Note that such commercials are not possible in many parts of the world. Here in NZ, you can't use comparative advertising like that. Of course they still try in more subtle ways, but you can't do it outright.
Just who, other than Mac cultists and SFF geeks, is going to buy a Mac Mini?
Me, for one. I've had Mac envy for quite some time, but couldn't justify the cost. I already have a nice wireless keyboard & mouse, and a display. So it's perfect for that. And you get great applications for free with it, which nobody seems to include in the Windows comparisons.
My ex girlfriend is Chinese. She simply has no idea of these concepts that you are thinking about. And as other posters have pointed out, you must respect that culture. Sure, if you want you can talk with your Chinese friends about the difference between voting in a liberal western democracy and voting in China, but you can't subvert them.
By and large they don't see that having a controlling government is a problem, because it makes the right decisions. That's the thought process. She had never seen that image of the student in front of the tank in Tiananmen square. Never. And she was happy they didn't show it in China, because it could reduce the stability of the country.
When you can understand and respect that reasoning without trying to change it, then you are ready to go into that culture.
RTF is a format owned and maintained by Microsoft. They simply choose to publish it. There is nothing stopping them from extending it and not publishing it further.
We're hiring right now. The commute to New Zealand might be a killer, but we've got plenty of people that are not killing themselves each night (and a few that do).
Really, this is innovative, interesting and this guy deserves all sorts of success. Having spent the last year and a half learning to fly real gliders at my local club I can tell you that flying a glider is not entirely trivial. He's even programmed a landing circuit in for estimating wind strength (not always accurate, as glider pilots will tell you).
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
-- Charles Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
Ever hear the context to that quote?
He was so inundated with work, that he sought more funding from the government. He said that anyone that would deny him more money must think that "everything that can be invented has been invented".
Sure, if they want the pilots to be unable to see. Lasers can be in any wavelength of the EM spectrum. There's no way to block out all lasers without blocking out all light.
Doesn't necessarily follow, laser light has other properties that may be used to block them. Their light is, for example, coherent.
I think Maven may work if you don't mind drinking a bit of kool aid and structuring your project around your build tool, rather than the other way round.
Errr, right wow. that was pretty thorough, I'm quite impressed. Actually I am a Java Weenie and that statement is really just not that it should never be used, just so often they are used when they shouldn't be used and they lead to hard to maintain code and bugs. You know, static functions lead to a lack of object oriented code and if-whiff and all that.
I was poking fun at your tidbit because these days IDEs will find variables for you without text searches.
Log4j (really, reconsider using it, it's the industry standard even with the 1.4 logging stuff, that should tell you something)
Tomcat for servlets, it's great
Velocity for a templating engine
Commons for your utility junk
Ant for building stuff
I would also recomment as another poster has Doug Lea's concurrency utilities. If you have *anywhere* written an Object.wait() or a Object.notify[all](), then replace it with these libraries.
Junit is indespensible and these days with the IDEs indistinguishable from the core java libraries themselves.
Don't write SQL, use hibernate.
For security, you cant go past the legion of the bouncy castle (I'm serious)
Use cruise control to set up a continuous build
And the *only* piece of closed source code we rely on is Clover coverage. It's simply fantastic. You'll love it if you adopt unit testing as your quality mechanism.
Right, that's a great list. And you're right, they're regional affairs.
Now compile a list for similarly large countries. How long is your list for the US?
Compile a list for the USSR.. how long is that list?
My point is not that they are model international citizens, but that comparitively speaking, they are not aggressive and are only involved in regional issues, many of which they consider to be of foreign cause (Vietnam, for example).
I think also you have to see both sides of the Taiwan issue. Lots of missiles pointed... sure... how many countries does the US have missiles pointed at? It's all relative.
Err, I know Bush can be rampant, but do you think 'we don't like the government' should be automatic cause for war? Crikey.
My ex-girlfriend was Chinese. There were some interesting things that came out of that:
She had never seen that footage of Tianamen square with the student in front of the tank
She is quite happy with the performance of the government
She said that she is able to vote, just like us (hmmm, i later convinced her that voting in China isn't quite like voting here in NZ)
She was quite upset when my brother's Taiwanese wife answered to the question 'Are you chinese', 'No, I'm Taiwanese'
China's leadership is anything but unstable. And irresponsible is a bit far. China has to be one of the least aggressive large countries in the world, ever. How many wars has China started? Really?
They are induction sensors in my city, Auckland New Zealand. I know this because I thought they were weight, and my little motor scooter I used to have didn't always set them off (fibreglass body). I rang the council, and they told me induction, and to, ehh, carry some more metal round with me.
How would you like to be in a shop, and one in every two items there has the word 'no' on it, and you can't take it. You can't see why, there's no explanation... just no. What would you do (other than go to another shop)? Ask someone why you can't take it.
An alternative is to offer a tooltip with an explanation. How hard is that? it would be so useful, too. You even state that you don't understand the option. That's not necessarily true. You can understand the menu command, but not why it has been disabled.
For example, open up notepad on Windows XP. Note the view menu. There's one item, called 'status bar'. It's disabled (well it is on my machine). Why? I know what a status bar is, thank you very much. I know that the menu item should show me it. But it's disabled, WHY? No amount of help is going to get you there, because the help is always going to be context independent, you would have to list all the cases. Here though it can tell you exactly why for this instance.
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Note that such commercials are not possible in many parts of the world. Here in NZ, you can't use comparative advertising like that. Of course they still try in more subtle ways, but you can't do it outright.
Me, for one. I've had Mac envy for quite some time, but couldn't justify the cost. I already have a nice wireless keyboard & mouse, and a display. So it's perfect for that. And you get great applications for free with it, which nobody seems to include in the Windows comparisons.
By and large they don't see that having a controlling government is a problem, because it makes the right decisions. That's the thought process. She had never seen that image of the student in front of the tank in Tiananmen square. Never. And she was happy they didn't show it in China, because it could reduce the stability of the country.
When you can understand and respect that reasoning without trying to change it, then you are ready to go into that culture.
I used to be a developer for Rhapsody, and then lead the team for a while. Symphonia has been around for a very long time.
The best example of why this is false is Chinese. It has no alphabet, yet has writing.
Dude, calm down. Do what the rest of us do.... Don't play them anymore. You'll find it much more relaxing that way.
Why is it considered open?
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See you at the interview!
Very impressive.
-- Charles Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
Ever hear the context to that quote?
He was so inundated with work, that he sought more funding from the government. He said that anyone that would deny him more money must think that "everything that can be invented has been invented".
Changes it a bit.
Doesn't necessarily follow, laser light has other properties that may be used to block them. Their light is, for example, coherent.
No, parent was correct. That's the entire point. Floating ice that melts doesn't change the water level. Try it yourself.
That's exactly what the parent poster said, too.
The Bile Blog has plenty to say about it.
I think Maven may work if you don't mind drinking a bit of kool aid and structuring your project around your build tool, rather than the other way round.
bloody peasant!
I was poking fun at your tidbit because these days IDEs will find variables for you without text searches.
- Log4j (really, reconsider using it, it's the industry standard even with the 1.4 logging stuff, that should tell you something)
- Tomcat for servlets, it's great
- Velocity for a templating engine
- Commons for your utility junk
- Ant for building stuff
I would also recomment as another poster has Doug Lea's concurrency utilities. If you have *anywhere* written an Object.wait() or a Object.notify[all](), then replace it with these libraries.Junit is indespensible and these days with the IDEs indistinguishable from the core java libraries themselves.
Don't write SQL, use hibernate.
For security, you cant go past the legion of the bouncy castle (I'm serious)
Use cruise control to set up a continuous build
And the *only* piece of closed source code we rely on is Clover coverage. It's simply fantastic. You'll love it if you adopt unit testing as your quality mechanism.
Despite rumours to the contrary.
Oh my.
Dunno, but are you sure that's hyphenated?
Now compile a list for similarly large countries. How long is your list for the US?
Compile a list for the USSR.. how long is that list?
My point is not that they are model international citizens, but that comparitively speaking, they are not aggressive and are only involved in regional issues, many of which they consider to be of foreign cause (Vietnam, for example).
I think also you have to see both sides of the Taiwan issue. Lots of missiles pointed... sure... how many countries does the US have missiles pointed at? It's all relative.
My ex-girlfriend was Chinese. There were some interesting things that came out of that:
Anyone care to elaborate??
They are induction sensors in my city, Auckland New Zealand. I know this because I thought they were weight, and my little motor scooter I used to have didn't always set them off (fibreglass body). I rang the council, and they told me induction, and to, ehh, carry some more metal round with me.
How would you like to be in a shop, and one in every two items there has the word 'no' on it, and you can't take it. You can't see why, there's no explanation... just no. What would you do (other than go to another shop)? Ask someone why you can't take it.
An alternative is to offer a tooltip with an explanation. How hard is that? it would be so useful, too. You even state that you don't understand the option. That's not necessarily true. You can understand the menu command, but not why it has been disabled.
For example, open up notepad on Windows XP. Note the view menu. There's one item, called 'status bar'. It's disabled (well it is on my machine). Why? I know what a status bar is, thank you very much. I know that the menu item should show me it. But it's disabled, WHY? No amount of help is going to get you there, because the help is always going to be context independent, you would have to list all the cases. Here though it can tell you exactly why for this instance.