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Show WEDNESDAY, MARCH DIXIESUNLINK.COM 10- -- 28 Girls Insight tackles dating a best friends H., A and students weigh in the REDefine campaign at dixiesunlink.com Q Nintendo iPad May the Geek Be With You discerns the differences BY RHETT SULLIVAN Copy Editor , y n. ( Jr The launch of the iPad 3 got me wonder- ing about handheld device trends, which made me think: IPad is the Gameboy for grown-up- s. There are many parallels that can be drawn between Apple devices, such as the iPad and the Nintendo Gameboy. Neither creators at Apple and Nintendo invented the idea of their products, but through similar strategies they have stayed on top of sales. The Nintendo Gameboy wasnt the first handheld gaming system. However, it was the first successful one. The Gameboy provided an easy, relatively cheap experience. Most importantly, it provided good games. There have been many handhelds that have tried to compete with the Gameboy, such as the Sega Game Gear and the Neo Geo. Both of them had color before the Gameboy and both had more power, but they still couldnt compete. What Nintendo creators did that was so smart was they kept the Gameboy cheaper, gave it a longer battery life, and always had better games. With these three things it wasnt until Sony made the Playstation Portable that there was ever any real com- cion 0tstu m Im fun for be ,30 the V kids and fit in your pocket! rease dfror read tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of words on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the South Florida teenager whose shooting death last month at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer has become a national symbol of continuing American racism. But in all those words, there are three that havent come up that seem worth remembering to me: Duke lacrosse team. In 2006, the phrase Duke lacrosse team was seething shorthand for the evocation of racial power and privilege, the everybody-knows-- it truism that to be white and wealthy was a license to rape and plunder other races, the moral certainty that for all our cheap rhetoric to the contrary, millennial America was really just 1955 Mississippi dressed up with an affirmative action program or two. A young black stripper told police that, at a drunken party thrown by captains of the nearly Duke lacrosse team, she was choked, raped and sodomized for 30 minutes by three all-whi- te ;esa According to an article on cnet.com by David . Camoy titled Sony Vitas Launch, Success or Failure, PSP Vita. Apples strategies of selling its products has been similar. Apple creators didnt invent the idea of a tablet, but they reinvented it into something that sells like crazy. Apple differs from Nintendo in the sense that creators at Apple generally dont try to keep their product cheaper than their competitor. Instead, they go for a sleek, quality feel for their products that usually cost their costumers extra bucks. But, V ( Ya, but Im bigger v V VW: 0 . c tm Overnight, the strippers story turned from an accusation to the national common wisdom. Mobs swarmed around the home of the lacrosse players, banging pots and pans. Wanted posters bearing the names and photos of 40 players were posted around campus. The teams games were canceled, its coach fired. Any attempt by the lacrosse players to defend themselves became further evidence of their guilt. When the players said they wanted to consult with attorneys before complying with a police request for DNA samples, cable news video lynchmistress Nancy Grace was incredulous. Youre kidding, right? she squawked, adding that their house ought to be burned down. The p- jstlyi i;ara uplai ; ions, ,.ie mi :ir sit Si Ge tans h1 'iind1 mi in The Nintendo hand-hel- d system caters to children, while the iPad is tailored for adult use. But Rhett Sul ifttgli livan contends the child in all of us is the reason the iPad is so successful. nans that Apple has one of the most powerful tablets on the market right now. The new A5X chip is capable of quad-cor- e graphics, but all of the specifications arent exactly clear. Similar App Store to stay on top of sales. According to another and wealth. jgas f' platforms. players. Rich white-bo- y jocks black despoil poor girl working her way through college! A building-fu- ll of progressive sociologists working round the clock for a week couldnt have come up with a story that pushed more hot buttons on race, gender 'hem and more expensive! r to Gameboy, I wouldnt be surprised if Apples competitors make a more With the launch of the new iPad 3, it is possible Since end E the iPad tends to have a better battery life, and the App Store though the Android Marketplace might be catching has the most apps up out of all of the other string-em-all-u- or e petition. powerful tablet. Apple seems to rely more on other things, such as battery life, design and the article on cnet.com by Harry McCracken titled IOS vs. Android: Lots of stats, Little Clarity, it is quite possible that if you combine both phones and tablets, then Google is probably selling more units. But it says Apple is still selling more tablets, and with revenue from apps, Apple still brings in more money annually than Google. While it is true that the Gameboy DS and 3DS appeal to an older audience with games like Brain Age, most Gameboy games are for adolescents and younger audiences. Also, iPad definitely has games and apps for kids, but with all of the organization, business and practical apps, it is marketed more toward an older audience. The the big difference between Gameboy and the iPad is a Gameboy was something I would hide behind a book in middle school during ap- proach was by no means restricted to the perpetually belligerent Grace. Selena Roberts, now with Sports Illustrated but then a New York Times columnist, said that the refusal of the players to identity the rapists among their ranks was a conspiracy of silence. The possibility that there were no rapists was, well, impossible, for the intersection of entitlement and enablement, there is Duke University, virtuous on the outside, debauched on the inside. Even Dukes own faculty scoffed at the idea that anybody needed to wait for judicial due process. Were turning up the volume, 88 professors wrote in a letter to the student newspaper. To the students speaking individually and to the protesters making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for making yourselves heard. By not waiting, they also made themselves look like fools. In the courtroom, where evidence counted for more than righteous outrage and political cant, the case against class, and an iPad is what college students read their books on in college. A Gameboy is toy; an iPad is a practical a device. Moms and dads around the world will still be buying their kids Game-boys, but their children U CHI It , - wont be the only ones with handheld devices The iPad has so much utility but still has plenty of potential V for fun. Its no wonder so many want to get grown-up- s their hands on one. side nee h against calling racism on Trayvon Martin shooting Ive yro' Hones Public too quick to judge in Fla. teen killing Columnist cautions BY GLENN GARVIN MCT to i 'If the lacrosse players was mass of homicidal racTraces ism. of the DNA of several I only want one men were found on the thing, said U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, strippers body, but not one of them matched to last week. Its real a member of the Duke ' simple: I want an arrest. team. Based on what? Not a A second stripper at single shred of evidence the party said the two to surface publicly conwomen were together for tradicts Zimmermans all but about five minstory that he was trying utes of the evening and to follow Martin, who she didnt see any rape. confronted him, jumped d him and then began photos showed that the stripper banging his head on the was already scratched ground. The only witness and bruised when she to their struggle whos arrived at the house. come forward supported When the charges were Zimmermans account in a weekend interview finally dropped a year later, North Carolinas with a Tampa TV station. He could be lying, of attorney general took the unusual step of saying course, or mistaken. And that the players were not there may be other witmerely not guilty, but nesses who will testify actually innocent, the differently. I have no victims of a tragic rush idea what happened that to accuse. night. But neither does The cases prosecutor Jesse Jackson, who last was dismissed, disbarred week explained that and jailed for his outraMartin was shot because geous misconduct. killing us is big busiSix years later, we ness. You remember Jesse. may be leading another He s the one who said tragic rush to accuse in the Trayvon Martin case. the Duke lacrosse playThe man ers were just acting out who shot Martin, George the special fantasies Zimmerman, has aland realities of exploitation. Even when ready been convicted in they public opinion inflamed werent. by political quacks and (c)2012 The Miami hacks and race huckster Herald. 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