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As much as we love the cloud, the ComputerWeekly.com. If cloud and on-premise applications are not connected, organizations are forced to resort to manual intervention which wastes time, can introduce errors and dilutes the value of both systems.fact of the matter is that today's cloud solutions need to live side by side with legacy applications. Simple integration models are key to getting more value out of both, writes Lindsey Clark in
Surprisingly, the majority of companies using cloud applications do not closely integrate them with on-premise systems. Clark cites a study from Ventana research, which found that 56 percent of organizations use spreadsheets or data exports as a means of integrating systems, while 39 percent rely on custom coding. That may be because they don't realize what's possible with the cloud.
Users are better off with what Alastair Bennett, a solution architect at Coupa, calls a "light touch" approach to integration. This simpler, more streamlined integration allows the cloud application to operate on a standalone basis as much as possible, connecting with in-house systems only when necessary.
Bennett says what customers first need to understand that the approach to integrating cloud systems is different and easier than what they have may have experienced in the past with in-house enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Many cloud applications are built to be configurable with a flat data structures and do not need the tightly integrated bespoke customization some in-house systems require, although they do still require data modeling and mapping of business processes.
At Coupa, Bennett says his most successful customers are those who have done a light-touch integration with back-end ERP. The streamlined process still requires data modelling and mapping of business processes but overall it's much simpler, he says.
Here's Bennett's approach: "We look at business process and how users' and suppliers' data models interact with ERP data. We build up a model of how everything inter-relates. Configuring the solution takes a matter of hours, but sorting out the structure of the data and getting that into the solution can take time. Quite often customers need to build something in their ERP to create the correct data structures that we consume."
For example, the ERP system will commonly handle purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices, but instead of integrating all data across both systems, he recommends Coupa matches the three internally and simply sends an instruction to pay suppliers, with information about the associated cost center, to the ERP.
"Because we've defined an interface agreement on these very few fields, we can make it slick and efficient. We're not pushing information into and out of ERP all the time," he says.
The possibility of these simpler integrations should be good news for the many companies out there struggling with integrating cloud applications to their enterprise application portfolio, says Clark. They will still have to understand their data structures and business processes, but instead of falling back on ad hoc, inefficient techniques, they can use integration layers or light-touch integration with their on-premise systems to benefit from the latest generation of cloud technology, a welcome change since adoption of cloud solutions is only expected to increase.
How do you build out your management organization asyour company grows? It's one of the toughest challenges high-growth companies face.
As your employee headcount grows, you need to layer in more management. You also need to recognize that the growth of the company will expand some roles beyond their original scope, such that they effectively become new roles. For example, someone who was hired to manage 10 people in the U.S. could now be managing 30 people globally. That's become a new and much more demanding role which the original occupant may or may not be suited for.
How you fill these leadership roles will have a big impact on the success of the company-- for better or for worse. A big company can survive a few bad management hires; a high-growth company not so much. It's important to go about this strategically and deliberately.
In management circles there are different schools of thought about how to approach this:
The key is to success is knowing when to do each.
Promoting from within
Let's look at the first option. The path of least resistance is to promote from within. One of the reasons people sign on with a fast growing company is for the opportunity to rise along with the company. There will certainly be individuals who are ready, willing and able to move up into newly created or vacated roles. In that situation, promoting from within is straightforward, fast, and a win for everyone.
Unfortunately you can't fill every role that way,because as you grow and your needs change you won't always have the right person internally.
Moreover, if you blindly follow this strategy, promoting people just because they've been there for a certain amount of time and performed their current job well and it's the next logical step, you risk seeing your company become an illustration for The Peter Principle. The Peter Principle says that when people are promoted solely based on their performance in their current job, eventually they rise to their "level of incompetence." If this practice is institutionalized, over time every position comes to be occupied by someone who is not up to the job and that's not an easy situation to deal with.
You need to know when to take the risk of promoting people based on past performance. A good risk might be to promote a high-potential person that has a wide range of abilities, has learning agility and ambition, knows the domain and has some crutches to support him or her in the new role. That could mitigate any risk of them petering out.
I see many companies promote from within just from expediency--they're in a hurry to fill the role, or afraid of losing the candidate. A better option would be to promote on an interim basis, letting that person know they are on a trial period. They get a tryout, and you get some productivity while you continue your search.
Fire and hire pre-qualified people
Now, lets look at the second option: Fire people who can't be promoted, and hire new, pre-qualified people--people that have already done the job before. It's painful for everyone but it's straightforward, fast and is proven to scale.
If this is your core strategy, you risk destroying morale and motivation. The best and brightest will leave if they don't see the opportunity to advance. Plus, you lose a certain amount of continuity and institutional knowledge as people walk out the door. Besides that, it's always tough to lose a colleague.
Still, there are inevitably times when you get to a point in the company's growth where you need a particular skill set that doesn't exist within the company, or you need someone with a track record of managing successfully through the range of challenges similar to those looming for your company at the next stage of growth. Or, you may be trying to shift strategy and need to bring in people with completely different D.N.A.
In situations like these, we have to face the fact that the people who led the effort to get the company off the ground aren't always the best ones to lead it forward at subsequent stages of growth. Startups take a different kind of person and a different skill set than is needed at a more established company. Not everyone can make that transition successfully. And there may not be another role for them or they may not be temperamentally suited for development. So, in some situations, this can be the best thing to do.
Retain, re-deploy and develop
Now let's look at the last and most challenging option: Retain, re-deploy and develop. This strategy is to pass over but support development of high-potential employees. That may mean shifting them into a role different than the one they wanted or thought they should be promoted to, or keeping them in place but handing out what is effectively a demotion by bringing in a higher ranking person above them.
This can be a hard one and very often it fails. It depends very much on the individual. Being passed over can be a tough pill to swallow. They have to swallow this bitter pill gracefully, and at the same time be open to investing effort in their development and willing to accept more oversight. It takes a special kind of person to be able to put their ego aside and do something constructive with that opportunity.
When would you do this? When you've seen a good pattern of learning and development, but moving the person up to the next logical role is too big a stretch. I also look for a certain existing fundamental company D.N.A. that you'll never be able to get from outside the fold. They understand the domain and the core values of the company deeply. They carry the torch of the company with them. They bring it every day.
Essentially you have a plant that's growing a little slower, but it's still growing. You don't put it as the centerpiece of the garden, but you put it in a sunny area and give it some extra food and water and by doing that you can unleash potential that'll pay rewards down the road. It's a great thing for the company and the individual when this strategy pans out.
When do you not take that path? When you think that the person may not have the emotional intelligence to take some pruning and come back stronger. All that person's going to do is waste any investment in them you might make. Worse, they might become negative inside the company and wind up leaving anyhow, but not without causing some collateral damage first.
What you don't want to do is blindly pursue any of these strategies for theoretical reasons, or make these kinds of decisions based on pressure from people outside the company such as investors or board members who may not fully understand the internal dynamics with the employees involved.
Ideally you're going to employ a mix of all three strategies. I'd like to say I've come up with some formula for what that mix is, but there isn't one. You have to take it on a role-by-role basis, looking at the risks, opportunities and resources relative to each situation. The ultimate goal is to build out a thriving organization that delivers for customers, employees, and shareholders. It's an art, not a science.
Rob Bernshteyn is CEO of Coupa. This article previously appeared on Forbes.com.
We're making a splash across the pond with amazing new customers in EMEA. We were proud to host many of them at the Rosewood Hotel in London last week for Coupa Inspire, and we were humbled by their enthusiasm for Coupa and their willingness to share it with the world.
This was a beautiful event with outstanding food and company.It was quadruple the size of last year's event, which is a testament to our record growth in the region.
We were delighted to play host to so many procurement and finance leaders from 16 countries in the region, and to see them so engaged in connecting and sharing information and best practices. Their energy and excitement throughout the day was almost tangible.
In addition to sharing case studies and best practices, we had several Coupa announcements, including Coupa Release 12, a new partnership with NetSuite and our new customers in EMEA.
What really made our day though was how many of these customers showed up to share their successes using Coupa, including Amber Ritson from infrastructure services company Cofely UK, who posted this photo on LinkedIn:
TD Bank was also among customers presenting compelling successes they've achieved in just a short time using Coupa:
We're thrilled to be able to help customers achieve these kind of results, and were quite flattered that UK procurement advisor, mentor, coach, and trainer Grahame Ball took notice, tweeting:
If you missed the event we'll be making some of the presentations available on our website over the next few weeks. Be sure to join us next year. As Simon Hurst says, we do know how to put on a show. Our secret -- it's all about the guest list, which includes the best customers in the world.
Thanks to all of you for making Inspire EMEA a smashing success!
We were very excited to announce Coupa Release 12 at Inspire EMEA in user-centricity. These are the cornerstones of our strategy to help companies get results through unprecedented user and supplier adoption and with Release 12 we've taken our game to the next level.London today. This is a milestone release because it disrupts traditional supplier business network concepts to further consumerize business-to-business transactions between buyers and suppliers, creating efficiencies and cutting costs while meeting the most stringent global regulations. With this release we've also raised the bar on
The most important and innovative element is what we've done with
In a previous post, my colleague Ravi Thakur eloquently articulated the evolution of the Customer Success movement in enterprise software, and outlined the differences between customer service and Customer Success.
As he explained, Customer Success represents a shift in the mindset of how software vendors interact with customers. SaaS companies are aligning on this more proactive, partnership-oriented approach to software implementation, and the term Customer Success is popping up in marketing materials and org charts across the industry.
Using the system does not equal success
Now somebody just needs to tell the customers. Customers can benefit greatly from leveraging this more proactive approach on the part of vendors, but what I find working in the Customer Success
I'm very excited to be welcoming over 250 finance and Coupa Inspire EMEA next Thursday, 16 October at the Rosewood Hotel in the heart of London. This is Coupa's "coming out party" in Europe.procurement leaders from all over Europe to
For the past couple of years, we've had a big, multi-day Coupa Inspire event in San Francisco for our North American customers and prospects. Last year we had a half-day mini-Inspire event here in EMEA. This year we have a full-day event, from breakfast through to evening reception.
The expansion of the event is indicative of the market interest we're seeing all over EMEA. Over 40% of conference attendees are coming from outside the U.K. Fourteen different countries will be represented, so this is truly an opportunity to connect with and learn from
Customer success has become a buzzword in high techover the past few years, with the phrase increasingly cropping up in sales presentations, on business cards and org charts. But what does customer success really mean? Is this just customer service with a fancy name?
Done right, customer success is more than just an aspirational job title or a new spin on the customer service function. It's really an evolution of customer service, requiring new skill sets and mindsets to staff the customer success organizations that are cropping up in tech companies.
The customer success model aligns the interests of the service provider with the interests of the customer in a quantifiable way. It denotes an organization that's much more
It's the end of the quarter, and I'm in my office, tied to myphone and email waiting for the last few outstanding deals to come in, same as at the end of every quarter. This is business as usual in virtually every company in my industry, enterprise software, and in countless other industries as well: many of the deals close at the last minute of the quarter or end of the year.
We all know the drill. Customers think they're going to get the best price and terms by waiting until the last minute, when they have the vendor's back to the wall.
There are good reasons for that, mainly that it very often works. As a vendor I'd be lying if I didn't say that there is a strong incentive to lower prices to make the quarter, especially for a public company. Many companies do just that. But, does it have to be this way?
For enterprise software, the shift to the cloud and its subscription-based, recurring revenue business model lowers the stakes around the one big bang sale somewhat, but let's be
What does pizza have in common with software? It comes in four
different delivery models, as outlined in this brilliant infographic designed by Albert Barron, a software client architect at IBM.
As Barron explained in a recent LinkedIn post, he coined the "Pizza as a Service" analogy to help explain the modern software business landscape to a non-techie friend.
As Barron notes in his post, techies rival texting teens for figuring out ways to communicate with as few characters as possible. That was the case during a bike ride where Barron and friend were talking technology when his friend got lost--not literally, but by all the technical jargon and TLAs (three letter acronyms) Barron was tossing around. Somewhere in the conversation
Who should lead organizations into the digital future? How involved should procurement be with payments? Can you automate and centralize procurement without centralizing AP? Leaders at Coupa customers Juniper Networks, TD Bank and Molina Healthcare contribute their thoughts on these matters, and we also look at two new supply chain and procurement studies.
Keep up with the changing finance and procurement landscape by reading the latest and greatest articles about the cloud, strategic procurement and finance and supplier innovation, all in one place.
CIOs should step into the digital leadership void
In many instances, a company's most promising digital leader is the CIO, says Bask Iyer, CIO of Juniper Networks. "Good CIOs have experience leading the organization through transformation. They have the real world experience of delivering change over and over again."
Focusing on payment terms delivers value
Payment comes at the end of the procurement process, so not your job, right? TD Bank's Carolyne Booth argues that recognising the value of payment terms and activities in the procurement process is actually core to good procurement and deserves more attention than it sometimes receives.


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Restaurant Review: Spoke Wine Bar
Last spring, two of the principals from Dave's Fresh Pasta opened Spoke Wine Bar in the space next door. L and I had a great time surveying the former No. 9 Park chef John daSilva's food and wine. Details after the break.
The Spoke concept is small to medium plates that are intended to be shared at the table along with wine or beer from an extensive list of bottle and by-the-glass selection. When we visited, there was distinct lack half bottles but I have passed that feedback on. D has said that they are considering a program where they would open any full bottle, sell half of it to you (decanted) and then use the rest as a by-the-glass "special" on their chalk board. Of course if you really liked that particular wine you could buy the other half and take it home with you.
Except for one table in the front of the space (4-6 people?), seating is either at the bar or at 2-top steel tables. The service was excellent: helpful, responsive and knowledgeable. The noise level was appropriate.
In general, this is a neighborhood kind of place where you would go for a drink and a small plate or two. L and I both agreed that if we lived in the area, we'd be frequent fliers. The wine was quite reasonably priced. It is easy to rack up a pretty serious bill if you survey a lot of the dishes. Nevertheless, the level of preparation, quality, and presentation justifies it and makes for an enjoyable experience.
The Dishes
[ed: Apologies for the lousy pictures. I only had my cell phone.]
Pea Agnolotti, chanterelle, bacon, wood sorrel. This was the highlight of the meal. The agnolotti were cooked perfectly (al dente of course) and the filling was spot on with a very fine texture and great seasoning. Taken all together with the chanterrelle, bacon and sorrel, it was a very tasty bite. If you're right next door to Dave's Fresh Pasta, you can bet that the pasta will be top drawer.
Handmade Garganelli, lamb ragu, fava bean, ricotta salata. Oh, another pasta dish, and of course it was excellent. L and I both ranked it as the second best dish of the meal. The garganelli was perfectly al dente. All of the three major food groups, sugar, salt, and fat, were there. The ragu was excellent. At first I thought it was a bit oversalted, but L pointed out that it was the ricotta salata (and therefore salty by nature), so the seasoning really was just right. The fava beans were cooked perfectly and clearly enhanced the dish.
Chocolate Budino, bing cherry, hazelnut (cream), chocolate cookie crumbs. This was an excellent dessert. The fleur de sel on top, while not novel, definitely enhanced everything. The texture of the budino was dead on (fine, creamy, rich). All the elements together produced a great mouthful. Overall, this was a very fine finish.
Jonah Crag Crostini, Jalapeno, chive (not pictured). Excellent. We suspect the bread was from Iggy's (and there ain't nothing wrong with that!). Perhaps this was a little oversalted, but still a solid dish.
Smoked Bluefish, baby beets, purslane, caraway creme fraiche. This was a very good dish. The bluefish was a bit dry, but it's hard to have moist smoked bluefish. L and I had the same reaction: each individual component was good on its own, but we didn't see it all coming together. For example, the picked beets were really nice and the creme fraiche was really nice too, but it didn't all hang together as one.
Grilled Asparagus, piquillo pepper, almond, cured egg yolk. The cured egg yolk shavings were good and even added a little bit of fat to the flavor.
Rabbit porchetta, roman gnocchi, olives, fennel, mizuna. A nice dish. Occasional pieces of the porchetta were slightly dry. The romano ailoi with lemon was creative, but was perhaps visualluy a bit "big" on the plate (I know, I know, it's a nit). The roman gnocchi were really, really good, but hey (once again with feeling), if you're going to be next door to Dave's Fresh Pasta, you have to bring your A-game to the pasta. I mistook the gnocchi as polenta at first.
The Wines
11 Selbach "Incline" riesling. Good fruit, good acidity. I've had bigger rieslings but this was solid. L enjoyed it also.
08 Devillaine Bourgogne Blanc (chardonnay). A very nice white rhone with good fruit (probably more than most white rhones) and acidity. Enjoyable.
12 L. Aguzelle. Great nose, great body with that creamy vanilla taste. Billed as a relatively light red, but I thought it was pretty big.
10 Monpertuis 'Ramiere'. Quite good. I didn't get much nose from it at first, but later it opened up. It grew on me and had quite a lot of body. L liked this.
12 Ostatu Rose. Good, but I don't know — I just can't get into most Roses. This one included. The review said it was good and quirky, but it just didn't do it for me.
10 Mas du Colombel Faugeres. Good, but not as good as the L. Aguzeele or Monpertuis.
Tempus Fugif Kina L'Avion D'Or, Kallnach, Switzerland. I don't think I'd had a Knallnach before. This was served in a highball glass with a slice of lemon on rocks. Really, really nice. Bitter, quinine based. Very enjoyable and a really nice finish with dessert even though I suspect it was meant as an aperitif.
Cocchi Barlo Chinato, Piedmont, Italy. Also served in a highball glass. Good, but side by side with the Kina L'Avion Kallnach this wasn't as good. Of course, having them side by side necessarily forced a comparison. This would have been really nice on its own. Served with a grapefruit slice.
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Here's a 1941 image of the facade. By that time, the Fox logo had been removed from the top of the vertical sign. The double feature had previously played at the nearby Merrick. I think that the vaudeville was only part-time (weekends and some evenings), but I'm not sure:
Warren…Many thanks for the splendid photo of the interior of the Jamaica Theater circa 1947, as well as all the other theater interior photos and newspaper ads that you have been sharing with us of late.
The photo was probably taken during the period when the Jamaica was presenting "third rate†vaudeville during the late 40's. It was also during the time when they were part of the "subway circuit†of touring Broadway shows during the summer months. The increased use of the stage in both instances probably accounts for their springing for the new stage curtains.
My recollections of the Jamaica go back over 50 years. I am amazed at how vivid the murals appeared in 1947. I still remember the one above the proscenium arch in a rather faded condition around 1953/54, but not the ones on either side of the arch. But then it could have been the lighting and tricks of memory after all these years.
Can you post any interior photos of the Carlton, Alden, Merrick, Rialto/Savoy and Hillside?
Here's a 1947 image of the interior. I doubt that the stage curtains were the original from 1913, but the rest of the decor probably is:
In February, 1931, the Jamaica Theatre was being advertised as "Formerly Fox" and home of Mutual Burlesk. The current attraction was "Banner Burlesquers," featuring comedian Rags Ragland, with two performances daily at 2:30 and 8:30 PM. The Jamaica's competition included "The Bat Whispers" and vaudeville at Loew's Valencia, "Passion Flower" and vaudeville at the Alden (not yet RKO),
"Little Caesar" with shorts at the Merrick, "The Boudoir Diplomat" with shorts at the Savoy, and "The Royal Family of Broadway" with shorts at Loew's Hillside. Brandt's Carlton was presenting the stage play, "Father's Footsteps."
After the Fox bankruptcy, the Jamaica Theatre fell under Skouras management. When Skouras took over the better situated and larger Merrick Theatre, the Jamaica was downgraded to a second-run situation. The Jamaica was "modernized" in the late 1940s, but the changes were mainly to the marquee, entrance and lobby.
Thanks Erwin. Your description of it does sound very similar to Fox's other theater, the Ridgewood. Before it was "multiplexed" into 3 and then 5 theaters, the Ridgewood also was "nothing really special", but did have a "certain ambience" to it, as you describe the Jamaica, and the Ridgewood also was in need of repairs before it was cut up.
If the Jamaica was already "needing maintenence" in the 50's, it sadly didn't have a long life as a viable and well kept theater, probably because of all the competition in the Jamaica area.
Bway…The former elevated station was the 160th Street station. The theater was located in essence near the corner of Jamaica Avenue and Parsons Boulevard. The rear and stage housing was on Archer Avenue. The stage door was on Parsons Boulevard up from Archer going toward Jamaica Avenue. The entrance to the theater was a few doors west of Parsons. There was a long inner lobby which led to the auditorium. If memory serves correct (after 50 years), the interior was not too exciting. The overall color was brown with some faded murals above and to the sides of the prosenium arch. In retrospect, the theater may not have been taken care of all that well at that time since it closed in 1957. It was also located on the same block due east of the Savoy, which was directly across from Kings Park.
I have fond memories of the Jamaica. 21 color cartoons on a Saturday matinee, touring Broadway shows on the "Subway Circuit" during the summer and vaudeville in the late 40's. The theater may have been old, but it had a certain ambience to it.
Which former elevated station was it located near – Sutphin Blvd or 161st St?
What is on the former site currently if anyone knows? I'm trying to picture where this theater was located before being demolished.
This was originally the Fox Jamaica Theatre. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb in the Beax Arts style, it first opened in 1913 and was the first "deluxe" theatre in Jamaica, with around 1,750 seats. When Fox went bankrupt, it fell under Skouras management as simply the Jamaica Theatre. After the heyday of vaudeville, what passed for it at the Jamaica Theatre was third-rate, supporting late-run movies and just to compete against the Valencia, Alden and Merrick, which were the area leaders. The address was 155-16 Jamaica Avenue. The entrance was adjacent to an elevated subway station.


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James Charles Castle (Artist) (September 25, 1899 – October 26, 1977 [1]) was an American artist born in Garden Valley, Idaho. Although Castle did not know about the art world outside of his small community, his work ran parallel to the development of 20th Century art history.[2] His works have been collected by major institutions. The Philadelphia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Castle's work which toured nationally in 2008 and 2009. Castle's work entered the international arena with a major exhibition in Madrid, Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2011 and was included in the 2013 Venice Biennale exhibition The Encyclopedic Palace.
Castle was a self-taught artist who created drawings, assemblage and books throughout his lifetime. Castle was born profoundly deaf and it is not known to what extent he could read, write, or use sign language. Castle's artworks were created almost exclusively with found materials such as papers salvaged from common packaging and mail, in addition to food containers of all types. Castle mixed ink using soot from the woodstove and saliva and applied it with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks, and other found objects. His drawings sensitively depict interiors, buildings, animals, landscapes and people based on his family's rural Garden Valley homestead as well as the architecture and landscapes of the places he lived and visited. He also created and bound books containing drawings, patterns, and calendars.
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- Shock of the News, Judith Brodie, Lund Humphries,(2012), 65.
- Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, Edited by Lynne Cooke, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2012) 96-99.
- James Castle, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (2011)
- James Castle: Show and Store, Edited by Lynne Cooke, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2011)
- James Castle, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2010)
- James Castle: A Retrospective, Edited by Ann Percy, Yale University Press (2009)
- James Castle: A Retrospective, by Lynne Cooke, Artforum (December 2009) 168-171.
- Touched into Being by Stephen Westfall, Art in America, New York, (June 2001) 5-16.
- American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum, by Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, American Folk Art Museum in association with Henry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (2001)
- Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists, by Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr. and Julia Weissman, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York (1974) 170.
External links[edit]
- [1] Philadelphia Museum of Art
- gallery and trailer for James Castle: Portrait of an Artist by Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists [2]
- Art Institute of Chicago, IL
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
- Boise Art Museum, ID
- Columbus Museum of Art, OH
- Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem OR
- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
- Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
- Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
- Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
- Portland Art Museum/The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, OR
- Tacoma Art Museum, WA
- The New York Public Library, NY
- Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
- James Castle Collection and Archive[3]
- James Castle: A Retrospective, Edited by Ann Percy, Yale University Press (2009)
- James Castle: Show and Store, Edited by Lynne Cook, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (2011)
- Robert Storr
- Lynne Cooke
- Stephen Westfall
- Terry Winters
- Zoe Leonard
- ^ See Find A Grave site.
- ^ Percy, Ann. "James Castle: A Retrospective." Yale University Press, 2008, p. 70.


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Tokyo's radiation level
This is the best chart I have found so far from the NHK website
I was outside when on 15th when the peak happens
by looking at the chart.. it's definitely getting better. This radiation accident seems like a bit overblown. It was quite scary on 15th when the spark happened. I could not image how much radioactive stuff was leaked near the plant.
Although the current radiative level in Tokyo is not too worried, Tokyo Electric has poorly handled this accident, that cause hundreds of thousands gaijin flee away the country. It's time for the Japanese government to review this company.
I surivived in the 5th biggest earthquake in history
I am still alive. Thank god. I thought I would be buried in the office today.
All the train are stopped and I am walking home now. Everyone is walking. all cars on the road stuck in the traffic jam. Don't know what is the impact on the north Japan, where is much more close to the epicenter ..
Since came to japan. except the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, this is another big shock I am *lucky* enough to experience.
Finally I can really do snowboarding
it's my third year now doing snowboarding in Japan. It's become more and more fun after you can control yourself not falling over.
occasionally even if you fall over, it does not hurt so much anymore.
The fresh air and the feeling of shuttle back and force to this boundless snow world do makes me forget the busy life in Tokyo.
Japan is one of the best countries to do the snowboarding i think, there are a lot of snowboarding resorts and the temperature usually is not too low so you can enjoy the sport not worrying too much about the weather.
My apple Products
Buying apple products is just like buying drugs. it draws you to buy another one, the another one even you think it's not necessary or not quite sure what you really need for that iPhone 3GS while you already have iPhone 3G. Even you think Ipad is just a *bigger* iPod? What's wrong with my brain and what magic apple use to make me blind to just upgrade their product even faster than a playboy upgrade his girlfriend.
Do Chinese People Hate Japan
Recently I was asked by a Japanese friend "does Chinese people hate Japan in General?"
To answer your question, maybe yes. I think especially the recent accident between Japan and China.
But If you ask me if I hate Japan?
Moving out Of Ebisu
Having been living in Ebisu for almost 3 years.. it's a really nice area with lots of restaurants, bars, cafes, I really loved it. but it's just a bit too expensive if you want to move to a bigger house in ebisu. So I decide to move to yoyogi-uehara, a bit cheaper with a bigger apartment.
Okinawa in winter
First trip to okinawa is in winter. a bit chill
France vacation
Bonjour !
I am back from France! It was a great holiday – yummy food, especially the Olive !
I start eating Olive almost every week after I come back!
Friendly people, a surprise to some people. Yes the people I met in France are very friendly despite that they try to teach you how to speak French from time to time, something I would love to do at certain point in the future.
I am absolutely astonished by the beauty of the nature in France. I have never see such a blue sky in my life. (Hey, please don't laugh, I am from China).
I took this picture in South France without any modification. It's unbelievable blue.
Almost everything is *old* in France. Oh, Maybe I shall use the word "Vintage". They appreciate the well-preserved historical buildings and museums. I stayed one night at my friend's house that was built about 200 years ago. The owner of the house is a young couple. I can't imagine this in China.
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Weekend Meditation: Cooking with Lucy Ricardo
It was then, finally, that I gave up.
Sometimes things go so horribly wrong, it's clear that I have to give in. I just can't fight it anymore and I surrender into 'one of those days' kind of days. This is usually accompanied by a shrug, followed up by a glass of wine on the living room couch. Sometimes surrendering has its rewards.
Two things help me wriggle out of the clutches of a bad day. The first is that I've learned over the years that wanting things to be different only adds to the problem. This is not saying I'm not going to do something about my circumstances. This is not a passive stance. This is simply replacing the 'why me?' with a 'now what?'
The second thing is knowing/remembering that things change and this moment's series of unfortunate events will not last forever. Tomorrow, perhaps even this evening, my very terrible, horrible, no good, awful day will be in the past and I will be thoroughly engaged in what ever the next thing is. Often, this next thing isn't nearly as distressing. Often, it's rather pleasant.
The third thing that just occurred to me is that humor helps. So my nickname for those unfortunate series of mishaps is that I'm having a Lucy Ricardo moment/afternoon/day. This helps me to remember that my once perfect, now spoiled gazpacho is not something to hook my identity on. I am not my mistakes!
OK, there is a fourth thing: bursting into tears is always an option.
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sometimes it happens.
Last night I had a couple friends over for dinner, and I'd planned on a lovely-sounding dessert of poached plums in a rosemary syrup with fresh blackberries stirred in at the last minute. I had picked beautiful plums from the farmer's market, snipped fresh rosemary directly from my pot on the sill, and left my roommate to talk to my friends as I busily halved the plums into the simmering syrup, just like the recipe called for; then leaving it to simmer, I went back to join the party a minute.
And came back a few minutes later to find that I'd also without thinking turned up the heat under the plums, and thus they were now boiled into absolute mush. I just blinked a few times, then took a deep breath, turned off the heat, and went back into the living room with a big smile and announced that the poached plums I'd been raving about all night had "suffered a structural integrity problem" -- but hey, who wants poached anything on such a hot night anyway, right? So let's all dig into fresh blackberries with whipped cream!
And that was just fine.
After my friends left I pureed the plum pulp and I'm making granita out of it now.
This was the other night for me.
I was trying to make a pasta salad with pesto, fresh mozz, and cherry tomatoes - something that should take me 10 minutes start to finish.
My food processor broke while I was making the pesto (the plastic bowl part cracked and oil was coming out), so I duck taped it back together (I was starving). I made pasta in my hot pot because I didn't want to turn on the stove, and while I was draining it (using the hotpot top and not a colander), all of the pasta fell into the sink. I scooped it out, rinsed it off, put everything together, ate it and had a much deserved beer and a good laugh.
I remember the first cake my sister made when I was a kid. It was burnt on the outside and completely raw on the inside. Till this day, I don't know how she did it.
I'd broken the little piece of plastic that activates the coffee grinder. I'd filled the grinder with 4 scoops of beans already. I don't know why but I found the little piece of plastic and decided to insert it into the matching slot in the top of the grinder. Mind you, this is without the clear plastic top in place.
Beans everywhere. Behind the toaster, in the toaster, on the floor, in an open drawer, and the little plastic piece? who knows where it went. All I could do was laugh because what was I expecting to happen? Ground coffee? Not without the cover. Nothing? Then why do it at all?
So at 7:30 in the AM I get out the vac and clean most of the beans from the floor...and laugh at myself while I do it.


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ARM heads: Our cores still have legs ... as shares tumble amid 'peak smartphone' fears
Re: The More moments
I think the same thing applies on the way up. If you play the game on the way up, you have to play the game on the way down.
Whilst ARM is a good business, in terms of share price versus earnings, the valuation for the last few months/years is very, very optimisitic.
Only significant dominance of a very high volume market could justify its valuation going forward. (IoT is the buzz word these days)
Do the math - how many processors do they need to sell across their portfolio to come down to a PE of say 10?
I think shareholders are taking profits and that is fine.
Just saw ossi;s comment - totally agree!
Routine WHAT NOW? Bank of England's CHAPS payment system goes TITSUP
RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement
Real Time not Retail time..
House buying is treacherous enough as it is!
Oh noes, fanbois! iPhone 6 Plus shipments 'DELAYED' in the UK
iphone cow
Apple has always invested in its brand, but they've also done very decent work with product definition. Even if the end user did not understand it fully, there was at least something to it technically.
I think this is the first time where it is blindingly obvious that they are milking the brand and margins alone. These are incremental updates at best, at most a 5S+. None of the technology introduced has undergone any specific maturity to justify a delayed release, I was hoping it was being done in the name of product experience, but this is also not the case. The NFC and screens are not different, they would be spinning it any which way possible if this were the case. The other features only help operators get away with a sloppy job.
As for not meeting demand on pre-sales, you'd thing they'd figure out how to deal with the problem over the years, with that cash pile. Perhaps physical storefronts, but certainly no excuse for the online store. Occam's razor implies that they are restricting supplies, likely for the free media hype generation. At the very least it should run out a bit later every year, but it's always a day. Probably helps with the "record sale" marketing spiel that follows opening day. Stats like that are relative so they could just add one more phone to the "day1 preorder inventory" and then claim they beat last years record. If the inventory size is small enough ever year to guarantee exhaustion, you have yourself a guaranteed "record sale" every year.
EU: Let's cost financial traders $400m a day, because EVIL BANKERS. Right?
Re: Try harder
While arbitrage and true price discovery are great ends, the means matter. HFT trading adds to the noisiness around the true price, and with technology, delays convergence to the true price, and would also permit large deviations from it, particularly if the parameters of the created algorithms en masse encourage this. Presently there is no reason this won't be the case. Correlation not causation dominates. One stupid implementation from a too big to fail type entity can dramatically move pricing very quickly. The implied positive undertone of "one price" and a "true" price is where the price discovery and risk is focussing on fundamental economic criteria, and not simply movement/differential profit.
The HFT landscape is artificial, and like an arms race, creates illusions of value in making supply and demand cases just like nukes were justified.
If you have ever worked with control and multi-order feedback loops, hFT is the equivalent of unfiltered glitched samples. They're never far away but It throws off your convergence, and your loop response is very poor, and can even oscillate and collapse but hey, there's movement and it's fast, so it must be good!
BT fattens up its sales thanks to hearty fibre+footy diet
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
This applies to accounting as well as numbers are massaged and reporting groups structured so that the wholesale division bears the brunt of "costs".
No matter what happens, the wholesale division will be shown to be a poor performer, it would be bad for BT and weaken the case for government grants if it did well.
If they take the grant money, they share the outcome no matter what the performance of the wholesale division.
The question that remains though is how much of the grant go into "shared" "infrastructure" that the retail division needs for the footie and everything.
Internet Explorer 11 for Win7 bods: Soz, no HTML5 fun for you
Sorry no, just checked this on my Windows 8 x84 PC and both IEs do flash.
Perhaps the websites go wrong with the user agent or something, but flash is integrated in the tifkam whatever ie
Apple's Oct 22 WORLD-SHAKING San Fran party: New iPads or what?
I think they're launching ground breaking coloured covers for all the other products!
MacOSX now in green
iPad Mini in yellow
Macbooks in purple and of course gold.
Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected
So was this Plan B all along? To Sell Nokia for a song?
Ha it even rhymes, it must be true!
Zuck on THIS: Mobile users propel Facebook to RECORD earnings
Re: There are adverts on facebook?
Adblock is one of the most important features of an Android phone for me.
Fitbit Flex wristband: What to wear out when wearing yourself out
Re: you're an idiot....
This notion of yours is not correct.
Calories in => some are burnt for immediate use + some are stored as fat
Ongoing energy use => come from stored source among them fat, glycogen etc
The proportion of this is decided by the hormonal profile among other things.
So simply by cutting intake people with a poor hormonal profile do not lose weight i.e. store less fat. Their bodies are more inclined to simply offer less energy for their activities. They would in some cases actually have no energy to exercise.
Essentially the body's logic function to decide whether to store for the future or burn for immediate use is broken.
So as unlikely as it might seem to you, it doesn't make it any bit more factual. It's pop nutritional science I'm afraid.
That enough, folks? Starbucks tosses £5m into UK taxman's coffers
Hang on...
If they aren't supposed to pay, then what is this payment?
If they aren't due any tax legally, won't this just be an overpayment that has to be credited against losses or refunded by HMRC with interest?
Assuming Starbucks knows their demographic well, are Starbuck customers going to actually fall for this?
Intel joins Alliance for Wireless Power
I might be wrong, but charging technology is more analogy so the SoC bits are a bit less relevant. There's lot more to be done on the digital front.
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Plane plummet plod probe phone
Re: Man...
Again, providing accommodation is *not* the same as being eligible for and claiming benefits. This as Daily Mail language, twisting words to imply something sinister.
Illegals have to put up somewhere, just like prisoners. The HMPS is responsible for providing accommodation for prisoners, just like the UKBA is for illegal immigrants. You don't go saying prisoners are claiming "housing benefit" because they are spending time in prison.
Stop using exceptions to define how the system is run. My original point remains - illegal immigrants are not allowed access to benefits - housing, Job seekers, whatever. They don't get NI numbers.
As for Panorama - what the GPs were doing is illegal. The way you are putting it, private medical care would be illegal because of the Human Rights Act. That is not true. Only emergency care needs to be provided under the Human Rights Act, routine care is not. A good example is cancer treatment, the NHS does not offer everything under the sun because of cost, this is not illegal.
So what you say is still misinformation.
Also Panorama prioritises sensationalism. The BBC's token vehicle for "balanced" reporting. But that bit would be my opinion.
The rest isn't.
The reason the guy tried to get into the country as a stoway was to hope to walk out of the airport without border control. I don't think there are any successful stories, but desperation can drive people to these unfortunate decisiosn.
Re: Man...
Your comments confirm it is misinformation. Asylum seekers are not "illegal immigrants". You need reasons to claim asylum. You cannot just walk into the country and be qualified to seek asylum.
And illegal immigrants do not qualify for anything legal - housing, benefits, etc. Some exceptions exist eg children.
I believe only A&E is available, where no questions are asked of your legal status, as it may deal with loss of life, where putting national boundaries and laws on hold does not seem to be the wrong thing to do to me.
Stop reading the Daily Mail.
IT salaries: Why you are a clapped-out Ferrari
Re: Languages? Its not just that
@dave15 "Good" engineers are rare and elusive creatures, they are inevitably well placed and well renumerated by the companies they work for. Short of those companies going out of business, they will be looked after. These engineers affect the company bottom line in a visible way. And if those sort of engineers do need work, hubs of innovation like the Silicon Valley beckon.
This article is about the average engineer. And the hiring challenges companies face mean that the gamble of taking on an engineer that needs to make the switch is a big one. The only practical way I can think of is to take a pay cut when crossing domains.
The software we make are again just tools. What people do with that is quite another matter. People make movies, music, art; there
And your final statement actually adds to my point - there are so many who can flash their cleavage, success is all the more difficult. You make it sound like autotune software+boobs = $$$$. That is simply not true. Making it as a "singer" in a world of instant music, x-factor, celebrity mags requires a lot of effort, and its own set of "skills". The social value of these skills is a different discussion, one that could also extend to those programming for the banks as well!
If an engineer is that good, and has got the knowledge to make something game changing, he or she ought to get into business.
I'd say the equation is more about risk/reward. There are bursts where the risk is low and the reward high, but that never lasts.
People and companies will flock to that anyway, and produce software that is turnkey and need fewer skilled engineers.
Planning or expecting a low risk/high reward existence is silly. If such a things comes your way, milk it for sure, but to wish for it to last forever is pointless.
Re: Languages? Its not just that
Software is a specialist skill. Management is not considered so (it is more about the politics and networking). So moving between software domains is not quite the same. We've had some people move from applications to embedded. Where is the RAM to implement my code, they ask.
The problem with saying something is in short supply is that it is relative. I guess 20 years ago, SW was less diversified, and the skill base was small. Come the internet, open source and cheaper computers, and programming ain't like nuclear science anymore.
Software has also massively diversified and has become specialised, and with globalisation, I think specialisation is becoming a requirement. But then picking some to specialise in is always a gamble.
PS: @Dave 15 According to you, if you aren't a millionaire or better, you haven't made it. That's BS. Grow up.
Czechs check cheques, reject £680m 4G auction
Re: basic microeconomics
Agree with Metcalf. Theory in this case has proven to make assumption that are not true, like unlimited investment and capex. It also makes no room for evolutionary changes to technology i.e. ones that operators can live without.
I think a spectrum rental model is best, where the rents and license are low to begin with and then ramp up depending on how well the operator has used the spectrum, coverage achieved, and customer satisfaction and/or numbers.
Some assurances need to be given to operators. Appropriate leverage can be applied if required by the regulator, without upfront cost loading.
The 3G auction in the UK killed R&D expenditure from the operators, and has moved most 4G+ development to mainland Europe and the US, for almost all real world testing.
Operators are also now more global so they'll spend where the returns are going to be best. Even if that means only a 100 people use the tech.
Microsoft's ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA
Re: Surface Pro will also fail
It's obvious you are not aware that the Mac OS and therefore all mac os software is also based on open source code called Darwin.
So Mac OS is BS??
PS: Everyone isn't buying Apple.
Sir James Dyson slams gov's 'obsession' with Silicon Roundabout
Re: Have any of you actully attempted to use any of Dyson's products?
Have to agree - my Dyson Ball Animal something is pretty darn good. It's significantly better than an older Miele.
'SHUT THE F**K UP!' The moment Linus Torvalds ruined a dev's year
My 2p
It is not necessarily wrong to react strongly especially when someone very senior, trusted with the stewardship of the code, is defending something so wrong. He is betraying the trust placed in him. ("ret == -ENOENT ? -EINVAL : ret"? Come on..)
This is community development, not some corporate development where things can possibly be tracked more closely, with more control over who gets the code and what happens. "Management" speak and HR theories are not fit for purpose here.
However, in this specific situation, it would appear that Linus may have reacted a tad too quickly. If you look through the thread, Mauro is trying to fix something, and yes went about it the wrong way, but is an issue that cannot be resolved as simply as Linus appears to think it can and should be.
Summary: Both sides are right in some ways, and both sides are also wrong in some ways.
But then that's almost always how it is.
Trust the cloud with my PRECIOUS? You gotta be joking
Re: Terms and conditions
Is this not a hyper cynical view of things?
So even if you did your own cloud and/or storage, who would be trust with the hard disk? The computer parts? The power supply?
Protection from floods? What about cosmic rays bit flipping your data? Can't even trust the universe!
I think the obvious solution is to keep data local and in the cloud. You multiply the probabilities of failure there and things look good enough.
It's about redundancy and convenience.
PS: Those tenants were nasty though. But not paying rent was an early warning. One month and begin proceedings. Another two months and you're out.
Kickstarted mobe charger 'kicked to death by Apple'
$$$$ are too de rigeur..
Time to use App£€ I think..
Apple cultists slaver as Mothership landing now foretold in 2016
Form over function.. again
Just imagine having to go from HR in the south arc to Corporate in the North Arc
It will probably be called an employment benefit - exercise, health and all that.
Or maybe a colloseum for Apple non-believers to be killed by Gladiatroids..
HP: AUTONOMY 'misrepresented' its value by $5 BILLION, calls in SEC
Re: Can this AC provide Lottery Numbers?
Hmm.. An AC. So insider info ? :D
Wireless boffins boost Wi-Fi hotspot performance 700%
Yeah can't see how this is a big deal. It would be worth testing on an enterprise class AP/deployment. Though a non standard setting, almost all of them can be configured to do what is described.
From the description of what they have done, this is part of the WMM standard itself. Basically if the AP has traffic let it go out so AIFSN(AP) < AIFSN(STA) for all AC
I guess the difference is that their implementation is triggered based on traffic load. It is just an asymmetric traffic configuration. But then why not just enable it all the time?
Apple stops Caring in Italy, probably all Europe soon
Re: The bit that's valuable
Well since we're name calling, as an Apple f*ckwit you probably missed it, but dealing straight with a manufacturer is always faster and quicker - Dell or Apple.
In Apple's case you pay extra for the "privilege". So next time go to an Apple store.
Lighter heads need lighter wallets anyway, so it all works out eh.
Re: So where does that leave someone who's paid £129 to them for a refurb?
Warranty length != Contract length You might want it that way, but that is not how it works.
The manufacturer cannot send a buyer away for product failure. This is also the normal course of action when a retailer goes bust. It is legally protected. They CANNOT say "not our problem". Apple chooses to control the customer relationship and keep the operator out. Indeed they register the 12 month warranty and activate the phones themselves even for operator phones. Just put your serial number on Apple support!
And no they don't take back phones that need stripping for parts. As for refurb, you ignore scale. Even a 0.1% failure with intact pcbs make it quite economical for 3 month life. That's £40+ per month of life. It serves two purposes - reduce repair costs, pay for inventory and second create value for AppleCare purchases.
Offering the £129 phone is not the problem, a shoddy almost illegal warranty policy is.
Re: there are some advantages to apple care if you travel
Really? Then try getting an Apple Verizon CDMA iPhone 5 replaced here in the UK. In the first year of your warranty without Apple care.
You Apple fans are all missing the point - Apple is expecting you to purchase an extended warranty for what the law says they should already cover without one.
Any perks that come with purchasing an extended warranty are fine. But denying basic warranty service without the extended warranty is NOT.
THAT is what they are doing wrong. Apple are not above the law, even if they leave you fans starry eyed like those One Direction teenagers.
Re: So where does that leave someone who's paid £129 to them for a refurb?
Only because they can refurb the phone you just returned. If you do your research or know anyone who has worked at an Apple store, you will realise that the refurb option is generally only available if you return a phone than can be repaired.
Your argument will hold water when they give you refurbed phones without asking you to return a pretty much fully functioning phone save for the power button.
Re: Screw the EU
Seriously either you have never used another brand, or are comparing £100 laptops with £1000 Apple laptops.
Besides, advertising worldwide coverage as the addon you buy with Applecare is fair enough, paying for basic warranty provisioning, as required by law, is not. Apple are exploiting people's lack of awareness of their rights.
I am really amazed at how people take anything, just by making them feel "pretend special".
I've seen this in relationships, but didn't for the life of me think it would work when buying a fu!*ing gadget.
Re: So where does that leave someone who's paid £129 to them for a refurb?
I don't get people like you. Apple has shafted you, and you're still going back. For more!!??
I guess now you'll buy their Applecare!?
If you're a fan, I'm afraid that's what you will need to do.
Re: The bit that's valuable
My Dell monitor - with a three years dead pixel warranty. Two years after purchase - a row of dead pixels. Next day collection AND replacement with a brand new one - NOT refurbished like apple, all at no extra charge or cost. Total downtime - 20 minutes.
And no cooked up bills to show me some pretend savings.
No I did not buy their on site warranty package. Yes it is their upper mid product range, not their cheapest product. The price for the specs was the best in market, and far cheaper than the Apple equivalent.
Sorry, real life experience that is narrow is also useless. I can't believe you actually fell for the invoice they pretty much created. Another Apple marketing score. Can't deny that.
Re: Well
I have used this directive against Apple and as per the directive they are correct. To invoke the EU directive, the burden of proof is on the consumer, while according to Apple's claims, if you purchase an Apple care product, the benefit of doubt is given to the consumer. (You basically are given somebody else repaired product as they only need it to last the rest of the warranty)
However you are right, Apple do try to ignore any local laws as far as they can get away with. (Contempt of court and the law of the land.) Perhaps the difference with other companies is that they outright lie to you. They did so in my case as well asking me to pay £200 for a replacement at first, stating that EU directives do not apply in the UK. Genius isn't it! ;)
I had the iPad display go faulty about a month after the warranty, and argued that a HW defect of that nature cannot be caused by any consumer interaction, and since iPads do not show the same behaviour after 13 months of use, the only possibility was that it was faulty at the point of manufacture.
It went quiet for a week after that, and then they came back and offered a replacement.
IMHO, for tech products, it is more or less easy to argue this for HW failures. Since the products are manufactured based on probability of failures (HTOL, MTBF, etc), almost any HW failure is pretty much a manufacturing fault at the component/soldering/design level. Right now, manufacturers target a 1 yr life, with wider knowledge of this EU directive, they will have to target 2 years.
Needless to say that iPad was and will be my last Apple product. I thought I was buying a quality brand, turns out I was buying a logo, and supporting corporate arrogance.
WTF is... RF-MEMS?
Re: How's that software-defined kool-aid?
Thank you! I was cringing reading the earlier commentary of how SDR is doing it all, right here and right now.
'This is Apple. It will take them 2 weeks to alter their website, will it?'
iPad Mini traffic
Apple is trying to avoid the iPad Mini traffic to the website seeing the judgement. It will really hurt the brand. After all they removed the link to the original "apology" quickly enough :D.
I think the apology should be extended to show regret for non-compliance of the court's original order. That will really dent their brand image.
Fans' loyalty questioned as iPhone popularity plummets
Re: But...
Yes I did as well. I think the first gen were not built well and there were bad batches. The official lines of support do not address this, if you indicate you will go to small claims and give a reason they know they cannot refute, they will handle it.
Peeved bumpkins demand legally binding broadband promise from UK.gov
How much is too much?
The costs of such an obligation must be understood, before it is promised. Wherever costs can be cut, that must be also considered. It may just simply be too expensive. I do not agree with spending say £100 bn for rural broadband. It may mean rural communities will have to wait until technology catches up to cost effectively provide broadband,
Now Apple cuts back on Samsung displays
You're churning through them so quick you probably don't even see them break down! Galaxy S, S2, nexus and S3? Ask the people you've sold all this stuff to.
My Nokia is 4 years old and going strong. My HP laptop is 7 years old. Still going fine. My Canon camera is 9 years and guess what? Still going.
I think your mileage most certainly varies!
UK ISPs crippled by undersea cable snap
Re: I'z can doo reedingz, me!
It requires LOS, cannot work over a curved surface (which the earth is) and also no obstructions or interferers.
Throughput(Guided (Fibre) Optics) > Throughput(Unguided Optics)
at any moment in time.
Doing optics without the fibre and calling it wireless isn't really a substitute, which is what I think you are trying to say?
Facebook co-founder renounces US citizenship pre-IPO
Greedy Governments and citizens
Some of the arguments here demanding taxation seem a little strange to me. Some of the "socialist" arguments here are so irrational, it becomes tempting for me to dismiss the whole concept. One person's definition of middle class is easily another's definition of rich and wealthy.Hardly absolutes.
Are all of us who use pensions in the UK guilty of tax avoidance? I'm sure there are plenty of people in the UK who do not have the money to put into these "tax avoidance" schemes?
Exploiting loopholes and paying no tax for eg, can be described as immoral, but not illegal.
But renouncing citizenship, and its benefits, to not pay tax? Why the hell not? Freedom goes both ways, for the individual as well as the citizens. The rights of a commune do not supersede the rights and freedoms of an individual, especially when the individual no longer benefits or belongs to that commune.
Sometimes I think people are so fixated on what should be taken away, they forget what should be given up as well.
A question to those, from what I can tell, seem to advocate tax payments "if you can": when do you deem a government and its citizens to be greedy when it comes to taxation? Individuals aren't the only ones who can be greedy!
Indian callers could see bills DOUBLE after spectrum auction chaos
I think spectrum auctions are ok in principle, but in practice, has resulted in massive debt burdens on operators in the industry.
This money simply must come from somewhere. It will be in consumer prices, in reduced infrastructure spend, and R&D. R&D in particular is always seen by big management as the least necessary.
This is disastrous long term. It is far better to come up with rental type model maybe, rather than this sort of lump sum deposits. I don't think Governments ever spend money wisely, democracy or not, so large sums of pocket money like this is not doing good for the countries.
The UK used to be a leader in cellular industry technology, but ever since the 3G auctions, a number of R&D and deployment type projects have moved elsewhere.
American consumers today have LTE, and they are now slowly driving the industry. Inevitably real world tests in LTE development now happen in the US and mainland Europe, making the case for UK based development very weak.
This will leave UK the follower, where once it was the leader in this particular industry. There is already talk of fitting the LTE frequency bands to that of other countries.
I fear it is already too late for the UK.
The same is now beginning in India. A case of greed, but this time from government, not big business. I don't think by any measure, can one say that growth of this industry will not be dented. It is basic accountancy, your costs are artificially being driven up. Without larger revenues, growth will be dented.
It is worse in the case of India, where infrastructure spend is already weak, and should be encouraged. It will now make more sense for operators to load more users at lower call qualities for eg..
Google fined for stalling Street View cars' Wi-Fi slurp probe
Re: Not illegal?
Not very correct..
ANY wifi device can see the air packets (and needs to be able to for scans to work). When you scan for a list of APs, you are kind of listening in to all data. By design, in order to be seen, the AP ssid data is almost always unencrypted. The equipment used is no different from an out of box wifi adapter in promiscuous mode.
This is wireless, wiretap analogies don't apply. It's like saying enabling wireshark in promiscuous mode is illegal. Any ethernet adapter will work in that mode.
In unencrypted mode, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Educating the lay user is a different matter. Ignorance does not automatically entitle one to legal protection.
I am not saying Google did not have intent, but equally I don't agree with the comment that it is an illegal act.
Apple fights off ebook suit with anti-Amazon defence
Re:They're the wealthiest corporation in the world because they don't do stupid things.
Oh good you put iTunes *Music Store*
For a second, I thought you were actually going to put in iTunes as a shining beacon of Apple magic.
I still waiting for Apple to learn on that one.. It's been four years now..
iTunes Match OK.. iCloud? Really?
You're joking right??
Re: Thanks for the link...
While his comment about no DRM is great, I don't buy the article.
"the internet is an intrinsically disruptive force in traditional distribution channels because it makes disintermediation very easy."
"the publishers handed Amazon a monopoly on their customers—and thereby empowered a predatory monopsony."
With Amazon's monopsony and monopoly, they still got Amazon to switch to the agency model? And hike prices up? Why did Amazon agree with all their market distorting power?
Actions speak louder than words. Publishers, why not just go direct. The internet makes disintermediation very easy right?
They all got together to choose a minimum retail price, but can't get together to sell direct?
There are three DRM schemes - Adobe, Kindle and Apple as far as I am aware in eBooks.
Just use Adobe and cover the largest market - everyone except the Kindle. If Amazon wrings the publishers hands for exclusivity, that would be very illegal, and a slam-dunk antitrust case for the DOJ.
It seems to be more about the fear of Amazon's success, and also related to some distrust of Jeff Bezos.
Sorry but still smells a lot like greed.
Apple, publishers and ebook pricing – what does it all mean?
Re: Problem
I can see potentially how pricing and Amazon's size can be an issue for paper books.
How is it an issue for eBooks? The music industry has managed to sell through different stores despite iTunes' size and without any price fixing arrangements.
I really don't understand either the article or these comments. Fast forward this idea, and let's say the Amazon monopoly is prevented. How would competition enter, if everyone was priced the same because of this collusive dealing? Will publishers out of the goodwill just reduce prices? Why? Where is the competition?
Instead of Recommend Retail Price, this is a fancy way to ensure a Minimum Retail Price. The only thing it allows is for a hundred+ stores to offer the same price, that is neither competition nor choice. The only people who win in this arrangement are the publishers!
I would still end up buying at a big name retailer (Amazon?) just to be safe, because there would be no reason to go anywhere else. The price is the same! It's digital, exactly the same quality!
This is just scaremongering from the publishers. Even with Amazon, eBooks are not sold at a loss, as there would be no point for them to be in business. They can also easily offer ePubs cheaper than AZW which is Amazon's Achilles heel. Right now it's just words, excuses, sob stories and rising prices.
Mr Orlowski should do some more investigation and show the numbers here.
Silly article
Prices rose. For ebooks. Above cost. Margins simply must be higher for ebooks.
While stopping Amazon from potentially becoming a monopoly is great, any means to do so should not be employed.
Price fixing is most certainly not a way. Free markets must reign. Until the monopoly position is abused.
Remember that a monopoly is not illegal per se, abuse of that position is. Apple today has a tablet monopoly. This is not illegal. Telling anyone selling any other tablet to match iPad pricing would be.
Innocent until proven guilty I'm afraid. For Amazon too, even if you don't like it.
If the publishers are really in that much trouble, they can get together and make their own store front, and sell things cheap and get all the margin.
Undercut Amazon. Legally.
DoJ could start Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit this week
This is all just greed. Publishers want more money. Apple gave them a way and an excuse to do so. Win-Win for them lot. A total loss for end users. It isn't like the Apple store books became cheaper or something. Apple can happily do the same, but want nice fat margins.
If someone want to compete on price they should be free to do so (Tesco). If someone wants to compete on value addition, they should be free to do so (Independents). The end user gets to choose.
If a seller cannot discount the price when it can be done, and without subsidy, it is price fixing. The price is fixed and above cost price!
As an end user, I have actually seen the prices rise after this. There was no real reason for this, just a legal document.
US sues Apple, publishers over ebook pricing strategy
Re: economics @ AC posted Wednesday 11th April 2012 21:20 GMT
I remember reading a cost breakdown of an ebook conversion from some pretty well off author's blog. The problem is I think the typesetting and format conversion work, which is not ebook friendly and the process is inefficient for ebook publishing.
Separate license agreements are also required, meaning that some of the publishing costs of paper books are not a one off.
Also because of the lower volumes in ebook sales, I think many of them are going for part profit payment deals. I know for magazines this is definitely the case.
So ebooks seem to have separate costs related to generation of the epub/mobi/amz.
This is MPAA/RIAA part 2 in the making IMHO. The middlemen want their cut, but they are not the publishers themselves.
Re: Nope..
Downvoters need to research more.. probing analyst is right..
I purchase ebooks from Amazon, Kobo, ex-WHSmith, Watersmiths (depending on where it is cheapest) and read them all on my iPad and Android phone. Strangely Apple's store has never been the cheapest (at least in GBP).
However, the DOJ is correct. Banning the Amazon app would have immediately brought in charges of abuse of its tablet monopoly, given Amazon's size. So that is a pretty lame defense, they did not really have any other choice.
The most favoured nation clause has caused prices to artificially rise, and price fixing or buffering is cartel behaviour. I saw the prices rise after this 30% commission and most favoured nation clause was added, notably the Zinio mags and The Times in-app subscriptions.
Apple needs to defend the most favoured nation clause they demand. They are free to ask for 30% but not to demand that, even with that cut, the price is also the lowest. The only way to achieve that is to increase prices elsewhere, given the margins involved for the content makers. Remember that it is 30% of sale price and not 30% of the profit made on the sale.
If some competitor, say Kobo, wants to offer a 2% cut, then the price should be allowed to go down by 28% in the Kobo store.
Apple certainly enjoys capitalism, well free markets are part of that, and abuse of monopoly positions isn't.
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So, I got a Kitchen Aid stand mixer....now what?
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- kuya james Sep 27, 2010 07:43 PM
Seriously...what do i do with this thing?
don't bake
don't make fresh pasta
Guess I can grind meats, and make some ice cream (after getting the attachements), but what else can i really do with this thing besides taking up baking?
Taking up baking wouldn't be a bad thing! They're useful for other things, like mashing potatoes, and mixing batters for pancakes and waffles.
For a non-baker, a food processor would be a better use of the space.
Common sense says you'd return it and get whatever you really want. Anything more to this situation?
re: flourgirl
Wedding gift.
Guess I'll start baking, make meatballs, and have whipped cream with everything!
re: kuya james
Return it. But if you keep it, don't make meatballs with it. Talk about overkill. Yikes. Things like that should be handled as little as possible.
I use it to mix up anything and everything. Meatloaf, meat balls, cookie dough, Buffalo Chicken Dip, whipped cream. It's a great tool even without the additional attachments.
re: chowser
Not really going out of my way. Just trying to figure out other uses for the machine then the standard 'baking' sterotype rep (at least in my mind) this machine gets.
re: kuya james
There is no doubt that there's lots of uses for a KA stand mixer outside of baking - but honestly? I never would have purchased one myself if I hadn't become a serious baker.
re: roadfix
Ditto the pizza dough. It can rise in the same bowl. Only a couple of ingredients. (Well, so I have been told when I watched a friend preparing it in her mixer.) Though I don't cook often, I enjoy it when I have the time and the right tools. I wonder if would become Wonder Woman if I had a Kitchen Aid mixer.
re: gordeaux
Yes! Forgot about this - I LOVE tamales and keep promising myself I'm going to try making them. Haven't gotten around to it yet but I have a couple of books on the subject, was reading one of them the other day and they talked about this. Made me glad I had a stand mixer.
re: flourgirl
Even with a hand mixer, it's tedious. Stand mixer is awesome for tamales. There are several threads here in the Home Cooking Forum. They are easy to do, just time consuming. If you can, make a smallish batch yourself a few times, and then you create a product you like, then crack the whip and get the family, and or friends involved to make a whole bunch of them one day. They freeze / reheat beautifully.
re: gordeaux
Ahhh, whip cracking. I like it.
If someone gave me one of those things I'd buy a pasta attachment and a sausage maker too. But returning it for something you really need sounds like a much better idea.......... unless the giver was someone for whom it needs to be on display.
Boy, somebody really loves you to give you that for a wedding gift! If you're absolutely certain you don't wanna learn how to use it, then take it back to the store where it was purchased and make off with the cash! But...... If there's any chance you might start using it, then give yourself six months to a year of really trying and if you feel you're still better off without it, then eBay awaits...!
Oh, and I love mine for making bread. And wedding cakes. And lots of fattening foods that I just adore but shouldn't have because I'm allergic to them... They make me swell up! So if you're prone to a weight problem, maybe returning it now and never looking back isn't such a bad plan... You could use the cash for a gym membership! Good luck! '-)
re: Caroline1
Yeah, that's a good point--the KitchenAid has made it so easy to make some things that it's much easier to put on weight. I made bagels yesterday (well, dough the day before) and it was so fast and easy compared to doing it by hand. Whipped cream? Piece of cake...
re: chowser
Whipped cream *ON* a piece of cake! BAAAAAAD...! Weight Watchers is Watching!
Make Pizza.
Make Pancakes.
Make homemade Butter just using cream. Use the buttermilk to make the pancakes I told you to make!
Make Cookies.
Go to TheFreshLoaf for more inspiration.
Did I say make pizza? Try to perfect a certain style of pizza. Check pizzamaking.com - and get a cheap scale.
re: DukeOfSuffolk
I make pancakes from scratch al the time - and the last thing I would ever use to make them is my stand mixer.
re: flourgirl
I have some pancake recipes that call for whipping the egg whites first. They make an incredibly light, melt in your mouth pancake.
re: chowser
I've made those kind of pancakes too - but I use a hand mixer for stuff like that.
re: flourgirl
They would be like lead!!!
Honey - Send it to me! I've been wanting one for a really long time and always cringe at the price tag. That plus wondering where I'll store it. Too funny.
re: Mother of four
it was mentioned it was a wedding gift.
i think the best thing to do is to...send it to me! ;-)
If I had one, the first thing I'd use it for would be to make dough for Chinese hand pulled noodles.


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