Out of curiosity, why? It would seem to me that this (C#):
(x, y) => x + y
is much preferable to this (JS):
function(x, y) { return x + y; }
and is syntactically sugarlicious in JS 1.8 (MDC link):
function(x, y) x + y
In the SSJS space, some frameworks support more recent JS specifications which include some more interesting language capabilities than lambda syntax. One of my favorites is destructuring assignment which is used often with the require() function in a way similar to Java's import statement.
Why all the talk about T-Mobile not letting you do something. They don't have any claims over the software platform. Android will be soon be shipping on a variety of wireless carriers' phones.
Can anyone fill the Joker's shoes?
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But you're right about the continuity. It'll unfortunately have to happen again with Heath Ledger.
Can this really happen>
It is certainly a character that can be physically replaced since you could barely tell it was Heath Ledger, but after that stirring performance and the tragic death, who would _want_ to try to be the next Joker? They would have to have balls of steel (no, that's a different superhero) to set themselves up to comparison to Heath's Joker.
Interesting stuff..
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Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge
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Federal Universal Service Fund
11.4%
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$0.00
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Going to the moon could be big business if the whole Helium3 thing works out. The USA should be joining international efforts to build a shared moonbase.
Save the planet, etc.
Big business and a potentially earth-shaking energy find in Helium-3 is precisely why there will never be a "shared moonbase". If the current US administration's plan is to build a base on the moon to reach Mars, they really are dumber than a box of moon rocks.
Buried in the 200 objectives (CNN News)for a US moonbase is mining Helium-3. Hell, I would probably support the idea 100% if the government would just come out and say this is the primary goal.
Has any government with sights on the moon (Russia, Japan, USA, India, China) come out and said it is primarily for Helium-3?
When we set out to design our latest web application where I work, I patterned it after some of the GUI concepts found in Microsoft Money 2000 and Windows XP. I had noticed from using these applications that business processes were presented to the user as clear tasks. Instead of OK buttons, I was seeing "Add New User" buttons. Things are getting more descriptive with paragraphs of instructional text and clear dialog titles. I think our new application ended up being more usable by following some of these general approaches.
It wasn't until a couple weeks ago that I realized Microsoft had coined the term Inductive User Interface to describe the design. This article introduces the concepts and gives some crude useability testing results.
Do any of the online photo services (ofoto, snapfish, etc.) provide an SDK that would let developers bundle professional photo printing capabilities into custom software or web sites? I would like to host photos on my website using some custom software I wrote (or any of the hundreds of PHP-based alternatives), but I want family and friends to be able to order printed copies of the photos.
I realize that I can upload the photos to one of these services, but I would prefer to upload the photo to the service on-demand.
Adobe Photoshop Album provides this service in their software package using a wizard, but they probably deal with different business development people than Joe Schmo sharing photos with his friends.
For those of you who can't keep track of the name of this browser from month to month comes a plugin that will randomly generate a new name for the browser...all beginning with fire!
Firesomething extension
Support for UDF?
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I'm still waiting for the OS X Hack that will allow me to read and write to a UDF-formatted CD-R. You know, the kind that Direct CD and Windows XP create that allows you to treat a CD-R/CD-RW as a big floppy disc.
Despite OS X having a mount_udf command, it seems that it doesn't support these types of discs yet.
I have been a long time PC user who really likes the Windows XP interface and platform. I code Java for a living mostly on Windows machines, and deploy on IBM AIX. I have been running a small business Linux server for about three years.
When I first saw the 800Mhz TiBooks, it was love at first sight. I rationalized that since they were running OS X and now Unix based, it was time for me to give it a chance. I used the OS for 9 months and found it to be very frustrating, and I am an adaptable guy. I even attended the weekly Apple Store classes to learn and pick the brains of the Macopian staff.
I soon realized that the Mac had horrible file management support. The Finder in OS X is a joke (I hear it was better in OS 9), and not being able to create a directory in the save as dialog was paralyzing. My favorite IDE (intelliJ Idea) had moved on to JDK 1.4 and Apple was languishing far behind in their delivery of a current JDK. Various utilities that I think are essential to my work (WinZip, TextPad) did not have suitable OS X approximations. The lack of a start menu and context menus are a throwback. You will never convince me that these functions don't increase a user's mobility in a system. Also the single menu bar!? The mac makes me feel like I am working with only one program at a time.
When YellowDog recently announced YDL 3.0, I didn't hesitate to pay for the package in order to get it from their YDL.NET site before it was available for general download. Once I downloaded ISO's that passed the checksum, installation proceeded painlessly.
The rich set of applications I now have are truly need to haves. Their have been issues along the way, and I could document a bunch of them, but I haven't had any of the problems the coward referred to.
I dual-boot *and* run mac-on-linux. I spend most of my time in YDL, but I don't have to miss iTunes, Sherlock, or even Safari since they are a virtual desktop away.
PS: Big Linux PPC issues -- no Flash (some would say a good thing, until it is really needed), and difficult hardware support for Firewire drives. I wish that the entire Mac System Preferences was cloned for the PPC.
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Out of curiosity, why? It would seem to me that this (C#):
is much preferable to this (JS):
and is syntactically sugarlicious in JS 1.8 (MDC link) :
In the SSJS space, some frameworks support more recent JS specifications which include some more interesting language capabilities than lambda syntax. One of my favorites is destructuring assignment which is used often with the require() function in a way similar to Java's import statement.
New in JavaScript 1.7
New in JavaScript 1.8
I thought that was why Jack Black was invented?
The Palm Pre on Sprint does roam on Verizon's network, but the data plan does not. Without a data plan, the Palm Pre is comparable to the Jitterbug.
Why all the talk about T-Mobile not letting you do something. They don't have any claims over the software platform. Android will be soon be shipping on a variety of wireless carriers' phones.
But you're right about the continuity. It'll unfortunately have to happen again with Heath Ledger.
Can this really happen>
It is certainly a character that can be physically replaced since you could barely tell it was Heath Ledger, but after that stirring performance and the tragic death, who would _want_ to try to be the next Joker? They would have to have balls of steel (no, that's a different superhero) to set themselves up to comparison to Heath's Joker.
Interesting stuff.. State OHIO Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge 1.25 Federal Universal Service Fund 11.4% State Universal Service Fund $0.00 Other AT&T Surcharges 0.00%
Big business and a potentially earth-shaking energy find in Helium-3 is precisely why there will never be a "shared moonbase". If the current US administration's plan is to build a base on the moon to reach Mars, they really are dumber than a box of moon rocks.
Buried in the 200 objectives (CNN News)for a US moonbase is mining Helium-3. Hell, I would probably support the idea 100% if the government would just come out and say this is the primary goal.
Has any government with sights on the moon (Russia, Japan, USA, India, China) come out and said it is primarily for Helium-3?
When we set out to design our latest web application where I work, I patterned it after some of the GUI concepts found in Microsoft Money 2000 and Windows XP. I had noticed from using these applications that business processes were presented to the user as clear tasks. Instead of OK buttons, I was seeing "Add New User" buttons. Things are getting more descriptive with paragraphs of instructional text and clear dialog titles. I think our new application ended up being more usable by following some of these general approaches.
It wasn't until a couple weeks ago that I realized Microsoft had coined the term Inductive User Interface to describe the design. This article introduces the concepts and gives some crude useability testing results.
Do any of the online photo services (ofoto, snapfish, etc.) provide an SDK that would let developers bundle professional photo printing capabilities into custom software or web sites? I would like to host photos on my website using some custom software I wrote (or any of the hundreds of PHP-based alternatives), but I want family and friends to be able to order printed copies of the photos.
I realize that I can upload the photos to one of these services, but I would prefer to upload the photo to the service on-demand.
Adobe Photoshop Album provides this service in their software package using a wizard, but they probably deal with different business development people than Joe Schmo sharing photos with his friends.
For those of you who can't keep track of the name of this browser from month to month comes a plugin that will randomly generate a new name for the browser...all beginning with fire! Firesomething extension
I'm still waiting for the OS X Hack that will allow me to read and write to a UDF-formatted CD-R. You know, the kind that Direct CD and Windows XP create that allows you to treat a CD-R/CD-RW as a big floppy disc.
Despite OS X having a mount_udf command, it seems that it doesn't support these types of discs yet.
I have been a long time PC user who really likes the Windows XP interface and platform. I code Java for a living mostly on Windows machines, and deploy on IBM AIX. I have been running a small business Linux server for about three years.
When I first saw the 800Mhz TiBooks, it was love at first sight. I rationalized that since they were running OS X and now Unix based, it was time for me to give it a chance. I used the OS for 9 months and found it to be very frustrating, and I am an adaptable guy. I even attended the weekly Apple Store classes to learn and pick the brains of the Macopian staff.
I soon realized that the Mac had horrible file management support. The Finder in OS X is a joke (I hear it was better in OS 9), and not being able to create a directory in the save as dialog was paralyzing. My favorite IDE (intelliJ Idea) had moved on to JDK 1.4 and Apple was languishing far behind in their delivery of a current JDK. Various utilities that I think are essential to my work (WinZip, TextPad) did not have suitable OS X approximations. The lack of a start menu and context menus are a throwback. You will never convince me that these functions don't increase a user's mobility in a system. Also the single menu bar!? The mac makes me feel like I am working with only one program at a time.
When YellowDog recently announced YDL 3.0, I didn't hesitate to pay for the package in order to get it from their YDL.NET site before it was available for general download. Once I downloaded ISO's that passed the checksum, installation proceeded painlessly.
The rich set of applications I now have are truly need to haves. Their have been issues along the way, and I could document a bunch of them, but I haven't had any of the problems the coward referred to.
I dual-boot *and* run mac-on-linux. I spend most of my time in YDL, but I don't have to miss iTunes, Sherlock, or even Safari since they are a virtual desktop away.
PS: Big Linux PPC issues -- no Flash (some would say a good thing, until it is really needed), and difficult hardware support for Firewire drives. I wish that the entire Mac System Preferences was cloned for the PPC.
Jackson was actually in the process of remaking King Kong when he was tapped to do LOTR.