Wait, but he already was just a cheerleader (actually, a mascot) for Java.
Granted he invented the language, but there's a whole raft of community members (including other companies) that have an interest in the direction of Java, so Oracle/Sun couldn't let him be a prima donna even if they wanted to.
His real role, if he had understood it, was to be like the Queen of England: a kind of father figure. Symbolic figurehead. His role isn't (or shouldn't be) to determine the future of Java all by himself.
The thing is, if you could use a phone edition of Word to (most of) your document creation work, the question arises: what need is there for the bloated desktop version? And what exactly is it that a mini Word will be able to do that a pared-down OpenOffice or Abiword won't? I'm assuming you won't be creating multi-column books with table of contents, indexes, and hanging indents, etc. on your phone.
If I had simply reduced the sarcasm slightly, I would have been modded "5, Insightful", being seen as a pro-nuclear comment. As it is, it was just a tug of war between +1 and -1.
The difference is that while a few people (or even 10s or 100s) may die, there is no permanent damage in a car accident. No lasting effects for tens of thousands of years (including waste even if there is no accident).
It's not quite a double whammy when the cause of both is the same, is it? I mean it's not like two totally separate events, like the stock market crashing + the Yankees winning/losing.
The wasn't caused by a strong gale. It was water pushed around by the earthquake. So basically, it was an earthquake near a body of water.
The next question is: how many nuke plants are located near a body of water. Answer: many, because they need to dissipate heat. Diablo Canyon, in California, for one.
It's said that William Gibson, the author of Neuromancer, when he finally got a computer, was non-plussed with what he saw as the weird electro-mechanical Victorian contraption (you're reading data by storing it on rotating plates with a magnet hovering over it?).
Similarly, does anyone find it weird that all the cutting-edge technology of the splitting the atom is really doing is just boiling water?
Is there any data on what part of that is related to drunk-driving?
Also, I'd like someone to do a study on how many people die on trips long enough to be compared to airline trips (say, cross-state). Say, 10000 people went on car trips in 2010, and compare that to people who took an airplane. Also, if air travellers are getting rental cars when they arrive at their destination, you might have to adjust for interstate vs. city fatalities.
It's basically a heavy-duty editor. Say you need to set up a big table of constants. BLAH = "blah", or whatever. Or slice and dice some text into code, or rewrite/create a huge series of SQL statements. Very easy with it's BeanShell or regex replacement (multiline, too, if you want). The builtin text macro "Add Prefix and Suffix" is much used. Columnar cut and paste. You don't have to program a C++ library to extend the syntax highlighting, just set up some regexes into an XML config file. Abbreviations (code templates) per file type. Recommended plugins: FTP (edit files remotely), Sessions, XML (works for HTML, too).
Netbeans- great for Java, of course, but it's also very good for PHP, even better than the alternative$. What's nice about it: refactoring. When you're on a variable, it highlights other uses of that variable. It has Symfony support built in, but you can also get it to work to a significant extent with another library or your own. Ctrl+click goes to definition of symbol. Code templates are very handy. They've thought things out like a programmer. E.g., many editors nowadays insert two double quotes when you just type it once. Problem is, after that, you usually want to add a semicolon, and go to the next line. So they added that macro for you already. You can download just a base version with the PHP plugin if you want. The one thing missing is code folding.
vi isn't punishment. It's a great tool for what it's designed for: editing. And the modal nature, along with keeping your fingers on the keyboard are part of what make it awesome. I assume we're talking about vim, and not Bill Joy's original vi. It also has code completion, by the way. (Try hitting Ctrl+p, for for one.)
Netbeans, on the other hand, is an IDE, and a good one at that.
By the way, another good editor (non-modal), is jedit. Also cross-platform, but with a lot of macro/scripting/regex goodness. It has a lot of plugins, including a key one that lets you edit files remotely (by SSH) as if they were local.
Back during the Eisenhower administration, people were talking about power "too cheap to meter". Now, I admit, if it really were too cheap to meter (producing huge amounts of electricity), I think I could live with maybe 1 or 2 nuclear power plants per country.
But given that it's not, and the (small) risk of catastrophic failure, it hardly seems worth it.
I agree with you in the sense there's no rhyme or reason for Paypal to hold your money for 180 days "for your protection".
But banks don't hold your hand when you send money to someone by mistake. It's caveat emptor.
I agree that no processor should be able to take your money and then not reverse that transaction, but I'm talking about where you send money, and then change your mind.
For me, the tragic thing is I really like Nokia hardware buttons. Granted, the whole phone arena was moving away from a whole lot of buttons, but I liked the way they at least had: -pick up (green phone icon) -hang up (red phone icon) -menu key (in the center) plus maybe a camera/shutter key on the side.
Even Nokia S40 phones used to have the ability to either silence the ring (keeps ringing), or hit the red phone button, and it might tell the caller "dialled phone is busy", depending on the network.
Well, I don't know if Nokia will walk away from the market, but the market certainly might.
Before: (Nokia to the market) Buy our somewhat-cheap Symbian phones. You can buy Qt apps, and they'll continue to work on Meego when we (finally) release it.
Now: (Nokia to market) Buy our somewhat-cheap Symbian phones. You can buy Qt apps, and they won't work on our new, high-end phone line. And we'll make vague statements about Meego, while burying it in a few months.
Now: (Market to Nokia). And why shouldn't I buy a cheap Chinese/Indian Android phone, buy my apps, and move up to a nice Android phone (with apps intact) later?
What I can promise you is that we will not just abandon Symbian users or developers. As a very minimum, we have a legal obligation, varying in length between countries, to support users for a period of time after the last product has been sold. Our intention is that when users come to the end of the natural lifecycle of their Symbian device they will make the change to a Nokia Windows Phone device and so it would not be in our interests to undermine their Nokia smartphone experience.
Then:
All together, this means your investment in Qt is a safe choice for skill competency, monetization opportunities and brand awareness amongst our millions of users.
Yeah, right.
If I were developer, I think I'd target Android because of the numbers, and Linux-based WebOS, because it seems cool. (Inputting the Konami code to enter dev mode? Highly geeky.)
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Wait, but he already was just a cheerleader (actually, a mascot) for Java.
Granted he invented the language, but there's a whole raft of community members (including other companies) that have an interest in the direction of Java, so Oracle/Sun couldn't let him be a prima donna even if they wanted to.
His real role, if he had understood it, was to be like the Queen of England: a kind of father figure. Symbolic figurehead. His role isn't (or shouldn't be) to determine the future of Java all by himself.
Also, what happens when Steve J dies? Would Apple fanbois have followed Sculley wherever he would have led them?
The thing is, if you could use a phone edition of Word to (most of) your document creation work, the question arises: what need is there for the bloated desktop version? And what exactly is it that a mini Word will be able to do that a pared-down OpenOffice or Abiword won't? I'm assuming you won't be creating multi-column books with table of contents, indexes, and hanging indents, etc. on your phone.
If I had simply reduced the sarcasm slightly, I would have been modded "5, Insightful", being seen as a pro-nuclear comment. As it is, it was just a tug of war between +1 and -1.
I think they have a little money now that they're farming out Mexican Gulf oil contracts (for deep water exploration) to non-US companies.
1. This is actually proves nuclear is so resilient.
2. We should build more nuclear plants.
3. It was designed for the biggest quake we ever thought could happen.
4. It was the big bad tsunami that caused the damage, not the earthquake.
5. Nothing has happened, nothing is happening, and nothing is going to happen.
6. We can trust whatever TEPCO is saying.
7. People fall off of roofs.
8. Windmills kill people.
Well, then you could put them on rooftops, which I think is the smartest idea. Just have every new home have 10 sq m of solar panels.
Yeah, the tsunami was simply caused by the earthquake moving the water around. It wasn't some totally separate phenomenon.
The difference is that while a few people (or even 10s or 100s) may die, there is no permanent damage in a car accident. No lasting effects for tens of thousands of years (including waste even if there is no accident).
It's not quite a double whammy when the cause of both is the same, is it? I mean it's not like two totally separate events, like the stock market crashing + the Yankees winning/losing.
The wasn't caused by a strong gale. It was water pushed around by the earthquake. So basically, it was an earthquake near a body of water.
The next question is: how many nuke plants are located near a body of water. Answer: many, because they need to dissipate heat. Diablo Canyon, in California, for one.
Can't they import new ones from China? (Tangent)
If a car crashes, 2 people (or 4 or 5, maybe a bit more) die. If a nuclear plant "crashes" quite a bit more happens than that.
It's said that William Gibson, the author of Neuromancer, when he finally got a computer, was non-plussed with what he saw as the weird electro-mechanical Victorian contraption (you're reading data by storing it on rotating plates with a magnet hovering over it?).
Similarly, does anyone find it weird that all the cutting-edge technology of the splitting the atom is really doing is just boiling water?
Have we really no other way to boil water?
Is there any data on what part of that is related to drunk-driving?
Also, I'd like someone to do a study on how many people die on trips long enough to be compared to airline trips (say, cross-state). Say, 10000 people went on car trips in 2010, and compare that to people who took an airplane. Also, if air travellers are getting rental cars when they arrive at their destination, you might have to adjust for interstate vs. city fatalities.
Not necessarily for you, but for anybody reading:
More info on jedit-
It's basically a heavy-duty editor. Say you need to set up a big table of constants. BLAH = "blah", or whatever. Or slice and dice some text into code, or rewrite/create a huge series of SQL statements. Very easy with it's BeanShell or regex replacement (multiline, too, if you want). The builtin text macro "Add Prefix and Suffix" is much used. Columnar cut and paste. You don't have to program a C++ library to extend the syntax highlighting, just set up some regexes into an XML config file. Abbreviations (code templates) per file type. Recommended plugins: FTP (edit files remotely), Sessions, XML (works for HTML, too).
Netbeans- great for Java, of course, but it's also very good for PHP, even better than the alternative$. What's nice about it: refactoring. When you're on a variable, it highlights other uses of that variable. It has Symfony support built in, but you can also get it to work to a significant extent with another library or your own. Ctrl+click goes to definition of symbol. Code templates are very handy. They've thought things out like a programmer. E.g., many editors nowadays insert two double quotes when you just type it once. Problem is, after that, you usually want to add a semicolon, and go to the next line. So they added that macro for you already. You can download just a base version with the PHP plugin if you want. The one thing missing is code folding.
vim has code/tag completion and syntax highlighting. So does emacs (and a whole lot more).
(What follows is just personal opinion:)
vi isn't punishment. It's a great tool for what it's designed for: editing. And the modal nature, along with keeping your fingers on the keyboard are part of what make it awesome. I assume we're talking about vim, and not Bill Joy's original vi. It also has code completion, by the way. (Try hitting Ctrl+p, for for one.)
Netbeans, on the other hand, is an IDE, and a good one at that.
By the way, another good editor (non-modal), is jedit. Also cross-platform, but with a lot of macro/scripting/regex goodness. It has a lot of plugins, including a key one that lets you edit files remotely (by SSH) as if they were local.
Back during the Eisenhower administration, people were talking about power "too cheap to meter". Now, I admit, if it really were too cheap to meter (producing huge amounts of electricity), I think I could live with maybe 1 or 2 nuclear power plants per country.
But given that it's not, and the (small) risk of catastrophic failure, it hardly seems worth it.
I agree with you in the sense there's no rhyme or reason for Paypal to hold your money for 180 days "for your protection".
But banks don't hold your hand when you send money to someone by mistake. It's caveat emptor.
I agree that no processor should be able to take your money and then not reverse that transaction, but I'm talking about where you send money, and then change your mind.
This Purnima Kochikar fellow seems to be drinking the same Kool-Aid as PR folks normally do.
List of professions despised by many geeks:
-PR
-Laywers
-Lobbyists
-Ad execs
-MAFIAA people
Well, basically because MS didn't want that.
The current Qt copyright holder is none other than ... Nokia.
For me, the tragic thing is I really like Nokia hardware buttons. Granted, the whole phone arena was moving away from a whole lot of buttons, but I liked the way they at least had:
-pick up (green phone icon)
-hang up (red phone icon)
-menu key (in the center)
plus maybe a camera/shutter key on the side.
Even Nokia S40 phones used to have the ability to either silence the ring (keeps ringing), or hit the red phone button, and it might tell the caller "dialled phone is busy", depending on the network.
The iPhone doesn't do that.
Well, I don't know if Nokia will walk away from the market, but the market certainly might.
Before: (Nokia to the market) Buy our somewhat-cheap Symbian phones. You can buy Qt apps, and they'll continue to work on Meego when we (finally) release it.
Now: (Nokia to market) Buy our somewhat-cheap Symbian phones. You can buy Qt apps, and they won't work on our new, high-end phone line. And we'll make vague statements about Meego, while burying it in a few months.
Now: (Market to Nokia). And why shouldn't I buy a cheap Chinese/Indian Android phone, buy my apps, and move up to a nice Android phone (with apps intact) later?
It wasn't about Symbian. It was about Qt, an target which would have allowed developers to program for current and future devices (and desktops).
They were trying like crazy to get people to develop for them, what with the $10 million prize and all.
Here's a recent little plea from Nokia to developers:
Then:
Yeah, right.
If I were developer, I think I'd target Android because of the numbers, and Linux-based WebOS, because it seems cool. (Inputting the Konami code to enter dev mode? Highly geeky.)
Thing is: either be a payment service,
- or -
be a "pal" (i.e., escrow service). Not both.
Trying to be both is what is making them do both tasks badly.
By the way, what is Amazon's exchange policy? (I've never needed to return stuff--can you just return stuff because you want to, and they'll take it?)