In theory it sounds great. In reality it will be overrun by the people who don't have anything else to fill their time. For example those who are unemployed and not seeking a job may have more time to debate the merits of increasing unemployment benefits and raising taxes to cover those benefits vs. individuals who are working full time. I'm not saying this specific example is right or wrong, but it's clear to see that equal representation is not trivial.

Alex at The Daily WTF wrote about this problem back in 2007: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Riddle-Me-An-Interview.aspx

Or Ramones. No track would be allowed to be longer than 2 minutes.

This is flat out wrong. Just this morning I used Chrome to connect to a test server that was running a node.js implementation of SPDY. I verified the connection using chrome://net-internals. It worked well.

There is nothing in chrome that prevents this from working on other domains/websites.

There is nothing stopping anyone from implementing their own server.

End of FUD.

Relevant: So You Want To Open An Arcade

OS X is mostly Openstep which is mostly Nextstep which is mostly BSD 4.3 and Mach 2.5.

I don't know what you consider 'Unix' but I would say the best description of OS X is that is closer to BSD than anything else.

Just for fun sometime turn off graphical boot on an OS X machine, and watch the Regents of the University of California message scroll by ;)

Reading and writing to a database does not make an ORM.

Except for that fact that this book went to press well before Drupal 7 was close to finalized. (as did almost everyone's Drupal 7 books, except for O'Reilly)

I have to assume that you are trolling, or that you haven't really used Drupal.

I've never seen anyone claim that the node system is an ORM, because it isn't. It's just a table(s) in a database, and a module that provides code to manipulate that data, but is not object oriented, nor is it mapped in anyway that resembles an ORM. The mapping to properties->columns is not even, and there is no ability to relate other nodes or objects based on the presence of another table, all of those operations are left as an exercise for the developer needing to implement it. This is why the other statement about 8 tables just to express the relationship between two objects makes no sense.

Considering that Drupal doesn't have an ORM, doesn't claim to, and probably won't ever have an ORM in the sense you run into with most MVC frameworks, I have no idea what you are talking about.

You realize it takes only 3 lines of code to hide http://www.whitehouse.gov/node ?

I was curious just how far off that is. Turns out, it's quite a bit.

I'm quite partial to original series that you find on USA: Burn Notice, White Collar, Psych, Covert Affairs, etc. It not the best writing and production, but I'd rather watch any of those over pointless sitcoms any day (I also prefer the longer format). Several of these shows have been using CGI or cheesy digital effects in places that really surprised me. In Covert Affairs all the external aerial shots of the CIA headquarters are rather cheesy 3D, and don't add much to the show and ultimately take me out of the story and annoy me each time they are shown.

Also in one of the seasons of White Collar for 4 or 5 episodes every time Peter meets his wife, they are obviously in a studio with a green screen and the New York background is being inserted digitally. I later found out this was because the actress playing his wife was pregnant and couldn't travel to New York where they shoot on location most of the time. I still don't understand why they had to be outdoor settings in every scene though, and the overall effect was so bad that I wanted to puke and ended up fast-forwarding through those scenes rather than be distracted by how bad the effects are.

I suspect that overall the technology has gotten alot cheaper and more than ever the 'fix it in post' attitude is taking over when studios and networks are trying to tighten up on costs, and increase profit margins. This is in turn leading to cheaper and cheaper digital effects that end up really distracting from the end product rather than making it better.

This is the most sane way to handle this, if its truly an admin only control interface. It's also a great way to allow access to appliances from outside of the private network as well.

I think it's getting kinda ridiculous how authors and many books about Drupal 7were pressured into publishing early. There have been books published about software that didn't even exist at time of publication, such as Panels for Drupal 7 (they used the version from 6). Several others are publishing when there are APIs being changed to fix critical issues, and tons of new API additions still occurring. I am not even sure if Drupal 7 is in string freeze yet, and I know that visual considerations to the new themes are still on the table as well, causing all screenshots and reference to onscreen options to be at risk of being outdated. I wouldn't buy or recommend any Drupal 7 book that comes out before the release.

I was in talks over a year ago with an acquisitions editor at a another major publisher that had only done 2 Drupal books at the time, and they wanted to get started on Drupal 7 books early since they say that Drupal books were really picking up (or that their competitors were putting lots of energy into Drupal books). The problem was, that the folks of course know nothing of the open source software ecosystem and require deadlines and schedules which are simply impossible to predict with volunteer software development. My editor wanted to have my chapters by March of 2010, so they could hit the shelves and announce at DrupalCon San Francisco in April. They were convinced that a release of D7 would happen in Fall of '09. I told them, that the release would never happen in 09 and probably not in Q1 of '10 and that getting a comprehensive API reference (I was estimating around 800-900 pages) by that time would be a stretch. They ended up passing on the offer, since they felt the timeline was wrong, and that Joomla and Wordpress downloads were better.

I am also sick of all these books that cover Drupal 7 or other similar software are a very cursory level. I'd much rather wait for Pro Drupal Development 3rd edition to come out, when it's a book whose authors have spent thousands of hours maintaing community contributions, and they have hundreds of patches to Drupal itself.