Uh... Microsoft's version of Java was faster and less broken than any other JRE on the market for quite a while. As for completeness, it was *too* complete, adding extensions that would undermine cross-platform compatibility.
Actually no, it wasn't complete. It didn't include JNI, for example, instead using MS's own JDirect. That among other reasons was why Sun sued MS. And won, in case you've forgotten than. It was a fast interpreter, though; MS used a different GC system to that of Sun derived VM's of the time, and it did pay off in terms of speed.
But of course Sun wanted to keep everyone playing in their little sandboxes and sued MS to take those things out. So now Java has been taken out.
No, MS were not allowed to create anything beyond JDK 1.1.4 level (as I recall) by virtue of the court judgement. Sun generally don't object to extensions to the JDK, as long as the whole JDK is included. For example Apple's JDK for OS X has extra libraries for native access to Cocoa, but it still fully supports JFC/Swing.
There are two reasons that VCD is used in the far east, climate and politics.
In the high humidity, high temperature climates of most asian countries (where air con is unheard of for most areas), tapes rot, the tape gets wrapped around damp video heads, and generally have zero longevity.
VCD gets round most of these limitations. The political portion are the Chinese, who prefer VCD over VHS.
There is a DVD player available in Hong Kong, that not only plays the usual DVD, VCD and CD, but will also play MP3 CD's, which is indicative of the far east's reverance for copyright issues.
Flying from London to New York you receive the equivelent of three chest X-Rays in radiation. The average airport X-Ray machine doesn't even come close to this (which is why the operators don't need to wear dosage badges, like medical X-Ray operators do).
In fact, it's only the scale of this machine that is reasonably new, there have been machines using x-rays and other more exotic methods for scanning people available for several years now, and most hold bags go through machines akin to mass-spectrometers tuned to detect explosives.
When I was working writing training software for X-Ray operators at airports, I met one guy who designed and built the machines, who would often sit on the conveyer and go through. And he's not dead or indeed sterile:)
Pop your head into the seething pit of hell that is news.admin.net-abuse.email and you'll see that Real have been guilty of sending out email to completely fictional addresses in the hope of hitting a real box.
I myself have an email sitting in my queue addressed to 'temp', which has never been a correct address, and has never been used by me to register anything. And trust me, I *always* say I don't want email (or use completely fictitious addresses, poor old billg@microsoft.com must be getting hammered:).
Real have spammed before, apologised for the mess-up, spammed again, apologised again, and are now spamming completely non-Real related junk to the very people they promised they had removed from their lists.
Until they clean up their act, I won't use their software, it's as simple as that.
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Actually no, it wasn't complete. It didn't include JNI, for example, instead using MS's own JDirect. That among other reasons was why Sun sued MS. And won, in case you've forgotten than. It was a fast interpreter, though; MS used a different GC system to that of Sun derived VM's of the time, and it did pay off in terms of speed.
But of course Sun wanted to keep everyone playing in their little sandboxes and sued MS to take those things out. So now Java has been taken out.
No, MS were not allowed to create anything beyond JDK 1.1.4 level (as I recall) by virtue of the court judgement. Sun generally don't object to extensions to the JDK, as long as the whole JDK is included. For example Apple's JDK for OS X has extra libraries for native access to Cocoa, but it still fully supports JFC/Swing.
There are two reasons that VCD is used in the far east, climate and politics.
In the high humidity, high temperature climates of most asian countries (where air con is unheard of for most areas), tapes rot, the tape gets wrapped around damp video heads, and generally have zero longevity.
VCD gets round most of these limitations. The political portion are the Chinese, who prefer VCD over VHS.
There is a DVD player available in Hong Kong, that not only plays the usual DVD, VCD and CD, but will also play MP3 CD's, which is indicative of the far east's reverance for copyright issues.
CU/2 itself was killed by it's programmer, for his own reasons. However, there is another project to build an OS/2 videoconf package Warpseeme.
Flying from London to New York you receive the equivelent of three chest X-Rays in radiation. The average airport X-Ray machine doesn't even come close to this (which is why the operators don't need to wear dosage badges, like medical X-Ray operators do).
:)
In fact, it's only the scale of this machine that is reasonably new, there have been machines using x-rays and other more exotic methods for scanning people available for several years now, and most hold bags go through machines akin to mass-spectrometers tuned to detect explosives.
When I was working writing training software for X-Ray operators at airports, I met one guy who designed and built the machines, who would often sit on the conveyer and go through. And he's not dead or indeed sterile
Erm, no.
:).
Pop your head into the seething pit of hell that is news.admin.net-abuse.email and you'll see that Real have been guilty of sending out email to completely fictional addresses in the hope of hitting a real box.
I myself have an email sitting in my queue addressed to 'temp', which has never been a correct address, and has never been used by me to register anything. And trust me, I *always* say I don't want email (or use completely fictitious addresses, poor old billg@microsoft.com must be getting hammered
Real have spammed before, apologised for the mess-up, spammed again, apologised again, and are now spamming completely non-Real related junk to the very people they promised they had removed from their lists.
Until they clean up their act, I won't use their software, it's as simple as that.
*sigh* Just as I decided never to give any support to Real over their recent spamming campaign they go and start buying up the competition.
I'm not a happy bunny.