MC2 Post 758 Who Is Mark Hurd, Question Mark

Who Is Mark Hurd?

Story A:

Mark Hurd falls, Could Larry Ellison 

and Steve Jobs Be Next?

TinyURL ONLY: http://tinyurl.com/27hftvl

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Well He Doesn't Have The Name Cachet

of Larry or Steve.

Or Even Carly, for That Matter.

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Pre-Story B: 

HP vs. Oracle vs. Apple: Similarities in CEO Power

http://tinyurl.com/27hftvl

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Pre-Story C:

Oracle CEO says HP's CEO Ousting Was a Dumb Move

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2835je7

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About Who Is Mark Hurd? 

Wikipedia says:

Mark Vincent Hurd (born January 1, 1957) was the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard, the largest information technology company in the world by revenue. 

Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman, who served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005 to March 28, 2005, after former CEO Carly Fiorina had stepped down.  On September 22, 2006, Hurd succeeded Patricia C. Dunn as chairman after she resigned after the pretexting controversy. Hurd resigned his position at HP on August 6, 2010, after an internal investigation uncovered expense-account irregularities.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hurd

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Microsoft, Adobe, Release Massive Amount 
Of Security Patches

The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2010 lists a total of 15 security bulletins that have been released this month, of which nine address security vulnerabilities with a maximum severity rating of critical.

Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 for instance is not as severely affected as Windows XP. The highest Windows 7 severity rating is important, while Windows XP is affected by several critically rated security vulnerabilities.


Link: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/11/microsoft-adobe-release-massive-amount-of-security-patches/




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MC2 Post 609: CS

CS Compressed Sensing

CS Compressed Sensing, it's been around for decades, 

but 4 scientists have brought it back into the limelight.

Another way of saying what it does is "Less Can Mean More."

I learned about it in my latest issue of Wired Magazine. The reason I get Wired is for pieces like this.  Not for their idea of the "Best SF Movies of All Time" which is churlish to say the least.  I've wanted to use that word for some time now, and there was my chance.  

Anyway, back to CS.

The article in the 1803 (It means March) issue was on page 62 was titled: "Fill In The Blanks" by Jorden Ellenberg who stated: A revolutionary algorhythm can make something out of nothing.

The touching story at the begining of the piece had to do with an MRI that needed to be done in Less time than was needed to get a highly detailed reading of a problem liver.  They needed a full two minutes.  The young patient had to be under anesthesia to keep from breathing during the scan.

By trying an alogorithm of CS they were able to get a scan in 40 seconds that could be computationally expanded to give the detail of a two minute scan.

The algorithm stated that if there are a million ways to reconstruct an image, the simplest option is always the best.

Take a picture of say 1 million pixels.  That requires a million measurements to reconstruct.  In CS, take a subset of that, like 100,000 randomly selected pixels from various parts of the image.  From that,  there is an infinite number of ways to fill-in the missing 900,000.

The way to come up with the right answer is something in mathematics called sparsity, which describes the complexity or lack thereof of the image.

That my friends is the tip of the iceberg of this new tool to create more out of less.

Read the article.

Wikipedia Logo:

Wikipedia had this opening line to say about it:

Compressed Sensing, also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling and sparse sampling, is a technique for acquiring and reconstructing a signal utilizing the prior knowledge that it is sparse or compressible. The field has existed for at least four decades, but recently the field has exploded, in part due to several important results by David Donoho, Emmanuel Candès, Justin Romberg and Terence Tao.



Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing

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Wingman, a Calculating kind of guy.

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Suddenly, All the World's A-Twitter....

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Suddenly, All the World's A-Twitter....

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Like the Days when IBM joined the PC market and "legitimized it". I guess it was a bastard before...

Oprah, Larry King and yes, even Ashton Kutcher has "Legitimized Twitter".

Hell, it's been around since 2006. but the MEDIA, Always late to the Party

has "Found" a "New" Darling...

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For those interested in the FACTS about Twitter check out this Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------

List of Twitter Services and Applications from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Twitter_services_and_applications

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I'm a Twitterer @ http://twitter.com/bigbopper.

When I signed on a username was "safer" than a Real Name, so I picked bigbopper.

Through the ensuing years, Twitter kept gathering Steam, especially at the Yearly SXSW (South by Southwest) confab in Texas.

A few months back, Pundits were afraid that Celebrities like Britney Spears would dilute the quest to gather followers.

For some reason that did not happen.

But lately the gutting of the pipelines by CNN anchors has clouded the waters of this handy microblogging tool.

Then came Kutcher-King Challenge and "CNN the Amoeba" that consumes "latest" Tech Tools jumped in.

A few days later, Oprah, "the Queen of All MEDIA" stumbled in, and Shaq politely Twitted to her she was posting in ALL CAPS, a no-no.

What this onslaught of Media and Star Power will have on Twitter is still in Question.

But it more than likely can't be good.

Example: It took Leo Laporte, a popular Tech Podcaster almost 2 Years to gather x number of followers.

It took Oprah 2 days to Double that...

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Twitter Fan Wiki: Link:

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps

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Yes, the Wingman Posts Tweets occasionally; they appear
on the top right Twiiter BAR, under the You Tube Video Bar.

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Old FUD's Ugly Head

Microsoft showed it's Ugly FUD Head again this week with an attempt to intimidate Open Source and Linux with allegations of Intelleectual Property Rights violation.

Now remember, I really hate the PC - Apple commercials that the Mac has been rubbing in our windows-faces lately.

Particularly since I remember, not that long ago, Microsoft helped Apple out with some loose change when the Mac seemed on the brink of extinction, again.

That Was nice of Microsoft.

This meaning, that I'm not an Mac or Windows Basher by preference. Only when then continue to "Do Stupid Things". But I guess, old bad habits die Very Hard.

For the uninitiated, the NEW tactics of FUD (Fear,Uncertainty and Doubt) is so interwoven into the fabric of Microsoft that I must refer you the Wikipedia entry on the subject.

This seems to be Microsoft's modus operandi of late, when they feel they're losing mind-share.

These Peckinpah-Matrix slow-motion ambush shots hide the the Facts that if you can't compete technologically (vista), sick the lawyers on them.

FUD can obscure a multitude of innovation shortcomings.

This is not what someone who wants to be remembered as a humanitarian should be doing.

Stop it Bill.

It's not Open Source or Linux's fault it took five (5) years to push Vista out the door.

Pipes, ANS Network and Bernice

Yahoo Pipes:
Yahoo came out swinging a big "pipe" last week to snag back some respectability from Search Leader Rival: Google.

Yahoo Pipes is a Web-based RSS "mash-up" tool that lets you graphically connect Source Information (from one or many rss-feed places), and add a bit of logic or filters and create a "New View" of the RSS data.

They say it's a tip-of-the-hat to Unix Pipes Tools, which for anyone running any recent distro of Linux knows, is alive and well in the Linux OS.

Scripting languages can do pretty much what Yahoo Pipes does, but the Web based GUI is a pretty big deal. It was supposedly developed by Yahoo In-House, and beats Google to a pretty nice New Tool.

REAL Competition IS Good.

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The BOOBs at Network News:

When oh when did they become PEOPLE Magazine?

CNN is now the ANS Channel.

You know what the letters stand for.

One of the cool and needed things you can do with Yahoo Pipes is grab the News RSS feeds and Filter-Out any mention of ANS.

Hopefully the "NETWORKS GONE WILD!" mentality will be over real-soon-now, before any more attention-starved nymphets shave their heads in protest.
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Bernice and Hair Bobbing:

"Huh! she giggled wildly. "Scalp the selfish thing!"

Quoted from Bernice Bobs Her Hair from the book Flappers and Philosophers.
New York:Scribners.1922.

A title of a short story from high school was "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", and it was mentioned at work recently. And Not having heard that title before I decided to "Look it up".

Wikipedia has become a very good place to start, and was so in this case too. I was surprised to find that it was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the same writer that gave us the "The Great Gatsby".

Sidenote: (also found on Wikipedia).

Louise Brooks of the film silent era became synoymous with the bobbed or flapper look of the twenties.

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