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Brothers Grimm, on the other hand, “is more user friendly,” Tatar says. The illustrations’ layout invites not examination, but aesthetics. They accompany the stories in much the same way that they would in a standard book of fairy tales...
Darren S. Morris ’05, a senior in Mather House, is another Zipcar user who raves about the company...
...this year. New on the market last year: the Quiet Technology sound-masking system from office-furniture maker Herman Miller. Designed for open-layout work environments, the system renders speech beyond a 12-ft. to 16-ft. radius unintelligible with "pink noise" technology embedded in the furniture. To a user, it sounds like gentle whooshing. What it does is match the frequencies of human speech to make colleagues' chatter less distracting. The cost of creating such quiet zones: 75 per sq. ft., about half that of conventional sound-reduction systems, says product manager Amy Sremba...
Create a peer advising program that operates in a manner similar to that of our current User Assistant (UA) program. In the same way that Houses have paid UA’s, concentrations will have paid PA’s. To become a PA, a rising junior or senior would interview with the head tutor, assistant head tutor or other faculty member within her own concentration. These people are in the best position to evaluate whether a student knows enough about the program to be helpful to others...
...what Ethernet technology can accomplish. "Ethernet continues to expand - in distance, bandwidth capacity and the ability to run voice and video - in ways people never anticipated five years ago," says John Chambers, Ceo of router maker Cisco Systems. DSLAMs themselves have plunged from over $300 for each end-user connection to under $100, according to Ransom. Alcatel hopes to ship enough DSLAMs and cards to make 22 million new connections this year, up from 7.8 million in 2002. Of course, DSLAMs are just part of the VOD story. The "video servers" - giant terabyte-sized computers that store films for viewer...