According to your own link, all languages have features that can be described as making the language suck. JavaScript is exactly the same as the rest of the pack on this regard, which was my point. Just say you don't like it, no need to jump ship and claim the language "suck".
34 bullet points for JS, 59 for PHP, 16 for Perl, 30 for Ruby, 33 for C++, 40 for Java.... well, some languages are getting more attention than others. Where's Haskell?
Can you point to specifics? The fact that the "==" and "?" operators don"t work as you would expect in another language doesn't means the language is garbage. It just mean you didn't get it.
You said that "Congress banned the importing or making of MiniDisc players until they implemented a DRM system that limited copying" which implied in my mind that the mini disc were released in Japan before the US, and unless SONY devised their DRM scheme in three weeks - highly doubtful IMO - the Wikipedia article disproved your point (Japan November, US December). Maybe there is some data missing in the Wikipedia Article after all since it doesn't mention any of this at all.
big O has almost nothing to do with the language but with the algorithms you're using. To some degree, the default implementation of some libraries could bite you in the ass, but those libraries are so basic that they can be rewritten pretty quickly.
Hmmm... javascript is pretty much the exact opposite of lock in. It is the closest a language has really come to being "write once run anywhere". Even most node.js stuff runs in the browser and vis versa with ease.
Hmmm. So many wrongs here, I don't really know where to start. The problem with "write once run everywhere" is that it does not only depends on the runtime, but most of all on the APIs. And there, JavaScript is dangerously close to be the worst offender.
I have programmed with JavaScript. While its usage in browsers make it a PITA, the language in itself is half decent and have some serious merits over any other languages I've tried so far.
Advocating it for newbies that want to write apps for Gnome seems entirely reasonable to me. Now try to be constructive and tell me why it's such a bad idea to promote JavaScript for beginners.
As a side note, when you're using the word "fuck" every other sentence, you get modded Flamebait for a very good reason. No need for shills here.
Modding up a comment is for the rest of us to be able to see when browsing at an acceptable level, not to give Karma. Heck, if it was to give Karma, there would be no point in modding anything "+1, Funny"
CDGuru stated "Around 1993 the first CD recorder was introduced but it cost around $50,000"
I think that is in direct contradiction with the wikipedia article that claimed: "By 1992 the cost of typical recorders was down to $10–12,000" and "CD-R recording systems available in 1990 were..."
CD-R dates back to 1990 while the MiniDisc was first introduced in 1992 (unless Wikipedia is wrong, that is). It was also apparently released in Japan 1 month before the US release, which points to your story being bullshit or at least wildly inaccurate.
As far as gaping holes are concerned, this system is probably not in the worst 50%. That said you are correct, but real world is always going to leave some holes in anything we try to regulate.
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Let me know when you've managed to convince the major OS developers to use a portable container, common SDK and common glucode scripting language.
Don't hold your breath though, or the joke is on you.
Basically, you need to go live in a cabin in the woods.
I saw the movie. No thanks.
Huh? What are you implying by "excellent security history"? That there wasn't many holes discovered?
Hint: If someone was looking for them, there may have been holes discovered.
You have an unbalanced parenthesis. You will be terminated shortly. Resistance is futile.
Where we're going, we don't need roads!
Push it further: We don't need.
You aren't much into the MPAA's business model are you? The only thing the MPAA creates it wealth for itself.
According to your own link, all languages have features that can be described as making the language suck. JavaScript is exactly the same as the rest of the pack on this regard, which was my point. Just say you don't like it, no need to jump ship and claim the language "suck".
34 bullet points for JS, 59 for PHP, 16 for Perl, 30 for Ruby, 33 for C++, 40 for Java.... well, some languages are getting more attention than others. Where's Haskell?
Can you point to specifics? The fact that the "==" and "?" operators don"t work as you would expect in another language doesn't means the language is garbage. It just mean you didn't get it.
Ok, my bad, I didn't know about the CORS headers.
Thanks for the info.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/XMLHttpRequest
XMLHttpRequest.mozSystem -- Read only -- boolean -- If true, the same origin policy will not be enforced on the request.
It is false by default in every release of the browser I could get my hands on.
XMLHttpRequest is bound by the same origin policy. It *cannot*call everywhere you want it to, only your domain.
<script>
var e = document.createElement("script");
e.src="http://wherever/whatever";
document.appendChild(e);
</script>
Working fine in IE since 1999, and in every browser ever since - not Netscape 4.x though.
VP8 has considerably less hardware support, making it much much more battery consuming than H264 (the accelerated version that is)
Ah, it's you, sorry about the confusion...
You said that "Congress banned the importing or making of MiniDisc players until they implemented a DRM system that limited copying" which implied in my mind that the mini disc were released in Japan before the US, and unless SONY devised their DRM scheme in three weeks - highly doubtful IMO - the Wikipedia article disproved your point (Japan November, US December). Maybe there is some data missing in the Wikipedia Article after all since it doesn't mention any of this at all.
big O has almost nothing to do with the language but with the algorithms you're using. To some degree, the default implementation of some libraries could bite you in the ass, but those libraries are so basic that they can be rewritten pretty quickly.
Hmmm... javascript is pretty much the exact opposite of lock in. It is the closest a language has really come to being "write once run anywhere". Even most node.js stuff runs in the browser and vis versa with ease.
Hmmm. So many wrongs here, I don't really know where to start. The problem with "write once run everywhere" is that it does not only depends on the runtime, but most of all on the APIs. And there, JavaScript is dangerously close to be the worst offender.
I have programmed with JavaScript. While its usage in browsers make it a PITA, the language in itself is half decent and have some serious merits over any other languages I've tried so far.
Advocating it for newbies that want to write apps for Gnome seems entirely reasonable to me. Now try to be constructive and tell me why it's such a bad idea to promote JavaScript for beginners.
As a side note, when you're using the word "fuck" every other sentence, you get modded Flamebait for a very good reason. No need for shills here.
Modding up a comment is for the rest of us to be able to see when browsing at an acceptable level, not to give Karma. Heck, if it was to give Karma, there would be no point in modding anything "+1, Funny"
CDGuru stated "Around 1993 the first CD recorder was introduced but it cost around $50,000"
I think that is in direct contradiction with the wikipedia article that claimed: "By 1992 the cost of typical recorders was down to $10–12,000" and "CD-R recording systems available in 1990 were..."
Did you somehow miss that?
Then the Wikipedia link I provided for your reading is completely and utterly wrong. I suggest you go and edit it.
CD-R dates back to 1990 while the MiniDisc was first introduced in 1992 (unless Wikipedia is wrong, that is). It was also apparently released in Japan 1 month before the US release, which points to your story being bullshit or at least wildly inaccurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R
Unfortunately, he predicted 20 out of the last 2 recessions.
That was funny shame it was posted as AC :)
Huh? Why is it a shame?
Have you ever read anything "dilbert" ?
As far as gaping holes are concerned, this system is probably not in the worst 50%. That said you are correct, but real world is always going to leave some holes in anything we try to regulate.
Not only that, but Microsoft NEEDED Apple to do well in order to claim they didn't have a monopoly. Bill Gates felt no pity for Apple.