Tidal energy is caused by the moon's rotation around the earth. Maybe earth rotation also assists but I haven't seen anything definitive on that but it is also outside my wheelhouse.

It has it's ups and downs. More seriously, this is a failure of both our education system and industry. Currently the American education system pushes students towards college at the expense of people working in the trades (or in some cases actively or subtly disparages and degenerates this class of work). Sometimes this is through subtle comments in an effort to focus on moving youth to college as the ONLY solution, when we need a trained work force for all classes of work. Even farming has a huge need for knowledgeable people. (See what I did there...I degenerated farming deliberately to prove my point of how subtle it can be, when I wholeheartedly disagree that it is not skilled. Technology is needed to assist the farmer and their skill and knowledge is critical for our country. But these types of comments, especially in formative years, make it seem like these roles are not important!) On the other side, equipment and spares are hard to come by. It isn't a huge growth industry, but it is growing and we need to solve some of the problems with supply as well as skills. Some of the manufacturing problems are due to one-off design (for various reasons) and other to JIT (just in time) manufacturing. We also have a shortage of qualified people to machine the parts.

So it WAS the Spanish Inquisition at fault.....

When viewed from a contractual requirement, a purchase is the transfer of the item for "currency" (in quotes, because it could be cash or gift certificates, but in any case it's a transfer of like minded value between two individuals or companies). Contract law will have to be reviewed to determine where this stands. But this doesn't just apply to games, it also applies to music, movies and books bought in this new era to determine if we truly "own" these things (a purchase) or if it is just a limited license. So far the courts are finding that this is only a limited license.

PG&E is a California Company. They provide power in California. (https://www.pge.com/). PGE is Portland General Electric which is an Electric Company providing power in Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas. (https://portlandgeneral.com/) PGE is not the same as PG&E and PG&E is the one who is removing the dams.

So Hulu content will show up on Disney+. That seems cool. But I'm paying for Hulu, Disney and ESPN (as a single package). If the content on Hulu is showing up on Disney+, my value proposition has changed and I have to wonder if it's really worthwhile having either Hulu or paying for the combination, especially if the rates are going up again since they just went up in January.

Until we know how deleted emails on yahoo were recovered (seen on Slashdot here: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...) can we know if using encryption on any webmail service is safe? The answers in this might go a long way but with both Google (GMail) and Yahoo saving "draft" emails for you (are THOSE encrypted?) any encryption added around it might not be necessary. Of course, you can use your own email client and send through Yahoo (or others), but how many non-technical people can do that safely?

This will greatly improve the already impressive PostgreSQL database engine and help it compete against the more well-known Enterprise Relational Database Engines at a much better price point (free).

This will greatly improve the already impressive PostgreSQL database engine and help it compete against the more well-known Enterprise Relational Database Engines at a much better price point (free).

For a lot of my data, I've just take a flash drive or SSD card into the office and left it in my locked desk. It's convenient for me to get to and off-site so I don't have to worry about a fire.

Oh, come on. I can't be first, can I? Not with all the people out there. This can't possibly be Windows 1.0?

In the 1970s (big business) and 1980s the thought was "You can't go wrong buying IBM" and as the country/world transitioned to the PC it became "You can't go wrong buying Microsoft" between their marketing and product feature/price combination. Now a new generation of managers in the US have grown up with Microsoft and continue "out of tradition" or lack of knowledge of alternatives. If you look back at the uptick in Microsoft products against alternative (Lotus 1-2-3 vs Multiplan/Excel; WordPerfect vs Microsoft Word; Harvard Graphics vs PowerPoint; and (dare I say it) Paradox/dBase vs Access) Microsoft clearly gained market share. But it took lots of time.

Now we have OpenOffice and KOffice making (limited) headway, as well as the loosely coupled Gnome Office (Abiword, Gnucalc, etc).

The uptick in Linux will gain momentum based upon cost (and possibly features) but it will take time.

Tim/TJ
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