Oh is it?

I have done my whole PhD in CS simulation project (hundreds of thousands of agents with machine learning, discrete event methods and what not) on my G630 celeron computer. I run heavy software like Matlab on the same PC. My previous PC was an AMD 4400 MHz equivalent.

It still is my main PC. If even i3 is required for your facebook things you are doing something wrong.

It offers something in between Atom and i3. The problem is that even though it offers higher computational power it still targets the same market as Atom and it does that with less power use efficiency.

Those who trade off the computational power for battery life will mostly chose Atom and those looking for higher computational power will use celerons and i3.

Project failures are hardly a programming problem.

Project management, software engineering processes (specially requirement engineering) and design are the most risky. Hiring programmers which are fit for the project is still a risk factor though.

and Why not the most common language of the region (i.e. Chinese) is included as an option. I am aware that there are many different dialects but Mandarin could possibly being used by a very large number of Asian (hundreds of millions or even near to a billion?).

Not necessarily. If the charger uses higher voltages than 12V then the size and the current do not need to be that large.

Have you ever used refactoring capabilities in Eclipse? That's a basic thing I need from a programming IDE but you wouldn't find that in VStudio without plugins. Eclipse (and even NetBeans) have superior editors in my opinion. Eclipse rules for Java development and it is quite decent for C++.

I like the fact that VStudio is faster, more solid and integrated but I had a more enjoyable experience with Eclipse. I miss Eclipse now that I am forced to use VStudio for a big C++ software (because it is the choice of the team) .

As I described in another post here, I would never use MySQL or even PostgreSQL for critical applications (Finance, healthcare, insurance etc.)

Neither of those have the necessary tools and capabilities for such applications.

As for the scalability, MySQL has clustering and replication. Does SQLite have them?

The database size is near 0.7 TB, tables are spread into several files, we use joins very heavily (sometimes with up to 7-8 tables), we use stored procedures sometimes, some pages have more than 10-15 queries, we have 150+ million page views per month, the website has public pages and millions of pages (in different modules: groups, profiles, jobs, classifieds, message box, online shops, Q&A, website wide search, ledger based credit accounting for specific activities,... ) receive new users from search results.

I have used several databases (Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and in my opinion MySQL does a good job for non-business critical applications.

For business applications (Core Banking) we were forced to use MS-SQL but it could not handle the job (billions of records) so we convinced the bank to back off and use Oracle. I would never go with either MySQL or PostgreSQL for that application (not even MS-SQL). They basically don't have the necessary tools and capabilities (hot backup, two way transactions, SAN clustering, ...) for the purpose. But for non-critical applications MySQL is just fine.

I have used a single instance of MySQL (on a dual quad server) for a 1.5 million members social network. The concurrent users sometimes reach around 8000 and the database still handles the job very well. Before migrating to this server we had 4 separate dual core servers (one master and 3 slaves).

From my experience MySQL (as explained above), it is both lightweight and scalable (replication and clustering distributed models and management tools, multi-core capabilities etc.).

I would definitely prefer PostgreSQL if it could handle the same load on the same hardware. Based on our tests, on the same hardware it could handle considerably lower number of users. We used professional tuning consultation for both scenarios.

I have used phpgadmin but it does not cover all of the functionality of PostgreSQL and it has slower development pace. The UI is also outdated and less appealing.

Michael Widenius has benefited from gathering millions of developers around his product and letting them down.

He cannot sell source code of MariaDB this time, but he still can sell the brand name and the community which has trusted him again to earn another fortune. Fool me once, full me twice...

Most people and websites do not agree with you. Ask facebook , wikipedia and thousands of others (if not millions).

SQLite is not scalable. MySQL is lightweight and scalable.

PostgreSQL has not been successful in penetrating cheap shared hosting providers. There is no web based tool comparable to phpMyAdmin and there are more reasons why PostgreSQL has not been successful despite its technical advantages.

It is not nerdy. It is useless for most people.

I guess I count as a nerdy person with 20 years of experience in software and networks (started as a kid with Punch cards, Fortran IV, VIC-20 and ZX-80) and a PhD in computer science and an additional degree in electronics engineering.

But it is not attractive and it feels uncomfortable and awful to me. Sorry if I disappointed you.

That's because no camera is installed inside of the homes! If people agree to install cameras inside the homes and toilets and bedrooms and ... we finally can be safe...!

Says George Orwell.

In the news: "MKO opens office near White House for first time in 11 years"

FYI, MKO is the most important terrorist group in Iran which has killed almost 12000 Iranians (politician, engineer, doctor, scientist, housewife, shopkeeper, ...) and has been in the terrorist organizations list in the US for at least a decade.

They were a cult like organization with a camp in Iraq (as you may know) and they fought their own country under Saddam's flag!!! Now the terrorist organization is allowed to open an office and come to the US.

What do you think is the outcome of bringing a terrorist organization to the US? No, really. What would a terrorist organization bring to the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Mujahedin_of_Iran