I don't have the bookmark here, but I followed the discussion ( I am on that mail list, and I am a huge fan of javascript ) is that with Lua, is possible to have "quotas". You can limit what LUA do in cpu and ram useage, while a javascript vm maybe will end stressing the server. This was the ultimate motive. This and that some features we easy to implement (where already implemented in the discussion). I think this mean that Javascript must add these things, and make easy for "language embeders" to control how much memory javascript take. I don't know how feasible is that.

http://gamingbolt.com/gabe-newell-piracy-is-a-non-issue-to-valve-providing-better-services-will-result-in-more-sales

The thing is... pirates are not your customers, are a pool of people that may or may not buy your stuff, but your market is the people that buy games. This is obvious for a lot of people now, and for some of then, is a way to make a lot of money. Valve is swimming of money because understand this. Ubisoft is full of retards that can't understand this.

Videogames have not died. what has happened, is that nowdays much more people play videogames, and some of these people play things like FarmVille, that are more a addiction than a hobby. You still have a amazing rich variety of videogames, with styles from all eras and tastes. Even if you thing is Street Sweeper Simulators.

My problem is... if the title IS STUPID, sould I ignore the whole article? probably, if only to avoid feeding atention whores that must use alarmist and false claims in titles.

I doubt the people of australia want this type of laws. Probably hare bought by corportations. If that is true, the political system on australia need a huge change. The 1% has corrupted the system there too.

What iPad killer?

What GameStop seems to want, is to move his business to the digital world. Currently is a shop that sells box (that have a game inside), and want to sell bits... or more precisally, want to rent bits.

Do you want to play a Playstation 3 or Playstation 4 game in your tablet PC? GameStop want you to pay a flat flee of 10$ montly to play demos and some games. You will not own the games, you will be renting the games for a limited period.

This is like Blockbuster opening a service like Netflix. But for games.

Rule of cool: Playing a Playstation 4 game in a tablet pc will be cool. If the tech delivers.

Most secrets are boring, and only interesting to very few parties. Decent people already use encryption and assume any information on the network can be heard by a third party. It only takes a secretary to have a spyware to have this inside your office network.

Javascript need not promoting. Is the standard language to write on the web, you can't use anything else even if you want.

What you could do, is write Javascript with Lips, C++ or VB styles. It will still be Javascript, but it can look like C++ or C or VB if you want to.

Life for webmasters used to be miserable, back then, with IE6 and Netscape 4.61.

Node.js is awesome.
Theres even something that work like apt-get to install new libraries and apps. Stuff like FilePad make me go :-OOOOOOOOO

A new programming language create a huge problem, before start solving anything. And its that you lose all the work done with libraries. Everything. A new language is like a natural disaster that wipe civilization to the caves again.

People is doing a lot of cool stuff with Javascript. JS is starting to becoming a decent enough language to write code for the web!.
http://jquerysbestfriends.com/#slide1

Our eyes detect 'deltas' better than 'speeds', so if the odd numbered frames have a delay shorter than others, our eye will detect it. But this only affect setups with multiple GPU's. And is easy to fix. Just calculate the delta of the latest frame, and force the same delta, maybe use a buffer. This is not a problem once has ben detected, It may need some minor changes on engines, but thats all. IMHO.