In other news from Libya protesters where attacked with machine guns and mortars. In know compared to cutting the internet that is minor but just thought I would throw that in. I fear that this one of those cases when I was right and a wished I was wrong. After Egypt I made the comment that I feared that the dictators where learning that they couldn't be just a little evil. Looks like I was right. That and it looks like Regan was right as well. After he had proof that Libya had been behind the terrorist bombing in Germany he ordered a strike. Too bad that SOB Bettino Craxi decided to warn Libya.
"Second, let's remove all the legalese and obfuscation from the applications. If it's not clear and concise, reject it. If it doesn't narrow down the scope to laser precision, reject it. If it sounds like a lawyer wrote it, rather than an engineer, reject it. The default action should generally be to reject, seeing as patent are supposed to be novel." They are clear and concise to a lawyer. What it all comes down to is that writing any legal document is a lot like making a wish in DnD. To give you an example. Someone wanted a law to protect children. It seemed very reasonable. The law was that it was illegal for a parent to cause physical injury to their child through action and or neglect.
Seems good until people pointed out that you could go to jail for allowing your child to ride a bike. If they fall down and skin there knee you neglected to protect them. People came up with a long list of things that would be crimes if the law was passes as written. Another example was a 7 year old that forgot he had a plastic gun that shot little pellets in his backpack. He never took it out and didn't threaten anyone but he got expelled for a year because he had a weapon at school! Just like good software specs legal documents are detailed to make sure what you want to happen happens.
Are you sure that it is Java. Java has become a boogie man for those that don't know better. For example I wrote a phone call management system it ran without any problems for about five years and then it started to have speed issues. Idiots that thought they knew better said it was because it was in java. The problem was that they had gone from 15 users to almost 50 years and they where still using the same Pentium 2 600 256mb server to run the Postgres server as they had at 15 people. We upped the server to a Pentium III and with one GB of ram and it is doing just fine now. This was a "temporary solution" I wrote that is now going on to it's 10 th year of use. They are finally going to put it on an actual server now that they realize that they live and die by that program. If you are getting lots of failures from your system then I would look at the supporting systems. The biggest problem I have with my Phone call management system is that it has to tie into a very old and flaky CMS system based on XBase and the only interface to that system that "worked" is using DDE! At least a 100 lines of my code does nothing but deal with keeping the phone call manager running when the CMS has a temporary nervous breakdown. Performance can also be subsystem related and or bad programing practices. Odds are the problems you are having are not the fault of Java but of the developers. And a good Java program should be very resistant to failure.
Cross platform on java is not great but it is better than anything else out there. And there are a vast number of APIs in java but I do not find them any worse, arcane, and or complex than say Windows. Actually I like the idea that to do a lot of tasks in Java all that is needed is research and learning. Here are some of the things I feel are big positives for Java. 1. A really good online community. 2. Two really good free development systems. NetBeans and Eclipse.org. 3. Good support for Windows, OS/X, Linux, Solaris, and many other platforms. 4. Good support for multi threading. 5. Good database support.
I mainly use it for simple form+database types of programs but I have also used it for some real time text streaming software for the hearing impaired. And yes for that application I tested it on OS/X, Windows, and Linux and got it to work on all of them.
I also actually like using Swing and find that it works well for my needs. I know that makes me very odd over all. For some reason a huge number of people hate the Swing GUI and have endless problems with it. Maybe I have just been lucky.
Actually you are wrong. The Java haters are so funny. I have worked in Pascal, Fortran, Modula-2, c, c++, objective c, JAVA, BASIC, COBOL, PHP, Perl, and Python. And for a desktop app that deals with a database I like Java the best. The problems you see with Java tend to be caused by the fact it is so easy to get a program to work even if you use terrible design. BTW yes I know about javascript and HTML5 but those are really new and frankly do not have the control and performance that Java gives a programmer IMHO. I can see one reason for using this that you probably missed., portability. The US ATC system was so tightly designed that we where stuck with using old slow computers for years. The old system just couldn't be run on modern hardware. Java should prevent that issue. As long as you can make a JVM work you are good. You could in theory use c++ and QT or Mono but I would consider those higher risk decisions than Java.
" don't know what annoyed me more, the fact that a gainfully employed person couldn't let that same $1000 accrue in the bank, or having to listen to them mentally masturbate over their future PC every week. Every. Goddamned. Week. Fuck. Off. Kid." So show them NewEgg.com, TigerDirect.com, and Amazon.com You will not have to listen to them anymore and they can probably get all their parts in just three weeks and for $750 instead of paying your markup.
Well thanks to my love of Science fiction I know that paper burns and 451f so you would have to have some real problems for your cardboard case to catch fire. I would worry more about RF than fire.
I was also. We all know that SCO lied. It also killed Kennedy, has the bodies of space aliens in a freezer, holds the secret patents on a 100 MPG carburetor, and causes cancer.
I mean really folks it is over only wake the zombie formerly known as SCO when if they look like they could cause problems. At this point it is called whipping a dead horse.
It is called penny wise pound foolish. Why live with the problem and the down time if you can fix it once. Yes it takes more time to fix it right but that really is one of the great things about using virtualization. You make an image of the problem system, Restore the image if that will fix it quickly, and then run the problem image our you test system, find the cause and fix it for real.
Who bought the root kits? We know GD was one and they are a defense contractor. You are making assumptions that the customers are not using them for testing the security on their own systems.
Depends. Can you think of a better way to test security than to break it. Why they test tanks they shoot at them. Guess what? They are a weapons maker. Companies build bombs, fighters, guns, and missiles. I am kind of wondering what wrong doing was uncovered.
I don't know if you are correct about being attracted to people you are around or not. You are correct about communications with ex's. On of my ex's contacted me when my mother died. My mother helped her out a lot with financial stuff when her father died 10 years ago. She sent me a very heart felt message and then told me about all the issues she was having in her life. I really felt bad for her. But knowing her I also knew that she could get the wrong idea if I spent too much time consoling her. Part of becoming and adult is finding that balance in relationships. Being too close to someone can sometimes do more harm than good. That and even then you must always think about how your spouse feels. Your first responsibility is always to your family. But what it comes down to is Facebook is a tool for communications and what is communicated is the problem not the tool.
Yes that can be a bit odd, a friend of mine found out the hard way when he walked up to a young lady in a pub and said, "Hello I am Randy" That and the fact that you seem to call everything from a cookie to a cracker a biscuit except of course actual biscuits. You call the hood of your cars bonnets and the trunks boots. Why you call fenders wings I will never know...
The funniest thing is that when I was in Ireland everybody thought I was from London? I come from South Florida on the coast which is one of those places in the US that tends to lack any real accent. Since I learned a large amount of UKisms from years of watching Brit Coms I figured that most people from the UK would have learned US terms from all the US show and movies that are shown in the UK.
Want to bet? Take a lot at sales number. i3s outsell i7s for the simple reason they are good enough and cheaper. I think you would surprised just how few people will take that upgrade. If you are looking at say a $299 notebook that works well vs a $399 notebook I think a lot fewer people will get the upgrade. Now if you are talking about an 1199 vs 1299 notebook you are correct.
Well the article says that they are just taking the normal app store cut. Frankly anything else would be stupid because people would flame them to hell and back. Seems like even when they do the logical thing that people assume that they will do the worst. Hey I think WP7 is going to bomb and I am not a fan of Microsoft but to bash them without reason is just wrong.
And this chip has flash and H.264 acceleration features. Just run a browser and email. Yes a modern browser can do a lot but it still isn't a cad system.
Umm.... It is an X86. What the heck are you talking about software support? Put Windows 7 or Linux on it and use what every you want? And it is a lot better than the cheapest Atom and makes a lot less heat and uses a lot less power than chips above the Atom! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
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Yes just like when you make a wish in DnD.
In other news from Libya protesters where attacked with machine guns and mortars. In know compared to cutting the internet that is minor but just thought I would throw that in. I fear that this one of those cases when I was right and a wished I was wrong. After Egypt I made the comment that I feared that the dictators where learning that they couldn't be just a little evil. Looks like I was right. That and it looks like Regan was right as well. After he had proof that Libya had been behind the terrorist bombing in Germany he ordered a strike. Too bad that SOB Bettino Craxi decided to warn Libya.
"Second, let's remove all the legalese and obfuscation from the applications. If it's not clear and concise, reject it. If it doesn't narrow down the scope to laser precision, reject it. If it sounds like a lawyer wrote it, rather than an engineer, reject it. The default action should generally be to reject, seeing as patent are supposed to be novel."
They are clear and concise to a lawyer.
What it all comes down to is that writing any legal document is a lot like making a wish in DnD.
To give you an example. Someone wanted a law to protect children. It seemed very reasonable. The law was that it was illegal for a parent to cause physical injury to their child through action and or neglect.
Seems good until people pointed out that you could go to jail for allowing your child to ride a bike. If they fall down and skin there knee you neglected to protect them. People came up with a long list of things that would be crimes if the law was passes as written.
Another example was a 7 year old that forgot he had a plastic gun that shot little pellets in his backpack. He never took it out and didn't threaten anyone but he got expelled for a year because he had a weapon at school!
Just like good software specs legal documents are detailed to make sure what you want to happen happens.
Are you sure that it is Java.
Java has become a boogie man for those that don't know better.
For example I wrote a phone call management system it ran without any problems for about five years and then it started to have speed issues. Idiots that thought they knew better said it was because it was in java. The problem was that they had gone from 15 users to almost 50 years and they where still using the same Pentium 2 600 256mb server to run the Postgres server as they had at 15 people. We upped the server to a Pentium III and with one GB of ram and it is doing just fine now. This was a "temporary solution" I wrote that is now going on to it's 10 th year of use. They are finally going to put it on an actual server now that they realize that they live and die by that program.
If you are getting lots of failures from your system then I would look at the supporting systems. The biggest problem I have with my Phone call management system is that it has to tie into a very old and flaky CMS system based on XBase and the only interface to that system that "worked" is using DDE! At least a 100 lines of my code does nothing but deal with keeping the phone call manager running when the CMS has a temporary nervous breakdown.
Performance can also be subsystem related and or bad programing practices. Odds are the problems you are having are not the fault of Java but of the developers. And a good Java program should be very resistant to failure.
Cross platform on java is not great but it is better than anything else out there. And there are a vast number of APIs in java but I do not find them any worse, arcane, and or complex than say Windows. Actually I like the idea that to do a lot of tasks in Java all that is needed is research and learning.
Here are some of the things I feel are big positives for Java.
1. A really good online community.
2. Two really good free development systems. NetBeans and Eclipse.org.
3. Good support for Windows, OS/X, Linux, Solaris, and many other platforms.
4. Good support for multi threading.
5. Good database support.
I mainly use it for simple form+database types of programs but I have also used it for some real time text streaming software for the hearing impaired. And yes for that application I tested it on OS/X, Windows, and Linux and got it to work on all of them.
I also actually like using Swing and find that it works well for my needs. I know that makes me very odd over all. For some reason a huge number of people hate the Swing GUI and have endless problems with it. Maybe I have just been lucky.
Considering that the old system involved humans moving strips of paper round the real time specs of this system are still in the very soft region.
They are talking HUMAN realtime not microsecond jitter realtime.
You know like a text editor realtime.
Actually you are wrong.
The Java haters are so funny. I have worked in Pascal, Fortran, Modula-2, c, c++, objective c, JAVA, BASIC, COBOL, PHP, Perl, and Python.
And for a desktop app that deals with a database I like Java the best. The problems you see with Java tend to be caused by the fact it is so easy to get a program to work even if you use terrible design. BTW yes I know about javascript and HTML5 but those are really new and frankly do not have the control and performance that Java gives a programmer IMHO.
I can see one reason for using this that you probably missed., portability. The US ATC system was so tightly designed that we where stuck with using old slow computers for years. The old system just couldn't be run on modern hardware.
Java should prevent that issue. As long as you can make a JVM work you are good. You could in theory use c++ and QT or Mono but I would consider those higher risk decisions than Java.
They just did the same on Hack5 a few weeks about to make a Cluster of servers.
" don't know what annoyed me more, the fact that a gainfully employed person couldn't let that same $1000 accrue in the bank, or having to listen to them mentally masturbate over their future PC every week. Every. Goddamned. Week. Fuck. Off. Kid."
So show them NewEgg.com, TigerDirect.com, and Amazon.com
You will not have to listen to them anymore and they can probably get all their parts in just three weeks and for $750 instead of paying your markup.
Well thanks to my love of Science fiction I know that paper burns and 451f so you would have to have some real problems for your cardboard case to catch fire.
I would worry more about RF than fire.
I was also. We all know that SCO lied. It also killed Kennedy, has the bodies of space aliens in a freezer, holds the secret patents on a 100 MPG carburetor, and causes cancer.
I mean really folks it is over only wake the zombie formerly known as SCO when if they look like they could cause problems. At this point it is called whipping a dead horse.
It is called penny wise pound foolish.
Why live with the problem and the down time if you can fix it once. Yes it takes more time to fix it right but that really is one of the great things about using virtualization. You make an image of the problem system, Restore the image if that will fix it quickly, and then run the problem image our you test system, find the cause and fix it for real.
Who bought the root kits? We know GD was one and they are a defense contractor. You are making assumptions that the customers are not using them for testing the security on their own systems.
So it makes sense to have one company making attack software if for no other reason to test you defense software.
Depends. Can you think of a better way to test security than to break it. Why they test tanks they shoot at them.
Guess what? They are a weapons maker. Companies build bombs, fighters, guns, and missiles. I am kind of wondering what wrong doing was uncovered.
I don't know if you are correct about being attracted to people you are around or not. You are correct about communications with ex's. On of my ex's contacted me when my mother died. My mother helped her out a lot with financial stuff when her father died 10 years ago. She sent me a very heart felt message and then told me about all the issues she was having in her life.
I really felt bad for her. But knowing her I also knew that she could get the wrong idea if I spent too much time consoling her. Part of becoming and adult is finding that balance in relationships. Being too close to someone can sometimes do more harm than good. That and even then you must always think about how your spouse feels. Your first responsibility is always to your family.
But what it comes down to is Facebook is a tool for communications and what is communicated is the problem not the tool.
Yes that can be a bit odd, a friend of mine found out the hard way when he walked up to a young lady in a pub and said, "Hello I am Randy" That and the fact that you seem to call everything from a cookie to a cracker a biscuit except of course actual biscuits. You call the hood of your cars bonnets and the trunks boots. Why you call fenders wings I will never know...
The funniest thing is that when I was in Ireland everybody thought I was from London? I come from South Florida on the coast which is one of those places in the US that tends to lack any real accent. Since I learned a large amount of UKisms from years of watching Brit Coms I figured that most people from the UK would have learned US terms from all the US show and movies that are shown in the UK.
Want to bet? Take a lot at sales number. i3s outsell i7s for the simple reason they are good enough and cheaper.
I think you would surprised just how few people will take that upgrade. If you are looking at say a $299 notebook that works well vs a $399 notebook I think a lot fewer people will get the upgrade.
Now if you are talking about an 1199 vs 1299 notebook you are correct.
Well the article says that they are just taking the normal app store cut. Frankly anything else would be stupid because people would flame them to hell and back. Seems like even when they do the logical thing that people assume that they will do the worst.
Hey I think WP7 is going to bomb and I am not a fan of Microsoft but to bash them without reason is just wrong.
Um. All the app stores take 30% even if you don't work for Google, Apple, or Microsoft...
sounds like app store. If you put an app in the Google app store they take 30%. The iTunes app store? 30%.
And this chip has flash and H.264 acceleration features. Just run a browser and email.
Yes a modern browser can do a lot but it still isn't a cad system.
that was what I thought. Too bad really but you could have a huge mess otherwise.
Umm.... It is an X86. What the heck are you talking about software support? Put Windows 7 or Linux on it and use what every you want?
And it is a lot better than the cheapest Atom and makes a lot less heat and uses a lot less power than chips above the Atom!
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?