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Comment The main issue with PHP is highlighted here. (Score 1) 120

by a_karbon_devel_005 on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @03:57PM (#28533769) Attached to: PHP 5.3 Released

The PHP development team has no vision, and they haven't ever had one. It's a hodgepodge that started out to be a "web perl" way back in the day, but then Java developers started using it and so 5 looked more and more Java-esque, but obviously being Java isn't their vision either. Take the namespacing in this release. They are using the BACKSPACE as the namespace separator. It's f'ing awful and inconsistent, but they wanted to jam it into 5.3 ... even though Dimitri had a patch that would have used "::" for the separator, the PHP devs didn't want to use it because it would have to go in PHP 6. That's because, just like the inconsistent library arguments, the PHP developer community, like it's user base, is "practical" .. they will sacrifice correctness for easiness. It's the same reason there's no way to flip a php.ini directive and have annoying warnings/errors turned into exceptions instead... "It's hard (because our codebase is shitty.)" PHP sucks, but it doesn't matter to most. It's too popular. But it does suck because there's no consistent vision for it.

Hardcore Gamers on the Decline? 143

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @02:32PM from the coring-out-the-hardcore dept.

Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs blog takes a look at the numbers for last year, and makes an interesting observation: hardcore gamers are probably not the future. Specifically, last year's videogame sales numbers show a huge trend in the adoption of mass-market licensed games. We've also previously discussed the extreme popularity of casual games. Despite Gears of War selling around the same amount as Cars (both around 2 million units), the cost in time and money to create Gears was substantially greater than the cost to create the Pixar-licensed title. The result? "As growth continues, we're bound to see some substantial changes. As it stands, hardcore gamers are still a pivotal purchasing force in the games market: most of the top ten titles were what I would consider "hardcore" games. However, the trend away from the hardcore and towards the casual is becoming increasingly more predominant. We've talked quite a bit lately about the growing demand and response for casual games, and when coupled with the shocking sales of licensed products, I'm left wondering whether or not the number of hardcore gamers is dwindling."

Submission + - 70% of sites hackable? A grand says 'no way'

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @02:09PM

netbuzz writes: "A security vendor today is flogging a survey that claims 7 out 10 Web sites it checked have vulnerabilities that pose a medium- to high-level risk of a personal-data breach. Network World Lab Alliance member Joel Snyder says that percentage is "sensationalist nonsense" — and he's willing to back that judgment with $1,000.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1147 7"

Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 1046

by a_karbon_devel_005 on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:49PM (#17898480) Attached to: Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years

The question is not whether or not someone wants to believe in the garbage pseudo-science that Hubbard spewed out of his lying maw. The question is whether or not the "Church of Scientology" is a racketeering and, one could argue, terrorist organization, and it most certainly is.

The "Church" is the real issue, I'm sorry I didn't make my veiw on that clear.

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