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  1. So why do astronomers always.... on Meteor Over Midwest · · Score: 1
    "So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"

    It goes back to the days of the german v2, when the volkswagen (KdF-Wagen) had a cross-licensing arrangement with the group headed by W.v.Braun who sent the first rocket into space...

  2. which one? on MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone successfully done this with any of the open source DBMS's ?

    * Created a database with 40G of data capacity
    AND
    * Kept is online 24 x 365
    AND
    * Created backups that were 100% guaranteed to restore the database in the exact state of when the backup was created
    AND
    * allowed 20 or more concurrent DML conections to the same TABLE (but different rows) without blocking
    AND
    * supported ROLLBACK and COMMIT
    AND
    * supported subselects
    AND
    * supported a stored (in the DB ) procedural language
    AND
    * received reasonably good performant

    If you answered yes to ALL the above, what was the name , platform, and release of the software?

    Thank you

  3. 1280x1024 on Dell Introduces Laptop With WUXGA · · Score: 1

    excuse a dumb question, but is it not so that hdteevee is 1090 virtical lines? could not 1280 by 1024 support this?

  4. Re:For kid level stuff this is fine... on Object Prevalence: Get Rid of Your Database? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for posting a viewpoint from a large-scale perspective.