Watch Youtube on I PHONE
Get a back massage
Hum leaving on a JET PLANE lOUDLY
tRY TO WRITE a BLOG POST USING
I PHONE
The Cloud OS is finally here or is it?: Karmic Koala
see screenshot for cloud OS services in latest version of Ubuntu tobe launched in 5 days at http://www.ubuntu.com
( I am using the 9.10 latest beta since I figured 5 days earlier beta should be okay)
The Cloud OS properties are using browser and are called Ubuntu One
The browser used is Google Chrome.
Nice one, stanford dropouts. Really nice!
Note the line launchpad based services and uses secure id to ensure a connection as well as collect data for analysis as well
as real estate for possible advertisements.
Ball in Uncle Billy ‘s court now.
Note-The icon had some issues with opening more than one session parallely and showed edit preferences. So it could be a Google Joke as well
Easter Egg with an April variation. LOL
IBM Completes SPSS acquisition
Citation- ( Note the signatures at bottom- if they go back from their word you know where to look for a copy of their promises)
http://www.spss.com/ibm-announce/
A MESSAGE TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS
We are pleased to announce that IBM has completed the acquisition of SPSS Inc. As we mark this milestone, we would like to confirm our continued commitment to your success, and to highlight the benefits resulting from this acquisition.
SPSS will become part of IBM’s Business Analytics and Process Optimization organization. Your current SPSS account and support teams will continue to serve you. SPSS business partners will also continue to serve your needs through consultation, implementation, fulfillment and support, and will be invited to join the IBM Business Partner program.
For decades, IBM has been focused on providing the underlying information infrastructure to support business intelligence and performance management solutions. This includes databases and data warehouses to manage data, information integration and master data management to establish accurate and trusted information, as well as various analytic capabilities. With the addition of SPSS, IBM intends to further help customers solve new business challenges and meet the demand for more sophisticated, real-time uses of information.
SPSS provides a comprehensive predictive analytics portfolio that includes data collection, text and data mining, and advanced statistical analysis and predictive solutions, helping customers predict future events and proactively act upon insight to drive better business outcomes.
IBM intends to support your investments in SPSS by leveraging IBM’s world-class technology resources to deliver innovative solutions and expanded value. Building on a tradition of client success and satisfaction, IBM plans to leverage its extensive global resources to enhance and expand your service and support offerings, both directly and through business partners.
We’re very excited about the future of this important new relationship, and we look forward to continuing to provide innovative products and services for your business. For more information, please visit IBM online.
Sincerely,
Jack Noonan
CEO
SPSS Inc.
Deepak Advani
Vice President, Predictive Analytics
IBM Business Analytics & Process Optimization
SAS Data Mining 2009 Las Vegas
I am going to Las Vegas as a guest of SAS Institute for the Data Mining 2009 Conference. ( Note FCC regulations on bloggers come in effective December but my current policies are in ADVERTISE page unchanged since some months now)
With the big heavyweight of analytics, SAS Institute showcases events in both the SAS Global Forum and the Data Mining 2009
conference has a virtual who’s- who of partners there. This includes my friends at Aster Data and Shawn Rogers, Beye Network
in addition to Anne Milley, Senior Product Director. Anne is a frequent speaker for SAS Institute and has shrug off the beginning of the year NY Times spat with R /Open Source. True to their word they did go ahead and launch the SAS/IML with the interface to R – mindful of GPL as well as open source sentiments.
. While SPSS does have a data mining product there is considerable discussion on that help list today on what direction IBM will allow the data mining product to evolve.
Charlie Berger, from Oracle Data Mining , also announced at Oracle World that he is going to launch a GUI based data mining product for free ( or probably Software as a Service Model)- Thanks to Karl Rexer from Rexer Analytics for this tip.
While this is my first trip to Las Vegas ( a change from cold TN weather), I hope to read new stuff on data mining including sessions on blog and text mining and statistical usage of the same. Data Mining continues to be an enduring passion for me even though I need to get maybe a Divine Miracle for my Phd to get funded on that topic.
Also I may have some tweets at #M2009 for you and some video interviews/ photos. Ok- Watch this space.
ps _ We lost to Alabama #2 in the country by two points because 2 punts were blocked by hand which were as close as it gets.
Next week I hope to watch the South Carolina match in Orange Country.
Karmic Koala Ubuntu/Linux 9.2 Preview
I am just about testing the Karmic Koala which is due for launch next week. There is significant amount of Browser Based Operating System in it- it seems like a Cloud OS and Firefox have been integrated. See the following screenshots-
Note the ability to send email from the toolbar itself- Also the system speeded up considerably after the upgrade was installed. The striking change was in design and folder structure (it seems that they analyzed the usage data in Canonical to decide what design feature to keep and what not to keep)
Here are more views, and yes the Website http://www.ubuntu.com just went for an upgrade maintenance to cope with next week’s heavy rush or downloading.
Caveat- this is just the beta version but 5 days before launch beta version generally stay faithful to design changes.
Visit http://www.ubuntu.com for a better look- I believe dual boot Windows 7 and Koala are supported that helps you with
trying Ubuntu for fun and Windows for your original work.
Portrait of a Lady
Thats a screenshot of Daneese Cooper’s Wikepedia page. Danese was fired without severance by the Intel Capital Series B investors at http://www.reolution-computing.com If this is what you get after a lifetime of working in open Source, maybe I should recommend
people get job with Prof Jim Goodnight, Phd who rarely fires people and has managed to steer his company profitably without an IPO or Series Z funding.
On the other hand I kind of admire ladies trying to work in software companies. They are so few. and look up to people like Daneese to say that yes they can make it big too.
Good bye Daneese. May your big heart rest in piece on your blog http://danesecooper.blogs.com/.
Which software do we use in the office?
Ohri’s Theorem on Decision Management regarding which software do we buy-
1) Assuming no budget constraints
If X be degree of appropriateness of software to a particular use-
where 0 is totally bad and 1 is perfect for use.
Then the probability p of the software be selected = P/ Q where P is total number of users who Know how to Use software (like R) and Q is total number of users who dont know how to use the Software (like Macros or R)
As the number of users begins to increase
P/Q converges to Integral of X dx
Cartoon Citation:
DECISION STATS 