Pressure increases with depth, density not so much. Water's an incompressible fluid.

Actually, they didn't. The benchmarking was done as the JSONB feature in Pg is brand new and they wanted to see how it stood up to the competition (being much much slower is a sign that something could be improved).

Being faster on a single node was a surprise.

So to take that argument to its conclusion, then it is OK to place a hidden camera in a bathroom where babysitter might be bathing, changing, or other state of partial undress?

If only that were true then people would still be using Blackberries, which are famously stingy in their battery consumption and could go days between charges. If anything, the market has said overwhelmingly that battery life doesn't matter a whit, and customers continue to snap up whatever is the must-have phone of the day. Carriers are not necessarily motivated to push for better battery life, as they like the revenue bump that comes with upselling an extra desk charger and a car charger to get the phone through the day.

Battery life is one of those things. Everyone says they want Mary Anne, but they always pick Ginger.

Problem is that the hardware isn't really all that different. Look at phones and tablets - they're converging to pretty much the same look - thin mostly-black slabs, with rounded edges and big touch screen. Most platforms have the same sensors (accelerometers, GPS, etc.), similar screens, etc. That's not enough differentiation.

Why do people buy iPhones or Androids? It's all about the apps, the community, the experience, making a fashion statement. Pretty much everything other than hardware. The hardware's just something that's expected to be there to facilitate all the rest.

That's almost exactly how it works with our quarter million dollar SANs.

They get paid to maintain the SAN and regularly visit to swap hardware bits or apply software patches to it.

Ok, nitpicking here, but whatever. If you go from 50 cm to 25 cm resolution, yes, that's double the resolution. But an image exists 2 dimensions, so it's double in the x direction and double in the y direction for a total improvement of 4 times. What used to be one pixel is now four.

Actually, I also stopped ordering anything from Windows computers years ago, because I couldn't trust them anymore either.

You just made yourself irrelevant to the conversation by showing just how different you are from the average consumer.

You don't need to break it up, just increase the tax rate a smidgen on large firms (revenue over $1B?). Call it "bailout insurance" and dump it into a non-profit government managed fund.

If companies have contributed, then they can make claims at roughly the same scale as they contributed (see government pension plans for a similar setup).

That is the airlines problem.

The more workarounds a person finds for not travelling (calls, emails, etc.) the less the cost to the ticket buying company; assuming they manage to keep productivity the same.

I assume the dues are tied to the estate of the person.

They're reclaiming it from the inheritance which should not have been passed down.

...wish I had mod points for you today.

The largest diesel ship engines can kick out 80MW of power (100,000 hp) which is right in the middle of the marine nuclear range (40MW to 100MW is common).

The main benefit to nukes, as currently used on surface ships, is the size of the fuel tank.

Right. So 5 years from requiring a NoSQL DB, and hardware/software advancements in that period will likely give another 3 years of easy growth with just a basic Pg installation.

If it was 10m text/blob records per day, that would be a different animal; but it's probably 1/10th of that.