The Linux distros would have done a lot better if they were codenamed after an animal, without the stupid adjective. Lucid Lynx - crap name. Lynx - acceptable name suitable to interest PHBs.

Its not so much the name but the sense that people who are coming up with these names are finding it amusing or humorous and so it comes across as unprofessional. Anybody who isn't already deeply into Linux and open source will look at such a name and think its a toy or joke, not something to bet the business on. This is why Microsoft sells Windows, if Linux wants to make inroads they have to appear professional first.

Its like putting your CV up for a job, if its full of schoolboy humour, jokes and nonsense, then you're never going to be invited to interview, no matter how good your qualifications, enthusiasm and intelligence are.

Is there a reliable and efficient process init and monitor server in the Kernel yet? I think that's what people would really be more interested in getting.

Well Toyota did release the MR2 in France....

Reminds me of this Muse video

Unfortunately music video producers are useless at science, he falls through and keeps going! Not only that, the video is much less than 42 minutes long.

Seriously? Have you looked at the CVEs for Java severside anytime recently?

http://www.cvedetails.com/prod...

For example:
The Double.parseDouble method in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier, as used in OpenJDK, Apache, JBossweb, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted string that triggers an infinite loop of estimations during conversion to a double-precision binary floating-point number, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072012e-308.

or an oldie that you'll appreciate given your criticism of C/C++ :-)

Integer overflow in the embedded ICC profile image parser in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.5.0_11-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.0_01-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (JVM crash) via a crafted JPEG or BMP file that triggers a buffer overflow.

Simple fact: *nothing* is as secure as you think, that's why you have to design your architecture with layers in mind. This applies to Java just as much as any other platform.

I doubt its to make profit, lower costs so more people can benefit from justice... but that's hardly a bad thing.

I imagine it'll be an online way to submit forms and evidences by both parties (in a back-and-forth manner) which will be ruled upon when all the bits are uploaded.

The small claims court works pretty well, and it perhaps the model for the rest of the judiciary, but then the lawyers wouldn't be able to stretch out the case with bullshit and legalities to collect fees for longer.

dismiss the case with no ruling... because no one was deemed at fault

I just wonder what outcome you expected given those two statements?

I agree, but I think the reason some people do it is to do with some politicized ideology (usually left-wing) where established norms are broken down for entirely unjustified and selfish reasons.

Here in the UK we see the effects of this kind of new-think in the horrendous sex scandal in Rotherham, where its more important to be 'on message' than it is to deal with things. I know we can rewrite such sentences to be gender-neutral but again, this is allowing 'them' to affect our behaviour and way of thinking.

So I don't think this is pendulum swinging, but "political correctness", or attempted mind-control by people who want us to be afraid of what we think - for fear of being attacked for not conforming to their new reality. Pendulum swinging is where we have all-women shortlists or special girls-only STEM education programmes, reasonable to some extent I suppose as such are well-intentioned.

I may have put all that in too-conspiracy-theorist terms though, shows how difficult it is to discuss these things.

and hopefully they will be able to teach English to these kids, and Bill and Melinda too.

As my (female) English teacher used to say "He embraces she", as in the masculine form refers to both sexes, similar to how we refer to ourselves as mankind, not womankind.

As yes, I know its some stupid politically correct bastardisation of he language to use feminine pronouns like this for some sort of awareness brainwashing similar to New Think, but that only serves to demonstrate a sense of exclusion of boys in such writing.

Not at all, someone has to maintain the legacy systems that pay for the cool, new rewrites.

And keep updating the legacy system when the cool, new rewrite gets scrapped for being way over budget and way under features.

Ahah! suddenly the reason for getting more women in IT is clear.

Oh no, don't get me wrong - I understand the interpersonal issues involved in such a thing, but then I have also worked on government IT and understand the stupid "it says in the contract" where you cannot deviate from what they wanted even if you and your immediate contact agree it needs to be changed!

I was just suggesting that, with the lack of effective leadership a code monkey has to do what he's told, and cannot realistically make it work without backing from someone who should be providing the kind of leadership that creates and manages the relationship with the customer.

In my example, I built the relationship myself as no-one was happy with the situation. In other circumstances, I may not have that opportunity and then I'll have to do what I'm told regardless.

I find the ones who rush to use the new stuff are the ones who never quite managed to make anything with the old ones. The grass is always greener but also they can blame their lack of progress on the tools.. obviously *this* time it'll be different, just once they've had the right training and given enough time.....

Its when I was offered a job to make a system cope with the customer's increased load that I realised how damaging this is - it was written in Erlang, Ruby and Scala.

Or because some people can't cope with another variation on C++.

They're just tools guys, all these languages coming out, its just like making slightly different style hammers, only hammers don't need any training or lengthy experience to develop decent skills to use.