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Andy Chen

Kirby set to return to Wii and 'Dream Land' - 0 views

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Kirby set to return Wii and 'Dream Land'

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  • Publisher Nintendo revealed the platformer originally called Kirby Wii will be titled Kirby's Return to Dream Land and will launch Oct. 24.
  • The next Kirby adventure for the Nintendo Wii will take a trip to Dream Land this October.
  • The game follows Kirby and friends as they retrieve parts of an alien spaceship that has crashed in their world. Dream Land features drop-in, drop-out cooperative play, allowing up to three other players to join in as either Meta Knight, King Dedede or Waddle Dee.And as our preview shows, there is plenty of hugging. The game will be featured heavily during this weekend's Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.
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  • Kirby set to return to Wii and 'Dream Land'
  • Andy Chen on 25 Aug 11
     
    "Kirby set to return to Wii and 'Dream Land'"
Na Young Kim

Firefox 6 ships, but we shouldn't really pay attention - 0 views

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  • Firefox 6 ships, but we shouldn't really pay attention
  • eight weeks after the release of Firefox 5
  • not a lot has visibly changed
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  • s much less memory
  • attach some significance to the new release
  • It's just "the latest."
  • Mozilla wants to take this a step further
  • The argument is made that you don't know what version of, say, Twitter or Facebook you're using, so why should your Web browser be any different?
  • If you're going to force the user to know about every update, it seems a little unfair to refuse to even tell her what version she's using.
  • he regards the entire discussion as crazy.
Ho Sung Han

No new water mobs in Minecraft Beta 1.8 : Just Push Start - 0 views

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shared by Ho Sung Han on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Jens has today revealed that there will not be any water based mobs to Minecraft when beta 1.8 is released
  • Minecraft Beta 1.8
  • no new water mobs created yet
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  • Do you think the water is empty compared to land in Minecraft or do you not really mind
Giang V

Buyers snap up cut-price HP TouchPads - Telegraph - 0 views

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HP discontinued TouchPad Bestbuy discount

shared by Giang V on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Buyers snap up cut-price HP TouchPads
  • HP’s discontinued TouchPad has been flying off the shelves in America, as
  • retailers slash
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  • prices.
  • Best Buy, the electronics retailer, cut the price of the TouchPad to $99 in an attempt to clear its stock. Best Buy was last week reported to have more than 200,000 of the tablets. The low price brought queues outside its stores and, according to one staff employee, a “stampede” from customers hoping to land a bargain.
  • HP's decision to discontinue its TouchPad product, Best Buy will now provide clearance pricing for all TouchPad 16GB and 32GB models regardless of previously advertised prices or promotions," Best Buy said. The company said that anyone who had bought a TouchPad after June 19 would be entitled to a refund.
  • Though Amazon.com has not discounted the TouchPad, the device still went to the top of Amazon’s bestselling electronics chart. The HP tablet took the top two places in the chart, ahead of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, which is usually a fixture at number one.
Chozen Takei

What TouchPad's Fate Says About the Tablet Market - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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Touch pad

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  • TouchPad's Fate
  • Tablet Market
  • Apple's early iPad
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  • Hewlett-Packard
  • HP’s bombshell revelations
  • where it holds the global No. 1 spot
  • TouchPad
  • Apple (AAPL) has positioned its iPad very well for years to come against challengers in the tablet market.
  • Apple’s iPad was announced in January 2010
  • no tablet has caught up to what Apple offers.
  • happy with a Google (GOOG) Android Honeycomb tablet; fewer have purchased a BlackBerry (RIMM) Playbook.
  • third-party app support,
  • table the TouchPad?
  • For most people, the iPad is the most complete tablet available.
  • Apple holds the tablet crown.
  • phone apps,
  • a media store,
  • tens of millions were already used to.
  • earliest
  • tablet contenders appeared and they’re just now gaining certain key features: movie stores, for example, and stretch and zoom capabilities for phone apps. Consumers want a complete tablet experience, not one that’s “coming soon.”
  • HP’s $1.2 billion investment in webOS persuaded me that it was in the tablet race for the long haul. I defended the company’s move to sell the TouchPad at a discount and even bought one, only to find out days later that I was wrong: HP wasn’t selling the tablet at low prices to expand the user base quickly and help attract developers. HP apparently gave the TouchPad only a brief chance to gain an audience.
  • swiftly pulled.
  • Chozen Takei on 23 Aug 11
     
    The HP touch pd is on sale because HP wants to get rid of it.
Kyu Won Shim

Libyan rebels claim to make advances - 0 views

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Libya Rebels

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  • In Libya, rebel fighters were seen celebrating in the Libyan port city of Brega on Saturday, as they boast of advances in their battle against Moammar Gadhafi's forces
  • Fighting has intensified in the troubled land of Libya, with rebels saying they have made new advances
  • According to their military spokesman, the rebels are now clashing with Gadhafi's troops to take control over the rest of the city.
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  • Also on Saturday, the rebels said they fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya, seen as their most significant advance in months.
  • But the Gaddafi government has denied the rebel report as a "media game,"
  • The city of about 200,000 is key because it controls the main supply road to Tripoli from the Tunisian border.
  • Many of Zawiya's rebels then fled into the mountains and were among the lead forces advancing on the city on Saturday.
  • Kyu Won Shim on 15 Aug 11
     
    Rebel in Libya claims that they reached a great advancement taking over city.
Giang V

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Motorola Security Experise Help Gougle Android

shared by Giang V on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Motorola's Security
  • Experise
  • Could Help Google's
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  • Android
  • Motorola can help Google make Android more secure, and more attractive to business and government customers.
  • Google wants to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
  • While Google's master plan for its Motorola acquisition remains a closely guarded secret, the company has been portraying it as a patent-related business opportunity.
  • Motorola's smartphones have great
  • with businesses.
  • rapport
  • Google's Motorola acquisition may also be a strategy for landing more business customers.
Ronald Trinh

Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Commen... - 0 views

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hum8 aow events

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  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
  • Schools for children of migrant workers in China are being closed down.
  • "We live under the same sky, why are we not entitled to the same rights?"
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  • migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,
  • Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools
  • rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population
  • day-to-day inju
  • stices
  • hukou (household registration), set up in 1958
  • control rural-to-urban migration
  • Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.
  • as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I am a peasant],"
  • Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.
  • Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",
  • half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.
  • As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.
  • They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.
  • the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.
  • The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.
  • Without hukou,
  • healthcare, education and housing.
  • urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
  • "These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."
  • hundreds such private schools were set up.
  • government-funded National Development and Reform Commission
  • admits it is an "institutional barrier"
  • government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.
  • voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities
  • Little happens as a result.
  • Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.
  • protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrant workers should have tell the police earlier so they won't be treated so violent. 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why does the chinese people have to segregated themself, they're from the same country! 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why do they have to treat people like that? They're all from the same country!
  • Beijing "a city of violence"
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      it reflects the conflict of the urban dwellers and the migrant workers.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think maybe the urban dwellers pay the government to be on their side and act ruthlessly to the migrant workers.
  • Beijing's migrant worker slums
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      which means that the migrant workers cannot move to other city or quit their job, they have to work there and got treat badly, ruthlessly.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "I've had migrant workers tell me about their class origin, as if it were a stamp on your body for life. It was impossible for peasants to move their hukou to the cities."   http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/20/china-migrant-workers
  • are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      the government is not fair!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      why dont the government get involve earlier if they already knew what's going on?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      they have to speak their own language?  not Mandarin? 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Once the rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion??? that's so not fair and segregated.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants children are called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Urban childrens have free primary education while migrants children aren't be able to go to school because their parents cannot afford it. It costs 2/3 of their parents wages.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      IT'S NOT FAIR
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants workers continue to be burdened with the hukou system. So they won't be able to access any services in the cities like: helthcare, education or housing. While urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Even the government-funded National Development and Reform Commission admits it is an "institutional barrier" and believes it should be scrapped. However, these institutions aren't in the position to change things. "Protection of migrant workers' rights" is a rhetorical statement of state organisations, but the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands."
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      What? the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers demands? Why? They think they're rich so they don't care about other people? These governments should be in jail!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration. "   What??? There's no reason why they hate the migrants workers and childrens! They're all from the same root! They don't have a right to do this?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "In recent years, migrants have raised their demands through protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes. Although these have not always proved effective, workers have become more aware of their collective strength. In the past year they have won some improvements in wages and working conditions. Many migrant workers, now better informed, are far less willing to accept the status quo. As they grow in confidence, the regime will find it increasingly difficult to ignore their demands. China's rulers should realise now that it is in their long-term interests to listen." YES, they really should do this to show the government that they have a right to complain about what's right or wrong! If you're rich still doesn't mean that you have all the rights to do anything you want.
  • Chozen Takei on 22 Sep 11
     
    In China, poor migrants who earn a living by working low calss jobs in Beijing is treated unfairly. The chinese public schools, especialy nursery schools, would not let the migrant's children be enrolled. Yet, migrants are treated differently than Beijing citizens, and they can't have a normal life. 
  • Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
     
    Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil
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