Tuesday, June 24, 2008
News stories: Europe's Most Innovative Countries (欧洲最具创新能力的国家); etc.
In Pictures: Europe's Most Innovative Countries
http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/18/european-innovative-countries-tech-innovationeu08-cx_po_0618countries_slide_2.html?partner=cbc
Switzerland is home base for a number of multinationals doing cutting-edge research, including Nestle, the world's biggest food company, luxury goods companies such as Richemont and Swatch, as well as pharmaceuticals druggernauts Roche and Novartis. (Armando Franca/AP)
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Cellphone carriers in Australia, which has fewer people than Canada, will allow customers to buy the new and improved iPhone with no contract commitment. (Eric Risberg/Associated Press)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/24/shuttle-layoffs.html
http://www.forbes.com/2008/06
TECHNOLOGY
R&D
Europe's most innovative countries
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | 8:11 AM ET Comments0Recommend1
By Parmy Olson Forbes
Switzerland is home base for a number of multinationals doing cutting-edge research, including Nestle, the world's biggest food company, luxury goods companies such as Richemont and Swatch, as well as pharmaceuticals druggernauts Roche and Novartis. (Armando Franca/AP)There's innovation in the Alps.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Switzerland is the European country that has filed the most patents in the three leading patent offices around the globe — the U.S., the European Union and Japan. Even better: Seven of the top 10 countries on the OECD's list are in Europe. Japan grabbed the No. 1 spot overall.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/20/f-forbes-europe.html
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Canadian iPhone buyers face long lock-ins
Last Updated: Monday, June 23, 2008 | 5:40 PM ET Comments30Recommend48
By Peter Nowak CBC News
Cellphone carriers in Australia, which has fewer people than Canada, will allow customers to buy the new and improved iPhone with no contract commitment. (Eric Risberg/Associated Press)Softbank Corp., Japan's third-largest cellphone carrier, is the latest to announce it will sell Apple Inc.'s new-and-improved iPhone on a two-year deal, leaving Canadians wondering why they will be saddled with the longest contracts in the world if they buy the trendy device.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/23/tech-iphone.html
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NASA estimates 3,000 to 4,000 shuttle job losses
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | 8:32 AM ET Comments3Recommend7
The Associated Press
NASA told a Senate panel on Monday that it anticipates losing 3,000 to 4,000 jobs at its launching site once the space shuttles stop flying in two more years, about half the cutback initially reported.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/24/shuttle-layoffs.html
Pictures: Panniers on the side of the back of bicycles
A pannier on the side of the back of a bicycle
Monday, June 23, 2008
News stories: Attack of the iPhone killers; etc.
TELECOM
Cellphones
Attack of the iPhone killers
Last Updated: Monday, June 23, 2008 | 11:17 AM ET Comments0Recommend3
By Brian Caulfield Forbes
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/20/f-forbes-iphone.html
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Google phones face delays: report
Last Updated: Monday, June 23, 2008 | 12:48 PM ET Comments0Recommend0
CBC News
Google wants to dominate the search and advertising businesses on mobile phones. Google Inc.'s entry into the wireless market is facing delays, with cellphones based on its operating system unlikely to be released until the end of the year, a media report says.
The company was originally scheduled to have phones based on its open-source Android software for sale during the third quarter, but that has now slipped to the fourth quarter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Google has become bogged down with launching Android phones through T-Mobile USA, pushing back launches with Sprint Nextel in the United States and China Mobile, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/23/tech-android.html
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BlackBerry outage scheduled for Sunday
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 6:32 PM ET Comments4Recommend18
CBC News
Unplanned BlackBerry outages, such as the one in February, often provoke outrage among users. BlackBerry users will be out of luck early Sunday morning as a planned outage will leave them without service for about four hours.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/20/tech-blackberry.html?ref=rss
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Spectrum auction inches closer to $4 billion
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 6:39 PM ET Comments13Recommend18
By Peter Nowak, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/20/tech-spectrum.html?ref=rss
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McCain proposes $300M prize for breakthrough auto battery
Last Updated: Monday, June 23, 2008 | 9:08 AM ET Comments22Recommend16
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/06/23/mccain-battery.html
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Internet monitoring a necessity: Sandvine
Last Updated: Thursday, June 19, 2008 | 12:14 PM ET Comments24Recommend45
By Peter Nowak CBC News
Sandvine CEO Dave Caputo loves bandwidth hogs, which he calls "consumption kings," because they are good for his business. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/19/tech-sandvine.html
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Bell ordered to publicly prove internet congestion
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 5:21 AM ET Comments71Recommend138
By Peter Nowak CBC News
Bell Canada's internet throttling practices have become a rallying point for net neutrality advocates. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/19/tech-bell.html?ref=rss
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Top court says BCE deal can go ahead
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 10:08 PM ET Comments26Recommend78
CBC News
Three-month trading in BCE stock on the TSX http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/06/20/bce-court.html?ref=rss
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Space agency continues astronaut search
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 3:59 PM ET Comments4Recommend5
By Paul Jay CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/20/science-space.html?ref=rss
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Passengers virtually stripped naked by 3-D airport scanner
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 1:48 PM ET Comments237Recommend187
CBC News
A passenger raises her hands above her head as she is scanned by the machine. (CBC)http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/20/bc-virtually-naked-airport-scanner.html?ref=rss
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Worldwide number of PCs tops 1 billion
Last Updated: Monday, June 23, 2008 | 10:07 AM ET Comments10Recommend6
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/23/pcs-billion.html?ref=rss
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Short videos: Tap Water Rules; etc.
Short videos:
Clean Water Revolution
Innovations from Lifestraw and PlayPumps are saving lives and attracting investors.
Click
"Tap Water Rules"
"Capturing Underwater Memories"
"Fearless Ecko"
"Small Business Health Care Woes"
"Gurus Go For Health Care"
at:
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/water08/hj_water06
Clean Water Revolution
Innovations from Lifestraw and PlayPumps are saving lives and attracting investors.
2008-06-19
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/water08/hj_water06Click
"Tap Water Rules"
"Capturing Underwater Memories"
"Fearless Ecko"
"Small Business Health Care Woes"
"Gurus Go For Health Care"
at:
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/water08/hj_water06
上图讲座近期安排: 城市交通的日新月异
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胡锦涛 - The 2008 TIME 100
For your information: The author: Henry A. Kissinger = 基辛格
The 2008 TIME 100
Leaders & Revolutionaries
Kin Cheung / AFP / Getty
Hu Jintao
By Henry A. Kissinger
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757_1735560,00.html
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757_1735560,00.html
Article: The Five Mistakes (Hilary and Bill) Clinton Made
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton speaks at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, May 8, 2008.
Joe Raedle / Getty
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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1738331,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
News story - Mozilla Firefox 3 下载日顺利结束 当日下载破八百万
Mozilla Firefox 3下载日顺利结束 当日下载破八百万
2008.06.19 来自：TechChunch 共有评论(63)条
Firefox 3下载日活动顺利完成，Mozilla预计下载量为五百万左右，然而24小时内实际下载量达到了惊人的八百三十万次，尽管以前没有下载量的世界纪录，但 Firefox这次的成功无疑给以后的记录冲击者设下了非常高的标杆。来自200多个国家的网友参加了这次活动，下载量排名前10的国家分别为：美国，德国，日本，西班牙，英国，法国，伊朗，意大利，加拿大及波兰。
看来在中国这个拥有最多网民的国家，Firefox还要加强宣传才行。
http://news.csdn.net/n/20080619/116791.html
2008.06.19 来自：TechChunch 共有评论(63)条
Firefox 3下载日活动顺利完成，Mozilla预计下载量为五百万左右，然而24小时内实际下载量达到了惊人的八百三十万次，尽管以前没有下载量的世界纪录，但 Firefox这次的成功无疑给以后的记录冲击者设下了非常高的标杆。来自200多个国家的网友参加了这次活动，下载量排名前10的国家分别为：美国，德国，日本，西班牙，英国，法国，伊朗，意大利，加拿大及波兰。
看来在中国这个拥有最多网民的国家，Firefox还要加强宣传才行。
http://news.csdn.net/n/20080619/116791.html
Friday, June 20, 2008
Magnanti on MIT's 'Learning by Doing' Imperative
Magnanti on MIT's 'Learning by Doing' Imperative |
| John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief -- 3/5/2008 11:36:00 AM |
Visit our Engineering Education Coverage Page for more stories, photos, podcasts and in-depth statistics! Thomas L. Magnanti, Ph.D, was dean of MIT’s engineering school for eight and half years until midnight July 22. The day before, he tossed out the ceremonial first pitch at a Red Sox game because he wanted to do it as engineering dean. Currently, he is one of 14 Institute Professors at MIT, the school's most prestigious, and has been on the faculty since 1971. He is an expert in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization. Among many accolades, he is credited with starting several new majors and programs. He is a big fan of “learning by doing.” DN Editor-in-Chief John Dodge caught up with him recently in his office, four floors above MIT’s main and fabled thoroughfare, the “Infinite Corridor.” ... Q: Is there a crisis in engineering education today? Magnanti: There’s a national crisis in conveying the fact that engineering is inspiring and exciting to attract people [into it]. We also have large drop-out rates. Last I recall, 50 percent of all engineering students leave that program before they complete it. It’s really hard stuff. We have not made it exciting enough. Q: What do you think the answer is? Maganti: [The answer is] putting what we are teaching in context and providing programs like UPOP and more hands-on learning – project-based courses, internships and learning by doing. Over time, that will remedy the crisis. The National Academies issued a report, The Gathering Storm and found the right incentives, courses, curriculum and government policies [will] improve the system. ...http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6538130.html |
News stories: Auction of radio airwaves will influence Canada's prosperity; etc.
Wireless spectrum: FAQs
Auction of radio airwaves will influence Canada's prosperity
Last Updated: Monday, May 26, 2008 | 3:13 PM ET Comments11Recommend29
By Peter Nowak CBC News
New cellphone carriers are expected as a result of Industry Canada's spectrum auction. (Fabian Bimmer/Associated Press) The federal government's auction of wireless airwaves — which will usher in new cellphone providers — kicked off on March 10, when bid applications were due. While wireless spectrum is a highly technical issue that makes most people's eyes glaze over, it is extremely important to Canada's future prosperity.
With only about 60 per cent of Canadians subscribing to a cellphone service, Canada is well behind the rest of the industrialized world in adopting mobile communications. That means we are missing out on numerous business, educational, entertainment and cultural advances that are happening elsewhere.
In other countries, more workers are experiencing the benefits of being freed from their desks. People are saving time by shopping or banking on their cellphones while taking public transit to and from work. Some are catching up on their television shows by watching episodes on their phones. Lives are also being saved through medical information transmitted over wireless networks.
The government has blamed this lag on the lack of competition in Canada's cellphone market. The upcoming spectrum auction, beginning on May 27, is its effort to correct the problem.
What is spectrum?
Spectrum is a catch-all term for the radio airwaves that many wireless gizmos use to communicate information. Radios use spectrum, as do the rabbit-ear antennas on older television sets. The CBC, for example, is broadcast free to many parts of Canada using a part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Cellphones, of course, also use it.Spectrum is divided into different frequencies and measured in units called hertz.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology
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Short video:
Ocean Tracking Network: An Introduction
Duration: 02:18, Format: Quicktime
Broadband connection recommended.
(Well, we can tell that intelligence has been elevated to a new level, thanks to the sensor technology, thanks to computers, and thanks to civilization. --Alex Wang)
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Interactive: Canda's median housing cost
BMW Sauber sweeps surprising Canadian Grand Prix
Early race accident caused by Lewis Hamilton takes him and Raikkonen out
Last Updated: Sunday, June 8, 2008
Bootleg booze overwhelms Nunavik communities: leaders
Last Updated: Monday, June 9, 2008 | 10:36 AM ET
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David Colman: Don't use that tone with me
Monday, June 9, 2008 | 08:02 AM ET
By David Colman, a partner with TriOpus Group in Regina
(Listen to the original audio)
Normally when I book hotels, I use the internet. The bad news about using the internet is it is not the 'personal touch' experience that we often crave. The good news is that it's not the 'personal touch' that we often receive!
Recently, I had to book a hotel in Florida directly over the phone, rather than the more reliable, but perhaps less personal, internet approach. The hotel I called in Tampa is part of a major international chain. I was hoping for, and expecting, a warm and courteous reception when I called. What was I thinking?
But the agent's tone and attitude told me that:
- She hated her job (at least at that moment)
- I'd interrupted her daily ritual of watching Oprah
- She was discussing last night's date with a friend or
- I was the least important person in the world to her
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The government's sale of public airwaves, which is likely to result in new cellphone carriers, closed out its second week with more than $3.1 billion raised so far in what is turning out to be a hotly contested auction.
Motorists feeling the pinch after oil prices surge
Last Updated: Saturday, June 7, 2008 | 11:18 AM ET Comments255Recommend123
CBC News
Canadian gas prices rose Saturday morning after oil finished the week at a record high, closing at $138.54 US a barrel.
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Gasoline prices
| City | Cents per litre |
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| Vancouver | 141.6 |
| Calgary | 132.9 |
| Winnipeg | 132.9 |
| Toronto | 134.9 |
| Montreal | 140.2 |
| Halifax | 135.6 |
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Canadian internet television broadcaster JumpTV Inc. will merge with NeuLion Inc., a U.S. company controlled by Charles Wang, the firms said Monday.
Privately-held NeuLion, which is based in Plainview, N.Y., offers television programming over the internet, along with video streaming technology and other web services.
Toronto-based JumpTV will issue more than 49.5 million common shares, 1.8 million contingent shares, plus five million warrants to the shareholders of NeuLion as part of the merger.
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Privately-held NeuLion, which is based in Plainview, N.Y., offers television programming over the internet, along with video streaming technology and other web services.
Toronto-based JumpTV will issue more than 49.5 million common shares, 1.8 million contingent shares, plus five million warrants to the shareholders of NeuLion as part of the merger.
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Wine uncorks challenge to beer as alcohol drink of choice: StatsCan
Last Updated: Monday, June 9, 2008 | 4:01 PM ET
Sports: Matt Stairs - Hockey Coach
Sports
Matt Stairs - Hockey Coach
February 8, 2008 (Runs 6:44)
Turns out baseball is Matt Stairs' second love. First comes hockey, so the Toronto Blue Jay spends his winters coaching a high school team in Bangor, Maine. Tom Harrington reports http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/sports/matt_stairs_hockey_coach.html
铁臂阿童木 (Tetsuwan Atom)
All photos are ©2004 Tezuka Production Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan |
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ASTRO BOY now has fans all over the world, and continues to appear in movies, television and video games.
ASTRO BOY's original name was Tetsuwan Atom.
http://www.robothalloffame.org/04inductees/astro_boy.html
Blocking trick: How do I make a link to another webpage?
How do I make a link to another webpage?
- Highlight the text you'd like to turn into a link. If you do not select any text before using the link button, your link will be created but without anything to click on.
- Click the Link button (or hit control+shift+a on your keyboard):
- A pop-up window will appear prompting you for a URL you'd like to link to. Type the URL in the text box. Remember the
http://!
If this link button doesn't appear in your browser, or isn't working for some reason, you can type in the link by hand:
TEXT
Here's an example scenario:
Let's say you want to tell people about some cool website you found, let's call it, www.somecoolwebsite.com. Here's an example of what you might type into your blog:
Hey all. Check outthis! It's a really cool website I found.
In this example, the word "this" would be the link to www.somecoolwebsite.com. That is, it would show up as a blue underlined word on your blog. The key things to note are:
- The "a href" stuff must be enclosed in these kind of brackets
<>. That lets the computer know you're entering HTML and not just typing stuff to be displayed. - The website you want to link to must be in quotes, and must always start with
http://. If you don't have thehttp://, the link probably won't work. - Any text you type after the
>that closes out the bit where you write the website address will be the actual link that shows up on your blog. Thetag lets the computer know that any text afteris just normal text and should not be part of the link. Note: You have to put thein, otherwise the rest of your blog post will be treated as a link, and it will probably cause other weird things to happen that you don't want.
Notes:
- The hyperlink button is only present in Internet Explorer 5.5/Windows and newer, as well as browsers based on Mozilla 1.3 or later(Camino/Firebird/etc.).
- If you are using a Windows browser, there is a keyboard shortcut to do the same thing. Select the text you want to link and then hit ctrl+shift+a.
- For more information on what you can do with links, please see How can I do more with links?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41379
News story: Air Canada to cut 2,000 jobs
20 June, 2008 - Published 13:20 GMT
Air Canada to cut 2,000 jobs
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Air Canada has announced it is cutting 2,000 jobs - eight per cent of its workforce - by the end of this year. Canada's flagship airline blamed the sharp cut in capacity on rising fuel costs. The carrier has also cut some of its routes. This report from Lee Carter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2008/06/080620_air_canada.shtml
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Continentalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continentalism
Continentalism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Continentalism refers to the agreements or policies that favor the regionalization and/or cooperation between nations within a continent. The term is used more often in the European and North American contexts, but the concept has been applied to other continents.
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Historically, the United States of America saw itself as a blossoming continental nation-state. Accordingly, the first governing body for the North American colonists was called the Continental Congress, which sought to receive delegates from across the populated continent, including the future Canadian provinces of Quebec and Nova Scotia.
Continentalism later became largely associated with the ideology of Manifest Destiny, which included Spanish territories (now Latin America), western U.S. as well as Canada. Due to this, this continentalism grew so much in the United States of America that it transformed into nationalism.
Atlanticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanticism
Atlanticism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
- For the belief in the legendary island civilization, see: Atlantis.
Atlanticism is a philosophy of cooperation among Western EuropeanNorth American nations (specifically the United States and Canada) regarding political, economic, and defense issues, with the purpose to maintain the security of the participating countries, and to protect the values that unite them: "democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law."[1][2] One who shares the idea of Atlanticism is known as an Atlantist or an Atlanticist; the name derives from the Atlantic Ocean that separates the two continents — and or, as sea-faring nations will say, the ocean that connects the two continents. Atlanticism is alien to continentalism.
The North Atlantic Council is the premier, governmental forum for discussion and decision-making in an Atlantic context. Well-known Atlanticists include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Javier Solana. NATO is an Atlanticist organization, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is an Atlanticist project. Leaders of Eastern European countries such as Poland and Romania profess a strong Atlanticist view - one does not have to live in Western Europe (or North America) to be an Atlanticist.[3]
Atlanticism has undergone significant changes in the 21st century in light of terrorism and the Iraq war, the net effect being a renewed questioning of the idea itself and a new insight that the security of the respective countries may require alliance action outside the North Atlantic territory.
In pictures: An earthquake in China
In pictures: An earthquake in China
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1739342,00.html
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房屋质量，房屋质量！自然灾害预警！
--Alex Wang
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http://www.time.com/time
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房屋质量，房屋质量！自然灾害预警！
--Alex Wang
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