The Xbox 129600's next.

Ex-racing greyhounds certainly aren't all like the parent's experience. My girlfriend has two rescued greyhounds, and they behave like the description you gave. They sleep most of the day, and just need a walk in the evening to tire them out. (They're clearly build for speed - not endurance..) My guess is the parent's dog misses its owner - the ones I've met are very affectionate, and crave company. They also like order, so it could be a disruption of its routine affecting it.

Firebug or IE8's built in developer tools.

I'd bet the tools in Chrome & Safari do too, but I've not used them so much.

Ah, that's interesting. What was performance like compared to the interpreted version?

PHP is a weakly typed language, so for any given operation, the interpreter will have to check the types of the operands and then figure out which operation(s) on the CPU to call to solve it. Also, as it's dynamic, the operand may not even exist yet.

So, even if you did write a compiler for PHP, instead of the PHP interpreter doing the type checking and figuring out what to do, you'd have to compile in some runtime checks to implement the same logic that's currently in the interpreter for every single operation. This doesn't sound to me like it'll be significantly faster (Although I'll freely admit it's just a gut feeling.)

So, a question to the room - if it's even possible, is there any advantage in compiling a dynamic weakly typed language to native code?

What puzzles me about Blu-Ray players is whether there can actually be a difference in picture and audio quality between cheap and more costly players. Ignore the analogue output - I appreciate the "better" player can have a better DAC. Also, I appreciate the "better" one could be more responsive in the menu system, load faster etc. But when it comes down to actually playing the movie, surely the player's just reading the data, decoding it according to a specified algorithm and spitting out the decoded version over HDMI?

His server returns 404 for errors:

http://www.gwan.com/csp_crash.html

That's going to make wirting for this thing really confusing.

If the plate's placed at a point in the road where you'd have to brake anyway, the energy's essentially free. It goes from being dissipated in the brakes to collected by the plate.

(Anyone with regenerative brakes can still complain.)

The commercially supported PHP they're talking about is Zend Core. Zend don't charge for it. (Although they do, obviously, charge to support it. I think you get one free support ticket when you download it, but I may just be imagining that...)

The thing you're linking to - Zend Platform - is a totally different product that sits on top of Zend Core to supply some high-availability functions, session clustering, Java bridge, monitoring, profiling, etc.