One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Saturday, 11 September 2004

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Dolby and Intel to Help Bring Surround...

Dolby Laboratories and Intel Corporation today announced the two companies are collaborating to provide developers with tools to enable high-end audio for Intel-based PC platforms. As a result, consumers can enjoy a premium surround sound experience on their computers whether they are on the go, in the living room, or bringing the audio studio into their den. ...Read More » [Digital Pro Sound News]

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In a bold committment to advance the acceptance of HDTV, DirecTV is planning to launch four new satellites in the next three years in a specific strategy to provide comprehensive HDTV service, both local and national, to its subscribers. This... [About Home Theater]

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This is the third part of a series discussing how to travel safely with your Mac OS X laptop. Today's focus is software encryption and those pesky networks you have to deal with on the road. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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Sometimes I have a situation where I select Shutdown from the OS X menu and the shutdown dialog box will not display.

In fact, none of the other selections from the OS X menu will work either. I'm not sure why this happens,... [macosxhints]

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BusinessWeek, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, announced on Thursday the results of its survey of the most innovative companies, leaders and inventions since 1929. The company surveyed 500 senior-level business executives, allowing them more than one choice per category, and found that Apple Computer Inc. was named by 35 percent of them as the most innovative company, followed closely by Microsoft at 32 percent and Pixar at 31 percent. However, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who also runs Pixar, lost out to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates for most innovative corporate leader, with the former racking up 47 percent of the votes and the latter snaring 50 percent. [MacCentral]

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NY Times editorial: "It is now obvious that the administration does not intend to hold any high-ranking official accountable for the nightmare at Abu Ghraib." [Scripting News]

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A question for the President and his supporters. How's the search for Osama bin Laden going? When should we expect him to be captured and put on trial? Is that still the plan? In what way is the war in Iraq helping or hurting the attempt to disable al Qaeda? [Scripting News]

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Administration hawk warns of further "preemption" [TIME's Top World Stories] 'Some democrats on the Hill claim that they are worried a second Bush Administration may prove more militarily aggressive than the first. One reason: a Democratic official tells TIME that a leading Pentagon hawk recently hinted that the doctrine of pre-emptive war could soon apply to potential new targets.'

Somebody please bring the American people to their senses!! I can't believe W is leading in the polls. Frightening.

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Three years after 9/11, Manhattan looks shiny and clean. But what has become of its icons: its money, its people and, of course, Rudy? An update on a mending metropolis [TIME's Top Stories]

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Seven-metre high waves pounded Jamaica's eastern shore Friday as Hurricane Ivan and its 240 km/h winds churned closer to the island. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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Books: Czeslaw Milosz believed in the joy-bringing potential of art and intellect. Seamus Heaney pays tribute to the Polish poet, who died last month. [Guardian Unlimited]