Hi Tim,
I had sent you a PM regarding that 1999 meeting in NY..... as I reflect on it further, I believe you actually
were meeting with either my Brother Peter, who spent many weeks Tuesday to Friday up in Manhattan
...... staying quite often at the Athletic Club on 60th street and Central Park south.
Message #21215 from Logain Ablar at 8/16/2018 6:59:09 PM
Hi John,
Remember Iqbal, a group of us met up in NYC back in 99 time frame.
Our lives have changed as we've aged.
Hope all is well.
Tim
was it a social meeting, a industry meeting.... what part of Manhattan would it have been in?
Alternately, you might well have met my dad, John Sr. who was the lead negotiator for Exxon worldwide
when it came to Exxon's need for IT hardware, software, computer consulting and the
outsourcing of some apects of Information technology to peoplesoft, SAP, IBM, ORCL and working with the
consulting companies such as Gartner Group, Meta Group, Giga Group. Now we have AWS, The cloud
computing firms and everyone is coding........
John SR. also was the Exxon's worldwide Head of Y2K compliance, which in many cases meant upgrading
to the latest generation of Computer Hardware and Software...... Remediation was the terminology that
was the big buzz word when I started to drill down deep into the topic in Q 3 of Q4 of 1998.
Exxon spent $300 million on it's Y2K compliance program, and it was the further-est thing in the world from
a waste of money.... Unless some who one does not see the benefits of Getting Samsung's Note 9 phone,
or Apple's $1200 model that is coming... and the same thing applies for getting NVDA's latest and most
powerful Gaming GPU and getting the super powerful Dell Alien-ware tower computer... or HP's hottest
combo laptop and tablet ... the great virtual reality applications, and the inference based deep learning,
which is going on. That is one of NVDA's big drivers..... setting up there arrays of GPU's with incredible
computational ability
and the capability to use deep learning and AI to make Fortune 1000 corporate
legacy hardware and software systems that get turbocharged performance from the existing hardware,
software and programming and systems analysts and developers who have spent years at large
US or global firm and don't have to incur tens of millions of dollars of cost upgrading to a new hardware
and software standards that then have to be learned by all of the IT professionals at the company..
That is unique aspect of one of the many NVDA added value propositions. especially since NVDA has 500,000 software developers working on their Cuda software code which sits atop the Volta architecture.
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I use Tablets every day, as well as Chromebooks, and dell laptops,
and would be totally lost without my Sony Vaio desktop computer with my great wireless keyboard, mouse and multiple monitors..... I came very close to getting another nice big brand new LG 43 inch TV... that can be used as a monitor at a Sam's Club auction this morning....
to circle back around , I was in NY as well......so you may have met several of us.
I own you a pm and will get on that.... I have a contract law course I am taking the textbook is
"Contract as Promise, a theory of Contractual Obligation" by Charles Fried.....
Charles Fried is amazing, he is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School.
He is a former Solicitor General of the United States and a former Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
of Massachusetts.
He has argued 26 different cases in front of the Supreme Court of the USA.......
and the course can be audited for free from EdX..... and for $140 you get a Harvard Certificate which
is given to those who take and pass the course and the exams..
The whole nature of education and how we learn is being completely ripped disrupted and replaced by a
much more powerful, user friendly and much less costly model that didn't exist 15-20 years. ago.
Citrix with their go to meeting webinars and the advanced technology and productivity tools are creating the
biggest quantum leap in learning and assimilation of knowledge ever... many would advance this
school of thought.
John |
