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- Metric
- Measurement. Although metric generally refers to a system of weights and measures, software engineers often use the term as simply "measurement." For example, "is there a metric for...
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- CornerstoneCalc 5.1 (Windows)
- Calculator with memory. Calculator with printable tape. Area calculations: displays inches, feet and metric--square area, circles, rings, triangle, trapezoid. Volume: displays inches, feet and metric--cubes, cylinders, spheres, cones, frustum of a cone. Conversion tables: inches to metric, metric to English, English to English, temperature, points and picas. Measure liquids /...
- Tags: Cone, Metric, Cornerstone Designs, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-14
- Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one
- Disaster averted: But sob my next notebook might not be an Apple oneSo your Basing your decision on a single criteria?How close does the Apple get to gold?Do you even know?How about this, since you can use a five year old power book g4 and there is no way in...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple Inc., notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-05-17
- Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?
- For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...
- Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Helping Contact Center Agents Improve First Contact Resolution
- While there is broad recognition of the value of tracking and managing first contact resolution, a substantial proportion of today's contact centers do not attempt to measure it. This is understandable. The metric is difficult to define and difficult to measure. Proxy measures like IVR exits and abandoned calls are...
- Tags: Contact Center, Metric, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Real Estate, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Security metrics: Is there a better way?
- A report arguing that the first year of Vista has been more secure--or at least has had fewer vulnerabilities--than XP and other operating systems has raised a ruckus. The issue raises a question about whether there are any metrics that could accurately capture whether an operating system is more secure....
- Tags: Operating System, Vulnerability, Metric, Functionality, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Does AMD 'Average CPU Power' metric have legs?
- With AMD's launch of Barcelona comes a new metric: Average CPU Power. While the Average CPU Power ACP metric reflects a need--everyone wants to know how much power servers are gobbling up--it won't gain significant traction until others follow suit. Until then, ACP is marketing for...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Metric, Average CPU Power, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Windows v Linux - Days of risk in 2006
- Windows v Linux - Days of risk in 2006So Microsoft's Jeff Jones really said that? Really?After all, it is Jeff Jones' job to say that Microsoft products are the best, most secure, and have the lowest total cost of ownership of any available in the market. That is precisely what...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Jeff Jones, Microsoft Windows, Linux, metric
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber
- Ever since Leon Festinger first formulated his theory of cognitive dissonance people have, usually reluctantly, accepted the reality that we seek out information confirming our beliefs while actively avoiding contrary information. The obvious lesson for people who are aware of this is...
- Tags: Unanswered questions, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- 2006: The year of dual core, virtualization, WiMax
- 2006: The year of dual core, virtualization, WiMaxDual-core/ Multi-threads: What about software?With all the news and discussion about dual-core and multi-thread Intel HT capable processors, I have heard nothing recently about the present state of the software that runs on these processors. Sure, operating systems such as Win2K/XP, Linux,...
- Tags: Processors, metric, dual-core, processor, virtualization, WiMAX
- Discussion threads 2006-04-19
- Serving Sizer (TM) (Mobile)
- Description:Serving Sizer is a recipe ingredient conversion tool. It is a calculator for multiplying and estimating recipe ingredients. The program converts recipe ingredients to alternative serving sizes and proportions. It includes quick click buttons for common recipe conversions such as halve, double and triple. It also converts US weights and...
- Tags: Gram, Ingredient, Mobile, Description:Serving Sizer, Metric, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2004-02-20
- Signal-Specialized Parameterization for Piecewise Linear Reconstruction
- This paper proposes a metric for surface parameterization specialized to its signal that can be used to create more efficient, high-quality texture maps. Derived from Taylor expansion of signal error, the metric predicts the signal approximation error - the difference between the original surface signal and its reconstruction from the...
- Tags: Metric
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- Route Fragility: A Novel Metric for Route Selection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- A key factor deciding the performance of a routing protocol in mobile ad hoc networks is the manner in which it adapts to route changes caused by mobility. Exploiting the intuition that a less dynamic route lasts longer, this paper proposes a new metric, the Route Fragility Coefficient RFC, to...
- Tags: Route, Mobile, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Contraction, Metric, Route Fragility Coefficient, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Will the GPU become the new CPU?
- Will the GPU ever become the metric that we use to measure PCs with, replacing the GHz-centric and core-centric CPU? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: CPU, GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-11-27
- iSMARTtrain 3.0.6b15 (Mac)
- iSMARTtrain is a Mac OS X and OS 9 application to track and analyse athletic training. The software allows multisport athletes to store information about their training sessions, such as duration, distance and speed, and view the data in either a graphical or tabular form. Any number of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Training, Session, OTAG Technologies, iSMARTtrain, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Apple Mac OS X, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Easy Stitch for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Easy Stitch for iPhone innovative application breaks down the barrier of understanding how each craft is achieved. Every topic is carefully defined with easy to read how-to and delivered in a step-by-step approach with detailed illustrations. Included with each category are descriptions of various materials, supplies, tools, conversion charts from...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Perfect Diet Tracker 3.23 (Mac)
- An easy to use diet tracker application that will help you lose weight, with a growing database of food items (now over 35,000) to get you started.Both imperial and metric measurements are supported making it easy to add new food and exercise items to the diary worldwide. Carbohydrates, Protein and...
- Tags: Food, Apple Macintosh, Byoni, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- Mixology for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)
- With Mixology for iPhone browse and search through 7,900 drink recipes and 1,300 ingredients. It features drink categories include Cocktails, Martinis, shooters, jello shots, hot drinks, punches, non alcoholic, and favorites, liquor cabinet tab lets you enter all the liquor and mixer types you have on hand and search the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Beverage, Digital Outcrop, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- VitalsView for iPhone 1.2.4 (Mobile)
- VitalsView for iPhone tracks and visualizes many aspects of vital statistics. This is part of a family of apps used to track health and fitness. Since this information may be very important to you, you can back it up to your computer is connected to the same wireless system as...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Wireless, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Pocket Weather World with Push for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)
- Pocket Weather World with Push for iPhone gives weather information for thousands of locations around the globe, all in the palm of your hand. It features push the current temperature or forecasted high for your favourite location straight to your device, search for a location anywhere on the globe, add...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Location, Shifty Jelly, Smart Phones, GPS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
- My Measures and Dimensions for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- My Measures and Dimensions for iPhone have tool for all real estate agents, engineers, carpenters, architects, auction sellers, and construction workers. All you have to do is take a photo of an object you wish to store dimensions of. Then you add dimensions. Now your measures are stored and you...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Dimension, Mobile, Photograph
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
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