This, and null pointers of-course (a strange name for an exception in a language that uses no pointers.)
It isn't that Java doesn't use pointers (it uses pointers everywhere to refer to objects), it's just that the programmer doesn't have to explicitly differentiate between pointers and non-pointers. Since everything is treated as a pointer there is no reason to have special syntax to address an object using a pointer (whether that be for referencing or dereferencing it).
You must have forgotten when games came on a cartridge which made them $60-70 and some (like role playing) up to $80 (NBA Jam foe SNES comes to mind, or the Final Fantasy games for SNES). The Neo Geo took this to the extreme by having games that used 256 Mb cartridges and therefore cost $250 a piece. Where is there a trend of gradual increasing? When games started coming out on CD their prices dropped since CDs are cheaper than cartridges despite holding a lot more data.
the connection problems that the v5 has with the linksys firmware? It has been reported on tomshardware.com that the v5 (both linux and non-linux versions) has issues with evenly sharing bandwidth when more than 16 or so connections exist. It usually happens when you run p2p apps. I wondered what the hell was going on because I was running eMule and when I read the article I happened to have eMule shutdown and as soon as I started it up while downloading from my ISP's news server my bandwidth went from a steady 9% (on a 54mbps link) down to a fluctuating 2%-4%. It would be great if this was able to fix that problem. (Newest firmware from linksys was shown not to help as that was what tomshardware.com tested with).
The reason the Holy Bible exists is to provide an absolute set of morals and ethics. If you don't believe that then there is no hope for the world because everyone would just have their own set of morals/ethics despite there already being an absolute set. Many people already do have their own set of morals/ethics unfortunately so we are already going downhill. Of course your argument will be that you don't believe in the Holy Bible or aren't a member of Christianity so you have no reason to follow its teachings. Again, an absolute set has been provided by Christianity and you still choose to create/use your own so who is really at fault at that point?
To understand the universe in all aspects is to get into the "mind" of God, the creator of the universe. There are some things that we just won't be able to comprehend. There are things that we can comprehend but it has taken centuries and hundreds of scientists thinking about it to arrive at a single conclusion that was right, and before that many conclusions were wrong. I think it is a little arrogant to think we can understand the entire universe and it isn't because we have monkey brains. We have human brains but we assume that the pupil can be smarter than the teacher and in this case that probably isn't true.
It's said that God created the world in 6 days. A rush job like that explains a lot of today's problems.
Just so you can get your story straight: God isn't the reason why the world has a ton of problems today. It is man's fault. God created man but we already know that he did it in such a way that man was imperfect and man also made himself sinful by nature so, in essence, God has nothing to do with the state of the world as it exists today.
I've had the surgery (about 16 months ago) and the surgery wasn't that bad. I say this as a person who doesn't like the sight of blood and I did get a little sick after the surgery despite there not being any blood at all. There was no pain, only discomfort. The worst was when the device that makes the flap was on my eye. You feel pressure against your eye and I couldn't really tell exactly when the flap was cut (one reason because I didn't feel it and for another I didn't have my glasses on and couldn't see what was happening). After the surgery I could watch tv (slept a few hours afterwards before doing anything as is recommended) without glasses. The next day my eyesight was 20/20 down from 20/800+ (and I had glasses since around age 9). My right eye has gradually gotten worse since then but I haven't felt it to be bad enough to go back for an enhancement. I will eventually but I can still drive and live my life as normal despite the one eye being a little worse. The surgery won't prevent the possibility of needing reading glasses when I hit my 40s or 50s (I was 26 when I had the surgery) but it is great to not have to worry about the glasses sliding off my face when I sweat, of having sweat drip on them, of always cleaning them and getting new ones. I can wear regular sunglasses now too. Overall I give the experience a 9 out of 10.
So, in fact, the term "Law" is depricated, and has been replaced by theory.
"depricated" has now been deprecated and has been replaced by deprecated.
This of course, causes consternation for scientists when creationists decry evolution as a "theory" and not a "law".
"theory" causes consternation for non-scientists when scientists say evolution is the only way to go. It also doesn't help the scientists that their evidence is based on their improper interpretation of the aforementioned "evidence".
Going into space won't alleviate the disaster of being hit by a meteor. It just makes us have to remap all the current asteroids to see if they would hit wherever we would end up (moon, mars, space station). Whereever we go the asteroids will still be there floating around in space. Global warming is a joke and since humans invented nuclear reactors we would be taking our knowledge with us so we would just be rebuilding the same things again in order to provide power, or we forego building them and have to come up with another power source. If we rebuild on Mars we still have the nuclear threat.
The new version provides directions (for trips I presume, like any other app that provides directions). I haven't tried that feature out yet. Google didn't create GoogleEarth from scratch so it's not like they wasted a ton of time developing it for no reason (or for one unbeknownst to us). They bought the rights and code from DigitalGlobe I think (can't remember their name) so they had a large code base to start from. The original app was not free but thanks to Google it now is so anyone using the app previously for whatever reason can now use it free of charge (unless you want to spend extra on higher quality maps).
I installed it hoping to see some nice building textures but couldn't figure out how to see them. Simply turning on the 3d buildings layer didn't do it; I still see flat grey boxes. Anyone know how to get them? Do I have to download the textures separately?
Don't apologize for venting. You have legitimate reasons for doing so. The U.S. is a land of immigrants however we were LEGAL; those who are invading the country at present are illegal but reaping all the benefits as if they were legal and the current citizens are being disadvantaged because of it. Hopefully the problem will be fixed but it doesn't look like it will be anytime soon.
All they know is that this stuff works automatically in XP or OSX.
Wanna bet? I had to reinstall XP on my step-dad's Compaq laptop a couple days ago and when I got into Windows nothing but wired LAN drivers were installed. I had to go to hp.com to get the (built-in)wireless LAN, audio, and video drivers installed. There was USB ability but there was still an unknown USB controller in Device Manager that I never did find the drivers for.
I think it is a sad state of affairs when hardware that can not be duplicated electronically to create another copy sells (in your example) for less than accompanying software which *can* be duplicated electronically to have infinite copies available. The software companies have a racket going, especially when you consider the licensing model for some apps like Veritas NetBackup that is licensed per CPU and the price goes up for a 4 CPU license compared to a 1 CPU license despite the software itself not changing. It's just more money with no extra work on the part of Veritas.
a local government facility. This is only half on topic but we conducted a small trady study that showed Oracle Collaboration Suite was the best (MS and Xerox were in the running) however we were building for Windows. OCS 10.2 isn't out yet for Windows despite Oracle stating it would be out 1st quarter of this year and 9.x is not supported after next March (we deploy in October). The sales rep won't return calls (we assume it's because he has no good answers for us). We couldn't wait any longer with a project deadline looming in the near future so we switched to Sharepoint Portal 2003.
There is already a Windows 2003 domain installed and so integration with ADS is simple and Sharepoint allows for scalability with little amount of work since they allow separation between index, search, and database servers. We are going to have a clustered db with 2 front-end servers. It will handle the group of 500 users nicely. We don't have to do any development work for it as the default interface and features is sufficient for a group of people who aren't tech savvy but need a way to store lots of reference material and to search on it. I installed a beta of OCS 10.2 and it was a storage (10 gigs) hog, memory hog (10 cmd.exe processes, 15 java.exe processes, and time hog. I spent at least 3 days trying to get single-sign on working which required sync'ing Oracle Internet Directory with Active Directory and never got it working (the SSO part, the sync'ing worked though, seemingly). So at least between SPS and OCS, we're putting our money on SPS and the gov't liked the demo, which is the important thing.
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This, and null pointers of-course (a strange name for an exception in a language that uses no pointers.)
It isn't that Java doesn't use pointers (it uses pointers everywhere to refer to objects), it's just that the programmer doesn't have to explicitly differentiate between pointers and non-pointers. Since everything is treated as a pointer there is no reason to have special syntax to address an object using a pointer (whether that be for referencing or dereferencing it).
You must have forgotten when games came on a cartridge which made them $60-70 and some (like role playing) up to $80 (NBA Jam foe SNES comes to mind, or the Final Fantasy games for SNES). The Neo Geo took this to the extreme by having games that used 256 Mb cartridges and therefore cost $250 a piece. Where is there a trend of gradual increasing? When games started coming out on CD their prices dropped since CDs are cheaper than cartridges despite holding a lot more data.
the connection problems that the v5 has with the linksys firmware? It has been reported on tomshardware.com that the v5 (both linux and non-linux versions) has issues with evenly sharing bandwidth when more than 16 or so connections exist. It usually happens when you run p2p apps. I wondered what the hell was going on because I was running eMule and when I read the article I happened to have eMule shutdown and as soon as I started it up while downloading from my ISP's news server my bandwidth went from a steady 9% (on a 54mbps link) down to a fluctuating 2%-4%. It would be great if this was able to fix that problem. (Newest firmware from linksys was shown not to help as that was what tomshardware.com tested with).
The reason the Holy Bible exists is to provide an absolute set of morals and ethics. If you don't believe that then there is no hope for the world because everyone would just have their own set of morals/ethics despite there already being an absolute set. Many people already do have their own set of morals/ethics unfortunately so we are already going downhill. Of course your argument will be that you don't believe in the Holy Bible or aren't a member of Christianity so you have no reason to follow its teachings. Again, an absolute set has been provided by Christianity and you still choose to create/use your own so who is really at fault at that point?
To understand the universe in all aspects is to get into the "mind" of God, the creator of the universe. There are some things that we just won't be able to comprehend. There are things that we can comprehend but it has taken centuries and hundreds of scientists thinking about it to arrive at a single conclusion that was right, and before that many conclusions were wrong. I think it is a little arrogant to think we can understand the entire universe and it isn't because we have monkey brains. We have human brains but we assume that the pupil can be smarter than the teacher and in this case that probably isn't true.
It's said that God created the world in 6 days. A rush job like that explains a lot of today's problems.
Just so you can get your story straight: God isn't the reason why the world has a ton of problems today. It is man's fault. God created man but we already know that he did it in such a way that man was imperfect and man also made himself sinful by nature so, in essence, God has nothing to do with the state of the world as it exists today.
I've had the surgery (about 16 months ago) and the surgery wasn't that bad. I say this as a person who doesn't like the sight of blood and I did get a little sick after the surgery despite there not being any blood at all. There was no pain, only discomfort. The worst was when the device that makes the flap was on my eye. You feel pressure against your eye and I couldn't really tell exactly when the flap was cut (one reason because I didn't feel it and for another I didn't have my glasses on and couldn't see what was happening). After the surgery I could watch tv (slept a few hours afterwards before doing anything as is recommended) without glasses. The next day my eyesight was 20/20 down from 20/800+ (and I had glasses since around age 9). My right eye has gradually gotten worse since then but I haven't felt it to be bad enough to go back for an enhancement. I will eventually but I can still drive and live my life as normal despite the one eye being a little worse. The surgery won't prevent the possibility of needing reading glasses when I hit my 40s or 50s (I was 26 when I had the surgery) but it is great to not have to worry about the glasses sliding off my face when I sweat, of having sweat drip on them, of always cleaning them and getting new ones. I can wear regular sunglasses now too. Overall I give the experience a 9 out of 10.
This is the slashdot crowd. We'd give our right leg to feel any woman up.
Maybe for now but he can't take the money with him when he dies so in the end we are equal to him.
This was rated a troll despite being the truth? I guess slashdotters don't like hearing the truth too much.
So, in fact, the term "Law" is depricated, and has been replaced by theory.
"depricated" has now been deprecated and has been replaced by deprecated.
This of course, causes consternation for scientists when creationists decry evolution as a "theory" and not a "law".
"theory" causes consternation for non-scientists when scientists say evolution is the only way to go. It also doesn't help the scientists that their evidence is based on their improper interpretation of the aforementioned "evidence".
It is unreasonable to think that it is Microsoft's responsability[sic] to test and debug third party drivers.
But yet Microsoft can include them, untested, with Windows and therefore leave them for users to deal with? Great, I can't wait.
Going into space won't alleviate the disaster of being hit by a meteor. It just makes us have to remap all the current asteroids to see if they would hit wherever we would end up (moon, mars, space station). Whereever we go the asteroids will still be there floating around in space. Global warming is a joke and since humans invented nuclear reactors we would be taking our knowledge with us so we would just be rebuilding the same things again in order to provide power, or we forego building them and have to come up with another power source. If we rebuild on Mars we still have the nuclear threat.
BSD and OSX? I'm waiting for the DOS version man. That will rock.
The new version provides directions (for trips I presume, like any other app that provides directions). I haven't tried that feature out yet. Google didn't create GoogleEarth from scratch so it's not like they wasted a ton of time developing it for no reason (or for one unbeknownst to us). They bought the rights and code from DigitalGlobe I think (can't remember their name) so they had a large code base to start from. The original app was not free but thanks to Google it now is so anyone using the app previously for whatever reason can now use it free of charge (unless you want to spend extra on higher quality maps).
I installed it hoping to see some nice building textures but couldn't figure out how to see them. Simply turning on the 3d buildings layer didn't do it; I still see flat grey boxes. Anyone know how to get them? Do I have to download the textures separately?
THe article summary states that only the new version provides a Linux variant, not the stable version.
Don't apologize for venting. You have legitimate reasons for doing so. The U.S. is a land of immigrants however we were LEGAL; those who are invading the country at present are illegal but reaping all the benefits as if they were legal and the current citizens are being disadvantaged because of it. Hopefully the problem will be fixed but it doesn't look like it will be anytime soon.
All they know is that this stuff works automatically in XP or OSX.
Wanna bet? I had to reinstall XP on my step-dad's Compaq laptop a couple days ago and when I got into Windows nothing but wired LAN drivers were installed. I had to go to hp.com to get the (built-in)wireless LAN, audio, and video drivers installed. There was USB ability but there was still an unknown USB controller in Device Manager that I never did find the drivers for.
I read the title of your post as "I work in a disturbed organization".
The relationship between analysts and people who pay for their conclusions is like mutual masturbation...
...so where is the problem again?
I think it is a sad state of affairs when hardware that can not be duplicated electronically to create another copy sells (in your example) for less than accompanying software which *can* be duplicated electronically to have infinite copies available. The software companies have a racket going, especially when you consider the licensing model for some apps like Veritas NetBackup that is licensed per CPU and the price goes up for a 4 CPU license compared to a 1 CPU license despite the software itself not changing. It's just more money with no extra work on the part of Veritas.
Depends on how you define "between". In some geometries, and according to some views on infinity, five is indeed between three and four.
For small values of 5 yes, but otherwise no.
a local government facility. This is only half on topic but we conducted a small trady study that showed Oracle Collaboration Suite was the best (MS and Xerox were in the running) however we were building for Windows. OCS 10.2 isn't out yet for Windows despite Oracle stating it would be out 1st quarter of this year and 9.x is not supported after next March (we deploy in October). The sales rep won't return calls (we assume it's because he has no good answers for us). We couldn't wait any longer with a project deadline looming in the near future so we switched to Sharepoint Portal 2003.
There is already a Windows 2003 domain installed and so integration with ADS is simple and Sharepoint allows for scalability with little amount of work since they allow separation between index, search, and database servers. We are going to have a clustered db with 2 front-end servers. It will handle the group of 500 users nicely. We don't have to do any development work for it as the default interface and features is sufficient for a group of people who aren't tech savvy but need a way to store lots of reference material and to search on it. I installed a beta of OCS 10.2 and it was a storage (10 gigs) hog, memory hog (10 cmd.exe processes, 15 java.exe processes, and time hog. I spent at least 3 days trying to get single-sign on working which required sync'ing Oracle Internet Directory with Active Directory and never got it working (the SSO part, the sync'ing worked though, seemingly). So at least between SPS and OCS, we're putting our money on SPS and the gov't liked the demo, which is the important thing.
Like a frightened turtle