as if he were being pleased by every part of the world." In Percy, Oliver sees a way of living that embraces the beauty of life — the sounds, the smells, and the feelings.
Billy Collins was a little funnier but just as elegant in his work. Collins also brought up dogs, arguing that they just have a way of brightening things up. Collins jokingly remarked that in workshops he tells young poets to throw their dogs into poems to get a minute away from focusing so much on themselves.
Dogs aside, Collins tends to take seemingly trivial parts of his life and turn them into witty ruminations that almost always have the audience "ahh"-ing after the last line.
In his poem Cheerios, Collins writes about a morning in a restaurant in Chicago where he looked in the paper only to discover he was a few months older than Cheerios. He tells us he can already hear them whispering behind his back, "Why that dude's older than Cheerios," but then turns the poem into a thoughtful examination of the longevity of nature and the temporality of human life.
Both poets are more than worth a read, and they demonstrate a practice we could all exercise a little more: paying attention.
Brandon Hook is the Online Assistant at Sojourners.
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Yahoo has acquired its first company under the leadership of new CEO Marissa Mayer: Stamped, a New York startup backed by a roster of celebrity investors, including Ryan Seacrest and Justin Bieber.
Launched just over a year ago, Stamped created a mobile recommendations platform that allowed customers to "stamp" everything from a favorite restaurant to a beloved song.
Yahoo (YHOO) isn't keeping the product, though. It will shut down by the end of the deal, Stamped's founders wrote Thursday in a message announcing the deal.
The deal was strictly a talent acquisition. Stamped's nine employees all plan to join Yahoo and will head a New York-based engineering and product team.
"After everything we learned from building Stamped, we're excited to start work again on something big, mobile, and new," the founders wrote.
The deal fits with the mobile-first strategy Mayer laid out earlier this week on Yahoo's quarterly earnings call. Yahoo "hasn't capitalized on the mobile opportunity," she said, calling it Yahoo's new "top priority."
The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. A source close to the company says Stamped had more than one offer on the table and chose Yahoo because of the team's past experience with Mayer.
"As a team of mostly former Googlers, we've all worked with and are big fans of Marissa," Stamped's founders wrote on their website. "So when an opportunity arose to become a part of the team at Yahoo, we jumped."
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American Water Names Susan N. Story Chief Financial Officer
VOORHEES, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- American Water Works Company Inc. (NYS: AWK) , the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, has announced that effective April 1, 2013, Susan N. Story will become its chief financial officer. Story is succeeding Ellen Wolf, who announced her retirement in January 2013.
"American Water is very pleased to have someone with Susan's talent and diverse background joining our company as CFO," said Jeff Sterba, president and CEO of American Water. "As the chief executive officer of both a well-respected energy company and a large support services organization, Susan has managed both the revenue and cost elements of a utility income statement for many years. Her depth of knowledge and experience overseeing complex financial systems, optimizing cost structures and strengthening internal controls will benefit our company and her strong customer-focused business approach will increase the capacity of American Water's management team."
Story brings more than 30 years of utility experience and knowledge to American Water. She is currently executive vice president of Southern Company, one of America's largest generators of electricity serving both regulated and competitive markets across the southeastern United States. In this capacity, she sits on the company's management council and is president and CEO of Southern Company Services Inc., with responsibilities for functional support of all of Southern Company's subsidiaries. Previously, Story served as president and CEO of Gulf Power Company, a Florida subsidiary of Southern Company. She is also an independent director of Raymond James Financial, a diversified financial services company.
"Susan is one of the energy sector's most seasoned and respected leaders," said Tom Fanning, president and CEO of Southern Company. "She has risen to the highest ranks of our company, due to her sharp focus on finance, operations and customer service. At Southern Company, we call these the 'what's.' But equally important are the 'how's' and Susan Story is world class at both. We wish her well."
Story has also served as Southern Company's executive vice president of Engineering and Construction Services, where she had oversight for budgets and schedules of numerous combined cycle power plants and large environmental retrofit projects. Story began her career at Southern Company as a nuclear power plant engineer and had increasing responsibilities in operations, human resources, customer service, corporate real estate and supply chain.
Story is actively involved in community and economic development efforts. She currently serves as the national chair for the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD), and is on the boards of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE). While in Florida, she was appointed to the Federal Judiciary Nominating Commission, the Florida Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) advisory council and the Task Force on Healthcare Accessibility and Affordability. Story was a political appointment to the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, required by Florida law. Members are tasked with reviewing the state's budget and expenditure processes, revenue needs and tax structure of the state. In addition, she was appointed chair of the Finance and Taxation Committee, which had responsibility for assessing the effects and appropriateness of financial structures of the state and its local governments.
Story attended executive education programs at Duke University and Oxford University in England, and completed international business studies at Cambridge University and leadership studies at Harvard. She earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University and an MBA from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She completed additional post-graduate coursework in the Master of Finance program at the University of Alabama focusing on financial derivatives, and at the Birmingham School of Law focusing on torts and contracts.
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So I wrote a little news story today noting that Microsoft missed its target of selling 20 million Windows Mobile licenses in its fiscal year 2008, which ended June 30. Here's the company's take on this news:
We are excited to announce that Windows Mobile had yet another year of high growth, closing out the 2008 fiscal year by nearly doubling the overall expansion of the market.
As we are enter Fiscal Year 2009, we are preparing for an equally exciting year. Through the magic of Windows Mobile software, services and partner relationships, Microsoft is poised to continue with its impressive growth.
In fact, IDC expects Windows Mobile phones to continue to outsell Apple iPhones in both consumer and enterprise shipments, and by 2012, Windows Mobile is expected to double sales over the iPhone in the consumer space, and have nearly nine times the amount of enterprise deployments.
Looking ahead, Microsoft's unique vision and approach will continue to create opportunities for the partners and the entire industry, while connecting people to the information they care about most.
Below are some key pieces of information.
- Windows Mobile sold more than 18 million licenses in fiscal year 2008, seeing triple digit gains in France, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Japan and India.
- Consumers today can enjoy a number of Windows Mobile 6.1 phones, including the HTC Diamond, Touch Pro, and Samsung Omnia, and anticipation is rising for upcoming devices such as the Sony Xperia X1.
- We continued strengthening our position in the enterprise evident by 363 lighthouse wins (500 devices or more) which equaled 1.4m total licenses; 91 were competitive (meaning a RIM BES server was decommissioned).
- We have more than 18,000 Windows Mobile applications, recently adding applications from Bloomberg, Reuters, and SAP, giving people the choice and flexibility they demand.
- We are continuing to leverage acquisitions including Danger, MobiComp, Musiwave, and aQuantive to deliver the best mobile experience in the market.
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In a strongly worded letter, Amazon added its voice to the growing chorus of cries urging a court to reject the proposed Google Books settlement.
The proposed agreement "creates a cartel of authors and publishers … operating with virtually no restrictions on its actions, with the potential to raise book prices and reduce output to the detriment of consumers and new authors or publishers who would compete with the cartel members," said Amazon's complaint, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Google and a group of book publishers and authors came to an agreement about how to manage Google's efforts to scan books and make them digitally available after the publishers sued the search giant for copyright infringement. The settlement proposal, reached last October, is under review by the court.
Amazon, which itself has scanned millions of books, argues that the settlement violates federal antitrust laws by establishing Google as the exclusive distributor of electronic copies of "orphan" works. Orphan books are those that are still in copyright but whose authors cannot be found.
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Travels in Siberia
In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia , Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history–its science, economics, and politics–with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again.
With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known–Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)–to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago .
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The word humor does not appear in Mennonite bibliographies until recent times. Early Mennonite teaching on holiness or nonconformity to the world, taught that in their general demeanor Mennonites were to be restrained and quiet, rather than loud, talkative, or boastful, traits that reflected the spirit of the world. Their interpretation of the New Testament, especially Ephesians 5:4, did not allow for jesting or joking. The Christian was expected to prune the heart and mouth of all unbecoming thoughts, words, and actions. Unseemly light-hearted behavior was often summed up in the word "levity." In addition, the Mennonites were concerned that houses of prayer and worship not be turned into houses of entertainment and mirth through humorous allusions and stories.
This serious mien was reinforced by the long period of intense persecution in the early development of Anabaptism. As the radical left wing of the Reformation movement, Mennonites took their stand against the state church, a stance which often resulted in loss of life, livelihood, and family, situations hardly conducive to humor. At other periods in their history, Mennonites, in their search for purity of life, also protested one another, particularly with regard to church practices and ethics, dividing in the process into splinter groups. When that schismatic activity slowed, Mennonites in the 20th century renewed their protest against war, the draft, and nuclear rearmament, none of which encourages a humorous self-critical approach to life, but is, in truth, a form of judgment of others.
Another factor inhibiting humor is conviction that the Christian would always speak only the truth (Matthew 5:34-37), thereby discouraging the telling of tall stories, the use of hyperbole and understatement, or any made-up story told as being true. Some conservative evangelical groups prefer true stories to fiction.
Although early Mennonites in The Netherlands were humorously portrayed in poetry, fiction, and drama with digs at their conservative dress, their supposed weakness for rich food and drink, their "tricks and dodges," and their sanctimoniousness (literature), Mennonites themselves did not use humor in faith-related activities until much later.
Although opposition to levity in speech is evident in most Mennonite traditions, some of the Russian Mennonite groups, especially those who seceded from larger bodies to protest the lack of spiritual and moral life, spoke against it corporately. John Holdeman, founder of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, wrote that "All ... jesting and joking ... are works of the flesh, and if we live therein we lack of that holiness which is taught in the Scriptures." Historian Clarence Hiebert states that Holdeman contributors to Messenger of truth admonished against jokes, jesting, and laughing 21 times between 1903 and 1960.
The Kleine Gemeinde (Evangelical Mennonite Conference) taught its children to take life seriously, and therefore, laughing and joking were frowned upon. Other small schismatic groups such as Krimmer Mennonite Brethren and Evangelical Mennonite Brethren (Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches) also taught nonconformity in speech.
Mennonite Brethren in America in a formal recommendation at their General Conference sessions in 1900 asked members to desist from jesting and joking, whether verbal or in writing, in conversation or in published periodicals.
The Mennonite Church likewise taught nonconformity in speech. In Daniel Kauffman's One thousand questions and answers on points of Christian doctrine (1908), question 529, "What forms of worldly amusement are specified in the Bible?" was answered with "Church entertainments, banquetings, revelings, foolish talking and jesting (Ephesians 5:4)." By 1952 J. C. Wenger interpreted Ephesians 5:4 as meaning that Christians should be able to enjoy clean humor. It is not forbidden to laugh. "He who lacks a sense of humor has neither the flexibility of good mental health nor the normal winsomeness of a child of God." jesting, on the other hand, is "worldly and sensual wit, exhibition of mental wit, light-mindedness."
In the late 20th century, Mennonite use of humor as an approach to life is slowly moving beyond these restrictions, out of the understanding that Old Testament writers as well as Jesus used humor to communicate an idea in a more easily comprehended way. Though coarse jesting is still frowned upon, humor is accepted freely in informal social situations, occasionally in church publications if restraint is used, and less often in worship services.
North American Mennonite humor emphasizes the distinctive characteristics of the Mennonites, reflecting their struggles with the traditional traits of an overt honesty, frugality, dedication to work, close-knit communities, traditional occupations, foods, language, and life-style customs, as well as travel experiences which highlight the "innocents abroad" theme.
New expressions of humor emerge constantly in relation to Mennonite-sponsored group events, such as assemblies, conferences, institutions, Mennonite Central Committee service, relief sales, and Mennonite Disaster Service. Humor as an attitude of joy toward suffering is emerging from experiences with Mennonite Disaster Service with people going through natural disaster, but there is less evidence of it as related to Mennonites' own suffering in the Jewish tradition, as a compensation for suffering. Like other humor, Mennonite humor springs up at the edge of change, when cherished values are challenged; for example, the patriarchal nature of the family and the role of women in the church.
Insider humor includes social criticism of established traditions and of persons in power. Mennonite humor focuses on men, especially on influential men in public positions in local, national, and worldwide situations, caught in weak moments. Mennonite anecdotes include any aspect of beliefs Mennonites have difficulty holding to fully, such as nonresistance, or in which there is some variance with another branch of the church, such as forms of baptism. Inter-Mennonite rivalries are also the frequent butts of humor.
Satire as a comment on the human condition has not been used successfully in Mennonite periodicals, even if clearly labeled satire, indicating that the point of view expressed is likely to be the opposite of what is expressed. The Gospel herald (MC) experimented with "The prayers of Luke Warm," "Seth's corner," "Wit and wisdom," and "Sisters and brothers," the last-mentioned being a cartoon series by Joel Kauffmann beginning in the fall of 1978. Negative reader response to the cartoons caused the editor to cut the cartoons back although a later series, "Pontius Puddle" gained acceptance in other Mennonite and non-Mennonite publications after 1982. Other editors have had similar experiences with satire.
Certain subjects are still taboo for Mennonite humorists. The fine line dividing the sacred from the secular is tenuously drawn. Jokes about some ethnic groups occasionally take place in hell; jokes about Mennonites are more likely to take place in heaven. Stories about Mennonites engaged in adultery, drinking and drunkenness or acts of violence are not freely told. Tall tales are usually absent, except in the folklore tradition of some branches of the Mennonites. Immigration hardships are acceptable as subjects for humor, and more recently the passing from rural life to the new more sophisticated urban life.
Iconoclastic Mennonite humor has had difficulty being accepted in essay, cartoon, or poetry form. However, with the passing of ministers, preachers, and elders (bishops) as models of the ideal Mennonite Christian, the common Mennonite is more readily being accepted as the focus of humor, bringing with it the introduction of a frame of mind toward life that is humble and playful.
Within Mennonite groups who use some German or Dutch dialect, a body of humor exists which developed naturally and spontaneously out of a world view comfortable to its users. The Russian Mennonites, and their North American descendants, lived in two language worlds, and therefore in two related cultures, for decades. The Low German dialect was spoken where life was lived warmly, comfortably and intimately--in the home, on the barnyard, in the store, at social gatherings. People ate and digested, courted and loved, fought and made peace, bought and sold, argued and "neighbored" in the dialect. On the other hand, standard or High German, was the language of seriousness, scholarliness, sophistication, and to some Low German dialect speakers, the language of pretence and pomposity. Although the Low German dialect is often considered funny in itself, a concept reinforced by modern playwrights and song writers who choose humorous material to work with, some scholars argue the language is not funny but is capable of expressing humor because of its immense resourcefulness in distinguishing between nuances with great precision. Like Yiddish, it has a large variety of terms to distinguish between shades of connotations. The humor present in proverbs, sayings, and anecdotes is an expression of the ways things are and an invitation to the listener to see the world in a new way, that of the speaker. Low German humor is frequently a dry type of irony, seldom derisive and cruel, as in black humor, although it is readily recognized for its attempts to cut down class pretensions or dissimulations. Arnold Dyck's comic characters Koop and Boa have been termed the Mennonite Laurel and Hardy team. Because of its restricted subject matter and because the humor lies in the idioms and culture, rather than in plot and action, Low German humor does not usually appeal to an outside audience.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. "How to Start a Civil War." Christian Leader (23 February 1982): 19.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. "The Humble Approach." Mennonite (15 February 1972): 104.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. "Why Mennonites Can't Laugh at Themselves." Festival Quarterly 1 (Summer 1974): 522.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. "How do Mennonites Spell Relief?" With (July-August 1985): 17ff.
Hertzler, Daniel. "Humor and the Human Condition." Gospel Herald (12 January 1982): 32.
Hertzler, Daniel. "Can Laughter Save the Country?" Gospel Herald (31 March 1981): 256.
Hertzler, Daniel. "Laughing at Karl Barth." Gospel Herald (19 July 1983): 512.
Hertzler, Daniel. "What's So Funny?" Gospel Herald (31 May 1978): 444.
"Reclassified." Column of Mennonite humor in Festival quarterly (1975-).
"The Serious Side of Life." Gospel Herald (5 August 1926): 405.
Mennonite Distorter (1986-1997), mixes church politics (gay rights, feminism) with humor, cf. columns by Ivan Emke in Mennonite Reporter, 1988-1995.
Janzen, A. E. and Herbert Giesbrecht. We Recommend ... : Recommendations and Resolutions of the General Conference the Mennonite Brethren Churches. Fresno, CA: Mennonite Brethren Board of Christian Literature, 1978: 81.
Hiebert, Clarence. The Holdeman People. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1973: 131, 590-94.
Profanity: Swearing, in Jesting and Joking. Moundridge, KS: Gospel Tract and Bible Society of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, n.d.
Holdeman, John. A History of the Church of God. Hesston, KS: Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, Publication Board, 1959: 162.
Wittlinger, Carlton O. Quest for Piety and Obedience: the Story of the Brethren in Christ. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1978: 120-23.
Beck, Ervin. "Reggie Jackson Among the Mennonites." Mennonite Quarterly Review 58 (1984): 147-67.
Beck, Ervin. "Mennonite Trickster Tales: True to be Good." Mennonite Quarterly Review 61 (1987): 58-74.
Wenger, John C. Separated Unto God. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1952: 97.
Bachman, E. "Laugh With the Children." Mennonite (14 September 1982): 441.
Lesher, Emerson L. The Muppie Manual. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1985.
On Low German humor, see, in addition to the bibliography following the articles on Arnold Dyck and literature:
Loewen, Harry and Al Reimer. "Canadian Mennonite Low German." Mennonite Quarterly Review (1985): 279-86.
Reimer, Al, Anne Reimer, and Jack Thiessen, eds. A Sackful of Plautdietsch: a Collection of Mennonite Low German Stories and Poems. Winnipeg: Hyperion, 1983.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. "The Style of Low German Folklore." Journal of American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 5 (Fall 1982): 45-52.
Wiebe, Katie Funk. "Low German: the Language of the True Believer." Festival Quarterly 10 (August-October 1983): 12-13.
Peters, Victor. "With 'Koop enn Bua' on a Journey." Mennonite Life 14 (April 1959): 89.
Epp, Reuben. Plautdietsche Schreftsteckja. Steinbach, MB: Derksen Printers, 1972.
Wiebe, Armin. The Salvation of Yasch Siemens. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1984.
Duerksen, Agnetha. Low German Folklore. Hesston, KS: Agnetha Duerksen, n.d.
Ratzlaff, Don. "Mennonite Brethren Game." Christian Leader (4 May 1982): 12-13.
Kliewer, Warren. "Collecting Folklore Among Mennonites." Mennonite Life 24 (October 1969): 169.
Nickel, Gordon. "Laughter With a Hollow Ring." Mennonite Brethren Herald (15 February 1980): 6-9.
Zuercher, Melanie. "Mennonites, Heroes, and Humor." Festival Quarterly 13 (Spring 1986): 10-11.
Hoop Scheffer, J. C. de ."Mennisten Streken." Doopsgezide Bijdragen (Leeuwarden, 1868): 23-48.
Reimer, Al. "Innocents Abroad: the Comic Odyssey of Koop enn Bua opp Reise." Journal of Mennonite Studies 4 (1986): 31-45.
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Everybody Is Yelling at Tim Geithner
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is on Capitol Hill today, facing a barrage of camera-friendly and self-righteous (and justified!) bipartisan posturing from members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform over the AIG bailout. It's been testy.
Everybody is angry that when Geithner was the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York he a) rolled over and paid out 100% of what AIG owed to a bunch of banks, including $13 billion to Goldman Sachs, instead of negotiating the debt down, and b) seems to have worked very hard to keep it all a secret. Geithner's response is that "in a financial crisis you face a tragic choice," and he couldn't "stand back and watch [AIG] burn." Attempting to negotiate with the banks, he says, would have inexorably led to AIG defaulting on its debt, which would have triggered a catastrophic wave of downgrades and a potential collapse of the entire financial system.
And as for his efforts to keep it secret: While he was indeed the chairman of the New York Fed, he says, he played no role in the attempts to limit disclosure of the pass-through bailout because he "withdrew from involvement in...day-to-day management" of the Fed after Obama announced his intention to nominate him as Treasury Secretary. The decisions about disclosure came after that, so questions about that should be directed elsewhere, he said.
Let's take a look at how that went over with members of the House, shall we?
Here's Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) excoriating Geithner for "lame excuses" and resurrecting old charges about his failure to pay taxes. Geithner responded that he's "not a politician" (zing!) and that he was only trying to clean up the mess that the GOP left him.
Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) tried to turn that remark back on Geithner: "I want to assure you, from your answers today, that you are absolutely a politician." To which Geithner snidely shot back, "Do you mean that as a compliment? I can't tell."
Geithner caught just as much, if not more, flack from Democrats. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) got red in the face as he railed that "the commitment to Goldman Sachs trumped the responsibility...to the American people"; Geithner fidgeted like a 14-year-old at the principal's office before saying with exasperation that if he could have avoided getting yelled at by a bunch of congressman, he would have.
The most devastating moment so far was a lawyerly and direct question from Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who asked Geithner to document his rather dubious claim that he was out of the loop on the disclosure issue because he'd withdrawn from day-to-day management of the New York Fed: "Can you provide for the record a copy of the recusal agreement that you signed when you were at the New York Fed?" Um, well, you see, it wasn't quite so formal as that, Geithner said—but you can totally ask everyone who was there and they'll back me up!
It's currently Ben Bernanke's turn. He's in trouble.


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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's re-election team plans to spend $25 million on advertising this month, a dramatic escalation of its media presence in a handful of states that could determine the outcome on Nov. 6.
Campaign adviser David Axelrod announced the new figure Monday. He said the campaign intends to provide a positive message about Obama's candidacy, but will respond to negative ads from Mitt Romney, the all-but-nominated Republican challenger.
In that vein, Obama's campaign released a new ad Monday portraying America as on the rise and urging voters to stick with the president.
In a shift from many of the campaign's earlier ads, the latest commercial focuses entirely on promoting Obama's record and makes no direct attacks on Romney.
Axelrod contrasted their approach to that of former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, who they said has continued a negative strategy he set during the campaign against his Republican rivals.
Still, Axelrod said Obama's team will respond to criticism forcefully, saying he expects Romney and outside groups that support him to continue pounding at the president and his policies. He referred to two groups, one counseled by former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove and another founded by billionaire oil industry brothers Charles and David Koch, as the "Karl and Koch brothers contract killers over there in super PAC land."
"We will treat every ad that comes from those entities as an ad from Gov. Romney and we will compare our record and our vision with his and we'll let the American people decide," Axelrod told reporters on a conference call.
The $25 million will ramp up the Obama team's advertising spending significantly.
The campaign spent about $2 million last week for an ad critical of Romney that aired in a handful of key states, according to a Republican strategist who monitors ad spending. That, by itself, represented an increase in ad spending by Obama's team. The new figure will increase spending to an average of $6 million a week.
The ad released Monday, with its more uplifting message, underscores the campaign's recognition that Obama can't win a second term simply by attacking his opponent. Obama also needs to make the case that, despite continued economic unease, he has made things better for the American people and is the right steward for the economy going forward.
The commercial credits Obama with pulling the economy back from the brink of recession and saving the U.S. automobile industry. It also highlights what the campaign sees as the president's foreign policy accomplishments, including killing Osama bin Laden and ending the war in Iraq.
In the ad, a narrator says of the U.S. economy: "We're not there yet, it's still too hard for too many. But we're coming back."
The Romney campaign responded swiftly. "Americans know they're not better off than they were four years ago," spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said. She ticked through areas of the economy where the Romney campaign says Obama has failed, including high gas prices and home foreclosures.
Fresh economic data released last week underscored the economic challenges Obama will have to overcome if he hopes to hold the White House. The economy added just 115,000 jobs in April. While the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent, the decline was largely because more people stopped looking for work. People who are no longer looking for jobs are not counted as unemployed.
The new commercial follows Obama's back-to-back campaign rallies Saturday in Virginia and Ohio, where the president targeted Romney by name as a protector of the rich who will rubber-stamp the agenda of Republicans in Congress. While Obama's team dubbed the rallies as the official launch of the president's campaign, Obama has been in re-election mode for months, headlining campaign fundraisers and holding official White House events in battleground states.
The Obama campaign said the new ad will air in nine politically important states: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida and Colorado.


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Ask Mitt Romney to name his signature education initiative as governor of Massachusetts and he'll likely answer that it was the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program. The scholarship, established in 2004, covers tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for students who score in the top 25 percent of their district on the state's 10th-grade math and English standardized tests.
"I got more hugs on Adams Scholarship day than I did at Christmas," Romney said in a May speech about education. "And parents—more than once—told me that they had been worried they would not be able to afford college and that the scholarship would make a difference. Here in America, every child deserves a chance. It shouldn't be reserved for the fortunate few."
The cost of college is one of the major barriers for many poor students, so it seems logical that paying for their tuition would help more of them graduate from college. But research into the Adams Scholarship and the 12 others like it across the country suggests that these programs do little to improve college access because they typically go to students who already plan to attend college. If anything, these researchers say, the scholarships can widen existing income and racial gaps in college attendance.
A study released this summer by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government found that Massachusetts students were likely to use the scholarship to attend a state school with fewer resources than private schools they might have gone to otherwise. The result? Students who use the scholarship actually take longer to graduate—and they are less likely to graduate at all.
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"This is a very unusual example of a situation in which we make money available to students, and they actually end up worse off," said report co-author Joshua Goodman, an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School.
Merit aid programs emerged in the early 1990s as a well-intentioned, politically popular attempt to help more people go to college. Even as state budgets have been slashed, the majority of these scholarships have survived.
They typically have three goals: to provide extra incentive for students to work hard in high school; to keep the best and brightest students in-state, thereby avoiding a state brain drain; and to improve college enrollment rates. And it's not clear they're succeeding at any of the three.
There's little evidence that the promise of financial aid boosts high-school achievement, Goodman said. While some states have had success in keeping their highest-performing students in state for college, that doesn't mean they stay after earning a degree.
And although there is some conflicting research on the topic, many of the studies that have been done on merit aid find that it does not have a large impact on college attendance, particularly for minority and low-income students.
Don Heller, dean of Michigan State University's College of Education who has studied merit aid programs extensively, has found the money is more likely to flow to white or Asian students and those with a higher socioeconomic status.
Romney's original proposal called for a scholarship program that would go to the top quartile of test takers statewide. After critics argued the plan would heavily favor middle- and high-income students, the scholarship was amended to be given out on a district-by-district basis. Even so, minority and low-income students have qualified at much lower rates than their peers.
The same is true in other states. In Michigan, for instance, 31 percent of all high-school seniors scored well enough on the state's standardized exam to earn a merit scholarship, but just 7.1 percent of African-Americans met the threshold in 2000, prompting a lawsuit from civil rights groups. The scholarship was ultimately discontinued due to lack of funding in 2006.
"Most of the money goes to subsidize kids from upper-income, upper-middle-income [families] who would have been going to college anyway," Heller said. "If the goal of states is to get more students to college, then merit scholarships are not very efficient."
The main reason many of these programs fail to close access gaps, according to Goodman and Heller, is that the criteria used to determine scholarship eligibility—typically GPA and test scores—correlate with income.
Georgia's HOPE scholarship program, one of the oldest and largest merit aid programs in the country, has doled out more than $6.6 billion to nearly 1.6 million students since 1993. To qualify, students must earn a 3.0 GPA in high school. If so, they get a free ride to an in-state public school. One study found, however, that 96 percent of students who used the HOPE scholarship were already planning to go to college.
At the same time, many of the students who meet the 3.0 high-school GPA criterion in Georgia are not prepared for college. About half of Georgia's HOPE recipients lose their scholarships between freshman and sophomore year for failing to keep up the same GPA in college. (Most programs have a similar stipulation for scholarship renewal.) Only 30 percent keep the scholarship for all four years. Research has also found that HOPE students are more likely to withdraw from classes or take a lighter course load once in college.
And the Massachusetts scholarship isn't as generous as it first sounds. Romney's program covers tuition at $1,700 per year. But it does not cover fees, which can be several thousand dollars more in Massachusetts, or room and board. Goodman's report found that students who earned the Adams Scholarship were likely to be swayed by the money despite the program's relatively small impact on overall cost.
At Massachusetts' Brockton High School, more than half of the 264 Adams Scholarship students eligible for the money in the class of 2012 decided to use it. Counselor Catherine Leger, noting that about 70 percent of her students are low-income, said that she promotes using the scholarship to help mitigate tuition costs.
But many students who decide to go to state schools, which often have limited funding, are turning down higher-quality options, Goodman found. The schools they end up attending have fewer resources, reflected in measures such as student-teacher ratios, and they have lower-quality advising, which means that students get less academic support and are more likely to be shut out of classes that become too full. "The student may not appreciate that those factors will affect their ability to complete degrees," Goodman said.
So how should states help more students go to college? Goodman suggests spending funds that currently go to merit scholarships on improving state universities instead, or creating new scholarship programs that factor in need as well as merit to provide a targeted incentive. The current programs were a well-intentioned idea, but it's time to re-examine the data.
This story also appeared on Slate.com on October 16, 2012 as part of an exclusive collaboration. Reproduction is not allowed.


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Google set out to build "the best laptop possible." The result: the Chromebook Pixel. A sleek and powerful device designed specifically for life in the cloud. If the display doesn't make your jaw drop, the price tag will.
What Is It?
The Pixel is the latest iteration of Google's Chromebook series. But unlike the $250 beat-around that preceded it, the Pixel focuses on high-end features like a Retina-rivaling, pixel-packed touchscreen display and powerful Intel i5 CPU. It runs Chrome OS, Google's browser-based operating system.
Who Is It For?
It's certainly not for everybody. Google says that the Pixel is built "specially for power users who have fully embraced the cloud" and both its performance and price tag seem support that claim. But really, few folks beyond those already heavily invested in Google's online services actually meet that definition. Or Google fanboys. People married to a specific program like Photoshop or Garage Band and need the specific functionality that the program provides won't have much use for the Pixel. However, if your normal workday is almost entirely browser and cloud based—like mine is for example—or you've just fully bought into the Cult of Google, the Pixel can be incredibly useful.
Why It Matters
It's Google's first foray into the high-end market and a direct assault on a segment held by rivals Apple and Microsoft's legion of manufacturing partners. Google appears to be giving Chrome a legitimate shot at establishing itself as a viable OS. Chromebooks up until this point cost $250 and performed like it. They were great as secondary laptops, something to give your kids to destroy so they'd keep their grubby mitts off your MBA. But the Pixel is built as an ultrabook competitor, not merely a stand-in. This is especially significant given Google's popularity among the huddled masses. With the meteoric rise of Android, Google's shown what its software can do with the right hardware partners. The Pixel looks to be the company's first steps towards doing the same with Chrome OS. By providing it with inarguably top-rate hardware, Google has freed Chrome OS to succeed or fail on its own merits.
The Pixel's main attraction, however, has got to be its big, beautiful touchscreen. It's 12.85 inches diagonal, running on an Intel HD Graphics 4000 card at 2560 x 1700 resolution—that's 239 ppi, better than Apple's 227 ppi MacBook Pro Retina display. And rather than a conventional 16:9 aspect ratio (and in order to fit the full keyboard) Google went with a 3:2, providing nearly 20-percent more vertical space for web browsing without sacrificing the ability to display 16:9 video content.
Its exterior is minimalist without appearing completely barren; the Pixel is smaller than a Thinkpad X1. It measures 11.7 inches wide, 8.8 inches deep, and 0.63 inches thick with the lid closed. By comparison, the MacBook Air is 0.68 inches when closed. But it weighs in at 3.35 pounds, noticeably heftier than the MBA's 2.96-lbs. The dark grey aluminum frame is squeaky clean—Google intentionally omitted the ID symbols for ports, for example—and square, lots of rounded right angles, with a thin status light running along the top of the lid. The lid itself is sturdy and shows no signs of flexing even when I'm pressing against the touchscreen—it opens smoothly and effortlessly.
Opening the lid reveals a full size keyboard, with a set of functional keys—back, forward, reload, full screen, switch screen, screen brightness, volume control, and power—running left to right across the top of the board. The ten-point touch-pad is velvety soft and responsive (adjusting its responsiveness is easy enough through the Settings menu). It also includes a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI, a front-facing 720p HD camera, an SD card reader and a headphone/mic jack.
Internally, the Pixel features an Intel dual core i5 processor, 32 or 64GB SSD with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. The 32 GB version comes with a built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi antenna, while the 64GB version comes with Wi-Fi and Verizon LTE connectivity. We tested the latter. Verizon customers can tie the Pixel in to their shared data pool for $10 a month, and everybody can buy a Verizon "Day Pass" to get 24 hours of unlimited data.
Using It
Holy hell this thing is fast. Powering on takes just 15 seconds and it wakes instantly from sleeping. But consider the fact that it's booting up a browser, so... yeah. Both the Wi-Fi and LTE connections make short work of moving large files to and from the cloud. The LTE slurps data and should be used sparingly; you get 100MB free each month, but you'll burn through that in no time. The keyboard is perhaps the best I've ever used on a laptop. The keys are well-spaced, sturdy, and responsive with a firm action. The touchscreen is incredibly accurate and responsive. Unlike the Acer S7, where I found myself secretly wishing for a stylus, I rarely had to retouch in order to make a selection on Seamless or navigating through Hulu. This allowed me to switch effortlessly between using the touchpad for navigation and the screen itself for making selections (while minimizing the amount of fingerprint smudging left on the screen). The video quality was superb, with minimal chop and pixelation on streaming content from YouTube (GoT Season 3 trailer), Netflix (Ghost Protocol), and Hulu (Naruto Shipuuden). Even powering through archives of large vertical-format web comics was much less of a hassle than on a 16:9 screen thanks to the extra 18 percent of vertical real estate.
The battery life was impressive as well, lasting about 6 hours a charge. I also liked the charging cord's indicator ring which glowed red, yellow, or green according to how much power remained.
This machine is put together really, really well and the attention to detail is phenomenal. Every external screw is hidden from sight, the fans are efficient and almost completely silent, porting from a tiny gap in the rear of the lower lid. From opening the lid, to swiping across the pad and screen, you get the feeling that every single aspect of the computer has been agonized over for the user's benefit. The same goes for the software; everything fits within a Google-curated UI, so it works together seamlessly and manages the content you produce automatically. At heart, the Pixel is a basic web browsing laptop with Office functionality and an incredible screen. It picks a function and does it very, very well.
No Like
This is an awesome rig saddled with an albatross of a price tag. Even if the limited potential functionality of Chrome OS didn't turn you off, paying $1300-1450 for it probably will. And even given as much time as I spend on the Internet, dropping $1300 or more on a system that does only that, no matter how well, is extravagant. Even when you can find a decent replacement for your standalone apps—using Pixlr Editor, say, rather than Photoshop—you've then got to go through the whole learning curve of adapting to the new software and workflow. It's a hassle, no two ways about it. In addition, the speakers were decent but not in any way outstanding, they tended to squeak a bit with the volume above 80 percent.
Should You Buy This
Again, it depends on what you're looking for in a laptop. Similarly spec'ed Windows 8 Ultrabooks retail for less, and you can pick up a refurbished MBP (or tricked out MBA) for about the same. So if you need a "full-function" workstation or can't stand the thought of a device not being used to its fullest potential then, no, you probably shouldn't.
However, a lot of people also use their laptops for little more than checking email and surfing the web—your parents, for example. It's easy to forget just how enormous the Internet is, how much there is to see and do on it. And how gorgeous it all looks under 239 ppi.
Google Chromebook Pixel Specs
• Screen Size & Resolution: 12.85 inches, 2560 x 1700, 239 ppi
• Display Type: Touchscreen LCD
• CPU: 1.8 gHz dual core Intel i5
• Memory: 4 GB DDR3 RAM
• Storage: 32 or 64GB local SSD, 3 years of included 1TB Google Drive cloud storage
• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000
• Connectivity: 2 x USB 2.0, SD card Reader, mini-HDMI, 8023.11n Wi-Fi, LTE, 720P Front-facing camera
• Weight: 3.35 pounds
• Dimensions: 298mm x 225mm x 16.2mm
• Price: $1300 32 GB Wi-Fi, $1450 64 GB Wi-Fi/LTE
• Gizrank: 3.5


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