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811.
by nwatson 15y ago
Log data is: * the largest data source in any enterprise * increasingly must be stored for long-term analysis ... * by corporate policy or ... * by government regulation/demand Regular open-source tool stacks can't do this
812.
by nwatson 15y ago
Purported new feature: "Columnstore Indexes -- This a cool new feature that is completely unique to SQL Server. They are special type of read-only index designed to be use with Data Warehouse queries. Basically, data is grouped and stored
813.
by nwatson 15y ago
A curved display (let's say, spherical) centered approximately at the "primary" observer's eyeballs whose pixel elements all subtend equal solid angles would (a) lead to weird unintuitive and hard-to-program-for locations in their most natu
814.
by nwatson 15y ago
It would be great "to have a productive conversation about intellectual property as adults interested in advancing the arts and sciences" but property rights have always come down to enabling making a living. Artists and scientists until a
815.
by nwatson 15y ago
Hmmm, just actually tried this, perhaps Consumer Preview only allows one RDT session at a time. That's enough to see native Metro on one screen and RDT'ed on second screen. Or else install VNC Server. What a pain, though.
816.
How we'll simultaneously view 2 Win8 Metro apps full-screen at same time(pastebin.com)
1 points by nwatson 15y ago|1 comments
817.
by nwatson 15y ago
IPIX was a photo-hosting service for E-Bay and various other sites in the late '90's -- that was a very big chunk of their revenue, I believe, and sounds a lot like Chute's product area as well. It looks like E-Bay discontinued the IPIX int
818.
by nwatson 15y ago
The second thing I thought of was how cross-border and urban illegal drug distribution is gonna be made much easier with this. I won't be part of it, but, just sayin'.
819.
by nwatson 15y ago
It will be hard to come up with an accessible general framework to express general problem situations without resorting to either (a) an explosion of templates for solving the N-most-common kinds of problems (the browsing through which will
820.
by nwatson 15y ago
I've read the bits about implementation based on continuations in various other comments. Given that: - the ranking of HN stories likely is in constant flux ... - and that some users might want a consistent view of stories across multiple p
821.
by nwatson 15y ago
For a further clarification of a "multi-vendor" scenario, here's a hypothetical situation: - an integrator knows the CIA, FBI, and successor to the KGB all need secure software services - the integrator convinces two secure data centers, on
822.
by nwatson 15y ago
If any VC's out there are interested in (a) packaging multi-vendor packages of software services; (b) selling them to interested companies/organizations like the CIA; (c) helping those customers keep track of their departmental consumption
823.
by nwatson 15y ago
if this idea has any legs at all, the first improvement will be to distinguish vowels from consonants ... and then to make sure common letter sequences that have particular meaning (English), -ing, -ly, -tion, un-, in-, etc., stand out visu
824.
by nwatson 15y ago
the energy and material costs of producing a second car is very high. probably higher than the extra driving for the single car in the scenario .
825.
by nwatson 15y ago
Even if the organisms were shown to swap out phosphorus for arsenic in some instances in their DNA, would that be surprising? Arsenic comes from the same column in the periodic table as phosphorus, and exhibits many of the same macro chemi
826.
by nwatson 15y ago
I want to know how the press, politicians, corps, individuals, the internet 'community' all are responding. Without Hacker News up I don't think I'll be well informed. I vote for no shutdown.
827.
by nwatson 15y ago
Portuguese: 'Se Deus quiser' == 'If God wills' ... very common in Brazil. Even more common: 'Oxala' (oh-shah-LAH) taken from Arabic 'in sha lah' meaning the same thing.
828.
by nwatson 15y ago
Lucrative for founders, I suppose, probably decent return for VC's. For early employees, not so sure. Going on eight years (7.5 years for me personally) on current company, wondering whether it's worth it.
829.
by nwatson 15y ago
There's a rumor HP is running Windows 8 on Touchpads internally for development purposes. I've looked but haven't found examples of people installing Win8 on Touchpad. This would be a cheap way to check out the OS on its major intended ta
830.
by nwatson 15y ago
... whereas if your downloads per time month is a constant proportion of your total downloads to date, e.g., next month the downloads will total 2.5% of the total downloads to date ... and that keeps happening every month, then: * the p
831.
by nwatson 15y ago
And Chirpscreen already did Pointcast for social: http://m.techcrunch.com/2007/10/18/remember-pointcast-meet-c...
832.
by nwatson 15y ago
Ok. So your computer is in lock-screen mode requiring you to enter a password before resuming your interactive session. Someone with physical access to your computer certainly can find a way to divorce the memory from the rest of the syst
833.
by nwatson 15y ago
The bad side-effects of this memory technology: you can't just power-off your computer to hide your current activity; decrypted passwords in memory still will be readable after shutoff.
834.
Groupon cancels IPO road show(blogs.wsj.com)
8 points by nwatson 15y ago|0 comments
835.
by nwatson 15y ago
One more factor to consider, though: angel or Series A preferred shares often cost much more per share than the employee's per-share Common strike price. The option-exercising employee has a lower outlay and thus less risk. Of course, in
836.
by nwatson 15y ago
Maybe HP's interested in suing.
837.
by nwatson 15y ago
Just wait for the book. "How to Master Building Windows 8".
838.
by nwatson 15y ago
I speculate capital gains revenue would be much more volatile for government than a tax on profits.
839.
by nwatson 15y ago
ICloud + sharing + permissions --> google wave. i wish google had delivered on the promise.
840.
by nwatson 15y ago
Again, as I said, for fine-grained work one can use a stylus.

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