Sunday, May 12, 2013

“Syria to Respond immediately to any New Israeli Attack”: Syria deputy FM. Tel Aviv Supports Al Nusra Terrorists | Global Research

“Syria to Respond immediately to any New Israeli Attack”: Syria deputy FM. Tel Aviv Supports Al Nusra Terrorists

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Global Research, May 10, 2013

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Region: Middle East & North Africa

Theme: US NATO War Agenda

In-depth Report: SYRIA: NATO'S NEXT WAR?

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad says the country will “respond immediately” to any new Israeli aggression against Syrian territory.

“The instruction has been made to respond immediately to any new Israeli attack without (additional) instruction from any higher leadership, and our retaliation will be strong and will be painful against Israel,” Miqdad told AFP on Thursday.

He also vehemently dismissed Western media reports that Israel targeted weapons bound for Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.

“They absolutely did not achieve their objective and they lied when they said they are targeting Hezbollah,” he said, adding, “There is no way Syria will allow this to happen again.”

On May 5, Syria said the Israeli regime had carried out an airstrike targeting a research center in a suburb of Damascus, following heavy losses of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups at the hands of the Syrian army. According to Syrian media reports, Israeli rockets struck the Jamraya Research Center.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry has sent letters to the United Nations and its Security Council stating that Israel’s aggression shows the links between Tel Aviv and terrorist groups operating in Syria including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi told reporters in Damascus that Syria had the right and the duty to defend its people by all available means and it would not give in to Israeli acts of aggression.

The Israeli attacks on Syria have made the Middle East more dangerous, the Syrian information minister added.

The Sunday Israeli aggression was Tel Aviv’s second strike on Syria in three days.

The Jamraya facility was also targeted in an Israeli airstrike in January.

The Syrian government says the chaos that erupted in the country over two years ago is being orchestrated from outside.

Anti-Syria countries including Turkey and several Arab states in the region have taken a silent stance toward Tel Aviv’s acts of aggression against Syria.

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Marina Chapman claims she was raised by monkeys for five years | News.com.au

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Marina Chapman claims she was raised by monkeys for five years

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March 31, 2013 9:49PM

Marina Chapman claims she was abducted at aged four and left in a Colombian rainforest to be raised by Capuchin monkeys for five years. Picture: Jay Town Source: Herald Sun

IT IS an amazing - some might say unbelievable - tale: how a housewife from Yorkshire, England, spent five years as a young child being raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle.

Yet experts have found no evidence that Marina Chapman’s story is a fantasy - and now she has told it for the first time, in riveting detail.
In a new book, exclusively serialised by The Mail on Sunday from today, Mrs Chapman reveals how a colony of capuchins taught her how to survive after she was abandoned in the rainforest by kidnappers who botched her abduction.
She copied the monkeys' eating habits and high-pitched cries and even learned to climb trees, though she slept in a hollowed-out tree trunk at night. And on one occasion a monkey she called Grandpa because of his sprinkles of white fur cured a crippling stomach pain by leading her to the river and encouraging her to drink until she vomited.
Mrs Chapman's story - which has echoes of the Tarzan tales - began in the Fifties when she was drugged and abducted from her Colombian home at the age of four.
In her memoirs, The Girl With No Name, Mrs Chapman recalls the moment she awoke to find herself in the forest.
"At a distance of several paces were monkeys staring at me. After a short time, one of the monkeys left the circle and approached me. Afraid, I shrank back into a ball, trying to make myself as tiny as possible," she says.
"He reached out a wrinkly brown hand and, with one firm push, rolled me over on to my side. I quivered on the soil, tensed for the second blow that was surely coming.
"But it didn't - the monkey had lost interest. He had now returned to the circle, squatted back on his hind legs and resumed watching me, along with all the others. Then they all seemed to want to inspect me."
She said the way they enjoyed each other's company ‘made them feel like a family’ – and although there were nights when she cried for hours out of loneliness, she also felt happy to be with the monkeys and realised 'I was gradually turning into one of them'.
She said she was later rescued by hunters and sold into prostitution before ending up in England, marrying a church organist. Now a mother of two and grandmother of three, she lives with her husband John in a three-bedroom semi in a middle-class suburb of Bradford.
She thinks she is in her 50s but cannot be sure of her birthdate.
Her claims were met with incredulity when they surfaced last year, but they have withstood scrutiny, and now National Geographic is planning a documentary about her. Mrs Chapman’s daughter Vanessa, 28, describes her mother as "wild and spontaneous", adding 'She was sometimes criticised for her style of parenting, but her only example was from a troop of monkeys."
Experts say monkeys are known to accept young humans into their fold. In 1991, a six-year-old Ugandan boy, John Ssebunya, was found in a tree having spent three years in the wild, cared for in part by vervet monkeys; and a two-year-old boy known as Bello was found living with chimpanzees in Nigeria in 1996.

Saudi Government to Create Recruiting Agencies

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Saudi Government to Create Recruiting Agencies

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In light of evidence that Saudization, or the policy of requiring companies to hire Saudi nationals, has largely failed, the Ministry of Labor has decided to create recruitment companies to rectify the problem. The companies will be under the auspices of the Human Resources Development Fund.

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Dr. Fahd Al-Tekhafi, assistant undersecretary for development, described the labor ministry’s plans at a workshop addressing the impact of state aid on the Saudization process. According to him, the new recruitment companies will work with Saudis who are new to the labor market in order to find suitable employment for them. The companies will also provide job training in order to make their clients more marketable. Dr. Al-Tekhafi added that the companies would complement other labor ministry programs intended to decrease unemployment in Saudi Arabia. Participants at the workshop expressed disappointment in current ministry programs intended to help young Saudis find jobs, saying that more needed to be done to improve the situation in the short-term. They also suggested that the educational system needs to be improved, especially the level of English-language instruction. Despite a growing economy, Saudi Arabia suffers from a chronic problem of high unemployment. Companies often prefer to hire employees from abroad, finding that expatriates come with a stronger skill set. At the same time, Saudi nationals have a strong preference for working in the private sector, where the pay and benefits are higher.

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Expat worker

2013-03-27 04:26:38

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http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/mixed-reaction-expat-retirement Ali Al-Harbi, a placement expert and CEO of a private company, stressed the significance of putting Saudi youth in key positions currently held by expatriates as an effective implementation of the Saudization process. “The ministry should look at the type of job to which an unemployed Saudi is to be appointed. A Saudi should not be asked to take up inferior jobs, which do not match the economic status of his country in the world,” Al-Harbi said.

Investment Banker

2013-03-26 08:24:42

opportunists

I'm actually a little disappointed so many foreigners consider Saudi's lazy, I'm sorry you haven’t had a better experience with them. As a Saudi female worker, I can assure you the majority of Saudi's are not lazy with limited ambition, on the contrary. Let me tell you this, I grew up abroad, moved to Saudi and graduated second in my class and I’m currently studying after work, self-improvement and what not. My sister is in Canada also studying, previously worked in Saudi and was a graduate top 10 in her class, and my brother is an investment banker for over 10 years. You’d think to some degree we’d have some sort of success story, we don’t, we just get by, we take the jobs we get and stick to them because well my passport isn’t red or blue its green, my account does not have 6 or 7 figures and I don’t use connections or my family name to get a job I don’t deserve. I’m a regular Saudi, work 8-5 5 days a week, I get a crappy salary because I’m a woman to boot and my boss takes credit for my work therefore he gets the 6 figure bonus I get one or two salaries. The one thing I can say is that I agree that some Saudi’s are in unqualified positions and I prefer working with Europeans and North Americans simply because of the professionalism. But please don’t sit there and say I don’t work, that I’m lazy, give me a chance and I’ll prove myself time and time again. I know some may think that if you want something bad enough you work for it, its just different here, every position you want is filled by someone who owes a favor to someone else, to someone with a bigger account than yours, to someone with a better family name than yours etc etc… There are well qualified good hard working Saudi’s its just the people who have the authority to approve the job’s are opportunists.

Frank

2013-03-26 03:07:34

Mr.

Saudis are some of the nicest people I have ever met. They are also among the laziest and least competent. They "work" an average of 2 or 3 hours a day, and even that work is often of poor quality. And for that work they demand high salaries and generous benefits. But the government must share the blame. The government is responsible for the poor education these Saudis receive in school and it is the government, despite all their whining about foreigners taking jobs from Saudis, which issues visas to these foreigners. Nothing will change until Saudis become willing to do a days work for a days pay and until the government stops creating useless recruiting agencies and simply stops letting so many foreigners in the country.

hatim

2013-03-24 17:52:13

Saudi workers

The Saudis love to work, the problem are the expat managers who usually bring in a brother, a friend pr a countryman at the same company and they complain about he saudis, they miss lead them they don't train them properly they give them a hard time at work. They abuse the employes by making them work a minimum of 12 hours a day for less then minimum wage( KSA dose not have minimum wage) and local lows don't really protect the employees and many managers take advantage of that.

Anthony

2013-03-22 09:10:01

Manual labor?

Will Saudi citizens do manual labor like what bangalis do, cleaning the streets? Will they employ as drivers for private locals? Do they have the skills in engineering and the likes? Will they take the extra mile in the working environment? Answer is NO...most of the Saudis are lazy and uneducated...they just go to the office ,work for an hour and drink tea all the way..They are good people but workwise is a donwhill. Better let their women drive to lessen the millions of family drivers they hire, educate in the English proficiency program and stop the government subsidy that makes them more lazy..just a thought..

John

2013-03-22 05:07:40

Lazy

I like Saudis. They are very nice people. The problem is that companies wont hire them because they are slow and often very lazy with little enthusiasm to help, create, or go that extra mile to help. Not all of them, of course, but in general they are poor workers.

Norman

2013-03-21 22:39:45

Who is really to blame here..

The government has done everything thing possible to help those young graduates. Good school, good scholarships to all over the world , cheap cost of living ,, yet the min they get a job anywhere , they show how bad and useless they are. Not all though but the majority is that way. They all want to be managers , they want to get high salaries , they don't want to work more than 3 hours , they complain all the time. Also, when you ask them about the problem, they blame the expats.

Pavel

2013-03-19 12:14:00

Engineer

The reason that companies don't want to hire more 'locals' is that they lack the Western work ethic. As an expat in the ME I can say for sure that the locals in SA, UAE, and Kuwait rarely work more than 2 to 3 hours per day. To make matters worse few if any ever major in hard subjects at university like engineering. They all want to be managers in whatever company and expect to start as such with their basically worthless degrees in business or economics or my personal favourite business communications.

The Philippines: Asia’s Next Big Thing? | The Financialist

The Philippines: Asia’s Next Big Thing? | The Financialist

March 12, 2013 | by Financialist Staff Manila

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In the Philippines, developers are putting up luxury condo towers bearing names such as Starck and Trump. Japanese firms, including Canon, are building new plants. Work crews are preparing to improve run-down airports and pour concrete for new highways.

Construction is the most visible sign of growth in the Philippines, a group of islands in Southeast Asia that was long shunned by foreign investors concerned about political instability, crime and corruption. Now it looks set to succeed Indonesia as the next hot destination for investment.

The headlines have been eye-catching: The Philippines’ 2012 GDP growth was more than 6 percent, while inflation was around 3 percent. The country’s stock market soared 33 percent last year, and its currency rose about 7 percent against the U.S. dollar. The country’s leaders and many foreign banks are confident that 2013 will bring an investment-grade credit rating.

“I think people had sort of forgotten about the Philippines … they fell off the radar because governance problems and political instability masked their assets,” such as untapped mining resources and a youthful population, Credit Suisse economist Santitarn Sathirathai said.

“Now (the Philippines) are back on the map, and I think that the impact of investor visibility could be significant,” he said.

Progress has come on several fronts. The government has signed a preliminary peace agreement with Muslim rebels, which could end a long insurgency and improve the investment climate.

While previous President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has battled several corruption charges, current leader Benigno Aquino III has vowed to crack down on such abuses, encouraging investor confidence.

The Philippines, which has many English speakers and a focus on services such as business process outsourcing, has a new opportunity to compete with China for manufacturing jobs amid rising Chinese labor costs.

Last year, as a territorial dispute between Japan and China sparked anti-Japanese protests in China, Japanese investment rose more than 10 percent via the Philippine Economic Zone Authority, which promotes investment in export-producing industries. Many Japanese companies are expanding their Philippines presence – Canon Business Machines Inc., for example, is at work on a plant to build laser printers.

Meanwhile, the government is pushing public-private partnerships to improve or expand expressways, airports and schools, while real estate developers are targeting a growing middle class and wealthy Filipinos eyeing prestige properties. Developer Century Properties Group is at work on several such projects, including the Trump Tower Manila and a residence conceived with Philippe Starck’s residential design company.

Yet the Philippines, coming from so far behind many of its neighbors, faces big challenges ahead.

Though the government is working on infrastructure, there are still deterrents for business people, such as worn-out airports and poor telecommunications, says J. Alfonso de Dios, a Filipino who has companies both in China and his home country.

De Dios, whose TVCXpress Manila sends digitized TV commercials and program content to local TV stations via exclusive broadband lines within the Philippines, says the country’s Internet infrastructure is not designed with wide bandwidths to accommodate large files. He says that it would actually be much cheaper to send the video packages his company produces from his Philippines office to a neighboring country with stronger bandwidth, and then back to his clients in the Philippines.

Tourism is another area where the country could stand to ramp up infrastructure. While the Philippines boasts thousands of islands and some of the world’s most beautiful beaches, less than 2 percent of GDP revenue comes from tourism, compared to 7 or 8 percent in Thailand or Malaysia, Credit Suisse’s Sathirathai said.

The country is pushing a new tourism campaign with the slogan, “It’s More Fun in the Philippines,” and a big casino complex is set to open in Manila Bay. Bill Barnett, the managing director of tourism consultancy and research company C9 Hotelworks, questions whether casinos are enough, and says it might be wise to diversify with theme parks or other attractions for middle-class, multi-generational Asian families.

The Philippines – which, like Japan, is in the midst of a territorial dispute with China – also needs to lure tourists from China, who prefer Thailand and Indonesia, Barnett said. The country is betting big on gaming, and if the Chinese don’t come, who will?

“The attitude toward the Chinese needs to be, ‘Let’s kiss and make up – and by the way, please come visit,’” he said.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Pocket : How to save the AV receiver

How to save the AV receiver

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Matthew Moskovciak
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AV receivers need to be completely reinvented before everyone gives up on them.Photo by: ( Sarah Tew/CNET)

There are a lot of reasons why sound bars are taking over home audio, but one of them is increasingly obvious: AV receivers are terrible.

I've reviewed a lot of them for CNET, and while receivers are fine for enthusiasts that know what they're doing, they're a frustrating experience for everyone else. Most technology gets better over time, but AV receivers seem frozen in amber, with giant chassis, thick inscrutable manuals, and onscreen interfaces that could only generously be called "standard definition". They're embarrassingly backwards compared to the rest of your home theater gear, yet they remain a begrudging necessity for those who want something better than a sound bar.

AV receivers don't have to be this bad, but they need to completely reinvent themselves to stay relevant. Here's where they should start.

1. Make them smaller

While every other device gets slimmer and more compact, AV receivers look the same as they did ten years ago. They're massive, unwieldy machines that require tons of shelf space and are a pain to deal with.

Yamaha RX-V475 (left) vs. Marantz NR1603 (right)

But we already know they don't need to be so bulky. Marantz has been making handsome,slimline receivers for several years now, that sound great and offer plenty of features. The current "default" design that gets used seems more out of habit (or laziness) rather than any technical limitations.

2. Make them prettier

Even if AV receiver companies can't (or won't) make the boxes any smaller, they could at least put some effort into making them look nice. For some reason, all the major companies have decided that a giant, black box is the best look for AV receivers.

Peachtree Audio decco65Photo by: ( Sarah Tew/CNET)

There's no reason an amplifier needs to be so aggressively unsightly. Take Peachtree Audio's decco65, which actually looks like something you'd actually want in your living room, rather than an eyesore you put up with. Granted, the decco65 ($1,100) is considerably more expensive than your typical midrange AV receiver, but there's a workable middle ground between gorgeous curved rosewood and a huge block of black metal.

3. Get rid of most features

AV receivers are one of the worst sufferers of featuritis. Features keep getting added because they look good on comparison charts, but we end up with receivers that can do everything, but nothing very well.

First to go should be built-in streaming media features. AV receivers make poor media streamers, with sluggish navigation, lousy user interfaces and rarely updated firmware. You're much better off connecting a $100 Roku 3 or Apple TV box for your streaming needs.

Next, cut back on all the unnecessary licensing and sound processing. Dolby ProLogic IIz -- which adds two "height speakers" to a standard 5.1 or 7.1 surround setup -- just isn't worth the hassle. THX certification isn't required for great sound. Nobody uses cheesy "Jazz Club" or "Concert Hall" modes on their AV receiver. These features and logos keep sticking around, despite the fact that no one really seems to want them.

Some people need all these ports, but you probably don't.Photo by: ( Sony)

Finally, the most radical step is to cut the niche features that are useful in some cases, but I'd bet go unused for the vast majority of buyers. The list is long: analog video upconversion, AM/FM radio tuners, component/composite video inputs, 7.1 channels, and multi-zone audio. There's still a place for high-end receivers with the "kitchen sink" approach, but it's frustrating that mainstream receivers include so much cruft that buyers don't need.

Strip away all those features and your AV receiver would do two simple things: amplify your speakers and switch between your source devices. And that's exactly what I use my AV receiver for.

4. Embrace wireless

For all the useless features AV receivers have, they shockingly lack basic wireless connectivity that would actually be useful: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Wi-Fi lets you update the firmware and control the receiver via mobile devices, while Bluetooth is the easiest way to wirelessly stream audio from your smartphone or tablet. For many people, mobile devices are the center of their digital music experience, so it's crazy that most AV receivers don't support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth natively.

$130 for a Wi-Fi adapter? No thanks.Photo by: ( Pioneer)

Even worse, the companies have the gall to try and soak you for accessories that add these features after you've already spent hundreds of dollars on a receiver. Look at prices for these wireless adapters that should have been included in the first place:

Pioneer AS-BT200: $100
Pioneer AS-WL300: $130
Yamaha YBA-11: $70
Yamaha YWA-10: $100

The lone standout is Onkyo, which reasonably prices its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters at $30and $50, respectively. And at least both Onkyo and Sony seem to have gotten the message and have recently included built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on some of their receivers.

5. Include a true high-definition interface

If you fire up your brand new $400 Pioneer VSX-823-K receiver for the first time to set it up, this will be the first screen you're greeted with:

Pioneer VSX-823-K's onscreen displayPhoto by: ( Matthew Moskovciak/CNET)

How is that still acceptable? No other modern home theater device looks anything like that. Even the $50 Roku LT has an colorful, high-def interface. Granted, you don't use the onscreen interface of an AV receiver that often, but it's a bad experience right out-of-the-box to be immediately confronted with blocky text that harkens back to the MS-DOS days.

6. Make a usable remote

AV receiver remotes range from truly awful to barely acceptable. They're typically filled with tiny buttons, confusingly labeled, with a haphazard layout that isn't natural to navigate.

Take the remote included on the Yamaha RX-V475. To start, there's two different power buttons at the top -- bad start already. That's followed by grid of small, numbered buttons. If the "1" button is in the HDMI section, it selects the "HDMI 1" input... and you have to remember which device that is. There's also two "star" buttons, but no one could reasonably know what they stand for without diving into the manual. ("Change the external device to be controlled without switching the input source.") And that's just the top third of one company's clicker.

There worst part is so many of these buttons are unnecessary. I've never needed a numpad on my receiver's remote. Different sound modes like "movie" and "music" generally do more harm than good, and they could be toggled using an onscreen interface. The bottom line is AV receiver remotes need to be a lot simpler if they don't want to be completely intimidating to anyone who's not a home theater enthusiast.

7. Include speaker cables in the box

AV receiver manuals are thick, labyrinthine affairs, but they all gloss over one of the most basic steps in connecting your speakers: terminating speaker wire. They operate on the laughable, built-in assumption that every buyer knows how to use a crimping tool and banana plugs, which is out-of-step in a world dominated by dead-simple connectors like HDMI and USB.

Onkyo's TX-NR626 user manual casually asks you to strip the insulation from speaker wire, as if everyone knows how to do that.

The solution doesn't seem that hard: include speaker wire in the box that's already pre-terminated with banana plugs (or pins), at least for the front speakers. Companies would need to do some market research to figure out a length that would work in the majority of setups, but there's not that much variation for front speakers. This would add some cost, but it would make the experience much less intimidating for those new to home audio.

8. Embrace stereo

If you want new AV receiver with basic features like HDMI connectivity, you're pretty much forced to buy a 5.1 or 7.1 AV receiver, even if you intend to go with a two-channel setup. Manufacturers just don't offer stereo AV receivers with modern features, which means many buyers are pushed to pay for a bunch of additional channels they'll never use.

Most stereo receivers lack HDMI and other modern features.

AV receivers should embrace a return to stereo as the best defense against the rise of sound bars. A basic stereo system is only slightly more complicated than a sound bar, but it offers much better sound, especially for music.

More importantly, a return to stereo fixes so many of the problems plaguing current models. Scaling back to two-channels of amplification, versus five or seven, means receivers can be smaller. Stereo also eliminates a lot of the need for extra features like automatic speaker calibration and additional surround sound licensing.

That doesn't mean multichannel receivers should go away, but there should simpler, but modern, stereo options for those that don't want to deal with surround sound.

The future is already here, sort of: integrated amps

A lot of these fixes seem obvious and simple, but I'm doubtful there will be any changes to the ossified AV receiver market anytime soon.

But if there is a ray of home audio hope, it's the handful of compact integrated amplifiers with digital inputs that have trickled out over the last few years. These small amps are limited to stereo, but that allows them to be dramatically smaller than a full-size AV receiver. They also tend to be light on inputs, but, as sound bars have proven, you really only need a single digital input if you use your TV to switch between devices.

Teac's A-H01 integrated amplifierPhoto by: ( Sarah Tew/CNET)

Compact integrated amplifiers aren't the right choice for everyone, but for many buyers they're a much better -- and simpler -- solution than a full-size AV receiver. In addition to many new 2013 AV receivers, CNET will be reviewing several small integrated amps over the next few weeks. The result, we hope, will be one or more recommendable products aimed at buyers that want something better than a sound bar without the bulk and frustration of an AV receiver.

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“Syria to Respond immediately to any New Israeli Attack”: Syria deputy FM. Tel Aviv Supports Al Nusra Terrorists | Global Research

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Pocket : How to save the AV receiver

How to save the AV receiver

1. Make them smaller

2. Make them prettier

3. Get rid of most features

4. Embrace wireless

5. Include a true high-definition interface

6. Make a usable remote

7. Include speaker cables in the box

8. Embrace stereo

The future is already here, sort of: integrated amps

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How to save the AV receiver

1. Make them smaller

2. Make them prettier

3. Get rid of most features

4. Embrace wireless

5. Include a true high-definition interface

6. Make a usable remote

7. Include speaker cables in the box

8. Embrace stereo

The future is already here, sort of: integrated amps