...that while the missile is still climbing, it is moving slowly (by missile standards). In the ballistic phase it's far faster and harder to hit. So yeah, you have to be pretty near the launch site to start with.
Wait! You didn't specify the various namespaces that your attributes come from, or provide a DTD or XSD so that I can read your document with a validating reader! You're just NOT LONG-WINDED ENOUGH to use XML!
Anyway, XML is merely the data format. I'm sure you could bolt a nicer data format onto Ant if you wanted, but the limitations of make are best addressed by using something modern.
Cobbling together the mass of awkward syntax, unextendability, and tabs that is make ranks alongside actual advancement of human knowledge? I'd rather they'd awarded the prize on the basis of something other than sheer number of victims:)
Thank goodness for Ant -- teaching the world that we don't need to use make any more was the best thing Java ever did for us.
Hrm, well, that was my curmudgeonly rant for the day.
They aren't a legion of faceless oppressors, they are our brothers, sisters
Well, to _you_ they're brothers, sisters, etc. To the _other_ guy they're faceless oppressors.
You do understand that there _are_ other guys, right?
You can oppose the president, you can oppose the policies of the government, and you can protest both, but don't antagonize a group of people I hold in the highest regard.
Why on earth not? I appreciate that _you_ think the world of them, but why would some other random guy?
Sounds to me as if you have difficulty accepting the whole 'other guy' concept. Wait'll you hear how many of them there are!
That's good, because 'US Marine Corps' and 'rape' are well-nigh synonymous in some parts of the world(*). Not that I actually care, I just felt like mentioning it.
(*) Well, until that tank thing with the schoolgirls.
To be brutally honest, that should be 'the basic working knowledge' rather than 'a basic working knowledge', if you want it to parse correctly with the 'so thoroughly' that comes later on.
Yeah, nice FUD. Java is slow because it's bytecode, not because it's garbage collected. (Incidentally, all the Swing applications I've used recently have been every bit as responsive as I could desire, so it isn't even necessarily slow.)
Java is slow for many reasons -- bytecode need not be slow. The Java GC is slow, and some of the Java libs are slow (j3d anyone?), and there are aspects of Java bytecode that make it difficult to optimize (it was designed to be interpreted, remember), but there is no reason why bytecode must be slow.
Swing is very slow. I don't know _what_ kind of machine you must be using swing on.
BOOM! And you reveal that you don't know what you're talking about. Circular references are irrelevant to any GC scheme more sophisticated than reference counting.
But still relevant to Java, unfortunately. I agree, though, that GCs need not cause pauses -- it's just that common Java ones do (I don't know if this is just an implementation thing or a subtle property of Java, though).
Then come back and make some informed comments, instead of spouting nonsense. Thank you.
If you'd RTFA, you might know that this is not what MS have done. They patented a specific implementation, not a generic idea, and they never sued anyone over it.
However, yeah, this is Slashdot, M$ evil, patents evil, and so on and so on.
'Lost Leaders' in the sense of 'poets who start off as angry rebels but later become Poet Laureate, thus infuriating those poets who are still young and angry'?
Luser: I want to embed my graphs in it now. And when Accounting change the graph, it should email me. Some of the graphs are generated from this old DLL. And when you click here, it should bring up foo.xls with sheet 3 selected.
People use UKP because the country is called the UK (at least that's how the name starts... it kind of goes on and on).
'Great Britain' is a geographical area including some (but not others) of the islands that are near the main island on which England sits.
Why everyone (who doesn't like there) has started referring to the country as 'Great Britain' I have no idea... watching too many Mel Gibson movies, maybe...
So, to sum up, you don't have any ideas about what people should do, right? get up, off of your ass, and make plans. Then COMMIT. Then execute. DO IT. is not an idea, it's management speak with a dash of Mr. Motivator thrown in. You do get that, right?
I don't feel like I'm in much danger of being offshored (I don't really work in any one particular country), but I'm trying to move out of IT as a general thing... the brief phase when it seemed like a 'profession' is over:(
Indeed, the Prosperous American Middle Class is largely a product of the union movement (and government regulation).
However, it's worth noting that in Europe, socialism/unionism has been just as rampantly destructive on an individual, economical and environmental level as Bad Capitalism ever was in the USA.
It's just a matter of whether a system is applied responsibly... I don't know that the actual system you pick matters much.
The cultural tragedy you describe is real, but in fact there _is_ a tradition of 'real' aged sake, sake that is designed to be drunk old.
The practise of aging sake goes back to the middle ages. Generally, aged sake was more expensive (but probably revolting to modern taste). This only changed during the Meiji era as financial factors made it more cost effective to offload the stuff asap.
Old sake, whether aged or spoiled, can be called 'koshu' (often a negative term, but you see it on bottles these days), while sake intentionally aged can be called 'jukuseishu' or jukushu. I agree that this term is often stuck on sake which is actually just black and icky, but nevertheless there is a tradition of intentionally making sake like that.
The problem is that there is no (commonly known) term to describe how the sake is aged -- there are many ways of doing it which basically produce totally different drinks. So nobody knows what it 'should' taste like, or how dark it should get, which leaves a lot of room for idiots to pay a lot for rubbish.
That is absolutely priceless! Where the heck can you be where people put up with being 'corrected' on that for years, without ever telling you the right answer? Brilliant.
I know at least 1 site where term services is being used pretty effectively, even over the internet. It's being used for administration and technical tasks rather than end-user applications, but it seems to work well -- not much lag/net load, no issues with multiple sessions (up to about 6, a mainframe replacement this is not).
Performance is much better than with VNC.
If it has a failing, it's that the rules for when a session times out are kind of inscrutable and result in reconnects when a session is left overnight. It also requires a certain willingness to learn the security model.
Hence 'reforms' such as tax-deductible second homes -- helps those with capital use it to reduce the tax on their income. Those who don't already have capital will, of course, subsidise the exercise.
There are plenty of alternatives Most users just need something that performs a function on a row or column of data
Mm, this is what I meant by an inability to focus on business needs. It is not possible (with a reasonable amount of effort) to generate and splice together real time futures price streams based on bloomberg data, a C maths library, and parameters modified on the fly by the user, with OpenOffice. It is with Excel. This is the sort of task that needs doing. Other people in the company may be able to get by with OO, which is nice, but the world can't switch until an alternative to what Excel does appears.
Just saying that OO does what _you_ have decided the dumb ol' users need does not bring that day closer.
I _really_ hate Excel a _lot_. I don't ask people to stop doing business until open source catches up, though.
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Wait! You didn't specify the various namespaces that your attributes come from, or provide a DTD or XSD so that I can read your document with a validating reader! You're just NOT LONG-WINDED ENOUGH to use XML!
Anyway, XML is merely the data format. I'm sure you could bolt a nicer data format onto Ant if you wanted, but the limitations of make are best addressed by using something modern.
*weeps*
Cobbling together the mass of awkward syntax, unextendability, and tabs that is make ranks alongside actual advancement of human knowledge? I'd rather they'd awarded the prize on the basis of something other than sheer number of victims
Thank goodness for Ant -- teaching the world that we don't need to use make any more was the best thing Java ever did for us.
Hrm, well, that was my curmudgeonly rant for the day.
They aren't a legion of faceless oppressors, they are our brothers, sisters
Well, to _you_ they're brothers, sisters, etc. To the _other_ guy they're faceless oppressors.
You do understand that there _are_ other guys, right?
You can oppose the president, you can oppose the policies of the government, and you can protest both, but don't antagonize a group of people I hold in the highest regard.
Why on earth not? I appreciate that _you_ think the world of them, but why would some other random guy?
Sounds to me as if you have difficulty accepting the whole 'other guy' concept. Wait'll you hear how many of them there are!
Our soldiers aren't over there raping the women
That's good, because 'US Marine Corps' and 'rape' are well-nigh synonymous in some parts of the world(*). Not that I actually care, I just felt like mentioning it.
(*) Well, until that tank thing with the schoolgirls.
To be brutally honest, that should be 'the basic working knowledge' rather than 'a basic working knowledge', if you want it to parse correctly with the 'so thoroughly' that comes later on.
Yeah, nice FUD. Java is slow because it's bytecode, not because it's garbage collected. (Incidentally, all the Swing applications I've used recently have been every bit as responsive as I could desire, so it isn't even necessarily slow.)
Java is slow for many reasons -- bytecode need not be slow. The Java GC is slow, and some of the Java libs are slow (j3d anyone?), and there are aspects of Java bytecode that make it difficult to optimize (it was designed to be interpreted, remember), but there is no reason why bytecode must be slow.
Swing is very slow. I don't know _what_ kind of machine you must be using swing on.
BOOM! And you reveal that you don't know what you're talking about. Circular references are irrelevant to any GC scheme more sophisticated than reference counting.
But still relevant to Java, unfortunately. I agree, though, that GCs need not cause pauses -- it's just that common Java ones do (I don't know if this is just an implementation thing or a subtle property of Java, though).
Then come back and make some informed comments, instead of spouting nonsense. Thank you.
Mm. Quite.
Microsoft has spent over a decade essentially supporting only ONE processor architecture, x86.
A brief survey of the range of processors on which MS oses are, and have been, supported, would have helped you make a more correct statement here.
If you'd RTFA, you might know that this is not what MS have done. They patented a specific implementation, not a generic idea, and they never sued anyone over it.
However, yeah, this is Slashdot, M$ evil, patents evil, and so on and so on.
...a search for 'computers' gets apple.com in first place.
'Lost Leaders' in the sense of 'poets who start off as angry rebels but later become Poet Laureate, thus infuriating those poets who are still young and angry'?
Or 'loss leaders'?
Luser: I want to embed my graphs in it now. And when Accounting change the graph, it should email me. Some of the graphs are generated from this old DLL. And when you click here, it should bring up foo.xls with sheet 3 selected.
Training guy:
There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo.
And popup.
People use UKP because the country is called the UK (at least that's how the name starts... it kind of goes on and on).
'Great Britain' is a geographical area including some (but not others) of the islands that are near the main island on which England sits.
Why everyone (who doesn't like there) has started referring to the country as 'Great Britain' I have no idea... watching too many Mel Gibson movies, maybe...
Actually, "American English" is closer to the pre-1776 english than what they speak in the UK
Ooh, an informed poster?
rampant empire building in the 15th and 16th centuries,
Oh. Darn.
So, to sum up, you don't have any ideas about what people should do, right? get up, off of your ass, and make plans. Then COMMIT. Then execute. DO IT. is not an idea, it's management speak with a dash of Mr. Motivator thrown in. You do get that, right?
I don't feel like I'm in much danger of being offshored (I don't really work in any one particular country), but I'm trying to move out of IT as a general thing... the brief phase when it seemed like a 'profession' is over
Indeed, the Prosperous American Middle Class is largely a product of the union movement (and government regulation).
However, it's worth noting that in Europe, socialism/unionism has been just as rampantly destructive on an individual, economical and environmental level as Bad Capitalism ever was in the USA.
It's just a matter of whether a system is applied responsibly... I don't know that the actual system you pick matters much.
I thought a 'car chipper' would be something like a wood chipper, only *much* more ferocious.
Ah well.
The cultural tragedy you describe is real, but in fact there _is_ a tradition of 'real' aged sake, sake that is designed to be drunk old.
The practise of aging sake goes back to the middle ages. Generally, aged sake was more expensive (but probably revolting to modern taste). This only changed during the Meiji era as financial factors made it more cost effective to offload the stuff asap.
Old sake, whether aged or spoiled, can be called 'koshu' (often a negative term, but you see it on bottles these days), while sake intentionally aged can be called 'jukuseishu' or jukushu. I agree that this term is often stuck on sake which is actually just black and icky, but nevertheless there is a tradition of intentionally making sake like that.
The problem is that there is no (commonly known) term to describe how the sake is aged -- there are many ways of doing it which basically produce totally different drinks. So nobody knows what it 'should' taste like, or how dark it should get, which leaves a lot of room for idiots to pay a lot for rubbish.
That is absolutely priceless! Where the heck can you be where people put up with being 'corrected' on that for years, without ever telling you the right answer? Brilliant.
I know at least 1 site where term services is being used pretty effectively, even over the internet. It's being used for administration and technical tasks rather than end-user applications, but it seems to work well -- not much lag/net load, no issues with multiple sessions (up to about 6, a mainframe replacement this is not).
Performance is much better than with VNC.
If it has a failing, it's that the rules for when a session times out are kind of inscrutable and result in reconnects when a session is left overnight. It also requires a certain willingness to learn the security model.
Ooh, an actual valid economic point on slashdot!
Hence 'reforms' such as tax-deductible second homes -- helps those with capital use it to reduce the tax on their income. Those who don't already have capital will, of course, subsidise the exercise.
There are plenty of alternatives
Most users just need something that performs a function on a row or column of data
Mm, this is what I meant by an inability to focus on business needs. It is not possible (with a reasonable amount of effort) to generate and splice together real time futures price streams based on bloomberg data, a C maths library, and parameters modified on the fly by the user, with OpenOffice. It is with Excel. This is the sort of task that needs doing. Other people in the company may be able to get by with OO, which is nice, but the world can't switch until an alternative to what Excel does appears.
Just saying that OO does what _you_ have decided the dumb ol' users need does not bring that day closer.
I _really_ hate Excel a _lot_. I don't ask people to stop doing business until open source catches up, though.