I have IM-clients for both MSN and Google Talk in J2ME. The GMail-client from Google is a J2ME app. I have used tons of games (some bad, some very good), all written in J2ME. I have a really cool J2ME app that interacts with a national map service (eniro.se). I have telnet/SSH client written in J2ME. Yeah, J2ME is ridiculous and completely useless...
This is why I think Java ME still has a bright future. You can say whatever you want about Java ME, but it is much easier to develop applications in that than in Symbian C++, and you can find lots of really good IDEs and Emulators.
Perhaps it's because there are a ton of good Java developers available, compared to the amount of C/C++ developers. But it could also be because Java is acutally faster at things like memory allocation. I also believe that the large amount of ready-to-use and stable software components available makes a difference when choosing Java for your server application. Then there are the large number of standards built on Java, like J2EE or J2ME, that allows you to focus on the application-specifics in your project and ignore all boiler-plate code necessary if you would have choosen C++ (for instance). There are also several very , verygood IDEs for Java with features you won't find in IDEs for other languages.
I guess there are more reasons than these, but those were the ones that came to mind at the moment.
I especially like that they provide a menu option under the File menu saying "Edit with Notepad". Does this mean that Notepad can deal with line breaks properly and show the position in the file (row and column)?
Did he steal the manual? That doesn't sound very exciting.
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I had a similar experience with Common Lisp a couple of years ago. Fortunately I found Scheme, which made the whole functional programming paradigm a whole lot more enjoyable.
It would be interresting to see the results of a similar study when applied to a company with a much larger number of employees. Would the results be similar in a world-wide company with 10.000 employees located in different countries?
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The problem is the patents. I.m.o. patents should never apply to crucial discoveries within medicine, energy and other techonologies important for our daily life. However, companies must be encouraged to invest in R&D, but this could be done in other ways that doesn't prevent competing companies from selling the same drugs and thus pushing the prices.
I was in a similar position a couple of months ago. Then I found Spring Framework. A very nice middleware/framework for J2EE servers. It doesn't use EJB at all and is much cleaner and easier to use. It still requires a J2EE container, but since it doesn't use any EJB it is much faster. Very impressive and saved me when I had two weeks to delivery.
This time-difference between Eurpoe and the U.S. is a bitch. I wanted to stay up with a bag of chips and some beer and enjoy an hilarious evening infront of my TV.
I hope that Hollywood will make a movie of it all, or at least make a DVD-box release of the election day.
After reading the privous post, I somehow got to think about viagra spam...
"Increase The Size Of Your Pointer Now! Buy A 64-Bit PowerMac G5 And Get That Extra Size Today!"
Wrong. The amount of CO2 is roughly the same now as it has always been. The problem is that there is currently to much in the atmosphere and not deep in the ground as it should be. Putting it back into the ground is the right way to go.
All biological matter decaying produces methane. Methane is not a problem. Actually, if we could harvest all the metane produced by cows, use it in this type of power plant and put the CO2 back into the ground we would greatly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Actually, most of the C02 on earth has always been stored underground. The C02 create by burning fuels (not only fossil fuels), is consumed by all plants on Earth. When these plants die, they fall to the ground and is slowly decomposed into the soil. A powerplant that consumes methane and oxygen, and produces CO2, which is then transported into the ground, would thus be doing something very similar to what all plants are doing now.
Nuclear waste is a bigger problem. It's not a matter of simply putting it back into the ground. Nowhere in nature can you find radioactive material as concentrated as in piece of nuclear waste. Then there's the problem of finding a suitable place that would sustain earth quakes, continental shifts, ice ages and the raising of the land afterwards. Sure, nuclear power is much better than burning fossil fuels, but we can most likely do better.
The thing is, voting for a single position (presidency) will result in a popularity contest. It would actually be much better if it was the Senate that choose who should be the President.
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I can see some areas where a RDBMS-based filesystem could be useful. However, in most cases, I really can't see the point of using a relational structure for your files rather than a directory structure.
In Sweden, and I think this also applies to several other European countries, we have laws that prevents a company from firing its staff without a valid reason. I.e., they can't fire you for arguing with your boss, or not working overtime, etc. Also, when they need to cut back on the staff, its a first-in-last-out rule that is applied to decide who will stay and who will get fired. And you're not allowed to work more than 200 hours overtime per year (exceptions can be made though). Everyone have at least 5 weeks vacation each year, and you always have the right to use at least four of these during the summer. If you get a kid, you have 1 years paid parental leave. Would you like to take a year of to study something? Sure thing, every employee can take one years off as long as they will be studying full time, and you get your job back when your done. Is your kid sick, don't worry, you can stay home and take care off him/her without risk loosing your job.
Where is the real creativity among every other open-source product? Most opensource applications and systems I've looked at are either immitating an existing product (e.g. OpenOffice) or implementing a well known architecture (e.g. databases, web servers etc.). Some open-source projects are innovative, but these are mostly results from academic or corporate research (e.g. WWW).
I think most of our creativity goes into our work, and our open-source project on the side gets whats rest after a long days work...
You actually use JBuilder to write Java code? I thought that it was something students were forced upon during their first Java programming-course today. A more bloated, feature-lacking and ugly Java IDE is probably hard to find. If you can afford more RAM, why not but a proper IDE, like IntelliJ IDEA, or use Eclipse or NetBeans which at least provide most of the functionality one would expect from an IDE and are free.
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I have IM-clients for both MSN and Google Talk in J2ME. The GMail-client from Google is a J2ME app. I have used tons of games (some bad, some very good), all written in J2ME. I have a really cool J2ME app that interacts with a national map service (eniro.se). I have telnet/SSH client written in J2ME. Yeah, J2ME is ridiculous and completely useless...
This is why I think Java ME still has a bright future. You can say whatever you want about Java ME, but it is much easier to develop applications in that than in Symbian C++, and you can find lots of really good IDEs and Emulators.
I guess there are more reasons than these, but those were the ones that came to mind at the moment.
I especially like that they provide a menu option under the File menu saying "Edit with Notepad". Does this mean that Notepad can deal with line breaks properly and show the position in the file (row and column)?
Did he steal the manual? That doesn't sound very exciting.
I had a similar experience with Common Lisp a couple of years ago. Fortunately I found Scheme, which made the whole functional programming paradigm a whole lot more enjoyable.
http://www.plt-scheme.org/
Get A Life - Watch The Sims.
It would be interresting to see the results of a similar study when applied to a company with a much larger number of employees. Would the results be similar in a world-wide company with 10.000 employees located in different countries?
The problem is the patents. I.m.o. patents should never apply to crucial discoveries within medicine, energy and other techonologies important for our daily life. However, companies must be encouraged to invest in R&D, but this could be done in other ways that doesn't prevent competing companies from selling the same drugs and thus pushing the prices.
of my girlfriend...
I was in a similar position a couple of months ago. Then I found Spring Framework. A very nice middleware/framework for J2EE servers. It doesn't use EJB at all and is much cleaner and easier to use. It still requires a J2EE container, but since it doesn't use any EJB it is much faster. Very impressive and saved me when I had two weeks to delivery.
And yes, its free (as in beer).
This time-difference between Eurpoe and the U.S. is a bitch. I wanted to stay up with a bag of chips and some beer and enjoy an hilarious evening infront of my TV.
I hope that Hollywood will make a movie of it all, or at least make a DVD-box release of the election day.
After reading the privous post, I somehow got to think about viagra spam... "Increase The Size Of Your Pointer Now! Buy A 64-Bit PowerMac G5 And Get That Extra Size Today!"
CO2 is bound within fossil fuels. Its released when we burn oil, gas etc.
Wrong. The amount of CO2 is roughly the same now as it has always been. The problem is that there is currently to much in the atmosphere and not deep in the ground as it should be. Putting it back into the ground is the right way to go.
All biological matter decaying produces methane. Methane is not a problem. Actually, if we could harvest all the metane produced by cows, use it in this type of power plant and put the CO2 back into the ground we would greatly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Actually, most of the C02 on earth has always been stored underground. The C02 create by burning fuels (not only fossil fuels), is consumed by all plants on Earth. When these plants die, they fall to the ground and is slowly decomposed into the soil. A powerplant that consumes methane and oxygen, and produces CO2, which is then transported into the ground, would thus be doing something very similar to what all plants are doing now.
Nuclear waste is a bigger problem. It's not a matter of simply putting it back into the ground. Nowhere in nature can you find radioactive material as concentrated as in piece of nuclear waste. Then there's the problem of finding a suitable place that would sustain earth quakes, continental shifts, ice ages and the raising of the land afterwards. Sure, nuclear power is much better than burning fossil fuels, but we can most likely do better.
Silent Bob is a Jedi.
The thing is, voting for a single position (presidency) will result in a popularity contest. It would actually be much better if it was the Senate that choose who should be the President.
I can see some areas where a RDBMS-based filesystem could be useful. However, in most cases, I really can't see the point of using a relational structure for your files rather than a directory structure.
Sure, all of this benefits must be financed somehow. I rather pay high taxes so that all Swedes can enjoy a decent working environment.
In Sweden, and I think this also applies to several other European countries, we have laws that prevents a company from firing its staff without a valid reason. I.e., they can't fire you for arguing with your boss, or not working overtime, etc. Also, when they need to cut back on the staff, its a first-in-last-out rule that is applied to decide who will stay and who will get fired. And you're not allowed to work more than 200 hours overtime per year (exceptions can be made though). Everyone have at least 5 weeks vacation each year, and you always have the right to use at least four of these during the summer. If you get a kid, you have 1 years paid parental leave. Would you like to take a year of to study something? Sure thing, every employee can take one years off as long as they will be studying full time, and you get your job back when your done. Is your kid sick, don't worry, you can stay home and take care off him/her without risk loosing your job.
Working in Sweden is quite sweet...
Where is the real creativity among every other open-source product? Most opensource applications and systems I've looked at are either immitating an existing product (e.g. OpenOffice) or implementing a well known architecture (e.g. databases, web servers etc.). Some open-source projects are innovative, but these are mostly results from academic or corporate research (e.g. WWW).
I think most of our creativity goes into our work, and our open-source project on the side gets whats rest after a long days work...
You actually use JBuilder to write Java code? I thought that it was something students were forced upon during their first Java programming-course today. A more bloated, feature-lacking and ugly Java IDE is probably hard to find. If you can afford more RAM, why not but a proper IDE, like IntelliJ IDEA, or use Eclipse or NetBeans which at least provide most of the functionality one would expect from an IDE and are free.
The three most important authors of the 20th century would probably be Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce and Franz Kafka.
Writing fantasy is easy compared to writing books covering the current time-period in the real-world.