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posted by Bayard @ 9:05 AM
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Cyberpad on Academic Superstore - $150
Adesso
CyberPad (Shipping Late October)
Overview
Imagine having a notepad with the ability to transfer what you've written on paper directly into your computer? What a remarkable convenience that would be. Adesso makes it all possible with this revolutionary CyberPad!
The CyberPad is a stand-alone device with storage capability that digitally captures and stores everything you write or draw with ink on ordinary paper, such as letter size or A4 size without the use of computer and special paper. Then you can easily view, edit, organize and share your handwritten notes on your computer screen. Imagine that!
Infinite Possibilities and Uses
On the road, in class or during meeting, for fun or for work, the CyberPad instantly captures and stores your notes, ideas, sketches, flowcharts and anything else in digital format in the pad's memory or optional SD card, without the use of computers and special papers.
Organize Your Notes
Place any ordinary paper or notepad on the digital pad. Write on the paper with the digital inking pen. The digital pad digitally records anything you write in it, one page you write is stored as one digital page. Plus, right from the CyberPad you can organize your notes by creating folders for specific notes. The LCD screen will tell you which page and folder your writing in.
Connect to your PC
By connecting the CyberPad to your PC or notebook by USB port, it allows you to capture, organize, and share your handwritten notes, drawings, and sketches. Also, using the CyberPad in LandScape format, you can use it as a drawing tablet to write or draw, right on your computer screen!
View, Edit and Share Notes
With its CyberPad software, you can easily view, edit and organize your digital pages in Windows. Save any digital pages as a image file and share your notes with others via e-Mail, send notes even to your PDA! Advanced Handwriting Recognition recognizes text and searches through handwritten notes. Recognizes handwritten page layouts and formatting.
Specifications:
# Active Area: 8 ½” x 11”
# Works with any type of paper including regular letter size & A4 size
# Dimensions: 13” x 9.9” x 0.5” (LxWxH)
# Weight: 1.5 lbs.
# Writing Height: Around 135 Sheets of paper
# Built-In Memory: 32 MB (Over150 Digital Sheets)
# Expandable Memory: SD Slot
# Power Saving Mode: 5 Seconds Auto Standby
# Connection: USB 1.1
# Resolution: 1024 LPI (Lines Per Inch)
# Reports Rate: 160 Reports Per Second
# Digital Ink Pen: 15 Months battery life with LED low battery indicator
# Battery Life: Includes 4 x AAA batteries with 20hrs writing time and 68hrs standby time
System Requirements:
# Windows XP / 2000
# Pentium III or equivalent or higher
# 128MB of RAM or higher
# 32MB of Hard Disk Space
# Available USB port
posted by Bayard @ 12:27 AM
Friday, October 21, 2005
A Bill Advancing Digital TV Is Approved by Senate Panel
New York Times Article
A Bill Advancing Digital TV Is Approved by Senate Panel
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: October 21, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - A Senate panel approved legislation on Thursday to complete the slow transition from analog to digital television by 2009, a change of enormous importance to the television, cable and wireless telephone industries.
The legislation, cleared by the Senate Commerce Committee by a vote of 19 to 3, has gained considerable momentum because it could raise billions of dollars for a depleted federal treasury from auctions for the spectrum licenses that would be surrendered by broadcasters.
Emergency workers have been heavily lobbying for the legislation so they can have better communication systems during disasters like Hurricane Katrina. And the lawmakers are being pressed by industry groups, most notably the wireless phone companies, to accelerate the transition to auction the spectrum licenses so that the carriers can expand and improve their phone and wireless Internet services.
Equipment makers also see the legislation as a possible bonanza because it would prompt consumers and subscription television services to buy upgrades. It also offers the hope of encouraging greater use of wireless online services.
But the bill faces considerable political obstacles, as the various industries squabble over its terms. A significant issue is how to pay for the technology necessary to prevent an estimated 70 million to 80 million television sets from being rendered obsolete once broadcasters no longer provide analog programs.
Those are the sets that do not rely on subscription services provided by cable and satellite companies. The matter is of enough political sensitivity that the lawmakers set April 7, 2009, as the legislation's effective date. (Not coincidentally, that is one day after the widely watched Final Four N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.)
The legislation approved by the committee was sponsored by its Republican chairman, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, and the ranking Democrat, Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii. The three Democratic senators who voted against the measure were Barbara Boxer of California, John Kerry of Massachusetts, and John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia.
It would provide $3 billion for owners of those sets to buy converter boxes that would let them receive digital signals. A similar bill, expected to be considered soon in the House, is likely to try to trim that amount, Congressional aides said.
The measure now moves to the Senate Budget Committee, where it could be considered as early as next week, before being introduced on the floor.
The legislation is the latest measure in a decades-long push toward digital transmission, which would make more efficient use of the communications spectrum and enable broadcasters to offer better-quality pictures as well as the prospect of interactivity.
As part of the transition, the government gave the broadcasters use of frequencies for both digital and analog transmission, and policy makers want to accelerate the process to get back the analog portion to sell in the market.
The licenses to be returned to the government are among the most desirable around. They are considered the beachfront property of the spectrum because of their special characteristics - they cover large distances and the signals easily penetrate buildings.
Under existing law, the broadcasters were supposed to return that part of the spectrum at the later of two dates - Dec. 31, 2006, or when 85 percent of households receive digital signals. Experts said the 85 percent requirement threatened to delay the transition for many years, although broadcasters long lobbied against setting a more immediate deadline. More than half of homes now have no digital signal and no intention to get one, according to Stewart Wolpin, an analyst at Points North Group, a research and consulting firm.
The legislation adopted on Thursday was silent on one of the most contentious issues posed by the switch to digital programs - whether cable companies would be required to carry all the new digital programs transmitted by broadcasters. The new technology enables the broadcasters to transmit up to six programs simultaneously in the same space where they now transmit one.
They have insisted on legislation that imposes digital "must carry" provisions because, they say, it is essential to the economics of the industry. But the cable companies have balked, arguing that such a requirement would be too costly.
The broadcasters and the cable companies have produced competing studies, with cable providers complaining that the costs involved in must carry provisions could be billions of dollars, although some independent analysts have taken issue with the studies.
A recent report on the matter by analysts at Legg Mason said, "We view these statements as normal political hyperbole and would note that the worst-case scenarios are unlikely to play out as argued in the context of lobbying."
Another behind-the-scenes fight has been brewing over how the government should allocate the so-called "white space" on the spectrum, which viewers now see on those channels that do not carry programs, like Channel 3 in New York. Some technology and Internet service providers, along with consumer groups, have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to approve a new generation of unlicensed wireless devices to make use of the white space.
Their efforts are opposed by the broadcasters, who say that those devices would interfere with broadcasting transmission.
The transition has also prompted lobbying by the equipment makers, including Cisco Systems and Intel, and by software companies like Microsoft, which has urged lawmakers to preserve a significant amount of the spectrum for free or unlicensed use. Several lobbyists said this week they had heard from lawmakers that in recent months Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, had pressed the issue with members of Congress.
A spokeswoman in the Washington office of Microsoft, Ginny Terzano, declined to provide details about Mr. Gates's conversations with lawmakers. She said the company was not seeking a provision for unlicensed spectrum use in the bill adopted on Thursday but generally favors such unlicensed spectrum.
"We look forward," she said, "to working with the Congress to explore future opportunities to make more unlicensed spectrum available to promote greater wireless broadband deployment, and the ability to deliver new and interesting products."
A Bill Advancing Digital TV Is Approved by Senate Panel
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: October 21, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - A Senate panel approved legislation on Thursday to complete the slow transition from analog to digital television by 2009, a change of enormous importance to the television, cable and wireless telephone industries.
The legislation, cleared by the Senate Commerce Committee by a vote of 19 to 3, has gained considerable momentum because it could raise billions of dollars for a depleted federal treasury from auctions for the spectrum licenses that would be surrendered by broadcasters.
Emergency workers have been heavily lobbying for the legislation so they can have better communication systems during disasters like Hurricane Katrina. And the lawmakers are being pressed by industry groups, most notably the wireless phone companies, to accelerate the transition to auction the spectrum licenses so that the carriers can expand and improve their phone and wireless Internet services.
Equipment makers also see the legislation as a possible bonanza because it would prompt consumers and subscription television services to buy upgrades. It also offers the hope of encouraging greater use of wireless online services.
But the bill faces considerable political obstacles, as the various industries squabble over its terms. A significant issue is how to pay for the technology necessary to prevent an estimated 70 million to 80 million television sets from being rendered obsolete once broadcasters no longer provide analog programs.
Those are the sets that do not rely on subscription services provided by cable and satellite companies. The matter is of enough political sensitivity that the lawmakers set April 7, 2009, as the legislation's effective date. (Not coincidentally, that is one day after the widely watched Final Four N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.)
The legislation approved by the committee was sponsored by its Republican chairman, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, and the ranking Democrat, Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii. The three Democratic senators who voted against the measure were Barbara Boxer of California, John Kerry of Massachusetts, and John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia.
It would provide $3 billion for owners of those sets to buy converter boxes that would let them receive digital signals. A similar bill, expected to be considered soon in the House, is likely to try to trim that amount, Congressional aides said.
The measure now moves to the Senate Budget Committee, where it could be considered as early as next week, before being introduced on the floor.
The legislation is the latest measure in a decades-long push toward digital transmission, which would make more efficient use of the communications spectrum and enable broadcasters to offer better-quality pictures as well as the prospect of interactivity.
As part of the transition, the government gave the broadcasters use of frequencies for both digital and analog transmission, and policy makers want to accelerate the process to get back the analog portion to sell in the market.
The licenses to be returned to the government are among the most desirable around. They are considered the beachfront property of the spectrum because of their special characteristics - they cover large distances and the signals easily penetrate buildings.
Under existing law, the broadcasters were supposed to return that part of the spectrum at the later of two dates - Dec. 31, 2006, or when 85 percent of households receive digital signals. Experts said the 85 percent requirement threatened to delay the transition for many years, although broadcasters long lobbied against setting a more immediate deadline. More than half of homes now have no digital signal and no intention to get one, according to Stewart Wolpin, an analyst at Points North Group, a research and consulting firm.
The legislation adopted on Thursday was silent on one of the most contentious issues posed by the switch to digital programs - whether cable companies would be required to carry all the new digital programs transmitted by broadcasters. The new technology enables the broadcasters to transmit up to six programs simultaneously in the same space where they now transmit one.
They have insisted on legislation that imposes digital "must carry" provisions because, they say, it is essential to the economics of the industry. But the cable companies have balked, arguing that such a requirement would be too costly.
The broadcasters and the cable companies have produced competing studies, with cable providers complaining that the costs involved in must carry provisions could be billions of dollars, although some independent analysts have taken issue with the studies.
A recent report on the matter by analysts at Legg Mason said, "We view these statements as normal political hyperbole and would note that the worst-case scenarios are unlikely to play out as argued in the context of lobbying."
Another behind-the-scenes fight has been brewing over how the government should allocate the so-called "white space" on the spectrum, which viewers now see on those channels that do not carry programs, like Channel 3 in New York. Some technology and Internet service providers, along with consumer groups, have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to approve a new generation of unlicensed wireless devices to make use of the white space.
Their efforts are opposed by the broadcasters, who say that those devices would interfere with broadcasting transmission.
The transition has also prompted lobbying by the equipment makers, including Cisco Systems and Intel, and by software companies like Microsoft, which has urged lawmakers to preserve a significant amount of the spectrum for free or unlicensed use. Several lobbyists said this week they had heard from lawmakers that in recent months Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, had pressed the issue with members of Congress.
A spokeswoman in the Washington office of Microsoft, Ginny Terzano, declined to provide details about Mr. Gates's conversations with lawmakers. She said the company was not seeking a provision for unlicensed spectrum use in the bill adopted on Thursday but generally favors such unlicensed spectrum.
"We look forward," she said, "to working with the Congress to explore future opportunities to make more unlicensed spectrum available to promote greater wireless broadband deployment, and the ability to deliver new and interesting products."
posted by Bayard @ 11:43 PM
Young film maker strikes it big with 'Napoleon Dynamite' and uses Final Cut Pro
posted by Bayard @ 11:37 PM
Ska Bands. . .enough said.
Catch 22
Mad Caddies
Sublime
Mustard Plug
Real McKenzies
Brave Saint Saturn
Rx Bandits
Toasters (they have an album titled 'Skaboom')
Millencolin (same old tunes album)
No Doubt (Self-titled)
Mad Caddies
Sublime
Mustard Plug
Real McKenzies
Brave Saint Saturn
Rx Bandits
Toasters (they have an album titled 'Skaboom')
Millencolin (same old tunes album)
No Doubt (Self-titled)
posted by Bayard @ 9:45 PM
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Singing for Survival - film by Justin Lubke
"Singing for Survival" Documentary Film and Lecture
"Singing for Survival" is the inspiring story of a group of indigenous children from southwest India who are fighting a dark history of slavery and oppression through music, theatre and film. This presentation by Justin Lubke, a documentary filmmaker originally from Ennis and graduate of MSU, chronicles a story of music and creativity as a tool for hope and change. Lubke has been involved in films for Discovery, PBS and other companies. In the high mountain jungles of Southwest India, there is a place where music is life. Where 15-year-old girls expertly wield swords in fierce combat as they train in the world’s oldest martial art. Where poor tribal children find a way to make their own feature film, the first of its kind in film history.
DVDs of the film can be purchased at:
posted by Bayard @ 1:50 PM
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Deutsch für lernen
Zum mittagessen, wir gehen nach eine Restaurant mite in paar freunden.
Mein Freund musst deine Schultasche bringen. Er hat viele CD’s für uns.
Das Junge spricht Japanisch auch.
Zwei Jungen das deutsch sprechen auf meinen Fußboden wohnen.
posted by Bayard @ 10:22 AM
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Monday, October 10, 2005
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Savvy Internet User
Coming into the library this morning, I was ecstatic to see a girl who was not only using Firefox, but also using Gmail as well. Thank God for savvy internet users who know better than Internet Explorer and Hotmail.
posted by Bayard @ 9:09 AM
