- mandating a switch to ethanol or methanol biofuels for federal fleets
- grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels
- aid to cities to convert existing buses to biofuels
How is changing what hydrocarbon you are burning supposed to reduce global warming?
So even by those "optimistic" estimates, it will be 8 to 12 years before there is probably no savings for outsourcing.
... to India. Then everything will move to China. The economy is growing even faster there, so give it 5 years before they move to Indonesia, where we might be looking at 25 years or so of slower growth before Africa steps in to take over.
That would be my observation too. I see people with blackberrys all the time on the train to and from work. I have never seen someone with a blackberry who does not also carry a separate mobile phone. I have never seen anybody use the blackberry for anything other than reading mail.
Not only that, if you have Firefox with the Flashblock extension installed, it sends you off to install Flash without giving you the opportunity to run the test.
This isn't entirely correct. EXPLORER.EXE, which is tied in with IE and is largely responsible for the GUI, can be crashed by IE.
Right. I usually have a copy of Emacs running, which works perfectly fine through these Explorer crashes, and when Explorer fails to restart itself (which used to be most of the time on Windows 2000, but is less frequent now on XP SP2) I can always manually restart it from there.
the proper way is file://///127.0.0.1/c$ (two slashes for the protocol, two more to indicate a network resource, and one more to indicate the root filesystem there - file:// +// +/)
A webserver is also a network resource, did you type http:////slashdot.org to get here? And what are you doing indicating the root filesystem before you've indicated what server the network resource is on?
Just make sure the JRE matches..... Thats a pretty big just.
And usually not neccesary, mostly it is the developer's laziness in testing the application on different JVMs that causes them to try and force a specific version.
You do realise that as of Windows XP, windows doesn't even ship with Java ?
When was the last time you saw a new PC ship with vanilla Windows XP? Every new PC I've seen has the latest Sun JRE preinstalled, along with Nero (or equivalent), a trial version of McAfee, Acrobat, a couple of alternate media players, some form of office suite (MS Office for overpriced "business" PCs, MS Works for "home" PCs from the big manufacturers, or Open Office from your local Mom and Pop computer store) and a load more software.
Or better yet, have the option to copy it to both places (but only display it once, which it can't currently do)?
The problem is that the format for saving contacts on the SIM was set years ago, and the capabilities of phone's contact lists have improved since then (support for groups, email and street addresses saved with the numbers, more than one numbers per contact, more than 250 contacts). That said, my Sony Ericcson does support transparently mirroring numbers on the SIM card, though I've never tried to use the SIM in another phone, so I don't know how well it works (do I get 4 entries all with the same name when a contact has 4 numbers stored against it? What happens when I hit 250 numbers?).
But back to my point. Most people really won't help you guys out, they have no idea what it's like to be you (and honestly nor do I). They hopefully never will have to exprience your lives, but this also means they arn't willing to go out of their way to help you, unless you can show them a way to help without being them much trouble.
You obviously don't have what it takes to be an OSS developer if you aren't willing to learn new techniques that help others. A lot is said about the "scratch an itch" motivation for OSS developers, and all the abandoned projects on sourceforge are evidence that these types of developers exist, and if that is their only motivation they soon get bored and move on. The developers that stick with it though are more motivated by the challenge of writing software that people other than themselves can use. I know I learnt a lot when users of a project I am involved in started reporting bugs with the way the software interacted with screen reading software. I am glad they reported these bugs, and I am glad I did the research about accessibility that was needed to fix them.
X-No-Archive is also useless if your post predates DejaNews's introduction of honoring that header, unless you were posting to one of the alt.prophecies.* groups in which case you should have known what was coming up.
Can you give an example of this RandomJavaLibrary? Or are you just making up this hypothetical situation to justify the mistakes Microsoft has made with their.NET 1.1 to.NET 2.0 upgrade?
Note that this is impossible to do currently via Java; having multiple packages that need different versions of Java to run can not run in the same package without recompilation.
I'm not sure what you mean here. The latest 1.6beta2 JVM can still run bytecode compiled with a Java 1.1 compiler (and probably a 1.0 compiler if you can find one). If you're talking about API differences, the standard APIs are backwards compatible (methods and classes have been marked deprecated, but never removed), the only problems you have is if you decided to dig deeper into the API and used vendor specific classes instead of sticking to the published APIs - except in the case of Microsoft's JVM where they actively encouraged developers to use their proprietary classes instead of the equivalent standard ones, something they seem to be continuing with.NET if the tales of non-backwards compatibility are to be beleived.
I would say using XML/XSLT was a good solution where you need multiple output formats, while using PHP to generate XHTML from the database would be best suited when XHTML is all you need. There is nothing to stop you using PHP to generate XML from the database then apply an XSLT to it if you need both dynamic data and multiple formats.
That's xalan, which although built into java in 1.5, has been shifted under javax.xml.transform, with the publically advertised classes not including the above.
When they say seamless, do they mean I can make a VOIP call on WiFi, and when I go out of range of the WiFi it seamlessly hands over to GSM? Or I can start a download on a WiFi connection, and have it continue over UMTS, EDGE or GPRS when I pick my laptop up and walk out of the cafe?
Or do they mean seamless as in they bill you at the same GPRS rates for data downloaded over T-Mobile branded WiFi?
I had a similar experience on my laptop with lots of proprietary hardware. The laptop had come with Windows XP Home, which my employer promptly replaced with XP Pro, but a lot of the hardware didn't work, and even after finding out what chipsets were used and hunting down all the drivers I could find, it is still running with Generic video drivers (its based on an NVIDIA chip, but the standard NVIDIA drivers don't detect it since its an OEM version) and standby and hibernate don't work.
After installing Ubuntu, the only problem I've had is that it won't switch the power off on shutdown (but standby does work - go figure). I've had that problem before with another laptop that would power off with an older kernel that used APM, but with a kernel that used ACPI it stopped working, so its probably a buggy ACPI implementation.
In my opinion, law enforcement is a dying skill due to overuse of technology. New laws are passed to allow the authorities to tap your email, phone calls etc without warrants, because traditional law enforcement skills are being thrown out and replaced with data mining. Gone are the days when law enforcement was about investigating and following leads, now they just throw everything into a database and see what comes out the other end. The result is they end up following up lots of false positives (see the previous credit card story), and the assumption is increasingly that if you are flagged by the system then you must be guilty, especially when terrorism is involved.
Taking off your shoes at an airport scanner is optional, but if you don't, they'll probably flag you over and search you.
Are they making everyone take them off now? Last time I travelled to the US, it was only foreign passport holders (50% of whom also got the full search). I found it insulting, and it put me off going to the US ever again.
No, the best thing about owning a 3G phone now is that noone else does, so you get fantastic bandwidth (provided you don't go through the bottleneck that is your phone company's portal). If people start recommending 3G phones, then before long everyone will have one and it'll crawl like GPRS.
In the UK, you can get the same for £1 ($2) a day, but only if you're on O2 prepay and phone them up every morning to order the unlimited data package (where they try to sell you a contract "because doing this every day adds up quickly"). "Unlimited" rates for contracts start at £40 ($80) for a 1GB cap.
It is unfortunate that business travellers who may have signed up with Vodafone to enjoy guaranteed global access to its networks is now going to lose that guarantee in Japan.
I'm hoping the opposite will happen. When I was last in Japan, my 3G phone could see two networks - Vodafone and NTT Docomo, but whenever it was out of Vodafone range and could see only Docomo, it told me "Emergency Calls Only". Now that the old JPhone network is no longer going to be owned by Vodafone, hopefully they'll go out and get a roaming agreement with NTT Docomo.
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- grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels
- aid to cities to convert existing buses to biofuels
How is changing what hydrocarbon you are burning supposed to reduce global warming?
That would be my observation too. I see people with blackberrys all the time on the train to and from work. I have never seen someone with a blackberry who does not also carry a separate mobile phone. I have never seen anybody use the blackberry for anything other than reading mail.
Not only that, if you have Firefox with the Flashblock extension installed, it sends you off to install Flash without giving you the opportunity to run the test.
Right. I usually have a copy of Emacs running, which works perfectly fine through these Explorer crashes, and when Explorer fails to restart itself (which used to be most of the time on Windows 2000, but is less frequent now on XP SP2) I can always manually restart it from there.
A webserver is also a network resource, did you type http:////slashdot.org to get here? And what are you doing indicating the root filesystem before you've indicated what server the network resource is on?
Try file://127.0.0.1/c$
And usually not neccesary, mostly it is the developer's laziness in testing the application on different JVMs that causes them to try and force a specific version.
You do realise that as of Windows XP, windows doesn't even ship with Java ?
When was the last time you saw a new PC ship with vanilla Windows XP? Every new PC I've seen has the latest Sun JRE preinstalled, along with Nero (or equivalent), a trial version of McAfee, Acrobat, a couple of alternate media players, some form of office suite (MS Office for overpriced "business" PCs, MS Works for "home" PCs from the big manufacturers, or Open Office from your local Mom and Pop computer store) and a load more software.
Since when has the military been a zaibatsu?
The problem is that the format for saving contacts on the SIM was set years ago, and the capabilities of phone's contact lists have improved since then (support for groups, email and street addresses saved with the numbers, more than one numbers per contact, more than 250 contacts). That said, my Sony Ericcson does support transparently mirroring numbers on the SIM card, though I've never tried to use the SIM in another phone, so I don't know how well it works (do I get 4 entries all with the same name when a contact has 4 numbers stored against it? What happens when I hit 250 numbers?).
You obviously don't have what it takes to be an OSS developer if you aren't willing to learn new techniques that help others. A lot is said about the "scratch an itch" motivation for OSS developers, and all the abandoned projects on sourceforge are evidence that these types of developers exist, and if that is their only motivation they soon get bored and move on. The developers that stick with it though are more motivated by the challenge of writing software that people other than themselves can use. I know I learnt a lot when users of a project I am involved in started reporting bugs with the way the software interacted with screen reading software. I am glad they reported these bugs, and I am glad I did the research about accessibility that was needed to fix them.
X-No-Archive is also useless if your post predates DejaNews's introduction of honoring that header, unless you were posting to one of the alt.prophecies.* groups in which case you should have known what was coming up.
Its a terrible idea on a laptop.
Can you give an example of this RandomJavaLibrary? Or are you just making up this hypothetical situation to justify the mistakes Microsoft has made with their .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 upgrade?
I'm not sure what you mean here. The latest 1.6beta2 JVM can still run bytecode compiled with a Java 1.1 compiler (and probably a 1.0 compiler if you can find one). If you're talking about API differences, the standard APIs are backwards compatible (methods and classes have been marked deprecated, but never removed), the only problems you have is if you decided to dig deeper into the API and used vendor specific classes instead of sticking to the published APIs - except in the case of Microsoft's JVM where they actively encouraged developers to use their proprietary classes instead of the equivalent standard ones, something they seem to be continuing with .NET if the tales of non-backwards compatibility are to be beleived.
I would say using XML/XSLT was a good solution where you need multiple output formats, while using PHP to generate XHTML from the database would be best suited when XHTML is all you need. There is nothing to stop you using PHP to generate XML from the database then apply an XSLT to it if you need both dynamic data and multiple formats.
That's xalan, which although built into java in 1.5, has been shifted under javax.xml.transform, with the publically advertised classes not including the above.
When they say seamless, do they mean I can make a VOIP call on WiFi, and when I go out of range of the WiFi it seamlessly hands over to GSM? Or I can start a download on a WiFi connection, and have it continue over UMTS, EDGE or GPRS when I pick my laptop up and walk out of the cafe? Or do they mean seamless as in they bill you at the same GPRS rates for data downloaded over T-Mobile branded WiFi?
I had a similar experience on my laptop with lots of proprietary hardware. The laptop had come with Windows XP Home, which my employer promptly replaced with XP Pro, but a lot of the hardware didn't work, and even after finding out what chipsets were used and hunting down all the drivers I could find, it is still running with Generic video drivers (its based on an NVIDIA chip, but the standard NVIDIA drivers don't detect it since its an OEM version) and standby and hibernate don't work. After installing Ubuntu, the only problem I've had is that it won't switch the power off on shutdown (but standby does work - go figure). I've had that problem before with another laptop that would power off with an older kernel that used APM, but with a kernel that used ACPI it stopped working, so its probably a buggy ACPI implementation.
Let me guess - they demonstrated how Intel's top end chips can handle 10 way conference calls with Skype, while AMD's only handle 5?
In my opinion, law enforcement is a dying skill due to overuse of technology. New laws are passed to allow the authorities to tap your email, phone calls etc without warrants, because traditional law enforcement skills are being thrown out and replaced with data mining. Gone are the days when law enforcement was about investigating and following leads, now they just throw everything into a database and see what comes out the other end. The result is they end up following up lots of false positives (see the previous credit card story), and the assumption is increasingly that if you are flagged by the system then you must be guilty, especially when terrorism is involved.
Are they making everyone take them off now? Last time I travelled to the US, it was only foreign passport holders (50% of whom also got the full search). I found it insulting, and it put me off going to the US ever again.
No, the best thing about owning a 3G phone now is that noone else does, so you get fantastic bandwidth (provided you don't go through the bottleneck that is your phone company's portal). If people start recommending 3G phones, then before long everyone will have one and it'll crawl like GPRS.
In the UK, you can get the same for £1 ($2) a day, but only if you're on O2 prepay and phone them up every morning to order the unlimited data package (where they try to sell you a contract "because doing this every day adds up quickly"). "Unlimited" rates for contracts start at £40 ($80) for a 1GB cap.
You think the internet rates are insane, but you happily send SMS messages? How much do you pay for one of these 160byte mini-emails anyway?
I'm hoping the opposite will happen. When I was last in Japan, my 3G phone could see two networks - Vodafone and NTT Docomo, but whenever it was out of Vodafone range and could see only Docomo, it told me "Emergency Calls Only". Now that the old JPhone network is no longer going to be owned by Vodafone, hopefully they'll go out and get a roaming agreement with NTT Docomo.