Well, all I can say to Paul is "you're wrong". Java developers tend to stick with Java not because they are in mad love with Java the language but because they recognize that Java is bigger than the sum of its parts.
The immense number of system and third party libraries is what keeps most Java developers coding Java. The close second is Java developer's tools. Until there is an IDE for Python that's as extensive, capable and sophisticated as Eclipse I'm going to stay with Java. Most Java development is in the enterprise server side space and the sheer amount of tools that Java offers is just mind boggling.
Also us, enterprise developers tend to work in environments that are much more conservative from the technology standpoint (banking, insurance, brokerage). As far as I'm concerned it's a big win for us that we got Cobol elbowed out with Java. Trying to push the language of the month at those executives will cause us more harm than good.
I know that Python has some very nice features (I read the tutorial) but it's hardly the sort of paradigm shift that merits ditching Java and rewriting everything because of some neat syntax flavoring. Besides Java is hardly a frozen language and we have some exciting stuff coming down the pipe here. JDK 1.5 will introduce shared VM model which may make java compeling on the desktop, more elaborate iterators, annotations (my favourie in 1.5), and generics (although without primitive types support they are kinda lame).
Java is now frequently used in CS research as well. It looks almost certain that the next milestone in CS evolution will come in the form of Aspect Oriented Programming and AspectJ has been the leading implementation.
Sometimes it feels that Paul G. just has an ax to grind into the collective Java community but I wonder how closely did he actually look at Java before dismissing it?
Why isn't anybody pursuing 3D helmets anymore. Way back in 1994 when companies like 3DMaxx started building first consumer level VR helmets I had high hopes for the technology. Having had a chance to try a very high end VR helmet (>$15,000USD in 1994) I was very excited about the future of VR. Alas, a decade later everyone seems to have pretty much given up on the VR helmet idea. To me however, the potential of a helmet (especially in the entertainment space) is soo much greater than any 3D display unless such displays get into insane screen sizes.
Fredericton (capital of Canadian province of New Brunswick) has WiFi acces throughout the city and best of all it's free!
http://www.muniwireless.com/archives/000169.html
Actually if the world's wealth were divided equally amongst all living the average person on the planet would have a standard of living similar to that of a typical Ukrainian.
Scary?
Well not really. That means an average person would be fed, clothed and have a roof over their head (usually in a form of a small apartment). This may shock some USians with their sense of entitlement but it's something that most people on earth would be able to adjust to. You know why? Beacuse you DON'T need that SUV to haul your ass to the mall or your 6000sqft mansion with marble floors.
I call Eastern Europe with Skype all the time and most times voice quality is actually BETTER than with a phone conversation. The delay is almost unnoticable. Granted my parents who live there have a DSL line (it's a 512K DSL) and so do I. I heard that people with ISDN and even 56K dial up were getting very reasonable voice quality. Over DSL however, it's like talking to somebody in the same room.
The most annoying type for me is the drummers. You know, those that usually play in the local grunge band and don't realize that office hours are not a jam session. If your job really requires so little focus, it probably means you should be replaced by a shell script.
Chompers. Having lived in Europe in the past and now in North America I have to say the problem is much more prevalent here. How fucking difficult is it to keep your mouth shut while chewing your food. The previous workplace of mine had a chomper so loud I had to take my lunch to the conference room because the noises were so disgusting. I noticed that over time more joined me on lunch trips to the conference room. As it usually goes, the chomper remained unfazed.
And finally the aspiring "executives' in the making" special: checking your voicemail on speaker phone! Need I say more?
Those choices (except for management's Mozart) sound very distracting. I wonder how people can concentrate by listening to pop music. The beat itself is often geared towards loud clubs and not a working environment. Modern electronic music has become extremely distracting.
Personally, I recommend older Jean Michelle Jarre or Vangelis for good background music when concentration is required.
This is obviously blatant hollow threats but if those scammers grow in sophistication and actually start calling people on the phone with those same threats things may get very interesting... Things said on the phone are still taken much more seriously than bulk mail.
Case in point. I once taught someone to drive who had absolutely no idea what the function of the clutch was. He knew that he had to press it when shifting gears but didn't have a clue why. In fact he would at times forget to depress the clutch pedal especially when switching to neutral. He probably "discovered" that it was possible to do and seemingly no malfunction ocurred. It was only after I drew him a couple of napkin diagrams and explained that clutch was disengaging his engine to prevent the damage to the gearing system that he fully comprehended the gravity of his driving errors.
Cars (esp with manual gearboxes) are definitely not intuitive.
Given the perpetual shortage of toilet tissue in the Eastern bloc (it's a fact, anyone born there knows what I'm talking about) maybe the objective was simply to collect as many rolls as you can before other shoppers?
Would that make it Virtual Reality Soviet bloc style?
Not quite. Google is like resources discovery. Searchable bookmarks is more about resource rediscovery. You know you're looking for this page about fixing roof leaks with scotch tape that you stumbled upon six months ago but you can't remember the URL or what you searched for. Google always searches 150 gazillion pages for your results and usually returns fifty million pages back to you.
With searchable bookmarks that same search criteria searchas your personal bookmarked pages (maybe several thousand) and returns you a handful of pages that you bookmarked in the past. Extremely handdy.
The diff is that the pages I had already bookmarked ARE relevant to ME. And it's been countless times that I found a really good page only to forget its url and struggle to get it out of google again. Searchable bookmarks are orthogonal to Google. we need both.
Which browsers are you talking about? Are you thinking about the lame ass implementation inf firefox that searches within bookmark titles and URLs? Bookmark search should actually search on bookmarked pages themselves. Nothing less will do.
I've been waiting for searchable bookmarks for about a decade now and it is yet to appear in any web browser. Bookmarks as implemented in today's browsers are useless. They are unmanageable beyond twenty or so and the interfaces to keep them "organized" in "folders" are clumsy at best.
There. Your most important feature that browsers never had. Searchable bookmarks. Doesn't get much simpler than that. Am I the only one who thinks it's something every browser should have had long time aog?
yet still without multipart MIME support in newsgroups. Sorry guys but if you want your news client to have any sort of market share better make sure it is more porn friendly!
Halliburton and Quallcom would be a good start... both companies "awarded" major Iraq contracts without any real bidding, both companies having strong ties with the Bush family.
Mobile phones are shits here. The GSM system works much better. Here everything is CDMA based which means that the providers can cram as many subscribes on a single tower as they please. The bandwidth deteriorates gracefully meaning the consumers get inferior quality... but who gives a fuck about them when there is decent profit to be made?
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The immense number of system and third party libraries is what keeps most Java developers coding Java. The close second is Java developer's tools. Until there is an IDE for Python that's as extensive, capable and sophisticated as Eclipse I'm going to stay with Java. Most Java development is in the enterprise server side space and the sheer amount of tools that Java offers is just mind boggling.
Also us, enterprise developers tend to work in environments that are much more conservative from the technology standpoint (banking, insurance, brokerage). As far as I'm concerned it's a big win for us that we got Cobol elbowed out with Java. Trying to push the language of the month at those executives will cause us more harm than good.
I know that Python has some very nice features (I read the tutorial) but it's hardly the sort of paradigm shift that merits ditching Java and rewriting everything because of some neat syntax flavoring. Besides Java is hardly a frozen language and we have some exciting stuff coming down the pipe here. JDK 1.5 will introduce shared VM model which may make java compeling on the desktop, more elaborate iterators, annotations (my favourie in 1.5), and generics (although without primitive types support they are kinda lame).
Java is now frequently used in CS research as well. It looks almost certain that the next milestone in CS evolution will come in the form of Aspect Oriented Programming and AspectJ has been the leading implementation.
Sometimes it feels that Paul G. just has an ax to grind into the collective Java community but I wonder how closely did he actually look at Java before dismissing it?
Thanks for the info... didn't know about the FoV/resolution tradeoff. Good to know SOMEONE is still interested in making HMDs happen.
So whatever happened to venerable VR helmet?
Methinks that Microsoft.com could be a good title for a movie about impotence caused by inadequate length of your genitalia...
Fredericton (capital of Canadian province of New Brunswick) has WiFi acces throughout the city and best of all it's free! http://www.muniwireless.com/archives/000169.html
On a related note, would you recommend Emacs or Vi for general text and code editing?
Scary?
Well not really. That means an average person would be fed, clothed and have a roof over their head (usually in a form of a small apartment). This may shock some USians with their sense of entitlement but it's something that most people on earth would be able to adjust to. You know why? Beacuse you DON'T need that SUV to haul your ass to the mall or your 6000sqft mansion with marble floors.
I call Eastern Europe with Skype all the time and most times voice quality is actually BETTER than with a phone conversation. The delay is almost unnoticable. Granted my parents who live there have a DSL line (it's a 512K DSL) and so do I. I heard that people with ISDN and even 56K dial up were getting very reasonable voice quality. Over DSL however, it's like talking to somebody in the same room.
The most annoying type for me is the drummers. You know, those that usually play in the local grunge band and don't realize that office hours are not a jam session. If your job really requires so little focus, it probably means you should be replaced by a shell script.
Chompers. Having lived in Europe in the past and now in North America I have to say the problem is much more prevalent here. How fucking difficult is it to keep your mouth shut while chewing your food. The previous workplace of mine had a chomper so loud I had to take my lunch to the conference room because the noises were so disgusting. I noticed that over time more joined me on lunch trips to the conference room. As it usually goes, the chomper remained unfazed.
And finally the aspiring "executives' in the making" special: checking your voicemail on speaker phone! Need I say more?
Personally, I recommend older Jean Michelle Jarre or Vangelis for good background music when concentration is required.
Since when Bush's invasions have anything to do with terrorism?
This is obviously blatant hollow threats but if those scammers grow in sophistication and actually start calling people on the phone with those same threats things may get very interesting... Things said on the phone are still taken much more seriously than bulk mail.
OK. I stand corrected. Not enough coffee in the system... no pun intended.
Last time I checked J2ME was Java 2 Mobile Edition not Java 3 Micro Edition. You got closer though ;-)
Case in point. I once taught someone to drive who had absolutely no idea what the function of the clutch was. He knew that he had to press it when shifting gears but didn't have a clue why. In fact he would at times forget to depress the clutch pedal especially when switching to neutral. He probably "discovered" that it was possible to do and seemingly no malfunction ocurred. It was only after I drew him a couple of napkin diagrams and explained that clutch was disengaging his engine to prevent the damage to the gearing system that he fully comprehended the gravity of his driving errors.
Cars (esp with manual gearboxes) are definitely not intuitive.
Would that make it Virtual Reality Soviet bloc style?
does it search bookmarked pages or just regex the bookmark titles/urls? That is the crux of the problem.
With searchable bookmarks that same search criteria searchas your personal bookmarked pages (maybe several thousand) and returns you a handful of pages that you bookmarked in the past. Extremely handdy.
The diff is that the pages I had already bookmarked ARE relevant to ME. And it's been countless times that I found a really good page only to forget its url and struggle to get it out of google again. Searchable bookmarks are orthogonal to Google. we need both.
Which browsers are you talking about? Are you thinking about the lame ass implementation inf firefox that searches within bookmark titles and URLs? Bookmark search should actually search on bookmarked pages themselves. Nothing less will do.
There. Your most important feature that browsers never had. Searchable bookmarks. Doesn't get much simpler than that. Am I the only one who thinks it's something every browser should have had long time aog?
yet still without multipart MIME support in newsgroups. Sorry guys but if you want your news client to have any sort of market share better make sure it is more porn friendly!
Halliburton and Quallcom would be a good start... both companies "awarded" major Iraq contracts without any real bidding, both companies having strong ties with the Bush family.
Mobile phones are shits here. The GSM system works much better. Here everything is CDMA based which means that the providers can cram as many subscribes on a single tower as they please. The bandwidth deteriorates gracefully meaning the consumers get inferior quality... but who gives a fuck about them when there is decent profit to be made?
Which?