Hopefully someone can answer this litle question of mine. Since Mercury orbits the sun in only 88 days, why can we see transists more often than about 13 times a century (according to space.com)? Same thing with Venus, since it's in a orbit inside ours it must *at least* pass earth on the 'inside track' once a year. Is it because the orbits a slightly inclined or sometihng?
well if yuo read your history, both Germany and Japan was trying to build the bomb as well. In fact Germany tried to send - when it understood that it pretty much would be screwed most of it's uranium over to japan in a submarine. Germany capitulated however before it reached japan and the German sub gave itself up to the americans - which used the uranium for their own 2 bombs. Also bear in mind that the US only had 2 bombs and they really didn't couldn't waste any for a showcase for the japanese. Remember it took *two* bombs to make japan surrender so I suppose they made the right choice. Not that I believe anyone - especially not civilians - deserve to be nuked, but it probably saved quite a few life rather than having USA invading japan.
Thing is though, maybe they take linux code and add it to their source tree? Since noone outside SCO have access to this code they might be able to add these into current and previous release of their source. Yeah, not a completely trivial task but doable. Hopefully there will be a whistleblower in that case...
indeed, having said that though, there will be a point n the future when a switch *might* be neccesary, and if it's not cross platform then you an run into problems. Think of all the old mainframes that still are running just because they run some old app which they can't live without and noone knows for sure how it works. Having said that.net is actually a quite nice piece of work fromwhat I have seen, nevermind what one might think of MS and their business methods.
Hey, Linux wan't created for the noble cause of displacing MS Windows. It was created because Linus et. al. wanted a free Unix-like OS plus the fun of implementing it at the same time. *BSD pretty much got the same history, a bunch of geeks wanting to do the OS of their choice and have some fun along the way. If people like and use, yeah great. And please make it easirer and more friendly to use. But I'm not sure Linux can (or should) be squeezed into a please-all-be-all OS just because of the political goal of kicking MS' butt.
Funny that, back here over the pond we got research which says violence in film *can* trigger violence in people watching it. Sure, maybe sexual stuff triggers sexual feelings, but that's a Good Thing(tm) IMHO. Also,we all know the US had their problems with copy-cats murders they picked up from films as well.
well, taste differs. if you want to have VB-like drag-n-drop UI design functionality why not go for Fotre (or it's m,ore on the edge cousin Netbeans) or go and buy JBuilder from Borland. THere're other RAD IDEs that spring to mind as well, VisualCafe' for example (haven't used it for ages though - NetBeans and IntelliJ does all I want)
chemical and nuclear plants?? SO far to the best of my knowledge, we found *nothing*. I'm not saying that Saddam is a good geezer, but war in the middle east region is probably just gonna make worse in the future. Iraq is supposed to have food for another 5 days approx. UN believes this will be one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes happened. 27 million people will need to be fed in the end of it. BLoody hope US/UK planned for that one as well. so far pretty much no help has come through to the people of Iraq.
Lesson to be learned is is that all news sources are biased towards one or the other of the sides. Best thing is probably to check them all out. the truth is probably somewhere in the middle...
I have constant need in Java to store all kinds of objects in Hashmaps. Templates would get in the way big time for me.
in c++ this is done exactly as in java, it just that you have to explicitly set your common base class yourself, in java class Object is always there by default.
taste differs, what you might not like, many other people might find the dogs bollocks. Fails to see what would be such a 'necessary evil' thing with templates for c++, on the contrary, I find it much more elegant with templates. If you absolutely have to use a lib with a common base class in c++ you can always go and use MFC, they do just that.
yeah, but then you would have to do all this awful casting everywhere as you have to do in Java. TEmplates is a much more elegant solution IMHO. Java is supposed to have templates from 1.5 anyway IIRC, so you'll have a choice then.
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Hopefully someone can answer this litle question of mine.
Since Mercury orbits the sun in only 88 days, why can we see transists more often than about 13 times a century (according to space.com)?
Same thing with Venus, since it's in a orbit inside ours it must *at least* pass earth on the 'inside track' once a year. Is it because the orbits a slightly inclined or sometihng?
well, somtimes the truth is stranger than any (bad) sci-fi. ;-)
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well if yuo read your history, both Germany and Japan was trying to build the bomb as well. In fact Germany tried to send - when it understood that it pretty much would be screwed most of it's uranium over to japan in a submarine. Germany capitulated however before it reached japan and the German sub gave itself up to the americans - which used the uranium for their own 2 bombs. Also bear in mind that the US only had 2 bombs and they really didn't couldn't waste any for a showcase for the japanese. Remember it took *two* bombs to make japan surrender so I suppose they made the right choice. Not that I believe anyone - especially not civilians - deserve to be nuked, but it probably saved quite a few life rather than having USA invading japan.
Ah, IIRC russia has done the same thing as well for the last few years now.
Thing is though, maybe they take linux code and add it to their source tree? Since noone outside SCO have access to this code they might be able to add these into current and previous release of their source. Yeah, not a completely trivial task but doable. Hopefully there will be a whistleblower in that case...
indeed, having said that though, there will be a point n the future when a switch *might* be neccesary, and if it's not cross platform then you an run into problems. Think of all the old mainframes that still are running just because they run some old app which they can't live without and noone knows for sure how it works. .net is actually a quite nice piece of work fromwhat I have seen, nevermind what one might think of MS and their business methods.
Having said that
Hey, remember the queen mother in Aliens? the fight in the end of the movie is still an amazing piece of work IMHO.
>So if he would kill firebird-bin ... ...and accidently kill his database! ;-)
yeah, remember back in uni in 94 - 95, got all my, uh, 'data' from gopher.
yeah, but you screw your compability, if a bit is reserved, don't touch it, sooner or later it's gonna be used and then you're screwed.
hey, unless you got wake-on-lan there's not much safer than a switched off windows box ;-)
I believe he means the UI experience, not the underlying OS per ce.
indeed, otherwise one could consider all blueeyed ppl a race, and browneyed another, etc, etc. What's called races are just variations
IMHO.
Hey, Linux wan't created for the noble cause of displacing MS Windows. It was created because Linus et. al. wanted a free Unix-like OS plus the fun of implementing it at the same time. *BSD pretty much got the same history, a bunch of geeks wanting to do the OS of their choice and have some fun along the way.
If people like and use, yeah great. And please make it easirer and more friendly to use.
But I'm not sure Linux can (or should) be squeezed into a please-all-be-all OS just because of the political goal of kicking MS' butt.
Funny that, back here over the pond we got research which says violence in film *can* trigger violence in people watching it. Sure, maybe sexual stuff triggers sexual feelings, but that's a Good Thing(tm) IMHO.
Also,we all know the US had their problems with copy-cats murders they picked up from films as well.
shouldn't that be:
Thomas Anderson> Excellent!
well, taste differs. if you want to have VB-like drag-n-drop UI design functionality why not go for Fotre (or it's m,ore on the edge cousin Netbeans) or go and buy JBuilder from Borland. THere're other RAD IDEs that spring to mind as well, VisualCafe' for example (haven't used it for ages though - NetBeans and IntelliJ does all I want)
chemical and nuclear plants?? SO far to the best of my knowledge, we found *nothing*. I'm not saying that Saddam is a good geezer, but war in the middle east region is probably just gonna make worse in the future. Iraq is supposed to have food for another 5 days approx. UN believes this will be one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes happened. 27 million people will need to be fed in the end of it. BLoody hope US/UK planned for that one as well. so far pretty much no help has come through to the people of Iraq.
Lesson to be learned is is that all news sources are biased towards one or the other of the sides. Best thing is probably to check them all out. the truth is probably somewhere in the middle...
in c++ this is done exactly as in java, it just that you have to explicitly set your common base class yourself, in java class Object is always there by default.
Ah, looks like I'm sitting on old info, thanks for the link.
taste differs, what you might not like, many other people might find the dogs bollocks.
Fails to see what would be such a 'necessary evil' thing with templates for c++, on the contrary, I find it much more elegant with templates.
If you absolutely have to use a lib with a common base class in c++ you can always go and use MFC, they do just that.
well, because they really want to perhaps? you're not the only java developer and taste differs.
See this:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=014
check out this extension:
http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/gj/
yeah, but then you would have to do all this awful casting everywhere as you have to do in Java. TEmplates is a much more elegant solution IMHO.
Java is supposed to have templates from 1.5 anyway IIRC, so you'll have a choice then.