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Comment It is a database people (Score 3, Informative) 158
FireBird is a database system that has been used in many projects. It has nothing to do with Firefox or any browser or email client. Just go to the website to check it out
From the website: Firebird 2.0 is the happy culmination of more than two years' efforts from a broad-ranging, truly international community of dedicated developers and supporters. It brings with it a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, security and support for international languages and realise some desirable new SQL language features. Under the surface, it also provides a much more robust code platform from which the re-architecting planned for Firebird 3.0 is proceeding.
http://www.windows-admin-tools.com
From the website: Firebird 2.0 is the happy culmination of more than two years' efforts from a broad-ranging, truly international community of dedicated developers and supporters. It brings with it a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, security and support for international languages and realise some desirable new SQL language features. Under the surface, it also provides a much more robust code platform from which the re-architecting planned for Firebird 3.0 is proceeding.
http://www.windows-admin-tools.com
Podcasting Goes Pay-to-Play 277
James Draven writes "For the last year, people have been wondering - how to make money off podcasts? Some have dabbled with advertising, some with user donations, but now the most popular podcast on iTunes is moving to a subscription model. Bit-Tech is reporting that the Ricky Gervais Show will cost $7 a month starting next week."
Journal Journal: The final battle....
In the final battle in the Apocalypse, who would win:
a)Pirates and Pirattes?
b) Ninjas?
c) the almighty coffee cup from the Earth's core?
d)All would die, as the ancient gods of modern technology would smite them all with the almighty PC system, "BATNIPPLE XP"
Comment Re:In the year 2000... (Score 1) 189
Would this be an entire computer that fits into one's nipple? one could have an entire computer replace their internal organs, and a USB port IN the nipple?
By channeling the ancient powers of Batman, I'm sure he will give us the answers.
Journal Journal: Robotics of society
Most call humankind a mass army of robot clones attempting self-destruction. This is not as it is... If it were, one could pull the universal plug, thus ending the mass movement of shallowness and pseudo-philosophy (*cough**cough*), and
Recently, I have come under the dome of anti-human-kind wishing, hoping that someday someone who actually has intelligence will gain the courage to gather a global government, implant a chip into every human brain, and push the big purple and orange button that
Journal Journal: Parapsychology
Currently, I am in the process of researching the Parapsycholological method of levitation. Upon using "Google," I have come to realize that this phenomenon of, as most call it, "defying the laws of physics," has been exploited as either a)a Satanic ritual or 'black magic,' b) a phasod, or c) "oh my lYke t0tAl G0sH! I'm gonna sell some DVDz about it and call it 'magic,' and make l0ts of m0ney, and pwnx0rz s0ciEty's outlook on ancient ritualzz!" Essentially, I am thuroughly disguisted by the pand
Comment Fizix is good (Score 0) 590
"How has mathematics, statistics and other number driven aspects of life impacted you in the last decade?"
With the full force of an electron accelerated to .9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999 times the speed of light...
With the full force of an electron accelerated to
Journal Journal: Subjects: Lab rat.
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who know binary, and those who don't.
Journal Journal: The defects of love
"you know why I don't have aids? Why I'm not HIV positive? Its because I don't fuck around thats why."
-Kurt Vonnegut
I don't believe in love. No not because I have some sob story about how some guy didn't give me enough candy to make me fat. It's because love does not exist. Instead we have a chemical reaction in our brains that reaches all the way down to our groins, and frees an animal instict to reproduce. All it is is a survival technique our brains created to trick us into think