What? Your logic is circular. PHP did not have standard libraries for XML (etc.) until after it existed, obviously.

PHP was invented as a lightweight server-side preprocessor as an alternative to CGI, not as a general-purpose systems-engineering low-level compiled language.

(I don't disagree with your gist that PHP is not well suited to many of the jobs it's used for today, but I wanted to clarify the history.)

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Unless I am misunderstanding you, this is possible in Safari (though potentially inelegant). Tabs can be dragged to, from and between any two tabbed windows. If you have only a single document window, though (i.e. one or no tabs showing, depending on your prefs setting), you must first induce the display of a new tab before being able to drag the principal document.

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Furthermore, the parent probably means "couldn't care less", not "could care less" (which implies the exact opposite of his apparent intent).

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What the hell are you talking about?

Maybe you're thinking of the QuickTime Player application.

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I usually think of "cloud applications" as "rain".

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While that's a good one, the more on-point question would be about the "on congress" that the 2 library apparently has.

In part, because SDI/HD-SDI provide raw picture, with no anti-consumer anti-copy layering, and The Industry just won't stand for consumers playing with "professional" tools.

(I fully share your lament however)

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Then for cripes sake, quit reading Slashdot and do your job then, if that's a problem where you work.

By sheer coincidence, I just read this article today (via Gruber)

(hint: you mean "cinch")

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Wouldn't that be an output?

</tongue in cheek>

I guess you're just trolling here. But come on. When you buy a box of MS Windows, are you expecting it to come with a mouse, and every other piece of hardware or accessory that you personally deem necessary?

I hated the one-button mouse too. But I thought we were talking about the OS.

If a one-button mouse included in the box with the computer presents too much of a barrier for you to accept using a superior OS, well, that's your prerogative I guess!

(This argument is like saying that roads are unusable, because pedestrians cross them once in awhile, thereby forcing the driver to make an unacceptably circuitous route on other roads. The sensible person would simply tolerate the 10 second delay for the pedestrian's departure, and then continue on.)

Since my time and productivity are worth money, the amount I have saved by using Mac OS X over Windows over that same period is orders of magnitude larger than the cost of Microsoft's OS.

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Same is true in the States and Canada, insofar as I understand the implications of "rights of privacy and publicity".

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Are you saying that you've had enough, and that we should always write phonetically?... or are you saying that yu'v had enuf, and that we shud alwayz rite foneticalee?

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