After working with Windows 8 beta I can honestly say I see a bright future for Apple.
Being a beta in a beta profession, I know that adopting the attitude that it is OK to be a beta is considered subversive.
When I first signed up for the service, shortly after the beta launch in 2008, I primarily used it as a recipe book.
ENGADGET: IRL: Evernote, Netgear N900 and FiiO's E17 headphone amplifier
These are early beta versions of diagrams I am develloping as part of the research for my next book, so there are certainly going to be flaws (not the least of which is specificity to the American case).
After a few months of beta testing for Anybots, I'm completely in love with it.
ENGADGET: Self-balancing Anybots QB now shipping, the future of telepresence is now (video)
After playing some of the multi-player beta on PlayStation Plus, I can say with some certainty that the game does indeed look fantastic.
Below is a list of stocks I own for the Beta Fund based on the above mentioned factors, which include stable but growing businesses, strong balance sheets and (in most cases) income.
In any case, withholding judgment on Diablo 3 for the time being (though I had more fun with the Torchlight 2 beta and prefer the simple DRM Runic Games includes to Blizzards always-online requirement) I still think that the release of a major PC title is a welcome event.
The upcoming MMO Guild Wars 2 made a very good impression with me when I played it in its beta form back in May: it was both easy to play and easy to become engaged.
FORBES: Guild Wars 2 Gets a Launch Date (and a Final Beta Weekend)
WAP, I predict, will be the "beta" system of the mobile world.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Letter from Japan: Whale of a Problem
Now about 1, 000 strong, and less than two years old, it is finishing beta testing on its Level 1 certification program as I type.
Yours truly is speaking on a panel at the Summit and promises to share anything I learn in the process with Clean Beta readers.
The official syncing program for Mac users isn't available yet, but I had a chance to try the beta version, and it was surprisingly smooth at syncing music from my iTunes library and photos and video from iPhoto.
Now that so much of the beta has been harvested from the fixed income market, I will focus my next blog on the importance of security selection through active management.
FORBES: Bank Loans vs. High Yield Bonds And The Hunt For Safety
Just after the media event ended I stayed around to try the service, still in beta, and found it quite addictive.
Since the market has a beta of 1.0, a fund with a higher beta, say 1.2, would be considered riskier (i.e. more volatile) than the market.
Here is the setup of these studies: Take people who have just had something very bad happen to them, like a motor vehicle accident or a rape, and within a few hours or a day or two at most, flip a coin and put half these people on a beta blocker and half on an inactive substance that looks the same (i.e. placebo).
The Quicktime CODECs I have been using other than the MPEG-2 CODEC are in beta and all were universal binaries.
In fact, I'm actually considering rejoining the sport as a doubles player, and with a beta-blocker.
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