I bought a $1500 Yamaha TW-200( http://yamaha-motor.ca/products/products.php?model=2916&class=13&group=M|&LANG=en ) few years back for going into the bush. It has since become my primary vehicle in good weather. The bike gets 95MPG and has been around unchanged for over 20 years, so parts are abundant. I now have 2 of them just because I can, paid 900$ for the second. Scooters went up in price to the point of arrogance but small dual sport bikes have stayed reasonable. People need to stop driving what everybody else thinks is cool, and drive something that THEY genuinely think is cool.
I smell a future of fiber optics and biologically based storage (aka - the brain). Clearly they have exhausted the current technology in terms of exponential breakthroughs.
Imagine a computer that was powered by liquid supplements rather than electricity.
It would be nice to know that my computer could actually feel my punches when it misbehaved.
With the recent closing of the doors to 3d Realms it's good to reflect on the old heavy hitters in a contemporary complexion.
Back in the day it was the Unreal Engine and the Quake engine that were the benchmark for graphics. The build engine for 3d realms spawned countless titles, though that was the last great engine they had.
So today, it seems that what is most important to some firms is the quality of the engine rather than the games they produce. This however results in titles that are simply showcases, appose to good games.
It would be nice for developers to have enough in house resources to do both. Create an amazing game around an amazing engine.
With that I look with optimism to the future of id in hopes that they bring back some of that old sparkle that has been lacking as of late.
Where I work we just started taking pre-orders on Windows 7.
An elderly gentleman came in (today) and was ecstatic to place an order. His son installed it on his computer and he said he has never been happier. He stated he hated Vista and had kept his XP until the beta. I bombarded him with questions and the jist of his satisfaction came from the simplicity and speed Win7 had.
In my opinion this guy was a prime example that Microsoft might have a winner, both in the eyes of people who are technologically savvy as well as somebody who is anything but.
I personally still run 32-bit xp on my Core i7 (Except for games, damn DX10), and I have been bitterly against an upgrade for fear of hidden DRM treats down the line. Only time will tell.
"The overall land area of Canada is an utterly useless figure for estimating the cost of voting."
I did not quote Canada's area to calculate cost of voting but to rather put into perspective how the current system is biased to people living in a metropolitan. Focused primarily on the 3 provinces you mentioned, while completely ignoring the other 10.
It's easy to say that a country with the longest boarder in the world has a population all within X amount of km's from the boarder. Thunder Bay is quite close to the boarder, but the communities surrounding it are still out in the middle of nowhere. I don't understand how the boarder automatically translates into high population density.
Ontario, B.C and Quebec have 75.8% of our population. But even within these provinces themselves there are many people living to the far north or deep in the mountains.
"My point is that the far-flung communities are the exceptional case by overall population."
It is this sort ignorant mentality that makes the rest of Canada feel misrepresented. These communities are not "exceptional cases" but the people who live a modest life, and represent true Canadians. Just because a community doesn't adopt urban sprawl and clear cut everything in site does not justify writing it off in terms of policy. I grew up in Etobicoke and have been living up here for 5 years now.
Toronto is a polluted orgasm of suburbia and a perfect example of how not to populate an area. All the parks and trails back home I used to enjoy are now row housing.
It would be like dropping Tokyo city in the middle of the arctic and saying that nobody else matters because they have the majority of population.
"ouâ(TM)re obviously a young squirt that went to vote once, and got turned-off by having to wait 5 minute in line behind some geezers, and once inside, was sufficiently pissed-off from the wait to not observe the process, which is there to insure that there is no fraud."
I was pissed. 1. I had to go to a GOD DAMNED church to cast my vote. Some of us take offense to having to go to a church to vote.
2. That I could show up with absolutely no ID and say whoever I was as long as I had a name and postal code, and vote.
3. No way to verify my vote was counted. Pencil markings on a circle into a cardboard box, then good day.
NO VERIFICATION!!!
So ya the first time I voted I was pissed. And guess what, I'm not the only one.
"This has nothing to do with it. Online voting cannot work because the identity of the elector has to be positively ascertained. How do you do that online?"
How do you do that via mail?
Same ID numbers I suspect.Online voting can insure verification, that your vote, actually "counted".
You can still influence votes in the current system. How is online safer than snail male? We need a digital system of verification as well as digital voting. Which can be verified both physically and online. What better a way to verify your vote counted than to bring it all up on the table.
I hope no "mindless" nationalists light off fireworks at your nursing home this Wednesday. I forgot that praising working democracy was nationalism? In fact I suggested how to make it better: Make voting available to all Canadians.
"CANADA FUCK YEAH" are you quoting yourself? Certainly not me.
Some people whether disabled or simply out "in the boons" have a hard time voting. To put into perspective: We have 33,696,000 million people and 9,984,670 km2 of land. How can it be expected by everybody to adhere to the current voting format when it only accommodates people who live in a short distance of voting stations (cities) which is not representative with regards to the rest of the population.
I think some people are worried what would happen if EVERY voice was heard.
Canadians hand count all votes before the nights end. We have preserved one of the cleanest examples of democratic election on the planet.
Sorry to break the news to everybody but online voting in one form or another is the future.
So logically Canada would be the perfect country to adopt online voting because we are small (population) and have done so well in the past. What better a voting system to do comparison to then the Canadian. If we can't pull it off well then.......
This is perfectly true, but considering it would probably be just as easy to do either, don't you think that the bank side of things would be the most lucrative option. A. Get Cash B. Vote as Dead Guy
Plus this if fucking Canada, if anybody can pull it off we can.
Now the voters will actually represent what the public really thinks. Actually going and voting is so insecure any hack can show up and say he is somebody else. The 80 yr old guy that does the "security" check is a joke. Much less secure than say... online banking. If I showed up at a bank and got a similar "security" check I would already have cleaned out all your accounts. It is going to encourage Canadians out in the boons and young folks to vote. F U C K Y E S
We need a system in place to boot governments that are not representing the public (like the one we currently have) with regards to policy, quickly and efficiently.
It would not be similar, do to the manufacturing process needed to convert poppy resin into usable heroin. As outlined below:
"If you're keen you CAN make use of them. I have references which list young plants 10-20cm high as having up to 71mg/100g dry weight of alkaloids. This can seem insignificant until you consider that opium is only about 12% alkaloids, and you can end up with a kilo of thinnings or more in your home garden. I estimate a couple of grams of smokeable opium type extract can be extracted using methanol. And given that thinnings usually appear prior to flowering commencing, why would you waste a chance? On the other hand you CAN drop the thinnings into hot water and allow to steep for 10 minutes, which produces a vile tasting tea. Opium tea, in my humble opinion, is fucked. It tastes horrible, needs fresh flowers to be halfway potent, and does not store well. All alkaloids are apparently present in such a tea in roughly equal proportion to that which occurs in crude opium, but this improves the taste not one whit. Potency varies with opium tea: you can drink a glass and feel nothing, or drink a glass and discover in half an hour that you've had too much. Smoking O is a more immediate route and allows for better dose control. Smokeable O is also easier to store and has a long shelf life. The alkaloids in Papaver somniferum are present in the plant their pure form, and are combined with so called vegetable acids. Combined with acids, alkaloids tend to be more soluble than the free bases. An early method for the extraction of morphine involved addition of calcium chloride to the filtrate of opium 'soup'. The calcium would precipitate the calcium salt of these vegetable acids as a sort of soap scum leaving a crude morphine hydrochloride. Opium varies in alkaloidal content from batch to batch, and between regions. The British Pharmacoepia 1954 lists Yugoslavian opium as the most potent at 15-17% alkaloid content, followed by opium from Turkey, Iran, and Indian opium was at the bottom of the list with a 9-10.5% alkaloid content. pium is the name for the brown waxy exudation from the unripe seed capsules of Papaver somniferum. Opium is a combination of chemicals, not a chemical name in itself, as someone so rightly pointed out in Usenet recently. It's active ingredients are morphine, thebaine, codeine, papaverine and several others besides. Yield and proportions of opiates vary between individual plants, crops, varieties, areas. Other parts of the poppy plant (stems, leaves) produce a latex which dries and resembles opium, but the quality of the latexes from the other parts of the plant are not near as high. Opium is described as a stimulant narcotic. Historically it has been prescribed as a painkiller, for inflammation unaccompanied by dyspnoea, in typhus, typhoid and smallpox etc.
You can purify opium further into its constituent alkaloids- then take the morphine and turn it into smack if you so desire. Wouldn't bother really, opium is a much more pleasant experience overall than heroin. And the skills you'd require are well out of the range of those described"
The Prime Minister is apologizing for some hack in Alberta who recently made these comments.
Premier says apology punishment enough after Alberta MLA's comments
"In his blog, Elniski offered advice to junior high school girls. He suggested that a girl wear a smile when entering a room, and that men don't want to hear about that "treated equal" stuff."
I have been looking for an appropriate venue to post it. It is a work in progress and any nitpicking is very much welcomed.
I guess the whole idea of studying this came about from the articles on this very site. So for me it only felt fitting. It's hauling in at 30 pages already so I have a lot of refining to do.
We need to exercise democracy and first get the conservative nut wings out of government. These guys are an embarrassment to anybody with any sort of real education in Canada. That is step one, only then we can work on other parties such as the liberals (who have been going to the dark side as of late).
Excerpt from a work in progress assignment for my summer university course:
Early conjecture on the future of Newspapers and print media foretold of a future of embraced digital publications. Early literature on this movement includes Digitizing the News (Boczkowski, 2005) which begins by tracing early consumer non-print publishing initiatives to the rise of the internet in the mid 1990s. The books examination shifts to reviews of various online content provided by newspapers in the second half of the 1990s, which varies from direct reproduction of printed newspapers to interactive web based content that complimented the printed news. The book then progresses into examining three specific accounts of newspaper adaptation of the internet. The first example is a Technology section of the New York Times which started as an experiment to test new grounds for online media. The second example is the Virtual Voyager project of the HoustonCronicles.com (Boczkowski, 2005) of which reporters pioneered the evolution of multimedia journalism. The third example provided is the Community connection initiative of New Jersey Online (Boczkowski, 2005) which chronicles the birth of user generated content. This literature came out at around the same time as The Vanishing News Paper by Philip Meyer, which makes various assumptions of the state of Newspapers in the mid 2000â(TM)s and the way they are headed. The book begins with reprisal of early work Meyer did on newspapers being âoein the influence businessâ (Meyer, 2005) rather then the news and information business. His 2nd chapter focuses on the business model of âoeHow Newspapers Make Moneyâ (Meyer, 2005) which focuses on how newspapers are âoevictims of easy money.â (Meyer, 2005). In the 11th chapter, after outlining issues surrounding current models Meyer suggests that the death of Newspapers is near. In this chapter he essentially digs the grave for newspapers and predicts the death of newspapers if action is not taken. In Meyers final chapter he says âoeThe time has come to think about the things that we on the ground can do while traditional news media struggle for survival.â (Meyer, 2005) Giving various solutions to the current track that printed newspapers are on.
These two books show early attitudes that are rather contrasting. While Boczkowski is conscious of the evolution of newspapers and migration to digital media he is still optimistic. His book is more of a glorification of progress rather than a cautionary tale. Meyerâ(TM)s on the other hand is very aware of the inevitability of newspapers if they do not undergo drastic change. These books thus give a capsule for attitudes in the mid 2000â(TM)s with regards to newspapers. One attitude was optimistic and the other a prerequisite of upcoming doom. Which book was more accurate? Only time would tell.
The Contemporary Complexion At this point it is very clear as to who was right and who was wrong with regards to previously reviewed literature. The sense of urgency illustrated by Madigan and Meyer could have never had so much relevance. With the demise of the economy we see an acceleration of the death of newspaper that nobody predicted. Currently we see some Journals contradicting previous assumptions. Such is the case with The Rebirth of News (Peters, 2009) written in the Spring of 2009 this article in the Economist completely changes its tone from the previously reviewed article. In 2006 the Economist said âoeA cause for concern, but not for panicâ (Martin, 2006) but only 2.5 years later we see mass panic. The latest article stating that âoeMost industries are suffering at present, but few are doing as badly as the news business.â (Peters, 2009) This revelation comes at a time when newspapers are dropping at almost a daily rate. The article goes on the suggest reasons for the demise, including loss of ad revenue and readership. The article however informative still does not address the problems outli
Most likely the next logical step for rural and otherwise disconnected people would be satellite. However currently it is cost prohibitive for the average person.
So the best handset for this purpose would be satellite capable.
Slashdot Mirror
I bought a $1500 Yamaha TW-200( http://yamaha-motor.ca/products/products.php?model=2916&class=13&group=M|&LANG=en ) few years back for going into the bush. It has since become my primary vehicle in good weather.
The bike gets 95MPG and has been around unchanged for over 20 years, so parts are abundant. I now have 2 of them just because I can, paid 900$ for the second. Scooters went up in price to the point of arrogance but small dual sport bikes have stayed reasonable. People need to stop driving what everybody else thinks is cool, and drive something that THEY genuinely think is cool.
A redundant episode for the upcoming Futurama season.
I smell a future of fiber optics and biologically based storage (aka - the brain). Clearly they have exhausted the current technology in terms of exponential breakthroughs.
Imagine a computer that was powered by liquid supplements rather than electricity.
It would be nice to know that my computer could actually feel my punches when it misbehaved.
With the recent closing of the doors to 3d Realms it's good to reflect on the old heavy hitters in a contemporary complexion.
Back in the day it was the Unreal Engine and the Quake engine that were the benchmark for graphics. The build engine for 3d realms spawned countless titles, though that was the last great engine they had.
So today, it seems that what is most important to some firms is the quality of the engine rather than the games they produce. This however results in titles that are simply showcases, appose to good games.
It would be nice for developers to have enough in house resources to do both. Create an amazing game around an amazing engine.
With that I look with optimism to the future of id in hopes that they bring back some of that old sparkle that has been lacking as of late.
Where I work we just started taking pre-orders on Windows 7.
An elderly gentleman came in (today) and was ecstatic to place an order. His son installed it on his computer and he said he has never been happier. He stated he hated Vista and had kept his XP until the beta. I bombarded him with questions and the jist of his satisfaction came from the simplicity and speed Win7 had.
In my opinion this guy was a prime example that Microsoft might have a winner, both in the eyes of people who are technologically savvy as well as somebody who is anything but.
I personally still run 32-bit xp on my Core i7 (Except for games, damn DX10), and I have been bitterly against an upgrade for fear of hidden DRM treats down the line. Only time will tell.
"The overall land area of Canada is an utterly useless figure for estimating the cost of voting."
I did not quote Canada's area to calculate cost of voting but to rather put into perspective how the current system is biased to people living in a metropolitan. Focused primarily on the 3 provinces you mentioned, while completely ignoring the other 10.
It's easy to say that a country with the longest boarder in the world has a population all within X amount of km's from the boarder. Thunder Bay is quite close to the boarder, but the communities surrounding it are still out in the middle of nowhere. I don't understand how the boarder automatically translates into high population density.
Ontario, B.C and Quebec have 75.8% of our population. But even within these provinces themselves there are many people living to the far north or deep in the mountains.
"My point is that the far-flung communities are the exceptional case by overall population."
It is this sort ignorant mentality that makes the rest of Canada feel misrepresented. These communities are not "exceptional cases" but the people who live a modest life, and represent true Canadians. Just because a community doesn't adopt urban sprawl and clear cut everything in site does not justify writing it off in terms of policy. I grew up in Etobicoke and have been living up here for 5 years now.
Toronto is a polluted orgasm of suburbia and a perfect example of how not to populate an area. All the parks and trails back home I used to enjoy are now row housing.
It would be like dropping Tokyo city in the middle of the arctic and saying that nobody else matters because they have the majority of population.
"ouâ(TM)re obviously a young squirt that went to vote once, and got turned-off by having to wait 5 minute in line behind some geezers, and once inside, was sufficiently pissed-off from the wait to not observe the process, which is there to insure that there is no fraud."
I was pissed.
1. I had to go to a GOD DAMNED church to cast my vote. Some of us take offense to having to go to a church to vote.
2. That I could show up with absolutely no ID and say whoever I was as long as I had a name and postal code, and vote.
3. No way to verify my vote was counted. Pencil markings on a circle into a cardboard box, then good day.
NO VERIFICATION!!!
So ya the first time I voted I was pissed. And guess what, I'm not the only one.
This is 2009 we can do better Canada.
"This has nothing to do with it. Online voting cannot work because the identity of the elector has to be positively ascertained. How do you do that online?"
How do you do that via mail?
Same ID numbers I suspect.Online voting can insure verification, that your vote, actually "counted".
"And you would label yourself as a nut for doing so"
What if it was the church of Scientology? Still don't see a problem?
Ever heard of separation of church and state?
Because that would be expensive with, "9,984,670 km2 of land"
I would put forth the "idea" that somebody while in a church may have some sort of bias towards a particular religious political party.
Conflict of Interest.
You can still influence votes in the current system. How is online safer than snail male? We need a digital system of verification as well as digital voting. Which can be verified both physically and online. What better a way to verify your vote counted than to bring it all up on the table.
As a Canadian I don't want to be forced to:
A) Vote in a Church.
B) Drive 300 km's to vote.
I hope no "mindless" nationalists light off fireworks at your nursing home this Wednesday. I forgot that praising working democracy was nationalism? In fact I suggested how to make it better: Make voting available to all Canadians.
"CANADA FUCK YEAH" are you quoting yourself? Certainly not me.
Some people whether disabled or simply out "in the boons" have a hard time voting.
To put into perspective:
We have 33,696,000 million people and 9,984,670 km2 of land. How can it be expected by everybody to adhere to the current voting format when it only accommodates people who live in a short distance of voting stations (cities) which is not representative with regards to the rest of the population.
I think some people are worried what would happen if EVERY voice was heard.
Canadians hand count all votes before the nights end. We have preserved one of the cleanest examples of democratic election on the planet.
Sorry to break the news to everybody but online voting in one form or another is the future.
So logically Canada would be the perfect country to adopt online voting because we are small (population) and have done so well in the past. What better a voting system to do comparison to then the Canadian. If we can't pull it off well then.......
This is perfectly true, but considering it would probably be just as easy to do either, don't you think that the bank side of things would be the most lucrative option.
A. Get Cash
B. Vote as Dead Guy
Plus this if fucking Canada, if anybody can pull it off we can.
Now the voters will actually represent what the public really thinks. Actually going and voting is so insecure any hack can show up and say he is somebody else. The 80 yr old guy that does the "security" check is a joke. Much less secure than say... online banking. If I showed up at a bank and got a similar "security" check I would already have cleaned out all your accounts. It is going to encourage Canadians out in the boons and young folks to vote. F U C K Y E S
We need a system in place to boot governments that are not representing the public (like the one we currently have) with regards to policy, quickly and efficiently.
YES. Amy Whinehouse is a monkey:
Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk
Lets not forget:
Reindeer and Mushrooms.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Magic-mushrooms-Reindeer
It would not be similar, do to the manufacturing process needed to convert poppy resin into usable heroin. As outlined below:
"If you're keen you CAN make use of them. I have references which list young plants 10-20cm high as having up to 71mg/100g dry weight of alkaloids. This can seem insignificant until you consider that opium is only about 12% alkaloids, and you can end up with a kilo of thinnings or more in your home garden. I estimate a couple of grams of smokeable opium type extract can be extracted using methanol. And given that thinnings usually appear prior to flowering commencing, why would you waste a chance?
On the other hand you CAN drop the thinnings into hot water and allow to steep for 10 minutes, which produces a vile tasting tea. Opium tea, in my humble opinion, is fucked. It tastes horrible, needs fresh flowers to be halfway potent, and does not store well. All alkaloids are apparently present in such a tea in roughly equal proportion to that which occurs in crude opium, but this improves the taste not one whit. Potency varies with opium tea: you can drink a glass and feel nothing, or drink a glass and discover in half an hour that you've had too much. Smoking O is a more immediate route and allows for better dose control. Smokeable O is also easier to store and has a long shelf life.
The alkaloids in Papaver somniferum are present in the plant their pure form, and are combined with so called vegetable acids. Combined with acids, alkaloids tend to be more soluble than the free bases. An early method for the extraction of morphine involved addition of calcium chloride to the filtrate of opium 'soup'. The calcium would precipitate the calcium salt of these vegetable acids as a sort of soap scum leaving a crude morphine hydrochloride.
Opium varies in alkaloidal content from batch to batch, and between regions. The British Pharmacoepia 1954 lists Yugoslavian opium as the most potent at 15-17% alkaloid content, followed by opium from Turkey, Iran, and Indian opium was at the bottom of the list with a 9-10.5% alkaloid content. pium is the name for the brown waxy exudation from the unripe seed capsules of Papaver somniferum. Opium is a combination of chemicals, not a chemical name in itself, as someone so rightly pointed out in Usenet recently. It's active ingredients are morphine, thebaine, codeine, papaverine and several others besides. Yield and proportions of opiates vary between individual plants, crops, varieties, areas. Other parts of the poppy plant (stems, leaves) produce a latex which dries and resembles opium, but the quality of the latexes from the other parts of the plant are not near as high.
Opium is described as a stimulant narcotic. Historically it has been prescribed as a painkiller, for inflammation unaccompanied by dyspnoea, in typhus, typhoid and smallpox etc.
You can purify opium further into its constituent alkaloids- then take the morphine and turn it into smack if you so desire. Wouldn't bother really, opium is a much more pleasant experience overall than heroin. And the skills you'd require are well out of the range of those described"
The Prime Minister is apologizing for some hack in Alberta who recently made these comments.
Premier says apology punishment enough after Alberta MLA's comments
"In his blog, Elniski offered advice to junior high school girls. He suggested that a girl wear a smile when entering a room, and that men don't want to hear about that "treated equal" stuff."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/06/23/edmonton-elniski-stelmach.html?ref=rss
In response my flamebait is a result of people up on politics who are OUTRAGED over the conservative government. THEY NEED TO GO.
I have been looking for an appropriate venue to post it. It is a work in progress and any nitpicking is very much welcomed.
I guess the whole idea of studying this came about from the articles on this very site. So for me it only felt fitting. It's hauling in at 30 pages already so I have a lot of refining to do.
Canadians need an election AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
We need to exercise democracy and first get the conservative nut wings out of government. These guys are an embarrassment to anybody with any sort of real education in Canada. That is step one, only then we can work on other parties such as the liberals (who have been going to the dark side as of late).
Excerpt from a work in progress assignment for my summer university course:
Early conjecture on the future of Newspapers and print media foretold of a future of embraced digital publications. Early literature on this movement includes Digitizing the News (Boczkowski, 2005) which begins by tracing early consumer non-print publishing initiatives to the rise of the internet in the mid 1990s. The books examination shifts to reviews of various online content provided by newspapers in the second half of the 1990s, which varies from direct reproduction of printed newspapers to interactive web based content that complimented the printed news. The book then progresses into examining three specific accounts of newspaper adaptation of the internet. The first example is a Technology section of the New York Times which started as an experiment to test new grounds for online media. The second example is the Virtual Voyager project of the HoustonCronicles.com (Boczkowski, 2005) of which reporters pioneered the evolution of multimedia journalism. The third example provided is the Community connection initiative of New Jersey Online (Boczkowski, 2005) which chronicles the birth of user generated content. This literature came out at around the same time as The Vanishing News Paper by Philip Meyer, which makes various assumptions of the state of Newspapers in the mid 2000â(TM)s and the way they are headed. The book begins with reprisal of early work Meyer did on newspapers being âoein the influence businessâ (Meyer, 2005) rather then the news and information business. His 2nd chapter focuses on the business model of âoeHow Newspapers Make Moneyâ (Meyer, 2005) which focuses on how newspapers are âoevictims of easy money.â (Meyer, 2005). In the 11th chapter, after outlining issues surrounding current models Meyer suggests that the death of Newspapers is near. In this chapter he essentially digs the grave for newspapers and predicts the death of newspapers if action is not taken. In Meyers final chapter he says âoeThe time has come to think about the things that we on the ground can do while traditional news media struggle for survival.â (Meyer, 2005) Giving various solutions to the current track that printed newspapers are on.
These two books show early attitudes that are rather contrasting. While Boczkowski is conscious of the evolution of newspapers and migration to digital media he is still optimistic. His book is more of a glorification of progress rather than a cautionary tale. Meyerâ(TM)s on the other hand is very aware of the inevitability of newspapers if they do not undergo drastic change. These books thus give a capsule for attitudes in the mid 2000â(TM)s with regards to newspapers. One attitude was optimistic and the other a prerequisite of upcoming doom. Which book was more accurate? Only time would tell.
The Contemporary Complexion
At this point it is very clear as to who was right and who was wrong with regards to previously reviewed literature. The sense of urgency illustrated by Madigan and Meyer could have never had so much relevance. With the demise of the economy we see an acceleration of the death of newspaper that nobody predicted. Currently we see some Journals contradicting previous assumptions. Such is the case with The Rebirth of News (Peters, 2009) written in the Spring of 2009 this article in the Economist completely changes its tone from the previously reviewed article. In 2006 the Economist said âoeA cause for concern, but not for panicâ (Martin, 2006) but only 2.5 years later we see mass panic. The latest article stating that âoeMost industries are suffering at present, but few are doing as badly as the news business.â (Peters, 2009) This revelation comes at a time when newspapers are dropping at almost a daily rate. The article goes on the suggest reasons for the demise, including loss of ad revenue and readership. The article however informative still does not address the problems outli
Most likely the next logical step for rural and otherwise disconnected people would be satellite. However currently it is cost prohibitive for the average person.
So the best handset for this purpose would be satellite capable.