It's mind-numbing because you choose the comfortable delusion that there is some kind of moral equivalence between the two parties or between various factions for and against this war and everything in-between. Cognitive dissonance creates stress.
Oh, to make this on-topic: don't discount the thousands who have died in the Iraq war, versus the potential of saving all life on earth, now and in the future, due to the discovery of an earth-bound asteroid.
Risk evaluation (and mitigation) is all about measuring probably times cost. Think about that, the next time the common pretext of "weapons of mass destruction" comes up.
Quit swallowing the propaganda of "political correctness". There is absolutely no dichotomy between homophobia and the encroaching nanny-state. They may latch on to different bogeymen, be it is gays, guns, drugs, video games, terrorists, etc., but the psychology is the same.
She masqueraded as a child, entered an online "relationship" with a real child, and drove that child to suicide. Don't be a fucking moron.
Shame is a far better regulator of behavior than the risk of being punished by the "authorities". Regardless of the risk to her (boo hoo), the world needs to know who did it and how it has ruined her, lest others think of doing something similar.
The actual reality of the situation does not diminish the ironic juxtaposition in our minds of a Nazi helping the Allies.
And if irony is so misused, why isn't there a word to fill that gap? We have sarcasm and hypocrisy, (and, of course, bad luck and coincidence), so what is the word for something doing its opposite for dramatic or humorous effect?
Indeed, reverse-engineering Warden and injecting complex code to alter its behavior is so much easier than getting access to your machine in the first place and installing one of a gazillion keyloggers written by script-kiddies.
The program they tell me they're running to detect trojans and cheat-ware encrypts what it is doing to protect itself from the trojan and cheat-ware authors. THE SKY IS FALLING!
If you don't trust Blizzard, why did you install the game? Why did you give them your credit card number?
But I love this stuff. It means my non-technical guildies are less likely to be exploited, it means the gold farmers have it that much harder, and drives away the vocal, whiny morons, who are likely the same vocal, whiny morons in the game.
If only it weren't so hard to write applications that scale intelligently with screen size... or use the switch that tells the emulator to run in the same dimensions as the iPhone and a gazillion other devices. Maybe when the iPhone SDK is released we can steal their secrets of basic algebra.
Why did an Android thread turn into a ridiculous predictions from Apple zealots thread?
Actually, it seems to be missing some key CLDC and MIDP classes. Unless the docs are incomplete, it won't run a MIDlet in its current form.
I was wondering why Sun isn't an Alliance partner, and I'm now assuming it was because they didn't like the direction Google was taking this.
It would be suicide to make native code necessary at all. There are four major platforms - Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Series 60, and BlackBerry - and now there will be six - Android and the iPhone. Developing mobile applications is more difficult than desktop applications, and that difficultly is compounded when you want to target more than one of these platforms. They are nothing alike, and dealing with their idiosyncrasies can be painful and expensive.
If Android could be divorced from Linux, there would be nothing preventing it from running on any of these other devices. It could be what finally fulfills the promises of Java - write once, run everywhere, and this time actually look great doing it.
Some press reports say that Java is an essential component of Android. This is the only direct reference I've found the OHA site:"
"Thanks to the availability of our Jbed(TM) Java(TM) VM on the Android platform, we offer immediate compatibility to the standard Java ME world to enable Java ME-based mobile services with the Android platform." -- Jean-Claude Martinez, CEO of Esmertec
It may be bad form to reply to ones own comment, but I'm shocked no one has mentioned Android yet.
The reason Java has such a bad reputation on mobile devices is because the applications tend to suck or tend to be toys, and most of them are both. There is nothing wrong with Java itself. The problem is that MIDP is damn near useless for doing anything important. The controls look like ass, the base system is crippled, and you can't trust that the JSRs you require are on all the devices you want to support.
Android could change all that. We may not be wanting Java on the iPhone, we may end up wanting Android specifically on the iPhone. Java can do great things - witness JBoss and the BlackBerry - so I am eager to see what Google has done with it.
Will the iPhone's SDK be open, or will it be closed?
Java is a hole in the "security" of devices, in that it allows the execution of arbitrary code outside of the device's native "security model". And I use scare quotes because by security, they really mean control, and by security model, they mean control over who is or isn't allowed to produce software for the device, and run software on the device. If the Java runtime were trusted, then every Java application has the same rights as the Java runtime.
But Java has also been used by those who are legitimately concerned about security, because the virtual machine does actually make the execution of injected code very difficult. And by supporting the runtime natively, it actually gives you better control over what executes and who can execute it.
But that makes it easier to limit the features available on the devices, so you can claim to support third party software and still put up an impenetrable wall between applications and the useful, built-in capabilities that the carriers want to trick customers into believing are special "services" they must pay more for. Bluetooth, GPS, camera, and even networking have found their APIs stripped from Java on certain carriers' devices.
If Apple produces an open SDK, then putting Java on the iPhone is simple matter of porting it. Apple doesn't even need to be involved.
But if Apple uses code signing to control who is and isn't allowed to release software for it, you can forget Java ever appearing, because then anyone could write software for it. They don't seem to be at all interested in supporting Java themselves.
Stop trying to rehash the old and make something new.
That's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen at the top of a slashdot thread. The mobile situation in America is in a massive state of FAIL. If Android doesn't suck, then it will be, by definition, new, and probably the most important thing Google has ever done.
Just where do you think the Internet is heading, anyway? And just where do you think it would be, now, if it were owned by AOL, and you had to get their permission to install software on your computer, and you had to buy your computer from Dell to use AOL?
Good god, my WoW character is "worth" a house. Though what makes that really sad is that I don't consider playing WoW "me" time any more than working. (Though I do find that farming materials is strangely relaxing, much like "Heroin Hero" in the recent South Park.)
Why is that every time WoW is mentioned on Slashdot, it seems half the posts are from bitter, pathetic whiners who complain that the game no longer fulfills some need driven by personality defects?
Hey, guess what? We're glad you quit playing. And no one cares why!
Why are we listening to a guy named "Osabanjo"? That sounds like the kind of name a terrorist would have. A bluegrass-playing, cousin-marrying terrorist.
He gives specific examples and you respond with tchotchka from Successories. So the only way to learn how to make decisions under stress is to make decisions in stressful situations? That's hardly an insight. Perhaps we should also invalidate everything one learns in high school and college, as they are also cake-walks compared to the real world.
What are you talking about? World of Warcraft is the best leadership training program ever devised for kids. Running a guild and defeating the content requires an extraordinary amount of organization and political finesse, far more so than the traditional activities of sports and clubs.
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It's mind-numbing because you choose the comfortable delusion that there is some kind of moral equivalence between the two parties or between various factions for and against this war and everything in-between. Cognitive dissonance creates stress.
Oh, to make this on-topic: don't discount the thousands who have died in the Iraq war, versus the potential of saving all life on earth, now and in the future, due to the discovery of an earth-bound asteroid.
Risk evaluation (and mitigation) is all about measuring probably times cost. Think about that, the next time the common pretext of "weapons of mass destruction" comes up.
Quit swallowing the propaganda of "political correctness". There is absolutely no dichotomy between homophobia and the encroaching nanny-state. They may latch on to different bogeymen, be it is gays, guns, drugs, video games, terrorists, etc., but the psychology is the same.
that woman did no one any harm
She masqueraded as a child, entered an online "relationship" with a real child, and drove that child to suicide. Don't be a fucking moron.
Shame is a far better regulator of behavior than the risk of being punished by the "authorities". Regardless of the risk to her (boo hoo), the world needs to know who did it and how it has ruined her, lest others think of doing something similar.
The actual reality of the situation does not diminish the ironic juxtaposition in our minds of a Nazi helping the Allies.
And if irony is so misused, why isn't there a word to fill that gap? We have sarcasm and hypocrisy, (and, of course, bad luck and coincidence), so what is the word for something doing its opposite for dramatic or humorous effect?
What's to prevent someone from kidnapping you, putting a gun to your head, and demanding your World of Warcraft password?
It's happened before!
Indeed, reverse-engineering Warden and injecting complex code to alter its behavior is so much easier than getting access to your machine in the first place and installing one of a gazillion keyloggers written by script-kiddies.
The program they tell me they're running to detect trojans and cheat-ware encrypts what it is doing to protect itself from the trojan and cheat-ware authors. THE SKY IS FALLING!
If you don't trust Blizzard, why did you install the game? Why did you give them your credit card number?
But I love this stuff. It means my non-technical guildies are less likely to be exploited, it means the gold farmers have it that much harder, and drives away the vocal, whiny morons, who are likely the same vocal, whiny morons in the game.
If only it weren't so hard to write applications that scale intelligently with screen size... or use the switch that tells the emulator to run in the same dimensions as the iPhone and a gazillion other devices. Maybe when the iPhone SDK is released we can steal their secrets of basic algebra.
Why did an Android thread turn into a ridiculous predictions from Apple zealots thread?
No, he wasn't, and repeating spin doesn't make it come true.
Actually, it seems to be missing some key CLDC and MIDP classes. Unless the docs are incomplete, it won't run a MIDlet in its current form.
I was wondering why Sun isn't an Alliance partner, and I'm now assuming it was because they didn't like the direction Google was taking this.
It would be suicide to make native code necessary at all. There are four major platforms - Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Series 60, and BlackBerry - and now there will be six - Android and the iPhone. Developing mobile applications is more difficult than desktop applications, and that difficultly is compounded when you want to target more than one of these platforms. They are nothing alike, and dealing with their idiosyncrasies can be painful and expensive.
If Android could be divorced from Linux, there would be nothing preventing it from running on any of these other devices. It could be what finally fulfills the promises of Java - write once, run everywhere, and this time actually look great doing it.
It's a Cylon!
I demand that henceforth we all refer to the runtime as the Dalek VM.
Every person on this planet can be trusted to do the "financially" right thing, that doesn't make every person a mercenary.
Some press reports say that Java is an essential component of Android. This is the only direct reference I've found the OHA site:"
"Thanks to the availability of our Jbed(TM) Java(TM) VM on the Android platform, we offer immediate compatibility to the standard Java ME world to enable Java ME-based mobile services with the Android platform." -- Jean-Claude Martinez, CEO of Esmertec
There are other Java-oriented companies involved.
Here's a good summary of the speculation: http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/7316
And here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6900
And besides, I doubt there is any fundamental reason why you couldn't port a native C/C++ based toolkit to the iPhone's OS X.
LOL. Someone fails at reading comprehension.
Java privileges don't mean jack if the underlying platform is hostile to Java to begin with. Your runtime won't have the capabilities to limit.
It may be bad form to reply to ones own comment, but I'm shocked no one has mentioned Android yet.
The reason Java has such a bad reputation on mobile devices is because the applications tend to suck or tend to be toys, and most of them are both. There is nothing wrong with Java itself. The problem is that MIDP is damn near useless for doing anything important. The controls look like ass, the base system is crippled, and you can't trust that the JSRs you require are on all the devices you want to support.
Android could change all that. We may not be wanting Java on the iPhone, we may end up wanting Android specifically on the iPhone. Java can do great things - witness JBoss and the BlackBerry - so I am eager to see what Google has done with it.
Will the iPhone's SDK be open, or will it be closed?
Java is a hole in the "security" of devices, in that it allows the execution of arbitrary code outside of the device's native "security model". And I use scare quotes because by security, they really mean control, and by security model, they mean control over who is or isn't allowed to produce software for the device, and run software on the device. If the Java runtime were trusted, then every Java application has the same rights as the Java runtime.
But Java has also been used by those who are legitimately concerned about security, because the virtual machine does actually make the execution of injected code very difficult. And by supporting the runtime natively, it actually gives you better control over what executes and who can execute it.
But that makes it easier to limit the features available on the devices, so you can claim to support third party software and still put up an impenetrable wall between applications and the useful, built-in capabilities that the carriers want to trick customers into believing are special "services" they must pay more for. Bluetooth, GPS, camera, and even networking have found their APIs stripped from Java on certain carriers' devices.
If Apple produces an open SDK, then putting Java on the iPhone is simple matter of porting it. Apple doesn't even need to be involved.
But if Apple uses code signing to control who is and isn't allowed to release software for it, you can forget Java ever appearing, because then anyone could write software for it. They don't seem to be at all interested in supporting Java themselves.
Stop trying to rehash the old and make something new.
That's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen at the top of a slashdot thread. The mobile situation in America is in a massive state of FAIL. If Android doesn't suck, then it will be, by definition, new, and probably the most important thing Google has ever done.
Just where do you think the Internet is heading, anyway? And just where do you think it would be, now, if it were owned by AOL, and you had to get their permission to install software on your computer, and you had to buy your computer from Dell to use AOL?
Good god, my WoW character is "worth" a house. Though what makes that really sad is that I don't consider playing WoW "me" time any more than working. (Though I do find that farming materials is strangely relaxing, much like "Heroin Hero" in the recent South Park.)
So, is it sensible to spend money looking for creatures which if we find them, we should ignore? Better to spend the money figuring out how to hide!
Yes, but first you need to prove we need to hide.
Why is that every time WoW is mentioned on Slashdot, it seems half the posts are from bitter, pathetic whiners who complain that the game no longer fulfills some need driven by personality defects?
Hey, guess what? We're glad you quit playing. And no one cares why!
he is correct
No, he isn't, and repeating spin doesn't make it come true.
Don't be absurd. There is no such thing as "Symbian fans".
Troll and Overrated? I'm pointing out that his name is misspelled, you humorless autistic twits.
Slashdot moderation should not be anonymous. We wouldn't need meta-mod if we had the ability to point and laugh at the morons.
Why are we listening to a guy named "Osabanjo"? That sounds like the kind of name a terrorist would have. A bluegrass-playing, cousin-marrying terrorist.
He gives specific examples and you respond with tchotchka from Successories. So the only way to learn how to make decisions under stress is to make decisions in stressful situations? That's hardly an insight. Perhaps we should also invalidate everything one learns in high school and college, as they are also cake-walks compared to the real world.
What are you talking about? World of Warcraft is the best leadership training program ever devised for kids. Running a guild and defeating the content requires an extraordinary amount of organization and political finesse, far more so than the traditional activities of sports and clubs.