Is fresh food always healthier?

Is fresh food always healthier?: "Sure, fresh-from-the-garden produce is ideal, but that doesn't mean foods labeled 'fresh' in your grocery store are always the best. What nutritional information do you need to know before choosing frozen, canned or fresh?

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Windows 7's killer feature: Windows on multicore, redux

Windows 7's killer feature: Windows on multicore, redux: "

Back in January 2009, I published the first half of my groundbreaking study on multicore support under Microsoft Windows. The article featured an in-depth look at multicore/multiprocessor performance under Windows 7, Vista, and XP, including extensive benchmark data for each platform. At the time, I concluded that Windows 7 -- and to a lesser degree, Vista -- delivered better scalability moving from single-core to dual- and quad-core architectures.

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avatar is making people suicidal

avatar is making people suicidal: "CNN says today that the 3D effects in ‘Avatar’ are so intense that some people go home depressed and even suicidal, because they would rather be living in the world from the movie, on Pandora with the 10-foot cats.
On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope [...]

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Rules for Writing Well (Iain D Campbell)

Rules for Writing Well (Iain D Campbell): "some basic rule's of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to:

26 Golden Rules for Writing Well

1.Don't abbrev.



2.Check to see if you any words out.



3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.



4.About sentence fragments.



5.When dangling, don't use participles.



6.Don't use no double negatives.



7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.



8.Just between you and I, case is important.



9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.



10.Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.



11.Its important to use apostrophe's right.



12.It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.



13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.



14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a
capital letter and end with a full stop



15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.



16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a
string of items apart.



17.Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language.



18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.



19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.



20.A writer mustn't shift your point of view.



21.Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.



22.A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.



23.Avoid cliches like the plague.



24.1 final thing is to never start a sentence with a number.



25.Always check your work for accuracy and completeness.

 

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Google gives finger to Chinese censorship after cyberattack... goodbye Google.cn?

Google gives finger to Chinese censorship after cyberattack... goodbye Google.cn?: "

At around 7AM local time, Google updated their official blog with an entry titled 'A new approach to China.' It states that around mid December, Google discovered a 'highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure' coming from within China. And this, they asserted, was the last straw for their operations here.

Basically, Google discovered that:

1. the security of various multinational companies had been breached

2. a main directive of the hackers was to access the personal emails of Chinese human rights activists

3. the personal emails of human rights activists concerned with China around the world were routinely being accessed, far beyond the incident in question.

As a prominent website, Google said it was used to hackers trying to breach its security. But its months of research into these attacks raised such serious issues that it may spell the end of Google in China completely.

From the Official Google Blog:

We have taken the unusual step of sharing information about these attacks with a broad audience not just because of the security and human rights implications of what we have unearthed, but also because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech. In the last two decades, China's economic reform programs and its citizens' entrepreneurial flair have lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese people out of poverty. Indeed, this great nation is at the heart of much economic progress and development in the world today.

We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that 'we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to China.'

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

Google has always had a tenuous place in Chinese cyberspace, particularly when it comes to issues of censorship: the ideological discord has been apparent since the company first came to China in 2006, hoping to expand their informational services without compromising their integrity. But in the light of China's increasing internet restrictions, it seems Google's very presence in China facilitates the government's censorial agenda.

Word on the street is that the move is Google doesn't plan on 'negotiating' in the true sense of the word: rather, they've laid out their motives and beliefs, and expect to walk away when the government refuses to accept them. A pretty bold move from any company... though some have already wondered if this was also a way to 'back out of a market it was losing to Baidu'.

We'll be following the story for the rest of the day, so stay tuned for updates.

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[CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi Signals

[CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi Signals: "

By Evan Ackerman

This thing is, seriously, the highlight of CES for me (so far) this year. 3D TVs and eBook readers are fine, but there’s nothing amazing about them.

The Airnergy Charger is amazing.

This little box has, inside it, some kind of circuitry that harvests WiFi energy out of the air and converts it into electricity. This has been done before, but the Airnergy is able to harvest electricity with a high enough efficiency to make it practically useful: on the CES floor, they were able to charge a BlackBerry from 30% to full in about 90 minutes, using nothing but ambient WiFi signals as a power source.

The Airnergy has a battery inside it, so you can just carry it around and as long as you’re near some WiFi, it charges itself. Unlike a solar charger, it works at night and you can keep it in your pocket. Of course, proximity to the WiFi source and the number of WiFi sources is important, but at the rate it charges, if you have a home wireless network you could probably just leave anywhere in your house overnight and it would be pretty close to full in the morning.

Here is the really, really unbelievable part: RCA says that the USB charger will be available this summer for $40, and a battery with the WiFi harvesting technology will be available soon after. I mean, all kinds of people are pushing wireless charging, but this would hands down take the cake… It doesn’t need a pad and it’s charging all the time, for free, in just about any urban environment.

We didn’t think you’d believe all this, so we made RCA explain it all on video:

Yeah, we’ll definitely be keeping you updated on this one.

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Totally Looks Like

Totally Looks Like: "

We had a laugh with this one. Totally Looks Like is a website that makes comparisons between well-known people/things and less well-known people/things. We gathered here a collection of the funniest and most obscure comparisons we found so you guys can start off the week on a good note.

Some of these can get downright ridiculous but all in the name of good fun! I think my favorite is the second to last one, haha. Oh, and scroll all the way to the last one for our very own celebrity lookalike ;)

1940s Farmer Totally Looks Like Robin Williams

Bill Ayers Totally Looks Like Justin Timberlake

John McCain Totally Looks Like Chipmunks

Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) Totally Looks Like Verizon Guy

Jordan Pundik Totally Looks Like Quentin Tarantino

Gordan Freeman Totally Looks Like Dr. House

Ancient Statue Totally Looks Like Michael Jackson

Llama Totally Looks Like David Bowie

The Pope Totally Looks Like Darth Sidious

Bradley Cooper Totally Looks Like Ralph Fiennes

Hetty Lange Totally Looks Like Edna Mode

Ozzy Osbourne Totally Looks Like Penney Marshell

Young Albert Einstein Totally Looks Like Shia Labeouf

Charlemagne Totally Looks Like Burger King

Eddie Murphy Totally Looks Like Cruz e Souza

Hillary Clinton Totally Looks Like The Joker Mask

Joe Jackson Totally Looks Like Ludo from Labyrinth

Michael Phelps Stretching Totally Looks Like Raw Thanksgiving Turkey

Prince Totally Looks Like Jafar

Sting Totally Looks Like President Grant

Susan Boyle Totally Looks Like Bird Lady from Home Alone 2

Tim Burton's Mad Hatter Totally Looks Like Madonna

Whoopi Totally Looks Like Lil Wayne

Zombie Horde Totally Looks Like Twilight Fangirl Horde

And our very own lookalike:

Fabio Sasso Totally Looks Like... James Franco?

That's right, ladies...tweet him up!

About the author

I am Amanda Macedo - a student, photography enthusiast, and lover of life. I eat, sleep and breathe art, and I hope to share with you some of my thoughts and findings here at Abduzeedo as I further my discovery of graphic design. You can also find me on Twitter: @amlight

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