Installed industrial base and public perception are the main culprits, I guess.

The production, distribution and consumption chain is geared towards gasoline, making diesel a less safe option as you can't be sure you'll be able to refill at any station.

North Americans are also used to equate V6 and V8 with power (although this is changing with the latest small turbo-4s such as EcoBoost), where the car diesel engines are most often geared for economy rather than performance (unless you look at BMW *35d series).

How about chip fabbing? I'm sure the likes of Intel and TSMC are looking at this closely.

The question remains : who is Bill Banning?

I'd start by patenting sideways fucking.

Sounds like a job for OpenCL. A GPU cluster would be much more scalable than using expensive Xeons. Which also makes this article sound like an add for Intel CPUs.

I guess he's saying that with NoSQL the relations are done at application level rather than database level. You still have the equivalent of schema and queries, but they are managed by the code, not the DB engine.

Corporations are NOT people. Corporations are "moral persons", who employ, are owned and sell stuff to people with the intent to make profit. The actual needs and desires of a corporation are quite often not in the best interest of people.

His cowardness would be more excusable if he had not CREATED THIS CRISIS all by himself, by being an incompetent douchebag showoff captain in the first place.

And corporate customers too.

Now it's the phone to get 0wned!