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So, today's challenge was Helmut Newton. Having browsed his output, I swiftly realised I was too old, too fat and too short never mind the pvc and cheekbones. Thank goodness the guy liked big hats, although the spiders I evicted from this dustbin lid won't be agreeing any time soon.
We're Here: Helmut Newton
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SQL ,often referred to as Structured Query Language, is a database computer language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS), and originally based upon relational algebra and calculus. Its scope includes data insert, query, update and delete, schema creation and modification, and data access control. SQL was one of the first commercial languages for Edgar F. Codd's relational model, as described in his influential 1970 paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".Despite not adhering to the relational model as described by Codd, it became the most widely used database language.
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The entire back bar and many original furnishings of The Louvre, a historic saloon, are on display together in the Clatsop County Historical Society in Astoria, Oregon.
Among them is this unsigned 19th century painting of the 611-foot-tall Multhomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. www.oregon.com/attractions/multnomah_falls
It belongs to a regional school of painting that was heavily influenced by the painter William Samuel Parrott. www.askart.com/artist/William_Samuel_Parrott/5066/William...
Though the piece is reminiscent of the work of the prolific Eliza Barchus, who was one of Parrott's students, it is not one of her canvasses. elizabarchus.com/wordpress/?page_id=2
Multnomah Falls was one of Barchus's favorite subjects. However, in Barchus's paintings the terrain immediately below the bridge is depicted as being covered by vegetation, whereas here it is bare rock. There are other differences, and they can be seen here:
www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00065lldC4mJFg7ZECfDr...
They looked so similar at first.
Both had a leather book exterior and page control along the side of the screen, but my what a difference a better screen can make.
I used to think eBooks were a joke. Why carry a crippled laptop around when you already have a laptop? Why squint at a hard-to-read screen? Why worry about running out of juice on the plane? Paper was just fine for me. I have a Softbook on my shelf to this day as a reminder of a useless product way ahead of its time; after reading a few pages on it, I could tell it was destined to be a collector’s relic.
The Softbook had a grayscale passive matrix screen, like a laptop, but worse. Reading was a pain, especially in normal lighting. Here you see the e-books in the outdoors. The Amazon Kindle, on the other hand, uses an e-ink screen. It uses no backlighting. Ambient light reflects off the surface. So it looks great wherever a book looks great: in sunlight, at an angle, even while wearing polarizing sunglasses.
But more importantly, the screen is very light and energy efficient. It brings inks to the surface to blacken a pixel. Once a page is rendered, it uses no energy to maintain the image. There is no reason to turn it off, which provides a peculiar relief from the stress of battery life optimization. Rather, the Kindle embodies a sense of leisure.
So, I have left my Kindle on since I first got it two weeks ago, and I am still at a ¾ battery charge midway through my second book. No need to worry about recharging on the road.
And that is with a super-light-weight battery compared to the Softbook. The Kindle’s weight is an important breakthrough. It’s smaller and lighter than a single book, and on vacation, I usually bring at least three books, and then it wins hands down.
Of course, the integrated cellular connection to Amazon web services and book sales brings a library to your fingertips, but even if I ignore the ease of use of the software and services, the hardware advances alone make the Kindle better than a real book.
And like most consumer products that I love, like the Mac and Tomtom next to me, I have found no reason to look at the instruction manual. When I first read a word I did not know (as Hitchens like to sprinkle his prose with archaic vernacular) a quick click on that line of the page brings up dictionary definitions of all of the words on that line, just as I hoped it would.
The kindle was a gift from gadget-junkie Roger McNamee. He told me it would change my thinking about eBooks, and he was right. Thanks!
(My only complaint so far is that the physical design does not appear to have any human use mode in mind. It has a number of asymmetric angles and corners that are pleasing to the eye, but not the touch. I have yet to find a comfortable way to hold the device. The bottom corners could have been rounded to rest in the palm, but they are sharp corners instead; luckily, it’s light enough not to be painful. And the navigation buttons appear to be perfect for unintended use, running along both sides… so you can’t hold it on the sides, and need to shield the edges from contact with anything. Oh, and the soft leather case is lovely, but it does not hold the Kindle in place, so it seems to be a storage case only. I had hoped that it could fold back and remain as a soft cover during reading, like the Softbook. Hmmm…. Maybe I should look at the manual after all… ;-)
Someone (someone who should've known - sorry bud :) ) asked me the other day : "How the heck does Google make any money giving everything away?"
Check out this ad. Could it be a happy accident that gmail serves me an ad for an MFA program? Or could it be because gmail knows I'm into writing? Maybe because I mention writing, or my novel, or poetry, in every other email I send?
Targeted advertising is the answer. Not just eyeballs but the right eyeballs. Ice to aboriginals, heaters to Eskimos, on a massive scale. It's AI - the database having a conversation with you.
So why is Gmail free? Because Google uses it to create a valuable property out of your personal correspondence. A property that they rent to anyone who wants to use the database to start a conversation with you.
It's like a cocktail party, only I'm telling Mr. Gmail what I'm into, and he goes and finds people who want to sell me something, and charges them an (up front) override on the deal. And they pay a premium $$$ because I'm a Hot Lead, or at least much hotter than your typical swiller.
Make sense?
Even better - when I clicked through, the ad came from the University of Puget Sound. Another coincidence? Yeah right... (I list my mom's Port Orchard WA address on most forms)
【複数のネットワークサービスに入っている人向けのクイズです】
日本の主要各種ソーシャル・ネットワーキングサイトやコミュニティ・サイトのプロフィールページのデフォルトイメージ（自分の写真を設定していない状態であらわれる画像）ばかりを集めてあります。さて、どの画像がどのサイトのものか、どれだけ答えることができますか？（一部、性別によって画像が違うサイトもありますのでご注意）
答えはマウスカーソルを写真にあててみてください。
I JUST LOVE THIS! …an archive of auto-sized flickr photos and captions, nicely printed and bound.
It is so much easier to skim a book than slog through the latency of a collection of web pages.
Here’s a link to the automated service from Qoop, Beta-launched today. (You can also see Stewart Butterfield’s book cover there =)
Using WebService on Arduino Yun with iPhone/Safari as client application. Neopixel strip controlled via web page (WebService).
More BC students and teachers are returning to classrooms fully equipped with high-speed and high-quality Wi-Fi thanks to the ongoing K- 12 Next Generation Network. One school year into the three-year program, more than 60 per cent of target students and 816 sites have been connected to the innovative electronic network.
Launched in March 2014, the multi-year investment in BC classrooms will be fully operational by March 31, 2017, with over 75 per cent of sites completed by March 31, 2016.
The Next Generation Network provides modern infrastructure that will service all public schools in the province once completed. Not only does the network keep pace with the evolving use of internet by students and educators, it also provides firewall management, web/URL filtering and IDS/IPS (Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention Systems).
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015EDUC0050-001333
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