iJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol. 42, No. 2. (2009), 023001./ibr /br /Using the square-root map p - [?]p a probability density function p can be represented as a point of the unit sphere cal S in the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions. If the density function depends smoothly on a set of parameters, the image of the map forms a Riemannian submanifold mathfrak M ⊂ cal S . The metric on mathfrak M induced by the ambient spherical geometry of cal S is the Fisher information matrix. Statistical properties of the system modelled by a parametric density function p can then be expressed in terms of information geometry. An elementary introduction to information geometry is presented, followed by a precise geometric characterization of the family of Gaussian density functions. When the parametric density function describes the equilibrium state of a physical system, certain physical characteristics can be identified with geometric features of the associated information manifold mathfrak M . Applying this idea, the properties of vapour-liquid phase transitions are elucidated in geometrical terms. For an ideal gas, phase transitions are absent and the geometry of mathfrak M is flat. In this case, the solutions to the geodesic equations yield the adiabatic equations of state. For a van der Waals gas, the associated geometry of mathfrak M is highly nontrivial. The scalar curvature of mathfrak M diverges along the spinodal boundary which envelopes the unphysical region in the phase diagram. The curvature is thus closely related to the stability of the system.br /iDorje Brody, Daniel Hook/i

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/surge-logo-really-small.jpg" alt="" /Namco Bandai has announced the formation of "Surge," a new studio and publishing label aimed at "providing cutting-edge, genre-defining games that are targeted at satiating the appetite of western gamers." Much like Square Enix's a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/the-last-remnant"recent English-centric efforts/a, Namco hopes to tap into a wider market with several in-development IPs, the first of which are slated to arrive in 2009.br /br /Andrew Lelchuk, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Namco Bandai Games America, dubs Surge a "creative force," one that promises to deliver "compelling content for the discriminating player who is looking for games that are not only groundbreaking but also push the envelope." Surge's first game that is not only groundbreaking but also pushes the envelope? a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/afro-samurai"emAfro Samurai/em/a, due on January 27th, 2009.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/namco-bandai-forms-surge-label-targets-western-gamers/"Namco Bandai forms 'Surge' label, targets Western gamers/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/namco-bandai-forms-surge-label-targets-western-gamers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391668/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/namco-bandai-forms-surge-label-targets-western-gamers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4U6GyMZlPVBBJ2P4--mV0fgxmjw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4U6GyMZlPVBBJ2P4--mV0fgxmjw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Bcm5k4UH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Bcm5k4UH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=ep7E1fvC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=ep7E1fvC" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/5WJMa81ArcA" height="1" width="1"/

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a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai_qjgenth.jpg?917093" rel="lightbox[article127032]" title="Afro 20Samurai 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai.jpg 3F917093 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Afro Samurai - Image 1" title="Afro Samurai - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai_qjgenth.jpg?917093" align="right" border="0"/aWe've got a new studio and publishing label in town, thanks to a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/namco-bandai/2431" id="tag" title="Japanese holding company for Namco and Bandai"Namco Bandai/a. Introduced today via press wire is the new label a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/surge/15837" id="tag" title="Namco Bandai's studio and publishing label"Surge/a, said to be "dedicated to providing cutting-edge games that are targeted at satiating the appetite of western gamers."brbrAndrew Lelchuk, Namco Bandai Games America's executive vice president for sales and marketing said,brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Surge presents a significant milestone for Namco Bandai as it personifies our commitment to deliver compelling content for the discriminating player who is looking for games that are not only groundbreaking but also push the envelope. Through passion and innovation, Surge will complement our portfolio of established franchises and intellectual property while positioning the company as a creative force./pbrIPs are now being developed for the next year to be published under the new label. The first to launch under Surge is span style="font-style: italic;"Afro Samurai /spanspan span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(span id="iTxt"a title="Afro Samurai for the PlayStation 3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Afro-Samurai/cid/4964"PlayStation 3/a, a title="Afro Samurai for the Xbox 360" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Afro-Samurai/cid/4965"Xbox 360/a/span)/span/span/span/span, scheduled to release on January 27, 2009.brbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=cPo6NkW7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=kUqNoNRr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=qHs5Wi2I"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/kWmVFabpLco" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai_qjgenth.jpg?917093" rel="lightbox[article127032]" title="Afro 20Samurai 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai.jpg 3F917093 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Afro Samurai - Image 1" title="Afro Samurai - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai_qjgenth.jpg?917093" align="right" border="0"/aWe've got a new studio and publishing label in town, thanks to a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/namco-bandai/2431" id="tag" title="Japanese holding company for Namco and Bandai"Namco Bandai/a. Introduced today via press wire is the new label a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/surge/15837" id="tag" title="Namco Bandai's studio and publishing label"Surge/a, said to be "dedicated to providing cutting-edge games that are targeted at satiating the appetite of western gamers."brbrAndrew Lelchuk, Namco Bandai Games America's executive vice president for sales and marketing said,brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Surge presents a significant milestone for Namco Bandai as it personifies our commitment to deliver compelling content for the discriminating player who is looking for games that are not only groundbreaking but also push the envelope. Through passion and innovation, Surge will complement our portfolio of established franchises and intellectual property while positioning the company as a creative force./pbrIPs are now being developed for the next year to be published under the new label. The first to launch under Surge is span style="font-style: italic;"Afro Samurai /spanspan span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(span id="iTxt"a title="Afro Samurai for the PlayStation 3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Afro-Samurai/cid/4964"PlayStation 3/a, a title="Afro Samurai for the Xbox 360" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Afro-Samurai/cid/4965"Xbox 360/a/span)/span/span/span/span, scheduled to release on January 27, 2009.brbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=sAzbM0ue"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=Eyj8XUim"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=NqrLsmfA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/jfaOSPFInHk" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai_qjgenth.jpg?917093" rel="lightbox[article127032]" title="Afro 20Samurai 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai.jpg 3F917093 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Afro Samurai - Image 1" title="Afro Samurai - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127032/Afro 20samurai_qjgenth.jpg?917093" align="right" border="0"/aWe've got a new studio and publishing label in town, thanks to a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/namco-bandai/2431" id="tag" title="Japanese holding company for Namco and Bandai"Namco Bandai/a. Introduced today via press wire is the new label a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/surge/15837" id="tag" title="Namco Bandai's studio and publishing label"Surge/a, said to be "dedicated to providing cutting-edge games that are targeted at satiating the appetite of western gamers."brbrAndrew Lelchuk, Namco Bandai Games America's executive vice president for sales and marketing said,brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Surge presents a significant milestone for Namco Bandai as it personifies our commitment to deliver compelling content for the discriminating player who is looking for games that are not only groundbreaking but also push the envelope. Through passion and innovation, Surge will complement our portfolio of established franchises and intellectual property while positioning the company as a creative force./pbrIPs are now being developed for the next year to be published under the new label. The first to launch under Surge is span style="font-style: italic;"Afro Samurai /spanspan span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(span id="iTxt"a title="Afro Samurai for the PlayStation 3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Afro-Samurai/cid/4964"PlayStation 3/a, a title="Afro Samurai for the Xbox 360" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Afro-Samurai/cid/4965"Xbox 360/a/span)/span/span/span/span, scheduled to release on January 27, 2009.brbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/4QRV6T7yUJc" height="1" width="1"/

Gateboy 1.2.2

Gateboy is an advanced gate sequencer which allows you to modulate the audio level in many interesting ways. It features a unique pattern composer with variable rate, length and smoothness. Each of the pattern's steps, which has level and bypass controls, triggers a flexible envelope generator with adjustable shape and time.

Thanks to such immense configurability, Gateboy is capable of a very wide variety of effects - from complex trancegates and intricate rhythmic sequences to expressive beat slicing and beyond. It is available as a universal binary audio unit plug-in for Mac OS X.

Features:

• Pattern composer with up to 16 steps.
• Variable pattern length and rate.
• Step bypass switches.
• Multiple envelope generator shapes.
• Variable modulation smoothness and depth.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.2.2:

• Improved smoothing algorithm for the sequencer pattern.
• Minor user interface enhancements.
• New factory presets.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later, Audio Unit host application with Cocoa interface support
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Review of Macbook Pro 2008 Skin from BestSkinsEver

After much anticipation I receieved my new Macbook Pro aluminum body a few weeks ago and it was missing something very crucial, a protective covering. Of course no one wants to disturb the precious looks of their new elegant Macbook Pro, the only way to preserve the original look of the laptop is by a skin. There are currently two highly praised companies that provide skins for many electronics from cell phones ipods and to laptops. Bestskinsever www.bestskinsever.com $27.99 and Invisible Shield www.zagg.com $54.99. I currently have the BSE version installed on my Macbook Pro and find it great. Let me start off with explaining what comes in the kit.

What is Included in the kit:
I should use the term Kit useless because it comes in a large envelope with 3 sheets each having different parts of the total body skin attached. There is one single piece for the top part of the laptop, a cover for the battery compartment, a small piece for the latch for the battery cover, another peice for the remaining underbody, two seperate pieces for the wrist guard near the trackpad and one for the trackpad as well (I did not use the track pad and will explain later). In adition there are 2 peices that run along the front two sides of the laptop before it hits the express card slot on one side and secruity lock latch on the other side. There is one strip covering the portion of the back side of the laptop which is attached to the main lid and two small strips covering on the rear edges of the laptop. Basically this kit has you covered on every level for protecting your new $2000 investment. The great thing about the kit is that it does not cover up any screws which is noted on the bottom side of the laptop. also there is a space for the button for battery life so that is not coverd up.

Installing:
First thing first, with the BSE skin, you need to mix your own solution, it is not that hard at all just get 1/3 teaspoon for every 10 oucnes water. You don't really need to measure this stuff but a keen eye will be suffice with measuring. If its really helpful to use a spray bottle to put the solution in so that you can spray the skin evenly and place it on the appropriate spot.
Installing of this skin did take some time, approx. 45 minutes if you want to be precise and take your time with every detail. You will need the help of another person when lifting off the large skins such as the top lid so one person can spray the solution onto the skin and the other person can lift it off. It is crucial you do not let the skin adhere to itself. Be easy with the solution, it is there to make placing the skin on easy so you can move it around. Once it dries is when the skin actually sticks.

Bottom:
Install the bottom first, this was not so bad, a few simple attempts and it was easily alligned correctly. The battery compartment was also an easy install but make sure you do not overlap the two skins because the they will sit flush and need to be on their own piece especially when the battery top is taken off. the small covering for the battery latch was a simple 30 second job. I let this dry and then fliped it over to start on the top layer.

Top Layer:
The top layer was the most difficult and you would think it would be easy because it is just one big peice. I put the skin on and attempt after attempt I would fail because one corner would not be aligned exactly and would have to try again. A side note: When I finished the install of the entire laptop, the next morning was a huge air bubble on the top part of the notebook and had to be fixed. Fixing it was pretty hard because it was already dry and set so lifting the skin off was a task. I was lucky that the bubble was near a corner, if it were in the middle it would probably be nightmare. Therefore take your time and make sure there are no air bubles at all when you are finished.

Wrist pad:
The wrist pad skin is probably the most useful part and the easiest installation. It took one minute to install both sides perfectly with no air bubbles. I did not install the trackpad mainly because the feel of the skin on a trackpad was too abrasive. Being a new Aluminum body Macbook Pro owner, we are lucky to have the glass trackpad with smooth motions. Therefore, I see no point in destroying that feature with a skin.

The sides:
Installing the sides was pretty straight forward. There was nothing more to it than just figuring out where the items go which at first took a few minutes. It would have been nice for BSE to include a small diagram perhaps but again it is not rocket science and just simple common sense will tell you where it all goes.

At the end of the install, the edges were kind of comming up so I had to palm them with my hand but after that it stayed on fine.
A few days later the skin looked perfect and added a nice shine to the laptop. There is one thing to be said. I put my laptop in a Targus Neoprene case and sometimes on the bottom where I did not install the skin as perfectly as I hoped, there are some cloth fibers sticking to the edges but very minimal.

As far as the quality of BSE skin, it is great and probably the best for the money and quality alike. Honestly for $28 vs the $55 at Zagg, it is a no brainer. Yes the Zagg comes in a pretty box and comes with a squeegee and solution but honestly, I do not need to pay that extra 27 dollars for that stuff. BSE is quick and to the point with their kit. Anybody is able to mix water and soap and use a credit card as the squeegee so again no point and dishing out the extra cash for the Zagg.

All in all a great product and a must for people who want to protect their new laptop and not destroy the look.

With nearly every company (seriously, basically all of them) rolling out a tiny projector, it's getting pretty hard to stand out from the crowd -- and Adtec's two new MP15A Series projectors don't look like they're going to push the envelope in any way. Specwise, they're going to be nearly identical to the rest of the bunch, with 15 ANSI lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio, and VGA 640 x 480 resolution, and they'll boast an LED lamp with about a 20,000 hour life. The two models -- the 15AW is white, 15AB is black -- will be available in December and January, respectively, but only in Japan. No word on a possible release in other, pico-starved areas of the globe yet.

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div align="center"a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adtec.co.jp%2Fpressrelease%2F2008%2F081203%2Findex.htmlamp;hl=enamp;ie=UTF-8amp;sl=jaamp;tl=en"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ad-mp15aw_a1-1.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"With a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/aiptek-pocket-cinema-v10-available-for-pre-order-on-amazon/"nearly every company/a (a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/acers-k10-pocket-projector-announced-projected-for-january/"seriously/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/kairens-projector-x-pro920m-is-small-but-not-impressively-so/"basically all of them/a) rolling out a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/24/optoma-dlc-pico-projector-coming-soon-to-us/"tiny projector/a, it's getting pretty hard to stand out from the crowd -- and Adtec's two new MP15A Series projectors don't look like they're going to push the envelope in any way. Specwise, they're going to be nearly identical to the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/dells-m109s-pocket-projector-gets-itself-a-ho-hum-review/"rest of the bunch/a, with 15 ANSI lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio, and VGA 640 x 480 resolution, and they'll boast an LED lamp with about a 20,000 hour life. The two models -- the 15AW is white, 15AB is black -- will be available in December and January, respectively, but only in Japan. No word on a possible release in other, pico-starved areas of the globe yet. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.aboutprojectors.com/news/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-ad-mp15aw-and-ad-mp15ab-projectors/"About Projectors/a]span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)" style=""span class="s3m"strong/strong/span/span/div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"Displays/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-two-adorable-tiny-projectors/"Adtec announces two adorable, tiny projectors/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:46:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adtec.co.jp%2Fpressrelease%2F2008%2F081203%2Findex.htmlamp;hl=enamp;ie=UTF-8amp;sl=jaamp;tl=enRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-two-adorable-tiny-projectors/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390106/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-two-adorable-tiny-projectors/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/QxWkETuZ6-5-F7fUNbpiRgSCOkE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/QxWkETuZ6-5-F7fUNbpiRgSCOkE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Une4z0NK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Une4z0NK" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=H1eWHvwM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=H1eWHvwM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/qTehW7DQWFM" height="1" width="1"/