Gives a better summary "The next version of Chrome will include a new security policy that may make it easier for developers to ensure “HTTPS” websites aren’t undermined by insecure HTTP resources."

My point is that quite some people here, and on similar sites, judge products by their own requirements and it it doesn't meet those they consider it a huge failure. They don't seem to get that the requirements of "normal" people greatly differs from theirs. Each and every time. So when something is predicted a huge failure on Slashdot don't be surprised if it sells millions and millions.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

No, I haven't noticed. But I have the feeling that 9 out of 10 books reviewed here are published by Packt. And the other 1 is either O'Reilly or No Starch Press (if I recall correctly). It makes me wonder why this is the case, as this has been going on for several years.

The Packt published books I've seen so far were not that good, and often remind me of those "Unleashed" series of books (remember those), especially "Perl Unleashed" :-). Any books that are worth conisidering or is Packt just a no no?

Ah, the kids of these days seem to ENJOY reading plain-text documents, top to bottom with copious examples.... I just don't get it ;-)

A few months ago I did the "Introduction to functional programming" MOOC on edX. At first I thought that I would hate watching videos. But what worked for me was:

• Read the chapter in the book
• Watch the video at 1.5x speed
• Pause the video when there was a need to take notes

After a while it became even fun and relaxing to watch the videos

"* with perhaps the exception of the co-pilot"

Judging is so easy from a chair behind a computer....

I agree, loved the series. But I also think that a new series would never live up to the original one. Love to be wrong on this, but my experience is that it rarely if ever does after a long hiatus. Doesn't mean that a return will be bad, though.

Both. I have no doubt a new X-Files will be a major disappointment for a lot of people because the previous episodes got better with age. Ditto for Firefly. And I think that "getting better with age" happens for a large part in our heads.

I don't think a new series will bring back the magic, because the magic is for a (large?) part in our heads.

Sell it, you will get a very good price for it, and buy the 2015 version if you really need this update.

Is that the "general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for data storage"? No, I have no experience with it. I do have (very little) experience with Magento (and like to keep it that way).

I think the problem a lot of programmers have with PHP is that it originally was written by very inexperienced programmer(s) and it still (?) shows.

Good to know I was not wrong ;-).