WORLD NEWS TOMORROW ? BIDJAN, Ivory Coast ? An Ivorian prosecutor said a top member of former President Laurent Gbagbo?s political party was sentenced to six months in prison Friday after being found guilty of disturbing public order.
Laurent Akoun, secretary-general of the Ivorian Popular Front, was arrested Sunday for comments he made about current President Alassane Ouattara. Noel Dje Enrike Yahau said Akoun had publicly called Ouattara ?a liar? and ?accused the president of wanting to kill Gbagbo.?
The comments came not long before a series of seven attacks against Ivory Coast military positions began throughout the country.Government and military officials have accused Gbagbo allies of involvement in the attacks, a charge they have denied. The Gbagbo has protested the mass arrests of its members in the wake of the attacks.
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Check out the size of that Samsung. Who wouldn't want that bigger screen!?
As I mentioned last month, I haven't even gotten my iPhone 5 yet, but I'm already annoyed by it.
Why?
Well, first, the wait.
I was all set to buy my iPhone 5 last year, when everyone expected the iPhone 5 to be released. But then Apple went and released a modest upgrade to the iPhone 4, and there seemed no reason to buy that when the iPhone 5 was about to come out.
(I have an iPhone 3GS, which still works great. But I confess I have been coveting some of the newer features. I tried to buy an iPhone 4 once, a couple of months after it came out, but hundreds of people had been waiting all night in line to buy them to ship them to Asia, so I gave up. But I have decided to upgrade to the iPhone 5, unless it totally sucks.)
But it's not just the wait.
Despite Apple's assertion that it is going to crack down on leaks, people seem confident that they know pretty much everything about the iPhone 5. And here are the things they think they know that have jumped out at me (and annoyed me):
The iPhone 5 is not going to have a really big screen, like the gorgeous screen on the Samsung Galaxy S III. I played with an S III the other night, and it confirmed my suspicion that it is just awesome to have such a big screen. Next to the Samsung, my iPhone felt small and old. Given that Apple thinks Samsung has ripped off everything about the Galaxy from the iPhone, I assumed that Apple would want to return the favor and rip off the awesome big Galaxy screen from Samsung. But according to the gadget gods, Apple has decided to just make the iPhone 5 screen slightly taller, not huge and insanely great like the Galaxy S III. And that's annoying. Who cares about having a "taller" screen? I certainly don't want to have to turn the phone to "landscape" view every time I want to look at something.
The iPhone 5 will have a new power cord, one that will render the dozen or so Apple power cords I have obsolete. This is also annoying. One of the positive side-effects of becoming an Apple household is that we have one of those power cords lying around pretty much everywhere you look. And now, I gather, Apple is going to make all of those cords worthless. (Unless I buy some special adapter. But having to do that is annoying.)
So all that is annoying.
But the screen thing is really annoying. I'm not a watch-movies-or-play-video-games-on-my-phone guy.? I'm a do-email-and-tweet-and-read-the-Internet-on-my-phone guy. So the idea of having to turn the phone to landscape to take advantage of the screen being slightly taller sounds more annoying than anything.
Also as this video produced by Mac Rumors shows, having a slightly taller screen is pretty much a complete yawn of a difference relative to the iPhone 4, especially because a lot of the apps won't even take advantage of it. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy S III is bright, gorgeous, and huge.
And do you know what is extra, extra annoying? Apple is now trying to get Samsung blocked from selling the S III because of those patent claims. Apple, the richest and most valuable company in the world, resorting to litigation to try to stop the sale of a phone that is clearly better than anything Apple has yet produced. Sorry, but that's just lame.
I gather Apple is making some other changes to the iPhone 5, too--moving a button, for example. But I haven't seen any changes that I care about.
Who wants a TALLER screen?
All of which means, I'm already annoyed by my iPhone 5. If, after using it, I determine that the smaller screen is, in fact, inferior to the big Samsung screen, I'm going to be really annoyed.
So, if I'm so annoyed by the iPhone 5 and Apple's lame patent attack, why am I not just rushing out and buying a Samsung Galaxy S III before Apple gets them sued off the shelves?
Well, I'll tell you, I'm close to doing that. Very close.
But, as I feared a couple of years ago when I realized the lengths Apple was going to to build a closed system with "network effects," I'm also kind of stuck with Apple now, given that our entire household has standardized on it. If I switched to Samsung, I'd have to learn how to use something new. And none of my iTunes stuff and passwords would work. So the sad truth is that I'm going to buy an iPhone 5 even if it's an inferior phone.
But it's going to bum me out knowing that I have to go with Apple even though it's an inferior phone.
And it's going to really bum me out now that Apple is suing people to protect its vast profits instead of just making superior products like it used to.
(Litigation might protect you for a little while, but not over the long run. And I know I'm not the only one who finds it disheartening to see Apple resorting to it.)
Bottom line, like a lot of other Apple customers, I am quietly hoping that everything that has been reported about the iPhone 5 isn't true.
Because if I'm going to finally shell out another $200 for a new phone, it would be nice to be buying the best one on the market.
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Every so often, we get an email from one of our community members informing us of something awesome that they've done, and to be honest this is what the Daily Bite section is really for. Though we'll readily trawl the internets for funnies and curios, we'd much rather shed he spotlight on you, our community. We enjoyed the Minecraft DP totem, we've marveled at the delights of the Dealspwny, and dropped jaws at some brilliant costumes. But every so often, someone goes to the ends of the earth to do something rather spectacular purely out of love for the game in question, and it blows us away. Painstakingly recreating the audio from the first few minutes of Bioshock is one such thing, and the talented sound engineer who did it came from our very own community. Kopite211, take a large bow! Click here to check it out...Community Bite: BioShock User Sound Design is a post from: Dealspwn.co...
Isaac is a weaker tropical storm as?of 11 AM, but its impacts across the northern Gulf coast are still?tremendous. The National Weather Service reports the first Isaac fatality?Thursday morning in Picayune, Mississippi, close to the Lousiana state line. A tree fell on a truck. The Bayou Bonfouca that acts as a levee in south Slidell, Lousiana overflowed Thursday morning. This caused water to rush over the railroad tracks and into the city prompting?evacuations. Early Thursday afternoon The National Weather Service?in New Orleans says there is?a small breach in the dam along the Tangipahoa river in Pike County, Mississippi. Emergency Management officials suspect the dam will likely fail. If the dam does fail, the crest forecast would rise to 21.5 feet; this would be a new record. National Weather Service in New Orleans?issued a flash flood warning for southwestern Pike County in southern Mississippi.?
As of 11 AM, sustained winds have died down a bit, but winds are still gusting to near tropical storm force, especially near the coast.
Isaac is still producing dangerous storm surge in coastal Lousiana and Mississippi. Even though the center of Issac as well inland, wave heights are up to 11 feet offshore of?coastal Lousiana and Mississippi. With an onshore flow, and higher than normal high tides coastal flooding is forecasted to continue. As of 11 AM, a storm surge of near 6 feet is occuring on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. A storm surge near 5 ft is occuring at Waveland, Mississippi. Freshwater flooding from training of showers and storms continues in southern Mississippi and Alabama continues. An unofficial report of over 23 inches was reported in Gretna, Lousiana.
The risk for tornadoes continues for much of south and central Mississippi, south and central Alabama, extreme southeast Lousiana, and?the western Florida Panhandle. A tornado watch is up for this area until 4 PM CDT. A tornado was reported on the ground in Pascagoula, Mississippi before 8 AM CDT. Pascagoula Police confirm a tornado?damaged a home, but no injuries were reported.
Isaac is forecasted to be downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday night. As it remants spill northward, Isaac wil bring soaking rains to to much of the southeast and eventually the Midwest by the weekend. Many of these areas in Isaac?s path are drought stricken, but localized flooding is possible in spots. Below are rainfall estimates from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
The 12th depression of the Atlantic season was upgraded to tropical storm Leslie in the Central Atlantic at 2 pm. Leslie is the second earliest 12th named storm to form in the Atlantic Basin.?It is forecasted to curve north and stay out to sea. As of 11 AM, Kirk is the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season. Hurricane force winds only extend out 10 miles from the center. Kirk will also track north out to sea.
