Java has not used "translation to machine-code" for 8 years. JIT compilers compile to native code on the fly and cache the results, continually optimizing based on actual run-time data. In a web application, you are generally running the same code over and over without restarting the JVM, JIT compilation is very efficient under these conditions.
As far as your opinions on PHP not scaling, tell that to IBM, Avaya, Hewlett Packard, Disney, Sprint and the others who get millions of hits a day using PHP. Seems to me if sites that get millions of hits a day can handle the bandwidth using PHP, that it JUST MIGHT be able to scale.:)
Even if you were right about those companys' use of PHP, there are certain applications, like serving stateless dynamic web pages, where scalability doesn't matter. PHP may be able to handle those cases, but for a complex web application, nothing touches J2EE for scalability and ease of development.
Once there was a boy, who longed to be as well known as Julius Caesar.
First he gathered his legionnaires and started some wars, but he didn't get the respect from the public he wanted. Then he had a brilliant idea. Julius had a calendar named after him, maybe he could get one too. All he had to do was come up with a plan to show those pesky scientists that time was controlled by God, not some mathematical constant, and if God wanted it to jump ahead by an hour every 5 or 6 hundred years, then dammit, that is what is going to happen. He decided to call his invention the Dubyan calendar, because if he called it Georgian, people might give his daddy credit for it, or even worse, some limey king that died last century.
Just to reinforce the point that ActiveX/COM/.NET are important: there is no equivalent technology on Unix platforms...
The closest Unix comes is TCL and Python.
TCL and Python are similar to VBscript. They are scripting languages, not an interface. The equivalent of COM on Unix platforms is CORBA, and it is more widely used than you think.
Quite frankly, I'm amazed they didn't find a way to work DRM in there.;)
Yet another thing they're dropping from "Longhorn". The new name is to distract you from the fact that the emporor has no clothes left, and you're actually being sold Windows 2000 all over again again.
Clearly "Windows Vista" is not the same as "Vista" the software company. It's doubtful anyone is going to confuse them.
Clearly Mike Rowe's mikerowesoft.com was not the same as "Microsoft" the software company either, it did not stop the lawyers from scaring the poor kid into a settlement though.
That is a complete description of the traditional password file. More recent versions have added more fields, like turning gcos into a two to four fields or adding password expiry information... but it's always still a relation. In no system, anywhere, is this a hierarchical structure.
Because its been designed that way. What if you were to merge/etc/passwd and/etc/group into a single file?
How do you use ANYTHING in a script? With a program that understands it.
/etc/passwd is a relation.
To people who understand SQL and are unwilling to learn anything else, everything is a relation. The rest of us will use the appropriate tool for the job. XPath for XML, SQL for relational databases.
No kidding. It took me a while to figure out you meant the brand of South Korean car. On first parse I was going "WTF? This guy was KIA, but still managed to be around for a couple of people to tell him stuff."
Unless the main use of your computer is to surf porn at work, closing the window is not the functionality you want most easily accessible. The worst GUI decision ever was to place the Close button in the top right corner in the first place, though it does have the redeeming feature of being a couple of pixels in from the corner.
My biggest problem with the GPL is the FSF's position that even dynamically linking against a library under GPL is enough to make the resulting code a derivative work (and thus also subject to the GPL).
Why do people insist on trying to find technical workarounds to ethical and legal problems. The technical details of how your code interfaces to GPLed code does not matter when it comes to determining whether it is a derivative work.
Beware when using these maps for navigation. Google's postcode locations in UK are about a block out in my experience. Best crosscheck with multimap.com or map24.com before using them.
It's good during the development stages, as the bugs become features. "Oh damn I flipped the wrong bit in the wall detection algorithm" becomes "Yes!!!, another one of the bastards squashed against the wall".
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Microsoft won't give me the source for IE, but the patch is so obvious I've still managed to beat their developers to it:
t op" )h tml" );
if ( document.url == "http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html#
document.redirectTo( "http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/reference.
Java has not used "translation to machine-code" for 8 years. JIT compilers compile to native code on the fly and cache the results, continually optimizing based on actual run-time data. In a web application, you are generally running the same code over and over without restarting the JVM, JIT compilation is very efficient under these conditions.
Even if you were right about those companys' use of PHP, there are certain applications, like serving stateless dynamic web pages, where scalability doesn't matter. PHP may be able to handle those cases, but for a complex web application, nothing touches J2EE for scalability and ease of development.
Or, that we ALL use it now.
Once there was a boy, who longed to be as well known as Julius Caesar. First he gathered his legionnaires and started some wars, but he didn't get the respect from the public he wanted. Then he had a brilliant idea. Julius had a calendar named after him, maybe he could get one too. All he had to do was come up with a plan to show those pesky scientists that time was controlled by God, not some mathematical constant, and if God wanted it to jump ahead by an hour every 5 or 6 hundred years, then dammit, that is what is going to happen. He decided to call his invention the Dubyan calendar, because if he called it Georgian, people might give his daddy credit for it, or even worse, some limey king that died last century.
PhoneGAIM is Free (as in GPLed) SIP based VoIP Software, and does run on GNU/Linux as well as Windows.
The closest Unix comes is TCL and Python.
TCL and Python are similar to VBscript. They are scripting languages, not an interface. The equivalent of COM on Unix platforms is CORBA, and it is more widely used than you think.
Yet another thing they're dropping from "Longhorn". The new name is to distract you from the fact that the emporor has no clothes left, and you're actually being sold Windows 2000 all over again again.
Clearly Mike Rowe's mikerowesoft.com was not the same as "Microsoft" the software company either, it did not stop the lawyers from scaring the poor kid into a settlement though.
Because its been designed that way. What if you were to merge /etc/passwd and /etc/group into a single file?
How do you use ANYTHING in a script? With a program that understands it.
To people who understand SQL and are unwilling to learn anything else, everything is a relation. The rest of us will use the appropriate tool for the job. XPath for XML, SQL for relational databases.
select bind(passwd,'/etc/passwd.xml'); select home from passwd where uid >= 1000;
How about: /etc/passwd[@uid >= 1000]/@home
XSL already exists, and is much better suited to XML's heirachical structure than trying to force it into a relational model so you can use SQL on it.
No kidding. It took me a while to figure out you meant the brand of South Korean car. On first parse I was going "WTF? This guy was KIA, but still managed to be around for a couple of people to tell him stuff."
I've got copies of 3.5 and 4.0 here. Maybe I should put them up on ebay for collectors to bid on?
What exactly is not robust about HTTP? Is it more prone to network problems than other protocols?
More likely a better chair and desk arrangement.
Unless the main use of your computer is to surf porn at work, closing the window is not the functionality you want most easily accessible. The worst GUI decision ever was to place the Close button in the top right corner in the first place, though it does have the redeeming feature of being a couple of pixels in from the corner.
Lesson 1. Social Engineering
Lesson 2. Reverse Psychology
Students are advised that skipping lectures may be detrimental to your future career.
i MAX_COUNT, i++
would fail to compile.
Even with with this #define?
Why do people insist on trying to find technical workarounds to ethical and legal problems. The technical details of how your code interfaces to GPLed code does not matter when it comes to determining whether it is a derivative work.
A script is causing Mozilla to run slowly. If it continues, Mozilla may become unresponsive.
Do you want to abort the script?
[OK] [Cancel]
Have these people heard of UI guidelines? Which button am I supposed to press if I want the script to keep running? Cancel?!!!!
Beware when using these maps for navigation. Google's postcode locations in UK are about a block out in my experience. Best crosscheck with multimap.com or map24.com before using them.
It's good during the development stages, as the bugs become features. "Oh damn I flipped the wrong bit in the wall detection algorithm" becomes "Yes!!!, another one of the bastards squashed against the wall".
Hardly an authority on the native language of England then, is it?