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A joint study by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI has revealed that 79% of mobile malware attacks were directed at Android in 2012. Now, according to the H2 2013 Threat Report from security firm F-Secure, Android’s lion’s share of mobile malware has grown to 97% in 2013. Good news for Windows Phone users!
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Even though it may be the wrong tool for the job, the years of development behind the relational database ensure its popularity — for the moment, says MongoDB's Max Schireson. Tick."11,500tps" Tock. "Double-digit revenue growth in SQL Server"
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He has a hammer, so he sees nails in the morning, nails in the evening, nails all the day long.
The real world has real problems. I just got saddled with a new problect* that has to run offline and allow the users to send us files with the data they collect -- it'll use Excel as the database. 
* I think my fingers just thought up a new term all on their own. 
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You're not suggesting a purveyor of technology is making biased statements about the technology he's trying to flog?
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Good Lord, the very thought of it turns my stomach
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No, I'm sure he's just trying to keep his name in the media.
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I think problect has got to be my new favourite word. Thank you, and your fingers.
TTFN - Kent
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It's true that solutions like MongoDB (non-relational DBs) are very good for certain data approach, but relational DB has it's place and going to stay that way. Still a lot of data is, by definition, is in fixed form with fixed relation to other fixed data (economics)...
Replacing relational with non-relational in those case is a big lost.
In the last two year I made a lot of test with or 25 years old DB design (it got some upgrade on the way according to technologies, but mainly the same as it was), and found no reason to change most of it. As today we mix relational and non-relational in a very successful way - we got better results, as performance and flexibility...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Precisely - often the blended data layer is the best approach.
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There are industries that have 'big data' and they want that data to save secure, that is, in house, not in the cloud.
If they have a tool that is already in place and is doing the job, why would they want to spend the time and money to recreate what they already because "it's in the cloud!".
And for the purchase order analogy, I like to be able to say: give me all of the purchase order numbers (implication is header only) where a particular item was purchased. I don't give a rats behind what else was purchased or what the price was... I want the order number and possibly the vendor.
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/me makes indelicate gesture of absolute disdain for such tripe.
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mikepwilson wrote: indelicate gesture of absolute disdain
Well ain't that a punch in the face?
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This week we published a new type of content called showcase apps. Are you looking for a 30,000 foot view into a real world sample or complex architecture? Showcase apps will help! A showcase app is a real world code sample with accompanying video and interactive PowerPoint decks that provide in-depth details. Use the decks to explore the design decisions behind the code sample and how the code was built. More "real world" apps for your amusement
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The meat producer said Wednesday it has created a small device that, when plugged into the headphone jack of an iPhone, emits the sound and smell of sizzling bacon on demand. I'm not sure if this is genius, or evil, so I'll go with evil genius
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I guess it's "Wake up and smell the bacon!"
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Microsoft is keeping one foot in the past with the promotion of 22-year company veteran Satya Nadella to its CEO post. But it didn’t have to be this way. Microsoft could have hired an outsider to set the company on a whole new course, and indeed, it explored doing just that. But according to a new report, some of the outside candidates were skeptical of whether the company could really be changed in a deep way. Something about 'old dogs' or 'turning aircraft carriers' here
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I'd love to know what "whole new course" they're thinking of here?
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Hire Zuckerberg as CEO and make a Facebook OS? Convert the company to making Flappy Bird clones? Have the company generate random article titles and hope for someone to buy them?
Yeah, I've no clue.
TTFN - Kent
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"This is a lighthouse. Your call."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ballmer got into a shouting match with Microsoft's board when directors said they didn't want to buy Nokia and start making smartphones. Ballmer told the board last June that if he didn't get what he wanted, he wouldn't be CEO any more.
In the end, it seems he threw one tantrum too many.
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That guy should never have had a leadership position. Sounds a bit like our last Prime Minister (Gordon Brown)
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Gotta disagree. Nokia had MS exactly where it wanted them. All they needed to do was to threaten to go fully android if MS didn't agree to the deal and MS's choices were either pay whatever they demanded or abandon mobile and slit their own throat. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The OpenShift.NET project integrates .NET and SQL server capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
.NET is open for business
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Reading view is a new feature in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8.1 that helps you focus on the main content of the Web page you want to read. Or: "How to hide all the ads everyone is adding"
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