The Ouya Kickstarter-funded android based game console has been eagerly awaited by gamers. And since the launch it seems the eagerness has evaporated, as a mere 27% (or less than a third) have paid for a single game.
The $99 console launched last month is by definition a cheap entry into the console market, and will appeal to those that are fed up with paying $40-60 for a game,? but it would be like buying a new Xbox one and not bothering to buy a game!
Many android games are of the ?freemium? variety, that is you can download a free version and pay if you want extra level or the full version. And of course, the android system makes for a great streaming device and XBMC media platform.
Most early buyers of the fledgling game console have been crowdsource investors, so possible the console is more of a trophy than a working product, and it could be that the second wave of public Ouya buyers may be a little less ?tight?.
Speaking to The Verge CEO of Ouya, Julie Uhrman put on a brave face saying that sales have been, ?better than expected,? and that, ? For 13 of the top 20 games on the system, at least eight percent of free downloads are converted into a paid purchase.?
And pointing to the fact is has literally just been released she said, ?I think there are a lot of social and mobile app developers that would kill for an 8 percent attach rate on a platform that?s 30 days old. These numbers will grow as more gamers pick up consoles and as we attract more developers, and I believe that by the end of the year we?ll see a few developers telling us they?ve made more than a million dollars on Ouya.?
As if the low sales are not bad enough, soon Ouya will have to contend with a rival android console from Google according to the WSJ. They report that the search engine giant are designing and marketing the device themselves following the success of Android which powers over 75% of all smartphones.
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Rush Limbaugh went after the so-called GOP establishment on Friday for avoiding measures to defund Obamacare, dismissing claims that shutting down the government shutdown over the law would backfire as it did for Republicans in 1995, and arguing that DOMA provided a model for reversing seemingly entrenched legislation.
?It?s the most unpopular federal program ever, and the Republican Party is choosing not to align themselves with the majority of the American people,? Limbaugh said. ?It just boggles the mind.?
Limbaugh excoriated the GOP for running from Senator Mike Lee?s recent proposal to threaten a government shutdown over funding for the Affordable Care Act:
?Folks, the Republican establishment?the GOP, RNC?is not interested in this at all. Quite the contrary. I mean, we?ve got Republican Party leaders actually advocating for the total implementation of Obamacare now, under the theory, ?Look, it?s law. You can?t stop it. And, if you shut down the government, the Republicans are gonna get blamed again just like 1995. It?s a lose-lose proposition. Just go ahead and let the law be implemented and watch it implode and kill the Democrats that way.? And I don?t intellectually understand it.?
?There?s a great story by Daniel Mitchell, National Review Online posted all the way back in February of 2011,? Limbaugh said. ?It is a great detailed story of how the 1995 budget shutdown really did not hurt the Republican Party. It wasn?t a deathblow. And in fact, not only did it not really do that much damage to the party, it was a good thing for the country.?
Limbaugh then argued that the Democrats? defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act could be used as a model for overturning unpopular legislation. ?The Republican Party has made the decision to side with Washington,? he said. ??Well, you know, it?s law now. We can?t stop it.? Well, I?m sorry, but the Defense of Marriage Act was the law, and Obama and the Democrats said, ?You know what? We?re not gonna defend it anymore. We?re not gonna litigate it. We?re not gonna enforce it.? And that was a Democrat law!?
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The retail game is all about scraping big profits out of tiny margins, and nowhere is that more evident than in Amazon's latest financial report. The company managed grow revenue by 22 percent year-over-year between April and June, and yet it confounded analysts' predictions by making a loss of $7 million, versus a $7 million profit in the same quarter last year. Then again,the loss has been attributed to the fact that Amazon is pushing to expand beyond the retail game, by investing heavily in its Kindle business, digital downloads and streaming products, as well as in building a bigger presence in China. This has been the company's strategy for a while, of course, and it's not the first time it has been pushed into the red as a result. But Jeff Bezos says that his company's top ten selling products last quarter were all either Kindles, accessories for Kindles, or digital content for Kindles, which suggests the transformation is steadily having an impact, even if it's proving expensive.
Rensselaer scientist Susan Gilbert awarded $2 million NIH MERIT AwardPublic release date: 25-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Mary Martialay martim12@rpi.edu 518-276-2146 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Long-term grant recognizes a legacy of outstanding research contributions
Troy, N.Y. Susan Gilbert, professor and head of the Department of Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council National Institutes of Health (NIH) Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award, a recognition of the high quality of her research contributions over time. The MERIT Award offers long-term grant support to investigators of proven research competence and productivity and is expected to facilitate creative, innovative research that will have an exceptional impact on the field.
"Susan is to be congratulated for a very significant and rare achievement in earning an NIH MERIT award," said Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer. "It's a well-earned recognition of the long-standing, extremely high quality of her research. The award provides her the freedom to explore cutting-edge scientific ideas in ways that wouldn't otherwise have been possible. The National Institutes of Heath are to be commended for working to enable their researchers to seek paradigm-shifting breakthroughs."
The MERIT grant will support Gilbert's continuing research of kinesins, a class of molecular motors that ferry cargo along the cytoskeleton of a cell. The overall goal of her research proposal is to understand how the mechanochemistry of kinesin motors underlies their ability to promote intracellular transport, generation of cell polarity, and remodeling of the microtubule cytoskeleton for cell division, cell differentiation, and morphogenesis during human development. Her work could shed light on diverse pathologies that have been linked to defects in kinesins, including cancer, ciliopathies, neuropathies, and birth defects. Gilbert's research contributes to the School of Science interdisciplinary science theme of "biomedical science and applications."
"NIGMS selected Dr. Gilbert for a MERIT award in recognition of her pioneering work on microtubule motor proteins, which has set the standard for other researchers in the field," said Joe Gindhart, Ph.D., the program director who manages Gilbert's NIGMS grant. "Her work has the potential to enhance our understanding of how motor proteins work to segregate chromosomes, build cilia and move organelles in nerve cells, and to help explain how defects in motor protein function contribute to cancer, neurological diseases, and other conditions."
The MERIT award includes an initial award of about $2 million over five years, accompanied by the opportunity of funding for an additional three to five years. "I am thrilled to receive the NIH MERIT Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which has funded my research program since 1996," said Gilbert. "The overarching goal of my research program is to understand how molecular motors generate force and to apply this insight to understand their roles in cell organization and function in normal and in diseased states. This award will allow us to continue this important fundamental research and to pursue higher risk scientific questions to define the relationships between kinesin structure, mechanochemistry, and function."
Gilbert received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and a doctorate in cell biology from Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on cellular movements, and the molecular motors that drive these movements to better understand cellular function and dysfunctions. She performed much of her early research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. She completed her postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University. Gilbert received an NIH Career Development Award through the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Gilbert is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the Biophysical Society serving as a member of Council and chair of the membership committee, a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She served on the editorial boards for the Biophysical Journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nanomedicine, and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine.
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Rensselaer scientist Susan Gilbert awarded $2 million NIH MERIT AwardPublic release date: 25-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Mary Martialay martim12@rpi.edu 518-276-2146 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Long-term grant recognizes a legacy of outstanding research contributions
Troy, N.Y. Susan Gilbert, professor and head of the Department of Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council National Institutes of Health (NIH) Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award, a recognition of the high quality of her research contributions over time. The MERIT Award offers long-term grant support to investigators of proven research competence and productivity and is expected to facilitate creative, innovative research that will have an exceptional impact on the field.
"Susan is to be congratulated for a very significant and rare achievement in earning an NIH MERIT award," said Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer. "It's a well-earned recognition of the long-standing, extremely high quality of her research. The award provides her the freedom to explore cutting-edge scientific ideas in ways that wouldn't otherwise have been possible. The National Institutes of Heath are to be commended for working to enable their researchers to seek paradigm-shifting breakthroughs."
The MERIT grant will support Gilbert's continuing research of kinesins, a class of molecular motors that ferry cargo along the cytoskeleton of a cell. The overall goal of her research proposal is to understand how the mechanochemistry of kinesin motors underlies their ability to promote intracellular transport, generation of cell polarity, and remodeling of the microtubule cytoskeleton for cell division, cell differentiation, and morphogenesis during human development. Her work could shed light on diverse pathologies that have been linked to defects in kinesins, including cancer, ciliopathies, neuropathies, and birth defects. Gilbert's research contributes to the School of Science interdisciplinary science theme of "biomedical science and applications."
"NIGMS selected Dr. Gilbert for a MERIT award in recognition of her pioneering work on microtubule motor proteins, which has set the standard for other researchers in the field," said Joe Gindhart, Ph.D., the program director who manages Gilbert's NIGMS grant. "Her work has the potential to enhance our understanding of how motor proteins work to segregate chromosomes, build cilia and move organelles in nerve cells, and to help explain how defects in motor protein function contribute to cancer, neurological diseases, and other conditions."
The MERIT award includes an initial award of about $2 million over five years, accompanied by the opportunity of funding for an additional three to five years. "I am thrilled to receive the NIH MERIT Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which has funded my research program since 1996," said Gilbert. "The overarching goal of my research program is to understand how molecular motors generate force and to apply this insight to understand their roles in cell organization and function in normal and in diseased states. This award will allow us to continue this important fundamental research and to pursue higher risk scientific questions to define the relationships between kinesin structure, mechanochemistry, and function."
Gilbert received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and a doctorate in cell biology from Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on cellular movements, and the molecular motors that drive these movements to better understand cellular function and dysfunctions. She performed much of her early research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. She completed her postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University. Gilbert received an NIH Career Development Award through the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Gilbert is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the Biophysical Society serving as a member of Council and chair of the membership committee, a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She served on the editorial boards for the Biophysical Journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nanomedicine, and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine.
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Cancer Research UK and Dundee based developer Guerilla Tea have joined forces to create GeneGame, a mobile title that will allow gamers to analyse gene data and contribute to the fight against cancer.
"We're absolutely delighted to have been selected by Cancer Research UK for this project," said Guerilla Tea CEO Mark Hastings.
"We've always believed games technology has the potential to provide huge benefits to other sectors and this project will be a wonderful example of that. We're very excited to get started and through our work look forward to helping speed up discoveries that one day might lead to new cancer treatments."
In March Cancer Research UK held a gamejam in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Facebook and Google, where academics, scientists, gamers and designers created 12 gaming prototypes based on the needs of the charity's gene research. GeneGame will build on those foundations, and is due to be completed later this year.
Gamers are a useful resource for this particular brand of research, as the "terabytes upon petabytes" of data created can only be accurately analysed by the human eye. Utilising gamer's free time is an effective way of speeding up that process.
"We're right at the start of a world-first initiative that will result in a game that we hope hundreds of thousands of people across the globe will want to play over and over again and, at the same time, generate robust scientific data analysis," added Amy Carton, citizen science lead for Cancer Research UK.
"Combining complicated cancer research data and gaming technology in this way has never been done before and it's certainly no mean feat but we're working with the best scientific and technology brains in the business, we're ready for the challenge and believe the results will have global impact and speed up research."
This isn't the first time gamers have been given the chance to contribute to scientific research. In 2000 a programme called Folding@home launched which used people's home computers and PlayStation 3 consoles to to carry out molecular dynamics research. During its lifetime the PlayStation version of the programme had a huge impact, with 15 million users contributing more than 100 million hours of computation to Folding@home
The House bill rolls back much of the accountability requirements for the No Child Left Behind law. It also locks in lower levels of federal funding. The Obama administration threatened a veto.
By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,?Staff writer / July 19, 2013
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) of Ohio, smiles as he walks to the floor of the House of Representatives as the GOP majority passed legislation to replace the No Child Left Behind law, in Washington, Friday, July 19. Supporters of HR 5, the Student Success Act, say it restores flexibility to local school districts, gives broader choice to parents, and encourages innovation by scaling back the federal footprint.
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Six years after Congress was supposed to reauthorize the federal No Child Left Behind education law, the US House of Representatives passed a bill ? with no Democratic support ? that would roll back much of the law?s accountability requirements and lock in lower levels of education funding.
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Supporters of HR 5, the Student Success Act, say it restores flexibility to local school districts, gives broader choice to parents, and encourages innovation by scaling back the federal footprint. Opponents say it would reverse longstanding efforts to improve education, particularly for the most disadvantaged groups of children.
In order for the law, formally the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to be reauthorized, both the House and Senate would have to come to some agreement, but the differences between the House bill and the Senate bill (which has not yet come up for a vote) are so vast that many education stakeholders believe reauthorization is still a long way off.
The Obama administration issued a veto threat in advance of Friday?s House vote. The bill passed by a vote of 221 to 207. Twelve Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the bill.
Currently, dozens of states are operating under waivers from the US Department of Education, which relieve them from some provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that many agree are flawed and onerous. Those waivers come with conditions that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sees as key to keeping states moving forward on boosting standards to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for college and careers.
To many Republicans, the Department has overstepped its bounds with such conditions, a point made by Rep. John Kline (R) of Minnesota, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, when he urged his colleagues to pass the bill Friday. ?It?s time for the Congress ?? to step up and do its job ? and get the [Obama] administration out of the business of writing education policy,? he said.
Rep. George Miller (D) of California, the top Democrat on the education committee, fiercely opposed the bill Friday, and argued for a substitute proposal, saying the fight was ?about education justice and whether or not every student ? is going to have a high quality education that no longer depends on their zipcode.?
In addition to letting states and districts off the hook for key accountability measures, Representative Miller said, the bill would lock in sequestration-level funding, cuts that would amount to ?stealing from the poorest people in this country to achieve deficit reduction.?
Rush Limbaugh went after the so-called GOP establishment on Friday for avoiding measures to defund Obamacare, dismissing claims that shutting down the government shutdown over the law would backfire as it did for Republicans in 1995, and arguing that DOMA provided a model for reversing seemingly entrenched legislation. 
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