Have they removed/disabled the normal Java display classes, forcing you to go with theirs?
If that's all they did, what's the big deal? They didn't bastardize Java, they just provided their own API, which is reasonable. You want to code AWT or Swing? And then display it a smartphone? Yikes!
As long as they didn't change the language, all they did is provide some classes. Are you arguing that the SAX XML parser is a bastardization because it's an API that hadn't yet been conceived when Gosling et al created the language?
He doesn't bring much to the table in terms of communication, business knowledge, etc. There was a joke on Letterman, I believe, right after Arnold announced he was running . IIRC, Dave said something like "Arnold announced he was running, at least that's what we think he said."
This reply is not directed at you, but is made for the benefit of those who--unlike you--develop their political opinions based on things other than late-night talk-show monologues:
I was not inclined to support Schwarzenegger until I read this article...now may have to rethink my position
On the other side is Georgy, who is a computer programmer. The experience of dealing with constraints and trade-offs such as speed/time/memory/etc. would probably fit in well with constraints of running a state
If you're going to make gross generalities about Flynt and Schwarzenegger based on their jobs, then why don't you at least consider this:
Programmers tend to be very poor at dealing with people. However, dealing with people is an important trait of a politician and an executive, of which a governor is both...
The problem isn't stupid PO Employees, its the fact that PO employees are so bound down by beurocratic rules and regulations that they can't do anything outside of exactly what they're supposted to do. It's not stupid employees per se, it's stupid people at the top making the rules
Yeah, and many of those regulations are in place because the postal workers unions demanded them. The stupid people at the top are to blame insofar as they caved to union demands...
DishNetwork has been selling and/or leasing what it calls PVR's (personal video recorders) for two years now. The one set-top box integrates the whole record-to-hard-drive-from-the-program-guide since day one, including Pay-Per-View and the movie channels.
There is only one quality mode, and it is indistinguishable from "live" digital satelite TV. I've NEVER encountered a program I couldn't time-shift. Oh, and there's a 30-second commercial skip button that works out of the box on the remote.
So why exactly is this development for cable TV "news"?
Because digital cable didn't have it before. Perhaps DishNetwork had it, but those of us who get better-than-T1 throughput from our cable modems would rather not switch to satellite and lose our Internet.
Even if we could, some of us live in cities where skyscrapers block our southern exposure, making it impossible to get satellite.
Just 'coz you had something cool before, don't begrudge the rest of us for celebrating now that we have it too!:-)
Ok, perhaps I should have been clearer - forgive me for being a bit hung over tonight (work party). I can understand DirecTiVo units simply storing the DirecTV MPEG-2 stream on the hard drive. What I was specifically asking about was non-recompressed digital cable signals on a DVR
Have you ever used a digital cable box. Large portions of the screen are dedicated to advertising.
What the hell are you talking about? I've had Time Warner Digital Cable for over a year, and the only ads on Digital Cable are the exact same ones that would be there on standard service.
I was skeptical, but I've had a TW cable modem for over 2 years, and digital cable for over a year, and the service has been tremendous.
My old (Flashcom/Covad) DSL line would go out for periods of 8 hours on a monthly basis, but I've had *MAYBE* an hours worth of cable modem outages in over a year.
I couldn't be more satisfied, and I'm pretty psyched that I'll be able to get TiVo-like functionality soon
I don't think the masses of computer users will want to download Netscape (or any other browser) just because it's standards-compliant. For most people, IE will always be "good enough"
Many websites aren't standards-compliant (in the true sense), but instead are "broken" in ways that make them compliant with what many (non-techy) people perceive to be the standard: Internet Explorer.
But democracy and capitalism cannot coexist so nobody ever raised an eyebrow.
Actually, democracy can't exist without capitalism, because alternate economic systems rely on central planning. Only democracy allows the masses to vote for who they want, and only capitalism allows the masses to operate how they want economically.
All centrally-planned economies need a certain measure of coercion in order to function. By definition, that isn't very democratic.
1. It doesn't load like Unix: I don't see any standard compliance in startup scripts.
Since when do startup scripts have anything to do with whether something's a UNIX? Every UNIX I've ever used seems to have a bunch of different ways to start up...
2. It doesn't run like Unix: at least from the end-user prospective Quartz/Aqua is not X11.
X11 *runs on* UNIX, but X11 does not make something UNIX. If it did, then running a server with no GUI and just a shell would be considered *not UNIX*. I *can* run X11 on Mac OS X. By your argument, the moment I do so, OS X becomes UNIX.
3. You forgot one more important aspect: it's a big difference to program for OSX and for Unix.
Again, you can get many UNIX programs to run properly on OS X simply by recompiling. OS X is a *superset* of UNIX perhaps, just like a square is a rectangle. By your logic, a square should *not* be considered a rectangle!
He winces when anyone puts forth a common sense viewpoint, because he's so used to hearing the ultra-right wingers pat themselves on the back on his cable show.
Yeah, Russert's a stooge for the Republicans. That's why he worked for Mario Cuomo and Pat Moynihan, two liberal Democracts.
True, there was talk a while back about having web-enabled subscription software,which may have come under the blanket term of ".net stuff", but that's not what.net is really about.
That's the problem...nobody knows what the hell.NET is (except for, perhaps, existing.NET programmers) because of horrid marketing on MSFT's part.
Contrast that with Java...aside from the neophytes who can't tell the difference between Java and JavaScript (again, bad marketing), PLENTY of non-Java programmers can at least explain what it is.
TO THIS DAY, years later, I--a software developer with over a decade of experience--STILL do not know what the fuck.NET really is...
Is that my fault? Or is it the fault of MSFT marketing?
A case can be made either way, but if YOU'RE trying to sell ME something, then YOU damn well better make sure you convey your message to me in such a way that I can understand it!
Quit cryin', dude! The election's over! No recount ever showed Gore in the lead. You guys gotta get over it, or it's gonna cost you the next election. Not that I'd complain about that...
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I have OS X 10.2.6 and have been running OS X since before 10.1.
I do not know what "ease of use" and "gee-whiz" stuff is "wide open".
This is not meant to be a flame, but I'm curious: what exactly is enabled by default that poses a security risk?
Because every company provides their own platform specific implementation of classes instead of using a mobile standard.
Fine. Maybe that's a "bad idea", but my point was that it isn't bastardizing the language. Java the language has NOT been modified at all...
If that's all they did, what's the big deal? They didn't bastardize Java, they just provided their own API, which is reasonable. You want to code AWT or Swing? And then display it a smartphone? Yikes!
As long as they didn't change the language, all they did is provide some classes. Are you arguing that the SAX XML parser is a bastardization because it's an API that hadn't yet been conceived when Gosling et al created the language?
This reply is not directed at you, but is made for the benefit of those who--unlike you--develop their political opinions based on things other than late-night talk-show monologues:
I was not inclined to support Schwarzenegger until I read this article...now may have to rethink my position
If you're going to make gross generalities about Flynt and Schwarzenegger based on their jobs, then why don't you at least consider this:
Programmers tend to be very poor at dealing with people. However, dealing with people is an important trait of a politician and an executive, of which a governor is both...
Yeah, yeah...America sucks..what a half-assed country!
Do you find other countries that are more fully-assed than the U.S.?
Did you ever stop to think that humans tend to be half-assed and lazy?
I'm sure that's the fault of the U.S., too, somehow...
Yeah, and many of those regulations are in place because the postal workers unions demanded them. The stupid people at the top are to blame insofar as they caved to union demands...
Wait for the next version of OS X, and you'll be pretty damn close...
True, there's nothing wrong with anarchy per se. The problem is with people; people tend not to exhibit the best behavior within a power vaccuum.
DishNetwork has been selling and/or leasing what it calls PVR's (personal video recorders) for two years now. The one set-top box integrates the whole record-to-hard-drive-from-the-program-guide since day one, including Pay-Per-View and the movie channels.
There is only one quality mode, and it is indistinguishable from "live" digital satelite TV. I've NEVER encountered a program I couldn't time-shift. Oh, and there's a 30-second commercial skip button that works out of the box on the remote.
So why exactly is this development for cable TV "news"?
Because digital cable didn't have it before. Perhaps DishNetwork had it, but those of us who get better-than-T1 throughput from our cable modems would rather not switch to satellite and lose our Internet.
Even if we could, some of us live in cities where skyscrapers block our southern exposure, making it impossible to get satellite.
Just 'coz you had something cool before, don't begrudge the rest of us for celebrating now that we have it too! :-)
The digital cable I have (TW) seems to use MPEG-2
Why does the EFF need my monkey? They already have Stallman.
What the hell are you talking about? I've had Time Warner Digital Cable for over a year, and the only ads on Digital Cable are the exact same ones that would be there on standard service.
I was skeptical, but I've had a TW cable modem for over 2 years, and digital cable for over a year, and the service has been tremendous.
My old (Flashcom/Covad) DSL line would go out for periods of 8 hours on a monthly basis, but I've had *MAYBE* an hours worth of cable modem outages in over a year.
I couldn't be more satisfied, and I'm pretty psyched that I'll be able to get TiVo-like functionality soon
yeah, whoever came up with that was clearly smoking a bowl before-hand...
Yeah, me too. Gotta love that scalable, highly-available Microsoft webserver...
Many websites aren't standards-compliant (in the true sense), but instead are "broken" in ways that make them compliant with what many (non-techy) people perceive to be the standard: Internet Explorer.
But democracy and capitalism cannot coexist so nobody ever raised an eyebrow.
Actually, democracy can't exist without capitalism, because alternate economic systems rely on central planning. Only democracy allows the masses to vote for who they want, and only capitalism allows the masses to operate how they want economically.
All centrally-planned economies need a certain measure of coercion in order to function. By definition, that isn't very democratic.
1. It doesn't load like Unix: I don't see any standard compliance in startup scripts.
Since when do startup scripts have anything to do with whether something's a UNIX? Every UNIX I've ever used seems to have a bunch of different ways to start up...
2. It doesn't run like Unix: at least from the end-user prospective Quartz/Aqua is not X11.
X11 *runs on* UNIX, but X11 does not make something UNIX. If it did, then running a server with no GUI and just a shell would be considered *not UNIX*. I *can* run X11 on Mac OS X. By your argument, the moment I do so, OS X becomes UNIX.
3. You forgot one more important aspect: it's a big difference to program for OSX and for Unix.
Again, you can get many UNIX programs to run properly on OS X simply by recompiling. OS X is a *superset* of UNIX perhaps, just like a square is a rectangle. By your logic, a square should *not* be considered a rectangle!
So, it's not Unix.
I disagree that you've proven it.
He winces when anyone puts forth a common sense viewpoint, because he's so used to hearing the ultra-right wingers pat themselves on the back on his cable show.
Yeah, Russert's a stooge for the Republicans. That's why he worked for Mario Cuomo and Pat Moynihan, two liberal Democracts.
Dumbass.
Could have if what? He did run against Bush, remember? So if he (1) could have easily beaten Bush, and (2) he ran against Bush, then why didn't he?
The transcript reads almost as funny/scary as the interview.
You can actually hear Tim Russert cringing while you read the transcript!
That's the problem...nobody knows what the hell .NET is (except for, perhaps, existing .NET programmers) because of horrid marketing on MSFT's part.
Contrast that with Java...aside from the neophytes who can't tell the difference between Java and JavaScript (again, bad marketing), PLENTY of non-Java programmers can at least explain what it is.
TO THIS DAY, years later, I--a software developer with over a decade of experience--STILL do not know what the fuck .NET really is...
Is that my fault? Or is it the fault of MSFT marketing?
A case can be made either way, but if YOU'RE trying to sell ME something, then YOU damn well better make sure you convey your message to me in such a way that I can understand it!
How does Java help sell Sun boxes? How does it help sell Solaris?
Quit cryin', dude! The election's over! No recount ever showed Gore in the lead. You guys gotta get over it, or it's gonna cost you the next election. Not that I'd complain about that...
Alanis looks like Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers back when he had long hair.