Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary
Source: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com - Monday, September 17, 2012
Today is the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York City’s lower Manhattan location in Wall Street’s financial district on September 17, 2011. Adbusters, a Canadian activist group started the movement which quickly went global. Most every large city – especially in the United States – had its own Occupy organization mimicking the messages from the iconic New York City original organization. The main purpose of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been to spotlight the financial inequality as well as wealth distribution in the United States between the wealthiest citizens and the remainder of its citizens. Commonly, the wealthy have been referred to as the 1% while the non-wealthy have labeled themselves the 99%. Though the initial protest began September 17, 2011, plans were in the works for the organization months before. Kalle Lasn and Micah White – of Adbusters publication which focuses on anti-consumerism – are credited with the thought processes that started the movement. The movement’s website, OccupyWallStreet.org was registered on June 9, 2011 by Lasn, and on July 13, 2011 the Adbusters website emailed the site’s subscribers regarding the initial steps in a peaceful occupation of America’s Wall Street to spotlight a global crisis of monetary collapse via a growing discrepancy in wealth. Though the movement gained in momentum through the following months of its in
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iPhone 5 May Not Have A Quad-Core CPU, But It’s One Of The Fastest Smartphones Money Can Buy
Source: www.cultofmac.com - Monday, September 17, 2012
That’s a fast smartphone. When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 last week, the company promised that its custom A6 chip deliver performance twice as fast as its predecessor, the iPhone 4S. But according to the handset’s first benchmarks, this isn’t just the fastest iPhone yet — it’s also one of the most powerful smartphones money can buy. According to the Geekbench 2 benchmarks from PrimateLabs, the iPhone 5, running iOS 6 with its new A6 processor, achieves a total score of 1601. In comparison, the average score for the iPhone 4S is just 629, which the new iPad achieves 766. We know neither of these devices could be considered anywhere near slow, so what does that say about the iPhone 5? Well, in short, it’s a massive powerhouse. In fact, there’s only one smartphone faster right now , and that’s the Samsung Galaxy S III. Not even the HTC One X, which boasts a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, achieves a faster Geekbench score than the iPhone 5. It also beats most tablets, too. Only the Google Nexus 7 is faster — narrowly — with a Geekbench score of 1604, while the quad-core Asus Transformer Prime and Transformer Pad tablets trail behind, scoring 1503 and 1465 respectively. The benchmarks also confirm some of the iPhone 5′s internals, which Apple didn’t disclose during its keynote, such as the speed of its processor. The A6 chips is a dual-core processor clocked at 1.02GHz, and it’s accompanied by 1GB of RAM. In comparison, the iPho
