This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.
LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwired – Jul 18, 2016) – Memex Inc. (“MEMEX” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:OEE) was pleased to exhibit their award-winning Manufacturing Execution System, MERLIN, at the invitation of Cisco Systems Inc. as part of their Connected Machines Strategy at Cisco Live in Las Vegas from July 10-14. MERLIN was on display at Booth 109 in the World of Solutions pavilion, located in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
MERLIN captured and presented live data from both onsite and remotely connected machines securely over the Internet via Cisco’s newly released IE4K switch. The IE4K is compliant with MTConnect (the open source and royalty free interconnectivity communication standard), which collectively form an integral part of any manufacturing company’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) strategy. This enables the promise of Data Driven Manufacturing centric business outcomes.
MEMEX Featured in Cisco’s Machine Intelligence PresentationMEMEX is also pleased to announce that Douglas Bellin from Cisco presented “The Case for Machine Intelligence,” which featured what Cisco has done with business partner MEMEX. The presentation took place at 4:30pm on July 13, 2016 in the Islander D space at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
About Cisco Connected MachinesThe Cisco Connected Machine Solution is a digital solution portfolio, based on the Cisco IoT system. The solution enables rapid and repeatable machine connectivity, providing business improvements such as: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and machine monitoring, Machine optimization Predictive maintenance, Process optimization, and Process health.
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About Memex Inc.MEMEX Inc., the developer of MERLIN, an award winning IIoT technology platform that delivers tangible increases in manufacturing productivity in Real-Time, is the global leader in machine to machine connectivity solutions. Committed to its mission of “Successfully transforming factories of today into factories of the future” and encouraged by the accelerating adoption and success of MERLIN, MEMEX is relentlessly pursuing the development of increasingly innovative solutions suitable in the IIoT era. MEMEX envisions converting every machine into a node on the corporate network, thereby, creating visibility from shop-floor-to-top-floor. MEMEX, with its deep commitment towards machine connectivity, offers solutions that are focused on finding hidden capacity by measuring and managing Real-Time data. This empowers MEMEX’s customers to effectively quantify and manage OEE, reduce costs and incorporate strategies for continuous lean improvement. For more information, please visit:www.MemexOEE.com
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I watched the move "Particle Fever" on Netflix and thought it was excellent. The reviews have been outstanding. You do not have to have a Ph.D. in physics to absolutely become enthralled in the entire story of the Large Hadron Collider and Higgs boson particle as told through the eyes of a young physicist who realized how important these topics were and felt it should be captured on film.
As the movie's description states:
"As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time,
physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all
time -- or perhaps their greatest failure."
"Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. The film follows the experimental physicists at CERN who run the experiments, as well as the theoretical physicists
who attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the LHC's results.
The film begins in 2008 with the first firing of the LHC and concludes
in 2012 with the successful identification of the Higgs boson.
The Communication Awards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the
general public in Film/Radio/TV to David Kaplan and Mark Levinson for
"Particle Fever" on October 14, 2015. The awards are given to
individuals in four categories: books, film/radio/TV, magazine/newspaper
and online, and are supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation."
I watch 60 Minutes tonight and I swear to god that I was watching Dumb and Dumber! If ANYONE watched these two knuckleheads and think they should be the next President and Vice President then they either have rocks in their head, or they believe in the "Let Rome Burn" type of logic for the United States.
Below is Pence with Chris Matthews and he can't he even answer if he believes in evolution or not. He does not believe in global climate change. Pence truly is Sarah Palin II.
The letter below is all true, but what is incredibly disappointing is the lack of the truly big names and leaders in tech today.
"We
are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and
business leaders working in the technology sector. We are proud that
American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared
prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership.
We
believe in an inclusive country that fosters opportunity, creativity
and a level playing field. Donald Trump does not. He campaigns on anger,
bigotry, fear of new ideas and new people, and a fundamental belief
that America is weak and in decline. We have listened to Donald Trump
over the past year and we have concluded: Trump would be a disaster for
innovation. His vision stands against the open exchange of ideas, free
movement of people, and productive engagement with the outside world
that is critical to our economy — and that provide the foundation for
innovation and growth.
Let’s
start with the human talent that drives innovation forward. We believe
that America’s diversity is our strength. Great ideas come from all
parts of society, and we should champion that broad-based creative
potential. We also believe that progressive immigration policies help us
attract and retain some of the brightest minds on earth — scientists,
entrepreneurs, and creators. In fact, 40% of Fortune 500 companies were
founded by immigrants or their children. Donald Trump, meanwhile,
traffics in ethnic and racial stereotypes, repeatedly insults women, and
is openly hostile to immigration. He has promised a wall, mass
deportations, and profiling.
We
also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the
Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Donald Trump
proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security
strategy — demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how
technology works. His penchant to censor extends to revoking press
credentials and threatening to punish media platforms that criticize
him.
Finally,
we believe that government plays an important role in the technology
economy by investing in infrastructure, education and scientific
research. Donald Trump articulates few policies beyond erratic and
contradictory pronouncements. His reckless disregard for our legal and
political institutions threatens to upend what attracts companies to
start and scale in America. He risks distorting markets, reducing
exports, and slowing job creation.
We
stand against Donald Trump’s divisive candidacy and want a candidate
who embraces the ideals that built America’s technology industry:
freedom of expression, openness to newcomers, equality of opportunity ,
public investments in research and infrastructure, and respect for the
rule of law. We
embrace an optimistic vision for a more inclusive country, where
American innovation continues to fuel opportunity, prosperity and
leadership."
*DISCLAIMER:
The individuals listed below have endorsed in their personal capacity
and this does not reflect the endorsement of any organization,
corporation or entity to which they are affiliated. Titles and
affiliations of each individual are provided for identification purposes
only.
Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Hyperloop One Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook Clayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital Niti Bashambu, Chief Analytics Officer, IAC Applications John Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc. Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder/CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder/CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder/CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder/CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder/CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder/CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder/CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder/CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder/CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder/CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder/Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder/CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder/CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder/CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman/CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder/CEO, Sama & Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder/CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co-Founder/President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder/Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co-Founder/CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc. Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder/CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder/CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder/CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder/CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder/CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Founder and Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder/CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President/CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder/Chairman/CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder/Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder/Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder/CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc. Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder/Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech:NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co-Founder/CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co-Founder/CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder/CEO, InVenture Steve
Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government
Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder/CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co-Founder/CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder/CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder/CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co-Founder/Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder/CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder/Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp. Padmasree Warrior, CEO, NextEV USA; Former CTSO, Cisco Laura Weidman Powers, Co-Founder/CEO, Code2040 Kevin Weil, Head of Product, Instagram Phil Weiser, Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado and Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center Daniel
J. Weitzner, Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emily White, Entrepreneur; Former COO, Snapchat Ev Williams, Founder/CEO, Medium; Co-Founder Twitter, Blogger Monique Woodward, Venture Partner, 500 Startups Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Tim Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia University Andrew Yang, Founder/CEO, Venture for America Arielle Zuckerberg, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Machine learning is and will become very significant not only in everyday life, but specifically in manufacturing. In 2017, we will see machine learning in manufacturing in a very significant way.
Here is a very interesting article by Vivek Wadhwa in The Washington Post titled:
"The AI of the past used brute-force
computing to analyze data and present them in a way that seemed human.
The programmer supplied the intelligence in the form of decision trees
and algorithms. Imagine that you were trying to build a machine that
could play tic-tac-toe. You would give it specific rules on what move to
make, and it would follow them. That is essentially how IBM’s Big Blue
computer beat chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, by using a
supercomputer to calculate every possible move faster than he could.
Today’s
AI uses machine learning in which you give it examples of previous
games and let it learn from those examples. The computer is taught what
to learn and how to learn and makes its own decisions. What’s more, the
new AIs are modeling the human mind itself using techniques similar to
our learning processes. Before, it could take millions of lines of
computer code to perform tasks such as handwriting recognition. Now it
can be done in hundreds of lines. What is required is a large number of examples so that the computer can teach itself."
I really like the point that Kevin Kelly brings out in the article: "AI has applications in every area in which data are processed and decisions required. Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly likened AI to electricity: a cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything.He
said that it “will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more
than a century ago. Everything that we formerly electrified we will now
‘cognitize.’ This new utilitarian AI will also augment us individually
as people (deepening our memory, speeding our recognition) and
collectively as a species. There is almost nothing we can think of that
cannot be made new, different, or interesting by infusing it with some
extra IQ. In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 start-ups are
easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. This is a big deal, and now it’s
here.”
It appears that almost EVERYTHING that Hillary Clinton stated about her email was a lie.
She should have been charged with treason....
As much as no on trusts the Clinton's (for good reason), we will have to hold our noses and vote for her because Trump would be such an unmitigated disaster.
This is a very interesting experiment on what happens when you raise taxes on the rich. California was a freaking mess and the Republicans would state that you MUST reduce taxes. Bill Maher rips this economic falsehood apart with what REALLY happened in California when taxes were raised on the rich:
Sean should be congratulated for such detailed and excellent analysis.
As an old SUNWer, this causes me to either shake my head in disgust or to speak in expletives.
The article in arstechnica starts off:
"Stop me if you've heard this one before: Oracle has quietly pulled
funding and development efforts away from a community-driven technology
where customers and partners have invested time and code. It all seems
to be happening for no reason other than the tech isn't currently
printing money.
It's a familiar pattern for open source projects that have become the
property of Oracle. It started with OpenSolaris and continued with
OpenOffice.org. And this time, it's happening to Java—more specifically
to Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE), the server-side Java technology
that is part of hundreds of thousands of Internet and business
applications. Java EE even plays an integral role for many apps that
aren't otherwise based on Java."
"A federal appeals court has voted to uphold a series of strict new rules for Internet providers, handing a major victory to regulators in the fight over net neutrality and ensuring that one of the most sweeping changes to hit the industry in recent years will likely remain on the books.
The 2-1 court ruling Tuesdayforces Internet providers such as Verizon and Comcast to obey federal regulations that ban the blocking or slowing of Internet traffic to consumers. The regulations from the Federal Communications Commission also forbid carriers from selectively speeding up websites that agree to pay the providers a fee — a tactic critics have said could unfairly tilt the commercial playing fieldagainst startups and innovatorswho may not be able to afford it."
Congratulations to the federal appeals court for getting this right!
The title of this blog is an often conversation (with contention) with my Democrat and Republican friends. I thought this article by Rep. Carolyn MaloneyU.S. Representative for New York’s 12th District; Ranking Democrat, Joint Economic Committeewas extremely interesting read. Below are a few snippets that jumped out at me:
"Researchfrom Princeton University economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson finds that, since World War II, the economy has performed substantially better by virtually every measure when Democrats have been in the White House. GDP growth, job creation and industrial production have all been stronger during Democratic administrations than during Republican ones.
As the Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, I asked my staff to review the Blinder and Watson findings. They were able to update and build on the economists’ analysis and found that on average since World War II, real (inflation-adjusted) GDP has grown about1.6 timesfaster and private-sector jobs have grownnearly2.5 timesfaster under Democrats than Republicans.
The starting point does not matter: GDP and jobs have grown faster under Democrats regardless of whether the analysis begins with President Truman, President Kennedy or President Reagan.
Conservatives often point to Ronald Reagan as the model for strong economic leadership, invoking his time in office as the Golden Age. But, in fact, job creation and GDP growth during the Reagan administration fell short of the post-World War II average for Democratic presidents."
In the House of Representatives, U. S., June 26, 2008.
Whereas the Chevrolet Corvette is America’s first sports car;
Whereas the first production Corvette rolled off a Flint, Michigan, assembly line on June 30, 1953;
Whereas the Corvette is now manufactured in Bowling Green, Kentucky;
Whereas the Corvette is the most widely respected production sports car in United States history;
Whereas the Corvette is truly a symbol of American pride;
Whereas General Motors is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008; and
Whereas the 30th of June would be an appropriate day to designate as `National Corvette Day’:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the United States House of
Representatives supports the designation of a `National Corvette Day’ to
honor the Chevrolet Corvette.
Only at Great Falls, VA on a Saturday morning at Katy's Cars and Coffee will you see a Pierce Arrow, Tesla Model X and Two Stanley Steamers and it is not a big deal.
When I refer to Slim in the Pierce Arrow video above is because that is what I call my father and he is looking at trading in his Ford Windstar for a Pierce Arrow :-)
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A very nice 3 minute video on the future of manufacturing. It demonstrates where 3D printing makes sense and how it works. This video is at the Wall Street Journal.
The city of Cleveland deserved a championship and the finally got it.
LeBron is "King James" for his AMAZING final game and amazing series. The Cav's Kyrie Irving proved to be the perfect partner for LeBron and had one of the clutch shots of all time at the end of last night's game.
Coming back from a 3-1 deficit was an NBA first.
Last nights 93-89 win was one of the best game 7's of all time.
You can be on the TSA No-Fly List or you can be on the FBI Watch List, BUT THERE IS NO PROBLEM IF YOU WANT TO BUY A GUN!?!!!
The Republicans in Congress absolutely have blood on their hands. It's interesting that Republicans LOVE to talk about "American Exceptionalism", yet they are NOT exceptional when it comes to standing up to the F*CKING NRA and this INSANITY!
How many times do Mitt Romney and Elizabeth Warren agree?
On Donald Trump, they are both correct.
As reported on ABC News: "Speaking to a crowd of roughly 300 political and business leaders at his annual summit in Park City, Romney said he worried about the example a Trump presidency might set for future generations, that it would lead to "trickle-down racism."
As reported by the Boston Globe:
"Warren addressed the American Constitution Society’s national
convention in Washington. She relentlessly attacked Trump, especially
for his recent description of a federal judge as biased against him
because the US District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel is of Mexican
heritage.
“Judge Curiel is one of countless American patriots who has spent
decades quietly serving his country, sometimes at great risk to his own
life,’’ Warren said. “Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud
who has never risked anything for anyone and serves nobody but
himself.’’ Warren said at the American Constitution Society of Law and Policy National Convention in Washington just beforeendorsing former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonfor president."
"I disavow those comments," Ryan said. Pressed on whether he regretted his own endorsement of Trump that came last week, Ryan added, "I regret those comments he made."
Let's be clear, IF you support a racist, THEN YOU ARE A RACIST AS WELL. There is no "well, I like the other ideas that Trump has" and you get a pass on being a racist BS. You're a racist, just admit if you are voting for Trump. You CAN'T have it BOTH ways. Period. Hard stop. The problem is that Hillary is certainly no saint and I blogged on March 4th, 2015 that this personal email server issue should disqualify her for any future offices. Unfortunately, the only rationale answer in 2016 is to hold your nose and vote for Hillary.
My bride sent this article to me at USA Today to me because I have been complaining how absolutely bad Siri has gotten - not staying the same - not getting better - BUT WORSE!
In Jefferson Graham's article he quotes James Niehouse, the director of photography for A Beautiful Planet, the first IMAX film to be shot digitally :
“I’ll get an occasional answer or two that I want, but most of the time
it’s things I have to read,” he says. “I don’t want to read a website
while I’m driving.”
I agree! Way too often, I get a website! I don't want a written answer to a verbal question!
Mr. Graham also quotes Mike Reiss, a writer for The Simpsons.
"Siri doesn’t even know who Marge Simpson is!
"This thing sucks," Reiss said."
I agree. Apple needs to fix this NOW. Steve Jobs would have never stood for such incompetence....
If you were born in the 50's and loved sports, there was no one, and I mean NO ONE, that was bigger the Muhammad Ali.
Everything that should be said, is being said today.
One of my favorite memories of Muhammad Ali is sitting in a living room in Trenton, Illinois in the 1960s listening to an AM radio with my father to his fights.
There have been and never will be a better interview than when Howard Cossell would sit down with Mohammad Ali. You could feel the love and the tension on who would get the better of the conversation.
Below is from Jon Saraceno of USA Today Sports - who I know because our sons played baseball together for a number of years in Ashburn, wrote an article titled:
Cosell: “Because every indication has been that you’re confident that you can beat Zora.”
Ali:
“I’m confident I can whup ’em all. This ain’t nothin’ new. My image has
been confident. What you tryin’ to make it look like something new for?
I’m always confident. I’ll whup all of ’em.”
Jon continues with one of the classic exchanges seen on TV:
"America watched with great anticipation as the outsized personalities
crossed verbal swords — but without enmity and, oftentimes, with
humorous bluster.
Once, Ali peeled back Cosell’s famous toupee, pretending to peek at his scalp.
Or the champ would make a threatening gesture.
“Don’t touch me,” Cosell teased with a pseudo-glare. “I’ll beat your brains out.”"
Muhammad Ali was physically and mentally quicker than any other person on planet earth.
I often wonder how things might be different if Muhammad Ali had not lost his ability to speak and think from Parkinsons disease. Would we be having a vary different conversation on religion?
Are there ANY athletes that would have given up YEARS of their revenue at the PEAK of their physical abilities for what they believe in? I cannot name a single one.
For those of us who worshipped Mohammed Ali as a kid, today is a mixed day. It is very sad to watch his passing, but when you watch these black and white highlight films of him at his absolute peak, how can it NOT put a smile on your face?
on the importance of this ruling for software developers. As Mr. Mullin states:
"But what's truly at stake in Oracle v. Google, round two? For those who work with code for a living, a lot. The case revolves
around how Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, can and cannot
be used. Boiled down, APIs define how different types of code
communicate to each other. If owners of those APIs can use copyright law
to control how programming is done, there will be a sea change in
industry practices. For many developers, especially of open source
software, this will be a change for the worse.
"That is really going to create a radical shift in how software is
developed worldwide," Mitch Stoltz, an attorney for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation who's been following the case, said in an
interview. "If it requires permission each time APIs are used and code
calls other code, then you've upended the economics of software."
This would have killed the golden goose of software development if Oracle would have prevailed here.
This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This is the same name of the blog I had for Sun Microsystems for many years. I am the CEO/CTO for Virtual Photons Electrons, LLC. More info is available at http://VirtualPhotonsElectrons.com I was the CTO for MEMEX for almost three years. More information on MEMEX is at http://MemexOEE.com
