Java ME (mobile) is not under the same agreement as the full SE (standard) JDK. Oracle/Sun charge licenses fees for ME implementations, in an attempt to thrive off of the mobile market.
I've recently looked over how much the city I reside in spends in licensing fees for top-name products. I think the bigger issue facing public IT is the lack of finding cost-effective solutions that don't come from IBM, Oracle, etc. The real value to add would be looking for cheaper alternatives and pushing for reduced license fees but I see very few public employees willing to take risk. I cannot blame them for not wanting to take risk (no one gets fired for going with the biggest/most known, right?) since tax payers get very upset when money is wasted on "failed" projects. It still depresses me.
Disclaimer: I am a contractor to the federal government at the moment, and I've seen firsthand the risk-aversion in action.
Oh wow do I hear you! I'm a stamped maintenance programmer for life, I think. I guess it pays the bills and I can contribute to open source, but it sure gets depressing spending at least 8 hours a day fixing old code.
It must be nice to have a company willing to let you do that. My experience has been different, and there has been a subtle expectation that your "free" time isn't really free, you should probably be doing something related to work.
I don't think a 12 year old in his parents basement playing the Taliban against an actual U.S. military member really provides the "point of vue[sic]" you are looking for.
Reading the Koran, understanding fundamentalism (in the case of the hard-core Taliban), understanding the general culture of Afghanistan and understanding the U.S. role in creating Afghanistan's current political climate may go further than playing a video game.
As a former U.S. military member (I was only deployed to Iraq, though) I'm definitely disappointed in this decision.
I see what you did there! You said he should have bought the white-walled tires, instead of the plain black ones if he wanted to have the +1 Ego boost.
Seriously, I *always* have to tweak modelines and shit, and yes I'm sure it's the television I have, but in Windows it at least looks "OK" out of the box.
P.S. Also, you are the exact Linux user that makes the community fucked. "It works for me, maybe you're a moron and your hardware sucks" is not a very good response. I thought Linux was supposed to be able to run on *anything* right?
Seriously, I *always* have to tweak modelines and shit, and yes I'm sure it's the television I have, but in Windows it at least looks "OK" out of the box.
Dual monitor support will work correctly... oh wait, no that's an X issue. I won't have to monkey with my audio drivers again... doubtful. Windows won't randomly grab focus when I'm moving another window... (this is the weirdest issue from 10.04 I've ever seen) I can get correct output to a television via DVI... ah crap nope still gotta monkey with the X config... but in MS Windows it just works.
Seriously, I run Ubuntu on 4 different machines and I'm tired of continually fucking with all of the settings.
It's a misdemeanor in Colorado, dumbass. And quite a few other states. Felony charges are typically over 1 year minimum sentence, and only repeat DUI/DWAI get minimum terms that long. Now, if you cause vehicular manslaughter, or a wreck, or are WAY WAY over the limit (which amounts to 3 beers for the average man, on the low end) you can be bumped to a felony.
I don't know why space flight is so fascinating, but this is just incredible. I'm really sad that I was born too late to experience the moon landings, so attempts like this to pick up the slack of the once dominant leader in space exploration are just exciting.
You can't with with the/. crowd, I wouldn't even try to argue about such a politically charged thing as Iraq with them. I was over there, too (11 months in Tikrit).
Yes, ok, white noise is across the full spectrum. Mosquito noise may be concentrated at a certain center frequency, but it is still spread fairly evenly around that frequency hence any signal which has the same average frequency domain spectrum will dim the noise. Seriously, if he wants the noise gone at his house, this will be a good solution. When his neighbors get annoyed enough to complain eventually the authorities will respond.
News paper publishers and reporters in general, like cops, feel they are "special" and no laws apply to them, only to average Joe. Plus I'm tired of all the hate in politics and journalism.
Which is why people on the left would impose socialism. For "freedom, liberty and democracy"... My definition of the above three is not compatible with the socialists. Nor is it compatible with everything the Bush administration is pushing. However, if a computer records every single phonecall which has select keywords in it that go overseas, I really don't see a problem. If you are talking to your buddy in England about "jihad" or whatever the keywords are, great, let a computer record it. Then, when it goes for analysis, and is determined to be of asset to the intelligence, get a warrant. What Bush directed is not right, but I can't understand the overreaction of the left on absolutely everything. It's like Chicken Little.
I'm not sure your comments are even worth $0.02, so inflation must really be taking it's toll. What amazes me, honestly, is how extreme some people have taken their hatred of President Bush. I'm a libertarian, he is very much not, but I don't hate the man. I don't wake up every morning despising our country. It seems people on the left do, which is sad.
I never said what you think I said. We had a relatively low bandwidth product that zigbee would have worked for, except that the objects will move, which means recalibration, which means our bandwidth is almost saturated by that. Bluetooth won't work, either, because of the limitation of nodes, sure you can bridge them (or whatever that's called) but that was ineffective as well. So we just settled on 802.11b and a couple extra antenna. Not the ideal solution, but one that works now.
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Java ME (mobile) is not under the same agreement as the full SE (standard) JDK. Oracle/Sun charge licenses fees for ME implementations, in an attempt to thrive off of the mobile market.
I've recently looked over how much the city I reside in spends in licensing fees for top-name products. I think the bigger issue facing public IT is the lack of finding cost-effective solutions that don't come from IBM, Oracle, etc. The real value to add would be looking for cheaper alternatives and pushing for reduced license fees but I see very few public employees willing to take risk. I cannot blame them for not wanting to take risk (no one gets fired for going with the biggest/most known, right?) since tax payers get very upset when money is wasted on "failed" projects. It still depresses me.
Disclaimer: I am a contractor to the federal government at the moment, and I've seen firsthand the risk-aversion in action.
Oh wow do I hear you! I'm a stamped maintenance programmer for life, I think. I guess it pays the bills and I can contribute to open source, but it sure gets depressing spending at least 8 hours a day fixing old code.
But they were mice, not rats! Troz!
It must be nice to have a company willing to let you do that. My experience has been different, and there has been a subtle expectation that your "free" time isn't really free, you should probably be doing something related to work.
I don't think a 12 year old in his parents basement playing the Taliban against an actual U.S. military member really provides the "point of vue[sic]" you are looking for.
Reading the Koran, understanding fundamentalism (in the case of the hard-core Taliban), understanding the general culture of Afghanistan and understanding the U.S. role in creating Afghanistan's current political climate may go further than playing a video game.
As a former U.S. military member (I was only deployed to Iraq, though) I'm definitely disappointed in this decision.
I see what you did there! You said he should have bought the white-walled tires, instead of the plain black ones if he wanted to have the +1 Ego boost.
7300LE and 8800GT aren't good enough?
Seriously, I *always* have to tweak modelines and shit, and yes I'm sure it's the television I have, but in Windows it at least looks "OK" out of the box.
P.S. Also, you are the exact Linux user that makes the community fucked. "It works for me, maybe you're a moron and your hardware sucks" is not a very good response. I thought Linux was supposed to be able to run on *anything* right?
7300LE and 8800GT aren't good enough?
Seriously, I *always* have to tweak modelines and shit, and yes I'm sure it's the television I have, but in Windows it at least looks "OK" out of the box.
Dual monitor support will work correctly... oh wait, no that's an X issue.
I won't have to monkey with my audio drivers again... doubtful.
Windows won't randomly grab focus when I'm moving another window... (this is the weirdest issue from 10.04 I've ever seen)
I can get correct output to a television via DVI... ah crap nope still gotta monkey with the X config... but in MS Windows it just works.
Seriously, I run Ubuntu on 4 different machines and I'm tired of continually fucking with all of the settings.
It's a misdemeanor in Colorado, dumbass. And quite a few other states. Felony charges are typically over 1 year minimum sentence, and only repeat DUI/DWAI get minimum terms that long. Now, if you cause vehicular manslaughter, or a wreck, or are WAY WAY over the limit (which amounts to 3 beers for the average man, on the low end) you can be bumped to a felony.
CodeIgniter has been around for a while, dude.
You haven't had any motherboards with exploded capacitors. Everything still "functions" but nothing functions correctly.
I don't know why space flight is so fascinating, but this is just incredible. I'm really sad that I was born too late to experience the moon landings, so attempts like this to pick up the slack of the once dominant leader in space exploration are just exciting.
You can't with with the /. crowd, I wouldn't even try to argue about such a politically charged thing as Iraq with them. I was over there, too (11 months in Tikrit).
in the manner of
sure, perhaps my grammar was poor, but for american english it's just fine. you should read "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" since you really care so much.
Bad... I'm 26, I was in Iraq around loud machine gun fire, and I can hear it. Man it's annoying. Stupid teenagers.
Yes, ok, white noise is across the full spectrum. Mosquito noise may be concentrated at a certain center frequency, but it is still spread fairly evenly around that frequency hence any signal which has the same average frequency domain spectrum will dim the noise. Seriously, if he wants the noise gone at his house, this will be a good solution. When his neighbors get annoyed enough to complain eventually the authorities will respond.
For certain areas... ala his house. Sounds good to me.
It'll be fine since mosquito noise isn't that far from white noise, on average it will cancel out.
And record the "noise" phase shift it by 180, and play it on your stero. Viola, no mosquito.
News paper publishers and reporters in general, like cops, feel they are "special" and no laws apply to them, only to average Joe. Plus I'm tired of all the hate in politics and journalism.
Which is why people on the left would impose socialism. For "freedom, liberty and democracy" ... My definition of the above three is not compatible with the socialists. Nor is it compatible with everything the Bush administration is pushing. However, if a computer records every single phonecall which has select keywords in it that go overseas, I really don't see a problem. If you are talking to your buddy in England about "jihad" or whatever the keywords are, great, let a computer record it. Then, when it goes for analysis, and is determined to be of asset to the intelligence, get a warrant. What Bush directed is not right, but I can't understand the overreaction of the left on absolutely everything. It's like Chicken Little.
I'm not sure your comments are even worth $0.02, so inflation must really be taking it's toll. What amazes me, honestly, is how extreme some people have taken their hatred of President Bush. I'm a libertarian, he is very much not, but I don't hate the man. I don't wake up every morning despising our country. It seems people on the left do, which is sad.
I never said what you think I said. We had a relatively low bandwidth product that zigbee would have worked for, except that the objects will move, which means recalibration, which means our bandwidth is almost saturated by that. Bluetooth won't work, either, because of the limitation of nodes, sure you can bridge them (or whatever that's called) but that was ineffective as well. So we just settled on 802.11b and a couple extra antenna. Not the ideal solution, but one that works now.