It would be interesting to search for a correlation between /. karma and stress. Maybe that was a reason for dropping the karma score...

The review also failed to mention that glassfish v3 runs on osgi

> But what does this demonstrate?

I think this can be used as a nice kind of benchmark... as others pointed out, this demo shows that a browser application is currently at the same speed of an old 386/486 native app (not bad IMHO, since a lot of great apps ran perfectly in that kind of system.)

Your comments made me think on Star Wars 1/2/3...

Just read the ice core article from wikipedia, very interesting and promising. Thanks.

The data extracted from tree rings (I studied the subject in its relation to 14C calibration) doesn't provide a clean nor precise planetary record of the climate (broad regional differences, lack of adequate species near the equator, etc.) Recorded history for 1000 years??? What???

BTW, the GP was talking about geological times.

Offtopic: I don't assume any better knowledge, that's the reason I'm trying to get an answer.

Yes, it seems most people assume it is that simple! sadly the average change for 10 million years doesn't say anything about the change levels for particular centuries.

> The speed of change that's happening is staggering, it's at least a hundred times faster than the speed of natural, geological changes.

I don't understand how people gets this conclusion. How can the scientists do the measurements of the rate of climate change for some century of -for example- 50M years ago?

> No one on the planet has ever switched platforms because of the contents of these types of articles.

But I know a lot of people in this planet that never switched platforms because of such articles.

AFIK the "distributed source control system" is not about networking or Internet, but about giving each developer a whole copy of the central repository so they can "pre-commit" their code and this generates some benefits Spolsky talks about when referring to Mercurial.

BTW, Subversion will not prevent anybody's work being exported to India.

Ok, just googled "mysql profile" and got:

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/using-new-query-profiler.html

> Use Silverlight on the intranet or on corporate, limited-audience websites for rich in-browser apps.

People didn't learn from the immortal IE6 lesson?

At last, a nice summary. Now it would be interesting to know how could the SAP managers be so stupid to do or allow that.

> At one time, COBOL was the only way to develop on tens of thousands of computers. Very expensive computers with very expensive maintenance and licensing contracts. There was a lot of money in this, measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year per site.

Why you talk in past tense? How many mainframes are using Ruby for the business?

From the article, about a "secure operating system":

> Generally, this would be taken to mean an operating system that was designed with security in mind, and provides various methods and tools to implement security polices and limits on the system.

Sadly most naive users still believe that security is about setting fine grained permissions, roles, resources and tagging system objects in general. In practice 1) security exploits simply bypass or reconfigure such validations or policies for their own purpose, and 2) getting a really good "fine grained" configuration and reconfiguration is pretty difficult, time consuming, and prone to error (i.e. to increase the vulnerability.)