I don't know how many of the people making glib, sarcastic observations here have actually used Java from within Eclipse, but having recently worked on a project involving Java, JavaScript, and C all at once, I'm practically moist with glee that I may have much less JavaScript to deal with and debug natively. If you have to deal with Java, Eclipse is the way to go.
* ATRAC was (still is) proprietary. What would have happened to mp3 if ATRAC had been available for personal computers even before the days of the Internet? The format has been around since roughly 1992.
* Intransigence over Blu-Ray (like Michael Eisner at Disney v. Pixar).
* The "plus" in DVD+R(W)
* $700 DAT recorders that couldn't record at 44.1kHz. (Not till later models came along years afterward.)
* Anything Sony music ever does, did, or will do.
People won't make you rich buying products that are the best. They'll make you rich buying the products that are the best to use. Like "Trinitron," "WEGA," and "HandyCam."
I like any movie in which Ann Heche, Bridget Fonda, or Laura Dern announces:
I'm the blonde scientist and I'm here to help!
I wish I could mod this up 100 points.
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Some day Slashdot will allow people to edit their posts for grammar and spelling, or perhaps there will be a Slashdot editor who knows grammar and spelling.
Is your "friend" the same one that knows the guy that went to Taco Bell and got the cockroach eggs in his gums right after he got bit by that rare spider on the airport toilet seat? More like left seats for Northwest/America West/Southwest, but whatever.
No pilot is ever forced to fly. You're regurgitating union bullshit. Friends of mine who are commercial pilots have all kinds of stories to tell.
I know enough about the laughable inner rot in DHS and FBI. Meanwhile, you go ahead being an apologist for a system that puts paranoia first, bureacratic inertia second, ingrained incompetence third, civil liberties fourth, and common sense dead last.
The only thing I find truly reassuring about DHS and the burgeoning "federal police force" is that they are so disorganized, stovepiped, and territorial that they will never form any kind of coherent, effective whole.
100% of the statistics on this topic are invented. Meanwhile, feel free to come up with a single example of a guy successfully boarding an aircraft with any sort of terroristic intent and a weapon more sophisticated than a Swiss Army knife.
You can find isolated incidents like the man who made it through a security checkpoint with a handgun which he then fired - in Lihue Hawaii. I've been to that airport numerous times and it's more like a bus stop than an airport.
Meanwhile the vast majority of screening incidents are a) people apparently bringing largely innocuous items through security by accident resulting in b) terminal closures for up to several hours ending in c) no passenger or weapon ever found.
I fly a inimum of 80 flights a year and I have no worries. And that's not just beause of all the free drinks in first class. I just amke it a point to only fly airlines that a have a good pilot's union and try to only use government supplied TSA workers.
I have no idea what you mean by "good pilot's union." One that admits only good pilots? One that strikes whenever flight attendants and mechanics do? One that makes sure pilots have plenty of down time for golf and strippers during their layovers? You have me flummoxed.
ALso remember, the 9/11 terrorists did NOTHING illegal (until hijacking the plane, of course). All their backage was properly screened and contained nothing but allowable substances at the time. The security screeners- even at the small New England airport they passed through, did stop most of them for additional screening. Airport security followed every step of the rules. Heck, you can even argue they went overboard if you are an extreme "anti-profiling" type of person.
99.9% of the success in the prevention of hijackings and other terrorist activities since 9/11 has been due to the preventive (and heavy-handed) efforts of law enforcement, despite the massive disorganization and incompetence that continues to prevail in the FBI, CIA, and DHS - especially in its databases and computer systems. "Agents," regardless of whatever profound ignorance of software and database technology they possess and actively employ, are still a ruling elite in the FBI. Non-agent specialists - with Ph.Ds in computer science and 10s of years of experience in security and information technology - are considered to occupy the same tier as file clerks.
Apparently locking up Americans with unpatriotic mindsets (you know, critical of the government) works great as long as 2-3% of them turn out to be actual "terrists." Yay team America. And by the way, as we all know, if the FBI hadn't had its head up its bureacratic ass leading up to the hijackings (a position it still regularly assumes), Osama bin Laden would've been working on Plan B, or C, or D, or whatever.
Least I know that they're following protocol. The guy did exactly what he was supposed to do.
Riiiiiiight.
You know, maybe my memory has failed me since I turned 40, but the times I remember someone being stopped by security with a prohibited device - other than nail scissors or human breast milk - were in the days before 9/11. You know, football players forgetting about their pistols....
Anyway, thank you so much TSA for the line that wraps 300 yards around into the handicapped ramp in San Jose Minetta Airport and the parking cluster fuck and for turning what used to be a small convenient airport into shit. I fly out of Oakland and SFO now. If a friend flies in there I tell him to enjoy the $125 taxi ride to SF.
I'm sick of Stallman's decades-long arrogant screed against the slightest incursions into the purity of his mental model. No doubt he'd force everyone to play games in ASCII art if a virally-free video driver weren't available. He wouldn't prefer it, he'd force it.
I'd prefer that Linux drivers be open and free, but if I can have a 99.8% free system "contaminated" with a smidgen of software that gives my machine kick-ass graphics, well, give it to me baby.
I think RMS and the (tiny) handful of other FSF zealots don't understand that what the vast majority of people want is a free platform, not a free universe.
In some ways a patent is like a computer program and the claims are the actual code -- the rest is just comments that help make the claims understandable.
The "understandable" claims of which you speak must be in relation to patents from the planet Zargblort.
Copyrighting an idea will in no way grant you the monopoly on its use that a patent will. Copyrighting "My Cool Text Editor" will prevent infringing uses such as outright lifting of a user interface or (obviously) appropriation of source code; but if My Cool Text Editor has some nifty feature like hovering over a word to get a Google tooltip search, don't plan on a copyright helping you preserve anything more than the ad copy for it.
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Not only does the RIAA get no income from used record and CD sales, but ... such sales are perfectly legal and always have been.
Something must be done.
I don't know how many of the people making glib, sarcastic observations here have actually used Java from within Eclipse, but having recently worked on a project involving Java, JavaScript, and C all at once, I'm practically moist with glee that I may have much less JavaScript to deal with and debug natively. If you have to deal with Java, Eclipse is the way to go.
Just like Debian, Slackware, ${x}BSD, Gentoo, and, uh, what's that other distribution that used to be around.
That's like saying RISC assembler is easier to debug if you write it yourself than it is to debug if generated by a compiler.
Well, not exactly, but the tools for debugging JavaScript in browsers suck. I'd rather have to worry about compiler bugs in the Java->JS compiler.
"Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."*
* The basketball "Shack" as opposed to "Shaq."
* ATRAC was (still is) proprietary. What would have happened to mp3 if ATRAC had been available for personal computers even before the days of the Internet? The format has been around since roughly 1992.
* Intransigence over Blu-Ray (like Michael Eisner at Disney v. Pixar).
* The "plus" in DVD+R(W)
* $700 DAT recorders that couldn't record at 44.1kHz. (Not till later models came along years afterward.)
* Anything Sony music ever does, did, or will do.
People won't make you rich buying products that are the best. They'll make you rich buying the products that are the best to use. Like "Trinitron," "WEGA," and "HandyCam."
I like any movie in which Ann Heche, Bridget Fonda, or Laura Dern announces:
I'm the blonde scientist and I'm here to help!
Some day Slashdot will allow people to edit their posts for grammar and spelling, or perhaps there will be a Slashdot editor who knows grammar and spelling.
As long as it crushes the spirit of VW's target demographic* that's fine by me.
* 25 year old pasty white geekboys dressed in black with "WARDRIVER" window stickers
Is your "friend" the same one that knows the guy that went to Taco Bell and got the cockroach eggs in his gums right after he got bit by that rare spider on the airport toilet seat?
More like left seats for Northwest/America West/Southwest, but whatever.
No pilot is ever forced to fly. You're regurgitating union bullshit. Friends of mine who are commercial pilots have all kinds of stories to tell.
I know enough about the laughable inner rot in DHS and FBI. Meanwhile, you go ahead being an apologist for a system that puts paranoia first, bureacratic inertia second, ingrained incompetence third, civil liberties fourth, and common sense dead last.
The only thing I find truly reassuring about DHS and the burgeoning "federal police force" is that they are so disorganized, stovepiped, and territorial that they will never form any kind of coherent, effective whole.
Don't bogart that stuff. My fantasy life really needs some improvement.
And your point?
d /airportinsecurity/breaches/
100% of the statistics on this topic are invented. Meanwhile, feel free to come up with a single example of a guy successfully boarding an aircraft with any sort of terroristic intent and a weapon more sophisticated than a Swiss Army knife.
You can find isolated incidents like the man who made it through a security checkpoint with a handgun which he then fired - in Lihue Hawaii. I've been to that airport numerous times and it's more like a bus stop than an airport.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-worl
Meanwhile the vast majority of screening incidents are a) people apparently bringing largely innocuous items through security by accident resulting in b) terminal closures for up to several hours ending in c) no passenger or weapon ever found.
if I submitted an article from the previous day rather than something, you know, not from the previous day.
I fly a inimum of 80 flights a year and I have no worries. And that's not just beause of all the free drinks in first class. I just amke it a point to only fly airlines that a have a good pilot's union and try to only use government supplied TSA workers.
I have no idea what you mean by "good pilot's union." One that admits only good pilots? One that strikes whenever flight attendants and mechanics do? One that makes sure pilots have plenty of down time for golf and strippers during their layovers? You have me flummoxed.
ALso remember, the 9/11 terrorists did NOTHING illegal (until hijacking the plane, of course). All their backage was properly screened and contained nothing but allowable substances at the time. The security screeners- even at the small New England airport they passed through, did stop most of them for additional screening. Airport security followed every step of the rules. Heck, you can even argue they went overboard if you are an extreme "anti-profiling" type of person.
99.9% of the success in the prevention of hijackings and other terrorist activities since 9/11 has been due to the preventive (and heavy-handed) efforts of law enforcement, despite the massive disorganization and incompetence that continues to prevail in the FBI, CIA, and DHS - especially in its databases and computer systems. "Agents," regardless of whatever profound ignorance of software and database technology they possess and actively employ, are still a ruling elite in the FBI. Non-agent specialists - with Ph.Ds in computer science and 10s of years of experience in security and information technology - are considered to occupy the same tier as file clerks.
Apparently locking up Americans with unpatriotic mindsets (you know, critical of the government) works great as long as 2-3% of them turn out to be actual "terrists." Yay team America. And by the way, as we all know, if the FBI hadn't had its head up its bureacratic ass leading up to the hijackings (a position it still regularly assumes), Osama bin Laden would've been working on Plan B, or C, or D, or whatever.
Whatever dude.
Least I know that they're following protocol. The guy did exactly what he was supposed to do.
....
Riiiiiiight.
You know, maybe my memory has failed me since I turned 40, but the times I remember someone being stopped by security with a prohibited device - other than nail scissors or human breast milk - were in the days before 9/11. You know, football players forgetting about their pistols
Anyway, thank you so much TSA for the line that wraps 300 yards around into the handicapped ramp in San Jose Minetta Airport and the parking cluster fuck and for turning what used to be a small convenient airport into shit. I fly out of Oakland and SFO now. If a friend flies in there I tell him to enjoy the $125 taxi ride to SF.
So, maybe we are already stockpiling positrons.
After I get cellphones banned in movie theaters, I'm going to go after (live) infants.
If something good's going to go tits up, let's see both tits at the same time.
Actually, if you're the first to implement such things, you can claim copyright to its implementation in your written works,
Right.
and you can exert monopoly rights on that idea.
Wrong.
There really wasn't any need to comment further.
I'm sick of Stallman's decades-long arrogant screed against the slightest incursions into the purity of his mental model. No doubt he'd force everyone to play games in ASCII art if a virally-free video driver weren't available. He wouldn't prefer it, he'd force it.
I'd prefer that Linux drivers be open and free, but if I can have a 99.8% free system "contaminated" with a smidgen of software that gives my machine kick-ass graphics, well, give it to me baby.
I think RMS and the (tiny) handful of other FSF zealots don't understand that what the vast majority of people want is a free platform, not a free universe.
Pretty soon it will be cheaper and less annoying to go see movies in the theater.
I guess I'll have plenty of former TV time to perfect my Civilization IV skills. Or I could write another book.
But Civ IV first.
The "understandable" claims of which you speak must be in relation to patents from the planet Zargblort.
(They're sure not from Earth.)
Copyrighting an idea will in no way grant you the monopoly on its use that a patent will. Copyrighting "My Cool Text Editor" will prevent infringing uses such as outright lifting of a user interface or (obviously) appropriation of source code; but if My Cool Text Editor has some nifty feature like hovering over a word to get a Google tooltip search, don't plan on a copyright helping you preserve anything more than the ad copy for it.