Well, that's also kind of why Sun has invested so much effort into the GC; anymore the creation of such short-lived objects in a tight loop will have very minimal effect on the runtime speed and memory usage.

Claim 3 states that validation is done via regular expression. A regular expression doesn't really have that capability (except perhaps what Perl calls regular expressions).

It seems to me the only thing unique about their patent is not the supposed real-time nature of it (people have been using onchange to ensure valid input in fields for years), but rather the uniquely Dojo (and only because everyone stopped doing it years ago) abomination of putting invalid attributes on XHTML elements to embed Dijit specific information. In this case, the patent seems to hinge on this embedding nature by its constant reference of "validation enhanced text-input element."

Trent Reznor (NIN) isn't big?

Chrome has plugins (Flash, etc). You mean add-ons.

Tangentially related, I hate how hard it apparently is for people to not incorrectly interchange upload and download.

This is the part where you curse Muphry.

If I were developing purely for Firefox, I'd use object destructuring, array comprehensions, let scoping, and worker threads. Pretty sure all of that would blow up in any browser other than Firefox.

Guys in real life.

To be fair, "active characters" is a very bad metric for FFXI, seeing as most people probably have at least one mule, if not more; I had three, two of which had an 80+ crafting skill, and I doubt I was unique.

pHash will probably take care of that anyway.

Python, Ruby, x86 Assembly, LOLCODE, the list goes on...

You should check out Pike. Lot nicer than PHP and still has all of those things you mentioned.

Yes, because having the Hungarian notation ensures that when (not if) the user passes in the wrong type, everything is still rainbows and lollipops without the type checks...

Right, I see that. Perhaps I'm being dense, but it seems that without copyright the FSF has to depend on everyone being an FOSS supporter. I don't agree with the AC in that I don't think businesses will just shrug and open-source (in this case, release to the public domain) all their software if software copyrights disappear.