Here are two web sites that will give you an example of great resource pages for information. These are about Canada. The first one is very extensive - scroll down and look at all the information that is available. The second is also very good for source material for Journalists. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/clamen/misc/Canadiana/
http://www.canoe.ca/Sunlib/home.html
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Monday, July 07, 2003
Monday, June 30, 2003
Quote of the Week.
From The Past:
"Introduced in 1978, the original 16-bit 8086 chip contained only
29,000 transistors and ran at 5 MHz...
In comparison, early 2003's Pentium 4 processors contain 55 million
transistors and run more than 600 times faster -- at 3.06GHz.
To The Present:
Based on combined desktop, laptop and server shipments, Mercury
Research calculates that Intel shipped its One-Billionth Processor
in April [2003], roughly 25 years after the debut of the first 8086
microprocessor on June 8, 1978...
And On To Tomorrow:
Mercury Research calculates that the next billion X86 CPUs could
ship far faster than the first billion processors, in only four [vs.
25] years -- by as early as 2007!"
Paraphrases from a June 9 Intel Press Release,
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030609corp.htm
and from additional insights about Intel's history, at
http://www.intel.com/labs/features/mi06031.htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Info Game.
My wife and I were taking the 2+ hour drive back from Cape Cod this past
weekend (being directed, as always, by my Garmin StreetPilot III
(http://www.garmin.com/products/spIII/) - the best ridiculous amount of
money I've spent on an electronic gadget in as long as I can remember.)
Although not quite perfect (nothing is), a self-contained moving-map GPS
device such as this leaves me confident that I can't get lost, and that
I can find almost any destination with little effort. It is, from a
business and personal travel perspective, as highly addictive as the
worst of addictive drugs.
[My only major complaint to Garmin: why, oh why, didn't you allow
for the use of the gigabyte IBM MicroDrive, rather than the
proprietary 128 megabyte memory card -- it would have drastically
expanded the area that the unit could explore between visits to the
PC or notebook, to half the U.S. or more, at virtually the same
price as one memory card!]
It Gets Better.
But the services that this device offers get even better. Because so
long as you're traveling within the detailed map area that you've
previously download (from a PC) into the device's memory card (several
states' worth of data, depending on the density of the area involved),
the database also includes a wealth of information about "points of
interest" along the way, such as lodging, businesses, restaurants,
government services, and much more -- all fully integrated into the
navigation software.
For example, it was approaching dinner time, and it's always our policy
to try new restaurants beyond our normal stomping grounds when feasible.
In this case, Thai food sounded good, so I punched up "Food & Drink /
Asian," and told the StreetPilot III to list the nearest candidates.
This presented a list, sorted with the closest Asian restaurants first,
with each entry showing the distance to that restaurant along with an
arrow showing its direction from our direction-of-travel (so I knew
which ones would require backtracking, vs. those in front of us.) And
the list, as with all such lists, was "live," meaning that in real time
the list re-sorted as we got farther from choices we had passed, while
new restaurants in front of us appeared as they got within range. The
mileage figures for each entry, and their directional arrows, were
similarly "live."
This would be pretty useful by itself, but a click on any of these
restaurants brought up a display of its address and phone number. That
phone number made it a snap to chat with likely candidates to get an
idea of their cuisine, see how busy they were, and generally get a sense
if this restaurant met our desires. Which brings me to one area where
this database just aches to be expanded.
It Could Be EVEN BETTER!
As we settled on prospective restaurants, we pulled out my wife's PDA
which contains the Zagat's restaurant survey, to get an opinion of how
those restaurants near us were rated. (The result of this on-the-fly
data surfing was a very good Thai dinner!)
But that process was needlessly complex. Why not integrate such
added-value material as the Zagat's guide right into the navigation
database? (We'll ignore space concerns, since that always gets better,
as well as the cost of the additional information, since we already paid
separately for the Zagat information, plus enhanced volume through
bundling would likely reduce its price.)
Similarly, and even more important, how about including real-time
traffic info into the GPS display and route calculations -- this would
be an invaluable mobile "Killer App!"
I know -- some of these capabilities are already available in some
markets, at least under experimental conditions. And once wireless
bandwidth is pervasive, virtually any information could be integrated
through standards such as XML. Just imagine what a difference in
time-and-frustration-saved, in added-convenience, (and in better meals),
such real-time data integration would make. And (hint - hint), imagine
the leading edge that such services, coupled with excellent hardware and
databases, might give to the company(s) who first offer such integrated
services!
(It's also rather interesting that in this discussion, I've said
little about the StreetPilot III's core GPS functionality -- it just
works. Raw GPS data is now a commodity available from chips in your
pocket cell phone, much less from these larger, task-oriented units.
But what good would a raw readout of lat./long./elevation be to most
of us?
Indeed, the differentiation for "location-aware" devices is no
longer in how well the basic GPS functions work, since a highly
functional "floor" has already been established as the "price of
entry." Instead, the overall value of current and future "GPS
devices" will be judged more on the INTEGRATION of an ever-growing
sphere of information (restaurants, traffic info, real-time updated
street maps, satellite photo overlays, and far more), on better
displays and user interfaces (the StreetPilot III's color display
and fairly good user interface set it in front of the pack on GPS
mapping functions alone), plus on other functions that dramatically
enhance the "basic" location service.)
I KNOW that these further "integrations" will happen. It's just a
matter of by whom, and when. The good news is that this is certainly
NOT news to the companies poised to further change our commutes, our
business trips, and those wonderful family trips with the kids (to whom,
when they inevitably whine "Are we there yet?", you can now look at the
GPS and respond "Just another 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 16 seconds,
Johnny.").
Of course Johnny, who probably mastered the depths of the GPS software
and user interfaces far faster than his parents, might also point out
that Burger King is only 3.2 miles ahead, and would take them only .23
miles out of their way. And oh, look -- there's a nice miniature golf
range just beyond that...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Out of the Ether.
From The Past:
"Introduced in 1978, the original 16-bit 8086 chip contained only
29,000 transistors and ran at 5 MHz...
In comparison, early 2003's Pentium 4 processors contain 55 million
transistors and run more than 600 times faster -- at 3.06GHz.
To The Present:
Based on combined desktop, laptop and server shipments, Mercury
Research calculates that Intel shipped its One-Billionth Processor
in April [2003], roughly 25 years after the debut of the first 8086
microprocessor on June 8, 1978...
And On To Tomorrow:
Mercury Research calculates that the next billion X86 CPUs could
ship far faster than the first billion processors, in only four [vs.
25] years -- by as early as 2007!"
Paraphrases from a June 9 Intel Press Release,
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030609corp.htm
and from additional insights about Intel's history, at
http://www.intel.com/labs/features/mi06031.htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Info Game.
My wife and I were taking the 2+ hour drive back from Cape Cod this past
weekend (being directed, as always, by my Garmin StreetPilot III
(http://www.garmin.com/products/spIII/) - the best ridiculous amount of
money I've spent on an electronic gadget in as long as I can remember.)
Although not quite perfect (nothing is), a self-contained moving-map GPS
device such as this leaves me confident that I can't get lost, and that
I can find almost any destination with little effort. It is, from a
business and personal travel perspective, as highly addictive as the
worst of addictive drugs.
[My only major complaint to Garmin: why, oh why, didn't you allow
for the use of the gigabyte IBM MicroDrive, rather than the
proprietary 128 megabyte memory card -- it would have drastically
expanded the area that the unit could explore between visits to the
PC or notebook, to half the U.S. or more, at virtually the same
price as one memory card!]
It Gets Better.
But the services that this device offers get even better. Because so
long as you're traveling within the detailed map area that you've
previously download (from a PC) into the device's memory card (several
states' worth of data, depending on the density of the area involved),
the database also includes a wealth of information about "points of
interest" along the way, such as lodging, businesses, restaurants,
government services, and much more -- all fully integrated into the
navigation software.
For example, it was approaching dinner time, and it's always our policy
to try new restaurants beyond our normal stomping grounds when feasible.
In this case, Thai food sounded good, so I punched up "Food & Drink /
Asian," and told the StreetPilot III to list the nearest candidates.
This presented a list, sorted with the closest Asian restaurants first,
with each entry showing the distance to that restaurant along with an
arrow showing its direction from our direction-of-travel (so I knew
which ones would require backtracking, vs. those in front of us.) And
the list, as with all such lists, was "live," meaning that in real time
the list re-sorted as we got farther from choices we had passed, while
new restaurants in front of us appeared as they got within range. The
mileage figures for each entry, and their directional arrows, were
similarly "live."
This would be pretty useful by itself, but a click on any of these
restaurants brought up a display of its address and phone number. That
phone number made it a snap to chat with likely candidates to get an
idea of their cuisine, see how busy they were, and generally get a sense
if this restaurant met our desires. Which brings me to one area where
this database just aches to be expanded.
It Could Be EVEN BETTER!
As we settled on prospective restaurants, we pulled out my wife's PDA
which contains the Zagat's restaurant survey, to get an opinion of how
those restaurants near us were rated. (The result of this on-the-fly
data surfing was a very good Thai dinner!)
But that process was needlessly complex. Why not integrate such
added-value material as the Zagat's guide right into the navigation
database? (We'll ignore space concerns, since that always gets better,
as well as the cost of the additional information, since we already paid
separately for the Zagat information, plus enhanced volume through
bundling would likely reduce its price.)
Similarly, and even more important, how about including real-time
traffic info into the GPS display and route calculations -- this would
be an invaluable mobile "Killer App!"
I know -- some of these capabilities are already available in some
markets, at least under experimental conditions. And once wireless
bandwidth is pervasive, virtually any information could be integrated
through standards such as XML. Just imagine what a difference in
time-and-frustration-saved, in added-convenience, (and in better meals),
such real-time data integration would make. And (hint - hint), imagine
the leading edge that such services, coupled with excellent hardware and
databases, might give to the company(s) who first offer such integrated
services!
(It's also rather interesting that in this discussion, I've said
little about the StreetPilot III's core GPS functionality -- it just
works. Raw GPS data is now a commodity available from chips in your
pocket cell phone, much less from these larger, task-oriented units.
But what good would a raw readout of lat./long./elevation be to most
of us?
Indeed, the differentiation for "location-aware" devices is no
longer in how well the basic GPS functions work, since a highly
functional "floor" has already been established as the "price of
entry." Instead, the overall value of current and future "GPS
devices" will be judged more on the INTEGRATION of an ever-growing
sphere of information (restaurants, traffic info, real-time updated
street maps, satellite photo overlays, and far more), on better
displays and user interfaces (the StreetPilot III's color display
and fairly good user interface set it in front of the pack on GPS
mapping functions alone), plus on other functions that dramatically
enhance the "basic" location service.)
I KNOW that these further "integrations" will happen. It's just a
matter of by whom, and when. The good news is that this is certainly
NOT news to the companies poised to further change our commutes, our
business trips, and those wonderful family trips with the kids (to whom,
when they inevitably whine "Are we there yet?", you can now look at the
GPS and respond "Just another 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 16 seconds,
Johnny.").
Of course Johnny, who probably mastered the depths of the GPS software
and user interfaces far faster than his parents, might also point out
that Burger King is only 3.2 miles ahead, and would take them only .23
miles out of their way. And oh, look -- there's a nice miniature golf
range just beyond that...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Out of the Ether.
Quote of the Week.
From The Past:
"Introduced in 1978, the original 16-bit 8086 chip contained only
29,000 transistors and ran at 5 MHz...
In comparison, early 2003's Pentium 4 processors contain 55 million
transistors and run more than 600 times faster -- at 3.06GHz.
To The Present:
Based on combined desktop, laptop and server shipments, Mercury
Research calculates that Intel shipped its One-Billionth Processor
in April [2003], roughly 25 years after the debut of the first 8086
microprocessor on June 8, 1978...
And On To Tomorrow:
Mercury Research calculates that the next billion X86 CPUs could
ship far faster than the first billion processors, in only four [vs.
25] years -- by as early as 2007!"
Paraphrases from a June 9 Intel Press Release,
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030609corp.htm
and from additional insights about Intel's history, at
http://www.intel.com/labs/features/mi06031.htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Info Game.
My wife and I were taking the 2+ hour drive back from Cape Cod this past
weekend (being directed, as always, by my Garmin StreetPilot III
(http://www.garmin.com/products/spIII/) - the best ridiculous amount of
money I've spent on an electronic gadget in as long as I can remember.)
Although not quite perfect (nothing is), a self-contained moving-map GPS
device such as this leaves me confident that I can't get lost, and that
I can find almost any destination with little effort. It is, from a
business and personal travel perspective, as highly addictive as the
worst of addictive drugs.
[My only major complaint to Garmin: why, oh why, didn't you allow
for the use of the gigabyte IBM MicroDrive, rather than the
proprietary 128 megabyte memory card -- it would have drastically
expanded the area that the unit could explore between visits to the
PC or notebook, to half the U.S. or more, at virtually the same
price as one memory card!]
It Gets Better.
But the services that this device offers get even better. Because so
long as you're traveling within the detailed map area that you've
previously download (from a PC) into the device's memory card (several
states' worth of data, depending on the density of the area involved),
the database also includes a wealth of information about "points of
interest" along the way, such as lodging, businesses, restaurants,
government services, and much more -- all fully integrated into the
navigation software.
For example, it was approaching dinner time, and it's always our policy
to try new restaurants beyond our normal stomping grounds when feasible.
In this case, Thai food sounded good, so I punched up "Food & Drink /
Asian," and told the StreetPilot III to list the nearest candidates.
This presented a list, sorted with the closest Asian restaurants first,
with each entry showing the distance to that restaurant along with an
arrow showing its direction from our direction-of-travel (so I knew
which ones would require backtracking, vs. those in front of us.) And
the list, as with all such lists, was "live," meaning that in real time
the list re-sorted as we got farther from choices we had passed, while
new restaurants in front of us appeared as they got within range. The
mileage figures for each entry, and their directional arrows, were
similarly "live."
This would be pretty useful by itself, but a click on any of these
restaurants brought up a display of its address and phone number. That
phone number made it a snap to chat with likely candidates to get an
idea of their cuisine, see how busy they were, and generally get a sense
if this restaurant met our desires. Which brings me to one area where
this database just aches to be expanded.
It Could Be EVEN BETTER!
As we settled on prospective restaurants, we pulled out my wife's PDA
which contains the Zagat's restaurant survey, to get an opinion of how
those restaurants near us were rated. (The result of this on-the-fly
data surfing was a very good Thai dinner!)
But that process was needlessly complex. Why not integrate such
added-value material as the Zagat's guide right into the navigation
database? (We'll ignore space concerns, since that always gets better,
as well as the cost of the additional information, since we already paid
separately for the Zagat information, plus enhanced volume through
bundling would likely reduce its price.)
Similarly, and even more important, how about including real-time
traffic info into the GPS display and route calculations -- this would
be an invaluable mobile "Killer App!"
I know -- some of these capabilities are already available in some
markets, at least under experimental conditions. And once wireless
bandwidth is pervasive, virtually any information could be integrated
through standards such as XML. Just imagine what a difference in
time-and-frustration-saved, in added-convenience, (and in better meals),
such real-time data integration would make. And (hint - hint), imagine
the leading edge that such services, coupled with excellent hardware and
databases, might give to the company(s) who first offer such integrated
services!
(It's also rather interesting that in this discussion, I've said
little about the StreetPilot III's core GPS functionality -- it just
works. Raw GPS data is now a commodity available from chips in your
pocket cell phone, much less from these larger, task-oriented units.
But what good would a raw readout of lat./long./elevation be to most
of us?
Indeed, the differentiation for "location-aware" devices is no
longer in how well the basic GPS functions work, since a highly
functional "floor" has already been established as the "price of
entry." Instead, the overall value of current and future "GPS
devices" will be judged more on the INTEGRATION of an ever-growing
sphere of information (restaurants, traffic info, real-time updated
street maps, satellite photo overlays, and far more), on better
displays and user interfaces (the StreetPilot III's color display
and fairly good user interface set it in front of the pack on GPS
mapping functions alone), plus on other functions that dramatically
enhance the "basic" location service.)
I KNOW that these further "integrations" will happen. It's just a
matter of by whom, and when. The good news is that this is certainly
NOT news to the companies poised to further change our commutes, our
business trips, and those wonderful family trips with the kids (to whom,
when they inevitably whine "Are we there yet?", you can now look at the
GPS and respond "Just another 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 16 seconds,
Johnny.").
Of course Johnny, who probably mastered the depths of the GPS software
and user interfaces far faster than his parents, might also point out
that Burger King is only 3.2 miles ahead, and would take them only .23
miles out of their way. And oh, look -- there's a nice miniature golf
range just beyond that...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Out of the Ether.
From The Past:
"Introduced in 1978, the original 16-bit 8086 chip contained only
29,000 transistors and ran at 5 MHz...
In comparison, early 2003's Pentium 4 processors contain 55 million
transistors and run more than 600 times faster -- at 3.06GHz.
To The Present:
Based on combined desktop, laptop and server shipments, Mercury
Research calculates that Intel shipped its One-Billionth Processor
in April [2003], roughly 25 years after the debut of the first 8086
microprocessor on June 8, 1978...
And On To Tomorrow:
Mercury Research calculates that the next billion X86 CPUs could
ship far faster than the first billion processors, in only four [vs.
25] years -- by as early as 2007!"
Paraphrases from a June 9 Intel Press Release,
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030609corp.htm
and from additional insights about Intel's history, at
http://www.intel.com/labs/features/mi06031.htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Info Game.
My wife and I were taking the 2+ hour drive back from Cape Cod this past
weekend (being directed, as always, by my Garmin StreetPilot III
(http://www.garmin.com/products/spIII/) - the best ridiculous amount of
money I've spent on an electronic gadget in as long as I can remember.)
Although not quite perfect (nothing is), a self-contained moving-map GPS
device such as this leaves me confident that I can't get lost, and that
I can find almost any destination with little effort. It is, from a
business and personal travel perspective, as highly addictive as the
worst of addictive drugs.
[My only major complaint to Garmin: why, oh why, didn't you allow
for the use of the gigabyte IBM MicroDrive, rather than the
proprietary 128 megabyte memory card -- it would have drastically
expanded the area that the unit could explore between visits to the
PC or notebook, to half the U.S. or more, at virtually the same
price as one memory card!]
It Gets Better.
But the services that this device offers get even better. Because so
long as you're traveling within the detailed map area that you've
previously download (from a PC) into the device's memory card (several
states' worth of data, depending on the density of the area involved),
the database also includes a wealth of information about "points of
interest" along the way, such as lodging, businesses, restaurants,
government services, and much more -- all fully integrated into the
navigation software.
For example, it was approaching dinner time, and it's always our policy
to try new restaurants beyond our normal stomping grounds when feasible.
In this case, Thai food sounded good, so I punched up "Food & Drink /
Asian," and told the StreetPilot III to list the nearest candidates.
This presented a list, sorted with the closest Asian restaurants first,
with each entry showing the distance to that restaurant along with an
arrow showing its direction from our direction-of-travel (so I knew
which ones would require backtracking, vs. those in front of us.) And
the list, as with all such lists, was "live," meaning that in real time
the list re-sorted as we got farther from choices we had passed, while
new restaurants in front of us appeared as they got within range. The
mileage figures for each entry, and their directional arrows, were
similarly "live."
This would be pretty useful by itself, but a click on any of these
restaurants brought up a display of its address and phone number. That
phone number made it a snap to chat with likely candidates to get an
idea of their cuisine, see how busy they were, and generally get a sense
if this restaurant met our desires. Which brings me to one area where
this database just aches to be expanded.
It Could Be EVEN BETTER!
As we settled on prospective restaurants, we pulled out my wife's PDA
which contains the Zagat's restaurant survey, to get an opinion of how
those restaurants near us were rated. (The result of this on-the-fly
data surfing was a very good Thai dinner!)
But that process was needlessly complex. Why not integrate such
added-value material as the Zagat's guide right into the navigation
database? (We'll ignore space concerns, since that always gets better,
as well as the cost of the additional information, since we already paid
separately for the Zagat information, plus enhanced volume through
bundling would likely reduce its price.)
Similarly, and even more important, how about including real-time
traffic info into the GPS display and route calculations -- this would
be an invaluable mobile "Killer App!"
I know -- some of these capabilities are already available in some
markets, at least under experimental conditions. And once wireless
bandwidth is pervasive, virtually any information could be integrated
through standards such as XML. Just imagine what a difference in
time-and-frustration-saved, in added-convenience, (and in better meals),
such real-time data integration would make. And (hint - hint), imagine
the leading edge that such services, coupled with excellent hardware and
databases, might give to the company(s) who first offer such integrated
services!
(It's also rather interesting that in this discussion, I've said
little about the StreetPilot III's core GPS functionality -- it just
works. Raw GPS data is now a commodity available from chips in your
pocket cell phone, much less from these larger, task-oriented units.
But what good would a raw readout of lat./long./elevation be to most
of us?
Indeed, the differentiation for "location-aware" devices is no
longer in how well the basic GPS functions work, since a highly
functional "floor" has already been established as the "price of
entry." Instead, the overall value of current and future "GPS
devices" will be judged more on the INTEGRATION of an ever-growing
sphere of information (restaurants, traffic info, real-time updated
street maps, satellite photo overlays, and far more), on better
displays and user interfaces (the StreetPilot III's color display
and fairly good user interface set it in front of the pack on GPS
mapping functions alone), plus on other functions that dramatically
enhance the "basic" location service.)
I KNOW that these further "integrations" will happen. It's just a
matter of by whom, and when. The good news is that this is certainly
NOT news to the companies poised to further change our commutes, our
business trips, and those wonderful family trips with the kids (to whom,
when they inevitably whine "Are we there yet?", you can now look at the
GPS and respond "Just another 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 16 seconds,
Johnny.").
Of course Johnny, who probably mastered the depths of the GPS software
and user interfaces far faster than his parents, might also point out
that Burger King is only 3.2 miles ahead, and would take them only .23
miles out of their way. And oh, look -- there's a nice miniature golf
range just beyond that...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Out of the Ether.
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Hi I have posted this twice because it really is good. You can look at it by hitting play and then plat again and again and again for a long time or download it to your home computer. It reallyb is cool. Give it a try.HONDA'S 'COG' AD MAY SHOW THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING
Columnist John Battelle says that the two-minute ad "Cog" for Honda UK marks
a turning point in the history of TV advertising. You can take a look at it
by linking to the Business 2.0 article cited below. (Business 2.0 Jul 2003)
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50151,00.html
AROUND THE NET: SOME RANDOM STATS
AUTOMOTIVE: One of every four car sales in the U.S. will take place on the
Internet by 2007, says Jupiter Research... BANKING: Wells Fargo, the
nation's 4th-largest bank, now has 4 million active online customers...
B2B: Cisco does more than 90% of its sales to other businesses online...
EDUCATION: The University of Phoenix Online now has a student body of
63,000... ENTERTAINMENT: RealNetworks has more than twice as many Internet
multimedia subscribers as Microsoft... HEALTH: WebMD gets more than 17.2
million visitors a month... MEDIA: More than 120 million people visited
Yahoo from home in April -- that's about the same number as tuned in all the
major TV networks combined... REAL ESTATE: Realtor.com gets 9 out of 10 of
the listings of houses for sale... RETAIL: Amazon's a giant, all right, but
is still only the 54th largest retailer, well behind Sears, 7-Eleven, Barnes
& Noble, and Wal-Mart... TRAVEL: Expedia leads the industry, with $5.3
billion in booking last year. (USA Today 22 Jun 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-06-22-netwinners_x.htm
OFF-THE-SHELF SUPERCOMPUTERS
The latest trend in supercomputing is to build systems by clustering
off-the-shelf "commodity" PCs and inexpensive servers; a good example is the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory cluster ranked as the
third-most-powerful in the world. As Reza Rooholamini of Dell explains, "The
total cost of ownership much less than with proprietary systems." This is
all good news for chipmakers Intel and AMD, who are taking different
technological paths to 64-bit chips for use in high-end systems. Intel will
be announcing a new chip code-named Madison, with twice the capacity of its
existing Itanium 2 line, and AMD recently introduced its Opteron chip, which
(unlike Itanium) can handle both 64-bit and 32-bit software. (Wall Street
Journal 22 Jun 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105631479658507500,00.html [sub req'd]
HONDA'S 'COG' AD MAY SHOW THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING
Columnist John Battelle says that the two-minute ad "Cog" for Honda UK marks
a turning point in the history of TV advertising. You can take a look at it
by linking to the Business 2.0 article cited below. (Business 2.0 Jul 2003)
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50151,00.html
AUTOMOTIVE: One of every four car sales in the U.S. will take place on the
Internet by 2007, says Jupiter Research... BANKING: Wells Fargo, the
nation's 4th-largest bank, now has 4 million active online customers...
B2B: Cisco does more than 90% of its sales to other businesses online...
EDUCATION: The University of Phoenix Online now has a student body of
63,000... ENTERTAINMENT: RealNetworks has more than twice as many Internet
multimedia subscribers as Microsoft... HEALTH: WebMD gets more than 17.2
million visitors a month... MEDIA: More than 120 million people visited
Yahoo from home in April -- that's about the same number as tuned in all the
major TV networks combined... REAL ESTATE: Realtor.com gets 9 out of 10 of
the listings of houses for sale... RETAIL: Amazon's a giant, all right, but
is still only the 54th largest retailer, well behind Sears, 7-Eleven, Barnes
& Noble, and Wal-Mart... TRAVEL: Expedia leads the industry, with $5.3
billion in booking last year. (USA Today 22 Jun 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-06-22-netwinners_x.htm
OFF-THE-SHELF SUPERCOMPUTERS
The latest trend in supercomputing is to build systems by clustering
off-the-shelf "commodity" PCs and inexpensive servers; a good example is the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory cluster ranked as the
third-most-powerful in the world. As Reza Rooholamini of Dell explains, "The
total cost of ownership much less than with proprietary systems." This is
all good news for chipmakers Intel and AMD, who are taking different
technological paths to 64-bit chips for use in high-end systems. Intel will
be announcing a new chip code-named Madison, with twice the capacity of its
existing Itanium 2 line, and AMD recently introduced its Opteron chip, which
(unlike Itanium) can handle both 64-bit and 32-bit software. (Wall Street
Journal 22 Jun 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105631479658507500,00.html [sub req'd]
HONDA'S 'COG' AD MAY SHOW THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING
Columnist John Battelle says that the two-minute ad "Cog" for Honda UK marks
a turning point in the history of TV advertising. You can take a look at it
by linking to the Business 2.0 article cited below. (Business 2.0 Jul 2003)
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50151,00.html
----------------Posted on Mon, Jun. 23, 2003
European wireless alliance launches pay-by-cell-phone firm
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Simpay is the name of the company set up by four of Europe's biggest wireless carriers to let cell phone users pay for certain products with their cell phones.
Britain's Orange SA and Vodafone, Spain's Telefonica Moviles and Germany's T-Mobile are behind the company that offers secure payments between merchants, cell phone users and banks.
On Monday, the London-based company unveiled its name and its slogan, ``Pay for stuff with your mobile.''
The ultimate goal is to push mobile commerce forward by creating a single brand for processing payments, Tim Jones, the chief executive, told The Associated Press.
As it stands, the market for buying goods with a cell phone is limited. Users can go online, using a phone's built-in Web browser, and order flowers from a Web site, provided the details of a credit or debit card are stored in a virtual wallet.
The new clearinghouse, Jones said, offers more, taking card payments directly from mobile phone users and storing the financial information for future transactions. The service will cover small purchases, typically no more than $10 or so.
``Our aim is for you to see it on music Web sites, when making a flight booking or even when paying a bus fare,'' Jones said, adding it could be in use by next year.
Other instances of its use, he added could include buying MP3 music files, downloading games or paying for a parking meter.
Besides selecting the name, the company also filled out its management team, adding Simon Richards as chief operating officer; former Vodafone executive Jim Wadsworth as head of marketing, and Edward Cooke, formerly of Orange, as chief financial officer.
Cook said the company is in talks with more than a dozen European wireless operators about instituting the system. The system will be unveiled gradually over the next year, with an eye toward taking it to the United States and Asia, too.
``Why should it work in London for an Italian tourist and not an American one?'' he asked.
He also said the process shouldn't be a service geared only toward GSM, or ``global system for mobile communications'' networks, which is prevalent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In North America, CDMA, or ``code division multiple access'' is the dominant standard.
``We would be wrong to see Simpay as a GSM-only initiative,'' Jones said.
Last year, the amount of money spent globally for phone accouterments like ring tones and logos was an estimated $1.6 billion, according to Ovum, a research firm. By 2006, Ovum projects wireless commerce could reach $37 billion.
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European wireless alliance launches pay-by-cell-phone firm
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Simpay is the name of the company set up by four of Europe's biggest wireless carriers to let cell phone users pay for certain products with their cell phones.
Britain's Orange SA and Vodafone, Spain's Telefonica Moviles and Germany's T-Mobile are behind the company that offers secure payments between merchants, cell phone users and banks.
On Monday, the London-based company unveiled its name and its slogan, ``Pay for stuff with your mobile.''
The ultimate goal is to push mobile commerce forward by creating a single brand for processing payments, Tim Jones, the chief executive, told The Associated Press.
As it stands, the market for buying goods with a cell phone is limited. Users can go online, using a phone's built-in Web browser, and order flowers from a Web site, provided the details of a credit or debit card are stored in a virtual wallet.
The new clearinghouse, Jones said, offers more, taking card payments directly from mobile phone users and storing the financial information for future transactions. The service will cover small purchases, typically no more than $10 or so.
``Our aim is for you to see it on music Web sites, when making a flight booking or even when paying a bus fare,'' Jones said, adding it could be in use by next year.
Other instances of its use, he added could include buying MP3 music files, downloading games or paying for a parking meter.
Besides selecting the name, the company also filled out its management team, adding Simon Richards as chief operating officer; former Vodafone executive Jim Wadsworth as head of marketing, and Edward Cooke, formerly of Orange, as chief financial officer.
Cook said the company is in talks with more than a dozen European wireless operators about instituting the system. The system will be unveiled gradually over the next year, with an eye toward taking it to the United States and Asia, too.
``Why should it work in London for an Italian tourist and not an American one?'' he asked.
He also said the process shouldn't be a service geared only toward GSM, or ``global system for mobile communications'' networks, which is prevalent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In North America, CDMA, or ``code division multiple access'' is the dominant standard.
``We would be wrong to see Simpay as a GSM-only initiative,'' Jones said.
Last year, the amount of money spent globally for phone accouterments like ring tones and logos was an estimated $1.6 billion, according to Ovum, a research firm. By 2006, Ovum projects wireless commerce could reach $37 billion.
------
On the Net:
http://www.simpay.com
email this | print this
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Sunday, June 22, 2003
Friday, June 20, 2003
Hi here are some sites that will give you up to date info about the internet: Traffic Patterns of May 2003
Nielsen//NetRatings analyzes who is going where on the Web, and for how long.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns/article/0,,5931_2225361,00.html
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5. Active Internet Universe Loses Some Users
According to May 2003 measurements from Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of active Internet
users in 13 nations has declined by nearly half a million since April 2003.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_2223541,00.html
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May 2003 Internet Usage Stats
The average Internet activity -- both at work and at home -- in May for surfers in the
U.S., UK, and Australia, as reported by Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns/article/0,,5931_2222541,00.html
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Nielsen//NetRatings analyzes who is going where on the Web, and for how long.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns/article/0,,5931_2225361,00.html
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5. Active Internet Universe Loses Some Users
According to May 2003 measurements from Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of active Internet
users in 13 nations has declined by nearly half a million since April 2003.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_2223541,00.html
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May 2003 Internet Usage Stats
The average Internet activity -- both at work and at home -- in May for surfers in the
U.S., UK, and Australia, as reported by Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns/article/0,,5931_2222541,00.html
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Saturday, June 14, 2003
These internet sites will help you find things that you might need to know. Check them out:
Trust in tatters
We've known all along we shouldn't believe everything we read in the newspapers, but this is getting ridiculous. First came the double blow to the credibility of the New York Times -- America's oft-proclaimed "paper of record" -- by disgraced reporters Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg.
[MORE] ->
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20030615a1.htm
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http://www.museum.tv/
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http://www.wikipedia.org/
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http://webopedia.com
http://webopedia.com/
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http://webopedia.com/
Trust in tatters
We've known all along we shouldn't believe everything we read in the newspapers, but this is getting ridiculous. First came the double blow to the credibility of the New York Times -- America's oft-proclaimed "paper of record" -- by disgraced reporters Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg.
[MORE] ->
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20030615a1.htm
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http://www.museum.tv/
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http://www.wikipedia.org/
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http://webopedia.com
http://webopedia.com/
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http://webopedia.com/
Friday, June 13, 2003
Friday, June 06, 2003
ANDREW SULLIVAN SAYS: 'THE INTERNET DID IT'
Prominent blogger-journalist Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New
Republic magazine, says that the Internet should be given much of the
credit for forcing the resignation of top New York Times editors Howell
Raines and Gerald Boyd: "Only, say, five years ago, the editors of the New
York Times had much more power than they have today. If they screwed up, no
one would notice much. A small correction would be buried days, sometimes
weeks, later... The blogosphere in general created a growing chorus of
criticism that helped create public awareness of exactly what Raines was up
to." Sullivan quotes a letter from one of his readers: "Now in newspaper
journalism, as in so many other traditional industries (real estate,
banking, computers, retail sales, airlines, travel, etc.), we see that the
Internet strips away discretion, power and secrecy. It is very hard to
withstand the forced transparency induced by this new technology." To which
Sullivan adds: "And you ain't seen nothing yet." (The Daily Dish 6 Jun 2003)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com
*****
Prominent blogger-journalist Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New
Republic magazine, says that the Internet should be given much of the
credit for forcing the resignation of top New York Times editors Howell
Raines and Gerald Boyd: "Only, say, five years ago, the editors of the New
York Times had much more power than they have today. If they screwed up, no
one would notice much. A small correction would be buried days, sometimes
weeks, later... The blogosphere in general created a growing chorus of
criticism that helped create public awareness of exactly what Raines was up
to." Sullivan quotes a letter from one of his readers: "Now in newspaper
journalism, as in so many other traditional industries (real estate,
banking, computers, retail sales, airlines, travel, etc.), we see that the
Internet strips away discretion, power and secrecy. It is very hard to
withstand the forced transparency induced by this new technology." To which
Sullivan adds: "And you ain't seen nothing yet." (The Daily Dish 6 Jun 2003)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com
*****
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: EDGAR GUEST
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the newspaperman and popular versifier
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), who amazed the publishing world with his
unstoppable talent for producing a steady stream of sentimental and
moralistic rhymes on such subjects as home, mother, and the virtue of hard
work.
For several decades as verse columnist on the Detroit Free Press he
wrote a poem every day of the week. His first book, the best seller "A Heap
o' Livin'", was published in 1916, followed by "Just Folks" (1917),
"Collected Verse" (1934), and "Living the Years" (1949). Guest is thought
to have written more than 11,000 poems.
Guest was born in England and came with his family to the United
States in 1891. At age 13 he went to work for the Detroit Free Press, first
as an office boy, and then as a police reporter. There he spent his entire
60-year working career, and despite his fame as a versifier he always
considered himself mainly a newspaper man.
His verse writing was an unplanned career development. In 1898 he had
editorial responsibility for finding verses and other short filler items,
and one day instead of clipping a verse, he decided to write his own. Soon
he had a weekly column, "Blue Monday Chat," and then a daily column,
"Breakfast Table Chat." Ten years later, in 1908, Guest decided to
distinguish himself by writing almost entirely in meter and rhyme.
Eventually he got together with his younger brother, a typesetter, and
began self-publishing small collected volumes of his verse. That was the
start of a book publishing enterprise that would eventually sell his books
in the millions.
Guest acknowledged that he was no favorite of "highbrow, longhair
intellectual critics and writers," attributing his journalistic popularity
to this simple formula: "I take simple everyday things that happen to me
and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes
out of them."
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the newspaperman and popular versifier
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), who amazed the publishing world with his
unstoppable talent for producing a steady stream of sentimental and
moralistic rhymes on such subjects as home, mother, and the virtue of hard
work.
For several decades as verse columnist on the Detroit Free Press he
wrote a poem every day of the week. His first book, the best seller "A Heap
o' Livin'", was published in 1916, followed by "Just Folks" (1917),
"Collected Verse" (1934), and "Living the Years" (1949). Guest is thought
to have written more than 11,000 poems.
Guest was born in England and came with his family to the United
States in 1891. At age 13 he went to work for the Detroit Free Press, first
as an office boy, and then as a police reporter. There he spent his entire
60-year working career, and despite his fame as a versifier he always
considered himself mainly a newspaper man.
His verse writing was an unplanned career development. In 1898 he had
editorial responsibility for finding verses and other short filler items,
and one day instead of clipping a verse, he decided to write his own. Soon
he had a weekly column, "Blue Monday Chat," and then a daily column,
"Breakfast Table Chat." Ten years later, in 1908, Guest decided to
distinguish himself by writing almost entirely in meter and rhyme.
Eventually he got together with his younger brother, a typesetter, and
began self-publishing small collected volumes of his verse. That was the
start of a book publishing enterprise that would eventually sell his books
in the millions.
Guest acknowledged that he was no favorite of "highbrow, longhair
intellectual critics and writers," attributing his journalistic popularity
to this simple formula: "I take simple everyday things that happen to me
and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes
out of them."
BODYBUILDING!!!
Victor Martinez 29-year-old who won his the Overall victory at the 2000 Nationals in New York, again won his victory at the Night of Champions on May 31.The 5�E" Martinez carried 238 pounds of ripped, symmetrical muscle and made victory in the 41-man field. "I was really ready for this one," said Martinez "I knew I was going to win as soon as I got my number."
Kai futami
Victor Martinez 29-year-old who won his the Overall victory at the 2000 Nationals in New York, again won his victory at the Night of Champions on May 31.The 5�E" Martinez carried 238 pounds of ripped, symmetrical muscle and made victory in the 41-man field. "I was really ready for this one," said Martinez "I knew I was going to win as soon as I got my number."
Kai futami
Saturday, May 31, 2003
Hi Cybercats I'd like you to look at this web site for Journalists the URL will take you to the first of three pages you should look them all over carefully.>http://www.mediachannel.org/getinvolved/journo/<
FOR A STORY THIS WEEK I'D LIKE YOU TO WRITE UP SOMETHING ABOUT A SPORTS EVENT. SOME OF YOU READ THE SPORTS PAGE IN THE PAPER AND IT WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE EASIER FOR YOU THAT DO. FOR THOSE THAT DON'T YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE SPORTS PAGE OF A PAPER AND TRY TO WRITE IN THAT STYLE. WRITE YOUR OWN STORY. DON'T COPY ONE FROM A NEWSPAPER. YOU COULD WATCH A SPORTS EVENT ON TV AND REPORT ON IT. E-MAIL ME THE STORY BY 12 OCLOCK NOON MONDAY. GOOD LUCK
FOR A STORY THIS WEEK I'D LIKE YOU TO WRITE UP SOMETHING ABOUT A SPORTS EVENT. SOME OF YOU READ THE SPORTS PAGE IN THE PAPER AND IT WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE EASIER FOR YOU THAT DO. FOR THOSE THAT DON'T YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE SPORTS PAGE OF A PAPER AND TRY TO WRITE IN THAT STYLE. WRITE YOUR OWN STORY. DON'T COPY ONE FROM A NEWSPAPER. YOU COULD WATCH A SPORTS EVENT ON TV AND REPORT ON IT. E-MAIL ME THE STORY BY 12 OCLOCK NOON MONDAY. GOOD LUCK
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Como esta. Last week I went to the actor's school at Yutenji on Tuesday and Thursday morning. I also went to the theater to see the play at Roppongi in one of my classes. On Saturday I moved to Tsunashima with my mother, so I was busy preparing almost all days last week. But it's nice to me that it takes about 30
minutes to get to the actor's studio and 50 minutes to school.
I'm glad to see you again in this class. Yuya Honda
minutes to get to the actor's studio and 50 minutes to school.
I'm glad to see you again in this class. Yuya Honda
Natsumi Yanagihara
Last Satuaday, I went to Yokota Base because one of my friends invited me to have dinner and see a film at Yokota base. It was 4th times for me to go there and I like the place because I can feel as if I am in America. We exchanged yen into dollars first, then we ate dinner at a restaurant, by the way I ate big roast beef and it was so delicious. After the meal, we went to a movie theater and saw the film " The Houres". I spend good Satuaday night.
Last Satuaday, I went to Yokota Base because one of my friends invited me to have dinner and see a film at Yokota base. It was 4th times for me to go there and I like the place because I can feel as if I am in America. We exchanged yen into dollars first, then we ate dinner at a restaurant, by the way I ate big roast beef and it was so delicious. After the meal, we went to a movie theater and saw the film " The Houres". I spend good Satuaday night.
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