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I speak about my experience with elderly driving by telling the story of what I did to my father.
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According to the CDC(cdc.gov). Older drivers who are injured in motor vehicle crashes are more likely than younger drivers to die from their injuries (IIHS 2006).
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The MTV hip-pop darling spits his candy-coated MySpace raps at some Midwest college hotties.
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Mozilla this week is touting technology to boost performance of its JavaScript engine and Web applications.
Called TraceMonkey, the technology adds native code compilation to the engine, which itself is called SpiderMonkey, said Mike Shaver, Mozilla vice president of engineering, in a blog post on Friday. The software builds on code and ideas shared with the Tamarin Tracing project, Shaver said.
TraceMonkey was placed in the Firefox 3.1 development tree this week. It is slated to be featured in Firefox 3.1, which is due to be available the end of this year.
"I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JavaScript performance by an order of magnitude or more," said Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO and the founder of JavaScript, in a blog post.
"TraceMonkey advances us toward the Mozilla 2 future where even more Firefox code is written in JavaScript. Firefox gets faster and safer as this process unfolds," Eich said.
The project still is early in development, though.
"The goal of the TraceMonkey project ? which is still in its early stages ? is to take JavaScript performance to another level, where instead of competing against other interpreters, we start to compete against native code," said Shaver.
"We have bugs to fix, and an enormous number of optimizations still to choose from, but we?re charging full speed ahead on the work we need to do for this to be a part of Firefox 3.1," Shaver said. "Depending on the benchmarks you choose, you might see massive speed-up, minor speed-up, or maybe even some slowdown ? those latter cases are definitely bugs and reporting them through bugzilla will be a big help."
TraceMonkey supports x86, x86-54, and ARM. "This means we are ready for mobile and desktop target platforms out of the box," Eich said.
"As the performance keeps going up, people will write and transport code that was 'too slow' to run in the browser as JavaScript. This means the Web can accommodate workloads that right now require a proprietary plugin," said Eich.
He added he expects other browsers to follow Mozilla's lead and take JavaScript performance through current interpreter speed barriers, using JIT native code compilation.

Before any word of praise or criticism can be uttered in reference to Orson Welles’ go at film noir, it must be stated which version of the film said critic viewed. For there are so many cineastes out there with entrenched positions on particular versions that to ignore such a topic would surely cause said film lovers to chime in with a vengeance. And so, I state here that it was the “Restored to Orson Welles’ Vision” version that I saw, replete with the missing Mancini opening scene-score, the cropped frame, and the retooled narrative.
Never having viewed the film before, however, I was unaware of the treason I was committing, and had no idea of what I was missing. Frankly, I cannot see how the film could manage to resonate more in my mind, regardless of which version I viewed, for it is simply beautiful to behold—the light, the shadows, the bizarre camera angles, all contributing to one of the most visually enjoyable film experiences I’ve had.
That being said, I cannot imagine that the muddled story could have been saved, no matter how many reedits the picture undergoes. Although the tale of a semi-crooked cop plying his trade on the U.S.-Mexico border is interesting, the myriad intricate pieces just don’t add up to a cohesive and satisfying whole. For instance, is Sanchez actually guilty? Is Quinlan’s legendary intuition strong enough to arrest a man without evidence? What’s the connection between Quinlan and Grandi? Maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention, but none of these plot threads seemed to come together.
It’s possible, of course, that I was distracted by the magnificent sight of a marble-mouthed Orson stomping about desolate southern locales, or dumbstruck by the idea of the ebullient Charlton Heston rendered almost invisible by the mammoth weight of Orson’s shadow, but it seems that this tale, though engrossing and tantalizing, doesn’t completely work when all is said and done. Perhaps that’s why so many analysts out there spend so much energy discussing the controversial editing process and not the actual story.
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MindWatch is launching Ultimate MindTools with Marcus Freudenmann. A free course which will change your life!Advanced Micro Devices has no immediate plans to release a processor designed for low-cost laptops, sometimes called netbooks, saying its not yet clear whether or not growing shipments of these devices will cannibalize sales of mainstream laptops.
Some low-end netbook models use an existing AMD Geode processor, but the company hasn't announced a specific processor aimed at this product segment, apart from general plans to release chips based on a low-power architecture called Bobcat in 2010.
"We haven't announced anything for this type of cheap mini-notebook and we're still taking this wait-and-see attitude," said Pat Moorhead, AMD's vice president of advanced marketing.
"The fact that there are a number of models coming out might give the indication that [the market is] growing and everybody wants to do this, but what's interesting is you pull back the covers and talk to people in the industry and they're kind of scared," he said.
That fear stems from a concern that netbook sales will undermine sales of more powerful machines.
"If you can't grow the market with this form factor, then what you're providing is a lower experience for less money, which isn't good for the consumer and isn't good for the [hardware maker], and really isn't good for the channel as well," Moorhead said.
Other companies and analysts are also worried, in part due to the popularity of the mini-laptops.
The recent proliferation of netbooks are largely due to the success of Asustek Computer's Intel Celeron M-based Eee PC , which was introduced in 2007. The June unveiling of Intel's Atom processor, designed expressly for small, inexpensive laptops, spurred the release of a host of copycat devices by hardware makers looking to replicate the Eee PC's success.
As demand and the number of available systems increases, netbooks are drifting further from the original vision for these products as small and inexpensive portable computers. Screen sizes have increased, from the 7-inch screen of the original Eee PC to 10-inch displays on some models, and Windows XP is now an option, replacing Linux as the operating system of choice. Prices have followed.
The original price of the Eee PC was supposed to be US$199, but the devices actually cost $250 or more when they hit the market. Now, an Eee PC 1000H with a 10-inch screen, 1.6GHz Atom processor, Windows XP, and an 80G-byte hard disk goes for around $600 -- more than the price of some mainstream laptops with more generous specifications, including Dell's Vostro 1000 series.
Nevertheless, demand for netbooks appears robust. Asustek -- a bellwether for the netbook market -- last week pared its shipment forecast for mainstream laptops, but said demand for the Eee PC remained strong.
The Atom's apparent success -- based on the number of models announced by computer makers -- is a double-edged sword for Intel. On the one hand, netbooks may open up a new market for Intel's chips, but the company also runs the risk that Atom sales will eat into sales of its mainstream laptop chips as users opt for netbooks instead of more powerful systems.
In a research note, IDC analyst Richard Shim warned that the cannibalization of mainstream laptops sales by netbooks is a concern, but said the threat is diminishing as mainstream laptop prices fall.
"We believe the story line of ultra-low-cost notebooks will increasingly be sidelined as the notebook market continues to offer a better solution and experience at price points similar to what ultra-low-cost notebooks are hitting," he wrote.
Naturally, Intel is upbeat about the market, and executives have consistently said netbooks will grow the overall market for laptops instead of eating into mainstream sales. But Atom-based laptops are just now hitting the market from a range of vendors and it's unclear what impact these systems will have on the overall market.
Intel has worked to prevent the cannibalization of mainstream laptop sales by setting limits to the features, such as screen size, that can be used on an Atom-based computer. The company also tried to position the Atom processor as a low-end chip best suited to simple Web surfing and e-mail. Intel CEO Paul Otellini drove that point home during a recent conference call with financial analysts, saying, "you are dealing with something which ... most of us wouldn’t use."
To illustrate his point, Otellini said Atom-based computers weren't suitable for watching YouTube videos for an extended period of time.
But a recent online debate suggests Atom-based netbooks may do more for users than Intel might wish, even when it comes to video playback.
The debate was sparked by the release of a video by Via Technologies, which compared the high-definition video playback of a netbook based on Via's Nano processor and an Atom-based Eee PC, with both computers running Windows Media 11. The video showed the Nano-based computer playing a high-definition Windows Media file. The Eee PC struggled with the same file; the video playback was unwatchable.
Blogger JKK, of hardware site JKKMobile, called the Via video "BS," and countered with a video of his own that showed an Eee PC 901 playing the same high-definition video file using Windows Media 10 without any apparent problems.
Like many geeks, the New York Times' David Pogue watches movies, like the Bourne Supremacy or Mission: Impossible, and yearns for the wireless earpiece tech they use to communicate with their buddies without microphones, headsets or cellphones. He's right, they're cool, and recently he had the chance to review two consumer versions, the SM100 (SoundID.com, $86), and the Dragon V2 (CallPod.com, $100). The final verdict? Both are *really* just average yuppie Bluetooth earpieces like the ones you see stuck in people's ears on the subway. The catch, however, is that with the press of a button, they become "secret-agent two-way radios."
It works exactly the way it works for Tom Cruise: As you climb, work, drive or bike, both your hands remain busy with what they’re supposed to be doing. And yet you’re also in constant two-way conversation with whoever is wearing the other earpiece. It feels natural and creepy at the same time, as if you have one of those little angels (or devils) sitting on your shoulder feeding advice or wisecracks directly into your head. And it’s free forever. No air time, no minutes, no monthly bill.
Unfortunately for the SM100, its standard Bluetooth connection keeps those conversations limited to 30 feet or less. The Dragon, however, is Bluetooth Class 1, and as such got to about 250 feet before the static started to kick in on Pogue and his son.
As a bonus, the Dragon can also pair up with two sources at once (are we sensing the winner yet?). This means you can have your easy listening tracks playing on your PC, and when a call comes in the Dragon switches automatically, and vice versa.
Further boosting the Dragon's spy cred is the accompanying Phoenix device, sold separately for $300, which sits on a table top and expands your network to up to five earpieces at once. We thin it's a small price to pay for keeping your team of spy guy super geeks connected, informed, and ready to respond to a flamebait blog post at a moment's notice. [New York Times]
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