Life after death: the science of human decomposition. Far from being dead, a rotting human corpse is the cornerstone of a complex ecosystem. John had been dead about four hours before his body was brought into the funeral home. He had been relatively healthy for most of his life.
NX technology. NX technology, developed by NoMachine,[1] and commonly known as 'NX' is a proprietary computer program that provides hosted desktop and remote access. It consists of a suite of NoMachine software products related to desktop virtualization and application delivery for server-based computing and cloud-based environments.
kx is another columnar database, for example used in the financial sector. The licence is somewhat $50K last time I checked, though. No optimisation needed, no index needed, because kx has powerful operators (matlab equivalents: .*, kron, bsxfun, ...).