I don't find it strage at all. Animals are programmed, often very narrowly, to do certain things at certain times to survive. This often involves migration. And some animals have ranges of tens or hundreds of miles. But where are you gonna go when you are in a zoo? Poor confused animals.
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And furthermore, if I am an 11 year old asian girl, does that maxim still apply?
"I have a few friends who will binge drink over 4-5 days and come out of that period in reasonable condition. But after that period they will return to a relatively alcohol free lifestyle."
Uh...you do know that that is a hallmark of alcoholism right? "oh, no I'm not an alcoholic, I just get randomly smashed for days"
While the Atkins diet might slim you down fast, the real test is whether this can be maintained as a healthy lifestyle. Eat steak and eggs and fat all the time on the Atkins diet and come back 20 years later and see whether you are net more healthy or less healthy than someone on another diet (e.g. Ornish).
For short term weight loss for people with *immediately* harmful lifestyles (e.g. obese people with severe risk of cardiovascular disease, heartattack, etc.), it may turn out to be safer to go on the Atkins diet and damn the consequences than to NOT go on the Atkins diet and, say, die of a heart attack.
Only time will tell whether it is maintainable, but it is certainly not a "natural" diet (cavemen would NOT be eating so much meat...meat was very hard to obtain relative to other food sources).
The hair you guys are splitting here is whether what somebody creates is automatically copyrighted by the company, or whether it is copyrighted to the person through some sort of "natural law", yet stipulated by contract to be immediately converted to the company. In the former case the developer might not have authorization to GPL it and therefore be fired, in the latter case, he might be able to GPL it and because of that be immediately fired.
We don't know enough to make assumptions about the contract Frankel signed.
Java3D has native OpenGL implementations, but that is completely invisible to the developer. If you are on such a system with a native implementation (e.g. Windows) it will be used. Otherwise the pure Java implementation will be used. Completely transparent to the developer with no code changes. This also goes for some Java2D functions which can be accelerated under the covers.
Page-based approaches (PHP, JSP, etc.) don't really scale well. They are fine for a project consisting of a handful of "pages" but once you start dealing with 10, 20, 30 pages, the metaphor just crumbles and you need to start with a new type of design, like MVC. Unfortunately, I'm sort of cynical about the prospects of modeling interactive applications (face it, a lot of these web "sites" are really "applications") on a low level REST/HTTP protocol and think something new is needed like cURL. But in the real world, if you can refactor your application into MVC and use a page-based scripting (or templates ala Velocity, FreeMarker) for presentation only, that should scale better than pages. (i'm talking scaling in complexity, not load)
Why was this modded funny? This was the explanation of variants that was necessary.
And remember, if you vote on that bug you are NOT voting for generics. That has already been agreed upon. You are voting for adding "variance" to generics, which is explained in the parent post.
If anything these proposals INCREASE simplicity. If you ever deal with collections, you will be familiar with all the myriad (brittle) casting that has to go on. Likewise with iteration over collections. Genericity simplifies the former, and the alternative collections-based for loop simplifies the latter. If you have ever tried implementing enumerations in Java you know you have two (poor) choices: 1) hardcoded numeric constants, or 2) hardcoded static object instances. Both of these are ugly and add more complexity. Moreso for static imports, where people end up doing the wrong thing by implementing an interface to gain access to its constants without full qualification, but unintentionally binding themselves to the contract of that interface. These 1.5 changes are all about simplifying things the developer community has been griping about for a long time.
(that said, yes there are ugly complicated parts of java but they are relatively few and far between and are not increased by these proposals)
"Am I the only one here who'd like to some day be rendering serious 3d graphics through Java?"
Some day? There is both pure Java (YES) 3D support as well as natively accelerated OpenGL support in Java, under the Java3D package. Maybe this is not the "serious 3d graphics" you were talking about (CGI films?), but 3d is definately possible on Java.
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Yeah, they only said you can have one child on THIS planet. They didn't mention the moon. LOOPHOLE!!
Yeah, and what reward did he get? His liver eaten out. Wise ass.
Do any major airplane manufacturers envision any ground-effect models? Just curious.
I don't find it strage at all. Animals are programmed, often very narrowly, to do certain things at certain times to survive. This often involves migration. And some animals have ranges of tens or hundreds of miles. But where are you gonna go when you are in a zoo? Poor confused animals.
And furthermore, if I am an 11 year old asian girl, does that maxim still apply?
Yeah, depiction of violence is free speech. But cursing and nudity? OMIGOD! Censor it!
"I have a few friends who will binge drink over 4-5 days and come out of that period in reasonable condition. But after that period they will return to a relatively alcohol free lifestyle."
Uh...you do know that that is a hallmark of alcoholism right? "oh, no I'm not an alcoholic, I just get randomly smashed for days"
Weight loss diet != healthy lifestyle
While the Atkins diet might slim you down fast, the real test is whether this can be maintained as a healthy lifestyle. Eat steak and eggs and fat all the time on the Atkins diet and come back 20 years later and see whether you are net more healthy or less healthy than someone on another diet (e.g. Ornish).
For short term weight loss for people with *immediately* harmful lifestyles (e.g. obese people with severe risk of cardiovascular disease, heartattack, etc.), it may turn out to be safer to go on the Atkins diet and damn the consequences than to NOT go on the Atkins diet and, say, die of a heart attack.
Only time will tell whether it is maintainable, but it is certainly not a "natural" diet (cavemen would NOT be eating so much meat...meat was very hard to obtain relative to other food sources).
"Promote DDR."
Yeah! Deutsche Demokratische Republik! Go East Germany!
uh..
Probably partially because graphics is fuxed on Linux IIRC. The drivers should be in the kernel, not in XFree.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
So override equals()
'combined with an "expander" app'
Otherwise known as JIT...
But Zip doesn't have "solid" archives right? Or at least not Winzip.
80 lines? which includes comments? amongst a base of tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands, millions??) is THAT all?
Man, i can produce more code sneezing on my keyboard...
SCO better apply for a patent on their molehill-to-mountain converter real quick...
... all our catch phrase are belong to ESR ...
"Beats me, but it seems to me that it puts you in a dubious position of being able to claim any right of ownership."
Where has copyright been violated here? Nobody is illegally copying patterns (although they may or may not be illegally selling them).
The hair you guys are splitting here is whether what somebody creates is automatically copyrighted by the company, or whether it is copyrighted to the person through some sort of "natural law", yet stipulated by contract to be immediately converted to the company. In the former case the developer might not have authorization to GPL it and therefore be fired, in the latter case, he might be able to GPL it and because of that be immediately fired.
We don't know enough to make assumptions about the contract Frankel signed.
Java3D has native OpenGL implementations, but that is completely invisible to the developer. If you are on such a system with a native implementation (e.g. Windows) it will be used. Otherwise the pure Java implementation will be used. Completely transparent to the developer with no code changes. This also goes for some Java2D functions which can be accelerated under the covers.
Page-based approaches (PHP, JSP, etc.) don't really scale well. They are fine for a project consisting of a handful of "pages" but once you start dealing with 10, 20, 30 pages, the metaphor just crumbles and you need to start with a new type of design, like MVC. Unfortunately, I'm sort of cynical about the prospects of modeling interactive applications (face it, a lot of these web "sites" are really "applications") on a low level REST/HTTP protocol and think something new is needed like cURL. But in the real world, if you can refactor your application into MVC and use a page-based scripting (or templates ala Velocity, FreeMarker) for presentation only, that should scale better than pages. (i'm talking scaling in complexity, not load)
You see, it's funny because they created something to slay a monster, but it just became a bigger monster! Laugh!
That is merely punishment for living in a town named "Bryn Mawr".
"though I hear a java version is in the works"
Shhh...
http://www.klomp.org/snark/
With the addition of an event listener API, this could be integrated into a decent Java GUI client. Right now it seems as if it is only command line.
Why was this modded funny? This was the explanation of variants that was necessary.
And remember, if you vote on that bug you are NOT voting for generics. That has already been agreed upon. You are voting for adding "variance" to generics, which is explained in the parent post.
If anything these proposals INCREASE simplicity. If you ever deal with collections, you will be familiar with all the myriad (brittle) casting that has to go on. Likewise with iteration over collections. Genericity simplifies the former, and the alternative collections-based for loop simplifies the latter. If you have ever tried implementing enumerations in Java you know you have two (poor) choices: 1) hardcoded numeric constants, or 2) hardcoded static object instances. Both of these are ugly and add more complexity. Moreso for static imports, where people end up doing the wrong thing by implementing an interface to gain access to its constants without full qualification, but unintentionally binding themselves to the contract of that interface. These 1.5 changes are all about simplifying things the developer community has been griping about for a long time.
(that said, yes there are ugly complicated parts of java but they are relatively few and far between and are not increased by these proposals)
"Am I the only one here who'd like to some day be rendering serious 3d graphics through Java?"
Some day? There is both pure Java (YES) 3D support as well as natively accelerated OpenGL support in Java, under the Java3D package. Maybe this is not the "serious 3d graphics" you were talking about (CGI films?), but 3d is definately possible on Java.