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Made by Mionix - they of the Naos 8200 fame, my favourite gaming mouse of them all - it's of course lacking in the bulk or custom ergonomics you'll find in a right-handed mouse.
Everything else I like about the Naos 8200, though, is here. It's just a bit smaller.
The build quality is superb, every button giving a strong, reassuring click. Like other Mionix mice, the soft matte finish to the exterior is extremely comfortable. It was fast, precise, and not once in my testing (Mirror's Edge, Rome II, EUIV) did it stall, slow down or glitch out.
It even has a nice heft to it, surprisingly for a mouse that's on the small side.
The basics specs are: 9 buttons, full programmable 8200DPI, 72mhz 32-bit processor, 3-step in-game DPI adjustment.
Maybe the best part is that, like its bigger brother the Naos, the Avior is that rarest of beasts, a fantastic gaming mouse that's also subtle in design. There are no enormous logos, no flashy colour schemes, no ridiculous angles, it's just a soft rubber mouse with a simple LED in the wheel and another in the Mionix logo at the palm (which can't even be seen while you're using it). It's not boring, though. The matte finish and clean lines make this a very attractive mouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oAO6L-wfC3Y
Downsides? They're all related to the ambidextrous design. There are buttons along both sides of the mouse (the Avior supports 5 profiles); depending on which hand you're using one of these sets is a pain to get to, asking you to either take your ring finger off the top/wheel and slide down, or pull your pinkie back fro its resting place. It's also a bit small; I don't have a big hand, but while Mionix say the mouse can be used with either a claw or palm grip, I think a lot of people are going to struggle getting good purchase with their palms.
Mostly problems with the concept, then, not this mouse in particular. Meaning if you really must get an ambidextrous mouse, this one is fantastic. Just don't expect the same level of comfort or ease of use as a dedicated right (or left!) handed mouse.
The Avior 8200 is available now, and retails for around $90.-
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The sexy hookups app Bang With Friends has agreed to change its name after a legal spat with social games designer Zynga.
The two companies were at loggerheads over the "With Friends" bit of the casual sex app's name.
The naughty app agreed to change all its branding and also to take the offending words out of its corporate bumf. A joint statement by the two companies said:
Zynga Inc. and Bang With Friends, Inc. are pleased that they have reached an amicable resolution of their dispute. Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, Bang With Friends, Inc. acknowledges the trademark rights that Zynga has in its WITH FRIENDS marks and will be changing its corporate name and rebranding its services in the near future. Details on the next version of Bang With Friends can be found at www.TheNextBang.com.
Zynga has released a number of apps with the same nomenclature, although they were generally rather gentle games like Words With Friends, Hang With Friends and Scramble With Friends, which is a word-jumble game rather than something rude.
Anyone still looking to see the future of dating shagging should look for The Next Bang instead.This is not the first time the banging app has changed its name. Apple kicked it out of the App Store in May this year – although the tech titan did not give a reason at the time, it is thought to be down to the firm's ever-changing profanity filter. It later returned to iOS as Down, referring to the "down to bang" status it allows horny fanbois to broadcast when they wish to get down and dirty. At the time of publication, however, it was nowhere to be found on the App Store.
The Next Bang, as the app is now known, works by allowing Facebookers to anonymously pick a Facebook chum with whom they'd like to bump uglies. If the other person has the app and has picked them as well, the app reveals their identities to each other, allowing the pair to get jiggy at their next available convenience.
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Good advice, and you gain a pair of shoes. So, mind to criticize only ppls that have shoes that you like! ... and, mind to have always shoes that nobody will like, so nobody will criticize you, and you'll be happy forever and ever and ever, owning billions of shoes that you will never put on your feet as to not be criticized by others that may steal it.
But you may always sell the shoes that you have taken, and become rich!...... and then criticize your customers and get back their shoes again, and again, and again... that's a whole new kind of economy here!
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1. The bacteria aren’t actually eating your flesh. The various species—including some that cause strep and staph—enter a wound, scrape, or bug bite and unleash a flood of toxic chemicals that kill surrounding tissue cells.
2. At least 650 cases crop up each year in the US—and about a quarter prove fatal. Flesh-eating bacteria have claimed the life of particle physicist Alexandru Marin, a chunk of the right leg of science fiction writer/marine biologist Peter Watts, and some of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s right arm.
3. One common flesh-eating bacterium, Streptococcus pyogenes, has yielded a new kind of molecular superglue. This bug makes an ultrasticky protein that helps it invade human cells. But disassembled in the lab, that protein has been used to lock distant molecules together—even at high temperature and in acidic environments.
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Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) is a species of plant in the family Polygonaceae. They are herbaceous perennials growing from short, thick rhizomes. They have large leaves that are somewhat triangular, with long fleshy petioles. They have small flowers grouped in large compound leafy greenish-white to rose-red inflorescences.
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and ((He's a lightning doing amazing run dodgeing bringing Beer and ....)
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Granted, but then you become a prisoner in a small and very deep pit, unable to move, but with endless supplies of water and food
I wish to walk on Mars and explore it totally
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Very nice, immediately adopted! Cheers
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I still don't get it... please, may you make some sketch for me?
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How sad...
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Weird... follow their advice and contact customer support... at least you may gain a free laugh!
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Just in time for the impending shutdown of the federal government, Microsoft’s Windows Azure today received the thumbs up from the feds.
In a blog post this morning, Microsoft federal chief technology officer Susie Adams announced that Azure was granted Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s (FedRAMP) Joint Authorization Board. That’s one step away from a full Authority to Operate (ATO) status, but Microsoft doesn’t seem bothered: Adams called the certification an “honor” in a press release.
FedRAMP certification means the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. General Services Administration deem the platform secure — at least from nefarious hackers outside the NSA — which will help Microsoft snag lucrative government contracts (Amazon Web Services’ CIA contract is worth $600 million).“This [certification] not only opens the door for faster cloud adoption, but it also helps government agencies move to the cloud in a more streamlined, cost-effective way,” a Microsoft representative told VentureBeat.
Microsoft was unwilling to reveal any details surrounding current discussions with government agencies, but it pointed to San Jose’s adoption of Azure as proof of governmental interest in its cloud offerings.
Beginning June 2014, FedRAMP’s security requirements will become mandatory for cloud-service providers seeking to provide IT to government agencies, so cloud vendors are racing to attain the highly coveted status. HP, Akamai, AT&T, and a few other vendors have already received their P-ATO status from the FedRAMP, while Amazon Web Services boasts a full ATO status.
The federal government is working on a number of projects with Amazon, Microsoft, and other cloud providers to bring their IT infrastructure to the cloud. But if U.S. lawmakers fail to avert a government shutdown by midnight — which would be the first in 17 years — it could lead to significant delays in this infrastructural transition. -
For the first time in 17 years, we’re staring down the barrel of an imminent government shutdown. Why? Congress must pass laws in order to spend money, but so far the Republican-led House and Democrat-led Senate have not been able to agree on a bill to fund the government. And so, by law, when Congress proves unable to agree on how to fund large sections of the federal government, those sections must be shut down when spending powers expire at midnight tonight.
Here’s what you need to know:- Adversaries in Congress, who have been unable to reach agreement on a budget for years, are even at odds over what a stopgap measure might look like to avert the crisis, so a shutdown seems virtually certain.
- When this happens, many federal agencies will be forced to shut their doors and send their employees home. Thousands of “non-excepted” workers will be out on furlough until the end of the shutdown, and “essential” workers will have to work without pay. More than 800,000 out of over 2 million federal workers will be sent home.
- The economy will certainly suffer. Uncertainty is a curse for all business owners — the ability to plan effectively for growth relies on stability in the policy areas that impact their business. The impact of sequestration and the credit-rating downgrade have already taken their toll, and the markets have again taken a hit over the last two weeks. For context, the last four-week shutdown in 1995 cut GDP growth by 0.5%
But how does this affect the tech economy? As Engine highlighted with its most recent research, new and young tech-sector businesses play an outsized role in job creation and economic growth. As a result, the impact of a shutdown on this high-growth sector could reverberate back around the economy as a whole. Here’s how a shutdown could impact the technology sector, in particular:
1. Every company in America that does business with the federal government would be affected by late payments, and all government contractors will be out of a job. This would be felt at Microsoft and Google with their big government contracts, right down to workers who provide government IT services to small businesses.
2. We will experience delays to passport and visa services. H-1B visas, for example, will not be processed during the shutdown.
3. The FCC will be offline. That means no spectrum management, no consumer protection, and no enforcement of competition rules.
4. The Small Business Administration approval of small business loans will be disrupted. Depending on how long the shutdown lasts, applications could get backlogged with small businesses feeling the pain long after the government reopens.
5. Requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act will be put on-hold, creating another backlog.
6. Public information — from the webpage of a specific government agency, for example — might be taken offline.
7. Between the shutdown and the debt-ceiling limit that hits on October 17, the IPO market could be knocked-around, with delays expected, and a ban on new filings. This will be bad news for Twitter and other tech companies currently trying to enter the market.
8. The District of Columbia, whose budget is controlled by Congress in a manner similar to the federal government, will be affected in a much deeper way than other communities as basic civil services from transportation to trash collection may be impacted. Mayor Vincent Gray has said he will use reserve funds to keep District services up-and-running, but that fund may only last for two weeks. This shutdown would also have serious ramifications for District businesses, from our friends at 1776 and other startups, to larger businesses that service the infrastructure of the government.
9. In two small victories, the U.S. Patent and Trademark office will remain open to process applications, and the U.S. Postal Service will also maintain operations.The final impact of any shutdown will be determined by how long it lasts and how expansively President Obama interprets the necessary function loophole that could allow some parts of the government to stay open, even without a budget. But a government shutdown is also an economic shutdown, and as bad as this looks right now, it will only get worse as we gear up for the debt-ceiling limit to hit on October 17. In the meantime, find out as much as you can, and brace yourself for a rocky few weeks.
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From the mind of eccentric playboy John McAfee — founder of McAfee Antivirus — comes a “new and revolutionary technology” that will reclaim our lost privacy, he says, and restore the ability of college students to get all the free movies and music they want.
“I cannot imagine any college student not standing in line to buy one of these,” he said.
The product is a $100 “D-Central” gadget that will allow its users to create a small local-area wireless network dynamically, which people can use to communicate and share anonymously without the risk of being tapped by the NSA, the FBI, or any other three-letter agency, McAfee said.
He’s been working on this product for years, slowly, but with increasing speed in the past few months.“I can’t get out of security … and we don’t have much anymore,” McAfee said in a recorded interview in San Jose last week. “The NSA helped create every single encryption algorithm that we use, and therefore, they can get access to whatever they want.”
The device does not replace the Internet, but it adds another layer to it — a lower layer.
Every local network created with D-Central would be in constant flux, either privately or publicly, with users joining and leaving as they choose and as their location changes. D-Central will communicate with your Android or iPhone smartphone, tablets, and laptops, and would have the ability to tell new joiners what files you might want, as well as share any files you have — MP3, videos — with friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers.
The D-Central website, currently just a teaser …
With a range of about three blocks, your network will change constantly, and files will be share completely anonymously. D-Central does connect to the Internet, but those uplinks and downlinks are completely anonymized.“It doesn’t ask who you are,’ he said. “It doesn’t even know who you are … there is no way to tell who is doing what, when, and where.”
Clearly this is one of the recording industry’s worst nightmares, but McAfee says that if it becomes illegal in the U.S., he will simply sell it overseas. D-Central has a unique and novel encryption method, which the NSA and other surveillance agencies have never seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e89ODlB1MIA
The product is six months away from shipping, McAfee said.
It’s not just the NSA McAfee is worried about. He said that, with just a little bit of personal information, black-hat hackers — such as he himself — can within three days “turn on a camera” on your laptop and watch you do whatever you’re doing.“The hackers of the world — they have enormous power — they can get anything they want,’ McAfee said. “If I can do it, any idiot can do it.”
McAfee came to public attention recently in a not-safe-for-work video about how to uninstall the antivirus software that still bears his name. He no longer owns that company, but the 68-year-old sell-described drug experimenter and philanderer still seems to have the passion to create and build companies.
“I’ve dreamed of retiring since I was 16, but retirement is almost impossible for me … I just cannot retire, no matter how hard I try.”
The question, of course, is whether such an eccentric genius who said he had likely done more drugs than the entire room of listeners could probably carry still has the capability to put together a quality, functioning gadget — and the company that can commercialize it.
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Granted, and when your desire is high enough and you crave for it, you don't have anyone that will grant your wish
I wish to become Admin in CyberPhoenix board team
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In 5 months you don't loose anything... perhaps you get more inspired!
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Granted.... but your other body parts are removed!
I wish I had a date with Rosamund Pike
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perhaps... Oblong?
If yes, then I offer
mndoiad
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Naos 8200 - The Best PC Gaming Mouse I Have Ever Used
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Boy, this review was easy. Normally, when I sit down for a week or so with a gaming mouse, it's all about coming to grips with a new feel and a new design.
Not so with Mionix's Naos 8200, because it's the updated version of the Naos 5000, my personal mouse, the one that sits under my hand ten hours a day, five days a week, and which has done so for, oh, nearly three years now.
There was zero familiarization needed because, externally, the mice are identical. It's like Mionix is trying to replace a comfortable old pair of shoes with a new pair exactly the same size and exactly the same style. While this made the review easier, it also made it tougher on the new Naos 8200, because those are some big shoes to fill.
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WHAT I LIKED
Design - This is, by a country mile, the most comfortable mouse I have ever held. Which probably explains why Mionix haven't changed the design from the Naos 5000. It's got support for all five fingers, and even after a full day's use (8-10 hours), you hand feels fine.
Feel - That design is complemented by a wonderfully soft matte finish, which while showing stains a little too easily, adds to the comfort factor during long sessions. Mionix says this is thanks to four layers of rubber being stuck on top of each other.
What You Need, Where You Need It - There aren't many buttons on the 8000, or fancy wheels, or dials, or anything like that. Just a few buttons that work really well and feel indestructible. I also like how the DPI switch is clearly marked and sits right under the click-wheel, so you can change on the fly without having to flip your mouse over or pull off a button combo.
Speed - Look, like HDTVs, we're at a point with this whole DPI arms race where the average human arm/eye can't seriously tell the difference. What I can tell you, though, is that this mouse is very fast and very responsive, enough to notice it when you've got the 5000 and 8200 plugged in side by side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UFvAiWCd7ls
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE
Weight - Weird. The Naos 5000 let you add weights to the base to make it heavier (which I prefer). The 8200 does not.
MY FINAL WORD
It's the best mouse I've ever used. Simple. It's incredibly well-made, it feels great, it's supremely comfortable and is snappy as hell. The loss of custom weights stings a little, but since I found performance a little sharper than on the 5000, I think the 8200 comes out on top.
The Naos 8200 retails for $90, and is available now.