When Hurricane Sandty struck New York, one phenomenon that emerged was how one disaster sets the stage for the next. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, building owners in New York were ordered to...
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I thought Bloomberg's administration was a model of efficiency and can-do management (and it always recovered from occasional overzealousness). I have to a agree that de Blasio is off to a worrying start, appointing a bunch...
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When it comes to improving education, de Blasio needs to look at two sets of data: the data that shows the city's charter schools outperforming most of its regular public schools in poor areas, and the data showing that...
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Very interesting article, i believe usage of drones would increase more in the future in the areas of survellience and safety.
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Isn't this as much as anything a training and skills issue -- the number of people with training and experience managing SQL databases as opposed to NoSQL ones?
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Frankly, severral of the posts about this article are more than a little silly; the scary word 'drone' makes a lot of otherwise sensible (or not) people drift off into night sweats; the 'community outrage' over a radio controlled...
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vchristy601, this list does a great job of illustrating the challenges policy makers have in front of them. One thing's for sure, these are questions that go beyond the FAA's jurisdictional air space. Even if we work out...
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As relational database was born in the mid-1980s, there was huge interest in it, along with constant headlines. IBM purposefully undersold it at the start due to customer disbelief and IBM worries about upending existing...
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Many issues with drones start to pop up as we begin to explore some of the issues including: - Noise from overhead (a constant issue for many in Afganastan where it affects health), - Air rights (where will I loose my...
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msmith,that is an interesting example. Thanks for bringing it up. the next question is what else do the fire-watching drones get to scan for -- and what is off limits.
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Its okay to operate a police chopper to chase a suspect at a cost of who knows what but a drone, no way? This does not make sense.
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Law enforcement use of drones could create plenty of controversy during the next few years. What other uses worry you on a privacy level, readers?
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The issue is really a "scoreboard" one. $30 billion RDBMS market; $0 billion NoSQL market. I agree that the analytical database space has shown more progression, but I really see that as a result of how intractable...
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I'm hearing that some banks see Hadoop as a tool in meeting regulatory requirements. Banks are having to do stress testing often enough that they need the speed of Hadoop to meet the demand.
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Excellent coverage of all things database. And, yes, the most popular databases of 10 years ago are still market leaders today, but Netezza and Greenplum were just getting the ball rolling on what is now a...
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This example is of course extreme, but it highlights one very real problem for mobile providers: With mobile data consumption growing at the rate it is, networks are more heavily congested than ever before. Operators are...
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Great point. Is it possible that as the data science field becomes more defined, we will have a better grasp on which pieces of data are valuable (signal) and which are not (noise)? I would imagine that as that...
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Dynamite article! Really cool stuff... Love it! You might find our interview with iSIGN's CTO, Mark Janke from DSE14 of interest: http://ybltv.com/?p=10932 I enjoyed chatting with Mark and learning more about interactive...
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Gary, I think you are right, SSDs have already become the boot partition in many consumer devices and in the datacenter their benefits are becomes too large to ignore. It's just a matter of time now, when we start viewing...
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Great article and wonderfully explained. Comparing CPUs to gain the best possible price/performance ratio has been a problem for the buyer since quite some time. AMD tried solving this by labeling a CPU with a number, so...
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http://thefullertoninformer.com/launching-of-the-districts-11-visible-irradiaton-program-vip/ The total insanity of this technology is the same frequency and power density that the Russians used against the American Embassy...
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