"Doesnt't crash that often"? This is a good thing?
Netscape 4.x was so bad (daily crashes) and so freakin' slow on my Win98 home machine, I finally torched it and moved completely over to IE - which *never* crashes, and runs *way* faster.
Its too bad, really. I was a dedicated Netscape person for a long time - but their software started to suck so bad, I finally made the switch to IE. And I don't plan to go back.
Mozilla may rock, but it probably still sucks compared to IE.
You are defending the conduct of those who wrongfully abuse the resources of others, ultimately wasting their time and money, as well as intruding on their personal space.
Actually, thats not true. I'm not defending them at all. In principle, I agree with you.
However, I'm just trying to make the point that spam, to the average Joe, is nothing more than a minor annoyance . Its certainly not enough of a problem for people to advocate public floggings simply because they have to press the delete key four or five times when they check their e-mail.
A lot of these idiots do get past my filters, and my filters also screen out legitimate messages. It's not that easy to filter out everything.
Well, yes, but there's a little-known feature of most e-mail clients. Its called the "delete" function. It sounds crazy, but I hear it actually allows you to delete unwanted e-mail from your inbox. It sounds horribly complicated to use, I know, but perhaps its a skill that's worth learning.
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Well, one could argue the same thing with home security and breaking and entering laws.
So? A few isolated anecdotes don't make a conspiracy. Maybe this guy, Brown, was treated badly and eventually fired because he was a dumbass. Who knows?
Its been my experience that in high tech there is too much pressure to succeed and too much money to be made to resort to petty bigotry. You simply can't afford to not hire and retain the best people, regardless of their skin colour.
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If your machine is connected to the internet, it's probably forwarding packets full of kiddie porn, white supremacist bullshit and a thousand other flavours of poison all the time.
I seriously doubt that.
Most people are running Windows and haven't a clue how to use their PC as a router.
Learning Java as an intro seems like a very bad idea to me.
Yes, it saves you from some potentially confusing topics like memory management, pointer manipulation, etc. But in the real world, dealing with this "cruft" is what a good deal of developers actually do.
I can't speak for other industries, but in the networking industry, the vast majority of companies are looking for developers with experience in low level topics like real-time OS's, device drivers, packet processing/forwarding, datapath development etc. Typically, none of this is ever done with Java. And if Java is all you know, you're gonna have a bitch of a time trying to understand any of this.
To bring the discussion back on topic...There are lots of reasons to use java - portablity and speed of implementation are two of them. With those in mind, this project seems perfect for java. Freenet is targetted for a large user base containing a variety of OS's where performance/code efficiency are mostly irrelevant.
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Small cats can't growl? You haven't met my cats apparently...
Netscape 4.x was so bad (daily crashes) and so freakin' slow on my Win98 home machine, I finally torched it and moved completely over to IE - which *never* crashes, and runs *way* faster.
Its too bad, really. I was a dedicated Netscape person for a long time - but their software started to suck so bad, I finally made the switch to IE. And I don't plan to go back.
Mozilla may rock, but it probably still sucks compared to IE.
It already exists - its called SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
computer to computer using a piece of hardware that combines the internet interface and this new service
You mean DSL?
Actually, thats not true. I'm not defending them at all. In principle, I agree with you.
However, I'm just trying to make the point that spam, to the average Joe, is nothing more than a minor annoyance . Its certainly not enough of a problem for people to advocate public floggings simply because they have to press the delete key four or five times when they check their e-mail.
Well, yes, but there's a little-known feature of most e-mail clients. Its called the "delete" function. It sounds crazy, but I hear it actually allows you to delete unwanted e-mail from your inbox. It sounds horribly complicated to use, I know, but perhaps its a skill that's worth learning.
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Well, one could argue the same thing with home security and breaking and entering laws.
No, you couldn't. You're just being silly now.
Pluse there's Mike Grier, Geroges Laraque, Freddie Brathwaite, Kevin Weekes, Jarome Iginla, Peter Worrell, etc...
Its been my experience that in high tech there is too much pressure to succeed and too much money to be made to resort to petty bigotry. You simply can't afford to not hire and retain the best people, regardless of their skin colour.
I seriously doubt that.
Most people are running Windows and haven't a clue how to use their PC as a router.
Yes, it saves you from some potentially confusing topics like memory management, pointer manipulation, etc. But in the real world, dealing with this "cruft" is what a good deal of developers actually do.
I can't speak for other industries, but in the networking industry, the vast majority of companies are looking for developers with experience in low level topics like real-time OS's, device drivers, packet processing/forwarding, datapath development etc. Typically, none of this is ever done with Java. And if Java is all you know, you're gonna have a bitch of a time trying to understand any of this.
To bring the discussion back on topic...There are lots of reasons to use java - portablity and speed of implementation are two of them. With those in mind, this project seems perfect for java. Freenet is targetted for a large user base containing a variety of OS's where performance/code efficiency are mostly irrelevant.
Andrew