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- Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was
- Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Toyota tinkers with baby Segways
- Toyota tinkers with baby SegwaysI'd add a fourth column to that.Model: "Me".Length mm: 265Width mm: 464Height mm: 1820Weight kg: 80Maximum cruising speed (km/h): 6 can go fasterTurning Radius: 0Cruising range km: 50Charge time: 10 mins partial, 8 hours full chargeTo be blunt, if you're too fat to walk 5km @...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008
- In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise Business Intelligence BI platform vendors, the paper found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle and SAS Institute move into leadership positions in enterprise BI thanks to the richness of their functionality, ability to scale, and the completeness...
- White papers 2008-07-31
- KM-Software DirectX Changer (zip)
- KM-Software DirectX Changer is intended for carrying out of various actions with versions DirectX. The program can change version DirectX for any another without restart of OS. For example, this program will allow starting many old games and if to establish package DirectX10 for XP, also many new games. And...
- Software downloads 2008-07-08
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawg
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawgcomparing apples and ....When you state "the least efficient car in every category is european" you fail to see that the cars listed as the least efficient connot be compared to the most efficient cars. I dont see...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Robotic Humvees in the sky?
- According to Computerworld, a Colorado-based company has developed a prototype of a 'flying Humvee' robotic aircraft to ship supplies to military troops. This robotic aircraft, dubbed the V-STAR, short for "VTOL Swift Tactical Aerial Resource,' should be operational around 2010. If calling it a 'flying Humvee' is a figure of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Searching for definition
- A recurring theme for me at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston was defining 'Enterprise 2.0'as discussed in my earlier post. Based on my conversations with various attendees, some were clearly at the conference expressly to gain clarity on this in order to help them sell initiatives...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Coherent Optical Frequency Transfer Via 110-Km Urban Fiber Network
- Optical frequency at 1542 nm was coherently transferred over a 110-km optical fiber using an urban fiber network (JGN2) between Tsukuba and Kashiwa cities. The phase fluctuation induced by the fiber length fluctuation was actively reduced by stabilizing the fiber length using a fiber stretcher and an acousto-optic frequency shifter....
- White papers 2008-06-10
- Wi-Fi bridge claims a range of 5 miles
- Wi-Fi bridge claims a range of 5 milesOld newsCome on, Rik, this technology has been around for some time. I installed my first bridge using equipment like this years ago to extend our network out to remote buildings, and have done so many times since. We recently installed...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Sixty Five Million And One BC (zip)
- Sixty Five Million And One BC is a platform adventure about a bunch of velociraptors trying to save the world from a comet. You see, around about 65 million years ago an enormous hunk of rock, 10 km across, hurtled down from space and smacked rudely into what eventually became...
- Software downloads 2008-05-21
- iMedDoc (exe)
- iMedDoc is a revolutionary product of Apt Infoway & KM Medical software Limited, Ireland. iMedDoc is a Web based EMR that transforms the way Medical Practitioners record Healthcare information. iMedDoc consist of several modules that are integrated into a single Web based environment reducing errors, space, cost and time. iMedDoc...
- Software downloads 2008-05-20
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)Giving old PCs New LifeThis is a Great program and I would like to know how I can donate my old computers to them.RE: (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)I got the page translated hereIt struck me that the page is more concerned with tax...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines
- A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Limitations of Transmission Distances Over Multimode Fiber
- Multimode fiber simply refers to the fact that numerous modes or light rays are carried simultaneously through the waveguide. One key characteristic of a multimode fiber is its modal bandwidth. It represents the capacity of a fiber to transmit a certain amount of information over a certain distance and is...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- (Images: Xcor rockets private space flights)
- (Images: Xcor rockets private space flights)200,000 What?What units is that? Miles? As in 80% of the way to the moon? 200,000 Km? 200,000 feet?
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- A single-photon channel to space
- According to the Institute of Physics IOP, European researchers have successfully identified individual returning photons from space 'after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometers above the earth.' This experiment could lead to a global quantum-encrypted communications network in the future. In other...
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Why Satellite Internet service is so slow
- Why Satellite Internet service is so slowReal world is worse.Ping statistics for 75.104.128.61: Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 22, Lost = 3 (12% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 626ms, Maximum = 3690ms, Average = 1385msThis is the nameserver within WildBlue's...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- Why Satellite Internet service is so slow
- I was reading in the news today about an experimental geosynchronous communications satellite being launched by Japan and I got to wondering about why Satellite Internet service has such horrendous latency and is so slow. So I drew up a little diagram above (click to see...
- Blog posts 2008-02-23
- What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3F
- What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3FSuarez, Morris, Wood, Walsh, Yourdon, James... never heard of any of them!Luis Suarez, Tom Morris, Al Wood, Paul Walsh, Ed Yourdon, Nigel James... I've never heard of any of these people before. Am I the only one?!Gotta love the "social web", where anyone with a blog or a facebook...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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