Not very popular on/., but Android being Java based will make life very easy for Intel to crack the mobile market. Most of the apps (sans native ones) will just work. It would have been almost impossible otherwise without some serious virtualization.
Hate to break to you. But this is AMERICA. Did you expect to see all whities running around? This is not Japan or Germany. I am a foreign born US Citizen in the tech industry and there isn't a place on earth that will provide me with the opportunity that this great country gave me. This article is a joke.
This is for Apache's Harmony project that IBM created to piss off Sun. Most people do not use this project but rather use the OpenJDK or Sun's reference implementation. This has nothing to do with Apache's wonderful libraries.
I Would never have bought the machine if it did not run Java. Apple please hand over any propriety code (As James G is claiming) to the Open JDK group. My machine is due for an upgrade in the next six months. If Apple does not, then I will simply not buy a Mac laptop. I can use Windows 7 or Ubuntu like we currently do at our office. Java for my developers and end clients is much more important than Mac machines. There are many applications that use Java (Think most trading platforms and thousands of business applications developed in house) that have no alternatives and will never be ported to Mac OS/X.
We have over 20 Apple devices at home (Macs, iPads, iPods, iPhones). Mr Jobs, please stop acting arrogant and evil. We love your products and intend to use them for a long time. Actions such as this will make us think twice about buying Apple products in the near future. There are many credible alternatives these days.
Last time I checked, the Java platform is the dominant platform for enterprise applications. Unfortunately for OS/2, it never even came close. IBM and Oracle coming together is hopefully a good thing.
My son, 12 now, with a middle eastern name but born in the US. We travel a lot and they always flag his name for a second check. Ever since he was a toddler. You would think that after the first or second time, they will somehow amend the records with my name, his mom's name and DOB. But no, we go through the process every time we fly. It is a minor irritant at his age now, but I am very worried about him when he is an adult. We are seriously thinking about changing his name but I am not sure that it will make a difference.
In 1.x, a server would hang if a client died (OS Crash, Pull the plug). That is a cardinal sin in the world of MOM. The excuse for not fixing it in 1.x was that they were using some internal networking library. 2.x looks impressive indeed, but you know what my first will be. Pull the f'ing plug.
How the mighty has fallen. Nokia, I have news for you. It is the software. Yours stink. Your OS is very difficult to develop for. You have many hardware models that developers will have to contend with. Keep on making great phones for the lower end. Most of your smart phones will fail to attract a serious number of developers.
In other news, GM is about to declare bankruptcy, yet one point in time, they produced the most number of cars in the world. I have news for you. THEY WERE SHITTY CARS and eventually that caught up with them. I have no formal mechanical or design engineering background. I bet you have no opinion on GM since you never produced cars.
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You mention phantom gains. Mark-to-Market will only work if it goes both ways. i.e Get a credit on unrealized losses.
Wish I had mod points. I am experiencing the exact same on my iPad 1. It has gotten a lot worse.
Not very popular on /., but Android being Java based will make life very easy for Intel to crack the mobile market. Most of the apps (sans native ones) will just work. It would have been almost impossible otherwise without some serious virtualization.
No, OS/2 was superior to Win95 in nearly every way at the time.
Not true. As much as I liked OS/2, it had that nasty single message queue problem that Win95 did not. IBM tried many kludges but they rarely worked.
Hate to break to you. But this is AMERICA. Did you expect to see all whities running around? This is not Japan or Germany. I am a foreign born US Citizen in the tech industry and there isn't a place on earth that will provide me with the opportunity that this great country gave me. This article is a joke.
On Android, it is not even relevant given that the vast majority of apps (Java) do not use native code.
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I suffer from type 2 diabetes. I wonder why this is only applicable for type 1.
This is for Apache's Harmony project that IBM created to piss off Sun. Most people do not use this project but rather use the OpenJDK or Sun's reference implementation. This has nothing to do with Apache's wonderful libraries.
I Would never have bought the machine if it did not run Java. Apple please hand over any propriety code (As James G is claiming) to the Open JDK group. My machine is due for an upgrade in the next six months. If Apple does not, then I will simply not buy a Mac laptop. I can use Windows 7 or Ubuntu like we currently do at our office. Java for my developers and end clients is much more important than Mac machines. There are many applications that use Java (Think most trading platforms and thousands of business applications developed in house) that have no alternatives and will never be ported to Mac OS/X.
We have over 20 Apple devices at home (Macs, iPads, iPods, iPhones). Mr Jobs, please stop acting arrogant and evil. We love your products and intend to use them for a long time. Actions such as this will make us think twice about buying Apple products in the near future. There are many credible alternatives these days.
Last time I checked, the Java platform is the dominant platform for enterprise applications. Unfortunately for OS/2, it never even came close. IBM and Oracle coming together is hopefully a good thing.
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Before introducing any products, Steve Jobs always puts up the numbers of how dominant Apple is. I would say, they do care.
Most have a question mark next to the review. Steve can sleep at night.
No wonder the country is going broke.
Sucks for me.
I thought about that, but then it will make a real hard core middle east name :)
My son, 12 now, with a middle eastern name but born in the US. We travel a lot and they always flag his name for a second check. Ever since he was a toddler. You would think that after the first or second time, they will somehow amend the records with my name, his mom's name and DOB. But no, we go through the process every time we fly. It is a minor irritant at his age now, but I am very worried about him when he is an adult. We are seriously thinking about changing his name but I am not sure that it will make a difference.
Do you expect the log files to contain "I am xxxx line of code of driver yyy and I am a real battery dog, please fix me!!!". Wake the fuck up.
In 1.x, a server would hang if a client died (OS Crash, Pull the plug). That is a cardinal sin in the world of MOM. The excuse for not fixing it in 1.x was that they were using some internal networking library. 2.x looks impressive indeed, but you know what my first will be. Pull the f'ing plug.
Saying bloated and buggy C++ is no /. material.
Am I the only one see truncated green border around the posts? I see this on my MAC and Linux machines. It started happening about a week ago.
Your solution involves tethering which might be illegal with a wireless provider. Not the same.
How the mighty has fallen. Nokia, I have news for you. It is the software. Yours stink. Your OS is very difficult to develop for. You have many hardware models that developers will have to contend with. Keep on making great phones for the lower end. Most of your smart phones will fail to attract a serious number of developers.
In other news, GM is about to declare bankruptcy, yet one point in time, they produced the most number of cars in the world. I have news for you. THEY WERE SHITTY CARS and eventually that caught up with them. I have no formal mechanical or design engineering background. I bet you have no opinion on GM since you never produced cars.