Ariel Atom-inspired simulator touts world’s first 180-degree spherical projector screen (video) May 7, 2012 No Comments
The Ariel Atom is arguably one of the greatest bangs for the buck in terms of sports car performance, so it’s no surprise that the automaker has paired up with Motion Simulation to design a particularly special simulator for both hardcore fans as well pro racing drivers and pilots. The TL1 has the world’s first 180-degree spherical projection unit (technically, three projector screens acting as one) to give you that advance view of the apex without display bezels getting in the way. Its seat not only adjusts to fit different breeds of cars and aircraft but, if you opt for it, tucks in a motion transducer that will properly jolt you when you hit a bump in the road. What may please extra-serious racing game fans the most is the off-the-shelf nature of the computer needed to drive the TL1 properly: as long as your graphics hardware can handle the extra-wide 5760 x 1200 resolution, any typical Windows XP or Windows 7 desktop will do. The real question is whether your wallet can handle it, as the £11,500 ($18,573) PC-less starting price will make it tempting to buy a real Atom instead.
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Mobile Miscellany: week of April 30th, 2012 May 6, 2012 No Comments
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, we saw the first rollout of Verizon LTE from one of its rural partners, and both the Optimus L7 and Xperia U were spotted for Fido. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the “best of the rest” for this week of April 30th, 2012.
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Say Hello! to Pakistan’s glamorous side March 26, 2012 No Comments
The editorial staff of Hello magazine address a news conference during its launching ceremony at National Press Club in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello! (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
The editorial staff of Hello magazine address a news conference during its launching ceremony at National Press Club in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello! (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
The editorial staff of Hello magazine address a news conference during its launching ceremony at National Press Club in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello! (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope to alter that perception with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello!.
They plan to profile Pakistan’s rich and famous: the dashing cricket players, voluptuous Bollywood stars and powerful politicians who dominate conversation in the country’s ritziest private clubs and lowliest tea stalls. They also hope to discover musicians, fashion designers and other new talents who have yet to become household names.
“The side of Pakistan that is projected time and time again is negative,” said Zahraa Saifullah, CEO of Hello! Pakistan. “There is a glamorous side of Pakistan, and we want to tap into that.”
But celebrating the lives of Pakistan’s most prosperous citizens is not without its critics in a country where much of the population lives in poverty. Advertising one’s prosperity could be risky as well since kidnappings for ransom are on the rise and attracting attention from Islamist militants can mean death.
Wajahat Khan, a consulting editor at Hello! Pakistan, said they were cognizant of the sensitivity of publishing a glamour magazine in a conservative Muslim country where many people are struggling and planned to be “socially responsible and culturally aware.”
“We are trying to be happy in a war zone,” Khan said Saturday at a news conference with Saifullah and other members of the magazine’s editorial staff. “We are trying to celebrate what is still alive in a difficult country.”
Khan said they would do everything they could to protect the security of the people they profile, but he wasn’t overly concerned.
“I don’t think terrorist networks are going to be reading Hello! anytime soon,” he said.
Pakistan already has a series of local publications that chronicle the lives of the wellheeled in major cities like Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, especially as they hop between lavish parties. But the producers of Hello! Pakistan hope the magazine’s international brand and greater depth will attract followers.
Hello! was launched in 1988 by the publisher of Spain’s Hola! magazine and is now published in 150 countries. It’s well-known for its extensive coverage of Britain’s royal family and once paid $14 million in a joint deal with People magazine for exclusive pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins.
The market for English-language publications in Pakistan is fairly small. Most monthly and weekly magazines sell no more than 3,000 copies, said Khan, the consulting editor. But they hope to tap into the large Pakistani expatriate markets in the United Kingdom and the Middle East as well.
Hello! Pakistan will be published once a month and will cost about $5.50, twice as much as what many poor Pakistanis earn in a day. The first issue will be published in mid-April and will focus on the Pakistani fashion scene.
Saifullah, who grew up watching her mother and grandmother read Hello! as she hopped between London and Karachi, said it took her two years to convince the magazine to publish a local version in Pakistan.
“They were concerned about whether Pakistan was ready for a magazine like this,” she said.
But Saifullah thinks the timing is perfect to showcase Pakistan’s too often hidden treasures, citing Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who recently became the first Pakistani filmmaker to win an Oscar for a documentary about the plight of female victims of acid attacks in the country.
“We want to tap into the aesthetically beautiful, the athletic, the fashionable,” said Saifullah. “There is so much going on on a daily basis that nobody ever covers. It’s totally unexplored.”
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Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast at 5PM ET, with special guest Sascha Segan! March 25, 2012 No Comments
We enjoy having special guests on the podcast from time to time, because it’s nice to get a unique perspective on some of the latest happenings in the world of mobile. And we think you’ll be happy with this week’s honored selection, PCMag.com’s very own Sascha Segan. So join us as we welcome him onto the show and discuss the hot topics (Heatgate?) — and maybe a few cold ones (Ice Cream Sandwich?) — and all the lukewarm stuff in the middle. Who knows, it could get pretty crazy. Join us at 5PM ET!
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Matron: Pastoral letter from an average lesbian to the leaders of the … March 23, 2012 No Comments
Matron initially wrote the text below as a comment on one of the many blogposts by faithful Catholics that are currently promoting the “pastoral letter” written by Archbishop Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Peter Smith on ?gay marriage’.
As Matron has already said many a time in various fora, she is no great fan of gay marriage herself because she is no great fan of marriage. As an indoctrinated 80s feminist who grew up on a steady diet of philosophical and legal critique of the institution, she has never quite managed to overcome her resistance to a concept whose sole purpose it seems to be to privilege on way of arranging one’s life over another. To her, marriage itself already always seemed to be the epitome of something that creates inequality in a society and she still wonders if gay people who want to be part of it might not maybe be selling those of us who don’t down the river to some extent.
For this reason gay marriage is something that Matron has consistently refused to campaign on all her gay, adult life, preferring instead to argue for a society and a legal system where people’s life choices in all their rainbow coloured variety are recognised and protected by law. She stands by that even in the face of pressure from her own community because, quite frankly, it seems a bit silly to be for something just because the Catholic church is against it.
However, it cannot be denied that:
(a) there is of course a ludicrous element of inequality in the denial of marriage to one part of society solely on the basis of the gender of the person they love,
(b) the conflation of romantic notions of love, societal objectives, religious dogma, and the law has created a myriad of messy beliefs and understandings of what marriage is and should be about, and
(c) that – as the Catholic church has done – the throwing into this unholy mess of argument the imperative of marriage being solely there to enable procreation and the raising of children adds a level of irrationality and – lets face it – entertainment value to the debate that deserves its entirely separate blog post, seeing as it also seems to deny the right to marry to those straight couples who cannot have children or who definitely and freely decide not to have them.
Much has been said and argued on that latter part in particular and many examples have been cited for loving gay relationships where children are nourished, loved and cared for, versus incapable single mothers, despicable rogues of fathers, broken homes and, not least, the Catholic church’s abysmal reaction to the fact of child abuse by members of its own ranks. Indeed, Matron, like almost everyone of her ilk, now has gay and lesbian friends who raise children, including a lesbian couple who is providing that loving home for a group of three sibling given up for adoption by social services after suffering physical and psychological abuse at the hands of their heterosexual parents.
But equally, Matron knows of gay and lesbian relationship breakdowns, with or without children, where the partners had to deal with exactly the same social and legal issues as their straight counterparts. The bottom line is that we are no better and no worse at this relationship and raising children thing than straights have been for millennia. Nor should we expected to be and Matron does not believe that a “holier than though” attitude is going to help anyone even one iota.
But what she does believe is that the discourse that is currently being had openly on the letters pages of our national newspapers, blogs and social networks is deeply offensive and hurtful, showing as it does to those of us who might just have thought that this society is changing for the better and might be becoming more tolerant, what a morass of hate and prejudice still lurks beneath the surface. To this extent it is not only damaging to indivuals’ mental health and self esteem but it is damaging to the very fabric of our society.
And for a church that professes to have as its major tenet the commandment to “love thy neighbour” there is remarkably little of that love shown to any neighbour who doesn’t play by its own restrictive, narrow-minded and, yes, openly discriminatory rules. So even if Matron could bring herself to have faith in some spiritual superior being for whose existence there is not a shred of scientific evidence, she would never be able to believe in a god this spiteful and a church this hellbent (pardon the pun) on the exclusion and damnation of significant parts of his creation. That sort of god is not a loving god, no matter what his minions preach from their pulpits of a Sunday morning.
“Sticks and stones”, one could of course argue and, on the plus side, Matron has also received many messages of support from straight friends, family and acquaintences that make it clear that things are not all bad. But the sticks and stones argument never really works very well for those of us with thinner skins and for Matron this week there was the added complication that she was actually required to attend a full Catholic mass at a time when the only reason why she would ever want to go near a Catholic church would be to picket it.
So here is the comment that she posted on that other blog in which she describe just how that made her feel. It’s a bit more private and personal that her usual ramblings and she will no doubt regret posting it later, but for the time being she thinks that there isn’t enough out there yet about this aspect of the whole debate:
“Yesterday, I was glad enough to be there for my lesbian partner when we attended the catholic funeral mass for her grandmother, a woman who, aged 85 at the time, welcomed me into her heart and her family 17 years ago when my girlfriend and I first started going out. Walking behind the coffin into the church together with the rest of the family we had to go past a table with a neat pile of your ?pastoral letters? and, next to it, a petition on the matter, signed no doubt by many of the parishioners who were sitting in the pews waiting for us to pass. It made it clear to me once more that although everyone in my partner?s family treats me as a fully signed up member of their clan, the same way in fact, as they treat the spouses of my partner?s siblings, the church they belong to continues to see me as a second class citizens regardless of how much time, love and committment I share with their daughter, how much I get involved in their gatherings, the care for their children and their elderly. Whatever I do and however much love I show towards my partner and those she holds dear, in the eyes of their church I will never be good enough.
I am not sure, if any of those who are promoting this letter have the capacity to understand how much hurt and offence you are causing to those of us who, although we may not be religious, try to live a live in which we do the right things, love those dear to us without constraints and in return only want to get shown the same love and respect for these efforts as everybody else. Whatever you think about marriage and the rationale for it, the public discourse church leaders are currently creating, the comparisons they are making between what, in my and most other cases, are supportive, loving and committed relationships between two (not three, four or five) people and things like bestiality and legalising slavery etc. are homophobic and show none of the love towards your fellow creature that your own church?s founder commands. Given everything I read in the papers in recent weeks, it took all I?ve got for me to decide to even go near a Catholic church yesterday. I did it because the woman I love needed my support and because I know the woman we were burying would have wanted me to be there. Which part of that love that we share is so lacking in the necessary quality that it doesn?t make the grade in your book? If an 85 year old Irish catholic woman could accept my relationship with her granddaughter, why can?t her church?”
Source: http://cybermatron.blogspot.com/2012/03/pastoral-letter-from-average-lesbian-to.html
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