I went back to dial-up from DSL. I miss the speed, but I like the reliability of dial-up. My DSL _often_ did not work. At all. I could have had a dial-up backup I suppose, but why pay the extra $$$ when the $50 a month fee is supposed to bring me web surfing nirvana?
As a result, I do a lot of other things now and don't really surf even a 1/8 of what I used to. I also am not shuttling large files around from my home office to work now that I am stuck in the home office for good.
Read a couple of the reviews. Interesting, because when I picked up the book and looked through it, I was rather underwhelmed with the apparent content. I was reading about complex systems theory 10 years ago in college, and much of the literature we were reading was older than that. How, exactly, is that 'new'? Of course my professor did long stints at the Santa Fe Institute working on the SWARM project, so maybe that is why it did not seem very new to me. The reviews I read said the same thing.
Maybe it is just the marketing hype (or maybe it was the price) but I put the book back on the self.
>>OS X is a big reminder to me, some people hate real freedom, some people hate real choices. They want choices made for them, they don't want the responsibility that comes with the real freedom to choose, the responsibility to do research and make an educated choice.
It has nothing to do with "hating real freedom". If anything OS X frees them from being a slave to their computer so they can spend time doing the things they love. Some just want to get their work done so they can play with their children. Different priorities.
You believe absolute freedom to choose components for your computer is important. That is why you run Linux, where your choices for hardware are more varied (doubtful your choices for software are significantly more varied, but you can probably modify ALL of them, unlike Apple where some of them are closed-source).
Others see the computer as a tool (like a screwdriver). If it does the job they want, they are happy because understanding the inner workings of the tool is not important to them.
Do you routinely work on your car, swapping parts for aftermarket, high performance parts? If you don't, why not? Do you HATE freedom too, or do you just see your car as a means to get you from point A to point B?
Do make your own clothes? If not, do you HATE freedom because you don't do that? You are severly limited in the available style, fabric and color combinations produced by the various clothing manufacturers.
I always think of the parents whining about this stuff as being Clinton-voting-soccer-Mom-types (I'm thinking Tipper Gore and the PMRC here). I guess there are probably conservatives in that mix, but I doubt all of them are conservative on other issues (like abortion, taxes or gun control). Maybe I have a warped view of such people though.
But it was a great article. Sounded like the writer got blindsided on Donahue, but that is probably because he didn't spend enough time watching Springer to realize where 'talk shows' on TV are heading. He was right--in retrospect he should have hammered one issue and yelled louder. That seems to pass for debate these days.
"Donahue, you are a slave to your pimps in Redmond, who bank large rolls of greenbacks on their video game industry."
"Why don't you answer that question Donahue, since all your money comes from MicroSoft who produces lots of violent video games"
"So how is playing a video game any different than showing the most gratuitous parts of that video game on TV, free for the world to see. What is your show rated, Donahue? Is it rated 'M' for mature like GTA3?"
I think you missed the point. The original 'article' specifically said they did not need an EJB App Server. JBoss uses something ELSE (whether it is Tomcat or Jetty is not relevant) for the Servlet container, so suggesting JBoss to solve this guy's problem is not addressing the question. The parameters of the problem are such that JBoss has already been ruled out.
We use Tomcat in production, but we are not expecting high client loads compared so the performance side of it is not as important. And we have been using it for a few years, but the other suggestions here have been interesting--I might have to look into Resin, Jetty, et al.
>>People were initially afraid/excited about... cars... Once it evolved to where it was a standard, normal thing, the magic was gone
Tell that to my brother who is convinced that "The Fast and Furious" was the best movie of all time just because of a few, semi-cool cars.:)
Yeah he is one of those guys with a tricked-out Honda Civic hatch that makes more noise when he steps on the pedal, but gets going about as quick. But damn, he sure looks cool.
Well I am 32 and I enjoy Grand Theft Auto 3. I save my progress and I still have fun even though I have been playing off and on for about 2 months. Also Gran Turismo is lots of fun no matter what version. I guess I like car-based games.
But my idea of a cool game growing up was Pong or Asteroids so maybe it is an age thing. I've never even heard of the games you like. Nintendo was just a platform to play Techmo bowl leagues in college, listening to 9 Inch Nails and drinkin' beer. Ahh that was fun.
Well this post would be accurate for JBuilder 3.5. I believe earlier versions were in C++.
However, since JBuilder 4, it is 100% Java (they are now on JB7). Perhaps you haven't used JBuilder since 2000, which of course gets you a +1 Informative on slashdot.
>>why is it such a big deal to have to pay for an upgrade to your software
Its not a big deal to pay for an upgrade, the big deal is paying the same price as someone buying it new. With every other new software product, there is an upgrade fee and a new user fee (see any Adobe product). Apple said "Fuck You, pay the same as the lame-o who is still using OS 8" to the people who already bought OS X or had it installed when they bought their hardware.
>>Pete, is that you? If not, there's another company out here who's been a bit frustrated by focus issues. Those
Nope, must be a different company having 'fun' with focus in Java.:)
As soon as I see a focus-realted bug from our testers, I generally start pulling my hair out, because I know it is going to take a while to find the problem and develop a work-around. "Calgon, take me away..."
>>The company I am currently with is designing an entire GUI with Swing and so far things have been very positive.
Me too. We have been designing a new UI for our product and it is now in production and people love it. Use java on the server-side too, running on Sun and Linux hardware.
Coming from the MS side of development a few years ago, Swing does some VERY weird things with focus control (1.4 seems to have fixed this, but we have not switched over yet). I have had to do more work-arounds for focus-related bugs (in AWT) than anything else. Our product is designed to be very data-entry friendly, so providing tight focus control is of major importance. Our previous UI was character-based, so long-term clients have come to rely on VERY fast response when doing data-entry. So far Swing has handled everything great.
We use Java Web Start to deploy which is great for maintenance updates--we only need to patch in the classes that need to be updated. Reduces the download time considerably, and any "hot-fixes" can get our immediately rather than the user waiting for the next full release.
Maybe C# is great too. Right now I don't need to think about it, so I haven't looked into it. If.Net starts heating up, I'll probably start learning about it, but for now knowing and working with Java, Apache, Tomcat, and Xml seems to be treating me just fine.
>>But when the choice is driving an hour plus for an alternate outlet, for a teen, it is practically equivalent to gov't censorship. I'm sorry, but kids need to have an outlet
Yeah but think of the great stories you will get to tell YOUR grandkids - "Why when I was a teenager, I had to drive 1 hour just to BUY an issue of Teen Beat."
"Grandpa, what does 'drive' mean?"
"Dang kids and these new fangled teleportation pads. You don't understand... it was uphill, both ways, in a Geo Metro. It only had 3 cylinders [fade to mumbling]."
I just recently (last month) moved my laptop from a P75 running debian sans X to an iBook. The only reason I started looking around was because the hardware on the 1995 machine crapped out on me.
You mean Robert Rodriguez of "El Mariachi", "Desperado" and "From Dusk Till Dawn" fame?
That would rock! Jedi Knights with bandido speeders and double light sabers plus Salma Hayek someplace in the mix as an evil Darth Hoochie getting Portman all pissed off when Hoochie tempts Vader into the sack with her. Obi Wan would have to become a Mariachi playing at the Mos Eisley cantina, lip-synching to some Los Lobos tunes at the end of the flick, waiting for Senator Bail Organa (still played by Jimmy Smits) to pick up Leia.
Hmmm, maybe I should send this to Rodriguez. Might be a cool spoof (ala Space Balls).
Looking forward to picking up mine tonight at the Apple Store... Cocoa programming, here I come.
I might look at YDL for an older PowerPC Mac I have in storage. Would make a great companion to my (growing) stable of resucitated computers (debian laptop and P100 mid-tower).
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Is SAS still the largest? I know they are GREAT to their employees. Powerful stat software too.
>>I guess we are really a fadish society and that will never change.
Ture, but I think this fad is probably better for people than some others (Cabbage Patch Kids come to mind).
I went back to dial-up from DSL. I miss the speed, but I like the reliability of dial-up. My DSL _often_ did not work. At all. I could have had a dial-up backup I suppose, but why pay the extra $$$ when the $50 a month fee is supposed to bring me web surfing nirvana?
As a result, I do a lot of other things now and don't really surf even a 1/8 of what I used to. I also am not shuttling large files around from my home office to work now that I am stuck in the home office for good.
But DSL was sweet when it worked.
Maybe it is just the marketing hype (or maybe it was the price) but I put the book back on the self.
>>OS X is a big reminder to me, some people hate real freedom, some people hate real choices. They want choices made for them, they don't want the responsibility that comes with the real freedom to choose, the responsibility to do research and make an educated choice.
It has nothing to do with "hating real freedom". If anything OS X frees them from being a slave to their computer so they can spend time doing the things they love. Some just want to get their work done so they can play with their children. Different priorities.
You believe absolute freedom to choose components for your computer is important. That is why you run Linux, where your choices for hardware are more varied (doubtful your choices for software are significantly more varied, but you can probably modify ALL of them, unlike Apple where some of them are closed-source).
Others see the computer as a tool (like a screwdriver). If it does the job they want, they are happy because understanding the inner workings of the tool is not important to them.
Do you routinely work on your car, swapping parts for aftermarket, high performance parts? If you don't, why not? Do you HATE freedom too, or do you just see your car as a means to get you from point A to point B?
Do make your own clothes? If not, do you HATE freedom because you don't do that? You are severly limited in the available style, fabric and color combinations produced by the various clothing manufacturers.
>>hyper-conservative parents
I always think of the parents whining about this stuff as being Clinton-voting-soccer-Mom-types (I'm thinking Tipper Gore and the PMRC here). I guess there are probably conservatives in that mix, but I doubt all of them are conservative on other issues (like abortion, taxes or gun control). Maybe I have a warped view of such people though.
But it was a great article. Sounded like the writer got blindsided on Donahue, but that is probably because he didn't spend enough time watching Springer to realize where 'talk shows' on TV are heading. He was right--in retrospect he should have hammered one issue and yelled louder. That seems to pass for debate these days.
"Donahue, you are a slave to your pimps in Redmond, who bank large rolls of greenbacks on their video game industry."
"Why don't you answer that question Donahue, since all your money comes from MicroSoft who produces lots of violent video games"
"So how is playing a video game any different than showing the most gratuitous parts of that video game on TV, free for the world to see. What is your show rated, Donahue? Is it rated 'M' for mature like GTA3?"
ETC.
I think you missed the point. The original 'article' specifically said they did not need an EJB App Server. JBoss uses something ELSE (whether it is Tomcat or Jetty is not relevant) for the Servlet container, so suggesting JBoss to solve this guy's problem is not addressing the question. The parameters of the problem are such that JBoss has already been ruled out.
We use Tomcat in production, but we are not expecting high client loads compared so the performance side of it is not as important. And we have been using it for a few years, but the other suggestions here have been interesting--I might have to look into Resin, Jetty, et al.
I think it is called the Citizen Corps or something like that. The program is TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System).
"Would you like to know more?"
www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html
Is it just me, or does Bioinformatics sound like it will be the next dot-bust.
I seem to be reading the same amount of hype around it as "the internet" crica 1995.
>>Worry less about the CHP and worry more about CalTrans' ability to fsck the data up and not build freeways in a timely manner.
I don't know anything about the speeding laws, but the comment about CalTrans' ability to fsck something up is time tested.
>>People were initially afraid/excited about ... cars ... Once it evolved to where it was a standard, normal thing, the magic was gone
:)
Tell that to my brother who is convinced that "The Fast and Furious" was the best movie of all time just because of a few, semi-cool cars.
Yeah he is one of those guys with a tricked-out Honda Civic hatch that makes more noise when he steps on the pedal, but gets going about as quick. But damn, he sure looks cool.
Well I am 32 and I enjoy Grand Theft Auto 3. I save my progress and I still have fun even though I have been playing off and on for about 2 months. Also Gran Turismo is lots of fun no matter what version. I guess I like car-based games.
But my idea of a cool game growing up was Pong or Asteroids so maybe it is an age thing. I've never even heard of the games you like. Nintendo was just a platform to play Techmo bowl leagues in college, listening to 9 Inch Nails and drinkin' beer. Ahh that was fun.
Well this post would be accurate for JBuilder 3.5. I believe earlier versions were in C++.
However, since JBuilder 4, it is 100% Java (they are now on JB7). Perhaps you haven't used JBuilder since 2000, which of course gets you a +1 Informative on slashdot.
>>why is it such a big deal to have to pay for an upgrade to your software
Its not a big deal to pay for an upgrade, the big deal is paying the same price as someone buying it new. With every other new software product, there is an upgrade fee and a new user fee (see any Adobe product). Apple said "Fuck You, pay the same as the lame-o who is still using OS 8" to the people who already bought OS X or had it installed when they bought their hardware.
>>Pete, is that you? If not, there's another company out here who's been a bit frustrated by focus issues. Those
:)
..."
Nope, must be a different company having 'fun' with focus in Java.
As soon as I see a focus-realted bug from our testers, I generally start pulling my hair out, because I know it is going to take a while to find the problem and develop a work-around. "Calgon, take me away
>>The company I am currently with is designing an entire GUI with Swing and so far things have been very positive.
.Net starts heating up, I'll probably start learning about it, but for now knowing and working with Java, Apache, Tomcat, and Xml seems to be treating me just fine.
Me too. We have been designing a new UI for our product and it is now in production and people love it. Use java on the server-side too, running on Sun and Linux hardware.
Coming from the MS side of development a few years ago, Swing does some VERY weird things with focus control (1.4 seems to have fixed this, but we have not switched over yet). I have had to do more work-arounds for focus-related bugs (in AWT) than anything else. Our product is designed to be very data-entry friendly, so providing tight focus control is of major importance. Our previous UI was character-based, so long-term clients have come to rely on VERY fast response when doing data-entry. So far Swing has handled everything great.
We use Java Web Start to deploy which is great for maintenance updates--we only need to patch in the classes that need to be updated. Reduces the download time considerably, and any "hot-fixes" can get our immediately rather than the user waiting for the next full release.
Maybe C# is great too. Right now I don't need to think about it, so I haven't looked into it. If
>>The probes are gradually dying because their plutonium fuel is running out
And I thought BSD is dying, not the probes.
>>are about 400,000 miles nearer than they should be, and they have no idea why...
Its obviously because they are getting close to the edge of the simulation ala the 13th Floor.
Someone is laughing at us.
>>But when the choice is driving an hour plus for an alternate outlet, for a teen, it is practically equivalent to gov't censorship. I'm sorry, but kids need to have an outlet
... it was uphill, both ways, in a Geo Metro. It only had 3 cylinders [fade to mumbling]."
Yeah but think of the great stories you will get to tell YOUR grandkids - "Why when I was a teenager, I had to drive 1 hour just to BUY an issue of Teen Beat."
"Grandpa, what does 'drive' mean?"
"Dang kids and these new fangled teleportation pads. You don't understand
>>Yea, I keep my hardware for a while
I just recently (last month) moved my laptop from a P75 running debian sans X to an iBook. The only reason I started looking around was because the hardware on the 1995 machine crapped out on me.
>>Hell, I'll say more than that. Windows 2000 is the BEST desktop or laptop operating system in existance right now.
OS X kicks the nutz outta that Redmond garbage. I use Win2K and Solaris at work, OS X and Debian at home.
Win2k is like listening to Falco.
Debian is like listeneing to Salieri.
OS X is like listening to Mozart.
>>Mexican Equivalent
You mean Robert Rodriguez of "El Mariachi", "Desperado" and "From Dusk Till Dawn" fame?
That would rock! Jedi Knights with bandido speeders and double light sabers plus Salma Hayek someplace in the mix as an evil Darth Hoochie getting Portman all pissed off when Hoochie tempts Vader into the sack with her. Obi Wan would have to become a Mariachi playing at the Mos Eisley cantina, lip-synching to some Los Lobos tunes at the end of the flick, waiting for Senator Bail Organa (still played by Jimmy Smits) to pick up Leia.
Hmmm, maybe I should send this to Rodriguez. Might be a cool spoof (ala Space Balls).
>>Episode III is supposed to one of the darkest films in the series
So maybe Lucas should get Tim Burton to direct it.
OS X rocks for TiBooks too.
... Cocoa programming, here I come.
Looking forward to picking up mine tonight at the Apple Store
I might look at YDL for an older PowerPC Mac I have in storage. Would make a great companion to my (growing) stable of resucitated computers (debian laptop and P100 mid-tower).
>>These guys have obviously not tried my three alarm chilli and some of my homebrew. Talk about destruction...
Yeah that sure would cause a splash