Vin Diesel shared a little bit more on how he is coping after the sudden death of his friend and "Fast and Furious" co-star Paul Walker, posting to his Facebook page on Friday.Vin Diesel shared a little bit more on how he is coping after the sudden death of his friend and "Fast and Furious" co-star Paul Walker, posting to his Facebook page on Friday,
"When I heard, I immediately flew back to California, and went directly from the plane to his mother's house...
I thought they needed my strength, but realized when I got there and broke down before his family, that it was I who needed theirs.
His mother hugged me and said I am so sorry... I said sorry? You're the mother who lost a son?... She said yes, but you lost your other half..."
Now we know Diesel sprung into action when he heard the news, heading straight to Walker's mother, Cheryl Walker. Indeed, the late actor's father, Paul Walker Sr., confirmed with members of the media earlier this week that his family received a visit from Diesel, saying the 46-year-old actor had to take a minute to compose himself before stepping out of his car to greet the grieving family.
Diesel has shared his thoughts publicly just a few times since Walker's death, referring to the late actor as his brother in an earlier Facebook post and also showing up to the crash site that claimed Walker's life.
At the site on Monday, Diesel told a crowd of fans, "The love that you've shown Paul, it's going to stay with me forever ... Thank you for showing that angel up in heaven how much you appreciate him."
Meanwhile, Walker's castmate Michelle Rodriguez, has remained relatively quiet and respectful. Like Diesel and also "Fast" co-star Tyrese, the actress visited Walker's parents, but has otherwise remained out of the public eye.
She has shared only a few thoughts on Twitter, including a note on Thursday that reflected what she's going through in the wake of Walker's passing: "What happens when kindness begins to depart the planet one by one? Is there enough time to learn, evolve, do something, in-between the extinction of kindness and our stint of a lifetime ... mortality makes me realize life is not just accumulated moments and memories, some people touch your soul and make you see unconditional love in all it's innocence. In my eyes, Those kind people, are the most powerful forces on the planet ;) You can't run away from feeling Empathy or a sense of mystery in Life can you?"
In contrast, Tyrese has been open and vocal about his grief, his latest tweets spurring fans to donate to Walker's charity.
@Tyrese : As you guys are doing memorial cruises let's continue his efforts to save lives Paul's ROWW donate here!
Just Thursday, "Fast" actor and rapper Ludacris posted a photo in rememberance of his fallen friend:
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson simply acknowledged that it's been a tough week:
@The Rock : 'Sometimes you eat the bear.. and sometimes the bear eats you'. Tough week, but it ain't how you start - it's how you finish.
The Bust Of Microsoft's Xbox One
Source : Forbes
The Bust Of Microsoft's Xbox One
Source : Forbes
Not A Twerking Perfromance From Miley,Again
Miley Cyrus decked the halls in a scanty red Santa outfit at Friday's Jingle Ball concert in L.A., where she took the stage to perform a glittery rendition of "#Getitright." The 21-year-old singer couldn't make it through the performance without twerking all up on Santa and, of course, rubbing a dwarf's cone bra. She flounced through the number with a fluffy Chanel bag hanging from her shoulder and a microphone shaped like a candy cane. Watch the performance above, or just soak it in with these highlights.
Are You Intelligent Emotionaly ?
What makes some people more successful in work and life than others? IQ and work ethic are important, but they don't tell the whole story. Our emotional intelligence -- the way we manage emotions, both our own and those of others -- can play a critical role in determining our happiness and success.
Plato said that all learning has some emotional basis, and he may be right. The way we interact with and regulate our emotions has repercussions in nearly every aspect of our lives. To put it in colloquial terms, emotional intelligence (EQ) is like "street smarts," as opposed to "book smarts," and it's what accounts for a great deal of one's ability to navigate life effectively.
Not sure how emotionally intelligent you are? Here are 14 signs you have a high EQ.
1. You're curious about people you don't know.
Do you love meeting new people, and naturally tend to ask lots of questions after you've been introduced to someone? If so, you have a certain degree of empathy, one of the main components of emotional intelligence. Highly Empathetic People (HEPs) -- those who are extremely attuned to the needs and feelings of others, and act in a way that is sensitive to those needs -- have one important thing in common: They're very curious about strangers and genuinely interested in learning more about others.
Being curious about others is also a way to cultivate empathy. "Curiosity expands our empathy when we talk to people outside our usual social circle, encountering lives and worldviews very different from our own," Roman Krznaric, author of the forthcoming Empathy: A Handbook For Revolution, wrote in a Greater Good blog post.
2. You're a great leader.
Exceptional leaders often have one thing in common, according to Goleman. In addition to the traditional requirements for success -- talent, a strong work ethic and ambition, for instance -- they possess a high degree of emotional intelligence. In his research comparing those who excelled in senior leadership roles with those who were merely average, he found that close to 90 percent of the difference in their profiles was due to emotional intelligence, rather than cognitive ability.
"The higher the rank of a person considered to be a star performer, the more emotional intelligence capabilities showed up as the reason for his or her effectiveness," Goleman wrote in Harvard Business Review.
3. You know your strengths and weaknesses.
A big part of having self-awareness is being honest with yourself about who you are -- knowing where you excel, and where you struggle, and accepting these things about yourself. An emotionally intelligent person learns to identify their areas of strength and weakness, and analyze how to work most effectively within this framework. This awareness breeds the strong self-confidence that's a main factor of emotional intelligence, according to Goleman.
"If you know what you're truly effective at, then you can operate from that with confidence," he says.
4. You know how to pay attention.
Do you get distracted by every tweet, text and passing thought? If so, it could be keeping you from functioning on your most emotionally intelligent level. But the ability to withstand distractions and focus on the task at hand is a great secret to emotional intelligence, Goleman says. Without being present with ourselves and others, it's difficult to develop self-awareness and strong relationships.
"Your ability to concentrate on the work you're doing or your schoolwork, and to put off looking at that text or playing that video game until after you're done ... how good you are at that in childhood turns out to be a stronger predictor of your financial success in adulthood than either your IQ or the wealth of the family you grew up in," Goleman says. "And we can teach kids how to do that."
5. When you're upset, you know exactly why.
We all experience a number of emotional fluctuations throughout the day, and often we don't even understand what's causing a wave of anger or sadness. But an important aspect of self-awareness is the ability to recognize where your emotions are coming from and to know why you feel upset.
Self-awareness is also about recognizing emotions when they arise, rather than misidentifying or ignoring them. Emotionally intelligent people take a step back from their emotions, look at what they're feeling, and examine the effect that the emotion has on them.
6. You can get along with most people.
"Having fulfilling, effective relationships -- that's a sign [of emotional intelligence]," says Goleman.
7. You care deeply about being a good, moral person.
One aspect of emotional intelligence is our "moral identity," which has to do with the extent to which we want to see ourselves as ethical, caring people. If you're someone who cares about building up this side of yourself (regardless of how you've acted in past moral situations), you might have a high EQ.
8. You take time to slow down and help others.
If you make a habit of slowing down to pay attention to others, whether by going slightly out your way to say hello to someone or helping an older woman onto the subway, you're exhibiting emotional intelligence. Many of us, a good portion of the time, are completely focused on ourselves. And it's often because we're so busy running around in a stressed-out state trying to get things done that we simply don't take the time to notice (much less help) others.
"[There's a] spectrum that goes from complete self-absorption to noticing to empathy and to compassion," Goleman said in a TED talk on compassion. "The simple fact is that if we are focused on ourselves, if we're preoccupied -- which we so often are throughout the day -- we don't really fully notice the other."
Being more mindful, in contrast to being absorbed in your own little world, plants the seeds of compassion -- a crucial component of EQ.
9. You're good at reading people's facial expressions.
Being able to sense how others are feeling is an important part of having a good EQ. Take this quiz from UC Berkeley to find out just how skilled you are at reading others' emotions.
10. After you fall, you get right back up.
How you deal with mistakes and setbacks says a lot about who you are. High EQ individuals know that if there's one thing we all must do in life, it's to keep on going. When an emotionally intelligent person experiences a failure or setback, he or she is able to bounce back quickly. This is in part because of the ability to mindfully experience negative emotions without letting them get out of control, which provides a higher degree of resilience.
“The resilient person isn’t papering over the negative emotions, but instead letting them sit side by side with other feelings," Positivity author Barbara Fredrickson told Experience Life. "So at the same time they’re feeling ‘I’m sad about that,’ they’re also prone to thinking, ‘but I’m grateful about this.’”
11. You're a good judge of character.
You've always been able to get a sense for who someone is pretty much right off the bat -- and your intuitions are rarely wrong.
12. You trust your gut.
An emotionally intelligent person is someone who feels comfortable following their intuition, says Goleman. If you're able to trust in yourself and your emotions, there's no reason not to listen to that quiet voice inside (or that feeling in your stomach) telling you which way to go.
13. You've always been self-motivated.
Were you always ambitious and hard-working as a kid, even when you weren't rewarded for it? If you're a motivated self-starter -- and you can focus your attention and energy towards the pursuit of your goals -- you likely have a high EQ.
14. You know when to say "no."
Self-regulation, one of the five components of emotional intelligence, means being able to discipline yourself and avoid unhealthy habits. Emotionally intelligent people are generally well equipped to tolerate stress (a bad-habit trigger for many of us) and to control their impulses, according to Goleman.
How To Connect A PS4 Controller To A PC
Sony excited a number of gamers when it announced that its PS4 controller would be compatible with PCs by default. Although Sony's novel touchpad would not work with computer games at the outset, there was no reason, the company explained, why gamers couldn't simply plug in the controller and play.
The sentiment was not wrong, exactly, but it may have been overly optimistic. The PS4 controller works with the PC in much the same way that a fungus is technically a living thing: It superficially satisfies the requirements while laying bare a number of baffling, underlying inconsistencies.
Still, if you want to try it for yourself (and there's no reason why you shouldn't, if you own a PS4 controller and a gaming PC), the process is both quick and easy.
1. Connect the controller. First, grab your PS4 controller and your micro-USB cable (you may need a slightly longer one than the model that comes with the PS4). Plug the controller into your PC with the cable, and wait until Windows installs the requisite drivers.
2. Access the controller's properties. Navigate to the Devices and Printers menu in the Control Panel (not the Device Manager). On the top Devices menu, the PS4 controller will appear as "Wireless Controller."Right-click on the Wireless Controller and select Controller Settings, then click on Properties.
3. Test the settings. You'll now be able to test the PS4 controller. Every button should work — though the touchpad works only as a button, not with touch functionality.
4. Attempt to play games. Now load up your game of choice, and watch the ensuing hilarity.
PC games aren't made for the PS4 controller
Here's the problem: Although PCs recognize the PS4 controller, this device does not use the standard application-programming interface (API) that other PC controllers employ. This means that no game is designed with a PS4 controller in mind.
Playing a game with a PS4 controller will be a bizarre experience — if it works at all. Although the PS4 controller connected to a PC worked flawlessly in Tom's Guide's controller settings tests, the games we attempted were just about unplayable.
In Valve's "Portal 2," we could move around and shoot the portal gun without incident, but the camera spun in a circle nonstop, making for a dizzying experience that was not conducive to "Portal 2's" demanding, precise puzzles.
Still, our experience with "Portal 2" was better than our time with "Outlast" from Red Barrels. Although this game has explicit and seamless controller support, it did not recognize the PS4 peripheral at all, leaving us standing stock-still as monsters devoured us.
On gaming forums, some users have reported success using third-party utilities such as the Cronusmax (which lets you plug console controllers into a USB dongle that routes them through a PC controller interface), or software that fooled computers into thinking that a PS4 controller was actually an Xbox 360 controller. (Xbox 360 controllers are compatible with PCs; strangely, Xbox One controllers will not be compatible until 2014.)
If you want to invest in some third-party peripherals or drivers, a PS4 controller could make a good PC accessory. If not, it's better to just invest in another device and save yourself some headaches.
If you're looking for the simplest way to use a controller with your PC, consider an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows. Because Microsoft produces the controller itself, most PC games that have controller support will function well with this controller as a matter of course.
If you're married to the PlayStation controller design, there are also plenty of options from Logitech, Razer and a few smaller companies that more closely mirror Sony's sensibilities. These high-end PC controllers will generally run you between $30 and $60, and getting them to work is usually as simple as plugging them in.
Alternatively, see how far you and your friends can get in a version of "Portal 2" that never stops spinning.
Don't Like Live Tiles ? Buy A New PC 'Till October Next Year
If you’re looking to buy a new PC and you hate the idea of looking at Live Tiles, then you’d better get a new PC within the next year or so. As ZDNet points out, Microsoft has told its manufacturing partners that they can keep selling new Windows 7-based PCs through October 30th, 2014, which means that by this time next year every new PC that OEMs release will come preloaded with Windows 8. Microsoft has also announced that it’s officially stopped selling Windows 7 box copies at retail.
Windows 8 has had a bumpy ride over its first year as its growth has seemingly stalled and Windows 7 adoption is still growing at a faster pace than Windows 8 adoption. Of course, Microsoft may release a Windows 8.2 update sometime next year that will go even further in appeasing Metro UI haters than Windows 8.1 did so you may not need to scramble to scoop up the last remaining Windows 7 PCs after all.
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