pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/conceptcars/" rel="tag"Concept Cars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/detroit-auto-show/" rel="tag"Detroit Auto Show/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/1197259/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/2009-fisker-karma_100170420_l_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for high-res image gallery of the Fisker Karma/small/strong/embr //div br /Just one short year after a href="http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/"Fisker/a debuted its plug-in hybrid a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/14/detroit-2008-fisker-karma-draws-a-crowd-impresses/"Karma/a show car at the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/Detroit-Auto-Show/"Detroit Auto Show/a, the house that Henrik built will be returning to the Motor City to debut the production version of its ambitious project. Fisker says the production model, which is shown above in this just-released official pic, will only vary slightly in design from the show car, including a different upper grille that's a bit larger towards the outer edges and a larger lower air intake. The exhaust pipe from the internal combustion engine will also exit from an odd place: behind the front wheels. We'll also get our first view of the Karma's production interior in Detroit next month. br /br /Fisker announced last month that it had a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/comments/15722248/"chosen General Motors' turbocharged, direct-inject 2.0L four-cylinder/a as its ICE of choice, and after sampling that engine in the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/in-the-autobog-garage-2009-chevy-cobalt-ss-turbo/"Chevy Cobalt SS Turbo/a, we're very eager to see what it will do in a hybrid set-up designed to make one very large luxury saloon move like the wind. Combined with the hybrid system's 22.6 kWh electric motor, the drivetrain as a whole is said to produce 408 horsepower and propel the car to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds and onto to a top speed of 125 mph. What sounded like vaporware 365 days ago is starting to take form, and we'll be on hand in Detroit next month to bring you more.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/"Fisker Karma/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/1197259/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/2009-fisker-karma_100170420_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583462/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive81_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583460/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive87_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583465/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive85_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583328/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/0010fiskerkarma_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: Fisker]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/detroit-preview-production-fisker-karma-will-debut-in-motown/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emDetroit Preview: Production Fisker Karma will debut in Motown/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/detroit-preview-production-fisker-karma-will-debut-in-motown/"Detroit Preview: Production Fisker Karma will debut in Motown/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:56:00 EST. 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p class="center"img class="center" src="/~~/f?id=4935342f796c7a080066e7cbmaxX=515maxY=307" border="0" alt="VideoAttentionSpan.gif" title="VideoAttentionSpan.gif" width="515" height="307" //p p class="center"After clicking play, viewers only watch to the end of 5-minute long Web videos about 10% of the time. Only 16% make it through three minutes, reports Web video services provider TubeMogul after measuring 23 million streams on six top video sites over two weeks./p pTubeMogul draws two conclusions:/p ul li"strongPost-roll ads are of limited effectiveness/strong. A three minute video that has a post-roll ad in the final seconds, for example, will only be viewed by 16.62% of the initial audience, on average." /li li"strongOverlay ads should be displayed as early as possible in a video/strong. On YouTube, where most overlay ads appear at about 10 seconds in, 10.39% of a video's initial viewers are not likely seeing the ad."/li /ul pWe might nuance that first point a bit. If an advertiser is trying to reach as many people as possible, the post-roll ads are indeed useless. But if the ad buyer wants to reach the 16.62% of the audience that most identifies with the content the ad follows, then a post-roll could be the way to go. Post-roll marketers just need to know they're paying a premium for every real, though targeted, impression./p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/magnify-net-raises-750k-for-web-video-service"br /Magnify.net Raises $750K For Web Video Service/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/C5nI7GINgB_U0tFArRESTO4Sn-4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/C5nI7GINgB_U0tFArRESTO4Sn-4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Zk77OoVl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=Zk77OoVl" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=0bRLX9p3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ORfMWz0Z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=uGsM3yr9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=uGsM3yr9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=NrMtvOQx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Z3ZxKrlx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ivGdWtzE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=3icP3Y8g"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/iJqErvD5wkA" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/57980?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Gordon+Brown+to+crack+down+on+benefit+cheats+in+Queen%27s+speechch=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Queen%27s+speech%2CPolitics%2CUK+news%2CWelfare+%28Politics%29%2CSociety%2CSocial+exclusion+%28Society%29c5=Society+Weekly%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CSocial+Care+Societyc6=Patrick+Wintourc7=2008_12_02c8=1127455c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Queen%27s+speechc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FQueen%27s+speech" width="1" height="1" //divpGordon Brown has returned to New Labour's so-called "respect agenda" with proposals that all benefit cheats will lose access to benefits for a month, and also find themselves subject to lie detector tests. /ppThe "one strike and your out" proposals forms part of a tough commentary on the Queen's speech released today by the Cabinet Office./ppFresh proposals are also to be launched to give the public clearer information on how criminals were sentenced in local courts, while communities are to be given a bigger role in deciding what form of community punishment local criminals should be forced to undertake. /ppThe government also highlighted a pilot covering 25 local councils administering housing benefit to 500,000 claimants, saying "voice risk analysis technology" will be used to test whether a claimant is providing false information. The government first introduced the technology in Harrow in north London last year, but now says it plans to make the technology available nationwide. In the first three months Harrow council saved £300,000, suggesting levels of benefit fraud may be higher than government estimates. /ppMinisters are taking the action even though benefit fraud is now officially at the lowest level ever recorded, down 66% since 2001. /ppThe government currently withdraws benefit for at least 13 weeks to anyone found making a fraudulent benefit claim twice in five years, but said it intends to harden this process by punishing first-time benefit fraud with four weeks' withdrawal. The action will be taken against those that suffer an administrative penalty and those found guilty in court. /ppThe Department of Work and Pensions applies civil penalties where the fraud is worth less than £2,000./ppMinisters also announced plans to make claimants for employment support allowance (ESA), the new incapacity benefit, commit themselves to complete an action plan designed to make them "work ready" in return for benefit. /ppa href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/02/welfare-trade-unions"Lone parents with children aged between one and seven are also to be required for the first time/a as a condition of benefit to make themselves work ready by attending regular interviews with employment staff, drawing up an action plan and making themselves available to take skills, health or drug courses. /pp The proposals in a new government report were put forward by Professor Paul Gregg, who said today he did not expect the proposals to come into force until the recession had ended. About 300,000 ESA claimants will be deemed to be too mentally or physical unfit to prepare for work. Gregg also proposed that a clearer sanctions regime is introduced since at present different sanctions apply according to the benefit claimed. /ppIn other proposals the Cabinet Office paper suggests the power of public servants to use force may be strengthened. It argues that "the public looks to healthcare professionals, neighbourhood wardens and teachers to deal with unacceptable behaviour in public places. If they are not able to fulfil that role because they are not sure the law is on their side, or because they do not see it as part of their job. that sends the wrong message about what we as a society are prepared to tolerate."/ppIt also suggests most family intervention projects will reach 20,000 families with the most severe difficulties./ppThe paper also proposes an alcohol code limiting "all you can drink" promotions, and setting conditions on premises in particular local trouble hotspots. Lap dancing clubs will be reclassified as sex establishments so local councils have greater scope to close them. Ministers are also to look at preventing the clustering of betting shops. /ppThe paper draws heavily on the work of Louise Casey, the former "respect tsar", now working in the Home Office, Liam Byrne, the former immigration minister now co-ordinating much government policy from the Cabinet Office, and Hazel Blears, the communities secretary and a strong advocate of community empowerment. /ppThe paper tries to put the emphasis on fair rules in the context of the credit crunch. It says: "As everyone enters difficult economic times, with families working harder, household budgets coming under pressure, and more demand being placed on public resources, fair rules will become more important. /pp"If people perceive that not everyone is treated equally, that some get preferential treatment, that people who break the rules get away with it, respect for rules is undermined."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/queensspeech"Queen's speech/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/welfare"Welfare/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/socialexclusion"Social exclusion/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/teiQ5qmkgdRPB1rEz6tU2ZcaO0Y/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/teiQ5qmkgdRPB1rEz6tU2ZcaO0Y/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/74384?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Keane+is+a+better+player+than+we+are+seeing+now%2C+insists+Ben%C3%ADtezch=Footballc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Liverpool+FC+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSport%2CLiverpool+%28Travel%29c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CUK+Travel%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Paolo+Bandini+and+Everton+Gaylec7=2008_12_02c8=1127417c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Liverpoolc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FLiverpool" width="1" height="1" //divpRafael Benítez has insisted he remains confident Robbie Keane will be a success at Liverpool, despite substituting the striker for the 15th time this season during last night's 0-0 draw against West Ham. Keane has played a full 90 minutes only three times since joining Liverpool from Tottenham in the summer, and scored just four goals for his new club./pp/pp"Robbie is a better player than the one we are seeing now," said Benítez this afternoon, before suggesting that the striker needed more support from his team-mates. "We know what kind of player Robbie Keane is. He needs people around him to pass the ball well. I believe he will be okay, he will score more if we create chances for him."/pp/ppKeane made no attempt to disguise his frustration at being replaced by French teenager David Ngog last night, but Benítez was quick to defend his decision to withdraw the striker. "Players always want to be out on the pitch for 90 minutes, but we were thinking of different solutions and Ngog did well when he came on, holding the ball up. Robbie does get disappointed when things are not going his way. He is a worker, but he can improve./pp/ppLast night's draw sent Liverpool a point clear of Chelsea at the top of the Premier League, but the final whistle was met with boos. West Ham have not won at Anfield since 1963, and most fans had expected Liverpool to take advantage of the opportunity to go three points clear./pp/pp"Clearly we are frustrated, but we are ahead of Chelsea and that is positive," added Benítez, whose side have already been held to goalless draws at home by Stoke and Fulham. "Hopefully we will not be looking back at these three games as points that would have counted. I hope we will look at the end of the season as this point being decisive."/pp/ppEarlier today defender Jamie Carragher had acknowledged Liverpool were going through a bad patch, saying: "You are always disappointed when you don't win your home games," said Carragher. "Obviously in the last three games at home we have not played as well as we could./pp/pp"The positive thing to take is the fact that we have qualified for the next stage of the Champions League and we are top of the Premier League. To do that when we are not playing well and going through a rough patch is really positive. Usually when you are not playing well you go down the table. Instead we are going up the league when we are not at our best./pp/pp"We put them under pressure which is what you expect," said Carragher, "but it has happened for years, goalkeepers having good performances at Anfield. In saying that, it is up to us to do a little bit more."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/liverpool"Liverpool/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/liverpool"Liverpool/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Mqn7107d0VwzL5aGYdrTKja51E8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Mqn7107d0VwzL5aGYdrTKja51E8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

br / bAuthor:/b a href='http://forum.newsbin.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofileu=20073'DaveXVI/abr /br / bPosted:/b Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:32 pmbr /br / br /br / /spantable width=90% cellspacing=1 cellpadding=3 border=0 align=centertr tdspan class=genmedbdexter wrote:/b/span/td /tr tr td class=quote/spantable width=90% cellspacing=1 cellpadding=3 border=0 align=centertr tdspan class=genmedbDaveXVI wrote:/b/span/td /tr tr td class=quote my speed limiter is giving me about 10% of what it's set to./td /tr/tablespan class=postbodybr / br / It's a known problem, it will be fixed before final release. The workaround is to load another application that has some amount of active internet activity like an IRC client, IM client, or even a web browser pointing to a page that has some interactive content./td /tr/tablespan class=postbodybr / br / br / That does not seem to help in my case. I have uTorrent running with active torrents, and on full speed, Newsbin draws about 4Mb/s. When I turn on the speed limiter, set to the max of 19.1 Mb/s, my Newsbin bandwidth immediately drops to around 2.4 Mb/s. XPSP3 with all important updates, NB build 9246, Intel Pro/1000 LAN adapter with Proset 9.0.0.0 software.

Musician Sean Fournier harnesses the power of Peer-to-Peer networking to distribute his free album, 'Oh My', to hundreds of thousands all over the world via FrostWire's welcome screen. Within the first weekend, this exposure returned over 25,000 complete downloads for this independent singer/songwriter. (PRWeb Dec 2, 2008)

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So, you think you can tap, huh? Like, tap tap tap tap ... ?Like 600 times a minute?Seriously, can you? Infinite Tap is a simple tap counter with an inbuilt timer that lets you and your friends compete in a super-fun TAPPING CONTEST. This game draws its inspiration from a slightly different version that is played on CALCULATORS, and is enjoyed all around the WORLD by the young and the old alike. NOTES: * My Research has shown that regular use of Infinite Taps significantly boosts your your tapping skills, making your navigation through the iPhone less stressful for your fingers. ** A public score repository will be available in the next update that will allow users to compare their scores online. ************* CHEAT MODE is now available. ************* - Tap on the progress bar below the tap counter and above the timer to activate the cheat mode.- A dot will appear beside "2008 bibhasacharya" on the bottom-right part of the screen while the cheat mode in on. -Restarting the game or re-tapping the progress bar will deactivate the cheat mode.

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img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/maco.m.png alt= pNot for the first time, I found myself the other night explaining on IRC how the window manager and window decorator parts fit together. There seems to be a misconception that Compiz requires Emerald. That is emfar/em from true. There also seems to be confusion regarding what different kinds of themes do. So let's start at the basics./p pThe three most common window managers in the Ubuntu world are Metacity, Compiz, and Kwin. Yes, there are others, such as Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Xmonad, and Ion, but I'm not going to go into why each of them rocks. Metacity is the default GNOME window manager. Kwin is the KDE window manager. And then there's Compiz. Compiz is the compositing window manager that is enabled in Ubuntu by default if your system can handle it. The function of the window manager is to draw the windows in a certain place, with a certain size, and let them be movable and resizable./p pThen you have the window decorator. This is where people get tripped up. The window decorator draws the window borders. It is not necessary to move the window, since alt+clickamp;drag will still work even when the window decorator has crashed. I think the confusion comes from the fact that Kwin and Metacity have their decorators built in. Xmonad doesn't decorate windows at all. Compiz is a bit more modular in this regard. It has always been able to use Metacity's themes for the window borders. The window decorator in use when doing this is gtk-window-decorator. It can also use Kwin's themes, in which case you're using kde-window-decorator./p pAnd then there's Emerald. Emerald was the window decorator for Beryl. Beryl merged back with Compiz a bit over a year ago. I remember Quinnstorm telling me she hopes eventually to totally rewrite emerald, but that hasn't happened. Well, earlier this year, after noticing some glitches with my friend's Nvidia card and Emerald, I asked in #compiz-fusion and they said to stop using Emerald because it's not really being developed anymore and they'd rather everyone just switch to either gtk-window-decorator or kde-window-decorator. They did say that they were considering writing a replacement for Emerald, but that hasn't happened either. acronym title=Masters of the UniverseMOTU/acronym tried removing Emerald, I'm guessing due to its issues, but apparently a lot of people complained because they'd rather have a window decorator that crashes 3 times a day./p pAnd now the last bit about themes. I said before that Compiz can use Kwin and Metacity's themes just fine thanks to kde-window-decorator and gtk-window-decorator. Some people are confused about what exactly comprises a Metacity theme versus a GTK theme, especially since they are installed in the same place. A GTK theme controls how buttons look, the colors of text, the window background, the scrollbars, and the menubar styles. The Metacity theme just controls the window border's style. For KDE, the Qt theme does the buttons, scrollbars, etc., and Kwin has its own themes for window borders, I think./pdiv class=blogger-post-footerFrom http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com p--br / #288971 (openoffice.org), #215663 (gcalctool), #289242 (cheese), #124663 (vpnc), #269294 (linux) br / Do 5 a day - every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day/p/div

Blog of Helios: "Welcome to the first annual HeliOS Project Christmas Raffle. We have found that people are most inclined to support an effort when we do things like this. What a great way to support a project that both aids the Linux Community and the greater community as a whole."

 

 Wind jet

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Next summer, you and all your so-called friends from Facebook and MySpace will be able to finally meet in a giant arena, where you ill be able to play dating games, compete against each other in Guitar Hero or Lacrosse, listen to live bands, or check out the modeling contest. The event will be called ArenaFest, and will eventually be held at 50 major sports arenas around the country. Next summer, it will start with 10 arenas in places like Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, Phoenix, and Anaheim.

ArenaFest will have several draws, including live sports, live music, and live contests. John Ossenmacher, CEO of ArenaWorks Entertainment, which operates ArenaFest, calls it ” our version of live social networking.” People who go will be able to interact with their friends on Facebook and MySpace. And their friends on those social networks will be able to interact with what’s going on inside the arena.

The sport at the event will be lacrosse, which is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S. “We are basically building a brand new sports league targeted at this 16-to-24 year old demographic,” says Ossenmacher. But that’s not all.

Live bands, both signed and unsigned acts, will play onstage. For the unsigned bands, ArenaWorks is partnering with SellaBand, the site where music fans can fund unsigned bands. Since its launch in 2006, SellaBand has raised $3 million for musicians to record nearly 30 albums. Now bands on the site will have a chance to tour as well. They will be able to sign up to apply for the ArenaFest slots. If they gather 200 fans, $10,000 towards an album, or the most weekly votes, they get to proceed to Round 2 and play a local venue. The best of those will then be screened by a professional jury, which will determine who will play at ArenaFest.

At ArenaFest, the audience will be encouraged to participate themselves through a variety of contest stations, including a Lacrosse Challenge, Guitar Hero, Next Top Model (to lure the ladies), Dodgeball, and Break Dancing (yes, break dancing). There will also be some sort of dating game.

All of this will cost just $27.50 per ticket, and the whole thing will be repeated weekly throughout the summer at the same venues to encourage the high school and college crowd to keep coming back. “We are changing the whole philosophy of how the arena system works,” says Ossenmacher. Fill up the cheap seats in between games.

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