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BOOK REVIEW: 'Death by China': China's 'Economic Miracle' Beggars Its Own ...

The People's Republic of China, as portrayed by Peter Navarro and Greg Autry in their pull-no-punches "Death by China: Confronting the Dragon -- A Global Call to Action" (Prentice Hall, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc., Saddle River, NJ, 300 pages, $25.99, notes, index) is not unlike that orphan boy as it yells "China basher"  at anyone who criticizes its neo-mercantilist, beggar-thy-neighbor economic policies.  Navarro, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of California-Irvine, and Autry, the founder of several technology firms who has visited China many times and lectures on its tactics,  say that China --  the Communist country that acts like the capitalist Robber Barons of America a century or so ago --  is now the Number One danger facing America. Author (The Coming China Wars) and economist  Navarro exposes every form of "death by China"—from lethal products to espionage, imperialism, and nuclear proliferation through China's relentless attack on the U.S. economy. Take Apple, for instance. I have three Apple computers, a Mac mini, a 2007 iMac and a MacbookPro laptop. Apple is based in Cupertino, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley, but Apples aren't manufactured in Santa Clara County: They're "designed by Apple in California and assembled in China" according to wording on the bottom of my laptop. My Mac mini is hooked up to a flat screen TV, providing me with a beautiful large view...Where is the RCA TV made: You guessed it, China. And where did I buy it? Walmart, of course, which is in effect a wholly controlled subsidiary of Red China Inc.   The authors talk about shoddy products from China -- and there are plenty to choose from as the weekly product recall stories posted on this site amply demonstrate -- but my experience has been that most Chinese products are well made and dependable. You'll get my Macintoshes from me only by prying them from  my cold, dead fingers!

Alleged Hard Shell Case For The iPhone 5 Surfaces ... - Black News Box

Is very confident on the outcome of the final design, and has subsequently added hard-shell cases to the roster in anticipation of the launch, expected to be early October.

Once again, the cases ratify the long-standing inclination that Apple will be opting for a more rounded back plate as opposed to the flatness of the iPhone 4′s rear end.

It is important to ignore the insert, which appears to be cardboard, and represents the front of the iPhone 4 rather than the iPhone 5, which is rumored to have a larger home button to accommodate a gesture-based system as well as a larger home screen.

This angle reveals all the usual slots you would expect to see including a gap for the camera and headphones, as well as the sleep and volume buttons, none of which appear to have been moved. Apple has in the past regularly tinkered with the positions of certain functions on iDevices – notably the earphone jack, which has previously been seen on the bottom, as well as the top in the middle, right, and left hand sides. But in the iPhone’s case, the headphone jack has never been moved.

The cases are available  here in an abundance of colors alongside many other iPhone 5 goodies including replacement earphone jacks and camera parts. One has to wonder whether anyone is actually purchasing any of this stuff. Although it seems foregone certainty that there will be a new iPhone sometime within the next six weeks, nothing has been set in stone and there have been many conflicting reports of how the final design will actually look. It’s novel to get ahead of the market, but stocking up on alleged products seems a tad reckless.

Would you be happy with a curved back – potentially following a similar suit to the iPad 2, or are you happier with the symmetricity of the iPhone 4?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent

In cold blood, a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

The kite runner

Traces the unlikely friendship of Amir, a wealthy Afghanistani youth, and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of the nation's monarchy through ...

The Republic

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years.