No Berkeley DB is a fine piece of kit, i spent several months building a web forum system with Berkeley DB as the database. It worked fine, Berkeley did exactly what the API promised with no extra messing about needed. I would recommend Berkeley for simple NoSQL applications.

I've read almost every thing by him, the culture books make for great reading, complete with chatty star ship Minds. Also loved some of his non sf book, like complicity and Espida (sp?) Street. Yes his book where somewhat dark particularly many of the ending, but also refreshing in parts. He will be missed.I've read almost every thing by him, the culture books make for great reading, complete with chatty star ship Minds. Also loved some of his non sf book, like complicity and Espida (sp?) Street. Yes his book where somewhat dark particularly many of the ending, but also refreshing in parts. He will be missed.

I don't get what Lambdas are supposed to do, can someone explain?

Would fail the meta moderation.

May be it takes a very long time to evolve complex life, life was single celled for over a billion years, before multicellar life came about, may be that step is even rarer than we throught and earth just got lucky.

It would be extermely interesting biochemically, would probably be made up of different organic compound than earth life.

This device is never going to work, converting protons in neutrons in the metal isn't going to happen, the process requires nearly a MeV of energy that isn't there, (and Terahertz waves are no were near a MeV). This is a cold fusion under different name, cold fusion didn't work, and neither does this. Shame on NASA for supporting research so obviously wrong, and previously debunked.

So we know why it became extinct, it choked on the lasers.

yes we were very lucky, that russian didn't mistake the meteor impact, for a us attack, that could have been world war three right there.

who want to waste a quarter of the screen space, with that stupid reading list box.

I Reading News Feeds from www.feeddistiller.com, for each subject i'm interested in, i tend to filt about to different subjects on different days. If i come up with a subject that's not there, i add it, only takes a minute to add a subject there, because of a funky google mash up to find rss and atom feeds.