This would appear to be the case, as they have updated the story to point to Google's blog post on the crankshaft update.

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Russian Ark as a good candidate for a long shot. This is a one shot ninety minute movie. Very impressive, and awesome scenery as well.

Aw crap... wrong story to add the comment to Why doesn't /. have a delete my post button!

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Russian Ark as a good candidate for a long shot. This is a one shot ninety minute movie. Very impressive, and awesome scenery as well.

Update 21, which fixes some, and possibly these, vulnerabilities was released in July, Update 22 however was released last week.

The grandparent probably has customers using Eclipse, the only program that I know of to have the problem, there may well be others, but they are not in as wide-spread use.

However, Oracle has already fixed that problem, so the GP is just trolling.

http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/oracle-demostrates-great-community-support-and-fixes-eclipse/
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6969236
http://bewarethepenguin.blogspot.com/2010/07/tip-of-hat-to-oracle.html

That is a valid point about the communications, however, from the article, if incorrect data is sent by something pretending to be the tire gauge, it was enough to corrupt the controller to the point where even a simple reboot was not enough to fix it. It had to be replaced by the dealer. Certainly resources need to be allocated wisely however when the device crashes due to invalid inputs, that is at best annoying, at worst very expensive to repair.

Actually, I think that this is a good solution to the problem. The kids are still eating the burgers/nuggets which are not exactly healthy, but at least you are putting something healthy into the mix. And yes, I do think that Apples are healthy ;-)

Here, here! I totally agree with this feature request. Sadly, even the vaunted blackberry can't get this right... my colleagues with balckberries also complain about this.

One question that I have not yet seen answered by anyone: How many Foxconn employees, or their dependent family members have committed suicide, but not by jumping off of the Foxconn roof.

We know that the Chinese national average is 14/100,000 per year. Foxconn have 485,000 employees, they have 10 suicides in the first half of 2010, at an average of 5/100,000 per year. So, so long as they don't have too many home-suicides, then we can agree that Foxconn is a good place.

The next thing to do is to look at that suicide figure and work out how many of those people who committed suicide had a job, if the national average for employed people committing suicide is less than 5/100,000 then, again, we can say that Foxconn is not doing too bad. However trying to compare workers suicide rates to national suicide rates seems to me to be a flawed methodology.

Oh, and as an aside, using Canada, and the real Foxconn employee numbers then you actually only "expect" 25 suicides by this time of year, and they have had 10 according to Wikipedia. But, as mentioned above, this does not include any who have decided to end their lives in a less public manner.

In theory you are correct. If the optimiser was perfect, then it would not make any difference by removing a column. However, since optimisers cannot be perfect, by removing a column you may be inadvertently removing the equivalent of a database index hint, and it might generate a different, and worse, query plan. Just because it doesn't make sense does not mean that the database won't do it ;-)

Of course, that should be who would not run it on a server...

From the article:

So it would appear that you are not the only one who would only run it on a server...

From the article:

There are quite a few pre-conditions for it to be made alpha, so it is not as likely as the summary makes it out to be.

See this comparison for example. This beta is slower than the webkit, which is also effectively a beta release. Long story short, all of the javascript engines are getting faster, but we are about to hit a new roadblock with dramatically slower devices, this iPads, notebooks, and mobile phones.