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Seems some of the many people that sure had this idea has done it and let’s face it, should ring a bell on the industry about what is our place in this creative community, not only a hairdresser would never get these kind of requests, he will get paid in full before the customer leaves.

Let’s learn something

Vendor-Client video

I am fascinated by all these people out there spending their time on hacking computers that normally would run windows or linux to now run mac os x. But then again, that is nature, it finds its way no matter what as the water always flows down, which is something companies should learn about, you don’t want your customers to fight against you (special mention to RIAA and MPAA or course) you want them to embrace your products and given that Apple’s new OSX runs on Intel, why not sell the software on intel machines? of course this is a long discussion and sure they know their business depends in grand part on hardware, but hey, isn’t it the whole point of buying a Mac? their are better buit, better tuned and you won’t have problems given that they have been fully tested? Well, may be that is not true any more, may be it is.

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After today’s announcement on the new UK children’s database;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8052512.stm

I worry about the data, which in theory is secure, but let’s face it, what credibility does the Labour government has on the subject;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7771787.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7103911.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7147715.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8033172.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8003757.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/7935210.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7345533.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7148770.stm

(there are many many more examples but I got tired of writing them)

So as you can imagine I am very worried indeed on the whole subject of data centralization in the hands of government officials, let’s face it, they don’t know what they are doing at all.

Just lately has been quite a bit of press on the new project from Wolfram, and the media hinted to the “Google Killer” which in my opinion is a bit misleading as this is not a competitor on searching, but a competitor in quality of information and a research tool. So where are these two huge projects going? In my opinion a small answer is not possible, you have to understand a bit what Google and Wolfram do and where they come from but more importantly where the new Alpha tool lives today.

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Seems to me a great idea to depict the amount of sugar on our food by simply measure it by sugar cubes, and this is exactly what this web site does for you.

Sugar Stacks

Well, it was a matter of time till someone does come up with on-the-fly search for the arbitrary software output and performs all sorts of advanced analysis on the huge volume of information coming out of hundreds or even thousands of machines.

I have been following this company for a year or so and seems to me they got it perfectly right, if you own a data center or a render farm that keeps reporting hundreds of lines of text per second you can now find patterns and analyze what is going on, establish search presets and basically up your game in the reactive side of things that sometimes is simply the only way.

Have a look, it is really worth your time.

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