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Comment Re:So why (Score 1) 191

PHP supports PostgreSQL its as simple as doing a global find-replace of mysql_ with pg_ there done. Okay a bit too simple but the mysql functions and the pg functions have the same names other than the prefixes and they behave in the same exact manner. You may need to change a little bit of SQL.

Once you get to start to use the more advanced features of postgresql you'll look at mysql more as a toy rather than a fully featured RDBMS.

It's rather like when you first started playing with mysql and went "Wow, this is so much better than Excel!"

~Z

Comment Re:Odometer (Score 1) 891

My problem with this is if i spend a good bit of time driving in say Canada, does that mean I'm being taxed by America for driving on Canadian roads? Do I file for an exemption? How do I prove it? My first thought was to check the odometer too, but its just a problematic as well i think.

Comment Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp (Score 1) 532

So Amazon should be responsible for what the people should be reporting to the states but are not? It's not Amazon's fault that the people who buy from them don't file their taxes properly. Why should be bury them with undue overhead because people are breaking the law? There are already systems in place to handle this sort of thing. The state in question can have their IRS audit people whom they think are skipping out of reporting the tax. No need to force every internet store to keep track of the sales tax laws of every state, county, city and township in the union.

~Z

Comment Re:Global warming? (Score 1) 512

you know i have been wondering about geothermal myself. IIRC current thinking as to why mars died is because it cooled too fast. no molten core means no magnetic field which means the atmosphere gets stripped away by the solar winds.

So what happens when we start leeching heat from the earth. would we, could we siphon off so much to accelerate the cooling of the outer core?

Thoughts like this make me think that maybe its better to add energy to the system rather than remove it.

but then again this is wild conjecture.

Comment Re:Bunk (Score 1) 289

Errr that would be just one event in a play the reads like a modern movie with all the murders and betrayals and rapes. Any lack there of can be seen as a limitation of the current technology and lack of wanting to watch some people getting it on, on stage.

why not quote one of the critics of Titus?

It (the play) has 14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3 depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity, and 1 of cannibalismâ"-an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.

~S. Clark Hulse

This play was considered the goreporn of the Victorian era.

I myself haven't seen it on the stage but watching a few of the movie adaptations, one could be forgiven for thinking it was written a bit more recently.

Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 847

you really only need to look to china and india to see this in action already. china especially, because of the governmental limit on children they tend to abort the females and keep trying until they have a male child. this has lead to a surplus of male children. iirc its something like 32million excess males (under the age of 20).

Comment Re:"Star Trek replicators" (Score 1) 134

iirc the replicators in Star Trek were based on teleporters. they would take the waste organic materials that have been stored in the ship and recycle them into anything that there was the pattern in the system for. Basically taking the disorganized waste matter and reorganizing it into food and other stuff that would eventually become waste and then reorganized

Replicators

Comment Re:Blu-Ray... (Score 2, Insightful) 160

maybe you missed some key words in the analysis like

So for the Wii, excluding Wii Sports, that's 87 million top 10 games for 50 million consoles: 1.7 games per console

or

So that's 4.4 games per PS3 and 7 games per Wii (6 excluding Wii Sports).

It pays to read the whole comment, its not like we're asking you to read TFA or TFS.

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