See Effective STL Item 5. If size() is constant, then splice() must be implemented in a slower manner. Therefore, whether size() for std::list is constant or not depends on whether you want a fast or slow splice(), and that's up to the implementation. So conversely, you'll see that splice() in Visual C++ is quite slow.

I don't know about a book. But there's products out there for using Moodle 1.9 integrated with online learning for live interactive classrooms. See Groopex Integrated Conferencing for example, which integrates Moodle with WebEx. I've already seen some language schools using this. I think that supersedes just using Moodle by itself as a language learning solution as this book describes.

I work for an online university, we use web conferencing software from these guys. They have easy to use online tools for scheduling classes, and easily joining them from a central location. They also offer integration with Moodle which many universities now use. Their software also integrates with Microsoft's Live Meeting and Cisco's Webex, which have whiteboards, VoIP, desktop and application sharing, viewing multiple webcams, polling, raising hand, and so on.

I think this says otherwise.

I have that exact problem too, and I hate it.

This isn't just Google Groups, Blogger is collapsing under spam too.
I myself just wrote about this the other day.

Page loading can take a very long time for static content if it's sizable, and the server can't serve that much over its own connection. The topic for this is a bit misleading, it's not "HTTP Torrent", but "Dynamic HTTP" which although borrowing ideas from BitTorrent would be different and not suffer the same initial speed issues. Read the original article.

"The incident has been quickly picked up by several members of the Twitter community, most of which have been shocked by the news."

Is this really an appropriate story to make such a pun?

Most of those, the page is designed wrong, not Safari rendering them wrong.