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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Hearing the Oracle 