The situation is volatile. It was thought that Gosling's job as super Java Guy was protected, but the switch to new management has put a break in that theory. He's having to eat a byte of humble PI.
Don't worry, though, he'll return to a very public position in a short while.
I hope he will try to catch a good severance package. For if he doesn't, it'll char Oracle's goodwill.
It's crazy writing getter and setter methods for little benefit over the properties way. Just create a property, set the access level, and later change it to a method if you want.
Use m4?... and making everything a class (oh - already did that one)...
Every function needs to be enclosed in a class, but you don't have to use an object-oriented paradigm. A class can just be a collection of miscellaneous static functions. They don't have to operate on "this". Pass in what you want them to operate on.
I can't comment on the pedophilia claims, and Sanger is definitely not a disinterested party, but on the other hand, there are plenty of people who would love to see the Wikicabal get slapped for various nefarious and high-handed administrative acts over the years. (Deletionism, notability, citation-required spam, funneling articles toward Wikia, etc.)
1) You can say whatever (lies) you want in an ad, but deliver something totally different in the contract (which may or may not be fully available to the user at the time of signing).
For any given x megabits/s bandwidth, there is a maximum y GB/mo. transfer that you can do.
Since y is fixed, why should the cost not be?
ISPs are free to price at an assumption of every single user utilizing the maximum available transfer. Or they can price at the actual aggregate transfer, which follows something like a bell curve for various users.
But ISPs are not free to claim "unlimited" Internet in their advertisements, and then not actually provide such. That's fraud.
I realize the Yahoo homepage is pretty cluttered (though it's better than it was before).
But Yahoo search is pretty good. In some cases it delivers more interesting results than Google. And the "more" button delivers a great subjectwise categorization of results.
1. Slashdot is news for nerds. 2. Most nerds run Linux (some of the time, at least) or like to think about running Linux. 3. The top Linux distro now is Ubuntu. 4. Recently, Ubuntu has been making a lot of decisions perceived by the community as unjustified. This has led to angst in the community because it feels that Canonical is unresponsive to the very people who work for free contributing its success, and because the community feels that Canonical's unilateral decisions are impeding the uptake of Linux, and the Year of the Linux Desktop, which is a nerd goal. 5. The relenting by Canonical on the Yahoo/Google thing seems to indicate that Ubuntu will listen to the community after all, next year will be the Year of the Linux Desktop, and we shall overcome the Borg.
Well, Ubuntu claims to want to be "Linux for Human Beings".
Although, on the other hand, the switch to Yahoo gives just about the same user experience as Google for the average user. You type a search query, it gives you results, in the same green and blue colors, even.
I doubt many average users would even care to change, but if they did, the UI to change it to Google is right there out in front, and only takes a single click.
Definitely not like the moving of the window controls, which does in fact change the user experience; average users are likely to want to change it; and average users are unlikely to know how to or to want to mess with Gconf to move them back and have them still messed up because the graphics are only meant for a single order of the buttons.
Buttons on the left work on the Mac because OS/X windows don't have a menu in the window. The menus are on the top of the screen, hence aren't crammed in with the window control buttons.
Also the window title is centered, which makes for visual balance.
By contrast the weird concoction known as Lucid (aka, Opaque) has the menus, window control buttons, and title all in the top left of each window.
Why is the parent moderated Troll, of all things? If anything, it should be Insightful.
He took a number of stats and combined them to give a different answer than Ubuntu.
Is the moderator such a Shuttleworth fanboi that he can't brook the suggestion that Ubuntu users might be some percentage lower than Canonical's estimates? I actually thought it was neat to demonstrate in an alternative way that Linux has millions of users. Even 1 million is a lot of people.
Just because you disagree with a post is not reason to downmod it. Reply in a comment, if you have anything worthwhile to say.
Slashdot Mirror
Anything in particular the matter with roseindia.net?
It seems sort of like http://www.w3schools.com/ for Java, i.e., a tutorial site other than the canonical resource (Sun and W3C).
Visit http://www.google.com/ncr to set a cookie to tell Google not to redirect to international Google sites.
The situation is volatile. It was thought that Gosling's job as super Java Guy was protected, but the switch to new management has put a break in that theory. He's having to eat a byte of humble PI.
Don't worry, though, he'll return to a very public position in a short while.
I hope he will try to catch a good severance package. For if he doesn't, it'll char Oracle's goodwill.
I agree with Java should have (had) properties.
It's crazy writing getter and setter methods for little benefit over the properties way. Just create a property, set the access level, and later change it to a method if you want.
Netbeans code completes a full word when you type the initials of a camel case symbol.
Is underscore_separated really easier than camelCase?
For camelCase, you have to hold down the Shift key.
But for underscore_separated, you have to hold the Shift and hit the underscore key, which another character to type.
I understand that some editors don't stop at the case shift, but many programming editors today do.
>... like the lack of a pre-processor ...
Use m4? ... and making everything a class (oh - already did that one) ...
Every function needs to be enclosed in a class, but you don't have to use an object-oriented paradigm. A class can just be a collection of miscellaneous static functions. They don't have to operate on "this". Pass in what you want them to operate on.
Collect 'em all in a class called Global or Util.
>Cue fat lady!!
You mean Queue?
I can't comment on the pedophilia claims, and Sanger is definitely not a disinterested party, but on the other hand, there are plenty of people who would love to see the Wikicabal get slapped for various nefarious and high-handed administrative acts over the years. (Deletionism, notability, citation-required spam, funneling articles toward Wikia, etc.)
When are we going to see an incentive scheme for Slashdot posts?
Killer name.
Sounds like a combination of Cyberpunk and Depends
What's better than squid? Hot grits?
No problem, MySQL to the rescue: It'll just roll over from 2^32 to 0 (silently, of course).
Low UID Slashdotters: Watch out!
>>MySQL.
Like he was saying, an Oracle backend. ("My other DB is an Oracle")
Verizon's trolling may have had an effect on the FCC.
Without high-speed broadband, the US won't remain *first* in the technology race.
In a *post*-industrial economy, digital infrastructure is the most important thing the government can invest in.
Too bad the Feds decided putting hundreds of billions of dollars into Wall Street was a bigger priority.
There are *secret passages* in them thar intertubes.
>the contract supercedes the ad.
Are you saying:
1) You can say whatever (lies) you want in an ad, but deliver something totally different in the contract (which may or may not be fully available to the user at the time of signing).
and/or
2) You *should* be able to do #1?
For any given x megabits/s bandwidth, there is a maximum y GB/mo. transfer that you can do.
Since y is fixed, why should the cost not be?
ISPs are free to price at an assumption of every single user utilizing the maximum available transfer. Or they can price at the actual aggregate transfer, which follows something like a bell curve for various users.
But ISPs are not free to claim "unlimited" Internet in their advertisements, and then not actually provide such. That's fraud.
I realize the Yahoo homepage is pretty cluttered (though it's better than it was before).
But Yahoo search is pretty good. In some cases it delivers more interesting results than Google. And the "more" button delivers a great subjectwise categorization of results.
Check it out:
http://search.yahoo.com/
>How is this newsworthy (even for /.)?
1. Slashdot is news for nerds.
2. Most nerds run Linux (some of the time, at least) or like to think about running Linux.
3. The top Linux distro now is Ubuntu.
4. Recently, Ubuntu has been making a lot of decisions perceived by the community as unjustified. This has led to angst in the community because it feels that Canonical is unresponsive to the very people who work for free contributing its success, and because the community feels that Canonical's unilateral decisions are impeding the uptake of Linux, and the Year of the Linux Desktop, which is a nerd goal.
5. The relenting by Canonical on the Yahoo/Google thing seems to indicate that Ubuntu will listen to the community after all, next year will be the Year of the Linux Desktop, and we shall overcome the Borg.
Comprendez?
Well, Ubuntu claims to want to be "Linux for Human Beings".
Although, on the other hand, the switch to Yahoo gives just about the same user experience as Google for the average user. You type a search query, it gives you results, in the same green and blue colors, even.
I doubt many average users would even care to change, but if they did, the UI to change it to Google is right there out in front, and only takes a single click.
Definitely not like the moving of the window controls, which does in fact change the user experience; average users are likely to want to change it; and average users are unlikely to know how to or to want to mess with Gconf to move them back and have them still messed up because the graphics are only meant for a single order of the buttons.
Buttons on the left work on the Mac because OS/X windows don't have a menu in the window. The menus are on the top of the screen, hence aren't crammed in with the window control buttons.
Also the window title is centered, which makes for visual balance.
By contrast the weird concoction known as Lucid (aka, Opaque) has the menus, window control buttons, and title all in the top left of each window.
Or maybe they were using SSL on Debian
GNU HURD, thank you very much.
It's just around the corner.
Why is the parent moderated Troll, of all things? If anything, it should be Insightful.
He took a number of stats and combined them to give a different answer than Ubuntu.
Is the moderator such a Shuttleworth fanboi that he can't brook the suggestion that Ubuntu users might be some percentage lower than Canonical's estimates? I actually thought it was neat to demonstrate in an alternative way that Linux has millions of users. Even 1 million is a lot of people.
Just because you disagree with a post is not reason to downmod it. Reply in a comment, if you have anything worthwhile to say.