It will probably show up regularly until Slashdot doesn't run on MySQL anymore. If they'd used a real RDBMS from the start then that clusterfuck with indexes not updating on a datatype change from a few years back wouldn't have happened.
Could it be that engineering degrees are a dime-a-dozen in oil-rich countries... ?
If you look at the population of Iran it is educated to a pretty high standard, and despite the rhetoric coming out of the Iranian, US and UK governments it does not produce a significant number of terrorists. Compare this with a country that does produce a significant number of terrorists, such as Saudi Arabia, where the vast majority of the populace are poor and under educated. What people often forget is that the wealth of oil rich nations like Saudi Arabia stays in the hands of a few at the top, creating resentment amongst a larger part of the populace. Individuals like bin Laden and the Nigerian who attempted to bomb a Delta airlines plane on Christmas day are actually the exception, being from well off families, while most of those involved in terrorist acts come from poor backgrounds.
.. because I didn't ever think I'd be defending PHP.
However, it is a much better choice for a web application than C or C++ - and I say that as someone who codes C, C++ and Java for a living. There are no decent web frameworks for C++, memory management is still an issue despite the STL, and the complexity of the language means both staff costs and development time are inflated. Peer review is harder, as the language is fundamentally more difficult to master than PHP. Compared to Java, the development tools are poorer, and things like unit testing a more complicated despite the availability of things like Cppunit. There's no "standard" libraries for things like database access, and no literature that I am aware of that describes how you would go about designing a framework for C++. You'd most likely end up porting something like Spring to C++, and the even if you published your code on the web, I doubt much of a community would build up around it.
If you want a less contentious argument, and one which can be backed up with hard evidence, then argue PHP that should be replaced with Java. A well written Java web application, using a lightweight framework such as Spring or PicoContainer, should outperform ad-hoc C++ code.
"Palestine" was part of the Ottoman empire. Not a discrete legal entity.
So that justifies massacres and expulsions? This is the same pro-Israel disinformation that claims Palestinians are just Jordanians/Syrians/Lebanese (choose as per your particular prejudice), and therefore not worth a damn. This is despite them having a longstanding cultural identity that is different to their neighbours.
Nope, the British were adamant that Jewish mass emigration to Palestine shouldn't happen because it would end in violence between Palestinians and Jews. As a result, Jewish terrorists frequently attached the British authorities in Palestine. When an exhausted Britain pulled out of Palestine, having been bankrupted by World War II, the Jewish terrorists became militias that massacred and expelled Palestinians. These groups then went on to declare the existence of the state of Israel.
Saddest of all, is that the state of Israel enshrines the extermination of Jews in World War II as its right to exist. This is despite the fact that it was founded on racially motivated genocide against Palestinians, is increasingly dominated by reactionary religious groups, and was founded by groups who were largely hostile to the European Jews who had suffered in World War II (they were held to have brought it on themselves by not emigrating to Palestine earlier).
Most of them are still involved in GNOME to some degree, with the exception of Jay Painter who stopped contributing fairly early on.
why don't they openly protest that Icaza clown who has effectively took over the project and polluting its every bit with Mono?
Perhaps because Mono isn't "polluting" the GNOME project. It's required for a couple of apps - Tomboy and F-Spot, and there are comparable alternatives that don't rely on Mono. My wife uses a netbook running Ubuntu, and I removed Mono from that for space reasons with no loss in functionality for the GNOME desktop. Similarly, many Linux distributions ship with the GNOME desktop as default, and without Mono.
Shirer is now considered highly unreliable for his conclusions - although he is still important for source material. A better book on the subject is "To Lose a Battle" by Alistair Horne (part of a series of three excellent books describing clashes between France and Germany). The French had sufficient men and equipment to put a up a winning fight, but lacked adequate leadership in the military (on the other hand, a number of French politicians rose to the occasion remarkably well). For all his flaws and boasting, de Gaulle was the kind of man the French military needed at the top, not defence minded men like Gamelin or Weygand.
Just as the Septic[1] government fled when their invasion of Canada backfired on them, and an outnumbered force of British marines marched towards Washington. Found an uneaten dinner on the dining table according to the accounts of the first British officers into the Whitehouse.
[1] from "septic tank" == "yank", British term for those across the water (see also "Merkins" - helps to say it in Dubya voice).
No, it wasn't created by "GNU guys", it was created by a handful of programmers from various backgrounds. The reason it was adopted as a GNU project was down to KDE using Qt which at the time was under a license that wasn't considered Open Source or Free Software. There seems to be a certain amount of revisionism in the official GNOME history, as reflected in the Wikipedia entry for it - for starters, it was more people involved from the start than were Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena. As well as the Qt licensing issue, a number of people were interested in starting an alternative to KDE that was coded primarily in C rather than C++.
Whether the rudeness reputation is deserved or not, it really has given all US tourists a bad name, and it's one that is going to be hard to get rid of. Part of the problem is how insular many people from the US are - it's a big country, with a big population and a lot going on. As a result, most Americans knowledge of the world beyond the US is gleaned from occasional news stories about generally negative events, or Hollywood/TV stereotypes. Take the foot and mouth outbreak in the UK from a few years back. My company had US colleagues refusing to come to the UK because they thought they were going to die from some strange disease, a bizarre notion that they got from the narrow view of events provided by US media.
In England the subway arrives from right to left, not form left to right.
There's no fixed rule. On my daily commute, the Jubilee line train arrives from the right at Finchley Road, and from the left at Londonbridge. Your "things to do" list is spot on, but it's also worth pointing out that the museums are free entry.
The London Dungeon is more of a kids thing, but if you do go then make sure you don't confuse it with the rather tawdry cash in called "The London Bridge Experience". That's just opposite the Londonbridge station, whereas the London Dungeon is to the right of the station. There's even an ongoing court case where the Dungeon people are trying to get the other lot shut down - they've already had them censured for trying to fool tourists into thinking they're the same attraction.
Virgin Megastore is long gone. Became "Zavvi" once it was no longer allowed to use the Virgin brand, and then went bust a couple of years ago. It was always a poor alternative to HMV further up the road anyway.
I can strongly recommend saying you're a Canadian rather than US citizen. Particularly outside London, American tourists are utterly detested for their rude and pushy behaviour.
Before people jump on Theo's comment, it's worth pointing out that it was Linus who first described the OpenBSD developers as "masturbating monkeys". That said, it's still bloody childish irrespective of who it's coming from.
We could also just move process
creation to a background thread. An unused process might just get swapped
out and be no cheaper to "make live" than it would be to create a new
process.
Surely this reusing of a process would negate the supposed security benefits of Chrome/Chromium's multi-process spawning architecture?
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Will this show up every 2 weeks on /.
It will probably show up regularly until Slashdot doesn't run on MySQL anymore. If they'd used a real RDBMS from the start then that clusterfuck with indexes not updating on a datatype change from a few years back wouldn't have happened.
Could it be that engineering degrees are a dime-a-dozen in oil-rich countries ... ?
If you look at the population of Iran it is educated to a pretty high standard, and despite the rhetoric coming out of the Iranian, US and UK governments it does not produce a significant number of terrorists. Compare this with a country that does produce a significant number of terrorists, such as Saudi Arabia, where the vast majority of the populace are poor and under educated. What people often forget is that the wealth of oil rich nations like Saudi Arabia stays in the hands of a few at the top, creating resentment amongst a larger part of the populace. Individuals like bin Laden and the Nigerian who attempted to bomb a Delta airlines plane on Christmas day are actually the exception, being from well off families, while most of those involved in terrorist acts come from poor backgrounds.
No, the song is about former KKK members and the like from the Southern states of the US who went on to hold political positions later in life.
.. because I didn't ever think I'd be defending PHP.
However, it is a much better choice for a web application than C or C++ - and I say that as someone who codes C, C++ and Java for a living. There are no decent web frameworks for C++, memory management is still an issue despite the STL, and the complexity of the language means both staff costs and development time are inflated. Peer review is harder, as the language is fundamentally more difficult to master than PHP. Compared to Java, the development tools are poorer, and things like unit testing a more complicated despite the availability of things like Cppunit. There's no "standard" libraries for things like database access, and no literature that I am aware of that describes how you would go about designing a framework for C++. You'd most likely end up porting something like Spring to C++, and the even if you published your code on the web, I doubt much of a community would build up around it.
If you want a less contentious argument, and one which can be backed up with hard evidence, then argue PHP that should be replaced with Java. A well written Java web application, using a lightweight framework such as Spring or PicoContainer, should outperform ad-hoc C++ code.
Well, that's what you get for using a donkey instead of database.
"Palestine" was part of the Ottoman empire. Not a discrete legal entity.
So that justifies massacres and expulsions? This is the same pro-Israel disinformation that claims Palestinians are just Jordanians/Syrians/Lebanese (choose as per your particular prejudice), and therefore not worth a damn. This is despite them having a longstanding cultural identity that is different to their neighbours.
The British.
Nope, the British were adamant that Jewish mass emigration to Palestine shouldn't happen because it would end in violence between Palestinians and Jews. As a result, Jewish terrorists frequently attached the British authorities in Palestine. When an exhausted Britain pulled out of Palestine, having been bankrupted by World War II, the Jewish terrorists became militias that massacred and expelled Palestinians. These groups then went on to declare the existence of the state of Israel.
Saddest of all, is that the state of Israel enshrines the extermination of Jews in World War II as its right to exist. This is despite the fact that it was founded on racially motivated genocide against Palestinians, is increasingly dominated by reactionary religious groups, and was founded by groups who were largely hostile to the European Jews who had suffered in World War II (they were held to have brought it on themselves by not emigrating to Palestine earlier).
Where are those "more people"
Most of them are still involved in GNOME to some degree, with the exception of Jay Painter who stopped contributing fairly early on.
why don't they openly protest that Icaza clown who has effectively took over the project and polluting its every bit with Mono?
Perhaps because Mono isn't "polluting" the GNOME project. It's required for a couple of apps - Tomboy and F-Spot, and there are comparable alternatives that don't rely on Mono. My wife uses a netbook running Ubuntu, and I removed Mono from that for space reasons with no loss in functionality for the GNOME desktop. Similarly, many Linux distributions ship with the GNOME desktop as default, and without Mono.
Shirer is now considered highly unreliable for his conclusions - although he is still important for source material. A better book on the subject is "To Lose a Battle" by Alistair Horne (part of a series of three excellent books describing clashes between France and Germany). The French had sufficient men and equipment to put a up a winning fight, but lacked adequate leadership in the military (on the other hand, a number of French politicians rose to the occasion remarkably well). For all his flaws and boasting, de Gaulle was the kind of man the French military needed at the top, not defence minded men like Gamelin or Weygand.
Just as the Septic[1] government fled when their invasion of Canada backfired on them, and an outnumbered force of British marines marched towards Washington. Found an uneaten dinner on the dining table according to the accounts of the first British officers into the Whitehouse.
[1] from "septic tank" == "yank", British term for those across the water (see also "Merkins" - helps to say it in Dubya voice).
Gnome was created by GNU guys
No, it wasn't created by "GNU guys", it was created by a handful of programmers from various backgrounds. The reason it was adopted as a GNU project was down to KDE using Qt which at the time was under a license that wasn't considered Open Source or Free Software. There seems to be a certain amount of revisionism in the official GNOME history, as reflected in the Wikipedia entry for it - for starters, it was more people involved from the start than were Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena. As well as the Qt licensing issue, a number of people were interested in starting an alternative to KDE that was coded primarily in C rather than C++.
Thank you for explaining what screws up the threading of some mailing list messages. Should have known it would be Outlook.
I've traveled to Europe, Asia and S. America and have NEVER been snuffed at because of my nationality.
You've obviously not been to France then.
Whether the rudeness reputation is deserved or not, it really has given all US tourists a bad name, and it's one that is going to be hard to get rid of. Part of the problem is how insular many people from the US are - it's a big country, with a big population and a lot going on. As a result, most Americans knowledge of the world beyond the US is gleaned from occasional news stories about generally negative events, or Hollywood/TV stereotypes. Take the foot and mouth outbreak in the UK from a few years back. My company had US colleagues refusing to come to the UK because they thought they were going to die from some strange disease, a bizarre notion that they got from the narrow view of events provided by US media.
In England the subway arrives from right to left, not form left to right.
There's no fixed rule. On my daily commute, the Jubilee line train arrives from the right at Finchley Road, and from the left at Londonbridge. Your "things to do" list is spot on, but it's also worth pointing out that the museums are free entry.
Ironbridge is a fair old trek from London - you'd need to at least stay overnight to make the most of it.
The London Dungeon is more of a kids thing, but if you do go then make sure you don't confuse it with the rather tawdry cash in called "The London Bridge Experience". That's just opposite the Londonbridge station, whereas the London Dungeon is to the right of the station. There's even an ongoing court case where the Dungeon people are trying to get the other lot shut down - they've already had them censured for trying to fool tourists into thinking they're the same attraction.
Virgin Megastore is long gone. Became "Zavvi" once it was no longer allowed to use the Virgin brand, and then went bust a couple of years ago. It was always a poor alternative to HMV further up the road anyway.
I can strongly recommend saying you're a Canadian rather than US citizen. Particularly outside London, American tourists are utterly detested for their rude and pushy behaviour.
+1 Bad Car Analogy
(Let me just make it clear to the Septics - the analogy isn't bad, the Mustang and Camaro are).
Brits are just pissy because you all know that you would be speaking German
English is a Germanic language (Western Germanic to be precise).
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Before people jump on Theo's comment, it's worth pointing out that it was Linus who first described the OpenBSD developers as "masturbating monkeys". That said, it's still bloody childish irrespective of who it's coming from.
Interesting comment from one of the developers:
We could also just move process creation to a background thread. An unused process might just get swapped out and be no cheaper to "make live" than it would be to create a new process.
Surely this reusing of a process would negate the supposed security benefits of Chrome/Chromium's multi-process spawning architecture?
So you wanna build your own massively distributed password cracking infrastructure?
No