lol! nice. and for those that don't get it, read Contact by Carl Sagan.

amen to that!

it's so bad that /every/ time I encounter something which is either needle/haystack or haystack/needle, I need to go back to the documentation.

and I've been writing PHP since the 90s...

/nothing/ has full CSS3 support.

even those browsers that do have corner-radius support don't do it the way the W3C described (with separate x and y radii).

> have you actually tried to write something in javascript?

yes. I'm the author of KFM as well as a few little tricks

> what works in one browser doesnt work in another...

jQuery, ProtoType, MooTools, Ext, etc

> the number of simple functionalities that are
missing sleep() for instance?

can be emulated with setTimeout().
    PHP has array_merge() but C doesn't. Does that mean that C is crap?

> and its only just recently got threading support

again, could be emulated with setTimeout(). Even for() loops can be broken apart ("threaded") using a bit of thought and setTimeout().

Just because JavaScript doesn't have the same list of tricks that some other languages have doesn't mean it's not worth using.

My opinion is that if there is a language which you /know/ is available on every browser that people use (normal people - not 'noscript' users or web crawlers), then I don't see the problem in using it.

To bring the context back to the article, I've had that idea before, about letting a bit of computation happen on the browsers of people reading my own sites. That could not happen if a big popup announced that a script was trying to run in a plugin not supported by the browser (ActiveX, Java, Silverlight, Flash). Why not just use the language that is there...

I mean, if your requirement is a language that might not be present in all visitors' browsers, then why not go the whole hog and ask the reader to download and install a full application?

I don't get what's the big problem people have with "[shudder]JavaScript[/shudder]".

It's a Turing-complete language, which means it can be used to do anything from simple form validation to ray tracing and neural net simulations.
    With AJAX to handle file interactions, I don't understand the problem that people have with it. What is it that you think JavaScript can't do that 'x' language can?

I wish people would get over this childish bias and accept that JavaScript is a /real/ language, and not a toy.

The FA demonstrates that...

it may be trite, or even trivial and useless, to comment on someone's signature, but my guess is he did it because he felt humanly compelled to.

I think crime would be much lower if people were required to fill in a registration every time they left their houses.

This whole thing is stupid. let adults do what adults do.

If they hurt someone, then punish them. Otherwise, leave the hell alone.

well yeah, you could say that the alleged downloaders did the actual initiating by taunting the poor little RIAA du.

the old "he started it!" defence

> reduction in power consumption with electronic computers

so this won't help make a Difference Engine more efficient?

oh what's the point even trying then...

I guess it depends on the application.

For example, I recently got to play Thief for the first time in years - it refused to play on Vista. The only reason I had Vista installed in the first place was in case I wanted to play some games.

It seems to me that when the games I want to play (command and conquer, dungeon keeper, alpha centauri, thief) work better and are easier to install in Wine than in Vista, I don't see the point of using Windows at all.

I think you may be wrong there.

would you say:
a) "all of the data in a computer is crap"
b) "all of the data in a computer are crap"

I know that 'data' is technically a plural, but it's not treated that way by most people.

also - "ones and zeros" is correct. If you were asked "what numbers are there in that hard-drive", you would not answer "ones or zeros"

also, to the other replier - "zeros" and "zeroes" are both correct.
http://www.bartleby.com/68/49/6649.html

arghh.... "give it to me baby, uh-huh, uh-huh"

damn - change your sig. /me burns karma

maybe a silly question, but wouldn't running multiple benchmarks simultaneously cause spurious results?

> Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun

so what was the father (a pastor) doing with a gun in the first place?

whatever happened to "thou shalt not kill"? or was he planning on maybe clubbing burglars over the head with the stock of the gun when they entered the house?

> Games aren't meant to be simulations, they're meant to be fun.

what about simulation games?