the user interface is very bad. we have made incremental improvements. we have tried to find a less easy to use meters on the market. where you just walk up and we had very few complaints. 3000 or so already have those new meters. they will be released this year. it is an urgent problem.

the user interface is very bad. we have made incremental improvements. we have tried to find a less easy to use meters on the market. where you just walk up and we had very few complaints. 3000 or so already have those new meters. they will be released this year. it is an urgent problem. >> i know that it is user friendly and not everyone carries a credit card. it is not appropriate to carry a credit card with a value on it credit card with a value on it for a 7-year-old

it has an interface -- you know, there are a lot of android phones out there, and if you look at thenterface it's somewhat similar to the iphone. >> this looks totally different. >> yeah, it has hubs and tiles. your whole world is right here. i have to say what nokia has done, it's microsoft's big partner on phones and they are starting to deliver the really sexy hand sets -- >> it's a different interface i am looking at and do i like that better? >> they are powerful, and super to use phones. and you have to ask yourself, is this a better way of presenting my information. i think it is. >> well, lance, thank you so much. love having you bring all this stuff here and it's all fun. we will get you back here to show us meater stuff. >> pleasure. >>> when we come back, we have more digital do-it-yourself tips. and intrapreneurs are making a bundle by developing popular apps. ♪ shazi: seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our ameri

it is going to run the stock android interface. what they have not told us yet is whether or not it's going to ship with ice cream stand -- sandwich. it should be coming out sometime later this year. >> okay. and finally. >> this is a windows phone. this is from nokia. this is the nokia lumia 800. this is the little brother to the nokia lumia 900, which was showed up at ces. exactly the same phone except this one has a 3.7-inch screen. >> so why would i use this? >> first of all, look at that screen. gorgeous. it's got a lens on the back. it has an interface. you know, there are a lot of android phones out there. if you look at the interface, it's somewhat similar to the iphone. windows phone platform is totally different. it has these hubs and tiles. your whole world is right here. i have to say what nokia's done, nokia is microsoft's big partner now on windows phones. they're starting to deliver these really sexy hand sets into the u.s. markets. >> it's primarily a different interface that i'm looking at and do i like that better

some reading on the subject and she was amazed by the huge progress developers of brain computer interface have made over the last couple of decades here's the story. this is why did you want is no room. science fiction. could be a small machine like this one quite a sophisticated robot asked mentally to perform a particular movement that's how the next step in remote controlled acknowledges looks like instead of pushing buttons they'll be putting on some bizarre looking headwear and thinking mechanisms will read electrical charges from the user's brain and translate them into movement have an artificial borders operated while asleep by thought alone in the avatar movie does not seem unrealistic but while it's still a matter of far off future brain computer interface research already helps repairing damage side or hearing by means of specially blondes then there's great advice in bio nickel ems people with disabilities can control artificial border parts by thinking about moving and material from which those body parts are made is becoming more and more sophisticated newer scientists have

it literally will go bring back all of them. >> so a lot of voice command is in that interface. >> that's right. part of natural user interface is working with the technology that makes the most sense to you and breaking down those barriers between you and technology. maybe it's gesture, maybe it's touch on a phone or maybe it's voice in just talking to your television. we want to make it as easy as possible. >> i have to tell you, i have to move on because i've got to go find the next microsoft, the guy who came here this his car with a fold-up booth, and i want to see who's going to be you guys in 20 years. >> well, when you meet that guy, let us know. >> i sure will. >> host: chairman issa, you have kind of a unique perspective on the consumer electronics show. tell us about your dual role as a policymaker as well as a tech guy. >> guest: well, the important thing is i have a love for this industry. i came out of the consumer electronics industry. the connected world is something that i had a small role in, but aye continued to try to stay in touch with. this show, this is my 30th retu

>> i am of the census and interface council -- he asked me to apologize that he had to leave early, but we are all working for prepared this in the background every single day. the interface council, every two years, recognizing that the faith community plays a huge role in recovery. a disaster workshop is coming up on the second at st. mary's. the department of emergency management, the red cross, this year, with the neighborhood and our network. we are working in the background, preparing our voluntary organizations every single day for large-scale disasters and trying to work together to bring together this preparedness. it is a half-day event that will be from 8:30 until noon. that is at st. mary's on the second. >> thank you very much. any other announcements? is there any public comment? hearing none, this meeting is adjourned. thank you very much for coming writ happy new year. -- thank you very much for coming. happy new year.

that is coming with their metro style interface. you can do the same on yours. we are bringing this experience across windows come across x-box and certainly the phone. these are like a dashboard for my whole life. everything i -- >> you i was just finding out what the weather was in tokyo. >> guest: darsha can tell you what the weather in vegas here is as well. when i get a tweet from my friends are my family -- >> the as the centigrade the social network? >> guest: oh my guys but we think about it in a different way. not only is it integrated with facebook and twitter and all the different media apps, it actually puts people first so i don't have to think anymore, should a facebook that person a treat that person? i can go to any of the contacts that i have and it keeps track of all their social media for me. whether they are on facebook or twitter or you might want to make a phonecall. >> so you pick your friend and figure out how you want to contact them. i have to ask the important question. your software, these are quad processors probably. what kind of ba

i am trying to help develop neighborhood councils that bring together these various groups to interface with city hall and city staff as a model to foster partnerships between and our neighborhoods and city government. it is a model we have been working on for a couple of years in district 3. i hope to replicate it to out san francisco fairly soon. >> we are out of time. thank you so much for joining us today on sfgtv "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with david chiu of district 3. ♪ >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the

of the desktop metaphor, graphical interface. the bitmap design, each pixel can be mapped to the microprocessor. so you can make a beautiful machine. we are -- if you can go into this museum here to remember those green fossil letters, c prompt with c:\ whatever command. it was awful. and suddenly time magazine we get the mac and you can click on the document and the rag and a drop. i do a whole big section on the visit to xerox park and the misconception that they just talk. graphical interface -- it takes two years of the most amazing designers including andy and others on the team to take the metaphor that xerox used and to really make it great. xerox came out with a star two years beforey came out. it sold seven copies with all of america. it was a bad machine. what they did when they took that metaphor was to say we will take the missiles with three buttons and totally simplify it and you will click and drag and drop and double click and open things up and invent pull down menus and bill atkinson clipping where you have docu

none of that was in the xerox originally graphical interface. so i think first of all, they take the xerox metaphor and actually make it insanely great. secondly, t.s. eliot's line, you know, there falls the shadow between the conception and the reality, well, they were able to execute on it, which xerox and others weren't. but it is true that part of steve's genius was looking at 1,000 ideas at any given point and saying, that one's great. this one sucks and this will we're going to ignore but pulling together ideas including ideas from xerox park. >> you can watch this and

>> the vision for that. >> i mean, i do think that the simplest, most natural interface has always been his passion, and there is no simpler one than just talking. i did not know the name, will we talked a little about it. in detail what he wanted to do. i decided, you know, should not put in things that he might not appeal to do and that apple may be working on, but at the last board meeting when he tenders his resignation as ceo they have a lunch afterward. all the engineers bring out the various things that they're working on. one of them, which i knew would come out pretty soon is this a voice recognition. i do have steve trying. i know he is not feeling very well, but he has been brought into this meeting. he asks if i need an umbrella. you know, the prediction is for a sunny day tomorrow. so it really is doing. finally he says are you a man are you a woman? and they all kind of hold their breath. he's trying to trick the machine he's very good. the two layers. they have not yet assigned meet gender. [laughter] and the obvious sign of relief, and steve thinks it is great. either wa

so none of that was in the xerox original graphical interface.o i think first of all they take the xerox metaphor and actually make it insanely great. secondly, t. s. eliot's line, you know, they're falls the shadow between the conception and the reality, well, they were able to execute on it which xerox and others want to. but it is true that part of steve's genius was looking at a thousand ideas at any given point and saying that was great, this one sucks. we are going to ignore, but

so none of that was in the xerox original graphical interface. so i think, first of all, they take the xerox metaphor and actually make it insanely great. secondly, t.s. eliot's line, you know, there falls the shadow between the conception and the reality, well, they were able to execute on it which xerox and others want. but it is true that part of steve's genius was looking at a thousand ideas at any given point and saying that one's great, this one sucks, and this we're going to ignore. but pulling together ideas including ideas from xerox park. >> you can watch this and be other programs online at booktv.org. here are the ten best-selling hardcover nonfiction books as of january 19th according to "publishers weekly." >> for more on these best zell ors, go to publickers -- publishers weekly.com. >> could you give us kind of an epidemiology for people who may not sort of know the blow by blow of conficker? just the first half about how, you know, you did talk about it showing up in, i guess it was john who talked about it showing up in a honey

of course the government isn't involved of course the great interest mediating force the interface between governments involvement in extortion and the rackets in the markets percent say are fannie mae and freddie mac. the government sponsored entities that they created to artificially suppress interest rates to give artificially large bonuses to incredibly gifted charlatans and thieves and that's the interface between government and that's where you know where you find the incredible collection of mortgage fraud and the subprime crisis building up like an enormous zit on the face of the american economy that popped in two thousand and seven and polluted white poss into into the faces of three hundred million americans and they're trying to desperately clean that off their face or like obama how come you don't help us and obama's out there. four. well bill black says that these charges are exceptionally severe the fact that obama has no response rebutting this grave charge against his administration's integrity sounds loud but not proud in fact he's doubled down max because here's the next

when i started to interface with the mental health profession and be given diagnoses and medications to contain that fire inside of me, it both felt like a huge relief and like it had the power to extinguish that fire, which was terrifying. no one ever told me before i started taking zyprexa or lithium, that if i stopped it, i would have severe withdrawal and psychotic symptoms. but it actually turns out that a lot of these medications, when you stop taking them, trigger in you the withdrawal symptoms that look like the craziness. a lot of people get put on meds at one point in their life, and then when they try to go off them, they're like, "oh my god, i really am insane." there's this fundamental impulse either toward suppressing our traumas by medicating the symptoms of them away, or "facing down our traumas," by delving straight into the teeth of whatever our childhood beasts are. there's not a lot of focus on what is in the middle, what does it mean to acknowledge the way that the past has been a formative thing in our lives, without reliving the past over and over. mental illne

it takes to visit site to xerox they had come up with a concept of the desktop manifold and the interface and the bitmap design each pixel could be mapped to the bits of the microprocessor. we are old enough to remember or

at morgan state university after witnesses claim the school's basketball coach punched a player interface during the game. live with the very latest. good afternoon, monique. >> that coach has been suspended indefinitely despite the fact that both he and the players say that punch never happened. >> reporter: in a heated one moment, witnesses say they saw the coach to strike a player. >> we think it's important to gather the facts surrounding this incident. >> one witness told our media partner he saw him punch him in the face saying it was pretty dramatic. there were a lot of people there who thought the coach was out of line. the sportswriter told wjz what he saw. >> it appeared as though he gave some type of push back. >> that was enough for south carolina state president to contact officials. >> some say that he actually struck the student, others to say it wasn't that bad. >> coach bozeman released a statement saying, it's definitely overblown, i didn't hit them are either should've been an investigation already. wjz has learned there is video of the incident, but officials doesn't s

you are running and can take away from the time that you spent door knocking, having visibility, interfacing with what voters want to see. i think i had a much stronger sense in what the district wanted, some of the goals and priorities, i was able to spend that time doing the groundwork. >> you're saying that the soft cap would give you the flexibility to run a more viable campaign as a publicly financed candidate? >> it would allow us to be competitive. gosh and so you think that it will -- and given your feelings about that candidate, there are more likely to hear from incumbents that it was effective and secure enough to be willing to participate in the public financing program? >> i think so. >> further comments or thoughts from the commissioners? if you're going to go with the 1.75 cap, if you change it from 275,000 to 262,500, it will lower it to 1.750. i think i've done the math right. the 1:1 match, right now starts at 275,000. get rid of that in the lower it to 162,500. and the match will be the same amount. in-house that comes to a total of 325,000. palin with the numbers of the a

this office is interfacing with the cities. the last thing is regulatory reinvention, so far we have rescinded obsolete regulations. we need a regulatory environment that is conducive to job creation while we are properly protecting our citizens. now this year we are going to continue our regulatory re reinvention by eliminating rules that don't make sense. i have three examples. first we have a rule mandating the size of a barbours wastebasket. second, we have a rule requiring child care providers to smile. >> finally and this should not be surprising and i appreciate our leadership today but the department of environmental quality has 28 separate requirements for out houses. including a requirement that the seat not be left up. i don't know about you but i have a hire authority at home. i don't need the state telling me that. it's going to be an interesting evening. now, let's tal about 2012. 2012 will be a very different year from 2011. 2011 was focused on dramatic policy improvements of a broken model of the past. we set a

basically we're starting those configuration analysis documents of a very detailed layouts, user interface, reporting requirements, how the screens need to look, what the validation is of the data, and etc.. that is the update. questions? commissioner murphy: a question on stage two -- when is the completion date on that? >> that is in april. we continue to document the system, can figure it, and put together a really simple prototype. >> thank you. >> do you see any major obstacles from here to completion? >> we are in good shape. the analysis sessions are going very well. the staff is really interested in a product. they're coming up with all sorts of suggestions. we're working closely with excel at 21 tech and planning. the a very detailed project plan etc.. >> strong collaboration? take ou>> it is wonderful. anything else? >> thank you. >> item 7d, update on major projects. >> commissioners, in the absence of hanson tom, and

. >> the focus of this project was about the content, so given the specific user interface what kind of content can you provide? >> these apps they create ready not available in cars right now, they're not planning it, but it's going to give gm's research and development department something to think about. some of the things they came up with are, auto. >> another application has to do with a ltlitecreature that and you as you drive and it's interactive with what the car is doing, if the car speeds up it slides faster. >> it's interactive with the landscape that you're driving through. >> exactly, christian. they said for this to work, they would need cars with electronically charged glass. >> like a -- >> turn it into a touch screen. >> i really like it because sometimes you go on really long road trips and they can be so painfully long and this would definitely make the trip seem shorter. >>> a news report says yoga may not be so safe. >> if you wmove your neck a certain way it could hinder passage of blood. >> the controversy over stretching and posing. >> a big tire and some tee

if there is a way we can work with him, because we interface with the public so much more frequently, that would be useful. he was eager to hear we were hiring a media person and i would like to look at how that would apply to other departments as well. commissioner moore: i would very much support what you just said. he is a terrific guy and we would have a very good ally,z in things that we are interested in being involved with with new technology and communication. i want to bring to the commission's attention, an article i saw and the paper only hinting at something san francisco begins to issuing medical marijuana dispenser permits again. i would like our staff to some point get less than a short- term brief of how they see it from their perspective from the newspaper article. it seems to be pointing into the direction of what the city policy is. the devil will be in bed details, but i found the article quite interesting. i would be happy to pass it around. president miguel: i recently met with people from san francisco moma and it was very interesting. have been talking to peopl

invited jessie from the center for independent living to come and tell us how destination elevators interfaced with persons with disabilities. >> when destination elevators storfirst started appearing, thy presented a number of challenges to individuals with disabilities. what happened was, elevator technology outpaced california building code. building code has a number a provision that makes traditional elevators usable by people with disabilities, but destination elevators presented challenges, particularly with cited. how do you know to get from this keypad to your our corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standard

. >> with the new user interface we can talk to tvs, and we can say tv channel 2, tv channel 5. you can also have gestures. you can wave at the tv and you can grab that menu and now have a new way to interact and control your tv or control content. >> how does that work if you are watching a sports game or presidential debate. will it do something? >> it might. you have to wave first. yeah, you'll probably trigger the menu or you default to channel up. >> this is proprietary software? >> this is built in our own app store. a very robust application. >> a mobile app through any device? >> for the family store, yes. the app will run on any of oir devices. it will run on a -- it will also run on our tablets or cell phones. >> you need more spectrum to carry those applications. >> especially when you start talking about video. video will probably the killer application or killer screen. >> hopefully it won't kill the wireless networks. >> we are always innovating and trying to be more efficient. >> that is the key, efficiency, what can we do to use the technology we have more effici

there was a vast arena waiting for an opportunity to interface with us and our movement. these are people who were by destiny given these jobs of authority and power. they controlled so much of the gear box in which our movement had to go. if you did not get the president on your side, if he did not get bobby kennedy on your side, then your task would be far more daunting. getting them on your side. when dr. king said find his moral center, when him to our cause, this was in the of not even knowing the man. -- in lieu of not even knowing the man. we did not meet on the corner, we did not have a social engagement. we were in a world, a society that was fiercely adversarial from the point of view of race. distractedthat was scarcel by the lust for power and greed -- buthe central to our culture. with all these forces coming at you, if you are the oppressed, you have to find a way in which to work through this. you can do it violently, or you can do it as dr. king suggested. to find this methodology through nonviolence, to try to find a way in which to redeem relations with

they will be focusing on public realm needs in other areas such as the interface between south of market and mission bay. in the analysis and reporting, information analysis program, they have that capacity to expand its analysis. [no audio] without expanding its overall staffing levels. changes that are related to management and administration line item include moving some of the managers in the division to activities reflect more of their actual time on some of the work they're doing on a variety of pratt -- projects we mentioned earlier. in the environmental planning division, a majority of resources are dedicated to preparing the documents. they're experiencing over one full time equivalent reduction in their account due to work on the america's cup project. many of the projects that are currently under way is with the director mentioned. two important eir's that are expected to feed and is the better market street plan. environmental planning has been playing a role in the intervention concerning high- speed rail. the director provided you an update on the transit sustainability pro