Yes, yes, quite, uhhuh... virtual code based programming languages are nice but once cannot scientifically show them to be faster than or even equal to machine-code based programming languages for most operations. Everything else is design fluff. I would much rather write a payroll system in Java (or COBOL) but will stick to C or Assembler for drivers, realtime graphics, or significant byte manipulation. True believers in JVM's should not feel threatened by this observation. Java is still cool but its not C.
Hear the feeble cries of a dying industry. We cannot afford the bricks, gasoline, or other inefficiencies of our victorian educational plan if we truly want to educate all the worlds children, whereever they might live.
There is no way to hold back the future. This, like working remotely from home, makes far too much sense to be shouted down by unions, or corporate directors. Think of all the gas alone we will save.
>>you'll make money selling to those who want the option of support
But can you earn a living? It seems like you are architecting, building, then giving away houses but hoping to cash in on the routine maintenance (cleaning windows, painting, fixing mechanicals). Would not be long before you spent less time architecting and building houses, just to make ends meet.
Unless they come up with california cert battery operated tanks, the bg's (bad guys) could just shoot at (under) all the engine smoke. Big, fat, mean diesels, IIRC.
Three Rings for the Elven Oracle and Sun under the California sky, Twelve for the Dwarf Lords in their Redmond halls of stone, Nine for Compac, DEC, SG, and DG, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord, on his Dark Throne, In the land of Armonk, where the shadows lie...
I'm one of those J-A's Thank You Kindly. Data analysis in memory and the ability to chart interactively is the reason for this feature. If I have the GHZ, cpu's, and the RAM, I do not want no stinkin' SQL crawler to beat my hard drives to sift through relational cruft if I can have my data right there in memory where I need it. Tables are for payroll records - my statistics (probed network data and FFT sensor inputs) are simple but numerous and the old limits meant having to right C++ code to crunch and graph/chart this in real time.
most thin apps using X were neither swift, nor rich. I cannot get out of my head the mind-numbing slowness of watching a mouse move or click as it hesitated on the way and back from the server when I knew a MAC could do it in a mickey/msec!
IBM Mainframe terminals. Apps had to serve screens full of dumb data rather than have rich, swift action on the screen. And all the while SM tried to sound like a visionary. It was surreal, weird, and now is not the future - just a war-story.
Well they weren't very good at selling the idea that crazed psychos who cut innocent people's heads off or use Mustard Gas and Sarin on poor villagers are the BAD GUYS. Outright stank making that case, judging by some of the comments to this article (RE: removing Saddam and fighting Al Qaeda)
(Jamie adds: and all it took was twelve years of overwhelming scientific consensus.)
Most global warming sceptics were willing to accept that warming was occurring, but were sceptical about human responsibility. This is the part that has been near impossible to prove. Milankovich cycles probably have more to due with global climate change but human activity now seems likely to affect the rate over a measured period of time.
Oh, and make sure any third party user developed content becomes the sole property of the new Biodemic Corporation to stamp out any unnecessary innovation.
that type of marketese is what made rails necessary. It is just a no-nonsense, straight-talking web application generator. No PHD or MBA required. Just an idea for a web project. Hard to understand for the priesthood but the laity gets it.
We need not fear the future. Remember when folks ridiculed Java for being a silly, slow, toy that would never be ready for prime-time with no ide's and useless(cr)applets?
Times change. J2EE is more complex than MVS CICS used to be. Bloody shame. Rails or something like rails will make web development more problem-focused rather than tool-focused. At least for a while, until it becomes over-complicated by marketing-techs and propeller-head comittees.
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like the democRATS aren't doing the same thing, but better? Duh.
was a fine virtual machine and UCSD Pascal (with the CPM board) was actually productive years before java brewed it's first cup.
Yes, yes, quite, uhhuh... virtual code based programming languages are nice but once cannot scientifically show them to be faster than or even equal to machine-code based programming languages for most operations. Everything else is design fluff. I would much rather write a payroll system in Java (or COBOL) but will stick to C or Assembler for drivers, realtime graphics, or significant byte manipulation. True believers in JVM's should not feel threatened by this observation. Java is still cool but its not C.
>>A lot of the value is in being surrounded by other intelligent folks and interacting with professors who know their stuff.
One can do both with current technologies. Sometimes better than in a crowded, rushed classroom.
Hear the feeble cries of a dying industry. We cannot afford the bricks, gasoline, or other inefficiencies of our victorian educational plan if we truly want to educate all the worlds children, whereever they might live.
There is no way to hold back the future. This, like working remotely from home, makes far too much sense to be shouted down by unions, or corporate directors. Think of all the gas alone we will save.
welcome my new telco masters and look forward to their new methods of entertaining me.
Uplug the demon-internet and *poof* no viri.
I for one welcome my new online masters. And hope they have a decent timecard system to track my performance and attendance.
>>you'll make money selling to those who want the option of support
But can you earn a living? It seems like you are architecting, building, then giving away houses but hoping to cash in on the routine maintenance (cleaning windows, painting, fixing mechanicals). Would not be long before you spent less time architecting and building houses, just to make ends meet.
Unless they come up with california cert battery operated tanks, the bg's (bad guys) could just shoot at (under) all the engine smoke. Big, fat, mean diesels, IIRC.
Three Rings for the Elven Oracle and Sun under the California sky,
Twelve for the Dwarf Lords in their Redmond halls of stone,
Nine for Compac, DEC, SG, and DG, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord, on his Dark Throne,
In the land of Armonk, where the shadows lie...
HOHOHOHOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHEEHEE...Snort.. Sniff, whew! Stop it. Your killing me.
I'm one of those J-A's Thank You Kindly. Data analysis in memory and the ability to chart interactively is the reason for this feature. If I have the GHZ, cpu's, and the RAM, I do not want no stinkin' SQL crawler to beat my hard drives to sift through relational cruft if I can have my data right there in memory where I need it. Tables are for payroll records - my statistics (probed network data and FFT sensor inputs) are simple but numerous and the old limits meant having to right C++ code to crunch and graph/chart this in real time.
most thin apps using X were neither swift, nor rich. I cannot get out of my head the mind-numbing slowness of watching a mouse move or click as it hesitated on the way and back from the server when I knew a MAC could do it in a mickey/msec!
IBM Mainframe terminals. Apps had to serve screens full of dumb data rather than have rich, swift action on the screen.
And all the while SM tried to sound like a visionary. It was surreal, weird, and now is not the future - just a war-story.
only free hardware then, On with the Revolution. Sheesh.
Well they weren't very good at selling the idea that crazed psychos who cut innocent people's heads off or use Mustard Gas and Sarin on poor villagers are the BAD GUYS. Outright stank making that case, judging by some of the comments to this article (RE: removing Saddam and fighting Al Qaeda)
(Jamie adds: and all it took was twelve years of overwhelming scientific consensus.)
Most global warming sceptics were willing to accept that warming was occurring, but were sceptical about human responsibility. This is the part that has been near impossible to prove. Milankovich cycles probably have more to due with global climate change but human activity now seems likely to affect the rate over a measured period of time.
Oh, and make sure any third party user developed content becomes the sole property of the new Biodemic Corporation to stamp out any unnecessary innovation.
that type of marketese is what made rails necessary. It is just a no-nonsense, straight-talking web application generator. No PHD or MBA required. Just an idea for a web project. Hard to understand for the priesthood but the laity gets it.
We need not fear the future. Remember when folks ridiculed Java for being a silly, slow, toy that would never be ready for prime-time with no ide's and useless(cr)applets?
Times change. J2EE is more complex than MVS CICS used to be. Bloody shame. Rails or something like rails will make web development more problem-focused rather than tool-focused. At least for a while, until it becomes over-complicated by marketing-techs and propeller-head comittees.
or any analog to electomagnetic energy uses - like light, communications/radio, data storage, switches, etc. New world dawning, man...
applies to a great many open source projects. KDE?
it might mean that they are finally growing a conscience and are not making their users (buyers) their defacto QA and testing department.
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