IntelliJ Idea is a amazingly fast considering the number of features that apply to every keystroke (code completion, for example.)
A LOT of enterprise server-side application development is done in java. It's plenty fast for most things. In my java middleware app, we spend most of our time waiting for responses from databases and mainframes. I haven't seen the src for Azureus so I can't comment on it. FWIW, LimeWire performance is decent, but Idea is the gold standard for java gui apps.
This isn't slamming. Slamming is when another provider more or less steals your account. When your provider sells your business to someone else, that's business, like it or not. Anyone own a home? How many times has your mortgage been sold?
I recently dropped by Qwest DSL. When they asked me why, I told them I didn't want to be an MSN customer. They made it clear that I had other choices. There didn't seem to be any attempt to hide options from me.
There are 168 hours in the week. You work for 40 of them, more or less. What do you do with the other 128 when the only thing you learned in school was how to design a circuit board? That's one important value of a "well-rounded" education. If you don't want a technical education, go to a tech school.
Another is that you'll be better-prepared to participate in a democracy. Don't understimate this point! Having a broad education will make you much better at making informed good choices in life, both for yourself and your community. We need a lot of critical thinking to happen today an in the future, especially in light of September 11.
BTW, a liberal education doesn't in any way preclude you from technical jobs. I was a history major in college, then a philosophy grad student, and now a software developer. Judging from what I've seen in salary surveys, my own job satisfaction, and the qualifications of people I've interviewed, I'm doing as well as one could want. In fact, early in college I changed majors from EE to history precisely because I didn't want to be locked in such a narrow focus. I'm gald I made that decision.
How can companies like Sega be convinced that products that don't make them money anymore should be made GPL?"
I think the author's judgement on what can and cannot make money anymore is faulty. There's clearly a demand for old video games, a la MAME. However, even if the companies that owned the rights to those games wanted to make money off of them, they couldn't because the games are so freely available over the internet (illegally, of course.) Even if those arcade classics were priced very reasonably, the potential market has been destroyed by piracy. Yet these games I assume the author would label as games "that don't make [the producers] money anymore." Sega is just trying to protect itself.
Does anyone know where I can find info on the heat dissipation of Intel CPUs? I'm looking for a chart with something like "PII-350: 33W, PIII-600E: 28W", etc. I've looked on their web site but can't find anything like that.
In my case (pun) "fan noise" is really turbulence caused by the fan trying to blow or suck air through inadequate openings. My stupid case had very small perforations where the case fans were attached that were quite noisy. Imagine blowing through a window screen. The solution I used was to cut those perforations away, which left 3" holes for the fans to blow through. I coved them with standard wire grills. This worked quite well, though it's a lot of work.
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IntelliJ Idea is a amazingly fast considering the number of features that apply to every keystroke (code completion, for example.)
A LOT of enterprise server-side application development is done in java. It's plenty fast for most things. In my java middleware app, we spend most of our time waiting for responses from databases and mainframes. I haven't seen the src for Azureus so I can't comment on it. FWIW, LimeWire performance is decent, but Idea is the gold standard for java gui apps.
john
I recently dropped by Qwest DSL. When they asked me why, I told them I didn't want to be an MSN customer. They made it clear that I had other choices. There didn't seem to be any attempt to hide options from me.
Another is that you'll be better-prepared to participate in a democracy. Don't understimate this point! Having a broad education will make you much better at making informed good choices in life, both for yourself and your community. We need a lot of critical thinking to happen today an in the future, especially in light of September 11.
BTW, a liberal education doesn't in any way preclude you from technical jobs. I was a history major in college, then a philosophy grad student, and now a software developer. Judging from what I've seen in salary surveys, my own job satisfaction, and the qualifications of people I've interviewed, I'm doing as well as one could want. In fact, early in college I changed majors from EE to history precisely because I didn't want to be locked in such a narrow focus. I'm gald I made that decision.
john
How can companies like Sega be convinced that products that don't make them money anymore should be made GPL?"
I think the author's judgement on what can and cannot make money anymore is faulty. There's clearly a demand for old video games, a la MAME. However, even if the companies that owned the rights to those games wanted to make money off of them, they couldn't because the games are so freely available over the internet (illegally, of course.) Even if those arcade classics were priced very reasonably, the potential market has been destroyed by piracy. Yet these games I assume the author would label as games "that don't make [the producers] money anymore." Sega is just trying to protect itself.
john
Does anyone know where I can find info on the heat dissipation of Intel CPUs? I'm looking for a chart with something like "PII-350: 33W, PIII-600E: 28W", etc. I've looked on their web site but can't find anything like that.
thanks
john
Amen, brother.
PC Power and Cooling sells quiet fans, power supplies, etc. QuietPC is another place to look. Elan Vital specializes in quiet cases, also.
In my case (pun) "fan noise" is really turbulence caused by the fan trying to blow or suck air through inadequate openings. My stupid case had very small perforations where the case fans were attached that were quite noisy. Imagine blowing through a window screen. The solution I used was to cut those perforations away, which left 3" holes for the fans to blow through. I coved them with standard wire grills. This worked quite well, though it's a lot of work.
john
If the US Government can't prevent the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, how does Adobe expect to stop Mac NN from publishing this?