Perhaps technology like this can bring about (or widen availability of) varying power rates, i.e. power is actually cheaper at night etc. Right now I've got no incentive not to run all my appliances and AC in the middle of the summer stage X power alert, but if rates were adjusted dynamically based on supply and demand, I bet people would actually wait till nightfall to do their laundry and dishes.
I understand systems like these are available some places, and to bulk consumers, but it would be cool if everyone had them.
not up to the challenge of a real program? nothing like being a big fish in the small pond i guess. I guess your fellow students weren't too bright if they couldn't get at least a 3 GPA in CS
My degree was in computer science and engineering (CSE). My school (University of Connecticut) originally only had CSE and MIS, but now in fact has CS (CompSci), CE (CompEngineering), CSE, and MIS.
UConn's idea was that CS is more theory, CompE is more application of theory, and CSE straddles the line, but in fact it seems that with the new majors, CompE is more targeted at hardware development and CS seems to be CSE for people who can't/don't want the more advanced math/science requirements, and the extra 14 credits required of an engineering degree.
Its my perception that MIS degree might as well mean Microsoft Information Systems in a lots of places.. hmm how do I administer an NT domain? or write Cobol.. a much softer program w/ no advanced math.. a place for failure CSE students to land.
that's just my $.02, figured I would throw out some more degree acronyms.
A web service running on port 80 is no more or less secure than a CGI or Servlet running there. You can view the url as a commandline interface just as the web-rpc uses the XML interface.. for example
http://somehost/KickMe?function=giveAwaySecrets? pa ram0=patentPipeline
could return an XML document full of company secrets and what not just as easily as a "web service" could.
Clearly its the same idea, just not wrapped in the latest and greatest XML technologies.
Web Services are no big deal security-wise, if you look at things this way.
I agree, VAJ rocks! It does however have a little bit of a learning curve, and scared me off at first until I got a VAJ in 10 minutes tour from a coworker. It's wierdness comes from not storing the source on the file system, but instead in an ENVY repository (one big file). This is what allows it to edit at the method level rather than the file level. Once you get used to it, its hard to look at a conventional IDE again.
Alas, VAJ is just about dead, but Eclipse, the slayer of VAJ is almost as good. We're back to the file system managment of source code, so some cool VAJ features are gone, and currently there's no GUI builder, but oh well. Not to mention Eclipse is free!
I use betas of Websphere Studio Application Developer 4 (build on Eclipse) to develop J2EE apps (EJB/JSP/Servlet) as well as regular Java apps, and haven't looked back to VAJ since.
And those people who scoff at IDEs... there's nothing like type-ahead baby! Plus debugging with a graphical debugger beats the pants off println debugging!
All that is public domain here is the IDE framework. IBM seems to still have every intention of making money on sets of plugins to the environment, such as the case of the Websphere Workbench and Websphere Studio Application Developer 4 (WSAD) (and of course the associated sales of Websphere App Server!)
I've been using WSAD4 for a while, and it's a great development environment for J2EE programming. The team has made great strides in usability over the course of the alpha and beta builds.
I'm sure the community will be able to come up with some really interersting ways to slice and dice source code of various languages given that the messy IDE code it out of the way!
No reason an OS needs 6 CDs
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Is there a good reason debian doesn't fit on one cd? I mean you can tell me its all the included open source, but text files compress really well!What exactly is on these 6 CDs?
Even bloated evil windows is ONE CD!
Am I dumb, or what?
Cable hookups just work; when my DSL install had extremely slow uploads the provider blamed everything from the sunspot cycle to water in the conduits, when the real problem actually was my modem firmware. It seems to me that DSL is cool when it works, but when it doesn't expect lots of frustration. Given the choice between the two for a non-technical user who wouldn't want to put in time on the phone I would reccomend cable any day for its turnkey operation..
ever heard of JNI? Java Native interface? you can use code from any langauge that you can get to from C. It may not be as simple as C#, but it isn't that hard. In addition there are projects allowing PHP use in Java and vice-versa, among others. Get your facts straight.
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The Nov 11 at 11 AM is actually to remember the end of WWI, Armistice day (you know the war to end all wars) so before you give trite history lessons, try to get the facts kind of correct
"Instant runoff voting is a winner-take-all system that ensures that a winning candidate will receive a majority of votes rather than a simple plurality. In plurality voting -- as used in most U.S. elections -- candidates can win with less than a majority when there are more than two candidates running for the office. In contrast, IRV elects a majority candidate while still allowing voters to support a candidate who is not a front-runner. IRV is a sensible method in single winner elections."
the title for this article is really dumb: "Aibo blown away" ALL the robots in the competition were Aibos, so one team of Aibos was compteting against another... it wasn't some robot engineered especially for soccer/football "blowing away" the AIBO
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ok, i can see why its bad to use "+" in a loop now...
thanks:)
Quake 3 has NO java in it. Carmack was quoted as having thought about using java. However, he has used his own interpreted language. Note the Q in QVM is different than the J in JVM...
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about the plus operator, it is no slower than say using string buffers, because it compiles to the same code (see below)
how do you concatenate strings? or do you just use char[] for everything like a C programmer?
from the JDK:
String buffers are used by the compiler to implement the binary string concatenation operator +. For example, the code:
x = "a" + 4 + "c"
is compiled to the equivalent of:
x = new StringBuffer().append("a").append(4).append
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Perhaps technology like this can bring about (or widen availability of) varying power rates, i.e. power is actually cheaper at night etc. Right now I've got no incentive not to run all my appliances and AC in the middle of the summer stage X power alert, but if rates were adjusted dynamically based on supply and demand, I bet people would actually wait till nightfall to do their laundry and dishes.
I understand systems like these are available some places, and to bulk consumers, but it would be cool if everyone had them.
sure, modems compress stuff, but ethernet certainly doesn't, so I think compressing XML is still potentially worth the trouble.
not up to the challenge of a real program? nothing like being a big fish in the small pond i guess. I guess your fellow students weren't too bright if they couldn't get at least a 3 GPA in CS
My degree was in computer science and engineering (CSE). My school (University of Connecticut) originally only had CSE and MIS, but now in fact has CS (CompSci), CE (CompEngineering), CSE, and MIS.
UConn's idea was that CS is more theory, CompE is more application of theory, and CSE straddles the line, but in fact it seems that with the new majors, CompE is more targeted at hardware development and CS seems to be CSE for people who can't/don't want the more advanced math/science requirements, and the extra 14 credits required of an engineering degree.
Its my perception that MIS degree might as well mean Microsoft Information Systems in a lots of places.. hmm how do I administer an NT domain? or write Cobol.. a much softer program w/ no advanced math.. a place for failure CSE students to land.
that's just my $.02, figured I would throw out some more degree acronyms.
A web service running on port 80 is no more or less secure than a CGI or Servlet running there. You can view the url as a commandline interface just as the web-rpc uses the XML interface.. for example? pa ram0=patentPipeline
http://somehost/KickMe?function=giveAwaySecrets
could return an XML document full of company secrets and what not just as easily as a "web service" could.
Clearly its the same idea, just not wrapped in the latest and greatest XML technologies.
Web Services are no big deal security-wise, if you look at things this way.
I agree, VAJ rocks! It does however have a little bit of a learning curve, and scared me off at first until I got a VAJ in 10 minutes tour from a coworker. It's wierdness comes from not storing the source on the file system, but instead in an ENVY repository (one big file). This is what allows it to edit at the method level rather than the file level. Once you get used to it, its hard to look at a conventional IDE again.
Alas, VAJ is just about dead, but Eclipse, the slayer of VAJ is almost as good. We're back to the file system managment of source code, so some cool VAJ features are gone, and currently there's no GUI builder, but oh well. Not to mention Eclipse is free!
I use betas of Websphere Studio Application Developer 4 (build on Eclipse) to develop J2EE apps (EJB/JSP/Servlet) as well as regular Java apps, and haven't looked back to VAJ since.
And those people who scoff at IDEs... there's nothing like type-ahead baby! Plus debugging with a graphical debugger beats the pants off println debugging!
well that's my $.02
All that is public domain here is the IDE framework. IBM seems to still have every intention of making money on sets of plugins to the environment, such as the case of the Websphere Workbench and Websphere Studio Application Developer 4 (WSAD) (and of course the associated sales of Websphere App Server!)
I've been using WSAD4 for a while, and it's a great development environment for J2EE programming. The team has made great strides in usability over the course of the alpha and beta builds.
I'm sure the community will be able to come up with some really interersting ways to slice and dice source code of various languages given that the messy IDE code it out of the way!
Is there a good reason debian doesn't fit on one cd? I mean you can tell me its all the included open source, but text files compress really well!What exactly is on these 6 CDs?
Even bloated evil windows is ONE CD!
Am I dumb, or what?
linux / opensource are only free (as in money) if your time is worthless
I bet Winzip will be none too pleased with the added XP support for zip file browsing and file extraction.
Cable hookups just work; when my DSL install had extremely slow uploads the provider blamed everything from the sunspot cycle to water in the conduits, when the real problem actually was my modem firmware. It seems to me that DSL is cool when it works, but when it doesn't expect lots of frustration. Given the choice between the two for a non-technical user who wouldn't want to put in time on the phone I would reccomend cable any day for its turnkey operation..
I would have liked to see some example code for storing data into the OODMS, anyone have any?
Does anyone have the mouse wheel working for scrolling under X? Please post any pointers to get this working
ever heard of JNI? Java Native interface? you can use code from any langauge that you can get to from C. It may not be as simple as C#, but it isn't that hard. In addition there are projects allowing PHP use in Java and vice-versa, among others. Get your facts straight.
The Nov 11 at 11 AM is actually to remember the end of WWI, Armistice day (you know the war to end all wars) so before you give trite history lessons, try to get the facts kind of correct
I hope any system they create can support Instant Runoff Voting.
See http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
A quick snippet:
"Instant runoff voting is a winner-take-all system that ensures that a winning candidate will receive a majority of votes rather than a simple plurality. In plurality voting -- as used in most U.S. elections -- candidates can win with less than a majority when there are more than two candidates running for the office. In contrast, IRV elects a majority candidate while still allowing voters to support a candidate who is not a front-runner. IRV is a sensible method in single winner elections."
The Q3 VM was NOT Java AFAIK. Carmack thought about using Java but didn't.
you CAN copy DC games
I dunno, my parents pure-bred Cavalier King Charles Spaniel cost them $1500 bucks, thats pretty close to the AIBO cost..
the title for this article is really dumb: "Aibo blown away" ALL the robots in the competition were Aibos, so one team of Aibos was compteting against another... it wasn't some robot engineered especially for soccer/football "blowing away" the AIBO
ok, i can see why its bad to use "+" in a loop now... :)
thanks
Quake 3 has NO java in it. Carmack was quoted as having thought about using java. However, he has used his own interpreted language. Note the Q in QVM is different than the J in JVM...
how do you concatenate strings? or do you just use char[] for everything like a C programmer?
from the JDK:
You gotta love it when a Nvidia's single chip solution performs as well as if not *BETTER* than a double and even quad-chip solution from 3dfx.
I mean parallel processing is cool and all, but why go parallel if it doesn't get you anything better than a serial solution?
Nowadays the only good compettion is from ATI, whose Radeon will probably have better linux drivers than Nvidia, because ATI releases the specs.
where are the details? the two links in the post point to the same press release. can anyone point me to the actual detail of these benchmarks?