IP rating and other SWR50 specs

Someone from Sony should display a definitive and comprehensive online list of specs for the SWR50! All accounts I've seen are utterly incomplete, and full of contradictions. The IP rating, for example, is displayed on the official Sony website in various places as either IP68, or IP58. How can anyone possibly trust Sony enough to buy stuff from them when essential stuff like the specs of a device are treated so sloppily? Does it have WiFi? Does it have NFC? What's the DPI, etc.? C'mon Sony, get a grip!

SmartWatch 3 White Paper
http://dl-developer.sonymobile.com/documentation/whitepapers/SmartWatch3_SWR50_WP_1.pdf
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* In compliance with IP68, this accessory is protected against the ingress of dust and is waterproof.
Provided that all ports and covers are firmly closed, the accessory can be kept under 1.50 metres of
freshwater for up to 30 minutes in compliance with IP68.
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Wow that was a chore. Apple! Let us drag copy and paste our info tabs information so we don’t have to type all this stuff when we are having trouble. **another problem and suggestion** right there.
Ok, back to the problem of the forum.
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Why does it need to be an .m4v I could have sworn some of my videos were or are in mp4 which shouldn’t matter anyway because I was under the impression that iPods could play mp4 files. So that’s my biggest complaint and question. Why can my 80GB classic iPod not play my MP4 files and why am I forced to convert them??
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Ok, I am almost done. Let me just recap my questions, I know my post is kind of lengthy.
#1. Why can’t my iPod play MP3 video files? And why do I have to convert to almost all the same settings except changing it from an mp4 to an m4v. according to Apples own site I should be able to play .m4v .mp4 and .mov files!! Note: remember iTunes plays them fine but my iPod will not.
#2. Would be much more convenient to be able to copy the information from the windows in iTunes so that problems and trouble shooting would be much easier. A little check on off options in iTunes advanced settings would be terrific.
#3. Why is the conversion so slow? Please speed it, you have the power. Convenience is the thing that sells products.
#4. Files that cannot be played on the current iPod need to be easier recognized for simpler cleaning.
#5. Also make an easier way to select all dead link files for faster cleaning, deleting, etc. This one is important.
#6. Make a user friendly way to change where my files are going to end up once I convert them for iPod more options and better customizable settings are need.
#7. One of the most important is ADD A SEARCH OPTION. I and we classics will LOVE Apple for it.
For you readers, I apologize for the long post, and any grammatical errors you might find throughout it. These are problems that I have faced with these programs and hardware and I wanted to make sure they got acknowledged and hopefully addressed. Any information about why I cannot play MP4 Video files on my iPod would be the best. If anything in my post gets answered that’s the one I want most. Will save me a lot of hassle.
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Sincerely,
Bond, James

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2. I'm not replacing my current RAID 5 HDDs because not in my budget to upgrade to 6 or more large SSDs. These drives are more important to me for temporary storage because I remove the files once backed up. I don't mind a few inexpensive smaller SSDs if they can make a significant difference for editing and exporting.
I can only guess my HDD RAID is slow but the CPU is burdened with parity. I would imagine running RAID 10 would not help much.
My setup:
my setup:
CPU - i7-3930K CPU @4.5 GHz
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 @2000
Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB (performed the compatibility list hack to enable hardware acceleration).
C drive - 500 GB Samsung 840 SSD (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and programs).
D drive - four 1 TB WD RE4 Enterprise HDDs 7200 RPMs in software RAID 5
Case - Cooler Master HAF X
CPU Fan - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm fan
Power Supply - Corsair Pro Series AX 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold
Optical Drive - Pioneer BDR - 208DBK
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........software RAID 5 off the motherboard ??????......NOT a good idea, from what I have read here on this forum from experts like Harm Millard and others. They have mentioned a LARGE overhead on the CPU doing this....causing sub-par performance. RAID 0 off the motherboard will NOT do this, however.....RAID 0 would provide optimum speed, but, with the risk of total data loss if ANY drive fails. You may wish to reconfigure your RAID to be RAID 0...BUT...you would need to DILIGENTLY back up its entire volume onto perhaps a quality 4TB drive very frequently.
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different verions within those years and they do not all accept a later
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•How to identify MacBook models:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1635
•Apple MacBook Specs (ALL MacBook Technical Specs) - everymac.com:
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Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed/updated to last step, then it may be
able to go to the online Mac App Store, App Store, iTunes Store, etc.
You can see if an applicable upgrade past the current OS X system
is available from the Mac App Store. If yours is MacBook1.1 (early)
then highest it may go is Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The later MB2.1
has limited upgrade, and could use Lion OS X 10.7.5 at most.
More recent builds of MacBook, toward the last model year 2010,
can take as new an upgrade as Mavericks OS X 10.9.2. This is
based on build version specs, hardware limitation, and so on.
•Mac OS X - Upgrade - Apple Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/osx/upgrade/
In order to know more about the possibilities, you'd have to supply
more information on your exact MacBook model build year etc.
The "About this Mac" as found under the Apple menu icon  is of
some help. Additional info from "More Info" in the next window can
help when System Profiler appears. The hardware specs are there.
Good luck
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I can select a rating and a color label for my images, but I can not sort by rating and color label.

I can select a rating and a color label for my images, but I can not sort by rating and color label. when I click on the filter drop down, color label is not one of the options. how do I get both ratings and color lables as an option to sort with.

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Hi all,
In which table the fields vendor rating and insurance indicator zz_moc_rating & zz_insurance shown in EKKO stored?

Hi Sathya,
These are custom fields not created by SAP but by someone in your project.
Just in EKKO if you have some Check Tables against these fields. If yes then these fields are getting populated from there. Else from some screen or program wherein user is entering some input.
Regards,
Chetan.
PS: Reward points if this helps.

Pros and Cons of using REST over JMS (and other technologies)

Hey all,
I am working on a project where we were using JMS initially to send messages between servers. Our front end servers have a RESTful API and use JEE6, with EJB 3.1 entity beans connected to a mysql database and so forth. The back end servers are more like "agents" so to speak.. we send some work for them to do, they do it. They are deployed in GlassFish 3.1 as well, but initially I was using JMS to listen to messages. I learned that JMS onMessage() is not threaded, so in order to facilitate handling of potentially hundreds of messages at once, I had to implement my own threading framework. Basically I used the Executor class. I could have used MDBs, but they are a lot more heavyweight than I needed, as the code within the onMessage was not using any of the container services.
We ran into other issues, such as deploying our app in a distributed architecture in the cloud like EC2 was painful at best. Currently the cloud services we found don't support multi-cast so the nice "discover" feature for clustering JMS and other applications wasn't going to work. For some odd reason there seems to be little info on building out a scalable JEE application in the cloud. Even the EC2 techs, and RackSpace and two others had nobody that understood how to do it.
So in light of this, plus the data we were sending via JMS was a number of different types that had to all be together in a group to be processed.. I started looking at using REST. Java/Jersey (JAX-RS) is so easy to implement and has thus far had wide industry adoption. The fact that our API is already using it on the front end meant I could re-use some of the representations on the back end servers, while a few had to be modified as our public API was not quite needed in full on the back end. Replacing JMS took about a day or so to put the "onmessage" handler into a REST form on the back end servers. Being able to submit an object (via JAXB) from the front servers to the back servers was much nicer to work with than building up a MapMessage object full of Map objects to contain the variety of data elements we needed to send as a group to our back end servers. Since it goes as XML, I am looking at using gzip as well, which should compress it by about 90% or so, making it use much less bandwidth and thus be faster. I don't know how JMS handles large messages. We were using HornetQ server and client.
So I am curious what anyone thinks.. especially anyone that is knowledgeable with JMS and may understand REST as well. What benefits do we lose out on via JMS. Mind you, we were using a single queue and not broadcasting messages.. we wanted to make sure that one and only one end server got the message and handled it.
Thanks..look forward to anyone's thoughts on this.

851827 wrote:
Thank you for the reply. One of the main reasons to switch to REST was JMS is strongly tied to Java. While I believe it can work with other message brokers that other platforms/languages can also use, we didn't want to spend more time researching all those paths. REST is very simple, works very well and is easy to implement in almost any language and platform. Our architecture is basically a front end rest API consumed by clients, and the back end servers are more like worker threads. We apply a set of rules, validations, and such on the front end, then send the work to be done to the back end. We could do it all in one server tier, but we also want to allow other 3rd parties to implement the "worker" server pieces in their own domains with their own language/platform of choice. Now, with this model, they simply provide a URL to send some REST calls to, and send some REST calls back to our servers.well, this sounds like this would be one of those requirements which might make jms not a good fit. as ejp mentioned, message brokers usually have bindings in multiple languages, so jms does not necessarily restrict you from using other languages/platforms as the worker nodes. using a REST based api certainly makes that more simple, though.
As for load balancing, I am not entirely sure how glassfish or JBoss does it. Last time I did anything with scaling, it involved load balancers in front of servers that were session/cookie aware for stateful needs, and could round robin or based on some load factor on each server send requests to appropriate servers in a cluster. If you're saying that JBoss and/or GlassFish no longer need that.. then how is it done? I read up on HornetQ where a request sent to one ip/hornetq server could "discover" other servers in a cluster and balance the load by sending requests to other hornetq servers. I assume this is how the JEE containers are now doing it? The problem with that to me is.. you have one server that is loaded with all incoming traffic and then has to resend it on to other servers in the cluster. With enough load, it seems that the glassfish or jboss server become a load balancer and not doing what they were designed to do.. be a JEE container. I don't recall now if load balancing is in the spec or not..I would think it would not be required to be part of a container though, including session replication and such? Is that part of the spec now?you are confusing many different types of scaling. different layers of the jee stack scale in different ways. you usually scale/load balance at the web layer by putting a load balancer in front of your servers. at the ejb layer, however, you don't necessarily need that. in jboss, the client-side stub for invoking remote ejbs in a cluster will actually include the addresses for all the boxes and do some sort of work distribution itself. so, no given ejb server would be receiving all the incoming load. for jms, again, there are various points of work to consider. you have the message broker itself which is scaled/load balanced in whatever fashion it supports (don't know many details on actual message broker impls). but, for the mdbs themselves, each jee server is pretty independent. each jee server in the cluster will start a pool of mdbs and setup a connection to the relevant queue. then, the incoming messages will be distributed to the various servers and mdbs accordingly. again, no single box will be more loaded than any other.
load balancing/clustering is not part of the jee "spec", but it is one of the many features that a decent jee server will handle for you. the point of jee was to specify patterns for doing work which, if followed, allow the app server to do all the "hard" parts. some of those features are required (transactions, authentication, etc), and some of those features are not (clustering, load-balancing, other robustness features).
I still would think dedicated load balancers, whether physical hardware or virtual software running in a cloud/VM setup would be a better solution for handling load to different tiers?like i said, that depends on the tier. makes sense in some situations, not others. (for one thing, load-balancers tend to be http based, so they don't work so well for non-http protocols.)

PSE7 Are People and other Tags Stored in Image File

Does anyone know if the People and other tags are stored by PSE7 in the image file? Since there are well defined "Keyword" data fields in both the IPTC and XMP metadata standards, I would think PSE would store them in the image file in addition to whatever it puts in the Catalog. However, none of my other programs that read image metadata (PhotoME, PIE, iExif) are finding anything. Other programs such as Windows Photo Gallery put the keywords in the image file.
I don't have a lot of experience with PSE so perhaps I am just missing something obvious.

PSE stores the "truth" about keyword tags, dates, captions, notes, star ratings, stacks, version sets, albums, and projects in its "catalog" file. If you change a date, caption, note, or star rating, PSE also writes it back into the file's metadata (the "EXIF"). But for keyword tags, you need to give the command File > Write Keyword Tag to get it written back.

I work for a teaching hospital. We are using groups of 20 to 30 iPads for access to patient electronic records, video conferencing software, and other, HIPPA compliant apps. I need to be able to access the iPads to shut down and erase in case of loss.

I work for a teaching hospital. I have started a program to place Physicians and key support personnel on iPads for electonic medical records, video conferencing software, and other HIPPA compliant issue. I have a need to have one central program that can push out updates, other information, but most importantly, can erase the iPad in cases of loss or stolen. Can anyone direct me to such software.
Thanks,
Wayne Hodges

The Mac mini does have somewhat powerful specs at top end.
Mac mini with OS X Server features a 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor that delivers incredible speed and performance, thanks to innovations like Turbo Boost 2.0, Hyper-Threading, and an integrated memory controller. Add in 6MB of L3 cache, and you’ll find that Mac mini with OS X Server is packed with power.
http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/server/
Here is a list of mdm's:
MDMs
Airwatch, Meraki, MobileIron, OS X Server, or Zenprise
Airwatch
http://www.air-watch.com/
Meraki -- A free MDM [ expect lots of email and phone calls about upgrades ]
http://www.meraki.com/products/systems-manager/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4067210?tstart=0
Good howto by Sergio Sosa.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2594001?start=15&tstart=0
MobileIron
http://www.mobileiron.com/
Zenprise
http://www.zenprise.com/

Healing brush/Clone stamp tool and others very slow processing

Healing brush/Clone stamp tool and others very slow processing. System resources monitor shows only 700MB (of 5GB allocated to Photoshop) RAM and 30% CPU is used to perform such tasks as healing brush. Process bar comes up and is painfully slow to complete the task. I don’t understand why does Photoshop not use all the resources available/allocated? No other programs are running at the time, I have tried all the suggestions on this forum and all over the Google. My brand new system is: Intel I7 4770K overclocked to 4.3GHz, 8GB 1600 RAM, Samsung PRO 120GB SSD system drive, 100GB scratch disk. The photos I usually work on don’t exceed 20MB in size. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks

Thanks for the answer.
I have not mentioned the GPU because the processes I described (as far as I know) are not supposed to be using GPU resources. So far I have not been able to afford the GPU i want which is GTX770, so I use Intel 4600 built in graphics instead. To be honest I find, that 4600 graphics is quite powerful. I am able to play Mass Effect 3 on Full spec on max res without game slowing down. And Windows 7 64bit index score is 7.8 for the 4600 graphics. Overall index score is 7.8 on my PC righ now.
I'll try to get the Photoshop system info as soon as possible.
Thanks again.
Zee

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