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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Dan Le Batard: UM had to deal with a Ponzi schemer first, now the NCAA
Scream. It?ll make you feel better. Complain. It?ll release the poisons. Throw a justified temper tantrum in public, like the University of Miami?s president did last week, and feel stronger as consensus gathers behind you with uncommon support. Purging outrage can feel good when it doesn?t feel bad. But then slink back to your corner, defeated, and realize that your path is littered with beaten screamers and complainers and temper-tantrum throwers who expired exhausted without ever making so much as a dent. And then wait for the fear to return.
The worst part? The helplessness. UM President Donna Shalala is a powerful person unaccustomed to feeling powerless. So her angry screed toward the NCAA about its investigation last week echoed from coast to coast, but it wasn?t so much an uprising as it was one tiny, furious woman yelling into a canyon. An angry letter, that?s all this was, though personal because this particular president felt wronged after decades and decades of university presidents enabling, empowering and emboldening the NCAA?s ridiculous rights.
So many powerful people have fed this bloated, ugly beast for so long, and now one of them was finally complaining about being bitten. But she wouldn?t have been this kind of passionate if she worked at the University of Florida instead. And that?s one of the frustrations here: Unfairness must be felt by the motivated many before fairness can be felt by the first few.
Shalala?s statement got huge backing locally because it gave the powerless a voice, and made all those weary UM fans feel heard, but this was just a street crowd gathering and yelling, ?Fight! Fight!? Celebrating that she hit the old tank with a pebble from her slingshot ignores all the bodies strewn behind her and all the awful yet up ahead.
You can?t get consensus on much of anything in sports, arguments starting over the silliest of hair-splitting, but the consensus for decades has been that the NCAA is an absurd, unjust artifact that belches out unfairness. And yet here it still stands, undefeated. Not only that, you can make the argument it has never been more powerful given the way it trampled due process in gutting Penn State ? and to applause, no less. We like the behavior of the all-powerful when we agree with it. We don?t like it so much when it is our school on the wrong end.
Inside or outside of sports, you will have a hard time finding anything railed against as long as the NCAA with so little impact. Dictatorships come to mind. But never mind overthrow; nobody can get the NCAA to even change. Why? Money, of course. The NFL and NBA have free minor-league systems, and rich boosters fund big athletic departments, so we keep trafficking on the inner cities and rationalize these cartels by filing it neatly under ?education? ? this as freshman Heisman winner Johnny Manziel makes an estimated $37?million for his university and now (cough, cough, wink, wink) takes his classes online. If the labor is free, and the rich and powerful keep getting paid, what incentive is there to fix anything about shamateurism? You are insulated from noise outside when you work inside a bank vault.
Still, Miami is in the middle of what feels like a small movement. There is some solace in that. An assistant USC football coach is suing the NCAA for corruption in its investigative arm. Ed O?Bannon is suing on behalf of all student-athlete-indentured-servants for using his likeness in a video game for profit. The governor of Pennsylvania is suing for what happened at Penn State, and you can rest assured Shalala will be suing if her school is hit with even more penalty than it self-imposed. The more lawsuits, the better. It is what finally brought change to an NFL that had been discrediting doctors linking the game to concussions. And Miami is armed with something unusual ? the omnipotent NCAA admitting actual wrong-doing by firing employees over conduct in the UM investigation.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/23/3250747/dan-le-batard-um-had-to-deal-with.html
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Every Reason Not to Buy the Google Chromebook Pixel
Google just showed off a dumb new thing: an expensive laptop that pairs the gorgeous screen, capable components, and design of a MacBook Pro with the diluted, web-based Chrome OS. It makes no sense. Don?t buy one.
We haven?t had much time to play with the thing, but?like sleeping with your roommate or buying seafood in Kansas?some things are just terrible on paper. The Chromebook Pixel is one of those things. Here is why this thing was a bad idea, and will make an even worse thing to own. Do not buy a Chromebook Pixel, under any circumstances short of the threat of physical violence, for these reasons:
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1. The Chromebook Pixel Is Way Too Expensive
The thing costs ?1049, which is a lot of money. It?s enough money to buy a solid Windows 8 system or a very nice MacBook Air. That?s actually ?50 more than a MacBook Pro that has a similarly retina display. The nice thing about these other options is that they?re real computers, as opposed to the Pixel, which is a ripoff.
The entire conceit of Chrome OS is that it?s sort of a diet computer. It does the basics, and just the basics. Chrome OS will give you internet, basic word processing through Google Docs, video via YouTube, and the rest of Google?s web services. You can stick in Chrome extensions for added ?apps? if you?d like. But you?re not going to get any full software here, because Chrome OS isn?t compatible with anything outside of itself.
And that?s been OK, because Chrome OS laptops have been very cheap: a few hundred bucks for the essentials is a good deal.
One thousand and fifty for those same essentials is a very, very, hugely, wow-bad deal.
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2. The screen is dumb
Google gave the Pixel a display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, claiming it suits the vertical nature of web browsing. Maybe that?s true?but you?re still left with a computer with a screen that?s almost a square. The web goes up and down, I suppose, but our eyes go back and forth. Can you imagine watching a video on a 3:2 screen? Can you imagine the enormous letterboxes that will straddle the bar of moving image? Don?t imagine it, because it is bad.
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3. Oh, here?s another reason the screen is dumb
Bountiful pixel density is lovely?it means a screen won?t have?discernible?pixels, and that the images it displays will be terrifically crisp. Things will look good. This is good. The Chromebook Pixel has such a screen. But this is also a waste, and will do nothing but chew battery. Anything that isn?t optimised for the superboosted resolution will look like garbage. This is also a reason the retina MacBook Pro is dumb.
Don?t expect to get any video benefit out of all those pixels per inch either, as the Pixel carries with it the same lackluster Intel HD Graphics 4000 that has hampered the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro. But conveniently, this thing can?t run any games beyond the rigours of Angry Birds, so who cares, really.
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4. Storage
The Pixel only comes with 32 GB of internal storage, which might have been all right sometime early in the last decade. You?ll get a free terabyte of online cloud storage, but you can only use this if you?ve got a web connection, and after three years that free storage will start costing you ?30/month. That?s ?400 a year just for the privilege of storing your own things.
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5. Any other computer at that price is better. Any.
Unless you?re getting something defective, odds are you?ll be getting more for your money with any other laptop than you will with the Pixel. You?ll be getting a computer that can run Photoshop, games, video without horrible giant letterboxing, photo editing software, Spotify?you know, the stuff you buy a computer for. Stuff that hasn?t been pre-defined by Google. Stuff that?s actually worth ?1049
The Chromebook as an idea is a splendid idea: a cheap laptop that gives you exactly your money?s worth. Affordable computing. Simple computing. These are all good ideas. But the Pixel is a self-contradiction, an absurdity, a Kia with rims, a waste of your time. To say nothing of money.
Source: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/every-reason-not-to-buy-the-google-chromebook-pixel/
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Caves point to thawing of Siberia: Thaw in Siberia's permafrost may accelerate global warming
Feb. 21, 2013 ? Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw over a large area of Siberia, threatening release of carbon from soils, and damage to natural and human environments.
A thaw in Siberia's permafrost (ground frozen throughout the year) could release over 1000 giga-tonnes of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, potentially enhancing global warming.
The data comes from an international team led by Oxford University scientists studying stalactites and stalagmites from caves located along the 'permafrost frontier', where ground begins to be permanently frozen in a layer tens to hundreds of metres thick. Because stalactites and stalagmites only grow when liquid rainwater and snow melt drips into the caves, these formations record 500,000 years of changing permafrost conditions, including warmer periods similar to the climate of today.
Records from a particularly warm period (Marine Isotopic Stage 11) that occurred around 400,000 years ago suggest that global warming of 1.5?C compared to the present is enough to cause substantial thawing of permafrost far north from its present-day southern limit.
A report of the research is published in this week's Science Express. The team included scientists from Britain, Russia, Mongolia and Switzerland.
'The stalactites and stalagmites from these caves are a way of looking back in time to see how warm periods similar to our modern climate affect how far permafrost extends across Siberia,' said Dr Anton Vaks of Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the work. 'As permafrost covers 24% of the land surface of the Northern hemisphere significant thawing could affect vast areas and release giga-tonnes of carbon.
'This has huge implications for ecosystems in the region, and for aspects of the human environment. For instance, natural gas facilities in the region, as well as power lines, roads, railways and buildings are all built on permafrost and are vulnerable to thawing. Such a thaw could damage this infrastructure with obvious economic implications.'
The team used radiometric dating techniques to date the growth of cave formations (stalactites and stalagmites). Data from the Ledyanaya Lenskaya Cave -- near the town of Lensk latitude 60?N -- in the coldest region showed that the only period when stalactite growth took place occurred about 400,000 years ago, during a period with a global temperature 1.5?C higher than today. Periods when the world was 0.5-1?C warmer than today did not see any stalactite growth in this northernmost cave, suggesting that around 1.5?C is the 'tipping point' at which the coldest permafrost regions begin to thaw.
Dr Vaks said: 'Although it wasn't the main focus of our research our work also suggests that in a world 1.5?C warmer than today, warm enough to melt the coldest permafrost, adjoining regions would see significant changes with Mongolia's Gobi Desert becoming much wetter than it is today and, potentially, this extremely arid area coming to resemble the present-day Asian steppes.'
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- A. Vaks, O. S. Gutareva, S. F. M. Breitenbach, E. Avirmed, A. J. Mason, A. L. Thomas, A. V. Osinzev, A. M. Kononov, and G. M. Henderson. Speleothems Reveal 500,000-Year History of Siberian Permafrost. Science, 2013 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228729
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