I have no idea if you're around to read this, but anyway...
The president that drank the most and had the most corrupt administration?
Same guy.
The General that threw more Americans into a meat-grinder than anyone else?
I haven't been keeping score, but probably the same one again.
Sure he was a drunk; it was common knowledge when he was a general. (And throwing people into a meatgrinder was precisely why Lincoln liked him -- as I understand, he had superior numbers but not the better trained soldiers). I personally believe the corruption was due to his personal weaknesses when it came to friends, not any malevolence.
But in what way does his weakness invalidate matters? He was a brilliant person, and Mark Twain transformed Grant's dictations into words. I presume Mark would have let on if he was repeating lies. Or do you have evidence Mark Twain was also corrupt? (I'd be interested to change my mind if you have evidence.)
Yes, look at our history in Central America and look at how many times the US military spent lives and money opposing the interests of American corporations.
Read President/General US Grant's autobiography. He would disagree with you.
Imperialism is the taking and controlling of people or territories so that the mother country makes money, not spends it.
You misunderstand the purpose of government money. It's a fountain for politicians and their cronies to drink from. Similar to the dotcom boom, to use a metaphor you may know.
In Japan $2012 must be pretty damn good. I don't think you're anywhere near povertyline. In even rich large European countries, you're making a decent windfall. And the Japanese economy is not doing so well, even relative to the US.
Yes they care. They harm their relationship with distributors otherwise. And they really control their brick & mortar distributors -- but not these new ones.
Well, you're right that corporations can make big decisions about where money goes, but I think there are ethical guidelines.
You have a really interesting definition of "ethics."
The charity money is inseperable from the company's ideals. They try very hard not to expand because of quality problems once your company becomes large. Being a financially inefficient company, they dominate their market and have enormous brand loyalty. Even when visiting Europe, I've purchased their ice cream at extortion prices because of its quality and loyalty.
If you read Ben & Jerry case studies, you'll see they've burst through distribution monopolies and other obstacles. I don't see any purely business-oriented companies doing that easily.
I doubt you'll read this, but I don't use an IDE. But I'd be surprised if an IDE creates significantly worse code than handcoding. I'm not about to override paint(), if that's what you mean.
I'm very careful not to use braindead models; I cache info whenever possible, so there's nothing stalling the event queue.
No, this is simply not true. Put up a simple JTextPane. They are eating up memory to gain speed, and the speed still is sad.
Swing is shit. Accept it. I use it, I build stuff in it. It remains well-designed shit. The API is clean, but it is unusable until we go another generation or two in the future.
Then why not relase the SELinux changes as under BSD license? BSD can be integrated with GPLed code, since BSD is compatible with the GPL. And BSD is not really a competitor to proprietary software.
You're arguing featuritis. These features will never be implemented because they don't present a "simple" interface to the language.
If you read the original design doc (sorry, don't have the link on me), you'll see it was a language designed for the average programmer. You will not find MI or operator overloading.
Pointers is another issue altogether. You might be a troll from this comment, I'm not sure. Anyway you can drop into it from JNI.
As a programmer, I've noticed that technologies are rarely revolutionary. Only through small nonrevolutionary steps do advances occur. Disruption mainly occurs in the long-term.
But PKC is probably doing a good job of marketing. The pressure for doctors to use this will be external, fueled by hype and a small bit of common sense. Normally it seems intuitive to make modest claims about saved money, time, and increased reliability. But that's probably a losing strategy compared to others.
The article already mentioned this. But an obvious answer, for cases that aren't situations where the patient will die in 10 seconds, is to have intelligent non-doctors input information beforehand, in the waiting room. (There IS time there for this.) Then the doctor can make a diagnosis and take a glance at the expert system's diagnosis. If the two jibe, and there is little likelihood of weird possibilities, then little time wasted. If complications happen, the doctor can check the expert system's results, and even choose to manually answer the questions again.
I don't think this is a technological problem as much as a usability issue.
Unfortunately this is wrong, since you are under no obligation to provide your entire work history. If you're UNDERSTATING, there's no problem. It shouldn't even come up in an interview.
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Sure he was a drunk; it was common knowledge when he was a general. (And throwing people into a meatgrinder was precisely why Lincoln liked him -- as I understand, he had superior numbers but not the better trained soldiers). I personally believe the corruption was due to his personal weaknesses when it came to friends, not any malevolence.
But in what way does his weakness invalidate matters? He was a brilliant person, and Mark Twain transformed Grant's dictations into words. I presume Mark would have let on if he was repeating lies. Or do you have evidence Mark Twain was also corrupt? (I'd be interested to change my mind if you have evidence.)
In Japan $2012 must be pretty damn good. I don't think you're anywhere near povertyline. In even rich large European countries, you're making a decent windfall. And the Japanese economy is not doing so well, even relative to the US.
You can afford a Mac.
So you're the ostermiller guy. Rock on!
Yes they care. They harm their relationship with distributors otherwise. And they really control their brick & mortar distributors -- but not these new ones.
Don't forget Microsoft's current advantages, such as control over PC hardware. They have lots of resources to hurl at the Opensource community.
Well, you're right that corporations can make big decisions about where money goes, but I think there are ethical guidelines.
You have a really interesting definition of "ethics."
The charity money is inseperable from the company's ideals. They try very hard not to expand because of quality problems once your company becomes large. Being a financially inefficient company, they dominate their market and have enormous brand loyalty. Even when visiting Europe, I've purchased their ice cream at extortion prices because of its quality and loyalty.
If you read Ben & Jerry case studies, you'll see they've burst through distribution monopolies and other obstacles. I don't see any purely business-oriented companies doing that easily.
Which IDE do you use?
I doubt you'll read this, but I don't use an IDE. But I'd be surprised if an IDE creates significantly worse code than handcoding. I'm not about to override paint(), if that's what you mean.
I'm very careful not to use braindead models; I cache info whenever possible, so there's nothing stalling the event queue.
No, this is simply not true. Put up a simple JTextPane. They are eating up memory to gain speed, and the speed still is sad.
Swing is shit. Accept it. I use it, I build stuff in it. It remains well-designed shit. The API is clean, but it is unusable until we go another generation or two in the future.
Then why not relase the SELinux changes as under BSD license? BSD can be integrated with GPLed code, since BSD is compatible with the GPL. And BSD is not really a competitor to proprietary software.
Because a) it fits within the normal Mac OS naming convention, and b) you've never run OS X, have you?
You're arguing featuritis. These features will never be implemented because they don't present a "simple" interface to the language.
If you read the original design doc (sorry, don't have the link on me), you'll see it was a language designed for the average programmer. You will not find MI or operator overloading.
Pointers is another issue altogether. You might be a troll from this comment, I'm not sure. Anyway you can drop into it from JNI.
Interesting. Just Google for 'j2ee server' and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button. It'll take you straight to JBoss.org.
Eclipse is an IDE framework. Look at JBoss instead, for what you want.
Yup. So few people know about it, but it can often trump the Javadocs, which are more current.
There's also the updated edition for the Java collections API, very good explanations, but it's not quite as vital.
Solid list. Only three things you left out.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
A Discipline of Programming (by Dijkstra)
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Hell yeah! Javac is so broken, and for being so unoptimized its not even a great reference implementation.
Optimize the common case, which usually is if the numbers are identical:
; XOR the ints, and OR the result
(or (xor int1 int2) (xor int1 int3))
If the result of this expression is 0, just return int1.
Profiling of course is needed.
Tanenbaum explains that Microsoft OSes are actually pretty stable, it's just the buggy drivers lead them to crash. I hope MSFT remembers that defense.
As a programmer, I've noticed that technologies are rarely revolutionary. Only through small nonrevolutionary steps do advances occur. Disruption mainly occurs in the long-term.
But PKC is probably doing a good job of marketing. The pressure for doctors to use this will be external, fueled by hype and a small bit of common sense. Normally it seems intuitive to make modest claims about saved money, time, and increased reliability. But that's probably a losing strategy compared to others.
The article already mentioned this. But an obvious answer, for cases that aren't situations where the patient will die in 10 seconds, is to have intelligent non-doctors input information beforehand, in the waiting room. (There IS time there for this.) Then the doctor can make a diagnosis and take a glance at the expert system's diagnosis. If the two jibe, and there is little likelihood of weird possibilities, then little time wasted. If complications happen, the doctor can check the expert system's results, and even choose to manually answer the questions again.
I don't think this is a technological problem as much as a usability issue.
Offtopic -- you're working on implementing Tutorial D? Best of luck, the world really needs a real DB language! I really hope you do well.
Then define "peak times" in terms of actual peak times, and instead of charging use throttling.
Unfortunately this is wrong, since you are under no obligation to provide your entire work history. If you're UNDERSTATING, there's no problem. It shouldn't even come up in an interview.
Fuck. Gotta wake up. I mean SVG is featurewise superior, but performance isn't.