5 Things Not To Expect From The iPad 2

With only hours left before the launch of the Apple iPad 2, we're looking at the features that will definitely not happen when the tablet is presented later today.

No, the iPad 2 won't have a different shape; we do not believe that the tablet will have a different shape. After all why should it? Although most of the mockups that have been leaked shows a different iPad 2 model, one has to bear in mind that mockups are often built on rumours and are themselves part of a whole self-fulfilling cycle. It is in Apple's interest to stick to the current form factor since this is a familiar one and has proven to be quite popular; there might be some minor changes (more slots, holes at different places) but overall, expect the same chassis to be revealed later today.

No, there won't be any SD card reader on the iPad 2; the sole purpose of the SD card reader on the iPad 2 would be to increase the onboard storage capacity. Doing so would kill the sales of higher capacity iPad 2 overnight; a 16GB card can be purchased for £15 while the premium users have to pay for it (16GB to 32GB) currently £61. A 64GB costs around £90 while going from a 16GB iPad to a 64GB model adds an additional 40 per cent to the price.

No, don't expect a Retina Display touchscreen on the iPad 2; we explained in details here why this would be a highly unlikely feature for now; the four reasons are price (more expensive to manufacture), technical issues (to our knowledge, there are no retina display of this size on the market), battery life (more pixels = more transistors), processing power (powering FIVE million pixels, more than six time the current resolution is taxing).

No, there won't be any iOS 5.0; this will come with the iPhone 5 and not with the iPad 2 as some have suggested. iOS 4.3 will do for now.

No, we don't think there will be any Thunderbolt port on the iPad 2; Apple is very likely to stick to the 40-pin proprietary connector with a lead to USB or Thunderbolt. It will not want to alienate the millions of users that use their iPad with their non-Thunderbolt compatible computer.

Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/02/5-things-not-expect-ipad-2/#ixzz1Ecdwpwwf

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Supercooling Experiment 4

Water seems like a pretty unremarkable thing but it has a lot of weird properties that we tend to take for granted because it’s around us all the time.  For example, solid ice floats on liquid water.  That seems normal because we see it every time we have a glass of ice water, but most solids don’t do that.  They sink right to the bottom.

Besides that, there are actually many types of ice,  although only 2 are naturally found on earth.  Speaking of planets, there are places on Mars where pressures and temperatures are just right to reach the triple point for water.  At its triple point, water can exist as ice, liquid water and water vapor all at the same time.

All of that stuff is just something to think about, though, since I doubt any of us will be making a trip to Mars any time soon.  There is a really cool thing that can be done with water here on earth, and that’s supercooling.

You need uncontaminated, distilled water, like what you might find in most bottled water.  Then it’s a simple matter of making its temperature drop below freezing (32 F, 0 C).  As long as there’s nothing to allow crystals to get a grip on and begin turning into ice (which is why the distilled water is important), and as long as it’s not badly disturbed (like a whack against the side), it will remain liquid despite its temperature.  Once you introduce either a contaminant or a shock to create bubbles, it will instantly begin a chain reaction turning the supercool water into a frozen slush.

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The Woman with the Giant Legs

Meet Mandy Sellars, she has a condition called Proteus Syndrome, a condition that causes abnormal bone and skin development. The same condition Joseph Merrick, also known as the Elephant Man, was afflicted with.

Mandy is extremely petite, a size 8 on the upper half of her body. Her top half weighs only 68lbs, but her legs combined weigh 286 pounds!

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A Drunk 4 Year Old Boy Steals Christmas Gifts

Yes, you read that right.  How does a sweet 4 year old boy end up wandering the streets in the middle of the night, drinking a cold beer in a girls dress?  Did I mention he also broke into a neighbors house and stole gifts?  This is a sad story you just have to see to believe.


Drunk 4 Year Old Boy:-

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Ghosts Are Live or Not ?

I bet you sometimes ask yourself, are ghost real? Have you ever wondered to yourself and asked yourself where is that thing I put down in that spot and now it's gone. I know I put it there, or I know I seen it there. Mysteriously it's gone. Well let me reassure you that, yes, they are real. I asked myself this question many, many times throughout my life and I always thought that maybe they are true or maybe they aren't! The day came that I can now swear to you, cross my heart, believe me it's true that I have experienced a couple of situations that I have now come to realize that Ghosts DO EXSIST on this planet...

I was brought up in a family of seven children, I was the second eldest. Lived our lives on farms in old houses, not rich and not poor either. I used to think I was imagining things throughout my life and wondered if I truly saw the things I thought I saw. I began to doubt my self.
When I was married and had children of my own, we moved into my husband's grandfather's house. His grandmother passed away in the house years and years earlier, and his grandfather passed away in hospital. We moved into the house, I was cooking dinner one night in the kitchen and out of the corner of my eye I saw two ghostly figures gliding past the kitchen door, it looked like they were holding hands, but that was what I saw out of the corner of my eyes. I looked in at the door and I walked out and looked around to where I had seen them, I walked out to where they had gone and I couldn't see anything, my husband was in the lounge room and that was where the ghost had came from, I asked him "did you see that?" he replied with "what?"
I told him what I had seen and he just looked at me. I thought to myself if this were real and I truly did see this then it must be grandma and grandfather and at least they are together now. I was not spooked but it answered my questions, ghosts are true. Strange things happened in this house, we heard things, we came home to the microwave being on one afternoon, there was nothing in the microwave, it was turned off but it was going. I called out to my husband and we both stood there looking at it trying to figure out what the heck was happening. We looked at each other and thought "unplug the damn thing". That is what we did.
Sometimes we woke in the mornings and the fridge was opened and at night when we went to bed we would hear footsteps across the floor, my husband woke one night and said he saw his grandfather standing at the fireplace, I used to sometimes lay in bed and think I seen something and felt the presence of something in the room but I just chose to ignore it and believe to myself it wasn't going to hurt me...
This is so true and I have chills down my spine. Believe me. This is the first time I have ever shared these stories. But as I have learned to live with these ghosts I always believed that they will not hurt you and that they just want to share this world with us.
Accept it and let them live. We can't get rid of them and they don't want to hurt us. We will all be ghosts at some time.

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