Java doesn't make small apps (scripts), or big apps (photoshop), or system apps (OSes, shells) very well at all. I realize that most people's bread and butter is writing silly little web applications, but I can assure you that there's a lot happening beyond the horizon. It's going to be quite a few years before Photoshop will be written in java (Eclipse is about as fruity as java gets, and even that depends heavily on native code - written in C). So please don't make the young-people's-mistake of assuming that your world is the best world and therefore has to be everybody's world. We won't drop what we do simply because you declare us old-fashioned. Java is promising tech, but quite new. It's impossible for it (well, unless the bytecode standard changes) to become a system's programming language, and when it comes to security, realize this too: the JVM is written in C. One critical flaw in the JVM + proliferation of java == the entire world goes upside down.
Just get a job. I've got a degree from a prestigious European artschool (painting + photography), and I'm working as a full time programmer. However, I'd also been programming as a hobby since I was twelve, so.. if you're in a similar situation, just get a job and do your tuition on the way - from the web. It'll save you money (make you money, in fact), and you've already proven your creativity, so there shouldn't be a problem. One note for creative people, though: don't get started in a really big company. It's likely to give you such a bad impression that you might not want to try it again. Big companies are bad news for really creative people - start small.
Paul 'winsupersite' Thurrott doing a negative review of Apple on behalf of MickeySoft ?! I just can't believe it. That's like Christopher Hitchens saying that Saddam had those WMDs after all ! Oh wait.
Uhm no. He was quietly sitting inside the carriage; he hadn't jumped the tollbooths, he wasn't wearing a bulky jacket, he wasn't running. Then they pulled him to the ground and shot seven rounds in his head from about ten centimeters distance. Check the facts, man. Also, the guy was called Jean Charles de Menezes and he continues to be a nasty smudge on the reputation of the London Metropolitan Police, who have otherwise made sure, after an internal investigation, that they're not to blame at all for his death.
Probably because it will lead to a generation of seismologists being trained in listening to mountains, with their mentors hoping that their superior intelligence (superior to a computer, that is) will render them capable of making seismological predictions. Much like car mechanics can tell you whatever's wrong with your car by you revving it for a few seconds. It's a tool to generate an interface to a mountain.
Uhm. I think you can figure out what a 'web 2.0' rss feed is. I too, hate the term, but I presume that what we have here is a situation wherein a xmlhttprequest is forged, sent to the server, to beget a bitty of text from the rss producing server. All live and pronto onto your page, without intervention from the server that produced you. As opposed to a page which contains the information from the feed static, as produced by the webserver. Nothing exotic these days. Who would. Why - someone malicious, of course !
Maybe there are other geniuses out there who have also got this figured out. I'm sure the write-up mentioned that it may be a modified version of windows we're talking about. So it will run everything that windows runs.
It looks like another win for compression algorithms. Not only do they maximize entropy in your data while shortening it, they can also be used successfully to earmark pieces of text as being written in a certain language, or written by a certain author, and now they can be used for spam detection. The usefullness just keeps on coming. Colour me impressed.
..in more than one way. But my biggest gripe with it is that having an oracle client implementation in your app somehow makes it all of a sudden a non-'full open source stack'. Oracle's client can be downloaded for free; there exist native php, perl, java (that I know of) client implementations on top of that. The one in java is even completely without the use of native machine code. The SQL is free in that it is free of copyrights, patents and is extensively documented. Anything else is just none of your business, as a web-app builder. And, as another poster said: better keep multiple back-ends around, lest you go rely on back-end specific hacks. For me, that's enough reason to say: stick with oracle as well.
Diseases to be cured with the help of stem cells are (for now) relatively rare. Parkinson's and spinal cord injury are not that common. Gold, as you call it, is not directly on the horizon. The real reason that researchers want to engage in this, is because it's so mind-bogglingly fascinating to cure a patient with an uncurable debilitating disease, using their own genetic material in an almost non-invasive manner. It just screams medical journal articles and nobel prizes. It also paves the way, of course, to a more complete understanding of cellular (re)generation.
Both Israel, until very recently that is, and Lebanon had groups within their borders who had a 'foreign policy' of their own, if you can call it that. Both groups were given a tacit head-nod but were otherwise isolated from their own mainstream society; Lebanon has Hezbollah, and Israel had (well, still has, but their power is gone for a bit) the settler (greater Israel) movement. Both had their opponents in government, but were otherwise powerless to do anything about it; Lebanon because they're no match for Iran's money, Israel because of feelings of electoral suicide. It's a tad early to argue that because Israel reigned in their settlers, that Lebanon should just stand up to Hezbollah - after all, Lebanon had only just been 'released' by Syria. For Lebanon, it's just a shitter of a situation to be in, but then again - this situation could have been seen coming for miles. Nobody in either camp really wants peace; Iran doesn't want it (isn't that totally obvious ?) and Israel doesn't want it - it may want a cease-fire with a tyrant, but not peace with a neighbouring democracy. As I said; the writing was all over the wall. When Abbas said that he wanted a referendum over the acknowledgement of Israel out of Hamas, you knew that the bomb was going to blow sometime soon. Just too close for comfort, that was. And when you're a tiny country caught in the middle of it - tough luck.
Yeah - Google ad sense gave this very slashdot topic (text _mining_) two advertisements, both having to do with shoving coal around the globe. I'd say we can use some advancements in this area.
"Bios chipsets conform to trusted computing and refuse to run non-trusted content. Only windows is signed. Linux can't run. End of story.
No the free market won't work here. There won't be any companies that break the rules,"
Excuse me, my company _will_ break the rules, because we're running Oracle off of Linux and there ain't no way in hell we'll run it off of Windows. Solaris maybe, but that'll mean buying into a new hardware supplier, which is also a big no-no. And I'm sure that my company will not be the only one. If digital signing of binaries comes in fashion (and many have tried already, and failed), then it'll have to be in an open way, much like the way we have CA's on the www these days.
I'm not saying that I'm liking it - I'm just saying there's no need for paranoia.
Good call. I suppose all I can say is that the last word hasn't been said on that particular affair. If I were 'Sir' Ian Blair, I would be on the look-out for another job for when my feudal protector^W^Wboss Tony leaves, which I hear will be soon enough. And if I were the police officer who couldn't resist executing^Wshooting an innocent person in the head seven times from a few centimeters distance, I'd look for work in places where that kind of thing gets lots better pay (Iraq ?).
People ought to get reasonable and separate a few things that are abstract and closely associated (even by staunch proponents) and therefore difficult to separate, but: Israel != Jews. Israeli companies != Israeli government. Yes, people vote, lots of jews live in Israel (even though most of jews don't), lots of money flows (from Israeli people, from Israeli companies, from overseas sponsors) to the state of Israel, but in the end the person responsible for a killing is the person who pulled the trigger, and the person who gave the order to do that. Responsibility doesn't come from supplying money (which is given in good faith, or at the threat of punishment, and used for many things anyway) or from voting (only retro-actively, that is). Yes, it looks like somebody had a bad day, and anyone is free to quit any project for whatever reason they choose, and making emotional decisions can be a very good thing, but mixing up responsible parties just clouds one's judgement, and isn't good for anyone.
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Eh.. don't know where to start, really;
Java doesn't make small apps (scripts), or big apps (photoshop), or system apps (OSes, shells) very well at all. I realize that most people's bread and butter is writing silly little web applications, but I can assure you that there's a lot happening beyond the horizon. It's going to be quite a few years before Photoshop will be written in java (Eclipse is about as fruity as java gets, and even that depends heavily on native code - written in C). So please don't make the young-people's-mistake of assuming that your world is the best world and therefore has to be everybody's world. We won't drop what we do simply because you declare us old-fashioned. Java is promising tech, but quite new. It's impossible for it (well, unless the bytecode standard changes) to become a system's programming language, and when it comes to security, realize this too: the JVM is written in C. One critical flaw in the JVM + proliferation of java == the entire world goes upside down.
Completely OT (especially for a beginner's OS), but can one run Oracle inside this compatibility layer ? If so, what are the experiemces ?
Just get a job. I've got a degree from a prestigious European artschool (painting + photography), and I'm working as a full time programmer. However, I'd also been programming as a hobby since I was twelve, so.. if you're in a similar situation, just get a job and do your tuition on the way - from the web. It'll save you money (make you money, in fact), and you've already proven your creativity, so there shouldn't be a problem. One note for creative people, though: don't get started in a really big company. It's likely to give you such a bad impression that you might not want to try it again. Big companies are bad news for really creative people - start small.
Paul 'winsupersite' Thurrott doing a negative review of Apple on behalf of MickeySoft ?! I just can't believe it. That's like Christopher Hitchens saying that Saddam had those WMDs after all ! Oh wait.
I read that as:
Rails has a security flaw and it's not being derailed.
Well, it is being derailed, right ?
Uhm no. He was quietly sitting inside the carriage; he hadn't jumped the tollbooths, he wasn't wearing a bulky jacket, he wasn't running. Then they pulled him to the ground and shot seven rounds in his head from about ten centimeters distance. Check the facts, man. Also, the guy was called Jean Charles de Menezes and he continues to be a nasty smudge on the reputation of the London Metropolitan Police, who have otherwise made sure, after an internal investigation, that they're not to blame at all for his death.
Probably because it will lead to a generation of seismologists being trained in listening to mountains, with their mentors hoping that their superior intelligence (superior to a computer, that is) will render them capable of making seismological predictions. Much like car mechanics can tell you whatever's wrong with your car by you revving it for a few seconds. It's a tool to generate an interface to a mountain.
Nice sig - I thought it said 'Toast just fell from the sky'. Would make sense, wouldn't it - what with Mulder saying 'Lunch ?' eh ? Ramble ramble...
They should check their referers. Way to go slashdot !
155KB = 155 * 1024 = 158720 * 8 = 1269760 bits. Methinks you have left a zero out, sir !
Isn't it essentially an evolution from Solaris' CDE ?
Wow, aren't you glad to live in a first world country !
Uhm. I think you can figure out what a 'web 2.0' rss feed is. I too, hate the term, but I presume that what we have here is a situation wherein a xmlhttprequest is forged, sent to the server, to beget a bitty of text from the rss producing server. All live and pronto onto your page, without intervention from the server that produced you. As opposed to a page which contains the information from the feed static, as produced by the webserver. Nothing exotic these days. Who would. Why - someone malicious, of course !
Cue to the yo mama jokes..
Maybe there are other geniuses out there who have also got this figured out. I'm sure the write-up mentioned that it may be a modified version of windows we're talking about. So it will run everything that windows runs.
It looks like another win for compression algorithms. Not only do they maximize entropy in your data while shortening it, they can also be used successfully to earmark pieces of text as being written in a certain language, or written by a certain author, and now they can be used for spam detection. The usefullness just keeps on coming. Colour me impressed.
..in more than one way. But my biggest gripe with it is that having an oracle client implementation in your app somehow makes it all of a sudden a non-'full open source stack'. Oracle's client can be downloaded for free; there exist native php, perl, java (that I know of) client implementations on top of that. The one in java is even completely without the use of native machine code. The SQL is free in that it is free of copyrights, patents and is extensively documented. Anything else is just none of your business, as a web-app builder. And, as another poster said: better keep multiple back-ends around, lest you go rely on back-end specific hacks. For me, that's enough reason to say: stick with oracle as well.
"The workhorse is now Java. It has unmatched support for databases, unparalleled library support."
Ouch. That hurts. That's just not true. You may wish it to be true, but it isn't. Not when you compare it to CPAN.
What about having to shut your engine down at the gas station ? Oh, it's not a FLYING gas-station ? My bad.
Diseases to be cured with the help of stem cells are (for now) relatively rare. Parkinson's and spinal cord injury are not that common. Gold, as you call it, is not directly on the horizon. The real reason that researchers want to engage in this, is because it's so mind-bogglingly fascinating to cure a patient with an uncurable debilitating disease, using their own genetic material in an almost non-invasive manner. It just screams medical journal articles and nobel prizes. It also paves the way, of course, to a more complete understanding of cellular (re)generation.
Both Israel, until very recently that is, and Lebanon had groups within their borders who had a 'foreign policy' of their own, if you can call it that. Both groups were given a tacit head-nod but were otherwise isolated from their own mainstream society; Lebanon has Hezbollah, and Israel had (well, still has, but their power is gone for a bit) the settler (greater Israel) movement. Both had their opponents in government, but were otherwise powerless to do anything about it; Lebanon because they're no match for Iran's money, Israel because of feelings of electoral suicide. It's a tad early to argue that because Israel reigned in their settlers, that Lebanon should just stand up to Hezbollah - after all, Lebanon had only just been 'released' by Syria. For Lebanon, it's just a shitter of a situation to be in, but then again - this situation could have been seen coming for miles. Nobody in either camp really wants peace; Iran doesn't want it (isn't that totally obvious ?) and Israel doesn't want it - it may want a cease-fire with a tyrant, but not peace with a neighbouring democracy. As I said; the writing was all over the wall. When Abbas said that he wanted a referendum over the acknowledgement of Israel out of Hamas, you knew that the bomb was going to blow sometime soon. Just too close for comfort, that was. And when you're a tiny country caught in the middle of it - tough luck.
Yeah - Google ad sense gave this very slashdot topic (text _mining_) two advertisements, both having to do with shoving coal around the globe. I'd say we can use some advancements in this area.
"Bios chipsets conform to trusted computing and refuse to run non-trusted content. Only windows is signed. Linux can't run. End of story.
No the free market won't work here. There won't be any companies that break the rules,"
Excuse me, my company _will_ break the rules, because we're running Oracle off of Linux and there ain't no way in hell we'll run it off of Windows. Solaris maybe, but that'll mean buying into a new hardware supplier, which is also a big no-no. And I'm sure that my company will not be the only one. If digital signing of binaries comes in fashion (and many have tried already, and failed), then it'll have to be in an open way, much like the way we have CA's on the www these days.
I'm not saying that I'm liking it - I'm just saying there's no need for paranoia.
Good call. I suppose all I can say is that the last word hasn't been said on that particular affair. If I were 'Sir' Ian Blair, I would be on the look-out for another job for when my feudal protector^W^Wboss Tony leaves, which I hear will be soon enough. And if I were the police officer who couldn't resist executing^Wshooting an innocent person in the head seven times from a few centimeters distance, I'd look for work in places where that kind of thing gets lots better pay (Iraq ?).
People ought to get reasonable and separate a few things that are abstract and closely associated (even by staunch proponents) and therefore difficult to separate, but: Israel != Jews. Israeli companies != Israeli government. Yes, people vote, lots of jews live in Israel (even though most of jews don't), lots of money flows (from Israeli people, from Israeli companies, from overseas sponsors) to the state of Israel, but in the end the person responsible for a killing is the person who pulled the trigger, and the person who gave the order to do that. Responsibility doesn't come from supplying money (which is given in good faith, or at the threat of punishment, and used for many things anyway) or from voting (only retro-actively, that is). Yes, it looks like somebody had a bad day, and anyone is free to quit any project for whatever reason they choose, and making emotional decisions can be a very good thing, but mixing up responsible parties just clouds one's judgement, and isn't good for anyone.