Opera & Safari have the advantage that a site that is working "properly" in Firefox or IE7 is more than likely going to run just fine on those two as well, if IE6 did that too the whole discussion would be moot.

44 years is way more than I would give even for a double murder.

Boy am I glad you're not in charge of sentencing guidelines.

The development of new languages and new ways of simplifying coding has been a part of the computer landscape since the whole thing began. You can argue that coding in Python is a form of "dumbed down" assembly. I wouldn't think of creating a webapp with assembly! Django has "dumbed down" much of the mundane parts I often have to create and dealing with forms and templating. But the one thing I have noticed is that no matter how easy "programming" gets there are still people that will just not "do it".

I still can't see the masses suddenly deciding that they're going to program applications now. Hell, most of the people I know think conditional formatting in excel is just too much effort. I can see this just being used by actual programmers for users but I dont think it will see in a swath of uber-uber-amateur programmers all of a sudden.

I don't doubt that these chips probably were much more likely to fail and be of in general far lower quality but it does sound like he was doing what many bar owners do with their vodka - buy the cheap one and sell it expensively to those that want that particular brand.

This is of course totally wrong but I don't think the intention was to supply chips that would knowingly fail as an ultior motive. I think he was basically saying I get chip-X for $10, they want chip-Y that does the same thing but costs $50. If he's rebranding chips, they must've done the same job when in place. I don't think his motive was one of causing chaos, just money.

Where & when can I hire you to speak to my clients? Its like talking to a brick wall sometimes!

Would I be better off not bringing my laptop and just using Internet kiosks (do they exist in London?)

Are you kidding me?. Although I would bring your laptop with anyway and make use of the many free wifi spots in pubs (sorry, bars) and the like. We are quite connected here.

I just have to point out how well that PDF looked from a purely graphic point of view... That is all. Interesting content to boot.

After I read the summary and saw this "Apress, to offer the ebook version for free, believing (strongly) that it would promote sales of the paper book.", I had to post just to say I totally agree. I much prefer a paper back copy (and not a loosely bound pile of A4 printouts) for studying material at leisure. Especially when I'm dipping into a new topic and want a good overview rather than the stage where I'm piecing together bits of knowledge from the net.I really like the typesetting and format of the Apress books so after a couple of days of reading through their Pro Drupal and the PHP patterns book via the PDF I decided I really did want these books and went off to pick them up from the bookstore.

Whilst I agree that there are some that always will just take the stuff, for those that can afford it many will buy it if they want it. I'm going to get the PDF anyway from something like ebookee or even google so just give up already and promote it on your site and take the print sales as they come. Those that really want this book will buy it. Fair play to the author.

From what I remember 10.4 was out when the first intel mac's hit the scene and since 10.6 is now intel only, the most they'd of had to test was an upgrade from 10.4->.5->.6. Which you'd of thought would not be a big deal and a normal sort of thing to check. The actual way the bug is triggered doesn't seem like that random a scenario to envisage.

Serving the data up isn't the same as consuming it. And just because one group manages to get it working one way doesn't mean others will find it as easy to integrate it into their own apps. No doubt made made more difficult by the fact the documentation has had to be 'reversed.

what, you mean the closed, propeitary protocol developed by apple for iTunes? what a shock.

I just forgot this isn't reddit, so I can't upmod your post arbitrarily. But the thought is there.Your comment regarding the header includes hits the nail on the metaphorical head.