Saturday, October 13, 2012

First cloud operating system could lighten your laptop

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Can't decide between Windows or Mac for that new laptop? An experimental new cloud-based operating system called TransOS could let you switch between them on a whim.

More and more software is migrating to the cloud, but to make your computer run you still need a basic OS on its hard drive. Until now: Zhang Yaoxue and Yuezhi Zhou at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, have developed what they claim is the first cloud-only OS. It runs on remote servers and treats traditional OSes like Windows as a resource that can be streamed to a laptop - or even phone, smart TV, fridge or other appliance - on demand.

Instead of a full version of Windows, your laptop would need to run only enough software to get it started and connected to the internet - making it effectively a "dumb terminal". TransOS would then sit as a thin layer of software sandwiched between the laptop's bare essentials and a virtual version of a conventional OS - along with all the usual programs and applications - streamed from the cloud.

Since only the parts of the OS that are required at any given time are delivered to your machine, the researchers believe that TransOS could work with low-powered computing devices as well as powerful desktop boxes.

The idea of dumb terminals is not new - it is essentially the same model as in the days before the PC, when large mainframe computers did all the hard work. TransOS would function in a very similar way, but over the internet and running on distributed servers. It brings with it the benefits of other cloud-based software - we wouldn't need to worry about pesky updates or system management.

But cloud computing also brings new security risks. Maybe that choice of operating system will always be a tough one.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

A note from julie fast | Straight Talk on Managing Bipolar Disorder

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I want to say thank y0u to all of the readers who leave comments on this blog. I know that we all can learn so much from each others. I get a lot of questions from readers- I want to let everyone know that I read all of them-? I try to answer in the blog posts themselves.? I still have not found a way to get to the questions as mush as I would like to.? My books answer the questions about bipolar disorder treatment and management- so that is where I lead people first- but I know there are many personal questions I would like to answer. I do encourage readers to leave their opinions and advice on the comments.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Invites Go Out For Microsoft?s U.K. Windows Phone 8 Event: WP8 To Get ?Big Reveal? On October 29

Screen Shot 2012-10-09 at 12.37.51Invites have just gone out for a Microsoft press event to introduce its new Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. An end of October unveiling for the next generation of WP had been expected but today the date has been confirmed as October 29 -- or at least that's when a London press event will be held.

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Grouper Teams Up With Airbnb & Hipmunk To Offer Engineers & Designers A Free ?Hackation? In New York

screen-shot-2012-09-20-at-12-48-31-pmGreat design and developer talent is, as so many know, hard to come by. So online social club Grouper is launching what it calls a "Hackation" in which it plans to offer select developers a free, week-long trip to New York City. On this week-long trip, thanks to partnerships with Airbnb and Hipmunk, developers and designers will get the opportunity to visit NYC (which means free airfare from anywhere in the continental U.S.), free accommodations for six nights (from Airbnb), they get to work out of the Grouper offices and either hack on a Grouper project or one of their own. Oh, and they get to go on a free Grouper, too.

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The Jellyfish Family Tree Part 2: ?Spilt Milk? at Lunch | cravedfw

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In 1993, I took a hiatus from my undergraduate studies and moved back to Austin.? By this point, I had listened to Bellybutton hundreds of times, and I was fortunate to pick up a promo copy of Jellyfish?s follow-up.? There was a lot that I liked about Spilt Milk.? It had the same amazing songwriting, and in terms of its production, it was a major step forward from Bellybutton. Initially, however, I did not connect with it in the same way as I did its predecessor, mostly, I think, because I did not share it amongst a circle of friends.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Nobel prize to Briton, Japanese for stem cell work

STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed to become completely different kinds, potentially opening the door to growing customized tissues for treatments.

The work of British researcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka ? who was born the year Gurdon made his discovery ? has raised hopes of developing transplant tissue to treat diseases like Parkinson's and diabetes. And it has spurred a new generation of laboratory studies into other diseases, including schizophrenia, that may lead to new treatments.

Basically, their work paved the way to making the equivalent of embryonic stem cells without the ethical questions the embryonic cells pose.

"Their findings have revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop," the Nobel committee at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said in announcing the 8 million kronor ($1.2 million) award. It was the first of this year's Nobel Prizes, with five more awards to be announced by next Monday.

Gurdon, 79, showed in 1962 that the DNA from specialized cells of frogs, like skin or intestinal cells, could be used to generate new tadpoles. That showed the DNA still had its ability to drive the formation of all cells of the body.

At the time, the discovery had "no obvious therapeutic benefit at all," Gurdon told reporters in London. "It was almost 50 years before the value ? the potential value ? of that basic scientific research comes to light."

In 1997, the cloning of Dolly the sheep by other scientists showed that the same process Gurdon discovered in frogs would work in mammals.

More than 40 years after Gurdon's discovery, in 2006, Yamanaka, 50, showed that a surprisingly simple recipe could turn mature cells back into primitive cells, which in turn could be prodded into different kinds of mature cells.

Basically, the primitive cells were the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, which had been embroiled in controversy because to get human embryonic cells, human embryos had to be destroyed. Yamanaka's method provided a way to get such primitive cells without destroying embryos.

"The discoveries of Gurdon and Yamanaka have shown that specialized cells can turn back the developmental clock under certain circumstances," the committee said. "These discoveries have also provided new tools for scientists around the world and led to remarkable progress in many areas of medicine."

Just last week, Japanese scientists reported using Yamanaka's approach to turn skin cells from mice into eggs that produced baby mice.

Gurdon has served as a professor of cell biology at Cambridge University's Magdalene College and is currently at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, which he founded. Yamanaka worked at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. He is currently at Kyoto University and also affiliated with the Gladstone Institute. Yamanaka is the first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel medicine award since 1987.

Gurdon said he first thought someone was "pulling my leg" when he got the call from the Nobel committee. He said he planned to celebrate with a drink, but expected to be back in the lab Tuesday morning and that he had no plans to retire.

Yamanaka told Japanese broadcaster NHK that he was at home doing chores on Monday when he got the call from Stockholm. "Even though we have received this prize, we have not really accomplished what we need to. I feel a deep sense of duty and responsibility," Yamanaka said.

Choosing Yamanaka as a Nobel winner just six years after his discovery was unusual. The Nobel committees typically reward research done more than a decade before, to make sure it has stood the test of time.

In 2010, the Nobel Prize in physics went to two researchers whose discoveries were also published six years earlier. In 2006, two American scientists won the medicine prize eight years after their work was published.

Prize committee member Juleen Zierath said Gurdon and Yamanaka's discoveries, which also earned them a Lasker award for basic research in 2009, could hold "immense potential," including in developing treatments for Parkinson's disease and in making cells that produce insulin. However, she added that therapeutic implications are still far away.

The idea of reprograming cells has also been put to work in basic research on disease, through an approach sometimes called "disease in a dish."

The reprogramming allows scientists to create particular kinds of tissue they want to study, like lung tissue for studying cystic fibrosis, or brain tissue for Huntington's disease. By reprogramming cells from patients with a particular disease, they can create new tissue with the same genetic background, and study it in the lab. That can give new insights into the roots of the problem.

In addition, that approach allows them to screen drugs in the lab for possible new medicines.

Experts welcomed the announcement, praising the duo for their groundbreaking and influential discoveries in a field riddled with ethical debates.

"Everyone who works on developmental biology and on the understanding of disease mechanisms will applaud these excellent and clear choices for the Nobel Prizes," said John Hardy, professor of Neuroscience at University College London. "Countless labs' work builds on the breakthroughs they have pioneered."

Yamanaka deserves extra credit for overcoming fierce objections to the creation of embryos for research, reviving the field, said Julian Savulescu, director of Oxford University's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

"Yamanaka has taken people's ethical concerns seriously about embryo research and modified the trajectory of research into a path that is acceptable for all," Savulescu said. "He deserves not only a Nobel Prize for Medicine, but a Nobel Prize for Ethics."

Goran Hansson, the secretary of the prize committee, said he had reached both winners by phone before the announcement. He said they were looking forward to coming to Stockholm to collect the award in a ceremony on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

The medicine award was the first Nobel Prize to be announced this year. The physics award will be announced Tuesday, followed by chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The economics prize, which was not among the original awards, but was established by the Swedish central bank in 1968, will be announced on Oct. 15.

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Associated Press science writer Malcolm Ritter in New York; AP writers Cassandra Vinograd and Raphael Satter in London; and AP writer Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo contributed to this report.

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Brady bests Peyton

NE sails to 24-point lead, then holds on against Broncos rally to win 31-21

By HOWARD ULMAN

updated 7:46 p.m. ET Oct. 7, 2012

FOXBORO, Mass. - Tom Brady and Peyton Manning were both solid in their latest showdown. As usual, Brady beat him even though Manning was in a new uniform.

In the 13th meeting between the star quarterbacks, and first since Manning joined the Denver Broncos, Brady directed four scoring marches of at least 80 yards and the Patriots won 31-21 on Sunday.

Brady improved to 9-4 against Manning, who left the Indianapolis Colts after last season. Brady completed 23 of 31 passes for 223 yards and one touchdown and ran for another. Manning was 31 of 44 for 345 yards and three touchdowns but lost a fumble on a third-quarter sack.

The fumble led to Stevan Ridley's 8-yard run that put the Patriots (3-2) ahead 31-7 with about five minutes left in the third quarter. Ridley led the Patriots with a career-high 151 yards rushing.

Manning then threw touchdown passes of 2 yards to Eric Decker and 5 yards to Brandon Stokley but Denver (2-3) lost a fumble with 3:42 remaining.

The Patriots set a franchise record with 35 first downs as they kept their offense rolling one week after gaining 580 yards, 247 on the ground, in a 52-28 rout of the Buffalo Bills. The Broncos sputtered after beating the Oakland Raiders 37-6.

Brady and Manning first faced each other in the third game of the 2001 season. The Patriots won 44-13 in Brady's first career start.

There were plenty of close games in subsequent regular-season matchups with six of the previous seven decided by seven points or less. Sunday's outcome was different, although Manning brought the Broncos back from a 24-point deficit in the second half.

His scoring pass to Stokley followed a fumble by Brady on a sack.

Ridley then lost a fumble on New England's next possession and Manning seemed poise to keep the comeback going. A 28-yard completion to Demaryius Thomas put the ball at the Patriots 14 but two plays later Willis McGahee fumbled and Jermaine Cunningham recovered at the New England 11..

The Patriots led 17-7 at halftime and 31-7 after three quarters. Brady and his runners kept slicing through the Denver defense with a balanced attack. They went ahead to stay, 14-7, midway through the second quarter on a 14-play drive (seven pass plays and seven runs) capped by Shane Vereen's 1-yard run.

Ridley had his third 100-yard rushing game of his career, all this season. Wes Welker, the NFL's leading receiver last year with 122 catches, had 13 for 104 yards.

The Broncos wasted an excellent opportunity on their first series. Manning hit Thomas with a 43-yard completion to the Patriots 10-yard line, but Sterling Moore stripped the ball and recovered the fumble. The Patriots went four-and-out on the ensuing possession then the Patriots scored on their next three possessions ? 84 yards to Brady's 8-yard pass to Welker, 80 yards to Vereen's touchdown and 93 yards to Stephen Gostkowski's 23-yard field goal.

Denver did tie the game 7-7 on Manning's 1-yard pass to Joel Dreessen but didn't reach the end zone again until Manning hit Decker to end a 90-yard march, cutting the lead to 31-14 with 1:08 left in the third.

The Patriot even got key plays from their backup running backs. Brandon Bolden had a 24-yard gain on the series leading to Gostkowski's field goal. On that same drive, Danny Woodhead gained 25 yards on a pass from Brady on a third-and-14 play from the Broncos 11.

Woodhead kept another drive going in the third quarter with a 19-yard rush on third-and-17 at the Patriots 43. That series ended with Brady's touchdown dive.

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Virgil Goode, Former Virginia Congressman, May Pose Risk For Mitt Romney

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. -- Virgil Goode knows his obscure presidential run on the Constitution Party ticket vexes his former Republican comrades, a thought that produces a sly smile he can't suppress. He doesn't really try.

To Virginia Republicans, however, the eccentric former GOP congressman from bucolic Rocky Mount threatens to peel away conservative votes from their presidential nominee and, in a close race, hand Virginia's 13 electoral votes and possibly four more years to President Barack Obama.

"You do realize that you could singlehandedly make Obama win the national election this fall, even though Mitt Romney stands for many of same things that you have said you support," said 17-year-old Mitchell Swann, an E.C. Glass High School senior and president of its Young Republicans Club, after Goode spoke on the Lynchburg campus.

Recent polls show Obama about even or slightly ahead of Romney in head-to-head Virginia pairings by 4 to 8 percentage points. Only one, a Washington Post poll of 934 registered Virginia voters conducted Sept. 12-16, included Goode, and he was the choice of 2 percent. The poll's sampling error margin is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

"He's still a household name in some parts of Virginia," said Mark Rozell, a political science professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. "Unlike other candidates, Virgil Goode has the potential to siphon off a sizable number of votes regionally."

Rozell said that if it comes down to Virginia in a very close election, Goode could draw 1 percent to 2 percent of the vote to become this year's Ralph Nader, although statistically it's unlikely.

Many Democrats consider Nader, a consumer activist and 2000 Green Party presidential candidate, a spoiler who cost Al Gore the election. Nader denies the claim. He drew about 100,000 votes that year in Florida's razor-thin contest, which went to George W. Bush.

Goode hears it every day from Republicans in all 29 states where he is on the ballot, but particularly in Virginia. They urge him to quit. They hire A-list law firms to present alleged improprieties to state election boards and strip him from the ballot ? a maneuver that succeeded in Pennsylvania but failed in Virginia. Publicly, they dismiss him as irrelevant. Privately they say he's running only to salve his ego, while some imply he's gone a bit daffy the past few years.

"A vote for Virgil Goode is a vote for Barack Obama, and I think people are smart enough to know that," said Pat Mullins, Virginia's wily GOP chairman since 2009. Under Mullins' watch, Republicans have roared back from 2008's dispiriting defeats, including Goode's ouster from Congress and the first Democratic presidential victory in Virginia since 1964.

Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell has said Goode won't be a factor in Virginia's presidential contest.

Goode, a lanky, 65-year-old country lawyer, has one full-time campaign staffer and three part-timers. His motorcade is his cluttered Honda Accord, and he drives it. He's his own fundraiser. He professes surprise at the GOP reaction to a rival of such meager means. Through August, Goode had raised $15,000, added $40,000 of his own and had $8,430 on hand, according to his most recent Federal Election Commission filing.

"The Republicans in different states have just overreacted," said Goode, who has changed party labels four times since he was elected to Congress in 1996.

"I think I will get even more votes from disgruntled Democrats or people who were going to stay home and not vote because there's no choice," Goode said. He notes he's the only candidate running without big-money backing.

Democrats remember Goode's contrarian streak. His turning point with them came in 1998 when he voted with House Republicans to impeach President Bill Clinton. He was re-elected in 2000 as an independent endorsed by the GOP.

He joined the GOP in 2002, and by 2008, Republicans had felt Goode's rebelliousness when he opposed a $700 billion financial rescue program in defiance of George W. Bush's White House and the House GOP Conference.

Goode lost re-election to Democrat Tom Perriello by 745 votes, or less than one-fourth of 1 percent of the 316,862 ballots cast, in the Obama-led 2008 Democratic tsunami.

Many Virginians, when they meet Goode, think he is campaigning to regain his old House seat.

That's what Doug Baldock, a retired 63-year-old truck driver from Madison Heights, assumed the afternoon Goode breezed into The Right Barber Shop on Main Street in Lynchburg where the regulars were huddled, talking sports and politics. Baldock's eyes widened when he was told Goode was running for president, and he took a second look at the campaign brochure Goode had handed him.

"Well he sure is," Baldock said. "Good. I've been looking for a way not to vote for either Obama or Romney."

In Farmville, 68-year-old retired chemical worker and Air Force veteran Harry Donahue said he voted for Republican John McCain for president in 2008 and had considered Romney this year before deciding to support Obama.

As for Goode? "I know there are a lot of people still on the fence out there, but no, I don't think Goode is going to hurt the Republican ticket."

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PFT: Suggs likely to return in Nov., not Oct. 21

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Joe Haden returned to the Browns Monday after his four-game suspension, apologizing to the team and its fans.

Haden tested positive for Adderall, and called it a ?very dumb mistake.?

?It was just a young man making a decision I shouldn?t have made,? he said, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Asked if he thought the suspension was excessive, he replied, hilariously: ?God, do I??

In his absence, the Browns went 0-4 (which they may well have done in his presence), but he said the last four weeks have been difficult for him.

?I would like to apologize to my fans, Haden Nation, the Cleveland Browns organization, front office, all the coaches. I hurt a lot of people,? he said. ?I hurt myself for sure. But I hurt a lot of people with the decision I made, and I just want everybody to know that I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart. There?s no script. Nobody told me what to say. I just feel that and I want everybody to know that it was a mistake.

?Everybody makes mistakes, but my mistake happened to hurt a lot more people than I thought.?

And whether it falls under league guidelines or not, he at least deserves a kangaroo court fine for declaring ?Haden Nation,? which is one of the most ridiculous things I?ve heard all day.

UPDATE 4:37 p.m. ET: OK, apparently ?Haden Nation,? is the name of his charitable foundation. Which isn?t nearly as ridiculous as it sounded without that context. I will now fine myself, with the check payable to the Human Fund.

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