XML-based Swing GUI tools are really a dime a dozen, and always seem to add an extra layer of complexity to Swing-based apps. Swing is a really nice component system, and pretty much every object is easily extendable. Personally, I have tried a good deal of the XML-based systems, and really using Swing as it was intended is the way to go. Build your own components, extend them, combine them. I know that there is this idea that you hand over the frontend to a designer, but we all know that most of the time it is the developer hacking on the frontend.
I can understand why people think they need XML-based systems. So much Swing-based code sucks ass. Putting all of your buttons and frames in a big-ass method is nasty and hard to maintain. Well-thought-out componentized Swing code is easy to maintain and nice to look at. Plus, once you are finished with your project, you can re-use any components you built. Swing is a great library - more people need to just learn it.
So, if I am a mathematician with a background in non-linear analysis I have no right to speak, but a "climate scientist" does? Staring at computer models all day and making predictions does not make science, and Al Gore has no right to say who has the right to speak. This whole debate is being framed by the wrong people, and got way too political a long time ago.
If CO2 was causing a change in the environment, we really couldn't combat or reverse it anyways. We are in a non-linear chaotic system. Of course, this is/., and the internet, so everyone's opinion, no matter how ill-informed, is equal.
You are right, you should be modded up. In an honest world, the climate scientists would be laughed out of the room and we would have real mathematicians creating real theorems. We live in a world of headlines and pretty computer models. Plus, the math behind a system like the climate is insanely complex. It is easier to say CO2->warming.
Get ready for Gnome/Java Qt/Java to be included in every Linux distro release, which is a good thing. Swing might be slow, but eventually there will be nice alternatives. Swing is also getting faster and looks much better in future releases. As a toolkit, I personally really like the component architecture, and - who knows - GPL swing might be just what Java and Swing need.
These kids, for whatever reason, posted information that they knew to be wrong to hurt the teacher. This sounds like libel to me. Does it really matter why they put up the information?
I am going to reply to this, even though no one will likely read it.
What I meant was that the people who really should be involved in the debate for the most part are not. Having a person who really understands complex nonlinear systems say that the climate is way too chaotic to accurately predict without better mathematics and actual theorems is no where near as sexy as a movie by a prominent politician on the dangers of global warming. The people who are really speaking up are idiots and have no clue what they are talking about. The fact is that we have no clue whether decreasing CO2 will actually do anything at all. Trying to reduce CO2 might hurt, might help - no one knows.
If course, this doesn't matter at all. The climate people can build all of the models that they want and make any claim that they want. The earth could care less what these guys show with their charts and their silly reductionist crap - the earth's climate is chaotic.
Unless I have the meaning of "burgled" wrong, has this house been hit multiple times? Instead of buying every security system on the market, they might want to just spend the money on a new house in a new area.
If your deliverables are late, fire the people who did not work. I bet that you know the people who are slacking off, and that if asked you could easily point them out. There are probably other better people who will respect the project timelines and not spend the whole day browsing the web. It is common sense. Plus, people who are going to take your money and browse the web instead of working will probably still not work when they have their internet access blocked.
Wow. Sounds great. Nothing better than a theater of insecure unfunny people yelling shit at a screen to make my movie experience delightful. When black people yell at a screen it is annoying and when white people yell it is somehow ironic and fun. Wonderful.
I have consulted at many health care businesses (hospitals, retirement) and what they did, by allowing an employee to actually take the items out of the building, is a blatant HIPPA violation. All data needs to be encrypted before being moved off-site, and no employee should be allowed to ever take patient information out of the building.
In this case, it is just a stupid provider. I agree that there is a whole lot of red tape in health care, but what they did are the two first things you learn when you go through any sort of compliance training.
I imagine that Jobs knows pretty much where Apple is going to be in 90 days/180 days/a year. I don't think that he has such a unique vision - it is just that he has a vision. From reading the article, it seems like the guy knew exactly what he wanted from the presentation, no matter how unreasonable it seemed.
You know, if a Linux company had half the focus of a Steve Jobs and had a clear vision they would sweep the market (k/ubuntu is getting getting better each day). So many FOSS-based companies seem very passive to me when it comes to defining their product.
It is pretty funny that Linus does something that most people who find reprehensible, and a good deal of people kiss his ass anyways. This guy can do no wrong.
The wikipedia article that you linked to is excellent. The links to other parts of wikipedia are acually relevant to the article, which is a nice change.
I love it - people are burning cars, homes, and businesses and there is no lack of people who want to defend their actions. The insanity of it all is overwhelming. Have you actually seen what has been going on, or are you stuck in your ivory tower looking down?
As long as you don't sell the software, you are in good shape. Offering value-added support, or using FOSS as a part of a larger contract seem to be the trend.
As an owner of a consulting firm, I can compete with a good deal more companies using FOSS. We get paid for solutions, not products. If I can grab some code, make some quick improvements, and have a quick turnaround, then I can make my clients happy.
I feel the same you that you do, except about C++. Coming from a LISP background, languages like C++ feel overly-complex and clunky. C# actually is a much more (IMHO) easy-to-learn language.
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XML-based Swing GUI tools are really a dime a dozen, and always seem to add an extra layer of complexity to Swing-based apps. Swing is a really nice component system, and pretty much every object is easily extendable. Personally, I have tried a good deal of the XML-based systems, and really using Swing as it was intended is the way to go. Build your own components, extend them, combine them. I know that there is this idea that you hand over the frontend to a designer, but we all know that most of the time it is the developer hacking on the frontend.
I can understand why people think they need XML-based systems. So much Swing-based code sucks ass. Putting all of your buttons and frames in a big-ass method is nasty and hard to maintain. Well-thought-out componentized Swing code is easy to maintain and nice to look at. Plus, once you are finished with your project, you can re-use any components you built. Swing is a great library - more people need to just learn it.
So, if I am a mathematician with a background in non-linear analysis I have no right to speak, but a "climate scientist" does? Staring at computer models all day and making predictions does not make science, and Al Gore has no right to say who has the right to speak. This whole debate is being framed by the wrong people, and got way too political a long time ago.
If CO2 was causing a change in the environment, we really couldn't combat or reverse it anyways. We are in a non-linear chaotic system. Of course, this is /., and the internet, so everyone's opinion, no matter how ill-informed, is equal.
You are right, you should be modded up. In an honest world, the climate scientists would be laughed out of the room and we would have real mathematicians creating real theorems. We live in a world of headlines and pretty computer models. Plus, the math behind a system like the climate is insanely complex. It is easier to say CO2->warming.
You can still run it under Linux (with dosbox)
Novell gets to scare people out of Red Hat, and Microsoft only has to compete with Novell in the future.
Sure, Novell claims that the patent issue is not an important part of the deal, but I bet they use it as a selling point.
Get ready for Gnome/Java Qt/Java to be included in every Linux distro release, which is a good thing. Swing might be slow, but eventually there will be nice alternatives. Swing is also getting faster and looks much better in future releases. As a toolkit, I personally really like the component architecture, and - who knows - GPL swing might be just what Java and Swing need.
These kids, for whatever reason, posted information that they knew to be wrong to hurt the teacher. This sounds like libel to me. Does it really matter why they put up the information?
I am going to reply to this, even though no one will likely read it.
What I meant was that the people who really should be involved in the debate for the most part are not. Having a person who really understands complex nonlinear systems say that the climate is way too chaotic to accurately predict without better mathematics and actual theorems is no where near as sexy as a movie by a prominent politician on the dangers of global warming. The people who are really speaking up are idiots and have no clue what they are talking about. The fact is that we have no clue whether decreasing CO2 will actually do anything at all. Trying to reduce CO2 might hurt, might help - no one knows.
If course, this doesn't matter at all. The climate people can build all of the models that they want and make any claim that they want. The earth could care less what these guys show with their charts and their silly reductionist crap - the earth's climate is chaotic.
It might have to do with the fact that the people at RealClimate are not trained nonlinear mathematicians.
Neither are the people on the other side of the debate.
Pretty sad.
Unless I have the meaning of "burgled" wrong, has this house been hit multiple times? Instead of buying every security system on the market, they might want to just spend the money on a new house in a new area.
If your deliverables are late, fire the people who did not work. I bet that you know the people who are slacking off, and that if asked you could easily point them out. There are probably other better people who will respect the project timelines and not spend the whole day browsing the web. It is common sense. Plus, people who are going to take your money and browse the web instead of working will probably still not work when they have their internet access blocked.
Wow. Sounds great. Nothing better than a theater of insecure unfunny people yelling shit at a screen to make my movie experience delightful. When black people yell at a screen it is annoying and when white people yell it is somehow ironic and fun. Wonderful.
I think that statement is relevant to this very day.
Agree. Stern is better than ever on Sirius.
I have consulted at many health care businesses (hospitals, retirement) and what they did, by allowing an employee to actually take the items out of the building, is a blatant HIPPA violation. All data needs to be encrypted before being moved off-site, and no employee should be allowed to ever take patient information out of the building.
In this case, it is just a stupid provider. I agree that there is a whole lot of red tape in health care, but what they did are the two first things you learn when you go through any sort of compliance training.
I see lots of fines
Blackdown is proprietary.
It seemed to be either first or second at most of the benchmarks. I really don't consider that mediocre.
I was pretty surprised by ext3's performance. I also read the article.
I imagine that Jobs knows pretty much where Apple is going to be in 90 days/180 days/a year. I don't think that he has such a unique vision - it is just that he has a vision. From reading the article, it seems like the guy knew exactly what he wanted from the presentation, no matter how unreasonable it seemed.
You know, if a Linux company had half the focus of a Steve Jobs and had a clear vision they would sweep the market (k/ubuntu is getting getting better each day). So many FOSS-based companies seem very passive to me when it comes to defining their product.
It is pretty funny that Linus does something that most people who find reprehensible, and a good deal of people kiss his ass anyways. This guy can do no wrong.
The wikipedia article that you linked to is excellent. The links to other parts of wikipedia are acually relevant to the article, which is a nice change.
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So what, you look nice? With your attitude about dress, why would I want to hire you?
The value of a programmer with a bad attitude is no where near the value of programmer with a good attitude.
I love it - people are burning cars, homes, and businesses and there is no lack of people who want to defend their actions. The insanity of it all is overwhelming. Have you actually seen what has been going on, or are you stuck in your ivory tower looking down?
As long as you don't sell the software, you are in good shape. Offering value-added support, or using FOSS as a part of a larger contract seem to be the trend.
As an owner of a consulting firm, I can compete with a good deal more companies using FOSS. We get paid for solutions, not products. If I can grab some code, make some quick improvements, and have a quick turnaround, then I can make my clients happy.
I feel the same you that you do, except about C++. Coming from a LISP background, languages like C++ feel overly-complex and clunky. C# actually is a much more (IMHO) easy-to-learn language.