Thanks,
John
Monday, December 19, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Best commentary on Big Time coaching
It's time to stop deifying college coaches
One of the only fair assessments of Tressel from a cfb analyst came about as a result of the PSU scandal.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-wetzel_stop_deifying_coaches_krzyzewski_paterno111711
Thursday, December 8, 2011
@lifehacker, 12/7/11 8:18 PM
 Lifehacker (@lifehacker)12/7/11 8:18 PM Today's Best of Lifehacker 2011is the most popular Top 10s from 2011, including our some of favorite hacks and tricks: lifehacker.com/5866138/most-p… |
Thanks,
John
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
The moon and Jupiter + story about a shooting star
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Good bye Mr. Jobs
I am not stunned by the news that Stephen Paul Jobs passed yesterday, I even predicted to a few friends that he would only resign from his post at Apple if he indeed knew the end of road was in sight. I am, of course, moved by the idea that a person whose ability to bring his vision of the future to us, today is gone and that our societies ability to have his visions available to us has disappeared with him. A window has closed that Steve held open for the last 35 years. What a heavenly view it has been. It is not that others out there don't have visions and "accurate visions" of the future. It is that no one, arguably, has the ability to bring his vision to the masses like Steve did.
If you have known me over the last 20 years, you would know that I have a love of gadgets and have had many. I remember looking at my digital address book that I bought for 200 bucks in 1993. I knew that the small form factor would include more and more capability eventually and would be become as useful and powerful as a desktop. Did I predict the iPhone, no, but I/anybody could easily look at the device in my hands and say what will this look like and what will this do in 10 years. That was not hard at all. But bringing that vision to reality and then delivering that vision to the masses is something that I don't know how to do at this point.
I think many have the creativity and vision to see what the possible future could look like, but Steve's greatest ability was that he made it happen time and time again. I think that loss is what strikes me most in Mr. Jobs unfortunate passing, is that we have lost the guy that has been one of the greatest inventors in history.
Goodbye Mr. Jobs.
If you have known me over the last 20 years, you would know that I have a love of gadgets and have had many. I remember looking at my digital address book that I bought for 200 bucks in 1993. I knew that the small form factor would include more and more capability eventually and would be become as useful and powerful as a desktop. Did I predict the iPhone, no, but I/anybody could easily look at the device in my hands and say what will this look like and what will this do in 10 years. That was not hard at all. But bringing that vision to reality and then delivering that vision to the masses is something that I don't know how to do at this point.
I think many have the creativity and vision to see what the possible future could look like, but Steve's greatest ability was that he made it happen time and time again. I think that loss is what strikes me most in Mr. Jobs unfortunate passing, is that we have lost the guy that has been one of the greatest inventors in history.
Goodbye Mr. Jobs.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
China's number one B2B commerce site cracks down on Fraud
Alibaba one of the largest B2B sites in the world has been plagued in recent months with allegations of allowing suppliers to continue to use their platform even after many complaints of the suppliers not delivering to buyers as promised.
Currently Alibaba is not heavily used outside of China, but it is expected that they will make inroads into the English speaking market. This action does much to legitimize Alibaba in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Currently Alibaba is not heavily used outside of China, but it is expected that they will make inroads into the English speaking market. This action does much to legitimize Alibaba in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
China's Three Horse Mobile race.
Here is an interesting article discussing China's current cellular providers and how they are moving forward with CDMA technology as opposed to the G standard that is becoming the worlds standard cellular platform.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
China building a city for cloud computing
If this article about China's investment in cloud computing doesn't keep you up at night, then not much will. This article and the link included for another article Five reasons why China will rule tech clearly indicate that on a national level China is out to rule the world and they are doing it from the ground up.
While the US is still the economic and computing super power of the world, those days are surely numbered. The continued decline of our ability to teach math and science to our population is one factor that is baffling many in Washington. One reason why the pundits in Washington are struggling to understand what is necessary to get our kids back to levels that are associated with our countries technology domination of the 40's, 50's , and 60's is that most of the folks in DC are lawyers. Unless we want to be the worlds paralegal we need make a tremendous effort in improving our kids math and sciences scores so that they will have the knowledge and interest in designing the next generation of technologies for the future.
A second reason why China will be challenging our current position in the world is that their infrastructure will be considered brand new and state of the art by US standards. While the numbers can be argued, China's infrastructure package released for the "Great Recession" is estimated to be $586 Billion. Of the $825 Billion of the US stimulus package only a third was slated for infrastructure. The president has pledged to add an additional $150 Billion, but for a country that earned a "D" grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers that does not seem to be enough to keep up with our far east neighbors. They estimate that we need $1.5 Trillion to get up to a acceptable passing score.
Finally, with every factory that opens in China whether it be from the US or any other country, China is getting instant access to the technology used in these factories. China makes it mandatory with few exceptions that the technological know how is transferred to them. So what you may say, but the real kicker is that in the US when a factory closes the people that had the knowledge of the technology are no longer employed and the knowledge is essentially lost. Just ask someone how to make a TV in the US.
I feel lot more enthusiastic to help my kids with their math homework!!!
While the US is still the economic and computing super power of the world, those days are surely numbered. The continued decline of our ability to teach math and science to our population is one factor that is baffling many in Washington. One reason why the pundits in Washington are struggling to understand what is necessary to get our kids back to levels that are associated with our countries technology domination of the 40's, 50's , and 60's is that most of the folks in DC are lawyers. Unless we want to be the worlds paralegal we need make a tremendous effort in improving our kids math and sciences scores so that they will have the knowledge and interest in designing the next generation of technologies for the future.
A second reason why China will be challenging our current position in the world is that their infrastructure will be considered brand new and state of the art by US standards. While the numbers can be argued, China's infrastructure package released for the "Great Recession" is estimated to be $586 Billion. Of the $825 Billion of the US stimulus package only a third was slated for infrastructure. The president has pledged to add an additional $150 Billion, but for a country that earned a "D" grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers that does not seem to be enough to keep up with our far east neighbors. They estimate that we need $1.5 Trillion to get up to a acceptable passing score.
Finally, with every factory that opens in China whether it be from the US or any other country, China is getting instant access to the technology used in these factories. China makes it mandatory with few exceptions that the technological know how is transferred to them. So what you may say, but the real kicker is that in the US when a factory closes the people that had the knowledge of the technology are no longer employed and the knowledge is essentially lost. Just ask someone how to make a TV in the US.
I feel lot more enthusiastic to help my kids with their math homework!!!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Verizon Applies The Brakes
While I am not surprised that the large wireless careers are trying to control the usage of their heaviest users, it is disappointing that Verizon levied a warning to it's users the day after offering the iPhone. Verizon stated it has the right to throttle down its access speeds to bandwidth hogs.
Apple's iPhone is known to be a bandwidth sucker and not because the device is inefficient. Quit the contrary, the iPhone makes it so easy to consume mile after mile of internet highway. The iPhone delivers a rich web experience and users are just doing what they normally do when they are tethered to their machines at home or the office. Phones running the Android operating system also provide a similar experience and are most likely the genesis of Verizon's existing bandwidth hogs, since few other devices are even capable guzzling bandwidth at the rates at which the iPhone and Android powered devices can.
My only point of contention is why would the wireless carries even care now that most have done away with unlimited data plans and are moving to a metered model. What is wrong with pay for what you eat?
BTW, if you didn't pre-order yesterday you have to wait until the iPhone arrives in retail stores. The iPhone pre-order ended today. No surprise there.
Look for the iPhone online February 9th and in stores the 11th.
Apple's iPhone is known to be a bandwidth sucker and not because the device is inefficient. Quit the contrary, the iPhone makes it so easy to consume mile after mile of internet highway. The iPhone delivers a rich web experience and users are just doing what they normally do when they are tethered to their machines at home or the office. Phones running the Android operating system also provide a similar experience and are most likely the genesis of Verizon's existing bandwidth hogs, since few other devices are even capable guzzling bandwidth at the rates at which the iPhone and Android powered devices can.
My only point of contention is why would the wireless carries even care now that most have done away with unlimited data plans and are moving to a metered model. What is wrong with pay for what you eat?
BTW, if you didn't pre-order yesterday you have to wait until the iPhone arrives in retail stores. The iPhone pre-order ended today. No surprise there.
Look for the iPhone online February 9th and in stores the 11th.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
iPhone Available on Verizon
So today the iPhone adventures continues on Verizon. You can pre-order your iPhone with the expectation that within a few weeks you have your iPhone in your hands.
It will interesting to see if the iPhone does what it did to AT&T. Which is namely over saturate their network cause quite a bit of customer complaints. I think Big Red will be in somewhat better shape, since they did recently introduce LTE infrastructure that many mobile devices will be able to use instead of the existing 3G environment that the Verizon iPhone will be running on.
Time will tell.
It will interesting to see if the iPhone does what it did to AT&T. Which is namely over saturate their network cause quite a bit of customer complaints. I think Big Red will be in somewhat better shape, since they did recently introduce LTE infrastructure that many mobile devices will be able to use instead of the existing 3G environment that the Verizon iPhone will be running on.
Time will tell.
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