Chrome Book - the computer does not matter anymore

When Google's new computer - the Chrome Book - there are programs and data are only online. A laptop can not replace the unit.

With a simple, small computer is now the future of computing will be heralded. The Samsung Netbook Series 5 itself, which is now available in Germany, plays only a minor role. The concept behind this is crucial: there is no hard disk, everything goes through the browser, all applications and services to get users from the Web. With Google's Chrome OS real cloud computing is possible, it offers completely new possibilities - and limitations, as a first test of the Samsung computer shows.

German developers have worked on such an important project for Google Chrome decisive: "Responsible, our Munich Chrome developer, currently in particular for the development of data protection features," says Wieland Holfelder, head of Google's development office in Munich.
And computer system and are fast. Chrome Samsung's Book, a word created from Chrome and Netbook works, with a brisk, but only 16 gigabytes of flash memory. Much space as they offer today's netbooks with its 100 or 250 gigabyte hard drives, there is not so. The computer costs in the wireless version, in which an Internet connection is established via a local wireless network, just under 400 €. Who wants to be connected in addition to the cellular network must pay € 100 more. In a few weeks, Acer will offer a Chrome Book, which will probably be slightly cheaper.

The Samsung model tinkers a bit Linux, but the software basically consists of Chrome. Run more than this browser can not the computer. He offers only a weak Media Player and a cumbersome file manager. Accordingly, the work is unfamiliar with Chrome Book: There is no desktop background, and there can be no programs, such as Skype install. To edit video or run graphically rich 3-D games, the computer is already too weak. But he was in the test within nine seconds after use. For Windows machines, this can take many seconds or minutes.
Though no programs are installed and everything is available online only, can Chromebook users access the most important functions: email, surf, chat or write text and edit images. These users need apps that you can download from the Web Store on Google or other sites on the Internet. One example is Google Docs: How to Excel, and PowerPoint can be created with this online version spreadsheets and presentations. Stored the files on Google servers - no longer on the hard drive of your computer.
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With standard Windows or Mac computers, the software is for most applications on the computer itself must Books In contrast, the Chrome user to gather together the applications only. The method is not always practical. As a simple example of a printer is not directly controlled from the Book of Chrome. Are therefore more suited Books Chrome for users who do everything in power anyway, as soon as possible want to go on the internet and mobile. Samsung's new model plays with as well: The battery was tested with a load of nine hours a day through.
It makes sense to use Chrome to make books only when the user logged on to Google and is always online - via a wireless-enabled Internet connection. A connection for wired Internet is not provided. Take off during a train ride around the compound, the data stored in computer memory can be immediately synchronized with those in the data cloud. The continuous online connection has care benefits for most updates, for example, the user no longer has. Every six weeks, the system is brought up to date, there are some minor updates more often. Also, a virus protection is unnecessary, the technicians take over the central server.

Users from anywhere with an Internet connection to access their data. Since the data is stored on Google's servers, must be stolen or damaged hard disk will not lead to the loss of all holiday photos or digital music collection. Chromebook users should keep their access but safely, otherwise criminals could easily access their private information. Can replace a real laptop and not the Chrome Book. It is rather a secondary device, which can take you on trips.

Google Chrome coincides with the promising areas of cloud computing from, mobile web browsing and internet-app, but for now relies on netbooks - and whose future seems to be not particularly rosy. According to a recently published study by market researchers IDC manufacturers will sell this year, three times more tablets than in 2010. Netbooks play a marginal role. Last year, only eight percent wanted to establish the respondents such a small computer, now there were only six percent. "Netbooks are almost dead," warns the author of the study.

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"Harry Potter" website: lots of rumors about Rowling's Potter More

The last part of "Harry Potter" saga is not started in Germany, already makes a new project on the sorcerer's apprentice for excitement. J.K. Rowling's "Potter More" is scheduled to begin next week on the Internet. An RPG, an online encyclopedia or a Potter-network? The author is still mysterious.

from book to film and now the Internet: A new website about the sorcerer Harry Potter attracts the attention of his fans are. On display are on pottermore.com far only two owls and the words "Coming soon ...". Clicking the Owls lead to a YouTube page with a countdown clock ends this coming Thursday 13 German time, and the message "The owls congregate. Find out why."
Within hours the news spread on Friday on the Internet - and triggered the guesswork out loyal fans. In the online social network Twitter already around 40,000 fans went on the trail of the mysterious side. Star author JK Rowling will not tell much yet. Handle is a new project, said a spokeswoman. It is however not a book and have nothing to do with the new film.

In fan forums on the Internet has been speculated that it could be at "More Potter" is a Harry Potter encyclopedia, or an Internet game. A fan of the site claims to have seen already in his own words, described it as "fantatstisch". The brand "More Potter" had let Warner Bros, the studio of the Potter films, secure in 2009. In the description of the brand it is, "Potter More" is an interactive site with chat rooms, a forum and "facilities for real-time interactions with other computer users."

The publication of the new site was preceded by a digital treasure hunt since Wednesday. Gradually, in various fan forums coordinates were written. With a special version of Google Maps introduced this evidence to magical places in the Potter universe. Were these zooms, appeared on the screen one letter. All ten were finally notes the name of the new page.

The seven "Harry Potter" books in more than 65 languages ​​have been translated and sold worldwide more than 400 million times. On 14 July is the eighth and final installment of Harry Potter the movies: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2".

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ZDF: Thomas Bellut elected as the next superintendent

The ZDF Television Council voted on Friday morning, the program director Dr. Thomas Bellut the next will be director of the public broadcaster. In March 2012 he will be succeeded by Markus Schaechter compete.

A surprising result, it is not: As the only candidate nominated Thomas Bellut - and so was his election to the future director of the ZDF basically just a formality. Even if the very fact that there is a choice without a choice between various alternatives, has led to some considerations of democratic public criticism.
The ZDF Television Council Bellut elected overwhelmingly to office. The 56-year-old, who is currently working as program director of the station, received from the present 73 members of the Television Council 70 votes. There was one vote against and two abstentions. For the election of directors is in the Television a three-fifths majority needed, ie Bellut had already passed 47 votes for election.

Ruprecht Polenz, the chairman of the ZDF Television Council had already determined in advance by soundings that Bellut might get the required majority: "We have known for many years and Bellut to his qualities as a manager and program planners assess very well. He is one of the outstanding media manager of this country. He stands for the values ​​of public service broadcasting and for an independent journalism. "

Thomas has a doctorate in political science Bellut. He came over in 1984 as an intern for ZDF. As a journalist he was, among other things by the program "What now ...?" (together with Klaus Bresser) a name. In the 90 years he was also responsible for the election coverage of the ZDF and presented the "political barometer." Since 2002 he is program director of the ZDF.

The ARD chairman Monika Piel congratulated him on his election: "Not only as a program director, but also as a program-maker, he enjoys on the ZDF out a reputation as integrity and straightforward personality."

Bellut on 15 March 2012 to succeed the incumbent director Markus Schaechter compete, who had announced in January, not at his own wish to enter into a re-election.

The director of ZDF is elected for five years. Slaughterer has led the station since 2002.

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Appetite brake of nicotine unraveled

The tobacco is, the excess weight is: This has been seen many people who have stopped smoking. Now, researchers have found in experiments with mice, such as nicotine inhibits the appetite - and hope for new weapons against obesity.

Cigarettes cause disease, but also slim. No sooner have the ex-smokers banished the fags out of their lives, they get it to do with weight gain. On average they lay by 4.5 kilograms. Now U.S. researchers have found a mechanism that curbs the appetite by nicotine.
Actually, the team had studied at Marina Picciotto from Yale University in New Haven (Conn.), a potential drug to treat depression. They found that mice ate less when they got the remedy. The researchers came up with the cause of the appetite-suppressing effects of nicotine: activates the nerve poison, just as the depression drug, a number of receptors in a brain region called the hypothalamus. They signal the body seems to be that he got enough food, the researchers write in the journal Science.

The corresponding nerve cells are called POMC cells. They are not identical with the receptors that influence the desire for nicotine. In mice that did not have the POMC complex, have not worked the nicotine appetite suppressant, the researchers said: The rodents were in the experiment did not become leaner, even if they received nicotine.

Hope for new drugs

The scientists could even make claims to the precise receptor arrest, which is responsible for the effect: a subtype called alpha-3-beta-4. When nicotine was docked to it, whether the POMC neurons were activated and would have slowed the appetite of rodents.
However, the effect on the nerve cells is probably not solely responsible for ensuring that smokers have a lower average body mass index as a Non smoking. The effect of nicotine on the metabolism of a person is held responsible for that increase smokers when they stop smoking.

Picciotto hopes, however, that the findings lead to new drugs for people who want to keep their weight or decrease. "Many people say that they do not stop to smoke because they would then increase," said the professor of Psychiatry. The new results showed that it might be possible to achieve the appetite-suppressing effects of nicotine addiction without risk.

Mariella De Biasi, a member of the research team considers that the study therefore not only for future Non smoking as significant: "The results give us a target for developing drugs that could help control obesity and other metabolic disorders."

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The death toll after EHEC infection is increasing across Europe at 18

Hamburg / Berlin - As a result of infection with the dangerous intestinal germ EHEC on Thursday died again a woman. The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) a 81-year-old died as a spokeswoman said. While the authorities continue to feverishly for the first searched in Spanish cucumber suspected cause of the infections, again demands for compensation for affected farms have been raised.

The treated at the hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf woman was reportedly on the so-called hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) who is ill. Overall, it died in Germany for 17 people from the dangerous infection, but three in Hamburg. In Sweden, a woman had died, who had previously resided in Germany.

Nationwide, nearly 500 people so far in the HUS syndrome suffering that can lead to kidney failure and neurological disorders. Most cases are reported in Hamburg: The UKE on Thursday more than 100 patients were treated for the HUS syndrome, including 27 children and five pregnant women. More than 20 adults were in the ICU.

The investigation into the cause of the infection lasted on Thursday. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) interviewed, according to the UKE spokesperson patients in Hamburg and other clinics. The first possible suspect connected Cucumber Spanish authorities on Wednesday as the source of infection: The Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) reported that the pathogen on all four cucumbers which is responsible for the current outbreak of bacterial type are identical. Three of the cucumbers were from Spain, the origin of the fourth was initially remained unclear.

The health authorities are advising consumers, as a precaution, especially in northern Germany is not raw cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce to eat. The Greens accused the Federal Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner (CSU) before, let the citizens despite the growing number of diseases in the lurch. Help of the federal government in the form of a one-stop shop "one looks in vain," criticized the consumer spokesperson for the Greens, Nicole Maisch, on Thursday.

BfR-Chef Andreas Hensel, however, warned against panic. The pathogen was undoubtedly very dangerous, he told the TV magazine "At a glance". But "who is behaving correctly, remains healthy, with almost certainly". According to a survey published on Wednesday because of EHEC changed every second German diet and avoid raw vegetables. Because of the threat of infection were only 40 percent of respondents somewhat concerned, 34 percent no, according to a Forsa survey commissioned by the organizers of the Science Year Health Research.

The farmers' association called for, however, of a lower level of compensation for the affected farmers selling vegetables. Bauer President Gerd Sonnleitner quantified in the Passauer Neue Presse on Thursday the feared loss of the week "about 30 million €. Many businesses were facing ruin. Sonnleitner urged the Federal Government and the EU to take up the vegetable farmers with short-term financial compensation under the arms. Aigner wants with EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciollos talking about possible aid.

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