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Dan Neil of the WSJ got the opportunity of a lifetime: test drive a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse—how’s that for a name? Check out the experience.
I’ve been around a few supersports cars and have driven over 200 mph three or four times. But those were breathless, grit-your-teeth experiments that lasted only a second or two. Road cars start to get real antsy at such speeds (the higher ground clearance means more under-car aero lift). You have an incident at those speeds and they come pick you up with tweezers.
This—going over 200 mph for more than a minute, safely, calmly and without fear of prosecution, or tire delamination, or even the discomfort of a chilly bum, just tooting along in Heaven’s Left Lane with the top down—now this, I’ve never done. Saliva leaked from the corners of my smile.
Say it with me now: 1,200 horsepower; 1,106 pound-feet of torque; 4,400 pounds; zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds; a top speed of 267 mph. It’s the fastest, most expensive, most powerful series-production road car ever built and, believe me, if the VW guys wanted to turn up the wick, we could see a 300-mph Veyron. That sound was your mind being blown.
But enough with the talk.
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Technology has transformed much of the job application process over the last decade. Slow to catch up is the text based resume. But things are a-changin’ with the rise of QR codes and hyperlinks, applicant-tracking systems (which companies use to search resumes by keyword), and new informal guidelines from recruiters.
Keywords. Keywords may be the “key” to keeping your resume in the “loop” and from being automatically and electronically dumped. And placement of those near the top of your resume are increasingly becoming the norm. According to Sal Loukos, a resume screener at Seven Step RPO, a recruitment process outsourcing firm, an average of 6.25 seconds is spent on each resume. That is the time it takes for the decision to be made if a candidate fits the job description and can move on to the next step in the process.
Experience. Any job hunter would be better off by communicating some of the benefits and advantages that can be brought to the table – as the RESULT of your experience as listed in your resume.
For better results in snagging an interview, READ MORE. Good luck!
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Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us.
Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated.
Why? With digital content, one doesn’t have the same rights as with print books and CDs. Customers own a license to use the digital files—but they don’t actually own them. Apple and Amazon.com grant “nontransferable” rights to use content, so if you buy the complete works of the Beatles on iTunes, you cannot give the White Album to your offspring.
One lawyer’s (David Goldman) idea to do this legally is to help estate planners create a legal trust for their clients’ online accounts that hold music, e-books and movies. Purchase his software, Dap Trust, to store and manage digital accounts and passwords. And, while there are other online safe-deposit boxes like AssetLock and ExecutorSource that already do that, Goldman says his software contains instructions to create a legal trust for accounts. “Having access to digital content and having the legal right to use it are two totally different things,” he says.
Death may seem a long way off to many, but do you want your hard earned purchases to be for naught? The simpler alternative is to just use your loved one’s devices and accounts after they’re gone—as long as you have the right passwords.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-inherits-your-itunes-library-2012-08-23
Google Fiber will provide internet services 100 times faster than is currently available. It will launch late this year, with high-speed internet and TV connections to consumers in Kansas City. Over time, Google Fiber hopes to spur a new wave of technological innovation, from telemedicine to cloud computing, that can capitalize on its network’s ability to stream high-definition videos and transfer large files. Indeed, some believe Google Fiber is so powerful that it will improve education technology and transform how businesses operate.
“There’s been a lot of excitement” here, says Michael Gelphman, founder of Kansas City IT Professionals, a grassroots networking and peer-advisory group. “Google Fiber has gotten the whole city thinking about technology.”
Google declines to comment on the cost of the Kansas City project, which charges households $70 a month not including TV service, but company executives say it expects to make a profit.
Enabling one-gigabit Internet speeds across the country is still a pipe dream. It would take Google a long time to dig the trenches and string the fiber-optic cable so that it can roll out Fiber elsewhere. According to some analysts’ estimates, the cost would eventually be tens of billions of dollars.
Until then, we must wait and watch as the residents of Kansas City enjoy this dream speed internet.
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As you may recall, or even Rekall, the troubled hero of the original “Total Recall,” played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, goes to a brain-bending establishment called Rekall Inc. to buy a virtual vacation, one that’s all in the mind. Now it’s Colin Farrell who goes to the same company, where he’s told, in the same spirit of dangerously genial salesmanship: “We’ll provide you with a complete set of memories all your own.”
For those of us who saw the original, the problem with watching this totally dehumanized remake, which was directed by Len Wiseman, is that we, too, have a set of memories all our own: specific memories of the 1990 movie—which was clever and playful, as well as exciting and hugely impactful—and general memories of a time when going to see an action adventure could be giddy fun.
The basic plot has been retained. (So has the hooker who flashes her three breasts, in case you were wondering.) After something goes horribly wrong during the memory-implant session, the hero, Douglas Quaid, finds himself caught up in an epic battle he doesn’t understand at first, and struggles to figure out who he really is. Unlike the original, which was set in the future both on Earth and on a Mars that’s either real or a dream, the new one takes place entirely on an Earth that’s staggering under the load of overpopulation and really bad weather—”Blade Runner” meets Malthus.
To give the new version its due, the visuals are great, especially if you’re partial to oppressiveness: a Londonesque megalopolis thrust skyward in a jumble of shifting platforms and seemingly infinite tiers; a spectacular—though also interminable—hover-car chase; multilevel leaps, preposterous crash landings, soulless interior spaces that make Hong Kong’s malls seem warm and cozy by comparison. (The production was designed by Patrick Tatopoulos, and photographed by Paul Cameron.)
But alas, this movie wasn’t made for us. The state of the movie business has been transformed by globalization. Foreign sales are now where the main action is. International moviegoers respond more reliably to action, and the bedazzlements of production design, than to character or dialogue, let alone to humor, which translates chancily, if at all, into other languages. In that context, the new “Total Recall” is not only instructive, but possessed of a perverse purity. Almost everything but the action has been distilled out.
Total Recall opens this weekend, the first in August.
For the full review READ HERE.
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In the mobile game “Temple Run,” players make Indiana Jones-like characters run for as long as they can in a junglelike maze while scooping up golden coins as they’re being chased by a band of evil, screaming apes. Miss a turn or run into a tree and, poof, you’re dead. “Hard to run without a head,” says the game.
Imangi Studio is one of the hottest mobile-game makers, and responsible for the popular ‘Temple Run’ game. Spencer Ante discusses his recent visit to Imangi on digits.
Released last summer, this simple-yet-addictive game—made by a company with three employees—became the App Store’s No. 1 free app over Christmas, and its top-grossing app as well. The blockbuster hit is a reminder that in the world of gaming apps, the little guy can compete with giants of the entertainment world.
Sixteen million people play “Temple Run” every day, according to its maker Imangi Studios. That compares with the 21 million people who played one of several mobile games made by top game maker Zynga at least once a day in the first quarter of 2012.
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