IoT: Dell Internet of Things Lab in Silicon Valley

Dell opens Internet of Things Lab in Silicon Valley - Austin Business Journal
"Dell Inc. has opened a Silicon Valley laboratory where customers can develop software to improve business operations. The facility, dubbed the Dell Internet of Things Lab, opened in the Dell Silicon Valley Solution Center in Santa Clara, "

Dell Opens Internet of Things Lab in Silicon Valley Solution Center | Dell
"...Customers can demonstrate large workloads, connectivity, and data modeling and extraction on Dell’s end-to-end solutions..."

quote: Greatness

What Makes Greatness Is Starting Something That Lives After You. | Quotesvalley.com:

Tesla Model S Worth More Used Than New

Tesla Model S Worth More Used Than New:

"Based on a survey of 45 million used car listings for sale/sold in the U.S., the average used Model S is said to be going for a whopping $99,734, which is considerably richer than its model-year 2013 base price of $69,900 (or, for that matter, the top-end version’s $89,900)."

The Grand Canyon: Builders vs Nature

podcast: The Grand Canyon: Threatened By Development? | On Point with Tom Ashbrook:
"Uproar over development plans for the Grand Canyon. We go to the Navajo Nation and the Canyon floor to see what’s at stake."

Two Development Projects Threaten the Grand Canyon - NYTimes.com

Grand Canyon on the Precipice



National Park Service calls development plans a threat to Grand Canyon - LA Times

tool: HTML, SVG => PDF

wkhtmltopdf:

"wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPL) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.
There is also a C library, if you're into that kind of thing."

alternatives:

zkwarl: Inkscape Tip: Use Inkscape on the Command-line
Inkscape - an SVG editing program.

How to programmatically convert SVG to PDF on Windows? - Stack Overflow