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Keep Your Eyes on MetroFiKeep Your Eyes on MetroFiKeep Your Eyes on MetroFi 12/29/2003 02:57 PM MetroFi doesn't appear to have officially introduced itself to the world: Its Web site is pretty stripped down and only says that the company plans to build a nationwide residential broadband network using Wi-Fi. Most of its leaders come from Covad, though its CTO was the CTO for Metricom. I'll be interested to see what exactly these guys are planning as it seems that WiMAX might be a better technology for such a network.... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Keep Your Eyes on MetroFiGrok Headline matches for Keep Your Eyes on MetroFiMetroFi: Ricochet's Second Coming?MetroFi: Ricochet's Second Coming? 04/19/2004 07:01 PM MetroFi looks like Ricochet done right: high speed, ubiquitous coverage, right price: Many people have given Paul Allen grief over the years for his failed investments in digital ideas. Trouble is, Allen has the futurists' dilemma: he has the right idea, but he's too early. Metricom's Ricochet is a great example. While billions were spent and lost--not all his--Ricochet's fundamental idea was dead on: wireless bandwidth with fixed monthly costs throughout an area. Ricochet, unfortunately, was limited at the time to widespread but not full-scale availability in certain cities, which meant that if you weren't in the right spot, you had no coverage or slower service; a relatively high monthly price until the very end; and a relatively slow modem-like speed, with their 128 Kbps or so service not available until the very end and then only in a few places. (Ricochet's been revived in a couple of cities with a somewhat higher-speed offering.) You can spin the dials of ubiquity, mobility, price, and bandwidth to come up with lots of different combinations. Home DSL and cable modems can serve a good majority of the country, but the bandwidth-to-price ratio isn't superb (it's fine), and it has no mobility. Cell data has mobility, but only lower speeds have ubiquity. The price is too high for consumers, and cell phones tend to work more poorly inside homes and buildings. Bandwidth will increase, but upload speeds may remain very low for years to come, even as 1 Mbps downstream speeds become common. MetroFi might have the right combination of those dials' settings: they plan to offer about 1 Mbps access to most of the 40,000 homes across 20 square miles of Santa Clara, Calif., for $20 to $30 per month using Wi-Fi. They'll have near ubiquity without full mobility, but the price and bandwidth are dead-on competitive. They're even hanging Ricochet-like repeaters from light posts. They claim that self-installed kits will work for most users, but it's the truck rolls that kill earnings. Their trials must have been very successful. MetroFi's model is similar to AiirMesh, which launched coverage through the less-economically-booming Los Angeles-area town of El Cerritos (about nine square miles). Telcos and cable companies have locked up the wireline market, so it's only natural for competition to find its way out through methods that avoid the regulated copper. It's proven impossible for competitive data providers to work in the wireline... MetroFi raises $9 million in fundingMetroFi raises $9 million in funding 04/19/2004 08:24 PM The company plans to set up a Wi-Fi network in a Silicon Valley city by summer after a number of key investors came up with big money. Don't tell me because my eyes are on youDon't tell me because my eyes are on you 02/10/2004 02:49 AM Mhmmm...what to say, what to say. Nothing really. Ben is here. That's pretty much it. I have a craving for... EyesEyes 07/06/2004 09:41 PM Sheila: The sleepy eyes of Sibiu. The eyes have itThe eyes have it 09/01/2004 06:10 AM David Pescovitz: 
On eBay, a box of twenty SFX artificial eyeballs.
"Made of a durable polymure-resin-glass compound these eyes are lifelike. Very high quality. Great to collect, use for props or Halloween coming up soon. Professional. Many colors."Link (Thanks, Michael-Anne!) What big eyes you have!What big eyes you have! 09/19/2004 09:31 AM Littl e Red Riding Hood's wayward past revealed: "Once upon a time, (the story) was a seduction tale. An engraving accompanying the first published version of the story, in Paris in 1697, shows a girl in her déshabille, lying in bed beneath a wolf. According to the plot, she has just stripped out of her clothes, and a moment later the tale will end with her death in the beast’s jaws — no salvation, no redemption. Any reader of the day would have immediately understood the message: In the French slang, when a girl lost her virginity it was said that 'elle avoit vû le loup' — she’d seen the wolf." EU again eyes MSEU again eyes MS 08/27/2004 02:00 PM Usatoday.com - Wed Aug 25, 08:24 pm GMT For your eyes onlyFor your eyes only 12/13/2003 01:53 PM Toshiba is working on LCD monitors that will let you adjust the viewing angle so that it'll be harder for prying eyes (like your boss)... The Eyes of NyeThe Eyes of Nye 03/25/2005 11:26 PM this time with a new more "adult-oriented" show .. The Eyes of Nye eyesofnye.org Through an Iraqi's EyesThrough an Iraqi's Eyes 12/15/2003 08:11 AM At 11:16 AM GMT, my cousin called me and told me Saddam Hussein had been captured. I rushed inside, started up my laptop and checked CNN. While the page was loading I plugged the satellite cable into my USB DVB tuner and started ProgDVB. Volante eyes SAVolante eyes SA 08/27/2004 02:00 PM News.com.au - Fri Aug 27, 01:19 am GMT Is that fog or are my eyes just misty?Is that fog or are my eyes just misty? 08/08/2004 08:36 AM A couple of nights the city of Oulu was covered in a foggy blanket. Me and Outi went out with our cameras, and grabbed some pictures; my shots are now available at my gallery. I also wanted to test my new Canon Ixus 500. Expect a sort-of-a-review when I get back home. I know, they are crappy shots (photography is not one of my skills), and normally I wouldn't burden you with them, but I think those pictures tell well my current mood. You see, tonight is the night we have to say goodbye. I'll be off soon to Iceland for two weeks of pony trekking (and with my luck, Helsinki is now bathing in heat, and Reykjavik isn't), and after that I have the busiest week I could imagine at work. And then two weddings might mix our schedule so that we might not be able to see each other for a month. That's nearly the amount of time we've known each other so far - it's an eternity. *deep sigh* Augh! My eyes!!!Augh! My eyes!!! 11/04/2003 09:29 PM Worst Album Covers Ever. It is either "Let me touch him" or "Julie's Sixteenth Birthday." I'll let you decide. Our Eyes photographyOur Eyes photography 09/24/2004 01:38 AM Our Eyes photography. Interesting photographs submitted from around the world using a left-right scroll layout of 10-15 shots with various themes. The scrolling is an interactive part of the piece. Caution: Your workplace may be dangerous to these artists. Some (SFW) favorites . Another pair of eyesAnother pair of eyes 06/11/2004 01:32 AM Usatoday.com - Thu Jun 10, 08:51 am GMT My eyes... the burning...My eyes... the burning... 08/27/2004 01:51 PM Pour Some Sugar On Me, as reinvisioned by Townsend, a boy band. Some would say it's the worst thing they'd ever seen, but I'd hazard a guess that it may actually be the worst thing ever filmed. The song is enhanced with a rap section, and the video is enhanced with the addition of the jackass from Smashmouth, for some bizarre reason. NSFNSAVI (not safe for the non sight & vision impaired) Pfizer: For Value Eyes OnlyPfizer: For Value Eyes Only 12/28/2004 01:13 PM The company deserves the attention of those looking for a value play. Through eyes long since goneThrough eyes long since gone 05/12/2004 07:06 AM
A photo taken by my paternal grandfather of the fire at the Purina headquarters in February 1962. It was so cold that the water was frozen by the time it hit the building and turned it into an ice palace. I put a few more of them into a small gallery of grandpa's photos. My brother-in-law has started scanning in pictures given to him by my 95 year old grandmother which were taken over the course of my grandfather's life. It's so strange to see these images taken by a man who was always remote and stoic. He was a brilliant mechanical engineer and mathematician who introduced me to cryptography when I was 7 via the cryptoquip in the newspaper. He patiently explained letter frequency and how to make a crib. Every time I pick up a draw-string bag from a store, I think of him since he designed the machine to make them but, being an 'Organization Man' straight out of Whyte's book, he shared none of the profits that the company reaped from his design. Grandpa was also the guy who, on Christmas, would take a pocketknife and slowly, carefully unwrap the paper from each gift and fold it. While I respected his intelligence, I never really liked him very much as he made it impossible to warm up to him. I have an exceedingly vivid memory of him talking to me on my 10th birthday about 'niggers' and my immediate reaction of thinking much less of him for it. My mother always remembers him taking back a box kite he had made for me only to give it to my cousin. I didn't think much of it at the time since Robin was only 1 week younger than me, but he had been born retarded due to a negligent doctor with a pair of foreceps and I thought maybe he needed the kite more than I did in the guileless nive way that children tend to see such things. Later in life I would come to understand that he and my grandmother had a long history of playing favourites - from my father's brother, to my oldest sister, to Robin. I spent several summers over at their house and can't really recall that I learned anything about them as people aside from what was obvious and already known; they loved bridge with friends, he was a type II diabetic and they were active Masons. They used to take me to various Masonic functions and even then I was cynical enough to think of it as a creepy cult-like organisation. They were inscrutable in many ways. It's is particularly odd to see these photographs that he took not only because I didn't know that he liked photography, but that he took more than just the usual family snapshots and appears to have been reasonably good at it. My father bought an Olympus OM-10 at one point and I don't know that he took many photos with it since work was his life. I imagine that had he lived to enjoy some of his retirement that he would have taken a lot more pictures. I started getting interested in photography about 10 or 12 years ago and I wonder now if it might be hereditary. :) George, my grandfather, died from a massive heart attack at the ripe age of 84 while roofing his house, which wasn't a bad way to go all things considered. I cursed him at the time since it was right before my Calculus 2 and Differential Equations exams and he was helping my understanding of them tremendously. Looking at the few pictures my brother-in-law sent to me, it makes me wonder if he might have had some redeeming qualities as a human being that I didn't or couldn't see when I was much younger. My Eyes. Your World.My Eyes. Your World. 12/02/2003 01:26 AM Private and Public is an interesting concept for a photgraphy project. One spot, one year and many candid photographs.... Tribal EyesTribal Eyes 05/26/2004 07:55 PM I spent some time this week at a meeting of Sun’s Distinguished Engineers; to become a DE you have to go through a lengthy process including peer review. I’m not a DE, I was there to give a speech on Communication, my first outing on that subject. It’s an impressive group; there were lots of technical conversations (on IPv6, process modeling, mobile objects) where I was struggling to understand the basics let alone the details. Anyhow, I’ve already written here that I think people’s faces reflect the language they speak. Along similar lines, as I looked at all these very senior engineers’ faces, I was struck by a particular look in their eyes. I don’t seem to have a good vocabulary to describe it, but “stillness” and “coolness” come to mind. It wasn’t subtle. They are the eyes, I think, of people who listen intensely. Farewell To Eyes Above And BelowFarewell To Eyes Above And Below 08/07/2004 10:42 AM Tired EyesTired Eyes 01/09/2004 09:44 PM I haven't really had a consistent, good sleeping schedule for a year and am in desperate need for some sort of product that will help reduce the bags/dark circles under my eyes -- not cosmetics or coverup but something actually... The eyes of TexasThe eyes of Texas 12/30/2004 06:51 AM USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:58AM GMT Through eBay eyesThrough eBay eyes 01/01/2005 10:09 PM USA Today Jan 2 2005 2:03AM GMT AOL eyes broadbandAOL eyes broadband 06/01/2004 07:19 AM USA Today Jun 1 2004 11:38AM GMT Intuit Eyes ITIntuit Eyes IT 08/17/2004 01:16 PM TechWeb Aug 17 2004 5:11PM GMT feed your eyes!feed your eyes! 06/15/2004 12:40 AM netdiver, a new media design portal and digital culture magazine. If you care at all about webdesign, you should see this. (Though I found it through random surfing, it was also an answer to an old question of mine.) Apple in Their EyesApple in Their Eyes 06/22/2005 02:39 AM  The all-seeing eyes of Chi-townThe all-seeing eyes of Chi-town 09/21/2004 01:11 PM I saw over at Defensetech.org that Chicago's mayor (Richard Daley) has decided to add 250 surveillance cameras to the city's already extensive network of 2,000 such cameras that monitor high-crime areas in the city. Eyes on FloridaEyes on Florida 09/15/2004 11:55 AM Jeb Bush's state is at the center of the political storm again as election officials battle over putting Nader on the ballot. Eyes on EisnerEyes on Eisner 09/13/2004 11:13 AM Disney's CEO gets ready to move on. Prying eyes everywherePrying eyes everywhere 04/15/2005 12:27 PM USA Today Apr 15 2005 4:49PM GMT MS eyes GoogleMS eyes Google 11/04/2003 05:16 AM Sunday Times South Africa Nov 4 2003 4:21AM ET "People have eyes""People have eyes" 04/23/2004 02:43 AM Eyes on the BRICsEyes on the BRICs 04/22/2004 06:30 AM Maekyung Internet Apr 22 2004 11:07AM GMT Eyes on enterpriseEyes on enterprise 07/06/2004 06:37 AM SAP-Microsoft talks underscore harsh market reality OK? -eyes on ball. but, look
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