So just left the Sun Microsystems campus and the discussion on Allegrograph the Web 3.0 database by Dr. Jans Aasman was a great one. Basically he discussed the uses for it and how they are using it for their own clients. It was pretty much an insight into the future and the way data will be stored using triples. Had a quick conversation with Evan Sandhaus who wrote the New York Times Annotated Corpus and the political problems he must of had getting it through. I learned that the Times had a company on contract getting this data for them since 1994! So basically he said he was really lucky because basically it became an easy thing. They were already on contract; why not expose the data that lets them get a multiplier effect from lets say professors/students/schools being able to access the data and then eventually licensing out to other commercial organizations. Overall; it's easy revenue for something that is useful to the company not just a product but as an ongoing data source created by itself. It's almost like regenerative brake systems; using the actual process of braking to generate energy. Except in this case you are using the regular operation of your business to generate revenue. I'll be attending one of his upcoming talks with Jonah Bossewitch who is the Lead Technical Architect over at Columbia this April.. In-fact i've got to email him now; all that aside. It was an excellent talk and Allegrograph looks AMAZING.. It's free up to 50 million triples and works best on 64 bit systems. When I get a chance i'll give it a spin; obviously this means Lisp or Prolog; but they are bindings for I believe Python and some other languages.
This morning I got to work and low and behold the gods have granted me a gift.
This firmware update addresses intermittent flickering and compatibility issues such as no video on some external displays when using the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter on your Mini DisplayPort enabled Mac.
The Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter firmware update will be downloaded to the Utilities folder and will automatically launch to update the firmware on the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter. The Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter must be plugged into your Mac and a compatible VGA display. The Mac power adapter must be plugged into a power outlet.
The flickering issue has been fixed; wait. Let me not say fixed until I try it!
Graph Databases, New York Times, Etc
So just left the Sun Microsystems campus and the discussion on Allegrograph the Web 3.0 database by Dr. Jans Aasman was a great one. Basically he discussed the uses for it and how they are using it for their own clients. It was pretty much an insight into the future and the way data will be stored using triples. Had a quick conversation with Evan Sandhaus who wrote the New York Times Annotated Corpus and the political problems he must of had getting it through. I learned that the Times had a company on contract getting this data for them since 1994! So basically he said he was really lucky because basically it became an easy thing. They were already on contract; why not expose the data that lets them get a multiplier effect from lets say professors/students/schools being able to access the data and then eventually licensing out to other commercial organizations. Overall; it's easy revenue for something that is useful to the company not just a product but as an ongoing data source created by itself. It's almost like regenerative brake systems; using the actual process of braking to generate energy. Except in this case you are using the regular operation of your business to generate revenue. I'll be attending one of his upcoming talks with Jonah Bossewitch who is the Lead Technical Architect over at Columbia this April.. In-fact i've got to email him now; all that aside. It was an excellent talk and Allegrograph looks AMAZING.. It's free up to 50 million triples and works best on 64 bit systems. When I get a chance i'll give it a spin; obviously this means Lisp or Prolog; but they are bindings for I believe Python and some other languages.