My shop used Rhino (JS running in the same JVM as your Java) to write JS automated test scripts. We've got about 800 of them now, and it's awesome. We've built it to run on multiple machines, aggregate logging, report failures, all built into our nightly build with Jenkins so we sit down in the morning and there's a list of issues waiting for us on all new code builds.

How many people will be using a 50+ year old OS/app in 2050 when it would become a problem?

My shop has over 800 automated test scripts, all of which have been running on machines that think it's 2013-2014 for over a year, and will be bumped up to 2014-2015 by the end of the month.

Yes. A thousand times yes.

Just stop feeding the cat entirely. In about 3 weeks, he will stop bothering you.

God bless America. Or flying Spaghetti monster. Or random evolutionary processes. At least it wasn't that mutant.

Now, we have to:

1. Declare a national holiday so all can vote on a day off to eliminate the lines.
2. Get rid of the electoral college.
3. Get Congress to override Citizen United.
4. Take the money out of the electoral system.

I'm looking for a new one with a warranty, to give as a gift. I'd prefer not to buy a fragile, commonly-counterfeited product out of the back of somebody's van for $500.

I would have loved them to slot the 3 where the 2 is now, and further lower the price of the 2.

From the looks of the store, they've completely dropped the iPad 3. Their comparison now shows an iPad 2 vs. an iPad 4. Does anyone know if there will be some sort of clearance event anywhere to clean out stock of 3s? Looking to get one for my girlfriend for her birthday.

I have a patent on the letter E. Everyone in this thread owes me money.

Given their tanking financials, it's time they listen to SOMEBODY in the marketplace.

Oww.

Even if you lost 90% of the power, you're still talking about 50 TW. That's not small change, when what you're shooting is made out of ice.

Good thing comets are made out of ice.

As a means to prevent malicious use of the weapon, require multiple access keys to activate it, and provide one each to the governments of the UN Security Council members. Unanimous, active participation would then be required to fire the weapon, which would only realistically be achieved due to a true threat to the entire planet.