C++ FQA (frequently questioned answers)
(Defective C++ is a summary)

'There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation' - and other quotes

Why C++ sucks

And, previsibly: http://cplusplussucks.com/

Google and see peppers here

... I value most than Tiobe's dummy ranking, is the popularity of tags in Stackoverflow.
Granted, it correlates more with questions asked by programmers (many of them beginners) than with jobs.

Anyway, you can see that also there "Objective-C" has a (surprising for me) high position (as well as "iPhone").

Often your real purpose is belonging to a culture (ie: being cool).

No. "Vulnerabities in web aplications" is the total set, of which just 8% correspond to web browsers. (From that 8%, the 44% goes to Firefox) The remaining 92% are problems due to web servers and applications (phpMyAdmin, and so); SQL Injections among them. I agree with many other posters, though, in that the report is bullshit, just some graphs and no information about how the data was obtained.

... should die a slow and horrible death.

Isn't this like saying "At the same speed (100 km/h) my car goes 10% faster than yours" ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate#Multimedia_bit_rate

Any improvements in search-replace, with decent regular expressions support?
Last time I checked (2.2; and I believed it had not changed in 3.0) the implementation in Writer was rather crippled, limited the searching scope to a single paragraph... Searching for something as 'three consecutive paragraphs marks', or using the paragraph separator as a special character inside the pattern, was a pain.

OO Writer is a nice product, and it's getting better; it's open and free.
But has many bugs and many rough edges.
In particular, I miss a good regular expression engine for search-n-replace; its limitation to paragraphs doesn't allow you to search things as: "empty paragraph after a paragraph not ending with a dot", or "two consecutive empty paragraphs". That sucks. I ended editing the xml ouput in some cases.

I can't recommend Latex (except for mathematical content) or DocBook, though I have used both (I wrote my doctoral thesis with Latex, and I appreciate -even love- its strengths) But when text and layout is the thing, WYSIWYG is a must for me, I believe that the process of writing and proof-reading must be one.
And don't tell about Lyx or some other gui (docbook doesnt even have some decent free gui, AFAIK), when there is some "compilation" involved, when I cant' just click on a word on the final page and just add a letter -with ZERO task-switching- I feel my writing productivity goes down badly.

And, as some other have commented, while I don't particularly like Ms Word, it deserves consideration , in many respects it is more polished than OO... sadly.