I'm part of the "demand out there for tablets." I haven't bought yet not because Android tablets aren't good enough but because they aren't cheap enough. When I can get a good tablet for $100 I'll buy one. My other requirements for a tablet: "not Apple" and "no monthly cell data fees."
200+ comments and no one has mentioned ReactOS. When ReactOS finally hits 1.0 Microsoft can kiss OEM sales bye-bye. Who in their right mind is going to shell out $200 for an OS that restricts installs and phones home when they can have a 100% Windows compatible OS for free?
Microsoft will make you care, by withholding DX12 and perhaps later IE releases, the same thing they did when Vista was first released.
No one cares about DX11 today. Why would they care about DX12 any time soon? Most games are console ports. Until the a new round of consoles come out with DX12 no one cares.
IE? Seriously? No one cares about IE.
Outside of the MS fanclub the Windows 8 release will be a big yawn.
Affirmative Action doesn't hand the student a degree, it just gets them in the school. Just because someone was born into a shitty situation doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same opportunities as the upper class who never have to worry about discrimination.
There were lots of affirmative action type things that were available to "minorities" in my University. I put minorities in quotes because a number of these things were targeted towards women and they are absolutely not a minority, arguably a disadvantaged class at best.
There were free tutors, special grants, special programs, etc. There was one summer program where engineering teams could receive an additional $3,000 in no strings funding if they had one or more women on the team.
Then there are the usual freebies available to women everywhere. Need help with your project or your problem set? There's an endless supply of free help from sexually frustrated male engineering students all too eager for female attention.
For the record I don't necessarily agree with the grandparent's supposition. I'm merely pointing out that the affirmative action stuff doesn't end at upon admission. Quite the opposite.
A group of people that attempt to break away from the US really don't have a viable shot at succeeding until they can credibly threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in the US mainland -- in DC or NYC or someplace like that.
Once that capability is beleived (by uncle sam) to exist, such a break-away non-state can actually say "leave us alone" and have it stick.
They would never get nuclear capability. The second they made a move towards acquiring nuclear goodies they would be pummeled into the ocean. You don't actually believe that these places would be beyond the reach of the world's intelligence agencies do you? The CIA would have moles in every one of them from day one.
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I would venture to guess that 80%-90% of the people buying HDTV's are doing it either because their old TV broke and it's the only thing available, or because they heard it was cool from a friend and wanted it for their Superbowl party. Either way, almost no one really understands it or even knows how to get the most out of all that resolution as it is NOW. We're talking people who buy 32" HDTV's and sit 10 feet away from them, thinking they're getting "high definition." We're talking people who hook up DVD (and even blu-ray) players to their HDTV's with composite cables. We're talking people who still have the same SD cable box they've had for years, thinking that the channels "really look better now in HD."
Joe isn't even ready for 1080p. This whole "let's add even MORE resolution" thing is just industry hype. It's Sony and Samsung thinking that if they just keep adding new gimmicks that people will constantly trade up their TV's like they trade up their computers. Joe Sixpack already has a perfectly good HDTV that he isn't even using to its full potential as it is, but they want him to go out and buy a TV with a resolution that he would need a magnifying glass to even appreciate. Welcome to America!
Sadly, you're right. My parents own a nice 1080p projector that's properly set up with a reasonable viewing distance. Neither of them can tell the difference between DVD, Bluray, digital SDTV, and HDTV sources. All those different resolutions look the same to them. Turns out they wasted a lot of cash on a 1080p projector when a 720p would have been just as good in their eyes.
Hopefully in 20 years when this lease expires I will be able to replace the system with one that will produce more power at a comparable price buying it outright without government rebates and hopefully the grid will have excess storage capacity in the form of large molten salt batteries to flatten out everyone's load without relying on power plants at night.
You forgot flying cars! In 20 years we should all have flying cars. And fusion. And holographic storage. And...
Good Riddance! Comics are for kids and community college geek crowd. I've never met an intelligent, adult geek who's into the stuff. How did it become such a geek stereotype?
After the oil spill incident I realized it doesnt matter who wins, they still follow orders of some other puppet master. For two months the POTUS didnt even comment on the spill let alone take action. It was if he was told to run interference. In 2003 our current president, then senator, was adamant against war in general. I truly believe he was against war. After 3 years the gitmo base is still open (something he was against), we still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. We supposedly announced troop withdraw in Iraq but the numbers are still much higher than their 2003 - 2006 levels pre-surge. Now we are in a third war in Lybia. In fact the president is blatantly violating the war powers act (60 days) by another 30 days and counting. The white house response? This isnt a war, its "kinetic military action". I kid you not, that was the word play used to side-step the constitution. This is not a warmonger, quite the opposite. For the current president to do the same sort of thing we blasted the previous president of doing, seems to prove they are just front-men for the real people calling the shots. The elections are just a competition to see who gets lifetime retirement benefits for a small length term.
Why all the wars? It's fairly obvious that the president (whoever is in there) has good information about how much oil is left in the world, better information that probably anyone else in the world, and he (whoever is in there) realizes that it's vital to do everything possible to make sure the USA is in control of as much of the world's oil as possible before the oil endgame begins.
Analyzing the behavior of nations in the early part of this century is a lot like analyzing the behavior of humans. With humans everything ultimately boils down to successful reproduction aka SEX. When analyzing the behavior of nations during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, everything is about OIL. Everything!
With the USA rapidly transitioning from a 1st World to a 2nd World country you could volunteer to do a wide variety of Geeky activities in various locations there. And, you'd speak the language perfectly and understand the culture as well. Help rural people far from major population centers to connect to the Internet (which is no longer a luxury but a necessity), install or repair radios and TVs and their antennas, or repair mechanical or electrical devices. Ditto for bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles. Help poor families set up solar or wind generated electric power to run various low powered communication devices, lights and fans. Recycle old desktops and laptops by repairing them and installing a Linux distro on them, along with any business, education or entertainment applications they might need or want. For the $1K-1.5K cost of a round trip air flight to Africa you could buy a lot of laptop and desktop parts and 4GB USB sticks. Remember, charity begins at home.
Volunteering in the USA doesn't have the same cachet as volunteering in Africa. Obligatory slashdot car analogy: OP asks how best to buy a Prius. You reply explaining that he can get the same mileage from a small, modern diesel.
If you have been living under a rock, you might not be aware that the next in the ongoing series of Avengers prequel movies came out this weekend
Living under a rock? How about this instead:
If you're a mature adult who ignores pop culture for the mindless, endlessly recycled drivel that it is, you might not be aware that the next in the ongoing series of Avengers prequel movies came out this weekend
I run a youth program. We have HD security cameras covering all of our premises (not the bathrooms). We have caught police misconduct more than once with those cameras.
Back in May we had a police officer from the next town over come in to "talk" with one of our teens about a crime that "they may have witnessed". When I got this call, my next call was to 911 to put on record that this was going to go on (standard policy for us, any time a police officer calls to interview a kid in our program, a staff member calls 911 to put it on the record. We find this stops a lot of police abuses, along with our ready access to lawyers). When the police officers came, the two of them tried to strong arm the kid out the door. We flatly refused to allow the teen to be taken to the police station to be questioned, and told the police officers that they would need to arrest the teen and read them their rights before we would allow them to leave (and that the teen was then invoking the right to a lawyer). They were not happy - they even accused me of not 'playing ball'.
When they started shoving the teen and talking about how the teen had just hit the officer (to be clear, the teen never touched the cop, the cops flatly made it up), and that was grounds for arrest, I physically stepped between the cops and the teen (I am 6'1, 220, a third degree black belt in Tie Kwan Do and like to lift weights) and informed them that the interview was over, and they were to leave. My volunteer assistant (who works part time as a judge at the state Department of Education!) called 911 at that point - calling 911 also activates the audio recording of all of our cameras, as well as an auto backup of our cameras to the law office next door.
Long story short, it was a weird stand off until local police arrived - the two cops having their hands on their guns, my telling them they had to leave or be escorted out. When local police arrived (with whom we have a generally good relationship) we informed them that our security cameras had caught the whole thing and we wanted the two cops arrested for assault. The first thing the local cops wanted to do was take the recording device and arrest the teen. When I said that it was no problem, our system recorded to three redundant devices, one of which is at our lawyers office, suddenly they didn't want to take the teen, and couldn't get out of their fast enough.
We sent a copy of the video to the DA's office, asking for an investigation, another copy went to the lawyer we set the family up with to represent this kid, and a third to the police department of the next town, with a letter from our lawyer stating that we would not allow any officer from their department to enter our premises or interview any of our kids without the programs lawyer present.
Yea, and just yesterday I was having sex with a dozen of my girlfriends when Santa and The Easter Bunny dropped by to do blow and jerk off unicorns. I have quite a few unicorns. Their barn is right behind the lake where my pet Pleseosaur hangs out.
I work for a company that develops neural network software which is used for face recognition on a number of airports. The problem we've had over and over again is that government officials and airport security personnel have great difficulty understanding some elementary statistics.
Let me give you an example. One version of the software offers 99.99% accuracy (symmetrical true positive and true negative), a number that always seems very impressive to various officials.
What they don't understand and what we have to remind them all the time is that they need to take into account the large number of faces that are scanned by the software and that a 0.01% false positive rate isn't something you can ignore.
For instance in a large airport that has say a million people getting scanned yearly it means that 100 people will be incorrectly flagged by the system. The prior probability that a traveler is a 'person of interest' is less than 1/100,000. Plugging the number into Bayes' theorem you get that when the system flags a passenger, the probability that the passenger was actually a person of interest is around 9%.
The officials typically only listen to the 99.99% figure and ignore the reality of the relatively large numbers of false positives when dealing with huge numbers of people. Subsequently they treat the people the systems flag much worse than they would if they realized that the probability of a 'catch' being correct was less than 10%. We've done our best to try to educate them but usually they don't want to listen as it's an uncomfortable truth and it's much more convenient to say that the system has an accuracy of 99.99%.
Stop selling them you shit software!
Think a minute before you serve up the tools needed for a authoritarian police state on a silver platter. Do you want to be responsible for the destruction of the last remaining bits of freedom in America? No? Then why are do doing it?
WTF? Is you effects software written in Javascript? Convolutions on an i7 should barely wake the CPU up let alone struggle. I think there is some sort of I/O problem instead. Does it use a frickin' spinning while() loop as a wait function for the next sample tick?
My musician friend regularly runs into limits doing audio work on his i7. He runs the premier DAW (digital audio workstation) software and uses only professional VST's so amateur code isn't the problem.
You seriously underestimate the math that needs to be done to do realtime audio production with synthesized and effected instruments.
You should argue for the raising of the age of majority, or whatever it is you use to define 'child'. I think this would be easy for most men, judging from what my wife says about men anyway.
When a woman complain that a man acts childish it means one of two things:
#1 He isn't doing the things I want him to do.
#2 He does things I don't approve of.
It's one of their methods of control. They use it to shame men into behaving the way THEY want us to behave.
If people choose to live out in the sticks, they should be forced the understand and pay for their services.
The people in the sticks grow the food you eat. You need them. It is not in your best interest to "incentivize" all of them into migrating to the cities. Your Randian ass would starve to death.
From my point of view, JS is a horrible kludge of compromises
You either don't know enough about javascript or aren't familiar with language design. Javascript itself is actually a very nice weakly typedprototype basedobject orientedfunctional language. Forget browsers and the DOM and all that stuff. That's not javascript. That's a very specific (and shitty) javascript runtime. Pure javascript aka ECMAScript is a nice little language with first class functions and closures. You can write in very elegant functional style that is immediately comfortable to Common Lisp hackers.
This is why men need a sphere our our own. All realms open to women are eventually forced to conform to womens' preferences. Women control "the home" (Wife Acceptance Factor.) They control what we do and say in the workplace (sexual harassment laws.) They control the media (can't have TV characters that are too attractive for fear of threatening jane sixpack.) They control the marketplace (they're the sole shopper for nearly all households.)
All men have left are sports and porn. Everything else has been feminized to hell and back.
Every time we establish a MAN FRIENDLY zone, women demand entry and proceed to fuck it all up.
One of their primary tactics, and sadly something that has been picked up by the male feminists, is to label behaviors they don't approve of as immature, childish, or offensive in an attempt to shame men into acting the way they want. The true definition of a "man child" is a guy do does a bunch of things women don't approve of and none of the things they want him to.
BluRay has to use HDCP for HD video, which pretty much mandates HDMI, so TV makers have put HDMI on TVs, and from there it became something of a home AV standard.
Wrong. DisplayPort can output an HDMI compatible bitstream with HDCP content protection.
Computer makers didn't need HDCP, so they went with the royalty-free solution,
No computer manufacturer in their right mind would sell a machine without the ability to do HDCP. That would mean their gear would never be able to play bluray discs.
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I'm part of the "demand out there for tablets." I haven't bought yet not because Android tablets aren't good enough but because they aren't cheap enough. When I can get a good tablet for $100 I'll buy one. My other requirements for a tablet: "not Apple" and "no monthly cell data fees."
Seriously, what has he personally done in the past 5 years other than fsck us with first Bitlocker and then Git,
What are you smoking? Git is THE single best thing to happen to version control in the entire history of version control. Have you even tried it?
200+ comments and no one has mentioned ReactOS. When ReactOS finally hits 1.0 Microsoft can kiss OEM sales bye-bye. Who in their right mind is going to shell out $200 for an OS that restricts installs and phones home when they can have a 100% Windows compatible OS for free?
Microsoft will make you care, by withholding DX12 and perhaps later IE releases, the same thing they did when Vista was first released.
No one cares about DX11 today. Why would they care about DX12 any time soon? Most games are console ports. Until the a new round of consoles come out with DX12 no one cares.
IE? Seriously? No one cares about IE.
Outside of the MS fanclub the Windows 8 release will be a big yawn.
Affirmative Action doesn't hand the student a degree, it just gets them in the school. Just because someone was born into a shitty situation doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same opportunities as the upper class who never have to worry about discrimination.
There were lots of affirmative action type things that were available to "minorities" in my University. I put minorities in quotes because a number of these things were targeted towards women and they are absolutely not a minority, arguably a disadvantaged class at best.
There were free tutors, special grants, special programs, etc. There was one summer program where engineering teams could receive an additional $3,000 in no strings funding if they had one or more women on the team.
Then there are the usual freebies available to women everywhere. Need help with your project or your problem set? There's an endless supply of free help from sexually frustrated male engineering students all too eager for female attention.
For the record I don't necessarily agree with the grandparent's supposition. I'm merely pointing out that the affirmative action stuff doesn't end at upon admission. Quite the opposite.
A group of people that attempt to break away from the US really don't have a viable shot at succeeding until they can credibly threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in the US mainland -- in DC or NYC or someplace like that.
Once that capability is beleived (by uncle sam) to exist, such a break-away non-state can actually say "leave us alone" and have it stick.
They would never get nuclear capability. The second they made a move towards acquiring nuclear goodies they would be pummeled into the ocean. You don't actually believe that these places would be beyond the reach of the world's intelligence agencies do you? The CIA would have moles in every one of them from day one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
I would venture to guess that 80%-90% of the people buying HDTV's are doing it either because their old TV broke and it's the only thing available, or because they heard it was cool from a friend and wanted it for their Superbowl party. Either way, almost no one really understands it or even knows how to get the most out of all that resolution as it is NOW. We're talking people who buy 32" HDTV's and sit 10 feet away from them, thinking they're getting "high definition." We're talking people who hook up DVD (and even blu-ray) players to their HDTV's with composite cables. We're talking people who still have the same SD cable box they've had for years, thinking that the channels "really look better now in HD."
Joe isn't even ready for 1080p. This whole "let's add even MORE resolution" thing is just industry hype. It's Sony and Samsung thinking that if they just keep adding new gimmicks that people will constantly trade up their TV's like they trade up their computers. Joe Sixpack already has a perfectly good HDTV that he isn't even using to its full potential as it is, but they want him to go out and buy a TV with a resolution that he would need a magnifying glass to even appreciate. Welcome to America!
Sadly, you're right. My parents own a nice 1080p projector that's properly set up with a reasonable viewing distance. Neither of them can tell the difference between DVD, Bluray, digital SDTV, and HDTV sources. All those different resolutions look the same to them. Turns out they wasted a lot of cash on a 1080p projector when a 720p would have been just as good in their eyes.
Hopefully in 20 years when this lease expires I will be able to replace the system with one that will produce more power at a comparable price buying it outright without government rebates and hopefully the grid will have excess storage capacity in the form of large molten salt batteries to flatten out everyone's load without relying on power plants at night.
You forgot flying cars! In 20 years we should all have flying cars. And fusion. And holographic storage. And...
Good Riddance! Comics are for kids and community college geek crowd. I've never met an intelligent, adult geek who's into the stuff. How did it become such a geek stereotype?
I firmly believe that the Tea Party movement was engineered by the Republicans
In other news: Water is wet. The sky is blue and bears do shit in the woods.
Maybe someone should give you a pony too.
I'm in for one of those free ponies. PM me.
After the oil spill incident I realized it doesnt matter who wins, they still follow orders of some other puppet master. For two months the POTUS didnt even comment on the spill let alone take action. It was if he was told to run interference. In 2003 our current president, then senator, was adamant against war in general. I truly believe he was against war. After 3 years the gitmo base is still open (something he was against), we still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. We supposedly announced troop withdraw in Iraq but the numbers are still much higher than their 2003 - 2006 levels pre-surge. Now we are in a third war in Lybia. In fact the president is blatantly violating the war powers act (60 days) by another 30 days and counting. The white house response? This isnt a war, its "kinetic military action". I kid you not, that was the word play used to side-step the constitution. This is not a warmonger, quite the opposite. For the current president to do the same sort of thing we blasted the previous president of doing, seems to prove they are just front-men for the real people calling the shots. The elections are just a competition to see who gets lifetime retirement benefits for a small length term.
Why all the wars? It's fairly obvious that the president (whoever is in there) has good information about how much oil is left in the world, better information that probably anyone else in the world, and he (whoever is in there) realizes that it's vital to do everything possible to make sure the USA is in control of as much of the world's oil as possible before the oil endgame begins.
Analyzing the behavior of nations in the early part of this century is a lot like analyzing the behavior of humans. With humans everything ultimately boils down to successful reproduction aka SEX. When analyzing the behavior of nations during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, everything is about OIL. Everything!
With the USA rapidly transitioning from a 1st World to a 2nd World country you could volunteer to do a wide variety of Geeky activities in various locations there. And, you'd speak the language perfectly and understand the culture as well. Help rural people far from major population centers to connect to the Internet (which is no longer a luxury but a necessity), install or repair radios and TVs and their antennas, or repair mechanical or electrical devices. Ditto for bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles. Help poor families set up solar or wind generated electric power to run various low powered communication devices, lights and fans. Recycle old desktops and laptops by repairing them and installing a Linux distro on them, along with any business, education or entertainment applications they might need or want. For the $1K-1.5K cost of a round trip air flight to Africa you could buy a lot of laptop and desktop parts and 4GB USB sticks. Remember, charity begins at home.
Volunteering in the USA doesn't have the same cachet as volunteering in Africa. Obligatory slashdot car analogy: OP asks how best to buy a Prius. You reply explaining that he can get the same mileage from a small, modern diesel.
If you have been living under a rock, you might not be aware that the next in the ongoing series of Avengers prequel movies came out this weekend
Living under a rock? How about this instead:
If you're a mature adult who ignores pop culture for the mindless, endlessly recycled drivel that it is, you might not be aware that the next in the ongoing series of Avengers prequel movies came out this weekend
I run a youth program. We have HD security cameras covering all of our premises (not the bathrooms). We have caught police misconduct more than once with those cameras.
Back in May we had a police officer from the next town over come in to "talk" with one of our teens about a crime that "they may have witnessed". When I got this call, my next call was to 911 to put on record that this was going to go on (standard policy for us, any time a police officer calls to interview a kid in our program, a staff member calls 911 to put it on the record. We find this stops a lot of police abuses, along with our ready access to lawyers). When the police officers came, the two of them tried to strong arm the kid out the door. We flatly refused to allow the teen to be taken to the police station to be questioned, and told the police officers that they would need to arrest the teen and read them their rights before we would allow them to leave (and that the teen was then invoking the right to a lawyer). They were not happy - they even accused me of not 'playing ball'.
When they started shoving the teen and talking about how the teen had just hit the officer (to be clear, the teen never touched the cop, the cops flatly made it up), and that was grounds for arrest, I physically stepped between the cops and the teen (I am 6'1, 220, a third degree black belt in Tie Kwan Do and like to lift weights) and informed them that the interview was over, and they were to leave. My volunteer assistant (who works part time as a judge at the state Department of Education!) called 911 at that point - calling 911 also activates the audio recording of all of our cameras, as well as an auto backup of our cameras to the law office next door.
Long story short, it was a weird stand off until local police arrived - the two cops having their hands on their guns, my telling them they had to leave or be escorted out. When local police arrived (with whom we have a generally good relationship) we informed them that our security cameras had caught the whole thing and we wanted the two cops arrested for assault. The first thing the local cops wanted to do was take the recording device and arrest the teen. When I said that it was no problem, our system recorded to three redundant devices, one of which is at our lawyers office, suddenly they didn't want to take the teen, and couldn't get out of their fast enough.
We sent a copy of the video to the DA's office, asking for an investigation, another copy went to the lawyer we set the family up with to represent this kid, and a third to the police department of the next town, with a letter from our lawyer stating that we would not allow any officer from their department to enter our premises or interview any of our kids without the programs lawyer present.
Yea, and just yesterday I was having sex with a dozen of my girlfriends when Santa and The Easter Bunny dropped by to do blow and jerk off unicorns. I have quite a few unicorns. Their barn is right behind the lake where my pet Pleseosaur hangs out.
What's funny is that you were being a douche, got called on it, and somehow feel you're the victim.
What part of the 1st amendment says that freedom of speech only applies if you're not being a douche?
I work for a company that develops neural network software which is used for face recognition on a number of airports. The problem we've had over and over again is that government officials and airport security personnel have great difficulty understanding some elementary statistics.
Let me give you an example. One version of the software offers 99.99% accuracy (symmetrical true positive and true negative), a number that always seems very impressive to various officials.
What they don't understand and what we have to remind them all the time is that they need to take into account the large number of faces that are scanned by the software and that a 0.01% false positive rate isn't something you can ignore.
For instance in a large airport that has say a million people getting scanned yearly it means that 100 people will be incorrectly flagged by the system. The prior probability that a traveler is a 'person of interest' is less than 1/100,000. Plugging the number into Bayes' theorem you get that when the system flags a passenger, the probability that the passenger was actually a person of interest is around 9%.
The officials typically only listen to the 99.99% figure and ignore the reality of the relatively large numbers of false positives when dealing with huge numbers of people. Subsequently they treat the people the systems flag much worse than they would if they realized that the probability of a 'catch' being correct was less than 10%. We've done our best to try to educate them but usually they don't want to listen as it's an uncomfortable truth and it's much more convenient to say that the system has an accuracy of 99.99%.
Stop selling them you shit software!
Think a minute before you serve up the tools needed for a authoritarian police state on a silver platter. Do you want to be responsible for the destruction of the last remaining bits of freedom in America? No? Then why are do doing it?
WTF? Is you effects software written in Javascript? Convolutions on an i7 should barely wake the CPU up let alone struggle. I think there is some sort of I/O problem instead. Does it use a frickin' spinning while() loop as a wait function for the next sample tick?
My musician friend regularly runs into limits doing audio work on his i7. He runs the premier DAW (digital audio workstation) software and uses only professional VST's so amateur code isn't the problem.
You seriously underestimate the math that needs to be done to do realtime audio production with synthesized and effected instruments.
You should argue for the raising of the age of majority, or whatever it is you use to define 'child'. I think this would be easy for most men, judging from what my wife says about men anyway.
When a woman complain that a man acts childish it means one of two things:
#1 He isn't doing the things I want him to do.
#2 He does things I don't approve of.
It's one of their methods of control. They use it to shame men into behaving the way THEY want us to behave.
If people choose to live out in the sticks, they should be forced the understand and pay for their services.
The people in the sticks grow the food you eat. You need them. It is not in your best interest to "incentivize" all of them into migrating to the cities. Your Randian ass would starve to death.
Linked lists. Recursion. .
What???? Are you saying that you can't write a linked list or do recursion in javascript?
oh god no.
JS is a HORRIBLE language to teach newbies.
From my point of view, JS is a horrible kludge of compromises
You either don't know enough about javascript or aren't familiar with language design. Javascript itself is actually a very nice weakly typed prototype based object oriented functional language. Forget browsers and the DOM and all that stuff. That's not javascript. That's a very specific (and shitty) javascript runtime. Pure javascript aka ECMAScript is a nice little language with first class functions and closures. You can write in very elegant functional style that is immediately comfortable to Common Lisp hackers.
This is why men need a sphere our our own. All realms open to women are eventually forced to conform to womens' preferences. Women control "the home" (Wife Acceptance Factor.) They control what we do and say in the workplace (sexual harassment laws.) They control the media (can't have TV characters that are too attractive for fear of threatening jane sixpack.) They control the marketplace (they're the sole shopper for nearly all households.)
All men have left are sports and porn. Everything else has been feminized to hell and back.
Every time we establish a MAN FRIENDLY zone, women demand entry and proceed to fuck it all up.
One of their primary tactics, and sadly something that has been picked up by the male feminists, is to label behaviors they don't approve of as immature, childish, or offensive in an attempt to shame men into acting the way they want. The true definition of a "man child" is a guy do does a bunch of things women don't approve of and none of the things they want him to.
BluRay has to use HDCP for HD video, which pretty much mandates HDMI, so TV makers have put HDMI on TVs, and from there it became something of a home AV standard.
Wrong. DisplayPort can output an HDMI compatible bitstream with HDCP content protection.
Computer makers didn't need HDCP, so they went with the royalty-free solution,
No computer manufacturer in their right mind would sell a machine without the ability to do HDCP. That would mean their gear would never be able to play bluray discs.