Comment Re:Linksys E3000 (Score 1) 334
I also would like to give the E3000 and TomatoUSB an AOL-style "me too!"
I'm always amazed when Anonymous Coward is able to solve, by thought alone, problems that all of NASA is only able to solve by tedious experimentation, and the collection and analysis of empirical data.
I totally agree with you there, that's the main reason I've never done more than glance at Objective-C.
I doubt you've even glanced at it, else you'd realize it's not a proprietary language controlled and distributed by one company, but as open as C, upon which it is built. Used extensively by and controlled by are not the same thing. (Admittedly, NeXT tried to make the Obj-C front end proprietary, but Stallman sicced his hippy lawyers on them to make sure it stayed GPLed). And I think you're doing yourself a disservice by not exploring it a bit, at least enough to make informed comments in public about it. I immediately found it very expressive and flexible, akin to Python, though sometimes a bit verbose.
...import his private and public keys into the local database...
That's what they want you to think....
JavaScript is a fad that's on its way out. The same thing happened to Ruby due to Ruby on Rails. The Ruby hype really started taking off around 2006, but by 2010 people realized how shitty Ruby and RoR actually are. That's why we hear almost nothing about either of them these days. The same thing is happening to JavaScript, although it's delayed slightly. It really started taking off around 2008, so it's a couple of years behind Ruby. By 2013, it's likely that JavaScript and its advocates will be widely shunned, too.
2008? JavaScript gained widespread popularity around mid-1996, so by your reckoning it should have faded away sometime in 2001. Like all languages, JavaScript has its warts and WTF moments, but it is the poor craftsman who blames his tools, especially if those tools are being used by millions of other craftsman around the world to create all manner of novel and useful applications (to admittedly varying levels of quality, but again that's more about the developer's skill level than the language itself). Solving the JavaScript problem is a simple five-step process, though: create the One Perfect Language, convince the major browser manufacturers to include a flawless implementation, get all of the current JS developers to learn to code in it correctly, rewrite all existing codebases in it, and make the entire world upgrade their browsers. Done! Now, what's for lunch...?
...and not in a cramped tin box sitting next to a stranger.
Speak for yourself.
Hmmm. Everything also tastes better with bacon. So the question is: does putting real maple syrup on your bacon cause them to improve one another's flavors until your breakfast reaches a maximum recursion limit?
Pick up a book called El Sicario if you want the answer to those question directly from someone who once was an assassin for one of the cartels in Juarez. It's a fascinating and quick read. (Disclaimer: I am neither a drug kingpin nor a former cartel assassin.)
The Spartans were right. Toss the defective ones off a cliff to put 'em out of their misery. We'd be doing them a favour.
Remember when the Nazis tried that?
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
