This does seem like a totally biased opinion. An Indian paper quoting studies regarding racial discrimination when apparently Indians are getting abused is bound to be partial.
Great observation. I assume you mean because of the Screen Shot button on the bot software. I had to do that because when I tried taking screen shots of the few CAPTCHAs I saw, I wasn't able to paste it into MS Paint, so I built my own screen shot procedure. Not sure how they did it.
Exactly. The others aren't even trying to expand to outside of the US, as far as any outsider can tell. It's frustrating to no end being a startup outside the US and having to rely on Paypal or a very slim selection of even crummier merchant providers here (Canada). I've had so many problems with the few providers that do offer service here that I grudgingly stick with Paypal now.
Amazon, come on guys, support Canada already! Help us out!
"In fact, that's a distinct advantage of mod_php. Everything is loaded and in memory when the request comes in. Throw APC on top of that and your code is also already compiled."
I would love it if someone cleared a very basic doubt of mine : If php is compiled, then what is the advantage of other programming languages? Wouldn't it be the same as anything else (except maybe considering the size of the language)? Is it just the optimization of the compiler then? And if so, would PHP compare the same to other loosely typed languages?
If PHP is compiled, then it still has almost the same benefits and drawbacks compared to all the other languages, except for one: once it's compiled, PHP runs faster than it does when interpreted. Simple.
IIRC the compiler for PHP uses a scheme compiler as a backend.
Let's say you write a Python program that outputs Javascript. It could be considered a "compiler". Or let's say that you write your own language, which outputs to other 3 or 4... there's also compiling involved. A compiler doesn't need to output assembler. Even if every compiler did that, features of the language would result in different execution code.
For example, PHP's variables can be a string of any size, or a number, or an object, and you can change its type while the program is running. The compiler doesn't optimize the code execution as easy as, say, in Java. You can not allocated the minimum amount of memory that will store the variable values, for example.
i much prefer sqlyog for mysql. it allows scheduled backups as well as restoring of huge dumps. i think both of these are available in the community edition.
