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|Andrea Brillantes a Filipina child actress best known for playing the eponymous protagonist in the 2013 primetime series Annaliza. She also appeared in other television series including E-boy and Alyna, and played various other roles
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|Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium Archduchess of Austria-Este the fifth child of Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Astrid of Belgium. She was born at the Clinique Saint Jean, Brussels, Belgium and is currently tenth in line to the Belgian throne
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|Moulay Hassan Crown Prince of Morocco the current heir apparent to the Moroccan throne. He is the oldest child of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco. He has a younger sister, Princess Lalla Khadija. He is named after his grandfather Hassan II; if he ascends to the throne as expected succeeds to the throne, is expected to reign as Hassan III
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|Alisa Kozhikina a Russian child singer. She will represent Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Malta with her song "Dreamer."
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|Alessia di Matteo an Italian from Genoa. Di Matteo became the first person in history to survive the transplantion of eight organs in a single operation, although she died a year later of complications. She was operated on at the age of six months on January 31, 2004, in Miami. She was born with megacystis microcolon intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome , a congenital smooth muscle disorder which affected her kidneys, intestines and stomach; she would have died earlier without treatment. She received a liver, a small and large intestine, a pancreas, a new stomach, a spleen and two kidneys. The operation was led by doctor Andreas Tzakis
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|Max Charles an American child actor. In addition to his appearance in the 2012 film The Three Stooges, Charles played a young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and has a role in the ABC comedy science fiction series The Neighbors. In 2014, Charles voiced Sherman in DreamWorks Animation's Peabody & Sherman alongside Ty Burrell
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|Alexandre Coste the younger of the two confirmed illegitimate children of Prince Albert II of Monaco. His mother is Nicole Coste, a native of Togo, while his paternal half-sister is Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
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|Quvenzhané Wallis an American child actress. She is known for her leading role as Hushpuppy in the critically acclaimed drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild , for which she became the youngest actress ever to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress
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|Lady Louise Windsor the elder child and only daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. She is the youngest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Louise is currently tenth in the line of succession to succeed her grandmother
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|Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman Lucy Cleverley-Bisman became famous as the face of a New Zealand campaign to encourage vaccination against meningococcal disease after contracting and surviving the disease. She was nicknamed "Miraculous Baby Charlotte" by her fellow New Zealanders as a result of making headlines worldwide after recuperating from a series of life-threatening complications. She is believed to be the smallest baby to have survived such a severe infection and the subsequent quadruple amputations
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|Catharina-Amalia Princess of Orange the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of the countries Netherlands, Curaçao, Aruba, and Sint Maarten.


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Everyone writes one. At least, everyone who fights in a war does. Some of us seal it in an envelope and tape it on the door of our wall locker so our buddies can easily find it. When the First Sergeant, the senior enlisted man in the company, packs a dead soldier's shit, he makes sure to weed out all the porn and anything else that the wives or parents might not want to see. The folks back home receive a sanitized version of a man's wartime possessions. They also receive the death letter.
–except from "Death Letter," by David W. Peters, published in 0-Dark-Thirty (Fall 2012)
As evidenced by yesterday's posts by Rebecca Vaudreuil and Melissa Walker, it is nearly impossible to talk about the role of the arts in promoting healing and wellness for military personnel on an individual level without beginning to tackle the question of what happens to those individuals once they are discharged and return to civilian life. In the second day of the salon, we will explore the ways that the arts are aiding service members reintegrating into their home communities. We'll focus on two programs that are helping to bridge the gap in understanding between service members and their families and communities and, even contributing to employment and workforce development. The first post, by Drew Cameron will explore his experience initiating the Combat Paper Project while Executive Director of Maryland Citizens for the Arts (MCA) Jonathan Schratwieser's post will consider how recent efforts have not only benefitted veterans and the community, but also enriched MCA's core arts and arts advocacy work.
Throughout the day, we'll also give you a deeper look into the creative power of those trained and given a platform for expression through the Veterans Writing Project (VWP) by interspersing posts with excerpts from essays and poems like David's piece above. Founded and directed by Ron Capps, VWP provides no-cost writing seminars and workshops for veterans, active and reserve service members, and military family members. Embodying the theme for the day, VWP has three main goals: to provide a platform for healing; to foster understanding between the less than 1% of the American population who have served and the more than 99% that have not; and to produce great literature. VWP has a sister site, O-Dark-Thirty and a literary journal under the same name.
There is so much potential in this space. To explore further examples of how the arts help build resilience and foster understanding between service members and their families and communities, take a look at Animating Democracy's newest trend paper, Art in Service: Supporting the Military Community and Changing the Public Narrative, by Maranatha Bivens.

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Torres Strait Islanders[edit]
Firstly, I'm not sure what 'Melanesian culture' means (not much, I think!). Secondly, TSI fall into two groups. The western Torres Strait Islanders are closely related to Australian Aboriginal people, at least linguistically--their language is a member of the Pama-Nyungan family of languages which covers most of the Australian mainland. The eastern TS language (one spelling of which is Meriam Mer) is related to the languages of the nearby PNG coast.
Nevertheless, it is true that the TSI people do consider themselves as a group to be distinct from Aboriginal people of the mainland. Dougg 05:10, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
- You know Melanesian is linked to an article. Wonderful thing, this Wikipedia. Kortoso (talk) 18:04, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Languages to their own pages?[edit]
As this article is supposed to be about Torres Straits Islanders we should probably shift the languages info off to separate articles. That won't leave much in this article but maybe whoever added the more detailed language info (with example sentences) can help fill it out? BTW, I'm interested to know what the source was for this info, I hadn't heard previously that there was much Austronesian influence on KLY/KKY/etc Dougg 07:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
- Done. Also tagged for a merge -> Torres Strait Islands, a much less stubby article. Though now that I think about it a bit more, perhaps Torres Strait Island languages should be merged into Torres Strait Islands as well? Regards, Ben Aveling 06:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I just re-added the flag, but was there any reason it was removed before? I don't object to its re-removal, if there's a valid reason, and it wasn't just a mistake. riana_dzasta 16:13, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- The flag was again removed in this edit by Hullaballoo Wolfowitz on 19 May 2013 with the following reason in the edit summary: "fails NFCC#8, no valid article-specific NFCC rationale". The requirement under NFCC#8 at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria#Policy (WP:NFCCP) is:
- Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding.
- The purpose stated in the non-free media rationale for this article, as stated at File:Flag of the Torres Strait Islanders.svg, is (as it was then):
- It seems to me that this is a perfectly acceptable purpose for the flag being included in an article specifically about Torres Strait Islanders, just as national flags are included in infoboxes about their respective nations. Therefore, the image should be re-instated. —sroc 💬 08:12, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
research resources[edit]
If anyone is based at a university the following publications look like they would be useful: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]--WikiTownsvillian 10:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
TSI Editors?[edit]
Is anyone familiar with any actual Torres Strait islander editors on WP? Just wondering, first I need to ask some questions about TSI culture, and secondly this page is of insufficient quality for it's importance. --Mattbray 07:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
A category for Torres Strait Islanders[edit]
Why no category for Torres Strait Islanders, who like Eddie Mabo seem to be classed under Indigenous Australians (he is subcategory Activist)? There are more of them than of Indigenous Tasmanians. Should the category be called just Torres Strait Islanders? Hugo999 (talk) 01:13, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Broken link in references[edit]
Citation 6 here is a broken link, does the page still exist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 22.214.171.124 (talk) 15:18, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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Introducing .NET Standard 2.0
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Recently Immo Landwerth post about .NET Standard 2.0 appeared in the web. Briefly, it is the unification of three major.NET Framework branches: .NET Framework, .NET Core and Xamarin. Simply saying, it is an API set which will be implemented by all platforms. This will join up the .NET platforms and stave off future fragmentation. This means that developers don't need to master three different base class libraries to write code that runs across all of them. As long as industry is rapidly changing new .NET features will be designed by Microsoft or someone else.
A significant change is that .NET Standard will replace Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) in order to build multi-platform .NET libraries. Although the gist will be the same for developers, but implementation will be different.
The .NET Standard will include two types of APIs, the ones which are absolutely necessary to be implemented by all platforms, and optional APIs, which are not obligatory to be implemented. The last will be available as individual NuGet packages.
The APIs that can not be implemented on all platforms can be divided into two groups: specific APIs for each runtime and specific APIs for each OS. There are three ways to deal with unrealizable API. The first one is to make API unavailable. Secondly, you can make API available, but throw PlatformNotSupportedException on the platforms where there is no implementation. And also you can simulate API (as Mono does, partially simulating the registry as .ini files).
.NET Standard uses all of these variations and their combination, depending on the situation. Technologies that are available only on certain platforms will be implemented as NuGet packages. If it is unreal to make a stand-alone package, then there are options: throw an exception or simulate API.
There are many versions of .NET Standard, which are compatible with different platforms:
In this table the arrows are showing the platform ability to support a higher version of .NET Standard. For example, .NET Core 1.0 supports the .NET Standard version 1.6, which is the reason why arrows point to the right for the lower versions 1.0 – 1.5.
As you can see, the 4.6.1 framework version meets twice. With this version exactly .NET Standard 2.0 will be compatible, as well as future versions of Xamarin and .NET Core. There was a roll back of changes that were included in versions 1.5 and 1.6. This was done in order to support backward compatibility. Newer versions of .NET Standard should contain previous and new features. During the analysis of NuGet.org only 6 packages with .NET Standard 1.5/1.6 target platform were found, the author of which is not Microsoft, so it was decided to take 4.6.1 as a basis, and to offer the authors of these 6-packs to update them.
PCL is replaced by .NET Standard, but you are still able to work with it. You can make a reference from one .NET Standard library to another, or to PCL library.
Graphically, this looks as follows:
In addition, it is possible to make a reference to a conventional .NET library using the compatibility shim.
But it will only work in case all APIs in this .NET library are supported by .NET Standard. In this case it will be much easier to apply the references to existing libraries.
The following image shows the main APIs of .NET Standard 2.0
Opportunities which are likely to appear in .NET Core are quite predictable as long as this brunch has less possibilities than others.
As for Xamarin, many of these APIs have been included in the release of Cycle 8 / Mono 4.6.0
Source: .Net Blog.
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Is Java out of business?
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We see this "Is Java out of business?" question pop up year after year. They say that Java is the least feature-rich language of the popular languages on the JVM and the slowest to move on new features in the last decade. There are also people who believe that because so many new JVM languages are being invented is proof that the Java language is lacking and that Java is no longer meeting the needs of many developers. And yet, by all external markers, Java is alive, well, and growing.
Here are several proofs for it:
1. TIOBE ranked Java as its top language of 2015 currently shows it enjoying 5% growth in use since 2014, more than any other programming language.
2. RedMonk has recently published the latest edition of its bi-annual list of the top programming languages. Compiled with the help of data obtained from GitHub and StackOverflow, this list tells us about the usage and discussion of a language on the web. Just like the previous years Java is among the top of the programming languages.
3. Further, the PYPL Index, which ranks languages based on how often language tutorials are searched on Google, shows Java clearly out in front with 23.9% of the total search volume.
Since Java first appeared it has gained enormous popularity. Its rapid ascension and wide acceptance can be traced to its design and programming features, particularly in its promise that you can write a program once, and run it anywhere. Java was chosen as the programming language for network computers (NC) and has been perceived as a universal front end for the enterprise database. As stated in Java language white paper by Sun Microsystems: "Java is a simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral, portable, multithreaded, and dynamic."
So here are the most common and significant advantages of Java that helped it to take its high position in a quite competitive environment of programming languages:
- Java is easy to learn.
Java was designed to be easy to use and is therefore easy to write, compile, debug, and learn than other programming languages.
- Java is platform-independent.
One of the most significant advantages of Java is its ability to move easily from one computer system to another. The ability to run the same program on many different systems is crucial to World Wide Web software, and Java succeeds at this by being platform-independent at both the source and binary levels.
- Java is secure.
Java considers security as part of its design. The Java language, compiler, interpreter, and runtime environment were each developed with security in mind.
- Java is robust.
Robust means reliability. Java puts a lot of emphasis on early checking for possible errors, as Java compilers are able to detect many problems that would first show up during execution time in other languages.
- Java is multithreaded.
Multithreaded is the capability for a program to perform several tasks simultaneously within a program. In Java, multithreaded programming has been smoothly integrated into it, while in other languages, operating system-specific procedures have to be called in order to enable multithreading.
Nonetheless things changed since the time when Java was created. In the recent years, many important languages have appeared and left an impact on the technology world. Due to their simplicity and user-friendliness, they have managed to surpass the more established languages. So we tried to make a list of reasons why Java is going to stay on the grind in the nearest future:
1. Java is time-proved.
You generally need a strong reason to switch from a language you're currently using: it requires time to practice and learn new languages, and you have to be confident that the language you're considering switching to will be supported in the long term. Nobody wants to build software in a language that will be obsolete in five years' time.
2. JVM and the Java Ecosystem.
The Java Virtual Machine, or JVM. compiles programs into bytecode, which is then interpreted and run by the JVM. Because the JVM sits above your specific hardware and OS, it allows Java to be run on anything, a Windows machine, a Mac, or an obscure some flavor of Linux.
The big advantage granted by the JVM is in this increased compatibility and the stability it affords. Because your application runs in the VM instead of directly on your hardware, you can program said application once and trust that it is executable on every device with a Java VM implementation. This principle is the basis for Java's core messaging: "Write once, run everywhere." And it makes Java applications very resilient to underlying changes in the environment.
3. Java and the Internet of Things.
"I really think Java's future is in IoT. I'd like to see Oracle and partners focused on a complete end-to-end storage solution for Java, from devices through gateways to enterprise back-ends. Building that story and making a success of it will help cement the next 20 years for Java. Not only is that a massive opportunity for the industry, but also one I think Java can do quite well," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.
Oracle agrees. Per VP of Development Georges Saab, "Java is an excellent tech for IoT. Many of the challenges in IoT are many of the challenges of desktop and client Java helped address in the 1990s. You have many different hardware environments out there. You want to have your developers look at any part of the system, understand it and move on. Java is one of the few technologies out there that lets you do that."
Thus, Java might have its detractors, and some of their arguments might even be reasonable. Nonetheless Java has evolved a lot since its inception, holds the lead in many areas of software development and has more prospects for the future. So, in our opinion, its survivability is not in doubt.
And what do you think? Is Java going to become one of the dead languages? Or it has all chances to survive? Feel free to share your thoughts in comments below!
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Wearable tech devices, such as smart watches and bracelets, have firmly stepped into our everyday life and accompany us in different spheres of life. And who knows, we may soon witness the next tech revolution in the wearable world.
Microsoft Research and MIT Media Lab PhD students have teamed up to create the next level of wearable: temporary smart tattoos.
The technology is named DuoSkin. These tattoos consist of artistic arrangements of conductive gold and silver leaf, plus tissue-thin electronics. Users can apply the tattoo to their body with a wet cloth, similar to any other temporary tattoo.
The fabrication process is fairly simple: first, you design a stencil with any graphic design software, and cut the pattern out of tattoo paper and vinyl. Then you place the gold leaf layer on top to create conductivity, and attach surface-mount electronics.
Smart tattoos can be used for several purposes. Firstly, the tattoo can act as an interface that can be used, for example, as a trackpad or a button to remotely control devices. It may be quite demanding in the near future as our devices get smaller and smart tattoos could provide some additional auxiliary area, without carrying a larger device. Secondly, they can track and show users information about themselves, for example they can change color depending on the user's mood or show body temperature. A third possible function is wireless communication. The tattoo could include an NFC (near field communications) tag, an electrical component that includes small microchips to store data that can be read by phones or other NFC devices nearby. In the near future, the technology could serve as a substitute for identification, subway cards, etc.
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, the lead researcher, calls DuoSkin a "project" and not a product or prototype. Others may use this information as a basis to create their own personalized on-skin wearables.
Lets's think a bit out of the box:) The future presented in some fantastic films is about to come to reality: not more physical devices but different tattoos and built-in chips:) Аnd what do you think about smart tattoos? Will they change the wearable world or will soon be forgotten?
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ASP.NET Core: Pros and Cons
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Introducing ASP.NET Core:
ASP.NET Core is a new open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud based internet connected applications, such as web apps, IoT apps and mobile backends. ASP.NET Core apps can run on .NET Core or on the full .NET Framework. It was architected to provide an optimized development framework for apps that are deployed to the cloud or run on-premises. It consists of modular components with minimal overhead, so you retain flexibility while constructing your solutions. You can develop and run your ASP.NET Core apps cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux. ASP.NET Core is open source at GitHub.
The framework is a complete rewrite that unites the previously separate ASP.NET MVC and Web API into a single programming model.
Despite being a new framework, built on a new web stack, it does have a high degree of concept compatibility with ASP.NET MVC.
ASP.NET Platform exists for more than 15 years. In addition, at the time of System.Web creation it contained a large amount of code to support backward compatibility with classic ASP. During this time, the platform has accumulated a sufficient amount of code that is simply no longer needed and is deprecated. Microsoft faced a difficult choice: to abandon backward compatibility, or to announce a new platform. They chose the second option. At the same time, they would have to abandon the existing runtime. Microsoft has always been a company focused on creation and launch on Windows. ASP.NET was no exception. Now the situation has changed: Azure and Linux occupied an important place in the company's strategy.
The ASP.NET Core is poised to replace ASP.NET in its current form. So should you switch to ASP.NET Core now?
ASP.NET Core is not just a new version. It is a completely new platform, the change of epochs. Switching to ASP.NET Core can bring many benefits: compact code, better performance and scalability. But what price will be paid in return, how much code will have to be rewritten?
.NET Core contains many components, which we are used to deal with. Forget System.Web, Web Forms, Transaction Scope, WPF, Win Forms. They no longer exist. For simple ASP.NET MVC-applications changes will be minor and the migration will be simple. For more complex applications, which use a great number of .NET Framework classes and ASP.NET pipeline situation is more complicated. Something may work and something may not. Some part of the code will have to be rewritten from scratch. Additional problems may be caused by WebApi, because ASP.NET MVC subsystems and WebAPI are now combined. Many libraries and nuget-packages are not ready yet. So, some applications simply will not have a chance to migrate until new versions of the libraries appear.
I think we are waiting for the situation similar to the transition from Web Forms to ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET Framework will be supported for a long time. First, only a small amount of applications will be developed on ASP.NET Core. Their number will increase, but sooner or later everyone will want to move to ASP.NET Core. We still have many applications running on the Web Forms. However, no one comes to mind to develop a new application on the Web Forms now, everybody chooses MVC. Soon the same happens to ASP.NET Framework, and ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core offers more opportunities to meet modern design standards.
The following characteristics best define .NET Core:
- Flexible deployment: Can be included in your app or installed side-by-side user- or machine-wide.
- Cross-platform: Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux; can be ported to other OSes (Operating Systems). The supported OSes, CPUs and application scenarios will grow over time, provided by Microsoft, other companies, and individuals.Command-line tools: All product scenarios can be exercised at the command-line.
- Compatible: .NET Core is compatible with .NET Framework, Xamarin and Mono, via the .NET Standard Library.
- Open source: The .NET Core platform is open source, using MIT and Apache 2 licenses. Documentation is licensed under CC-BY. .NET Core is a .NET Foundation project.
- Supported by Microsoft: .NET Core is supported by Microsoft, per .NET Core Support.
The Bad:
- As for the "cons" one of the biggest issues are gaps in the documentation. Fortunately most of the things for creating and API are covered, but when you're building an MVC app, you might have problems.
- Next problem – changes. Even if you find a solution to your problem, it could have been written for a previous version and might not work in the current one. Thanks to open source nature of it, there is also support available on github. But you get same problems there (apart from searching).
- Another thing is lack of support in the tooling. You can forget about NCrunch or R# Test Runner. Both companies say they will get to it when it gets more stable.
- ASP.NET Core is still too raw. Many basic things, such as the Data Access, is not designed for 100%. There is no guarantee that the code you are using now will work in the release version.
The Good:
- It's modular. You can add and remove features as you need them by managing NuGet packages.
- It's also much easier and straightforward to set up.
- WebApi is now part of the MVC, so you can have class UserController, which will return a view, but also provide a JSON API.
- It's cross-platform.
- It's open-source.
ASP.NET Core is the work on the bugs of the classic ASP.NET MVC, the ability to start with a clean slate. In addition, Microsoft also aims to become as popular as Ruby and NodeJS among younger developers.
NodeJS and ASP.NET have always been rivals: both – a platform for backend. But in fact, between them, of course, there was no struggle. The new generation of developers, the so-called hipster developers, prefer Ruby and Node. The adult generation, people from the corporate environment, are on the side of .NET and Java. .NET Core is clearly trying to be more youthful, fashionable and popular. So, in future we can expect the .NET Core and NodeJS to be in opposition.
In its advertising campaign, Microsoft is betting on unusual positions for it: high performance, scalability, cross-platform. Do you think that ASP.NET "crawls" on the territory of NodeJS? Please feel free to share your thoughts with us.
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Microsoft Azure (called Windows Azure before 25 March 2014) is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It is a growing collection of integrated services – compute, storage, data, networking and app.
It provides both PaaS and IaaS services, which for the general public means a powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services. These services let you build, deploy and manage applications any way you like. Its hybrid cloud solution allows you to store data, backup, recover and build applications in your data center and the public cloud.
With cloud and hybrid services expected to reach US$108 billion by 2017, demand for Microsoft's cloud products including Microsoft Azure is booming. For now:
- 57% of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Azure
- It welcomes 1,000 new customers per day
- Currently 1.2 million businesses and organizations use Microsoft Azure Active Directory
- Microsoft Azure gains two times the compute and storage capacity every 6-9 months
What benefits do companies gain from using Microsoft Azure?
Using a cloud computing platform service like Microsoft Azure provides companies with a number of benefits apart from premium storage space and high-performance. The business benefits include:
- Efficiency – Azure Solutions and Services are known for delivering better-quality products as well as high operational efficiency because of reduced capital costs. Customers and partners can truly realize a huge reduction in total cost of operations and reduced workloads in a small time period.
- Increased scalability to match demand – as your customer base grows and the usage of your application increases you can just add additional capacity to make sure your application is running smoothly. You don't have to worry about running out of server capacity.
- More flexibility and creativity – applications can very quickly be deployed to the Microsoft Azure platform which means that changes can be applied without any downtime. This makes it an ideal platform for your developers to add functionality to your application.
- Agility – developers would find a host of development tools to take benefit, including automated service management and improved data center presence internationally to reply faster to diverse customer needs.
- Simplicity – Azure makes use of prevailing development skills in familiar languages such as .Net and even open source languages like Java and PHP to produce and manage applications and services.
- Trustworthiness – Windows Azure delivers enterprise-class service with consistent service level agreements based on Microsoft's unbelievable service experience.
Among Azure customers are such companies as HEINEKEN, GE Healthcare, Temenos, Zespri International, 3M, Skanska USA, Xerox, Diebold which speaks for itself 🙂
What position does Microsoft Azure takes up in public cloud?
According to Rightscale releases 2015 state of the cloud report Azure is progressing among enterprises, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate in public cloud with 57 percent of technical professionals saying that they run applications on AWS. That's up from 54 percent a year earlier.
By comparison, Microsoft Azure's cloud platform and infrastructure posted a combined score of 19 percent. But Microsoft is making gains, posting a 6 point jump in the number of tech professionals using its cloud infrastructure.
Google's Cloud Platform offerings came in behind Azure, with 8 percent of survey respondents using Google App Engine, and only 5 percent using Google's infrastructure products.
Microsoft has put huge amount of work towards marketing Azure to large enterprises, so it's not surprising to see that large businesses are Microsoft's core customers. There's also room for that business to grow: a majority of enterprise users responding to the survey said that less than 20 percent of their company's app portfolio is in the cloud.
What do you think of Microsoft Azure? What future do you predict for it? Thank you for sharing your thoughts 🙂
Yuliya Tolkach
Internet of Things and competition of IT giants: IBM, Google, Apple and others.
Posted October 30, 2014on:
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It is expected that within the next 5-7 years there will be billions of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). However, on the way to this bright future, there are certain practical barriers.
The traditional model of the Internet of Things requires a centralized system for data processing, which handles all the data from connected devices. Nevertheless, this approach is seriously flawed in terms of cost of lifecycle and business model in general. For example, a company that produces "smart TVs" should support a centralized processing infrastructure and data management of the device for more than 20 years. While it earns revenues only once, when selling this device. This imposes restrictions on the Internet of Things. So far it is available only in the premium devices or those that are rarely used.
Nowadays, most of the IT companies are competing in invention IoT platforms and systems.
IBM: Adept
IBM's solution is to use the web's most innovative p2p technologies to create distributed cloud environment which means that all the devices will be integrated together. Thus, every device will be self-sufficient for managing and will use distributed public infrastructure to communicate with other devices. In this way, producing company won't have recurring costs in maintenance. Such a system will be stable for the lifetime of the devices, and it will be equal to its clouds. The network will be fully autonomous, while the device remains in it, without requiring the cost from producer. However, centralized control becomes almost impossible with all the potential billions of devices on the network.
Their system Adept will rely on three different technologies to resolve a number of issues related to IoT development and commercialization: Block chain, famous from the crypto currency bitcoin, will allow IoT devices to communicate and interact with one another, BitTorrent (provides a stable and capable data distribution system ) and Telehash (private messaging protocol with end-to-end encryption).
Apple: Homekit
Apple is not idle in the IoT field. They introduced a new 'smart home' platform – Homekit this summer (2014).
Homekit is a framework and network protocol for controlling devices in the home. It promises a seamless user interface for organizing and controlling connected devices, all part of iOS 8. As part of this announcement there is also a new microcontroller SoC (system on a chip), containing a low-power WiFi, ZigBee and Bluetooth. It combines what had been separate components into a fully integrated unit. As with many other Apple products you will need a certificate, in this case Apple's MFi certification (Made for iPod, Made for iPhone, Made for iPad).
Google: Nest
In January 2014, Google showed its commitment to the emerging Internet of Things by purchasing Nest for $3.2 billion. Nest's main product is a learning thermostat connected to the internet that uses sensors, regional data, and learning algorithms to preemptively change the temperature of your house automatically. Thus, Google gains a direct entry point into the home to collect data, learn, and possibly advertise to end users in the future. Google's purchase of Nest was considered an important indicator that the Internet of Things is poised to explode.
Microsoft: Windows 8.1 for IoT
Microsoft does not want to be left behind and has its own plan to bring Windows Developers to the Internet of Things with its new version of Windows 8.1 – operating system tailored for the Internet of Things. This version of Windows is designed to use in microcomputers, wearable electronics, and possibly, toys and household gadgets. At this point the preliminary version is only available to developers. Windows 8.1 distribution for the Internet of things weighs only 174 MB. For comparison, the size distribution of the full version of Windows 8.1 is around 3 GB. Slim enough to work on a single-core processor Intel Quark with a clock frequency of just 400 MHz. But the boot time is poor – 2 minutes instead of the traditional 3-30 seconds.
Intel: Galileo
The first platform that is compatible with Windows 8.1 for the Internet of Things is Intel's Galileo. It is built around a processor, Intel Quark has 256 MB of RAM, a slot for cards format SD, two ports USB, PCI Express interface and a network adapter Ethernet 10/100 Mbit / s, and a pocket friendly price of just $ 50.
Samsung: Smartthings, Smart Home
Samsung, Intel and Dell announced in July 2014 that they are combining forces to create a new wireless standard for the Internet of Things, connecting sensors, appliances and gadgets to the Internet in the home, business and automobile. The Open Internet Consortium will include hardware component builders Broadcom and Amtel as well as embedded software provider Wind River.
Also it would be unfair not to mention the fact that Samsung has bought an internet of things (IoT) company called Smartthings (the startup that makes smart-home controllers) for about $200 million. Samsung is planning to use it to bolster its smart home plans. Smartthings will run as an independent entity within Samsung, and will continue to support its existing customer base. This system provides a smartphone app that users can employ to control features and functions around the house.
Smart Home platform will provide users with three main services: Device Control, Home View, and Smart Customer Service. Device Control will allow users to access customized settings for all of their devices on their smartphone or on their Smart TV. Home View allows users to take advantage of the cameras built into many of Samsung's connected appliances to take a look at what's going on at home. Smart Customer Service will notify users whenever it's time to service an appliance, and also provide assistance in after-sales servicing.
Other companies such as Vodafone, Cisco, MediaTek, etc are also a part of this great revolution in IT environment, and most of them have very prospective projects.
IoT Top10 Companies
Nevertheless, one should accept that the Internet of Things requires some technical and educational level from the society, and while in some countries this seems to be difficult to put it into practice, the Scandinavian region, more specifically – Sweden, invests in such projects at the national level. The vision of its industry is to increase competitiveness and to use innovation effectively in such social spheres as healthcare, welfare and sport. Business life is focused on getting benefits by implementation of IoT technology as well.
The connected world is too big to belong to somebody exclusively. So will Apple, Windows, IBM, Oracle, Google and others be able to all work together in this IoT universe? Or will the grand idea of a seamlessly connected Internet of Things environment slip away?
Will be thankful to hear your opinion on this subject. Share your thoughts here in comments or send me a message.
Svetlana Pozdnyakova
Business Development Manager
Altabel Group
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For some reason I got presents today. (Something to do with me being older? I prefer the term "Level up!")So for the occasional time I want to properly crimp BIG terminals, a nice shiny new hydraulic crimper. (Thanks to the inlaws!)
posted by firstname.lastname@example.com 29th November 2016 5:12pm gmt
1. Even when there is NO PETROL at all in the Spitfire the gauge currently reads about 1/4.This has the unfortunate consequence of convincing me not to put petrol in even though I really need to.(Resulting in me pushing the bloody car through Keighley in the middle of the sodding night)2. For some bizarre and unknown reason my headlights suddenly stopped working on the unlit road just outside Keighley. It's not actually possible to drive a car along an unlit section of road in the dead of night safely on JUST sidelights. It's VERY DARK!So I found some wire in the boot and ran a feed to the headlamps just to get me home.Relays are fine, so it must be something on the live feed side for the circuit.On the other hand it was nice to see the usual suspects over at the Old Stone Trough for the monthly Pendle and Pennine meeting.
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I wonder which of these 2 ball joints meets the requirements for an MOT pass?
posted by firstname.lastname@example.com 31st October 2016 9:15pm gmt
I removed the rear leaf spring from the Spitfire, was a bit disappointed to find most of the graphite grease I covered it in has vanished at the outer ends. Still plenty in the middle of the spring anyway.
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Well today I managed the first "real" mechanic-ing in about 12 months.The last serious work I did was just before the 2015 10CR. Today I changed the rear driveshaft on the Freelander and it knackered me out.With a bit of luck I'll get myself some welding gas and make a start on the Spitfire soon. I really want to see it back on the road soon.A bit of welding and bleed the brakes and the Spitfire should be fit for an MOT, here's hoping.
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I've found a hole in the Spitfire steel work that's going to need welding up BEFORE it goes for the MOT.Oh well, the best laid plans and all that.In the mean time I'm making new brake pipes for it to replace the steel ones that are currently going rusty.9 months of sitting idle have not been kind to the car even though it's been garaged.
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It's all been very quiet on the Triumph front since the 10CR.Lot's of "real life" stuff going on, but not much classic car time.The Spitfire is currently off the road with no tax or MOT and has been sitting in the garage since January. I made a start on "re-commissioning" but found a nasty petrol leak near the NSR wheel... on further inspection/testing I couldn't find the leak, but found clear signs of where the petrol had been flowing down the chassis.I also noticed that the electrical connection to the tank sender had been damaged, an attempt to straighten it resulted in it snapping off, so a replacement sender unit has been fitted.Replacement pipes/hoses obtained I set about trying to fix the leak, but quickly found that the olive/pipe nut on the tank top had been damaged (over tightened) so I've ended up removing the tank to rectify that issue while I'm at it.When a replacement olive/pipe nut are obtained I'll put it all back together, test/adjust the brakes and get it in for the MOT - hopefully back on the road for July.
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We made it home at about 21:30 this evening (Monday) after another long day's driving.Day 1 started great, we really enjoyed the wonderful countryside:Netherlands-Germany-Czech RepublicThe second part of day 1, not so good. The driving through Czech Republic was tough and we were tired. At about 11pm we decided enough was enough and we stopped at a hotel we found that still had rooms:Czech RepublicAs a result of the un-planned hotel stop in the Czech Republic we had some catching up to do on day 2, so we cut the route and headed for Cortina:Czech Republic-Germany-Austria-ItalyOn day 3 we went "off-piste" again and picked up a few extra countries:Italy-Austria-Liechtenstien-Switzerland-Austria-GermanyHere's the track for the last day of the event (Sunday):Germany-France-Luxemburg-Belgium-Germany-NetherlandsToday saw us drive back to Dunkirk:Netherlands-Belgium-FranceAnd then home from Dover:Dover-BradfordI know pride comes before a fall and all that, but I'm really pleased with how the car has done, particularly the engine (it's the first time I've built an engine and it was done in a bit of a hurry to get the car fit for the event after the problems on the Border Raiders)Some minor niggles...It was running hot on the trip to the the point that I removed the thermostat on the run up to Cortina. I suspect the stat is faulty as we got some pretty unpredictable temperature issues.The vibrating noises turned out to be the dash brace bolt being lose and a screwdriver in the boot tapping on the petrol tank.There's a whine from the diff, a little on overrun, more in the sweet spot between pulling and overrun, not noticeable on pull though. Needs looking at.The overdrive blew it's fuse when we stopped on the M11 today on the way home. Not sure why, but replacing the fuse cured the issue. Might end up playing "find the frayed wire" over the next few days.
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Day 0 (Wednesday): UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany.Overnight stay in GermanyDay 1 (Thursday): Germany, Netherlands (official start of event), Germany (again), Czech Republic. Overnight stay in Czech Republic Day 2 (Friday): Czech Republic (for about 0.5 miles), Germany, Austria, ItalyOvernight stay in ItalyDay 3 (Saturday): Italy, Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Austria (again), Germany.
Let's see what tomorrow brings!
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So we made it to Dover in time for the ferry!Bradford to DoverThe ferry was slightly late leaving, but then got stuck outside Dunkirk harbour waiting for another ship to leave.Then we drove across a bit of France, a lot of Belgium, a small amount of the Netherlands and finally into Germany to our hotel in AachenDunkirk to Aachen Tired but relieved to be here.
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A big thanks to Michael Davis for helping me get the Spitfire back on the road today!After the engine issues on the Border Raiders a swift re-assembly of the other engine and re-fit was required to get us ready for the 10CR.Really appreciate all the help which went well beyond the promised "help lift the bonnet back on" !!!
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Both the boot lid and the bonnet on the Spitfire are so badly faded that in places they look more pink/white than red. Last night I tried some compound on part of the boot lid to see if it can be improved....
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Stub axle transferred into the new trunnionless upright, brake disc shield fitted, steering arm and top ball joint.With a bit of luck I'll get it on the car before too long.
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I started looking at fitting the new trunnionless uprights the other night, but didn't like the look of the top ball joint. I thought it might just be easier to do the whole lot at once, so I ordered a pair of ball joints.They came yesterday, so today I did the NSFrom this:
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Look what the nice people at Canley Classics sent me (in exchange for £££)
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MOT Passed!Slight lift in the front trunnions so I think it's time to order a Canley's kit.The new rear spring is starting to settle a little, so the ride/camber isn't quite as wild as it was.Looking back over the last couple of years, although externally the car looks much as it did when Andie and I first got it, as a driving car it's totally changed.The gauges now work (reliably!)The brakes work (how did it get an MOT just before we got it with knackered seals in the master cylinder)Carbs had inappropriate needles.... now correctedCar starts! (Battery replaced, starter rebuilt)Seats are comfy (Thanks to Owen at Park Lane classics)Ride improved vastly (new bushes at the rear and a new spring)Cruising improved (Gearbox rebuild, overdrive added)It's a good job I haven't done the body work or I wouldn't believe it was the same car!Nice to see the car out of the garage!
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Suspension re-assembled, offside rear brake pipes replaced, prop, exhaust and other bits and bobs re-fitted.... and after just over 4 months, the Spitfire is back together. A few more minor jobs and it should be ready for the MOT.
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