Well, many things happen almost at once. With US Debt Rating Downgrade lead to dropdown in stock prices all over the world and now as to counter the recession, Fed's Big Boss, Bernanke is already on the verge of decision to commence Quantitative Easing 3. And the hard truth is, QE3 might be the only plausible choice Fed have.
As of recent days, we see how prices of gold rises and just yesterday it breakthrough $1700 to $1739. Even in my country, the demand of Gold is very high, to the point that it leads to rarity.
QE3 surely will make Gold prices once again. Why you ask? SImple, as Fed print more money to buyback Long Term US Treasury, Dollar will lose its former value. Call it inflation. Sadly though, there is no rise in their income, meaning that their real income steadly decline eventhough there is no change in nominal Income. To protect their wealth, they want to put it in safe instrument with good liquidity and high value. Guess what?
Gold. I'm sure your highschool teacher at least have told you right, that if the quantity increase, so does the price.
As how about property. It is not the safest instrument especially for you westerner with how the Property Bubble nearly crash.
Well, it is still not too late to collect Gold. QE3 will rise it again for you.
You know this man above? Chance are, you won't know him unless you are a Japanese people (and I doubt you are). The man is Yoshiro Nakamatsu or also better known as Dr. Nakamatsu is the record holder of Patented inventions with 3.357 inventions and it seems quite unlikely that there is someone who will take his place for some time since the 2nd place holder wide known as Thomas Alva Edison "only" comes with 1.093 patents in his life. Really far and since Nakamatsu is still alive until today, of course the number of his collection can be still added.
Nakamatsu’s most notable invention is one that helped change the world at the time – the floppy disk. IBM made a deal with him in the late 70′s for his floppy-disk related patents that are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, so they may take most of the credit. Although the sum paid to him has never been revealed, he has lived the life of an extremely eccentric multi-millionaire ever since. Besides the floppy disk, Dr. Nakamatsu also holds patents for the core technology behind the CD, the DVD, the digital watch and even the taxi-cab meter. Unfortunately until this date, not a single one of above invention actually proven (Based on his claim only).
Of course, being Japanese, the good Doctor thankfully didn’t limit himself to just patenting items for sane people.
In fact, among the items he has patented, produced and sold very profitably – mainly to fellow Japanese – are:
"PyonPyon" jumping shoes with leaf springs on their soles.
"Cerebrex" armchair, a chair that supposedly improves mental function such as calculation and thinking by cooling the head and heating the feet.
A toilet seat lifter.
A condom with an embedded magnet, supposedly "improving sensitivity" as "electricity is generated in the blood vessels in the female organs by Fleming's left-hand rule".
A CD for supposedly "enhancing brightness or sexual function".
A cigarette like device for supposedly "activating the brain".
A pillow preventing falling asleep while driving (an air compressor strapped to the cars headrest, forcibly feeding air to the driver).
A peephole in a sheet of material, described as a "oneway visible shielding object".
Spectacles in the shape of eyes, so that the user appears to wear no spectacles.
A "Wig for self defense" — a strip and a weight are attached to a wig. The wearer swings the wig to hit an attacker.
If you think that he is really a great person and aspire to be himself. He suggest you to drown your head into water until 5 seconds before you died. Lacking of oxygen will make your brain generate of unique idea. Feel free to try that, if it actually happen. You can email me, but if something went wrong, I ain't take no responsibility dude!
It has already one week after Catherine officially released for US Region and 200.000 retail copy has already been sold (We are talking about the PS3 Version here). That's a nice one actually. With dark, full of lust theme like that, it is surprised that the game is so successful outside of Japan market and even more that Americans love Catherine.
Atlus gloats over Catherine’s success in North America:
“Catherine has exceeded our highest expectations.
It released last week to tremendous critical acclaim and fan response, bolstered by the release of a demo a couple weeks prior, and continues to generate discussion among fans for its mature themes, engrossing subject matter, and frantic, challenging gameplay.
It is fitting, then, that Catherine can boast the largest launch in the 20-year history of Atlus, and continues to see strong sales at retail.”
For those of you unlucky one who doesn't know what Catherine is all about. The story follows as Vincent, a man recently succumbed to the irresistible beauty of the game's titular diversion, players find themselves swept into a treacherous love triangle. Catherine's core themes those of free will, of the delicate nature of relationships and the choices we make within them, marry perfectly with the intense, terrorfilled gameplay that serves to accurately reflect Vincent's growing sense of anxiety. It is an experience wholly unlike any to come before it, and is certain to leave gamers talking and thinking about Vincent's tribulations long after the credits have rolled.
Catherine receive a positive reception as shown on any Major game reviewer give above average score.
IGN 9/10
Gamespot 8.5/10
Famitsu 35/40
EuroGamer 9/10
Definitely a quench your thirst of good game for one who feel bored cause of only shooter game offered by company for the last months. And with that much success, Atlus has confirmed that Catherine will be one of their Franchise. Not bad eh, maybe Jenniffer or Stephanie for the next game.
Wow, today by chance I just run into some cool sites. It is . The sites offering something unique for you who are hard fan for Active member something. You know, something it is really so irritating that newbie or what asking something that is so unimportant. They never bother to Googling (or whatever SE you used) and instead posting comment filling the thread with Junk.
When that times come, just you use this site. They give you the link about what would you like to search in Google. For example, some stupid person ask you to explain what is "Cloud Computing", you who are some heavy-duty geek feels irritated that some person doesn't even knew about basic things like that would ridicule them in sarcastic way.For example, let's just click here.
You see that? That's a bit awesome right. Anyway, you can use it as play tool too. It is so nice being sarcastic, eh ?
Sony, the former king of Home Console Game, maybe for now at least, the crown of Home Console Sony in the past own has been snatched by Microsoft. But nonetheless, Sony is still one of the main power in gaming industry, maybe they could regain their Crown Once again.
Why?
There is something that Sony is superior than other game company. What is that?
Their sheer number of game studio. Sony own a lot of first party developer, something Nintendo or Microsoft could compete. Not too say other developer they acting as their exclusive partner.
Here are the list of studio fully owned by Sony,Headed up by Shuhei Yoshida, the global development group is responsible for dozens of the most acclaimed and lucrative games in the business.
Japan
SCE Japan Studio (includes Team Ico and Team Siren) – Ape Escape, Siren, LocoRoco, Patapon, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian
Polyphony Digital – Gran Turismo series, Motor Toon Grand Prix 2, Tourist Trophy, Omega Boost
United States
Naughty Dog – Crash Bandicoot series, Jak and Daxter series, Uncharted series
SCE Santa Monica Studio – Kinetica, God of War series, Warhawk with Incognito Entertainment
SCE San Diego Studio – NBA: The Inside, MLB: The Show, ModNation Racers
SCE Bend Studio – Syphon Filter, Resistance: Retribution, Uncharted: Golden Abyss
SCE Foster City Studio
Zipper Interactive – SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs series, MAG
Sucker Punch Productions[3] - inFamous, inFamous 2, Sly Cooper series
Europe
SCE London Studio (includes Team Soho) – SingStar, EyeToy, PlayStation Home with SCE Studio Cambridge
SCE Cambridge Studio – MediEvil, PlayTV, Killzone PS Vita, PlayStation Home with SCE London Studio
SCE Studio Liverpool – Wipeout, F1
Evolution Studios – MotorStorm series, World Rally Championship
Bigbig Studios – Pursuit Force, MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, Little Deviants
Guerrilla Games – Killzone series
Media Molecule – LittleBigPlanet series
Novarama – Invizimals, Reality Fighters
Tarsier Studios – Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
Double Eleven Limited - LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
There is one other studio Sony used to own. That is Incognito studio famous for its Twisted Metal series. Unfortunately, they disbanded the company in 2009.
Well, that's much I think enough to give you the picture how formidable Sony is with its Playstation brand.
With how they now trying to reach Cellphone and Tablet market with its Playstation Certified brand, sure Sony has prepare something in their sleeve. That's why buying slightly overpriced Sony Tablet is wiser than buying superior-overpowered-ipad-clone when Android isn't even on the graphic level of iOS, not to say Playstation Vita.
It's not hard actually to imagine the biggest creditor of US foreign debt to downgrade the value of US rating. That's what happen with China's Dagong Global Credit Rating.
The Dagong Global Credit Rating Company, which lowered the United States to A+ last November after the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to continue loosening its monetary policy, announced a further downgrade to A, indicating heightened doubts over Washington's long-term ability to repay its debts.
With just a rating of A much lower than compared to big three of Western AGency which still retain US highest rating means that Chinese really doubt US economic for the future outlook and with how things going, maybe China will decrease their number of investment of Bond in US and shift to other AAA country.
But of course major implication of that move is still questioned since most Investor rely on Big Three (S&P, Fitch, Moody's)rating.
Eitherway, Obama's debt problem dealing is much critized by almost all people as lacking enough long term prospect as its only solve the problem for now. Not surprise market around the world welcome such news with negative consideration. Dow, Nasdaq,HSI,Nikkei, and almost all infleuntial stock Index plummet hearing the news.
Looking for something new? Worry not, China always have something for you. With how people talk against issue of Global warming and about being green. China offer something which is really green.
Once regarded as the best beach city in China, Qingdao is dealing with its seasonal headache once again this month: raking up an enormous carpet of florescent green algae from the Yellow Sea (黄海)
While the floating golf course of algae is not poisonous, it consumes large amounts of oxygen that can threaten fish and other marine life. So I guess it's not good just being green.
Even with swarming number of Algae on the beach, it seems tourist and locals haven't let it spoil their trip to Qingdao’s Number One Beach (第一海水浴场). Adventurous beachgoers frolicking in the waters experiencing the rare chance to get neck-deep in fuzzy slime.
Of course there is no scientifically experiment on what happen if you suddenly eat that thing. Considering Spirulina, one species of Algae consist high amount of Protein, their other kind shouldn't be too different. Of course that's only if what Algae feeding is not from sewage outflow.
