Dear Apple: What are you thinking?

Dear Apple / Steve Jobs;

What are you thinking messing with the media / Gizmodo?
The readers of Gizmodo, buy your silly products, and vouch for your products even though they may be flawed, low quality, and unreasonably priced. Apple you had a strong fanboy base, but how much longer will this last? Google is picking up some fanboys. Apple, it was also your fault to allow public field testing of an unannounced product and not consider the consequences. Don't you know hundreds of your customers lose their iphones each day? These customers don't raid into people's homes and take their computers, cameras, and servers. Gizmodo was a good enough to return back your phone. If this is the way you treat one of your most loyal blogs, how do you treat your customers? I was always skeptical about Apple's business practices about using child labor in factories, and unethical methods of treating suppliers. The actions that took place yesterday were illegal to seize property of someone who works for the press.
Apple did fail before in the 90s, there is no doubt that they might fail again one day.

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Wrote for the Tartan this week

I wrote for the Tartan this week. I wrote how AFM works. Please digg my article.



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Atomic force microscopy (AFM), a popular tool for imaging, measuring, and manipulating matter at the nanoscale, was invented in 1986 and was commercialized in 1989. This type of microscopy gathers information by feeling the surface with mechanical probes. AFM is a type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) in which the image of a surface is obtained by moving a probe over a sample and recording the interactions between the probe and the surface of the sample.

AFM is used for a variety of biological applications, including imaging molecules, cells, tissues, and biomaterials. At Carnegie Mellon, AFM is being used to study peptides and lipoproteins. AFM, popularly used in nanotechnology research, has been used to image the surface of the ivy plant to understand how it climbs structures, as stated in an article on www.photonics.com.

According to www.veeco.com, AFM is on the cutting edge of science since it provides true three-dimensional surface images. AFM is used to image and manipulate atoms and structures on many different surfaces. Samples viewed by AFM do not need any special treatments. The technology provides higher resolution images than other methods such as the scanning electron microscope. It is also favorable since it has the ability to operate in liquids and work with sample sizes ranging from a few nanometers up to several micrometers.

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Is the media forcing you get an iPad?

The Apple iPad is now official out and officially in your local Best Buy or Apple Store. The device has gotten criticism that it is a larger / super-sized version of the iphone/ipod touch. There has been some bias in the recent reviews of the iPad. As we know the publishing industry is going through a bad time right now, with less people subscribing to magazines and newspapers. People are getting their news online for free. Media companies like the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and PC Magazine are giving biased reviews about the iPad, and saying it is an awesome magical device. While online media outlets like Engadget, Gizmodo and CNN are saying it is nice device, but lacks many things like Adobe Flash. The media companies are betting on the iPad, since they are moving to digital model distribution for an example Time Magazine charges 4.99 an issue on the iPad, vs reading it online for free. The WSJ offers a subscription to access their material on the iPad. WSJ does not give free content. One of the media outlets, USA Today who had a poor free iPad app, gave the iPad a poor review. The iPad is being hyped by media companies like WSJ especially since they have key interests in the product. I do believe that some of these reviews are not ethical, by giving people a wrong impression to buy a product.