Not sure where the poster got their data, but HBO revenues are significantly higher than Netflix. Netflix 2014Q2 revenue was $838milion, HBO 2014Q2 revenue was $1.4billion. Netflix has more SUBSCRIBERS than HBO, but they make far less revenue, and are also far less profitable.
This was modded "informative"??? This is clearly a troll! Apparently someone has never tried to move a web app from Tomcat onto Weblogic or JBoss or OC4J. Ever heard of ClassLoader issues? Log4j ring a bell??
Or if you want to leave this strictly as a Desktop Environment to Desktop Environment comparison, how about the fact that you could never write something like KDE on Java at all, because you'd fail the minute you had to interact at a low-level with hardware? Or if you want to narrow the debate even more to try and claim Java superiority, how about we just talk about all of those Java-based Office suites that are taking over the world? What, they take up too much RAM, run too slow, don't integrate well with the native GUI, and have odd rendering problems? OK, so how exactly is Java relevant to this discussion again?
And lastly, I want to thank Sun for giving us the ability to write easy to read code like this:
public class MyClass< T super HashSet< ? extends MyClass< T >, Map< String, String > > > {}
Yes, so much better than C++. After fifteen years, Java now has most of the problems of C++ and few of the benefits. Congratulations.
How about the reason people may have had "positive" reactions is because sometimes in an FPS you get killed in really funny ways? Like accidentally 'nading yourself because you threw a grenade through an open door and you hit the wall instead and it comes right back at you? Or you try to sneak up and knife someone but you miss and then snipe you from point-blank range? Games are a fun competition, and sometimes you lose that competition in really funny ways, and so sometimes you're "dead" but smiling. There's no stupid "zen" moment, no out-of-body experience. Researchers need to stop putting their own dumb biases into their interpretations of things. If they simply played FPS games, they'd know exactly why sometimes you die and yet you're laughing.
Molecules are essentially digital? Are you for real?! At a small enough scale, they turn into WAVES because treating them like discrete particles doesn't work. Digital is simply a man-made interpretation of an all-analog world.
I think the reason this very old exploit was brought up is because more and more people are using wireless access points and not realizing how drastically less secure they are than a wired connection. Back when everyone used ethernet, a hacker had to physically get onto the same switch as you to perform this hack. Now they can just pull up in their car on the street outside of the Starbucks that you are at. And yes, google/yahoo/MSN/everyone should be switching to SSL for all this stuff.
Big companies don't usually patent something to prevent others from doing it, but rather so that they can license the technology and make money off of it. So if there are ten technologies you want to put into a phone, and ten companies control the patents to those technologies, you simply have to license that technology. That's the way capitalism works. The phone might be crazy expensive because of those licenses, but that's a different issue. The phone can get built.
Hmmm... how should FreeBSD maintainers ifdef out ALSA from a Linux application? While I agree that porting the average Windows app is exponentially more difficult than porting the average Linux app, the point is still valid. As Linux continues to dominate in mind-share, if not real-world usage-share, it's inevitable that if developers aren't careful they are going to start writing apps that aren't easily portable to other un*xes. If portability is a goal, it has to be planned up front, and Windows developers are far from the only developers out there who don't plan for portability.
Why're some people automatically assuming that the GNOME screenshots are running Linux? Did GNOME suddenly stop running on any other un*x? The screenshots mentioned in the posting don't give any good indication of what the OS is. Could just as easily be a Sun box or Free/Open/NetBSD.
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Not sure where the poster got their data, but HBO revenues are significantly higher than Netflix. Netflix 2014Q2 revenue was $838milion, HBO 2014Q2 revenue was $1.4billion. Netflix has more SUBSCRIBERS than HBO, but they make far less revenue, and are also far less profitable.
Netflix 2014Q2: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/3548772358x0x769748/9b21df7f-743c-4f0f-94da-9f13e384a3d2/July2014EarningsLetter_7.21.14_final.pdf
HBO 2014Q2: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjQ1MzkzfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1
This was modded "informative"??? This is clearly a troll! Apparently someone has never tried to move a web app from Tomcat onto Weblogic or JBoss or OC4J. Ever heard of ClassLoader issues? Log4j ring a bell??
Or if you want to leave this strictly as a Desktop Environment to Desktop Environment comparison, how about the fact that you could never write something like KDE on Java at all, because you'd fail the minute you had to interact at a low-level with hardware? Or if you want to narrow the debate even more to try and claim Java superiority, how about we just talk about all of those Java-based Office suites that are taking over the world? What, they take up too much RAM, run too slow, don't integrate well with the native GUI, and have odd rendering problems? OK, so how exactly is Java relevant to this discussion again?
And lastly, I want to thank Sun for giving us the ability to write easy to read code like this:
public class MyClass< T super HashSet< ? extends MyClass< T >, Map< String, String > > > {}Yes, so much better than C++. After fifteen years, Java now has most of the problems of C++ and few of the benefits. Congratulations.
How about the reason people may have had "positive" reactions is because sometimes in an FPS you get killed in really funny ways? Like accidentally 'nading yourself because you threw a grenade through an open door and you hit the wall instead and it comes right back at you? Or you try to sneak up and knife someone but you miss and then snipe you from point-blank range? Games are a fun competition, and sometimes you lose that competition in really funny ways, and so sometimes you're "dead" but smiling. There's no stupid "zen" moment, no out-of-body experience. Researchers need to stop putting their own dumb biases into their interpretations of things. If they simply played FPS games, they'd know exactly why sometimes you die and yet you're laughing.
Molecules are essentially digital? Are you for real?! At a small enough scale, they turn into WAVES because treating them like discrete particles doesn't work. Digital is simply a man-made interpretation of an all-analog world.
I think the reason this very old exploit was brought up is because more and more people are using wireless access points and not realizing how drastically less secure they are than a wired connection. Back when everyone used ethernet, a hacker had to physically get onto the same switch as you to perform this hack. Now they can just pull up in their car on the street outside of the Starbucks that you are at. And yes, google/yahoo/MSN/everyone should be switching to SSL for all this stuff.
Big companies don't usually patent something to prevent others from doing it, but rather so that they can license the technology and make money off of it. So if there are ten technologies you want to put into a phone, and ten companies control the patents to those technologies, you simply have to license that technology. That's the way capitalism works. The phone might be crazy expensive because of those licenses, but that's a different issue. The phone can get built.
Hmmm... how should FreeBSD maintainers ifdef out ALSA from a Linux application? While I agree that porting the average Windows app is exponentially more difficult than porting the average Linux app, the point is still valid. As Linux continues to dominate in mind-share, if not real-world usage-share, it's inevitable that if developers aren't careful they are going to start writing apps that aren't easily portable to other un*xes. If portability is a goal, it has to be planned up front, and Windows developers are far from the only developers out there who don't plan for portability.
Why're some people automatically assuming that the GNOME screenshots are running Linux? Did GNOME suddenly stop running on any other un*x? The screenshots mentioned in the posting don't give any good indication of what the OS is. Could just as easily be a Sun box or Free/Open/NetBSD.