Interesting read! I've always love new experiences and have been thinking of ways to share with people. Do you think instead of a single entity covering the cost, a group splitting the cost would make this idea lasts? For example, businesses that sponsor the society can get 3 invitations each to give to their top three customers.
I'd love to brainstorm this if anyone in SoCal is interested.
I use Toad, and the one feature that I can't live without is the tabbed results with column filtering. I do a lot of data explorations and being able to go back to previous queries quickly and compare is a big time saver.
So for those of use outside of Google, it's not a "smooth" environment to work in. I wish we have the tools that you have. Are they available outside of Google?
I'm working on a todo list with a Seinfeld calendar. My take is that there are only three categories: Work, Home, Personal. There are two buckets of tasks, Short term and long term. You'd move long term tasks into the short term when you start working on them. At the beginning of the week, you'd move the tasks from the short term into the day of the week that you planning to work on them. The catch is, you can only work on three tasks per day. Each task has an associate cost or reward. Get enough done you can reward yourself a nice purchase. Or don't get things done and you'll owe your friend a fancy dinner.
There are more details and reasoning behind it, but my idea is to keep the number of tasks small so we can get them done and keep the calendar line going. Other todo lists I used I ended up putting too much on there and it turned into list of lists.
I'm not sure the pain you're trying to solve is real or at the right junction. I process data from all sources daily, and many are email attachments. Just extracting the attachments is not difficult. Then my BI process will unzip if necessary and process the files. There are different connectors for different file types: HTML, PDF, CSV, Excel, etc.. I think processing the files should be at a latter stage, not during the extract phase.
It's not true. I've lost a Twitter handle (@houselogic) that was active. Twitter support got me trapped in support ticket hell. They kept asking me to submit ticket after ticket.
I lost a nice handle (@Houselogic) a few years back. Sent Twitter all the proof and email trail and everything, but they were useless. Every time I email their support, it's a new ticket and I have to explain the whole situation again and again. I gave up after two years.
I was out watering my yards the other day because some area didn't get enough water and the grass is yellowing. If only I can set one particular sprinkler to run five minutes longer than the rest of the other sprinklers in the zone, that would save my grass. Then I started to think, why can't we make smart sprinkler heads that give us more precise control of our irrigation, and conserve water at the same time. It's possible with today's tiny and low power chips. I did some digging into this is it's not too complex. Unfortunately I'm not an EE. But if this interest you, I'd be more than happy to go into more detail.
I think his assumption is off. Much of the weight on a train is due to the wheels and supporting mechanical to keep the train moving. Also using stronger and lighter material such as carbon fiber, which are never used on a train, will reduce the weight even more.
I see that the police patrol your neighborhood pretty often.
Also, the other question to ask, if possible, is how many times they spotted stolen cars, expired plates, and "criminal" cars in your neighborhood?
With that data, I think it could help police track down burglaries faster. After a while, the cars that case the neighborhood will stand out with a few records, whereas the resident cars will have many records.
The Fed took 60 because those are the ones belong to Dotcom. They probably need to jump through more hoops to take the 630 leased ones. So they didn't bother.
I wonder if they found an exploit for Bluetooth. Newer cars have this feature so the owner doesn't have to use the key. If the Bluetooth service has access to the On Board Diagnostic (OBD), it can get to a lot of the car's info and commands, such as unlock door.
I remember working on AutoPC back in the day and we tapped into the OBD and provided a feature to send a message to the car to unlock the doors. Similar to OnStar now a day.
What happens when a not-so-good doctor charges very cheap and start a price war? Or to make it affordable, the doctor cuts corners? Who's to tell the doctor to what to do?
Who watches the watchmen?
I got an old Craftman garage motor. It has the torque I'm looking for. I got a LifeGear rowing machine on Craigslist for $50. I like this one because the seat and track is used for the leg exercise, moving the leg back and forth. The extra arm and pullies I use for the arm exercise, using her good arm to move the other arm. That way, both arms are getting exercise.
The base is built out of 3 in. PVC pipes. Since she's only 115 pounds, it's more than enough to hold her weight. And PVC are super easy to work with.
Using a Raspberry Pi and a Gertboard to control the motor, I can set how far back and forth to move the leg assembly.
My next step is to hook the Raspberry Pi to an iPod and let my mom control the speed and duration of the exercise.
My mom had a stroke recently and is paralyzed on the right side. I'm using the Raspberry Pi to make her an exercise machine to keep her from muscle atrophy.