Month: October 2015

October 07 2015, 02:04

Interactive fitting room from Teamidea

An eye-stopper at our SAP Forum booth: our experiment with RFID, “interactive fitting room”. Upon entering the “fitting room”, the system detects which clothes are inside the fitting room, and the mirror displays information about the products, recommendations, related looks, and other useful information.

From the fitting room, you can order a different color, size, or recommended item. In this case, a push notification is sent to the consultant’s phone in the sales area, which they confirm, and the screen in the fitting room displays that the consultant has acknowledged the request and they are either bringing the item or not.

October 06 2015, 04:38

Eye-catcher at our SAP Forum booth: our experiment with RFID, “interactive fitting room”. When entering the “fitting room,” the system recognizes the clothes present inside the fitting room, and the mirror displays information about the products, recommendations, related looks, and other useful information.

From the fitting room, you can order a different color, size, or recommended product. In such cases, a push notification is sent to the consultant’s phone in the sales area, which they acknowledge, and the screen in the fitting room displays that the request has been heard and the item is being brought (or not brought).

October 06 2015, 02:51

Interestingly, does the ban on government officials using Google services automatically prohibit them from using Android phones, where else is it impossible?

How do they plan to check this? Back in the early 2000s at Arstyle company, CEO Mark Tverdynin besides banning going to lunch in large groups (then more than three people), also set a limit of 300 ICQ messages per day. It was funny then because there was a ban, but no way to enforce it.

October 05 2015, 04:36

I had an idea to use Yandex.Taxi as a courier service. Seems convenient.

Specifically today, I urgently need to deliver a package from Zelenograd to the south of Moscow. Eventually, I decided not to risk it and to order a courier, but then I thought – why not call a taxi to that address and have it travel to my work with an empty cabin but a small package (the contents of which can be shown to alleviate any fears)? Payment by card, a person will meet it on location. I can hardly find any downsides, it turns out to be cheaper, reliable, and fast. The car arrives in 5 minutes, and the delivery costs 1100 rubles.

Using taxis as a means of delivery is also convenient because they are allowed to drive in dedicated lanes, and compared to couriers, the car arrives very quickly to the sender. The only downside I’ve found is that the taxi driver doesn’t know what to do if they aren’t met, phones don’t answer, etc. If this issue could be resolved, the taxi network could be turned into a pretty good courier network within the city. Almost could transport pizza and beer.

P.S. eventually, that’s how I delivered it;)

October 04 2015, 15:36

I’m currently listening to a lecture on YouTube and I noticed how we often like to mispronounce certain English words. Here are the ones I recalled:

1) not “service”, but “sYOvis” (service)

2) not “key”, but “kii” (key)

3) not “invalid”, but “inVAlid” (invalid).

4) not “null”, but “nal” (null)

5) not “control”, but “controlOul” (control)

6) not “default”, but “defolt” (default)

7) not “procedure”, but “presIdzhe” (procedure)

8) not “character”, but “kErakte” (character), yet “char” is “chAA”

9) not “archive”, but “arkaiv” (archive)

10) not “retry”, but “retrai” (retry)

11) not “adobe”, but “edOubi” (adobe)

12) not “bind”, but “baind” (bind)

13) not “header”, but “header” (header)

14) not “cyrillic”, but “syrilyk” (cyrillic)

15) not “driven”, but “driven” (driven)

16) not “echo”, but “ekou” (echo)

17) not “locale”, but “louKA:l” (locale)

18) not “pseudo”, but “sudo” (pseudo)

19) not “ruby”, but “rubi” (ruby)

20) not “suite”, but “svit” (suite)

It was a revelation for me at the time that “threshold” is actually pronounced “teshold/treshold,” while I stubbornly called it “tresxold”

And the word “Hireraki” was initially unrecognizable (hierarchy)

#English #pronunciation #notes

October 03 2015, 15:01

Assembled the third cabinet. The jigsaw came in handy here.

The cost of the cabinet is composed of the following components from Leroy Merlin:

– furniture panel chipboard 2700x400x16, 597 rub x 3 pieces = 1791 rub

– edge profile 23ШК 2m 97 rub x 3 pcs = 291 rub

– adjustable support M8 41 rub x 4 pcs = 164 rub.

– chipboard cutting services = 30 rub / cut x 5 cuts = 150 rub

I’m not counting the fasteners.

Total 2396 rub.

It took 3.5 hours to create the cabinet (cutting with a jigsaw, edging, assembly)