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He likes to do team penning
and he has a darn good horse
who really deserves the credit
for their success, of course.

Each year in middle August
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About his life of ranchin’
and his friends and family
and about the weather
and all of history.

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On a ride in 95
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Angie in VA They have a new Earth Science program, but I don't see anything for Physical Science.

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Bunny, we used Apologia Physical Science. You could get a used copy and go through that and see what you want to cover from it. There is an audio mp3 available of the book. If you're busy this summer, that may be a way to get more of the book than you actually test your dc on, kwim? (This is not to be confused w/ the multi-media cd-rom or the entire book that comes on a cd-rom. It's just the text read aloud.)

Ask Elaine about alternate tests for Apologia. I have a love-hate relationship w/ them and Birgit saved my dd. I almost lost her, and not just w/ science or homeschooling, over Apolgia Biology, but that's another story.

Here is some info from Donna Young:

That's all I've got. The love-hate hadn't started w/ Apologia at the general and physical sci levels. Bio brought us down, though.

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March 15, 2003
Conquering a Mountain of Stereotypes

Team '03 tackles Mount Everest to change the way we think about people with disabilities
By Pamela LeBlanc, Austin American Statesman

Austin American Statesman/ Photo by D. RogersMount Everest has always loomed high in the minds of mountaineers. The jagged Himalayan peak is an incredible challenge for any experienced, able-bodied climber.

Now a team that includes Texans with disabilities will try to make the 30-mile trek to base camp of the world's highest mountain. From there, the expedition's leader, an Austin climber with just one arm, will press on to the summit.

Twenty-six people -- 11 of them with disabilities, including five in wheelchairs, others who are deaf or blind, and some who are amputees -- leave today on the first part of their weeks-long journey.

The biggest obstacle for the group might not be the climb. On the 50th anniversary of another trek some thought could never be done -- the first summit of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- the members of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities are hoping to shatter the myth that having a disability means you're not strong or capable.

They'll go slowly, taking about three weeks to travel from Lukla, Nepal, at 9,184 feet, to the base camp at 17,388 feet. After four days at the foot of the snow and ice-clad peak -- a mystical, rocky, wind-whipped place -- the main group will head back to Katmandu, the nearest large city, from which they'll fly home.

Expedition leader Gary Guller of Austin, who lost his left arm in a mountaineering accident, will stay at base camp with three experienced climbers who do not have disabilities and five Sherpas. After a month or more of acclimatizing, they'll attempt to summit the 29,028-foot mountain in mid-May.

Team Everest '03 intends to be the first group of people with disabilities to make the trek to base camp together. And if Guller makes it to the top, he will be the first climber with one arm to reach the summit. (Tom Whittaker, a below-the-knee amputee, reached the summit in 1998.)

It will be a daunting task, but that's why they've decided to tackle it. And, at a team cost of nearly $272,000, the project has been an expensive one that's required more than a year of fund raising.

"You can't shatter stereotypes with a feather; you've got to use a jackhammer, and Mount Everest makes one heck of a jackhammer," said Dennis Borel, executive director of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, which is organizing the climb as a way to raise awareness about how far people with disabilities have come in the half century since Hillary and Norgay made their trip.

The group is one of about 20 teams who will attempt the summit this year.

Mind over body

Guller, who wears prayer beads and a Buddhist medallion from Tibet, is sipping coffee and trying to describe what it feels like to breathe the air high on Mount Everest.

"Run in place for a few minutes, then try to breathe through this," he says, holding up a soda straw. "That's how it feels on Everest." Now run in place again, he says, and do the same thing with a skinny coffee stirrer. That's how it feels at the summit.

"It's a head game," Guller said. "But when you make it to the top and the clouds break and the winds change or you share a laugh with a Sherpa, you forget about all the suffering. Or I do."

Guller has tried to summit Everest before. Two years ago, he had to turn back at 24,000 feet, about 5,000 feet shy of the top, because of bad weather.

It won't be any easier this time.

That's why he's training by running 50 to 70 miles a week, lifting weights and walking the streets of Austin with a pack filled with 45 pounds of flour and water.

Guller runs his own adventure travel company, Arun Treks & Expeditions, which has offices in Austin and Katmandu. He has climbed in the Alps and the Andes, the Himalayas and the Cascades. Last year, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In January, he spent three weeks scaling Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere at almost 23,000 feet.

He loves to climb mountains, and he's done it since he was 15.

"It's the freedom and being at one with nature and the challenge and pushing myself mentally and physically," he said.

An accident 17 years ago nearly took away his dream of climbing Everest.

Just 100 feet from the summit of Pico de Orizaba in Mexico disaster struck. One of his two close friends on the climb slipped at a steep, icy section. All three climbers, who were tethered together, plummeted more than 1,500 feet down the hard, icy face.

"I remember going down the ice so fast . . . I could see rocks below and thought to myself, 'Surely I'm going to stop soon.' And then it was lights out," Guller said.

When the men woke up, they were so seriously injured they couldn't hike out. They had no food or water and drifted in and out of consciousness. "That night, we looked at each other and thought, 'We've had some good fun. Why don't we just hold each other and go to sleep?' " Guller said. "The next morning, (one of the men) didn't wake up. I did."

A rescue team found the group three days later. "Because they took so long, they just brought body bags, not water or supplies," Guller said.

Guller had broken his neck and lost the use of his left arm. Two years later, after several failed surgeries, he had his arm amputated at the shoulder. "I said, this will drive me crazy having this arm on my body, useless. It's like carrying around a 15-pound dumbbell."

With the arm gone (he doesn't use a prosthetic), Guller finally could move freely again, but it took years to cope mentally with the accident. (He still bears scars on his face and torso from his flailing ice pick.) Eventually, Guller started climbing again.

Guller's disability makes an already arduous climb even harder. One of the most treacherous parts of the climb is over the Khumbu Icefalls, just above base camp. The climbers use aluminum ladders to cross chasms more than 100 feet deep. Because Guller has just one arm, it's more difficult to balance.

The adventure begins

Plans for the Team Everest '03 trek developed after Guller's first Everest attempt.

Borel, with the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, asked Guller to speak at a convention, and some audience members with disabilities asked the climber if he'd take them to Everest.

What started out as a dream eventually became a reality. The nonprofit coalition, an advocacy group that works to ensure that people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, work and play in the community of their choice, realized the trek would be a great way to focus attention on their mission.

The coalition says it tries to combat what studies show: That people with disabilities have lower incomes and higher unemployment than people without disabilities. They're less likely to own cars or homes, and more likely to die prematurely from substandard healthcare. Plus, they face architectural barriers in many places.

This trek has drawn the attention of a major sponsor. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., now SBC, signed on as a supporter, putting a photo of Guller on the cover of its 2002 Austin White Pages telephone directory.

The group applied for a climbing permit from Nepal and rounded up a group of adventurous people who didn't let their disabilities stand in their way.

Matt Standridge, a 24-year-old living in San Marcos, was one of those people. Paralyzed from the waist down after a motorcycle accident in 1997, he heard about the trip planned for 2003 from his uncle. The closest he's ever come to mountain climbing was hiking Enchanted Rock as a kid.

As important as the trip will be to Standridge personally, he hopes it serves a greater purpose. He says he has never gotten over the way some people look at him and see only the wheelchair, not the person sitting in it.

"I hate the way that feels," Standridge said. "I want to show them, look, I'm in the chair. I'm disabled, but my life hasn't ended because of it. I can still get out and do a lot."

Standridge has raised $6,100 to pay for his place on the expedition. Wal-Mart, where he works as an assistant manager in the auto shop, made a contribution, and students in a relative's classroom have pitched in.

He wants people to know that he's not so different from anyone else. He plays basketball and football, softball and rugby. This trip to Nepal will prove once again that disabilities can't hold him back.

Standridge isn't doing any special training for the trip. Unlike the summit team, which will use oxygen tanks as it climbs the peak, he won't need oxygen at base camp.

Standridge hopes that life eventually means a job as a high-school speech or sociology teacher. "I want to help people mature and grow up," he said.

He even looks at the positive side of the motorcycle accident six years ago.

"It's closed a lot of doors but it's opened a lot of doors -- like this trip. It's just amazing that I'd be a part of this."

The team's approach

The group will stop at a monastery on its way to base camp to ask for blessings and safe passage on the mountain. They'll also pray that their expedition reaches its goal of showing that life and dreams continue, even in the face of disabilities.

The expedition, with its 50 Sherpas and 20 yaks loaded with provisions, will push on. The trail is sometimes smooth and wide, sometimes rocky and narrow, and occasionally steep as it weaves its way between the small villages in Everest's shadow. It has been used for more than 100 years as a trading route. At times, the Sherpas will have to carry the wheelchairs across the most treacherous points.

That won't matter.

Together, the team hopes to make it to base camp. Together, as Guller says, they hope to prove that just because someone can't hear doesn't mean he can't think, that because someone can't walk doesn't mean she doesn't want to smell the flowers outside, that because someone can't communicate as others do doesn't mean he can't feel the same way.

"It would be difficult for any of us to do all of this on our own. Together as a team working for the same goals and being wise, that's what's going to make Team Everest '03 a success," he said.

On the Web: The Coalition of Texans with Disabilities teams will bring computers and satellite phones so they can communicate by e-mail as often as possible along the way and update their Web site at

Press Contact:
Dennis Borel
Project Director
(512) 478-3366


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Get a grip: Baxter demonstrates a simple manufacturing task at Rethink Robotics’ headquarters in Boston.

About two months ago, a new employee arrived on the production line at Vanguard Plastics in Southington, Connecticut, a town that was once a hub of U.S. manufacturing but saw many of its factories disappear in the 1960s. The small manufacturer’s new worker, Baxter, is six feet tall, 300 pounds, and a robot. For a hulking machine, Baxter is remarkably expressive. A pair of eyes on the screen that serves as a face stare down as the robot picks up plastic components, look concerned when it makes a mistake, and direct its glance at its next task when one is finished. It’s cute. But the real point of these expressions is that they let workers nearby know instantly if Baxter is performing appropriately, and they provide clues to what it is about to do next. Even more amazing, when Baxter is done with one task, a fellow worker can simply show the robot how to start another. “Almost anyone, literally, can in very short order be shown how to program it,” says Chris Budnick, president of Vanguard Plastics. “It’s a matter of a couple of minutes.”

Baxter is the first of a new generation of smarter, more adaptive industrial robots. Conventional industrial robots are expensive to program, incapable of handling even small deviations in their environment, and so dangerous that they have to be physically separated from human workers by cages. So even as robotics have become commonplace in the automotive and pharmaceutical industries, they remain impractical in many other types of manufacturing. Baxter, however, can be programmed more easily than a Tivo and can deftly respond to a toppled-over part or shifted table. And it is so safe that Baxter’s developer, Rethink Robotics, which loaned Baxter to Vanguard Plastics, believes it can work seamlessly alongside its human coworkers.

Baxter’s talents could, for the first time, bring the benefits of robotics and automation to areas of work where it never made sense before. This might mean lost jobs for an already struggling low-skill workforce. But it could also help the United States compete in the global manufacturing market against countries that offer low-wage labor. The amount of manufacturing in the United States has declined dramatically over the last few decades, in part because workers in other parts of the world will perform simple and menial jobs for far less. But robots like Baxter could wipe out that advantage by taking over such tasks, making it once again possible for many industries to competitively manufacture their products in the United States and other developed countries.

Perhaps it’s unsurprising that such an innovation should come from probably the biggest name in the world of robots, Rodney Brooks. During the 1980s and 1990s, while at MIT, Brooks published work that helped shape the twin fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Then, in 1990, together with two of his students from MIT, he cofounded iRobot, a company that introduced robots to new fields of work. It now makes a wide range of domestic and military robots, including the Roomba, a Frisbee-size household vacuum cleaner that has sold more than eight million worldwide.

The idea for Baxter came about, Brooks says, while iRobot was searching for a suitable manufacturing partner for its one of its products. He remembers marveling at the fact that so much electronics manufacturing was still done by hand and how much of this kind of manufacturing had moved to low-wage economies in Asia. “I thought, ‘Are we going to be doing this in 500 years—still chasing cheap labor? There’s got to be a different way,’” he says.

Brooks, who founded Rethink in 2008 after leaving both iRobot and MIT, realized that robots could take over many jobs if they could be made safe, adaptable, and ridiculously easy to program. “Everyone was thinking about how to do it with the current industrial robots,” he says. “I said, ‘Let’s make a different sort of robot for industry.’”

Robot pioneer: Rodney Brooks, the CTO of Rethink Robotics, discusses his company’s plans.
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The result is something very different indeed. Much like a human worker, Baxter can be taught in minutes how to recognize a new object or perform a new task. To teach Baxter to recognize something, you just hold the object in front of one of its cameras, which are located in the head, in the chest, and at the end of each arm. To program an action, you can move one of Baxter’s two giant arms through the desired motion and select from a number of preprogrammed actions using a pair of dial controls found in each forearm. When you grab one of Baxter’s arms, it feels light as a feather. Its motors compensate in response to your touch, making the heavy limb easy to move through the air.

Sophisticated computer vision software means that even if a plastic widget has toppled over, Baxter will still recognize it. “The shipping and receiving folks have no trouble programming it,” says Vanguard Plastics’ Budnick. “We had it taking parts from one conveyor and putting them onto a table.”

Vanguard Plastics already has 24 conventional robots. They can pick and place objects with fantastic accuracy and speed. But it takes up to a day to program one, and if anything is misaligned they will grab at thin air all day. These robots must also be separated from human workers by protective fencing.

Baxter requires no such barriers. Brooks likes to demonstrate his robot’s safety features by putting his head in the way of one of its giant arms as it swings through a task, smiling as he receives nothing more than a gentle bump. Baxter moves too slowly and gently to do harm, and an array of sonar sensors positioned around its head can detect human movement. The robot also reacts to the sudden change in force that occurs with an unexpected impact and responds by stopping instantly.

The International Federation of Robotics estimates that there are now 1.1 million working robots around the world. About 80 percent of all the work involved in manufacturing a car is now done by machines. In some industries, however, the volume is too low to make automation worthwhile, or the product line changes too rapidly in response to new demand or innovation. This includes small-scale manufacturing but also relatively advanced industries such as aerospace and cell-phone manufacturing.

“It takes significant resources for a company to set up a work environment for a robot,” says Julie Shah, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, who studies the role of robots in manufacturing. “It requires suppliers providing materials in a certain way, it requires designing the whole factory infrastructure, and it requires caging the robot. If you need to reprogram these robots, it often takes special expertise or external consultants.”

Some fear that overcoming those obstacles could cost human jobs. But Brooks doesn’t agree. He says Baxter is designed to make human workers more efficient, not to replace them. “An electric drill makes a home contractor more productive,” he says. “Should we ban electric drills so there are more jobs for home contractors? You ask any home contractor that.”

Other experts agree that robots like Baxter could improve U.S. employment prospects in the long term. Willy Shih, a former IBM and Kodak executive who studies the relationship between manufacturing and innovation as a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, says manufacturing work moved to China partly because it was easier to use humans than to make automation more flexible. Baxter could change that calculation. “To the extent that they can reduce the setup overhead for changing over a line or something, then that becomes really interesting,” he says. “Anything that improves flexibility, that’s a huge deal.”

Boosting the efficiency of small manufacturers could help fuel the economy and drive job creation. By shifting the balance away from low-cost human labor, Baxter and similar robots could perhaps also make manufacturers in the United States and Europe more competitive with their counterparts in Asia. “If you can develop a robot that’s capable of integrating into the human workflow, into the human part of the factory—if it has just a little bit of decision-making ability, a little bit of flexibility—that opens up a new type of manufacturing process, which is what’s really exciting to me,” says Shah.

Back at Vanguard Plastics, Baxter is viewed as just another tool. “There wasn’t any fear, like ‘Oh, I’m gonna be fired’—no, it has nothing to do with that,” says Budnick. He adds that the company plans to buy its own Baxter if the cost can be worked into the budget for the coming year (the robot will cost $22,000). The plan is to have the robot work alongside a person by feeding freshly molded plastic cups into a bagging machine. “The normal robot would populate the conveyor with stacks of 20 cups, and then Baxter would take the 20 and feed a bagger,” Budnick says. “Then all our operator would have to do is take the finished bag and pack them out.”

That would be a humble beginning for a robot as clever as Baxter. But like any other worker, it will start with jobs its coworkers don’t want to do. “I don’t know exactly where it’s going to go,” says Brooks. “But I know it’s going to be a revolution.”

Rodney Brooks is speaking at Technology Review’s annual EmTech MIT conference this October, and Baxter will be joining him at the event.

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If these backplates are genuine, it'll be welcome additions for the new iPhone, though nothing earth-shattering. We expect the iPhone 5 to land sometime around October, hopefully packing the next iteration of Apple's mobile platform, iOS 6.

Keep up to date will all the news in our iPhone 5 release date, news and rumours article and check out the video round up below.

Via: 9to5Mac


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Panasonic BWT800 and BWT700 3D Blu-ray recorders announced

Serve up Freeview+HD

Panasonic s new 3D Blu ray recorders

Panasonic has announced the arrival of two new 3D Blu-ray disc players, which have Freeview+HD built-in and are primed for the UK market.

The Panasonic DMR-BWT800 and DMR-BWT700 – to give them their full, convoluted names – have twin tuners on board, as well as 5.1-channel surround sound and the capability of piping out 3D content.

The BWT800 and BWT800 also have the ability to convert 2D to 3D, so any programmes you record on the machine you can pimp out in 3D.

Viera Cast enabled

Connectivity comes in the form of an SD slot, so you can plug your AVCHD content into the players. Alongside this is DLNA server functionality, Wi-Fi and users can also connect to Panasonic's Viera Cast through the machines.

There's also a high-speed copying function, which means you can record unprotected hard-drive content on to a Blu-ray drive in a speedier way.

Pricing and UK release date are still a bit of a mystery but expect these recorders to hit shelves soon.


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NEC develops glasses-free 3D LCD

Advertising the likely destination for screen with extra dimension

3D displays are ten-a-penny these days but, of course, most require us to don a pair of funky cardboard specs to enjoy the experience. Not so NEC's latest prototype.

The Horizontal Double Density Pixels (HDDP) screen goes on display for the first time next week at Japan's International 3D Fair and measures 12.1 inches on the diagonal.

No squinting

As with many 3D displays, resolution is low at just 800 x 600 pixels but NEC says the unique arrangement of those pixels means it isn't uncomfortable to look at.

The company hopes the screen will find a home with makers of digital signage, although it hasn't said when a finished version will be ready for market.


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Acoustic Energy Neo Compact 6.1 review

A home cinema speaker system that goes one speaker better than the rest

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  • Excellent sonics with film and music
  • Good build

  • Not as attractive as some rivals
  • Less flexible in mounting options

In the same week when all six Star Wars films appear on Blu-ray with a brand, spanking new six-channel soundtrack, Acoustic Energy has launched the Compact Neo 6.1 system.

This £850 setup matches the existing Neo subwoofer with six Compact One speakers. Having six identical speakers does achieve the home cinema holy grail endorsed by his beardiness, George Lucas, of placing identical speakers in all positions for seamless handover from position to position.

Finished in Vermont Walnut, each cabinet feels solid and looks smart, too. The silver panel is possibly a little sudden in an otherwise all-black system, but there are grilles for this situation. Wall mounts are also supplied, but these negate using the banana plugs with the sturdy binding post terminals on the rear. It could also result in some 'chuffing' from the rear-mounted bass port.

The subwoofer is the Neo V2 model that is also part of the more expensive Neo lineup. This is a sealed box design packing a 8.5-inch driver and 200W amp, along with a busy rear panel that incorporates notch and cut filters. These, coupled with the sealed design, make for a reasonably simple placement.

The identical wrap and similar appearance gives the Compact Neo 6.1 a fairly homogenous look. It is also an altogether more serious device than many similarly priced sub/sat systems and promises to give the Neo Compact some reasonable low-end heft. Indeed, match this relatively burly subwoofer with a 'satellite' that is also sold as a stereo speaker and you get something subtly different from the competition.

The right balance

Given the splendidly silly Fast Five to play with, these speakers make a convincing case for themselves. The huge amounts of gunfire, engines and shouting are separated effectively and it is easy to keep track of events on screen.

The Compacts balance good detail levels with a smooth presentation that helps less well-mastered soundtracks sound cohesive. Dialogue sounds rich and realistic. Pushed hard, the speakers will start to harden up slightly, but in any normal-sized lounge, the Compacts are capable of creating a room-filling sound. This is partly due to the use of fabric tweeters rather than the more common metal types used by much of the competition.

There is always a worry that the lack of a dedicated centre speaker will constrain dialogue, but this is not a problem. With a crossover set at 65kHZ for all speakers, the handover between Compacts and subwoofer is very smooth and occurs at a point just about low enough to enjoy the benefits of omnidirectional bass.

Where this really comes into its own, is with music. With both multichannel and stereo material, the Acoustic Energys benefit hugely from the satellites' ability to handle all but the bottom octave of a music performance. The sub is not the fastest, but agile enough to make for an entertaining listen.

Overall, this array falls somewhere between a conventional sub/sat package and a larger speaker/sub combo, and combines many of the attributes of both. The Compacts are small enough to fit into most places, while offering a performance that dinkier models often can't match.

So, as a cost-effective system that does equal justice to films and music, the Compact 6.1 has a great deal to commend it – as long as you don't mind having an odd-looking centre speaker.

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Wake up call with iPod alarm clock dock

i-Station Clock Dock wakes you up with iPod tunes

An iPod docking station that also doubles as a radio alarm clock has been launched by accessories company Logic3.

The i-Station Clock Dock is an iPod docking station that can wake you up with sounds from your iPod. Any iPod will fit it, and the system offers a 2.5mm stereo line input so you can plug in other MP3 players too. Available in white or glossy black, the i-Station Clock Dock comes with a remote control, so users can skip tracks, switch on the radio, adjust the alarm clock - or hit the snooze button - without getting out of bed.

Usefully, two separate alarm times can be set on the i-Station Clock Dock alarm clock, and the display can be dimmed with three brightness settings available.

The i-Station Clock Dock will be available in the UK from high street stores and online from Amazon from September, priced at £49.99.


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Microsoft's Siri-like voice assistant 'Cortana' may be voiced by Cortana

Windows phones might start saying 'yank me'

Nokia Lumia Cortana

Future Windows Phone 8.1 users may get the chance to play Master Chief. Well, in their heads at least.

MSFTnerd has word that Microsoft's Siri-rivaling voice companion, codenamed Cortana, will enter beta on Lumia in April, becoming available for "US developers" at that time.

That's interesting enough, but here's the kicker: Jen Taylor, who voiced Halo's AI character Cortana in the game series, will apparently lend her pipes to the smartphone assistant.

We don't know if Cortana will be her sassy self on phones, but the April release lines up with the expected Windows Phone 8.1 update, which in turn matches with Microsoft's Build 2014 conference.

Cortana cometh

According to MSFTnerd, which cited no sources in its report, Cortana's march to other device will continue after spring.

First, it will come wrapped in the iPhone Bing app starting in the fall, though only in the US.

Xbox One and Windows PC users will be next, welcoming the assistant in 2015 with the Threshold (believed to be Windows 9) update.

After that, it seems Cortana will travel to other English-speaking shores through the remainder of 2015 year and into 2016.

Kinect intelligence

The Cortana voice assistant made her first appearance last September as a rumored app, but this is the first time we've heard it was coming to anything other than Windows Phone.

On mobile, Cortana is reported to be a faster way to change settings. The assistant could also be smart enough to anticipate appointments and automatically map out the route to them for users.

These features could easily be replicated and useful on Windows 8.1 computers, but who knows what sort of Kinect integration Microsoft is cooking up for Xbox One.

Even with supposed insider information, we're going to take these rumors with a grain of salt until we hear Cortana on our own Windows Phone devices.


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A Survey on Vehicular Mobility Modeling: Flow Modeling

Date Added: Nov 2012
Format: PDF

Motion or movement patterns of vehicles communicating wirelessly play an important role in the simulation based evaluation of Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs). It is to know that recent research about mobility modeling has given direction for vehicular network study still to obtain realistic behavior of vehicles; developments in this area are required in detail level. In this paper, one of the main mobility modeling approach is discussed to the extent that it can help to understand models formulation and integr0ation strategies with network simulators. This approach is called as flow mobility modeling. It is put into the discussion and elaborated in such way it clarifies basics of flow modeling and its impact.


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Hacking the Smart Grid

Date Added: Jul 2009
Format: PDF

The city of Miami and several commercial partners plan to rollout a "Smart Grid" citywide electrical infrastructure by the year 2011. This rollout was announced on the heels of news that foreign agents have infiltrated existing electrical infrastructure and that recent penetration tests have uncovered numerous vulnerabilities in the proposed technologies. Simultaneously, the National Institute for Standards in Technology ("NIST") has recently released a roadmap for producing smart grid standards.


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Loosing internet connection every 2 or 3 hours.

By Cool1
May 30, 2008
  1. Hi, I have been loosing internet connection every 1,2, or 3 hrs. while playing WOW
    It kicks me off and i can log right back into game with no problem for an hour or 2, And it does it again. I have reset the router and DSL modem several times but does not work. Heres my setup...
    I have 2 computers playing WOW at same time. One Hard wired with win XP. One Wireless with Vista. Both computers have a static IP (no auto assigned) Linksys WRT150N Wireless Router. Have opened ports for WOW forwarded to both ip's. Have only 2 ip's setup on router. Have max # of users set to 2. IP range is to

    Before i had obtain auotmatically on bot comps and no ports forwarded and got kicked all the time.
    Setup ip's on both comps and Forwarded ports to WOW and worked for 2 months or longer. Now having same problem again. Help me Please!!!
  2. tipstir

    tipstir TS Ambassador Posts: 4,837   +102

    DSL modem could be the problem or the router?
    Do this:

    connect the DSL modem directly to the PC and see if you get the same problem?
    If you don't then you know it's not the DSL modem and it's the router causing the problem.

    Have you update the firmware in the router by chance?
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Imation has announced its first significant refresh of the IronKey secure USB sticks it took control of in a buy-out a year ago, mainly tweaking the software used with the drives.

The encryption-based drives, now known as the Imation Enterprise S200, S250 and D250, are physically identical to the aluminium-clad design released by IronKey (which retains control of the underlying firmware), and now come with slightly boosted read performance.

The drives are now fully integrated into Imation’s enterprise cloud services, which allows remote reset and password changing, an improved control panel and multi-language authentication.

The drives are also now compliant with FIP-140-2 level 3.

Disappointingly, the drives remain USB 2.0 and capacities remains as they have been for some time; ranging from 8GB to 32GB. Other management and security features – tamper resistance, managed encryption security - remain identical to those offered by IronKey.

The version of Firefox supported used by the embedded secure browser should have been updated although we were unable to confirm which version is used. An issue with the original IronKey was that support could be slow to arrive as new versions appeared.

In the last two years, Imation has devoted time and money to buying up secure USB stick vendors, including MXI and McAfee in addition to IronKey as part of a strategy of turning storage products into service-drives vertical businesses.

The IronKey S250 costs from $109 (£70) for the 8GB model. Pricing for the D250 model starts at $89.