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News and Comments on Various Topics

Visits from 5/96 to 11/97 = 2800. Visits since last RESET [10-28-05]=

UPDATES

LAST UPDATE ENTRY: 05-18-07

10-10-96

You may also want to check out a NEW document section that outlines the philosophy on which the activities of SPRING SYSTEMS are based: This guiding PARADIGM for SPRING SYSTEMS is the MAPŠ SYSTEM

10-14-96

If you'd like to examine a very small sampling of the GRAPHICS available in each of our software products, JUMP to our GRAPHICS SAMPLER.

10-21-96

Our AREA CODE has changed from [312] to [773] to [262].
The call numbers are: 642-5929.

10-31-96

To find anything you want within our WEB SITE by alphabetized SUBJECT, link to our SUBJECT INDEX.

12-23-96

Check out our RECIPROCAL LINKS with other WEB enterprises. This section includes BANNERS, a WEB RING, a GUESTBOOK, RECIPROCAL LINKS, and a RANDOM LINK.

01-03-97

To get a rough COST ESTIMATE for a research, consulting or custom programming project, link to our INTERACTIVE COST ESTIMATOR.

03-03-97

If you have either Netscape Navigator 3.0 OR Internet Explorer 3.0, (it won't work with 2.0 versions) you can employ PERCEPTUAL MAPPING technology to find out where you stand politically using our INTERACTIVE POLITICAL POSITION MAPPER.

06-03-97

We now have a page dedicated to presenting our WEB BUSINESS MODEL. We have no OBVIOUS scheme like ADS or PORN. We need YOUR help to make it work, so PLEASE check it out!

06-13-97

Starting on this date, we have implemented several guestbooks. To be more precise we have two (2) ENTERPRISE guestbooks and two (2) PERSONAL guestbooks. Guestbooks are the method we've chosen to implement RECIPROCAL LINKS. For more information on this this subject visit our FEEDBACK section.

08-01-97

THE CATS HAVE MOVED. The outfit that used to carry our cat page, is no longer doing so. As a result we've now moved our CATS. LOCAL CAT PAGE... updated 05-17-07

10-24-97

We now have a single permanent as well as several continually updated views of THE CHICAGO SKYLINE. It's our CONTACT page, but it also shows both via PHOTOS and MAPS, where we live. NOTE: as of 10-17-05, we no longer live there.

12-19-97

All the news every now and then. We've started a newsletter which we publish whenever the spirit moves us or we REALLY need to communicate something that's NEW and IMPORTANT. You can subscribe to this newsletter via a few clicks from our HOME PAGE and get the latest edition delivered via e-mail, or you can view/read a sampling of them right here: NEWSLETTER

01-06-98

We now have a page for sending/receiving FREE electronic GREETING CARDS. Make of this what you will (i.e. Use it, Enjoy it, etc.). .

02-17-98

A new topic has been added to our statistical homilies. It deals with properly selecting Y, the dependent variable: IT ALL DEPENDS. .

04-05-03

Two new items have been added to our FREE software collection. The first is a WINDOWS version of our Marketing Mix Simulation Model. The mechanics are the same as for the DOS version, so the same description applies
( see * MktSIM(c) Marketing Simulation Model ).

The second item is a brand new implementaion of TRIAL MAPPING (i.e. Trial/Repeat New product Simulation), also for WINDOWS ( see * TrialMAP(c) Trial/Repeat New Product Simulation Model ).

To see all that's available in the way of FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS, check out DOWNLOADS

10-28-05

COMING SOMETIME REAL SOON NOW.
We'll try to include some very succinct APL (or maybe J since it's all in ASCII) code to illustrate our math/statistics homilies (not in all cases, but in most cases this is possible). We'll also let you know where you can get a shareware and/or FREE interpreter to run this code. Hang in there, this will happen eventually.

THE ULTIMATE RELOCATION
As time has gone by, we've moved from Chicago to Westchester, a Chicago suburb (2001), and finally we've moved to rusticate in Wisconsin (10-17-05). Our new abode is located at:

02-14-07

WINDOWS VERSION OF ARGUS PERCEPTUAL MAPPER
We've finally developed a DEMO WIN version of a Point and Vector Perceptual Mapper. It's functionally roughly the same as the DOS version.

The problem with all our DOS and DOS+WIN programs is that while they always ran, Windows has changed. Since WIN 98, Windows no longer sits 'on top of DOS'. Anything smacking of DOS is now handled by DOS emulators under various versions of Windows. These emulations are OK, but by no means perfect. This is especially true for machines with DUAL PROCESSORS. As a result, what used to run just fine under older systems may now have problems.

Since PERCEPTUAL MAPPING has always been our most popular download, we've decided to make it into a pure WIN application (while it's PURE WIN, it's 16 bit WIN rather than 32 or 64 bit). The advantage of 16 bit is that the whole system has a very small footprint (402 kb in ZIP form and about 500 kb when expanded. The EXE program is 121 kb... the rest is docs and sample files).

WINDOWS VERSION OF SPRING STAT SYSTEM
We've also made available as a DEMO, a WIN/DOS hybrid version of Turbo SpringStat(c), our statistical analysis system. It's functionally similar to the DOS version.

To see all that's available in the way of DOWNLOADS, check out DOWNLOADS

PORTAL TO ARRAY PROCESSING RESOURCES
For those of you who would like to experiment with some of the modeling and statistical concepts we refer to in this site, we've got a few links to information and software resources that will allow you to do this. See the reference and link to this page in the COMMENTS section below.

COMMENTS

There are many ways to organize comments, thoughts, opinions etc. What we've decided to do is to use an equation or model as the starting point for various categories of comments.

For instance, the first catalyst for commentary involves the formula for the amount of information in a message. Other formulas follow. All of this is a work in progress. Look at the date in an area for an indication of when the topic was LAST opened. The most recent addition or additions will have a NEW graphic next to it.

O INFORMATION PLEASE 07-28-97
O EVERYTHING is INTERTWINGLED updated 05-04-07
O THE S-CURVE 01-29-97
O IT'S USUALLY SIMPLER THAN IT LOOKS updated 04-26-07
O TRUE LIES 03-11-98
O WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND 10-01-96
O THERE's NO FREE LUNCH 10-01-96
O CHANGE PLEASE 03-11-98
O DIMINISHING RETURNS 01-22-97
O CAUSE & EFFECT are OUT OF SYNC 03-16-98
O YIN-YANG 03-16-98
O NEWSLETTER 03-16-98
O IT ALL DEPENDS updated 04-03-07
O CROSSTABS 05-15-07
O ARRAY PROCESSING RESOURCES 04-03-07

We also welcome your comments regarding any of these topics. Just fill out the comment field in our VISITOR FEEDBACK page.


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