I think the sensible thing for Microsoft to do is branch their Windows OS product along business and consumer lines (leverage where they can), otherwise they risk losses in both...

jfogel (4/16/2013)

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LinkedIn is about the only place I care to maintain a profile on as far as a professional profile goes. I'll never blog because there are already many (too...

I don't like the new low cubes and I don't like noisy environments. However, having a small lab or something similar would be nice to go into and tackle problems...

Nice idea and it sounds very efficient and fair, but it sounds like a rational society is a prerequisite. A democratic society may choose to ignore it (through legislation or...

This might give you a more concrete idea of the future.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57357938-52/ibm-creates-data-storage-at-the-atomic-level/

I remember reading about open-gated phased arrays in SciAm maybe ten years ago and being amazed to see...

Lynn Pettis (3/15/2013)

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Same things I would have said to you in person.

I'm not the one calling someone else names...

I appreciate process more. I used to hate it. I started out developing at a very large insurance company years ago. So many obstacles to get things done. Then I...

I still believe in the application layer concept, particularly on critical systems. I've even added an ETL 'layer' where I have dedicated servers handling inbound and outbound traffic that hit...

I actively sought out a .NET/ SQL Server career about 12 years ago. I was in the mainframe (MVS) world writing COBOL on IMS and DB2 databases. I shudder at...

Nice article, I'm a recent fan of PowerShell. I didn't know about the ISE. I found a use for it beyond metrics and administration that other DBA's might find useful:...

Nice article. For years now I've considered myself a creative problem solver who happens to work in the IT space.

I'm interested in what the first quantum computer will look like. Will it need as much memory? Fewer CPU's? Maybe the more important issue is how do we write...

"Looper". It's time travel oriented but much more than that. It just came out on DVD I think.

David.Poole (1/3/2013)

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The thing with traditional HDDs is that not all the space is usable due to the need for multiple spindles to deliver throughput so it isn't as simple a...

TempDB was where we first experimented with SSD's on our accounting system and it made a huge difference by greatly improving the I/O latency (we have a lot of EDI...