Help me out here. Are you after a specifically IBM implementation of the Java VM for Windows?
Yes.
I've found the IBM JVM's to be faster and more stable. Also, it doesn't make me install *two* copies of the JRE like Sun does (one for development and one for the system JVM). So all-in-all, I like the IBM verison better.
As another poster said, it looks like IBM won't be developing a standalone version. However, I just found the IBM Development Package for Eclipse. It includes IBM's JDK 1.4.2 for Windows. I'm hoping that it's in it's own separate package like it was in the MQ Series client. But it seems that this is IBM's way of getting the new JDK out.
Not as nice as a pure JDK download, but it'll work...
I've been disappointed with IBM's response to Java lately. The last version easily downloaded for Windows is 1.3. The only way I was able to get Java 1.4 for Windows was to download the MQ Series client (like 200MB big!) and pull the JDK out of that...
I wonder if IBM will have a 1.5 JDK? For a company that is putting a lot of juice behind Java, it seems odd that they don't make the JDK available to others...
So, you might be able to open the documents of today in years to come, but it'll be damned difficult to actually find anything, at least not without some advanced Google-style PDF indexing...
You mean that it's harder to use Google to search for data in PDF's than it is to use Google to search for data in Word files? Or HTML files?
What magic tool do you have that makes it trivial to find data in some other format that *can't* easily extended to work with PDF files?
Or do you think stacks of paper are easier to search?
Actually, the reason for the memory dump (serialized objects, IIRC) was for document load speed.
About the time this decision was made, most formats were in large part tag-based formats (in concept very much like OO.o's, BTW). The problem is that parsing that data stream, building a document structure in memory, presenting that to the user, etc. takes time. Microsoft figured that by skipping the transformation to and from an arbitrary file format would speed things up.
And it does. Pretty dramatically, in fact. That was a *big* deal a decade ago. Even today, that is a problem for OO.o: document save and load times lag behind Word by a *large* margin. It took me 5 seconds to save an *empty* OO.o document. The same thing in word took
Of course, the Word file is like 24k big, and the OO.o document is only 4...;)
If you have 50% more than you need, supplying 100% of the power will require 2/3 of your windmills. If you want half of your windmills to sit idle and and still provide 100% of power, you need 200%, not 150%.
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And never forget the value of the handy old credit card. A friend and I got started in lockpicking with some sets we got off ebay back in middle school, and by the end of high school were quite profficient.
Guaranteed to make someone my age (27) feel old. eBay didn't exist until after I was out of high school. You're telling me that someone could *buy* something from eBay in middle school, and now be out of high school?
You mean the *third* time that Tom Clancy wrote a "China takes over the world" book? This following the second "Ebola virus destroys the world" book?
It's like Debt of Honor, Executive Orders, Rainbow 6 and The Bear and the Dragon were all the result of two research sessions: Ebola and China-Attacks-Russia. Insert a couple of minor countries and you're good to go!
Don't *even* get me started on The Teeth of the Tiger. That is the *last* TC hardcover I'm buying without reading. And I tell you what: the cliffhanger isn't going to work for me this time...
Hardcover, (C)1991. 798 pages, including the Afterward. IIRC, the paperback is more like 820 pages, but no: none of them are 1100 pages...
I'm too lazy to look, but I'd be willing to put money on the fact that none of the books are over 1000 pages. I think Executive Orders is the longest, and it's still under 900 pages...
I have read every Tom Clancy as soon as it was published since Clear and Present Danger (the one before The Sum of All Fears). Yes, it was too long then. I finished it, but it was a struggle.
Oddly enough, it was better the second time. When you've already read it, you know what you can kind of skim over as you're reading. But no, it was rough the first time.
And I *like* the technical stuff. My problem was not in the detail, but the repetitive detail. Machining the steel blanks, the beryllium, the plutonium, etc. etc. etc. Distill that into about 150 pages (eliminating, what? 1/3 the book?) would have greatly improved the book...
The non-Wikipedia link was unintentional. I just did a quick Google search and grabbed the first link that worked. I *do* love the Wikipedia: next time I'll try to search in the Wikipedia first...
However, the double pulse part is caused by the mechanics of a nuclear blast: the first pulse is from the explosion before the atmosphere is heated. The delay is when the atmosphere begins to absorb the radiation and heats up. Eventually, the atmosphere quits absorbing the radiation (as much) and you get the second pulse.
Or something like that. The general idea is that any explosion that creates that much electromagnetic radiation would create a double pulse. But conventional explosions don't create electromagnetic radation. Hence, the indicator of the double pulse.
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? It doesn't matter if it's a nuclear effect "in your mind". Your mind doesn't enter into it. Neither does Pons or Fleischmann's minds. What matters is whether nuclear fusion is actually occurring, and that is to be settled by experiment.
Unless we're talking about Quantum Mechanics, in which observation is critical to whether something happens or not.
At the levels we're talking about, QM is definitely involved. So whether something happens or not in the absence of detection *does* matter.
Of course, I do agree that the parent's personal thoughts don't overly matter...;)
I had this problem with Adventure Land for the Commodore VIC 20 by Scott Adams. (Playable here.
I could get through 12 of the 13 items. But to get one of the items I had to feed a bear with the Royal Honey (which was also a treasure). I figured the bees would make more, but they never did. The trick was to not feed the bear, but to yell at it.
IBM had, what was to me, the best thin-client system on the planet. It was heavily OS/2-based, but there was a version for Windows as well! (First link above). Full fat clients running full fat operating systems, but served, managed and administered from a central server. Hardware dies? Use a different computer: get the same operating system, environment, etc. Roaming user? Get *your* OS from any computer. Need to deploy an app to 1000 users? Install once, and drag and drop an icon. Done.
To me, *that* is Network Computing. Not glorified VNC to a single computer...
In Michigan, there is even a small chart to allow you to "estimate" your Use Tax (sales tax on out-of-state items) that is based on your AGI.
I pay it every year. I look at it like protection money. I pay a few bucks to the state, and they won't send the Dept. of Treaury after me for tax evasion.
AYBS is horrible. I can't believe it was funny 30 years ago (when they were being made) but the "humor" is the most predictable I have seen on television *ever*. If I hear about Ms. Slocombe's pussy again...
Same thing with Keeping Up Appearances. Predictable, and just not funny.
Now a show that gets shown occasionally on our PBS station that I really like is Chef! (which I believe is called "Ready, Steady, Cook!", according to my British friend). That's actually clever. But it only comes on every once in a while, without rhyme or reason, after 11:00 P.M, so it's hard for me to catch...
According to the article, they want to add dye to get it to 'change color'. Given the subtractive properties of such a dye, won't that cause the glass to let in less light, just like the tinting they're trying to replace?
I don't see how you *add* dye to get the coating to let in the light that the coating is currently blocking...
He reported this to higher ups and they ignored it. The first mistake here is they should've listened. Since they didn't, the only other option was to take matters into his own hands.
Why, exactly, was his "only other option" to spy on his boss? Why not write the letters to the editor that are now being written for him? Why not put up a website that talks about the issues he's facing, without mentioning names? Why is the next step to spy on his boss?
Was his boss' conduct reprehensible? Yes. Was it his job to spy on him? Short of a policy expressly giving him permission to spy on his boss (or *anyone* else in the office), his behavior was wrong. And no, " 'to confirm and document' such misuse" is *not* sufficient authorization for spying on *any* user in the office, especially his boss.
You can get in trouble doing such things, including prosecution under federal wiretapping laws. This is *not* an area where you want to screw around with.
If Windows is infringing on a patent, how is Munich protected? Closed Source, Open Source, whatever: if you steal a patent, you're in trouble. Either way.
Is Closed Source better just because it's harder to *know* when you steal?
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I've found the IBM JVM's to be faster and more stable. Also, it doesn't make me install *two* copies of the JRE like Sun does (one for development and one for the system JVM). So all-in-all, I like the IBM verison better.
As another poster said, it looks like IBM won't be developing a standalone version. However, I just found the IBM Development Package for Eclipse. It includes IBM's JDK 1.4.2 for Windows. I'm hoping that it's in it's own separate package like it was in the MQ Series client. But it seems that this is IBM's way of getting the new JDK out.
Not as nice as a pure JDK download, but it'll work...
I wonder if IBM will have a 1.5 JDK? For a company that is putting a lot of juice behind Java, it seems odd that they don't make the JDK available to others...
That's supposed to be "took less than two seconds.". /. ate my less than symbol...
You mean that it's harder to use Google to search for data in PDF's than it is to use Google to search for data in Word files? Or HTML files?
What magic tool do you have that makes it trivial to find data in some other format that *can't* easily extended to work with PDF files?
Or do you think stacks of paper are easier to search?
About the time this decision was made, most formats were in large part tag-based formats (in concept very much like OO.o's, BTW). The problem is that parsing that data stream, building a document structure in memory, presenting that to the user, etc. takes time. Microsoft figured that by skipping the transformation to and from an arbitrary file format would speed things up.
And it does. Pretty dramatically, in fact. That was a *big* deal a decade ago. Even today, that is a problem for OO.o: document save and load times lag behind Word by a *large* margin. It took me 5 seconds to save an *empty* OO.o document. The same thing in word took Of course, the Word file is like 24k big, and the OO.o document is only 4... ;)
The inverter will eat a *lot* of power needlessly.
If you have 50% more than you need, supplying 100% of the power will require 2/3 of your windmills. If you want half of your windmills to sit idle and and still provide 100% of power, you need 200%, not 150%.
Guaranteed to make someone my age (27) feel old. eBay didn't exist until after I was out of high school. You're telling me that someone could *buy* something from eBay in middle school, and now be out of high school?
This getting old thing sucks...
It's like Debt of Honor, Executive Orders, Rainbow 6 and The Bear and the Dragon were all the result of two research sessions: Ebola and China-Attacks-Russia. Insert a couple of minor countries and you're good to go!
Don't *even* get me started on The Teeth of the Tiger. That is the *last* TC hardcover I'm buying without reading. And I tell you what: the cliffhanger isn't going to work for me this time...
I'm too lazy to look, but I'd be willing to put money on the fact that none of the books are over 1000 pages. I think Executive Orders is the longest, and it's still under 900 pages...
Oddly enough, it was better the second time. When you've already read it, you know what you can kind of skim over as you're reading. But no, it was rough the first time.
And I *like* the technical stuff. My problem was not in the detail, but the repetitive detail. Machining the steel blanks, the beryllium, the plutonium, etc. etc. etc. Distill that into about 150 pages (eliminating, what? 1/3 the book?) would have greatly improved the book...
However, the double pulse part is caused by the mechanics of a nuclear blast: the first pulse is from the explosion before the atmosphere is heated. The delay is when the atmosphere begins to absorb the radiation and heats up. Eventually, the atmosphere quits absorbing the radiation (as much) and you get the second pulse.
Or something like that. The general idea is that any explosion that creates that much electromagnetic radiation would create a double pulse. But conventional explosions don't create electromagnetic radation. Hence, the indicator of the double pulse.
IANA Nuclear Physicist, yada yada...
See? I *knew* that reading all 1800 pages of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears would come in handy...
I know, it was only 800 pages. It just *felt* like 18000... That book would have been much better as a 400 page book.
It's articles like this that make me yearn for karma whores... Black on red?!?
Unless we're talking about Quantum Mechanics, in which observation is critical to whether something happens or not.
At the levels we're talking about, QM is definitely involved. So whether something happens or not in the absence of detection *does* matter.
Of course, I do agree that the parent's personal thoughts don't overly matter... ;)
I could get through 12 of the 13 items. But to get one of the items I had to feed a bear with the Royal Honey (which was also a treasure). I figured the bees would make more, but they never did. The trick was to not feed the bear, but to yell at it.
How the heck are you going to think of that?!?
IBM had, what was to me, the best thin-client system on the planet. It was heavily OS/2-based, but there was a version for Windows as well! (First link above). Full fat clients running full fat operating systems, but served, managed and administered from a central server. Hardware dies? Use a different computer: get the same operating system, environment, etc. Roaming user? Get *your* OS from any computer. Need to deploy an app to 1000 users? Install once, and drag and drop an icon. Done.
To me, *that* is Network Computing. Not glorified VNC to a single computer...
I pay it every year. I look at it like protection money. I pay a few bucks to the state, and they won't send the Dept. of Treaury after me for tax evasion.
AYBS is horrible. I can't believe it was funny 30 years ago (when they were being made) but the "humor" is the most predictable I have seen on television *ever*. If I hear about Ms. Slocombe's pussy again...
Same thing with Keeping Up Appearances. Predictable, and just not funny.
Now a show that gets shown occasionally on our PBS station that I really like is Chef! (which I believe is called "Ready, Steady, Cook!", according to my British friend). That's actually clever. But it only comes on every once in a while, without rhyme or reason, after 11:00 P.M, so it's hard for me to catch...
I don't see how you *add* dye to get the coating to let in the light that the coating is currently blocking...
Why, exactly, was his "only other option" to spy on his boss? Why not write the letters to the editor that are now being written for him? Why not put up a website that talks about the issues he's facing, without mentioning names? Why is the next step to spy on his boss?
Was his boss' conduct reprehensible? Yes. Was it his job to spy on him? Short of a policy expressly giving him permission to spy on his boss (or *anyone* else in the office), his behavior was wrong. And no, " 'to confirm and document' such misuse" is *not* sufficient authorization for spying on *any* user in the office, especially his boss.
You can get in trouble doing such things, including prosecution under federal wiretapping laws. This is *not* an area where you want to screw around with.
Is Closed Source better just because it's harder to *know* when you steal?
Billions? 1/6 of the world's population is blind?
I understand your point. But watch the exaggeration...