Are You Selling the Wrong Product? by Keith Rosen

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Nokia Lumia 925 and Windows Phone 8 trial: Day 3

On Thursday I decided to check out the Nokia Lumia 925?s video capabilities. That?s a frame grab above I continue to be impressed with this phone?s image quality.

Indeed the video, which I?ve entitled Strathfield to Central for obvious reasons, is the highlight not only of Day 3 of my Nokia Lumia 925 / Windows Phone 8 trial but of the entire trial so far.

I had hoped to embed the full video here. But I?m on mobile bandwidth today, and unless I upload a gigabyte or two of data, it simply won?t do it justice. So it?ll have to wait a while. Stand by.

Meanwhile, here?s the rest of my bullet-point observations from Day 3.

1. Confirmed: Handling the phone while it?s acting as a Wi-Fi hotspot all too frequently causes client devices to drop out. Windows Phone 8 calls this feature ?internet sharing?. What seems to happen is that when the 3G/4G data link dies for any reason, the phone decides that without an internet to share, it?ll stop bothering with Wi-Fi to connect to it. This is in contrast to my Samsung Galaxy S III 4G running Android, which treats the 3G/4G link and the Wi-Fi link as independent network interfaces. Mind you, that?s all mere supposition on my part. I?ll confirm it with Microsoft and Nokia on Monday.
2. There?s no built-in flashlight app ? something I discovered at around 1am while trying to walk down a cold, dark, deserted rural road. I can?t remember whether Android comes with one by default, or whether it?s a default Samsung thing, or whether it?s a third-party widget that was carried across automatically from one phone to the next, but it was a surprise to suddenly find myself without it.
3. The phone?s numerical keypad and all the buttons for speaker, mute etc can?t be on screen at the same time. You have to switch between the two modes, as shown in the image above. This is somewhat annoying, particularly as it looks likes there?d be room for all of them on one screen.

The trial continues until the end of Tuesday. You can follow it live on Twitter, where I?m using the hashtag #LumiaWP8trial.

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[Photo: Approaching Sydney Central, a frame from the movie Strathfield to Central. Download full-sized image (2.6MB).]

Source: http://stilgherrian.com/internet/nokia-lumia-925-windows-phone-8-trial-3/

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The UPS Store to offer 3D printing service in select San Diego locations (video)

Today, The UPS Store announced its plan to bring 3D printing services to the masses. The shipping company will soon roll out Stratasys Uprint SE Plus printers to 60 locations in San Diego to test out the new service; it'll be aimed at small businesses, start-ups and retail customers in need of a professional grade model to produce things like prototypes and artistic renderings. At $20,900 a pop, Stratasys printers aren't exactly the kind of gadget you'd purchase for home use, so their availability at UPS stores is a pretty major step towards making high quality 3D printing an accessible option for the common man. Though the company is starting small, it hopes to expand the service nationwide, provided that the San Diego experiment proves successful. For more info, check out the video after the break.

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COULTER: O'Reilly's bad history | The Daily Caller

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Does anyone read anymore? I mean, besides tweets from Anthony Weiner?

During his otherwise excellent commentaries on race in America, Bill O?Reilly, host of the No. 1 cable news show, claimed on Tuesday night that the one person who tried to help African-Americans more than any other was ? Robert F. Kennedy!

No one laughed. I guess that?s what they?re teaching these days at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. (I can?t wait to hear how Ted Kennedy helped eradicate drunk driving!)

According to O?Reilly?s Bizarro-World history, Bobby Kennedy was ?the guy who was really concerned about African-Americans? and ?who really did something. ? He went in with the federal government and he cleaned out the rat?s nest that was abusing African-Americans in the South.?

Although this myth has been polished to perfection by the Kennedy PR machine (requiring all Kennedy stories to illustrate either courage or adorableness), it is simply a fact that helping blacks was not the Democrats? priority. Even the ones who wanted to, such as Bobby and John Kennedy, couldn?t risk upsetting the segregationists, more than 90 percent of whom were Democratic.

The job of actually enforcing civil rights and desegregating Southern schools fell to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

Five years after Eisenhower had shown the Democrats how it?s done by sending federal troops to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., President Kennedy and brother Bobby still dragged their feet in helping James Meredith enter the University of Mississippi.

On Feb. 7, 1961, Meredith wrote a beautiful letter to the Department of Justice, describing his inability to enroll at the University of Mississippi, He wrote:

?Whenever I attempt to reason logically about this matter, it grieves me deeply to realize that an individual, especially an American, the citizen of a free democratic nation, has to clamor with such procedures in order to try to gain just a small amount of his civil and human rights, and even after suffering the embarrassments and personal humiliation of this procedure, there still seems little hope of success.?

The full letter is worth looking up. I would venture to guess there are not many college applicants of any race who write this well today. (You know why? Because Americans don?t read anymore. You watch cable news and fill your heads with nonsense history and false facts.)

In response to Meredith?s eloquent letter, Bobby Kennedy did nothing.?And that?s how Bobby Kennedy ?cleaned out the rat?s nest that was abusing African-Americans in the South?!

Remember: This was seven years?after?the Supreme Court had already handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education ? a ruling expressly endorsed in the Republican Party platform, but not the Democratic platform, I might add.

But Democrats were in the White House, so Meredith had to take his case to the Supreme Court. Liberals were engaging in their usual massive resistance to court rulings they don?t like and neither Bobby nor John Kennedy would dare try to stop them.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/oreilly-killing-history/

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Jessica Sullivan makes president's list at University of Iowa

POLO ? Jessica Sullivan of Polo is a member of the spring 2013 president's list at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Sullivan, a business major, earned at least a 4.0 grade point average over two semesters to receive the recognition. Only about 300 undergraduate students made the list.

For information: uiowa.edu.

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Source: http://www.journalstandard.com/news/x1676641226/Jessica-Sullivan-makes-presidents-list-at-University-of-Iowa?rssfeed=true

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Schools at issue in mayor's race, but not in mayor's office

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RIVERSIDE: Number of single-family rentals in city elusive

Homeowners near UC Riverside say they?re concerned the character of their neighborhood is irreparably changing as more homes become rentals. But how many homes actually are rented?

It?s hard to say. So far, information on how many of the homes are owner-occupied and how many are rentals has been either anecdotal or conflicting. But one way to check is business tax certificates, which the city requires anyone who owns rental property to get.

The owner of this house on Knox Court in Riverside was cited in 2009 for having more than four tenants, according to city records. however, it?s not listed as having a business tax certificate.

Business tax certificates (often called business licenses) are required for owners of apartments and condos, but also for people who rent out single-family homes, unless they also live in the home. The statistics I got from the city?are interesting, but mostly for what they don?t include.

A spreadsheet the city provided showed 196 business tax certificates for single-family home rentals on file as of mid-July. (That?s citywide, not just in the University neighborhood.)

Who?s not on the list? For starters, the five addresses that have gotten citations since 2009 for having more than the four renters the city allows.

Likewise, no certificates were on file for any of eight UCR-area houses I found advertised for rent on Zillow.com on Tuesday.

And ? though the connection gets a little thinner here ? I didn?t see business tax listings for 18 houses on nine streets where the city has given building permits to add extra bedrooms since mid-2011.

(The caveat to that one is that the building permits don?t say whether the home is rented, so the owner could be adding bedrooms for their own large family, but that seems unlikely in most cases.)

Glynnis McKinley, who owns a rental house on West Campus View Drive, said the city ought to do more to educate people about business tax filings. She and her husband created a holding company for their business, which includes rentals elsewhere in the city, so the Campus View house is covered by that business tax certificate, she said.

But the McKinleys moved out of the Campus View house because of noise from UCR (the house backs up to an athletic field), and the business license ?was something that I wasn?t aware that we should have,? she said. ?If we didn?t have the business I would have never thought to do that.?

Riverside Assistant Finance Director Scott Catlett said the city does compliance checks to see if those who should have business licenses indeed have them, but those tend to focus on companies that sell products or services or can otherwise be tracked through sales.

?The challenge with home rentals is it?s not really something that someone pays sales taxes for,? he said. ?That?s not something that there?s a database somewhere that we can access.?

If just a quick internet search and some cross-referencing of city data showed that as many as 31 homes, mostly in the University area, may need business licences and not have them, I imagine there are more around Riverside.

Not all tenants or landlords cause problems, but if Riverside is ever to get a handle on issues with the ones that are irresponsible, it would help to have accurate data on how many rental homes they?re dealing with.

I?ll be writing more on this topic, as there are other sources of data on owner-occupied vs. rented homes. Stay tuned.

Source: http://blog.pe.com/2013/07/25/riverside-number-of-single-family-rentals-in-city-elusive/

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