How many people think that mediocre OS is worth the sticker price?
Name one other operating system suitable for the average computer user.
No, MacOS doesn't count. Apple is even worse than MS because they control both the OS and the hardware platform. And MacOS is only a viable option to begin with because of Microsoft and Adobe's support.
Windows is a mediocre sever platform but UNIX is just plain awful as a workstation platform for the average user. I love UNIX but drop the bullshit, we have to hear enough of it from the editors here.
And I pay for my NT licenses, just like I pay for my UNIX ones. Please grow up, or at least refrain from posting until you graduate. Thanks.
I don't have any kids, sorry... but when I do, I plan on actually parenting. You're what's wrong with the world today. Ooh, yeah, she's sixteen, obviously an adult, so let's use her the objectification of her fertile young body to sell our crappy AIM clone.
It's obvious that you yourself are 16, and are just angry at my attempts to keep 16-year-old girls from becoming sex-object mascots for crappy software. "Young adults" -- heh, that's funny.
If Britney, et cetera, are so talented, why can't they sing with their clothes on? They're an insult to real musicians, so you can just FOAD, troll.
I'm not a plebe. Maybe when you graduate from high school you'll have a chance learn about the real world, and what maturity really means.
Maybe she should start having kids, too, after all, 16 is old enough. You're probably the type that believes in giving welfare to teenage sluts who not only can't keep their pants on, but aren't smart enough to use birth control. Sigh... so young, so ignorant... I almost feel sorry for you.
Now hurry along to class, troll, before you get detention!
you could write a DeCSS implementation using Perl's English module, record yourself reading the code out loud with Metallica playing in the background, encode it as an MP3, and piss of both the RIAA and the MPAA at the same time.:-)
Seriously, though, if her dad knew that Aimster's users are (with all respect to Slashdot readers) probably all obsessive losers with poor hygeine, he probably wouldn't have done this. If he did know that and still pimped her out, I think he can be brought up on child abuse charges. Aimster users are even worse than the average geek... after all, they're willing to break the law to get access to AOL services. That's like stealing Richard Simmons videos because you can't get enough sweatin' to the oldies!
I love the ones that say "This is not spam. Really, it's not! You received this email because you submitted your email address to blah blah blah..." Reminds me of the Python parrot sketch.
One kind of spam that doesn't get enough recognition is boss spam -- you know, when your PHB sends out some inane email to fifty people with twenty Word documents attached and everyone clicks "reply to all", and the thread ends up lasting for days and wasting waaaaaaay too much disk space and waaaaaay too much time. I've considered submitting my boss's Exchange server to the MAPS RBL.;-)
The only spam I don't mind too much is the porn spam on my Hotmail accounts, just because it's so amusing. There's nothing like stumbling out of bed to check my email and find three messages with the subject "please fuck me now i need you" waiting.:-)
While obviously your situation may preclude it, I've always found Perl's built-in formatting capability to be incredibly easy to use, and it also performs nicely. It's so nice that I've often gone through the trouble of adding a Perl reporter to my C++/Java/et cetera applications. They don't call it "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" for nothing. (Then again, they don't call it "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" for nothing, either.;-)
Regardless of the program you use, try to store the data in XML format. Why? Because then you can use one XSLT for conversion to HTML for web use, another XSLT for conversion to PostScript for printing, another XSLT for conversion to Excel spreadsheets -- you get the idea. While I hate to say so on this site, SQL Server 2000 offers some particularly nice functionality that can be used to implement this -- such as automatic transformation of tables to XML documents.
If you require graphics as well as text, check out the gd graphics library. The Webalizer is an absolutely delicious example of how gd can be used to create slick PDF graphs on the fly.
You mention that you'd like to integrate with J2EE... I'm somewhat of a Java guru and can say without wavering that Java is not a first-choice solution for text-based reporting. If your reports are being generated by a Perl or PL/SQL script and you're just outputting the results from Java, it's fine;), but text processing and transformation isn't too hot in the standard Java APIs. Now if you want to pay for a third-party API, you may be able to get around this...
For graphical reporting, however, Java is one of the best solutions. There are a plethora of Java charting tools available, although the decent ones will cost some dough...
Anyhoo, if you provide some more details on your specific task I can give a better recommendation.
You know, I really can't stand GameSpy, and I'm not alone. Two years ago, my feelings were different. They employed some very cool people, had some cool sites, and released cool software. The they slowly started to suck more and more ass, and their two best people (Fragmaster from planethalflife.com and Lowtax from planetquake.com) left under bad circumstances. These days, their PlanetEverything sites (10 more added every hour!) are of astoundingly bad quality, lacking almost any actual content and run by complete amateurs. Their software is bloated and slow; back to in-game server lists for me and many others. They're really nothing but a bad joke at this point.
FYI, Lowtax went off and created SomethingAwful, and while he's had horrendously bad luck with various hosting networks, the site is pretty cool. If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to spend some time in the Jeff K and Cliff Yablonski sections.:-) Lowtax was also able to bring along one of my favorite parts of PQ, Cranky Steve's map reviews. The reviews aren't done by Lowtax anymore and are lacking in quality, but it's a nice blast from the past. (Even if this past is just two years ago.)
Coincidentally, Lowtax recentally brought the afore-mentioned Fragmaster on board as a guest editor. Now if only Frags would resurrect Walter.;-)
GameSpy's only redeeming value is FilePlanet. I know a lot of people here hate it, and I agree that the format and bandwidth suck, but I usually have better luck downloading from FilePlanet than anywhere else.
I don't know about anyone else...but I'm not sure I want the store to automatically find out my name, address, etc. by me just walking in. But there's always online ordering of pretty much anything you'd want to buy in stores.
Gee, that makes sense. You want to make sure that vendors don't get your name and address, so you'll use online vendors, where you're required to give them your name and address and probably credit card number?:-)
That's why there are some things that it's best to buy IRL. Like pr0n, firearms, and drugs -- the finer things in life.
He is actually referring to a Doppler Gaydar, which is used not only in truck beds but also in cafes and public rest areas. You probably already have one, missy.
I haven't read the article yet, but I expect it to be very insightful and informative. I have a lot of respect for Greenspan; there's a reason why he got where he is today -- in a position where his very words are analyzed for hours on end. He can control the fate of the IT industry that so many of us are a part of, by simply dropping a few words in a speech or article such as this! That man is building the future of America, and very possibly, the world.
You still can't even make a simple nested SELECT in this thing !
That's because MySQL isn't even suggestably conformant to SQL92, which is a necessity for a real database. MySQL also lacks: transactions, rollback, stored procedures, external keys, views... shall I go on? MySQL is fine for setting a toy personal website (i.e. Slashdot) but isn't even an option for business use. I would think it's an embarrassment for the OSS community that their flagship DB is so incomplete.
Its only grace is that the little it does, it does fairly fast.
OSS has proven the old tenet that "you get what you pay for". Which is buy business users pay for Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. (Well, that and the cool schwag the marketing people bring. "Well Oracle brought me a travel mug, but Microsoft brought this cool bomber jacket! I'm going to make a business decision** and go with SQL Server."
** "Business decision" is dronespeak for "random yet biased stupidity".
The_Messenger: Since we aren't poor, let's use a real database, such as Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2. MySQL is severely lacking in features and standards-conformace. PostgreSQL is less lacking, but is also slower than Taco.
But what if the resource you're trying to free isn't a pointer? What if it's, say, a database connection? I do this in Java all the time:
try { // get database connection from pool // connection used for useful task } catch (WhateverException iExpect) { // error code } finally { // return connection to pool }
I think that finally is a great keyword, and I think this is the best suggestion I've read here yet. I hope that someone on the standards body reads this!
Some of you are saying that finally encourages bad design. Rather, I feel that instead, most C++ programmers don't use the try/catch mechanism to its full potential. Hacking in Java has actually made me a better C++ programmer.
Lack of non-blocking IO is one of the biggest complaints about Java's standard library, and it's one of the top requested features on the JDC. Have hope -- assertions are another top-requested feature, and they're already in the Merlin (JDK 1.4) early builds. I'm not sure about non-blocking IO, but Sun seems to generally listen to its developers, even if it is hesitant to add new features between JDK releases.
Merlin will be very cool... a logging API, the new JDBC libraries, all sorts of cool stuff.
Sun markets this as a good language for server tasks?
Yeah, on $500k+ Sun boxes. If you're app doesn't scale then buy a bigger box.:-)
Those are environmental features which are enabled by the standard library. You're excactly the kind of raving, ignorant fucknut newbie that I wouldn't hire, and I doubt the original poster would either. He knows what he's talking about, and you don't. Verrrrry simple, young one.
I'd actually prefer to have explicit memory conrol, which is why I plan to look at C# despite its inherent evil-ness.:-) Checked expections can be a good thing, but I would prefer the ability to turn them off.
But binary portability simply rules. I didn't think I would be so keen on it until the first time I developed a project completely on NT and then moved it to AIX without recompiling. It's not all it's supposed to be, especially with non-Sun JVMs, and so I encourage recompilation for production server applications, but in general it kicks ass.
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No, MacOS doesn't count. Apple is even worse than MS because they control both the OS and the hardware platform. And MacOS is only a viable option to begin with because of Microsoft and Adobe's support.
Windows is a mediocre sever platform but UNIX is just plain awful as a workstation platform for the average user. I love UNIX but drop the bullshit, we have to hear enough of it from the editors here.
And I pay for my NT licenses, just like I pay for my UNIX ones. Please grow up, or at least refrain from posting until you graduate. Thanks.
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It's obvious that you yourself are 16, and are just angry at my attempts to keep 16-year-old girls from becoming sex-object mascots for crappy software. "Young adults" -- heh, that's funny.
If Britney, et cetera, are so talented, why can't they sing with their clothes on? They're an insult to real musicians, so you can just FOAD, troll.
I'm not a plebe. Maybe when you graduate from high school you'll have a chance learn about the real world, and what maturity really means.
Maybe she should start having kids, too, after all, 16 is old enough. You're probably the type that believes in giving welfare to teenage sluts who not only can't keep their pants on, but aren't smart enough to use birth control. Sigh... so young, so ignorant... I almost feel sorry for you.
Now hurry along to class, troll, before you get detention!
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Seriously, though, if her dad knew that Aimster's users are (with all respect to Slashdot readers) probably all obsessive losers with poor hygeine, he probably wouldn't have done this. If he did know that and still pimped her out, I think he can be brought up on child abuse charges. Aimster users are even worse than the average geek... after all, they're willing to break the law to get access to AOL services. That's like stealing Richard Simmons videos because you can't get enough sweatin' to the oldies!
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One kind of spam that doesn't get enough recognition is boss spam -- you know, when your PHB sends out some inane email to fifty people with twenty Word documents attached and everyone clicks "reply to all", and the thread ends up lasting for days and wasting waaaaaaay too much disk space and waaaaaay too much time. I've considered submitting my boss's Exchange server to the MAPS RBL. ;-)
The only spam I don't mind too much is the porn spam on my Hotmail accounts, just because it's so amusing. There's nothing like stumbling out of bed to check my email and find three messages with the subject "please fuck me now i need you" waiting. :-)
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Regardless of the program you use, try to store the data in XML format. Why? Because then you can use one XSLT for conversion to HTML for web use, another XSLT for conversion to PostScript for printing, another XSLT for conversion to Excel spreadsheets -- you get the idea. While I hate to say so on this site, SQL Server 2000 offers some particularly nice functionality that can be used to implement this -- such as automatic transformation of tables to XML documents.
If you require graphics as well as text, check out the gd graphics library. The Webalizer is an absolutely delicious example of how gd can be used to create slick PDF graphs on the fly.
You mention that you'd like to integrate with J2EE... I'm somewhat of a Java guru and can say without wavering that Java is not a first-choice solution for text-based reporting. If your reports are being generated by a Perl or PL/SQL script and you're just outputting the results from Java, it's fine ;), but text processing and transformation isn't too hot in the standard Java APIs. Now if you want to pay for a third-party API, you may be able to get around this...
For graphical reporting, however, Java is one of the best solutions. There are a plethora of Java charting tools available, although the decent ones will cost some dough...
Anyhoo, if you provide some more details on your specific task I can give a better recommendation.
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FYI, Lowtax went off and created SomethingAwful, and while he's had horrendously bad luck with various hosting networks, the site is pretty cool. If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to spend some time in the Jeff K and Cliff Yablonski sections. :-) Lowtax was also able to bring along one of my favorite parts of PQ, Cranky Steve's map reviews. The reviews aren't done by Lowtax anymore and are lacking in quality, but it's a nice blast from the past. (Even if this past is just two years ago.)
Coincidentally, Lowtax recentally brought the afore-mentioned Fragmaster on board as a guest editor. Now if only Frags would resurrect Walter. ;-)
GameSpy's only redeeming value is FilePlanet. I know a lot of people here hate it, and I agree that the format and bandwidth suck, but I usually have better luck downloading from FilePlanet than anywhere else.
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That's why there are some things that it's best to buy IRL. Like pr0n, firearms, and drugs -- the finer things in life.
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Its only grace is that the little it does, it does fairly fast.
OSS has proven the old tenet that "you get what you pay for". Which is buy business users pay for Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. (Well, that and the cool schwag the marketing people bring. "Well Oracle brought me a travel mug, but Microsoft brought this cool bomber jacket! I'm going to make a business decision** and go with SQL Server."
** "Business decision" is dronespeak for "random yet biased stupidity".
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Some of you are saying that finally encourages bad design. Rather, I feel that instead, most C++ programmers don't use the try/catch mechanism to its full potential. Hacking in Java has actually made me a better C++ programmer.
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Merlin will be very cool... a logging API, the new JDBC libraries, all sorts of cool stuff.
Yeah, on $500k+ Sun boxes. If you're app doesn't scale then buy a bigger box.--
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But binary portability simply rules. I didn't think I would be so keen on it until the first time I developed a project completely on NT and then moved it to AIX without recompiling. It's not all it's supposed to be, especially with non-Sun JVMs, and so I encourage recompilation for production server applications, but in general it kicks ass.
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