The Tracemonkey JIT doesn't work on x86_64 in the Firefox 3.5 release. Apparently it works in trunk, but for those on x86_64 machines, you either have to run the 32 bit version or just deal with no JIT.

So, what, bacteria don't deserve to survive? We should just let the bacteria in the clock's fuel cell die because someone doesn't like the idea of it surviving?

Way to totally buy into the incorrect media usage of the term "hacker." Congratulations.

So your solution to a made up problem is that everyone should use Notepad? Ok, maybe you'll make an exception for vi, what if I fall on the emacs side of that holy war?

I think you need to think this through again, as you've obviously let something obvious slide by...

#3 and #4 don't happen, and #5 is the guy thinking that he shouldn't have to pay for the 3 days his character spent in jail for blatantly violating the ToS (and then probably badmouthing the GM).

I imagine that back then they based death on the ability to determine if a person was breathing and if their heart was beating. Therefore, a brain dead person would still have been considered alive. A person in a coma would still be considered alive. You got it completely backwards.

Javascript is cacheable, so unless you are disabling your cache, the cost is upfront and then not paid again until the cache expiration.

Vista doesn't use WPF. That ended up being one the huge schisms between DevDiv and the Windows group, that .NET and WPF was shifting too much during the buildup of Vista for the Windows group to actually use, so Vista using WPF was scrapped. Obviously WPF ships with .NET 3.0, and many new .NET based apps use it (it's sure as shit better than Windows Forms).

I think the most amusing thing is that these people tend to forget what they did in school when getting their CS degree while interviewing people. I doubt their schooling was any different, nor do I believe they were any different than the people they are interviewing.

Technically you have one non-beta closed source; Safari gets its 100% from Webkit, which is open source.

Fed troll is fed.

Not a particularly great explanation as to the shortcomings of Javascript other than apparently C-style languages are a no-go with you. Plus it's prototype system is pretty half-assed, so I'm not sure that's even a positive (I'd prefer real prototype setup like in SELF).

I don't recall asking why anyone would want to use another language, though, as that's obvious: language preference. *shrug*

What's wrong with Javascript?

And draw with <canvas>.

What's fundamentally wrong with eugenics? Yes, all past real world examples of it have been faulty and mostly driven by arbitrary and invalid criteria (skin color, eye color, unfounded belief in the superiority/weakness of some ethnic group, etc). However, that doesn't seem to point to anything fundamentally wrong with eugenics if done properly.

Not really a very good analogy, that...