...but then, they fire up Eclipse, or NetBeans, or Guiffy, or enable the Java support in their browser, or try to run an app on their favorite feature phone. And they wait for it to become responsive......and wait...
Would be funny if it where true, but Netbeans on my computer loads faster than Visual Studio. And both runs equally as fast.
But Java was the important thing we couldn't let die. And it isn't open source so the community couldn't steal it away from oracle.
Java is fully open-sourced and the most open-sourced programming language I know. OpenJDK is the same source code Oracle uses for its JDK. It's easy to download and compile all Java executables. Here is a guide and a Youtube video detailing how to build the JDK.
Java is defined and updated by the JSR process, which resembles RFCs. And also by the JEP process which tells you exactly what's being built into Java and when. You can also use their bugtrackers and mailing lists to track Oracle engineers' work.
The question you should be asking is - which shared calendar protocol should we choose?
Good call on the question remark, I'd disagree with your answer.
The problem is that iCalendar isn't calendar 'line' or 'sharing protocol, it's more of a 'serialization/persistance' protocol. iCalendar does not define any connection or query methods. Things like that have to be defined if there is to be any interop. We've actually written tools around the iCalendar/WebDAV combo, they work great for smaller teams, but you run into problems very quickly has the team grows or the calendar's use increases.
As things settle down, CalDAV, a.k.a RFC 4791 will probably become more of an entrenched calendar sharing standard. I've been working on a CalDAV Outlook plugin, Open Connector for quite some time. CalDAV is supported by Apple Calendaring products, Mozill thunderbird, Oracle calendaring server and a bunch of other open-source and commercial packages.
You can make a movie called White Guys can't Jump but you can't make a movie called Black Guys can't swim (fill in swim with whatever).
Why not? Ever tried? Dude, you can walk into a store and buy/rent "Birth of a Nation" and other obviously racist films. An offensive title would be nothing.
But as soon as you breath a word against the Muslims you are silenced.
Have you listened to your radio lately? Tune into any talk show, geared to the average person, discussing the war.
blacks (oh shit! sorry -- African American)
There is nothing wrong in refering to a person as a 'black person'. Same for other races. Being humans, and as a courtesy to others, we usually add 'person' after the race/ethnicity, but that is all. Eg. "white person", "black person", "hispanic person" etc. And that's just if you want to be formal.
It doesn't have to be 'us' versus 'them'. This world would be so much better if people simply treat each other as they would like to be treated themselves. If you do this sincerly, there will be no need to walk on eggshells or be paranoid.
We may have to settle for working on a fix. The industry isn't going to replace such an entrenched protocol easily, even if that may be the best solution.
My guess, is that we will have to wait at least a year before DKIM comes out with any type of RFC document. At least some of the big players including Yahoo and Google will support this protocol right off the bat. Hence it should have a good chance at solving the current lack of any email authentication.
Of course we know the spammers will adapt as well...
I'm actually reasonably disturbed by the Chaos that has been created by greed...
How is reselling a PS3 greed? To label this greed you need to know what financial situation these people are in.
Are they standing in line to afford a luxury item or is this a rare opportunity to make 2 months rent in a day?
Ticket/Event/Product Scalping ( reselling ) is not always illegal and many legitimate business do it. Tickmaster at least at one point aunctioned tickets to popular events.
Finally, who is being hurt by the PS3 resellers? The gamers who have to wait an extra week to get their hands on a PS3?
IQ is unpopular because it is mostly in-born, inheritable, and unevenly distributed.
Dissenting opinion...
Which viewpoint is correct? The answer becomes obvious when you compare the lower IQ results of other discriminated minorities around the world, many of whom are of the same genetic stock.
Perhaps the most dramatic example is the Northern Irish. Even though they come from the same ethnic group, Catholics (the discriminated minority) score 15 points lower on IQ tests than Protestants.
In the U.S., both Korean and Japanese students score above average in IQ tests; many scholars agree that, genetically, they are about as close as two ethnic groups can get. But the Korean minority living in Japan scores much lower on IQ tests than the Japanese. Why? The Japanese are extremely racist towards Koreans; they view them as stupid and violent, and employ them only in the dirtiest and lowest-paying jobs. Tensions are so great between the two groups that violence often erupts in the form of riots.
In the U.S., Polish Jews arriving before 1910 were also perceived as stupid (for no other reason than they were accustomed to a different culture and spoke another language). So many "Pollock" jokes arose that Americans still tell them to this day, even if no one remembers why. The Polish Jews suffered heavy job discrimination and suspicion of criminality; not surprisingly, their children suffered low grades and IQ test scores. Today, of course, many Americans hold the opposite prejudice; Jews are viewed as the most brilliant of ethnic groups.
Russian-born Jews who became American soldiers in World War I also scored low on IQ tests. So low, in fact, that Carl Brigham, the creator of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, declared that the results "disprove the popular belief that the Jew is highly intelligent."
Actually, this is pretty much entirely incorrect. The purpose of an IQ test is to measure educational potential. Specifically, IQ tests are designed to determine how well a child is likely to do in his or her educational career. They were actually initially designed to aid schools in determining where to place children in terms of their educational focus.
I disagree.
Regardless of design, all IQ tests attempt to measure the same general intelligence.[1] Component tests are generally designed and selected because they are found to be predictive of later intellectual development, such as educational achievement. IQ also correlates with job performance, socioeconomic advancement, and "social pathologies". Recent work has demonstrated links between IQ and health, longevity, and functional literacy. [2] [3]
However, IQ tests do not measure all meanings of "intelligence", such as creativity. IQ scores are relative (like placement in a race), not absolute (like the measurement of a ruler).
Specifically: when people are given better education, their IQ increases. IQ is decidedly not (as you claim) "mostly in-born [and] inheritable" unless you really believe
Thank you.
I ran into an interesting study once. People from first world countries very often underestimate social factors that predict wealth and status in their societies. I am guessing that's some sought of 'coping mechanism' for surviving in such aggressive capitalist societies.
Look at this paragraph on the distribution of wealth. Not only this, but according to common indictors, the US has the worst wealth distribution in the world, and its getting worse every year. Is intelligence changing that much across the population?
It's funny, it didn't dawn on me that spending all day in my apartment would drive me crazy, so quickly. But after a week at home, I was ready to go back to working from my office cubicle:)
Don't underestimate just having people around you all day.
I still "work at home", but I go tour local coffee shops and bookstores. At least now, there's movement in the environment.
On the other hand, if you want Exchange support in Mozilla, vote for bug 128284.
Chances of this happening is slim to none, unless some funds the 10,000's of man-hours necessary to do this.
It's not just extended MAPI they want to implement since MAPI is an API not a transport protocol. They need to reverse engineer MS's private RPC implemention, on which some private variant of MAPI is used. Good luck to the poor soul tasked to do this.
License-wise, this does not save you anything either, since every exchange CAL comes with an Outlook seat ( it's been a while since I checked this out, so I may be wrong ).
Still disagree that it was wrong to publish it as they did, but I see what you're saying.
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It's not just about people, apparently the human mind prefers categorized information over unordered information.
I agree with you entirely.
The question is what do we do about it? Do we say, "it's natural to categorize without merit so it should be allowed". Or do we keep fighting prejudice?
Some people have suggested that we will never see a human society free of social classes because of this. I tend to agree, but I'll argue against prejudice whenever the issue comes up.
1. Republican (barely) makes SLIGHTLY off color remark that bothers no one, especially the woman the remark was about, who thought it was funny.
How does one barely make a remark? Did he say it quietly? And so what if she didn't mind the comment. How does this change the nature of the comment? You think if she did mind she would complain publicly?
2. L. A. Times prints the story from an "anonymous" source without bothering to do any verification.
No one is denying he said those things. Why is verificatin an issue?
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Generalizations or stereo-types exist for a reason.
The reason is that people are lazy.
We do not want to have to evaluate everyone we meet on their own merits, so we group them together and apply a label.
Not because 10 out of 10 of the latino people you've met in your life are all hot-blooded does it mean that latino people are predisposed to aggression. There can be a third, independent factor, held by those 10 people that you've met that explain their personality. Maybe there are social factors from their society that influences every member regardless of race to a little more upfront when communicating. That's just an example.
In the end accepting those stereotypes just hinders the people who do not fit them. Eg. The black intellectual, or the latino business-woman is seen as 'an oreo' because of their calm and intellectual persona.
Dude, who's pretending? Do you have any scientific evidence we are not?
We are all scientist around here correct? We are you getting that data to draw your conclusions?
I know it can't be your social experience, we know better than to assume a casual relationship because of some apparent loose correlation of data ( correlation we are not sure exists in the first place ).
We are all different, physically, mentally, socially, etc.
Again, honestly. How so?
What about me, a black man, is inheritedly mentally different from the white guy next to me?
Do you have any evidence to back up your assertions at all?
Disparaging? hardly. This is just a sensationalist way to report the news.
The problem is that many people believe that nonesense. And the guy is the governor..., he runs the state! Don't you think it's a little worrying he attributes personality traits to race?
There are many of these stereotypes. For instance, I read once that there is a strong 'masculine' stereotype to most things concerning the black race, and similarly a strong 'feminine' basis to most things asian. This may have it's roots in the general physical traits but has migrated into most aspects concerning race. And hence there is some cognitive disonance when we see a black man in a lab coat run experiments or a strong asian man doing manual labor. When we switch the roles around, and our minds feel more at ease.
Now tell me, what does this little harmless stereotype do to the self image of a young black kid who first begins to encounter this 'social norm' in his/her formative years? How does this stereotype affect the black scientist, say in a compentitive field?
Those stereotypes are anything but harmless...
...especially coming from a guy who once admitted to admiring Hitler.
Racism requires either preferential treatment, prejudice or implicit or explicit claim of superiority.
True.
Simply attributing a neutral personality trait to a broad ethnic or cultural group and using historical ethnic or cultural heritage as supporting evidence is NOT racist.
Being called hot-blooded is not a 'neutral personality trait'.
It's a very bad thing in many situations and would suggest that people of those races are not suited for certain tasks or positions in society.
Personally, I don't think any of my personility traits are due to my race. And let me ask you, are any of your personality traits due to your race or ethnicity?. It's funny that most people answer 'no' while they go on holding those 'harmless stereotypes' to other people.
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I agree with your other points. But Java doesn't have a single LINQ-like system. But has many to chose from...
QueryDSL and jOOQ has most of the Linq-to-Object features.
Together with Java Persistence API and it's type-safe Criteria Query
Would be funny if it where true, but Netbeans on my computer loads faster than Visual Studio. And both runs equally as fast.
Java is fully open-sourced and the most open-sourced programming language I know. OpenJDK is the same source code Oracle uses for its JDK. It's easy to download and compile all Java executables. Here is a guide and a Youtube video detailing how to build the JDK.
Java is defined and updated by the JSR process, which resembles RFCs. And also by the JEP process which tells you exactly what's being built into Java and when. You can also use their bugtrackers and mailing lists to track Oracle engineers' work.
I've learnt a ton just by tracking those lists.
The question you should be asking is - which shared calendar protocol should we choose?
Good call on the question remark, I'd disagree with your answer.
The problem is that iCalendar isn't calendar 'line' or 'sharing protocol, it's more of a 'serialization/persistance' protocol. iCalendar does not define any connection or query methods. Things like that have to be defined if there is to be any interop. We've actually written tools around the iCalendar/WebDAV combo, they work great for smaller teams, but you run into problems very quickly has the team grows or the calendar's use increases.
As things settle down, CalDAV, a.k.a RFC 4791 will probably become more of an entrenched calendar sharing standard. I've been working on a CalDAV Outlook plugin, Open Connector for quite some time. CalDAV is supported by Apple Calendaring products, Mozill thunderbird, Oracle calendaring server and a bunch of other open-source and commercial packages.
Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols?
Well that sounds like a made-up name if I ever heard one.
Come on IBM, it's like you guys aren't even trying!
You can make a movie called White Guys can't Jump but you can't make a movie called Black Guys can't swim (fill in swim with whatever).
Why not? Ever tried? Dude, you can walk into a store and buy/rent "Birth of a Nation" and other obviously racist films. An offensive title would be nothing.
But as soon as you breath a word against the Muslims you are silenced.
Have you listened to your radio lately? Tune into any talk show, geared to the average person, discussing the war.
blacks (oh shit! sorry -- African American)
There is nothing wrong in refering to a person as a 'black person'. Same for other races. Being humans, and as a courtesy to others, we usually add 'person' after the race/ethnicity, but that is all. Eg. "white person", "black person", "hispanic person" etc. And that's just if you want to be formal.
It doesn't have to be 'us' versus 'them'. This world would be so much better if people simply treat each other as they would like to be treated themselves. If you do this sincerly, there will be no need to walk on eggshells or be paranoid.
Yeah, I guess would be funny...
If you're not someone that has to deal with those stereotypes at work.
Not complaining here really, personally I can take a jab. But just wanted to point out that there is a serious side to this.
His post was not racist. You gave no explanation of why it is ok to deride Christians but not Muslims.
It is not ok to deride Christians. It is not ok to deride Jews. It is not ok to deride Muslims.
Your question, is a strawman. You make an invalid assumption whilst asking your question.
Playing the first game you played last at least seems poetic. Nostalgia may help for a pleasant send-off.
For me, though it I'd want to play the original Super Mario Bros for the NES. First game and first console I owned.
It is time to rebuild the email protocol.
We may have to settle for working on a fix. The industry isn't going to replace such an entrenched protocol easily, even if that may be the best solution.
A large part of the problem is lack of a good, entrenched E-mail Authenication standard. The IETF's Domain Keys Identified Mail is working on fixing this, but that will take a while. DKIM is pretty much the standardization of Yahoo's DomainKeys protocol.
My guess, is that we will have to wait at least a year before DKIM comes out with any type of RFC document. At least some of the big players including Yahoo and Google will support this protocol right off the bat. Hence it should have a good chance at solving the current lack of any email authentication.
Of course we know the spammers will adapt as well...
I do however see a problem with trampling people to get a product in order to sell it online for a decent profit.
Agreed. But that was not what I got from your original post.
I'm actually reasonably disturbed by the Chaos that has been created by greed ...
How is reselling a PS3 greed? To label this greed you need to know what financial situation these people are in.
Are they standing in line to afford a luxury item or is this a rare opportunity to make 2 months rent in a day?
Ticket/Event/Product Scalping ( reselling ) is not always illegal and many legitimate business do it. Tickmaster at least at one point aunctioned tickets to popular events.
Finally, who is being hurt by the PS3 resellers? The gamers who have to wait an extra week to get their hands on a PS3?
IQ is unpopular because it is mostly in-born, inheritable, and unevenly distributed.
Dissenting opinion...
Which viewpoint is correct? The answer becomes obvious when you compare the lower IQ results of other discriminated minorities around the world, many of whom are of the same genetic stock.
Perhaps the most dramatic example is the Northern Irish. Even though they come from the same ethnic group, Catholics (the discriminated minority) score 15 points lower on IQ tests than Protestants.
In the U.S., both Korean and Japanese students score above average in IQ tests; many scholars agree that, genetically, they are about as close as two ethnic groups can get. But the Korean minority living in Japan scores much lower on IQ tests than the Japanese. Why? The Japanese are extremely racist towards Koreans; they view them as stupid and violent, and employ them only in the dirtiest and lowest-paying jobs. Tensions are so great between the two groups that violence often erupts in the form of riots.
In the U.S., Polish Jews arriving before 1910 were also perceived as stupid (for no other reason than they were accustomed to a different culture and spoke another language). So many "Pollock" jokes arose that Americans still tell them to this day, even if no one remembers why. The Polish Jews suffered heavy job discrimination and suspicion of criminality; not surprisingly, their children suffered low grades and IQ test scores. Today, of course, many Americans hold the opposite prejudice; Jews are viewed as the most brilliant of ethnic groups.
Russian-born Jews who became American soldiers in World War I also scored low on IQ tests. So low, in fact, that Carl Brigham, the creator of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, declared that the results "disprove the popular belief that the Jew is highly intelligent."
From http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-inferiorIQ.htm
Actually, this is pretty much entirely incorrect. The purpose of an IQ test is to measure educational potential. Specifically, IQ tests are designed to determine how well a child is likely to do in his or her educational career. They were actually initially designed to aid schools in determining where to place children in terms of their educational focus.
I disagree.
From Intelligence quotient
Although these tests were originally designed for predicting children's performance, they've long been adapted to many other purposes.
Specifically: when people are given better education, their IQ increases. IQ is decidedly not (as you claim) "mostly in-born [and] inheritable" unless you really believe
Thank you.
I ran into an interesting study once. People from first world countries very often underestimate social factors that predict wealth and status in their societies. I am guessing that's some sought of 'coping mechanism' for surviving in such aggressive capitalist societies.
Look at this paragraph on the distribution of wealth. Not only this, but according to common indictors, the US has the worst wealth distribution in the world, and its getting worse every year. Is intelligence changing that much across the population?
It's funny, it didn't dawn on me that spending all day in my apartment would drive me crazy, so quickly. But after a week at home, I was ready to go back to working from my office cubicle :)
Don't underestimate just having people around you all day.
I still "work at home", but I go tour local coffee shops and bookstores. At least now, there's movement in the environment.
On the other hand, if you want Exchange support in Mozilla, vote for bug 128284.
Chances of this happening is slim to none, unless some funds the 10,000's of man-hours necessary to do this.
It's not just extended MAPI they want to implement since MAPI is an API not a transport protocol. They need to reverse engineer MS's private RPC implemention, on which some private variant of MAPI is used. Good luck to the poor soul tasked to do this.
License-wise, this does not save you anything either, since every exchange CAL comes with an Outlook seat ( it's been a while since I checked this out, so I may be wrong ).
And for Sun, the deal-breaker is that Evolution is GPL-licensed.
Oh yeah, Sun hates the GPL
Still disagree that it was wrong to publish it as they did, but I see what you're saying.
It's not just about people, apparently the human mind prefers categorized information over unordered information.
I agree with you entirely.
The question is what do we do about it? Do we say, "it's natural to categorize without merit so it should be allowed". Or do we keep fighting prejudice?
Some people have suggested that we will never see a human society free of social classes because of this. I tend to agree, but I'll argue against prejudice whenever the issue comes up.
it's the least I can do.
1. Republican (barely) makes SLIGHTLY off color remark that bothers no one, especially the woman the remark was about, who thought it was funny.
How does one barely make a remark? Did he say it quietly? And so what if she didn't mind the comment. How does this change the nature of the comment? You think if she did mind she would complain publicly?
2. L. A. Times prints the story from an "anonymous" source without bothering to do any verification.
No one is denying he said those things. Why is verificatin an issue?
Generalizations or stereo-types exist for a reason.
The reason is that people are lazy.
We do not want to have to evaluate everyone we meet on their own merits, so we group them together and apply a label.
Not because 10 out of 10 of the latino people you've met in your life are all hot-blooded does it mean that latino people are predisposed to aggression. There can be a third, independent factor, held by those 10 people that you've met that explain their personality. Maybe there are social factors from their society that influences every member regardless of race to a little more upfront when communicating. That's just an example.
In the end accepting those stereotypes just hinders the people who do not fit them. Eg. The black intellectual, or the latino business-woman is seen as 'an oreo' because of their calm and intellectual persona.
Dude, who's pretending? Do you have any scientific evidence we are not?
We are all scientist around here correct? We are you getting that data to draw your conclusions?
I know it can't be your social experience, we know better than to assume a casual relationship because of some apparent loose correlation of data ( correlation we are not sure exists in the first place ).
We are all different, physically, mentally, socially, etc.
Again, honestly. How so?
What about me, a black man, is inheritedly mentally different from the white guy next to me?
Do you have any evidence to back up your assertions at all?
Disparaging? hardly. This is just a sensationalist way to report the news.
The problem is that many people believe that nonesense. And the guy is the governor..., he runs the state! Don't you think it's a little worrying he attributes personality traits to race?
There are many of these stereotypes. For instance, I read once that there is a strong 'masculine' stereotype to most things concerning the black race, and similarly a strong 'feminine' basis to most things asian. This may have it's roots in the general physical traits but has migrated into most aspects concerning race. And hence there is some cognitive disonance when we see a black man in a lab coat run experiments or a strong asian man doing manual labor. When we switch the roles around, and our minds feel more at ease.
Now tell me, what does this little harmless stereotype do to the self image of a young black kid who first begins to encounter this 'social norm' in his/her formative years? How does this stereotype affect the black scientist, say in a compentitive field?
Those stereotypes are anything but harmless...
...especially coming from a guy who once admitted to admiring Hitler.
Racism requires either preferential treatment, prejudice or implicit or explicit claim of superiority.
True.
Simply attributing a neutral personality trait to a broad ethnic or cultural group and using historical ethnic or cultural heritage as supporting evidence is NOT racist.
Being called hot-blooded is not a 'neutral personality trait'.
It's a very bad thing in many situations and would suggest that people of those races are not suited for certain tasks or positions in society.
Personally, I don't think any of my personility traits are due to my race. And let me ask you, are any of your personality traits due to your race or ethnicity?. It's funny that most people answer 'no' while they go on holding those 'harmless stereotypes' to other people.