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Comment Re:Yes but we're -really- the best in the -real wo (Score 1) 199

by phulax (#44250171) Attached to: No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013
can I humbly add to french description : Brain specialists (perhaps due to research about inhibition of action on primates) For those who have the chance to understand french (?) : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpjec4_tv-lobotomie-la-verite-scientifique-sur-les-effets-de-la-television-conference-michel-desmurget-fsl5_news [dailymotion.com] in short : Television hurts brain and makes people unable to think. At best. SAT test plunging is synched to television adoption in US (31:53). 20:22 : the effect of television on child brain in one drawing ...

Comment Re:no (Score 1) 393

For those who have the chance to understand french (?) : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpjec4_tv-lobotomie-la-verite-scientifique-sur-les-effets-de-la-television-conference-michel-desmurget-fsl5_news in short : Television hurts brain and makes people unable to think. At best. SAT test plunging is synched to television adoption in US (31:53). 20:22 : the effect of television on child brain in one drawing ...
Businesses

Software-Defined Data Centers: Seeing Through the Hype 39

Posted by Soulskill from the mashing-up-jargon dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes "In case you didn't catch it yesterday, AllThingsD ran a piece endorsing the idea of the software-defined data center. That's a venue where hordes of non-technical mid- and upper-level managers will see it and (because of the credibility of AllThingsD) will believe software-defined data centers are not only possible, but that they exist and that your company is somehow falling behind because you personally have not sketched up a topology on a napkin or brought a package of it to install. If mid-level managers in your datacenter or extended IT department have not been pinged at least once today by business-unit managers offering to tip them off to the benefits of software-defined data centers—or demand that they buy one—then someone should go check the internal phone system because not all the calls are coming through. Why was AllThingD's piece problematic? First, because it's a good enough publication to explain all the relevant technology terms in ways that even a non-technical audience can understand. Second, it's also a credible source, owned by Dow Jones & Co. and spun off by The Wall Street Journal. Third, software-defined data centers are genuinely happening—but it's in the very early stages. The true benefits of the platform won't arrive for quite some time—and there's too much to do in the meantime to talk about potential endpoints. Fortunately, there are a number of resources online to help tell hype from reality."
Databases

The NoSQL Ecosystem 381

Posted by kdawson from the no-relation dept.
abartels writes 'Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as NoSQL databases. The fundamental problem is that relational databases cannot handle many modern workloads. There are three specific problem areas: scaling out to data sets like Digg's (3 TB for green badges) or Facebook's (50 TB for inbox search) or eBay's (2 PB overall); per-server performance; and rigid schema design.'

Comment Obfuscated Cobol (Score 1) 405

by phulax (#24520329) Attached to: Why COBOL Could Come Back
Is there an Obfuscated Cobol contest ? (Alter go. SPIE/STAE tricks E15/E35 sort (ha ha) of things) This code is like any other supposed to be brand new from 2000 ? at least brand revamped ...

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