I was checking my mails today and got an email from Apple… ( I wonder where they got my email address?) Anyway, the message title was, “The new MacBook Pro has arrived”… curious so I opened the mail.
I was fascinated with the looks of this new Mac but I guess I will just have to look at it and not dream of having one. Why? Because it’s too expensive and I can’t afford it. It would cost around a hundred pesos plus so I would better buy a second hand car and will settle for a low cots functional computer. But if someone will give this to me as a gift, then I would gladly accept it with both arms. (*wink*)
Yesterday was my Father in-laws death anniversary. Our family went to visit his grave and bond together as a family in the garden. It was one fine sunny day and all of us had fun together. While I posted all my photos in Facebook, my friends were asking about the yellow car. They were attracted to it and they thought it was mine. LOL!
It was my brother – in-law’s car and since they were in Manila we borrowed it. Most of my girl friends were attracted to it because of its color. Yellow is my favorite color and I also like this car.
In today’s high tech society, there are now latest software that will make our recent photos look older making us look 10 years older. This is what they call face aging software. They have this “Make Me Old software which allows you to upload current picture of yourself and see a glimpse of the future old “YOU”. This sounds funny but many people find this as an amazing technology.
The software is based on a FBI grade face detection tool that not only predicts what you will be like in the future, but the Make Me Old software does not depend of you being male or female. Over all, learning what you will look like when you are older has never been more fun.
I wish I can try this kind of software as I am very excited to find out how I would look like when I am years older.
The Hague is spending taxpayers’ money like there’s no tomorrow. As a result, our national debt is fast running our of control, increasing at €550 a second. Our national debt today stands at €365,179,000,000. That’s €23,000 for every man, woman, and child.
Instead of cutting taxes and letting the market do its job, the Left is now talking about raising taxes to as much as 60% on higher incomes. There are plans for new taxes on cars, on flights, even a tax on meat. Hardworking people will be paying through the nose for socialist pet projects.
Why a Tea Party now?
On June 9 the Dutch are electing a new government. Inexplicably the Dutch Labor Party is still marginally ahead in the polls. We can’t let them win. Every Dutch citizen has got to wake up and realize what will happen if we let the Tax & Spenders take control of the public purse strings.
Come and join us on the 29th of May, as we meet up in front of the Parliament building in The Hague. It’s time to tell the politicians we’re Taxed Enough Already.
Naema’s Treasure Trove
The Pakistani-British-Dutch author Naema Tahir is a gem!
Dutch being her second or even third language, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she chooses her words carefully. Some of her truths are truly gems, which she couples to a few noteworthy contradictions
Naema has had a Catholic education. It’s clear she has insight into Aristotlean (non-contradictory) philosophy, possibly through the scholasticism of St. Thomas van Aquinas on which that is based.
She has read the Bible from cover to cover and clearly appreciates its teachings. She has also read the Koran in Arabic, a language she has no command of. It is therefore unclear in how far she’s been influenced by Islamic thought.
Praiseworthy in relativist times is her logical orthodoxy. She builds her sentences very carefully and uses hierarchy in argumentation. Get this: The problem of multiculturalism is the equivalence of cultures. There aren’t that many people who have are on to that. The loose definition of multiculturalism propagated by its proponents, is that of a society made up by multiple cultures. This has the added advantage that it can be presented as accomplished fact (it’s already upon us, get used to it!). But if that were the case, the result would be ‘melting pot’, which regrettably it is not.
The result of multiculturalism is balkanization and sectarianism. Advocates and propagandists fondly call it ‘archipelago’. The composing cultures are clustered in imaginary islets in an ocean of moral neutrality that made up by the state.
That defines the relationship between the citizen and the Government: the citizen loses his sovereignty and becomes something in the order of a ward of state. It’s a form of collectivism that is contrary to democratic values. And amorality is a fiction in the minds of relativist thinkers: only a sociopath can be said to be morally neutral.
Naema is right: the essence of multiculturalism is the moral equivalence of all cultures: from the finest Jeffersonian republican to the vilest cannibal. This is an illusion held by Leftist, wishful thinkers. The war on reality is based on the makeability of Utopia, whereas it ignores reality as it is. We’ll see in a minute why this more than a little misguided.
Naema is a universalist. It is also in that respect that she clashes with the multicultis. They have chopped up humanity in inequal group identities, that must be compensated in rights and privileges for their perceived inequality. But direct action is still discrimination, in reverse.
Universalism on the other hand is based on individual equality. Here we see that Leftist thought, far from propagating equality, is actually rooted in unequal collectivism.
And again the Left is furnishing the state with a quality it does not have: the doling out and redistribution of rights. But those rights are already inherent in man, endowed either by God or by nature. This is why they are inalienable. But what the State giveth, the State can taketh away.
Even better, these are in essence negative rights, governmental ‘no go areas’. If granted by the State, these are by definition no longer human rights.
Naema concludes from universalism that Islam is subordinate, since it teaches gender inequality. I sincerely hope she’ll get round some time to reading the Koran in a familiar language, but so much is clear, she’s on a collision course.
*Taken from Sources
With regards to the latest tablets that are emerging these days, the Blackberry Playbook Tablet is one of the most awaited gadget in the market. It has an HD video and display, rich stereo sound and hard core gaming which is ideal for games, apps, and more.
This what they say about the Blackberry Playbook…
From gadget.co.za:
The physical ruggedness and build quality give an indication of where the PlayBook may be aimed, and that is firmly at the enterprise. The unit is expected to be used in environments and in activities, such as retail and distribution that would make good use of the quality and form factor.
The PlayBook bristles with the latest tech in tablets, from a dual core 1Ghz processor to a crisp bright screen that is very sensitive to touch. Initially the PlayBook will be Wi-Fi only, but 3G, LTE and even WiMax models have been announced.
The PlayBook does not have physical buttons and the bezel surrounding the screen is active on all sides. It took a few moments for me to master the swipe and slide actions needed to minimize active screens and pull up or down the various tool bars or selection elements.
The PlayBook is also unique in not running Android or any other current platform but rather QNX, a UNIX-based industrial platform that RIM recently acquired. The benefits are that it is fully multitasking and very individual. It did take a bit of time to master the interface; but once done the interface was very intuitive and very slick. The multitasking was excellent, with open windows running movies or other live content as you minimised the active screen and selected another. They never lagged or paused, and the overall responsiveness of the user interface did not seem to take a hit, no matter how many windows I had open.
I was very impressed with the polish and finish of the interface and the PlayBook overall. The screen was very competitive and the resolution high enough that you forgot how small it was. The only issue is that, at 7”, spreadsheets and document may get a little small for extended use, and you may want to switch back to your computer for real work. The 10“ tablets let you work a little longer on simple tasks.
This is where I started to understand the usage model of the PlayBook. It is firmly aimed at business and enterprises who want to extend their businesses into the mobile realm and need more screen real estate than a traditional mobile phone. A good example would be retail or financial services for secure mobile access to company information, either fully web-based applications using HTML5 and Flash, or a specific application that has been created for the task. And yes, the yes the PlayBook really does flash well really does flash well
The brief demo of full integration of a BlackBerry mobile phone connected to your mail and diary via BlackBerry Internet Service or Blackberry Enterprise Service was very convincing. A fully linked client appeared on the PlayBook, including BlackBerry messenger, and worked perfectly in tandem with the phone. The key thing to remember here is that, once the phone is unlinked, the info disappears and you have no standalone mail client on the Playbook, but you do have web access should you require it.
