A hierarchy IS a relationship. In a hierarchical databases, child segments and parent segments were the main kind of relationship used.

All relational databases did was allow the relationships to be more freely defined.

Further to that, a key / value pair is also a relationship, in that the key symbolically represents the data. That's why it is correct to call them NoSQL databases: They forgo the complexity of a general query language. In doing so, they also lose the ability to inherently store anything except the most basic relationship: the key / value lookup.

You are incorrect. Evidence can have varying levels of quality. You get weak evidence, you get strong evidence, and you can also get extraordinary evidence.

If any hypothesis is well-supported by established theory, it is only necessary for there to be mediocre evidence for it. In the absence of any reasonable alternative, it can then be accepted as correct, because it is backed not only by that weak evidence but also by all the strong evidence that supports the established theory.

If a hypothesis contradicts established theory, the evidence for it must be particularly strong. Accepted theory is based on the BALANCE of evidence being in favour of one hypothesis over another.

There is always at least some evidence to support a crackpot claim, otherwise that claim would never have been made. To simply abandon a theory because another theory has some evidence to support it is pure folly. The only reasonable action is to compare the sum of evidence for competing theories.

(Upon re-examining your post, it seems possible that you are mistakenly taking the phrase 'extraordinary evidence' to mean 'evidence of something extraordinary', it isn't clear. If so, you have completely misunderstood the grandparent post.)

Chechnyian nationalists, maybe...?

You were funnier when you where doing Dr Bob the chiropractor.

That's not all! Windows 95 was released without a spreadsheet application or presentation package installed! Clearly, the "business age" hadn't started yet, either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Plus!

Obviously, having TCP/IP support enabled by default for all your network devices is a fundamental part of Internet access. How else could people in 1995 utilize the cable-provider broadband connections in their home?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol

(For those of you who are a bit slower, my point is that the reason the web browser or many other applications designed for the Internet were not installed in Windows by default, is that Microsoft was still hoping they were products they could sell to you.

TCP was not enabled on LAN interfaces by default because IPX was the most common LAN protocol at the time. Of course, any modems you installed DID have PPP enabled to tunnel the TCP/IP traffic over to your ISP)

Don't you even read the links you post? 'Copyleft' is a subset of 'Copyright'. Copyleft works because of copyright.

If he won't, I might...

"A small number of customers have reported lower-than-expected battery life on iOS 5 devices," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison said in a statement to All Things Digital. "We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life, and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks."

That is very different to "saying they've found software issues causing a problem". That's more like saying "Look, we have found a couple of tweaks to slightly lower the usage of some apps, but that's all we can do. People are just going to have to get real with their battery life expectations."

Once again, Sir, I disagreed with the original post you replied to. Clearly, Afganistan was not the 'last major colonialist war' as it was quickly followed by a trillion-dollar Iraqi war.

you said:

[quote]How does going into a war mean a period of peace?[quote]

That is what I disagree with. The [i]pax romana[/i] was won by agressive expansionism, and wars to pacify the provinces. That placed it in a state where peace could largely be enjoyed throughout the empire.

It could therfore be argued that the war in Afganistan could mark the start of a [i]pax americana[/i].

Of course, the peace was kept through propaganda and social engineering, but that's a story for another time.

What do you call the last war before a long period of peace? That's right, it's called a 'war'.

I disagree with the GP post tho. I also disagree with yours.

Not that I am saying this was the cause for the discrepancy, but a uniform error COULD cause distance measurement errors, because your assumption is incorrect: the earth is very much not a sphere.

As a matter of interest, is English not your first language? It could be that someone is less able to determine subtle errors in languages with which they are less familiar.

In any case, it does make sense for Google to focus their efforts on the translations that are most requested.

Yes, like I said:

Furthermore:

Homo Erectus is a DIFFERENT SPECIES to us, and therefore may have had a lower life expectancy because of it.

The average lifespan of people living in poverty today is much higher than 200 years ago, even ignoring infant mortality.

Even so there are very few confirmed cases of people in poverty living to more than 110 years; admittedly some of that is because of much poorer record-keeping.

Additionally, you have a terrible understanding of statistics. The existence of supercentenials in ancient populations does not mean the median age was over 25.

Given that there are probably more individuals living in poverty today than there were Homo erectus in the entirety of history, if the chance of an erectus living to 110 was the same as a modern sapiens living in poverty, there is a very real chance that no erectus ever lived to 110.

Homo Erectus were also lucky if they hit the ripe old age of twenty-five years old. Cancer was the least of their worries.

Wait, what? It was already an interenational standard,Hypertext Transfer Protocol was invented before Hypertext Markup Language? That was an amazing piece of prescience! How did the original implimenters know that some time in the future, a document format called HTML would exist? Did they have to first invent TSP (Temporal Scrying Protocol)?

I am willing to accept that unlikely occurrence based on your well written (and well-moderated!) post. However, in all seriousness, I must call complete bullshit on your 'HTTP was just like FTP' statement.

HTTP represented a completely different model of how client / server communication should take place. FTP was closely related to it's popular contemporary protocols: SMTP, Telnet, etc. With it, you would first connect to a server, exchange credentials and other digital pleasantries, request a file operation, transfer data, and then bid a formal farewell to the server.

In fact, FTP was a different to the other protocols in another manner: it opened a separate connection for the actual heavy lifting, using it to send or retrieve file data.

HTTP is a completely different way of thinking: Simply connect to a server, tell it what you want and how you want it, read the headers and then read the file. Simple, agile, and low-latency.