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Dynamic Relational by Tablizer · 2004-10-12 14:28 · Score: 1 · on An Alternative to SQL?

One thing I always wondered was if there was a way to make a table that had a different number of columns for each row.

I don't know if it would solve your particular problem, but I have kicked around the idea of dynamic relational databases.

Re:legal system designed to control populace by Phragmen-Lindelof · 2004-10-11 17:35 · Score: 1 · on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2

I am not sure what you mean by "made it in the mainstream" but the following people come to mind:

Bruce Conner

Michael McClure

Of course, there is Bob Dylan. Has he "made it in the mainstream"?

Re:night map by solarium_rider · 2004-10-11 10:38 · Score: 1 · on Global Air Pollution, From Above

Hmm, also looks similiar to a sim city air pollution map. That's easy to fix, just plant lots of trees and parks. Other tips you can do to reduce pollution:
-Apply all of the environment ordinances
-Encourage High Tech Industry
-Reduce Traffic Congestion
-Use water Treatment Plants
-Use Clean Energy
-Export your trash

Another example of good documentation is R by RealAlaskan · 2004-10-11 06:28 · Score: 1, Redundant · on Hibernate in Action

The R programming language has excellent documentation, all written by the developers and users, including a newsletter and some contributed documentation, including a little reference card I wrote.

The program is GPLed, and shows that excellent documentation is possible, if enough people.

Re:Natural by spectecjr · 2004-10-11 05:23 · Score: 1 · on South Korean Music Retailers Dying

You know, waaay back in 1787 Thomas Jefferson was against copyright (and "intellectual property" in general) entirely. He only reluctantly agreed to put copyright privilages in after Madison convinced him that there was little possibility for abuse, beacuse there was no "powerful few" back then:

Other people disagree with you.

"Obviously, [...] suggests that Jefferson opposed copyright protection
in the new Constitution, but the Founding Fathers put it in there anyway. This
is not quite in agreement with the statements in the above cited letters. Jefferson
finally ended up RECOMMENDING that such protection be included in a Bill of
Rights.

Therefore it appears that the statement in the article suggesting that Jefferson
opposed the inclusion of copyright protection in the U.S. Constitution is not entirely
correct. Jefferson at first was doubtful, but then recommended that limited protections
be included."

Targus Backpacks: Made in the Philippines by reporter · 2004-10-10 13:40 · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Advice On Notebook Backpacks?

Scanning through 15 brands of backpacks for notebooks reveals that almost all of the luggage are manufactured in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong). The exception is Targus. A significant portion of Targus luggage for notebook computers is still made in the Philippines.

If you are committed to boycotting "Made in China" products to protest the brutalization of Tibetans, the black market for human organs (usually purchased by Taiwanese customers) in China, the millions of abortions targetting female fetuses, etc., then you will definitely want to buy the Targus backpacks.

Targus Backpacks: Made in the Philippines by reporter · 2004-10-10 13:40 · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Advice On Notebook Backpacks?

Scanning through 15 brands of backpacks for notebooks reveals that almost all of the luggage are manufactured in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong). The exception is Targus. A significant portion of Targus luggage for notebook computers is still made in the Philippines.

If you are committed to boycotting "Made in China" products to protest the brutalization of Tibetans, the black market for human organs (usually purchased by Taiwanese customers) in China, the millions of abortions targetting female fetuses, etc., then you will definitely want to buy the Targus backpacks.

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-08 09:37 · Score: 0 · on Breaking Google's DRM

Making it BAD?! How could it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!

(look here)

Re:Ben Rothke, professional reviewer! by jericho4.0 · 2004-10-08 08:48 · Score: 3, Insightful · on The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency

Ben Rothke is a security consultant and author. This review does not apear on amazon.com. Bens' reviews seem to be well thought out and honest, and as far as I can see, he seems to be providing a service. Considering current events, the book obviously would be of interest to the /. crowd. Here's a review by a critical reviewer. /. has a section for book reviews. So what's the problem?

Orbital Infosphere by Baldrson · 2004-10-08 02:41 · Score: 1 · on What's Next in the New Private Space Industry?

From Infosphere to the First Inforb

The infosphere wants to be in orbit, and soon, it will be.

In space there is no need to lay optical fiber nor to obtain right-of-way from an international committee, you simply point a laser and shoot at the destination of your message.

The vast majority of digital communication traffic is from server to server. The big problem is "the last mile" of communications, and that is because of the difficulty of laying cable around urban areas.

You can go wireless from home or office to a local Ka-band ground station that uplinks direct to an on-orbit infosphere consisting of servers and routers.

This will unfold approximately as follows:

1) Wireless will replace cable in urban areas, thus dispensing with "the last mile" problem and waking people up to the fact that you pay heavy hidden taxes for trying to lay cable that crosses terrestrial bureaucracies.

2) Existing satellite Internet systems (note here that Iridium was _not_ an Internet system) will expand, possibly including the deployment of Teledesic.

3) The success of these wireless systems in previously underdeveloped areas such as China will further establish the viability of this general approach.

4) Launch prices lower as western protectionism over the launch industry is finally removed. (Interesting, isn't it, that even as the West was trying to figure out how to get hard currency businesses to employ Russian military personnel in commercial capacities, the West was bullying Russia into raising its launch prices so that Western government-subsidized launch firms could compete? Just goes to show you the Soviet public sector was more efficient than the West's public sector which isn't surprising when you think of it in those terms.)

5) With lowered launch prices, satellite prices will, at first drop gradually, and then plummet. Satellite prices will plummet when launch prices are low enough that satellites can create internal "office environments". This will not be for people -- it will be for the "office environment" mass produced electronics that go into servers and routers. Note: This will occur much later for geosynchronous satellites which must carry far more massive shielding from Van Allen belt radiation.

6) As the infosphere is going through the most rapid movement from the biosphere to Earth orbit, the most economic means of fixing a satellite will be to replace it. The increasing, industrial capacity, launch volume will drive launch prices to levels comparable with other transporation industries.

7) With launch prices lowered to industrially rational levels, human presence will become permanent on the various orbital planes in order to service the satellites on those orbital planes.

Huzzah! by crimson30 · 2004-10-07 04:44 · Score: 1 · on Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics

Are you saying they might be easier to rip into than this guy?

Re:Knight Rider by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-07 02:39 · Score: 0 · on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2

Best Picture Ever

Not totally new by pk2000 · 2004-10-06 19:33 · Score: 5, Informative · on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene

AIDS resistance has also been found in family trees that survived Black Death some 600 years ago.

http://www.geocities.com/endeavour_uksa/article.ht ml
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is _n6_v18/ai_19447788/pg_2

Immunity by wildsurf · 2004-10-06 15:20 · Score: 4, Funny · on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene

According to my Chinese friend, the immunity comes from eating stinky fermented tofu and thousand-year egg.

I personally plan to remain vulnerable. Alas.

CN is from Centaur by reporter · 2004-10-06 02:11 · Score: 1 · on Via Will Join The 64-Bit Fray

The new chip, CN, is actually from Centaur Technology headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Via bought Centaur ages ago. Via is based in Taiwan and carries all the associated baggage: Taiwanese transferring American technology to Beijing and the Chinese military . Hence, although Centaur is American, I will boycott this chip for ethical reasons: e.g. Tibet .

CN is from Centaur by reporter · 2004-10-06 02:11 · Score: 1 · on Via Will Join The 64-Bit Fray

The new chip, CN, is actually from Centaur Technology headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Via bought Centaur ages ago. Via is based in Taiwan and carries all the associated baggage: Taiwanese transferring American technology to Beijing and the Chinese military . Hence, although Centaur is American, I will boycott this chip for ethical reasons: e.g. Tibet .

My addictions include internet chess and... by Wargames · 2004-10-05 15:31 · Score: 1 · on Coping with Gaming Addiction

Internet Chess (ICC) is extremely addicting although this account is a smidge jive:
The Internet Chess Addict's Home

Another addicting game that saps my time when I'm waiting for my next internet chess opponent to arrive is BlogShares. A market simulation game where you can aspire to "own" Slashdot and other blogs on the internet.

I've just created another legion of internet addicts, so sorry.

Anyone who's listened to old radio... by FooAtWFU · 2004-10-05 14:31 · Score: 1 · on Can Coal Be Green?

Anyone who's listened to old radio shows will remember ads for BlueCoal. The blue stuff is a marketing gimmick and also helped lubricate it for coal chutes.

Re:Asia has a computing monoculture... Not yet! by davidsyes · 2004-10-05 08:33 · Score: 1 · on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers

What would be even funnier is if the forensics work shows the attacking computers are ms-windoze based.

SHORThorn or longTHORN hasn't even arrived yet, and that gargantuan, lumbering manatee

( http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5960/manatee.ht ml/

or

http://www.manateeworld.net./

(Does anyone know if Tux can outswim a manatee?))

of an operating system seems to be growing tusks and attacking its own.
I think "Food not bombs" can be amended for North Korea to read:

"(Food) Bites not (Attack) Bytes"

But, what the world needs to look out for is whether China truly has the resolve to not knuckle under to microstoff (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me). I wonder how much the Chinese ms VP gets paid if China lets the dangerous back-door-likely-enabled foreigner windoze snake its way through the soverign infrastructure of China...

Quiz Time !! Help pls! by quizboy · 2004-10-05 06:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on A Selection From 'Running Money'

plz help me with this quiz question
2.Identify this brand of gun more famous in another context.

Is it Fusil Automatique Leger (fabrique nationale ) or is it
an IMI Galil, the Jewish makeover of the AK-47 (No, really, Jewish... as in Israel)?

Quiz Time !! Help pls! by quizboy · 2004-10-04 21:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers

Hi Guyz!
Iam taking part in a online quiz competition and found some answers with google.For some questions though ,googling didnt help much.Tried searchin for images ,but couldnt crack it.
So,thought you guys could help me out. ;-)
Thanks.
1.Whats the connection between these two pictures.
2.Identify this brand of gun more famous in another context.
3.RElated to the world of automobiles.What is this lady's claim to fame.
4. This spider is named for the unique marking on its rear segment which is shown in the picture. So, who is it named after? (Cryptic clue- Think of a nice sobriquet for Thomas Alva Edison's mom, though they may be more than one.)