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While your mother might have chastised you for fidgeting, the reality is that it’s good for your brain. This plaything offers up six unique exercises to keep your thumbs twiddling, burning off excess energy, and improving focus. Save 37% in The Awesomer Shop.
A new look at Guy Ritchie’s potentially bombastic take on the legend of King Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) and his life after he pulls the fabled sword from the stone and must reclaim the throne from the evil Vortigern (Jude Law), who stole his father’s crown.
SAP’s licensing fees "apply even to related applications that only offer users indirect visibility of SAP data," according to a Thursday ruling by a U.K. judge. Slashdot reader ahbond quotes Network World:
The consequences could be far-reaching for businesses that have integrated their customer-facing systems with an SAP database, potentially leaving them liable for license fees for every customer that accesses their online store. "If any SAP systems are being indirectly triggered, even if incidentally, and from anywhere in the world, then there are uncategorized and unpriced costs stacking up in the background," warned Robin Fry, a director at software licensing consultancy Cerno Professional Services, who has been following the case…
What’s in dispute was whether the SAP PI license fee alone is sufficient to allow Diageo’s sales staff and customers to access the SAP data store via the Salesforce apps, or whether, as SAP claims, those staff and customers had to be named as users and a corresponding license fee paid. On Thursday, the judge sided with SAP on that question.
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SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules
As part of his extensive Squeeze Box retrospective, “Weird Al” Yankovic dusted off this previously unreleased 1982 parody of the Beatles’ song Taxman, replacing its subject with one more appropriate to the time – at the height of Pac-Man Fever. Wakka-wakka-wakka.
Jimmy DiResta needs a new kitchen knife. He could go buy one, or he could make one—from scratch. The way that he marks the centerline of the edge of the bar stock, and uses an out-of-square length of wood to grind the blade angle, is very clever:
Matthias Wandel engineers a very atypical and space-efficient structure for a lumber rack:
Frank Howarth gets artistic with his push stick design:
This is kind of a shocker! After all of the work April Wilkerson put into kitting out her shop and improving her home and property, she and her husband are selling the place. I did not see this coming.
You might think creating a live edge table is just a matter of throwing the slab on the legs. Not so. Here Marc Spagnuolo shows us how to epoxy voids in the wood, use a sandblaster to clean up the live edge, and goes over in detail the crucial finishing process:
Finishing seems like such a black art that I’m always glad to see people giving tips or doing experiments with it. While the first three minutes of this video is the Samurai Carpenter turning bowls, he then explains how he’s using epoxy resin (as Spagnuolo did above, to repair voids) and experimenting with some "Turbo Cure" and wax. At the end he announces he’s got a trio of new Japanese saws for sale on his site:
Ben of HomeMade Modern uses his plywood/reinforcing mesh/concrete technique to create a coffee table:
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How to Epoxy Voids in Wood, Make Your Own Kitchen Knife, Pour a Concrete Coffee Table and More
Meet the “Most Armed Man” in America. He goes by “Dragon Man” from Dragon Man’s Range outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado. His brother taped a 20-minute video of the…
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If you love making your knuckles and other joints pop, you might’ve heard that doing so is “bad for you” and that “you’ll get arthritis.” Short answer: we’re not sure. Long answer: this video from Vox gives you the lowdown on what’s actually happening in your joints.
That characteristic (and honestly, disturbing) popping sound you hear when you crack knuckles is from a gas-filled lubricant within your joints called synovial fluid. Popping your joints creates stretched out space between your bones and sucks the fluid into that space, the event of which is associated with that lovely sound.
As for whether it’s “bad,” well, the research is not clear. If you don’t feel pain when you crack them, then you probably don’t need to worry.
Here’s what happens to your knuckles when you crack them | Vox
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Why Your Knuckles Make That Popping Sound When You Crack Them
Some of the biggest financial services firms in the world are coming together to back a small New York-based technology company called OpenFin with aspirations to become the “operating system” for financial services applications.
The company has just closed a new $15 million round from investors led by the banking giant J.P. Morgan, the venture firm Bain Capital Ventures, and NEX Euclid Opportunities — the investment fund affiliated with the publicly traded electronic trading platform, NEX Group plc.
Additional investors in the round included DRW Venture Capital, Nyca Partners, Pivot Investment partners, and select angel investors and financial industry execs.
The company now bills itself as an Android for capital markets, although “Docker” for capital markets may be better? Without getting too in-the-weeds (although maybe I already have), OpenFin was developed on top of Google’s Chromium project — an open source project (anyone can see the code) that’s the same code Google uses for its Chrome browser.
OpenFin has forked that project to develop its own layer for developing and distributing applications. The company bills itself as a way for companies developing applications for financial services and capital markets to operate effectively across the different programming environments in each big bank, marketplace, hedge fund, or money mover.
The company’s software is already used by 35 of the biggest banks, hedge funds, and trading platforms and is installed on over 100,000 desktops.
OpenFin bills itself as a more secure, fully integrated way for anyone using trading or communication tools to work in the financial services sector.
“There’re three main things that [OpenFin’s service] does,” says OpenFin chief executive Mazy Dar, a former executive with the Intercontinental Exchange. “It’s the conduit that gets the app onto the [system], it provides security, and is the unifying layer to allow apps to talk to each other.”
Since applications that run on top of OpenFin never access the underlying network within a financial services institution, Dar argues that deployments on top of OpenFin are far more secure for their users. And in the notoriously security-focused financial services sector, that’s a good thing.
Currently, it can take anywhere from 6 to 18 months to deliver an application or an update to a desktop inside a financial services firm, according to OpenFin. The applications not only have to be vetted by security, but they also have to be integrated or customized to the back-end of each company (and each company has a different, proprietary, back-end).
OpenFin pitches itself as a service that can allow different fin-tech focused apps to communicate effectively without accessing core networks or existing in silos.
Even better for banks, there’s no charge. The company makes its money on per-seat fees charged to the companies that make and distribute the applications that run on its service.
This business model is both a blessing and a curse. OpenFin works insofar as there are applications that want to run on OpenFin’s platform. So far the company has 50 apps that are distributed through its service from customers including J.P. Morgan, Citadel, Electronifie, REDI, Trumid, Greenkey, ICAP, OpenDoor, embonds, and Tullett Prebon.
What’s appealing about OpenFin isn’t just the company itself (which, because I’m a nerd, I think is pretty fascinating), but also the ability to extend the company’s thesis into other industries.
Taking the specialized OS approach means that other security-conscious industries (oil and gas, utilities, heavy industry) could create a buffer between applications and their underlying architectures and (correct me if I’m wrong, y’all) create a stronger defense against cyber threats.
Just throwing that out there.
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Looking to become the “OS” for financial services OpenFin raises $15 million