Part of the problem re contracting is that we havn't really had a downturn for ages. When the dotcom bubble went pop, contractors were the first to go and many of them decided that a permanent job was more attractive (or they couldn't get any more contracts). Also, some places do penalize you for being a 'self-employed permanent employee' - eg the Uk's IR35 tax laws.
Still, it can be good but it depends on your lifestyle choices more than anything else.
You don't even need a GC to keep track of stack traces, build in debug mode, and then take snapshots of your code. You can quickly see which bits are leaking as the allocation count from the same place will go up and up and up. Microsoft's UMDH is a good tool for this.
Im not convinced GCs are good, if Java had better scope for objects, so the finaliser could be called deterministically for locally defined objects, then yes it'd be good. (a bit like IDispose hack that MS put into C#, but properly done with full language suport instead of being a bodged-on hack)(which reminds me of Finalisers in the first place - when I was first shown Java at a conference by IBM at Hursley Park it didn't have finalisers, everyone in the conference basically said "that's a bit pants", a few months later Sun bodged finalisers onto the language).
The biggest problem with GC is that they only consider memory, no-one really stopped to think that it's used to clean up objects that hang on to more precious resources.
Sometimes our job *is* to queeze the last bit of performance out of the machine, typically the desktop client-side apps don't care so much as you have RAM and CPU dedicated to 1 user, but the server is a different matter and requires a better approach. The user is not enabled if he has to spend seconds watching the cursor spin every time he clicks 'next'.
RPM based distros aren't exactly poor at installing, ever tried yum recently. Its great, it works. Occasionally you get poorly packaged rpms that don't specify a dependency they require, but that's hardly RPM's fault.
Perhaps he means those apps that aren't packaged and have to be compiled by hand? Perhaps he means the per-app choices of file locations (eg is mysql.conf in/etc?/usr/sbin?/usr/local/sbin/var/conf/mysql/? I still have no idea:) )
In fact, I find the package systems one of the better things about Linux, now if MS provided a global repository for updated software and installable msi's, then they be getting close to what Linux has.
imho - a UI change/obfuscation just so that people would have a reason to buy the product again. not just your opinion either. I think this is progress - make manufacturers provide more stuff to run the additional requirements for the thing, but I'm a bit fed up with it now. If you don't have 1GB RAM Vista doesn't perform very well (fortunately, I have 2gb, but I'm thinking it won't be long before that's a laughable amount and I'll have to buy more).
And to top it all, they introduce all singing (hmm) and dancing Jav.. sorry,.Net development environment that you practically have to use ensuring you have a reason to buy more tools, books, training courses, consultancy, etc. I wouldn't mind if it really did give us something that was significantly better, instead of just a bit different.
Yeah, but you'd be planting it in Africa so who cares, right?
(I'm not trolling really, its a very serious point about colonial abuse and exploitation of weaker nations). America will still have to become more energy efficient, sorry guys.
The fear then, for me, as a read-myself-to-sleep kind of guy, is that I could increase my risk of cancer just by forgetting to turn out the light before sleeping.
I think after reading that, you're far, far more likely to worry yourself into getting ill than any ill-effects of the bedside lamp:-)
I never thought that a 'resistance' to light was possible! I suppose it could be, but I still think the lack of daylight light makes the difference - see previous/. article about how daylight causes the skin to create activated vitamin D that normal light doesn't. I think, all in all, you're safe from the night-light.
or perhaps its because anyone who writes a J2EE application is backed by a corporate that will buy the 3 mainframes required to run it acceptably.
Seriously though, its difficult to say "Java scales great" compared to anything because the kind of apps written in Java do run on different hardware, and almost certainly with different requirements than any apps written in PHP. If, one day, a bank decides to write its trading system in PHP, then perhaps we could compare them. Even then, the architectural choices would still mean they're not comparable.
no, you get cancer from not going out in the daylight. Something that far too many people do now that they can decide to stay in instead with the lights on.
The quote you gave said "... revealed a strong association between working the night shift and an increased risk of breast cancer"
Maybe BlueSecurity will resurrect Bluefrog now that its been shown that the spammers will go after you regardless. It is good to know the anti-spam crowd is having an effect though, once the botnet is patched into obscurity, we can get back to normality.
as will.NET once people have gotten used to it, forgotten the hype that surrounds it and started to find the same flaws in it as Java has (after all, C# practically is Java). even MS has said that they've done their thing with C# and the next version of VStudio wil be focusing back on native code.
The probem is that even if it becomes a legacy language, it'll still be used... just like COBOL.
As for which one is easier to use, I think that's a matter of the IDE you use. Eclipse is rather good and has some nice features too.
don't even do that. If you use VMware you can tell it to simply discard changes. Shut down, start up - you're back to where you started. You'd have to store your user data somewhere - like a network share, or even just tools like Google bookmarks, but that's all you'd need to do.
or access a method/field that doesn't exist Eclipse will offer to make a stub for you. Really? Sounds like Eclipse is the programmers verison of Clippy: "hi, you seem to be adding a new method, would you like me to add WrtieToFile to the class definition for you?"
He doesn't, the guy's a masochist who likes hurting himself, hence "The most important thing to me in moving to Eclipse was that it would fully support the Vi command set"
I'm not a Theo apologist or even a BSD user in any form, so get off your high horse that my comments are some sort of bias between BSD and/or Linux.
The BSD licence *was* removed in the case that started all this discussion. You cannot do that.
I have read the GPL, it says you MUST give away at least as many rights as you had when you received the code. Seeing as you received the right to use either licence, it follows that you must also give your distributees the same right.
I think that dual-licenced code doesn't actually give you the choice, this is a fallacy. In practise, you only have the right to distrbute it as the same dual-licence.
according to copyright law. Theo's email discussion do have a good point about licences. The copyright notice doesn't belong to you at all, so you have no right to remove it (especially as both GPL and BSD say you cannot remove the copyright notice)(doubly so for the GPL that says you have to pass on as many rights as you initially had - which means you cannot remove the BSD licence in dual-licenced code as it would be giving others less rights than you had when you started modifying the code.)
I just re-read that, I think it makes sense. Hopefully Eben will comment on all this in a couple of days.
*IF* MS is violating the standard. Whilst its likely, the ISP is still being the worst kind of "j00 sux0rs,/we l33t" attitude that just fucks things up for everybody and gives Linux users a bad name.
I havn't heard of any other ISP having this problem, nor does the router we use at work have any issues with Vista networking - those Vista machines get DHCP addresses from it without problem, so.. just what exactly is the problem with the ISP DHCP servers?
I read the article, its remarkably light on details. For all I know from reading that, the problem is a misconfigured Linux server at the ISP end.
No, you can modify the code accoding to either licence (as its dual licenced), but you still cannot remove one of the licences. Put it the other way round if it helps you think of it - imagine some dual-licenced GPL/BSD code, and I decide to strip out the GPL licence and put the code into my proprietary product. You're saying that's ok.
Its not, you cannot remove either licence. Neither of them are yours to remove, just like code released under a single licence. You cannot remove that either.
But it doesn't. The BSD give you no right to remove the BSD licence at all. You can do what you like with the contents as long as it.. retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
You cannot just say, "oh, its BSD, I can do whatever I like with it" and relicence it. I *think* you can dual licence it (or after major changes) under the GPL but you cannot remove the BSD licence, its not your to remove.
do not be afraid to stop and ask questions from your underlings.
On the other hand, make sure the questions are of the 'tell me stuff' type. Don't try to sound like you know what you're talking about. eg.. my old boss, one day, in a meeting , said "these objects, are they sartorial?". We looked at each other, thinking "have we understood the question?", "perhaps sartorial means something we don't know". No, he just wanted to 'contribute' something to the meeting so he'd feel like he had a reason to be there, and needed something that made himself more knowledgeable than he was.
Sartorial, as is turns out, means 'fashionably well dressed'. It has absolutely no computing reference whatsoever.
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or just go with somethng else - ESRI's ArcWeb explorer for example
You could do better - buy more RAM, set up a ramdrive and put the swap file on that.
Or, of course, just buy more RAM.
Part of the problem re contracting is that we havn't really had a downturn for ages. When the dotcom bubble went pop, contractors were the first to go and many of them decided that a permanent job was more attractive (or they couldn't get any more contracts). Also, some places do penalize you for being a 'self-employed permanent employee' - eg the Uk's IR35 tax laws.
Still, it can be good but it depends on your lifestyle choices more than anything else.
You don't even need a GC to keep track of stack traces, build in debug mode, and then take snapshots of your code. You can quickly see which bits are leaking as the allocation count from the same place will go up and up and up. Microsoft's UMDH is a good tool for this.
Im not convinced GCs are good, if Java had better scope for objects, so the finaliser could be called deterministically for locally defined objects, then yes it'd be good. (a bit like IDispose hack that MS put into C#, but properly done with full language suport instead of being a bodged-on hack)(which reminds me of Finalisers in the first place - when I was first shown Java at a conference by IBM at Hursley Park it didn't have finalisers, everyone in the conference basically said "that's a bit pants", a few months later Sun bodged finalisers onto the language).
The biggest problem with GC is that they only consider memory, no-one really stopped to think that it's used to clean up objects that hang on to more precious resources.
Sometimes our job *is* to queeze the last bit of performance out of the machine, typically the desktop client-side apps don't care so much as you have RAM and CPU dedicated to 1 user, but the server is a different matter and requires a better approach. The user is not enabled if he has to spend seconds watching the cursor spin every time he clicks 'next'.
RPM based distros aren't exactly poor at installing, ever tried yum recently. Its great, it works. Occasionally you get poorly packaged rpms that don't specify a dependency they require, but that's hardly RPM's fault.
/etc? /usr/sbin? /usr/local/sbin/var/conf/mysql/? I still have no idea :) )
Perhaps he means those apps that aren't packaged and have to be compiled by hand? Perhaps he means the per-app choices of file locations (eg is mysql.conf in
In fact, I find the package systems one of the better things about Linux, now if MS provided a global repository for updated software and installable msi's, then they be getting close to what Linux has.
And to top it all, they introduce all singing (hmm) and dancing Jav.. sorry,
Yeah, but you'd be planting it in Africa so who cares, right?
(I'm not trolling really, its a very serious point about colonial abuse and exploitation of weaker nations). America will still have to become more energy efficient, sorry guys.
The fear then, for me, as a read-myself-to-sleep kind of guy, is that I could increase my risk of cancer just by forgetting to turn out the light before sleeping.
:-)
/. article about how daylight causes the skin to create activated vitamin D that normal light doesn't. I think, all in all, you're safe from the night-light.
I think after reading that, you're far, far more likely to worry yourself into getting ill than any ill-effects of the bedside lamp
I never thought that a 'resistance' to light was possible! I suppose it could be, but I still think the lack of daylight light makes the difference - see previous
or perhaps its because anyone who writes a J2EE application is backed by a corporate that will buy the 3 mainframes required to run it acceptably.
Seriously though, its difficult to say "Java scales great" compared to anything because the kind of apps written in Java do run on different hardware, and almost certainly with different requirements than any apps written in PHP. If, one day, a bank decides to write its trading system in PHP, then perhaps we could compare them. Even then, the architectural choices would still mean they're not comparable.
no, you get cancer from not going out in the daylight. Something that far too many people do now that they can decide to stay in instead with the lights on.
The quote you gave said "... revealed a strong association between working the night shift and an increased risk of breast cancer"
Maybe BlueSecurity will resurrect Bluefrog now that its been shown that the spammers will go after you regardless. It is good to know the anti-spam crowd is having an effect though, once the botnet is patched into obscurity, we can get back to normality.
yeah :-)
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as will .NET once people have gotten used to it, forgotten the hype that surrounds it and started to find the same flaws in it as Java has (after all, C# practically is Java). even MS has said that they've done their thing with C# and the next version of VStudio wil be focusing back on native code.
The probem is that even if it becomes a legacy language, it'll still be used... just like COBOL.
As for which one is easier to use, I think that's a matter of the IDE you use. Eclipse is rather good and has some nice features too.
we want a lean c one...
:-)
Dr Tanenbaum, please come back.. all is forgiven
don't even do that. If you use VMware you can tell it to simply discard changes. Shut down, start up - you're back to where you started. You'd have to store your user data somewhere - like a network share, or even just tools like Google bookmarks, but that's all you'd need to do.
(just a joke, I don't use Eclipse).
He doesn't, the guy's a masochist who likes hurting himself, hence "The most important thing to me in moving to Eclipse was that it would fully support the Vi command set"
I'm not a Theo apologist or even a BSD user in any form, so get off your high horse that my comments are some sort of bias between BSD and/or Linux.
The BSD licence *was* removed in the case that started all this discussion. You cannot do that.
I have read the GPL, it says you MUST give away at least as many rights as you had when you received the code. Seeing as you received the right to use either licence, it follows that you must also give your distributees the same right.
I think that dual-licenced code doesn't actually give you the choice, this is a fallacy. In practise, you only have the right to distrbute it as the same dual-licence.
according to copyright law. Theo's email discussion do have a good point about licences. The copyright notice doesn't belong to you at all, so you have no right to remove it (especially as both GPL and BSD say you cannot remove the copyright notice)(doubly so for the GPL that says you have to pass on as many rights as you initially had - which means you cannot remove the BSD licence in dual-licenced code as it would be giving others less rights than you had when you started modifying the code.)
I just re-read that, I think it makes sense. Hopefully Eben will comment on all this in a couple of days.
*IF* MS is violating the standard. Whilst its likely, the ISP is still being the worst kind of "j00 sux0rs, /we l33t" attitude that just fucks things up for everybody and gives Linux users a bad name.
I havn't heard of any other ISP having this problem, nor does the router we use at work have any issues with Vista networking - those Vista machines get DHCP addresses from it without problem, so.. just what exactly is the problem with the ISP DHCP servers?
I read the article, its remarkably light on details. For all I know from reading that, the problem is a misconfigured Linux server at the ISP end.
No, you can modify the code accoding to either licence (as its dual licenced), but you still cannot remove one of the licences. Put it the other way round if it helps you think of it - imagine some dual-licenced GPL/BSD code, and I decide to strip out the GPL licence and put the code into my proprietary product. You're saying that's ok.
Its not, you cannot remove either licence. Neither of them are yours to remove, just like code released under a single licence. You cannot remove that either.
But it doesn't. The BSD give you no right to remove the BSD licence at all. You can do what you like with the contents as long as it .. retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
You cannot just say, "oh, its BSD, I can do whatever I like with it" and relicence it. I *think* you can dual licence it (or after major changes) under the GPL but you cannot remove the BSD licence, its not your to remove.
do not be afraid to stop and ask questions from your underlings.
On the other hand, make sure the questions are of the 'tell me stuff' type. Don't try to sound like you know what you're talking about. eg.. my old boss, one day, in a meeting , said "these objects, are they sartorial?". We looked at each other, thinking "have we understood the question?", "perhaps sartorial means something we don't know". No, he just wanted to 'contribute' something to the meeting so he'd feel like he had a reason to be there, and needed something that made himself more knowledgeable than he was.
Sartorial, as is turns out, means 'fashionably well dressed'. It has absolutely no computing reference whatsoever.