I know this is starting to come to some cities, but it would be great to be more widespread. Why should every person pay hundreds or dollars a month for a car they only use 10% of the time? If everyone just shared cars we could cut down the number of cars needed and also would create opportunities for car-pooling. It would cut down on US dependancy on foreign oil and help bring world peace.
It's like the Simpson's episode where Homer get elected to sanitation commisioner and rapidly bankrupts the department with his crazy spending. You can say anything in a campaign - remember "No new taxes" from Bush's father? Maybe we should make it against the law to lie when running for office?
Yes, on my present project, we have discovered serious bugs on 3 separate occasions in WebLogic Container Managed Persistance code. The first two times it took them over a month to get us patches and we are still waiting for the third fix.
If we would have been using an open source application server we could have easily fixed it ourselves, or paid a developer a couple hundred bucks to fix (it cost us way more than that in inconveinance). We also probably could have got it fixed for free, since open-source developers are probably more apt to stand behind there code - most closed source projects don't have public forums and mailing lists with people bitching about bugs!
What issues? IMO, SWT is exactly what Java needs to be successful on the Desktop. Also, there is Rich Client Platform that is an entire GUI application development framework thats goes way beyond any simple windowing toolkit.
Linux should be more expensive, since it's more secure and stable. My Linux applications at home never crashes 10 times a day like my piece of crap work Windows applications (mostly windows explorer). I've never had viruses installed on my Linux computer like I've had on my work computer (just by visiting the wrong website, not by opening any email attachements!).
I noticed that if you go to ebay stores and click on the store name, it brings you into a non-https sign in page. Seems like this could be a major source of the problem.
You might want to check out Scala. It is a combination of OO and fuctional that compiles to Java byte code (and supposedly will support.Net compilation in a few weeks). It also lets you interact with existing Java/.Net code.
Put in a GTK or QT library interface instead of the slow and huge Swing (that Smalltalkers foisted on Java) and you're golden -- there's every reason to use Java, especially for applications.
SWT is a crossplatform UI toolkit that feels like a native app, unlike Swing. In Linux it's just a wrapper over GTK or Motif.
But as it is I see the tremendous duplication of effort across the world to do the same things in Java and C#, and it just makes me sad.
I think this problem would be solved by writing things in Scala. Scala compiles to.Net or Java runtime and is a far more advanced language than C# or Java.
Scala can use any Java library, and eventually it will be able to use.Net libraries. I don't think OCaml has more libraries than Java and.Net combined! (Not that I think OCaml isn't a cool language, much better than C or C++ for native apps, IMO)
You may want to check this out. Java beats.Net in all categories except trig calculations.
Sadly, the cross-platform promise of Java, especially for GUI desktop applications, was never realized.
Since you admitted you're a former C++ and now a.Net developer, I don't think you're qualified to make this statement. I've developed Java apps for 6 years and I haven't seen any cross-platform problems for at least the last 5 years. I'll agree with you that Swing sucks, but SWT
or wx4j gives you native look & feel and native performance and cross-platformedness. So I think that even if you are developing a client side app, there is no reason not to use Java. Why lose the 10% or so Linux/Mac users when Java is just as good as.Net for client side development?
Nice is actually a super-set of Java, so if you know Nice, you know Java. So you're argument would be like saying 10 years ago "I don't want to learn C++ because C is more popular". Nice and Scala both can seamlessly interoperate with Java (i.e. compile to byte codes and run on JVM, classes can extend/be extended by Java, can use any Java libraries, etc.). Also, some people (like me) just want to develop software in the most efficient way possible, and IMO this is the way to it. You never know, your employer might appreciate if you can show them how to speed up their software development by a factor of 2 or 3!
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I know this is starting to come to some cities, but it would be great to be more widespread. Why should every person pay hundreds or dollars a month for a car they only use 10% of the time? If everyone just shared cars we could cut down the number of cars needed and also would create opportunities for car-pooling. It would cut down on US dependancy on foreign oil and help bring world peace.
It's like the Simpson's episode where Homer get elected to sanitation commisioner and rapidly bankrupts the department with his crazy spending. You can say anything in a campaign - remember "No new taxes" from Bush's father? Maybe we should make it against the law to lie when running for office?
No new taxes.
3) Spend over $100 million on advertising telling everyone how great you are.
Step 3.5: add millions of security holes.
Yes, on my present project, we have discovered serious bugs on 3 separate occasions in WebLogic Container Managed Persistance code. The first two times it took them over a month to get us patches and we are still waiting for the third fix. If we would have been using an open source application server we could have easily fixed it ourselves, or paid a developer a couple hundred bucks to fix (it cost us way more than that in inconveinance). We also probably could have got it fixed for free, since open-source developers are probably more apt to stand behind there code - most closed source projects don't have public forums and mailing lists with people bitching about bugs!
Consider the issues...
What issues? IMO, SWT is exactly what Java needs to be successful on the Desktop. Also, there is Rich Client Platform that is an entire GUI application development framework thats goes way beyond any simple windowing toolkit.
Linux should be more expensive, since it's more secure and stable. My Linux applications at home never crashes 10 times a day like my piece of crap work Windows applications (mostly windows explorer). I've never had viruses installed on my Linux computer like I've had on my work computer (just by visiting the wrong website, not by opening any email attachements!).
Maybe that's why the version is .5 not 1.0!
Has Simonyi cracked this problem with something entirely new?
Well based on his track record of writing the core Windows code and inventing some fucked up, unreadable way of naming variables, I'd say no.
I noticed that if you go to ebay stores and click on the store name, it brings you into a non-https sign in page. Seems like this could be a major source of the problem.
You might want to check out Scala. It is a combination of OO and fuctional that compiles to Java byte code (and supposedly will support .Net compilation in a few weeks). It also lets you interact with existing Java/.Net code.
Its Windows-only PC Card modem...
Sign me too up when it runs on a real OS, not some insecure, overpriced POS.
Kind of make me wonder if a biped design might be the way to go.
Put in a GTK or QT library interface instead of the slow and huge Swing (that Smalltalkers foisted on Java) and you're golden -- there's every reason to use Java, especially for applications.
SWT is a crossplatform UI toolkit that feels like a native app, unlike Swing. In Linux it's just a wrapper over GTK or Motif.
But as it is I see the tremendous duplication of effort across the world to do the same things in Java and C#, and it just makes me sad.
.Net or Java runtime and is a far more advanced language than C# or Java.
I think this problem would be solved by writing things in Scala. Scala compiles to
I can afford Windows, but I still choose Linux. Why would I want to pay for an inferior, insecure product when I can get Linux for free?
see this for US gun laws...
Scala can use any Java library, and eventually it will be able to use .Net libraries. I don't think OCaml has more libraries than Java and .Net combined! (Not that I think OCaml isn't a cool language, much better than C or C++ for native apps, IMO)
Anyone who ever has turned Java down in favor of something else, because it is not free?
No, but it certainly has made me look at alternatives more closely (Python, Ruby, C++, etc.).
Sure if you're a rat it's probably totally accurate.
My guess is that it will be less harmful than all that carbon monoxide and other pollution that cars cause.
Yes, MS shows us how not to design an OS.
You may want to check this out. Java beats
Sadly, the cross-platform promise of Java, especially for GUI desktop applications, was never realized.
Since you admitted you're a former C++ and now a
Nice is actually a super-set of Java, so if you know Nice, you know Java. So you're argument would be like saying 10 years ago "I don't want to learn C++ because C is more popular". Nice and Scala both can seamlessly interoperate with Java (i.e. compile to byte codes and run on JVM, classes can extend/be extended by Java, can use any Java libraries, etc.). Also, some people (like me) just want to develop software in the most efficient way possible, and IMO this is the way to it. You never know, your employer might appreciate if you can show them how to speed up their software development by a factor of 2 or 3!