A lot of people, rightly so, hate what Jim Davis has done or allowed to happen to Garfield. But it too was once a great comic strip - if you were 10. Those of us who grew up in the 70's were lucky as we had two new comic strips that fit our age perfectly. We got Garfield before we were teens and C&H when we were teens, old enough to look back on our recent childhood and see parallels as well as possibly learn some life lessons to us in upcoming adulthood. C&H is the best strip IMHO - hands down. It appealed to me as a teenager and also an adult. But the early Garfield strips are also timeless. When I was growing up, I loved Garfield - read it religiously in the paper. Every Christmas my mom had a standing present - whatever Garfield collections that had been published that year. I think I have 1-30. A while back while sorting through my old things, I found them and put them where my kids could read them. They read them cover to cover, multiple times. My eldest, now barely a teenager has moved on, and checks out C&H books from the library (since I can't find my entire collection - it's in my old stuff somewhere) But the youngest, just learning to read, is having fun reading about the big 'fat cat' and lasagna. Those old books are worn, in cases shredded held together with tape, but adored by my four kids. I'm sure C&H will be too. So while I agree that Garfield today is a mere shell of it's old self. There was a time it was worth reading as a kid and even an adult.

250 comments later and all we get is arguments about what Facebook 'should' have done to resolve specific architectural problems none of us really know. Facebook is growing like wildfire. It has it's issue, some big. Many features are 'bad' (ever tried to run pop out chat? Jeebus my CPU cried for mercy) But it's quickly becoming THE go to site for millions of people. So Facebook has growth beyond their current ability to scale and they decide that rewriting PHP is a possible answer. The agree to open source it. Isn't this *exactly* what makes FOSS so great? Everyone benefits from the efforts of those using the code for their needs. Will this rewrite mean a global replacement to PHP's current implementation? I doubt it. But it may be just what is needed for many other sites with growing user bases and less $$$ for HW. Again, this is a bad thing because... If some random guy in a basement had done this, he'd be a borderline hero. But because a large corporate entity did, it's suspect and bad. I for one look forward to seeing what they really did and hearing from the PHP developers who attended the meetings as to what they are really doing, what types of bottlenecks they found, and what ideas they had to resolve them. Will they be 100% right? Doubt it. But in the end a large corporation is contributing back to the community, and potentially in a big way if their rewrite is widely usable. This. Is. A. Good. Thing.

Wish I had mod points to mod you up - after reading through the comments - great way to end my reading because it's very true. I'm an IT professional and when you tell people Google is your most valuable resource, it never dawns on them that they have access to it too! Teaching young kids problem solving like this - great idea. But never happens.

Then why did Motorola have to license the name 'Droid' for a phone because it was owned by LucasFilm? They aren't selling autonomous robots - it's a freaking phone, but they paid for the right to use the name. That to me is just stupid.

Agree 100% Saw Avatar in 3D. great movie, but would have enjoyed it just as much in 2D I expect. Have no desire to watch sitcoms or football or soccer with 3D glasses on. Just annoying. Ok for an occasional movie, but viewing at home? Meh - not until they can project it :)

Did you check to see if it was opened 'Read-Only'? Sounds like it.