Google Nexus 7 Review

Where do I start? Another tablet. I got the call from Gamestop yesterday that my tablet was waiting to be picked up. I did my homework on this one. Did I really need another tablet? Well I guess I did. After having this thing in hand for a whole day here are my initial impressions and overview.

Hardware: Let us start with this thing was designed by none other than ASUS! They make some of the best Tablets on the market. The hardware is superb; it is a paltry 12 ounces. It has an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. 7" display. A powerful quad core processor. Up to 9 hours of HD video viewing. 10 hours of web browsing. 1280-by-800 high resolution display protected by Corning scratch resistant glass. Over 1 million pixels.  Very light in the hand. As light as holding a magazine. It is lighter than the Kindle Fire (which is it's direct competition). There is no rear facing camera, but there is a front facing camera for video chat. Reading books on this thing is awesome. From using the Kindle Book Store App to Google Play magazines to Comic Books the screen just pops! The colors are just right and truly lifelike.

Software: The Nexus 7 is the first tablet to take advantage of the 4.1 update called Jellybean. The major change from the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is something called Project Butter. Project Butter fixes one of Android's biggest problems: it doesn't track your finger that well. Does it work? Yes it does. It also adds Google Now. Think Siri but better. You can now set alarms. Check and track airplane flights. Public transit schedules. Game scores. It really works. Just hold down the home button to get into that one.

Price: There is an 8 gig model for $199 and a 16 gig model for $249. Gamestop is only carrying the 16 gig model. It must be a hit. The first shipment sold out in one day everywhere.

The Verdict: For the price you are getting a whole lot of bang for your buck. Books: No problem. Games: Bring em. Movies: 1080p HD. Music: Sounds great. Battery: 4,325mAh. If you can afford it, get one. Better yet order two from the Google Play Store. The Gamestop version comes with the Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon movie plus $25 to be used in the Google Play Store. Highly recommended.

Tyler Perry says he was pulled over, “badgered” by cops 12:20 pm April 2, 2012,

Tyler Perry said in a message posted Sunday on his blog that he recently was pulled over by police officers, one of whom banged on his window and “badgered” him.

He did not specify which metro area police force was involved, but said he was pulled over on the way to the Atlanta airport.

After making a left turn from the right lane, Perry wrote, a police car pulled him over and an officer stated he had made an illegal turn.

“I signaled to get into the turning lane, then made the turn because I have to be sure I’m not being followed,” Perry said he told the officer. He wrote that he usually is escorted by his own private security forces in an unmarked car, and if not he constantly scans the rearview mirror to ensure he is not being followed. He said the officer asked why Perry might fear he was being followed.

“Before I could answer him, I heard a hard banging coming from the passenger window,” Perry wrote. He said the officer told him his window were tinted and then said, “put your foot on the brake, put your foot on the brake!” Perry said he was confused but heeded advice his mother once gave him regarding interactions with police.

“My mother was born in 1945 into a segregated hotbed town in rural Louisiana,” Perry wrote. “She had known of many colored men at the time who were lynched and never heard from again. Since I was her only son for 10 years, growing up she was so worried about me. It wasn’t until after I heard her voice that I realized that both of these officers were white.”

After one of the officers “continued to badger” him, Perry said, he told them, “I think you guys need to just write the ticket and do whatever you need to do.”

Perry said the officer told him, “We may not let you go. You think you’re being followed, what’s wrong with you?”

However, before the situation progressed, another officer approached, Perry wrote.

“This officer was a black guy. He took one look at me and had that ‘Oh No’ look on his face. He immediately took both officers to the back of my car and spoke to them in a hushed tone. After that, one of the officers stayed near his car while one came back, very apologetic.”

Perry concluded his remarks with a call for action: “RACIAL PROFILING SHOULD BE A HATE CRIME INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI!!!”

Here is a link for more on the matter.
http://www.tylerperry.com/messages/

Court Expert Proves That Voice Heard Yelling Help On Call Was Not George Zimmerman

As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters into a debate about self-defense, a central question remains: Who was heard crying for help on a 911 call in the moments before the teen was shot? A leading expert in the field of forensic voice identification sought to answer that question by analyzing the recordings for the Orlando Sentinel.

His result: It was not George Zimmerman who called for help.

Tom Owen, forensic consultant for Owen Forensic Services LLC and chair emeritus for the American Board of Recorded Evidence, used voice identification software to rule out Zimmerman. Another expert contacted by the Sentinel, utilizing different techniques, came to the same conclusion. Zimmerman claims self-defense in the shooting and told police he was the one screaming for help. But these experts say the evidence tells a different story. Owen, a court-qualified expert witness and former chief engineer for the New York Public Library’s Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, is an authority on biometric voice analysis — a computerized process comparing attributes of voices to determine whether they match.

After the Sentinel contacted Owen, he used software called Easy Voice Biometrics to compare Zimmerman’s voice to the 911 call screams. “I took all of the screams and put those together, and cut out everything else,” Owen says. The software compared that audio to Zimmerman’s voice. It returned a 48 percent match. Owen said to reach a positive match with audio of this quality, he’d expect higher than 90 percent.

“As a result of that, you can say with reasonable scientific certainty that it’s not Zimmerman,” Owen says, stressing that he cannot confirm the voice as Trayvon’s, because he didn’t have a sample of the teen’s voice to compare. Forensic voice identification is not a new or novel concept; in fact, a recent U.S. Department of Justice committee report notes that federal interest in the technology “has a history of nearly 70 years.”

Posted by Bossip Staff on April 1, 2012.

Crazy World: 5th-graders rat poison teacher A student's sudden change of heart saved the instructor's life

Fifth-graders try to use rat poison on teacher

US: Three fifth-graders, two boys and a girl, confessed to using rat poison in attempts to harm a teacher.

The elementary school students laced the teacher's coffe and a muffin with the rat poison during two separate incidents, according to New York Daily News.

Fortunately for the teacher, she did not drink the coffee or eat the mufffin.

One of the students involved in the poisoning had a change of heart and he knocked the coffee mug over before the teacher could take a sip.

The three students have been expelled and moved to another school after the poisoning attempts came to light.

Woman climbs out of coffin 6 days later

CHINA: A 95-year-old woman in China terrified her neighbors when she climbed out of the coffin six days after she had supposedly passed away.

More than a fortnight before her 'death', the elderly woman had taken a fall and injured her head. One day, she was found not breathing or moving by one of her neighbours. The neighbor assumed the old woman had passed away even though her body had not turned cold, reports UK daily Mirror.

Since the woman used to stay on her own, her neighbor arranged for her funeral and even got a coffin so others in the neighbourhood could pay their respects. The woman was transferred to her coffin two days after her neighbor discovered her.

The neighbor did not nail the coffin as he had decided to do it just before the funeral.

He went to check on the coffin two days before the funeral only to get the shock of his life. The dead body had disappeared from the coffin. When the neighbors got together to look for the body, they found the 'dead woman' sitting on a stool in her kitchen and cooking food.

She told her neighbors that she had just woken up from a long sleep and was famished and hence she was cooking some food for herself.

Smartphones are better than sex and chocolate: survey

BRITAIN: Smartphones are indeed dearer to Brits than sex and chocolate.

About 63 per cent of British population are ready to give up chocolate and 33 per cent would gladly give up sex, rather than give up their favourite gadget, reveals The Sun. The numbers were revealed by Vodafone's Vittorio Colao ay a press conference recently.

Girl, 18 commits suicide over severe acne issues

BRITAIN: An exceptional student who attended a grammar school in Britain recently committed suicide. The 18-year-old was suffering from depression after developing severe acne on her face and upper body.

The girl started suffering from the problem when she turned 14. She was prescribed medication for her condition but the same pills have been responsible for a number of cases of depression and suicide, reports Daily Mail.

This was not her first attempt at suicide. She had tried ending her life in August 2009 the day before her AS-level results were due.

She was kept under observation by mental health services but she took the drastic step again and this time she succeeded. The court was told that those who were supposed to look after her, let her down.

Her body was found in April 2010, seven months after her last appointment with a psychiatrist. Her sessions were discontinued because the health expert went on leave and no one else was ready to take her case.

The brilliant student could have been saved if she was was given better care, a psychiatrist told the court.