In his column last week about “The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East”, an excellent book by Timur Kuran, Schumpeter mis-spelled Mr Kuran’s name. Sorry
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Posts Tagged ‘column’
Aster Data Adds Column Data Store to nCluster
September 15th, 2010 |
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Aster Data nCluster 4.6 gains a column data store designed to enhance the querying capabilities of customers dealing with large data. – Aster Data has included a column data store in the latest version of its
flagship data analytics server.
Added to Aster Data nCluster 4.6, the column data store will present
more options for organizations dealing with large data sets, according to the
vendor.
quot;Database administrators can…
Correction: Accounting rules
September 2nd, 2010 |
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Our story on shocking new accounting rules (“You gonna buy that?” August 21st) contained a shocking error. We should have said that the obligation to pay for a leased item will go in the liabilities column, not the debit column. Sorry.
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Relief Wells Delayed … New Tests Show “Gap” in Oil “Well Column” Causing Loss of Pressure … Does the Government Have ANY IDEA What It’s Doing?
August 16th, 2010 |
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An oil and gas industry veteran with 30 years experience who goes by the alias Fishgrease gave a pretty good recap of BP and the government’s record of failure in capping the oil well: BP does a superhuman job of creating conditions favorable to los…
Advances in pain relief: Agony column
March 11th, 2010 |
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Body, mind and genes all play a role in influencing the perception of pain
PAIN, unfortunately, is a horrible necessity of life. It protects people by alerting them to things that might injure them. But some long-term pain has nothing to do with any obvious injury. One estimate suggests that one in six adults suffer from a “chronic pain” condition.
Steve McMahon, a pain researcher at King’s College, London, says that if skin is damaged, for instance with a hot iron, an area of sensitivity develops around the outside of the burn where although untouched and undamaged by the iron the behaviour of the nerve fibres is disrupted. As a result, heightened sensitivity and abnormal pain sensations occur in the surrounding skin. Chronic pain, he says, may similarly be caused not by damage to the body, but because weak pain signals become amplified. …
Absolute References & Relative References in Microsoft Excel
August 5th, 2009 |
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Microsoft Excel is built on a regime of Columns and Rows with the intersection of these two elements giving us our cells. The cells in Microsoft Excel are always named Columns and then Rows, so a typical cell address would look something like – AB256. This particular cell is found on column AB and in [...]
Vertica Enhances Data Storing, Processing in Upcoming Database
August 4th, 2009 |
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Vertica has a number of performance enhancements on the menu for the upcoming version of its column database. When the company releases Vertica 3.5 later this year, users can expect new capabilties around data storage and processing to be included in the mix, as well as support for MapReduce.
– Vertica Systems has enhanced its column database with a new data
storing and processing architecture designed to improve
performance.
The company has dubbed the new architecture FlexStore. With it,
customers can organize different parts of the database in different
ways to achieve maximum per…
Shake, rattle and roll
July 31st, 2009 |
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Why so few Japanese pagodas have ever fallen down
YOUR correspondent is indebted to readers for their interesting comments about last week’s column on timber-framed buildings. He is especially grateful to Anjin-san, whose observations about Japanese pagodas reminded him of a day spent a dozen years ago with Shuzo Ishida, a structural engineer at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Mr Ishida, known to his students as “Professor Pagoda”, has a passion for the building’s unique dynamics.
What has mystified scholars over the ages is how these tall, wooden buildings cope so well with the earthquakes and typhoons that plague Japan. Many have been struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Others have been torched by marauding warlords. Fire was a perennial hazard in Japan when wood and paper buildings were the norm. But, remarkably, only two of the country’s hundreds of wooden pagodas have collapsed over the past 1,400 years as a result of violent shaking. …
Sito Negron: Not that there’s anything wrong with that
July 29th, 2009 |
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Ramon Renteria, a wonderful writer and a mentor to many a young reporter, usually captures the essence of El Paso in his columns. Maybe he…
Al Eisele: McNamara’s Ghost
July 25th, 2009 |
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When I was editor of The Hill, one young reporter told me about the emotional reaction of her father, a former Naval officer in Vietnam, to McNamara’s memoir. I have reprinted it here.
Don McNay: Walter Cronkite, a journalism role model
July 18th, 2009 |
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This is a column I wrote in October, 2004. Cronkite was the best broadcast journalist who ever lived. Walter Cronkite, a journalism role model Monday,…