Personalized Moon Crash

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Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with congressmen to
"discard" democracy

Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with congressmen to
"discard" democracy 03/30/2005 07:38 AM
Sun Myung Moon wants congressmen to "discard" democracy 3/30 .. it's time to end American democracy

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"Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with..."

"Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with..." 03/30/2005 09:20 PM

Using Personalized Emails on the Web

Using Personalized Emails on the Web 07/05/2002 03:40 PM
"...has seen great success with personalizing their pieces - so much so that DM mail shops have expensive laser divisions that add all kinds of personalized touches from a database after the basic print run is finished."

Microsoft looks to more personalized IM

Microsoft looks to more personalized IM 08/02/2004 06:57 PM
REDMOND, WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. plans to deliver a new version of its popular MSN Messenger client by mid-2005 that will let users create a more customized instant messaging (IM) experience, the company said last week.

The Older You Are, The More You Want
Personalized Search

The Older You Are, The More You Want
Personalized Search 07/26/2004 10:54 AM
Source: SearchDay - Those aged 50 and older want personalized search more than younger age ranges, a new survey has found....

Personalized search at PC Forum

Personalized search at PC Forum 03/25/2005 04:00 PM

Phlink gets personalized ringtones, more

Phlink gets personalized ringtones, more 01/22/2004 01:00 PM
Ovolab today released Phlink 1.3, a new version of its telephony software for Mac OS X...

The Technology of Personalized Pitches

The Technology of Personalized Pitches 06/28/2004 01:50 AM
Business Week Jun 28 2004 6:01AM GMT

Stamping Down on Personalized Postage

Stamping Down on Personalized Postage 09/23/2004 11:27 AM
Well, at least you can still put your goldfish's picture on a stamp.

MSN Previews Personalized News Search

MSN Previews Personalized News Search 07/28/2004 11:18 AM
Source: SearchDay - NewsBot, the personalized news search and aggregation service that MSN has been testing in a number of countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa has gone live in the United States....

New Personalized Google Feature in the
Labs

New Personalized Google Feature in the
Labs 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Rudimentary personalized search option now in the labs at Google.

Days numbered for personalized stamps?

Days numbered for personalized stamps? 09/24/2004 01:26 PM
Stamps.com, U.S. Postal Service in discussions to determine if the company's custom postage program should continue.

Bose Personalized Amplification System

Bose Personalized Amplification System 02/11/2004 01:51 PM

Ever gone to a concert where it's so loud you think you're ears will start bleeding, and in spite of the volume level you can't understand the lyrics? Dr. Amar Bose and his namesake, Bose Corportation, are trying to change all that, and change the entire amplified performance paradigm with their new Personalized Amplification System (PAS.)

Bose's approach to solving this problem is pretty radical, and at the same time surprisingly simple. It involves nothing less than, as they put it, “changing the fundamental properties of loudspeakers,” and yet the idea, once it's explained, seems obvious.

The company's new product is called the Cylindrical Radiator Loudspeaker. Two dozen or so (we weren't allowed to peek inside the units) small drivers are arranged vertically in a flagpole-like structure about 3.5 inches in diameter and seven feet high, which is set into a floor stand. The arrangement of the drivers is designed to eliminate all vertical dispersion: The sound is projected forward and in a 180° arc horizontally, but there's nothing projecting above the top of the column and nothing bouncing off the floor.

The most obvious effect is that, in theory at least, the sound is transferred to the room much more efficiently than with a standard spherical-front speaker. In fact, we were invited to walk directly toward the speaker from across a large room while a guitarist played, and observed that the difference in sound level as we approached was remarkably small, even when we put our ears right up to the speaker. Therefore, musicians can play at lower levels and still fill a space. Vocals sent through the system can be loud enough to project, but the potential for feedback is greatly reduced.

(quoted from a MixOnline article)

The Cylindrical Radiator speaker is placed behind the performer on the stage, providing sound for both the performer and the audience. This is a total departure from the traditional amplified sound system, which requires separate amplifiers & speakers for the audience and the performers, a mixing console, miles of cabling, and a sound technician to make it all work, and even then it often works poorly. The PAS returns simplicity to the idea of amplified music performances, and makes for a much more natural sound coming from the stage, with the amplified sound from each performer coming from where that performer is on the stage. According to many posters on Bose's online forum, the system is also ideal for DJ's and playback of recorded music.

This is an answer to many prayers from frustrated performers and sound techs alike, tired of overly complicated systems for small to medium-sized rooms, not to mention concert-goers who feel the need to bring ear plugs along.

Look for the PAS to show up on stage at a nightclub or church near you.

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Personalized Radio... Based On Your MP3s

Personalized Radio... Based On Your MP3s 08/02/2004 01:39 PM
Wired News is running a story about Last.fm, an internet radio station that goes a bit beyond most internet radio stations in its ability to personalize what you hear. While most stations require users to rate a variety of songs to come up with a profile of what you like, Last.fm uses plugin Audioscrobbler to comb your hard drive for music files and build a profile of what you like. It will then create a personalized station based on what you already had on your hard drive. It also includes other features, such as the ability to listen to other users' radio stations. The company is perfectly legal, having paid for online radio licenses from the music industry. What's interesting is the company's business model: they're selling market research to record labels. What the article doesn't say is whether or not this scares off any users who don't like the thought of a list of what they have on their hard drive being sent to record labels (though, obviously, Last.fm isn't sending lists of specific hard drives, but more aggregate data). Either way, it sounds like a cool use of the technology for those who don't mind sharing what they're listening to.

Convergys Delivers Personalized CRM
Alerts

Convergys Delivers Personalized CRM
Alerts 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
Convergys has expanded its customer care line with the release of a new product that lets companies send highly personalized alerts to their existing clients. "This is not a customer acquisition tool," Convergys product manager Bill Botsford told CRMDaily. Instead, it is an opt-in service for consumers that lets them know about certain events or changes.

MSN Testing Personalized 'Start' Page

MSN Testing Personalized 'Start' Page 03/17/2005 04:22 AM
Microsoft's MSN unit is testing what it calls an "incubation experiment" of a new "start" page for Web browsers. The site, located at Start.com, serves as an aggregator for RSS feeds and allows users to custom tailor its content. The project comes as MSN properties struggle to change a lackluster brand image.

Technology allows for elaborately
personalized gravestones

Technology allows for elaborately
personalized gravestones 11/07/2003 11:08 AM
SiliconValley.com Nov 7 2003 9:25AM ET

CustomizedGirl.com Unveils The $9
Personalized Thong

CustomizedGirl.com Unveils The $9
Personalized Thong 06/08/2004 12:33 PM
The site utilizes a simple step-by-step process for individuals who want to customize apparel. First, the user selects an article of clothing from the CustomizedGirl Collection, which features items such as hooded sweatshirts, panties and summer tops. Next, he or she selects a design style and places it on the garment. Finally, the user creates a personalized logo or message with the desired font and text color.

Modigliani: Plane Geometry Personalized

Modigliani: Plane Geometry Personalized 05/20/2004 08:42 PM
The catchy show at the Jewish Museum is the first big New York retrospective of Amedeo Modigliani since 1951.

Findory Blogory: A personalized webl0g
reader

Findory Blogory: A personalized webl0g
reader 06/14/2004 10:08 AM
Findory Blogory

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Get off the sofa and bowl; personalized
postage stamps

Get off the sofa and bowl; personalized
postage stamps 09/25/2004 07:04 PM
US News Sep 25 2004 10:33PM GMT

Microsoft Aiming to Deliver Personalized
Search

Microsoft Aiming to Deliver Personalized
Search 08/03/2004 12:13 AM
Microsoft said it was aiming to make search services customized for users so that results would be based on individual preferences and interests.

Findory Offers
Personalized-News-Alerts-Inna-Box

Findory Offers
Personalized-News-Alerts-Inna-Box 09/13/2004 01:50 AM
Findory ( http://www.findory.com ) has been mentioned in ResearchBuzz before; it's a Web site that provides personalized news based on the headlines you view. Now it offers personalized news based...

Software offers personalized way to
preserve and share your pictures

Software offers personalized way to
preserve and share your pictures 01/01/2004 07:55 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 1 2004 7:49AM ET

Consumers will give up data for
personalized shopping, survey says

Consumers will give up data for
personalized shopping, survey says 07/19/2004 08:00 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jul 20 2004 0:48AM GMT

Microsoft Aiming to Deliver Personalized
Search (Reuters)

Microsoft Aiming to Deliver Personalized
Search (Reuters) 08/02/2004 07:04 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on Monday it was aiming to make search services -- a hot technology right now with the impending public offering of Google Inc. (GOOG.O) -- customized for users so that results would be based on individual preferences and interests.

Genetic Code Transmits Medical Records,
Personalized Medicine

Genetic Code Transmits Medical Records,
Personalized Medicine 09/13/2004 04:11 PM
If DNA code can hold the information for making an entire person, surely it can do the same for an integrated medical record? Such is the reasoning of the developers of the GMS (Genomic Messaging System).

Strategic Alliance to Focus on Increased
Access to Personalized Learning

Strategic Alliance to Focus on Increased
Access to Personalized Learning 04/02/2005 05:06 AM
LearningStation and Vital Knowledge are launching a strategic alliance with the purpose of expanding access to personalized learning tools and resources. The alliance, announced today, enables the delivery of P.E.T. Learning Style Solutions via the LearningStation Education Desktop, a custom web desktop for teaching and learning. [PRWEB Apr 2, 2005]

EarthLink Wireless Introduces Upgraded
BlackBerry Browser and Personalized Web
Content

EarthLink Wireless Introduces Upgraded
BlackBerry Browser and Personalized Web
Content 01/05/2005 08:47 AM
Stockhouse Canada Jan 5 2005 11:29AM GMT

Crash Test Videos - View Crash Test
Videos for Cars, Trucks and SUVs -
Insurance Resource Center

Crash Test Videos - View Crash Test
Videos for Cars, Trucks and SUVs -
Insurance Resource Center 04/02/2005 07:32 AM
See how your car would fare in a crash .. Various Test Crashes .. Crash Test Videos .. Progressive

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Chicago Digital Post launches innovative
product line of Fully Personalized,
Pre-packaged Recordable DVDs at the 2004
WEVA International Convention.

Chicago Digital Post launches innovative
product line of Fully Personalized,
Pre-packaged Recordable DVDs at the 2004
WEVA International Convention. 08/15/2004 02:13 AM
Chicago Digital Post is showcasing an innovative new product line of fully customizable, Pre-Packaged Recordable DVD packages at the 2004 WEVA International Convention. These "Ready to Burn" Pre-Packaged Recordable DVDs are being offered to producers who author their own DVDs enabling them to provide a professionally packaged end-product that will give them a competitive advantage in their market while helping raise their profits. [PRWEB Aug 15, 2004]

KaZaZZ! Personalized Search Matches
Consumer Interests within Search Process

KaZaZZ! Personalized Search Matches
Consumer Interests within Search Process 08/05/2004 03:40 AM
KaZaZZ! Adds Intelli-Match Personalized Search Technology to Home Page [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Amazon Launches A9 Search Engine - New
Era in Personalized Search

Amazon Launches A9 Search Engine - New
Era in Personalized Search 09/15/2004 11:29 AM
"Users can view and edit past search results and sites they’ve visited by clicking on Search History on the A9 Toolbar or through an adjustable column on the main page. Site History tells users if and when they previously visited a listed site. Users can even search their own history, finding sites they have visited any time in the past."

Fly Us to the Moon -- All of Us

Fly Us to the Moon -- All of Us 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
President Bush wants to establish a permanent lunar outpost as part of a revitalized space program. Well and good. But don't turn the moon into an extension of Fortress America. Welcome the world, or deep-six the plan. Opinion by Tony Long.

The Man and the Moon

The Man and the Moon 05/04/2004 10:32 PM
I'm Congressman Danny K. Davis, and I approved this crowning of the messiah. [more inside]

To the moon

To the moon 01/16/2004 11:04 AM

Bush Outlines Plan for 2015 Moon Landing is the first thing that President Bush has proposed that I'm actually in agreement with (well that's not true, I supported his State of the Union proposal to send millions to Africa for AIDS, but last I heard, that money still hasn't been sent). I've always been sad that we haven't returned to the moon since December 1972 -- nearly my whole life! And the thought of renewed exploration of the moon and then Mars thrills me, maybe I can even go! But, I can't help but wonder a) where the money will come from for all this and b) how the heck Bush can actually think he's for smaller government when, according to the Cato Institute, "based on his first three budgets, President Bush is the biggest spending president in decades."

And of course, with Americans carrying record amounts of consumer debt, 17 percent of American children living in poverty, and millions of Americans going without health insurance, returning to the moon doesn't seem like the highest priority.

Meanwhile, on Mars, Sprit's rolled off its landing platform and is ready to begin its roving exploration of the Martian surface. Woo hoo!

If they can put a man on the Moon....

If they can put a man on the Moon.... 03/17/2005 03:23 AM

Two talks at MIT this week have been thought-provoking in similar ways.  The first was by a physics professor, Frank Wilczek, who recently won the Nobel Prize for his work on the Strong Force, which holds together quarks to form atomic nuclei.  Wilczek showed some impressive drawings from the latest European particle accelerators in which subatomic particles are smashed together until the quarks start flying out.  (This lecture is available at http://web.mit.edu/nobel-lec tures/.)  John Grotzinger, a geology professor, gave a talk about his experience with the Mars Rovers, which found evidence for flowing water on Mars in sedimentary rocks.  The Rovers communicate with an orbiter and can also communicate directly with stations on Earth.  In Grotzinger's more than one year with the project they've never had a communications problem.

So... if human minds can get together to make ever-better particle accelerators, why can't anyone build a reliable inexpensive nuclear power reactor?  And if the Mars Rovers can call Pasadena, how come nobody with a T-Mobile phone can make a call from most spots on the MIT campus or along Memorial Drive?

In the 1970s people would ask questions of the form "If they can put a man on the Moon, why can't they do X?"  What would be the modern equivalent?  The one great human achievement of our current decade that can be compared to the lack of accomplishment in most bureaucracies?

fly me to the moon...

fly me to the moon... 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

Finally the long-rumored announcement from the Bush administration happened yesterday, and the New York Times has both an article and analysis (more coverage from CNN, the Washington Post 1, 2, 3, and space.com). At first I was excited, since as I've expresse d before I wholeheartedly support spaceflight. True spacefaring abilities is be among the short list of things mankind should strive to achieve in this century. (Along with tending to some...err... tiny problems we still seem to have when taking care of our home planet).

The plan is (apparently) to phase out what's left of the Shuttle fleet (STS, or Space Transportation System). There are three Shuttles left: Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. (an early model of the orbiter, the Enterprise, only performed tests flights). Additionally, NASA space science programs will be downsized, including cancellation of further servicing to the Hubble Space Telescope. The STS phase-out would be complete by 2010 (which would also be the "date of completion" of the International Space Station), and the new transportation vehicle would be ready by 2014.

And herein lies the first problem with this plan. Are we seriously saying that the US will stay out of space for four years? I find this very hard to believe, considering that the Chinese are certain to have made some progress by then on their own goal of landing on the moon. (And let's not forget Russia...).

After the new launch, a lunar base would be established, "at most" by 2020, and subsequently used as additional research, development and launch platform for launching a manned Mission to Mars.

This "schedule" seems to me slow, and with many of its targets are so far off that (as the NYTimes analysis makes clear), easy to derail. Not to mention that the announcement provided basically no new funding for the program ($1 billion, plus the money that would come from phasing out the STS fleet).

A big factor in this seems to be "safety". For example, the NY Times analysis mentions that the shuttles have been "prone to catastrophic failure". This statement appears to imply that other space vehicles have not been prone to catastrophic failure. Mmm. Let me see. The Shuttle has flown over a hundred missions (STS-107 was the last flight of the ill-fated Columbia) with exactly two catastrophic failures. In contrast, the Apollo program flew less than 15 manned missions (with a few more unmanned) and it had two massive failures, the first in Apollo 1 (which killed the crew during a test) and the second with Apollo 13, which barely made it back to earth. The number of Soviet failures at the same time is difficult to know with a high degree of confidence, but no one thinks that it was a walk in the park. The Soviet Union, after all, never managed to put a man on the moon, and Soviet technology, though constantly a bit behind the times, was never that bad.

This reminds me of one of Steve Buscemi's lines in Armageddon: "You know, Harry, we're sitting on 4 million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon, and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"

Setting aside the nuclear weapon for the moment (Flying to Mars and beyond may well involve some sort of nuclear- or even antimatter-powered spacecraft), this is one of those "funny 'cause it's true" jokes.

What I'm saying is: I don't get it. Can't they get astronauts to fly? What's the problem? If they can't find anyone, sign me up! But of course, they can get astronauts to fly. They would, under whatever circumstances and whatever risks. But of course this whole obsession with safety is something that has been growing and growing in the Western world, with the US "leading the way" but with Europe particularly in the same boat. Apparently, people are just not supposed to die anymore.

And what about the technology? Does it really take more than 10 years to create a new moon crew transport vehicle? Of course not. Our science and technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since the 70s, particularly computer technology which is crucial to this whole endeavor. As the Washington Post notes:

Bush has outlined a tortoise-like pace, dictated by severe budget constraints, that allows a full decade just to develop a vehicle that would, once again, deliver people to the moon -- something Apollo engineers accomplished, starting from scratch, in about eight years.

The problem is not technology, it's political will, and funding. In fact, this new project is a mirror of something that was proposed ten years ago, which went nowhere, as one of the articles from the NYT describes:

In 1989, in a speech honoring the 20th anniversary of the initial lunar landing, the first President Bush proposed that the nation establish a base on the Moon and send an expedition to Mars to begin "the permanent settlement of space." He set the Mars goal for 2019 but the effort soon fizzled when the cost estimates hit $400 billion.

In today's western culture (but it's really happening all over the world) with our instant-satisfaction, one-click-shopping, celebrity-obsessed and 24-hour-of-irrelevant-news media, it's hard to think that popular support will keep steady over the course of the 15-25 years required for this project.

I must say, though, without cynicism, that I hope I'm wrong. I really, really hope that the US can stick with it. It's the one country that has the knowhow and the resources (and, at times, the spirit) necessary to pull it off. And for all the criticisms, it has maintained a continuing space program, to its credit. Does anyone think that the International Space Station would be anything but a blueprint by now if it wasn't for the time, money, and energy (however misdirected) that the US has spent on it?

And, by the way, why does the US have to do this by itself? The Chinese are moving forward, but if they keep at it there will be questions as to how much international aid they need, as this article from the economist notes. And, where's Japan, where's Russia? More importantly, where's the EU? There's been lots of talk about the potential world power the EU can become. But instead of talking about worthy goals, like using the European Space Agency for a daring multinational space exploration program, we keep discussing agricultural subsidies and whether one country has more votes than the other. It's not of course that those are not important issues, but there is zero attention, money, or "political capital" put forward for anything other than those things. I mean, Germany, France, the UK, and all the other great countries. Come on! Europe has to stop running scared from its past of internicine warfare and truly look forward to the future. The US can't be left alone holding the bag with this.

I suddenly think of part of a Sagan quote I posted sometime ago:

Spaceflight, therefore, is subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in Earth orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts. The nations that had insituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a starting glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one world.

We are not that far away. We can only hope that we, as a society, can for once look just a little beyond our noses and truly make it happen.

The man on the moon

The man on the moon 06/02/2004 02:27 AM
Moon Walk 1835 -- Was Neil Armstrong Really The First Man on The Moon? The Europeans did not arrive in American till nearly the end of six thousand years; this time was necessary for them to carry their navigation to such perfection, so as to cross the ocean. The people of the moon know already, perhaps, how to make little flights in the air, and at this time may be exercising themselves. When they shall be more able, we may see them.
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