Go is a little different, it is aimed at systems level programming and implements some modern language features. Java is a general purpose language with implementations for a lot of target platforms: originally web applets (Java 1.0/1.1) but then desktops (J2SE) then devices (J2ME) and now finally server side (J2EE).
I can deal with a lot of adverse conditions as a developer but there is one thing most companies I have worked for don't seem to understand. As a coder, I spend 8-14 hours a day in front of the computer and while I don't mind dropping money on a decent keyboard ($100 will get a good one) I don't want to drop $1000 on a 21" monitor. I don't even care about an LCD, I would just like enough screen realestate to be able to read multiple files next to one another or see a complete code block without having to scroll.
You'd be surprised how much a bad screen resolution will cost you in wasted hand movement between page-up/downs or mouse scrollbar adjustment.
For some reason, the management types that only use email and word processing don't think 1600x1200 is a worthwhile investment. I, however, find it the minimum workable resolution.
When I first got a cable modem, I was blown away by the speed, often in excess of 350k/sec but after a couple of years and the popularity of the internet and broadband the speed has dropped significantly as my neighbors have all jumped on the shared bandwidth. I think my average speed has dropped down to 120k/sec which isn't bad but there are times (often after work at night) when the speeds are much slower than that and there are signs that it may drop even lower than that...
In light of the information contained in this story, the donation Bill Gates gave to India to fight AIDS recently makes a little more sense. I mean, I know that Mr. Gates is heavy into the cause of fighting global diseases but wouldn't it have made more sense to donate to the #1 country (Africa) dealing with an AIDS epidemic than #2 (India)? I suppose if there are more developers in India that you want on your side, then it makes more sense from a business stand point...
If anyone still remembers their old junior high (maybe even high school and college!) text books, they'll never forget the "Shoot the Monkey" experiments that proves projectile motion and more simply that gravity is not governed by mass.
In a nutshell, drop an object with just gravity effecting it's fall and aim a projectile at it, since they fall at the same rate, the projectile will hit the falling object every time.
Of course, they always use a falling monkey and a sling shot in the text books, it just cracks me up.
Almost all installers now provide a way to wrap the java application in such a way that this is abstracted from end users...
Also, if you don't use an installer, you should provide an application specific start method (shell script, makefile when developing, or batch file) that wraps the basic classpath with your specific application's classpath.
My classpath: CLASSPATH=$(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib/rt.jar; .
I wandered across his website once while browsing and he had his email address available if you wanted to contact him...
On a whim, I emailed him to ask him a few questions and thank him for some of his early work, DnD, Gord the Rogue books, Greyhawk, you name it.
To my surprise, he actually took the time to respond to my questions and bring me up to date with what he has been doing in the post TSR days.
It always amazes me when someone that has made it big at one point will take the time to answer someone they don't know. Kudos to him. (or at least his staff)
When I proposed in the fall, the first thing my fiance did was try to set a date. I was unprepared for this; in my mind I was getting engaged, it had never crossed my mind that I was going to be planning a wedding that soon!
So when is the date!?! Will the guests all be wearing name tags bearing their logins like "CowboyNeal"?
Hit you with no delayin so what you sayin yo? (uh)
Silly with my nine milli, what the deally yo? (what?)
When I be on the mic yes I do my duty yo
Wild up in the club like we wild in the stud-io (uh)
You don't wanna VIOLATE nigga really and truly yo (uh)
My main thug nigga named Julio he moody yo (what?)
Type of nigga that'll slap you with the tool-io (blaow!)
Bitch nigga scared to death, act fruity yo (uh)
Fuck that! Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo (yeah)
The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo (whoo!)
I am Tom Bombadil-yo!
There is actually one shot of evil Bill Ferny talking to the shady southerner in the inn but if you blinked, you missed it.
The apple bit would have been perfect for a movie too -- a little bit of comedy injected into the movie where most of it from the book had been taken out.
The thing about Tom is that he is such an enigma. It would have added to the mystery and agelessness of middle earth. Plus, Goldberry would be a hotty.
I am missing the, Tom Bombadill-o!
Where were the on my screen-o!
'Tis there a part of you,
Some unheard tune-age,
appearing in the additional footage!?
Seriously, it would have been cool to see some of the swamp/forest/willow/Tom from the book even though it would have extended the time it took for Frodo to find Strider and begin the second part of his adventure...
I would like a law degree and a medical degree and throw in a discount on a PhD if you would. Oh, and I want it to only take 2 years, max.
Let's be realistic. I had been coding for 10 years as well before school and yet it took the four years to complete the degree. There is more to a COLLEGE DEGREE than just a couple of programming assignments. The point of any college degree is that you become well rounded and develop an area of expertise. They go hand in hand.
Granted, you can go a long ways in life without the college degree but learning things like DeMorgan's laws and differential equations as well as the theories behind how the human mind works can be applied in software and is what makes a person that has gone to school more valuable than one that hasn't. (Make note, this is a general rule, not a universal one!)
What you are asking for is a certificate. Get one of the hundred that are offerred some where.
This is a great chance to get our concerns as a community out into the public sector.
Consider this: ONE person/organization has EVERYONE'S personal and financial data online. This goes against all design architectures in both security AND engineering. A single point of failure. Imagine one bank in real life, with Barney Fife guarding it. Would you put your life savings there?
With more and more commerce occurring on the internet, the more important it is that there is some scheme to protect this important market. I am particularly concerned with one private company holding the public trust in their hands -- I am also very concerned about the government, for that matter, also holding this information!
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Yeah, but just think how much fun it would be to see the computer trying to compensate for a drunken driver.
I have filled all the banks -- I bought 4 DDR2100 256 meg dimms (CL 2.5) from Crucial and haven't had a single timing issue with them. I have just used the default SPD settings.
This is good since using the same memory, I was having issues with the MSI board.
I bought the MSI 6380 and had trouble from day one with the USB controller in linux having hickups and jitters as well as the crucial ddr ram not working properly. After eating the $140 it cost me for the board, I invested in the Shuttle AK31 also listed here. It was $120, had an extra PCI slot as well as an extra dimm slot (1 gig of RAM, woohoo! No swapping!) and has worked from day one. The only thing it didn't have was the RAID controller and I wasn't likely to use it in the near future anyway but since it has the extra PCI slot, it will be an option in the future.
Despite my experiences being different than Tom's, he does a nice job, as always.
Is it me or does controversey always follow this guy around?:-)
He does make a good point but I think once the history of the file system evolution is taken into account, the layout makes sense. The problem is, not every distribution adheres to the fs layout unwritten rules for various reasons and the result is a mess.
Hopefully, the Linux Standards Base will help to address this.
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Go is a little different, it is aimed at systems level programming and implements some modern language features. Java is a general purpose language with implementations for a lot of target platforms: originally web applets (Java 1.0/1.1) but then desktops (J2SE) then devices (J2ME) and now finally server side (J2EE).
That the developers at MS had originally called this "STFU"?
I can deal with a lot of adverse conditions as a developer but there is one thing most companies I have worked for don't seem to understand. As a coder, I spend 8-14 hours a day in front of the computer and while I don't mind dropping money on a decent keyboard ($100 will get a good one) I don't want to drop $1000 on a 21" monitor. I don't even care about an LCD, I would just like enough screen realestate to be able to read multiple files next to one another or see a complete code block without having to scroll.
You'd be surprised how much a bad screen resolution will cost you in wasted hand movement between page-up/downs or mouse scrollbar adjustment.
For some reason, the management types that only use email and word processing don't think 1600x1200 is a worthwhile investment. I, however, find it the minimum workable resolution.
Gentoo does...
The latest release of Gentoo is 2004.1. This means it was the second release this year. (First being 2004.0)
That helps a little...
Excellent quote in your subject; very apropos for this thread as well. *bump*
When I first got a cable modem, I was blown away by the speed, often in excess of 350k/sec but after a couple of years and the popularity of the internet and broadband the speed has dropped significantly as my neighbors have all jumped on the shared bandwidth. I think my average speed has dropped down to 120k/sec which isn't bad but there are times (often after work at night) when the speeds are much slower than that and there are signs that it may drop even lower than that...
Yes, Africa is the continent but South Africa is the #1 AIDS country in the world.
Secondly, I hardly think that:
$25 million to #1
$100 million to #2
Is parity.
In light of the information contained in this story, the donation Bill Gates gave to
India to fight AIDS recently makes a little more sense. I mean, I know that Mr. Gates is heavy into the cause of fighting global diseases but wouldn't it have made more sense to donate to the #1 country (Africa) dealing with an AIDS epidemic than #2 (India)? I suppose if there are more developers in India that you want on your side, then it makes more sense from a business stand point...
If anyone still remembers their old junior high (maybe even high school and college!) text books, they'll never forget the "Shoot the Monkey" experiments that proves projectile motion and more simply that gravity is not governed by mass.
In a nutshell, drop an object with just gravity effecting it's fall and aim a projectile at it, since they fall at the same rate, the projectile will hit the falling object every time.
Of course, they always use a falling monkey and a sling shot in the text books, it just cracks me up.
Almost all installers now provide a way to wrap the java application in such a way that this is abstracted from end users...
; .
Also, if you don't use an installer, you should provide an application specific start method (shell script, makefile when developing, or batch file) that wraps the basic classpath with your specific application's classpath.
My classpath:
CLASSPATH=$(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib/rt.jar
I wandered across his website once while browsing and he had his email address available if you wanted to contact him...
On a whim, I emailed him to ask him a few questions and thank him for some of his early work, DnD, Gord the Rogue books, Greyhawk, you name it.
To my surprise, he actually took the time to respond to my questions and bring me up to date with what he has been doing in the post TSR days.
It always amazes me when someone that has made it big at one point will take the time to answer someone they don't know. Kudos to him. (or at least his staff)
If you read the Exxon and Mobil's contracts with these systems, they will pay for all stolen charges should the speedpass be stolen.
What happens when riots break out in wintery conditions, such as the riot in Salt Lake during the Olympics?
It freezes everything solid and there are a couple of hundred hypothermia cases to deal with at the local hospital...
Interesting possibilities...
When I proposed in the fall, the first thing my fiance did was try to set a date. I was unprepared for this; in my mind I was getting engaged, it had never crossed my mind that I was going to be planning a wedding that soon!
So when is the date!?! Will the guests all be wearing name tags bearing their logins like "CowboyNeal"?
I was thinking of a more "hip" version of Tom --
Think: Busta Rhymes!
Hit you with no delayin so what you sayin yo? (uh)
Silly with my nine milli, what the deally yo? (what?)
When I be on the mic yes I do my duty yo
Wild up in the club like we wild in the stud-io (uh)
You don't wanna VIOLATE nigga really and truly yo (uh)
My main thug nigga named Julio he moody yo (what?)
Type of nigga that'll slap you with the tool-io (blaow!)
Bitch nigga scared to death, act fruity yo (uh)
Fuck that! Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo (yeah)
The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo (whoo!)
I am Tom Bombadil-yo!
There is actually one shot of evil Bill Ferny talking to the shady southerner in the inn but if you blinked, you missed it.
The apple bit would have been perfect for a movie too -- a little bit of comedy injected into the movie where most of it from the book had been taken out.
The thing about Tom is that he is such an enigma. It would have added to the mystery and agelessness of middle earth. Plus, Goldberry would be a hotty.
I am missing the, Tom Bombadill-o!
Where were the on my screen-o!
'Tis there a part of you,
Some unheard tune-age,
appearing in the additional footage!?
Seriously, it would have been cool to see some of the swamp/forest/willow/Tom from the book even though it would have extended the time it took for Frodo to find Strider and begin the second part of his adventure...
I would like a law degree and a medical degree and throw in a discount on a PhD if you would. Oh, and I want it to only take 2 years, max.
Let's be realistic. I had been coding for 10 years as well before school and yet it took the four years to complete the degree. There is more to a COLLEGE DEGREE than just a couple of programming assignments. The point of any college degree is that you become well rounded and develop an area of expertise. They go hand in hand.
Granted, you can go a long ways in life without the college degree but learning things like DeMorgan's laws and differential equations as well as the theories behind how the human mind works can be applied in software and is what makes a person that has gone to school more valuable than one that hasn't. (Make note, this is a general rule, not a universal one!)
What you are asking for is a certificate. Get one of the hundred that are offerred some where.
Take it from me and most of my friends, this used to be a huge topic when MUD'ing was a big college activity.
There were tons of studies done then and nothing has changed in the intervening 5-10 years.
In more recent times, this has been replaced by Diablo/WarCraft/ and I am sure it will be the same in the future.
It is certainly true, addictive personalities become addicted by nature. Just ask any gambler/substance/ about this sort of problem.
And the worst part is, there is no cure.
This is a great chance to get our concerns as a community out into the public sector.
Consider this: ONE person/organization has EVERYONE'S personal and financial data online. This goes against all design architectures in both security AND engineering. A single point of failure. Imagine one bank in real life, with Barney Fife guarding it. Would you put your life savings there?
With more and more commerce occurring on the internet, the more important it is that there is some scheme to protect this important market. I am particularly concerned with one private company holding the public trust in their hands -- I am also very concerned about the government, for that matter, also holding this information!
Yeah, but just think how much fun it would be to see the computer trying to compensate for a drunken driver.
Talk about debugging the stabilization code...
How do you figure?
Mushkin:
2x$149=$298 per gig.
Crucial:
4x$36=$144 per gig.
Check your cost cutting algorithm.
I have filled all the banks -- I bought 4 DDR2100 256 meg dimms (CL 2.5) from Crucial and haven't had a single timing issue with them. I have just used the default SPD settings.
This is good since using the same memory, I was having issues with the MSI board.
I bought the MSI 6380 and had trouble from day one with the USB controller in linux having hickups and jitters as well as the crucial ddr ram not working properly. After eating the $140 it cost me for the board, I invested in the Shuttle AK31 also listed here. It was $120, had an extra PCI slot as well as an extra dimm slot (1 gig of RAM, woohoo! No swapping!) and has worked from day one. The only thing it didn't have was the RAID controller and I wasn't likely to use it in the near future anyway but since it has the extra PCI slot, it will be an option in the future.
Despite my experiences being different than Tom's, he does a nice job, as always.
Is it me or does controversey always follow this guy around? :-)
He does make a good point but I think once the history of the file system evolution is taken into account, the layout makes sense. The problem is, not every distribution adheres to the fs layout unwritten rules for various reasons and the result is a mess.
Hopefully, the Linux Standards Base will help to address this.