Comment At least there's the BBC... (Score 3, Interesting) 198
...which is funded by the British licence fee. As long as the current BBC-hating government don't cripple the corporation beyond repair.
Comment Re:Football? (Score 1) 684
I wonder if they've checked for evidence of brain damage present from birth in people that play that pointless sport... trolololol
Comment Wipes out extra margin for retailers? (Score 1) 441
Selling recovery discs for retail-bought machines (either pre-made discs from the manufacturer or discs produced from the recovery partition on the customer's machine before they take it home) is a way retailers and OEMs add value to their low margin hardware sales. Some discs from manufacturers cost up to £30, with a similar cost for the burning-the-recovery-partition-to-DVDs service from retailers in the UK like PC World and Comet. Having a reset/refresh button in Windows 8 will all but eliminate this extra margin stream. It'll be interesting to see what retailers do to make up for this loss.
Comment Re:Took long enough (Score 3, Insightful) 242
I get that there are probably huge cost and scale issues, but it has always baffled me that police communications are still mostly unencrypted as complex encryption technology has gotten cheaper and cheaper.
Yes, until I saw this article I thought the police would have been encrypting this kind of stuff for years.
Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux 195
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Comment Because (Score 1) 1003
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Submission + - PHP 4 end of life announcement (php.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In
those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is
fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4
will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.
