1) Vendor Lock is bad for you, there are many JVM implementations for a variety of hardware, and you have the ability to choose. Same for J2EE implementations.
2) Proven technology, Java is being used around the world in mission-critical applications (banking, automotive, financial, telecom, etc.).
3) Scalability. You need more processing power? Just switch hardware to the latest IBM or Sun monster machines. It's much easier than porting C++ code.
I have learnt that:
1) If you kid surfs the net, you are an unfit parent
2) Doing heroin and using semi-automatic weapons is the same as surfing the net.
3) The Internet is many for maladjusted socially inept males.
4) I am not going to argue that porn is wrong. (Although I do believe that only warped and sick individuals would seek to degrade God's gift to mankind by commercializing it).
5) A famous rabbi once described TV as like having an open sewage pipe pouring into your living room, and he is right since he is famous.
6) It should be a federal offense for a parent to allow a minor in his/her care to access the Internet.
And finally:
7) Normally I would not advocate such extreme measures.
Thank you oh enlightened one, for you have saved our civilization!
"Mmmm. I wonder what would happen if you submitted a paper on, say, genetics, to a scientific journal, and in it cited another paper several centuries old in order to make a controversial point. I fear the new must supercede the old in science."
The author of this book is presenting evidence of artifacts and fossils that challenge the current model for human evolution, which happens to be based upon this type of findings. It criticizes is the lack of support and suppression by the academia. You might find this interesting if you care to read the contents of the book.
"What peer review actually does is endow science with a sort of 'inertia' that keeps it from turning aside at every claim every loonie makes."
I understand that you call a "loonie" is indeed an individual who perceives reality in a radically different way the norm does. I find it interesting how we as human scientists have historically attempted to sabotage any new possibility that does not fit the model in place (Galileo Galilei and the Spanish Inquisition, Darwin and the creationists, Einstein and "100 Authors against Einstein"). This is not the first or last time for it to happen, look in history...you might find that science is full of politics and that those have a great deal of influence on the outcome of "advance".
"Sure, that raises the bar and makes people who discover something truly new have to work a bit harder to get their claims accepted, but the benefits of the system outweigh the disadvantages by many orders of magnitude."
It does not raise the bar, but it makes it nearly impossible for scientists with different theories to get funding. Mainly because the people that are choosing who to give the money to, are the ones that support the status-quo (that is how they got there, and you are doing quite well!), therefore funding is guaranteed to escape from the hands of those willing to try new ways.
"A book that proclaims man has existed in anatomically modern form for hundreds of millions of years? could this be a creationist tract? Unfortunately it is. The authors misunderstand the concept of a theory, bring religion into science (science ends up being based on a particular religious viewpoint, thus rendering it invalid), misrepresent scientists' theories and statements, and ignores work which contradict their religious ideas."
I recommend that you read the book if you want to form a critical opinion, rather than taking from fact the worst review on the first web page of Amazon.com. I guarantee you that you will form a more informed opinion that you do now.
"And Flynn is a prominent paleontologist? Archaeologist? Anthropologist? No, sociologist."
Try reading some interesting publications by a prominent patent-office clerk called Einstein. This is a personal attack on the author used often by anal academia to discredit individuals, you know nothing about this person and yet you attack him as it has different beliefs that you.
"Also revealing:
Customers who bought this book also bought:
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings : Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age by Charles H. Hapgood
Technology of the Gods : The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress
When the Sky Fell : In Search of Atlantis by Rand Flem-Ath, Rose Flem-Ath"
Read what you criticize, helps your argument.
"> If you want to learn more about cristianity: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1862044724/ Another "pebble" is the authors keen ability to state as true facts innumerable elements that have NOT been proven, simply by stating that, by the absence of any proof to the contrary, a fact is true.
'nuff said. Thank you for thinking critically. "
This "pebble" has 25 pages of historical references. Historians tend to base their research on historical documents. I recommend you read before you generalize.
I cheated back in the days of GLQuake with a voodoo card...Its a lovely thing if you have it, and you have a BIG disadvantage if you don't. They will be getting a lot of frustrated players (the ones that don't buy ASUS cards).
My vote...this is a no-no
"Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a "knowledge filter," giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/089213294 9/ qid=989804640/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-6727476-364456 2
If you want to learn more about cristianity:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/186204472 4/ qid=989804768/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-6727476-364456 2
I thought the same when my post got modded down as "offtopic", But I find it more logical to attribute such mod to a user than to an editor because...If you have admin priviledges you delete the post altogether, you don't mod it down. Note that my assuption is that Slashdot editors are:
1) Ethical
2) Tech savvy
3) Have an admin account to the DBMS
I know it sucks...but...bandwith is getting cheaper and cheaper, can anyone think of an acceptable solution to prevent the internet becoming the biggest free blockbuster on the planet? What is wrong and right with that?
A way to make your GUI more responsive without making the quantum smaller is to run the application with a higher priority (or other apps with lower). We used to do this a lot when compiling large apps while browsing or reading email.
A quantum is the max CPU time that is granted to a thread before it gets context switched. Context switching requires CPU time by itself, that means the smaller your quantum, the bigger overhead you get from context switching.
If Microsoft's STL is a pain in the ass, use:
http://www.stlport.org/product.html
Its free, VERY robust, portable and exception safe.
Note that in Microsoft's compilers you need to make sure that the "new" operator throws a std::bad_alloc exception instead of returning NULL when memory exhaustion occurs...here is how to:
http://www.relisoft.com/book/tech/5resource.html
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Create an ActiveX wrapper that can play plugins properly
1) Vendor Lock is bad for you, there are many JVM implementations for a variety of hardware, and you have the ability to choose. Same for J2EE implementations.
2) Proven technology, Java is being used around the world in mission-critical applications (banking, automotive, financial, telecom, etc.).
3) Scalability. You need more processing power? Just switch hardware to the latest IBM or Sun monster machines. It's much easier than porting C++ code.
Adobe refuses to support TIFF-FX unless Xerox releases rights for its MRC technology to Adobe.
Xerox, meanwhile, won't back TIFF-FX unless Adobe promises to support the standard in its next version of TIFF.
Sun has a good piece on how to avoid deadlocking conflicts, maybe they should read it?
So we need a 200x improvement in hardware speed to make it run at 80fps. Yupee...I can do math!
One word: Tunneling!
As long as you can hide information within information...It's posible.
Internet explorer sometimes does the same nasty thing, just rename to .ps
Yet I cannot be arrested for going to a conference and pointing out that your house is easy to break into.
XML is not designed to deal efficiently with large amounts of data.
Denial, the first symptom.
Oh my god, this is sooo enlightening!
I have learnt that:
1) If you kid surfs the net, you are an unfit parent
2) Doing heroin and using semi-automatic weapons is the same as surfing the net.
3) The Internet is many for maladjusted socially inept males.
4) I am not going to argue that porn is wrong. (Although I do believe that only warped and sick individuals would seek to degrade God's gift to mankind by commercializing it).
5) A famous rabbi once described TV as like having an open sewage pipe pouring into your living room, and he is right since he is famous.
6) It should be a federal offense for a parent to allow a minor in his/her care to access the Internet.
And finally:
7) Normally I would not advocate such extreme measures.
Thank you oh enlightened one, for you have saved our civilization!
The parent post was hillarious!
"Mmmm. I wonder what would happen if you submitted a paper on, say, genetics, to a scientific journal, and in it cited another paper several centuries old in order to make a controversial point. I fear the new must supercede the old in science."
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The author of this book is presenting evidence of artifacts and fossils that challenge the current model for human evolution, which happens to be based upon this type of findings. It criticizes is the lack of support and suppression by the academia. You might find this interesting if you care to read the contents of the book.
"What peer review actually does is endow science with a sort of 'inertia' that keeps it from turning aside at every claim every loonie makes."
I understand that you call a "loonie" is indeed an individual who perceives reality in a radically different way the norm does. I find it interesting how we as human scientists have historically attempted to sabotage any new possibility that does not fit the model in place (Galileo Galilei and the Spanish Inquisition, Darwin and the creationists, Einstein and "100 Authors against Einstein"). This is not the first or last time for it to happen, look in history...you might find that science is full of politics and that those have a great deal of influence on the outcome of "advance".
"Sure, that raises the bar and makes people who discover something truly new have to work a bit harder to get their claims accepted, but the benefits of the system outweigh the disadvantages by many orders of magnitude."
It does not raise the bar, but it makes it nearly impossible for scientists with different theories to get funding. Mainly because the people that are choosing who to give the money to, are the ones that support the status-quo (that is how they got there, and you are doing quite well!), therefore funding is guaranteed to escape from the hands of those willing to try new ways.
"A book that proclaims man has existed in anatomically modern form for hundreds of millions of years? could this be a creationist tract? Unfortunately it is. The authors misunderstand the concept of a theory, bring religion into science (science ends up being based on a particular religious viewpoint, thus rendering it invalid), misrepresent scientists' theories and statements, and ignores work which contradict their religious ideas."
I recommend that you read the book if you want to form a critical opinion, rather than taking from fact the worst review on the first web page of Amazon.com. I guarantee you that you will form a more informed opinion that you do now.
"And Flynn is a prominent paleontologist? Archaeologist? Anthropologist? No, sociologist."
Try reading some interesting publications by a prominent patent-office clerk called Einstein. This is a personal attack on the author used often by anal academia to discredit individuals, you know nothing about this person and yet you attack him as it has different beliefs that you.
"Also revealing:
Customers who bought this book also bought:
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings : Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age by Charles H. Hapgood
Technology of the Gods : The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress
When the Sky Fell : In Search of Atlantis by Rand Flem-Ath, Rose Flem-Ath"
Read what you criticize, helps your argument.
"> If you want to learn more about cristianity: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1862044724
Another "pebble" is the authors keen ability to state as true facts innumerable elements that have NOT been proven, simply by stating that, by the absence of any proof to the contrary, a fact is true.
'nuff said. Thank you for thinking critically. "
This "pebble" has 25 pages of historical references. Historians tend to base their research on historical documents. I recommend you read before you generalize.
I cheated back in the days of GLQuake with a voodoo card...Its a lovely thing if you have it, and you have a BIG disadvantage if you don't. They will be getting a lot of frustrated players (the ones that don't buy ASUS cards). My vote...this is a no-no
"Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a "knowledge filter," giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect."4 9/ qid=989804640/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-6727476-364456 2
2 4/ qid=989804768/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-6727476-364456 2
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/08921329
If you want to learn more about cristianity:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/18620447
Don't open that link if you wanna keep it G rated
I thought the same when my post got modded down as "offtopic", But I find it more logical to attribute such mod to a user than to an editor because...If you have admin priviledges you delete the post altogether, you don't mod it down. Note that my assuption is that Slashdot editors are:
1) Ethical
2) Tech savvy
3) Have an admin account to the DBMS
Where are those mod points when I need them? This accusation deserves an answer.
I know it sucks...but...bandwith is getting cheaper and cheaper, can anyone think of an acceptable solution to prevent the internet becoming the biggest free blockbuster on the planet? What is wrong and right with that?
See:
www.microstrategy.com
They have a demo here:
http://demo.microstrategy.com/
A way to make your GUI more responsive without making the quantum smaller is to run the application with a higher priority (or other apps with lower). We used to do this a lot when compiling large apps while browsing or reading email.
Adobe has something VERY similar:t ml
http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.h
I can imagine the teams of lawyers from both companies inside a Mortal Kombat arcade game throwing paperwork at each other...FIGHT!
Adobe wins...flawless victory(or fatality).
A quantum is the max CPU time that is granted to a thread before it gets context switched. Context switching requires CPU time by itself, that means the smaller your quantum, the bigger overhead you get from context switching.
If Microsoft's STL is a pain in the ass, use:
l
http://www.stlport.org/product.html
Its free, VERY robust, portable and exception safe.
Note that in Microsoft's compilers you need to make sure that the "new" operator throws a std::bad_alloc exception instead of returning NULL when memory exhaustion occurs...here is how to:
http://www.relisoft.com/book/tech/5resource.htm
Works in 9x as well
Troll alert!...don't feed!
I Agree, use exceptions. Here is a good text on it: http://www.relisoft.com/book/tech/5resource.html