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Fuzzy logic and online translations
Life, James Hein, Published on 07/09/2016
» In the IT world it is very important to get things exactly right, unless of course you are dealing with fuzzy logic. If your banking system, for example, is out by a decimal place, this can lead to some very unhappy customers or some very happy ones and a less than happy bank. There are many areas where calculations and units of measure are vital, just ask one of the Mars exploration landing teams.
Hands-free repetition
Database, James Hein, Published on 09/06/2010
» I've been thinking about automation lately, in the sense of having my computer do things for me. The story starts with wanting to have some of the time I spend in front of a game handled by some program so that I didn't have to be there the whole time. To cut a long story short I ended up being ripped off by some guy selling a solution that ended up being a macro recorder and player. The rip-off part was because the guy was selling a cracked version of a product from http://www.jitbit.com. I paid enough to almost have purchased their Lite product and found about the scam when I read their forum and also found the exact same product as a BitTorrent download.
The extermination of all things impure from Apple
Database, James Hein, Published on 24/02/2010
» Is Oracle a trusted form of Open source software? With the recent resignation of Ken Jacobs, the man tipped to look after MySQL, people are starting to wonder. Jacobs was known as the friendly face of Open source in Oracle. When Oracle did not assign MySQL to Jacobs, he quit. Jacobs did say that he believed Oracle would look after MySQL and "make it better".