Voilà un widget génial. Un avatar animé pour gérer vos messages sur Skype, MSN ou tout simplement votre Blog. Prêt en quelques minutes, le Gizmoz est superbe. A essayer d'urgence.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
flo's blog
Voilà un widget génial. Un avatar animé pour gérer vos messages sur Skype, MSN ou tout simplement votre Blog. Prêt en quelques minutes, le Gizmoz est superbe. A essayer d'urgence.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Michael Bublé
Vous ne connaissez peut-être pas et c'est tout simplement un pur plaisir. Un look & feel à la Elvis, des reprises étonnantes de grands classiques et quelques perles inédites. Michael Bublé (oui avec l'accent) est un véritable crooner jazzy. Il faut acheter son nouvel album indispensable dans votre voiture.
Un extrait de son précédent album:
Un extrait de son précédent album:
BlackBerry Nouveau est arrivé
BlackBerry renouvelle toute sa gamme de portables. Apres le Pearl, le 8800, 8830 voici la vedette de cet été le BlackBerry Curve. Il a tout - la machine parfaite. J'ai hâte de tester. En attendant je continue d'utiliser péniblement mon N95 qui ne me satisfait pas du tout. Je prépare une note à ce sujet dans les prochains jours.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
Si tu es intelligent tu ne seras pas riche
Effectivement une étude très sérieuse vient de démontrer qu'avoir un QI élevé ne garanti pas la réussite sociale. En rapport de proportion les super intelligents gagnent plus d'argent que les gens dans la moyenne mais ils sont beaucoup moins riches à la retraite. L'étude tente d'expliquer que les 'intelligents' épargnent moins et dépensent plus que les autres.
A méditer…
You don't have to be smart to be rich, study finds
COLUMBUS , Ohio -- It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a lot of money, according to new research.
A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those in similar circumstances but with higher scores on an IQ test.
Furthermore, a number of extremely intelligent people stated they had gotten themselves into financial difficulty.
"People don't become rich just because they are smart," said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio State University 's Center for Human Resource Research.
"Your IQ has really no relationship to your wealth. And being very smart does not protect you from getting into financial difficulty," Zagorsky said.
The one financial indicator in which the study found it paid to be smart was income. Those with higher IQ scores tended to get paid more than others.
While other research has also found the IQ-income link, this is one of the first studies to go beyond income to look at the relationship between intelligence and wealth and financial difficulty, he said.
"Financial success for most people means more than just income," Zagorsky said. "You need to build up wealth to help buffer life's storms and to prepare for retirement. You also shouldn't have to worry about being close to or beyond your financial limits."
Zagorsky's study appears online in the journal Intelligence.
The study is based on data from 7,403 Americans who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which is funded primarily by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The NLSY is a nationally representative survey of people, who are now in their mid-40s, conducted by Ohio State's Center for Human Resource Research.
The same people have been interviewed repeatedly over time since 1979. This study is based on responses from the 2004 survey.
Participants completed the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), a general aptitude test used by the Department of Defense. Researchers have long used AFQT scores as a measure of intelligence.
All participants were also surveyed about their income, total wealth, and three measures of financial difficulty: if they currently have any maxed-out credit cards, if over the past five years they had any instances where they missed paying bills, and whether they ever declared bankruptcy.
The results confirmed research by other scholars that show people with higher IQ scores tend to earn higher incomes. In this study, each point increase in IQ scores was associated with $202 to $616 more income per year.
This means the average income difference between a person with an IQ score in the normal range (100) and someone in the top 2 percent of society (130) is currently between $6,000 and $18,500 a year.
But when it came to total wealth and the likelihood of financial difficulties, people of below average and average intelligence did just fine when compared with the super-intelligent.
The study could find no strong relationship between total wealth and intelligence. How could high-IQ people, on average, earn higher incomes but still not have more wealth than others? Zagorsky said this data can't provide an answer, but it suggests that high-IQ people are not saving as much as others. He is currently finishing a study that is exploring that question.
The findings revealed mixed results when it came to the link between intelligence and measures of financial distress. For example, the percentage of people who have maxed out their credit cards rises from 7.7 percent in those with an IQ of 75 and below to a peak of 12.1 percent among those with an IQ of 90. Then the percentage falls in an irregular pattern to 5.4 percent among those with an IQ of 115 before rising again.
This irregular pattern is also seen among the bankrupt and people who missed bill payments.
"In these measures of financial difficulties, it seems that those of slightly better than average intelligence are best off," Zagorsky said.
"Just because you're smart doesn't mean you don't get into trouble. Among the smartest people, those with IQ scores above 125, even 6 percent of them have maxed out their credit cards and 11 percent occasionally miss payments."
Zagorsky said you only have to look in the parking lots of the nation's universities to see that intelligence and wealth are not necessarily linked.
"Professors tend to be very smart people," he said. "But if you look at university parking lots, you don't see a lot of Rolls Royces, Porsches or other very expensive cars. Instead you see a lot of old, low-value vehicles."
The lesson is simple, he said.
"Intelligence is not a factor for explaining wealth. Those with low intelligence should not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence should not believe they have an advantage."
Source : New York Time Blog
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
Iphone vs. Leopard
Apple ne va pas s'en sortir avec l'iPhone. Je l'avais écrit il y a quelques mois de cela. L'iPhone tournera sur un OS propriétaire Apple. Pari fou de Steve Job qui lance Apple dans une direction dangereuse.
Aujourd'hui il existe très peu d'Operating System (OS) pour Smartphone. Nokia avec Symbian, Windows avec sa plateforme Windows Mobile, BlackBerry 100% orienté vers le Push Mail et c'est tout.
Toutes les autres plateformes ont échouées. Il reste donc 2 leaders qui ont investi des milliards de dollars dans la recherche et qui malgré tout connaissent toujours bon nombre de bugs.
Lancer Apple dans cette course est suicidaire. La preuve – Steve Jobs vient d’annoncer l’arrêt des développements du nouveau système Leopard pour mettre les ressources disponibles sur l’iPhone afin de tenir les délais de livraisons.
En parallèle Apple annonce que l’iPhone ne sera pas lancé le 11 Juin comme prévu mais ‘fin’ juin. Ca sent le soufre…
J’aimerais bien connaitre les clauses de pénalités infligées par AT&T/Cingular en cas de retard…
En tout cas la bourse ne s’est pas laissée prendre car le titre chute depuis 2 jours.
Source :
Information Week
Aujourd'hui il existe très peu d'Operating System (OS) pour Smartphone. Nokia avec Symbian, Windows avec sa plateforme Windows Mobile, BlackBerry 100% orienté vers le Push Mail et c'est tout.
Toutes les autres plateformes ont échouées. Il reste donc 2 leaders qui ont investi des milliards de dollars dans la recherche et qui malgré tout connaissent toujours bon nombre de bugs.
Lancer Apple dans cette course est suicidaire. La preuve – Steve Jobs vient d’annoncer l’arrêt des développements du nouveau système Leopard pour mettre les ressources disponibles sur l’iPhone afin de tenir les délais de livraisons.
En parallèle Apple annonce que l’iPhone ne sera pas lancé le 11 Juin comme prévu mais ‘fin’ juin. Ca sent le soufre…
J’aimerais bien connaitre les clauses de pénalités infligées par AT&T/Cingular en cas de retard…
En tout cas la bourse ne s’est pas laissée prendre car le titre chute depuis 2 jours.
Source :
Information Week
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Putain d'accident
Putain d'accident
Originally uploaded by Cizake.
Sur la I95 après Fort Lauderdale un accident avec au moins 1 mort. Horrible!!
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Je peux pas laisser passer ca
Je viens de lire un article sur Yahoo.com écris par Nidal al-Mughrabi
Sun Apr 8, 8:03 AM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza gunmen 10 months ago, the Islamist group said on Sunday.
"These names have been presented to the Egyptian (mediators), who in turn have presented it to the Israeli side," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said. "There is a clear progress in the fact a list of names has been presented."
But an Israeli cabinet minister and a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah faction cautioned against assuming a deal was imminent.
Barhoum gave no numbers or names. Israeli media reports said the roster listed about 1,300 prisoners, including Marwan Barghouthi, a Fatah leader widely seen as a possible successor to the moderate Abbas.
Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit was seized last June by militants from Hamas and two other armed groups who tunneled into Israel from Gaza.
An exchange deal, after months of deadlock, could be key to any progress in talks Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Abbas have agreed to hold on a biweekly basis at the urging of the United States.
For Palestinians, freedom for brethren in Israeli jails -- especially long-serving prisoners -- is a highly emotive issue. Olmert has accused Abbas of failing to deliver on promises to secure Shalit's release.
Abbas and Hamas formed a unity government on March 17.
Sources in Olmert's office said Israel had received the list and a ministerial committee would meet in the coming days to decide on whether to loosen criteria for releasing prisoners in an exchange deal, a change the cabinet would have to approve.
Israel has balked in the past at trading Palestinian prisoners categorised as "having blood on their hands" -- a reference to attacks in which Israelis have been killed.
"Certain progress has been made compared with how things were until now," Israeli cabinet minister Isaac Herzog told Israeli Army Radio.
"There is still a long way to go. We are apparently approaching the truly difficult stage of the negotiations," Herzog said.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Abbas aide, said presentation of names by the Palestinians "doesn't mean the Israeli side has accepted them."
"There are still complications in the process and we hope they will be overcome through Egyptian efforts," Abed Rabbo told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
(Additional reporting by Wafa Amr in Ramallah and Jonathan Saul in Jerusalem)
Là il faut peut être mettre les choses en proportion!!
1 soldat pour la libération de 1.300 TERRORISTES??!! Ca ne vous choque pas...
Personnellement je pense que Gilat Shalit est déjà mort. Il ne faut pas céder au chantage, casser sous la pression. Oui c'est dur, très dur de voir partir un jeune soldat qui ne reviendra pas. Mais si nous cédons aujourd'hui il y aura des dizaines, des centaines d'enlèvements.
La mode des enlèvements fleurie dans le monde et tous font des erreurs qu'ils payeront très très cher dans quelques années. 15 soldats britanniques, plusieurs journalistes, des civils - toutes marchandises humaines est bonne pour plaider sa cause...franchement où va t’on?
C'était mon coup de gueule du dimanche matin. Une énorme déception.
Sun Apr 8, 8:03 AM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza gunmen 10 months ago, the Islamist group said on Sunday.
"These names have been presented to the Egyptian (mediators), who in turn have presented it to the Israeli side," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said. "There is a clear progress in the fact a list of names has been presented."
But an Israeli cabinet minister and a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah faction cautioned against assuming a deal was imminent.
Barhoum gave no numbers or names. Israeli media reports said the roster listed about 1,300 prisoners, including Marwan Barghouthi, a Fatah leader widely seen as a possible successor to the moderate Abbas.
Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit was seized last June by militants from Hamas and two other armed groups who tunneled into Israel from Gaza.
An exchange deal, after months of deadlock, could be key to any progress in talks Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Abbas have agreed to hold on a biweekly basis at the urging of the United States.
For Palestinians, freedom for brethren in Israeli jails -- especially long-serving prisoners -- is a highly emotive issue. Olmert has accused Abbas of failing to deliver on promises to secure Shalit's release.
Abbas and Hamas formed a unity government on March 17.
Sources in Olmert's office said Israel had received the list and a ministerial committee would meet in the coming days to decide on whether to loosen criteria for releasing prisoners in an exchange deal, a change the cabinet would have to approve.
Israel has balked in the past at trading Palestinian prisoners categorised as "having blood on their hands" -- a reference to attacks in which Israelis have been killed.
"Certain progress has been made compared with how things were until now," Israeli cabinet minister Isaac Herzog told Israeli Army Radio.
"There is still a long way to go. We are apparently approaching the truly difficult stage of the negotiations," Herzog said.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Abbas aide, said presentation of names by the Palestinians "doesn't mean the Israeli side has accepted them."
"There are still complications in the process and we hope they will be overcome through Egyptian efforts," Abed Rabbo told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
(Additional reporting by Wafa Amr in Ramallah and Jonathan Saul in Jerusalem)
Là il faut peut être mettre les choses en proportion!!
1 soldat pour la libération de 1.300 TERRORISTES??!! Ca ne vous choque pas...
Personnellement je pense que Gilat Shalit est déjà mort. Il ne faut pas céder au chantage, casser sous la pression. Oui c'est dur, très dur de voir partir un jeune soldat qui ne reviendra pas. Mais si nous cédons aujourd'hui il y aura des dizaines, des centaines d'enlèvements.
La mode des enlèvements fleurie dans le monde et tous font des erreurs qu'ils payeront très très cher dans quelques années. 15 soldats britanniques, plusieurs journalistes, des civils - toutes marchandises humaines est bonne pour plaider sa cause...franchement où va t’on?
C'était mon coup de gueule du dimanche matin. Une énorme déception.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
C'est comme l'oiseau...
Le gros Airbus A380 en final sur l'aéroport de Washington. De plus je vous invite à visitier une très belle gallerie Picasa ici.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Pas de joints pendant Pessah
N'ayant jamais gouté à quelques drogues que ce soit j'ai trouvé cet article très sympathique. Ce matin dans le New York Times quelques lignes pour dire que le parti politique Israèlien 'de la feuille verte' LOL a sorti un communiqué dans lequel il indique que le cannabis n'est pas casher pour Pessah. INCROYABLE!!
Source:
New York Times
Source:
New York Times
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Le petit chaperon ROUGE
Il vient de sortir - je le veux!! Devenu depuis quelques mois un fan de BlackBerry je viens de découvrir ici qu'il sortait en (RED) chez Cingular.
RIM le fabricant BlackBerry est en vogue. Plusieurs nouveaux modèles en cours de lancement - le 8800 remplacant du 8700. Mais cet appareil n'a aucune fonction nouvelle intéressante - juste le lecteur mulitmedia déjà disponible sur le Pearl - et surtout il n'a pas d'APN.
Le 8300 qui devrait sortir courant Mai aux Etats-Unis est lui le Nokia killer. WiFi, APN 2.0Mega pixels, et clavier complet.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
La BlackBerry mania
Je viens de tomber sur un article très drole écrit par la femme d'un accroc du BlackBerry.
Breaking the BlackBerry addiction
By Katie Herrick
The Nest
As the wife of a BlackBerry addict, I tried three ways to wean my husband off his new mate. See how we reconnected.
My husband is addicted to his BlackBerry. He uses it while he drives, while he watches TV and, worst of all, while I'm talking. And believe me, he is no multitasker. The other morning I woke up thinking there was a mouse nibbling on something, but it was just my husband sending e-mails from bed. Funny, yes. Could I let it continue? No.
Not wanting to harm my husband's career (after all, that's what this thing is for), he and I came up with three ways to limit his CrackBerry addiction. Then we put each one to the test.
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PLAN 1: NO CRACK IN THE BEDROOM
This was suggested by many couples as the perfect solution (one even named her husband's BlackBerry Rochelle, since it has unfortunately become his "other woman"). I felt this was too easy. Hubby can fall asleep before I even turn off the light, so he was able to check his late-night emails, put BB in the living room, and fall asleep without thinking twice about his phone not being by his side. Did I wake up to tapping and clicking? Nope, the radio alarm was music to my ears. But this method did stall our getting-ready-for-work routine because Hubby now had to read his early-morning messages in the living room before getting in the shower.
• The verdict: This helped, but not enough. I was still cuddling with Hubby and BB on the couch at night.
PLAN 2: OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
Suggested by my husband, this plan was that he would put BB on the bookshelf by the entryway (of our 450-square-foot apartment) so that he wouldn't be distracted by the red flashing light that indicates an incoming message. He seemed able to let go pretty easily. Then I noticed something strange: He was really antsy and always pacing. He was checking the closets for things, going to the kitchen, looking at our bookcase. Ah-ha! Every stroll around the apartment gave him a chance to check BB.
• The verdict: This was a great start, and it's a solution I could live with. I think it would have worked better in a bigger apartment.
PLAN 3: DESIGNATED HOURS TO INDULGE
I don't like the idea of being a drill sergeant for my husband. I'm not a neat freak. I don't consider myself incredibly needy. But I do like some one-on-one time. Even if we're watching TV together, it's nice to share something that's funny ... and not have to repeat it to a distracted husband who was typing an e-mail (or worse, trying to beat his record at BrickBreaker, the silly game that comes standard on BlackBerries).
I got this idea from a woman who said she had designated non-BlackBerry hours for her husband, where his system is actually turned off. But since we don't have a land-line, and this is the only way to contact him, that wasn't possible for us. We decided that 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. would be our non-BB time, except for important phone calls (meaning parents, friends or work). And if I'm on the phone, it's a-OK for him to type away. At home, BB could be checked about every three hours (nothing too rigid formatted, but in that general time frame).
• The verdict: This was a little harder. Not having his phone with him at all times, Hubby went through a bit of withdrawal, and BB would occasionally end up forgotten on the coffee table out of habit (and left there out of my laziness). As time passed, it was great. He would check his phone only before dinner and then again before bed. But every once in a while, I'd see him sneaking in a game of BrickBreaker, especially on shopping trips with me - but maybe that's a reason to keep this thing around!
FINAL VERDICT
The best idea was designated hours, but the real benefit of this experiment was talking openly about Hubby's CrackBerry addiction. I used to just roll my eyes or make a joke attempting to let him know how much it irritated me. But after we talked about fixing the problem, he suddenly realized it was a problem. I might not have completely gotten rid of the third member of our marriage, but at least I don't have to eat or sleep with it anymore.
la source ici :
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/LIFE/703040301/1079/life
Breaking the BlackBerry addiction
By Katie Herrick
The Nest
As the wife of a BlackBerry addict, I tried three ways to wean my husband off his new mate. See how we reconnected.
My husband is addicted to his BlackBerry. He uses it while he drives, while he watches TV and, worst of all, while I'm talking. And believe me, he is no multitasker. The other morning I woke up thinking there was a mouse nibbling on something, but it was just my husband sending e-mails from bed. Funny, yes. Could I let it continue? No.
Not wanting to harm my husband's career (after all, that's what this thing is for), he and I came up with three ways to limit his CrackBerry addiction. Then we put each one to the test.
Advertisement
PLAN 1: NO CRACK IN THE BEDROOM
This was suggested by many couples as the perfect solution (one even named her husband's BlackBerry Rochelle, since it has unfortunately become his "other woman"). I felt this was too easy. Hubby can fall asleep before I even turn off the light, so he was able to check his late-night emails, put BB in the living room, and fall asleep without thinking twice about his phone not being by his side. Did I wake up to tapping and clicking? Nope, the radio alarm was music to my ears. But this method did stall our getting-ready-for-work routine because Hubby now had to read his early-morning messages in the living room before getting in the shower.
• The verdict: This helped, but not enough. I was still cuddling with Hubby and BB on the couch at night.
PLAN 2: OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
Suggested by my husband, this plan was that he would put BB on the bookshelf by the entryway (of our 450-square-foot apartment) so that he wouldn't be distracted by the red flashing light that indicates an incoming message. He seemed able to let go pretty easily. Then I noticed something strange: He was really antsy and always pacing. He was checking the closets for things, going to the kitchen, looking at our bookcase. Ah-ha! Every stroll around the apartment gave him a chance to check BB.
• The verdict: This was a great start, and it's a solution I could live with. I think it would have worked better in a bigger apartment.
PLAN 3: DESIGNATED HOURS TO INDULGE
I don't like the idea of being a drill sergeant for my husband. I'm not a neat freak. I don't consider myself incredibly needy. But I do like some one-on-one time. Even if we're watching TV together, it's nice to share something that's funny ... and not have to repeat it to a distracted husband who was typing an e-mail (or worse, trying to beat his record at BrickBreaker, the silly game that comes standard on BlackBerries).
I got this idea from a woman who said she had designated non-BlackBerry hours for her husband, where his system is actually turned off. But since we don't have a land-line, and this is the only way to contact him, that wasn't possible for us. We decided that 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. would be our non-BB time, except for important phone calls (meaning parents, friends or work). And if I'm on the phone, it's a-OK for him to type away. At home, BB could be checked about every three hours (nothing too rigid formatted, but in that general time frame).
• The verdict: This was a little harder. Not having his phone with him at all times, Hubby went through a bit of withdrawal, and BB would occasionally end up forgotten on the coffee table out of habit (and left there out of my laziness). As time passed, it was great. He would check his phone only before dinner and then again before bed. But every once in a while, I'd see him sneaking in a game of BrickBreaker, especially on shopping trips with me - but maybe that's a reason to keep this thing around!
FINAL VERDICT
The best idea was designated hours, but the real benefit of this experiment was talking openly about Hubby's CrackBerry addiction. I used to just roll my eyes or make a joke attempting to let him know how much it irritated me. But after we talked about fixing the problem, he suddenly realized it was a problem. I might not have completely gotten rid of the third member of our marriage, but at least I don't have to eat or sleep with it anymore.
la source ici :
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/LIFE/703040301/1079/life
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