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This article is by staff writer William Cowie. If you are serious about your financial future, you’ve got to be serious about investing. Enough has been said about that, so I won’t belabor the point. But here’s a financial maxim that can’t be said enough… Financial success comes from doggedly investing over a long period…
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Investing: Two Ways To Beat Average Returns
Warning: don’t try to watch all these movies in one sitting, but if you must: make some popcorn, turn down the lights and put your business on hold, you’re going to be busy for awhile. Did I forget one of your favorites? Tweet it to me @danec. American Gangster In 1970s America, a detective works […]
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150+ Hours of Great Movies for Entrepreneurs
iOS: We all know that easily changing the brightness of your phone is a big perk for nighttime usage. In iOS 8, you can set your home button to toggle your screen brightness level on your iPhone or iPad.
This is another secret power of iOS’s accessibility options that doesn’t require jailbreak. First, you’ll set the triple tap to put a zoom view in effect. Then you’ll manually change the zoom to normal, and set the low light setting. When you use the triple-tap to make the zoom effect, the low light filter will apply as well, allowing you to toggle the brightness of the device.
Here’s how to do it:
Check out the video above from Snazzy Labs to see how it’s done and follow along.
iPhone Brightness Button Toggle Hack | Snazzy Labs via Phone Arena
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Toggle Your iPhone’s Brightness With a Home Button Triple Tap
Who doesn’t love watching things in slow motion? Larry Vickers went to Ft. Bragg to hang with the Green Berets. Here is a montage of the heavy weapons they had on hand.
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Check out this video from B&H Photo on the new 7D Mark II. In the video, Larry Becker gives a good overview of the camera and its features. You can find more specs and details about the 7D Mark II here at B&H Photo. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay. […]
theodp writes According to Steve Ballmer, Amazon.com is not a real business. "They make no money," Ballmer said on the Charlie Rose Show. "In my world, you’re not a real business until you make some money. I have a hard time with businesses that don’t make money at some point." Ballmer’s comments come as Amazon posted a $437 million loss for the third quarter, disappointing Wall Street. "If you are worth $150 billion," Ballmer added, "eventually somebody thinks you’re going to make $15 billion pre-tax. They make about zero, and there’s a big gap between zero and 15." Fired-up as ever, LA Clippers owner Ballmer’s diss comes after fellow NBA owner Mark Cuban similarly slammed IBM, saying Big Blue is no longer a tech company (Robert X. Cringely seems to concur). "Today, they [IBM] specialize in financial engineering," Cuban told CNBC after IBM posted another disappointing quarter. "They’re no longer a tech company, they are an amalgamation of different companies that they are trying to arb[itrage] on Wall Street, and I’m not a fan of that at all."
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Lady Lake, FL – I’m a lifelong Florida resident, and we have a bear problem here. Some folks find that hard to believe, thinking that Florida is nothing but palm trees, roller coasters, and water slides. But we have a lot of wildlife – far too much of some species, as in the case of[…..]
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House-Breaking Bear Shot by Florida Gun Owner
The B-2 Spirit blew more than a few minds when it made its public debut in 1988. But America’s flying wing was not the first of such aircraft. In fact, one such plane nearly darkened the skies over Washington at the end of WWII with a nuclear present from the Fuhrer.
The head of the German Luftwaffe, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, was a notorious stickler, often demanding exceedingly stringent performance standards from the aircraft under his command. In 1943, he unveiled his most ambitious requirement set to date, quickly dubbed the "1000/1000/1000 rule". It dictated than any future aircraft purchased by the German air force must be capable of hauling a 1000 kg load over a distance of 1000 km at a speed of 1000 km/h. And given the state of jet engine technology at the time, that requirement eliminated just about every aircraft currently in development.
There was one however. A prototype built by brothers Reimar and Walter Horten and based on their dozen years of unpowered glider design and research. And it quickly caught the Reichsmarschall’s eye and purse strings. He paid the brothers a whopping 500,000 reichsmarks ($2.76 million in 2014 USD, adjusted for inflation) for it. It would become the Horten Ho 229, the world’s first flying wing jet. Had it entered the fray, this long range bomber could have done to Washington DC what the Enola Gay did to Hiroshima.
The Ho 229, which is also commonly referred to as the Gotha Go 229 because Gothaer Waggonfabrik actually constructed them, were single seater long range bombers capable of carrying two 1,100 pound (500 kg), nuclear tipped bombs clear across the Atlantic, drop them on DC, then fly back to Germany.
The flying wing design—wherein all vertical control structures (i.e. the tail) are removed to decrease drag—was nothing short of revolutionary and promised the same degree of performance advancement that jet engines provided over turbo-props. The prototype 229 measured 26 feet long with a 55 foot wingspan. Its central cockpit was constructed from welded steel tubing but the wings were made from a pair of plywood panels glued together with a mix of adhesive, sawdust, and charcoal. It’s conical inlet caps were crafted from multiple layers of carbon-impregnated laminate.
These materials were impregnated with charcoal dust as one of the earliest forms stealth. The coal’s carbon content absorbs radar, thereby drastically reducing the plane’s radar cross-section and making it appear much smaller than it really was, about the size of conventional twin engine prop aircraft of the day.
The jet was powered by a pair of 1,900 lbf Junkers Jumo 004B turbojet engines that propelled the aircraft up to and estimated 977 km/h (not quite what Göring wanted but could likely have been achieved in later iterations) with a 60,000 foot service ceiling.
But, as the first of its kind, the Ho 229 was plagued by development issues and the first prototype crashing multiple times. But the Luftwaffe was undeterred, fast tracking the plane’s development and even going so far as to assign it to an active bomber wing. Luckily, the 229’s development came too late to help the German War effort. By the time it entered production in early 1945, the Allies were already marching on Berlin. The Gothaer Waggonfabrik factory, where the planes were being built, fell in April of that year.
Though all but one of the 229 prototypes were destroyed before being completed, Operation Paperclip (which sought to spirit German scientists away to America at the end of the war) ensured that the technology was not lost. Today, the only Nazi jet prototype left on Earth is represented by a static model at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Paul E. Garber Restoration Facility in Maryland while the genuine item undergoes a piecemeal restoration. [Smithsonian – Wiki – Military Factory – Fiddler’s Green – Horten Conservation]
Top image: The Ho 229’s canopy on static display at the Smithsonian, by Eric Long
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The First Flying Wing Jet Could Have Won WWII for the Nazis
It’s only a week before Halloween, and if you or your kids still don’t have their costumes picked out, here’s an idea. Dress up as members of the crew from Star Trek: …
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Star Trek TNG Costume Patterns: Retro Halloween
Sitting is comfy, but hours (and hours and hours) on your rear-end isn’t great for your bod (even though it probably won’t kill you). Standing is good, but tiresome after a while. Hybrid desks can be pricey but Ikea is betting on Bekant, a workspace that raises and lowers on two telescopic legs with a button push.
The concept itself is not new, and other (more pricey) mechanized models—like Stir’s Kinetic Desk—add in all kinds of features for tracking things like calories burned and following movement habits from day-to-day. Bekant goes up and Bekant goes down. So it’s clever, and convenient, but not necessarily "smart" in the way we like to refer to our ultra-modern, tech-enabled products.
But it doesn’t need to be! I’ve piled books on my own traditional desk to achieve the on-my-feet effect, but it looked janky as hell and wasn’t a totally feasible option in the long run. (I prefer the sofa now, and yes, my posture is horrific). And I think we can all look forward to the ingenious modifications made to the frame and system by ambitious IkeaHackers. Who knows what this thing is truly capable of, amirite?
There are a few different configurations, starting at $499. $499 is not inexpensive. But if you were leaning towards a more active nine-to-five experience, this could be the precisely the segue you’re looking for. [Ikea via SlashGear ]
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This New Ikea Desk Goes From Sit To Stand With The Push Of A Button