Yep. The Nook already killed the Kindle, but, unfortunately, B&N is in the shitter so it couldn't keep pace after the Nook Color and base Nook models blew Kindles out of the water

Which is why you use Wikipedia as a source aggregator rather than a direct source of correct information.

Honestly, it just sounds like he's picking at random, like in Die Hard.

Karl: "Asian Dawn?"
Hans: "I read about them in Time Magazine"

Big government always likes people that have physical and/or psychological dependencies. Easier to manipulate.

According to whom?

Please show me where this rule exists

How isn't it?

Not going to be giving money to a Chinese startup on Kickstarter. It's already difficult enough to determine which Kickstarters are legit, not even going to get into one's in sketchy countries like China

The best technical choice isn't always the best practical choice. x86-64 won out because it was practical and manageable from a cost perspective. Ran existing code natively while at the same time being an upgrade for the future. Technically speaking, it would be great to have the nation run completely on nuclear power, but there are costs to that, coupled with natural disaster risks, so we moved in other directions. It wasn't practical.

Yes, and Itanium is dead. Alpha is gone. And I don't even know what IBM did. Meanwhile, x86-64 is here to stay.

Last year I had an R&D budget of $1. This year I have an R&D budget of $100. It doesn't matter what my competitor has, it matters that I can now do a lot more research and development.

Pick and it's descendants are NoSQL by definition. It is not a relational database, it has no schema. It has a master dictionary and a subset of dictionaries for each account defined. Pick databases are accessible over SQL with an API/wrapper. By default, Reality implementations are generally an OS running in a VM process on a host operating system(ADP uses Digital UNIX/Tru64), while the wrapper allows it to communicate with the outside world.

Depends on what you mean by safe. Pick ENGLISH queries are strictly read only.

Well, not the industry being referenced, but many enterprise accounting and inventory databases are PICK based because they're blazing fast and completely reliable. ADP is an example of a company that sells PICK based solution. OpenQM is the open source descendant of PICK

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