My first computer was a Z80 based Northstar Horizon - came in a pretty wooden case and cost about $2500 in 1978. Also had a buggy, expensive Intertube terminal and a teletype for a printer. I remember my father paid about $350 for an additional 16KB of RAM (a kit - he had to solder in the chips himself) so we could run UCSD Pascal. My mother wrote a book using the Pascal's built in editor (though she asked for help every five minutes). The big event for me was when we installed CP/M which let me run Micro-soft BASIC which was way better than Northstar BASIC.
Now if you ask my older brother, he'd say a 6800 processor kit. He programmed in machine language, wrote his own operating system and a pretty good Mastermind game.
And that's not all! When it comes crashing down, the impact will be less severe, as will the ensuing fireball! And even if we have bad luck (sadistically speaking), and it crashes in the ocean, the oil spill won't be as Valdezian.
In small European countries which don't benefit from having games translated into the local language, the children play them in English, and as a result, pick up quite a bit of written language. I've seen this in the Czech Republic, and found it amazing that a ten year old could understand so much. That said, it does little for spoken language.
In France, TV over DSL (or ADSL as it is known it France, where it was invented) has existed for almost a year now, and there are several competing offers. My DSL provider also provides a second VOIP telephone along with TV and very fast DSL service.
Frankly, I don't see a bright future for Sun. They won't be making money on Solaris thanks to Linux. They lost out the app server market to IBM, WebLogic and JBoss. Low cost clusters, especially in the database world, are obviating the need for expensive multiprocessor machines. The Java Desktop has potential, but seems too little to late. IBM will buy them one of these days when their price gets low enough.
All of them. You can take a mold of the CD or DVD and make your own copies of their shape too. The analogy is poor. What if instead of Cognac glasses they were televisions and you had a magic device that could make an exact copy of that television in 5 minutes by pressing a button (in case it breaks)?
Just because copying CDs or DVDs is easy doesn't make it right. As in televisions, you should have a guarantee, that's all.
Compare JSP and PHP if you want, but to compare a platform to a scripting language is pointless.
The sad reality is that so few developers know enough to fully exploit J2EE that they wind up doing little more than what PHP does better in the first place.
Here's an exercise: Replace every reference to god in your post with "Kindly All-Knowing Purple Octopus", and you'll see how an atheist sees your argument.
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Star Trek is fiction, you realize. That ship taking pictures of Jupiter right now? Kirk isn't on it.
They are actually working on a blackberry dongle that plugs into the ipod's bottom.
My first computer was a Z80 based Northstar Horizon - came in a pretty wooden case and cost about $2500 in 1978. Also had a buggy, expensive Intertube terminal and a teletype for a printer. I remember my father paid about $350 for an additional 16KB of RAM (a kit - he had to solder in the chips himself) so we could run UCSD Pascal. My mother wrote a book using the Pascal's built in editor (though she asked for help every five minutes). The big event for me was when we installed CP/M which let me run Micro-soft BASIC which was way better than Northstar BASIC.
Now if you ask my older brother, he'd say a 6800 processor kit. He programmed in machine language, wrote his own operating system and a pretty good Mastermind game.
And that's not all! When it comes crashing down, the impact will be less severe, as will the ensuing fireball! And even if we have bad luck (sadistically speaking), and it crashes in the ocean, the oil spill won't be as Valdezian.
And if you play it backwards, it makes "Bill is dead" pop up on a blue screen.
In small European countries which don't benefit from having games translated into the local language, the children play them in English, and as a result, pick up quite a bit of written language. I've seen this in the Czech Republic, and found it amazing that a ten year old could understand so much. That said, it does little for spoken language.
In France, TV over DSL (or ADSL as it is known it France, where it was invented) has existed for almost a year now, and there are several competing offers. My DSL provider also provides a second VOIP telephone along with TV and very fast DSL service.
Outstanding! Thanks for the laugh!
Frankly, I don't see a bright future for Sun. They won't be making money on Solaris thanks to Linux. They lost out the app server market to IBM, WebLogic and JBoss. Low cost clusters, especially in the database world, are obviating the need for expensive multiprocessor machines. The Java Desktop has potential, but seems too little to late. IBM will buy them one of these days when their price gets low enough.
Just imagine what this could do for the bra industry if you could make magnetic breast implants!
All of them. You can take a mold of the CD or DVD and make your own copies of their shape too. The analogy is poor. What if instead of Cognac glasses they were televisions and you had a magic device that could make an exact copy of that television in 5 minutes by pressing a button (in case it breaks)?
Just because copying CDs or DVDs is easy doesn't make it right. As in televisions, you should have a guarantee, that's all.
Electrical devices burst into flames... I guess then slashdotting them is akin to putting out the fire with gasoline.
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Compare JSP and PHP if you want, but to compare a platform to a scripting language is pointless.
The sad reality is that so few developers know enough to fully exploit J2EE that they wind up doing little more than what PHP does better in the first place.
Here's an exercise: Replace every reference to god in your post with "Kindly All-Knowing Purple Octopus", and you'll see how an atheist sees your argument.
I wish I were moderating to give you a +5 Funny.
LOL!
Interesting. Maybe you should patent that idea of practicing what you don't preach (before I do) !
Or patent the idea of patenting. I'd call it GARP (GARP's A Recursive Patent)
I am going to patent the idea of first post
And remember my sun, if you're going to eat a gas-giant, please don't forget the Bean-O. Solar wind can be most disruptive.
I guess the sensory deprivation would be a bummer if you tried to have phone sex. Shame - could be kinda kinky in the pool.
His name is Zelig.
Just to show that you can find anything on google:
http://www.stinsv.com/TOS/Ooc/iamkirok.wav
According to my wife, Miramani, you take out a communicator, you say "Kirk to Enterprise", and the magic repulsive laser pushes the rock away.
I guess you could just download a minimal bootstrap driver which prints Lego(tm) blocks from which you build the real printer.
Don't bother. It's obvious that you are certifiable.