Let's hope this has a sophisticated security API (could not tell from either web site or manual). Otherwise your security is reduced to the "security" of visibility levels of methods (i.e. none).
The second question is, can a website be autogenerated instead of a Swing GUI? Nobody wants to drop apps down to the client. Otherwise, very interesting idea.
Just use 'netcat' to port forward? Assuming you can also control the remote NTP server and have it listen on the HTTP port (just because you are using the "http" port, doesn't mean you/have/ to talk in HTTP).
Seriously, the number of people I see just get up and walk away from a running computer with monitor on is amazing. Crank up those power saving features and turn off your monitor, or get it to turn itself off.
On that note, can anybody explain why this is actually an insult? I never understood. Surely there are many mothers in the military. And army boots are rather sturdy. If my mother wore army boots I think that would imply she could kick your mother's ass. Actually, I think arming more mothers would be a good idea all-around.
Bah! All that BS about Metallica was uncalled for. Metallica was NOT complaining about fans bootlegging (hell, they *promoted* physical bootlegging). Their *complaint* was that if any company was going to base their business on a mechanism which was founded on copyright violation (Napster - face it), that THEY (Metallica) should at least have a SAY in what the content is, and how/when/if it is distributed (e.g., bad mixes getting released/leaked without their permission). They weren't against the FANS they were against some other arbitrary company making money off the relationship Metallica has built with fans, WITHOUT including Metallica somehow in the process.
Of course the whole Slashdot crowd burned poor Lars at the stake because of the perception he was against technology or against file sharing. If we ever need to go to war I'm sure the collective knee-jerks of Slashdot could pulverize any enemy!
Of course the information overload and piles of marketing bullshit we are under doesn't HELP the situation. When you are pummelled with irrelevant advertising crap that you cannot possibly sort through, your (rational) decision will be to accept the most superficially pleasing, although technically inferior product, or simply defer to "brand loyalty" (no wonder advertisers are trying to inculcate brand loyalty from birth). And the manufacturers laugh all the way to the bank. Advertising trumps technical superiority all too frequently.
<<insert screenful of laserfire with nothing getting hit except vehicles and electronics>>
Re:AAAAAAAAArgh -- missing the point sooo badly
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Java Gets Templates
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Suppose I want to write a generalised summation method, which adds up all the elements in a list, whether those are int, float, SomeComplexNumberType or whatever. Question: what well-known and easily understood notation would make sense to use when writing this method?
In Java, operators already only apply to primitives anyway, with the exception of the + operator, and then only when in a string context (ok ok, there is 'instanceof' and 'new'...i'm not sure if these can be meaningully considered "operators" as they are reserved for very specific uses). Collections also only apply to objects. It already doesn't make sense to be able to perform certain operations on arbitrary objects. E.g., what does the addition operation do with operands of Bicycle type and the Color orange? If you are going to use generics for collections, you are already going to declare them to use some homogenous base class. In your case it would be something like Addable, which would have an add() method or whatever. Or perhaps just Number, from which you get primitive values, and add them with the primitive + operator. At some point you have to draw the line in defining things. Performing arbitrary operations on arbitrary objects at best makes no sense, and at worse can be very very dangerous.
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As long as people pay Microsoft for these features Microsoft will give a fuck.
Does this mean we'll have a space station outside a wormwhole by 2009?
...if you missed the mothership when it came around last time...
1) Create product/service
2) Sue customors
3) $$$!
...good times with the Big Bag O' Glass. To bad they took that off the market.
"Please be cautious of your cynicisms of science."
:p
Please be cautious of your lack of cynicisms of science.
The first thing that screams out to me is:
SECURITY SECURITY SECURITY
Let's hope this has a sophisticated security API (could not tell from either web site or manual). Otherwise your security is reduced to the "security" of visibility levels of methods (i.e. none).
The second question is, can a website be autogenerated instead of a Swing GUI? Nobody wants to drop apps down to the client. Otherwise, very interesting idea.
Just use 'netcat' to port forward? Assuming you can also control the remote NTP server and have it listen on the HTTP port (just because you are using the "http" port, doesn't mean you /have/ to talk in HTTP).
"No FBI for me. Or DMCA. Or any other kind of insane law enforcement."
Don't worry, we're working hard on that.
Seriously, the number of people I see just get up and walk away from a running computer with monitor on is amazing. Crank up those power saving features and turn off your monitor, or get it to turn itself off.
Like "karas"s and "granfaloons" in Cat's Cradle. Ahh...Bokononism :)
Ahhh...that makes more sense...thanks AC
"your mother wears army boots!"
On that note, can anybody explain why this is actually an insult? I never understood. Surely there are many mothers in the military. And army boots are rather sturdy. If my mother wore army boots I think that would imply she could kick your mother's ass. Actually, I think arming more mothers would be a good idea all-around.
...to your manager:
1) cost savings short term
2) cost savings long term
Anything else is just typical geek elitism. "Hey, let's use foobar technology because it's, well, COOL!"
If you are developing on Linux the new threads implementation shall kick ass anyway, so it should become sort of moot.
Bah! All that BS about Metallica was uncalled for. Metallica was NOT complaining about fans bootlegging (hell, they *promoted* physical bootlegging). Their *complaint* was that if any company was going to base their business on a mechanism which was founded on copyright violation (Napster - face it), that THEY (Metallica) should at least have a SAY in what the content is, and how/when/if it is distributed (e.g., bad mixes getting released/leaked without their permission). They weren't against the FANS they were against some other arbitrary company making money off the relationship Metallica has built with fans, WITHOUT including Metallica somehow in the process.
Of course the whole Slashdot crowd burned poor Lars at the stake because of the perception he was against technology or against file sharing. If we ever need to go to war I'm sure the collective knee-jerks of Slashdot could pulverize any enemy!
Of course the information overload and piles of marketing bullshit we are under doesn't HELP the situation. When you are pummelled with irrelevant advertising crap that you cannot possibly sort through, your (rational) decision will be to accept the most superficially pleasing, although technically inferior product, or simply defer to "brand loyalty" (no wonder advertisers are trying to inculcate brand loyalty from birth). And the manufacturers laugh all the way to the bank. Advertising trumps technical superiority all too frequently.
"with this token ring I thee wed"
;)
Soo...that would be one ring to bring them and in the darkness bind them?
That got modded "Insightful"? *sigh*
"As far as I have seen so far, .NET is basicly the MS version of .NET"
:)
How perceptive.
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Sign number #320972 of impending Apocalypse:
* Somebody asks for parenting advice on Slashdot
So in other words, everybody just, uh, copies Xerox?
Hey, it worked in star wars and GI Joe :/
<<insert screenful of laserfire with nothing getting hit except vehicles and electronics>>
In Java, operators already only apply to primitives anyway, with the exception of the + operator, and then only when in a string context (ok ok, there is 'instanceof' and 'new'...i'm not sure if these can be meaningully considered "operators" as they are reserved for very specific uses). Collections also only apply to objects. It already doesn't make sense to be able to perform certain operations on arbitrary objects. E.g., what does the addition operation do with operands of Bicycle type and the Color orange? If you are going to use generics for collections, you are already going to declare them to use some homogenous base class. In your case it would be something like Addable, which would have an add() method or whatever. Or perhaps just Number, from which you get primitive values, and add them with the primitive + operator. At some point you have to draw the line in defining things. Performing arbitrary operations on arbitrary objects at best makes no sense, and at worse can be very very dangerous.
Until it has that it is obviously not complete!