Most of those are libraries. Thus they've been solved with any language with similar libraries. Ie, networking - it's sort of there in Java, however there's no control over the networking and how it's implemented and it reflects a small subset of what you may want networking to do (it's good at web oriented stuff basically). Meanwhile just about any language that allows using POSIX libraries can do your basic networking that Java can do. For embedded devices, Java is still very high level, it does not give you register access to the machines for example, so where it is used most typically in embedded systems is as an application layer with the layers underneath written in other languages.
I agree a lot has been added to solve problems. Which means I meet a lot of Java programmers who don't really program, they just tie together pieces of existing code.
There are many versus that also teach to treat Jews and Christians well as they are fellow monotheists, or peoples of the book.
"Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve."
Islam does have orders to love your neighbors, because Islam includes the teachings of Christ as well. They just don't consider him divine.
Meanwhile, in the new testament: "Then He said to them, 'But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.'" Of course it's out of context, but using religion for violence has always been about taking things out of context.
Ya, it feels a bit of a stretch. 10K is tiny. 8-bit CPU systems with a tiny application and no operating system take up more code space than that and that's with no networking or security. I'm struggling with 128K code and 16K ram to fit in what is needed, but that's with 16 bit instructions.
I can't see any links to get verifiable information. I suspect it's 10K ram with code in flash or rom though, or it has some seriously limited requirements (only communicates with a nearby phone, recharge every night, using an attached radio modem to do all the work but not counting code size that it uses).
What's the default on Android? That was an utterly useless piece of crap. I assumed it was Chrome since it's Google... Firefox isn't much better though. So slow, no instruction manual (seriously, I can't figure out how to use it, how to customize it to get rid of accidentally added bookmarks, how to remove the default start page, etc). Then I have to pull out a magnifying glass to read any page that pops up anyway.
Firefox is amazingly slow on my phone. I stopped using it, it's pointless to even try. I will walk from the lunch breakroom back to my desk in order to look stuff up on the web in order to save time.
The ADS are the resource hogs! I am highly suspicious that this is the reason why there is no decent browser for my android, it's painfully slow even though the same wifi is fast and responsive on a real computer. Alternately it could be JavaScript since there's also no NoScript add-on, but I don't even know if JavaScript can run on smartphones... I'd really like to just get a dumb phone again, there's nothing at all smart or useful about the new phones unless you like to do twitter or facebook.
The maintenance is usually built into the cost. Plans during design may have been for 1 firmware patch/upgrade a year. However in practice this may change over time.
Or they factor in the cost of manpower to walk around to each pump and upgrade them versus the cost of adding in a network and the security subsystem to deal with a network and the cost of back office support services to manage the network and security issues, and then decided that the flunky with a laptop is the better solution. Sure, I agree it's not good to be the flunky in that case, but it's how so much of the world works.
The yanks smart bomb people instead. Innocent people too if you're paying attention. Seriously, "the muslims" are not bombing people any more than "the christians" or the "the yanks" or "the russkies". If you think an Islamic extremist suicide bomber is the same as all muslims, then why aren't all white Americans the same as Timothy McVeigh?
The difference is that when some nut case looks like you then the gut instinct is to call them an anomaly, but if the nut case looks different from you then the gut instinct is to blame everyone else who looks like the nut case. The same applies even if they look like you but their church has a slightly theology, or they're in a different job, or from a different political party, etc.
If you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to wear clothes (bill provision to be added by the sunscreen manufacturing coalition). So if you see someone walking around with clothes and they're not uniformed police, they're probably a criminal and should be reported.
CD-ROM era may be closing, but the era of physical distribution is not. The cloud is a myth. Sure it may be used by the hordes but people who want security, privacy, safety, convenience, etc, will continue use physical storage. Computers and device will continue to require physical storage for decades to come. Just because the teens don't use something doesn't make it dead.
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Does the editor allow you to see multiple windows of code at the same time? The thing I hate most about IDEs I've used is that they're using this bizarre MDI model, big file list or class browser on one side, command output or such at the bottom, menu bar and icons at the top, and one big space wasting code window in the middle. I want to see file A on the left and file B on the right while I'm editing file C in the middle.
The perfect IDE for me that might get me to use one: - multiple code windows simultaneously - not written in Java so it's fast - does not try to second guess me - lets me configure it fully, I want emacs keybindings dammit, not mock-emacs - let me plug and play different components from different vendors. Don't force the vendor lockin or tool lockin. I want to replace the editor or the debugger or whatnot. And do not suggest that Eclipse can do this because it can not. - get the pointless windows and GUI fluff out of the way when I am not using them. If I have a modern high resolution monitor then I want to get more stuff on the screen rather than just higher resolution fonts. - don't force me to use its lame project management system, use my own Makefile or set of scripts (because no one's yet come up with a suitable replacement), don't do something moronic like assuming every file in a directory is a part of the project, don't insist on a directory layout style, let the user be in charge. - make it easy to program instead of making me struggle locating obscure hidden menu entries - don't make me point and click.
Get a good hint from Genera on the old Symbolics Lisp machines. A GUI designed by smart people for smart people.
Visual Studio when I used in a decade ago, was one of the worst IDEs I've seen. Ie, screwing up the project files so I had to fix them by hand in an editor , but many IDEs screw that stuff up when merging from source code control, a fault of using XML for unnatural purposes (to be fair, any useful purpose for XML is automatically unnatural). Extremely slow start up, slow run time, slow everything. Once it stopped being mandatory because we got an alternate way to build the projects most people on the team stopped using Visual Studio except as a basic editor, many stopped using even the class browser. People are able to create GUIs that are usable, however Microsoft hasn't managed that trick yet.
There's your problem DOS command prompt is a stretch to call it a "tool". Windows was not designed to make doing work easy. Switch over to Unix or Mac and get real work done with a real command line designed to get stuff done. Or install Cygwin on your system.
I've seen several embedded development systems for Windows out there that come with Cygwin or MinGW tools, even if they're under the hood.
Renaming functions is not that hard without an IDE. Or if you're good at using the shell with grep/xargs/sed you're good to go.
The thing is that IDEs can save you a few minutes in these cases if the function to be renamed is used across many files. However the IDE also sucks up a lot of your life in exchange; you're forced to use the IDE's idea of how projects should be laid out, they need to know every file you use (otherwise they can't search/replace), they're not happy when you use external build tools, many of them get confused if you use external editors (no IDE code editor is even remotely close to the usefulness of emacs), and sadly in this day and age, so many of them are just plain awful (none of the whizbang must-have refactoring features that people rave about, just a lousy editor with a lousy debugger). If the refactoring is so awesome then someone should come up with a tool to do that without the agony of using an IDE.
Another hint that many kids who follow behind Microsoft don't know. If you don't use Microsoft's stupid variant of Hungarian notation then you don't need to rename your variables if you change their type, so either don't use Hungarian notation or else use it the way it was intended to be used (prefix by the use of the variable and not the type).
Right now I'm forced to use an IDE based off of Eclipse for one project, because it is the only debugger for a particular chip unless we switch over to Windows. It's absolutely brutal to use. Sloooow, crashing a lot, a bit confused about ELF format, unintuitive, hours of wasted time trying to figure out what should be simple, and so forth. So it's the worst of Eclipse with the worst of unnamed vendor (starts with tee and ends in eye), and the vendor isn't even using it internally.
So, you're saying kids should know how to use twitter in order to design the next ultimate time waster in the future? So far, it seems like kids are able to adequately use twitter without the schools helping out.
I still say stick to the basics. If the kids don't know basic math and science then they're not going to be able to engineer anything new, and if they don't know basic art concepts they won't be able to adequately design a new look either. In the next 30 years, arithmetic is not going to change. The Pythagorean theorem is not going to change. Pi are squared and will continue to be squared.
You can't learn how a smartphone works if you don't know how the stuff before smartphones work. Computers, dumb phones, etc. You don't know how those work without knowing how stuff before them worked. Etc. So you need to know digital logic, Maxwell's equations, trigonometry, etc. Plus art and music and even literature depending upon what parts you are designing.
I agree that the interesting stuff doesn't need to be taught in schools. Schools have to teach the boring stuff that even self motivated students don't want to learn.
Microsoft marketing wants to throw all this out because they're trying to sell stuff to the schools. Same as Apple, but in my experience for the last 30 years, Apple donates free computers which end up in storage rooms because the no one knows how to use the limited numbers adequately in a classroom. Both do it in order to get brand name awareness, not because they think it will help out with education. Any educational recommendations made by corporations should be automatically be treated with high suspicion.
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I thought it was "commandante".
Most of those are libraries. Thus they've been solved with any language with similar libraries. Ie, networking - it's sort of there in Java, however there's no control over the networking and how it's implemented and it reflects a small subset of what you may want networking to do (it's good at web oriented stuff basically). Meanwhile just about any language that allows using POSIX libraries can do your basic networking that Java can do. For embedded devices, Java is still very high level, it does not give you register access to the machines for example, so where it is used most typically in embedded systems is as an application layer with the layers underneath written in other languages.
I agree a lot has been added to solve problems. Which means I meet a lot of Java programmers who don't really program, they just tie together pieces of existing code.
There are many versus that also teach to treat Jews and Christians well as they are fellow monotheists, or peoples of the book.
"Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve."
Islam does have orders to love your neighbors, because Islam includes the teachings of Christ as well. They just don't consider him divine.
Meanwhile, in the new testament: "Then He said to them, 'But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.'" Of course it's out of context, but using religion for violence has always been about taking things out of context.
All Christian terrorists are also Christian! Don't shut your eyes to the truth!
Didn't you hear, all the data is in the cloud now so we no longer need computers.
Ya, it feels a bit of a stretch. 10K is tiny. 8-bit CPU systems with a tiny application and no operating system take up more code space than that and that's with no networking or security. I'm struggling with 128K code and 16K ram to fit in what is needed, but that's with 16 bit instructions.
I can't see any links to get verifiable information. I suspect it's 10K ram with code in flash or rom though, or it has some seriously limited requirements (only communicates with a nearby phone, recharge every night, using an attached radio modem to do all the work but not counting code size that it uses).
If the device does not do anything at all, then security is optional.
What's the default on Android? That was an utterly useless piece of crap. I assumed it was Chrome since it's Google... Firefox isn't much better though. So slow, no instruction manual (seriously, I can't figure out how to use it, how to customize it to get rid of accidentally added bookmarks, how to remove the default start page, etc). Then I have to pull out a magnifying glass to read any page that pops up anyway.
Firefox is amazingly slow on my phone. I stopped using it, it's pointless to even try. I will walk from the lunch breakroom back to my desk in order to look stuff up on the web in order to save time.
The ADS are the resource hogs! I am highly suspicious that this is the reason why there is no decent browser for my android, it's painfully slow even though the same wifi is fast and responsive on a real computer. Alternately it could be JavaScript since there's also no NoScript add-on, but I don't even know if JavaScript can run on smartphones... I'd really like to just get a dumb phone again, there's nothing at all smart or useful about the new phones unless you like to do twitter or facebook.
The maintenance is usually built into the cost. Plans during design may have been for 1 firmware patch/upgrade a year. However in practice this may change over time.
Or they factor in the cost of manpower to walk around to each pump and upgrade them versus the cost of adding in a network and the security subsystem to deal with a network and the cost of back office support services to manage the network and security issues, and then decided that the flunky with a laptop is the better solution. Sure, I agree it's not good to be the flunky in that case, but it's how so much of the world works.
Alternatively, you could say the manufacturer has done a good job of eliminating networks as a source of malware.
The yanks smart bomb people instead. Innocent people too if you're paying attention. Seriously, "the muslims" are not bombing people any more than "the christians" or the "the yanks" or "the russkies". If you think an Islamic extremist suicide bomber is the same as all muslims, then why aren't all white Americans the same as Timothy McVeigh?
The difference is that when some nut case looks like you then the gut instinct is to call them an anomaly, but if the nut case looks different from you then the gut instinct is to blame everyone else who looks like the nut case. The same applies even if they look like you but their church has a slightly theology, or they're in a different job, or from a different political party, etc.
If you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to wear clothes (bill provision to be added by the sunscreen manufacturing coalition). So if you see someone walking around with clothes and they're not uniformed police, they're probably a criminal and should be reported.
But its still hypocritical to campaign based upon local control while also deying local control.
And in many cases, the municipalities existed as political entities before the state.
Capital means money too, wealth or property, as well as uppercase. Thus a pun.
CD-ROM era may be closing, but the era of physical distribution is not. The cloud is a myth. Sure it may be used by the hordes but people who want security, privacy, safety, convenience, etc, will continue use physical storage. Computers and device will continue to require physical storage for decades to come. Just because the teens don't use something doesn't make it dead.
Does the editor allow you to see multiple windows of code at the same time? The thing I hate most about IDEs I've used is that they're using this bizarre MDI model, big file list or class browser on one side, command output or such at the bottom, menu bar and icons at the top, and one big space wasting code window in the middle. I want to see file A on the left and file B on the right while I'm editing file C in the middle.
The perfect IDE for me that might get me to use one:
- multiple code windows simultaneously
- not written in Java so it's fast
- does not try to second guess me
- lets me configure it fully, I want emacs keybindings dammit, not mock-emacs
- let me plug and play different components from different vendors. Don't force the vendor lockin or tool lockin. I want to replace the editor or the debugger or whatnot. And do not suggest that Eclipse can do this because it can not.
- get the pointless windows and GUI fluff out of the way when I am not using them. If I have a modern high resolution monitor then I want to get more stuff on the screen rather than just higher resolution fonts.
- don't force me to use its lame project management system, use my own Makefile or set of scripts (because no one's yet come up with a suitable replacement), don't do something moronic like assuming every file in a directory is a part of the project, don't insist on a directory layout style, let the user be in charge.
- make it easy to program instead of making me struggle locating obscure hidden menu entries
- don't make me point and click.
Get a good hint from Genera on the old Symbolics Lisp machines. A GUI designed by smart people for smart people.
Visual Studio when I used in a decade ago, was one of the worst IDEs I've seen. Ie, screwing up the project files so I had to fix them by hand in an editor , but many IDEs screw that stuff up when merging from source code control, a fault of using XML for unnatural purposes (to be fair, any useful purpose for XML is automatically unnatural). Extremely slow start up, slow run time, slow everything. Once it stopped being mandatory because we got an alternate way to build the projects most people on the team stopped using Visual Studio except as a basic editor, many stopped using even the class browser. People are able to create GUIs that are usable, however Microsoft hasn't managed that trick yet.
That's exactly who I was thinking of.
There's your problem DOS command prompt is a stretch to call it a "tool". Windows was not designed to make doing work easy. Switch over to Unix or Mac and get real work done with a real command line designed to get stuff done. Or install Cygwin on your system.
I've seen several embedded development systems for Windows out there that come with Cygwin or MinGW tools, even if they're under the hood.
Renaming functions is not that hard without an IDE. Or if you're good at using the shell with grep/xargs/sed you're good to go.
The thing is that IDEs can save you a few minutes in these cases if the function to be renamed is used across many files. However the IDE also sucks up a lot of your life in exchange; you're forced to use the IDE's idea of how projects should be laid out, they need to know every file you use (otherwise they can't search/replace), they're not happy when you use external build tools, many of them get confused if you use external editors (no IDE code editor is even remotely close to the usefulness of emacs), and sadly in this day and age, so many of them are just plain awful (none of the whizbang must-have refactoring features that people rave about, just a lousy editor with a lousy debugger). If the refactoring is so awesome then someone should come up with a tool to do that without the agony of using an IDE.
Another hint that many kids who follow behind Microsoft don't know. If you don't use Microsoft's stupid variant of Hungarian notation then you don't need to rename your variables if you change their type, so either don't use Hungarian notation or else use it the way it was intended to be used (prefix by the use of the variable and not the type).
Right now I'm forced to use an IDE based off of Eclipse for one project, because it is the only debugger for a particular chip unless we switch over to Windows. It's absolutely brutal to use. Sloooow, crashing a lot, a bit confused about ELF format, unintuitive, hours of wasted time trying to figure out what should be simple, and so forth. So it's the worst of Eclipse with the worst of unnamed vendor (starts with tee and ends in eye), and the vendor isn't even using it internally.
You sound like the guy next door to me in the nursing home. Let's stop posting and go so we can still grab the best seats for Murder She Wrote.
Aquamacs!
So, you're saying kids should know how to use twitter in order to design the next ultimate time waster in the future? So far, it seems like kids are able to adequately use twitter without the schools helping out.
I still say stick to the basics. If the kids don't know basic math and science then they're not going to be able to engineer anything new, and if they don't know basic art concepts they won't be able to adequately design a new look either. In the next 30 years, arithmetic is not going to change. The Pythagorean theorem is not going to change. Pi are squared and will continue to be squared.
You can't learn how a smartphone works if you don't know how the stuff before smartphones work. Computers, dumb phones, etc. You don't know how those work without knowing how stuff before them worked. Etc. So you need to know digital logic, Maxwell's equations, trigonometry, etc. Plus art and music and even literature depending upon what parts you are designing.
I agree that the interesting stuff doesn't need to be taught in schools. Schools have to teach the boring stuff that even self motivated students don't want to learn.
Microsoft marketing wants to throw all this out because they're trying to sell stuff to the schools. Same as Apple, but in my experience for the last 30 years, Apple donates free computers which end up in storage rooms because the no one knows how to use the limited numbers adequately in a classroom. Both do it in order to get brand name awareness, not because they think it will help out with education. Any educational recommendations made by corporations should be automatically be treated with high suspicion.