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Enumerations are part of the java.util class library, have been since the advent of Java 2, IIRC. Granted, still not part of the base language, but available in the standard SDK.
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I'm curious, maybe you can answer this. In Ireland I've heard this symbol referred to as 'hash', 'cardinal' and 'cross-hatch'. Have you heard either of the latter two used in the UK?
Boolean logic was invented by an Irishman, George Boole, at University College Cork. None of this shit would exist without that, so I would say that the Irish invented everything that has everything existed. Apart from the stuff that was invented by other people.
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Most Italians really enjoy Ireland, but maybe that because apart from the fact that a) we're ugly, you lot are good-looking, b) our weather is dreadful and yours is good, and c) you speak Italian and we speak hiberno-English, the two places are practically the same.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nordic countries are ueber-wired and you all have cellphones coming out the wazoo, BFD. If all Slashdot focused on was Finland live would be pretty dull.
You obviously have a very limited knowledge of British cuisine. There's more to John Bull's kitchen than blood pudding, haggis and crappy burgers. BTW, there is no way to cook a good burger, it's still crap no matter how you look at it.
It is not slavery. You enter into a voluntary agreement with your employer; in return for providing your expertise, you are rewarded in the form of wages, or options, or profit-sharing or whatever. You can always refuse to do this, i.e., quit, at any time. This is a far cry from slavery.
My first job in 1988 involved work on an IBM System/36 -- a large, freezer-sized unit. When the AS/400 came out, the company no longer needed the box and we wanted to ditch it, but it was too big to get out of the office via doors or windows. The landlord offered to take it off our hands, so we said "fine". When visiting his house a few weeks later, we discovered that he'd ripped out all of the internals and tipped it on its side, and where the console used to be had put a trapdoor. He'd filled it full of coal for his furnace!
"Thanks for the rather insincere advice and encouragement."
I don't recall giving you any advice, I offered my opinion on your sorry tale. The encouragement was genuine. I do hope you kick the habit.
"Obviously it's easier for you to write me off as a junkie, and say that I took drugs for money?!?!? I discussed my career, to illustrate what I LOST from drugs, not what i stood to gain. I never used drugs to further my career... that is the most unintelligent thing I've read in years. I don't know how you took that from my post."
The whole gist of your post seemed to be "I had these problems, chose not to follow a more reasonable solution than pain-killer abuse followed by taking opium (did you somehow think opium was better than heroin?) in order that I could keep working at my wonderful job." I have little sympathy for you, which you seem to expect. I read your post twice before posting and just read it again. I still reach the same conclusion. Just because I disagree with you is no reason to resort to name-calling and insults. If you really want serious discussion, you could avoid doing that and try to sway my opinion with argument rather than invective.
In Ireland there is an OTC painkiller marketed as "Solpadeine" that I would recommend for intermittent use, with low doses of codeine. Works wonders for hangovers and muscle pain. Also try your girlfriend's period pain pills. Most of those are just muscle relaxants and will help too.
This is fairly typical. Rather than do something about the root cause of your pain (in all likelihood, stress), you ran to the doctors to pop some pills -- hey, it's the American Way, we can fix everything with science. And to think that you did this for a meagre $50K a year... well, good luck getting the monkey off your back. Two older siblings of a childhood friend are dead from smack overdoses, two talented, promising people. Hope the same doesn't happen to you.
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Enumerations are part of the java.util class library, have been since the advent of Java 2, IIRC. Granted, still not part of the base language, but available in the standard SDK.
I'm curious, maybe you can answer this. In Ireland I've heard this symbol referred to as 'hash', 'cardinal' and 'cross-hatch'. Have you heard either of the latter two used in the UK?
Boolean logic was invented by an Irishman, George Boole, at University College Cork. None of this shit would exist without that, so I would say that the Irish invented everything that has everything existed. Apart from the stuff that was invented by other people.
Most Italians really enjoy Ireland, but maybe that because apart from the fact that a) we're ugly, you lot are good-looking, b) our weather is dreadful and yours is good, and c) you speak Italian and we speak hiberno-English, the two places are practically the same.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nordic countries are ueber-wired and you all have cellphones coming out the wazoo, BFD. If all Slashdot focused on was Finland live would be pretty dull.
As are jokes about ugly Americans.
That's wonderful, you must be so proud of her.
Hear, hear. That's precisely what makes them so dangerous.
You obviously have a very limited knowledge of British cuisine. There's more to John Bull's kitchen than blood pudding, haggis and crappy burgers. BTW, there is no way to cook a good burger, it's still crap no matter how you look at it.
The development of Java and its class libraries is controlled by the Java Community Process, not by Sun.
Ack!
2,500+ in the last 18 hours on my box.
Do you mean Ireland? :-) Yeah, I'm Irish, don't bother mailing me abuse.
Yes, I do. The rain IS making me wet.
It's from The Onion a few months back.
What box is it in, is it an RS?
They're IPOing on the Euronext market.
Tosh! A tree and a saw, you ingrate. And you'd be delighted to have it, because it makes you free.
..."the spirit of the times". Just to be pedantic.
It is not slavery. You enter into a voluntary agreement with your employer; in return for providing your expertise, you are rewarded in the form of wages, or options, or profit-sharing or whatever. You can always refuse to do this, i.e., quit, at any time. This is a far cry from slavery.
My first job in 1988 involved work on an IBM System/36 -- a large, freezer-sized unit. When the AS/400 came out, the company no longer needed the box and we wanted to ditch it, but it was too big to get out of the office via doors or windows. The landlord offered to take it off our hands, so we said "fine". When visiting his house a few weeks later, we discovered that he'd ripped out all of the internals and tipped it on its side, and where the console used to be had put a trapdoor. He'd filled it full of coal for his furnace!
"Thanks for the rather insincere advice and encouragement."
I don't recall giving you any advice, I offered my opinion on your sorry tale. The encouragement was genuine. I do hope you kick the habit.
"Obviously it's easier for you to write me off as a junkie, and say that I took drugs for money?!?!? I discussed my career, to illustrate what I LOST from drugs, not what i stood to gain. I never used drugs to further my career... that is the most unintelligent thing I've read in years. I don't know how you took that from my post."
The whole gist of your post seemed to be "I had these problems, chose not to follow a more reasonable solution than pain-killer abuse followed by taking opium (did you somehow think opium was better than heroin?) in order that I could keep working at my wonderful job." I have little sympathy for you, which you seem to expect. I read your post twice before posting and just read it again. I still reach the same conclusion. Just because I disagree with you is no reason to resort to name-calling and insults. If you really want serious discussion, you could avoid doing that and try to sway my opinion with argument rather than invective.
In Ireland there is an OTC painkiller marketed as "Solpadeine" that I would recommend for intermittent use, with low doses of codeine. Works wonders for hangovers and muscle pain. Also try your girlfriend's period pain pills. Most of those are just muscle relaxants and will help too.
This is fairly typical. Rather than do something about the root cause of your pain (in all likelihood, stress), you ran to the doctors to pop some pills -- hey, it's the American Way, we can fix everything with science. And to think that you did this for a meagre $50K a year... well, good luck getting the monkey off your back. Two older siblings of a childhood friend are dead from smack overdoses, two talented, promising people. Hope the same doesn't happen to you.
Going for a 30-minute swim every other day generally keeps both lower back pain and that horrible pain between the shoulder blades at bay for me.