how the HELL do you expect an end user to run JavaApp123, when all they download is a.class file?
You could use WebStart, so that the user downloads a.jnlp file, which then automatically downloads the latest versions of all necessary.class and other files. It's pretty painless.
Why in GODS NAME does Java NOT USE Native Widgets?
One good reason is that many native widgets do not behave equally on different platforms. But that's beside the point, as there are plenty of desktop Java apps that DO use native widgets. Azureus and Eclipse, for two...
My quote "Sure, you can run it, but why would you want to?"
Because one luser bitching about the scroll buttons being the wrong shade of grey is less important than saving the developers from having to rewrite the screen management code from scratch multiple times for each target platform.
But until musician's stop caring about the bottom line free music will probably never become a reality.
And as long as ice cream company's [sic] continue to insist on recieving payment for product, free ice cream will probably never become a reality either.
While some musicians are happy to work without compensation (as are some coders, and I'm sure some ice cream makers as well), it's wrong to assume that any musician SHOULD be willing to work without compensation. They deserve to recover the costs of producing their work, they deserve additional monies to be invested in the production of further work, and they deserve some profit to keep for themselves on top of that.
The press did not have to be forcefully silenced or censored [on Chinagate]: they chose to write about those stories on their own, but they were manipulated into that position by politicians.
PPOSTFU: Post Proof Or Shut The Fuck Up.
Your comment is nothing I couldn't have read on any one of a number of tinfoil conspiracy websites. If you have any evidence for the assertions that you make, and you want critical minds like mine to believe it, pony up already.
If things continue as they are, in 20 years the only "alternative" media (i.e., not owned and operated by corporate plutocrats) the USA might have is Pacifica Radio
There's this new thing now, and people are saying they will change the media world -- I think they're called "bligs" or "bolgs" or something like that...
Will Microsoft ever lower its prices just because it can afford to and it would save us money? Or do they price their software wherever it makes them the most money?
You mean like giving away a web browser for free, or selling a gaming console for less than the cost of production and distribution?
Private property is now a fiction in the United States. "Property" is now redefined as something that you temporarily occupy under the consent and sufference of your local political majority.
Was this ever NOT the case?
Consider the liens and possibly seizures you would be hit up with if you failed to pay your property taxes for a few years.
He said if a similar tool could be produced for newspapers, it would not be accepted by consumers.
Yes, but in the case of internet ad-blocking, the tool has been not only ACCEPTED but DEMANDED by consumers.
Check out the marketing for any Internet Service Provider. All the major providers and many of the smaller ones now advertise "popup blockers" as features of their service. People demanded that something be done about the decrease in usability caused by intrusive advertising, and the ISPs responded.
DoubleCock has no one to blame for the proliferation of ad blocking besides the proliferation of annoying ads, and they themselves pioneered that field.
In my view, you should design Web pages for Internet Explorer (IE) version 6 running on a typical 17'' monitor.
Okay... but what resolution is that "typical 17'' monitor" running at?
Back when I was stuck with a puny 17-incher, I used to run at 1024x768, but I had good eyesight. Other users may be more comfortable at 800x600 or even 640x480. Screen size is pretty much irrelevant to web design.
Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?
No, this is another nail in the coffin of the idea that people will pay for content on the internet that they can get for free* from other distribution channels.
(* I realize cable television isn't actually "free", but with so many advertising-subsidized channels to choose from, the cost of CNN's programming alone is too cheap to meter.)
with open source software you are guarenteed there are no hidden "features" you may not actually want.
That's the "free as in speech" angle. I think Nokia's probably more influenced by the "free as in beer" angle.
If Nokia wanted to put a tiny Opera on their phones, they'd have to pay Opera Inc. a fee for each unit they produce. On the other hand, if they work with an Apple or a Mozilla Foundation to develop their own open-source microbrowser, they don't have to pay a cent in licensing costs per unit (except maybe 0.1 cents each for the ink to print the OSS license in the user guide, if it's a GPL or GPL-like license).
So they admit they haven't invented anything, but they got a patent because of the amazingly innovative combination of those features
That's the nature of all inventions though.
Even mechanical ones. Almost everything can be described as some combination of the mechanical primitives we call "classical simple machines": wheels, levers, inclined planes, etc.
Or are Yahoo! and Google somehow worth billions of $(US) by selling banner ads.
They're worth billions (or at least several millions... I won't dispute the argument that they're over-valued) because they have Enormous And Loyal Audiences.
Selling banner ads to people who want to tap into those audiences is merely one of many ways to generate revenue from that asset.
Email is routinely ignored by congressional staffers.
That really depends on who's representing you. The last time I emailed my concerns to my US Senators and Congressman, I got form letters back in the mail from all three of them thanking me for my input and explaining how they intended to vote. Even Old Man Lautenberg acknowledges the relevance of email! Why don't YOUR elected reps?
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I may be wrong, but I believe that an RDBMS must support nested subqueries to be conformant to the ANSI SQL92 Entry-Level specification (maybe even SQL89?).
Not to fan the flames of another advocacy flamewar, but if MySQL hasn't caught up to a 13-year-old standard yet, it shouldn't be treated as a fully-functional SQL RDBMS.
If you're running MySQL you should be aware of its limitations yourself; it's not the book's job to bring them to your attention for you.
Gee Whiz Wally, isn't it nice that they allow their workers an "on-site restaurant and relaxation area, well kept garden for spending free time in, (and an) employee-built library"?
How many of US have workplaces that provide those kinds of amenities, though? The big perks in MY office include all the free bad coffee I can drink and a concrete stoop out back where you can go to smoke your cigarettes.
Yeah, obviously they do those things in order to make the workers more productive. But I'd wager as a side effect, the workers become HAPPIER, too. Fair tradeoff?
how come to get a console in Windows I have to hit WIN+R, "CMD", [Enter].
Well, you could always set up a keyboard shortcut that launched CMD.EXE -- I've got mine mapped to CTRL-ALT-S. I also keep shortcut icons to my Windows and Cygwin shells in the Quick Launch dock, for more easy access.
The more important aspect of your feature request, though, is to make the shell itself dockable: the command line stays out of the way, you call it up only for as long as you need it, and then it hides itself again. I'd like to see someone implement such a feature, too.
when one remembers the brutality and sheer animalistic behaviour of the Japanese, it's hard to not think "what goes around, comes around".
Please remember that there is often a disparity between the wishes of the populace of a nation, and the wishes of that nation's leadership and military. The former is not necessarily complicit in the wrongdoings of the latter.
Your kind of reasoning is the same used by those who say the United States "deserved" to lose 3,000 people--mostly civilians--on 9/11, because it was a fair response to the US's Middle Eastern foreign policy.
Remember, the atomic bombings were designed to END a war. The 9/11 attacks were designed to START one.
Guys, if you want a pocket hard-drive music player that does recording, has video playback, plays games, and has an inferior user experience to the iPod, just get an Archos Gmini 400 instead...
"It's terrible...Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'"
Hmm. Sounds a bit to me like some Linux users' attitude towards Windows...
It's no mistake that neither Access or the full VisualBASIC suite has made it to platforms other than Windows.
THANK GOD. It's just about the worst development paradigm I can think of for shared-data operations.
It's damn scary to think that my private and personal medical and financial data could be in the hands of some kludge of desktop applications that Joe Pencil-Pusher threw together.
I can't blame Apple or any other office-suite publisher for not aggressively going after this vertical market. It's sure to be more trouble than it's worth to support.
Assumption. As with the time ATi preannounced an Apple product by accident and was dumped for nVidia, Sun screwed up and Apple pulled the whole project in revenge.
Never attribute to malice what etc. stupidity yadda yadda yadda. Apple isn't exactly in a market position where they can afford to be petty -- especially not against vendors who have so few competitors in their markets, like ATI and Sun. I don't know why Apple did decide to change strategies in those instances, but it seems very unlikely to me that it was because they dared to steal Apple's thunder by announcing a new product too soon.
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how the HELL do you expect an end user to run JavaApp123, when all they download is a .class file?
.jnlp file, which then automatically downloads the latest versions of all necessary .class and other files. It's pretty painless.
You could use WebStart, so that the user downloads a
Why in GODS NAME does Java NOT USE Native Widgets?
One good reason is that many native widgets do not behave equally on different platforms. But that's beside the point, as there are plenty of desktop Java apps that DO use native widgets. Azureus and Eclipse, for two...
My quote "Sure, you can run it, but why would you want to?"
Because one luser bitching about the scroll buttons being the wrong shade of grey is less important than saving the developers from having to rewrite the screen management code from scratch multiple times for each target platform.
Um as an English Major I must warn you Gutenberg sucks.
Um as an English major, shouldn't you have better written English skills than you're currently exhibiting?
The copyeditor in me wants to mark up your comment with a red pencil.
But until musician's stop caring about the bottom line free music will probably never become a reality.
And as long as ice cream company's [sic] continue to insist on recieving payment for product, free ice cream will probably never become a reality either.
While some musicians are happy to work without compensation (as are some coders, and I'm sure some ice cream makers as well), it's wrong to assume that any musician SHOULD be willing to work without compensation. They deserve to recover the costs of producing their work, they deserve additional monies to be invested in the production of further work, and they deserve some profit to keep for themselves on top of that.
The press did not have to be forcefully silenced or censored [on Chinagate]: they chose to write about those stories on their own, but they were manipulated into that position by politicians.
PPOSTFU: Post Proof Or Shut The Fuck Up.
Your comment is nothing I couldn't have read on any one of a number of tinfoil conspiracy websites. If you have any evidence for the assertions that you make, and you want critical minds like mine to believe it, pony up already.
If things continue as they are, in 20 years the only "alternative" media (i.e., not owned and operated by corporate plutocrats) the USA might have is Pacifica Radio
There's this new thing now, and people are saying they will change the media world -- I think they're called "bligs" or "bolgs" or something like that...
Will Microsoft ever lower its prices just because it can afford to and it would save us money? Or do they price their software wherever it makes them the most money?
You mean like giving away a web browser for free, or selling a gaming console for less than the cost of production and distribution?
Only to people that buy crippled hardware for some stupid reason, and then want to "hack" into their own stuff.
O please, tell me what the "non-crippled" equivalent to the PSP is, and much performance $250 will get you with it.
Private property is now a fiction in the United States. "Property" is now redefined as something that you temporarily occupy under the consent and sufference of your local political majority.
Was this ever NOT the case?
Consider the liens and possibly seizures you would be hit up with if you failed to pay your property taxes for a few years.
"Real property" has never been all that real.
He said if a similar tool could be produced for newspapers, it would not be accepted by consumers.
Yes, but in the case of internet ad-blocking, the tool has been not only ACCEPTED but DEMANDED by consumers.
Check out the marketing for any Internet Service Provider. All the major providers and many of the smaller ones now advertise "popup blockers" as features of their service. People demanded that something be done about the decrease in usability caused by intrusive advertising, and the ISPs responded.
DoubleCock has no one to blame for the proliferation of ad blocking besides the proliferation of annoying ads, and they themselves pioneered that field.
In my view, you should design Web pages for Internet Explorer (IE) version 6 running on a typical 17'' monitor.
Okay... but what resolution is that "typical 17'' monitor" running at?
Back when I was stuck with a puny 17-incher, I used to run at 1024x768, but I had good eyesight. Other users may be more comfortable at 800x600 or even 640x480. Screen size is pretty much irrelevant to web design.
Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?
No, this is another nail in the coffin of the idea that people will pay for content on the internet that they can get for free* from other distribution channels.
(* I realize cable television isn't actually "free", but with so many advertising-subsidized channels to choose from, the cost of CNN's programming alone is too cheap to meter.)
you'd think the million robot march would have had 1,048,576 robots, not 1,000,000
Myself, I would have thought there would have been exactly 64 robots. 1000000 binary = 64 decimal...
with open source software you are guarenteed there are no hidden "features" you may not actually want.
That's the "free as in speech" angle. I think Nokia's probably more influenced by the "free as in beer" angle.
If Nokia wanted to put a tiny Opera on their phones, they'd have to pay Opera Inc. a fee for each unit they produce. On the other hand, if they work with an Apple or a Mozilla Foundation to develop their own open-source microbrowser, they don't have to pay a cent in licensing costs per unit (except maybe 0.1 cents each for the ink to print the OSS license in the user guide, if it's a GPL or GPL-like license).
So they admit they haven't invented anything, but they got a patent because of the amazingly innovative combination of those features
That's the nature of all inventions though.
Even mechanical ones. Almost everything can be described as some combination of the mechanical primitives we call "classical simple machines": wheels, levers, inclined planes, etc.
Or are Yahoo! and Google somehow worth billions of $(US) by selling banner ads.
They're worth billions (or at least several millions... I won't dispute the argument that they're over-valued) because they have Enormous And Loyal Audiences.
Selling banner ads to people who want to tap into those audiences is merely one of many ways to generate revenue from that asset.
Email is routinely ignored by congressional staffers.
That really depends on who's representing you. The last time I emailed my concerns to my US Senators and Congressman, I got form letters back in the mail from all three of them thanking me for my input and explaining how they intended to vote. Even Old Man Lautenberg acknowledges the relevance of email! Why don't YOUR elected reps?
I may be wrong, but I believe that an RDBMS must support nested subqueries to be conformant to the ANSI SQL92 Entry-Level specification (maybe even SQL89?).
Not to fan the flames of another advocacy flamewar, but if MySQL hasn't caught up to a 13-year-old standard yet, it shouldn't be treated as a fully-functional SQL RDBMS.
If you're running MySQL you should be aware of its limitations yourself; it's not the book's job to bring them to your attention for you.
Gee Whiz Wally, isn't it nice that they allow their workers an "on-site restaurant and relaxation area, well kept garden for spending free time in, (and an) employee-built library"?
How many of US have workplaces that provide those kinds of amenities, though? The big perks in MY office include all the free bad coffee I can drink and a concrete stoop out back where you can go to smoke your cigarettes.
Yeah, obviously they do those things in order to make the workers more productive. But I'd wager as a side effect, the workers become HAPPIER, too.
Fair tradeoff?
how come to get a console in Windows I have to hit WIN+R, "CMD", [Enter].
Well, you could always set up a keyboard shortcut that launched CMD.EXE -- I've got mine mapped to CTRL-ALT-S. I also keep shortcut icons to my Windows and Cygwin shells in the Quick Launch dock, for more easy access.
The more important aspect of your feature request, though, is to make the shell itself dockable: the command line stays out of the way, you call it up only for as long as you need it, and then it hides itself again. I'd like to see someone implement such a feature, too.
when one remembers the brutality and sheer animalistic behaviour of the Japanese, it's hard to not think "what goes around, comes around".
Please remember that there is often a disparity between the wishes of the populace of a nation, and the wishes of that nation's leadership and military. The former is not necessarily complicit in the wrongdoings of the latter.
Your kind of reasoning is the same used by those who say the United States "deserved" to lose 3,000 people--mostly civilians--on 9/11, because it was a fair response to the US's Middle Eastern foreign policy.
Remember, the atomic bombings were designed to END a war. The 9/11 attacks were designed to START one.
Guys, if you want a pocket hard-drive music player that does recording, has video playback, plays games, and has an inferior user experience to the iPod, just get an Archos Gmini 400 instead...
"It's terrible...Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'"
Hmm. Sounds a bit to me like some Linux users' attitude towards Windows...
It's no mistake that neither Access or the full VisualBASIC suite has made it to platforms other than Windows.
THANK GOD. It's just about the worst development paradigm I can think of for shared-data operations.
It's damn scary to think that my private and personal medical and financial data could be in the hands of some kludge of desktop applications that Joe Pencil-Pusher threw together.
I can't blame Apple or any other office-suite publisher for not aggressively going after this vertical market. It's sure to be more trouble than it's worth to support.
Assumption. As with the time ATi preannounced an Apple product by accident and was dumped for nVidia, Sun screwed up and Apple pulled the whole project in revenge.
Never attribute to malice what etc. stupidity yadda yadda yadda. Apple isn't exactly in a market position where they can afford to be petty -- especially not against vendors who have so few competitors in their markets, like ATI and Sun. I don't know why Apple did decide to change strategies in those instances, but it seems very unlikely to me that it was because they dared to steal Apple's thunder by announcing a new product too soon.
some great scheme by Jobs to re-enter the general PC OS market?
RE-enter? Oh, right, NeXT OS for beige-box x86's.
That didn't go to well for him, did it?