No trying to detract from your greater point, which I agree with, but...
T-Mobile sells the Nokia Nuron, which runs Symbian S60 and has 3G, subsidized.
You can also get phones directly from Nokia (or from non-carrier stores - even Fry's has them) that work on AT&T's 3G, and a couple that even work on T-Mobile's 3G.
None of them are advertised as "Symbian phones", though, just as "smartphones".
While I do agree that MusicBrainz is superior, it's still lacking a single field in the track information: whether the track is an audio track or a data track. I don't think adding a boolean field to their database would have been that difficult.:-)
(And no, this doesn't count. And I know CDDB doesn't have that info either.)
Now that you mentioned it I found out why I get popups at work and not at home. There's an option in firefox to disable popups from plugins. Just go to about:config and change "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" to "2" (create the option if necessary, type "integer").
A guy who used to work with me joined the FBI and got a "special agent" title right away. He also said everybody there was a "special agent", so maybe they just want to feel special.
The Virtual Desktop manager powertoy kinda sucks... after trying a few ones (most of them shareware that barely worked) I ended up choosing Deskwin. Works fine, has keyboard shortcuts for changing desktops...
Only issue is that Firefox doesn't seem to like it much and screws up the display from time to time. Restarting Firefox temporarily fixes the issue, though.
I still find about stories that I haven't read in sections that are supposed to be shown according to my preferences, so that doesn't solve the issue, it seems.
What do you mean "calling mysql directly"? I can assure you that isn't actually possible in Java. MySQL is a C application, Java can't call C code without some kind of intermediate layer.
Well, we could also argue that you couldn't do that in any language, since MySQL is a daemon and the client libraries will open a connection to the daemon to talk to it...
Even if it were a JNI wrapper around the C libraries, that was not the point of the original poster. The point seems to be that there's a huge monolithical magical "Database.java" that seems to be were the DB logic is done. And it is called directly from the servlets, which are the entry points of the application. Really bad design. They are just using the servlets as a thin wrapper around SQL calls, which would make it nearly impossible to implement things like caching which would be trivial with a well done design.
Also, what's "Database.java" -- if it's part of the MySQL/Java interface layer, this would be perfectly appropriate behaviour.
Actually, that would be even worse, since it would imply that the servlets are talking directly to the database with no intermediate helper classes at all. Talk about code reuse!
Not to discuss about IE, what about banks using different password entry schemes?
In Brazil there seems to be a new regulation saying that users of ATM and online banking shouldn't type the password in a numeric pad anymore.
Instead, you get 5 buttons on the touch screen (or a small Java applet, or Javascript thing in the case of the bank where I have an account there) with combinations of two numbers. It looks like "press this if the next number is 3 or 8".
The thing is, the combination changes every time you enter your password. The first button that was "3 or 8" before will be something like "4 or 7" next time. And the combinations change too, not only the position of the buttons.
So it becomes more difficult for spyware to monitor keypresses / mouse clicks, or things like this to work for the scammer. (Ironic or not, the ATM in the pictures at the UT website is from a Brazilian bank).
I haven't seen anything like that in any US bank; it's always a number pad where you type your password, or a text field to type the password online.
Aside from the "you can't trust the client" comments, if you were using Struts and JSP this would be a non-issue, since the same code (in an XML file) creates the client-side (with a one-line jsp tag) and server-side validation for your data.
You really should take a look at the Jakarta Commons Validator library...
That's a good question. Last time I tried to use a GTK+ app through the network (from home, running the app in my work machine), GUI performance was really bad. Menus took ages to redraw.
On the other hand, I use KDE apps in the same manner and the performance is great. There's a little bit of lag compared to apps running locally, but nothing that makes it unbearable to use.
Does anybody have any idea of why Qt performs so much better than Gtk+ in this regard?
I don't know how this is handled in the UK, but in Brazil you have to fill out a form and provide the serial # for any equipment other than photo cameras and other small appliances (shavers, etc) that you're taking with you, or risk having to pay duty on your way back.
If you don't have proof of purchase, they have their own price list for the most common things that people carry (which is, obviously, marked-up a lot).
And the customs officers really like to go through the baggage of people arriving from the US.
As a foreigner student currently in the US, I was really surprised to see how expensive these books are here.
Especially when taking into account that the same books, in English, orderer by one of the campus bookstores directly from the publisher here in the USA, cost around US$ 20 (yes, you read that right) for us in Brazil, including shipping expenses and the profit from the bookstore selling it to us. It was a paperback edition, but hell, it's a big price difference.
And I've seen the same being said about Europe too (buying American books there is cheaper than it is in the USA), in some articles that were run in the campus newspaper last year.
Just as an example, take Brazil. Ethanol, distilled from sugar cane, is widely used as fuel there, since the 70s (or early 80s? Can't remember).
Ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, is much cheaper (down there, at least, even though right now it's mixed with a little gasoline), and cars are generally a little bit more efficient (power-wise), at the cost of being a little bit less efficient (mileage-wise) and being more corrosive than gasoline. Also, I guess there would be problems in places with cold weather - even in the not-so-cold temperatures of southern Brazil during the winter, cars would have problems starting up (which I think was fixed when they started using electronic fuel injection systems in ethanol-burning engines also, but I don't really know).
Unfortunately vehicles powered by ethanol are becoming less and less popular with time (something I really don't understand). Which isn't a bigger problem only because Brazil is now almost self-sufficient in oil production.
Now they've come up with an engine that can run with any mix of ethanol/gasoline (instead of only working with mixes close to the government-mandated 22% of gas in the ethanol right now, I think), but I don't have many details about efficiency of these models (since I'm not living there at the moment, and they're pretty recent).
I don't remember how the French keyboard is laid out (I used it briefly when I was travelling Europe), but the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard has keys for the accents, and not for the accented letters.
They're laid out differently from the standard qwerty (e.g., acute and grave are on the same key, tilde and circumflex on another, apostrophe and double-quotes on another), but we don't have any "accented vowels" keys (although we do have a c-cedilla key).
You know, it's not just a LISP or Python operator... some of us use it to write in our languages. Tres frequemment, sometimes.
(I'm not French, but, similarly to French, my native language uses the grave accent - just not as often.)
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No trying to detract from your greater point, which I agree with, but...
T-Mobile sells the Nokia Nuron, which runs Symbian S60 and has 3G, subsidized.
You can also get phones directly from Nokia (or from non-carrier stores - even Fry's has them) that work on AT&T's 3G, and a couple that even work on T-Mobile's 3G.
None of them are advertised as "Symbian phones", though, just as "smartphones".
(And no, this doesn't count. And I know CDDB doesn't have that info either.)
Now that you mentioned it I found out why I get popups at work and not at home. There's an option in firefox to disable popups from plugins. Just go to about:config and change "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" to "2" (create the option if necessary, type "integer").
Done, no more popups.
I think the Java documentation kinda disagrees with you on that matter.
A guy who used to work with me joined the FBI and got a "special agent" title right away. He also said everybody there was a "special agent", so maybe they just want to feel special.
The problem is that this would not work, according to Trolltech.
Only issue is that Firefox doesn't seem to like it much and screws up the display from time to time. Restarting Firefox temporarily fixes the issue, though.
I still find about stories that I haven't read in sections that are supposed to be shown according to my preferences, so that doesn't solve the issue, it seems.
That's easy. They hop onto their bikes and flee to the top of the Alps.
I wrote one inspired on that one that modifies the links on Slashdot pages, so you don't need to load the page twice to change it. Get it here.
Well, we could also argue that you couldn't do that in any language, since MySQL is a daemon and the client libraries will open a connection to the daemon to talk to it...
Even if it were a JNI wrapper around the C libraries, that was not the point of the original poster. The point seems to be that there's a huge monolithical magical "Database.java" that seems to be were the DB logic is done. And it is called directly from the servlets, which are the entry points of the application. Really bad design. They are just using the servlets as a thin wrapper around SQL calls, which would make it nearly impossible to implement things like caching which would be trivial with a well done design.
Also, what's "Database.java" -- if it's part of the MySQL/Java interface layer, this would be perfectly appropriate behaviour.Actually, that would be even worse, since it would imply that the servlets are talking directly to the database with no intermediate helper classes at all. Talk about code reuse!
Not to discuss about IE, what about banks using different password entry schemes?
In Brazil there seems to be a new regulation saying that users of ATM and online banking shouldn't type the password in a numeric pad anymore.
Instead, you get 5 buttons on the touch screen (or a small Java applet, or Javascript thing in the case of the bank where I have an account there) with combinations of two numbers. It looks like "press this if the next number is 3 or 8".
The thing is, the combination changes every time you enter your password. The first button that was "3 or 8" before will be something like "4 or 7" next time. And the combinations change too, not only the position of the buttons.
So it becomes more difficult for spyware to monitor keypresses / mouse clicks, or things like this to work for the scammer. (Ironic or not, the ATM in the pictures at the UT website is from a Brazilian bank).
I haven't seen anything like that in any US bank; it's always a number pad where you type your password, or a text field to type the password online.
Aside from the "you can't trust the client" comments, if you were using Struts and JSP this would be a non-issue, since the same code (in an XML file) creates the client-side (with a one-line jsp tag) and server-side validation for your data.
You really should take a look at the Jakarta Commons Validator library...
They've been there, they've done that. It was not terribly popular though. :-)
(Could the way 3dfx used several chips working in parallel be considered "video card RAID"?)
Dude, we're talking about *square wheels*. The guy surely is not a big fan of using the right tool for the job (in any situation, it seems).
That's a good question. Last time I tried to use a GTK+ app through the network (from home, running the app in my work machine), GUI performance was really bad. Menus took ages to redraw.
On the other hand, I use KDE apps in the same manner and the performance is great. There's a little bit of lag compared to apps running locally, but nothing that makes it unbearable to use.
Does anybody have any idea of why Qt performs so much better than Gtk+ in this regard?
I don't know how this is handled in the UK, but in Brazil you have to fill out a form and provide the serial # for any equipment other than photo cameras and other small appliances (shavers, etc) that you're taking with you, or risk having to pay duty on your way back.
If you don't have proof of purchase, they have their own price list for the most common things that people carry (which is, obviously, marked-up a lot).
And the customs officers really like to go through the baggage of people arriving from the US.
But, as I said, that's in Brazil...
As a foreigner student currently in the US, I was really surprised to see how expensive these books are here.
Especially when taking into account that the same books, in English, orderer by one of the campus bookstores directly from the publisher here in the USA, cost around US$ 20 (yes, you read that right) for us in Brazil, including shipping expenses and the profit from the bookstore selling it to us. It was a paperback edition, but hell, it's a big price difference.
And I've seen the same being said about Europe too (buying American books there is cheaper than it is in the USA), in some articles that were run in the campus newspaper last year.
Yeah, but the "else" is still needed, since "$scocode" == null, as of lately... unless you count PRs and court papers as code, that is.
:-)
And that malloc() from BS^H^HUnixWare.
Just as an example, take Brazil. Ethanol, distilled from sugar cane, is widely used as fuel there, since the 70s (or early 80s? Can't remember).
Ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, is much cheaper (down there, at least, even though right now it's mixed with a little gasoline), and cars are generally a little bit more efficient (power-wise), at the cost of being a little bit less efficient (mileage-wise) and being more corrosive than gasoline. Also, I guess there would be problems in places with cold weather - even in the not-so-cold temperatures of southern Brazil during the winter, cars would have problems starting up (which I think was fixed when they started using electronic fuel injection systems in ethanol-burning engines also, but I don't really know).
Unfortunately vehicles powered by ethanol are becoming less and less popular with time (something I really don't understand). Which isn't a bigger problem only because Brazil is now almost self-sufficient in oil production.
Now they've come up with an engine that can run with any mix of ethanol/gasoline (instead of only working with mixes close to the government-mandated 22% of gas in the ethanol right now, I think), but I don't have many details about efficiency of these models (since I'm not living there at the moment, and they're pretty recent).
I don't remember how the French keyboard is laid out (I used it briefly when I was travelling Europe), but the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard has keys for the accents, and not for the accented letters. They're laid out differently from the standard qwerty (e.g., acute and grave are on the same key, tilde and circumflex on another, apostrophe and double-quotes on another), but we don't have any "accented vowels" keys (although we do have a c-cedilla key).
Damn Slashdot, it filtered the accents on "tres" and "frequemment".
You know, it's not just a LISP or Python operator... some of us use it to write in our languages. Tres frequemment, sometimes. (I'm not French, but, similarly to French, my native language uses the grave accent - just not as often.)
Check this strip. The words are in Portuguese, but they're not needed to understand it. :-)
Is that where the magic smoke runs through so the computer can work?