You made a logical fallacy. The correct conclusion is: "VS for C# blows away Eclipse for Python".
Eclipse is mostly used to program Java, support for other languages is still catching up. I've heard C++ support has become quite good in the Eclipse 3.1 release. I don't know about Python support. Maybe you should try more specialized Python IDEs? There are also people who claim that Python needs less of an IDE because it is more powerful.
you execute a program and it will run before next Christmas (not something you can say for Java)
Heh, that part is quite a troll.
I use Java apps daily (Eclipse, Moneydance, JAlbum), and now that you make me think of it, they might not be "lightning fast", but they're fast enough that I don't think about their speed. In my book, that's the definition of being "fast enough".
I don't have experience with.Net apps however, so it might well be the case that they're faster. As others have commented, they only run on one platform, someone also said it's easy to embark native code in.Net, this might make a huge difference.
Anyway, Java is not "slow" anymore, it may be not as fast as others, but it's fast enough.
First of all, it's interesting to note that 10 of the 45 Java vulnerabilities that the researchers take in account are due to Microsoft. They are specific to the ill-famed Microsoft JVM.
Furthermore, 10 of the remaining 35 vulnerabilities were discovered and fixed in the first six months after the initial Java release. I consider that quickly-fixed flaws in a young product.
So, we're left with 25 vulnerabilities found in a mature product, between 2 and 3 every year. Not quite pretty, not quite a disaster either.
Now, question is, why are there no vulnerabilities discoveries in the.Net runtime? The researchers talk at length about the better.Net design, which is unsurprising given it was designed after many years of experience with the JVM.
However, they fail to assess any impact the availability of Java source code might have on finding vulnerabilities and fixing them. The whole source code for the JVM is available (free as in beer), anybody can have a look once they register with Sun. I don't know if the same applies to the.Net runtime, somehow I doubt it. Some partners might have portions of it, maybe.
So, availability of source code might be enough to generate two or three vulnerability discoveries per year.
Note that I'm not saying that there are six to nine vulnerabilities yet to be discovered in.Net; maybe Microsoft did it right this time, and spent they money where it matters most in the long run.
I forgot to say that, in order to subscribe at Free, I had to reopen the phone line (which had been closed for more than three months), and in order to reopen the phone line, I had to subscribe for one year to France Telecom's phone service, France Telecom being the main competitor of Free, but also the owner of almost all land lines in France.
So, that's another 14 euros per month, which I'll be able to cancel several months from now.
(Free is of course fighting against this kind of screw-up, actually they've been gaining some ground, especially for phone lines closed less than three months ago.)
As far as availability is concerned, Free, like most DSL services, is only available in densely populated areas -- in and around Paris, and in major towns in France. If you live in a rural area, tough luck.
In France, there's almost 2 millions VoIP subscribers, which means VoIP is three and a half more popular here.
This is mostly due to Free, a kick-ass ISP which bundles maximum-speed DSL access (4.6 Mbps in my case, 10,000 feet from the DSLAM), free VoIP communications (to all landlines in France, and cheap rates for everyhting else, except cellular phones), 100 free TV stations (plus 100 others for various fees), an unlimited number of 1 GB web spaces with unlimited bandwidth, no ads, and MySQL+PHP5 support, an unlimited number of mailboxes, and plenty of things I forget right now, all that for the great price of 30 euros per month.
Their customer service sucks, though, and you better not have problems, because they'll take a long while to be solved.
Overall, I'm happy.:-)
I wonder how the VoIP and DSL services are in countries other than France and the U.S.
The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy game is one of the best and most difficult text-mode adventure game ever written. It was co-written by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky (author of the famous Planetfall and Sorceror, among others).
The BBC has an interview with Meretzky about how his collaboration with Adams went, a great, long and detailed text, full of information. Now, that's good reporting!
Will you can't force them open, they don't apply that much closing force (to keep from severing limbs) and if they face any resistence, they open back up (letting you slip in).
Don't forget I'm talking about the automated line 14 in Paris. That said, you're likely right, especially with double doors; if the train left the station when someone is blocked in the door, it would get gory quite fast.
Still, nobody blocks the doors on that line. Now that I've thought about it, it is quite possible that this is due to the already mentioned fact that they're quite scary, but also to their speed: they're large, but they close quite fast. So, roughly speaking, you're either in front of open doors, or closed doors. Not much time to put your arm there.
Without a conductor, who's going to yell at everyone to stop holding the doors? How does this work in other automated systems, like Paris's Météor?
Trust me, you don't hold the doors -- you can't, they're too strong. Or maybe you can, but I've yet to see someone try (even though that's a local sport on other, non-automated lines -- it's not like nobody ever holds doors in Paris).
They make some kind of "sound of inevitability", loud and somewhat fast. Then, there's the fact that there are two set of doors per opening (one for the platform, one for the train itself), twice as much to hold when compared to the older lines.
Finally, there's decent traffic on the line, you don't have to wait much if you miss a train (except after 10pm, when you need to wait five minutes or so).
So, as much as it occured even to me to hold the doors for a nearby friend on other lines (nearby meaning really nearby, not at the top of the stairs far over there), it never occured on line 14 (the automated line).
Nah, it's a job for the Half Section. I've heard they were becoming quite good at it, recently, despite still being sooo understaffed.
Seriously, to all people who where bitching in previous stories about shows being canceled and bad science-fiction being shoveled down their throats: Watch this animé: Planetes. It's good science, and it's good fiction. It's very well made, it's captivating, in a low-key way.
I'll let the intro of the episodes speak for itself:
Artificial satellites that have been discarded, fuel tanks that shuttles have ejected, waste that was produced during space stations construction: a vast amount of trash floats around in space. Also known as space debris, it has become a grave threat. 2075. This is a story of when trash in space has become a problem.
The link in the scam email eventually redirects to this IP address in France, *after* ebay verifies your login.
The server is hosted by amen.fr, a company specializing in cheap hosting that does not have an especially bad name. It is likely that things are very automated there, and that it is possible for someone to sign up for an account, pay some money, host the scam for a couple of weeks, gain much more money this way, and then run away.
I was a bit surprised to see this scam is done from France, because once someone files a lawsuit, there's a rather good chance the culprit is found. There's certainly plenty of countries where setting up such a fraud is safer. However, come to think of it, as long as nobody files anything, the culprit doesn't have to worry much. Since the emails and pages are in English, there are fewer chances that French people are defrauded and go to justice because of that.
Anway, I've just sent a polite email to amen.fr, asking them to at least close the offending web site. Hope this helps.
I just saw Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki's latest work, and I just have this to say: It's excellent!
I've been told a few critics around here (in France) were disappointed or something -- I haven't have the chance to read them yet. Many others were enthousiastic, and I join their rank!
Like many other Miyazaki movies, there's plenty of everything, for everyone, to be seen, felt, understood, admired. There's entertainment for sure, suspense, chasing, quite a bit of war, beautiful machineries and landscape, music, great characters (including a most excellent demon of fire!), etc. There's also a classical but well-told love story, some insights about power and corruption, and interesting and thought provokind depictions of age, old age mostly (an unusual subject for an animé, but very tastefully done), and young age in contrast to the elderly. There's also plenty of English-tale feeling, since the story is adapted from a recent (1986) English children-book. Miyazaki manages to blend the English and Japanese cultures masterfully.
Overall, and almost as usual with Miyazaki, this is a movie you can go see with your children (or nephews, or whatever), they will immensely enjoy themselves, and you certainly won't be annoyed or bored either.
Kim Stanley Robinson is well known for his hard sci-fi Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). He has also written a small and memorable fantasy book, A Short, Sharp Shock, which takes place on a strange world covered by sea, almost perfectly bisected by a tall, narrow ridge that seems to run all around the world (but maybe only for 1300 km?) and that sometimes almost reaches the sea, sometimes climbs up to great heights (20 km maybe?).
Just a coincidence, of course, but it's funny that a man who loves space in general and planets in particular would use an existing but at the time unknown geological feature as the basis of a fantasy book.
I don't really like Grand Finale, it sounds pretty cheap.
That's because it has no been "pop-boosted" as orchestral FF8. You need some good equipment and good listening conditions to enjoy it fully. And of course, if you listen to both next to the other, you'll probably think orchestral FF8 sounds better than Grand Finale because it is louder.
I have both, I enjoy both, and I think I prefer Grand Finale a little bit more because it is more classical than orchestral FF8, which is more pop-oriented.
Allows to verify who created/commited the patches. Allows to verify the integrity of a repository in case of compromise.
* Arch: Excellent. Each patch can be signed, repositories can be fully verified. * Darcs: Incomplete. Patches sent by email can be signed so the recipient can verify the identity of the submitter. No support for verifying repository integrity. [1] * Subversion: N/A
[1] Problem is: You can only sign something that will not vary once distributed, Darcs patches vary once distributed.
Because after all is said and done it isn't any better than Yahoo! mail except for the storage capacity.
My Yahoo! inbox is 2 GB. Admittedly, I'm paying for it.
I'm paying for POP access actually, so I don't quite care about the 2 GB -- I'm just quite sure that if I leave on a long holiday, the inbox won't be full when I return. By the way, there's a nice Yahoo business trick here: offer 2GB inboxes clients that pay for POP access. It's not like they use much of the gift!
1. Spot a funny website in the previous Slashdot frontpage funny story. Thanks to the Slashdot moderation system, it is easy finding one, since they are usually moderated +5, Funny.
How true! I saw Brazil recently. I was amazed at the number of similarities with our present situation, a bureaucracy officially fighting "terrorists" but never really achieving it, closely controlling the citizens, and mostly caring about its own business and not giving sh1t about others. Clearly the work of a great and accurate visionnary.
Consumers against terrorism! -- That is the text of a sign carried by a protester in the movie, some gullible guy believing what TV shows him, so close to our reality!
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You made a logical fallacy. The correct conclusion is: "VS for C# blows away Eclipse for Python".
Eclipse is mostly used to program Java, support for other languages is still catching up. I've heard C++ support has become quite good in the Eclipse 3.1 release. I don't know about Python support. Maybe you should try more specialized Python IDEs? There are also people who claim that Python needs less of an IDE because it is more powerful.
you execute a program and it will run before next Christmas (not something you can say for Java)
.Net apps however, so it might well be the case that they're faster. As others have commented, they only run on one platform, someone also said it's easy to embark native code in .Net, this might make a huge difference.
Heh, that part is quite a troll.
I use Java apps daily (Eclipse, Moneydance, JAlbum), and now that you make me think of it, they might not be "lightning fast", but they're fast enough that I don't think about their speed. In my book, that's the definition of being "fast enough".
I don't have experience with
Anyway, Java is not "slow" anymore, it may be not as fast as others, but it's fast enough.
That's a lot of variations, platforms, etc,
Actually, 10 of the 45 vulnerabilities that the authors chose to use in the chart were (or are?) in Microsoft JVM.
I think including them in the chart is misleading at best.
First of all, it's interesting to note that 10 of the 45 Java vulnerabilities that the researchers take in account are due to Microsoft. They are specific to the ill-famed Microsoft JVM.
.Net runtime? The researchers talk at length about the better .Net design, which is unsurprising given it was designed after many years of experience with the JVM.
.Net runtime, somehow I doubt it. Some partners might have portions of it, maybe.
.Net; maybe Microsoft did it right this time, and spent they money where it matters most in the long run.
Furthermore, 10 of the remaining 35 vulnerabilities were discovered and fixed in the first six months after the initial Java release. I consider that quickly-fixed flaws in a young product.
So, we're left with 25 vulnerabilities found in a mature product, between 2 and 3 every year. Not quite pretty, not quite a disaster either.
Now, question is, why are there no vulnerabilities discoveries in the
However, they fail to assess any impact the availability of Java source code might have on finding vulnerabilities and fixing them. The whole source code for the JVM is available (free as in beer), anybody can have a look once they register with Sun. I don't know if the same applies to the
So, availability of source code might be enough to generate two or three vulnerability discoveries per year.
Note that I'm not saying that there are six to nine vulnerabilities yet to be discovered in
Same with VMS. Tons of excellent documentation, for a hefty price.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that DEC included free shelves for every set of documentation purchased.
Read Big Gray Wall in the jargon file to get a better feeling of what such a documentation looks like.
Here's a hint for you: there are several pages. Next page in nVidia.
(The link is well hidden, though, so that you spend more time looking at the ads.) (I wonder if they got paid by ATI to put their page first?)
I forgot to say that, in order to subscribe at Free, I had to reopen the phone line (which had been closed for more than three months), and in order to reopen the phone line, I had to subscribe for one year to France Telecom's phone service, France Telecom being the main competitor of Free, but also the owner of almost all land lines in France.
So, that's another 14 euros per month, which I'll be able to cancel several months from now.
(Free is of course fighting against this kind of screw-up, actually they've been gaining some ground, especially for phone lines closed less than three months ago.)
As far as availability is concerned, Free, like most DSL services, is only available in densely populated areas -- in and around Paris, and in major towns in France. If you live in a rural area, tough luck.
In France, there's almost 2 millions VoIP subscribers, which means VoIP is three and a half more popular here.
:-)
This is mostly due to Free, a kick-ass ISP which bundles maximum-speed DSL access (4.6 Mbps in my case, 10,000 feet from the DSLAM), free VoIP communications (to all landlines in France, and cheap rates for everyhting else, except cellular phones), 100 free TV stations (plus 100 others for various fees), an unlimited number of 1 GB web spaces with unlimited bandwidth, no ads, and MySQL+PHP5 support, an unlimited number of mailboxes, and plenty of things I forget right now, all that for the great price of 30 euros per month.
Their customer service sucks, though, and you better not have problems, because they'll take a long while to be solved.
Overall, I'm happy.
I wonder how the VoIP and DSL services are in countries other than France and the U.S.
Do yourself a favor, follow these links, play these short (one or two hours) games.
Galatea
Photopia
The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy game is one of the best and most difficult text-mode adventure game ever written. It was co-written by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky (author of the famous Planetfall and Sorceror, among others).
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The BBC has an interview with Meretzky about how his collaboration with Adams went, a great, long and detailed text, full of information. Now, that's good reporting!
Read it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/stevem.sh
Will you can't force them open, they don't apply that much closing force (to keep from severing limbs) and if they face any resistence, they open back up (letting you slip in).
Don't forget I'm talking about the automated line 14 in Paris. That said, you're likely right, especially with double doors; if the train left the station when someone is blocked in the door, it would get gory quite fast.
Still, nobody blocks the doors on that line. Now that I've thought about it, it is quite possible that this is due to the already mentioned fact that they're quite scary, but also to their speed: they're large, but they close quite fast. So, roughly speaking, you're either in front of open doors, or closed doors. Not much time to put your arm there.
Without a conductor, who's going to yell at everyone to stop holding the doors? How does this work in other automated systems, like Paris's Météor?
Trust me, you don't hold the doors -- you can't, they're too strong. Or maybe you can, but I've yet to see someone try (even though that's a local sport on other, non-automated lines -- it's not like nobody ever holds doors in Paris).
They make some kind of "sound of inevitability", loud and somewhat fast. Then, there's the fact that there are two set of doors per opening (one for the platform, one for the train itself), twice as much to hold when compared to the older lines.
Finally, there's decent traffic on the line, you don't have to wait much if you miss a train (except after 10pm, when you need to wait five minutes or so).
So, as much as it occured even to me to hold the doors for a nearby friend on other lines (nearby meaning really nearby, not at the top of the stairs far over there), it never occured on line 14 (the automated line).
its not like /. goes through hundreds of articles a day
No, but it goes through several hundred submissions. To quote CmdrTaco: "We get 500 story submissions on a busy day... and we post 15-20."
Nah, it's a job for the Half Section. I've heard they were becoming quite good at it, recently, despite still being sooo understaffed.
Seriously, to all people who where bitching in previous stories about shows being canceled and bad science-fiction being shoveled down their throats: Watch this animé: Planetes. It's good science, and it's good fiction. It's very well made, it's captivating, in a low-key way.
I'll let the intro of the episodes speak for itself:
Artificial satellites that have been discarded, fuel tanks that shuttles have ejected, waste that was produced during space stations construction: a vast amount of trash floats around in space. Also known as space debris, it has become a grave threat. 2075. This is a story of when trash in space has become a problem.
The link in the scam email eventually redirects to this IP address in France, *after* ebay verifies your login.
The server is hosted by amen.fr, a company specializing in cheap hosting that does not have an especially bad name. It is likely that things are very automated there, and that it is possible for someone to sign up for an account, pay some money, host the scam for a couple of weeks, gain much more money this way, and then run away.
I was a bit surprised to see this scam is done from France, because once someone files a lawsuit, there's a rather good chance the culprit is found. There's certainly plenty of countries where setting up such a fraud is safer. However, come to think of it, as long as nobody files anything, the culprit doesn't have to worry much. Since the emails and pages are in English, there are fewer chances that French people are defrauded and go to justice because of that.
Anway, I've just sent a polite email to amen.fr, asking them to at least close the offending web site. Hope this helps.
I've seen "all" his other works (I mean all movies and major TV shows), and I still enjoyed Howl's Moving Castle. :-)
But as you said, to each their own.
I just saw Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki's latest work, and I just have this to say: It's excellent!
I've been told a few critics around here (in France) were disappointed or something -- I haven't have the chance to read them yet. Many others were enthousiastic, and I join their rank!
Like many other Miyazaki movies, there's plenty of everything, for everyone, to be seen, felt, understood, admired. There's entertainment for sure, suspense, chasing, quite a bit of war, beautiful machineries and landscape, music, great characters (including a most excellent demon of fire!), etc. There's also a classical but well-told love story, some insights about power and corruption, and interesting and thought provokind depictions of age, old age mostly (an unusual subject for an animé, but very tastefully done), and young age in contrast to the elderly. There's also plenty of English-tale feeling, since the story is adapted from a recent (1986) English children-book. Miyazaki manages to blend the English and Japanese cultures masterfully.
Overall, and almost as usual with Miyazaki, this is a movie you can go see with your children (or nephews, or whatever), they will immensely enjoy themselves, and you certainly won't be annoyed or bored either.
Coincidences are weird, sometimes.
Kim Stanley Robinson is well known for his hard sci-fi Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). He has also written a small and memorable fantasy book, A Short, Sharp Shock, which takes place on a strange world covered by sea, almost perfectly bisected by a tall, narrow ridge that seems to run all around the world (but maybe only for 1300 km?) and that sometimes almost reaches the sea, sometimes climbs up to great heights (20 km maybe?).
Just a coincidence, of course, but it's funny that a man who loves space in general and planets in particular would use an existing but at the time unknown geological feature as the basis of a fantasy book.
I don't really like Grand Finale, it sounds pretty cheap.
That's because it has no been "pop-boosted" as orchestral FF8. You need some good equipment and good listening conditions to enjoy it fully. And of course, if you listen to both next to the other, you'll probably think orchestral FF8 sounds better than Grand Finale because it is louder.
I have both, I enjoy both, and I think I prefer Grand Finale a little bit more because it is more classical than orchestral FF8, which is more pop-oriented.
One important feature is missing from the page:
Support for signing patches and archives
Allows to verify who created/commited the patches. Allows to verify the integrity of a repository in case of compromise.
* Arch: Excellent. Each patch can be signed, repositories can be fully verified.
* Darcs: Incomplete. Patches sent by email can be signed so the recipient can verify the identity of the submitter. No support for verifying repository integrity. [1]
* Subversion: N/A
[1] Problem is: You can only sign something that will not vary once distributed, Darcs patches vary once distributed.
Your comment would still be correct if I changed every occurence of "darcs" with "arch" (except for the command lines, of course).
So, what's the difference between Arch and Darcs?
Because after all is said and done it isn't any better than Yahoo! mail except for the storage capacity.
My Yahoo! inbox is 2 GB. Admittedly, I'm paying for it.
I'm paying for POP access actually, so I don't quite care about the 2 GB -- I'm just quite sure that if I leave on a long holiday, the inbox won't be full when I return. By the way, there's a nice Yahoo business trick here: offer 2GB inboxes clients that pay for POP access. It's not like they use much of the gift!
1. Spot a funny website in the previous Slashdot frontpage funny story. Thanks to the Slashdot moderation system, it is easy finding one, since they are usually moderated +5, Funny.
2. Send your "scoop" to Slashdot.
3. Karma profit!
How true! I saw Brazil recently. I was amazed at the number of similarities with our present situation, a bureaucracy officially fighting "terrorists" but never really achieving it, closely controlling the citizens, and mostly caring about its own business and not giving sh1t about others. Clearly the work of a great and accurate visionnary.
Consumers against terrorism! -- That is the text of a sign carried by a protester in the movie, some gullible guy believing what TV shows him, so close to our reality!
It is common wisdom that democracy sucks, but just happens to suck less than anything else.