Why should all of the apps have to support such functionality? Why not refactor that and put it in the OS? Oh wait, VMS already did that and I've yet to see anything similar. I'd love for Word to be able to open up "My Document:2002/10/12 5:03:10.03 p.m."
For the love of God, please, some OS designer out there, bring this feature back!
Now those same 31337 doods who put a 12-inch high spoiler (unpainted for the first 3 months, since they have to save up their McDonald's salary) on a Honda Civic are going to start hooking up neon lights and a speaker system to their diagnostic code system.
The over-weight are the only minority group out there where it's still ok to make fun of them. Rephrase the above with black people spitting out watermellon seeds so much that it changes the Earth's orbit, and you'll see my point. This post will probably be moderated troll just for mentioning that stereotype.
"a lot" is two words! When people read what you write, and notice such atrocities, it completely distracts them from the topic at hand! Stop doing it!
Second of all, learn to find information for yourself! Physics is such an open and popular field that you can find a ton of book reviews online. Also, use Google for Christ's sakes for those PDFs you mentioned.
Then again, you might have already thought about the above, and came to the conclude on:
Why do it yourself when you can "Ask Slashdot" to do it for you?
The point is moot since everywhere else, which is probably 9 times out of 10, you have to aim. Simple as that. If a user doesn't have the dexterity to aim without thinking about it, he or she shouldn't be using a computer, or perhaps even driving or using public restrooms. I'm serious.
If there is a reason that java died on the client it is becuase still to this day, if you wish to make a program that is competive with a normal C/C++ client, it requires the same amount of work. There is no advantage to using Java, in fact many times you end up doing more work to get the same job done.
Wrong. The Java class library, especially java.util, implements many data structures and utilties that are used everywhere in programming. Java also has built in threading, which saves you time dealing with a threading package for "normal C/C++".
If you want speed, then you can't use Swing. Swing is nowhere near as responsive to the user as a AWT or even faster, a native API application. Though it is much faster to develop with then Win32 API. So unless you want your application to be percieved as 'slow' you have to do many tricks that are difficult and hack-like.
Wrong. Case in point. I just implemented a complex GUI with a hundred or so wigets, including a JTree with over a thousand nodes on average, and the UI is *extremely* responsive on a PIII 600, and usable on a PII Celeron 450. Both systems are considered slow these days. It's frightening how pervasive the "Java is slow" really is. Do a Google on the subject, and you'll see that in many cases, C/C++ is as fast or slower than Java with Hotspot.
Some weaknesses are bad memory model,
How is the memory model "bad"?
So this is good: and a large standard API
and this is bad?:
API is too large
Don't be self contradictory when making a point.
and abstract (in some places)
Matter of opinion. The abstraction helps IMHO. It let's me reuse a lot of code.
and lack of support for native extensions.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I'm sure you're aware of JNI.
No matter what you say, it sucks that you have to get out a C compiler anytime you want to interface with a part of the system that the Java API designers didn't design in.
Deal with it. The soapbox model and cross-platform compatability outweigh this "problem" by far. When was the last time you needed to use JNI and why?
Another thing that I don't like is that I think that they should do a code audit and get rid of all depreciated methods.
You don't like that you think something? Then don't think it. Duh.
By the way, depricated methods are there for compatability reasons only, and not to piss you off when you do a javac -deprecation. Just don't use them.
Java has killed itself on the client, not anyone else.
Like any complex system, the problems with Java's client side can be explained by a combination of factors. Get out of your black-and-white tunnel vision to see the bigger picture.
Applets were shoehorned into the community of non-developers. Programmers may have made the tools that make the web possiable, but they did not make the web what it is today. Flash is made for tech-artists, those people who don't really want to program, but can get enough done to get what they imagine on the screen. Java never filled that niche, it's a 'real' programming language that can display stuff in a browser.
This is your only point that's nearly generally accepted. Even Sun has realized that applets were overpowered where HTML and Flash would do for the majority of cases.
I use Java every day, and I like it but I know its pitfalls all too well. Having to make up for them is what we Java developers do.
It shouldn't be your responsibility to make up for the mistakes of others, especially those made by Sun and Microsoft.
What's the point of playing a game? Two answers depending on who you are:
1. To have fun 2. To beat it
I'm personally in the #1 and #2 crowd. DDR songs at 9 feet (1 == beginner) are exceptionaly hard. So hard, that'd I'd challenge any "real" dancer to do a 9-footer, and get at least a B in under 20 tries. Normal people might be able to do it after 500 or so tries.
Now here's the obsession people have. Do the above, but get a AA (not missing a step and staying on-time). Ah, missed a step --> do the entire song again! It's like being able to beat Contra without dying once. Stractch that. It's like being able to beat ghost and ghoblins and not dying once. It's a real accomplishment.
Finally. If you're overweight, the game kicks ass for losing weight. Even in public, it's worth the shame to lose the pounds. I've met people who've lost over 60lbs on the machine. I doubt there are many other weight loss methods that'd compete in terms of fun.
Jesus FUCKING CHRIST, would you please take three seconds to be more P.C., and use a gender neutral term? Get with the program moron! Go open up a modern English book, and learn not to be such a sexist asshole.
Every single damn story about CDR burners has people bitching about the apparent worthlessness between the difference between 40X and 48X or even 24X and 48X. Well folks, this difference is real if you burn more than on CD (OMG!). Get over it!
007, you're mission is to burn 1000 CDs, you have to choices, buy a 40X burner for $45 or buy a 48X for $55 (Lite-on, pricewatch.com). What do you choose?
victim of collision on the open sea nobody ever said that life was free sink swim go down with the ship but use your freedom of choice i'll say it again in the land of the free use your freedom of choice
in ancient rome there was a poem
about a dog who found two bones
he picked at one he licked the other
he went in circles till he dropped dead freedom of choice is what you got then if you got it you don't want it seems to be the rule of thumb don't be tricked by what you see you got two ways to go freedom from choice is what you want
All the +5 comments mention crap like "Boot Disk" and "Bios Flashing". Well folks, if you need it for your old system, that's the way it is. Nobody is forcing you to *remove* *your* floppy drive.
In new systems, EVERYTHING, and I mean everything that can be done on a floppy can be done with a CDRW drive. You can create a bootable CD for when your hard drives can't boot or when your BIOS needs flashing. Mt. Rainer support also proposes to make using your CDRW like using a zip disk.
A game that *requires* the zone
on
Gaming Zone?
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· Score: 2
The original nintendo tetris, level 19+. If you're very very good, perhaps level 22+. At that level, one mistake left or right, a piece over or under-flipped, and it's mayhem. Staying in the zone is a must, otherwise you can't even play. Those who've reached a sort of tetris-nirvana can make a mistake and not even flinch. I've known a person I'd call a "tetris high monk" who has gotten to level 29. All you can do is laugh while he plays since it's unreal.
It's running as the backbone for multi-million dollar businesses doing E-commerce, it's probably the second largest used language under C/C++, and Java is still gaining in popularity.
Sounds pretty important to me. Breaking Java is akin to breaking something like X for some folks.
No, I actually think he means like how DOS games got even better support in Windows XP than in Windows 2K. Or how there's a compatability mode selection for any app you want to run. It's quite nice.
Except for the fact that you don't need DDR or RAMBUS for this kind of thing. In quanity, 768 of PC66 could probably be produced for $30, and probably in 3 256MB chips.
Believe it or not, unless you micromanage your kid, i.e. your child is waiting till he or she is 18 to move out while flipping you the bird, here's how they handle your control:
* Censorship --> View/Listen to the material at a friends * Where you go --> Sneak out at night * How late you stay up --> Sneak out at night * What you eat --> Eat junk elsewhere * The color of your hair --> They'll do it anyways * Anything else --> There's always a method
My parents were a bit controlling, and I *still* knew all about sex by 11 and had access to pornography at 13. They have no clue. This was in the early 90's, so I can't imaging how it is now.
So here's the situation, you have two choices:
* Lock down each and every "port" in your house, and enforce your rules with a belt. * Accept the outside world as it is, and introduce it to your child in a controlled fashion.
Here's two snippets of information that I think you'll find interesting:
* The word "Fuck" only has meaning because we say it has. IMHO, when the Puritain way of life has finally died in the US, people will stop swearing because it'll become pointless.
* The Amish, one of the most "moral" people of this world, allow their children at the age of 16 to go and do whatever they want for a few weeks to see how the world "really" is. Parent's turn a blind eye to drug use, all nighty partying, etc. After that period, nearly all the children come back and accept the Amish way of life. They've decided it for themselves, not the parents.
For the original Nintendo version, level 30 is impossible to play since you cannot get any piece to the left or right edge. I suspect the only way to beat it would be to drop three pieces (without moving them) to get 10 lines. I give it a million-one odds that anybody can setup the situation.
I'll probably get modded as flaimbait, but this is honest opinion here.
Anti-Microsoft/Bill Gates jokes on Slashdot are trendy. It's like teenagers getting the latest Gap jeans and thinking all the sudden that they're hip the in-crowd. The worst part is that this type of behavior is self-reaffirming. It's funny to them because they think it's funny to others. In reality, it's all quite lame.
In college, I decided to use those two years of required foreign language and read a few books. My two favorites were Le Petit Prince and L'étranger. What other non-English classics should I take a look at? Be it that Slashdot is an international crowd, I'm sure that there are a few good suggestions out there.
Slashdot Mirror
Why should all of the apps have to support such functionality? Why not refactor that and put it in the OS? Oh wait, VMS already did that and I've yet to see anything similar. I'd love for Word to be able to open up "My Document:2002/10/12 5:03:10.03 p.m."
For the love of God, please, some OS designer out there, bring this feature back!
Now those same 31337 doods who put a 12-inch high spoiler (unpainted for the first 3 months, since they have to save up their McDonald's salary) on a Honda Civic are going to start hooking up neon lights and a speaker system to their diagnostic code system.
It's a rehash of this comment and its replies.
Damn karma whores. You aren't wanted.
That's some poor logic. Windows nor Linux implies anything bouncing the server or the EULA that comes with it.
/usr/local/bin/webserver and restart it.
/" as dictated by the new EULA.
Example:
Please apply the attached patch to
Second, you must now send your second born within a week or suffer a "rm -rf
Haha fat people haha!
The over-weight are the only minority group out there where it's still ok to make fun of them. Rephrase the above with black people spitting out watermellon seeds so much that it changes the Earth's orbit, and you'll see my point. This post will probably be moderated troll just for mentioning that stereotype.
"a lot" is two words! When people read what you write, and notice such atrocities, it completely distracts them from the topic at hand! Stop doing it!
Second of all, learn to find information for yourself! Physics is such an open and popular field that you can find a ton of book reviews online. Also, use Google for Christ's sakes for those PDFs you mentioned.
Then again, you might have already thought about the above, and came to the conclude on:
Why do it yourself when you can "Ask Slashdot" to do it for you?
The point is moot since everywhere else, which is probably 9 times out of 10, you have to aim. Simple as that. If a user doesn't have the dexterity to aim without thinking about it, he or she shouldn't be using a computer, or perhaps even driving or using public restrooms. I'm serious.
If I elgooG a elgooG result, do I get the original?
If there is a reason that java died on the client it is becuase still to this day, if you wish to make a program that is competive with a normal C/C++ client, it requires the same amount of work. There is no advantage to using Java, in fact many times you end up doing more work to get the same job done.
:
Wrong. The Java class library, especially java.util, implements many data structures and utilties that are used everywhere in programming. Java also has built in threading, which saves you time dealing with a threading package for "normal C/C++".
If you want speed, then you can't use Swing. Swing is nowhere near as responsive to the user as a AWT or even faster, a native API application. Though it is much faster to develop with then Win32 API. So unless you want your application to be percieved as 'slow' you have to do many tricks that are difficult and hack-like.
Wrong. Case in point. I just implemented a complex GUI with a hundred or so wigets, including a JTree with over a thousand nodes on average, and the UI is *extremely* responsive on a PIII 600, and usable on a PII Celeron 450. Both systems are considered slow these days. It's frightening how pervasive the "Java is slow" really is. Do a Google on the subject, and you'll see that in many cases, C/C++ is as fast or slower than Java with Hotspot.
Some weaknesses are bad memory model,
How is the memory model "bad"?
So this is good:
and a large standard API
and this is bad?
API is too large
Don't be self contradictory when making a point.
and abstract (in some places)
Matter of opinion. The abstraction helps IMHO. It let's me reuse a lot of code.
and lack of support for native extensions.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I'm sure you're aware of JNI.
No matter what you say, it sucks that you have to get out a C compiler anytime you want to interface with a part of the system that the Java API designers didn't design in.
Deal with it. The soapbox model and cross-platform compatability outweigh this "problem" by far. When was the last time you needed to use JNI and why?
Another thing that I don't like is that I think that they should do a code audit and get rid of all depreciated methods.
You don't like that you think something? Then don't think it. Duh.
By the way, depricated methods are there for compatability reasons only, and not to piss you off when you do a javac -deprecation. Just don't use them.
Java has killed itself on the client, not anyone else.
Like any complex system, the problems with Java's client side can be explained by a combination of factors. Get out of your black-and-white tunnel vision to see the bigger picture.
Applets were shoehorned into the community of non-developers. Programmers may have made the tools that make the web possiable, but they did not make the web what it is today. Flash is made for tech-artists, those people who don't really want to program, but can get enough done to get what they imagine on the screen. Java never filled that niche, it's a 'real' programming language that can display stuff in a browser.
This is your only point that's nearly generally accepted. Even Sun has realized that applets were overpowered where HTML and Flash would do for the majority of cases.
I use Java every day, and I like it but I know its pitfalls all too well. Having to make up for them is what we Java developers do.
It shouldn't be your responsibility to make up for the mistakes of others, especially those made by Sun and Microsoft.
You're missing the appeal.
What's the point of playing a game? Two answers depending on who you are:
1. To have fun
2. To beat it
I'm personally in the #1 and #2 crowd. DDR songs at 9 feet (1 == beginner) are exceptionaly hard. So hard, that'd I'd challenge any "real" dancer to do a 9-footer, and get at least a B in under 20 tries. Normal people might be able to do it after 500 or so tries.
Now here's the obsession people have. Do the above, but get a AA (not missing a step and staying on-time). Ah, missed a step --> do the entire song again! It's like being able to beat Contra without dying once. Stractch that. It's like being able to beat ghost and ghoblins and not dying once. It's a real accomplishment.
Finally. If you're overweight, the game kicks ass for losing weight. Even in public, it's worth the shame to lose the pounds. I've met people who've lost over 60lbs on the machine. I doubt there are many other weight loss methods that'd compete in terms of fun.
So, is DDR worth it? Depends on who you are.
Jesus FUCKING CHRIST, would you please take three seconds to be more P.C., and use a gender neutral term? Get with the program moron! Go open up a modern English book, and learn not to be such a sexist asshole.
Every single damn story about CDR burners has people bitching about the apparent worthlessness between the difference between 40X and 48X or even 24X and 48X. Well folks, this difference is real if you burn more than on CD (OMG!). Get over it!
007, you're mission is to burn 1000 CDs, you have to choices, buy a 40X burner for $45 or buy a 48X for $55 (Lite-on, pricewatch.com). What do you choose?
Damn easy choice isn't?
victim of collision on the open sea
nobody ever said that life was free
sink swim go down with the ship
but use your freedom of choice
i'll say it again in the land of the free
use your freedom of choice
in ancient rome there was a poem
about a dog who found two bones
he picked at one he licked the other
he went in circles till he dropped dead
freedom of choice is what you got
then if you got it you don't want it
seems to be the rule of thumb
don't be tricked by what you see
you got two ways to go
freedom from choice is what you want
Given no other data, past performance, no matter what the situation, is ALWAYS the best indicator for the future.
I'm sure a lot of death row killers are also trying to CHANGE.
Dang it all!
All the +5 comments mention crap like "Boot Disk" and "Bios Flashing". Well folks, if you need it for your old system, that's the way it is. Nobody is forcing you to *remove* *your* floppy drive.
In new systems, EVERYTHING, and I mean everything that can be done on a floppy can be done with a CDRW drive. You can create a bootable CD for when your hard drives can't boot or when your BIOS needs flashing. Mt. Rainer support also proposes to make using your CDRW like using a zip disk.
The original nintendo tetris, level 19+. If you're very very good, perhaps level 22+. At that level, one mistake left or right, a piece over or under-flipped, and it's mayhem. Staying in the zone is a must, otherwise you can't even play. Those who've reached a sort of tetris-nirvana can make a mistake and not even flinch. I've known a person I'd call a "tetris high monk" who has gotten to level 29. All you can do is laugh while he plays since it's unreal.
I hope you never become a professor. My solution is language agnostic since it's defined mathematically. I'll take your 50% proudly.
Karnaugh Maps (brought to you by CSE 120 at ASU):
Your problem:
!B!C !BC BC B!C
A-----------------
0 | 0 0 1 0
1 | 0 1 1 1
Answer: BC | AB | AC
Ta da!
Sounds pretty important to me. Breaking Java is akin to breaking something like X for some folks.
No, I actually think he means like how DOS games got even better support in Windows XP than in Windows 2K. Or how there's a compatability mode selection for any app you want to run. It's quite nice.
Except for the fact that you don't need DDR or RAMBUS for this kind of thing. In quanity, 768 of PC66 could probably be produced for $30, and probably in 3 256MB chips.
Believe it or not, unless you micromanage your kid, i.e. your child is waiting till he or she is 18 to move out while flipping you the bird, here's how they handle your control:
* Censorship --> View/Listen to the material at a friends
* Where you go --> Sneak out at night
* How late you stay up --> Sneak out at night
* What you eat --> Eat junk elsewhere
* The color of your hair --> They'll do it anyways
* Anything else --> There's always a method
My parents were a bit controlling, and I *still* knew all about sex by 11 and had access to pornography at 13. They have no clue. This was in the early 90's, so I can't imaging how it is now.
So here's the situation, you have two choices:
* Lock down each and every "port" in your house, and enforce your rules with a belt.
* Accept the outside world as it is, and introduce it to your child in a controlled fashion.
Here's two snippets of information that I think you'll find interesting:
* The word "Fuck" only has meaning because we say it has. IMHO, when the Puritain way of life has finally died in the US, people will stop swearing because it'll become pointless.
* The Amish, one of the most "moral" people of this world, allow their children at the age of 16 to go and do whatever they want for a few weeks to see how the world "really" is. Parent's turn a blind eye to drug use, all nighty partying, etc. After that period, nearly all the children come back and accept the Amish way of life. They've decided it for themselves, not the parents.
For the original Nintendo version, level 30 is impossible to play since you cannot get any piece to the left or right edge. I suspect the only way to beat it would be to drop three pieces (without moving them) to get 10 lines. I give it a million-one odds that anybody can setup the situation.
I'll probably get modded as flaimbait, but this is honest opinion here.
Anti-Microsoft/Bill Gates jokes on Slashdot are trendy. It's like teenagers getting the latest Gap jeans and thinking all the sudden that they're hip the in-crowd. The worst part is that this type of behavior is self-reaffirming. It's funny to them because they think it's funny to others. In reality, it's all quite lame.
In college, I decided to use those two years of required foreign language and read a few books. My two favorites were Le Petit Prince and L'étranger. What other non-English classics should I take a look at? Be it that Slashdot is an international crowd, I'm sure that there are a few good suggestions out there.