So is Postgres. Like the OP, I'm still waiting for a good reason to use NoSQL-type storage. I have to agree that these are all solutions looking for problems: trying to re-invent the wheel for no other reason then they don't know how to correctly do it with the existing products.

Database? Psha - we only use Excel for our most critical data storage needs....

How do you figure? Wireless power transmission has been proven to work - Intel recently experiments demonstrating such. Some scientists are only now starting to experiment with power transmission over long distances using the ionosphere.

2 words: Schumann Resonance. I wonder if there is a relationship to life taking hold on this planet and the OP's intreguing discovery...

A lot of people laughed at Tesla too. Only took 100 years to prove the man right, for the most part.

..and find it amusing that people are making cracks about how the govt dropped the ball, instead of the obvious fact that the govt. chose MS after considering options and google is just jilted. Because that would be evil.

You mean like they did with the Xbox?

I think the correlation explains itself.

Because it's not bad at all. A shoddy workman blames his tools.

according to our best-guess, FB has ~2B in gross revenue. If each employe made 100k, that's 200mil/yr in salary costs. Add in their IT costs that are easily 2x that, and you have 600mil/yr in operating costs, which means their making 1.4 billion in profit per year: hardly a company worth 25x earnings.

exactly - the only difference between FaceBook and MySpace(for all intents and purposes) is the timing.

Aside from development I trade as a second-job.(I'd call it a hobby but hobbies cost money.) The net result of this valuation is marketing hype. Regardless who think what FB's eyeballs are worth, this is a point-in-time snapshot of FB's worth. Based on trading experience, if this was publicly traded right now I would be opening a vertical put spread.(i.e. be massively short) It feels and smells like an overrated athletic team.

I think this has happened to every freemail provider at some point. Google has a long track-record of borking gmail accounts and worse: logging into other people's in-boxes.

It's more than marketing. OpenBSD is a solid system, second only to a few of the Trusted *NIX flavors and private NSA builds. OpenBSD is secure enough the be on the "you cannot ship this out of the country" list in the US.

No, we'll still get tomcat goodness. There have been murmurs for a while about a massive fork taking place where everyone runs for the openjdk projects and ditches the reference implementations. Changing the licensing on Java toward the end of Sun's lifespan was the best thing that would have happened for the future of Java innovation.