Compact Socket Adapter System for 0.50mm and 0.65mm pitch BGA and LGA Device Validation

New hybrid design is suited for fine pitch device test & validation or SMT board-to-board stacking where space is a constraint.

A breakthrough in fine pitch socket technology, the hybrid BGA Socket Adapter System utilizes both male and female pins in an interstitial pattern – offering the reliability of screw-machined terminals with multi-finger contacts in a compact SMT socket. At only 2.00mm larger than the device package, with no external hold-downs required, this patented design is perfect for development and validation of 0.50mm and 0.65mm pitch BGA and LGA devices, while offering superior electrical performance with very low signal attenuation up to 2.5GHz. Features and benefits include:

• Small overall size and same footprint as device – only 2.00mm larger than device
• Designed for development and validation of BGA and LGA devices, production level socketing, and SMT board to board connector applications
• Standard eutectic Tin/Lead solder balls or lead-free Tin/Silver/Copper solder ball terminals for RoHS Compliant applications
• Unique alignment pins protect pin field and aid in hand placement with optional stand-offs available
• Data sheet and signal integrity simulation data including IBIS, HSPICE, and Touchstone models are available online

Advanced Interconnections Corporation is an ISO 9001:2000 Certified designer and manufacturer of electronic interconnect solutions, with world headquarters located in Rhode Island (USA). For more information, contact Advanced Interconnections’ customer service department at 5 Energy Way, West Warwick, RI 02893 USA. Tel: (800) 424-9850 or (401) 823-5200 or Fax: (401) 823-8723.

E-mail: info@advanced.com. Product information available online at: www.bgasockets.com.

Unfortunately I have already forgotten what categories I set aside for myself to review games by earlier in this blog. So I’m just going to tell you what I think and really, I just made up those categories to bash on FF12.

Shin Megami Tensei if you don’t know is a basically a franchise that is equivalent to demonic god killing pokemon. Typical aspects of the series is collecting/turning into demons (demons that can be anything from Beelzebub to Odin to Vishnu to Metatron), reshaping the world per your character’s choices, and beating up God and/or Lucifer. The series was pretty much born on the controversial side of life and typically has fantastic, thoroughly thought out writing. That said, not all the entries are particularly good.

Devil Survivor I love. Its not for everyone but it is a fantastic game. I have NEVER been this addicted to a handheld game. Oh sure I own plenty of them but most have weak stories with overly simple game mechanics.

The story for Devil Survivor is great, primarily because of all the well done characterization. The story, however, doesn’t really take off until the third day. The first 3 days are all setup and an introduction to an SMT universe. I’m also pretty the brainstorming for this project went something like, “I just saw Battle Royale, lets do that in an SMT universe!” The game is filled with a number of characters, most of whom you can have in your party. The trick is they all have different philosophies on how to solve the game’s crisis and will only help you so much as to attain their goals.

A quick summary of the game’s plot: The government in an attempt to trap a religious sect that summons demons known as the Shomonkai, places a quarantine over a section of Tokyo. The main character and his friends get caught up in the mess by finding demon summoning “COMPs” (which look suspiciously like Nintendo DS’s). Its up to you whether to stay or run.

Gameplay wise this is probably the easiest SMT game I’ve ever played. You fuse demons or buy them at a demon auction. You can only fuse demons up to whatever your main character’s level is. Skills/Magic can be learned by “Skill Cracking”, which translates to: this demon has the skill you want this character to have, so have that character kill it.

The fighting takes place only on a tactics RPG style field of squares. There are a variety of movement skills which make this aspect pretty interesting. Whenever you attack an enemy the fight transitions to a traditional style turn based RPG forum, with your character and their two demons versus three enemies. Getting criticals or hitting the enemies weakness earn characters an extra attack while missing or hitting an enemy with an element it is immune to can lose your character their extra attack. Four characters with their demons can be on the field at once.

The graphics is really where this game gets its bad marks. While all the images are stylized like in the Persona series, there are little to no animations. It was really quite a baffling thing when I realized this a week or two ago. But at the same time, it is a Nintendo DS game. And Nintendo hasn’t been known for their wonderful graphics since the Gamecube (the Gamecube being the technical best designed last gen system).

The music for the game is surprisingly enjoyable. I typically keep the volume knob down on my DS but on this game I find myself turning it up on occasion.

Overall, if you like turn based RPG’s, heavy philosophy and characterization, and own a DS, then go buy this game. If you don’t own a DS…. well there really aren’t that many great games for the DS this one just might make it worth owning one.

Microsoft’s statistical machine-translation technology designed for integration into third-party web properties has now reached its Beta stage. The latest development, announced at TechEd Europe is also synonymous with the Redmond company opening up access to the Microsoft Translator Widget and the Microsoft Translator AJAX API. Prior to TechEd Europe, both the Translator widget and the application programming interface were only available on an invitation-only basis.

This move follows the current push to offer more and more machine-translation integration, a trend followed by several language companies, like Pangeanic. Language Service Providers have been feeling the pressure on technology innovation for some time now. Sharing initiatives like TAUS‘ TDA have paved the way for an increase in the availability of data which in turn has accelerated several developments. In other occasions, TDA initiative has made possible the birth of new revenue streams for LSP’s.

With this new Beta, website owners who want to make use of Microsoft Translator technology into their online content can do so with no limitations as the Beta program is public. In a nutshell, the company is enabling all customers to generate either a snippet or application based on its own MT technology. Website owners only need to visit the widget and AJAX API adoption portals, and get the generated code from there.

Vikram Dendi, from the Microsoft Translator team, highlighted a few points of interest from TechEd Europe: “Microsoft Translator APIs and the webpage widget are now in beta. Generate a translator widget for your webpage here, or use the AJAX API to further customize the translation experience.”

Next time you think languages, think Pangeanic

The Saudi Arabian National Research and Development Organization announced yesterday a multi-year agreement to collaborate on, amongst other areas, the advancement of Machine-Translation technologies.

Under terms of the agreement, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) will purchase an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer that will enable its researchers to perform complex simulations and computational modelling.

The software giant will provide training services to KACST researchers on the functionality and features of Statistical Machine Translation technology. IBM’s Research and Development team will be in charge of building the machine translation system with the initial basic system capabilities, which will be trained with several million words of data – the basis of the translation training process.

IBM will commit researchers, and business consultants and KACST scientists will work together to further enhance the IBM Machine Translation Engine into a powerful translation engine to translate Arabic to other languages. This project deals with natural language analysis and computational methods for language translation. Technologies used for machine translation, such as syntactic parsing and word sense disambiguation, are commonly used in other applications of natural language processing.

The agreement is one of several joint research projects undertaken between both organizations.

Help will also be provided on Intellectual Property Development management so that IBM’s expertise is used to help KACST tools and processes that turn its inventions into patents.

The agreement also includes collaboration to create the National Center for Women Engineers.

Full story has been reported in several sites: zawya.com, ameinfo.com, and the US-Saudia Arabian Business Council.

Next time you think languages, think Pangeanic.

Assalamualaikum,

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Senarai Sekolah Menengah Teknik Tahun 2009

by Stephanie Meyer, KF9, Sierra Leone

I eat at Kumba’s at least three times a week. I’ve always been the type that likes to have my “regular spots” – my coffee shop, my bar, my newsstand. I like to think of Kumba’s as my lunch spot. It doesn’t hurt that everything is so homey. There are only three tables, so people tend to share and chat. By the time I had made three visits, I was granted to privilege of walking through the door to “Eh! Step-nie!” followed by enquiries after the folks I usually eat with and their whereabouts. The food is tasty and it’s fast, and on very rare occasions when she knows I’m coming, there’s onion stew (my favorite so far). About a week ago, I popped my head into my Kiva Coordinator’s office to let him know I was off for “apotho lunch” (me and my weak American stomach eat lunch about an hour before everyone else in the office). He asked where I was going, and I told him Kumba’s for Cassava Leaf. “Kumba?” he asked, “You know, she is a client”. (check out her current profile here)

I did NOT know that, and it excited me a great deal. I’ve been fortunate in my ability to have meetings with a large number of clients since my arrival in Makeni, but I often feel a bit rushed and impersonal. The need to communicate through a translator, though essential for my Krio- and Temne- speaking clients, can seem like a wall. Sometimes I suspect I’m getting the lip service answers of “to invest in my business” or “yes, microfinance has been wonderful for me” to my questions, because borrowers can be so startled and awed by my unannounced appearance in their place of business, snapping my camera and spouting my questionable Krio. I like to think, however, that Kumba and I have become pals in my time here. I look forward to seeing her in the afternoons. When I ask her “Eh ma, ow de day?” I’m really curious about how her day has been so far, and what she’s been up to. She seems to feel the same way. I mentioned to my coordinator that I would love to interview Kumba for a blog.

At the beginning, he was clearly a bit skeptical. Turns out Kumba has been interviewed before. Some while back (it can be very difficult to pin down exact dates and times here…) a reporter from Scotland visited Makeni to research a human-interest piece on microfinance, and he chose to focus on Kumba. From the sounds of things, she was promised everything but the kitchen sink: donor money would flow in, her restaurant would become famous, etc. etc. (bear in mind I get all this third-hand, but tsk tsk, reporter man). As is often the case in such scenarios, the man returned home, probably wrote a beautiful and moving story about a woman’s struggle against the odds, and Kumba never heard a word again. One can understand why she would be a bit reluctant to sign up for round two.

Determined to at least try, I stopped by the restaurant for lunch yesterday, and started talking to her about SMT and my work at Kiva. I mentioned that I would love to write a story about her for lenders to read. Her smile didn’t waver, so I pushed forward. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of my predecessor, I tried almost too hard to be honest with Kumba: this will not mean any extra money for you or any extra funding. Most of the people who read this will probably never visit Sierra Leone, so there will not be any additional business. It won’t affect your ability to get new SMT or Kiva loans in the future positively or negatively. After I painted this rosy picture of my post, Kumba waited for a moment, then just grinned, nodded and said “s’okay. Now?”. I felt a little flutter knowing that, even though it meant nothing for her personally, Kumba would still do me this favor. We ARE friends!

Turns out Kumba has taken out three loans through SMT so far (she is currently paying back her third). Before opening the restaurant, she worked at two different hotel/restaurants in town, but was unhappy in her inability to manage her own work and hours, and a bit disappointed in her, ahem, erratic paycheck schedule. She opened the restaurant 1 year and 8 months ago (the exact date and the quickness with which she was able to give it to me are testaments to how much this date meant to her). With her first loan, she purchased general supplies: food, drinks, cooking gear. The second went to upgrading her kitchen and getting more pots, pans, and utensils, in order to service new customers. It is the most recent loan, however, about which Kumba seems most proud. In addition to even more general supplies such as food and cooking gear, she purchased new tables and chairs so her customers could sit comfortably. She surrounded the wood-frame building in mosquito netting to keep the majority of bugs out of everyone’s food. She even got some tablecloths and posters for the wall (which, I have to say, really do make the ambiance). She’s even considering a music system to keep people entertained while they eat. Now, rather than working for unreliable managers, who demand too much, don’t allow sick time (missing a day of work due to illness is cause for dismissal at most jobs in Sierra Leone), and rarely pay wages, Kumba is her own boss, and even has a small staff to manage herself. She is clearly proud of her restaurant and her accomplishments, and I like to think of her as an “empowered woman” (though this is a super-American term, I think) who has some control over her life and her future.

I know sometimes it can be easy to see the down-side to microfinance, and the burden it places on people. Sometimes we all wish there was another way, or a better way, to make sustainable change for the working poor in developing nations. I agree that dialogue needs to be kept open: it’s the only way more ideas will be generated. I also recognize that for many, microfinance is not all peaches-and-cream, and that it can even make life worse. When I start to get down on it though, it’s nice to go to Kumba’s, grab some onion stew, and bask in the proud glow of a woman who used a small loan to seize control, and create a new future for herself.

Want to learn more about SMT or lend to other clients like Kumba? Click here

NBC – NATION BROADCASTING CORPORATION PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
mai市場での取引開始初日。IPO価格は一株2.90バーツであった。

PTTCH – PTT CHEMICAL PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
2009年度第3四半期の純利益は28億2千万バーツ。昨年度同期は49億3千万バーツであった。

PTT – PTT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
2009年度第3四半期の純利益は170億バーツ。昨年度同期は179億バーツであった。

SPALI – SUPALAI PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
2009年度第3四半期の純利益は5億8千700万バーツ。昨年度同期は2億4百万バーツであった。

THAI – THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
- 2009年度第4四半期は燃料価格低下し良い影響。また飛行機を11機追加する準備を開始。
- 顧客のため、会社強化のため、ビジネス伸長のための、3つの戦略を取締役会に提出準備。

LH – LAND AND HOUSES PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
- 本年度第2回目の配当一株当たり0.08バーツを支払いへ。Q4は新規2プロジェクトを開始。価格は20億バーツ。
- 2009年度第3四半期の純利益は11億6千万バーツ。昨年度同期は8億6千万バーツであった。

SMT – STARS MICROELECTRONICS (THAILAND) PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
IC（集積回路）製造のための新規投資1億バーツを来年度内に行うための資金準備を開始。

BANPU – BANPU PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
2009年度第3四半期の純利益は38億1千万バーツ。昨年度同期は31億1千万バーツであった。

YNP – YARNAPUND PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
タイ国証券取引監視委員会(SEC)は、YNPに対して2008年度決算及び、本年度第1、2四半期決算の訂正を命令。（Info Quset 11月11日配信）

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Jag har precis gjort en intervju med en nybliven artist som bara har hunnit göra 4 skrivna låtar men en hel del freestyles. Många låtar är klara men alla har inte hunnit spelas in än, men mycket nytt är på gång. Simon heter han och bor i Rissne i Stockholm och kommer ursprungligen från Eritrea & Etiopien.  Här får ni en kort intervju om vem S.M.T

Twitter has launched its Spanish-speaking version, a successful, fully crowdsourced project. The release comes from CNET http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10390027-36.html

Twitter’s foreign language release follows Facebook’s initiative, which has been an example of “community-based” localization, but that has also been plagued by errors in translation, misinterpretations with some unfavourable comments from some Facebook communities (Italian in particular).

Well, Twitter’s Spanish interface begins with a typo on the front page, right up the little bird where “esta pasando” (is happening) has the accent missing over the está….. just click on the above CNET link to check (or change you language setting to Spanish in Twitter). Another one appears when accessing the application from a 3rd-party site with Twithis.

Still, not bad for the cost of it. This brings up the question again about the usefulness of crowdsourcing or community-based translation for brands and how to best apply it. It also brings up the question about how much “bad” translation users can put up with for the purpose of usefulness.

There are companies which are undertaking a very professional approach to crowdsourcing (see Adobe’s efforts, providing even a structure for the Adobe user community). Many are seeing the hype as an opportunity to get localization for free.

Our position at Pangeanic is that whilst crowdsourcing is very good, particularly for under-funded open source projects, it is only complementary to professional efforts when it comes to trusting brand image in a foreign language. Crowdsourcing may be a way of obtaining documentation translated that would otherwise not be translated, and translated by enthusiasts in the field as long as the translated content is not urgent and has a team leader looking after terminology coherence and all the typical issues an experienced project manager might look after.

Other alternatives, such as (statistical) machine-translation with human post-editing can also be considered when time is essential, as long as a proper development within a particular field (or preferably a client-specific development) is in place.

Next time you think languages, think Pangeanic

My brother comes home from his job and we have this conversation:

Bro: When I was in Arizona, I bought a PSP and guess what they had.
Me: What?
Bro: *takes out Relevations: Persona* This! I saw it and knew youd like it.
Me:  Oh, wow! Awesome! Thanks! (exchange of hugs)

This was because he remembers me and my nightmare/daydream obsession in P3 about getting to the right level for Helel, then I ended up just played a 2nd cycle for it instead, then again when I complained how hard it was to get a “specific” persona in 4. Then again when I was so happy in Devil Summoner 2 I was running around in circles like I was high on squee-omfgness. Needless to say, he knows by now what a big fan I am of the series…

Actually, I wasn’t that intersted in buying it because I thought everyone looked like rejected circus freaks and it was physically painful to look at them. So, now Im like “Okay, time to give it a try…” Then it reminds of me several games where I hated it at first but then it grew on me toward the end, but then I never end up playing it a second time. Haha.

Okay, well this is kind of a problem to. Now Im going to fail hard or Resist with my… awesome power of resisting! Arrrgh… Maybe I should pretend hes not in the game?  It comes just as I was building up a good resistment. (I’ll crush your wall of resist! As I know you can never resist my charm (evil laugh) )

All I have to say is: *Groan and Sigh*

Answered by IPC Director of Certification, Jack Crawford
Originally posted 5/11/09

The consumer-driven demand for electronic devices to become smaller, lighter and more functional has been driving electronic components into ever smaller packages. The early development of integrated circuits focused on increasing the number of transistors per package, leading to very large scale integration (VLSI) devices… (more)

At the annual SEG meeting in Houston, SMT announced the release of KINGDOM 8.5, which includes the introduction of KINGDOM GeoModeling, the first modular extension of SMT’s KINGDOM Advanced product line announced earlier this year. KINGDOM GeoModeling allows organizations to conduct integrated interpretation and 3D geocellular modeling in a single product. Integrating these two workflows enables interpreters and modelers to share the same workspace during prospect evaluation. This process improvement increases productivity and reduces the time needed to generate and evaluate prospects in more detail and with greater accuracy.

            Commenting on the announcement, Stan Abele, VP of Product Management at SMT, said: “KINGDOM GeoModeling is another example of SMT’s ongoing focus to bring advanced workflows to every desktop. With SMT’s new GeoModeling, generalist interpreters can now do what was previously the domain of only specialists – interpreters can create sealed earth models, conduct volumetric analyses and estimate reserves.”

            KINGDOM GeoModeling incorporates patented 3D gridding technology from JewelSuite, a powerful, easy to use, Windows-based reservoir modeling software package. Unlike older gridding technologies, the second-generation JewelSuite 3D gridding capability allows complex structural environments to be modeled without compromising the integrity and accuracy of the original structural interpretation.  With the incorporation of JewelSuite gridding technology into KINGDOM GeoModeling, SMT now offers best of breed in both interpretation and 3D geocellular modeling in a single, fully integrated product.

            “Using the JewelSuite software, our consulting teams – including  Gaffney, Cline & Associates, RDS, Epic Consulting and GMI – will be better able to provide the most effective integrated solutions for the most complex reservoirs and development options,” said Nathan Meehan, VP Reservoir Technology, Baker Hughes.

            KINGDOM 8.5 has numerous enhancements:

• KINGDOM Data Management 8.5 – Replaces the current OpenKINGDOM Domain product. Maintains the historical features of OpenKINGDOM while providing a platform for new functionality.
• Ability to transfer data between KINGDOM projects – Users can easily select data and create project subsets, combine data from multiple projects, and run QC scripts against KINGDOM projects to check for erroneous results and correct them directly in the interface.
• Ability to save and restore maps and create and apply display templates for all vertical sections.
• Improvements in the auto tracker and usability enhancements that make the interface more workflow oriented.

            KINGDOM 8.5 is expected to be available in December 2009. Customers who have purchased OpenKINGDOM Domain will receive KINGDOM Data Management as part of their standard maintenance.

www.seismicmicro.com

        Revelations: Persona เกมในตำนาน Remake จากเครื่อง PS  เมื่อ 13 ปีที่แล้วจากค่าย ATLUS เป็นเกม RPG แบบสมัยก่อนคือมีระบบการต่อสู้เป็นการเลือกคำสั่งแบบเทิร์นเบส ซึ่งมีจุดเด่นคือเกมตระกูล Shin Megami Tensei บน Famicom นี้เป็นเกมแรกเลยก็ว่าได้ ที่สามารถนำปีศาจมาใช้งาน แถมยังจบมาผสมกันเป็นปีศาจตัวใหม่ได้อีกด้วย

        การ Remake ภาค PSP ทำได้น่าผิดหวัง เพิ่มแค่ฉาก Movie ไม่กี่ฉาก กับเสียงประกอบที่ดูดีขึ้น หน้าจอเป็นแบบ Wide-screen เพื่อให้เข้ากับ PSP โดยระบบต่างๆในตัวเกมยังโบราณอยู่ดี ธีมหลักของเกมตระกูลนี้คือคำว่า Persona (ภาษาละตินแปลว่าหน้ากาก) และเป็นที่มาของคำว่า Personality ในคำภาษาอังกฤษที่แปลว่าบุคลิกภาพ  เนื้อเรื่องของเกมนั้น พยายามจะบ่งบอกว่า คนเราทุกคนจะมีอย่างน้อยสองบุคลิกภาพขึ้นไปอยู่ในตัวเสมอ ด้านนึงเป็นด้านที่คนๆนั้นเลือกที่จะแสดงออกมาต่อสังคม อีกด้านนึงจะเป็นด้านที่ไม่ถูกเลือกที่จะแสดงออกมา ก็คือมี Persona หรือหน้ากากสวมไว้อยู่ตลอดเวลานั่นเอง หลักการนี้ยังตรงกับหลักการของวิชาจิตวิทยาอีกด้วย

        เริ่มต้นมาไตเติ้ลเกม เป็นภาพผีเสื้อบินไปมา เป็นความฝันของตัวเราอยู่ เราก็นึกสงสัยว่า เอ๊ะ เรากำลังฝันว่าตัวเองเป็นผีเสื้อที่บินไปมา หรือว่าเราเป็นผีเสื้อที่กำลังฝันว่าเป็นเราอยู่กันนะ อย่างไหนคือความจริงกันล่ะ ซึ่งเกมได้เปรียบเปรยว่า เรากำลังไม่แน่ใจว่าสิ่งที่เราแสดงออกมาคือนิสัยของเราจริงๆหรือ หรือสิ่งที่เราเก็บไว้ข้างในคือนิสัยของเราจริงๆกันนะ

เด็กสาวเจ้าปัญหา

        เนื้อเรื่องหลักเกี่ยวกับเด็กสาวคนนึงเกิดน้อยเนื้อต่ำใจในตนเองขึ้นมาในชีวิต โดนเพื่อนแย่งแฟนไปต่อหน้าแต่ก็ต้องทำทีเป็นยินดีด้วย แม่ตัวเองก็เอาแต่ทำงานไม่ค่อยกลับบ้านแต่ต่อหน้าก็พูดแสดงความเข้าใจในตัวแม่ จนกระทั่งถึงจุดๆนึง ตัวเองเริ่มเกลียดสังคม เกลียดทุกคนที่อยู่ในโลก เกลียดแม้กระทั่งตัวเองที่ไม่แสดงออกถึงความรู้สึกจริงๆออกไป ความคิดคำนึงนี่เองจึงแรงกล้ามากจนกระทั่งสร้างโลกคู่ขนานอีกโลกขึ้นมา ซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยปีศาจ ด้วยจุดมุ่งหมายที่จำทำให้เมืองที่ตัวเองอยู่นี้หายไป กระทั่งตัวตนของตัวเองก็หายไปด้วย แต่กลับกลายเป็นว่ามีตัวเองอีกคนหนึ่งเพิ่มขึ้นมาที่มีลักษณะตรงข้ามกับตัวตนในโลกแห่งความจริง

           เอกลักษณ์ของเกมตระกูลนี้อีกอย่างนึงคือ สามารถเล่นได้หลายเส้นทาง เพื่อที่จะไปฉากจบ  และแต่ละเส้นทางก็มีทั้งแบบดีและเลว ทำให้สามารถเล่นได้หลายรอบ ในสมัยก่อนที่คนทำเกมมีน้อย เกมออกมาไม่มาก ทำให้เกม RPG ที่เล่นได้หลายรอบนั้นเป็นที่น่าสนใจเป็นอย่างมาก

ผะ…ผีนี่หว่า!!?

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เนื้อเรื่อง(Story) 8/10 Concept ดีน่าติดตาม สนุกสนานเหมือนอ่านการตูนญี่ปุ่นซักเรื่อง

ระบบการเล่น (Game play) 4/10 เป็นระบบโบราณไม่ได้มีการแก้ไขเปลี่ยนแปลงเลยเจอศัตรูถี่มาก น่าเบื่อและซ้ำซาก (Repetitive) เลเวลขึ้นยาก และเป็นเกมที่ต้องใช้เวลาเก็บเลเวลบ้างถึงจะเล่นผ่านได้ ทางเดินเป็นเขาวงกต แต่ไม่มีของอะไรดีๆให้เก็บเลย ส่วนใหญ่เป็นทางตันหมด เสียเวลามากถ้าไม่ใช้บทสรุปดูแผนที่

ภาพรวม (Overall) 6/10 อย่างน้อยก็ยังมีเนื้อเรื่องที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์เฉพาะตัว ดึงดูดให้เราเล่นจนจบได้

สรุปเกมนี้ใช้เวลาในเกมไปประมาณ 20 ชม. เล่นจบแค่เส้นทางเดียวก็ไม่ไหวแล้ว เบื่อซะก่อน ใช้สูตรโกงเลเวล ดูบทสรุปตามเว็บบ้าง

Nurses got sick from swine flu vaccinations in Sweden, 1 suspected death

The Flu Case
October 21, 2009

Another nurse, Jennely (26), could hardly walk five meters after she got sick from the “swine flu” vaccination. She was completely healthy when she got the shot but the day after she had 39 degrees centigrade fever (102.2 F). “- I could hardly walk the five meters I had to the bathroom”, she says. The fever lasted for three days. sevreal of her colugueges at work had similar experiences. “- I know of at least ten that got fever , we are about 80 people at my workplace.”

Swine flu shots found to cause mild symptoms of disease
Surge in infections in Rovaaniemi

“There are so many confirmed cases that we can now talk about an epidemic”, says Markku Broas, head physician of the unit of infectious diseases at the Lapland Central Hospital in Rovaniemi.

Update On Washington Redskins Cheerleader Crippled For Life After Being Vaccinated

ตามที่ได้เมล์มาจาก http://groups.google.com/group/thlta/browse_thread/thread/633acafdd560b738 มีบรรยายเรื่อง SMT ที่ CAS-ICT โดย Prof. Dr. LIU Qun วันนี้ก็ได้ไปฟังมาแล้ว ได้ความรู้มากกว่าที่คาดไว้อีก เรื่องแปลโดยใช้ Forest ผมโหลดไฟล์มาแล้ว แต่ยังไม่ได้อ่าน พอไปฟังแล้วก็จับประเด็นได้เลย ^_^

จัด 10 โมงเช้าเวลากำลังดีครับ แต่ก็อย่าที่ทราบกันว่า อุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์ ออกจะไกลสักหน่อย ผมก็เลยตื่นมาตั้งแต่ 6 โมงครึ่ง แล้วก็ไม่รู้ทำอะไรอยู่กว่าจะได้ออกจากบ้างก็ 8 โมง แต่ก็ไปทัน

ให้ดูว่าผมไปทันด้วย

ไม่นานนัก ดร.เทพชัย ก็เปิดงาน

เริ่มบรรยายแล้ว

ภาพของบนใช้โทรศัพท์มือถือถ่าย แต่ว่าสิ่งที่สนใจคือ มี Vauquois triangle บน slide ด้วย แต่ว่าเขียนมาเพื่อใช้อธิบาย SMT เวลานี้

Prof. Dr. LIU Qun แบ่งระดับการวิเคราะห์ที่ใช้ในการแปลเป็น 2 ระดับ คร่าวๆ คือ Phrase-based SMT และ Syntax-based SMT

Syntax-based SMT ยังแบ่งได้เป็น 2 ระดับย่อยๆ อีกคือ แบบที่ใช้ linguistic syntax กับ formal syntax แบบ linguistic syntax คือใช้ต้นไม้ที่อ้างอิงความรู้ทางภาษาศาสตร์ ส่วน formal syntax ก็ออกมาเป็น tree เหมือนกัน แต่ tree ที่สร้างไม่จำเป็นต้องเป็น tree ที่ถูกต้องตามหลักภาษาศาสตร์

SMT ที่แปลง tree แบบ linguistic syntax ไปเป็น อีกข้อความอีกภาษาเรียกว่า Tree-to-String SMT

ถ้าผมเข้าใจผิดก็ช่วยทักท้วงด้วยนะครับ

ตามธรรมเนียมก็มอบของที่ระลึกกันไป ขอโทษที่ไม่ชัดนะครับ

เสร็จงานแล้วผมก็นั่งรถเมล์ ปอ. 29 กลับมาจากธรรมศาสตร์ ศูนย์รังสิต ครับ 20 บาท ถ้วน ถูกกว่า 510 ขาไป 4 บาท ขากลับรถเมล์ก็มาจากจีนครับยี่ห้อ Sunlong

นอกจากเรื่องวิชาการแล้วแนวการทำงานวิจัย CAS-ICT ก็ดูเน้นทางวิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์มากกว่าภาษาศาสตร์ ถ้าผมจำไม่ผิดที่นั่นมีนักศึกษาปริญญาเอก ประมาณ 10 คน ปริญญาโทอีกประมาณ 10 คน software engineer อีก 3 คน ไม่มีนักภาษาศาสตร์เลย แม้แต่คนเดียว ผมคิดว่าที่ทำแบบนี้ได้น่าจะเป็นเพราะภาษาจีนมีทรัพยากรณ์ทางภาษาเช่น คลังต้นไม้ (Treebank) และ คลังข้อความขนาน (Parallel corpus) มากพอ งานที่นักภาษาศาสตร์ก็อยู่ในคลังต้นไม้อยู่แล้ว

งานที่น่าสนใจอีกอย่าง เขาทำระบบแปลสิทธิบัตรด้วย ที่พิเศษคือผู้ใช้ สามารถสร้าง template ได้เอง template ก็คล้ายๆ กับเป็นกฎแบบหนึ่ง ลักษณะประมาณนี้

c1 c2 c3 $X c4 $Y c5 c6
e1 $Y e2 $X e3 e4

โดยที่ e1, e2, e3 … เป็นคำภาษาอังกฤษ และ c1, c2, c3 … เป็นคำภาษาจีน ส่วน $X และ $Y ก็เป็นตัวแปรที่จะเปลี่ยนไปได้เรื่อยๆ (ผมเขียนแบบนี้เพราะจำตัวอย่างชัดๆ ไม่ได้)

ทุกภาพในบันทึกนี้สามารถคลิกดูภาพใหญ่ได้ครับ ทุกภาพใช้สัญญาอนุญาตแบบ Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic (คร่าวแล้วก็คือเอาไปใช้ได้นั่นเองครับ ส่วนรายละเอียดสามารถตามลิงค์ไปอ่านได้)

Fugro Data Solutions Ltd., the global E&P data management experts, and SMT, provider of Windows-based geoscientific interpretation software, announced the completion of a major global effort to help a government license oil and gas blocks. Fugro won the contract to assist with promotion of the licensing round with more than 50 blocks were on offer, including organizing global road shows and hosting five data rooms. In the data rooms, the software used to showcase these blocks was SMT KINGDOM. Over 600 people attended presentations and nearly 40 attended the data rooms.

            Fugro Data Solutions has been a major user of SMT KINGDOM for over 10 years. They utilize the product for ongoing geophysical data management and data remediation work. Recently this usage has also expanded into collaboration in data rooms for national oil and gas exploration leases and aiding asset sales.

            “We used KINGDOM software exclusively for our data rooms in these licensing rounds because it is easy to use, modular and offers high performance. This means we were assured that the bidders would have rapid and easy access to the data they needed to analyze before their purchase,” said Kerry Blinston, head of Technology & National Initiatives at Fugro Data Solutions. “After our success in the recent rounds, we look forward to more future collaboration with SMT.”

            “At SMT, we are happy to partner with an elite organization like Fugro Data Solutions. Fugro helps governments all over the world improve their energy sustainability by helping them find new sources of hydrocarbons. They have always been known for their cutting-edge technology, so we are proud to be chosen as Fugro Data Solutions’ exclusive partner for geoscientific interpretation in these data rooms,” said Ken Gardiner, VP of Sales for Europe Africa and Russia at SMT.

            Moving forward, Fugro Data Solutions and SMT plan to continue and enhance their good working relationships and review how they can utilize both companies’ global office distribution to better leverage similar opportunities and to enhance clients’ data room experience.

www.seismicmicro.com

www.fugro-data.com

by Stephanie Meyer, KF9

So after three hectic days, 30 hours of flying, a water taxi, a car ride, and a lot of help from friends, I have arrived at my MFI post in Makeni, Sierra Leone, with Salone Microfinance Trust (hereafter, SMT). (Never heard of Makeni? Check it out HERE) Having traveled long-term in Africa before, I was quite proud of the knowledge that I had, and fairly confident in my ability to get around the ins and outs of life in Sierra Leone once I arrived. What I found, however, is that I have a lot to re-learn…

Re-Learning Patience

I find that every country I have ever visited, and even many regions within those countries, have their own rhythm. Here in Sierra Leone, as in many countries in Africa, there is an energetic hum to life, but at times, things seem to move slowly. To my “go, go, GO!” American senses, this can at times be a little frustrating. Take, for example, my water taxi ride from Lungi Airport (located on an island off the coast of Sierra Leone) to Freetown proper. About 500 yards away from the coast of Lungi, we broke down. The battery was dead, and despite attempts by friendly passers-by to jump it, there was no choice but to wait for a replacement battery to arrive from the taxi company. I had to re-learn that frustration, anger, and complaint get you nowhere in these situations (a fact my fellow passengers could also stand to learn…). The best thing to do is just to sit-tight, wait for assistance (which often seems to move at a snail’s pace), and enjoy the scenery. Everything turned out alright, the battery arrived, and we made it to the dock only an hour late. I like to think that in the process I’ve remembered a bit of my patience.

Re-Learning the Art of the Bucket Bath

It sounds like it should be so basic, right? Wrong! For most of my previous stay in Africa (in Uganda, to be specific) I used a bucket bath. By the time I left, I was a pro. So when I arrived at my home last night, and was handed a gallon-pail of water, and directed to the “bathroom”, I thought to myself “psh, piece of cake. I’ve done this a million times”. In what seemed like no time at all, I glanced down to notice myself still covered head-to-toe in suds, and my bucket almost completely empty. When you’ve gotten used to the never-ending stream of water available in a shower, you tend to go a bit overboard on the suds, and be a bit too liberal with limited water supplies. The bucket bath takes finesse, it takes conservation, and it takes focus. It will probably require a bit of practice, but I’m hoping I will have it down again by the time I leave Makeni.

Re-Learning Celebrity Status

One of the facts of life that an ex-patriot in most African countries must deal with is that we tend to stand out. It is rather difficult to “fade into a crowd” and “assimilate with locals”. When I’m in a car, people stare. When I walk down the street, children yell “Hey! Potho!” (roughly translated, “Hey whitey!”). Makeni is not a particularly large town, and SMT has already had two Kiva Fellows. This means that everywhere I go, people say “ah, Kiva!” then exclaim with pride “you know, I knew Adam” or “I knew Nick” (if either of you are reading this, you pretty much rival David Beckham here in town…). As a bit of an introvert, it can be disconcerting to have someone waiting for you all the time, wanting to strike up a conversation. In a whirlwind of names and faces, it can feel very rude when everyone remembers me in the street, and I have to constantly ask people “what is your name again?”. After a long period of blissful American anonymity, it may take me a bit of time to get used to being famous.

Re-Learning to Love the Little Things

Ok, I admit it: this one is easy! It does take some focus and attention, however. There is so much to love and to experience in a new place, and if you aren’t careful to be watching for it every minute of every day, you may miss out on some of the best stuff! A short list of some “favorites” so far from Sierra Leone:

• Favorite Fun Fact: Schools in Sierra Leone offer pupils their choice of morning and afternoon shifts, so that even those children who must work are able to receive an education.
• Favorite Road Sign: “Love thy neighbor, except when driving. BE WARNED!” (and they weren’t kidding…)
• Favorite Taxi Slogan: “Life is Ridiculous” (in so many wonderful ways…)
• Favorite Reminder of Home: At night, when the air cools off, frogs collect on the paved roads to soak in the heat they have absorbed all day.

I promise to write more about SMT, loans, borrowers, and microfinance in general in my next post, but for the moment, I am just too engrossed by the wonder that is Sierra Leone to focus on anything else!

You know when you’re watching the morning show and the hosts interview an author, actor, or spokesperson who isn’t in the studio? Chances are that person is on a satellite media tour (SMT).  An SMT is a way for a person to pimp themselves or a product across the country in a relatively short amount of time without the costs of travel.  In a 7 or 8 hour period their “message” is generally pitched from a small studio to 20 – 25 key morning news and radio shows coast-to-coast in 2 to 5 minute spots.  SMTs are a great gig… except for the hours.  The usual call time for an SMT is 2:00 in the morning so that everything is set and ready for the east coast shows.  The upshot is that by 10 a.m. you’ve put in a full day!  FYI – They’re much easier to do from the east coast.

I spent the better part of last night and early morning in a small studio with a lifestyle spokesperson.  She was promoting her healthy fall tips.  Why does that require a food stylist, you ask?  Well, someone has to make the featured entrée look pretty!  What layperson could make that healthy steamed broccoli look so fantastically tantalizing? Exactly, that person is me and now I’m going to bed.

Let’s face it friends, everything is moving toward surface mount components. We’ve seen quite a few features here that cover using stencils to populate boards and using ovens to reflow. [Oleg] has put together a tutorial on the process he uses to populate and reflow his own boards.

[Oleg] is the creator of the USB Isolator and therefore has a need to frequently populate the same board. He’s using an acrylic frame that fits the PCB perfectly to hold it in place so that paste and be applied right up to the edges of the board. He ordered a laser cut Kapton stencil for applying the solder. The paste is squeegeed into the stencil holes, the stencil is removed, and parts are placed with tweezers and a steady hand. For the final step, the boards go into an old toaster oven for reflow.

[Oleg] uses temperature marker on his boards to monitor the progress of the reflow. This marker is basically a crayon that begins to melt at a specific temperature. When the board has cooled, the melted mark can be scraped away or removed with alcohol.

Of course this is only really useful if you have a bunch of high-quality boards to populate. But with the relatively low cost of getting professionally made boards we think the need for this type of assembly process is on the rise.