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Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought?
head_dunce writes "It seems that this economy has inspired a lot of businesses to move to Linux, with Red Hat posting profits that beat everyone's expectations. There's a dark side to being a highly profitable company in a down economy, though — now there are talks of Citigroup and Oracle wanting to buy Red Hat. For a while now, we've been watching Yahoo fend off Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer so that they could stay independent, but the fight seems to be a huge distraction for Yahoo, with lots of energy (and money) invested. Will Red Hat stay independent? What potential buyer would make for a good parent company?"
Can any free Java IDE Just Work(tm) with making simple executable .jar files?
I know you're a troll but out of curiosity I just went into the dist directory of one of my projects and typed jarfile.jar at the command line and the application started.
I didn't do anything special to make that happen and since I always run it from within the IDE I never bothered to do anything special to set it up. I took a look at the manifest.mf in the archive and it automatically added the correct info.
You must have done something wrong.
The Matisse editor in Netbeans is powerful and full featured. I can tweek every little ass-hair of every little component. Wait - what's all that crap in my source editor? It dosen't look familiar, and to add insult to injury, Netbeans is telling me that I can't edit some code?
Some parts of the code are tied into the visual editor so it doesn't make sense to edit them by hand. Some of the methods, like for actions, may be confusing to people who aren't experienced with swing, but it all starts to make sense after a while.
There are a ton of great Netbeans examples on the Netbeans site.
It's a brilliant strategy to discourage inexperienced folks whose time matters(the operative phrase since we don't have 20 hours a day to roll dice trying to get things to work) from studying computer science.
A tool can't make you a programmer, it can only help you be a more effective programmer. If you don't know how to fix cars, the best tool set in the world won't teach you how to replace a timing belt.
I guess you could muddle through some easy stuff that "Just works" like the good old VB, but don't get me started on that.
Dual Opteron < $600
It's a bank, it's a software company, what the hell else? Buy a chain of beauty colleges? What a lousy fit. Dumb.
If you would give the issue a little thought, you would realize it is a very useful view of the world. Avoidance of responsibility is a huge issue. When people use the diminutive, they signal that they don't want responsibility.
That's a widely held perspective. Consider George W. Bush, for example. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin, "Putie-Poot". Putin smiled for the cameras, but the BBC called that an "act". The BBC writer said the nicknames were considered "a sign that parts of Dubya - his name for himself - never really grew up." "Putie" is the diminutive of Putin, and "Poot" is a childish word for defecate.