Giveisha Evgeny Morozov: The IGod: Steve Jobs’s Pursuit Of Perfection—and The Consequences. Steve Jobs’s pursuit of perfection—and the consequences. Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 627 pp., $35) In 2010, Der Spiegel published a glowing profile of Steve Jobs, then at the helm of Apple. Jobs’s products are venerated in Germany, especially by young bohemian types. Recently, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg presented an exhibition of Apple’s products, with the grandiloquent subtitle “On Electro-Design that Makes History”—a good indication of the country’s infatuation with the company. The piece about Jobs in Der Spiegel shed no light on his personality, but it stood out for two reasons. There are few traces of Jobs the philosopher in Walter Isaacson’s immensely detailed and pedestrian biography of the man. That the book contains few earth-shattering revelations is not necessarily Isaacson’s fault. As Isaacson makes clear, Jobs was not a particularly nice man, nor did he want to be one. How serious was he about that monastery thing?
How to Connect Your Computer to Your TV" There's something painfully ironic about sitting on your living room couch, just a few feet away from a beautiful widescreen HDTV, watching a movie on your tiny laptop. Yet this is what most of us do when we download movies or TV shows onto our computers. The same goes for showing off our latest digital photos to friends. We all huddle around the 15-inch computer display while the TV screen goes unused. And what about that PowerPoint presentation you just gave at work? There are many compelling reasons why we want to connect our computers to our televisions, especially now that HDTVs are so popular. The first personal computers used TVs for monitors, but computer graphics technology quickly outpaced the image quality on standard-definition TVs (SDTVs). Even today, hooking a computer to an SDTV only makes sense if you want to use your computer as a DVD player. Keep reading to learn more about bringing your small-screen life to the big leagues.
Does God Exist - Six Reasons to Believe that God is Really There - Existence of God - Proof of God By Marilyn Adamson Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." But first consider this. Many examples showing God's design could be given, possibly with no end. The Earth...its size is perfect. The Earth is located the right distance from the sun. And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. Water...colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. It has an unusually high boiling point and freezing point. Water is a universal solvent. Water is also chemically neutral. Water has a unique surface tension. Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter. Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the oceans. The human brain...simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. The eye...can distinguish among seven million colors. Why is this so amazing?