I've been a long time and happy user of Borland JBuilder, but have recently decided to switch to a free environment. I picked Eclipse because I need to use JBoss at work and and JBoss seems to recommend it. So, after a great deal of readaption to a different way of thinking have finally become comfortable with Eclipse.
I've found Eclipse does some things nicer than JBuilder, but it also does some things worse. And it lacks some important features out of the box - like a gui builder.
Anybody got enough experience with NetBeans to say whether it is better or worse that Eclipse? And is Netbeans open source?
Here's a thought - do your job, but do it REALLY well. Research all the prior art and don't apply for anything with a hint of prior art. Make the system that you hate, at least work as well as possible. And THEN if they try to make you apply for a patent with prior art, you can pull out your ethics stick.
Google news is not doing anything different than regular old google is doing. It's just specialized towards current events and newspapers and is a bit more intelligent in grouping results. Other than that it's just another search engine displaying an excert, albeit a very clever one.
I've always wondered why these advances in hardware ALWAYS follow such a relatively linear trajectory. I mean, instead of releasing a hard drive 2x the size of last year, why can't they skip a generation and release one 10x the last year? What was stopping them 5 years ago releasing a drive of the size now on offer?
Seems almost like a conspiracy to have a continual flow of incrementally better product without going too far at once and leaving nowhere to go for upgrades. Because once they make the ultimate density hard drive there'll be only people replacing dead drives, and nobody upgrading.
Yes I would pay IF I could easily obtain good high quality mp3s. Half the mp3s on limeware are rubbish - skips, and other flaws. If you're going to pay you need guaranteed quality.
I've been wanting to try delicious for a few months now, but they STILL havn't fixed their import feature. I've been building my link collection for 10 years now, I'm hardly going to throw it away and start again at delicious unless I can import my old stuff.
Come on delicious, get your import working already.
>"Itanium has been taking share from both IBM power and Sun Sparc."
Uhh, it could hardly lose share could it? If it lost any share the product wouldn't exist. What, did they double their share from 1 to 2 users?
Ten billion is an awful lot to throw away on this loser chip.
I mean, few people actually WANT to run a different chip (and thus a different OS and versions of apps) in their data centre, compared to their desktops. They used to do it, because it was necessary. Now it isn't necessary, so people don't want to do it. Intel's only hope is to try and get people to use it EVERYWHERE, on their desktops too. But there aint no hope of that either.
Linus ought to announce dual licencing GPL2 / GPL3 right now. That way the decision could be revisited in 5 years time. Then the landscape may have changed and maybe GPL3 will start looking a good idea, and the change can be made. But inaction now will make that tricky if not impossible later.
This is hardly surprising since Apple is hardly known as a state of the art UNIX hacking shop. Switching to Linux would solve this problem, but it would raise the problem of keeping compatibility between updates, since they would lose control of changes.
I don't see the controversy. If there is any such thing as porn, highly violent video games would have to qualify better than anything else I can think of.
Basically it's their responsibility to cough up for training if it's necessary. But in a lot of situations one can subsitute sitting down with a good book on the subject and figuring out what you need to figure out on the company's time. If this approach is too hard/takes too long, you have a good business case for the company to cough up the money for training.
And if they still won't cough up, I guess the work won't get done and either they'll sack you because you can't do your job, or else they'll cave and get you trained. Which one they do I guess depends of what kind of people they are. If you get sacked, you may have been better off without them anyway.
I think the real problem is the ease of fixing problems in these databases when you find them. Most of the software I use either doesn't fix the originating database when you make a correction, or it makes it hard to update it, or you can't even tell if the database was updated or not (thus discouraging updating). Then who the heck knows if the database accepts the changes, or accepts the wrong changes? Somebody needs to re-think the whole system.
So what are the pros and cons of Xen versus OpenVZ? My initial reaction is that Xen is the way to go because it is REALLY running different Linux instances. This is good because you can upgrade different instances to different OS versions. I know on those big Sun boxes with virtual environments its a pain in the butt because to upgrade the OS you have to upgrade a zillion applications at once to the new OS version which is a nightmare. But with real virtualisation with completely different kernels running you can upgrade one virtual instance to a completely different kernel without affecting hundreds of other apps running on the same machine.
If the pay is similar, go to the university. Less pressure, more security. Do what you want with less emphasis on the business case. But if the pay is a lot more, well we need to follow the trail of $$$.
>In an interview with Computer and Video Games, Mark Rein of Epic Games was blunt: >"If you walk into EB in the U.S., they try and sell you a second hand version of a game >before a new one. I think that's bad. It would be fine if they share that revenue with us. >They can also be marketing partners with us, as well. We can have an official refurbished >games policy. That's the problem. Those resold games use server resources, tech support. >The majority of guys calling up saying "I don't have my serial number," I'm sure a lot of >those are resold. It costs us money. Those customers think they paid for it, and they're >entitled to support. The reality is we didn't get paid. They didn't pay us."
Yeah but, when the original buyer resells, he is no longer using server resources, techsupport etc etc. It costs you money, but you got paid already.
here's how it works - you don't deploy new software solutions on iSeries, you go to a more mainstream platform (preferably linux/unix). But if you are entirely happy with your CURRENT software and don't want the massive pain of switching, you stick with iSeries for those applications. Got it?
Why can't we have it all? Why can't we have the interface that has been refined by the user interface nazis, and STILL does all the things we need it to do? I don't think it has to be one or the other. Personally, I appreciate the user interface nazis. They will win in the end when they apply their nazi refinements to the task of implementing all the features that need implementing. The non-nazis get the features out quickly, but lots of people never learn how to use it because its too hard. Let the nazis do their job, and hound them if necessary to make good interfaces for the features you need.
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C memory management is not completely deterministic either, since a fragmented heap will not always take the same amount of time to allocate in. To make it completely deterministic you would have to pre-allocate objects. But if you're going to do that, you could do it in a GC language and turn the GC off.
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I've been a long time and happy user of Borland JBuilder, but have recently decided to switch to a free environment. I picked Eclipse because I need to use JBoss at work and and JBoss seems to recommend it. So, after a great deal of readaption to a different way of thinking have finally become comfortable with Eclipse.
I've found Eclipse does some things nicer than JBuilder, but it also does some things worse. And it lacks some important features out of the box - like a gui builder.
Anybody got enough experience with NetBeans to say whether it is better or worse that Eclipse? And is Netbeans open source?
Here's a thought - do your job, but do it REALLY well. Research all the prior art and don't apply for anything with a hint of prior art. Make the system that you hate, at least work as well as possible. And THEN if they try to make you apply for a patent with prior art, you can pull out your ethics stick.
Google news is not doing anything different than regular old google is doing. It's just specialized towards current events and newspapers and is a bit more intelligent in grouping results. Other than that it's just another search engine displaying an excert, albeit a very clever one.
It's linear on a logarithmic graph.
I've always wondered why these advances in hardware ALWAYS follow such a relatively linear trajectory. I mean, instead of releasing a hard drive 2x the size of last year, why can't they skip a generation and release one 10x the last year? What was stopping them 5 years ago releasing a drive of the size now on offer?
Seems almost like a conspiracy to have a continual flow of incrementally better product without going too far at once and leaving nowhere to go for upgrades. Because once they make the ultimate density hard drive there'll be only people replacing dead drives, and nobody upgrading.
Yes I would pay IF I could easily obtain good high quality mp3s. Half the mp3s on limeware are rubbish - skips, and other flaws. If you're going to pay you need guaranteed quality.
I've been wanting to try delicious for a few months now, but they STILL havn't fixed their import feature. I've been building my link collection for 10 years now, I'm hardly going to throw it away and start again at delicious unless I can import my old stuff.
Come on delicious, get your import working already.
This aint time for Intel to fold em.
This aint time for Intel to walk away.
This is time for Intel to RUN RUN RUN!!!
>"Itanium has been taking share from both IBM power and Sun Sparc."
Uhh, it could hardly lose share could it? If it lost any share the product wouldn't exist. What, did they double their share from 1 to 2 users?
Ten billion is an awful lot to throw away on this loser chip.
I mean, few people actually WANT to run a different chip (and thus a different OS and versions of apps) in their data centre, compared to their desktops. They used to do it, because it was necessary. Now it isn't necessary, so people don't want to do it. Intel's only hope is to try and get people to use it EVERYWHERE, on their desktops too. But there aint no hope of that either.
Linus ought to announce dual licencing GPL2 / GPL3 right now. That way the decision could be revisited in 5 years time. Then the landscape may have changed and maybe GPL3 will start looking a good idea, and the change can be made. But inaction now will make that tricky if not impossible later.
This is hardly surprising since Apple is hardly known as a state of the art UNIX hacking shop. Switching to Linux would solve this problem, but it would raise the problem of keeping compatibility between updates, since they would lose control of changes.
I don't see the controversy. If there is any such thing as porn, highly violent video games would have to qualify better than anything else I can think of.
Basically it's their responsibility to cough up for training if it's necessary. But in a lot of situations one can subsitute sitting down with a good book on the subject and figuring out what you need to figure out on the company's time. If this approach is too hard/takes too long, you have a good business case for the company to cough up the money for training.
And if they still won't cough up, I guess the work won't get done and either they'll sack you because you can't do your job, or else they'll cave and get you trained. Which one they do I guess depends of what kind of people they are. If you get sacked, you may have been better off without them anyway.
>If you defeat CSS, then it is. If you use an authorized player, then it isn't.
Authorized by WHOM?
I think the real problem is the ease of fixing problems in these databases when you find them. Most of the software I use either doesn't fix the originating database when you make a correction, or it makes it hard to update it, or you can't even tell if the database was updated or not (thus discouraging updating). Then who the heck knows if the database accepts the changes, or accepts the wrong changes? Somebody needs to re-think the whole system.
So what are the pros and cons of Xen versus OpenVZ? My initial reaction is that Xen is the way to go because it is REALLY running different Linux instances. This is good because you can upgrade different instances to different OS versions. I know on those big Sun boxes with virtual environments its a pain in the butt because to upgrade the OS you have to upgrade a zillion applications at once to the new OS version which is a nightmare. But with real virtualisation with completely different kernels running you can upgrade one virtual instance to a completely different kernel without affecting hundreds of other apps running on the same machine.
>It gives a look at what hardware you may want to consider for your next workstation.
Aren't we all fawning over the possibility of running Linux on a new iMac now?
If the pay is similar, go to the university. Less pressure, more security. Do what you want with less emphasis on the business case. But if the pay is a lot more, well we need to follow the trail of $$$.
>In an interview with Computer and Video Games, Mark Rein of Epic Games was blunt:
>"If you walk into EB in the U.S., they try and sell you a second hand version of a game
>before a new one. I think that's bad. It would be fine if they share that revenue with us.
>They can also be marketing partners with us, as well. We can have an official refurbished >games policy. That's the problem. Those resold games use server resources, tech support.
>The majority of guys calling up saying "I don't have my serial number," I'm sure a lot of
>those are resold. It costs us money. Those customers think they paid for it, and they're
>entitled to support. The reality is we didn't get paid. They didn't pay us."
Yeah but, when the original buyer resells, he is no longer using server resources, techsupport etc etc. It costs you money, but you got paid already.
here's how it works - you don't deploy new software solutions on iSeries, you go to a more mainstream platform (preferably linux/unix). But if you are entirely happy with your CURRENT software and don't want the massive pain of switching, you stick with iSeries for those applications. Got it?
Stupid question - why is K a big deal?
Where in heck are you going to get a hardware implementation of COLEMAK????
Why can't we have it all? Why can't we have the interface that has been refined by the user interface nazis, and STILL does all the things we need it to do? I don't think it has to be one or the other. Personally, I appreciate the user interface nazis. They will win in the end when they apply their nazi refinements to the task of implementing all the features that need implementing. The non-nazis get the features out quickly, but lots of people never learn how to use it because its too hard. Let the nazis do their job, and hound them if necessary to make good interfaces for the features you need.
Most programmers are NOT 'good'.
C memory management is not completely deterministic either, since a fragmented heap will not always take the same amount of time to allocate in. To make it completely deterministic you would have to pre-allocate objects. But if you're going to do that, you could do it in a GC language and turn the GC off.