Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft

microsoft-logoI first used Windows on a TULIP portable computer, some twenty years ago. Graphical user interface, icons, mouse, an amazing new world was ushered in before my wide eyes. At uni, I scored a summer internship with Microsoft. I sported a Microsoft collared shirt and showed off my ?Microsoft Product Specialist? badge with infinite pride. When Windows 2000 launched, I distributed official evaluation copies to the School of Engineering. Lecturers didn?t hide their admiration, and wonder, about my infatuation with this company. They called me the "Microsoft man," which I saw as a compliment.

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New Makeover Makes Mobile Design Community MyColorscreen Even Better

mcsMuch as I love all the phones in my arsenal, there always comes a time when I grow weary of the stock experience. Rather than leave up it to some company to gussy up my phone for me, I've instead turned to the internet for ways to spruce up my daily travelling companions. That's where sites like MyColorscreen comes in. First launched in 2011, MyColorscreen was envisioned as a social network where phone geeks and design aficionados can get together to ooh and ahh over some handsome homescreens. Now, after over a year since launch and with over 11,000 designs shared, MyColorscreen has revamped itself to make that process of sharing that aesthetic know-how even better.

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What Do You Need To Know About Mood Disorders | All about ...

Mood disorder is a category of mental health problem that affects children teenagers and adults. There are a number of causes due to which the disorder occurs in individuals and it could be genetic or environmental and a combination of both. There are chemicals in our brain that are responsible for making us feel happy or sad.

The disorder is known to cause depression and if left unchecked an individual can suffer from indefinitely. Teenagers have been found to indulge in drug abuse and violent behavior if they are affected with this disorder

Bipolar disorder risk increases if a relative suffers from the same condition. More females suffer from this condition compared to men. There are different types these disorder and they can be classified as major depression, dysthymic disorder, bipolar disorder, medical illness mood disorder and mood disorder caused due to substance abuse.

The symptoms of this disorder may vary in a child and an adult. Some of the common symptoms include

Feeling sad all the time,Feeling helpless,Low self esteem,Feeling inadequate,Guilt feeling,Wishing death,Losing interest in activities that you used to enjoy,Difficulty in starting and maintaining relationship,Sleep disorders,Lack of concentration,Feeling tired and loss of energy,Drastic changes in weight and appetite,Inability to make correct decisions,Suicide attempts,Running away from work, home or situations,Aggressive behavior, not accepting failure or rejection and physical ailments like headache and stomachache.

Most of us when we read the symptoms listed above think that they too suffer from mood disorder. The fact is that a vast majority of us suffer from some form of depression at a certain point of time in life.

Individuals with this disorder have these symptoms over a prolonged period of time and this affects both their personal and professional life. They are unable to get over their feeling of inadequacy and need help in the form of counseling, medication and support from family and friends.

The treatment varies from one individual to the other and a lot of factors that are specific to the patient are taken into consideration before treatment is prescribed. Psychotherapy, family therapy combined with medication works wonders for people afflicted with this disorder.

The earlier the symptoms are found the better will be the success ratio of treatment. Individuals with mood disorder need to get back the confidence in their ability to become winners and one this is achieved the path of recovery becomes easy.

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For Most Of Human History, Being An Omnivore Was No Dilemma

Gorillas are fine with being herbivores, like this one at a Seattle zoo. But humans evolved as omnivores. Is diet destiny? Enlarge Ted S. Warren/AP

Gorillas are fine with being herbivores, like this one at a Seattle zoo. But humans evolved as omnivores. Is diet destiny?

Ted S. Warren/AP

Gorillas are fine with being herbivores, like this one at a Seattle zoo. But humans evolved as omnivores. Is diet destiny?

If diet is destiny, then modern humans should thank our ancestors for their ability to eat just about anything.

Two new studies peek into the distant past to try to figure out just how big a role food played in human evolution. One says that eating meat made it possible for early human mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children.

The other study finds that humans and some other primates have stuck with being omnivores for a very long time. That's unlike many of our mammal friends, who used the omnivore lifestyle as a mere rest stop on the way from herbivore to carnivore.

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"Primates are a little bit weird," says Samantha Hopkins, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Oregon, who led the study that revealed primates' omnivorous ways. Most primates became omnivores early in their existence, and stayed put. "We seem to hang out in this omnivorous role."

It's easy to imagine that there's an evolutionary advantage to being able to eat just about anything. Herbivores and carnivores have specialized teeth and digestive systems that make going back and forth practically impossible.

For instance, carnivores are usually the first to go extinct when times are tough, because they depend on other animals for their food source.

But there may be some evolutionary downside to being an omnivore, too Hopkins says. Namely, we're slow to diversify.

It took three times longer for omnivores to diversify, compared to herbivores. Producing more varied species means producing more progeny, which is the name of the game in evolution.

Hopkins and her colleagues found this out by scanning the literature for data on what 1,500 species of modern mammals eat. They gleaned it from field research by biologists, who sift through poop and examine stomach contents. It is not glamorous work.

They then matched the animals' diets with the mammalian family tree, and traced back the branches. It's the first study to look at diet across all mammal group through evolutionary time. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The second study looked at how long modern mammals nurse their young. Researchers in Sweden compared the diet, brain size, and weaning times of 67 species. Humans breastfeed for 2 years on average, while chimpanzees, our closest relatives, nurse for four to five years.

They found that all the animals stopped nursing when their brains hit a certain stage of development, regardless of diet. All the meat-eaters, including ferrets, killer whales, and humans, reached that point of brain development earlier than herbivores or omnivores, the researchers found. (They classified humans as carnivores based on the percentage of meat in the typical human diet.)

Also, they conclude, the big difference in breast-feeding times between humans and other primates is due to the better nutrition provided to both mothers and babies by meat consumption. The study was published online in PlosOne.

Big caveat: Both of these studies looked at the role of diet in evolution. They aren't a commentary on whether modern-day eating habits, carnivorous or not, are healthy.

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More U.N. monitors heading to Syria as 13 people killed

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An additional 30 United Nations monitors should arrive in Syria in the coming week to join an advance team of seven observing a fragile week-long ceasefire which has failed to end bloodshed in the country, a spokesman for envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday.

At least 23 people were killed, 10 of them in a roadside bomb targeting security forces and most of the others in shelling by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on the city of Homs, further undermining the truce.

With Friday prayers a weekly flashpoint for unrest, the monitors decided to remain indoors, saying they wanted to avoid being "used as a tool for escalating the situation". A day earlier they were mobbed by anti-Assad protesters on their initial forays around the country.

Peace envoy Kofi Annan's deputy, former Palestinian foreign minister Nasser al-Kidwa, criticized both sides, but particularly government forces, for refusing to stop fighting completely.

"We don't see much of a ceasefire," he told France 24 television. "The situation of course is not good. There are many reasons to be worried by the lack of implementation, at least lack of full implementation by Syrian government and perhaps some other parties as well."

Syria said 10 security personnel were killed in a roadside bomb in Sahm al-Golan in the southwest, as protests calling for the downfall of Assad broke out across the country, including in the capital Damascus.

Activists in the central city of Hama said people were wounded when security forces opened fire on protesters.

Several neighborhoods in the rebel stronghold of Homs were shelled, activists said, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Syria said at least 13 people were killed, most of them in Homs.

300 MORE

The U.N. monitoring mission is seen as the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria where Assad sent tanks and troops to quell protests against his 12-year rule, which started peacefully a year ago but have taken a militarized turn.

Annan is hoping the U.N. Security Council will in the next two to three days agree to send a second wave of up to 300 more observers. His spokesman said the mission was being prepared.

"We are preparing for the deployment because we feel that it is going to happen sooner or later because it must happen," spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a news briefing in Geneva.

"The situation on the ground is not good," he said.

The Security Council - divided between Western countries that want to topple Assad, and Russia and China which support him - must agree if the larger observer team is to be sent to help quell the violence that has killed thousands of people.

While Russia circulated a draft Security Council resolution to authorize the 300-strong unarmed ceasefire force, France said it was drafting another resolution that would allow a larger observer force, with up to 500 observers as well as helicopters.

China said it was willing to contribute members to the observer team in Syria.

"We are willing to send personnel to take part in the work of this team and the advanced team. We are now in consultations with the United Nations secretariat about the specific arrangements." said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin

He said the overall size of the monitoring effort would have to be settled by the Security Council and so could not say how big China's contribution would be.

Top U.N. humanitarian official John Ging said he hoped Syria would grant permission in the coming days to send more aid workers to the country where at least 1 million people are in need of urgent assistance.

He told reporters in Geneva that Syria had recognized there were "serious humanitarian needs" and that action was required, but logistical issues and visas for aid workers are still being discussed.

On Thursday, Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement setting out the working conditions for hundreds of ceasefire observers.

The agreement stipulates "unfettered access" and freedom for monitors to travel and contact people within the framework of their mandate, Fawzi said.

(Additional reporting by Chris Buckley in Beijing, John Irish in Paris and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Poisoned Backyards, Wrongful Convictions, and a Close-Up Look at PTSD

Ghost Factories: Poison in the Ground, USA Today
Smelting factories that closed years ago are still a danger today, having left behind lead particles and that put neighborhoods across the country at risk. In this interactive, multimedia report, USA Today shows that though the EPA received warnings of dangerous lead levels about a decade ago, the government has done little to investigate, clean up, or warn residents. The EPA has said it will look into the results of this investigation.
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Chris Pine Leaves Action For Drama In 'People Like Us'

'I was interested in doing a film that was smaller scope than the films I had done previously,' actor tells MTV News.
By Kevin P. Sullivan


Olivia Wilde and Chris Pine in "People Like Us"
Photo: DreamWorks Pictures

Chris Pine and first-time director Alex Kurtzman have a few things in common. Both made names for themselves with large action movies like J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" and "Transformers" (Kurtzman as a writer and producer), and the upcoming film "People Like Us" marks a distinct change for both men.

"People Like Us" is the story of a young man who falls on hard financial times just as he learns that his recently deceased father has left a small fortune to a sister he doesn't know.

MTV News spoke with Pine about the change of pace for him and what it was like working with co-star Elizabeth Banks.

MTV News: What was it that attracted you to the script originally?

Chris Pine: What attracted me to the film was just the quality of the writing. I was really interested in doing a film that was smaller scope than the films that I had done previously in the past couple years. This one was an intimate family drama, and I thought even the anomalous experience of someone finding out that their father had a completely separate family, everybody's got family dramas of their own. Certainly, though I can't relate to that specific experience, I can relate to having stuff in the family. This one takes place in the moment where all the stuff that's been brewing for years and years and years finally comes to a head and has to be dealt with.

MTV: How does making the film's central relationship a brother-sister one affect the overall movie?

Pine: Clearly it's going to progress in a way that can't be a love story between a sister and brother. It is in a sense that these two people get to know one another and find that they love one another because they're the only two people that can relate and understand the experience of living in that family with that father and that mother. And because they've been so traumatized by the lies that their family has told for so many years, they find solace in one another's mutual understanding. I think it's refreshing because I don't think people have seen something like this specific story in cinema before, at least in the States. There's a quality of the film that kind of reminded me of one of my favorite films, "Kramer vs. Kramer," and it kind of has the depth of something like "Ordinary People" and the humor of a comedy. It's just — for the lack of a better term — very human.

MTV: Did it strike you as interesting that the film lacks the central romance that drives most dramas?

Pine: Not really because there are many stories in your own life that you lead that have nothing to do with a romantic other, whether it be work or dealing with your family. Oftentimes, many of the most pivotal stories that we play out in our own life don't have anything to do with a girlfriend or a lover or a husband or a wife. That didn't pose a problem for me because I thought that this was a story more about a man really becoming an authentic adult and learning how to deal honestly with those people in his life, his father and his mother and his girlfriend and his newfound sister.

MTV: With the relationship with Elizabeth Banks' character being so central, what was your relationship with her like on set?

Pine: It was a pretty intense filmmaking experience. We had a lot of fun on set, and I love Elizabeth to death. She's incredibly smart and doesn't suffer fools. I appreciated her work ethic and just shooting the sh-- on set. It was a film that demanded a lot of our attention and a lot of protecting our respective characters. I felt very protective of Sam. The piece, as it progresses forward, clearly because of the lies Sam tells along the way, there's a lot of resentment from Elizabeth's character. There were times when we would have these blowout discussions on set among Alex, myself and Elizabeth about what we felt the scene needed to be in the context of the arc of our characters.

MTV: Alex Kurtzman has said in the past how important this movie was to him. Was there a sense of that on the set?

Pine: From what Alex told me, this is a very important story that was very important for him to tell, and we both bonded over the fact that our careers had taken a particular path toward making larger films, while in our beginnings, we both thought we'd be making different kinds of films. It was nice to finally make one that we both really, really had a lot of investment in. Not that I don't have investment in the films I do now — I'm saying it was nice to do something that we always wanted to make. I think it is exciting that Alex gets to show his fans that he is capable of doing a different kind of film entirely.

It's Summer Movie Preview Week, and MTV News will be bringing you exclusive interviews, clips and photos for the most anticipated summer movies. Get ready to gorge on inside looks at "The Avengers," Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami," Kristen Stewart's "Snow White," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and more!

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Around 140,000 Apple machines still infected with Flashback malware, says Symantec

Around 140,000 Apple machines still infected with Flashback malware, says Symantec

By now, we're all quite familiar with the Java-driven trojan that's affected thousands of Apple's rigs, and while the numbers seem to have drastically dropped since the first Cupertino fix, there's still a plethora of machines carrying the bug. According to Symantec, the number of infected computers is now at around 140,000, seeing a decline of over 460,000 since April 9th. Still, the security outfit remains puzzled by the fact, as it expected the digits to be somewhere near the 99,000 mark by now. Perhaps this is due to some folks not even being aware of Flashback's existence, or maybe not checking for software updates as often as most of us. Either way, we hope you've already used one of the tools Apple handed you.

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