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DB Query Becomes Browseable In Virtual World
Jani Pirkola writes to tell us that Green Phosphor's new project "Glasshouse" allows users to take database queries or spreadsheets and create 3D representations in a virtual world. Man what I wouldn't give to mash my level 80 death knight up with some of the ugly joins I have run across in the past. "Users can see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively - all from within a virtual world. Glasshouse produces graphs which are avatars of the data itself. We've tailored the system for the use of biotech companies, specifically for drug discovery and development. Dr. David Resuehr, a molecular biologist, recently joined Green Phosphor as our Chief Scientist."
But the real question, of course, is whether or not a teenage hacker girl can successfully use this to navigate your data and fix your TPS reports before the velociraptors eat you all.
[Outside a Miami office building, a quick shot to a broken window several floors up.]
[Then a cut to the street where Horatio knells over a bloodied monitor, with the attached tower in parts. Delko pokes at the nearby keyboard various instruments]
D: It looks like a lot of energy was transferred from the keyboard to this monitor.
H: You can tell by the missing keys on the keyboard, this was an old fashion capacitor driven board...
D: Well whoever did this did a select * on destruction with both hands.
[Horatio stands, removing his sun glasses]H: He didn't just go Select *...he committed the changes without a rollback.
[Intro to the The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again"]
import system.cool.Sig;
Looks like a mini-nightmare I had when I nodded off during a late-afternoon DB2 class.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
No boss, I'm not playing rpg games at work, I'm working on my quarterly sales report
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Users can see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively - all from within a virtual world.
Can you shoot at a stock prices chart until it explodes in a huge fireball? Can you chop it up with an axe? Can you take a dump on it? I can see some value in this after all
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
This is to prevent rouge programs.
AT&ROFLMAO
Yes... I mean no