The test results show clearly that energy return is closely tied to rotor diameter, and that the design of the windmill hardly matters."
Logically we should construct a couple of windmills the several times the size of the CN Tower, in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific. They'd power the world!
Here's how you create an instance of a class in ECMAScript.
You start by creating a function (function foo). This will serve as the constructor. Why a function? Because EVERYTHING in ECMAScript is an object, even a function. But hey, why are you using an object instance as a class? Because ECMAScript does it that way.
Then, you take that object and set its 'prototype' member to another object that contains various members (foo.prototype = {var a; var b; var c;}). This is how you declare an object's members-to-be once it's instantiated, in ECMA script.
Finally you say "var bar = new foo();". And bar is an 'instance' of foo.
In short, when will ECMAScript have a way to do OOP that isn't totally retarded?
and I really doubt that Sweden will put them to jail for not paying a fine they cannot pay. We're not talking about a barbaric country here.
Just one that has judges idiotic enough to sentence you to a year in jail for being an ACCESSORY to copyright infringement. How about doing the same to everyone who's ever had anything to do with making a printer, scanner, computer, speaker, microphone,....
I believe people heard Obama's campaign slogan correctly.... and it wasn't even a lie. People just interpreted it incorrectly.
They were thinking, 'change we can believe in' - because it's hopeful, optimistic change. It's the kind of change we want, let's go ahead and believe in it.
What he really meant was, this is the kind of change you can believe in your incumbent government parties implementing. That is to say, very little change, which consists of generally making lawyers and rich companies richer and more powerful.
That's the only kind of change from the incumbents that we can believe it. Get it?
Hope you're up on your Welsh, because those arrogant pricks are too stupid to speak a perfectly good language that's spoken by orders of magnitude more people, forcing British taxpayers to subsidize ludicrous translations of roadsigns, government documents, and translators in the Welsh assembly for their benefit.
Projecting 2009 Western culture on 1400 year old stories from the Middle East may make Muhammad seem like a child molester, until you realize that was standard practice for the day.
Even if you accept that that makes it more acceptable (I don't), this creates a huge problem in that Muslims are, by their religion, expected to emulate the ways of Mohammed today, in the 21st century. So, even if the behaviour was 'OK' back in the day, it shouldn't be considered now, so their religion creates a problem in telling them to emulate him.
I'd been meaning to watch that... is that it? Lol. The buildup it's had in the press, I was expecting to see her get virtually stoned to death or something. What she received was probably less punishment than the average Western child's backside gets in its lifetime.
I use a special domain name which maps all aliases (*) to my mail box. Nearly every email I use for online purchases or registrations is custom for that site so when I receive email from an unexpected source I can trace it back to where I originally used it.
I've been doing this for a few years now, because I thought it was a good idea, and here's what I've discovered: very few companies actually seem to sell my e-mail address to spammers. What I tend to get from them is dumb newsletters that they honour my requests to unsubscribe from.
What does happen, however, is that spammers realize that you have a domain with a catch-all set up... it only has to happen once, and you're fucked. They then proceed to mercilessly Joe-job you, setting their spams' From addresses to SomeRandomBullshit@yourdomain.com, and many clueless MTAs will still bounce this stuff back at you with 'blocked: spam', 'undeliverable', and a zillion variants of this (in a zillion languages, too). By this time you've given out so many different email addresses to so many different sites that you don't want to risk adopting some kind of whitelist policy because you're bound to forget about 50% of the places you signed up to and accidentally drop all their e-mail. You revert to standard anti-spam tactics, in addition to setting up lots of filters to dump as many bounceback and 'out-of-office' messages you receive also.
I disagree with the ideas that Flash is "crappy". Its interactivity is what makes it so popular, and a damn sight more useful than just something that can stream video. Streaming video is able to just be part of a far more interactive application. Think chatrooms where each participant can offer a video/audio stream of themselves too. Games where each entry in the top 10 high scores table can have a recorded video message from the person weho got the score. Interactive live broadcasts from a radio DJ... etc. No, I'd like an OSS for that kind of interactivity, and Java is the closest I can see. I'm not sure why it didn't take off as well as Flash, maybe because it's too slow to load? Or the GUI tools (ie. Adobe's "timeline" thingy in CS3/CS4 for non-programmer developers aren't there? To be fair, Java isn't designed to be used like that anyway.
You're making the false assertion here that this is between Flash and Silverlight. Playing videos and drawing vector graphics are things that should be done in the browser and which have technologies on the way that will allow just that, so that one company no longer has absolute control over who can do those things. By apologizing for Adobe and their ineptitude in making Flash a true cross-platform technology you harm that effort.
Look, I'd like to see an OSS alternative to Flash, but I just don't think HTML5 and AJAX is it. There are things Flash/Silverlight can do that AJAX either can't or would be crap at doing, and you're in cloud-cuckoo land if you think anything else. See, Flash (and obviously Silverlight) were designed from scratch for vector graphics animations, interaction with the mouse, etc. and for those graphics to look good and not flicker or stuff. AJAX wasn't, really. Could you create hedgehog launch with AJAX and HTML5? Possibly a crappier, flickery, nasty version of it, but it just wouldn't be the same.
Yeah, I know it's a tacky little game, but this is Flash's bread and butter. It does this stuff really well. AJAX won't, and IMHO, never will. Give it up.
That's because the sites you're visiting are doing nothing more that having their Flash applet download a file, probably via HTTP. A FLV file. Look up Flash Media Server, or Wowza, or Red5, for RTMP-based Flash streaming audio/video, and you'll have a MUCH harder time ripping content.
2. Silverlight has a much better programing model the Flash. I have not looked at Flex yet but Flash is nasty.
Just to echo some of the comments already on here, AS1 and AS2 are crap; AS3 with Flex is great and can create you a evry nice interface. You tend to put everything inside an 'MXML' file, which is (as the name would suggest) an XML schema. It's *extremely* similar to programming using Javascript and XUL, so Firefox extension devs should be able to just pick this up.
That said, I'd like to know this: where is the OSS alternative to Silverlight/Flash? I frankly don't like the idea of any big company owning rich web media, and though I'd far rather it were Adobe (who have released a Linux version of Flash and Flash Lite which works on mobile devices with open OSes), I'd rather see a proper opensource equivalent. Perhaps we need some kinnd of lightweight version of Java that's designed to work in a similar way to the Flash plugin, loading very quickly, and that has builtin support for video and audio codecs. It's disappointing that there's no real OSS alternative.
I don't get how the Quebecois French are managing to be such a bunch of pompous asses about this. Here in the UK, we look over at this thing called Hollywood. We have about the same period of language evolution difference from US English as the two Frenches do, and do we demand that all films get dubbed in the British English? Fuck no. The Quebecian dickheads say they couldn't understand the Parisian slang. Well how about LEARNING it, you fucking morons? Demanding that all Quebec films get dubbed in fucking Quebec, a tiny proportion of the market? Pompous idiots. I say, leave them filmless.
What they SHOULD learn is that they need to lower their #&@%ing prices. We're not talking rocket science here: People buy used games because they're - gasp! - not $60 or more. $30 to $40 is a far more realistic price range for games, and thus that's what most people are going to pay.
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The test results show clearly that energy return is closely tied to rotor diameter, and that the design of the windmill hardly matters."
Logically we should construct a couple of windmills the several times the size of the CN Tower, in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific. They'd power the world!
Will ECMAScript ever become sane to do OOP in?
Here's how you create an instance of a class in ECMAScript.
You start by creating a function (function foo). This will serve as the constructor. Why a function? Because EVERYTHING in ECMAScript is an object, even a function. But hey, why are you using an object instance as a class? Because ECMAScript does it that way.
Then, you take that object and set its 'prototype' member to another object that contains various members (foo.prototype = {var a; var b; var c;}). This is how you declare an object's members-to-be once it's instantiated, in ECMA script.
Finally you say "var bar = new foo();". And bar is an 'instance' of foo.
In short, when will ECMAScript have a way to do OOP that isn't totally retarded?
What about smoking (or even eating (or even obtaining)) a weed?
and I really doubt that Sweden will put them to jail for not paying a fine they cannot pay. We're not talking about a barbaric country here.
Just one that has judges idiotic enough to sentence you to a year in jail for being an ACCESSORY to copyright infringement. How about doing the same to everyone who's ever had anything to do with making a printer, scanner, computer, speaker, microphone, ....
Obvious things like 1-2-3-4 are not allowed.
If the iPhone's hardware is so great, why does Jobs say that Flash Lite 'isn't right' for the iPhone? Way to cripple much website functionality.
They also should work on ads, no longer than 10-15 seconds
Cue whinging Slashdotters about how the 'net wasn't designed for ads and how they should and will find a way to get around them in 3... 2... 1...
I believe people heard Obama's campaign slogan correctly.... and it wasn't even a lie. People just interpreted it incorrectly.
They were thinking, 'change we can believe in' - because it's hopeful, optimistic change. It's the kind of change we want, let's go ahead and believe in it.
What he really meant was, this is the kind of change you can believe in your incumbent government parties implementing. That is to say, very little change, which consists of generally making lawyers and rich companies richer and more powerful.
That's the only kind of change from the incumbents that we can believe it. Get it?
The site video.linuxfoundation.org is dead as a dodo, presumably from Slashdotting. Anyone know of a Youtube (or whatever) mirror?
Where's our sexy page 3 grrl geeks then?
Hope you're up on your Welsh, because those arrogant pricks are too stupid to speak a perfectly good language that's spoken by orders of magnitude more people, forcing British taxpayers to subsidize ludicrous translations of roadsigns, government documents, and translators in the Welsh assembly for their benefit.
Don't like the decisions a part makes? Don't vote for them.
That would work, if we had a decent electoral system. Unfortunately, we don't.
Projecting 2009 Western culture on 1400 year old stories from the Middle East may make Muhammad seem like a child molester, until you realize that was standard practice for the day.
Even if you accept that that makes it more acceptable (I don't), this creates a huge problem in that Muslims are, by their religion, expected to emulate the ways of Mohammed today, in the 21st century. So, even if the behaviour was 'OK' back in the day, it shouldn't be considered now, so their religion creates a problem in telling them to emulate him.
I'd been meaning to watch that... is that it? Lol. The buildup it's had in the press, I was expecting to see her get virtually stoned to death or something. What she received was probably less punishment than the average Western child's backside gets in its lifetime.
I use a special domain name which maps all aliases (*) to my mail box. Nearly every email I use for online purchases or registrations is custom for that site so when I receive email from an unexpected source I can trace it back to where I originally used it.
I've been doing this for a few years now, because I thought it was a good idea, and here's what I've discovered: very few companies actually seem to sell my e-mail address to spammers. What I tend to get from them is dumb newsletters that they honour my requests to unsubscribe from.
What does happen, however, is that spammers realize that you have a domain with a catch-all set up... it only has to happen once, and you're fucked. They then proceed to mercilessly Joe-job you, setting their spams' From addresses to SomeRandomBullshit@yourdomain.com, and many clueless MTAs will still bounce this stuff back at you with 'blocked: spam', 'undeliverable', and a zillion variants of this (in a zillion languages, too). By this time you've given out so many different email addresses to so many different sites that you don't want to risk adopting some kind of whitelist policy because you're bound to forget about 50% of the places you signed up to and accidentally drop all their e-mail. You revert to standard anti-spam tactics, in addition to setting up lots of filters to dump as many bounceback and 'out-of-office' messages you receive also.
In short; this doesn't work well, don't bother.
I disagree with the ideas that Flash is "crappy". Its interactivity is what makes it so popular, and a damn sight more useful than just something that can stream video. Streaming video is able to just be part of a far more interactive application. Think chatrooms where each participant can offer a video/audio stream of themselves too. Games where each entry in the top 10 high scores table can have a recorded video message from the person weho got the score. Interactive live broadcasts from a radio DJ... etc. No, I'd like an OSS for that kind of interactivity, and Java is the closest I can see. I'm not sure why it didn't take off as well as Flash, maybe because it's too slow to load? Or the GUI tools (ie. Adobe's "timeline" thingy in CS3/CS4 for non-programmer developers aren't there? To be fair, Java isn't designed to be used like that anyway.
Unless somebody comes up with a novel technical use for an entire TLD, this is going to be a massive flop.
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You're making the false assertion here that this is between Flash and Silverlight. Playing videos and drawing vector graphics are things that should be done in the browser and which have technologies on the way that will allow just that, so that one company no longer has absolute control over who can do those things. By apologizing for Adobe and their ineptitude in making Flash a true cross-platform technology you harm that effort.
Look, I'd like to see an OSS alternative to Flash, but I just don't think HTML5 and AJAX is it. There are things Flash/Silverlight can do that AJAX either can't or would be crap at doing, and you're in cloud-cuckoo land if you think anything else. See, Flash (and obviously Silverlight) were designed from scratch for vector graphics animations, interaction with the mouse, etc. and for those graphics to look good and not flicker or stuff. AJAX wasn't, really. Could you create hedgehog launch with AJAX and HTML5? Possibly a crappier, flickery, nasty version of it, but it just wouldn't be the same.
Yeah, I know it's a tacky little game, but this is Flash's bread and butter. It does this stuff really well. AJAX won't, and IMHO, never will. Give it up.
That's because the sites you're visiting are doing nothing more that having their Flash applet download a file, probably via HTTP. A FLV file. Look up Flash Media Server, or Wowza, or Red5, for RTMP-based Flash streaming audio/video, and you'll have a MUCH harder time ripping content.
2. Silverlight has a much better programing model the Flash. I have not looked at Flex yet but Flash is nasty.
Just to echo some of the comments already on here, AS1 and AS2 are crap; AS3 with Flex is great and can create you a evry nice interface. You tend to put everything inside an 'MXML' file, which is (as the name would suggest) an XML schema. It's *extremely* similar to programming using Javascript and XUL, so Firefox extension devs should be able to just pick this up.
That said, I'd like to know this: where is the OSS alternative to Silverlight/Flash? I frankly don't like the idea of any big company owning rich web media, and though I'd far rather it were Adobe (who have released a Linux version of Flash and Flash Lite which works on mobile devices with open OSes), I'd rather see a proper opensource equivalent. Perhaps we need some kinnd of lightweight version of Java that's designed to work in a similar way to the Flash plugin, loading very quickly, and that has builtin support for video and audio codecs. It's disappointing that there's no real OSS alternative.
No, he should've made a Powerpoint presentation and linked to that.
He was using the word in the 'francais Quebecois' sense.
I don't get how the Quebecois French are managing to be such a bunch of pompous asses about this. Here in the UK, we look over at this thing called Hollywood. We have about the same period of language evolution difference from US English as the two Frenches do, and do we demand that all films get dubbed in the British English? Fuck no. The Quebecian dickheads say they couldn't understand the Parisian slang. Well how about LEARNING it, you fucking morons? Demanding that all Quebec films get dubbed in fucking Quebec, a tiny proportion of the market? Pompous idiots. I say, leave them filmless.
What they SHOULD learn is that they need to lower their #&@%ing prices. We're not talking rocket science here: People buy used games because they're - gasp! - not $60 or more. $30 to $40 is a far more realistic price range for games, and thus that's what most people are going to pay.
When did you become a communist?
That's really clever how your ISP detects you're typing on Slashdot and submits the post before cutting you off. I like it!