I agree. I just started reading it yesterday, but I must say it is a pleasant read.
The book is also self-contained: if you did a little more than "hello world" in Java, you will be in good condition. There is even decent coverage of Beans and JDBC (I said "decent")
Don't be afraid of buying this or any other book because it covers "old tech". As an example, I'm returning "Java in a Nutshell" (oh! it covers Java 1.3!) to get the "Core Java 2" books.
If I was taught right, NT was designed be much more modular and robust. But performance was simply pitiable. So, they integrated the GUI and few other tidbits into the kernel to speed it up (to "crawling").
The other reason is simply laziness. It is way easier to simply tell the user to restart instead of cleaning things up.
Entertainement is based on these three cornerstones and, of the three, technology tends to be the least important. Just see "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Its technology is several centuries old, but its marketing is fenomenal. I haven't seen "Titan" to judge the story, but I can't tell you its marketing is bad. Kids won't want to watch a violent sci-fi movie, and teenagers won't risk being seen going to the movies to see an animated cartoon if they can spend all their money watching "X-Men" over and over again. Technology is only important when the field is still in its early ages and it is so bad that it hinders the suspension of disbelief.(black and white films, sprite-based games, monoaural radios)
Since Corinthians Futebol Clube is a non-profit organization, it should theoretically get corinthians.org and corinthians.org.br.
But, as I mentioned in another post, most Brazilians try.com and.com.br first (and many give up if the first try). So, it is understandable that they went to court for dotcom. What isn't understandable is how they won it.
And all that could be solved with a single line: "Procurando o time de futebol? Clique aqui."
Interestingly enough,.nom.br is implemented in Brazil but people seldom use it, since restrictions for.com.br and.org.br are more lax and people's first shot tend to be at.com.br.
It's a daunting task to reverse-engineer the.doc format because even MS's developpers would be hard pressed to re-implement their engine.
The best way to deal with.doc files, IMHO, is to make them irrelevant. That's why I totally agree with the people that say we should have one office documents format.
I believe this format should be based on XML, so it would be very easy to extend documents. You might even put a whole site inside your doc! Doc size wouldn't be a problem: we just have to compress it in the end with a standard metod.
It is more important, in the Microsoft culture, to bash their competitors and pirates than to actually serve their consummers. It is because it is not structured as a service company, but as a manufacturer.
In a somewhat related case that appeared in a renowned Brazilian newspaper, Microsoft is suing several companies stablished in Brazil, including Schering-Plough and Wella, that bought computers from IBM and Compaq with pre-installed MS software. They have all the authencity certificates but MS decided to sue them anyway since the software wasn't specified in the bills of sale, even though local law is clear in stating any of these two documents is sufficient proof of legal ownership.
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I agree. I just started reading it yesterday, but I must say it is a pleasant read.
The book is also self-contained: if you did a little more than "hello world" in Java, you will be in good condition. There is even decent coverage of Beans and JDBC (I said "decent")
Don't be afraid of buying this or any other book because it covers "old tech". As an example, I'm returning "Java in a Nutshell" (oh! it covers Java 1.3!) to get the "Core Java 2" books.
If I was taught right, NT was designed be much more modular and robust. But performance was simply pitiable. So, they integrated the GUI and few other tidbits into the kernel to speed it up (to "crawling").
The other reason is simply laziness. It is way easier to simply tell the user to restart instead of cleaning things up.
Can the judge be sued for damaging the Open Source Community's image?
Entertainement is based on these three cornerstones and, of the three, technology tends to be the least important. Just see "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Its technology is several centuries old, but its marketing is fenomenal.
I haven't seen "Titan" to judge the story, but I can't tell you its marketing is bad. Kids won't want to watch a violent sci-fi movie, and teenagers won't risk being seen going to the movies to see an animated cartoon if they can spend all their money watching "X-Men" over and over again.
Technology is only important when the field is still in its early ages and it is so bad that it hinders the suspension of disbelief.(black and white films, sprite-based games, monoaural radios)
Since Corinthians Futebol Clube is a non-profit organization, it should theoretically get corinthians.org and corinthians.org.br.
But, as I mentioned in another post, most Brazilians try .com and .com.br first (and many give up if the first try). So, it is understandable that they went to court for dotcom. What isn't understandable is how they won it.
And all that could be solved with a single line: "Procurando o time de futebol? Clique aqui."
Interestingly enough, .nom.br is implemented in Brazil but people seldom use it, since restrictions for .com.br and .org.br are more lax and people's first shot tend to be at .com.br.
biologists don't seem interested in learning how to use RCS. 8^)
It's a daunting task to reverse-engineer the .doc format because even MS's developpers would be hard pressed to re-implement their engine.
The best way to deal with .doc files, IMHO, is to make them irrelevant. That's why I totally agree with the people that say we should have one office documents format.
I believe this format should be based on XML, so it would be very easy to extend documents. You might even put a whole site inside your doc! Doc size wouldn't be a problem: we just have to compress it in the end with a standard metod.
It is more important, in the Microsoft culture, to bash their competitors and pirates than to actually serve their consummers. It is because it is not structured as a service company, but as a manufacturer.
In a somewhat related case that appeared in a renowned Brazilian newspaper, Microsoft is suing several companies stablished in Brazil, including Schering-Plough and Wella, that bought computers from IBM and Compaq with pre-installed MS software.
They have all the authencity certificates but MS decided to sue them anyway since the software wasn't specified in the bills of sale, even though local law is clear in stating any of these two documents is sufficient proof of legal ownership.
Looks like OS X will have a bright future.