In most ways (no explicit integer type being an exception) Javascript is a remarkable and beautiful language. It has libraries available on a server near you through Dojo, among others. Javascript is one of the best things about browsers.
What browsers need is a workable CSS and DOM interface (although the DOM interface has improved in recent years). But these are not issues with Javascript per se. Cleaning up the browser programming environment is not about getting rid of Javascript.
From TFA: """ anyway, just thought there might be people who would be intrigued (or horrified enough to care what's being done in the name of computer science) by either of these projects. """
Not horrified, but I wonder if W3C politics is creating unforeseen consequences.
The Intro to Programming course I took at Indiana University (a few years ago) taught the basics of programming in Pascal followed by 2 weeks or so of FORTRAN. Both languages are primitive compared to modern languages. But I learned the basic idea of programming, which is still exciting to me, and the lesson that learning a new language is not so difficult and well worth the effort.
I used both languages as an undergraduate: FORTRAN in part time jobs in the chemistry department and Pascal for an undergraduate thesis project.
I'd like to give a plug for Javascript as an intro language. The language itself (not the browser DOM) is extremely simple and surprisingly powerful, with OO, C syntax, type, functional, and imperative aspects. Perhaps a version with an integer type could be used for practical considerations.
In my opinion the current practice of teaching Java to new students is a mistake, but then again I think any use of Java is a mistake.
I implemented swish-e, http://swish-e.org/ for a client with html and.pdf indexing (nightly) in 11 hours from a standing start (never used swish-e before).
From the discussion in these news reports it seems that the findings can be explained by a much smaller event in which the impactor struck the coastline or an estuary since both onshore and marine debris was found (actually it wasn't specified if the shells were marine or freshwater). A much larger meteorite would be needed to generate a tsunami and this would have created debris layers over a much greater area.
The OP is hilarious. It has _Nothing_ to do with the PNAS article http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/09/03/0802841105). In fact the PNAS article is only useful or interesting to a handful of people who model the global carbon cycle over the history of the earth, most of whom are members of the NAS.
Half the blame lies with the ScienceDaily piece that misconstrued the PNAS article, possible for the purpose of a titillating headline.
Coincidentally, I used to work in the lab of the sponsoring editor of the PNAS article. Hi John.
Samsung registers are reliable for a client of mine with about 20 stores, 1-3 registers per store. I think the polling software is MS. It creates text files that my SW parses into a DB. Reporting is all open source (mostly Perl).
This line of thinking perpetuates the two party duopoly. With strategic voting - advocated self-servingly by both major parties - we do not know who Americans really want for president (or any other office).
"We have good images of a couple dozen objects like this, and for about one in 10, we see something we've never seen before," said Mike Nolan, head of radar astronomy at the Arecibo Observatory. "We really haven't sampled the population enough to know what's out there."
As a casual The GIMPer I don't personally have any problems with it, but given the posts it seems that the current UI has a lot of warts (eg filebrowser unfriendliness).
Why not fix the warts rather than start over and generate a new set of warts?
If someone has great UI ideas, fine, but why look for trouble? Don't The GIMP developers have enough to do?
I like the laid-back objects that JS provides. Just reference an attribute and it exists. Simple as can be. You can be informal or rigorous as you like. Closures, functions as arguments, all with a very small vocabulary.
If JS had an integer type I'd consider using it for server-side scripting.
For drugs marketed in the US, approval is based on clinical trials carried out to US regulations. Regulations in EU, Australia, Japan, Canada are very similar. Drug trials on prisoners will be of no help in gaining marketing approval in the developed world.
This extends the overridden XMLHttpRequest with methods to invoke server scripts with generalized get and post methods and easy-to-use form-based get and post methods.
There's a new approach to the n-body problem part of this. They're using quantities related to impulse instead of time to step between iterations of simulations. This can yield O(N) computational cost.
Gillette (maker of Duracell batteries) has an agreement with Mechanical Technologies to manufacture and market methanol fuel cells.
Contrary to the implied assertion in the original post, Mechanical Technologies continues to pursue fuel cells. Their initial market is the US military, to replace personal and logistical batteries.
I'm an adult amateur athlete (ultimate), and it's either a hassle or not possible to get lights for weekday evening play in the winter. I get more exercise with DST, presumably saving health care dollars as well. This is a latitude-specific solution, but here in North Carolina USA we could play more than 10 months of the year if we only had DST in the Winter.
I attended a lecture about by Stephen J.Gould, evolutionary biologist, a number of years ago. He's into punctuated equilibrium and paleontology, among other things, and was talking about a precambrian phylogenetic radiation (I forget the name of it... had to do with a fossiliferrous rock formation). Anyway, most if not all of the body forms in this group (some quite bizzare) were flat. I asked if this wasn't due to sedimentary compression. He responded that it wasn't, although I didn't think he backed up this answer well.
But now I see... a large group of alien-looking flat lifeforms deposited in a limited geographic area of earth 500 million years ago... many gigantic high-gravity edens... Call up Gillian.. we've got the proof she needs!
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In most ways (no explicit integer type being an exception) Javascript is a remarkable and beautiful language. It has libraries available on a server near you through Dojo, among others. Javascript is one of the best things about browsers.
What browsers need is a workable CSS and DOM interface (although the DOM interface has improved in recent years). But these are not issues with Javascript per se. Cleaning up the browser programming environment is not about getting rid of Javascript.
From TFA: """
anyway, just thought there might be people who would be intrigued (or
horrified enough to care what's being done in the name of computer
science) by either of these projects.
"""
Not horrified, but I wonder if W3C politics is creating unforeseen consequences.
We use Bazaar at ringdevelopment.com. Works fine for us, seems less labor intensive than svn.
The Intro to Programming course I took at Indiana University (a few years ago) taught the basics of programming in Pascal followed by 2 weeks or so of FORTRAN. Both languages are primitive compared to modern languages. But I learned the basic idea of programming, which is still exciting to me, and the lesson that learning a new language is not so difficult and well worth the effort.
I used both languages as an undergraduate: FORTRAN in part time jobs in the chemistry department and Pascal for an undergraduate thesis project.
I'd like to give a plug for Javascript as an intro language. The language itself (not the browser DOM) is extremely simple and surprisingly powerful, with OO, C syntax, type, functional, and imperative aspects. Perhaps a version with an integer type could be used for practical considerations.
In my opinion the current practice of teaching Java to new students is a mistake, but then again I think any use of Java is a mistake.
I implemented swish-e, http://swish-e.org/ for a client with html and .pdf indexing (nightly) in 11 hours from a standing start (never used swish-e before).
It was likely a meteorite, see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081231-new-york-tsunami.html This is discussed in TFA.
From the discussion in these news reports it seems that the findings can be explained by a much smaller event in which the impactor struck the coastline or an estuary since both onshore and marine debris was found (actually it wasn't specified if the shells were marine or freshwater). A much larger meteorite would be needed to generate a tsunami and this would have created debris layers over a much greater area.
This brings to mind that with 7 digit /. accounts deaths of account holders must happen several times a week.
Does this mean that no-one but Bill G. can bleep words?
If so this is a 20 year release from censorship.
The OP is hilarious. It has _Nothing_ to do with the PNAS article http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/09/03/0802841105). In fact the PNAS article is only useful or interesting to a handful of people who model the global carbon cycle over the history of the earth, most of whom are members of the NAS.
Half the blame lies with the ScienceDaily piece that misconstrued the PNAS article, possible for the purpose of a titillating headline.
Coincidentally, I used to work in the lab of the sponsoring editor of the PNAS article. Hi John.
eg http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.1.1/dojo/dojo.xd.js
This is really fast - I think they cache on distributed servers. Much faster than from my own server.
Anybody have more info on this? Is Google going to do something similar? Is AOL harvesting data on my clients' users?
Samsung registers are reliable for a client of mine with about 20 stores, 1-3 registers per store. I think the polling software is MS. It creates text files that my SW parses into a DB. Reporting is all open source (mostly Perl).
int, uint, long - now we can deal with currencies. I never understood the lack of explicit integer types in js. What was the idea behind that?
Also, the TFA link to the ECMA site is down and does not go to an authoritative document anyway. Try http://www.ecmascript.org/es4/spec/overview.pdf
How will this affect libraries such as Dojo? My first thought is that browser support will be even more complex and make libraries more necessary.
This line of thinking perpetuates the two party duopoly. With strategic voting - advocated self-servingly by both major parties - we do not know who Americans really want for president (or any other office).
A system of Instant Run Off voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting or Condorcet voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method would eliminate the "spoiler effect" and might weaken the grip the major parties have on our government and treasury.
From TFA:
"We have good images of a couple dozen objects like this, and for about one in 10, we see something we've never seen before," said Mike Nolan, head of radar astronomy at the Arecibo Observatory. "We really haven't sampled the population enough to know what's out there."
As a casual The GIMPer I don't personally have any problems with it, but given the posts it seems that the current UI has a lot of warts (eg filebrowser unfriendliness).
Why not fix the warts rather than start over and generate a new set of warts?
If someone has great UI ideas, fine, but why look for trouble? Don't The GIMP developers have enough to do?
I like the laid-back objects that JS provides. Just reference an attribute and it exists. Simple as can be. You can be informal or rigorous as you like. Closures, functions as arguments, all with a very small vocabulary.
If JS had an integer type I'd consider using it for server-side scripting.
to women under 30.
For drugs marketed in the US, approval is based on clinical trials carried out to US regulations. Regulations in EU, Australia, Japan, Canada are very similar. Drug trials on prisoners will be of no help in gaining marketing approval in the developed world.
This extends the overridden XMLHttpRequest with methods to invoke server scripts with generalized get and post methods and easy-to-use form-based get and post methods.
There's a new approach to the n-body problem part of this. They're using quantities related to impulse instead of time to step between iterations of simulations. This can yield O(N) computational cost.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nbody/
I use my SL-6000 daily.
My company (Ring Associates) provided a gratis 1040EZ calculating pdf form last year, http://www.ringllc.com/pdf.shtml).
Note that this does not do the tax calculation, although we're considering adding that next year.
Gillette (maker of Duracell batteries) has an agreement with Mechanical Technologies to manufacture and market methanol fuel cells.
Contrary to the implied assertion in the original post, Mechanical Technologies continues to pursue fuel cells. Their initial market is the US military, to replace personal and logistical batteries.
Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) could wean us off of the oil that ultimately funds terrorists. The technology is ready & sold in Europe.
PHEVs have much more potential than DST changes.
Why isn't the US government pushing these?
I'm an adult amateur athlete (ultimate), and it's either a hassle or not possible to get lights for weekday evening play in the winter. I get more exercise with DST, presumably saving health care dollars as well. This is a latitude-specific solution, but here in North Carolina USA we could play more than 10 months of the year if we only had DST in the Winter.
DST All Year!
But now I see... a large group of alien-looking flat lifeforms deposited in a limited geographic area of earth 500 million years ago... many gigantic high-gravity edens... Call up Gillian.. we've got the proof she needs!