The archivement Nazis might have a problem with this.

The usual "haven't really used PHP, but read enough rants to know it".

That's the first version of mysqli from 2003. In line 148 you'll find: "PHP_FUNCTION(mysqli_bind_param)". Mysqli had it since the beginning.

If its type is int it's an int. Nothing unexpected. Or do you mean you can't trust HTTP, because a client could send nonnumerical values in a header that should be numeric. You see it's usual on the web to have everything transfered as string and PHP is made for this usecase. But if you don't have data from outside you don't have these uncertainness.

One thing are mistakes made years ago. The other is not breaking existing code in a minor version. Someone still using stuff like magic quotes has turned it on on purpose or wouldn't read any warning anyway.

PHP isn't just a glue layer at least since PHP 5. And if C is so bad, what are all the other scripting languages written in?

cmdrtaco smells bad.

Obviously, if MSFT is interested in "Yahoo Search" as an effort to mount a challenge against Google, it isn't really interested in Y!'s technology, but rather its traffic. Obviously, that traffic flows mostly from visits to www.yahoo.com.

Now, if MSFT, say, goes through and buys just the Yahoo Search division, it sounds like Yahoo is free to go become a content/media/etc. company free of worrying about Google and search.

My question: who gets domain over the homepage, Yahoo.com? If Yahoo retains Yahoo, but MSFT owns the little search box on the page, then who decides how prominently the search is featured on the homepage, how it is integrated into the content, etc.? Yahoo would have incentive to make the content front and center, and who cares about the search box...

It might be hard for MSFT to integrate all of Yahoo, but it's even harder for MSFT to integrate part of Yahoo...

I still expect a full acquisition to occur. Whether its $32, $33, or $34 or something else, we'll see...

Weighing more makes us harder for the aliens to suck out of our cars, the reserves mean we'll last longer in the coming famine years, and if any skinny little vegans give us any lip, all we gotta do is sit on 'em to quash the noise...
Seriously, extreme obesity is a darwin rule in action, usually - nobody wants to breed with us, and heart disease/stroke usually kill us "early" - rather like gay marriage, if you don't like 'em, don't join 'em, otherwise, back off: It's hard enough living in a world that wasn't built for us without having some smug, self-righteous ass-hat making comments because, while normal, we don't fit average... only made the worse when it's people who want their particular outside-of-average needs respected who fail the tolerance test...