Mein troll, why must you keep trolling? You ARE smart.
"If I were NASA, I would call for a 'back-to-basics' approach to probe design. I would ban the all software but the most basic.
I would demand that all design work and construction take place in house, following the Russian 'socialist' model. Outside contracting
to commercial companies does not work; they just cut corners and introduce mistakes.
The only way forward for NASA is backwards, so to speak."
There is no need for des/const in house anymore. We have companies that can do this better than the "house" (gov) can. What we do need is to get the hell out of the CheaperFaster model that Nasa adopted, and quintuple-test every circuit as was done in times of yore.
since they have successfully built a long-lasting probe:
Effects of long term space radiation exposure on instruments, circuitry of all types. They have years of data now and can figure out exactly how the radiation affects performance.
Which alloys, compounds, solders, construction methods, etc. hold up best in space.
In space construction what really is the limiting factor. What burns out first?
answering my own question
on
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· Score: 3
From Abuse FAQ
"Purchasing Abuse
Is Abuse Public Domain?
The source code, artwork, and shareware levels (1-4) are public domain. This means you are free to copy, sell, or modify it with no restrictions. To get this point across you can do the following:
1.You can write a book about games and include the data on CD with the book. Some people have done this already.
2.You can put the data on a FTP or web site without asking permission to do so. People have done this many times as well.
3.You can make your own game based off of the Abuse source and artwork and sell it as your own. As noted below you can't call the game Abuse or Abuse 2 because the name is trademarked.
Data that is not public domain:
1. The sound effects in Abuse are owned by Bobby Prince (contact http://bpmusic.com). Since we do not own them we cannot make them public domain, but you should not have a problem using them in most cases. Besides they are 8bit 11khz, games these days are expected to have higher quality.
2. The levels with commercial Abuse (4+) are not public domain. We did not make them public domain because some stores are still selling the game."
"Crack was a game company started in 1995 by Dave Taylor and Jonathan Clark. Taylor was working at id Software and had co-authored Doom and Quake. Clark was fresh out of college, burning to start his own game company and had already written a smooth, capable 2D scroller engine. The engine became Abuse, a 2D scroller still unique to this day for supporting a 360-degree aiming mechanism, a built-in editor, real-time lighting, a LISP interpreter, and portability to several platforms, including DOS, MacOS, Linux, Irix, BeOS, and others."
Wine API
Designed for source compatibility with Win32 code
Sample programs
Automatically generated API documentation
32-bit resource compiler
Partial Unicode and support
Internationalization -- Wine supports 16 languages
Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages
How many Linux packages will you be able to get this with?
What about Windoze ME, etc.
What I need to run a Windozeless office and still be able to publish a web-zine, etc.
The first person I ever saw with one of these things was Dr. Michel Marriot, the Circuits editor of the New York Times.
For an interview, I want something nice and stable that I can set up quickly, to speed up my note-taking power without necessarily having to hide behind a big laptop, which is bad for my interview style.
I either need a nice stable wide collapsible keyboard or a voice software/microphone set up that can distinguish 2 or more voices speaking quickly in a crowded room AND transcribe them accurately...
Thanks for the reference to one of my favorite movies. It's a surreal epic and at over 2.5 hours should show the dune folks how to get a complex story on film. (William Hurt is also in this BTW) It combines apocalyptic stuff, technology, drama and intense characterization.
"FBI attorney: The suspect uses something called PGP, which prevents us from viewing his email and, combined with other evidence we have gathered while surveiling him, constitutes probable cause that he is using his computer for legal activity."
FBI attorney: The suspect uses something called PGP, which prevents us from viewing his email and, combined with other evidence we have gathered while surveiling him, constitutes probable cause that he is using his computer for legal activity.
Judge: Okay, go get 'im.
Software does not equal intent. Not with PGP, not with Napster, etc.
For starters, IANAL. All paragraphs in quotes are taken from the Inquirer piece
"A wiretap or room bug also would have required authorization from the Attorney General's Office as well as court approval, defense lawyers say. And it would have required investigators to "minimize" - not record or listen to - conversations unrelated to the focus of the investigation."
The FBI, as discussed in Carnivore controversy, often ignores possible precedent laws (in this case woretap) when there is a new technology. If the previous law's spirit remains true, the FBI violates the law by having a record of all conversations. Depending on what the computer is used for, they may be violating the privacy of customers and family members, so the good evidence they gather may be inadmissible in court if the previous laws are proven to hold even partially true.
"The application for the authorization, submitted by Wigler, contended that as "there will be no wire, oral or electronic communications captured," federal wiretap laws did not apply."
Bullshit. The keystroke capturer is in the computer and the stuff is remotely downloaded to an FBI computer at a later time. Of course the original record lies in the keystroke capturer, but the copy or mirror is just as implicating.
The court order, however, did authorize the FBI to "install and leave behind software, firmware, and/or hardware equipment which will monitor the inputted data entered on Nicodemo S. Scarfo's computer by recording the key-related information as they are entered."
If THIS decision is held up, it will place different freedom levels on "speech" and "data," in which data will be considered open and available to any search and unprotected by freedom of speech or privacy laws.
"Typically, information from the device would be downloaded from a remote location, he said, and the downloading process could take seconds to minutes. The result would be a "mirror" of whatever was tapped into the keyboard."
Let's say the mobster discovers the downloading process and shuts off his machine. Do a team of FBI agents pound his door open at that point?
These of course speculative, for the time when we learn enough cell biology to control the cells...
1) Organ regeneration or complete creation of new organ, and with the marrow stem cells here we can use the exact DNA of the patient instead of a close match from a donor, or a close match from fetal stem cells.
2) Muscle, skin, bone, etc. regeneration as a part of therapy for burn patients and other disorders
3) Increase of lung capacity, growth rate, blood vessel development in young children
4) Regeneration of cells/replacement of cells damaged in cryopreservation
Blade, you are usually one of my favorite trolls but this here actually PREVENTS the pig organs.:)
It prevents a reliance on other ethically problematic methods of obtaining the cells, e.g. fetus-harvesting for stem cells, too. A marrow transplant from an adult will provide stem cells!
I support the use of fetal tissue in research and therapy, but am glad to see an option for treating those who do not wish to use this tissue.
I am wondering about a comparison for stem-cell yield between the marrow and fetal tissue. I am also wondering whether or not one can use marrow harvested from cadavers/organ donors for stem cell harvesting.
I went to see this as a great fan of both M. Night Shmalayan and comic books. Unfortunately, neither rapacious fan-desire was satisfied. Here's why:
1) Shmalayan, who gave us one of the best surprise endings in the last 25 years in The Sixth Sense, tried to do the same thing here but all it is, is a cornball cliche and a let-down. There are a bazillion tricks in 6th that give you a tantalizing clue about what the ending is going to be. Here in Unbreakable the ending comes as a surprise of the corny species, totally separated from the narrative cast of the film. It only works if, as mentioned above, we are being cliff-hung towards a trilogy.
2) The only really comic-booky scenes in the movie are when Elijah tracks the gun-toting football fan down and when Daniel stalks down the Maintenance Man. Here there is not a bringing down of the supernatural to the real, simply a banalization of it.
3) Jon, what do you consider Hitchcockian here? I am thinking of perhaps the scene where Elijah navigates the stairs. But we are being led on, not howling at the screen for Elijah to stop as we would in a Hitchcock film. Elijah himself knows, furthermore, that he's gonna be busted up here.
4) Oh my word, what lousy dialogue. The dialogue in 6th was realistic, especially the patient/psychiatrist sessions.
5) all in all a case of Second Film by Brilliant Writer-Director syndrome.
6) p.s. the drug dealer in the football stadium is M. Night Shmalayan, FYI
1) Software is software. If I am a computer company developing a new machine, it might make sense for me to form an alliance with one particular version of the Linux OS. BUT:
2) Does it make sense here?? It remains to be seen whether or not this decision's profitable to IBM. What does it gain by supporting a relatively limited array of operating systems. It's not like IBM has any control over who develops, say, OpenLinux software for use on the thinkpad. Will it be forming some kind of partnership with these developers?
3) Who will be using the ThinkPad? They seem to be almost wholly devoted to Windoze. Perhaps more advanced users will steer clear of the Pad...
and can tell you very well that the brain does adapt to cope with limitations. This proves plasticity up to the "accepted" human limit but not necessarily beyond that limit.
This adaptation often includes finer perceptions developed in other sensory areas; Zane is an audiophile, a musician, and a radio journalist, and sets the levels in the recording studio with little assistance from dial and LED-reading friends.
The question is -- and I will put this to Zane, too -- could someone learn to use prosthetic augmentations -- "Bionic Eyes," robotic prostheses that require a higher reaction time than normally found in humans -- if trained at an early age in a way that encourages neurological adaptation?
I do hope it truly is hackable. i think this is a wonderful idea especially for RPGers like myself who can write new plots, characters, monsters, dungeons..
Diffs between this and Google, for instance, abound. Central is the fact that it's not limited to urls.
"Version 1.0 of WebQL uses a wizard to simplify writing queries, but only users with SQL experience will be able to create useful queries. (Ordinary-language queries will be supported in future versions.) The wizard lets you select whether to return text, URLS, table rows or columns, or any combination thereof. You can then specify to search for text, regular expressions, or table cells, and you can add refinements such as case sensitivity and the number of matches returned per page."
I will buy this when it supports ordinary language queries.
Through its access to directories will this thing allow you to bypass registrations on all sites? Pay sites?
How about an image search? (Since people don't name their files informatively all the time..)
Not. Every. Computer. Need. Be. Connected. To. The. Internet.
One way the digital method is cheaper for movie theaters is no need to ship and protect fragile movie reels. Another way is you, theater owner, can download whatever movie you want on the spot. This promotes choice but is unsafe for reasons mentioned above.
So you need an independent way to verify the film that's NOT a watermark. This calls for a human bean, who can travel around and 1) download your movies for you with some proprietary software or hardware or, 2) verify the copies you have downloaded. This is also a good way to insure payment of distributors and producers in the digital method.
Once the download is verified, put it on a LAN! You can still mess with Jar Jar, but it will require the active cooperation of theater staff. This is possible with film reels, which can be spliced to include split second shots of pr0n, or whatever (see: Fight Club )
I love watching techno-laden art house flix online. But what about the hope that digital film production could open up choice at theaters?
What costs lots of money, upfront, for a movie theater is the ability to pay distros for expensive first run movies. Hence you have the second run movie theater with the $1-$1.50 ticket.
This said, most movie theaters, even those with the expensive tix, make most of their movies through concession stand sales.
So, my hope is that digital filmmaking becomes enough of a popular activity that movie theaters can buy the digital films at low prices. This would allow for many more movie theaters specializing in genre showings, art movies, etc. Even those movie theaters which show major distro stuff could round out their stables with GOOD digital movies instead of B-movies as they do now.
For this to work, the digital producers need to get together and distro on a national scale, reaching out to indie and general movie theaters at cut-rate prices.
Just a note- the Independent Media Centers - my favorite thing to plug on slashdot - is an example of how digital video has already lowered the cost of news authored by multiple sources.
This thing should work due to the combination of multiple spam-evasion techniques. Spamming is like recycling cans or telemarketing in that the profit margine is very narrow, and the tiniest variables can upset that margin.
Spammers designed ways of gleaning email addresses from websurfers in order to avoid having to pay for verified email addresses; without a way of verifying the addresses they collect, spammers will have to switch back to paid lists gained from registrations, etc.
In this case, the need for verification will create that extra step for spammers, making it cheaper not to use the lists at all. Is anyone aware of a cheap and easy way, other than just emailing the person, to verify a valid yet false address?
The only way I can think of for spammers to evade Sugarplum would be the establishment of intermediate businesses to vet email lists gathered by spammers.
Shame on you for yelling at Taco here. People are not understanding what the implications of the patent thing is and so Taco puts up an informational link about it.
Poo on you all. I adore it when the editorial staff does stuff like this which will encourage folks to get off their tushies and do something about something. There are thousands of people on here, many of whom should be taken seriously... this combo here integrate analysis, data, and a way to do action.
Slashdot Mirror
Mein troll, why must you keep trolling? You ARE smart.
"If I were NASA, I would call for a 'back-to-basics' approach to probe design. I would ban the all software but the most basic.
I would demand that all design work and construction take place in house, following the Russian 'socialist' model. Outside contracting
to commercial companies does not work; they just cut corners and introduce mistakes.
The only way forward for NASA is backwards, so to speak."
There is no need for des/const in house anymore. We have companies that can do this better than the "house" (gov) can. What we do need is to get the hell out of the CheaperFaster model that Nasa adopted, and quintuple-test every circuit as was done in times of yore.
since they have successfully built a long-lasting probe:
Effects of long term space radiation exposure on instruments, circuitry of all types. They have years of data now and can figure out exactly how the radiation affects performance.
Which alloys, compounds, solders, construction methods, etc. hold up best in space.
In space construction what really is the limiting factor. What burns out first?
From Abuse FAQ
"Purchasing Abuse
Is Abuse Public Domain?
The source code, artwork, and shareware levels (1-4) are public domain. This means you are free to copy, sell, or modify it with no restrictions. To get this point across you can do the following:
1.You can write a book about games and include the data on CD with the book. Some people have done this already.
2.You can put the data on a FTP or web site without asking permission to do so. People have done this many times as well.
3.You can make your own game based off of the Abuse source and artwork and sell it as your own. As noted below you can't call the game Abuse or Abuse 2 because the name is trademarked.
Data that is not public domain:
1. The sound effects in Abuse are owned by Bobby Prince (contact http://bpmusic.com). Since we do not own them we cannot make them public domain, but you should not have a problem using them in most cases. Besides they are 8bit 11khz, games these days are expected to have higher quality.
2. The levels with commercial Abuse (4+) are not public domain. We did not make them public domain because some stores are still selling the game."
fyi
(heh, heh..)
Jokes aside, though:
"Crack was a game company started in 1995 by Dave Taylor and Jonathan Clark. Taylor was working at id Software and had co-authored Doom and Quake. Clark was fresh out of college, burning to start his own game company and had already written a smooth, capable 2D scroller engine. The engine became Abuse, a 2D scroller still unique to this day for supporting a 360-degree aiming mechanism, a built-in editor, real-time lighting, a LISP interpreter, and portability to several platforms, including DOS, MacOS, Linux, Irix, BeOS, and others."
from crack.com
That sounds pretty useful
Wine will expand Linux-use customer base.
1) More ppl begin to use Linux because they can use familiar apps on it.
2) Once familiar with Linux, large scale software-buyers get Linux software, phasing out emulated software
3) People have Windoze-blinders on. emulation the best way to gradually remove the blinders through retraining
Wine API
Designed for source compatibility with Win32 code
Sample programs
Automatically generated API documentation
32-bit resource compiler
Partial Unicode and support
Internationalization -- Wine supports 16 languages
Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages
How many Linux packages will you be able to get this with?
What about Windoze ME, etc.
What I need to run a Windozeless office and still be able to publish a web-zine, etc.
The first person I ever saw with one of these things was Dr. Michel Marriot, the Circuits editor of the New York Times.
For an interview, I want something nice and stable that I can set up quickly, to speed up my note-taking power without necessarily having to hide behind a big laptop, which is bad for my interview style.
I either need a nice stable wide collapsible keyboard or a voice software/microphone set up that can distinguish 2 or more voices speaking quickly in a crowded room AND transcribe them accurately...
(yeah, right..)
Thanks for the reference to one of my favorite movies. It's a surreal epic and at over 2.5 hours should show the dune folks how to get a complex story on film. (William Hurt is also in this BTW) It combines apocalyptic stuff, technology, drama and intense characterization.
"FBI attorney: The suspect uses something called PGP, which prevents us from viewing his email and, combined with other evidence we have gathered while surveiling him, constitutes probable cause that he is using his computer for legal activity."
:)
should read IL-legal activity, of course.
The SCARIEST part of the whole thing is:
FBI attorney: The suspect uses something called PGP, which prevents us from viewing his email and, combined with other evidence we have gathered while surveiling him, constitutes probable cause that he is using his computer for legal activity.
Judge: Okay, go get 'im.
Software does not equal intent. Not with PGP, not with Napster, etc.
For starters, IANAL. All paragraphs in quotes are taken from the Inquirer piece
"A wiretap or room bug also would have required authorization from the Attorney General's Office as well as court approval, defense lawyers say. And it would have required investigators to "minimize" - not record or listen to - conversations unrelated to the focus of the investigation."
The FBI, as discussed in Carnivore controversy, often ignores possible precedent laws (in this case woretap) when there is a new technology. If the previous law's spirit remains true, the FBI violates the law by having a record of all conversations. Depending on what the computer is used for, they may be violating the privacy of customers and family members, so the good evidence they gather may be inadmissible in court if the previous laws are proven to hold even partially true.
"The application for the authorization, submitted by Wigler, contended that as "there will be no wire, oral or electronic communications captured," federal wiretap laws did not apply."
Bullshit. The keystroke capturer is in the computer and the stuff is remotely downloaded to an FBI computer at a later time. Of course the original record lies in the keystroke capturer, but the copy or mirror is just as implicating.
The court order, however, did authorize the FBI to "install and leave behind software, firmware, and/or hardware equipment which will monitor the inputted data entered on Nicodemo S. Scarfo's computer by recording the key-related information as they are entered."
If THIS decision is held up, it will place different freedom levels on "speech" and "data," in which data will be considered open and available to any search and unprotected by freedom of speech or privacy laws.
"Typically, information from the device would be downloaded from a remote location, he said, and the downloading process could take seconds to minutes. The result would be a "mirror" of whatever was tapped into the keyboard."
Let's say the mobster discovers the downloading process and shuts off his machine. Do a team of FBI agents pound his door open at that point?
Um:
The Market. Is. Supposed. To. Reward. Cheapness. and. Innovation.
This does not. Regulations like this hamper efficiency.
and these people call themselves liberals?
These of course speculative, for the time when we learn enough cell biology to control the cells...
1) Organ regeneration or complete creation of new organ, and with the marrow stem cells here we can use the exact DNA of the patient instead of a close match from a donor, or a close match from fetal stem cells.
2) Muscle, skin, bone, etc. regeneration as a part of therapy for burn patients and other disorders
3) Increase of lung capacity, growth rate, blood vessel development in young children
4) Regeneration of cells/replacement of cells damaged in cryopreservation
Blade, you are usually one of my favorite trolls but this here actually PREVENTS the pig organs. :)
It prevents a reliance on other ethically problematic methods of obtaining the cells, e.g. fetus-harvesting for stem cells, too. A marrow transplant from an adult will provide stem cells!
I support the use of fetal tissue in research and therapy, but am glad to see an option for treating those who do not wish to use this tissue.
I am wondering about a comparison for stem-cell yield between the marrow and fetal tissue. I am also wondering whether or not one can use marrow harvested from cadavers/organ donors for stem cell harvesting.
I went to see this as a great fan of both M. Night Shmalayan and comic books. Unfortunately, neither rapacious fan-desire was satisfied. Here's why:
1) Shmalayan, who gave us one of the best surprise endings in the last 25 years in The Sixth Sense, tried to do the same thing here but all it is, is a cornball cliche and a let-down. There are a bazillion tricks in 6th that give you a tantalizing clue about what the ending is going to be. Here in Unbreakable the ending comes as a surprise of the corny species, totally separated from the narrative cast of the film. It only works if, as mentioned above, we are being cliff-hung towards a trilogy.
2) The only really comic-booky scenes in the movie are when Elijah tracks the gun-toting football fan down and when Daniel stalks down the Maintenance Man. Here there is not a bringing down of the supernatural to the real, simply a banalization of it.
3) Jon, what do you consider Hitchcockian here? I am thinking of perhaps the scene where Elijah navigates the stairs. But we are being led on, not howling at the screen for Elijah to stop as we would in a Hitchcock film. Elijah himself knows, furthermore, that he's gonna be busted up here.
4) Oh my word, what lousy dialogue. The dialogue in 6th was realistic, especially the patient/psychiatrist sessions.
5) all in all a case of Second Film by Brilliant Writer-Director syndrome.
6) p.s. the drug dealer in the football stadium is M. Night Shmalayan, FYI
I started out with stuff like Zelda on NES and Kings' Quest on my AppleIIGS.
Many woman gamers like point and shoot. I don't have the hand eye coordination for it.
1) Software is software. If I am a computer company developing a new machine, it might make sense for me to form an alliance with one particular version of the Linux OS. BUT:
2) Does it make sense here?? It remains to be seen whether or not this decision's profitable to IBM. What does it gain by supporting a relatively limited array of operating systems. It's not like IBM has any control over who develops, say, OpenLinux software for use on the thinkpad. Will it be forming some kind of partnership with these developers?
3) Who will be using the ThinkPad? They seem to be almost wholly devoted to Windoze. Perhaps more advanced users will steer clear of the Pad...
and can tell you very well that the brain does adapt to cope with limitations. This proves plasticity up to the "accepted" human limit but not necessarily beyond that limit.
This adaptation often includes finer perceptions developed in other sensory areas; Zane is an audiophile, a musician, and a radio journalist, and sets the levels in the recording studio with little assistance from dial and LED-reading friends.
The question is -- and I will put this to Zane, too -- could someone learn to use prosthetic augmentations -- "Bionic Eyes," robotic prostheses that require a higher reaction time than normally found in humans -- if trained at an early age in a way that encourages neurological adaptation?
I do hope it truly is hackable. i think this is a wonderful idea especially for RPGers like myself who can write new plots, characters, monsters, dungeons..
is a link to the ZD revue of the Biz version.
meow
Diffs between this and Google, for instance, abound. Central is the fact that it's not limited to urls.
"Version 1.0 of WebQL uses a wizard to simplify writing queries, but only users with SQL experience will be able to create useful queries. (Ordinary-language queries will be supported in future versions.) The wizard lets you select whether to return text, URLS, table rows or columns, or any combination thereof. You can then specify to search for text, regular expressions, or table cells, and you can add refinements such as case sensitivity and the number of matches returned per page."
I will buy this when it supports ordinary language queries.
Through its access to directories will this thing allow you to bypass registrations on all sites? Pay sites?
How about an image search? (Since people don't name their files informatively all the time..)
Not. Every. Computer. Need. Be. Connected. To. The. Internet.
One way the digital method is cheaper for movie theaters is no need to ship and protect fragile movie reels. Another way is you, theater owner, can download whatever movie you want on the spot. This promotes choice but is unsafe for reasons mentioned above.
So you need an independent way to verify the film that's NOT a watermark. This calls for a human bean, who can travel around and 1) download your movies for you with some proprietary software or hardware or, 2) verify the copies you have downloaded. This is also a good way to insure payment of distributors and producers in the digital method.
Once the download is verified, put it on a LAN! You can still mess with Jar Jar, but it will require the active cooperation of theater staff. This is possible with film reels, which can be spliced to include split second shots of pr0n, or whatever (see: Fight Club )
>This said, most movie theaters, even those with the expensive tix, make most of their movies through concession stand sales.
should read.. "make most of their MONEY.."
I love watching techno-laden art house flix online. But what about the hope that digital film production could open up choice at theaters?
What costs lots of money, upfront, for a movie theater is the ability to pay distros for expensive first run movies. Hence you have the second run movie theater with the $1-$1.50 ticket.
This said, most movie theaters, even those with the expensive tix, make most of their movies through concession stand sales.
So, my hope is that digital filmmaking becomes enough of a popular activity that movie theaters can buy the digital films at low prices. This would allow for many more movie theaters specializing in genre showings, art movies, etc. Even those movie theaters which show major distro stuff could round out their stables with GOOD digital movies instead of B-movies as they do now.
For this to work, the digital producers need to get together and distro on a national scale, reaching out to indie and general movie theaters at cut-rate prices.
Just a note- the Independent Media Centers - my favorite thing to plug on slashdot - is an example of how digital video has already lowered the cost of news authored by multiple sources.
This thing should work due to the combination of multiple spam-evasion techniques. Spamming is like recycling cans or telemarketing in that the profit margine is very narrow, and the tiniest variables can upset that margin.
Spammers designed ways of gleaning email addresses from websurfers in order to avoid having to pay for verified email addresses; without a way of verifying the addresses they collect, spammers will have to switch back to paid lists gained from registrations, etc.
In this case, the need for verification will create that extra step for spammers, making it cheaper not to use the lists at all. Is anyone aware of a cheap and easy way, other than just emailing the person, to verify a valid yet false address?
The only way I can think of for spammers to evade Sugarplum would be the establishment of intermediate businesses to vet email lists gathered by spammers.
Shame on you for yelling at Taco here. People are not understanding what the implications of the patent thing is and so Taco puts up an informational link about it.
Poo on you all. I adore it when the editorial staff does stuff like this which will encourage folks to get off their tushies and do something about something. There are thousands of people on here, many of whom should be taken seriously... this combo here integrate analysis, data, and a way to do action.