The transition from logical to physical data model

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Transition to physical data model

Transition to physical data model 08/23/2002 11:12 PM
CNET Aug 23 2002 10:07PM ET

How to implement a logical data model

How to implement a logical data model 08/10/2002 10:53 PM
CNET Aug 10 2002 10:14PM ET

MOM FAQ: Monitoring Logical and Physical
Disks

MOM FAQ: Monitoring Logical and Physical
Disks 06/23/2004 05:22 PM

A Data Model for Strongly Typed XML

A Data Model for Strongly Typed XML 12/18/2002 08:15 PM
Many applications that process XML associated datatypes with parts of a document, and would benefit from an XML data model that made available such typing information. Dare Obasanjo discusses the candidates for such a model.

Transforming XML: The XPath 2.0 Data
Model

Transforming XML: The XPath 2.0 Data
Model 02/05/2005 09:05 PM
Bob DuCharme, in his latest Transforming XML column, examines the XPath 2.0, hence the XSLT 2.0, data model.

Sun seeks data persistence model for
Java

Sun seeks data persistence model for
Java 09/24/2004 08:04 PM
Sun Microsystems is looking to make life easier for Java developers by seeking a common ground on a data persistence model.

RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model
Working Draft Published

RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model
Working Draft Published 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
30 August 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Data Model. The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is based, and other technical aspects of RDF. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)

Transition Game: sports, technology,
innovation, equipment: Transition Game

Transition Game: sports, technology,
innovation, equipment: Transition Game 01/28/2004 07:02 AM
blog on sports and technology .. Transition Game

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Tender: Ordnance Survey needs supplier
of digital terrain model height data

Tender: Ordnance Survey needs supplier
of digital terrain model height data 06/30/2004 03:13 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 30 2004 7:46AM GMT

Research and Markets : View a Detailed
Analysis of the Data Model for Intel as
at the Fourth Quarter of 2004

Research and Markets : View a Detailed
Analysis of the Data Model for Intel as
at the Fourth Quarter of 2004 04/07/2005 02:38 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15158) has announced the addition of Intel Annual Wrap-Up/4Q04 Update to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]

Top Tip: Primary or logical?

Top Tip: Primary or logical? 01/27/2004 02:53 PM
I am thinking of installing 3 hardrives ( I have onboard raid that I am using as extra IDE ) my question . Is there hard and fast rule as to how many of the hardrives should be primary or logical ( I know that the boot partition has to be primary and active) or could anyone suggest a website where this subject is dicussed in detail.

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on) 12/23/2003 11:30 PM
Mark Bourne says: So my wife Elizabeth and I are googling up possibilities for our long trip to England next year. Checking out London sites and so on. An acquaintance suggested staying for a few days in the Cotswolds, a scenic Middle Earthy region west of London. That's how we found a page about the town of Bourton.

You just gotta love this text, which blends Ye Olde Scepter'd Isle with sci-fi gee-wizardry:

You will probably have noticed that when you take a branch from certain trees (some conifers for example), the branch looks like a miniature version of the tree, and when you break a piece off the branch, that looks like a tree too. Mathematicians call this property self-similarity.

Bourton has a wonderful example of self-similarity: it contains a 1/10 scale model of itself. Because the 1/10 scale model is a complete model of the town, it must contain a model of itself, and it does, a 1/100th. scale model of Bourton, and because the 1/100th. scale model is also a complete model of Bourton, it must also contain a 1/1000th. scale model of the scale model of the scale model of Bourton.

And it does. It is only a matter of time before a team of nano-technicians turn up in the town to etch a sub-micron scale model of Bourton on a silicon wafer, complete with mill, waterwheel, and a highly imaginative interpretation of the River Windrush as a stream of electrons.

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Why VBScript Logical Operators Aren't

Why VBScript Logical Operators Aren't 07/15/2004 04:59 PM

If you've ever lost a monitor to VBScript (from frustrated punching, mine has dents), Eric Lippert provides some solace in that there's at least a reason why it behaves that way.

In JScript you can do something like this:

if (blah != null && blah.frob == 123)

and it works just fine. But in VBScript

If (Not Blah Is Nothing) And (Blah.Frob = 123) Then

Then if Blah actually is Nothing, this still crashes and dies, whereas JScript does not. What the heck is going on here?

What's going on is that VBScript is not logical. VBScript is bitwise. All the so-called logical operators work on numbers, not on Boolean values! Not, And, Or, XOr, Eqv and Imp all convert their arguments to four-byte integers, do the logical operation on each pair of bits in the integers, and return the result. If True is -1 and False is 0 then everything works out, because -1 has all its bits turned on and 0 has all its bits turned off. But if other numbers get in there, all bets are off.

I didn't say it was a good reason. I just said it was a reason.

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ViroLogic's Very Logical Deal

ViroLogic's Very Logical Deal 06/02/2004 11:52 AM
ViroLogic has proven its abilities in HIV and AIDS. The next step is the cancer market.

Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model

Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model 09/10/2002 09:44 AM
"It's now PPC or nothing, $50 credit offered to those who swap."

'Trek' on DVD: A logical choice
(USATODAY.com)

'Trek' on DVD: A logical choice
(USATODAY.com) 08/31/2004 06:12 AM
USATODAY.com - Trekkers can finally get the ultimate Star Trek enterprise, a complete DVD set of the 1960s series' first season.

Empire North - The logical solution

Empire North - The logical solution 04/14/2004 02:27 AM
The logical solution .. The ID Sniper Rifle .. Big Brother sniper

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Introduction to Logical Datacenter
Designer, Parts 1 and 2

Introduction to Logical Datacenter
Designer, Parts 1 and 2 04/11/2005 03:37 AM
Logical Datacenter Designer is used to create models that describe the policies and logical structure of a datacenter, including servers, firewalls, communication paths, security constraints, and other configuration requirements that affect the deployment of application systems into a datacenter. Logical Datacenter Designer is integrated with other Distributed System Designers, included in Visual Studio Team System. All of the designers leverage a common XML-based metafile format known as the System Definition Model (SDM). Logical Datacenter Designer is an effective tool for communicating between IT professionals and system architects.

Apple to become mobile carrier? Next
logical step?

Apple to become mobile carrier? Next
logical step? 12/28/2004 07:19 AM
According to this piece at CanalPDA.com, Albert Slope, VP of Apple's Mobile Platforms and Services business unit, has confirmed that Apple plans to build its own mobile carrier. CanalPDA.com quotes Slope as saying, "creating our own mobile carrier is the next logical step in our strategy of providing the Apple experience to the users of our products. We believe that existing carriers are not offering the flexibility not the performance consumers deserve, so we have decided to move forward, providing cellphone users a full, personal communications and information environent, with the user-friendliness that has become synonymous with Apple's products and services." With talk of deals with Motorola to produce iPhones, this comes as little surprise. But what does come as a surprise that CanalPDA got such an exclusive. Is it true? Who knows. That's why they call them rumors.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

Logical Systems to supply Macs to Fiji

Logical Systems to supply Macs to Fiji 04/21/2004 11:24 AM
Logical Systems, a New Zealand reseller, has acquired the right to supply Apple products to Fiji, which will see the company setting up the only Apple centre in the Pacific nation, according to an IDGNet New Zealand article as noted at MacSurfer...

The Solution Architectures exam: Logical
design

The Solution Architectures exam: Logical
design 02/11/2003 02:24 AM
CNET Feb 11 2003 1:24AM ET

Rumors Aside, Browser Is a Logical Step
for Google

Rumors Aside, Browser Is a Logical Step
for Google 09/23/2004 07:18 PM
Rumors are circulating that Google has added employees to develop technology based on the open-source Mozilla browser.

Shannon International Resources to bid
for rest of Logical in US$9.8M deal

Shannon International Resources to bid
for rest of Logical in US$9.8M deal 07/10/2004 12:44 PM
Canadian Press Jul 10 2004 4:20PM GMT

Rumors Aside, Browser Is a Logical Step
for Google (NewsFactor)

Rumors Aside, Browser Is a Logical Step
for Google (NewsFactor) 09/24/2004 02:19 PM
NewsFactor - Google's next move may be to add a browser offering to its portfolio of Internet products. A New York Post news report suggests that the search-engine giant has added employees to develop such a technology based on the open-source Mozilla browser.

Let's get physical

Let's get physical 04/01/2005 12:16 PM
CNN Money Apr 1 2005 3:25PM GMT

Computing Gets Physical

Computing Gets Physical 06/28/2004 10:04 AM
“I’m standing in front of a green backdrop inside a windowless studio at Cybernet Systems, a technology research and development company in Ann Arbor, MI. A digital camera in front of me is beaming my image, real time, to a television monitor that shows a scene typical of a nightly news weather report. There I am, standing before a map of the Midwest. I extend my arm and begin twirling my hand over the blip of Detroit. The map behind me zooms in on the area beneath my palm. The city widens into view and comes into focus. Looks like it’s going to be a wet one, folks. This is GestureStorm - a software system Cybernet developed to let weather broadcasters run through their forecasts with simple flicks of the hand.”

Physical World Hyperlinks

Physical World Hyperlinks 04/15/2005 05:59 PM
While the cell phone is changing society at many levels, the most fundamental change is yet to come. This is when our phones start to bridge the physical and the digital worlds, to enrich our lives in ways we can currently only guess at. Just as hyperlinks allowed the web to fulfil its potential, physical world hyperlinks read by our cell phones, will take the role of technology to a whole new level in our lives.

v1.0 of HD-DVD Physical Specs Approved

v1.0 of HD-DVD Physical Specs Approved 06/15/2004 01:16 PM

Is physical presence necessary for
community?

Is physical presence necessary for
community? 12/19/2003 11:46 AM

A few months ago I responded to a site that claimed The Internet is Shit with a reposte designed to illustrate that although our networks might contain difficult and unpleasant material, they also contain enough of value and facilitate enough legitimate and real communities to be able to state pretty conclusively that The Internet is not Shit. Note - not that it's perfect, not that it doesn't have flaws, not that bad things don't go on in it, but that pound-for-pound it's more useful and valuable and community-generating than it is useless or damaging or culture-destroying.

Over the last few days, the post has turned into a bit of an argumentative arena, with various posters weighing with positions on what constitutes utopian rhetoric versus what constitutes a reasonable and rational position about the possibilities of (among other things) online communities. Throughout this article various people - myself included - have stumbled in our logic, presented clumsy opinions and misunderstood each other. Nonetheless, I want to pick up one particular fragment of these arguments - a fragment that I feel strongly about and am prepared to fight vigorously about. It's about the authenticity or otherwise of online 'communities'. At a certain point in the debate, my sparring partner posts:

"We're not talking about abstract information - which is expedited magnificently over the internet - we're talking about flesh and blood people. An actual meeting is far more meaningful than tapping on a keyboard. It is substantially different. Physically congregating with other folk is the same as being on the internet as is reading a book about Tibet compared to actually going there. Or reading a menu and eating the food. You can't reduce and flatten the physical, sensory, emotional, kinaesthetic and social world in that way."

Now I'm going to agree with the premise that the particulars of the medium through which people communicate can add a timbre to a community and that they can faciliate certain parts of the exchange more effectively than others. On the other hand, I'd also argue that the qualities of the community space are supprted by the software that they run on, and that quite possibly that software hasn't yet - in the ten/twenty years that it's been being developed - quite achieved the elegance and sophistication that we take for granted in some other social spaces. But the one thing I will not stand for is this sense that online communities are somehow inauthentic because they are unphysical - or that the truncation in social 'signal' somehow reduces them down to a point of uselessness or redundancy. So excerpts from my reply follow:

Your analogies are hideously flawed for a start - if I communicate on the internet or by phone with someone, it's not like a transcript of that person or a decription of that person. You're talking as if whenever you talked to people who weren't present physically (say via the telephone), that what you were actually doing was listening passively to bloody recordings! Of course they're not - it's not bloody radio! People are talking to each other!

Now obviously there are things that you can do in person that you can't do physically online. It's harder to guage someone's mood, it's harder to have sex with them, it's harder to get intonation or a tone of voice. But it's still communication! And the possibility of community still exists! I mean, there are many circumstances in which certain elements of the experience an interaction can be truncated - if you're on a phone for example and can't see the person concerned, or if they're wearing sunglasses so you can't see their eyes, or if you're actually bloody deaf and are forced to lip-read, for Christ's sake! But none of these things stop the possibilities of communication, and none of them stop people being supportive, helpful, useful, friendly or even forming communities through them. I work on the internet, and often my first experience of people is online. Sometimes my only experience of them is online. And yet we can be friends! Most of them have helped me out in some ways in the past, and I've helped most of them out in the past as well. Those I haven't met, I'd like to and those I have I see regularly. But that our relationships have moved sometimes from purely online to a mix of both online and off doesn't mean they weren't real to begin with.

You talk about 'tapping on a keyboard' as if touching keys was the entire point. You're confusing the method of communication with the communication itself. It would be like me saying, "There's a substantial difference between communicating with someone (online) and just causing air to vibrate with your vocal chords". It's trivialising, innaccurate, clumsy and - frankly - stupid.

[I should apologise at this point for resorting to name calling in the final line - put it down to frustration.]

There's a lot more to the argument that's worth reading and talking abotu on the post itself, but I just thought I'd ask do people still think that the term 'online community' is necessarily an oxymoron? Do you really think that the fact you're interacting through your fingers dramatically limits the strength of the relationships you can make?

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"physical security of oil supplies"

"physical security of oil supplies" 05/16/2004 09:06 PM

Why was Bush allergic to his physical?

Why was Bush allergic to his physical? 09/09/2004 01:41 AM
As we continue to sift through the spotty record of George Bush's military service, it's good to keep in mind the point Josh Marshall makes: "This isn't about what President Bush did 30+ years ago. Or at least it's not primarily about that. The issue here is that for a decade President Bush has been denying all of these things. He did so last January. He did so again as recently as last month. He's continued to cover this stuff up right from the Oval Office."

Or, a s our Eric Boehlert puts it, "The controversy, after all, is not merely about how he received a million dollars' worth of free pilot training and then stiffed the government when it came time to pay it back in service. It's also about how, for the last decade, Bush and his advisors have done everything possible to distort, if not erase, the truth about Bush's service record in order to advance his political career."

Now we have a flood of new jigsaw puzzle pieces, including this strange one from May 19, 1972, in which Bush's Texas commander writes: "Physical. We talked about him getting his flight physical situation fixed before his date. Says he will do that in Alabama if he stays in flight status. He has this campaign to do and other things that will follow and may not have the time. I advised him of our investment in him and his commitment. He's been working with staff to come up with options and identified a unit that may accept him. I told him I had to have written acceptance before he would be transferred, but think he's also talking to someone upstairs." Another memo records a direct order to Bush to take the physical.

Now, I'll accept that young Bush was a busy guy, with political campaigns to run and parties to attend -- but here he is, he's been in the Guard for four years, what's the big deal about a physical? How long does it take, an afternoon? Why was it so important to him not to undergo this routine procedure?

I'm afraid this is the sort of query that leads one toward that other swamp of evasion in the Bush record -- those questions about his alleged drug use that have always been answered with nods, winks, comments about having been "young and irresponsible" and denials of drug use carrying carefully crafted expiration dates. Earlier this year, Boehlert r eported on the strange coincidence that Bush's Guard disappearing act almost exactly coincided with the institution of random drug testing for military personnel: "At the time when Bush, perhaps for the first time in his life, faced the prospect of a random drug test, his military records show he virtually disappeared, failing for at least one year to report for Guard duty."

The odds of our ever knowing the truth about that aspect of Bush's life are even worse than the odds of our getting his service record clear. And bringing the issue up without knowing the truth is not the sort of thing that makes anyone feel good: Who did or didn't inhale (or snort) three decades ago ought to be covered by veils of privacy and statutes of limitation.

But decorum feels like surrender in this mad electoral fight. The Bush campaign has gone completely off the rails in its smears of Kerry's service record. Even if you don't want to consider the facts and just look at the charges, there's no equivalency here between the issues under dispute. In one case, we're arguing over how serious a guy's battlefield wounds were; in the other, we're weighing whether to call absenteeism and cover-ups by their proper names. What a falling-off!

It may be ugly, it's certainly no one's idea of what this country should be talking about during this election, but with the whirlwind of attention on his military record Bush is reaping what his August barrage against Kerry's record sowed. It's rough justice.

Don't Skip Your Financial Physical

Don't Skip Your Financial Physical 12/27/2004 03:37 PM
The end of the year is the perfect time to get your financials in order.

Nappletizer users - getting physical?

Nappletizer users - getting physical? 01/06/2005 10:16 PM
CD sales up in US

Physical perils of gaming

Physical perils of gaming 11/01/2003 05:19 AM
BBC Nov 1 2003 3:32AM ET

WSIS Physical Security Cracked

WSIS Physical Security Cracked 12/11/2003 11:52 PM

Set iChat status according to physical
location

Set iChat status according to physical
location 04/15/2004 11:43 AM
There are plenty of scripts to set your iChat status according to what music you're listening to and whatnot. However, since I have a laptop, I find it more useful to set my iChat status message according to where I am at the...

Intel looks to master physical world

Intel looks to master physical world 05/05/2004 07:52 PM
ZDNet May 6 2004 0:36AM GMT

Amazon and A9 re-remix the virtual and
physical

Amazon and A9 re-remix the virtual and
physical 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
Walmart might be in your face no matter where you turn when you're out and about, but without an Amazon presence, it probably doesn't exist.

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phiCAD a physical engineering suite

phiCAD a physical engineering suite 05/17/2004 07:26 AM
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Test-TAP-Model-0.02

Test-TAP-Model-0.02 04/15/2005 08:19 PM

Apricorn EZ Bus Mini Hard Drive Reviewed

Apricorn EZ Bus Mini Hard Drive Reviewed 08/23/2004 06:30 AM

The good news about the Apricorn EZ Bus Mini 20GB, a USB bus-powered hard drive design for on-the-go backups, is that it works very well (if a little slowly), and even has a pretty nice suite of software if you're using Windows (OSX can see the drive fine, but there's no software). The bad news is that for about the same $200 or so price of the Apricorn EZ Bus, you could get a regular USB 2.0 or FireWire unit that uses standard 3.5-inch hard drives with at least five or six times the capacity. Of course, it would be nearly as portable as the iPod-sized Apricorns, and it would probably require its own mains power, but it would be bigger.

That being said, if you're on the road, and looking for a cheap way to store some of your data, if not all of it, it looks like a pretty decent deal. Everything USB has a little price checker at the bottom of their review, and it looks like the 20GB model can be found for as low as $165; cheap enough that the "why not just buy an iPod?" argument is nullified, thankfully.

Read - Apricorn EZ Bus Mini 20GB [EverythingUSB]

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Apricorn's USB Bus-Powered External Harddrive [Gizmodo]

Test-Data-1.02

Test-Data-1.02 09/03/2004 12:51 AM

Test-Data-1.01

Test-Data-1.01 05/31/2004 05:39 AM

Test-Data-0.96

Test-Data-0.96 04/22/2004 05:37 PM

Generating Test Data - II

Generating Test Data - II 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
Express Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:35PM GMT

Some leery of posting test data

Some leery of posting test data 08/02/2004 03:15 AM
Boston Globe Aug 2 2004 7:10AM GMT

NXTEST Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
Test

NXTEST Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
Test 08/11/2004 03:23 PM

Education Department Puts School Test
Data On Web

Education Department Puts School Test
Data On Web 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
Education Department Puts School Test Data On Web
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2004/0126/web-nochild-01-30-04.asp
http://www.schoolresults.org
This week a new Web site went online as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, an education law that had strong support from President Bush. The site displays results from testing of elementary school students sorted by geographic area. The data include statistics about the percentage of students who are economically disadvantaged and the numbers of students who show acceptable progress in reading and math proficiency. Data are currently available for six states--Delaware, Florida, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington--and data from all states is expected to be available eventually. Testing for middle and high school students is not scheduled to begin until 2006. The project was funded jointly by the Federal government and the Broad Foundation, which supports elementary and secondary public education.[Federal Computer Week, 3 February 2004] This site will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

American Airlines data used to test
passenger snoop system

American Airlines data used to test
passenger snoop system 04/13/2004 12:38 PM
TSA to inaugurate frequent liar club?

Apricorn Introduces EZ Upgrade 1.8T Hard
Drive Upgrade Kit

Apricorn Introduces EZ Upgrade 1.8T Hard
Drive Upgrade Kit 08/04/2004 02:38 AM
Apricorn, a leader in personal storage products, today released the EZ Upgrade 1.8T Hard Drive Upgrade Kit. EZ Upgrade 1.8T is the first hard drive upgrade kit designed specifically for 1.8" hard drives found in many of the latest portable notebooks and tablet PC's. In three simple steps users can seamlessly transfer all the data from the old hard drive to a new hard drive and transform the old hard drive into a portable Hi-Speed USB 2.0 backup and/or storage solution. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Government will order airlines to turn
over passenger data to test screening
system

Government will order airlines to turn
over passenger data to test screening
system 09/21/2004 06:20 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 21 2004 10:05PM GMT

Medicare To Test Online Claims Data For
Beneficiaries; HHS Rolls Out 10-Year IT
Plan

Medicare To Test Online Claims Data For
Beneficiaries; HHS Rolls Out 10-Year IT
Plan 07/22/2004 06:03 AM
Healthnewsdaily.com - Thu Jul 22, 09:33 am GMT

The transition from logical to physical data model