October 31, 2013 11:39 AM / Leave a comment
speedy & elusive. credit: tim hawk/south jersey times
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inverted td catch! check out the right hand of #15. credit: anthony souffle / chicago tribune
October 11, 2013 9:50 AM / Leave a comment
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September 15, 2013 1:44 PM / Leave a comment
These gallery images are taken from a series of seven slide shows accompanying the recent Oracle IOUG marketing tour introducing the design intentions for the new 12c database release. The slideshows are viewable as PDFs below; the seven topics are as follows: Continue…
August 22, 2013 7:22 PM / Leave a comment
12c dog & pony show freebie
August 14, 2013 11:40 AM / Leave a comment
There’s been media noise of late around the question of Oracle’s intentions (some would say laziness) concerning keeping it’s acquired MySQL database product relevant within the BD website backend niche. Two topics of conversation arise: the contest between MySQL and newcomer MariaDB in this arena, and the re-positioning going on concerning Oracle’s own flagship database regarding NoSQL and Big Data. Continue…
July 26, 2013 12:32 PM / Leave a comment
guess my bi job
shtick approach. Continue…
July 9, 2013 10:13 PM / Leave a comment
images of human chromosome pairs
April 22, 2013 10:31 AM / Leave a comment
jaron lanier, 2013
I’m a
Jaron Lanier fan — may as well get that stated up front. As a thinker, innovator, and trenchant inside commentator upon technology, the culture, and the web, he uniquely blends a scientist’s depth, a nerd’s enthusiasm, and a philosopher’s searching grasp of the Zeitgeist. His influential
earlier book laid out the landscape concerning Lanier’s view of inadvertant financial and livelihood fallout brought on by certain structural biases built in to the Web.
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April 5, 2013 4:14 PM / Leave a comment
X3 evolution
Oracle’s
Exa-line of database machines have taken their share of lumps in the press since their splashy debut several years ago. Might this be the year during which
version 3 of the high capacity high price high ad-hype box either catches on or fizzles out? There have been well publicized flame wars between
Oracle and IBM, and
Oracle and SAP within this database-in-memory niche. Whenever the arguing has gotten more technically explicit, predictably, Oracle, IBM and SAP guys came out in favor of their home teams with their reasoned stats.
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These gallery images are taken from a series of seven slide shows accompanying the recent Oracle IOUG marketing tour introducing the design intentions for the new 12c database release. The slideshows are viewable as PDFs below; the seven topics are as follows: Continue…
There’s been media noise of late around the question of Oracle’s intentions (some would say laziness) concerning keeping it’s acquired MySQL database product relevant within the BD website backend niche. Two topics of conversation arise: the contest between MySQL and newcomer MariaDB in this arena, and the re-positioning going on concerning Oracle’s own flagship database regarding NoSQL and Big Data. Continue…
Hearing the Oracle 