Woever wants to have a decent remote acces...
Face it OSX is nice, but it is lousy if you want to have remote access...
There is VNC, which is a pain, there is Timbuktu or the Apple remote thingy, both highly expensive. On the Linux side you have FreeNX which is excellent.
Those who want to have never versions of the favorite Linux tools, newer than 2000 I mean, both Fink and Darwinports lack new version of many programs, and they lack many programs generally.
Is nothing more than statistical likelyness...
same things were done in various fuzzy algorithms in the past.
So what you do is to feed input in and get a likelyness of something.
The problem is likelyness only works in an endless domain, you feed something in and you get a likelyness which is true to 100% over endless seeds during an endless period of time.
A snapshot back in time always will give a significant number of false positives or negatives.
The main problem is, that if you apply those methods to concrete problems which are correlated to randomness and try to earn money from it you usally end up loosing a lot of money. People tried that in the past with gambling and trying to apply statistical methods into it and failed and from what I can see here, you end up with a fuzzy chip and likelyhood in hardware and you will get the same results in stock brockerage as you already are getting by applying current methods onto the same problems of psychology, basically garbage.
But the chips are interesting however, for all fields where you really need some kind of fuzzyfication problem (which is alsmost everywhere where you know how to apply that stuff in a serious manner of trying to predict something on a statistical base), but it definitely is not the golden goose which suddenly gives you the total control over stocks. The whole stock brokerage thing reminds me on the middle ages where scientists tried to gather funds by promising to turn lead into gold while working on their own things.
It is coming along quite nicely... recently basic synchronize features were introduced, and the JavaSVN layer improves on a rapid pace (using it to avoid JavaHL).
The installation thanks to a new update site by Alex Kiatev of the JavaSVN Layer is a breeze now, just point eclipse to it and watch getting it installed.
But yes... the plugin has bugs, but there is only a handful of maintainers and getting everything to work correctly is a huge task (the devs definitely need a helping hand to get the rest of the functions in and improve performance, which is a drag once the project gets bigger... *IBM anyone?*
Regarding slow lines SVN definitely is better than CVS because it only transmits the diffs, however expect the performance to go down once you have to deal with lots of small files.
(Too much overhead on the client side which has to parse a handful of files per local file)
But I rather doubt you will in any circumstance reach the performance of Perforce, and that is a good thing. (Would hate to see them go belly up, good company, with a good product)
You can forget file revisions (which svn does also) if you do major refactoring, or renaming, which happens quite a lot on non C/C++ languages.
But SVN is not the ultimate tool, there are many problems which have to be tackled.
Id dumps myriads of files onto your hd, which is not a problem for smaller stuff, but give it a project with thousands of files and watch the harddisk doing itself not a favor, thanks to the client side stuff it has to do.
It basically dumps every file onto your hd twice
SVN still has bugs, it is solid, but for instance I got the message CRC check failed more than once and then refusing a checkin on me.
No distributed version control, there is SVK but that is not finished yet.
The biggest problem are the myriads of files it generates on the client, you really can watch the performance go own once you hit a critical point on your filesystem (which happens quite often in a java project)
watch the disk doing thrashing for five minutes on the fastest machine you can get before doing a simple submit on a handful of files.
Depending on your filesystem and fragmentation grade worse or better.
I would not call this a cutting edge feature, it has way to many problems.
The X protocol is to low level to do that stuff correctly, thus X has bandwidth and serious latency problems.
Stuff like NX tries to overcome that by proxying the protocol and trying to translate it into something more high level.
But in the end we will need really something more high level like a networked display PDF (networked Cairo?) to overcome the burdens of having to send thousands of commands over the net just to draw a single letter on the screen.
The funny thing is, that Canon is the perfect example of a Company with compared to the competition fair ink prices which tries to excel over printer quality.
And so far the focus of buyers in the inkjet market seems to shift severly towards Canon.
Canon ink still is somewhat expensive and most of their printers are somewhat more expensive than HP and Co.
But Canon never has played stupid tricks with the ink so far, leaving people the choice to go for the cheapos, they have fair prices for their own ink compared to the competition and their printers are simply excellent.
People move away from other manufacturers towards Canon left and right, and so far it seems to pay off, the Canon printer division had a huge earnings increase. All just caused by being fair.
If I read the news that HP tries to put region codes on their ink carts... this just gives me a chuckle, HP over here inkjetwise is a slowly dying brand (with the old models being put into the trash over the next year) and people running away left and right, and yet they still look for new ways to increase the ink prices more and more and keep the compeition out.
The region codes might be the final long term death nail to the HP inkjet printer division.
If it is not the EU directive which will become active around 2007 which explicetly will enforce single ink and refilling of inkjet printers.
Well the problem is, there are many CEOs out there, who have high egos and a strong will to enrich themselves upon the cost of the common.
But that does not mean that a woman per se is a lousy or a good leader, from the few women who were there in the past there were excellent examples of really good leaders.
(Quuen Victoria, Maria Theresia of Austria etc...)
and the worst example of leaders, like Maria Theresias daughter Marie Antoinette.
It all come down to the principles of what you named.
But speaking of Carly, she seemed if I look from the outside and given the comments there more of a woman who has lost scope of what the job is than of a leader person. Sort of like Marie Antoinette, who in 1789 did not have any clue about real life, living in her luxury cage. But those things are rather gender neutral and only manifest themselves differently.
The problem is, that most CEOs grow up with a golden spoon, have not attachment to a company whatsover would not even think a single thought about sitting down with one of the workers from time to time, talk about their problems. They see themselves more like the leaders and the rest is exchangable human resources. With an attitude like that you usually run a company into the ground.
But they are more like a swarm of insects putting themselves into important positions repeating the cycle again and again. Instead of thinking themselves being important community servants with a high risk well paid position.
Needless to say, that this kind of person does not have any sens of social responsibility whatsover (probably never had the chance to develop one)
Also a main problem is, is how business is portraied by the media, somebody already posted that those persons are business chique managers, blowing thin air and getting money in being important. Face it, that is exactly how business is portrayed by the modern media, and you dont have to wonder how more and more of those business chique people get into important positions screwing anything up (over here in Europe the base entry point for those persons seem to have become human resources by replacing old HR managers who knew what the company needs, with freshly hired 23 year olds who are more important than having substance).
As long as those persons constantly are hammered in, during grow up, that business is chique and not hard work (which in fact it really is if you are good and really want to bring a company up and work for the people there) and you rule instead of serve we dont have to wonder that CEOs like the recent example are getting more and more into such positions instead of people who really serve a company and its people.
A good leader always has to see himself as a servant not as a leader, no matter which area of life.
Actually every other division was run down by the strategies of HP the last few years.
The problem is that people currently seem to run away from HP printerwise (most of the to Canon)
HP simply exaggerated with their ink prices too much.
(In germany they used to be #1 now they are probably in the same league as Lexmark with market share in inkjets, same goes for laser printers)
Actually it does not take the W3C ages, CSS2 and HTML4.01 habe been approved 6 years ago, and yet Microsoft is still not compliant to those, and slowly they have been working on Xaml which is sort of a xul their own HTML implementation clone while never fixing the bugs in their HTML implementations.
If it wasnt for Firefox the IE team which was disbanded around 99 would never have been gathered again to fix that dreck, no matter how many virii would have used the IE engine as their entrance door.
The problem is that his company is world expert in breaking existing standards to take over, thus sacrificing interoperability.
The list of standards breaking by Microsoft is endless,
Kerberos, HTML, SMB, Corba, LDAP, SMTP you can fill in pretty much every standard in existence which has been broken in the past by Microsoft with bugs which were never fixed or undocumented/NDA blocked features.
Actually that would still work better, see the doc format is an undocumented mess with memory dumps in it, while OpenOffice uses plain clearly readable and well documented XML. Besides that Microsoft constantly altered the doc format to break the revers engineering efforts by the competition, and thus broke constantly its own compatibility between versions.
The bloat is not worse than xlib.... since you can bypass with Cairo xlib and go the OpenGL route optionally and get a huge speed increase.
Cairo will also be in the long term one of the X11 core libs, so the bloat is just in your mind not in Cairo...
No wonder, NeXTStep had to run on 68000 based machines doing everything as vector graphics would have dragged the performance down to a slideshow.
I recently saw the Steve Jobs demo of the next cube, and I was amazed how much performance they could get out of that configuration (which back then was years ahead of everything PC wise, but compared to nowadays a better Amiga)
Actually Cairo was back then vaporware, Bill Gates constantly under the impression of NeXTStep which back then was just released for x86 was talking about an OO based Windows which never saw the light of day. Typical Bill Gates, hold on dont buy that stuff we are working on something similar talk.
That is one of the constant tactics Billy boy uses, to keep a competition away from the Windows territory.
They cannot rewrite the whole OS without breaking anything left and right. So yes even in Longhorn things will root into the core system left and right..Net for at least the next 7-8 years will be a huge thin layer over the Win32 API in many aspects.
I just wonder how the security situation will be fixed ever, given Microsofts money grabbing mentality (currently Billy boy was over here in Europe on a Patents are good Linux is insecure tour) if their newly aquired malware division suddently makes lots of money...
Actually I can even remember a Sun presentation from 1997s Javaone, where they bitched about the inherent problematic insecurity of ActiveX...
Microsoft ignored them although the Sun guys had proven in the past that they knew what they were doing. Why Microsoft never got a severe class action lawsuit on their necks for ActiveX and ignoring every warning of every security expert back then, is beyound me.
I mean this is a case were Microsofts incompetence has caused damage in billions on a worldwide scale.
Or look how they stopped the browser bugfixing and development after Netscape went under, this shoddy dreck is responsible for around 90% of the malware there is currently, and yet Microsoft officalle reenabled the IE division after firefox cost them a sever market share...
(Not having a monopoly anymore is severe enough for them)
So if Microsoft really wanted to put the food into their mouth, stop delivering home windows editions which root the user, really work on security flaws by fixing them instead of having the marketing department making a spin fix,
Remove that absymality IE from the system or at least fix it, and put it out on the net for download again for older systems.
Microsoft is great of marketing spinning, but they are damn awful if it comes down to spend more than a handful of bugs to fix products security wise, if they cannot make any money from them anymore.
In the end I cannot even give the blame to the virus authors, but around 90% of blame belongs to Microsoft. And as I said it is a wonder that they haven't gotten any severe beating for that.
(Not getting newer IE versions out for older Windwos versions, would have been severe enough, and I wonder if they do not breach the antitrust settlements as well)
Their behavior regarding ActiveX disbanding the IE team etc... that should have been fines in billions
I guess you got the point, but the problem is, that most cases nowadays are in need for non linear document layouts and most people misuse word and other linear editors for such layouts without knowing any better.
Frame based layouts.
That is what modern printers are designed for and that is what modern computers can do, but yet most word processing programs still follow the old route, which was feasable until dot matrix printers were phased out and every computer got a gui.
I think it is time to move on and ditch word and other programs (including LaTeX for those cases) in favor of a standardized DTP format, good DTP centric word processing software, and a huge set of freely available templates built upon this infrastructure.
I have a 64 bit machine as a workmachine in my current job... Running 64 bit linux there... there is no advantage there for me as an application developer currently...
You simply currently do not run into the memory boundaries of 32 bit, and the increased number of registers on the Intel side (the PPC since day one always had a high number) is only interesting for people who do assembler stuff (compiler builders, vm programmers, game programmers)
Lets leave Word aside, which is absymal...
but, most people who compare LaTeX to text processors forget, that LaTeX sort of is a templating collection for TeX.
Just like good templates can give you professional results in a good text processor, LaTeX does for TeX.
The problem with Word and OpenOffice (and LaTeX) is that they miss totally the angle of how a modern text processor has to be implemented. Those programs orientate themselves on a typwriter style with a line being the basic formatting element.
In an age of graphical UIs this approach is totally bogus. A modern text processor should be frame based with an adjustable z order and good templates which should give professional results.
Framemaker did, so does KWord and the new Apple program.
A modern text processor should be more like a DTP program than a typing program or an extended typewriter.
The X integration is the main problem....
See, I usually run FreeNX to get remote acces to my homeserver from work, but the home server is loud and sucks energy. But I am constantly connected to it.
The main problem now is, due to noise and energy reasons I want to move to a Mac Mini, but there is no FreeNX on OSX, nor there is any decent remote solution (VNC is not something I would call decent if you have to press it through 512 kbit)
So I either have to dual boot to get the same results and run it mostly in Linux or I have to run a VM which runs Linux and FreeNX inside...
That is a nice theory, fact is that the system has been so much misused in the recent past by passing too many trivial patents that they stiffle innovation.
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Woever wants to have a decent remote acces... Face it OSX is nice, but it is lousy if you want to have remote access... There is VNC, which is a pain, there is Timbuktu or the Apple remote thingy, both highly expensive. On the Linux side you have FreeNX which is excellent. Those who want to have never versions of the favorite Linux tools, newer than 2000 I mean, both Fink and Darwinports lack new version of many programs, and they lack many programs generally.
Is nothing more than statistical likelyness... same things were done in various fuzzy algorithms in the past. So what you do is to feed input in and get a likelyness of something. The problem is likelyness only works in an endless domain, you feed something in and you get a likelyness which is true to 100% over endless seeds during an endless period of time. A snapshot back in time always will give a significant number of false positives or negatives. The main problem is, that if you apply those methods to concrete problems which are correlated to randomness and try to earn money from it you usally end up loosing a lot of money. People tried that in the past with gambling and trying to apply statistical methods into it and failed and from what I can see here, you end up with a fuzzy chip and likelyhood in hardware and you will get the same results in stock brockerage as you already are getting by applying current methods onto the same problems of psychology, basically garbage. But the chips are interesting however, for all fields where you really need some kind of fuzzyfication problem (which is alsmost everywhere where you know how to apply that stuff in a serious manner of trying to predict something on a statistical base), but it definitely is not the golden goose which suddenly gives you the total control over stocks. The whole stock brokerage thing reminds me on the middle ages where scientists tried to gather funds by promising to turn lead into gold while working on their own things.
It is coming along quite nicely... recently basic synchronize features were introduced, and the JavaSVN layer improves on a rapid pace (using it to avoid JavaHL). The installation thanks to a new update site by Alex Kiatev of the JavaSVN Layer is a breeze now, just point eclipse to it and watch getting it installed. But yes... the plugin has bugs, but there is only a handful of maintainers and getting everything to work correctly is a huge task (the devs definitely need a helping hand to get the rest of the functions in and improve performance, which is a drag once the project gets bigger... *IBM anyone?*
Regarding slow lines SVN definitely is better than CVS because it only transmits the diffs, however expect the performance to go down once you have to deal with lots of small files. (Too much overhead on the client side which has to parse a handful of files per local file) But I rather doubt you will in any circumstance reach the performance of Perforce, and that is a good thing. (Would hate to see them go belly up, good company, with a good product)
Well... clearcase is no option in most projects... fact it clearcase is an almost untamable beast.
But SVN is not the ultimate tool, there are many problems which have to be tackled.
Id dumps myriads of files onto your hd, which is not a problem for smaller stuff, but give it a project with thousands of files and watch the harddisk doing itself not a favor, thanks to the client side stuff it has to do.
It basically dumps every file onto your hd twice
SVN still has bugs, it is solid, but for instance I got the message CRC check failed more than once and then refusing a checkin on me.
No distributed version control, there is SVK but that is not finished yet. The biggest problem are the myriads of files it generates on the client, you really can watch the performance go own once you hit a critical point on your filesystem (which happens quite often in a java project) watch the disk doing thrashing for five minutes on the fastest machine you can get before doing a simple submit on a handful of files. Depending on your filesystem and fragmentation grade worse or better.
I would not call this a cutting edge feature, it has way to many problems. The X protocol is to low level to do that stuff correctly, thus X has bandwidth and serious latency problems. Stuff like NX tries to overcome that by proxying the protocol and trying to translate it into something more high level. But in the end we will need really something more high level like a networked display PDF (networked Cairo?) to overcome the burdens of having to send thousands of commands over the net just to draw a single letter on the screen.
The funny thing is, that Canon is the perfect example of a Company with compared to the competition fair ink prices which tries to excel over printer quality. And so far the focus of buyers in the inkjet market seems to shift severly towards Canon. Canon ink still is somewhat expensive and most of their printers are somewhat more expensive than HP and Co.
But Canon never has played stupid tricks with the ink so far, leaving people the choice to go for the cheapos, they have fair prices for their own ink compared to the competition and their printers are simply excellent.
People move away from other manufacturers towards Canon left and right, and so far it seems to pay off, the Canon printer division had a huge earnings increase. All just caused by being fair. If I read the news that HP tries to put region codes on their ink carts... this just gives me a chuckle, HP over here inkjetwise is a slowly dying brand (with the old models being put into the trash over the next year) and people running away left and right, and yet they still look for new ways to increase the ink prices more and more and keep the compeition out.
The region codes might be the final long term death nail to the HP inkjet printer division. If it is not the EU directive which will become active around 2007 which explicetly will enforce single ink and refilling of inkjet printers.
Well the problem is, there are many CEOs out there, who have high egos and a strong will to enrich themselves upon the cost of the common. But that does not mean that a woman per se is a lousy or a good leader, from the few women who were there in the past there were excellent examples of really good leaders. (Quuen Victoria, Maria Theresia of Austria etc...) and the worst example of leaders, like Maria Theresias daughter Marie Antoinette. It all come down to the principles of what you named.
But speaking of Carly, she seemed if I look from the outside and given the comments there more of a woman who has lost scope of what the job is than of a leader person. Sort of like Marie Antoinette, who in 1789 did not have any clue about real life, living in her luxury cage. But those things are rather gender neutral and only manifest themselves differently.
The problem is, that most CEOs grow up with a golden spoon, have not attachment to a company whatsover would not even think a single thought about sitting down with one of the workers from time to time, talk about their problems. They see themselves more like the leaders and the rest is exchangable human resources. With an attitude like that you usually run a company into the ground. But they are more like a swarm of insects putting themselves into important positions repeating the cycle again and again. Instead of thinking themselves being important community servants with a high risk well paid position. Needless to say, that this kind of person does not have any sens of social responsibility whatsover (probably never had the chance to develop one)
Also a main problem is, is how business is portraied by the media, somebody already posted that those persons are business chique managers, blowing thin air and getting money in being important. Face it, that is exactly how business is portrayed by the modern media, and you dont have to wonder how more and more of those business chique people get into important positions screwing anything up (over here in Europe the base entry point for those persons seem to have become human resources by replacing old HR managers who knew what the company needs, with freshly hired 23 year olds who are more important than having substance).
As long as those persons constantly are hammered in, during grow up, that business is chique and not hard work (which in fact it really is if you are good and really want to bring a company up and work for the people there) and you rule instead of serve we dont have to wonder that CEOs like the recent example are getting more and more into such positions instead of people who really serve a company and its people. A good leader always has to see himself as a servant not as a leader, no matter which area of life.
Actually every other division was run down by the strategies of HP the last few years. The problem is that people currently seem to run away from HP printerwise (most of the to Canon) HP simply exaggerated with their ink prices too much. (In germany they used to be #1 now they are probably in the same league as Lexmark with market share in inkjets, same goes for laser printers)
Actually it does not take the W3C ages, CSS2 and HTML4.01 habe been approved 6 years ago, and yet Microsoft is still not compliant to those, and slowly they have been working on Xaml which is sort of a xul their own HTML implementation clone while never fixing the bugs in their HTML implementations. If it wasnt for Firefox the IE team which was disbanded around 99 would never have been gathered again to fix that dreck, no matter how many virii would have used the IE engine as their entrance door.
The problem is that his company is world expert in breaking existing standards to take over, thus sacrificing interoperability. The list of standards breaking by Microsoft is endless, Kerberos, HTML, SMB, Corba, LDAP, SMTP you can fill in pretty much every standard in existence which has been broken in the past by Microsoft with bugs which were never fixed or undocumented/NDA blocked features.
Actually that would still work better, see the doc format is an undocumented mess with memory dumps in it, while OpenOffice uses plain clearly readable and well documented XML. Besides that Microsoft constantly altered the doc format to break the revers engineering efforts by the competition, and thus broke constantly its own compatibility between versions.
Actually Cairo is from the X people to my knowledge... It probably will end up being one of the core libs of X.org in the long term...
The bloat is not worse than xlib .... since you can bypass with Cairo xlib and go the OpenGL route optionally and get a huge speed increase.
Cairo will also be in the long term one of the X11 core libs, so the bloat is just in your mind not in Cairo...
No wonder, NeXTStep had to run on 68000 based machines doing everything as vector graphics would have dragged the performance down to a slideshow. I recently saw the Steve Jobs demo of the next cube, and I was amazed how much performance they could get out of that configuration (which back then was years ahead of everything PC wise, but compared to nowadays a better Amiga)
Actually Cairo was back then vaporware, Bill Gates constantly under the impression of NeXTStep which back then was just released for x86 was talking about an OO based Windows which never saw the light of day. Typical Bill Gates, hold on dont buy that stuff we are working on something similar talk. That is one of the constant tactics Billy boy uses, to keep a competition away from the Windows territory.
They cannot rewrite the whole OS without breaking anything left and right. So yes even in Longhorn things will root into the core system left and right. .Net for at least the next 7-8 years will be a huge thin layer over the Win32 API in many aspects.
I just wonder how the security situation will be fixed ever, given Microsofts money grabbing mentality (currently Billy boy was over here in Europe on a Patents are good Linux is insecure tour) if their newly aquired malware division suddently makes lots of money...
Actually I can even remember a Sun presentation from 1997s Javaone, where they bitched about the inherent problematic insecurity of ActiveX... Microsoft ignored them although the Sun guys had proven in the past that they knew what they were doing. Why Microsoft never got a severe class action lawsuit on their necks for ActiveX and ignoring every warning of every security expert back then, is beyound me.
I mean this is a case were Microsofts incompetence has caused damage in billions on a worldwide scale.
Or look how they stopped the browser bugfixing and development after Netscape went under, this shoddy dreck is responsible for around 90% of the malware there is currently, and yet Microsoft officalle reenabled the IE division after firefox cost them a sever market share... (Not having a monopoly anymore is severe enough for them)
So if Microsoft really wanted to put the food into their mouth, stop delivering home windows editions which root the user, really work on security flaws by fixing them instead of having the marketing department making a spin fix, Remove that absymality IE from the system or at least fix it, and put it out on the net for download again for older systems.
Microsoft is great of marketing spinning, but they are damn awful if it comes down to spend more than a handful of bugs to fix products security wise, if they cannot make any money from them anymore.
In the end I cannot even give the blame to the virus authors, but around 90% of blame belongs to Microsoft. And as I said it is a wonder that they haven't gotten any severe beating for that. (Not getting newer IE versions out for older Windwos versions, would have been severe enough, and I wonder if they do not breach the antitrust settlements as well) Their behavior regarding ActiveX disbanding the IE team etc... that should have been fines in billions
I guess you got the point, but the problem is, that most cases nowadays are in need for non linear document layouts and most people misuse word and other linear editors for such layouts without knowing any better. Frame based layouts. That is what modern printers are designed for and that is what modern computers can do, but yet most word processing programs still follow the old route, which was feasable until dot matrix printers were phased out and every computer got a gui. I think it is time to move on and ditch word and other programs (including LaTeX for those cases) in favor of a standardized DTP format, good DTP centric word processing software, and a huge set of freely available templates built upon this infrastructure.
I have a 64 bit machine as a workmachine in my current job... Running 64 bit linux there... there is no advantage there for me as an application developer currently... You simply currently do not run into the memory boundaries of 32 bit, and the increased number of registers on the Intel side (the PPC since day one always had a high number) is only interesting for people who do assembler stuff (compiler builders, vm programmers, game programmers)
Client yes... but I am talking about the server...
Lets leave Word aside, which is absymal... but, most people who compare LaTeX to text processors forget, that LaTeX sort of is a templating collection for TeX. Just like good templates can give you professional results in a good text processor, LaTeX does for TeX. The problem with Word and OpenOffice (and LaTeX) is that they miss totally the angle of how a modern text processor has to be implemented. Those programs orientate themselves on a typwriter style with a line being the basic formatting element. In an age of graphical UIs this approach is totally bogus. A modern text processor should be frame based with an adjustable z order and good templates which should give professional results. Framemaker did, so does KWord and the new Apple program. A modern text processor should be more like a DTP program than a typing program or an extended typewriter.
The X integration is the main problem.... See, I usually run FreeNX to get remote acces to my homeserver from work, but the home server is loud and sucks energy. But I am constantly connected to it. The main problem now is, due to noise and energy reasons I want to move to a Mac Mini, but there is no FreeNX on OSX, nor there is any decent remote solution (VNC is not something I would call decent if you have to press it through 512 kbit) So I either have to dual boot to get the same results and run it mostly in Linux or I have to run a VM which runs Linux and FreeNX inside...
That is a nice theory, fact is that the system has been so much misused in the recent past by passing too many trivial patents that they stiffle innovation.