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Android 3.0 Gingerbread details: 1280×760 resolution, 1Ghz minimum specs, mid-Oct. release
Yikes. The Nexus One will be one of the slow phones (if it even gets this OS).
Sources tell Tom Pelissero of ESPN Twin Cities that the Twins are considering making “a serious run” at acquiring left-hander Cliff Lee from the Mariners.
Nice.
We need support from the federal government. It’s their job to secure the border and they haven’t done it,” said Babeu. “In fact, President Obama suspended the construction of the fence and it’s just simply outrageous.
It looks like a relatively small band of criminals can easily take land from the US and make it their own. What a circus.
By not understanding it, I mean that I can’t say I ever read a word the woman wrote. Did she write anything meaningful or memorable? Or did she just file daily boilerplate for the wire? I looked it up. She wrote a few books, but I have never seen one in a newsroom. You would think if someone was called the “dean” of the White House press corps, a news junkie would have at least stumbled across her stuff accidentally.
As he often does, Joe Soucheray takes my opinion (of which I hadn’t devoted more than 3 seconds of thought to) and turns it into a masterpiece column.
I know who she was only because of what she looked like, not because I remember anything she ever wrote.
Most Augusts my dad and I (and other people from year to year) travel to the ISC Mens World Fastpitch Tournament. This year it will be happening in Midland, Michigan. Last summer I had noticed that the PGA Championship was going to be held at Whistling Straits, in Kohler, Wisconsin (almost perfectly on the way), on the Friday before the softball tournament. For Father’s Day, I bought tickets for my dad and I to go on Friday, before we head the rest of the way to Michigan. The only golf tournament I’ve attended is the senior event that happens in a suburb of Minneapolis, and I thought it would be a great experience to see, not only a PGA Tour event, but a round of a major tournament. A couple of weeks ago, the experience took an even greater turn. By winning the Senior PGA Championship, my favorite golfer of all-time, Tom Lehman, has qualified for the regular PGA Tournament. Needless to say, my dad and I know who we will be following for at least a few holes that day.
It was also great to find out last night that he continued his great golf of 2010 and has also qualified for the United States Open. Some fun golf is ahead, and God is good!
Ron MacLean, the veteran host of CBC’s “Hockey Night in Canada,” helped save a man’s life Thursday around 1:30 p.m. ET, assisting in his rescue from the Delaware River.
There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not Major League Baseball should have reviewed the call that kept Armando Gallarraga from perfection last week. There are basically two camps on this — one that sees baseball in its purest form, with flaws of the umpires as a part of that pure game, and another that sees the game in its purest form when the calls are most accurate and when officiating has the least amount of influence on any particular outcome (be it a victory or a personal feat). I don’t really know what my preference is on this. I’m bummed that a guy didn’t get a perfect game that he seemingly deserved (I didn’t see the other 8 innings to see if any other calls were close and went his way), but my form of baseball purism is that a win is a win.
Most importantly, though, neither side is morally superior. That is, I don’t think there is a moral absolute in play here. The fact of the matter is that baseball used to simply have to put up with the flaws of the umpires. That was 1910. In 2010 we can put together all the different technological advances and more or less prove that the call was a mistake, and we can give witness to anyone who might have doubted it with the naked eye. (Note: I’m sure there are a few people out there who will still say he was safe, in the same way they can look at an ultrasound and say the unborn child is something less than that.) Because instant replay is in its infancy with baseball, and only used in the most rare of occurrences, the baseball “purist” might state that we can’t use instant replay for that. If tomorrow we adopt a measure that integrates instant replay more like football (which I am not advocating for — just making an example), 10 years from now we will all think it was crazy this call wasn’t reversed. It’s a matter of perspective, not moral superiority.
All the baseball “experts” in the world won’t convince me this is an issue dealing with absolutes. If it was, we would either have outrage on every bad call that was ever made, or we would never have the right to complain about a single bad call (depending on which of the two aforementioned camps you are in).
Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden has been hospitalized and is in grave condition, according to multiple media reports on Thursday.
Brown was awarded a Purple Heart for being injured in combat. He met the highest-ranking Marine, Commandant James T. Conway. Six players from the New York Yankees stopped in his hospital room, as did country start Clint Black, Sen. John McCain and members of the New York Police Department. All brought him gifts.
“All these guys – all of them – seemed so thankful for our service. It’s very touching,” Brown said.
So awesome. We are thankful.
AT&T views its move in part as a trial of how consumers react to price signals. Instead of being able to pay $30 a month for unlimited data use, new AT&T customers will be given the option of paying $15 a month for up to 200 megabytes or $25 for 2 gigabytes, with added charges if they exceed those ceilings. AT&T says 98% of its smartphone customers consume less than 2 gigabytes a month.
It all makes sense — they signed on with a cheap iPad plan to keep exclusive rights of the iPhone in order to test out this price gouging scheme.
I’d reach to price signals by switching to an Android on T-Mobile or Verizon. It’s already cheaper than an iPhone and there isn’t a hard cap on data. Whichever of the two wants to keep our business will keep giving us unlimited data. On top of that, FroYo (Android 2.2) is better than the iPhone now.
It’s going to be interesting to see how much damage Apple did to themselves by signing an extension with AT&T.
