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The challenges of mobile billing
Managing mobile costs is one of those meaty issues that most people can share more than a few stories about. Whether it is the PA in HR who was running up bills of £500 a month calling her aunty in Australia, or the guy in sales who though it was OK to download a few episodes of Top Gear to pass some time while he was trying to …
If people would just do as they are told
there wouldnt be a problem. But you cant tell an englishman to not use his phone for personal use, and expect them to not use their phone for personal use. I dont think that they are capable of simple intruction.
One organisation I know...
.. has an arrangement where you dial a prefix for personal calls, which are then charged to you.
Anyone found making personal calls without using the prefix had better start sprucing up their CV.
The handsets I've seen staff using are not smartphones, so I assume it's done on the network end by the telco.
Sloppy thinking
"But, at the end of the day, we have to export the information to Excel and do the analysis ourselves."
No you don't. Get the data into a CSV file, or (better) an SQL database, and you can use half a page of Perl code to do the analysis for you.
The use of a mobile phone for personal use (as long as only one mobile phone is issued) is no longer a taxable benefit, so it's pointless.
I worked in a company where you were told to add a * at the end of the dialled number and then you'd have the cost deducted from your pay. I think it took 18 months of working with Vodafone and internal IT to make this happen - this was when HMRC announced that using a mobile for personal use would mean £200 in taxable benefit.
It's no longer worth it. If you use a manual process to look at 10% of the highest bills every month, this will send out a message that people need to be sensible.
Unpossible task...
Unfortunately being able to separate business from personal calls via a bill is nigh-on impossible and pretty unenforceable, certainly within my company. With a 24/7 workforce who have to deal with many external suppliers, subcontractors and other 3rd parties, being able to reconcile this correlation of personal vs private usage based simply on a phone number is simply impossible. And asking staff to identify which is which themselves is OK, but needs to be incentivised to encourage its use, and I've yet to see any mobile supplier offer anything to support this.
Definately not impossible!!
I work for a company that provides this service. My earlier post must have been blocked because I inluded a phone number and link to our site.
Our software accessable via a web portal, uses suppliers CSV call data to produce itemised billing. Users can log on and tag their calls as personal or business. The calls can default to personal or business depending on customer preference, time of day or any other criteria.
The system also includes a method to allow mangers to approve personal calls and a method for administrators to manage the payment for these personal calls.
This process has saved some of our customers tens of thousands of pounds a year.
It is possible and it is worthwhile.
billing holes
Its worse than that Jim... telecoms billing has a long established tradition of hole filling.
This is where when data for a period is lost (it happens a lot!) the billing management team take call data for a similar period and use this to "fill the hole" and hope the client(s) are too stupid to notice. If you catch them out they refund the call charges but you really need itemised billing and some nice software to do detect this.
And yes we do this as a service for *some* customers :-)
Also it is worth running standard telco reporting software on your phone logs - many years ago we were running said stats on our own phone system and caught a contractor working for us calling his family in SAfrica for hours instead of doing his work. His contract was not renewed and his reference from us was very carefully worded.
A report we ran for a large bank found one office phone made a long duration overseas call costing (then) thousands. The customer investigated and was happy with the "exception" report. Evidently the guy dealt with asian share prices and had the cleaner press auto dial on his phone every monday morning at 6am - until it connected - the speakerphone was left running an audio "ticker tape" until he finished his weeks work because if he hung up it was hell getting reconnected.
IMHO Telco billing is seriously fun stuff.
employee care
How about companies stop being miserly gits and actually focus on improving the lives of their employees such as not pestering them about making a couple of calls.
Soon as I get my megacorp of the ground its going to be Arcologies all round, structured exercise activities, relaxation time and matchmaking services.
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Obviously, its historic in the fact that ABC wont carry it anymore, so I guess thats part of the fun of it, head coach Herman Edwards said. Obviously, its been a tradition for a long time. Everyone knows about Monday Night Football. When it first got started it was really the thing to be on if you were a player. I can remember when I first came in; you were excited about Monday night. If you got on Monday night television and Howard Cosell was doing it and all those guys, I can remember watching it.
The Jets were involved in one of the most famous MNF games on Oct. 23, 2000 when they came back from a 30-7 fourth quarter deficit against the Miami Dolphins and won 40-37 in overtime. The game was dubbed, the Monday Night Miracle.
The player who orchestrated that comeback was QB Vinny Testaverde. With the Jets at 3-11 and just playing for pride, the big question around Weeb Ewbank Hall is will Testaverde get in one of the two final games. Edwards addressed that today. He will get to play between now and the end, Edwards said. I think it is important for a lot of reasons, in the fact that Vinny has been in this League almost 20 years and everything he has brought to the National Football League he has brought with class. Hes gone through a lot in his career Hes been around. Hes never moaned and groaned about it. Hes thrown a lot of TDs in this league. He has a lot of yards in this League. His goal was always to try to win the Super Bowl My first year here, he was the first guy at the door when I arrived to welcome me as the head coach.
Id love to get on the field and play for however long it would mean a lot to me, Testaverde said today.
Testaverde was asked if he has talked with Edwards about playing. I told Herm dont feel like you owe me anything, Testaverde said. Its been a bonus I dont want to take away from Brooks (Bollinger).
I owe him that, his career and what he did for us this year coming back, Edwards said. The guy was retired and came back to try to help us win. He won a game for us his first time out. That says a lot about him and what eh has done for this organization.
When the schedule was released before the season, many thought the Jets-Patriots Monday night game might be to decide the AFC East. But the Jets have dealt with many injuries this season and are just 3-11 while the Patriots are 9-5 and have clinched the AFC East. Yesterday, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said he will play his normal starters Monday against the Jets.
We earned our way there, Edwards said. Obviously, we wish we had a better record at this time, but it is still going to be an important game for us as a division game against New England and they are getting in the playoff grove now, so it is still a big game for us and it is always a big game for players on Monday night.
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Davies's Restitution.
Reformation of the Abuses of Mariners.
An Hospital, School, and Preacher, in Thetford.
Report of His Majesty's Answer, concerning the Time of receiving the Thanks of this House.
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of King Edward the Fourth, That no Stranger, or
Alien, should buy any English Horns unwrought; and
that the Wardens of the Horners of the City of London
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I have seen Field of Dreams multiple times since its release in theaters back in 1990; it's one of those films that I enjoy more as I grow older. I used to consider it the greatest baseball film solely because it is different and holds my interest. I don't think of it in such trivial terms anymore. In fact, only in my most recent viewing, not having seen it in about 10 years, have I felt the emotional impact that it delivers in terms of its quiet sentimentality and themes of second chances in life. Just as the players on the field can only be seen by certain people at certain times, so too does the message of Field of Dreams only speak to those ready to hear it. Nearly two decades after its release, I no longer see just the empty field.
Kevin Costner stars as Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer living a simple life with his wife, Annie and his precocious daughter, Karin . One day, while out in the cornfields, Ray hears a voice telling him a simple message: "If you build it, he will come". He knows it seems crazy, but Ray still feels compelled to listen to the voice and make the vision he sees of a baseball field smack dab in the middle of his cornfield come true, cashing in all of his family's savings and crippling heir potential to turn a profit. After the diamond is built, a man appears in the center of it; "Shoeless" Joe Jackson , one of eight White Sox players banned from baseball after being found guilty of throwing the games for money during the 1919 World Series. Soon, the rest of the banned players appear, and then a few more, although as they play all day, the bills for the Kinsella family keep piling up, to the point where they might lose the farm, the baseball field, and all of the dreams that might come with it. Meanwhile, the voices continue, and Ray must see this mad dream to its conclusion.
From a casting standpoint, Field of Dreams is top notch. This marks the second foray into the baseball genre for Kevin Costner, coming after the fan-favorite hit Bull Durham, and it proves to be another winner. Costner has that easygoing style that complements the game well, as well as the solitude of farm life -- it's hard to imagine someone else fitting better into the role. Casting an "everyman" as Kinsella is crucial, as we need to feel that he is sane enough to not think he is completely off his rocker when listening to the voice in his head, and then drive his family into the brink of bankruptcy. Veterans James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster , in his final big screen role, give some of their best screen performances in years, while the ensemble of baseball players is perfectly suited to the style and era that they belong to, respectively.
Conversely, Archibald "Moonlight" Graham was a real player whose pro baseball career was short-lived, later pursuing a career as a doctor,. His character is fictional otherwise. Though he often dreams of fulfilling his goal of getting a big hit as a ballplayer in the majors, it is touching to find that it is in his second calling, as a doctor, that he ultimately finds true value. Despite having a second chance in life, sometimes it is the road traveled, not the one we regret not taking, that proves to be the correct one.
Field of Dreams has aged well, with some of the cornier bits seeming not so out of place as it becomes more enveloped into the status of a classic film. Whatever contrivances that the fantasy elements necessitate are easily forgiven for the sake of the feeling of awe, nostalgia, and fanciful ideas. Just as baseball, old-time Americana, and the radical 1960s are things that many wax nostalgic about, so too is the film that extols these vaunted memories of America's past greatness itself.
Like those bygone days we fondly look back on, there is a sense of idealism to Field of Dreams that rarely exists anymore in Hollywood films. We don't reminisce about things just because they are old, but because they mean something to those who remember it. The film isn't about baseball so much as it is about holding on to, remembering, and cherishing, things that have value the things that meant something to your father, and his father before him.
Posted by Utility Derek at 8:34 AM
2 comments:
- GM-Carson said...
Really, #1?
My top 5:
1. Sandlot
2. Major League
3. 61*
4. Field of Dreams
5. The Rookie
- February 18, 2010 9:17 AM
- andujar said...
Anybody like "Bang the Drum Slowly" with DeNiro? I think it's excellent!
- February 19, 2010 5:49 PM
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Every year, the most common New Year's resolution is to lose weight. And every year I think 'moderation' will finally be the next big thing. But people think moderation is boring and the all-or-nothing approach, however unsuccessful, is much more exciting. Yet, if you can do it, moderation is the answer: You can have your cake and eat it, too — just not the whole cake. Here are a few 'moderate' recipes that are healthful and delicious. Happy New Year.
Roasted root vegetables make a great winter salad. If you don't have time to roast the vegetables, try thinly sliced raw root vegetables — very fashionable and delicious.
- 1 bunch beets
- 1 lb butternut squash, peeled and cut into chunks
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
- salt and pepper
- 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 4 cups mixed lettuce greens
- 1 590 mL can chick peas, rinsed and drained
- ¼ cup pomegranate seeds, optional
- 3 tbsp lemon juice or rice vinegar
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp honey
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1. Trim beets. (Sautée greens with olive oil and garlic for a yummy omelette filling.) Wrap beets in a single layer in foil and roast at 400F for 1 hour or until tender when pierced with a knife. Rub off skins. Cut into chunks or slices.
2. Combine 2 tbsp olive oil with thyme, salt and pepper. Toss half with squash and other half with chicken. Arrange squash on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Roast at 400F for 30 to 40 minutes until tender and browned.
3. Place chicken breasts on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and bake at 400F for 20 minutes or until a meat thermometer registers 165F. Slice.
4. Whisk lemon juice with garlic, salt, mustard and honey. Whisk in oil.
5. Arrange squash, beets, chicken and chick peas over greens. Drizzle with dressing. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds. Makes 4 servings
My daughter Fara and her husband Mark like to eat healthful homemade food. This chili is one of their favourites. They make lots so they can take some to work for lunch or have leftovers a few days later.
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 onions, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 2 tbsp chili powder
- 1 cup canned crushed canned tomatoes, drained
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- ¼ cup salsa (hot or mild)
- 1 540 mL can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 tsp kosher salt or more to taste
- 2 tbsp chopped green onions
- 1 cup grated cheddar
- tortilla chips
1. Heat oil in a deep skillet. Add garlic and onions and cook gently a few minutes until tender. Add ground turkey and cook until lightly browned.
2. Add chili powder and cook about a minute. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and salsa. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook gently about 20 minutes. Add beans and cook another 5 minutes. Season with salt to taste.
3. Serve sprinkled with cheese and green onions. Serve with tortilla chips. Makes 4 servings
Pad Thai seems to please everyone. And rice noodles are gluten-free.
- ½ lb rice noodles (about ¼-inch wide)
- 3 tbsp ketchup or tomato sauce
- 3 tbsp Thai fish sauce
- 3 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp hot Asian chili paste or more to taste
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 small onion, thinly sliced
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 tbsp chopped toasted cashews or peanuts
- 3 green onions, chopped
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
1. Add noodles to a large pot of boiling water. Remove from heat. Soak 8 to 10 minutes until just tender. Drain. If not using immediately, rinse with cold water to separate.
2. In a small bowl, combine ketchup with fish sauce, lime juice, vinegar, brown sugar and chili paste. Reserve.
3. Heat oil in a large non-stick skillet or wok. Add garlic and
onions. Stir-fry on medium heat until lightly browned and tender. Add reserved sauce and bring to a boil. Add eggs and scramble into sauce. Add noodles and heat thoroughly. Add peas.
4. Transfer noodles to a serving platter and sprinkle with nuts, green onions and cilantro. Makes 3 to 4 servings


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Press Release #83 (6/27/11)
Movies On Demand on Cable Schedule Update - July 2011
Highlights of Cable's Movies On Demand (MOD) new release schedule for July, 2011 include "Source Code" premiering July 8, "Limitless," premiering July 19 and "Rango" on July 29. Almost every major studio new release listed below comes to cable's MOD schedule either before or the same day as DVD (details below). A wide array of indie films are also premiering in July (small selection listed below). Two infamous (and very different) "on the road" documentaries are also playing: "Magic Trip" about the famed author Ken Kesey's legendary psychedelic bus trip and "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop," O'Brien's 32-city comedy tour after he was booted from "The Tonight Show." Cable viewers can catch many of these before or same day they hit theaters or DVD.
Below is a selected listing of films premiering on cable TV's Movies On Demand* platform in July, 2011. All the films listed below and many others are at viewers' fingertips through the cable remote. All of the major releases are offered in both standard and high-definition, along with many indies. Below are just a few highlights from the schedule of new titles this month, their premiere dates on MOD, ratings, genres and cast.
Major Studio Releases*:
"Source Code" - Premieres July 8, (Weeks Before DVD, Weeks Before Netflix and Redbox), PG-13, Action, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan
"The Lincoln Lawyer" - Premieres July 12, (Same Day as DVD), R, Action, Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei
"Insidious" - Premieres July 12, (Same Day as DVD), PG-13, Horror, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne
"Arthur" - Premieres July 15, (Same Day as DVD, Weeks Before Netflix and Redbox), PG-13, Comedy, Russell Brand, Helen Mirren
"Limitless" - Premieres July 19, (Same Day as DVD, Months Before Netflix), PG-13, Sci-Fi, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro
"Take Me Home Tonight" - Premieres July 19, (Same Day as DVD, Months Before Netflix), R, Comedy, Topher Grace, Anna Faris
"Rango"- Premieres July 29, PG, Animated, Johnny Depp, Timothy Olyphant
Indie Titles* (selected titles only - contact us for more extensive listing):
"Magic Trip"** - Premieres July 1, (Before Theatrical Release), R, Documentary, Ken Kesey
"The Perfect Game" - Premieres July 4, (Before DVD), PG, Drama, Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin, Moises Arias
"Conan O'Brien Can't Stop"** - Premieres July 8, R, Documentary/Comedy, Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Jimmy Vivino
"Flypaper" - Premieres July 15, (Before Theatrical Release), TV-MA, Comedy, Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Tambor
"Trust" - Premieres July 26, (Same Day as DVD), R, Drama/Thriller, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" - Premieres July 27, (Before DVD), TV-PG, Documentary, Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes. Also in 3D.
With Movies On Demand through digital cable, viewers can watch movies instantly, pause, fast-forward and rewind.
NOTE: *Title dates and availability may vary by system. HD not available in all systems.
**Not available in all systems
These movies are distributed to U.S. cable systems by iN DEMAND. For full listings and more information, go to www.indemand.com, on-screen guides or cable system websites. Listings for Cable's Movies On Demand can also be found at TVGuide.com (http://movies.tvguide.com/movies-on-demand).
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The Worst Weight-Loss Advice We've Ever Heard
We admit that in times of desperation, we too have gone looking for a quick-fix diet, but these six ill-advised tips are certifiably crazy. Avoid at all costs!
By Sunny Sea Gold
Eat only fruit before noon
This one of the worst dieting tips I've ever heard, because it actually sounds like a healthy thing to do, says registered dietitian and NutritionBabes cofounder Lauren Harris-Pincus. This gem originated from Fit for Life, a popular 80s diet book that claimed taking in only fruit or fruit juice in the morning would positively affect calorie burn. Not so, explains Harris-Pincus. Balancing meals and snacks with protein, carbohydrates, fat, and fiber will help delay a rise in blood sugar and prevent spikes and crashes while giving you a sustained source of energy. Eating only fruit, however, causes quick digestion and absorption of sugars, meaning hunger will return very quickly. The whole idea of not combining nutrients is ridiculous based on what science tells us about the human body.


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Saturday links: tech hub envy
- abnormalreturns
- January 4th, 2014
The weekend is a great time to catch up on some longer reads from the prior week. This week includes a little bit of catch up from later in the week. Enjoy!
Offensive sectors won in 2013. (Afraid to Trade)
Dividends rose 12% in 2013. (Crossing Wall Street)
Does trend following work on stocks? With updated data to 2013. (Trendfollowing)
What they are buying to start 2014 at "Pariah Capital." (Brett Arends)
Grow up, change your mind. (The Reformed Broker)
It's usually not different this time. (Farnam Street)
Scott Adams' advice on how to be happier in 2014. (Washington Post)
In defense of academic ethics. (Econbrowser)
How to manage under conditions of scarcity. (Turnkey Analyst)
Respect is a scarce commodity these days in America. (Noahpinion also Marginal Revolution)
Why hasn't Microsoft ($MSFT) picked a new CEO yet? (WSJ)
Why big box retailers are mismanaging their workforces. (NYTimes)
It isn't the mega-corporation that is taking over it is the technology "mega-network." (TechCrunch)
Uber is just the first of many startups that are encroaching on established offline business. (Next City)
American-style startups are taking root in India. (Dealbook)
Everybody wants their own thriving "tech hub" these days. (FT)
Why are there so many haters in Silicon Valley? (recode)
What does it take to get girls interested in coding? (A VC, TechCrunch)
Why I am interested in Bitcoin. (Chris Dixon)
Why passenger pigeons went extinct: they tasted too good. (New Yorker)
The latest big attraction at Disney World: oversized turkey legs. (NYTimes)
What's with all the spice all of a sudden? (Time)
If Hollywood had its way Netflix and the iPod never would have existed. (TechCrunch)
Netflix ($NFLX) ain't what it used to be. (Felix Salmon)
An excerpt from Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's new book The Second Machine Age. (The Second Machine Age)
James Grant reviews Walter Friedman's Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. (WSJ)
A look at the "object-oriented ontology" underlying Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. (Newsweek)
The Wolf of Wall Street
How The Wolf of Wall Street engaged in his signature fraud(s). (WSJ)
The original Forbes article that highlighted Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street. (Forbes)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
My non-prediction, prediction for 2014. (The Exchange)
My pick for a "must read" book from 2013. (Business Insider)
What you may have missed in our Thursday linkfest. (Abnormal Returns)
Mixed media
Do Fields Medal winners subsequently lack off? (Priceonomics Blog)
Why some Americans are stockpiling incandescent light bulbs. (Scientific American)
The 124 states (that could have been) of America. (The Fix)
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"The Lost Boys" Poster by James Rheem Davis
The Alamo Drafthouse decided to have a second Lost Boys poster done by James Rheem Davis for a new showing. This one is a 24″ x 34″ screenprint, and costs $30. You can pick one up now at Mondotees.com.
5 Responses to ""The Lost Boys" Poster by James Rheem Davis"
nice, will look good next to my Elm Street print
Looks awesome. Better than the Stout one IMO.
Disagree, Stouts is way better. I'm not sure how this one looks in person, but by the image the print seems to be very pixelated. Also, Stouts has a bunch of hidden gems in it that u have to look for.
Concerning the pixelation, this is a preview jpg. I can guarantee the printed version won't glow like a monitor screen, either.
anyone know where I can buy this..Or who would sell it


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Black Glass Theme for ADW Launcher [v1.7]Nov 28 2010 · 22 comments · Blog
I've discontinued my work on this and pulled all paid versions from the market for now but I will eventually release a brand new adw theme with all of my previous themes built into one.
Update Dec 31, 2010 – v1.7 – visible to android 2.1 devices in the market
Update Dec 29, 2010 – v1.7 beta posted
Update Dec 27, 2010 – v1.6 – mdpi support – please email me or leave a comment if you have any issues with the mdpi support
Update Dec 3, 2010 – v1.5 – More icon support for blur/droidx/sense/vibrant apps and a new market place icon
Update Dec 2, 2010 – v1.4 – More icons and new search widget skin
Update Nov 28, 2010 – v1.3 – Support for ADW 1.3 and finally in the marketplace
- The newer version has a few more icons but also has the icon_pack support fixed. You can use any icon in the pack as a custom icon for any shortcuts you make.
- I included an icon item for the original launcher icon for those that are upset about it. I personally like the new icon but whatever's clever.
- Requires adw launcher 1.3 or higher
- Still only support for hdpi
Download for free on the Android market:
If you are on your device click here: BlackGlassADWTheme
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PwC has published numerous publications on a number of entertainment & media topics.
All PwC Entertainment & Media Publications Publications see on PwC Global web site.
|PwC's 14th annual Global entertainment and media outlook 2013-2017
PwC's 14th annual update of the online Global entertainment and media outlook is now available. Outlook is a comprehensive online source of global analysis for consumer and advertising spend. With like-for-like, five-year historical and forecast data across 13 industry segments in 50 countries, the Outlook makes it easy to compare and contrast regional growth rates and consumer and advertising spend.
Outlook Insights, a 200 page thought leadership publication, draws on spend data taken from the online Outlook and explores how changing patterns in spending will shape industry trends at a macro and individual segment level and how consumers, advertisers, content creators and digital distributors are responding to these trends.
|PwC's 5th Annual Digital IQ Survey
PwC's Digital IQ Survey, now in its fifth year, is an annual assessment of how well companies understand the value of technology and weave information technology into the fabric of their organization, with over 1,100 respondents from 12 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and numerous industry sectors. A strong Digital IQ entails more than adopting the latest tools or having a large IT budget; it is about integrating "digital conversations" into every aspect of the business.
|2013 Deal Insights for Entertainment, Media and Communications industries
With the announcement of several billion-dollar deals in the first quarter of 2013, high-profile transactions in the Entertainment, Media & Communications (EMC) industry continue to develop. Across companies of all sizes and various EMC sub-sectors we see fundamental changes occurring. In this report we identify 5 key themes we believe will drive M&A activity.
Outlook Insights, a 200 page thought leadership publication, draws on spend data taken from the online Outlook and explores how changing patterns in spending will shape industry trends at a macro and individual segment level and how consumers, advertisers, content creators and digital distributors are responding to these trends.
|Opening the mobile wallet
Imagine running errands with nothing but your smartphone. Stop for a coffee, and pay with your phone. At the pharmacy, your prescription plan appears on your screen for the pharmacist to scan. While grocery shopping, coupons pop up for products you like and use. At the bookstore, you flash your membership card simply by holding up your phone. This report summarizes key findings from an online survey and follow-up focus groups, exploring the topic of the "mobile wallet" at a time when the media and technology landscape is rapidly changing.
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This report discusses how thinner, lighter, larger and sturdier displays with higher resolution, improved touch sensitivity and more power efficiency will enable mobile innovation over the next few years.
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PwC believes that the traditional methods employed to value intangible E&M assets — while still valid — may ultimately need to evolve in the interest of improved reporting. This new publication, Why Entertainment and Media companies should reassess asset valuation in the Digital Age, discusses some timely valuation issues for E&M companies
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Amid the recent launch of music, photo, and video content services, consumers appear to be more informed about digital lockers, yet consumers still lack a strong understanding of the benefits of digital lockers or the rights that come with ownership. This report includes quantitative findings on consumers' awareness, interest and engagement with digital content storage, including their willingness to pay for it.
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We should fall in love by damadesign
packing MiX.
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Music from home.
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latitudinarianLine breaks: lati|tu¦din|ar¦ian
Pronunciation: /ˌlatɪtjuːdɪˈnɛːrɪən /
Definition of latitudinarian in English:
Allowing latitude in religion; showing no preference among varying creeds and forms of worship: the latitudinarian clergy of the established Church
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- Surges of fashionable liberalism such as latitudinarian complacency in the early part of the century drew the fire of much satirical scepticism.
- Like their English counterparts, American latitudinarian Anglicans, such as Alexander Garden, also shaped Enlightened Dissent.
- In specifying severe judgment, as is widely recommended, are the bishops engaged in a form of retribution for having erred in the past by latitudinarian excess?
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A person with a latitudinarian attitude.
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- Wishy-washy latitudinarians that we are, the editors emphasize that each group is independent and works out whatever works best for participants.
- It is a commonplace to associate the low view of the episcopate not only with latitudinarians, but also with nineteenth-century evangelicals.
- However, the writings of latitudinarians Tillotson, Stillingfleet, and Wilkins received the most accolades.
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latitudinarianism noun
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- Actually, some figures of the period, such as Hans Denck and Sebastian Franck, did; but latitudinarianism was itself regarded as a heresy.
- The latitudinarianism of the incumbent rabbi was attuned to the religious outlook of the congregation's membership, for whom Orthodoxy was a matter of preference, not of practice.
- He spurns the label of 'laxity' for latitudinarianism and defends Anglicanism as a venerable bulwark against the encroachments and excesses of Rome.
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CCSVI: the confirmation!
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Hi everyone,
on Friday 19th of November I got the EDC exam (ecocolordoppler) in order to find out if I got the CCSVI (Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency) in the Gargano's clinic in Naples, directed by Dr. Ciro Gargano.
You can find below the examination result (italian only) that I'd like to comment with you…
As you can read both of my Jugular veins are twisted, which it means that the blood is blocked, not able to flow…
Depending on the Dr Gargano, who has a lot of experience in this field, it never happened before that a person with both Jugular veins blocked is in a "good" health like me.
Getting chelant therapy was in my case absolutely vital, because in this way my blood became more "fluid" and "clean", above all the blood which flows through the smaller veins next to the Jugulars (the confirmation!).
Therefore I'm "worthy" to get the mechanical release of the blood flow and frankly speaking I can just tell you that for the engineer in me these news are the greatest satisfaction.
Wainting for it, a big hug!
We win…!
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Would you care to wager a bet that next there will be Future Memory available to Prime Customers.
Or is that already a patent Special Application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming being supplied? Provide that very particular and peculiar algorithm and Global Operating Devices are the new Lauds, although whenever you get right down to IT, the new Bards is probably also accurate and appropriate.
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seems like a waste of money.....
DARPA should just ask the manfromMars
Neural network anyone?
From this article it sounds a lot like the sort of semi-analogue implementation of neural network blocks, with weighted inputs making the decisions for subsequent steps, and one 'neuron' in effect replacing a whole lot of multiply/accumulates and the simple end threshold step. Anyone know more?
I guess they are implementing the "Bayesian Network Tree"
These are more complex than NNs and also more expensive to compute, at least on symbolic machines, as you have to repeatedly roll the probabilities up and down the tree and this involves some heavy floating-point multiplication and division.
Of course it might be something else entirely.
old is new ?
Analogue computers are back ?
How long?
...before we see an improbability chip? Then all we need to do is plug it in to an extra hot cup of tea and we can invent the improbability drive, which will revolutionise space travel.
After all, the only thing you really need to know is exactly how improbable an event is....
...target aquired. The processor says it's 99.999% chance of being friendly.
Well that's 0.001% chance it isn't "Open Fire!"
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Wow, they've just reinvented Fuzzy Logic. Excuse me if I wonder if they've done even the crudest check into what's gone before.
I did a crude reading of the article
"Digital logic that takes 500 transistors to do a probability multiply operation, for instance, can be done with just a few transistors on the Lyric chips. With an expected factor of 1,000 improvement over general purpose CPUs running probability algorithms, the energy savings of using GP5s instead of, say, x64 chips will be immense"
I didn't get the impression that they were claiming to have invented fuzzy logic, just that they had invented some hardware to optimise fuzzy logic operations.
It's called an op-amp
Invented 50 or so years ago.
As numerous has written analog[ue] computing is as old as forever. Slide rules are analog[ue] calculators invented over 300 years ago.
There are quite a few vendors making mixed analog[ue]/digital FPGAs etc. that can be used to perform fuxxy logic/ neural nets etc.
Of course relative to running x64 chips, anything is an enormous power saving. Just recompile for ARM and you'll save over 95% of the power.
Looks just like someone found a good way to write a DARPA funding proposal.
accelerated heuristic appreciation of aggregated input, speeding up emergence of goodies for participants to act upon - intelligently.
I could use some of that in my pie.
open fire!
"Well that's 0.001% chance it isn't "Open Fire!""
Which is a much better chance than our boys currently get against the crack USAF at the moment...
A probability processor ?
Calculating the probability of something requires extensive knowledge of the factors that come into play, as well as their relative importance.
Referring to Mr. Spock, it has been demonstrated time and time again that, faced with a totally unknown phenomenon (the staple of T.O.S. episodes), you simply cannot state any probabilities whatsoever with any sort of scientific basis.
The processor is not going to be the thing defining the factors, now is it ? So how exactly is this "probability processor" going to work ? If it has to be fed all the parameters - which is the only way for it to do any statistical analysis - then there's a human that will be doing the work and the "probability" processor will just be a calculator, like any processor today.
It must be more complicated than all that, since there are so many much more intelligent people than me working on that kind of thing, but I'd like the description to be at least something I have a chance of understanding.
That's not the issue.
They're not saying that their probability processor can do things the digital chips can't. They're simply saying that their processor design can perform probability calculations ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE faster and more efficiently than digital processors. This is because it is looking at the probability AS A PROBABILITY. In traditional math, probabilities have distinct steps for handling differing cases of probability (compounded probabilities and so on), but all of them involve calculations that are not necessarily ideal for a digital processor: especially if those probabilities cannot be expressed in rational terms (which can easily happen if they're calculated based on statistics). These "PPUs", I suppose you could call them (Probability Processing Units) are custom-built for such calculations, much as GPUs are specially designed for fast parallel processing of discrete data (the kinds of calculations needed for 3D modeling).
Sounds cool!
Fuzzy Logic on steroids, in silicon.
If probabilities are represented as levels of voltage or charge, I can't imagine any significant precision -- especially if you have lengthy computations. I suppose they can make multiple "samples" to increase precision, but you would quickly lose the speed advantage.
Still, it is an interesting idea, and for "fuzzy" applications where you don't need any great precision, it sounds ideal.
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Well put, but if you don't need much precision then 16-bit (or even shorter) fixed-point should be just fine. It wouldn't surprise me if they compared performance of IEEE long floats to that of their creation to make it look 500 more rockin'.
And since AFAIK the fuzzy logic fad faded into obscurity, why do we think this will fare any better?
Yes does sound like processing in the linear region.
Analogue computers using up to 500 op amp modules were used in the 1960s for things like flight control simulators (new aircraft ahndling characteristics *before* you've built your new aircraft) and modeling rocket engine start up transients. Their dynamic range IIRC was around a few mV to +/- 10V so *roughly* 14 bits of linearity.
1. Fuzzy logic and probability are different things. Fuzzy logic measures the degree to which something is representative, i.e. the degree to which you are tall. Probability measures the likelihood that something is true, i.e. whether it is currently raining. The difference is largely semantic, however both methods can coexist in the same system.
2. 1,000 trillion is 1 quadrillion.
3. This appears to only be capable of processing probability mass functions, not the more complex probability density functions. Probability mass functions require a discreet environment, i.e. die rolls and binary results. Probability density functions operate on continuous domains and are thus better suited to complex real world problems. As an aside, artificial neural networks can be configured to work in either situation. Real neural networks are discreet however.
All we need to do
Is to use our certainty computers to work out how to build a probability processor, then we can work out how probable any outcome is and move everyone's underwear 3 feet of where the owner is. This will make certain physicists popular at parties.
Then with a fresh cup of really hot tea we can work out the probability of an infinite improbability drive is, and kaboom!
I would start by feeding in the Islington area's Phonebook first though.
And beware the mice.
What this is for...
Is stuff like image recognition and robotics. If you want to know more, check out Sebastian Thrun - "Probabilistic Robotics". His teams won the Darpa Grand Challenge, but as I recall those cars were filled with a shed-load of computing power. Far better to throw in a laptop with a probability co-processor.
this does not compute
Mr Spock on a Chip ?
this does not compute , Spock is all about logic deduction,
whereas the research is about randomness+ logic
Fifty patents issued. Effectively a whole *new* technology branch
That is illogical, Captain.
Reg commentard^Wcommenuises strike again!
Ah, if only the members of Vigoda's PhD committee, and everyone who participated in his dissertation defense, were as knowledgeable and clever as Reg readers. They'd have spotted his feeble reinvention of analog computing / fuzzy logic / &c right off the bat.
I assume, of course, that those dissing the GP5 chip here have read Vigoda's dissertation and verified that he has not in fact contributed anything new. Or could it just possibly be that they are full of crap?
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Duties of Directors
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Ethiopia's growth miracle, coupled with its large population and significant land mass, has attracted the attention of many international companies. Over the last ten years, the country has achieved double digit growth in real terms, averaging 10.6% per year, which is the second fastest in Africa.


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Bill Ferguson – Senator (Baltimore, MD)
Connect with Bill:
Bill's commitment to progressive renewal in Baltimore City began when he came to work in the city's public schools through Teach for America and served the Baltimore City Council President's Office as a part-time community liaison. While at law school, Bill remained connected with the Baltimore City Public Schools, accepting a newly created position as the CEO's Graduate Intern, where he served as point person in efforts to streamline the school system's $1.23 billion operational structure; create innovative and web-based communication tools to increase school system transparency; and serve a chief role in the school system's progressive negotiations with the Baltimore Teachers' Union. After attending law school, Bill ran for office to continue his work improving Baltimore's schools. Since being elected as a State Senator representing Baltimore in 2012, he has been an advocate for progressive education reform, as well as safer and more affordable neighborhoods throughout the city.