Check your Dates - the G&M article was from February. And they missed the finish dates
Under the completion and commissioning plan, all the rural communities in the Extended Area Network will be connected by April 30, 2005 which will enable local service providers to buy bandwidth on the Alberta SuperNet and offer high-speed commercial services including Internet access, to rural retail customers. Additionally, the vast majority of the government, health, library and education facilities in the Base Area Network and Extended Area Network will be connected by June 30, 2005 with the total network being completed by September 30, 2005.
Which as an aside was actually completed on Sept 1 - ahead of schedule.
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The company has billions of dollars (and they don't get it by writing checks I know) but they supposedly have some of the "best minds" out there.. and yet their products and interfaces are so scrappy? I know being Microsoft isn't easy.. they've got to be compatible, they've got lots of products to integrate.. lots of hardware to support.. but heck, can't they at least get decent interface design? It's not like it's a billion dollar job. Even people working for nothing, like the xfce people, do a better job.
Those "Best minds" are suffering from a problem of the huge corporataion - too many people involved in designing and coding the product. There's an old saying that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. The xfce folks probababiliy do a better job, just because you don't need a ballpark to get them all in the same place.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news - With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery; In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy, You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General....
Nope - Sony does not own IMAX - as they say in their own site.
IMAX Corporation ("IMAX"), founded in 1967 and headquartered jointly in New York City and Toronto, Canada, is one of the world's leading entertainment technology companies, with particular emphasis on film and digital imaging technologies including 3D, post-production and digital projection. IMAX is a fully-integrated, out-of-home entertainment enterprise with activities ranging from the design, leasing, marketing, maintenance, and operation of IMAX® theatre systems to film development, production, post-production and distribution of large-format films. IMAX also designs and manufactures cameras, projectors and consistently commits significant funding to ongoing research and development.
The IMAX Theatre Network currently consists of more than 235 IMAX affiliated theatres in 35 countries. Approximately 60 percent of the theatres are located in North America, while the remaining 40 percent are spread internationally. Roughly 50 percent of the theatres are located in institutional venues, such as museums, planetariums, and maritime centres, while the other half are part of commercial theatre complexes. More than 100 of these theatres are equipped with IMAX 3D technology.
To date, more than 800 million people have enjoyed The IMAX Experience® at specially designed theatres around the world.
IMAX Corporation is a publicly traded company listed on both the Toronto and Nasdaq stock exchanges.
The IMAX system has its roots in EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada where multi-screen films were the hit of the fair. A small group of Canadian filmmakers/entrepreneurs who had made some of those popular films, decided to design a new system using a single, powerful projector, rather than the cumbersome multiple projectors used at that time. The result: the IMAX motion picture projection system, which would revolutionize giant-screen cinema.
IMAX technology premiered at the Fuji Pavilion, EXPO '70 in Osaka, Japan. The first permanent IMAX projection system was installed at Ontario Place's Cinesphere in Toronto in 1971. IMAX Dome (OMNIMAX) debuted at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theatre in San Diego in 1973.
In March of 1994, the sale of IMAX by the original partners was finalized to Brad Wechsler, Rich Gelfond, and Wasserstein Perella Partners. In June 1994, IMAX was taken public on the Nasdaq stock exchange providing IMAX with the capitalization necessary to take advantage of numerous growth opportunities.
A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?", they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."
Photographing on the street and in public has protections - but you were in a Mall - which is private property accessible to the public. A fine distincion - but important.
Just as someone can't come into your house uninvited and take pictures of you without permission, you need to get permission of the property owner to photograph people on private property.
Why do you think Papparattzi stand outside of a resturant on A PUBLIC STREET to get their photos of the celeb of the month? Because they don't need permission to photograph someone if they can be seen from a public space. (EG street, public park, public beach, etc.) See the defintion of a "public space" in common law.
A Mall, especially one that is full of stores who's logo's, storefronts, fonts, colours and design are trademarkable is not a public space.
It is private property accessable to the public, and by entering you need permission of the property holder (or their representative) to take photographs in that space.
If the property holder (the owners of the mall) deem that the interior storefronts are trademarked, trademarkable, or copywritable it is the responsibility of the owner's representative (IE the security guard) to protect that copyright or trade by preventing unauthorised duplication of the material.
You can't trademark your face per say - but you can protect an image of it - think of the protections on images of celebrities - For example, you can't use the image of Humphrey Bogart with out permission from the Bogart estate.
Looking at the Specs on the Sony site - they specfically don't mention what the operating system is - only the browser software - which is NOT Microsoft, and listing the format of files it will read. The browser has a tab capability - and brings up a QWERTY keyboard on the touch screen for web serfing. It also reads Sony Memory sticks (big surprise) - and can take a External keyboard through the USB port. As well - it has TV remote control software and Picture-in-Picture. I don't know what much about the Palm thin client OS - but could it handle all of that? It looks like a implentation of some sort of UNIX or maybe even a Linix port. Odd that they won't mention it in any of their material.
Maybe it's a custom port of the PS/2 softwre (grin).
As to assigning an IP address to a DVR Box, Sony is promoting it's Location Free TV as being able to stream your TV shows to anyplace on the internet. http://www.sonystyle.ca/view/LocationFreeTVLanding/index.shtml?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=100 01&categoryId=47640
Maybe because it's only being offered in Canada right now they're getting around the MPAA - but what is there to keep someone from setting this up in Canada and running it and accessing from a Wi-Fi hotspot in the Excited States?
The system can be bought at Best Buy (www.bestbuy.ca) in Canada for about $1800 (Cdn) or from Sonystyle.ca directly. It's basically a Small TV set tablet with a 802.11 link to a base station that streams the video to the tablet and even lets you serf the net with a little browser. Sorry - don't know what operating system they're using - it looks like a custom UNIX setup.
Following through this thread - it seems from the design point of view a middle course is needed. The Segway isn't safe enough for a mildly disabled person - due to the fact the user has to stand and have the dynamic balance of the system to keep from being hurt.
The motorised cart is too bulky and awkward to be used as widely as a segway could - not to mention the LOL factor of being a non geeky old style tech - and finally the wheelchair - which besides being very low tech (Stephen Hawkin's chair not withstanding) - is very poorly designed, and uncomfortable as well.
The answer seems to be lets build something that can be used and combines the best qualities of all three of the systems above.
Suppose for a moment - we take the bottom of a segway - ie the wheels - motor and balancing technology; computers and batteries. Set it in a large cross with a segway wheel at each corner.
Use this as a base for a pedestal type office chair - which could be a ergonically designed chair - simular to high end office chair set in the middle of the cross to rotate elevate up and down from a control stick on one of the arms.
Think Herman Miller Areon chair - sitting on a four wheel chassis - controlled by a joystick.
With a hydralic cylinder in the chair - it could be raised to eye level or lowered to seating position - with the stability gyros of the segways in the base keeping everything upright, and controlling the wheels for direction and power. You could litteraly turn on a dime.
A while back - there was a pciture of the four wheeled Segway that was being bandied about the internet. (I think it's called the Pegasus) - which looked a little like a cross between a ATV and a mountian bike - with a saddle thrown on it.
Use that as a base for the chair - and build the chassis with a hinge in the middle so that when the hydralic cylinder pulls the front and rear wheels together - it raises the chair up.
Control it all with a joystick and buttons on one of the armrests and you would have a true Disability Assist Device (DAD)!
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I've had a Freeplay in the emergency kit for a while now - and this little item http://www.batteries.com/productprofile.asp?appid= 272197
Recharging using Solar. That and living a long way away from any coastline.......
Check your Dates - the G&M article was from February. And they missed the finish dates
Under the completion and commissioning plan, all the rural communities in the Extended Area
Network will be connected by April 30, 2005 which will enable local service providers to buy
bandwidth on the Alberta SuperNet and offer high-speed commercial services including Internet
access, to rural retail customers. Additionally, the vast majority of the government, health,
library and education facilities in the Base Area Network and Extended Area Network will be
connected by June 30, 2005 with the total network being completed by September 30, 2005.
Which as an aside was actually completed on Sept 1 - ahead of schedule.
Details at http://www.albertasupernet.ca/
Neither could I.......
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news -
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery;
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General....
Yeah - as Liberace said "I cried all the way to the bank"...
Nope - Sony does not own IMAX - as they say in their own site.
IMAX Corporation ("IMAX"), founded in 1967 and headquartered jointly in New York City and Toronto, Canada, is one of the world's leading entertainment technology companies, with particular emphasis on film and digital imaging technologies including 3D, post-production and digital projection. IMAX is a fully-integrated, out-of-home entertainment enterprise with activities ranging from the design, leasing, marketing, maintenance, and operation of IMAX® theatre systems to film development, production, post-production and distribution of large-format films. IMAX also designs and manufactures cameras, projectors and consistently commits significant funding to ongoing research and development. The IMAX Theatre Network currently consists of more than 235 IMAX affiliated theatres in 35 countries. Approximately 60 percent of the theatres are located in North America, while the remaining 40 percent are spread internationally. Roughly 50 percent of the theatres are located in institutional venues, such as museums, planetariums, and maritime centres, while the other half are part of commercial theatre complexes. More than 100 of these theatres are equipped with IMAX 3D technology. To date, more than 800 million people have enjoyed The IMAX Experience® at specially designed theatres around the world. IMAX Corporation is a publicly traded company listed on both the Toronto and Nasdaq stock exchanges. The IMAX system has its roots in EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada where multi-screen films were the hit of the fair. A small group of Canadian filmmakers/entrepreneurs who had made some of those popular films, decided to design a new system using a single, powerful projector, rather than the cumbersome multiple projectors used at that time. The result: the IMAX motion picture projection system, which would revolutionize giant-screen cinema. IMAX technology premiered at the Fuji Pavilion, EXPO '70 in Osaka, Japan. The first permanent IMAX projection system was installed at Ontario Place's Cinesphere in Toronto in 1971. IMAX Dome (OMNIMAX) debuted at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theatre in San Diego in 1973. In March of 1994, the sale of IMAX by the original partners was finalized to Brad Wechsler, Rich Gelfond, and Wasserstein Perella Partners. In June 1994, IMAX was taken public on the Nasdaq stock exchange providing IMAX with the capitalization necessary to take advantage of numerous growth opportunities.
A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?", they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."
Photographing on the street and in public has protections - but you were in a Mall - which is private property accessible to the public. A fine distincion - but important.
Just as someone can't come into your house uninvited and take pictures of you without permission, you need to get permission of the property owner to photograph people on private property.
Why do you think Papparattzi stand outside of a resturant on A PUBLIC STREET to get their photos of the celeb of the month? Because they don't need permission to photograph someone if they can be seen from a public space. (EG street, public park, public beach, etc.)
See the defintion of a "public space" in common law.
A Mall, especially one that is full of stores who's logo's, storefronts, fonts, colours and design are trademarkable is not a public space.
It is private property accessable to the public, and by entering you need permission of the property holder (or their representative) to take photographs in that space.
If the property holder (the owners of the mall) deem that the interior storefronts are trademarked, trademarkable, or copywritable it is the responsibility of the owner's representative (IE the security guard) to protect that copyright or trade by preventing unauthorised duplication of the material.
You can't trademark your face per say - but you can protect an image of it - think of the protections on images of celebrities - For example, you can't use the image of Humphrey Bogart with out permission from the Bogart estate.
Looking at the Specs on the Sony site - they specfically don't mention what the operating system is - only the browser software - which is NOT Microsoft, and listing the format of files it will read. The browser has a tab capability - and brings up a QWERTY keyboard on the touch screen for web serfing. It also reads Sony Memory sticks (big surprise) - and can take a External keyboard through the USB port. As well - it has TV remote control software and Picture-in-Picture. I don't know what much about the Palm thin client OS - but could it handle all of that? It looks like a implentation of some sort of UNIX or maybe even a Linix port. Odd that they won't mention it in any of their material. Maybe it's a custom port of the PS/2 softwre (grin).
As to assigning an IP address to a DVR Box, Sony is promoting it's Location Free TV as being able to stream your TV shows to anyplace on the internet.g /index.shtml?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=100 01&categoryId=47640
http://www.sonystyle.ca/view/LocationFreeTVLandin
Maybe because it's only being offered in Canada right now they're getting around the MPAA - but what is there to keep someone from setting this up in Canada and running it and accessing from a Wi-Fi hotspot in the Excited States?
The system can be bought at Best Buy (www.bestbuy.ca) in Canada for about $1800 (Cdn) or from Sonystyle.ca directly. It's basically a Small TV set tablet with a 802.11 link to a base station that streams the video to the tablet and even lets you serf the net with a little browser.
Sorry - don't know what operating system they're using - it looks like a custom UNIX setup.
The motorised cart is too bulky and awkward to be used as widely as a segway could - not to mention the LOL factor of being a non geeky old style tech - and finally the wheelchair - which besides being very low tech (Stephen Hawkin's chair not withstanding) - is very poorly designed, and uncomfortable as well.
The answer seems to be lets build something that can be used and combines the best qualities of all three of the systems above.
Suppose for a moment - we take the bottom of a segway - ie the wheels - motor and balancing technology; computers and batteries. Set it in a large cross with a segway wheel at each corner.
Use this as a base for a pedestal type office chair - which could be a ergonically designed chair - simular to high end office chair set in the middle of the cross to rotate elevate up and down from a control stick on one of the arms.
Think Herman Miller Areon chair - sitting on a four wheel chassis - controlled by a joystick.
With a hydralic cylinder in the chair - it could be raised to eye level or lowered to seating position - with the stability gyros of the segways in the base keeping everything upright, and controlling the wheels for direction and power. You could litteraly turn on a dime.
A while back - there was a pciture of the four wheeled Segway that was being bandied about the internet. (I think it's called the Pegasus) - which looked a little like a cross between a ATV and a mountian bike - with a saddle thrown on it.
Use that as a base for the chair - and build the chassis with a hinge in the middle so that when the hydralic cylinder pulls the front and rear wheels together - it raises the chair up.
Control it all with a joystick and buttons on one of the armrests and you would have a true Disability Assist Device (DAD)!