Maybe something like an airborne or mosquito-borne variant of HIV? In other words, if the virus mutated to be resistant to destruction outside of a warm fluid. I'm not sure how plausible this is though.
Disclaimer: I am not a Java fan, and particularly not a J2EE fan. But just so you know, Java is basically THE enterprise web app development language, and indeed THE enterprise language period. At this point in time, pretty much all the big server-side stuff is written in Java.
You talk about "trouble competing" - it hasn't had to compete. There is no choice, in the minds of management everywhere. It has been a massive, enormous success (measured in terms of penetration) in the enterprise, and there are so many lines of deployed Java running everything from corporate IT to banking to network management systems that it is truly astounding. Most of it sucks, of course, but my point is that your comment implies Java is on shaky ground in terms of acceptance, and that is totally naive, particularly in the corporate world. When I go to meet clients about projects, there is no debate about which language we're going to use, unfortunately. It is a de facto corporate standard.
And even for the web front ends, I see GWT getting more and more popular, so who knows. When Google makes their contractors use a particular technology, it tends to leak out and get deployed all over the place as those contractors become enamoured of it.
He was implying that it would have been a big mistake to have chosen Java, and that in fact Sun did them a huge favour by making them choose a better language/framework instead. Of course, now that I've had to explain it, it's not funny anymore.
There are no contemporaneous accounts of Christ's existence (ie firsthand eyewitness accounts written while he was supposedly alive). Please prove me wrong. If you can't show me any "writing from early enough", then show me his bones, some skin cells, anything.
Actually, don't waste your time. There is nothing. The guy almost certainly didn't exist.
Jesus Christ very likely never existed. There are no contemporaneous accounts of him at all - everything was written after he died, sometimes long after. You can glean whatever you like from any myth, but don't confuse mythology with science.
Many FOSS projects I am interested in (Open Office, Scribus being two big ones) are really lagging behind in the OSX ports, either more bugs or are a version behind. I understand that is partly because of Aqua or some other binding issue with OSX. It is truly not the seamless experience you get with running a Linux version on Linux. I see what you mean now. Well, the X Window versions will be up to date, so you could always run those.
Macs don't always follow the Linux rules:
I've had to do some on my SAMBA server to get Macs to properly use permissions. Usually when I find a problem, I do a bunch of googleing and end up with some obscure note that SMB was mis-configured in OS X and to get it to work with Linux add: xxx into your servers conf file, etc. (I plug in the lines and usually it works, but many times it doesn't 'just work')
Other times it's a case of "Oh yeah, Apple fixed that - but only in the [insert latest version of OS] just buy upgrades" - that seems to happen a lot in Apple's support of Java Libraries. Okay, so misconfigured third-party stuff - I thought you were referring to OS-level stuff, like OS X does chmod differently or something bizarre like that.
I've never had any Java problems, and all my contracts recently have been Java-related, all developed on OS X, but it's entirely possible I'm just lucky or something. Historically, Linux has had far worse Java support because of free/non-free issues, leading to half-baked reimplementations like Blackdown.
Linux has a lot more up-to-date/less bug-ridden FOSS offerings than Macs.
Then again OSX does not follow all the rules Linux does. Could you be more specific on both of these? Thanks.
People don't use operating systems - they use apps. If the apps are there, then people will use whatever OS the computer comes with.
Linux doesn't have the apps - Quicken? Nope. QuickTax? Nope. Photoshop? Nope. Office? Nope (although CrossOver is pretty good these days). Garage Band? Nope. And on and on and on...
However, if you are like me and have very simple needs - coding, browsing, email, Skype - then it's fine. I've been using it on the desktop since 1997, although my main desktop is now a Mac, which is the best of all worlds: commercial apps, Unix, and a beautiful, solid desktop.
What? The gpl does not prevent proprietary software from running on Linux, from drivers (Nvidia) to big apps (Oracle). You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
They only say it's "advanced" because Ubuntu doesn't configure any of this stuff yet in any sort of easy, time-efficient way. By the same logic, multi-button mice, touchpads, WPA wireless, and so forth are also "advanced", things "the masses" will never ever touch.
ISO does a lot more than deal with software standards. Since apparently they have lost all credibility worldwide in every industry thanks to their approval of a half-baked word processing format, I guess your goofy website will also deal with things such as the following:
"ISO has just launched the new ISO Standards collection on CD-ROM â" Materials for the production of primary aluminium. It contains the full collection of 108 ISO standards for materials used in the production of primary aluminium, including standards for alumina, pitch, coke, electrodes, ramming paste and fluorides."
Since of course aluminum smelters the world over will be abandoning the ISO en masse for Certified Open Dot Com.
I just read the thread, and I don't see instructions for how to go from a regular user to Administrator. I must be blind or something, right? So please post them here.
It doesn't surprise me that the world is bigger than America, because I am not American.
The rest of the world tacked on their infrastructure, whose design and technical underpinnings were American, to what the US government had already built. The DNS root servers are in America also. Give credit where it's due.
Yeah, it's definitely got a lot going for it. I'd like to try out its keyboard first though - in your experience, is it just too small for touch-typing? If not, then it is an awfully tempting purchase.
You are easily impressed if you think that what is basic window manager functionality these days is somehow awesome. I'd be more surprised if it couldn't do these things. Far more impressive is its ability to open an OpenOffice doc in under 10 seconds.
Windows 2000 is still getting updates. I have a laptop which I've lent out to a friend and she has it hooked up directly to her cable modem. No problems at all.
The major vector for infection is IE, so obviously she doesn't use that. And she's not running as Administrator, but under a user account.
iostream.h was never an "official" header. Right, but his concerns seem to be about backwards compat, and iostream.h dates from before there was a standard implementation, so I figured he wanted portability with older implementations (wasn't it Digital's C++ lib that broke things? This is all around 10 years old for me now).
Well, at first glance, std::cin goes into an infinite error loop on invalid input, returning the last valid input over and over. You need to check it before assignment.
As for the question about the includes, for backwards compatibility, shouldn't you have included iostream.h, rather than just iostream? Or am I confused?
Anyway, I miss posts like yours on Slashdot, so thanks for making it.
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Multiregionalism is totally discredited, and has been for a couple of decades now.
Maybe something like an airborne or mosquito-borne variant of HIV? In other words, if the virus mutated to be resistant to destruction outside of a warm fluid. I'm not sure how plausible this is though.
Disclaimer: I am not a Java fan, and particularly not a J2EE fan. But just so you know, Java is basically THE enterprise web app development language, and indeed THE enterprise language period. At this point in time, pretty much all the big server-side stuff is written in Java.
You talk about "trouble competing" - it hasn't had to compete. There is no choice, in the minds of management everywhere. It has been a massive, enormous success (measured in terms of penetration) in the enterprise, and there are so many lines of deployed Java running everything from corporate IT to banking to network management systems that it is truly astounding. Most of it sucks, of course, but my point is that your comment implies Java is on shaky ground in terms of acceptance, and that is totally naive, particularly in the corporate world. When I go to meet clients about projects, there is no debate about which language we're going to use, unfortunately. It is a de facto corporate standard.
And even for the web front ends, I see GWT getting more and more popular, so who knows. When Google makes their contractors use a particular technology, it tends to leak out and get deployed all over the place as those contractors become enamoured of it.
He was implying that it would have been a big mistake to have chosen Java, and that in fact Sun did them a huge favour by making them choose a better language/framework instead. Of course, now that I've had to explain it, it's not funny anymore.
Haha, you are correct - I had to see this for myself, and they sure do look familiar. That is absolutely hilarious if true.
There are no contemporaneous accounts of Christ's existence (ie firsthand eyewitness accounts written while he was supposedly alive). Please prove me wrong. If you can't show me any "writing from early enough", then show me his bones, some skin cells, anything.
Actually, don't waste your time. There is nothing. The guy almost certainly didn't exist.
Jesus Christ very likely never existed. There are no contemporaneous accounts of him at all - everything was written after he died, sometimes long after. You can glean whatever you like from any myth, but don't confuse mythology with science.
Many FOSS projects I am interested in (Open Office, Scribus being two big ones) are really lagging behind in the OSX ports, either more bugs or are a version behind. I understand that is partly because of Aqua or some other binding issue with OSX. It is truly not the seamless experience you get with running a Linux version on Linux. I see what you mean now. Well, the X Window versions will be up to date, so you could always run those. Macs don't always follow the Linux rules:
I've had to do some on my SAMBA server to get Macs to properly use permissions. Usually when I find a problem, I do a bunch of googleing and end up with some obscure note that SMB was mis-configured in OS X and to get it to work with Linux add: xxx into your servers conf file, etc. (I plug in the lines and usually it works, but many times it doesn't 'just work')
Other times it's a case of "Oh yeah, Apple fixed that - but only in the [insert latest version of OS] just buy upgrades" - that seems to happen a lot in Apple's support of Java Libraries. Okay, so misconfigured third-party stuff - I thought you were referring to OS-level stuff, like OS X does chmod differently or something bizarre like that.
I've never had any Java problems, and all my contracts recently have been Java-related, all developed on OS X, but it's entirely possible I'm just lucky or something. Historically, Linux has had far worse Java support because of free/non-free issues, leading to half-baked reimplementations like Blackdown.
People don't use operating systems - they use apps. If the apps are there, then people will use whatever OS the computer comes with.
Linux doesn't have the apps - Quicken? Nope. QuickTax? Nope. Photoshop? Nope. Office? Nope (although CrossOver is pretty good these days). Garage Band? Nope. And on and on and on...
However, if you are like me and have very simple needs - coding, browsing, email, Skype - then it's fine. I've been using it on the desktop since 1997, although my main desktop is now a Mac, which is the best of all worlds: commercial apps, Unix, and a beautiful, solid desktop.
What? The gpl does not prevent proprietary software from running on Linux, from drivers (Nvidia) to big apps (Oracle). You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
They only say it's "advanced" because Ubuntu doesn't configure any of this stuff yet in any sort of easy, time-efficient way. By the same logic, multi-button mice, touchpads, WPA wireless, and so forth are also "advanced", things "the masses" will never ever touch.
ISO does a lot more than deal with software standards. Since apparently they have lost all credibility worldwide in every industry thanks to their approval of a half-baked word processing format, I guess your goofy website will also deal with things such as the following:
"ISO has just launched the new ISO Standards collection on CD-ROM â" Materials for the production of primary aluminium. It contains the full collection of 108 ISO standards for materials used in the production of primary aluminium, including standards for alumina, pitch, coke, electrodes, ramming paste and fluorides."
Since of course aluminum smelters the world over will be abandoning the ISO en masse for Certified Open Dot Com.
By the way, openness != standardisation.
I just read the thread, and I don't see instructions for how to go from a regular user to Administrator. I must be blind or something, right? So please post them here.
Explain how you "bypass" user permissions to gain Administrator access in Windows XP. Please be specific, as in step by step.
It doesn't surprise me that the world is bigger than America, because I am not American.
The rest of the world tacked on their infrastructure, whose design and technical underpinnings were American, to what the US government had already built. The DNS root servers are in America also. Give credit where it's due.
Uh...the US government did build the internet.
Yeah, it's definitely got a lot going for it. I'd like to try out its keyboard first though - in your experience, is it just too small for touch-typing? If not, then it is an awfully tempting purchase.
You are easily impressed if you think that what is basic window manager functionality these days is somehow awesome. I'd be more surprised if it couldn't do these things. Far more impressive is its ability to open an OpenOffice doc in under 10 seconds.
Windows 2000 is still getting updates. I have a laptop which I've lent out to a friend and she has it hooked up directly to her cable modem. No problems at all.
The major vector for infection is IE, so obviously she doesn't use that. And she's not running as Administrator, but under a user account.
Windows can run Konqueror. KDE on Windows is in its early stages now, but by 4.1, the apps will run just fine.
How does he run them under Linux, as you suggested? Citrix or a VM STILL USE WINDOWS. The point is to NOT USE WINDOWS, remember?
Rather than making offensive rants and accusations, why not put your energy into learning how to write code, and let that do the talking?
Well, at first glance, std::cin goes into an infinite error loop on invalid input, returning the last valid input over and over. You need to check it before assignment.
As for the question about the includes, for backwards compatibility, shouldn't you have included iostream.h, rather than just iostream? Or am I confused?
Anyway, I miss posts like yours on Slashdot, so thanks for making it.