Rohan Karamandi

Here’s something that’ll hopefully stir some things up with the Canadian wireless market. Currently there are 3 major players in the Canadian wireless communications industry: Bell (BCE), Rogers, and Telus. Wind Mobile applied to be the fourth, but got denied by the CRTC on the grounds that the parent company, Globalive doesn’t have enough Canadian control in its company’s structure.

However, on Friday, Industry Minister Tony Clement overthrew that decision, claiming that after going through their case several times over, they have come to the conclusion that Globalive has enough Canadian control to operate in Canada.

Rumor has it that Wind Mobile is ready to mobilize and will be ready to launch before Christmas this year, which would mean that there is a lot of pressure on the Big 3.

What does this mean for us as consumers?

As the saying goes: the more, the merrier!

In other words, having more competition will push the other “Big 3″ to reduce their prices and/or improve their services, if they want to remain competitive.

Pricing

Prices can be found at http://shop.windmobile.ca/ProductCatalog/VoicePlans/ for their voice plans

Apple's Magic Mouse

If you haven’t tried Apple’s Magic Mouse yet, you should. It’s not radically different from an old-school mouse, but it’s really cool. The multi-touch features are pretty cool too..but like I said, it’s still a mouse. For more information on the mouse, go to Apple’s Magic Mouse page. It’s a pretty decent mouse; especially considering its Bluetooth, and multi-touch and only costs $69.00 from the Apple Store.

Here’s the catch. It only works on Mac’s. There’s no drivers for the Magic Mouse on Windows. Until now…(well..it’s still not 100% legit, but hey, if it’s good, then who cares, right?)

But Dan at UNEASYsilence has posted both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the latest Windows drivers for the Magic Mouse, which Apple delivered via an update for Apple’s Bootcamp. You can find his blog post which has the drivers at http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2009/11/14588/.

I’m going to be updating a few things on my website every now and then for the next little while, so if my website is down, or a little wonky, so please bare with me.

Thanks =)

Here are some tips for using Microsoft Office’s Equation Editor for your math classes. For those of you in Signals and Random Processes with me, this will come in real handy for taking down notes, doing assignments, etc. I find that the new Equation editor is a lot friendlier than the previous versions found in Word 2003 and older. You can write inline equations alongside your regular text in a breeze, which was annoying/challenging before.

Lets start with the basics: How to insert an equation in the document

This is super simple. There’s two ways of doing this:

1. In the “ribbon” go to Insert -> Equation (it has a huge pi symbol above it, you can’t miss it)
2. Use the keyboard shortcut Alt + = (that’s Alt and Equal)

Equation Editor 2007

I’m not going to explain all the things you can do in Equation Editor, but basically you can see the symbols, and the different functions you can put in to the right of the symbols. The interface is really simple to use; I’m sure you can figure it out.

Userful Keyboard Shortcuts

Here’s some useful keyboard shortcuts that Brad/Albert/Myself find useful while in Equation Editor:

Subscripts: _ (underscore) Eg: A_c for A subscript c
Superscript: ^ (carat/hat/whatever you want to call it) Eg: x^2 for x²

Division: / Eg:  1/2 for ½ Note: I can’t really give a good example without including an image but it gives 1 right above 2
Multiplication: \times  gives you the multiplication symbol (×) or \bullet gives you a dot in the middle if you don’t want to use ×

Integral: \int brings up the integral symbol, combine with subscript and superscript to get definite integrals. Eg: \int_-10^10 for a definite integral from -10 to 10.

Greek letters: basically these are just \ then their name. Capitalize the first letter if you want a capital letter. Eg: \pi gives you π but a \Pi would give you an uppercase pi.

Arrows:  ->  <- ….you get the idea..

These are just a few of the commands..there’s a much more in-depth list available in pdf format at: http://bit.ly/1gHRbc. It’s really well done..and explained probably better than I do.

Hope that helps! If you have any questions, leave a comment!

Well..its time for midterms again, I just want to wish everyone the best of luck on their midterms!