Microsoft has a browser Ml app GUI that is useful and slick. Makes it easy to try many different approaches and get a feel for munging your own data quickly. Find a free trial as part of azure and or Cortana analyics
I have long believed that when Elon musk was planning his Tesla projects; the electric car and the power wall storage systems he must have faced a critical go no-go decision. At the time lithium batteries were not great but he must have decided they were good enough and bet that improvements would make them better. as his Giga battery factory in nevada comes online that bet is paying off big time. Not only will the cars range be increased but the faster charging rates will make stopping for lunch a pleasant way to charge up while taking a break from freeway cruising. He is a great engineer and has a subtle sense of humor.wsn't he cute to namehis technology companies based on DC after history's most famous proponent of AC?
With a thick atmosphere and oceans and wide open plains everywhere there is little engineering justification to landing a rocket when you can simply pop a parachute.
But Mars has a thin atmosphere and you need a working rocket to come home. Are the fins a lattice to simulate mar's thin air?
Used to be on conference calls to close a deal and could scribble with one hand on a yellow legal pad and work the N, PMT, I, PV, FV buttons with my other thumb. Still emulated on the IPad (and sold by HP)... In it's realm nothing better came along after. Do you miss the good old days?
John McCarthy, who coined the term Artificial Intelligence, once said:
"We sent a grant proposal to ARPA a while ago. We proposed to build an AI Robot system that could read the instructions and assemble a Heathkit radio. We estimated the project would take 18 months and cost $87,000."
Everyone sitting in the Stanford AI class laughed.
"It always seems we're just 18 months and $87,000 away from everything in AI..." John concluded.
Panspermia is the theory that life is ubiquitous and travels from planet to planet and star to star. Less unlikely than it seems. For example, dormant spores trapped in salt crystals 25 million years old rejuvenated themselves when released. Life is hardy.
Which of three theories seems on the right side of Occam's Razor:
That life is unique to Earth (where it is all DNA/RNA based)?
That life originates in novel non-DNA based ways independently on each planet?
or that DNA-based life is mobile, seeds planets from above, and then evolves to suit each new environment?
(Wait, I think that could be a Slahdot poll...)
I believe we will find the same is true for life in the the seas of Europa, and elsewhere, too.
Dreaded Microsoft has SQL Server packages including SQL Server, SSIS ETL tools, SSAS OLAP and SSRS Reporting with licenses starting well under $2,000. Much better than Oracle's cobbled-together BI at a fraction of the price.
Hold your disgust and consider this fully functional, enterprise quality BI suite. Good support and good community, too.
Service workers are the only group with a chance to defend their unions. (but watch out for those proposed McDonalds robo-flippers) Nurses, teachers, fireman, DMV workers, etc can't be offshored.
But imagine the uproar if DMV and other government backshop workers were offshored to India. Your taxes processed in Bangalore. LOL (or not)
... In East San Jose.
The night before the humble owner of the place had bought a ticket on his own Ca Lottery machine.
He won $34 million.
The VCs each say "Take my deal. Here's millions of dollars... You're our guy... Your're EXPERIENCED!"
Labor is a trivial cost and screwups and delays can kill productiviity.
On a related note: Wouldn't you be happy to pay $5 more for an Apple product assembled in Detroit or anywhere else US engineers and workers are competing with the world?
I work for a clean-tech company that generates and reuses the ultra-pure water wet lines need for the manufacture of semiconductors, solar, disk drives and other high tech items. As importantly, not only the water is recycled, but as an integral part of our patented processes, production chemicals are recycled,and never leave the four walls of the fab.
Fabs can use more than one thousand gallons of water per MINUTE. Water resources are growing scarce and have become a major constraint on available sites for new plants. Even worse, the toxic chemicals that get discharged can screw up everything for people downstream..
The irony is our point of use solutions can reduce costs compared to conventional technologies by 70%. We are growing fast, but the word needs to get out that there are better, more ethical ways, to produce the high tech goodies we all enjoy.
Aspirin may be grouped with other NSAIDS, but it is drug unto itself. Like many people I can take aspirin by the fistful if I need pain relief. I always take some everyday like a vitamin.
Things to note...
Aspirin does not harm the liver like acetaminophen
The studies we are all discussing here show that individuals adjust to aspirin and develop a tolerance to any stomach/bleeding effects.
Tylenol has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to convince folks that their NSAID ( which is the #1 cause of liver failure in the US) is superior to good old generic aspirin. Without ever demonstrating that Tylenol ( or other NSAIDS for that matter) have all of aspirin's benefits.
Best of luck in your recovery,
Years ago, when I was a headhunter, I proposed a newly retired Marine Captain for a Lotus Notes assignment. I got a lot of pushback from both our client rep and the client simply because he was a vet.
I told them to actually read his resume. He'd implemented Notes across the entire Marine Corp.
They gave in and he excelled.
The military is bigger than corporation. And some men and woman who've served are the best.
It's very difficult to intuit the right gesture if the screen response is slow. Which one worked?
The iPod app always gets me double clicking, triple clicking, and swiping furioulsy at the album cover when a song is playing because I can't tell what's right to get it to flip. I'm sure everyone else in the world "knows" the rightngesture. How did the learn?
Does anyone know of a source of "standard" gestures for OS4 apps?
No ads = less diverse content. There will be unintended consequences. If one person blocks ads then they're just a free-rider. If everyone does, the web will really suck.
Sure, some sweet folks will continue to post hobby sites, just as in the golden days of yore. And non-profits will publish. And big corporate sales and propaganda sites. And the Government and lobbyists. (BTW: They're all selling you something, aren't they?) But most of what makes the web diverse and useful and free today will die if advertising is eliminated. You don't have to click, just like you don't have to listen or look at ads in conventional free media.
I'm sure that is seen as a victory for some, but not me. Almost all the cool, independent sites will wither. Maybe a few rich kids can keep BoingBoing alive, but...
What may happen is what I would do with my ad supported but still public-serving sites. Block the ads that enable me to give you content: No access to the site.
You'll never know what you're missing.
My ancestor Dr JW Carhart is often credited with building and using the first automobile in Wisconsin in 1871. He actually used his 1,100 pound horseless buggy as a circuit-riding Methodist minister (he was also a medical doctor and physics professor). Some claim he won a $10,000 priize in the first organized steam powered race in 1878. His two cylindered coal fired "Car" covered 201 miles in a loop, starting and returning to Green Bay in 33 hours 27 minutes: exactly 6 smoking miles per hour.
Murdoch may be the Devil, but the Devil has the resources to tempt us. The Daily's content and supposed politics may not be to everyone's taste and yet the app itself is something new in at least three ways:
It is probably the most beautifully designed and executed digital media ever - check out that full page picture of the cute little ground hog with the cutting edge headline font and text overlaid. (...and not an ad in site!)
It makes use of the iPad's advantages over Web 2.0. Maybe HTML5 et al will catch up, but can you point out any web content that swirls and zooms a picture of today's snow storm cover story when you open the front page? (BTW this failed earlier today and was fixed by a pushed download). And until you have a tablet, I don't think you appreciate how enjoyable high res video is to hold in your hand. And if you don't want to see content, just flick your thumb and up comes another page - just like a magazine - no mousing required.
The groundbreaking micro payment recurring subscription model may actually become the new norm for big sites. 99 cents a week, 29 cents, 19 cents: some price will work for real content creators, won it? This is big. Watch a lot of publishers follow the model.
Finally, try to resist the urge to criticize something based on it's source. I'm writing this on an iPad after two days of reading The Daily. Don't knee-jerk hate me, either. The Daily may be the first of a slew of beautiful new bright shiny objects (this one from the Devil, in many's opinion... LOL).
But I'm willing to admit I'm jealous. I want the template app for my websites!
The article incorrectly claims Apple takes half the revenue. I believe this new recurring micropayment model (maybe the most innovative feature of The Daily) will become popular with other iPad magazine apps like the Economist, Time etc... This new subscription model, so hated by free as in beer folks, is the real news. iPad's are meant to be consumer devices, and we may see that consumers embrace this new approach even if the hard core tech community does not.
So, many think Murdoch is the Devil. Clearly he can pay some talented developers and designers. (Journalists, too, but I want avoid politics for this post.)
I downloaded the app and liked some features:
It's pretty and doesn't look like a website, or the NYTimes black and white no pictures (mostly) app.
It's effortless to skim through. Just flick your thumb on the screen. Like you thumb through a magazine in your dentist's waiting room.
Ads are easy to skip, (full pages) just flick past them, and content pages don't look like patchwork quilts of doubleclick drop ins.
Easy to trigger streaming video ads, like the full page (HD-ish) trailer for "Rio" are more than print will ever deliver, and since you opt-in by hitting play if you are interested, they are big plus.
I'm incorporating Daily's new full page, no menu bars, etc, zeitgeist, into a conventional site I'm working on today. The design approaches being a new paradigm for web design so I'm trying to learn and copy as much as I can.
I think Daily's weakest at knowing where you are and returning there, though the progress bar - a surrogate for the thickness of real pages helps. And searching. Maybe I just haven't seen it. The slide spinner is so-so for this...
Finally: 99 cents a week (or whatever, as a recurring micropayment subscription) is something I might want to see some worthy but struggling clients try...
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft has a browser Ml app GUI that is useful and slick. Makes it easy to try many different approaches and get a feel for munging your own data quickly. Find a free trial as part of azure and or Cortana analyics
I have long believed that when Elon musk was planning his Tesla projects; the electric car and the power wall storage systems he must have faced a critical go no-go decision. At the time lithium batteries were not great but he must have decided they were good enough and bet that improvements would make them better. as his Giga battery factory in nevada comes online that bet is paying off big time. Not only will the cars range be increased but the faster charging rates will make stopping for lunch a pleasant way to charge up while taking a break from freeway cruising. He is a great engineer and has a subtle sense of humor.wsn't he cute to namehis technology companies based on DC after history's most famous proponent of AC?
Interesting reply. Thinking about the economics. Gotta love Elon's Elan in any event...
Good to know about the fins... It was just a guess.
I don't see why parachutes are inevitably destructive for Earth re entry however... Dragon design aside ...
With a thick atmosphere and oceans and wide open plains everywhere there is little engineering justification to landing a rocket when you can simply pop a parachute.
But Mars has a thin atmosphere and you need a working rocket to come home. Are the fins a lattice to simulate mar's thin air?
Elon is nothing if not forward looking...
Used to be on conference calls to close a deal and could scribble with one hand on a yellow legal pad and work the N, PMT, I, PV, FV buttons with my other thumb. Still emulated on the IPad (and sold by HP)... In it's realm nothing better came along after. Do you miss the good old days?
Particularly after what we did to Saddam's folks with IT equipment in the first Gulf War...
John McCarthy, who coined the term Artificial Intelligence, once said:
"We sent a grant proposal to ARPA a while ago. We proposed to build an AI Robot system that could read the instructions and assemble a Heathkit radio. We estimated the project would take 18 months and cost $87,000."
Everyone sitting in the Stanford AI class laughed.
"It always seems we're just 18 months and $87,000 away from everything in AI..." John concluded.
The year was 1975...
Panspermia is the theory that life is ubiquitous and travels from planet to planet and star to star. Less unlikely than it seems. For example, dormant spores trapped in salt crystals 25 million years old rejuvenated themselves when released. Life is hardy.
Which of three theories seems on the right side of Occam's Razor:
That life is unique to Earth (where it is all DNA/RNA based)?
That life originates in novel non-DNA based ways independently on each planet?
or that DNA-based life is mobile, seeds planets from above, and then evolves to suit each new environment?
(Wait, I think that could be a Slahdot poll...)
I believe we will find the same is true for life in the the seas of Europa, and elsewhere, too.
Dreaded Microsoft has SQL Server packages including SQL Server, SSIS ETL tools, SSAS OLAP and SSRS Reporting with licenses starting well under $2,000. Much better than Oracle's cobbled-together BI at a fraction of the price.
Hold your disgust and consider this fully functional, enterprise quality BI suite. Good support and good community, too.
... you can automate it.
Service workers are the only group with a chance to defend their unions. (but watch out for those proposed McDonalds robo-flippers) Nurses, teachers, fireman, DMV workers, etc can't be offshored.
But imagine the uproar if DMV and other government backshop workers were offshored to India. Your taxes processed in Bangalore. LOL (or not)
... In East San Jose. The night before the humble owner of the place had bought a ticket on his own Ca Lottery machine. He won $34 million. The VCs each say "Take my deal. Here's millions of dollars... You're our guy... Your're EXPERIENCED!"
Labor is a trivial cost and screwups and delays can kill productiviity. On a related note: Wouldn't you be happy to pay $5 more for an Apple product assembled in Detroit or anywhere else US engineers and workers are competing with the world?
I work for a clean-tech company that generates and reuses the ultra-pure water wet lines need for the manufacture of semiconductors, solar, disk drives and other high tech items. As importantly, not only the water is recycled, but as an integral part of our patented processes, production chemicals are recycled,and never leave the four walls of the fab. Fabs can use more than one thousand gallons of water per MINUTE. Water resources are growing scarce and have become a major constraint on available sites for new plants. Even worse, the toxic chemicals that get discharged can screw up everything for people downstream.. The irony is our point of use solutions can reduce costs compared to conventional technologies by 70%. We are growing fast, but the word needs to get out that there are better, more ethical ways, to produce the high tech goodies we all enjoy.
Aspirin may be grouped with other NSAIDS, but it is drug unto itself. Like many people I can take aspirin by the fistful if I need pain relief. I always take some everyday like a vitamin. Things to note... Aspirin does not harm the liver like acetaminophen The studies we are all discussing here show that individuals adjust to aspirin and develop a tolerance to any stomach/bleeding effects. Tylenol has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to convince folks that their NSAID ( which is the #1 cause of liver failure in the US) is superior to good old generic aspirin. Without ever demonstrating that Tylenol ( or other NSAIDS for that matter) have all of aspirin's benefits. Best of luck in your recovery,
The mechanism, at least for colon cancer is known. Aspirin is COX 2 inhibitor. Colon and other cancers have COX 2 receptors on their cell walls. See details at: http://modernrecovery.com/news/7-latest/11-aspirin-reduces-colon-cancer.html
Years ago, when I was a headhunter, I proposed a newly retired Marine Captain for a Lotus Notes assignment. I got a lot of pushback from both our client rep and the client simply because he was a vet. I told them to actually read his resume. He'd implemented Notes across the entire Marine Corp. They gave in and he excelled. The military is bigger than corporation. And some men and woman who've served are the best.
It's very difficult to intuit the right gesture if the screen response is slow. Which one worked? The iPod app always gets me double clicking, triple clicking, and swiping furioulsy at the album cover when a song is playing because I can't tell what's right to get it to flip. I'm sure everyone else in the world "knows" the rightngesture. How did the learn? Does anyone know of a source of "standard" gestures for OS4 apps?
No ads = less diverse content. There will be unintended consequences. If one person blocks ads then they're just a free-rider. If everyone does, the web will really suck. Sure, some sweet folks will continue to post hobby sites, just as in the golden days of yore. And non-profits will publish. And big corporate sales and propaganda sites. And the Government and lobbyists. (BTW: They're all selling you something, aren't they?) But most of what makes the web diverse and useful and free today will die if advertising is eliminated. You don't have to click, just like you don't have to listen or look at ads in conventional free media. I'm sure that is seen as a victory for some, but not me. Almost all the cool, independent sites will wither. Maybe a few rich kids can keep BoingBoing alive, but... What may happen is what I would do with my ad supported but still public-serving sites. Block the ads that enable me to give you content: No access to the site. You'll never know what you're missing.
My ancestor Dr JW Carhart is often credited with building and using the first automobile in Wisconsin in 1871. He actually used his 1,100 pound horseless buggy as a circuit-riding Methodist minister (he was also a medical doctor and physics professor). Some claim he won a $10,000 priize in the first organized steam powered race in 1878. His two cylindered coal fired "Car" covered 201 miles in a loop, starting and returning to Green Bay in 33 hours 27 minutes: exactly 6 smoking miles per hour.
If you've looked at the app, and think you can come even close to copying it quickly with a small team then contact me.
A CMS template app that approximates the Daily would be a winner...
Murdoch may be the Devil, but the Devil has the resources to tempt us. The Daily's content and supposed politics may not be to everyone's taste and yet the app itself is something new in at least three ways:
It is probably the most beautifully designed and executed digital media ever - check out that full page picture of the cute little ground hog with the cutting edge headline font and text overlaid. (...and not an ad in site!)
It makes use of the iPad's advantages over Web 2.0. Maybe HTML5 et al will catch up, but can you point out any web content that swirls and zooms a picture of today's snow storm cover story when you open the front page? (BTW this failed earlier today and was fixed by a pushed download). And until you have a tablet, I don't think you appreciate how enjoyable high res video is to hold in your hand. And if you don't want to see content, just flick your thumb and up comes another page - just like a magazine - no mousing required.
The groundbreaking micro payment recurring subscription model may actually become the new norm for big sites. 99 cents a week, 29 cents, 19 cents: some price will work for real content creators, won it? This is big. Watch a lot of publishers follow the model.
Finally, try to resist the urge to criticize something based on it's source. I'm writing this on an iPad after two days of reading The Daily. Don't knee-jerk hate me, either. The Daily may be the first of a slew of beautiful new bright shiny objects (this one from the Devil, in many's opinion... LOL).
But I'm willing to admit I'm jealous. I want the template app for my websites!
The article incorrectly claims Apple takes half the revenue. I believe this new recurring micropayment model (maybe the most innovative feature of The Daily) will become popular with other iPad magazine apps like the Economist, Time etc... This new subscription model, so hated by free as in beer folks, is the real news. iPad's are meant to be consumer devices, and we may see that consumers embrace this new approach even if the hard core tech community does not.
Go to the app store...
I like tablets. I own an iPad and develop for it.
So, many think Murdoch is the Devil. Clearly he can pay some talented developers and designers. (Journalists, too, but I want avoid politics for this post.)
I downloaded the app and liked some features:
It's pretty and doesn't look like a website, or the NYTimes black and white no pictures (mostly) app.
It's effortless to skim through. Just flick your thumb on the screen. Like you thumb through a magazine in your dentist's waiting room.
Ads are easy to skip, (full pages) just flick past them, and content pages don't look like patchwork quilts of doubleclick drop ins.
Easy to trigger streaming video ads, like the full page (HD-ish) trailer for "Rio" are more than print will ever deliver, and since you opt-in by hitting play if you are interested, they are big plus.
I'm incorporating Daily's new full page, no menu bars, etc, zeitgeist, into a conventional site I'm working on today. The design approaches being a new paradigm for web design so I'm trying to learn and copy as much as I can.
I think Daily's weakest at knowing where you are and returning there, though the progress bar - a surrogate for the thickness of real pages helps. And searching. Maybe I just haven't seen it. The slide spinner is so-so for this...
Finally: 99 cents a week (or whatever, as a recurring micropayment subscription) is something I might want to see some worthy but struggling clients try...