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Still works 7 years laterPros: Bought this for myself as a college graduation present. I've since given it to my dad and it still works 7 years later. Cons: Nothing to complain about. Did you find this review helpful? |
AchaiosPros: Does what it's supposed to do, quiet, reliable. Cons: It isn't free Other Thoughts: I've got a WDC WD5000AKS-00TMA0 500 GB with serial number WD-WCAPW5784103 working on my rig since 28 March, 2008. As we speak, according to the SMART meter software here, it has run for 23,368 hours. Zero issues, zero bad sectors. It has worked with three different motherboards (GA-P35-DS4, ASUS P5Q Deluxe, Asus Maximus VI Hero) and three different PSU's. Just felt I had to post this after seeing all these negative reviews. Did you find this review helpful? |
Do not buy western digitalPros: They only work for two years or less, so if you only expect them to work that long, go ahead and buy Cons: They quit within a couple years, this is the third drive of three that has failed, all bought in 2011. I will no longer build with western digital, as this is becoming a regular thing with them. Their quality has fallen drastically, if their drives quit faster, they make more money selling replacements, they will not see another dime from me, I am passing along info to all I know who build for people. Western Digital is not reliable anymore! Manufacturer Response: 0 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? |
solidPros: was looking though my purchases and realized i put this drive in 5 yrs ago and its still going strong never had one issue Cons: none Other Thoughts: i can't think how many thousands of hours i have on this drive and never one issue cant ask for more 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? |
Solid and Reliable!Pros: Good drives till they died but all drives die eventually am I right? Cons: NONE! 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? |
Solid H/dPros: Good HD, ran fine never had any problems here. WD is good for me. Cons: none Other Thoughts: May switch to HDD/SDD hybrid but will see what WD has to offer. Did you find this review helpful? |
Worked good for 2 years then diedPros: Cheap storage for OS harddrive Cons: Died after 2.5 years. BIOS sees it, takes forever to load Windows7. Then once it's loaded the OS will not work. Unable to retrieve any data as when connected to another computer it slows that one down as well. Checked on warranty and expired in 12/2012. Oh well..... Did you find this review helpful? |
Pros: Worked OK for a while Cons: Died after 1.5 years 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? |
So far, so good!Pros: I've heard the stories that they fail. I believe it happened to people. I'm not saying it can't happen to me. But so far, so good -- never had a WDC drive fail on me and I've been building since 1995 and always bought WDC. I owned this one for 4 years and 4 months exactly, and so far, still ticking without a hitch. If it dies tomorrow, I would be very embarassed about giving it 5 eggs, but it seems to be on par with the good WDC quality I have always witnessed. Cons: None Other Thoughts: I recently purchased 3x of the similar WD5000AAKX from NewEgg which for the most part appears very similar to this one. As far as I know, the only difference is its a SATA 6.0Gb/s instead of a 3. I hope I have a positive experience with those as well. Never know about a drive though until its been used :) Did you find this review helpful? |
Verify DMI pool dataPros: I got it at a cheap sale price Cons: It one day stalled at Verify DMI pool data. I was able to backup the files. I am reformatting it right now and hoping it doesn't happen again. Other Thoughts: Hark Disk Sentinel Report Did you find this review helpful? |


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OK, so the city of Boulder wants more renewable energy. Great, then why do they want to buy the local electric distribution from Xcel? Buying the wires and the distribution system does nothing to bring more renewable energy on the grid. That will require additional expense and further delay.
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The mindbogglingly large number of people in the world–1.3 billion–without access to electricity is providing a growing market opportunity for a lot of social entrepreneurs. I just wrote about one, Nokero, selling solar-powered light bulbs.
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Photo: Thinkstock We don't mean to make you paranoid, but you should know that people are watching you. When you're talking, they're consciously and unconsciously interpreting your movements and gestures, and making assumptions about your mood, intent and competency. You're probably giving them plenty of juicy material to read, says executive coach Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD, who points out that, in 30 minutes, two people can send over 800 nonverbal signals.
By becoming more aware of your physical presence, says Goman, a former therapist and author of The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help—or Hurt—How You Lead, you can use body language to tell your story the way you want, with a happier and more satisfying ending. We asked her to help us adapt her advice for life outside the boardroom. The Goal: To Negotiate a Fair Price on a Big-Ticket Item Like a New Home"It's important to realize that salespeople are either naturally good at using and reading body language, or they've been trained to be good," says Goman. She should know; she's one of the experts who do the training. Your real estate broker will be using her nonverbal skills to send you a hard-to-ignore message ("This house is your destiny"). She'll be watching you carefully for telltale signs of your intentions ("This house is my destiny, and I'll do whatever it takes to get it"). Being aware of your body language can guard against her picking up signals that disclose information you're not ready to share. 1. Strike a pose. Goman suggests this premeeting power pose: Stand tall like Wonder Woman, with your feet shoulder-width apart and your hands on your hips. Research from Harvard Business School has shown that holding high-status poses like this for at least two minutes can stimulate higher levels of testosterone, which is linked to feelings of power, and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. "Even if you're feeling a little nervous, you can use this stance to trick your brain into feeling more confident," she says. 2. Shake hands like a pro—and release them like an expert. Making eye contact and clasping with a firm grip are taught in Body Language 101. Goman adds this extra-credit tip: When you release the hand and break eye contact, don't let your gaze drop. "It's a submissive signal," she says. Instead, keep your head up and let your eyes slide to the side. 3. Watch for cues that the salesperson is bluffing. Goman says that researchers using fMRIs to track brain activity have found that lying requires more cognitive resources than being truthful. Lying also triggers physiological stress responses that are hard to repress. Trained negotiators—those who sell houses, cars or wedding gowns—will have learned to avoid dead giveaways like breaking eye contact, but they may try to overcompensate by staring into your eyes for too long or with too much intensity. Similarly, a sudden lack of nonverbal signals from a high-energy person may also be a sign that she's trying to prevent her movements from giving her away. 4. Make a winning exit. After you've settled on a price, stand tall, shake hands warmly and "leave your counterpart with the impression that you are someone she should look forward to dealing with in the future," says Goman. You never know when you'll need another house—or a good salesperson. Advertisement
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"I feel like I'm doing something a little different when it comes to music so it's really hard for me to find someone that understands the way I sing, the way I think, and the way I act… I wish I could say 'this is what I am'… but I really can't because every day I feel different." - Bruno Mars
For the past five years I've been traveling around the world and didn't have a TV or radio at my disposal, so I relied a lot on my younger siblings to tell me what's hot these days. Last year, someone told me about a new show called "Glee". I checked it out and it happened to be the episode where they performed "Billionaire".
I couldn't get that song out of my head and googled it to find the original. I really loved the song and asked my siblings, who own pretty much any record that's been in the charts, if they could hook me up with some Bruno Mars tunes. They sure did, but I usually listen to old (1940s-1980s) music and world music, so I'm always a little reluctant when it comes to modern mainstream music.
At that point, I had only listened to "The Lazy Song" and "Runaway Baby" which I thought were fun and catchy. However, it wasn't until I stumbled upon an interview with him that I realized I should actually make an exception and listen to the rest of his album. Three months ago I finally listened to the whole thing and was pleasantly surprised by the musical and lyrical variety of his songs. What makes "Doo-Wops And Hooligans" special is that it's one of the few albums I can listen to from beginning to end, and most of the songs I can really relate to, it's almost a bit like a soundtrack of my life thus far (but that's a whole different story).
Aside from his musical variety, Bruno Mars achieves something I admire and appreciate greatly - he's incredibly versatile in his performances and interviews. Having the attention span of a three year old, I feel bored and lose interest quickly if celebrities tell exactly the same stories or perform a song in the same way over and over again. His versatility and witty demeanor put him (and his fellow Smeezingtons) right on top of my "To-Meet-And-Interview" list.
Video: "Runaway Baby" Today Show performance
Considering my musical preferences, I really appreciate an old school(ish) performance. Needless to say, Bruno Mars' James Brown inspired rendition of "Runaway Baby" not only made me feel 'nice, like sugar and spice' but it also reminded me that there's still a few über-talented artists left in today's world of superficiality and synthesized crap.
On a different note, the guys looked absolutely dashing in those suits. A little shout-out to Philip Lawrence, he just cracks me up every time…
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So You Want A Dynamic Page, Huh?
[A few assumptions you make using these dynamic commands]
Ok, Ok, Ok--enough with the page changing thing. You may want to bookmark this page right now because if you log in to the main dynamic page you'll just go through all that page flipping. And we don't want that again.
Before we get started - This page uses things called "meta" commands. What you will learn here is only a small part of what they can do. See: So, You Want A Meta Command, Huh? for a few more helpful uses.
Here's the command I placed on my page to get the page-changing effect: Here's the command I wrote that did the job: Note I simply replaced the URL above with a sound file address. This is similar to what you do with a sound embed command. (See:
So, You Want A Sound/Embed, Huh?.) It's not quite equal, but close.
Getting a page to change
this is a great effect and a few dynamic commands attached to your web pages will offer some surprises to your readers. I've seen this used to take people on guided tours through buildings, tell jokes, and do just what I did--almost talk to the viewer. You should be able to find a use for a dynamic page so read on.
Here's what you are telling the computer to do:
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The CONTENT command includes the URL command so there is no quotation mark after the 5 or before the URL address. Make a point of copying exactly what is noted above. It won't work otherwise.
How to get that "Tada" sound
Now, most of you should have gotten a little Ta Da when you logged in. That's another thing you can do with this META command. I had it set up that after the page loaded, your browser should have played a little .au file called "tada.au". (clever name, eh?) There are a few assumptions you make using these dynamic commands
Be careful filling your pages with a bunch of these sound commands. Why?
My suggestion is to use these pups sparingly and offer those less browserly endowed a way around the page. Put something on the page that is suppose to change that allows those using an early browser to click and join in the merriment of your page since their page won't change for them.
If your viewer is using 1.0 or a browser with equal capabilities (yes they do still exist contrary to the growth of the WWW) then the dynamic page that is suppose to change just sits there. Then the viewer waits...and waits...nothing happens. He or she swears at you and moves on.
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New Trier defeats Marian Catholic by a score of 7-2. New Trier was lead by RF Christian Carr who went 3-4 at the plate with 2 RBIs and 3 runs scored, and Grant Stern who pitched a complete game and recorded 9 strikeouts.
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N7624B Signal Studio for LTE/LTE-Advanced FDD
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Signal creation
- Supports 3GPP release 9 LTE and release 10 LTE-Advanced standards including predefined E-TM and FRC configurations
- Creates LTE and LTE-Advanced signals in Multi-Standard Radio (MSR) configuration with CW, W-CDMA/HSPA, GSM/EDGE, and cdma2000®
- Flexible downlink MIMO configurations (up to 8x8) with static fading: spatial multiplexing with cyclic delay diversity (CDD), transmit diversity, and beamforming
- Generate envelope from IQ waveform for testing Envelope Tracking Power Amplifier (ETPA)
Hardware platform control and additive impairments
- Compatible instruments
- Control frequency, amplitude, ALC, waveform scaling, triggers, markers, and more
- I/Q impairments and real-time AWGN
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- Automate test with .NET API
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- Flexible licensing
- Perform eNB receiver conformance test quickly and easily with Test Case Manager
Create LTE/LTE-advanced waveforms for component testing
The basic waveform playback mode of N7624B Signal Studio enables you to create and customize LTE and LTE-Advanced FDD waveforms to characterize the power and modulation performance of your components and transmitters. It provides standard-compliant test models (E-TM) for measuring the EVM, ACLR, SEM and CCDF of your components and transmitters.
Create LTE signal for receiver testing
The advanced waveform playback mode of N7624B Signal Studio enables you to create LTE waveforms with transport-channel coding to validate eNB and UE receiver characteristics and performance. It provides standard compliant fixed reference channels (FRC), or user configurable custom configurations, for performing receiver measurements such as HARQ functionality and BLER.
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Williams, Arizona
Grand Canyon Railway RV Park
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This park is very clean, has wide driveways, sites arranged at a 45 degree angles for easier access, picnic tables and many amenities. Those include access to the Railway, restaurants, a pool, hot tub, laundry, etc. Park is within walking distance of old town Williams and historic Route 66. Only two issues that need attention. First, the cable TV signal is poor and full of static. Second, the WiFi Internet connection at site 234 was so slow/constantly disconnecting that it made it USELESS.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff KOA
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This is a very old campground. The check in area is very narrow and "choked". It has a nicely stocked store and a pleasant staff. The Wi-Fi works very well, as does the cable TV. The sites are a reasonable distance apart from one another. The driveways are very, very narrow and must be difficult for some larger rigs to navigate. The campground gives the general appearance of being unkept. There is small grassy areas at each site and I didn't see not one that appeared to have been mown or cut in the last several months. Setting is nice in amongst numerous pine trees. There are some sites that have long term residents at them that are very messy and full of clutter, old cars, etc.
Moab, Utah
Spanish Trail RV Park & Campground
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This park is about 3 miles south of Moab. It's clean, neat, friendly staffed, and nicely arranged. In the top row, there is some parking for "toys. Our site had a nice picnic table, grass and great water pressure. The front row sites have a nice view of the LaSal Mountains, but are also closer to Highway 191 and it's attendant noise. The only complaints I have about this park is that the cable TV signal is very poor, at best! This comment has come up in other reviews, too. I know it's not my TV. Also, the WI-FI service in the 500 row is very, very slow and constantly disconnects, despite having a 5 bar signal. In order to get WI-FI, I ended up having to go to the laundry room. The signal there was 5 bars too, but for some reason, it worked. In the laundry room I spoke with several other patrons, all of whom were very unhappy about the park's internet service.
Vernal, Utah
Vernal / Dinosaurland KOA
[ 4/10 ]
Staff was very friendly when checking in. All sites are at right angles to the roads and all sites are very, very narrow. When my slide was out, it was within 2' of the neighboring RV. During a heavy rain, the roadway became a mud pit. In our site near the east end of the park, WI-FI was so slow as to be nearly unusable. Kept constantly disconnecting on both mine and my wife's laptop. Huge trees provide plenty of shade, but many roots are at/above grade, making for a very uneven site. Has many amenities including laundry, pool (closed for season when we were there), small store, etc.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Crazy Horse Campgrounds
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Many of the sites at this park offer lake views and some (North Beach, were I stayed) are only separated from the lake by the roadway. If you want to be almost on the water, you will not be disappointed at the North Beach sites. What you will be disappointed in though is the cleanliness of the sites and overall maintenance. Virtually every site's concrete patio is broken and cracked. Some, including ours, were missing huge areas of concrete, including in spots other than on the corners where RV's run over it. Our site was loaded with down palm tree limbs and lake vegetation, as were virtually every other North Beach site. We actually cleaned it up some before we occupied it. Our picnic table was okay, but many actually had numerous broken, rotted, or missing boards. TV reception over the air was excellent! WI-FI signal was excellent but costs extra. During our 4 night, 5 day stay, we didn't see any maintenance activity whatsoever (except dumping trash bins) on the North Beach, even though many sites emptied out on Sunday and could have easily been cleaned, raked, broken boards repaired, etc. I was with a group of other RVers and while we very much enjoyed the beach and lake, we all felt the park was overpriced considering the lack of maintenance and basic site cleaning, debris removal, garbage pickup, etc.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Creekside RV Park
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This park is beautiful, with shade trees, paved interior roads, picnic tables, fire rings, and a creek. It's fairly well maintained. It has WI-FI and cable included in the base price. Sites 1 - 19 are against a very, very busy road. If you have a rear bedroom motorhome, you will not like the noise. Our site was very, very mushy and uneven. The trailer wheels sunk into the gravel. There was ample evidence of water problems at some sites with mushy sites, uneven RV parking, deep tire ruts and the like. WI-FI works well and the check in process was friendly and helpful. Like many RV parks, there needs to be more tree maintenance to keep tree limbs out of the way!
Greenville, Virginia
Stoney Creek Resort
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The road into this park off the main road, which is about 1 mile long, is the worst campground approach road I've ever driven on. It's full of pot holes, broken pavement, uneven surfaces and dirt. If you value your springs, shocks, tires and axles, you will not like this road. Check in was easy and quick. The clerk was friendly and helpful. All interior roads in the park are dirt. The park is large, with large sites, and is on a very nice lake. It's heavily wooded and since it was fall, the leaves were beautiful. Our site was very long and wide on the lake. It was easy to back into. This park has lots of amenities and, if it were properly maintained, has a lot to offer. Unfortunately, the maintenance was very poor. For instance, around our site, there was loose garbage, an old broken up deck, and two discarded outdoor carpets left behind by previous tenants. A neighbor told me that she had complained about the carpets but no one had cleaned them up. There were several junk cars at adjoining sites. Most every site, including ours, was covered in weeds and some type of wood fibrous shrub growing out of the site parking. This is unfortunate has the park has a great deal of potential.
Elkhart, Indiana
Elkhart Campground
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Check-in was easy and quick. Park well laid out and getting into site was easy with plenty of room. Sites were level and wide and grassy. Pool did not appear to have been cleaned in quite some time. It was very dirty in color and had floating debris. If you need fast, reliable WI-FI, do not stay in this park. I could not maintain a connection and it kept constantly disconnecting, despite good signal strength.
Port Angeles, Washington
Port Angeles / Sequim KOA
[ 4/10 ]
Called ahead to make a reservation. The woman who took the reservation was very friendly but it took what seemed like an inordinately long time to make the reservation. The store is well stocked and very rustic in appearance. The check in lady was very helpful, pleasant and friendly. When driving to our site, I noticed that the roads were very narrow and care had to be taken to avoid trees along the windy road. Each site has a movable large true tire rim for a firepit. As they can be moved, most every site, including ours, had ashes and burned wood scattered here and there. Of course, the grass under the ring was burned out, leaving unsightly spots everywhere. There was recycling area and garbage dumpster near our site. Throughout the entire day garbage and recycle items were scattered all around. During the 24 hour stay, no one picked them up. Each site had picnic tables. Our site had three. All had to be moved in order to park. The sites are too narrow for so many tables.
Cle Elum, Washington
Sun Country Golf Resort & RV Park
[ 8/10 ]
This is the third time I've stayed at this park. I keep going back because it's neat, clean, quaint, has a friendly staff and has a golf course. While normally windy in this area, this park is at the bottom of a hill, which serves as a wind break. The staff is great. The only drawback is that the power, water, and cable hook ups are at the very back of each site. You'll need long hoses and cables. That said, I'll stay here again.
Fort Hall, Idaho
Buffalo Meadows RV Park (Fort Hall Casino Campground)
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This park is very over priced at $39. The asphalt at our site and most of the adjoining sites was broken up and in obvious disrepair. Around the asphalt, it was mostly dirt with some gravel. As an older park, sites are close together with narrow streets. Hook-ups are in the corner of the pull through sites, not the center, so longer power cords and hoses are required. No Cable TV. Clubhouse is newer and nice. Staff very friendly.
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While the plants were growing outside in Fritz Haeg's Foraging Circle, his crocheted rug was accruing mass inside the Walker. Once the Domestic Integrities A05 rug—or simply "the rug"—arrived to the Walker two weeks ago, it amassed 5 additional feet thanks to a team of enthusiastic volunteers who grew the rug's diameter from 22 to 27 […]
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When artist Fritz Haeg interviewed journalist Michael Pollan in Minneapolis this spring, the setting was key. The pair met up at the Birchwood Cafe, a foodie destination since 1995 and long a community hub for discussion and activism around sustainability. As their conversation neared its end, Birchwood owner Tracy Singleton — who's also doing the catering for the August 8, 2013, opening of Fritz Haeg…


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In Part 1 of this column, we covered the basics: the definitions of all of these three-letter acronyms and who the main players in the space are. Let's pick up where I left off – recapping the Adam Cahill-led ad:tech New York session, "Ad Networks, Exchanges & DSPs - Next-Gen Audiences and Media Strategy: Understanding the Opportunity."
A Really Big Deal
Cahill describes the whole situation as "a really big deal," with approximately $850 million already flowing through DSPs today. Given that J.P. Morgan is estimating the size of the online advertising market to be $8 billion, this means that DSPs already represent 10 percent of that market! Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, told Cahill that, "There are 5 billion RTB impressions available across the key exchanges every day. Cahill extrapolates this to mean that, based on comScore data of 417 billion U.S. ad impressions, 35 percent of total impressions in the market today are RTB-delivered. And yet, points out Cahill, none of this stuff is even registering on most CMOs' agendas!
A Complete Change to the Media Buying Culture
Now for the profound part: Cahill portrays the space not about new technology but about a cultural shift, because this kind of ad buying completely changes the job, and therefore it's really about the people doing the job. Prior to the introduction of this kind of technology, value came from the media planners and buyers, as in prior to a campaign launch. In this brave new world, the value comes post-launch and the skills required don't involve research or negotiation – instead they're more about data and analysis, understanding auction dynamics, managing campaigns through an interface, and delivering constant optimization. Either a lot of people will need to be retrained or agencies will be looking for new people altogether.
What the Future Will Bring
Looking into the immediate future, Cahill sees two important short-term developments:
Cahill also gathered market growth predictions from industry insiders, which ranged from "RTBs will represent 20 percent of display market in a couple of years" to "It will double next year" to "50 percent of display will be purchased through platforms in the next two years" to finally "All display, other than custom buys, will be exchange-based." (Cahill himself tends to lean towards the "50 percent of display will be purchased through platforms in the next two years" opinion.)
Other Predictions and Opinions
In the time since ad:tech, I've done some additional reading and polling of my own. The resource authority on the ad exchange space right now is AdExchanger.com, and its managing editor, John Ebbert, provided me with his prediction: "The media spend in the world of the data-driven digital advertising will increase at least three-fold in 2011 as buyers and sellers understand that real-time bidding is game-changing and enables huge efficiency gains for marketers and publishers (who have valuable audiences) alike."
Mike Baker, CEO of DSP DataXu, sees 2011 as the year that "real DSPs clearly differentiate and break away from the pack to attract 30 percent or more of all online buys." He also explained that brands entering the DSP space have had trouble scaling their audience-based buys and have become more "direct response-like" in their digital thinking.
Meanwhile, Ken Nicholas of MindOnMedia[Sales] takes a different view: "DSPs are just one more tool in an arsenal, albeit one that is hot at the moment. While they will serve their purpose in automating and driving costs out of one part of the media process, they are not going to supplant every aspect of the media buying (or selling) world. At some point, either the parsing of audience data will become so granular as to be way past the point of diminishing returns, the prices on ad inventory bid so high via RTB auctions most DSP firms now offer that buyers will go running back to individual properties to 'lock in' inventory deals, or some other disruptor will come along, that the 'hype' over DSPs will decrease to a more measured level."
At the very least, maybe you'll want to take Baker's advice: "If you haven't tested programmatic buying through a DSP, you're officially behind the curve and need to get moving."
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A ClickZ expert columnist since 2005, Hollis Thomases (@hollisthomases) is president and founder of Maryland-based WebAdvantage.net, an online marketing company that provides results-centric, strategic Internet marketing services, including online media planning, SEO, PPC campaign management, social media marketing, and Internet consulting. Author of Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day and an award-winning entrepreneur, Hollis is the Maryland 2007 SBA Small Business Person of the Year. Hollis speaks extensively on online marketing, having presented for ClickZ, the American Marketing Association, SES, The Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association, The Kelsey Group, and the Vocus Worldwide User Forum. WebAdvantage.net's client list has included Nokia USA, Nature Made Vitamins, Johns Hopkins University, ENDO Pharmaceuticals, K'NEX Construction Toys, and Visit Baltimore. The agency was recognized as a "Small Giant" by the Greater Baltimore Tech Council and was chosen as a "Best Place for Business Women to Work" by "Smart Woman Magazine."
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The aim of this article is to present an attempt at creating a GW2 character which will resemble, to the greatest possible degree, a typical MMO Cleric. My experience with the game so far tells me that the two most suitable professions for this purpose are the Guardian and the Elementalist. I shall start with the former since it's the profession of my main character and I reckon I know it best :-)
Hello everybody! Today, I'm here to present you what I like to call "the best source of Guild Wars 2 news in the entire internet". It is reliable, fast and flexible, totally community driven and depended. Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce you to our brand new "News" section. So, I've been doing this twitter thing for quite a while now. Instead of promoting exclusively Dragon Season projects, what I like to do is letting everybody know of what the community of the game is up to on its entirety. Be it articles, fan art, in-game events, and of course official news, I'm trying not to miss a single thing.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago I started to raise my Artificer crafting discipline in hopes that I would some day craft a super ascended Staff for my promising mesmer. Following step-by-step the amazing guide on gw2crafts I got to 400 in no time (the going gets tough just about then, but that's for another article to deal with ;-)). Something that impressed me in the entire process is the number and variety of Potions an Artificer can concoct. Literally, there's a potion suitable for encountering any type of enemy: anti-Centaur, anti-Svanir, anti-Ooze, anti-Ogre, anti- anti- anti-anything. However their use is not limited to extermination amplifiers. Their most spectacular application is no doubt the numerous transformations they inflict on their consumer! These are accomplished by a sub-category of potions, called Tonics. In this article then I decided to go into tonics as well as the effects of their consumption on your stomach, your appearance and to those around you ;-)
If you're a longtime Guild Wars player, you may have already heard about Pink Day in LA in the past or maybe even participated. In short, this is a community-driven charity event that has been taking place in Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2 every year since 2007. The goal of this event is to raise awareness of (breast) cancer and collect donations for the Canadian Cancer Society. You can find all the important information in a nutshell in Rhonda's post on the official GW2 forum. This year, Pink Day in LA will take place on October 19, 12-6pm Central. Find your local time here in case those time zones are confusing, as they usually are. ;)
After making a little detour in the living story to Moto's Super Adventure Box and defeating (or being defeated by) Tequatl, Scarlet is back and fighting for our attention again. She has set up a base in Twilight Arbor and it's up to our characters to shoo her away. As usual, we do not know what exactly she wants or plans, but it is pretty clear that whatever it is, we need to stop her from achieving her goal. This new patch will introduce a new path for Twilight Arbor. The most important part first, in case you are wondering: Yes, this path will be a permanent addition! Unlike the other paths of Twilight Arbor, this one will be not for levels 55 up, but for level 80 only. The new path won't be the fourth path of the Twilight Arbor dungeon. Instead, it will replace the Forward/Up one. Don't worry about the related dungeon path achievement, though. If you have beaten the Forward/Up path before, then that achievement will stay the way it is.
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Understanding UML is an important part of your toolkit
Engineering and IT Insight: Control system development requires information exchange among many people and systems. Unified modeling language (UML) can help bring out inconsistencies, remove ambiguity, and provide a "standard" way to communicate project information.
The development of control systems demands that a lot of detailed and accurate information is exchanged among users and developers, customers and vendors, coders and analysts, and management and staff. Languages are tools used to communicate this information, but natural languages (Chinese, English, Spanish, French, etc.) are notoriously ambiguous. Natural languages rely on contextual information and are often vague and incomplete. They regularly contain inferences and references to information that is assumed to be commonly known. (See The Story of Human Language, Professor John McWhorter, The Great Courses, www.thegreatcourses.com.)
Developing control systems cannot rely on assumed information and ambiguous definitions. To address this problem the software engineering community, as well as other engineering communities, has developed artificial languages to unambiguously define requirements, specifications, and designs. Every engineering discipline has developed artificial languages. For example, electrical engineering has circuit diagrams, and chemical engineering has piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) and process flow diagrams (PFD). Unless you have specific software engineering training, you may not be familiar with software engineering languages. Knowledge of these languages will allow you to define better requirements and designs, and it is an important part of any professional control engineer's knowledge base.
Artificial engineering languages all have something in common: They have an annotated graphical component with symbols and text arranged in a diagram using well-defined and rigid rule sets. Software engineering's artificial language for specifications and design is called UML, the Unified Modeling Language. UML has been officially defined in the ISO/IEC 19501 specification and is commonly used in other IEC and ISO standards. Unfortunately, standards are not tutorials and are not the best way to learn about UML, but there are many good books that teach about UML. (See Learning UML 2.0, Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton, ISBN 978-0596009823; UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Martin Fowler, ISBN 978-0321193681; and Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using UML, Patterns, and Java, Bernd Bruegge and Allen H. Dutoit, ISBN 978-0136061250.)
UML consists of 14 types of diagrams, divided into two categories: structural information and behavior information. While 14 diagram notations can be intimidating, most users of UML focus on five diagram types: class diagrams, object diagrams, state diagrams, use case diagrams, and sequence diagrams. The official UML specification does not restrict diagram elements to a certain diagram type, so generally any UML element may appear on almost any type of diagram. However, each diagram type has a specific purpose, and common use restricts diagram elements to their related diagram types.
Understanding the structure of information diagrams helps. The two most commonly used structural information diagrams are class diagrams and object diagrams. Class diagrams are used to describe the structure of the system classes and their relationships. Classes are used to define problem-specific collections of elements. For example, you may define a class of motors, a class of sensors, and a class of materials for a material movement system. Classes are an abstraction, and learning how to abstract a problem and define it so that others understand it is one of the most important lessons that can be learned using UML. Classes are represented by rectangles, and relationships are represented as lines between rectangles. The class diagram is a graphical representation of a set of relations and information about the class. For example, a specification may have hundreds of lines, such as the following: a case packer contains a PLC program, a case packer uses a failure sensor, a PLC program has an author, and a PLC program has a version. These statements can be concisely represented in class diagrams, reducing pages of dense text to a few simple diagrams. We are much better at recognizing patterns through diagrams than in strings of text, and UML class diagrams take advantage of our pattern-recognition abilities. Class figures may contain the attributes associated with the class, such as a serial number for a motor. The class figures may also contain the operations that can be performed on the class, such as "Start the motor". Each sentence in a specification that uses the "has a" verb, such as "a motor has a serial number", defines an attribute. Each sentence in a specification that uses the "can" verb, such as "a motor can be started", defines an operation. Class figures unambiguously represent information about objects in the class and what can be done to the objects.
Class diagrams can also show more complex relationships such as aggregations, compositions, and sub-types. Aggregations represent bi-directional and asymmetric relationships, such as "a server provides domain name services to other servers". A composition is a stronger aggregation, such as "a PLC contains an IO rack". Subtypes are a form of generalization, such as "a PLC is a managed device". These relationships are defined using annotations and symbols on the lines between the classes.
UML Class diagrams are widely used in specifications because of the ability to represent structural problem-specific information in an easy-to-understand format. They display complex relationships through simple patterns and provide a good way to formally document your specifications, requirements, and designs.
UML also defines object diagrams, which show examples of the system for selected objects at a specific instance in time. They present a view of the structure of an actual system, versus the abstract view of the class diagram. Usually an object diagram is only a partial view of an entire system, used to illustrate how relationships actually are used in specific situations. In simple projects, where there are only a small number of objects, an object diagram can be used to document the actual implementation. For example, a small project may have five motors and 10 sensors and can be documented on one diagram. However, in most projects, object diagrams are used only as examples to aid in understanding the class diagrams.
Understanding UML is important for all control engineers. UML will help bring out inconsistencies, remove ambiguity, and provide a "standard" way to communicate project information. Make UML knowledge part of your control engineering toolkit.
- Dennis Brandl is president of BR&L Consulting in Cary, N.C., www.brlconsulting.com. His firm focuses on manufacturing IT. Contact him at dbrandl(at)brlconsulting.com. Edited by Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering, www.controleng.com.
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With most Northland residents apparently safe from immediate danger, state, federal and local officials began assessing damage Thursday from this week's torrential rains and flash flood and already are putting the price tag well beyond $100 million.By: John Myers, Duluth News Tribune
With most Northland residents apparently safe from immediate danger, state, federal and local officials began assessing damage Thursday from this week's torrential rains and flash flood and already are putting the price tag well beyond $100 million.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton toured several sites in Duluth on Thursday morning, describing the damage from 7 to 10 inches of rain in 24 hours as "horrific.'' He promised all assistance the state could offer and pledged to apply for the region to be declared a federal disaster area to make more money available.
The cleanup and repair job, however, probably will take months and years rather than days and weeks, and Dayton asked for patience from area residents.
"It's just terrible devastation. The awesome, destructive power of nature,'' Dayton said while looking out across severely buckled Vermilion Road in Duluth. "We'll do everything we can as rapidly as possible. But it's going to take time'' to rebuild.
Duluth Mayor Don Ness said a back-of-the-napkin estimate by city engineers and others puts damage to public property in Duluth alone at $50 million to $80 million. St. Louis County officials estimated $12 million to $20 million damage in road and bridge damage.
"And that doesn't include MnDOT, Carlton County, the rural areas. … It's going to be well over $100 million region-wide,'' Ness said. "And that doesn't include private property."
Dayton said he has ordered all state agencies to cooperate, especially with public safety and transportation issues, and said he wouldn't rule out calling a special session of the Minnesota Legislature if needed to appropriate state money.
Dayton said he is prepared to send a letter to the Obama administration as soon as state and city officials get better estimates of damage. But he and Ness said the scope of the damage will easily qualify for federal disaster designation.
For damage to public roads, bridges, sidewalks, utilities and parks, a federal declaration makes repair projects eligible for 75 percent federal coverage. In most cases the state would pick up another 15 percent of the price tag with local governments footing 10 percent, although in some large disasters the state has footed 25 percent with no local match needed, Ness noted.
A federal disaster declaration also makes federal money available for private home and business owners through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Ness said the city is documenting all the damage it finds, and he urged homeowners and businesses to do the same.
"Document everything. Take pictures before you throw things out'' or fix them, Ness said.
Dayton and several state officials, including commissioners of transportation and public safety, stopped at Cascade Park in Duluth, the giant sinkhole behind the Whole Foods Co-Op, saw the car that sank into a washout on Skyline Parkway, and saw the earthquake-like damage to Vermilion Road.
They then met with about 100 local officials, who detailed the devastating results of the record rainfall and the range of problems they face in rebuilding the region's infrastructure — everything from railroads to parks
"The fact that no one has died, the fact that no one has been even seriously injured, is remarkable,'' Dayton said, praising local government, law enforcement and rescue crews.
Duluth Public Works Director Jim Benning told Dayton that many of the region's roads are built on clay soils, which require layers of gravel and sand before blacktop is laid. In the case of Vermilion Road and many others, the gushing water washed out the sand and gravel, leaving the roadway to buckle and collapse onto the clay. In some cases, the damage includes sewer, water and even gas utilities.
Benning said it costs about $3 million a mile to build a road in Duluth and that up to 50 miles of roads in the city have at least some damage.
In some cases, it's not just the obvious damage that will need to be repaired, but roads that now appear sound and may actually be undermined and unsafe.
"I looked under one part of a road, and there was nothing under it," said St. Louis County Commissioner Chris Dahlberg. "I'm afraid we're going to see more (roads) collapsing in places. We really don't know how bad it is.
Open for business
Local officials were toeing a thin line Thursday, pleading for state and federal disaster assistance while exclaiming that the region remains open to business, including tourists.
Don't drive past any barricades, they pleaded with visitors from the rest of Minnesota — but come on up this summer as usual.
"Duluth and the region is open for business … Duluth is safe,'' Ness said as Twin Cities TV cameras rolled.
St. Louis County Board Chairman Keith Nelson said the first priority after public safety and securing road access to rural homes is reopening all trunk highways in time for the peak of summer tourism season.
"Duluth will weather this storm, and part of that recovery is keeping our tourism industry thriving,'' said State Sen. Roger Reinert, DFL-Duluth.
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