Just becuase you can't write a kernel in it doesn't mean the language is worthless. There are many things that you can do very easily in Java that would be more difficult in other languages, and Java makes it impossible to write many security bugs that plague other languages. You can't do EVERYTHING in Java, but you can do quite a bit.
There aren't as many resources for Linux? There are MANY, MANY resources for linux. You do have to have a slight idea of what you're doing, but once you have that, you can find anything you want. Google works VERY well, as does HOW-TO's on www.tlpd.org . If you go to a project's homepage, you can often find support there, or a mailing list. There are PLENTY of resources for linux, saying otherwise means you don't know what you're talking about.
Well, hacking the company webserver and putting your ads there would be like slapping ads on your brick-and-mortar store. L.L. Bean doesn't own your computer when you go to their website, so they can't sue people for advertising on what's not theirs. I don't want companies fighting over what they get to put on my computer. It's my computer, I can do with it what I want, and if I get spyware installed, well, it's my fault. L.L. Bean has no right to act as a proxy for me and sue for me.
If you wanted to carry their suit further, they could sue you for opening up Nordstrom's alongside their website to comparison shop.
There are different kinds of analysists, it seems. You made a report for a company. They wanted to know the truth, but didn't, so they hired you. You made a report, gave it to them. You weren't going to be paid more if it favored them or not, you were getting paid to do it correctly. And you didn't mention that it was published anywhere, so I presume it wasn't for marketing.
Some analysists, on the other hand, publish all their work. That's what they get paid to do. They're PR people. They 'investigate' the truth, and make the statistics show what they want (which isn't hard to do). Most of the 'analysists' we see on slashdot are the latter type, so we don't have much respect for 'analysists'. If your analysist firm is what it seems to be, it doesn't quite count as 'analysist' in our mind, it's 'analysist-but-trustworthy'.
Wow. That was too much analyzing on the word 'analysist'.
I took Computer Science at my school. The teacher wasn't particularly challenging (or good, as he didn't teach much). I looked at the AP concepts list, and realizes that the AP comp sci required stuff is pretty much worthless, IMHO, especially the A list. The 'A' list is "Do you know the syntax?", and that's about it. The B list introduces data structures, but the requirements aren't very difficult. You can look at their lists on the apcentral website, and it's almost a joke, imho.
Funny? He was being serious, people. They do say that, and FOR A REASON. Multiple choice questions are resued so that the College Board can compare how well people did year-to-year. The playing field should be level. Students who tried to cheat this way HAVE had legal action persued against them, and letters sent to the colleges where their scores were going to go saying "Sorry, no score for this kid, he cheated".
You want the tests to be fair, and that's what the College Board wants. They make a LOT of money off of tests being fair.
The problem is that most people don't know about open-source alternatives. Outlook, IE, etc come with their computer, most people (well, not as many anymore) don't know about Mozilla, haven't even heard of it. In several cases, open-source IS superior to payware. You just have to let them know that it exists.
It may have only cost you $20 to print it out, but someone also had to license the book, so the total cost is more than $20, although probably not the $100 of a hard-cover textboox.
Well, they can search your 'private' house if they get a warrant, so why is your data any different? The basic principle of a warrant is 'Someone other than the police agrees that there's a reasonable suspicion that you've committed a crime, so we're looking for evidence.' With a warrant, it should mean that they can do whatever is necessary to find their evidence. If that includes the keys to the data on your hard disk, they're in there too.
You can complain all you want about how corrupt the system is, but that's basically how it's supposed to work. The concern is with aiding investigations being prosecuted under foreign law, because foreign law may not give you as many rights as you have here. Come to think of it, this whole thing is kinda dumb. Let's say country X says 'We ban all HTML files, because we think they carry viruses' (hey, a politican could believe it). So, you have a webserver, so could they go after you?
It's exactly that: you said it. On slashdot, yuo can't delete/modify your posts. Why? Because you SAID it, and you can't take back what you said. If I talk to you on the phone, I may not be able to record it, but I probably can go around saying "Joe shmoe said he's eating beans for dinner tonight," (or whatever he said). IANAL, so I may be wrong on this.
And if this is taken further, it could be taken to say that ANY computer logs are illegal, as well as public security cameras. I know it's a bit of a stretch, but it's not much.
The treaty may not apply to groups not party to it, but it's highly unlikely that your claim will be repsected. I can say I own the Moon, but if no one respects it, it is worthless. Even if you land there, and say "This land is MINE! No one else touch it!" it's doubtful anyone really repsect it as a sovergn nation. IANAL.
You probably have to tell the power people though, and they'll probably be very stubborn. Besides crediting you, there are technical issues associated with feeding the grid. The power grid is carefully controlled, and if you don't do it right, you'll screw it up.
And how does Java alienate Windows developers? If anything, I'd say C# alienates Linux developers because the company that does everything for C# has a goal of destroying Linux (not that Sun does, but if they do, it's not nearly as controntational). There are good Java tools for Linux, and that's what counts for GNOME (linux tools).
A connection, by default, only uses one channel. However, it spills into adjacent channels because of the quality of the transmitter and the fact that the channels are fairly close together and narrow.
That was the plan. That's how almost all spacecraft work. But you also need PR. You can say "We expect it to last 90 days," and most people will think "Wow, that's a complex spacecraft", and when it lasts 90 days, they think it's going really well. However, NASA also has to plan for the thousands of things that could go wrong, and hope that they don't happen within the first 90 days.
The Viking spacecraft were only supposed to last 90 days; they ended up lasting over a year (not sure exactly how long, but it was well over a year)
Well, you may be using CD's, but more and more people are moving away from CD's. With large (10gb+) mp3 players becoming affordiable, more people are buying one of those, and then they don't want use cd's anymore. If they use CD's, it's just to get it home from the store.
Many of the people using online music stores don't use cd's.
Sun makes some very nice, albeit expensive, high-end servers. If you're looking for very high-end stuff, sun hardware is way up there. Solaris is an excellent operating system as well. Sun should stick to what they do best (high-end stuff) and not try to venture into low-end hardware.
This is part of a trend that we've been seeing from sun: they don't know what they want. They thought Java was going to make them lots of money, and that they were going to be a software company; now they have very few people actually working on it. They don't seem to be sure what they think of linux, because they are both promoting it and trying to hurt it at the same time. And now this high-end AND low-end stuff, it doens't really add up. Sun must should just stick to what they do best, and maybe make some lower-end servers (2,3k machines), but not go anywhere close to cheap cheap cheap.
Beyond algebra, the point of the test is not to test arithmetic skills, it's to test whatever area you're learning. By the time you learn algebra, you've spent roughly 6-8 years learning arithmetic, so there's not much point in beating it out of you any more. You know how to do it, it's just a matter of how many careless mistakes you make.
For some tests, you shouldn't be allowed to use a calculator (knowing basic sine and cosine values, for example, or numerical integration without a calculator). Other than that, you're just seeing how few careless mistakes the student is making over stuff they've already been tested on, which is not always the point of the test.
Althought they may not be able to predict mass market trends, they're working on controlling them. Most people will probably share music, but if you tell them that you're going to throw them in jail, they'll stop. These companies know that the mass-market trend is going away from them, so they're passing laws to bring the trend back to them.
They don't realize that while for a normal person, $2000 is a lot of money, but for a company, $2000 is pocket change not worth picking up if you drop it. The entry price isn't giong to stop ANY spammers.
It also makes it much easier for spammers. Spammers know how to forge IP's. So now they know that if they make it seem like it's from.mail, people will automatically accept it, and they won't have to worry about spam filters.
You can't beat spammers at the network. They will ALWAYS find a way around it becuase there's just too much money floating around. You have to filter it yourself, which isn't terribly difficult to do. Spam's a part of life, just like viruses (well, if you use MS, that is)
Did you work for the government? The government didn't outsource your job, your company did. The government doesn't do anything about it, because its hands are pretty much tied by the WTO and UN. There is no real way to say "you're outsourcing that job, don't" without getting into highly protectionalist policies, which do more harm than good.
Sure, the web probably ruined the hard-cover encyclopedia business. Did you know that color TV replaced black-and-white TV? Or that the car replaced the horse-and-buggy? When something better comes along, people usually adopt. In this case, a cd-rom is much easier to deal with and much cheaper than a set of encyclopedias. Also, most encyclopedia have lots of information on just about everything, but for a specific area, they aren't that great. With the web, and specicically non-free databases (I get several through my school), you can get very specific, detailed information that you can't get in an encyclopedia, otherwise the encyclopedia would literally weight a ton. That's why door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen have gone out of business. It's not a tragedy.
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Just becuase you can't write a kernel in it doesn't mean the language is worthless. There are many things that you can do very easily in Java that would be more difficult in other languages, and Java makes it impossible to write many security bugs that plague other languages. You can't do EVERYTHING in Java, but you can do quite a bit.
So there was going to be 1.7 million in fines, and Clear Channel payed 1.75 million. How is that "buying off"? I'd call it more of a plea bargin.
Yes, it is safe, if you're using #14 or darker glass.
There aren't as many resources for Linux? There are MANY, MANY resources for linux. You do have to have a slight idea of what you're doing, but once you have that, you can find anything you want. Google works VERY well, as does HOW-TO's on www.tlpd.org . If you go to a project's homepage, you can often find support there, or a mailing list. There are PLENTY of resources for linux, saying otherwise means you don't know what you're talking about.
Well, hacking the company webserver and putting your ads there would be like slapping ads on your brick-and-mortar store. L.L. Bean doesn't own your computer when you go to their website, so they can't sue people for advertising on what's not theirs. I don't want companies fighting over what they get to put on my computer. It's my computer, I can do with it what I want, and if I get spyware installed, well, it's my fault. L.L. Bean has no right to act as a proxy for me and sue for me.
If you wanted to carry their suit further, they could sue you for opening up Nordstrom's alongside their website to comparison shop.
There are different kinds of analysists, it seems. You made a report for a company. They wanted to know the truth, but didn't, so they hired you. You made a report, gave it to them. You weren't going to be paid more if it favored them or not, you were getting paid to do it correctly. And you didn't mention that it was published anywhere, so I presume it wasn't for marketing.
Some analysists, on the other hand, publish all their work. That's what they get paid to do. They're PR people. They 'investigate' the truth, and make the statistics show what they want (which isn't hard to do). Most of the 'analysists' we see on slashdot are the latter type, so we don't have much respect for 'analysists'. If your analysist firm is what it seems to be, it doesn't quite count as 'analysist' in our mind, it's 'analysist-but-trustworthy'.
Wow. That was too much analyzing on the word 'analysist'.
I took Computer Science at my school. The teacher wasn't particularly challenging (or good, as he didn't teach much). I looked at the AP concepts list, and realizes that the AP comp sci required stuff is pretty much worthless, IMHO, especially the A list. The 'A' list is "Do you know the syntax?", and that's about it. The B list introduces data structures, but the requirements aren't very difficult. You can look at their lists on the apcentral website, and it's almost a joke, imho.
Funny? He was being serious, people. They do say that, and FOR A REASON. Multiple choice questions are resued so that the College Board can compare how well people did year-to-year. The playing field should be level. Students who tried to cheat this way HAVE had legal action persued against them, and letters sent to the colleges where their scores were going to go saying "Sorry, no score for this kid, he cheated".
You want the tests to be fair, and that's what the College Board wants. They make a LOT of money off of tests being fair.
The problem is that most people don't know about open-source alternatives. Outlook, IE, etc come with their computer, most people (well, not as many anymore) don't know about Mozilla, haven't even heard of it. In several cases, open-source IS superior to payware. You just have to let them know that it exists.
It may have only cost you $20 to print it out, but someone also had to license the book, so the total cost is more than $20, although probably not the $100 of a hard-cover textboox.
Well, they can search your 'private' house if they get a warrant, so why is your data any different? The basic principle of a warrant is 'Someone other than the police agrees that there's a reasonable suspicion that you've committed a crime, so we're looking for evidence.' With a warrant, it should mean that they can do whatever is necessary to find their evidence. If that includes the keys to the data on your hard disk, they're in there too.
You can complain all you want about how corrupt the system is, but that's basically how it's supposed to work. The concern is with aiding investigations being prosecuted under foreign law, because foreign law may not give you as many rights as you have here. Come to think of it, this whole thing is kinda dumb. Let's say country X says 'We ban all HTML files, because we think they carry viruses' (hey, a politican could believe it). So, you have a webserver, so could they go after you?
Well, anywhere in the world you go, you'll be able to get cold hard cash for your gold, so it is as good as money.
It's exactly that: you said it. On slashdot, yuo can't delete/modify your posts. Why? Because you SAID it, and you can't take back what you said. If I talk to you on the phone, I may not be able to record it, but I probably can go around saying "Joe shmoe said he's eating beans for dinner tonight," (or whatever he said). IANAL, so I may be wrong on this.
And if this is taken further, it could be taken to say that ANY computer logs are illegal, as well as public security cameras. I know it's a bit of a stretch, but it's not much.
The treaty may not apply to groups not party to it, but it's highly unlikely that your claim will be repsected. I can say I own the Moon, but if no one respects it, it is worthless. Even if you land there, and say "This land is MINE! No one else touch it!" it's doubtful anyone really repsect it as a sovergn nation. IANAL.
You probably have to tell the power people though, and they'll probably be very stubborn. Besides crediting you, there are technical issues associated with feeding the grid. The power grid is carefully controlled, and if you don't do it right, you'll screw it up.
And how does Java alienate Windows developers? If anything, I'd say C# alienates Linux developers because the company that does everything for C# has a goal of destroying Linux (not that Sun does, but if they do, it's not nearly as controntational). There are good Java tools for Linux, and that's what counts for GNOME (linux tools).
A connection, by default, only uses one channel. However, it spills into adjacent channels because of the quality of the transmitter and the fact that the channels are fairly close together and narrow.
That was the plan. That's how almost all spacecraft work. But you also need PR. You can say "We expect it to last 90 days," and most people will think "Wow, that's a complex spacecraft", and when it lasts 90 days, they think it's going really well. However, NASA also has to plan for the thousands of things that could go wrong, and hope that they don't happen within the first 90 days.
The Viking spacecraft were only supposed to last 90 days; they ended up lasting over a year (not sure exactly how long, but it was well over a year)
Well, you may be using CD's, but more and more people are moving away from CD's. With large (10gb+) mp3 players becoming affordiable, more people are buying one of those, and then they don't want use cd's anymore. If they use CD's, it's just to get it home from the store.
Many of the people using online music stores don't use cd's.
Sun makes some very nice, albeit expensive, high-end servers. If you're looking for very high-end stuff, sun hardware is way up there. Solaris is an excellent operating system as well. Sun should stick to what they do best (high-end stuff) and not try to venture into low-end hardware.
This is part of a trend that we've been seeing from sun: they don't know what they want. They thought Java was going to make them lots of money, and that they were going to be a software company; now they have very few people actually working on it. They don't seem to be sure what they think of linux, because they are both promoting it and trying to hurt it at the same time. And now this high-end AND low-end stuff, it doens't really add up. Sun must should just stick to what they do best, and maybe make some lower-end servers (2,3k machines), but not go anywhere close to cheap cheap cheap.
Beyond algebra, the point of the test is not to test arithmetic skills, it's to test whatever area you're learning. By the time you learn algebra, you've spent roughly 6-8 years learning arithmetic, so there's not much point in beating it out of you any more. You know how to do it, it's just a matter of how many careless mistakes you make.
For some tests, you shouldn't be allowed to use a calculator (knowing basic sine and cosine values, for example, or numerical integration without a calculator). Other than that, you're just seeing how few careless mistakes the student is making over stuff they've already been tested on, which is not always the point of the test.
Althought they may not be able to predict mass market trends, they're working on controlling them. Most people will probably share music, but if you tell them that you're going to throw them in jail, they'll stop. These companies know that the mass-market trend is going away from them, so they're passing laws to bring the trend back to them.
They don't realize that while for a normal person, $2000 is a lot of money, but for a company, $2000 is pocket change not worth picking up if you drop it. The entry price isn't giong to stop ANY spammers.
.mail, people will automatically accept it, and they won't have to worry about spam filters.
It also makes it much easier for spammers. Spammers know how to forge IP's. So now they know that if they make it seem like it's from
You can't beat spammers at the network. They will ALWAYS find a way around it becuase there's just too much money floating around. You have to filter it yourself, which isn't terribly difficult to do. Spam's a part of life, just like viruses (well, if you use MS, that is)
Did you work for the government? The government didn't outsource your job, your company did. The government doesn't do anything about it, because its hands are pretty much tied by the WTO and UN. There is no real way to say "you're outsourcing that job, don't" without getting into highly protectionalist policies, which do more harm than good.
Sure, the web probably ruined the hard-cover encyclopedia business. Did you know that color TV replaced black-and-white TV? Or that the car replaced the horse-and-buggy? When something better comes along, people usually adopt. In this case, a cd-rom is much easier to deal with and much cheaper than a set of encyclopedias. Also, most encyclopedia have lots of information on just about everything, but for a specific area, they aren't that great. With the web, and specicically non-free databases (I get several through my school), you can get very specific, detailed information that you can't get in an encyclopedia, otherwise the encyclopedia would literally weight a ton. That's why door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen have gone out of business. It's not a tragedy.