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Sun and Eclipse Squabble
gbjbaanb writes "CNET news is reporting on a potential spat between Sun and Eclipse: 'Sun Microsystems has sent a letter to members of Eclipse, urging the increasingly influential open-source project to unify rather than fragment the Java-based development tool market.' Although Sun's letter says it wants interoperability, and a 'broad base' for java tools, it then insists Eclipse should push to be a 'unifying force for Java technology'. Competing tools is a good thing, but it sounds like Sun just wants everything to work its way."
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squabble ny nobble!
omg i set yuo up teh faliure!!
Is it good or is it whack?
Java is their baby after all.
public static void printArray (int[] thisArray)
{
if(thisArray.length == 0)
{
System.out.println("Array is empty. Cannot print an empty array.");
}
else
{
System.out.println("The Array Looks Like");
System.out.println("================");
for (int i=0; i < thisArray.length; i++)
{
System.out.println(thisArray[i]);
}
}
}
ROOFLE, obfuscated code is t3h hotness. So, what does it do? It's too fucking obfuscated for me to tell. Oh, that's right, it doesn't do shit. Because it's Java.
Aren't they a has-been workstation maker that lost coolness to Apple OSX and wide spread use to Linux? Poor guys... they never made any money off this thing.. just like parents thinking they know what's best for their child, it's moved out and has lots of friends and never calls home. "It's bigger... bigger than you and you are not me" - REM
There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
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hey guys,
:) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!
i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!
i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!
anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.
i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheap these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner
anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!
ok see ya later,
cyndi