I'm not here to do your homework blah blah RTFM blather blather...
2005-06-27T12:13:14-0500 and 2003-07-09T06:05:03Z, String to/from Calendar. Show us how utterly trivial it is. Put up or shut up. Arguing "it is because I said so" isn't going to cut it on Slashdot, especially not from an Anonymous Coward.
I meant date and time. As in 2005-04-23T12:13:15-0600 or 2004-06-09T14:01:02Z. As in something you need to do all the time when dealing with Atom feeds, for example.
If you think date and time handling are difficult you must be totally incompetent.
OK then, show us the incredibly trivial code to parse an ISO8601 date into a Calendar object, and to turn a Calendar object back into an ISO8601 date. And why not a quick example of printing the current date and time in that format?
I know this may be hard to believe, but when you step into the real world of large scale application development, which is the target market for this product, practically no one uses Scheme, Ruby, Python or BASIC.
Doesn't matter. We're not talking about actually executing any of the code, so whether anyone would be prepared to deploy it in an enterprise is irrelevant. Google are just using the code as a representation language for defining what a web interface should look like. Java may be wonderful for running on a back-end server, but it's totally sub-optimal for describing a UI.
What I want to know is why none of these dumbass banks use S/MIME to sign the e-mail they send out.
Mozilla Thunderbird does S/MIME. Mac OS X Mail does S/MIME. Lotus Notes does S/MIME. Even Microsoft Exchange does S/MIME.
Sure, it wouldn't solve the problem, but it would at least give clueful users a dead easy way to see if the e-mail was really likely to be from their bank.
While we're on the subject, when is Gmail going to support S/MIME?
I don't want to provide the bare minimum legally mandated accessibility. I want to provide actual accessibility, so real people with real special needs software can access my sites.
So I'm not really interested in what the law says, I'm more interested in what the actual software out there can do.
The point is that if SETI actually manages to make contact with an alien intelligence, it's going to be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind. Finding a cure for cancer is going to be a minor footnote by comparison; how many people remember who cured polio, or how, or when?
When I saw the announcement I was initially excited... then I saw that the first stage was to write a Java Swing application.
Well, I'm writing a Java Swing application at the moment for non-GWT purposes, and it's a horrible, painful process. I'd rather write raw HTML and JavaScript any day. It's not just a Swing issue; there are still too many things in Java that are way, way more difficult than they ought to be. (Like date and time handling, for instance.)
I really wonder why they built this thing using Java as the source language, when they could have chosen something easy and painless to learn and write like Scheme, Ruby, Python, or even (shudder) BASIC.
1984. Elite came out, and my summer holidays disappeared. At one point I went downstairs to get food and realized I had cross-hair sights burned into my retinas; I could see them when I looked at the plain white of the refrigerator.
1. The presence of bids on an item increases its perceived desirability and also its visibility.
2. Once someone has bid on something, they are psychologically committed, and there's a chance they'll get into a bidding war with someone else.
If, as is claimed, sniping is the best strategy, then every successful snipe is preventing at least one higher bid that could otherwise have been entered and would have won. As a seller, that's not in my best interests.
I've been thinking of adding something to my auctions saying "$2 discount if you bid before the last hour". Hence effectively implementing a "sniper fee" to discourage snipers--the idea being that by encouraging early bidders, you effectively raise the visible value of the item. Has anyone tried this?
That's why, as a seller, it's often beneficial to start with $0.01 price and do a reserve auction rather than just starting bidding at your reserve price.
Know of any data to back that up? I refuse to bid on anything with a hidden reserve price, because I hate people wasting my time.
I also take issue with the idea that a corporation, as an entity in itself, has a moral valence.
Well, I take issue with the idea that a corporation should have the same legal rights as a person.
When you can persuade the law to stop treating corporations like people, I'll accept that they don't need to act like people (i.e. be subject to having their behavior assessed on moral grounds).
Unfortunately Serious Sam for PS2 got some wretched reviews, and Starship Troopers for PS2 was cancelled.
(I don't do Microsoft.)
In fact, Quake sucked
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I was a big DOOM player, and I was very disappointed in Quake. Not only were the monsters just as dumb, but the rest of the gameplay was dumber than DOOM--the idea of levels you had to puzzle out had apparently disappeared.
I'd naturally assumed that Quake would improve the gameplay, monster AI, and co-operative play. Instead, they dumbed those down and just improved the graphics and deathmatches. And thus began the tendency of FPS games to develop in exactly the opposite direction to the direction I'm interested in.
I couldn't understand why nobody wanted to play co-op. To me, co-op is the only interesting kind of multiplayer game. Yet even now, the emphasis in online games is on deathmatches.
Me and a bunch of friends against a seemingly unstoppable horde of alien scum--that's what I want in a game.
I have a Steelcase Leap. It's pretty much your classic office chair, except it has good lumbar support, and is designed to allow you to move around and adopt slightly different postures.
I found that with many ergonomic chairs, it didn't matter how perfect the back shape was--sitting in any kind of fixed position for long enough would give me back ache. With the Leap, the back is designed to flex.
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2005-06-27T12:13:14-0500 and 2003-07-09T06:05:03Z, String to/from Calendar. Show us how utterly trivial it is. Put up or shut up. Arguing "it is because I said so" isn't going to cut it on Slashdot, especially not from an Anonymous Coward.
I meant date and time. As in 2005-04-23T12:13:15-0600 or 2004-06-09T14:01:02Z. As in something you need to do all the time when dealing with Atom feeds, for example.
OK then, show us the incredibly trivial code to parse an ISO8601 date into a Calendar object, and to turn a Calendar object back into an ISO8601 date. And why not a quick example of printing the current date and time in that format?
Doesn't matter. We're not talking about actually executing any of the code, so whether anyone would be prepared to deploy it in an enterprise is irrelevant. Google are just using the code as a representation language for defining what a web interface should look like. Java may be wonderful for running on a back-end server, but it's totally sub-optimal for describing a UI.
OK, AC smartass, now show us the "simple" code to generate a date in ISO 8601 format given a Calendar object.
What I want to know is why none of these dumbass banks use S/MIME to sign the e-mail they send out.
Mozilla Thunderbird does S/MIME. Mac OS X Mail does S/MIME. Lotus Notes does S/MIME. Even Microsoft Exchange does S/MIME.
Sure, it wouldn't solve the problem, but it would at least give clueful users a dead easy way to see if the e-mail was really likely to be from their bank.
While we're on the subject, when is Gmail going to support S/MIME?
You've kinda missed the point of my question.
I don't want to provide the bare minimum legally mandated accessibility. I want to provide actual accessibility, so real people with real special needs software can access my sites.
So I'm not really interested in what the law says, I'm more interested in what the actual software out there can do.
The point is that if SETI actually manages to make contact with an alien intelligence, it's going to be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind. Finding a cure for cancer is going to be a minor footnote by comparison; how many people remember who cured polio, or how, or when?
When I saw the announcement I was initially excited... then I saw that the first stage was to write a Java Swing application.
Well, I'm writing a Java Swing application at the moment for non-GWT purposes, and it's a horrible, painful process. I'd rather write raw HTML and JavaScript any day. It's not just a Swing issue; there are still too many things in Java that are way, way more difficult than they ought to be. (Like date and time handling, for instance.)
I really wonder why they built this thing using Java as the source language, when they could have chosen something easy and painless to learn and write like Scheme, Ruby, Python, or even (shudder) BASIC.
Also, what's the state of the art in screen readers? Do they have sufficient JavaScript support? (*)
If not, using GWT for a corporate web site is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
(*) This is not an idle question, I'm sincerely interested in real answers and pointers to software.
1984. Elite came out, and my summer holidays disappeared. At one point I went downstairs to get food and realized I had cross-hair sights burned into my retinas; I could see them when I looked at the plain white of the refrigerator.
Read some of the other discussion.
1. The presence of bids on an item increases its perceived desirability and also its visibility.
2. Once someone has bid on something, they are psychologically committed, and there's a chance they'll get into a bidding war with someone else.
If, as is claimed, sniping is the best strategy, then every successful snipe is preventing at least one higher bid that could otherwise have been entered and would have won. As a seller, that's not in my best interests.
I've been thinking of adding something to my auctions saying "$2 discount if you bid before the last hour". Hence effectively implementing a "sniper fee" to discourage snipers--the idea being that by encouraging early bidders, you effectively raise the visible value of the item. Has anyone tried this?
Know of any data to back that up? I refuse to bid on anything with a hidden reserve price, because I hate people wasting my time.
I don't think so; Kant's Categorical Imperative doesn't require any information about the other parties whatsoever.
You could say the same about atoms, but I think the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would beg to differ.
Intelligent falling. After all, gravity is just a theory.
Well, I take issue with the idea that a corporation should have the same legal rights as a person.
When you can persuade the law to stop treating corporations like people, I'll accept that they don't need to act like people (i.e. be subject to having their behavior assessed on moral grounds).
I just wish the Inkscape developers could redesign the UI of GIMP...
Unfortunately Serious Sam for PS2 got some wretched reviews, and Starship Troopers for PS2 was cancelled.
(I don't do Microsoft.)
I was a big DOOM player, and I was very disappointed in Quake. Not only were the monsters just as dumb, but the rest of the gameplay was dumber than DOOM--the idea of levels you had to puzzle out had apparently disappeared.
I'd naturally assumed that Quake would improve the gameplay, monster AI, and co-operative play. Instead, they dumbed those down and just improved the graphics and deathmatches. And thus began the tendency of FPS games to develop in exactly the opposite direction to the direction I'm interested in.
I couldn't understand why nobody wanted to play co-op. To me, co-op is the only interesting kind of multiplayer game. Yet even now, the emphasis in online games is on deathmatches.
Me and a bunch of friends against a seemingly unstoppable horde of alien scum--that's what I want in a game.
I have a Steelcase Leap. It's pretty much your classic office chair, except it has good lumbar support, and is designed to allow you to move around and adopt slightly different postures.
I found that with many ergonomic chairs, it didn't matter how perfect the back shape was--sitting in any kind of fixed position for long enough would give me back ache. With the Leap, the back is designed to flex.
I bet more than half the Slashdot readership has problems with swelling in their laptops.
And I thought the remote hacking in "Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory" was far-fetched...
Simple: You develop in a real browser, then when you have it done you hack it until it works in IE.
It's faster than developing for IE, because Firefox has better web developer tools, and the standards are better documented than IE's behavior.