"Controllers and technicians at Schriever AFB ensure that the network is operating correctly, enabling tourists to find hotels and high explosives to locate targets."
- Ross M Karchner
"So it would appear that Palm is willing to risk a lawsuit with Apple over this, and Google is not. The situation certainly brings to mind a gesture of some sort."
- Ross M Karchner
Can these pleasant, tea-drinking American soldiers really be the same people who are assaulting Taliban fighters in this region of eastern Afghanistan?"
- Ross M Karchner
"This model – an illegal but widely profitable local economy + social services + religion – will, I think, spread widely. To succeed, it needs a weak state, one that takes from the local population but provides little or nothing in return. That kind of state is already common in much of the world and will become more so."
- Ross M Karchner
SQLite ----> MySql 1. Download sqlite3.exe on http://www.sqlite.org 2. Export the SQLite database with sqlite3.exe and command parameter ".dump" (Nate, ".export" doesn't exist!), an example : sqlite3 mySQLiteDataBase .dump .quit >> myDumpSQLite 3. Adapt the dump to get it compatible for MySQL - Replace " (double-quotes) with ` (grave accent) - Remove "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" "COMMIT;", and lines related to "sqlite_sequence" - Replace "autoincrement" with "auto_increment" 4. The dump is ready to get imported in a MySQL server
- Ross M Karchner
<p><img title="prefab-houses-main" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-cont..." alt="prefab-houses-main" width="468" height="382"></p> <p>Forget the stereotypes – <a href="http://weburbanist.com/2008...">prefabricated homes</a> can not only be ultra-portable and easy to assemble, but also sleek and modern, aesthetically rivaling the best of modern architecture. From rooftop lofts that can be dropped on site with a crane to tiny residences with insect-like legs that allow them to perch practically anywhere, these incredibly versatile, mobile dwellings represent the best of what prefabricated architecture has to offer.<br> <span></span></p> <h4>Off-the-Grid Modular Steel House</h4> <p><img title="steel-modular-offgrid-1" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-cont..." alt="steel-modular-offgrid-1" width="468" height="326"></p> <p><img title="steel-modular-offgrid-2" src="http
- Ross M Karchner
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Zune Marketing Manager Brian Seitz’s Response to the Question of Whether the Zune Will ‘Open Up for Third-Party App Developers’ - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html...
Mohamed Atta confronts the historic Muslim monuments and modern high-rises of Cairo. (1) - By Daniel Brook - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...
"That leaves the keyboard. I’ve been thinking about this ever since the keyboard-less iPhone launched, and it is my theory that a hardware keyboard is a significant selling point for only one group of customers: those who already own a phone with a hardware keyboard, and that group is a niche. A nice niche, but a niche nonetheless."
- Ross M Karchner
"Today parts of America seem to want to take a similar approach to nuclear power. The Obama Administration, has decided to exile nuclear power from the public square. It’s not that the technology will be weighed against the bizarre alternative of trying to run an industrial nation on windmills. Instead, we will simply pretend that nuclear doesn’t exist, either here or abroad."
- Ross M Karchner