PHP3 to PHP4 was also a big jump. But if you actually look at the backwards incompatibility list between PHP4 and PHP5, it is a very short list of very minor tweaks. I can say with a very good level of confidence that they aren't going affect me at all! OK, I can say this because I already switched, but you see my point.
There have been big steps forward 'under the hood' and with the new object orientation and better scoping... but this is basically all new stuff. Nothing widely used has been removed. I think they will start carefully stripping out the cruft for PHP6
Apple has sold 100 million iPods, so, no, 1 million Zunes don't make up 10% of the market. More like 0.1%, I guess. Linux desktop market share is a lot more than that...
That would mean iPod only has 10% of the market... I doubt there are a billion mp3 players out there!
I do occasionally buy music on vinyl and attempt to download a digital copy for use on the move, so yes I agree that is possibly a growing market.
But unfortunately, vinyl sales as a whole are still decreasing, although of course not disappearing... I really wish I could find a link to the stats, I remember seeing BPI figures a while back, but I can't easily google them up now. Anyway, LP and 12" single sales were down a bit quite a few % compared to the previous year, although for some odd reason sales of 7" singles were going through the roof
Fair points. And of course some countries are bigger than others
Here in the UK the government are trying to call the first phase of their ID card scheme 'optional' because it is only going to be compulsory if you decide to renew your passport. Hmm, great.
I'm still hoping the majority will develop some clue in time for the next general election. Before too much money is spent and we are stuck with pointless ID cards.
A passport is required if you ever want to travel. And what kind of 'freethinker' never sets foot outside whichever country they happened to be born in?
For example, "PIN" stands for "Personal Identification Number", but it doesn't actually identify you; the account number identifies you, and the PIN authenticates you
You're very big on your grandiose statements of "historical aberration", but a bit less forthcoming about what you are suggesting is going to actually replace them. Everyone will be self employed? Everyone will be a shareholder and be paid only in dividends? Hippy commune perhaps? Sounds lovely, but a bit of a stretch. I don't see any sign of such a transition in my lifetime. And after that I won't need to work
"having a job" is a historical aberration that began with the industrial revolution a couple hundred years ago and is dying as we speak
If nobody needed to work and everyone just invested instead then the companies wouldn't have any employees, they wouldn't make any money and everyone's investments would plummet
and so never actually try to make a fortune the old fashioned hard way
If already having spare money and investing it in the stock market is "the old fashioned way" of making money... what does that make actually having a job and doing work?:-)
I suppose if you were desperate to take offence you could do. It still seems a bit overly PC to me.
The origin could conceivably be unrelated. A quick google didn't turn up anything more substantial than a list of ethnic slurs on wikipedia. It just seems a little crazy to me that there's a derogatory term sharing the same word as a nationality
I'm not going to go ape about it. I'm not even Welsh, I'm from England!
Yeah, and 'welch' is an archaic spelling of 'welsh'. It most likely originated as a slur of some kind. In any case, you don't hear this usage much in Wales
Amusing that the article has the word "backup" with a handy little tooltip thing which pops up and defines backups as meaning "Pirated games downloaded from the internet or sold cheaply"
It was probably driving around the M25 that got him so pissed off in the first place. I bet he just wanted to go and have a beer with the guy when he left home;-)
But with a 'web bug' you could restore the cookie that the user so diligently deleted, and then do a meta-refresh or similar to re-load the page with them logged back in. I'm not sure what would be the most effective method but it doesn't require cookies, needn't require JS, images or CSS (the html page itself could have the cunning cache) and keeps you labelled when you return to the site.
This just shows how much more complicated the issue is than most people realise... and there's no simple fix unless you just turn off etag style caching entirely, and this would be a shame.
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http://www.slc.co.uk/statistics/facts%20and%20%20figures/index.html
If you have an old load from the 90s it is -0.4%, the newer ones don't go negative, so the current rate is 0%
Trees only absorb CO2 to build more tree - they don't destroy it or use it as fuel or some other nonsense that people seem to believe.
Grow a tree and you have removed carbon from the atmosphere. Burn it down and you have put it back again
Yeah, Orkut is now a big success. There are about a Brazilian people using it
Quite impressive that PHP was able to model itself on Microsoft software that didn't exist yet
PHP3 to PHP4 was also a big jump. But if you actually look at the backwards incompatibility list between PHP4 and PHP5, it is a very short list of very minor tweaks. I can say with a very good level of confidence that they aren't going affect me at all! OK, I can say this because I already switched, but you see my point.
There have been big steps forward 'under the hood' and with the new object orientation and better scoping... but this is basically all new stuff. Nothing widely used has been removed. I think they will start carefully stripping out the cruft for PHP6
And I don't hear 'Englishman' all that often either, but I don't see any problems with either term.
That would mean iPod only has 10% of the market... I doubt there are a billion mp3 players out there!
I do occasionally buy music on vinyl and attempt to download a digital copy for use on the move, so yes I agree that is possibly a growing market.
But unfortunately, vinyl sales as a whole are still decreasing, although of course not disappearing... I really wish I could find a link to the stats, I remember seeing BPI figures a while back, but I can't easily google them up now. Anyway, LP and 12" single sales were down a bit quite a few % compared to the previous year, although for some odd reason sales of 7" singles were going through the roof
Fair points. And of course some countries are bigger than others
Here in the UK the government are trying to call the first phase of their ID card scheme 'optional' because it is only going to be compulsory if you decide to renew your passport. Hmm, great.
I'm still hoping the majority will develop some clue in time for the next general election. Before too much money is spent and we are stuck with pointless ID cards.
A passport is required if you ever want to travel. And what kind of 'freethinker' never sets foot outside whichever country they happened to be born in?
One might argue that he is overpaid
His salary is $1 per year... I don't think anyone is going to argue he is overpaid
For example, "PIN" stands for "Personal Identification Number", but it doesn't actually identify you; the account number identifies you, and the PIN authenticates you
Good point. Lets start calling it PAN instead
Bright white LED's.
That's 5 words
Har har. Britain had judicial process and the concept of a fair trial before the USA existed
You're very big on your grandiose statements of "historical aberration", but a bit less forthcoming about what you are suggesting is going to actually replace them.
Everyone will be self employed? Everyone will be a shareholder and be paid only in dividends? Hippy commune perhaps? Sounds lovely, but a bit of a stretch. I don't see any sign of such a transition in my lifetime. And after that I won't need to work
"having a job" is a historical aberration that began with the industrial revolution a couple hundred years ago and is dying as we speak
If nobody needed to work and everyone just invested instead then the companies wouldn't have any employees, they wouldn't make any money and everyone's investments would plummet
and so never actually try to make a fortune the old fashioned hard way
:-)
If already having spare money and investing it in the stock market is "the old fashioned way" of making money... what does that make actually having a job and doing work?
Wow, must be happy our
I'll have to take your word for it.
As in 'royal welch fusiliers'.
My impression is that it seems to be a US idiom
It seems fairly common in australia as well.
I suppose if you were desperate to take offence you could do. It still seems a bit overly PC to me.
The origin could conceivably be unrelated. A quick google didn't turn up anything more substantial than a list of ethnic slurs on wikipedia. It just seems a little crazy to me that there's a derogatory term sharing the same word as a nationality
I'm not going to go ape about it. I'm not even Welsh, I'm from England!
Yeah, and 'welch' is an archaic spelling of 'welsh'. It most likely originated as a slur of some kind. In any case, you don't hear this usage much in Wales
It's not an advert, it's just an acronymn tag so it's something the website included intentionally. Maybe it is actually supposed to be funny
Reading the article cached at mirrordot
Amusing that the article has the word "backup" with a handy little tooltip thing which pops up and defines backups as meaning "Pirated games downloaded from the internet or sold cheaply"
It was probably driving around the M25 that got him so pissed off in the first place. I bet he just wanted to go and have a beer with the guy when he left home ;-)
Well it clearly isn't a transparent proxy if you have to configure it at the client end.
Anyway, if the proxy is compulsory surely you should block all direct web traffic so that it actually is compulsory!
But with a 'web bug' you could restore the cookie that the user so diligently deleted, and then do a meta-refresh or similar to re-load the page with them logged back in. I'm not sure what would be the most effective method but it doesn't require cookies, needn't require JS, images or CSS (the html page itself could have the cunning cache) and keeps you labelled when you return to the site.
This just shows how much more complicated the issue is than most people realise... and there's no simple fix unless you just turn off etag style caching entirely, and this would be a shame.