I totally had an awesome picture to link to here to prove my point but I can't find it.
Suffice to say that Apple pricing their bog-standard SATA hard disks at 39 cents a gigabyte (a high market price being 19 cents), and a similar attitude to the rest of their perfectly average hardware, explains the "overpriced toy" reaction to their products.
It's as though there's a sort of threshold of computer-ness, above which the general public become blithering idiots. Apple's removal of as many controls as possible make these items friendlier; but when they have been around as long as washing machines and toasters, I bet we'll find that this article applies to them as well.
The future is here! Two USians and a European working successfully on a 2-day hackathon using such technology that blurs the boundary between server and client ... what more could we ask for!
I disagree. The post seems to me like it is aimed at learning new things, not an in-depth investigation on how the things you're already doing work in the background.
The things in the article are explained on their own level, and then a level below it, i.e. the file descriptors. How the file descriptors work, where they're stored, things like that, are well out of the scope of the article.
http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/function.print.php