The Battle of Online Social Networking ( Part I )

2 05 2008

From the left side, we got Jonathan Abrams, the Founder of Friendster, Jonathan holds an Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science from McMaster University, which he received after flunking out of engineering school. and from the right side, we got Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and was enrolled in the class of 2006.

to be continued …





[Movie & Personal Review] Iron Man

2 05 2008

PLOT

Weapons designer and billionaire business magnate Tony Stark is in Afghanistan to introduce his newly created missile design, “The Jericho,” to the United States Air Force when the convoy he is traveling with is attacked by a terrorist group called the Ten Rings. Stark is then taken hostage after he is injured by a piece of shrapnel embedded near his heart. He is ordered by his captors to assemble his latest missile design, “The Jericho”, from spare weaponry the terrorists had previously seized. With the aid of a fellow captive, Dr. Yinsen, he puts his creativity to use instead by assembling an advanced bulletproof suit of power armor, complete with a pacemaker, flamethrowers, rocket boots. Needing to provide extra time for Stark to power up the suit, Yinsen abandons the pre-determined escape plan and attempts to fend off the attacking guards, tragically dying in the process.

Back in the United States, Stark announces his company will no longer manufacture weapons, causing Stark Industries’ stock to drop drastically. Seeking to stop this, his business partner, Obadiah Stane, seeks to remove Tony Stark as CEO of the company in order to avoid further losses. In the meantime, Stark develops an upgrade of the suit he built while in captivity, complete with advanced weapon and flying capabilities. At the same time, Stane steals plans for Stark’s first suit of armor and builds his own version with the intention of killing Stark. Stark eventually faces off against the villainous Obadiah Stane, defeating him with the help of Jim Rhodes and Pepper Potts, the latter of whom liaisons with Agent Coulson of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate. In the end, Stark retakes control of his company with the explanation that Stane is on “extended vacation”. Despite Rhodes’ advice to reveal Iron Man is his bodyguard, he states at a press conference that he is in fact Iron Man.

After the film’s closing credits, Tony Stark returns home to find Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), director of S.H.I.E.L.D., waiting in his Malibu house, asking him if he knows about the “Avengers initiative“.

Cast

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man

Terrence Howard as Lt. Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes

Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia “Pepper” Potts

Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane

Shaun Toub as Yinsen

Faran Tahir as Raza

Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart

Bill Smitrovich as Air Force General Gabriel

Paul Bettany as the voice of JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System)

Gerard Sanders as Howard Stark

Cameos

Stan Lee (whom Stark mistakes for Hugh Hefner at a party), Jon Favreau as Stark’s bodyguard/chauffeur Happy Hogan, Ghostface Killah cameoed in a scene where Stark briefly stays in Dubai while returning to Afghanistan, but it was cut for pacing reasons ( as a Dubai Tycoon ), Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has a brief cameo as a guard. Samuel L. Jackson appears as Nick Fury after the credits and mentions the Avengers.

Personal Review :

The best Marvel’s movie ever ! can’t wait for the next sequel !!

Rating : 9.9 / 10





[Fake Clothing] M Ali Brownie

2 05 2008

Price : 120.000 IDR

Material : Diadora

Type of Printing : Embroider

I bought it from zafar, I recommend to you, who likes sports to buy this jacket. The good news is that zafar is making another project and also another proportion of this jacket.

RATING

PRICE : 9.8 / 10

‘Very very cheap, you can see from the difficulty of the embroider style of Muhammad Ali’s face’

DESIGN : 7.4 / 10

‘Nice color and simple’





[Fake Clothing] Adicolor Kermit

2 05 2008

Price : 130.000 IDR

Material : Diadora

Type of Printing : Superwhite, Embroider

I bought it from kuzzie , (again) another (fake) clothing seller from kaskus. I recommend this jacket to you who likes Green, and also this character. But sadly, kuzzie will not make another portion of this jacket.

RATING

PRICE : 9.5 / 10

‘Actually, it’s very cheap, you can imagine, they printed it, on two side, those are inside and outside’

DESIGN : 9.5 / 10

‘”It’s not easy being green”, kind of like the quotation’





[Distro Clothing] Hasish T-Shirt

2 05 2008

Price : 60.000 IDR

Material : Cotton 20s

Type of Printing : Rubber

I bought it from lemme, another distro clothing seller from kaskus, I bought it for fun, I like the design, kind of controversial.

RATING

PRICE : 6.2 / 10

‘Little bit expensive, for this shirt, I can buy on another distro clothing line, with 50.000 IDR’

DESIGN : 8.6 / 10

‘Kind of like it, whenever I used this shirt, people looking at me, maybe they thing that I am a crack-addict’





[Distro Clothing] Full Print Ornamental Design

2 05 2008

Price : 150.000 IDR

Material : Fleece

Type of Printing : Superwhite

I bought it on last month, from meitantei, Distro Clothing seller from kaskus, whom based in Surabaya, East Java. Overall, it’s a nice hoodie, maybe it’s the best clothing I’ve ever bought. I recommend you, who likes vector design or ornamental design, to buy this hoodie.

RATING

PRICE : 7.8 / 10

‘Because of the difficulty from the printing, 150.000 IDR isn’t expensive’

DESIGN : 9.2 / 10

‘Because I like the design, that’s why I bought this hoodie, about the design, when my friends asked it, they told that I am wearing a Batik jacket’





(Again) This is my passage, Ma’am !

2 05 2008

Bicara mengenai SPSS, tentu tidak akan lepas dari kaitannya dengan ilmu statistika.
Software yang cukup tenar untuk mengolah data di kalangan professional ini.
Sebenarnya mulai dari MS Excel, kita pun dapat mengolah data tersebut,
namun pengolahannya belumlah maksimal,
maka diperlukan piranti lunak yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhan ini, yang kita kenal dengan nama SPSS.

Bicara mengenai statistika, tentulah tidak lepas dari definisinya sendiri, yakni :

Statistika adalah ilmu yang mempelajari bagaimana merencanakan, mengumpulkan, menganalisis, menginterpretasi, dan mempresentasikan data. Singkatnya, statistika adalah ilmu yang berkenaan dengan data.

Istilah ’statistika’ (bahasa Inggris: statistics) berbeda dengan ’statistik’ (statistic). Statistika merupakan ilmu yang berkenaan dengan data, sedang statistik adalah data, informasi, atau hasil penerapan algoritma statistika pada suatu data.

Dari kumpulan data, statistika dapat digunakan untuk menyimpulkan atau mendeskripsikan data; ini dinamakan statistika deskriptif.

Sebagian besar konsep dasar statistika mengasumsikan teori probabilitas. Beberapa istilah statistika antara lain: populasi, sampel, unit sampel, dan probabilitas.

Statistika banyak diterapkan dalam berbagai disiplin ilmu, baik ilmu-ilmu alam (misalnya astronomi dan biologi maupun ilmu-ilmu sosial (termasuk sosiologi dan psikologi), maupun di bidang bisnis, ekonomi, dan industri). Statistika juga digunakan dalam pemerintahan untuk berbagai macam tujuan; sensus penduduk merupakan salah satu prosedur yang paling dikenal. Aplikasi statistika lainnya yang sekarang popular adalah prosedur jajak pendapat atau polling (misalnya dilakukan sebelum pemilihan umum), serta jajak cepat (perhitungan cepat hasil pemilu) atau quick count. Di bidang komputasi, statistika dapat pula diterapkan dalam pengenalan pola maupun kecerdasan buatan.

SPSS sendiri merupakan singkatan dari “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences”. SPSS dirilis untuk versi pertamanya pada 1968, ditemukan oleh Norman Nie, seorang mahasiswa pascasarjana ilmu politik di Stanford University.

SPSS digunakan dalam cakupan paling luas oleh pemakai program analisa statistik di ilmu pengetahuan sosial.
Dipakai oleh peneliti pasar, peneliti kesehatan, mengukur perusahaan, pemerintah, peneliti pendidikan, memasarkan organisasi dan lain-lainnya.
Disamping analisa statistik, pimpinan data (kasus seleksi, menyimpan membentuk kembali, membuat data yang didapat) dan dokumentasi data (metadata kamus disimpan dengan data) juga memiliki  fitur - fitur dasar perangkat halus(software).

Fitur – fitur dasarnya antara lain:
Descriptive statistika: Tabulasi silang, Frekuensi, Deskripsi, Eksplorasi, Descriptive Ratio Statistics
Bivariate statistika: Rata – rata, t-test, ANOVA, Korelasi (bivariate, bagian, jarak), Nonparametric tests
Prediksi untuk hasil yang menurut angka: Linear regression
Prediksi untuk mengenali kelompok-kelompok: analisa Faktor, analisa kelompok (dua-langkah, K-berarti, hirarkis), Diskriminan

Saat ini SPSS telah memasuki versi 16 untuk Windows, Mac OS 10,5 dan lebih baru, sertaLinux.
GUI-nya ditulis dalam bahasa Java.
Versi Mac OS disediakan sebagai Universal biner, membuat sepenuhnya kompatibel dengan baik PowerPC maupun perangkat keras Mac yang berbasis di Intel.
Sebelum SPSS 16, versi berbeda SPSS juga tersedia untuk Windows, Mac OS X dan Unix.
Versi Windows terbaru lebih sering diupdate, dan mempunyai lebih banyak fitur daripada versi untuk sistem lain.
SPSS versi 13 untuk Mac OS X tidak kompatibel dengan komputer Macintosh yang berbasis di Intel, karena Rosetta emulation software yang menyebabkan kesalahan di kalkulasi.
SPSS 15 untuk Windows perlu mendownload hotfix untuk agar kompatibel dengan Windows Vista.

Program SPSS dirilis oleh SPSS Inc., perusahaan yang memasarkan software untuk penelitian pasar, penelitian survey dan analisa statistik.
Ini termasuk AMOS untuk model persamaan struktural, SamplePower untuk analisa kekuasaan, AnswerTree dipakai untuk segmentasi pasar, SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys untuk mengkodekan jawaban yang tidak terbatas, Quantum untuk tabulasi silang, Clementine untuk pertambangan data dan mrInterview for CATI dan survai online.
Perusahaan ini bermarkas di Chicago, Illinois.





This is my passage Ma’am !

2 05 2008

SPSS Products

Statistics Family:

Data Mining Family:

  • AnswerTree® – identify segments and build profiles quickly and easily
  • Clementine® – a comprehensive data mining system accessible to business and professional end-users




This is my passage, Ma’am !!

2 05 2008

SPSS Indonesia

SPSS Indonesia under PT. Survey Prima Solusi Statindo, established in 2000, is the sole representative and authorized distributor for all SPSS Inc. products and services for the Indonesian territory.

Headquartered in Chicago, USA, SPSS Inc. is a multi-national computer software company providing technology that transforms data into insight through the use of predictive analytics and other data mining techniques.

SPSS Indonesia’s mission:

  • To activate the use and benefits of data in decision making by applying the SPSS Technology.
  • To provide the best and broadest range of analytics to extract the most value from data.
  • To enable the Indonesian companies, educational institutions, or individuals get easy access to the recent SPSS software products and solutions, consulting and trainings.

SPSS Products and services:

SPSS products and solutions enable organizations to manage the future by learning from the past, understanding the present, and predicting potential problems and opportunities in the future. Our mayor strength and key differentiator is the breadth and depth of technology and expertise in data mining and statistical analysis, as the core technologies that make predictive analytics possible.

SPSS has a wide range of products, from data collection and extraction to modeling and deployment, to meet all your analytical needs in providing greater insights for the business.

SPSS products and services are used worldwide in various industries and wide range of applications. SPSS Technology enables customers to combine predictive analytics with business knowledge to gain critical insights so as to leverage on their data investment to increase revenue and enhance operational success.

SPSS helps customers to meet critical challenges, and regularly demonstrates the dramatic ROI achieved through the tactical and strategic deployment of predictive analytics. Through predictive analysis, organizations can better manage the present and enhance the future.

SPSS Indonesia as part of a worldwide enterprise converts the worldwide experience into the Indonesia settings, for SPSS as a global organization understands that local settings are the most important. SPSS Indonesia is here to customize our local customers’ needs and wants. With SPSS’ professional services, worldwide as well as local support, resources, experts and consulting, we would work with the customers’ staff and grow with their company, transfer our knowledge and expertise to provide a basis for the customers to jumpstart any analytical project.