Everything's remotely managed these days anyway, so who cares how hot / cold / loud the cabinets are? Scurry in to hot-replace whatever and scurry back out to the cubi.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area embeds FasTrak toll transponders on area highways to determine traffic conditions in real time. These transponders are in place even outside of toll bridges for the purpose of measuring traffic flow. You can see these traffic conditions at 511.org.
Some of the biggest problems that "new" database designs have:
1) Overly complex
The whole point of the article is that current RDBMS schemes are overly complex. Several applications are listed that RDBMS isn't well suited for: data warehousing, directory services, web search, mobile device caching, XML management, and stream processing. RDBMS was designed for workloads characterized by ad hoc queries (which SQL shines at as several of you have commented on), significant write traffic, and the need for strong transactional guarantees. The "problem" applications above don't have a need for any of these RDBMS design requirements. It's too much for the task at hand.
The article author advocates "flexible solutions" "tailored to the needs of a particular application."
Google... gain market share by offering superior products. Microsoft... drive the competitors out of buisness.
How is "gaining market share" different from "driving competitors out of business"?
In my business, we talk about, say, a billion dollar market for a certain type of semiconductor, we have 30% of that market and we want to grow that to 40%. If we take a bigger slice of pie that's not growing, that means somebody else is loosing and it's entirely probable that a smaller player will die off.
The online mapping services were getting stale and the efforts of Google and A9 have lit a fire under Microsoft, MapQuest and others to improve their offerings. This cycle of innovation in turn provides feedback to push engineers at Google and elsewhere to innovate even more.
...after reading the article I'd say they need lithium, not aluminum....
A maxim in critical thinking forums is that intelligent, reasonable people can have unreasonable beliefs. I know a few people personally with what I consider some really odd beliefs about on par with this aluminum siding family, but they are for the most part sane individuals. The epistomological authorities they trust are just "different" from what many of us trust as information sources.
Anonymous Coward wrote: Another reason is that putting any political agendas in software licenses is not leagally right
JGAA's anarchist political agenda is the central point of his WAR FTP Daemon software license. I wasn't aware there was a problem with his license. Can you elaborate?
GNU's license can also be interpreted as political support for communal ownership. Even the word "copyleft" has a connotation of political progressiveness. I'm sure others can give similar examples.
When I asked [a realtor] about whether the area was "good" or "bad," she replied she was not allowed to give that kind of information.
In the U.S., real estate agents are forbidden from making "discriminatory limitations on communities or locations of housing" under the Fair Housing Act. Your stated desire for a "good" neighborhood could be interpreted in some areas as a "discriminatory preference" for a white neighborhood -- especially if there's a correlation between ethnicity and crime in your area.
It would be really useful if it could tell where the crime was about to occur.. in advance
"Mr. Marks, by mandate of the District of Columbia Precrime Division, I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin that was to take place today, April 22 at 0800 hours and four minutes."
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Everything's remotely managed these days anyway, so who cares how hot / cold / loud the cabinets are? Scurry in to hot-replace whatever and scurry back out to the cubi.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area embeds FasTrak toll transponders on area highways to determine traffic conditions in real time. These transponders are in place even outside of toll bridges for the purpose of measuring traffic flow. You can see these traffic conditions at 511.org.
1) Overly complex
The whole point of the article is that current RDBMS schemes are overly complex. Several applications are listed that RDBMS isn't well suited for: data warehousing, directory services, web search, mobile device caching, XML management, and stream processing. RDBMS was designed for workloads characterized by ad hoc queries (which SQL shines at as several of you have commented on), significant write traffic, and the need for strong transactional guarantees. The "problem" applications above don't have a need for any of these RDBMS design requirements. It's too much for the task at hand.
The article author advocates "flexible solutions" "tailored to the needs of a particular application."
Microsoft
How is "gaining market share" different from "driving competitors out of business"?
In my business, we talk about, say, a billion dollar market for a certain type of semiconductor, we have 30% of that market and we want to grow that to 40%. If we take a bigger slice of pie that's not growing, that means somebody else is loosing and it's entirely probable that a smaller player will die off.
The online mapping services were getting stale and the efforts of Google and A9 have lit a fire under Microsoft, MapQuest and others to improve their offerings. This cycle of innovation in turn provides feedback to push engineers at Google and elsewhere to innovate even more.
A maxim in critical thinking forums is that intelligent, reasonable people can have unreasonable beliefs. I know a few people personally with what I consider some really odd beliefs about on par with this aluminum siding family, but they are for the most part sane individuals. The epistomological authorities they trust are just "different" from what many of us trust as information sources.
I understand; I was just stating why the real estate agent was constrained.
RFM
JGAA's anarchist political agenda is the central point of his WAR FTP Daemon software license. I wasn't aware there was a problem with his license. Can you elaborate?
GNU's license can also be interpreted as political support for communal ownership. Even the word "copyleft" has a connotation of political progressiveness. I'm sure others can give similar examples.
RFM
In the U.S., real estate agents are forbidden from making "discriminatory limitations on communities or locations of housing" under the Fair Housing Act. Your stated desire for a "good" neighborhood could be interpreted in some areas as a "discriminatory preference" for a white neighborhood -- especially if there's a correlation between ethnicity and crime in your area.
RFM
"Mr. Marks, by mandate of the District of Columbia Precrime Division, I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin that was to take place today, April 22 at 0800 hours and four minutes."
RFM