Java programms are nothing more than typists who can understand how to string together bits of code from the latest 'Type and Learn' Java Book.
Wow, you must have seen some low quality programmers, then.
Java is nice if you don't want to worry about complexity, or managing algorithms, etc.
No managing algorithms? Huh? In what way do you not have to manage algorithms?
I think of it like VB, nice for building proof of concepts, fast 'throw-away' prototypes.
Better not tell the MoD (Ministry of Defence, UK Government) since they have Java as one of their approved languages. Yes, C and C++ are also approved, but AFAIK C# hasn't been yet (and hopefully neither has VB!)
Yes, you can write fast prototypes in Java, but that's just one of the things made easier by Third Gen/high level languages and object orientation.
I wouldn't even want to use VB for a prototype, though. Far too ugly and Windows-based a language for that;)
It's like all the kids who pirate Photoshop, but would never pay $600 for it. It's not a lost sale. It in no way, shape, or form affects Adobe. But they'll still move heaven & earth to stop it...
And they'll almost certainly count it as a pirated copy that lost them $600 as well.
That's the bit that always amuses me - they claim these huge amounts of money that are lost, but it's severely doubtful that they'd really sell that many copies of it if people had no way of pirating it (like automatically being caught and executed within a day, or fool-proof DRM or something).
My thoughts exactly. To look at how it affects piracy rates, you need some way of measuring piracy. AFAIK they have nothing other than RSITDANTMUFG* numbers for what piracy levels may be. Come on, how can you ever hope to count downloads on the many P2P networks when the whole point of them is that they're decentralised?
* RSITDANTMUFG = Random Stab In The Dark At Number That Make Us Feel Good
That will, of course, rely on the fact that people actually use it properly. How many people do you see now who use tables for layout? Or spans with titles and styling when they should use abbr or acronym tags?
The idea is good, and if search engines like Google could pay attention to it in a "semantic web" kind of way then it would be a big bonus, but I can't see take up and use being too quick.
I went to a British Uni. For generic programming we were taught in Java in the first year then two years of C#. For concurrent systems and algorithms and data structures the samples were in Java. Machine Learning had a leaning towards Java but used multiple languages. We had a specific bash/Perl/make file module in the first year. I also did a year as "Industrial Experience" in a pure C# place (internal development for the company) and the few bits I had to handle VB in old ASP forms were bad enough!
I think the reason given for moving us to C# is that more and more companies outside Uni were using it so it was going to be more relevant for most people. TBH I can see a lot of places where I prefer the C# methodology (e.g. events, delegates and a few other bits that are core in.Net but 'write yourself' in Java).
I'm now programming in Java at work and C# (in a cross-platform, compatible with Mono way) at home, along with PHP for my website, so it's not all MS amongst graduates.
That would repel from the floor, but not from another cat with another slice of buttered toast strapped to its back (which is what this can potentially do).
From what I remember of the buttered toast cat, doesn't it end up spinning just above the floor as the cat tries to land feet-first and the toast tries to land butter-side down? If so then why is no-one wrapping these cats in wire, putting them between magnets and throwing them off surfaces en-mass to generate electricity while they spin?
Just because it's serious doesn't mean it's scientific. Personally I never liked the style of the Telegraph (or the Independent) but at least it wasn't in the Sun/Mail/Star with some "scientist may be able to boost boobs with magic underwear" headline, some made-up reference to underwear using the repelling force for improved figure and some lewder phraseology.
Yeah, why go for the English spelling of an English word when you can go for the American spelling of an English word? It's so crazy. Kind of like choosing the Spanish spelling of a Spanish word over the Mexican spelling of a Spanish word;)
That assumes you've got standard right-angled triangles, though. e.g. two to make each side, multiplied by three (which is the most number of sides of a box you can see at one time - like in normal isometric projection)
Maybe they are out there, trying to communicate with us, but they're using MSN Messenger and have the same bad grammar as half of the other people who use it?
"hello earthling.we want to know you know about us.info is important!!!!!"
I don't know if this is YALD as much as ALDR (Another Linux Distro Returns). Guess it depends whether you see Fedora/Fedora Core as the continuation of the old Redhat and this as a new distro, or whether RHEL was the end of Redhat desktop and this is a 'reinvention' of the original Redhat that has just been hibernating.
I'm British, so we just covered the Cold War. I don't think South/Central America and Africa were part of the Cold War. Or if they were then they were even less closely related to Russia than some of the others.
America wasn't even really at war with Russia/the Soviet Union. It was at Cold War with them, but there was little direct conflict.
Cuba: Russia supplied items to Cuba, America got upset and worried, no direct conflict. Korea: Each nation supported one half of the country, ended up leaving it split. Vietnam: Again, support from each side, this time the Americans withdrew but it wasn't a Soviet victory directly. Afghanistan (the original one): America aided the local warlords against the Soviets. Mainly in the way of weapons and advisors, I believe. No direct conflict. Iraq-Iran: Russia and America took sides, no direct conflict.
That's all I can remember from A Level history and personal research:)
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" - Me (based off someone I can't remember)
My thoughts exactly. You can see around the guys turban in the first picture that it looks like a blue-screen equivalent.
Having said that, it did still supposedly pick up on the fact that the text had been added after the banner. So even if the banner was created in a 3D app then the tool can (assuming it is correct) identify what was added later/with different compression ratios.
Somewhat rare amongst Slashdot users, perhaps, but not amongst AOL dialup. I have a reasonable number of people hitting my website from the same address and different addresses at the same time (i.e. it's obvious from browsing patterns that there's different people using the same central AOL load balancing IP, but the next requests will come in from different ones).
Unfortunately AOL isn't as dead as many of us would like.
I'm in the UK and most people I know don't bother with cable/satellite and use the Internet for forums and the like rather than broadcasts.
Having said that, work is a load of geeks, so we're not even interested in half of the crap that's on even terrestrial TV and freeview (unless it's a SciFi series or UK TV History) so maybe that's not representative.
Ahhh, satire at its best. I started off thinking it would be a normal "we can't afford to live, petrol is too expensive" but the twist to gadgetry and fripperies is just great:)
Remember, these are politicians we're talking about. Bought and Sold are such dirty words that they're bound to find other words (much like it's a "campaign donation" or an "unconnected personal gift" rather than a bribe)
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Don't you mean "thair"?
:)
I'm surprised that the comment picking up on the misspelling of "they're" (as in "what they are offering") as "there" is so far down the page
Wow, you must have seen some low quality programmers, then.
No managing algorithms? Huh? In what way do you not have to manage algorithms?
Better not tell the MoD (Ministry of Defence, UK Government) since they have Java as one of their approved languages. Yes, C and C++ are also approved, but AFAIK C# hasn't been yet (and hopefully neither has VB!)
Yes, you can write fast prototypes in Java, but that's just one of the things made easier by Third Gen/high level languages and object orientation.
I wouldn't even want to use VB for a prototype, though. Far too ugly and Windows-based a language for that
And they'll almost certainly count it as a pirated copy that lost them $600 as well.
That's the bit that always amuses me - they claim these huge amounts of money that are lost, but it's severely doubtful that they'd really sell that many copies of it if people had no way of pirating it (like automatically being caught and executed within a day, or fool-proof DRM or something).
Good old Meaning of Life :) If only big ships like that really crashed around the financial districts!
My thoughts exactly. To look at how it affects piracy rates, you need some way of measuring piracy. AFAIK they have nothing other than RSITDANTMUFG* numbers for what piracy levels may be. Come on, how can you ever hope to count downloads on the many P2P networks when the whole point of them is that they're decentralised?
* RSITDANTMUFG = Random Stab In The Dark At Number That Make Us Feel Good
*re-reads comments having read them at work*
:D
I finally twigged, you mean WinKey. I wondered what the hell use a winking smilie with a nick-name was in closing windows
That will, of course, rely on the fact that people actually use it properly. How many people do you see now who use tables for layout? Or spans with titles and styling when they should use abbr or acronym tags?
The idea is good, and if search engines like Google could pay attention to it in a "semantic web" kind of way then it would be a big bonus, but I can't see take up and use being too quick.
I went to a British Uni. For generic programming we were taught in Java in the first year then two years of C#. For concurrent systems and algorithms and data structures the samples were in Java. Machine Learning had a leaning towards Java but used multiple languages. We had a specific bash/Perl/make file module in the first year. I also did a year as "Industrial Experience" in a pure C# place (internal development for the company) and the few bits I had to handle VB in old ASP forms were bad enough!
.Net but 'write yourself' in Java).
I think the reason given for moving us to C# is that more and more companies outside Uni were using it so it was going to be more relevant for most people. TBH I can see a lot of places where I prefer the C# methodology (e.g. events, delegates and a few other bits that are core in
I'm now programming in Java at work and C# (in a cross-platform, compatible with Mono way) at home, along with PHP for my website, so it's not all MS amongst graduates.
That would repel from the floor, but not from another cat with another slice of buttered toast strapped to its back (which is what this can potentially do).
From what I remember of the buttered toast cat, doesn't it end up spinning just above the floor as the cat tries to land feet-first and the toast tries to land butter-side down? If so then why is no-one wrapping these cats in wire, putting them between magnets and throwing them off surfaces en-mass to generate electricity while they spin?
Just because it's serious doesn't mean it's scientific. Personally I never liked the style of the Telegraph (or the Independent) but at least it wasn't in the Sun/Mail/Star with some "scientist may be able to boost boobs with magic underwear" headline, some made-up reference to underwear using the repelling force for improved figure and some lewder phraseology.
Depends how you look at it - pessimists will see the lower atom being depressed ;)
The BBC are slightly more useful at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_ east/6932283.stm - they say it's a "friction reducing lens". Still doesn't give us a lot to go on, but it's a start!
Yeah, why go for the English spelling of an English word when you can go for the American spelling of an English word? It's so crazy. Kind of like choosing the Spanish spelling of a Spanish word over the Mexican spelling of a Spanish word ;)
That assumes you've got standard right-angled triangles, though. e.g. two to make each side, multiplied by three (which is the most number of sides of a box you can see at one time - like in normal isometric projection)
Maybe they are out there, trying to communicate with us, but they're using MSN Messenger and have the same bad grammar as half of the other people who use it?
"hello earthling.we want to know you know about us.info is important!!!!!"
I don't know if this is YALD as much as ALDR (Another Linux Distro Returns). Guess it depends whether you see Fedora/Fedora Core as the continuation of the old Redhat and this as a new distro, or whether RHEL was the end of Redhat desktop and this is a 'reinvention' of the original Redhat that has just been hibernating.
I'm British, so we just covered the Cold War. I don't think South/Central America and Africa were part of the Cold War. Or if they were then they were even less closely related to Russia than some of the others.
Never mind RTFA, it's a RTFS
I'd agree that even $199 is probably too expensive for many Chinese farmers, though.
Maybe because Communism is about sharing the means of production rather than giving everyone everything ;)
America wasn't even really at war with Russia/the Soviet Union. It was at Cold War with them, but there was little direct conflict.
:)
Cuba: Russia supplied items to Cuba, America got upset and worried, no direct conflict.
Korea: Each nation supported one half of the country, ended up leaving it split.
Vietnam: Again, support from each side, this time the Americans withdrew but it wasn't a Soviet victory directly.
Afghanistan (the original one): America aided the local warlords against the Soviets. Mainly in the way of weapons and advisors, I believe. No direct conflict.
Iraq-Iran: Russia and America took sides, no direct conflict.
That's all I can remember from A Level history and personal research
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" - Me (based off someone I can't remember)
My thoughts exactly. You can see around the guys turban in the first picture that it looks like a blue-screen equivalent.
Having said that, it did still supposedly pick up on the fact that the text had been added after the banner. So even if the banner was created in a 3D app then the tool can (assuming it is correct) identify what was added later/with different compression ratios.
Somewhat rare amongst Slashdot users, perhaps, but not amongst AOL dialup. I have a reasonable number of people hitting my website from the same address and different addresses at the same time (i.e. it's obvious from browsing patterns that there's different people using the same central AOL load balancing IP, but the next requests will come in from different ones).
Unfortunately AOL isn't as dead as many of us would like.
I'm in the UK and most people I know don't bother with cable/satellite and use the Internet for forums and the like rather than broadcasts.
Having said that, work is a load of geeks, so we're not even interested in half of the crap that's on even terrestrial TV and freeview (unless it's a SciFi series or UK TV History) so maybe that's not representative.
Ahhh, satire at its best. I started off thinking it would be a normal "we can't afford to live, petrol is too expensive" but the twist to gadgetry and fripperies is just great :)
What, you mean money isn't an argument? ;)
Remember, these are politicians we're talking about. Bought and Sold are such dirty words that they're bound to find other words (much like it's a "campaign donation" or an "unconnected personal gift" rather than a bribe)