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Yes, I do realise that this begs the question of why the developers who wrote the CMSs I use choose PHP. I have two responses to that.
1) PHP is available with most shared hosting packages, it has lots of useful functions and has extensive libraries. 2) Ask them.
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That is precisely why people do use PHP
I do not like PHP much and if I was going to write a CMS from scratch I would not use it.
But I do not need to write a CMS from scratch. I can use an existing one. I may have to write an extension/module/plugin if I have special requirements.
It may not be as clever as writing your own CMS, but it is a lot less work. It suits me. I can put up with PHP in the circumstances (i.e. when the best CMS for my purposes is written in PHP).
An important part to capitalism is that barriers to entry be fair
Low barriers to entry are not important to capitalism, they are important to a free market economy.
What the telcos want (for their own industry, they would not want it for their suppliers) is capitalism without free markets.
Because the last mile is a natural monopoly the best solution is to regulate it to ensure competitors have access. In Europe this is done through local loop unbundling (mandatory throughout the EU) and the regulation of the sale of wholesale services.
SkyOS does something very well, and people who need that one thing done well will buy it. Don't ask me what it is that it does well
No one seems to know what it is that it does so well.
I have been reading through the SkyOS website and various other SkyOS related sites, and I have yet to find what its killer features are. The closest I could find was automatic indexing of file metadata in a SQL database. Very neat, but surely that functionality could be added to established OSes?
IE is part of the Windows distribution, not the Windows kernel.
That would be relevant if the Windows installer allowed you to choose not to install IE.
Of course it is not part of the kernel - but you are forced to have it installed if you want to use Windows.
Extradition treaties deal with issues that are illegal in both countries
Not necessarilly - the extradition treaty with the UK allows the US to get people extradited from Britain who have not done anything that is illegal in the UK - but not vice-versa.
No doubt the US will now push other countries to do the same.
In the long run I can see the US government choosing the most favourable jurisdiction to get someone prosecuted in - the country in which they are, the US or where ever they can be "rendered" to.
So how exactly can you set a diversity target and outlaw affirmative action at the same time?
Yes it is stupid, but (unless I am out of date, my knowledge of it is a few years old) that is the law in the UK!
I actually find some of these surveys offensive in themselves. One (dome by a church not an employer) used the term "cultural groups" for sub-groups within ethnic groups. The assumption being that your culture is set by your ethnicity - I know plenty of ethnic Aasians (including me) who are culturaly British (or predominantly British).
Simple fact: there are vastly more women and minorities in the workplace now than there were before affirmative action and forced equal access to education. It works. It's not flawless, and it's not a cure-all, but it has produced results.
Correlation does not prove causation
There are also vastly more women and ethnic minorities in the workplace (and in senior jobs etc) in countries like Britain where "affirmative action" in employment is illegal and any form of "affirmative action" is very rare. How do you explain that?
There are also vastly more women in the workplace in countries that have no sex discrimination laws at all - I currently live in a country where sexual discrimination is legal, but there are still women in senior positions. There are a few women CEOs and a lot in other senior positions. How do you explain that?
The change has come because attitudes have changed, it is as simple as that.
I find this really hard to believe.
Theologians have been talking about the moment of creating for millennia, no problems there.
There has never been any Christian doctrine that anything should not be enquired into and analysed as best we can.
I suspect the Pope meant something like "we will never have a complete understanding of the moment of creation because it is an act of God". He may have phrased it badly (he was not a native speaker of English) and Hawking misunderstood it.
An account from someone else present of exactly what was said mich help clarify it./
I believe that localities should own last mile media. Any interested party should be able to rent use of said media.
It is called local loop unbundling and it is mandatory throughout the EU. It works much as you would expect and customers are now getting quite a good choice of telcos.
That said I think net neutrality would still need to be enforced because major telecoms companies would still have too much power by controlling access to customers. Part of the problem is that most of their customers would not realize that a tiered internet is in place and it would not affect their choice of ISP.
Are you including the time it takes to get Windows usable?
The least demanding possible user will need to install and office suite and anti-virus.
A lot of people will want some or all of: a good web browser, anti spyware, anti-adware, p2p software, messaging clients, graphics package, CD ripper, CD/DVD burder, PDF reader, etc., etc.
Compare that to any Harry Potter book, universally reviled as witchcraft, satanist, and evil
What are you talking about? A few people (mostly nut cases) have claimed Harry Potter books are evil yes. To claim that makes them "universally reviled" is ridiculous. Plenty of CHristians like Harry Potter.
As for Tolkien, interpreting his books as Christian allegory is fairly natural given that he was a Christian and he was a friend and colleague of CS Lewis who is best known as a writer of Christian allegory.
It is highly unlikely that Trolltech will want to go to the expense of having ADRs listed in the US.
Most European firms with US listings want to cancel them them because the cost of a US listing is high - complying with US regulatory requirements were always costly and Sarbanes-Oxley has made it a lot worse.
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Yes, I do realise that this begs the question of why the developers who wrote the CMSs I use choose PHP. I have two responses to that.
1) PHP is available with most shared hosting packages, it has lots of useful functions and has extensive libraries.
2) Ask them.
That is precisely why people do use PHP
I do not like PHP much and if I was going to write a CMS from scratch I would not use it.
But I do not need to write a CMS from scratch. I can use an existing one. I may have to write an extension/module/plugin if I have special requirements.
It may not be as clever as writing your own CMS, but it is a lot less work. It suits me. I can put up with PHP in the circumstances (i.e. when the best CMS for my purposes is written in PHP).
Low barriers to entry are not important to capitalism, they are important to a free market economy.
What the telcos want (for their own industry, they would not want it for their suppliers) is capitalism without free markets.
Because the last mile is a natural monopoly the best solution is to regulate it to ensure competitors have access. In Europe this is done through local loop unbundling (mandatory throughout the EU) and the regulation of the sale of wholesale services.
Well there has to be some way for slashdotters to reproduce - otherwise they would have evolved out.
Christianity had already spread through the Roman Empire before Constantine's conversion.
Buddhism, in contrast, is a genuinely peaceful religion
Really? Buddhists ahve historically fought holy wars, and persecuted other religions (for example Japanese Christians were forced into hiding.
Even now arson attacks on churches are frequent in Sri Lanka.
Mohammed and Jesus had met each other they would almost certainly have hated each other
Jesus fairly consistently preached against hating anyone - even when Jewish tradition permitted it.
In other word they still have their bread and circuses.
Plenty of people have to work for a boss who is paralyzed from the neck up
No one seems to know what it is that it does so well.
I have been reading through the SkyOS website and various other SkyOS related sites, and I have yet to find what its killer features are. The closest I could find was automatic indexing of file metadata in a SQL database. Very neat, but surely that functionality could be added to established OSes?
Only one of the three posts you link to has any religious content
Yes they are: it is bundled with Windows. They sell the browser and Windows together. That makes them a lot of money.
There is a free download, but only if you have a Windows license.
IE is part of the Windows distribution, not the Windows kernel. That would be relevant if the Windows installer allowed you to choose not to install IE. Of course it is not part of the kernel - but you are forced to have it installed if you want to use Windows.
I assume you are single - and planning to remain so.
Not necessarilly - the extradition treaty with the UK allows the US to get people extradited from Britain who have not done anything that is illegal in the UK - but not vice-versa.
No doubt the US will now push other countries to do the same.
In the long run I can see the US government choosing the most favourable jurisdiction to get someone prosecuted in - the country in which they are, the US or where ever they can be "rendered" to.
Yes it is stupid, but (unless I am out of date, my knowledge of it is a few years old) that is the law in the UK!
I actually find some of these surveys offensive in themselves. One (dome by a church not an employer) used the term "cultural groups" for sub-groups within ethnic groups. The assumption being that your culture is set by your ethnicity - I know plenty of ethnic Aasians (including me) who are culturaly British (or predominantly British).
Correlation does not prove causation
There are also vastly more women and ethnic minorities in the workplace (and in senior jobs etc) in countries like Britain where "affirmative action" in employment is illegal and any form of "affirmative action" is very rare. How do you explain that?
There are also vastly more women in the workplace in countries that have no sex discrimination laws at all - I currently live in a country where sexual discrimination is legal, but there are still women in senior positions. There are a few women CEOs and a lot in other senior positions. How do you explain that?
The change has come because attitudes have changed, it is as simple as that.
I find this really hard to believe. Theologians have been talking about the moment of creating for millennia, no problems there. There has never been any Christian doctrine that anything should not be enquired into and analysed as best we can. I suspect the Pope meant something like "we will never have a complete understanding of the moment of creation because it is an act of God". He may have phrased it badly (he was not a native speaker of English) and Hawking misunderstood it. An account from someone else present of exactly what was said mich help clarify it./
Yes, it is a classic case of FUD, it keeps getting repeated, and the moderators are high enough to mod it +5 insightful.
I have never had a problem with copy and past in Linux - and Klipper is much better than the Windows equivalent.
The fact that I use Kipper with Gnome is a pretty convincing demonstration of the compatibility of Linux copy and paste.
It is called local loop unbundling and it is mandatory throughout the EU. It works much as you would expect and customers are now getting quite a good choice of telcos.
That said I think net neutrality would still need to be enforced because major telecoms companies would still have too much power by controlling access to customers. Part of the problem is that most of their customers would not realize that a tiered internet is in place and it would not affect their choice of ISP.
You mean it is not useful, when assessing an OS, to compare it to the competition?
You must be a windows user.
Are you including the time it takes to get Windows usable?
The least demanding possible user will need to install and office suite and anti-virus.
A lot of people will want some or all of: a good web browser, anti spyware, anti-adware, p2p software, messaging clients, graphics package, CD ripper, CD/DVD burder, PDF reader, etc., etc.
What are you talking about? A few people (mostly nut cases) have claimed Harry Potter books are evil yes. To claim that makes them "universally reviled" is ridiculous. Plenty of CHristians like Harry Potter.
As for Tolkien, interpreting his books as Christian allegory is fairly natural given that he was a Christian and he was a friend and colleague of CS Lewis who is best known as a writer of Christian allegory.
It is highly unlikely that Trolltech will want to go to the expense of having ADRs listed in the US.
Most European firms with US listings want to cancel them them because the cost of a US listing is high - complying with US regulatory requirements were always costly and Sarbanes-Oxley has made it a lot worse.
Cable and Wireless is forcing Americans with small shareholdings to sell so it can end its SEC registration.
Given that the rest of the world has to worry that the US might bug any of Windows, MacOS, and a huge range of hardware we are not sympathetic.
Yes Kate does do it. I like Kate a lot, it has: incremental search, auto-completion, a nice UI, spell-checking, a nice UI and is very configurable.
I am sure some "businesses friendly" politician will be able get the law amended to fix that.