Apple gets $1 Billion over a patent war with Samsung

HotStuff:

The late Steve Jobs once said... "Android is a stolen product"

A tweet from Samsung today... "Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer"

The lawsuit against Samsung is an implied war with Google - the maker of Android operating system for smartphones. (ice cream drool)

Read the full article from NYTIMES



What Now?

Benefits, benefits, benefits. For those who have a foresight, it means that Android developers, engineers of the iOS rivals would get more in to action of being creative, innovative and inventive - which in turn would realize the infinite possibilities of realizing those seemingly impossible to-do gadgetry for the future of smartphones.

My other two cents, imitation is the best form of flattery. Way to go Apple!


MAC
August 25, 2012

Microsoft's New Logo

For First Time in 25 Years, Microsoft Updates Logo

(photo from New York Times)

6 Commonly Confused Words

(August 18,  2012)

I was skimming wall posts of friends in Facebook last night and i came across with this comment on a picture with a gorgeous Victorian house background, it said "Where there that?"

I can't help but smile and laugh - the comment wants to convey "Saan yan?" in Tagalog. True to my senses, the comment was imprinted in my mind and it inspired me to write this post - 10 commonly confused words 6 Commonly Confused Words. Then it dawned on me that i too, sometimes fall in epic wrong choice of words. 

I certainly wanted to improve, and it served me right when my mentor provided feedback that i tend to utilize hifalutin adjectives and phrases that poses confusion and misnomers to ideas i wanted to convey.

The list is based on my observation and reading experiences from emails, to published and unpublished articles, not excluding text messages and other forms of communications in our daily lives. 

Check it out and learn..

1. Affect or Effect
There's a still fine line between these two especially when "effect" is used as a verb.
Effect as a verb means to bring about or to accomplish; while affect means to influence.

"It affects me to share my personal trauma to strangers, because, it effects to remember the wounds in the past"

2. Allude or Elude
Elude is to escape
Allude is to make indirect reference

"The gentleman eludes his ex because escaping her alludes to freedom"



3. Can or May
Can is for ability
May refers to permission




4. Farther or Further
Farther must always be used when talking about distances.
Further is most suitable for quantities of time.
"We ran farther down the sloping hills"
"I discussed the topic further with utmost deliverance"


5. Good or Well
When talking about attitude, use "good".  I feel good today.
When referring to health conditions or performance, it's proper to say 'I am feeling well now" or "She performed well on the stage"



6. Irregardless or Regardless
There's no such thing as irregardless.



Writing and speaking clearly can surely deliver results. You'd get your "bottom line" delivered without the consequence of frustration, ambiguity and inconvenience.

.. and most of all, it eliminates the mockery and inside funny moments from the reader or receiver of your thoughts.





MAC
August 18, 2012
353pm

Discernment

Searing madness of discernment

Accountable thoughts of forethought lamentations 
of the uncertainties

in this world

Its precariousness

Its fleeting happiness

Where the possibility of fulfillment

Seems to disappear

In a surge of a snap

Allowing a momentous

Flooding of loneliness

Erasing past inspirations

Enveloping darkness

Going down

Spiraling low

Tossing deeper

Into a deluge

Of pure sorrow.

Refining the senses

Numbing

The coldness

Of the journey's

Last cry.

Silence

Tickin of the clock

The dampness

Of the air

Reverberating

Bringing images

Of solitariness

Of desolation

Bursting

The heart

To a silent

Crumbled

Infliction

Of anguish

Of torment

Resting no more

To the tune

Of old melodies

Resonating

Once again

The gloried

Soliloquy

These,

Unspoken reflections

Things left unsaid

In spoken words

Where ink

Shall be the witness

And the bearer

Of truth

The sponge

To set the flow

Of emotions

Be buried

Once and again

In a thousand train of thoughts

Flashing,

Moving in a tow

Of suddenness

MAC

August 14, 2012

416pm

Habagat 2012

Torrential rains…

Poured down unrelenting

Grounds, soaked

Waters shimmering

The  skies turned gray

Darkness enveloped the plains

Raging… raging

Pelting rain from the heavens

Further, deep down

In to blissful wetness

As the winds, ravaging faces

Bringing utmost chill

To everyone's countenance

Thou! no tempests coming

But Lo! These rains so fierce

Making my fellowmen

Worried and alert

Drainage clogged

Wastes under duress

Jumbling the raw flesh

And the unwanted pests

Mixing, creating gross

Inevitable mess

Rain swarmed nonstop

Water level getting high

It was only ankle deep

But Lo! Now it became steep

Pools of water unceasing

Now the Flood is coming

Children began to wail

Adults began to panic

The water is rising

The current is furious

Raging, tearing

Each way it touches

Engulfing each area

That is devoid of volume

Lashing as if a dragon on fire

Submerging things…

Burying lives...

Strangling the light of hope

Into a lesser piece

Until it flickers no more

Flash floods...

The metro is a waterworld

Nearby towns

Stricken in terror

In pain and hunger

Where people climbed to their roofs

To seek shelter

From the open skies

And yet it gave no compassion

For the rains become uncontrolled

Bringing forth anguish

And of adrenaline rush

To survive

To cling on

To the unseen forces

Brought by nature's wrath

This untamed…

Habagat…

MAC

(This was made amidst the pouring rain last August 7, 2012 - an unprecedented flash flood strike Metro Manila and nearby towns, sending chaos and testing once again the unity and perseverance of the typical Pinoy)