Comment Why didn't they just use a film camera? (Score 1) 103
Medium format film runs into 100s of "megapixels" (i.e. up to 10x the resolution of the digital camera they used) and large format even higher.
Comment Re:a different perspective (Score 1) 226
Well, Scala, anyway.
Ruby is only a liability.
Comment Even better (Score 1) 189
You can use one of the open source distributions that were forked from OpenSolaris (more or less): Nexenta, Illumos, etc
ZFS alone makes this more than worthwhile, although you can now have ZFS with FreeBSD, OS X, and even Linux.
Comment Well said (Score 1) 105
Anyone who wants "raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of anarchy" just needs to observe Wall Street and banks.
Watch Inside Job to get a look at the greedy scum who've infiltrated and taken control of every institution including our governments.
Comment & people wonder (Score 2, Interesting) 135
Why it is a social problem that there is no accountability whatsoever for the crimes and deceptions and election rigging of the rich, famous, well-connected, political dynasties and the One Party.
Comment Re:Another stupid Musk idea (Score 1) 258
Clearly the answer is
1. NY to declare war on LA!
2. Money piñata!
Book Review: Programming PHP 3rd Edition 155
Michael Ross writes "As a hugely popular scripting language with an 18-year history, PHP has been the topic of countless computer language books. One of the most comprehensive offerings has been Programming PHP, published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition appeared in March 2002, and was written by Rasmus Lerdorf (the original developer of PHP) and Kevin Tatroe. A second edition was released in May 2006, and saw the addition of another co-author, Peter MacIntyre. With the many changes to the language during the past seven years, the book has again been updated, to cover all of the major new features made available in version 5 of PHP." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.
Comment Companies that respect experience (Score 1) 432
you can probably find a company whose culture is a better fit for people over 40.
Amazon.
Comment NoSQL (Score 3, Insightful) 432
"Case in point NoSQL. Who had it first? Open Source"
Depends how you define NoSQL. DynamoDB paper was published circa 2007 but the product is not open source. What open source product did you have in mind that defines NoSQL? BerkeleyDB?
NodeJS, PHP, Ruby are the village idiots... not really worth bragging about
Comment LOL (Score 3, Insightful) 180
If you think Assange is "untouchable" then the past 100 years of fascist history, and even the vaguest grasp of what your government has done and is doing, have passed you by.
Comment Only 99% of them (Score 1) 103
n/t
Comment Oh dearie me no (Score 4, Informative) 103
The only metric being optimised is profit for $BIGCO's owners; the wellbeing and prosperity of Iowans is irrelevant. Ask Indian farmers how Coca-Cola bottling plants (and bottled water plants) are helping THEM.
You're aware that data centres like this employ about 50 people, right? This is not a business that sustains the local economy.
Slashdot's libertarian reptile brain really should try harder.
Comment Clearly this guy isn't a Buddhist (Score 1) 383
n/t
Comment And Go is miserable enough. (Score 1) 404
n/t
Comment Obama? Left wing? LOLLLLLLLl (Score 1) 138
Bwahahahahahaa
