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Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support
An anonymous reader writes "The monetization of Java has begun. Sun released the Java 1.6.0_14 JDK and JRE today which include a cool new garbage collector called G1. There is just one catch. Even though it is included in the distribution, the release notes state 'Although G1 is available for use in this release, note that production use of G1 is only permitted where a Java support contract has been purchased.' So the Oracle touch is already taking effect. Will OpenJDK be doomed to a feature-castrated backwater while all the good stuff goes into the new Java SE for Business commercial version?"
Shouldn't we have "recycling collection" instead of "garbage collection"?
C'mon guys all those big 1MB and 4MB malloc()s are being shipped over to third world countries to be disassembled into bits and bytes. We should be recycling things HERE.... not throwing them away for Java to come and pick up.
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If you post a troll comment to an article tagged troll, do you get insightful mods?
In Soviet Russia, article trolls you!
No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
I'm thinking he turned to Ellison and said... "Let the Schwartz be with you!"
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=garbage+collector
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I just know you're going to make a lengthy complaint thread of this.
If you would simply put down your Silver Surfer comics, comb the crumbs and insects out of your beards, cut your straggly hair, have a bath and a good scrub, and eagerly learn all the new technologies as our Marketing department invents them (and disposes of the old technologies), we could see the dawn of a New Age of incredibly rich CEOs and VPs who live in mansions, collect cars, race boats and planes, and in general protect the freedoms that your betters fought so hard to establish.
The meek shall inherit my EULA.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Meet Vinny and Guido, my business associates in the waste management business.
You see, it's like this. I gotta eat. My kids gotta eat. Vinny and Guido's families have to eat.
We know where you live. It's a nice place, big houses, fancy cars. You can afford to eat, very well.
You wouldn't your neighboorhood to fall victim to all sorts of garbage dumpers, would you? How about a recycling plant, right next to where you work?
No? Well, I'm sure you'll understand when I say that it is in your best interest to respect our business model. Or else, Vinny and Guido might have to go hungry for a bit. And I assure you, they get very unfriendly when they get hungry.
Capiche?
Write once. Pay everywhere.
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It had no good debugger, no usable UI interface
I think the UI interface of the ATM machine where you enter your PIN number runs Java.
Hey, all of you sitting above my post. Yes, all of you who replied to that moron! Thanks for wasting all that screen real estate so you can feel smart explaining to the layman something he could have JustFuckingGoogled!
Troll'd. All 'o' ya!
So, which pay-for-answers site do you plan to post the responses on? Or are you feeding a plagiarism detector?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Very briefly around 10 years ago, when it was a clear improvement over C++ and hadn't yet been infested by architecture astronauts.
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
So the Oracle touch is already taking effect.
Fork you, Oracle!
[b.belong('us') for b in bases if b.owner() == 'you']
Java is as fast as C/C++ and used prominently within the banking industry!
That was back when it was called Oak, right?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Welcome to the Slashdot Comment Games on CBC! Coming up: the 800 metres first post, Goatse hurdling, HURD herding and the 500 metres anti-Microsoft rant.
But now we have coverage of the first joke misunderstanding event, where it seems Britain's professorguy has just made a new world record! He truly has captivated the audience here in LOLzistan Stadium, by completely misunderstanding a joke about Java garbage collection. He has received no less than five *WHOOOOOOSH* posts in response. Let's go to Pete Winkyfiddler who's down in the stadium floor, with professorguy.
Thank you Shandra, looking forward to banging you in the stationary cupboard later, oh, did I say that out loud? Anyway, this has been an incredible performance by professorguy, receiving five *WHOOOOOOSH* posts; the closest anyone has come to this was Marcus Shuttlecock in 1983. Simply breathtaking. Let's watch the replay:
We're seeing several types of *WHOOOOOOSH* here, from the straight-forward, all capitals, right through a fade-in fade-out *WHOOOOOOSH* and even the fairly recent addition by atheletes in this event: the little stick-man illustration.
professorguy: what an outstanding result, you must be very pleased with the outcome of your post. Can you walk us through, y'know, just how you managed to misunderstand the joke enough to get a new world record?
They were both slow when they came out, they're both slow now, and they both have a bunch of people saying "oh, but it's faster now!"
Five memory leaks!
Ah-ah-ah.
One... two... three... four... five memory leaks!
Ah-ah-ah.
Sorry. I have a toddler at home. I couldn't help counting out loud in a silly voice when you mentioned the number 'five' twice.
br.Now my coworkers are eyeing me even more strangely than usual.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
What situation is that? If you're talking about tying a customer to a painful and harmful contract, then yes.
Huh? How are Java and Javascript nearly identical?
In the same way lightning is nearly identical to lightning bugs.
Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
Holy crap! That joke cut his head off!
In C++, there are better ways to prevent memory leaks than carefully freeing everything in your destructors (which doesn't work anyhow if your constructor throws an an awkward moment).
You accidentally a few words. You might say you accidentally a grammar exception at an awkward moment.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
did you think of
-Ddeployment.security.blacklist.check=false
No, of course not.
He is, after all, a "Java developer".
Not to mention a pompous ass.
Emacs > vi
Huh?