I bought my first smart in 2000 and I got the second one in 2003. Both have been different revisions of the original smart. What now (or soon) comes to the US is again a new revision ("the new smart fortwo") which was released to european markets in April this year.
For a timeline see here
For a complete list of revisions (in German though) see here.
That is wrong (at least for my definition of "better quality").
720p is 1280x720 (921,600 pixels/frame).
1080i is 1920x1080/2 (1,036,800 pixels/frame).
Your 540p would probably be 720x540 (388,800 pixels/frame).
IANAL. As long as Google automatically indexes all web pages and treats them the same, there is no problem. As soon as Google starts to manually prefer some pages and puts thought into creating a "new work" using the indexed pages it might become a copyright violation. Not sure about this though.
Java can use native threads. Java can run on Unix/Linux/BSD. There are versions of those operating systems optimized for webserver use (e.G. special schedulers for very fast thread creation and massive amounts of threads).
=> Java on those systems is probably better at serving web pages then.Net is on Windows. Maybe this is what the GP thought.
Many times the will of hardware manufactures to create drivers for Windows is cited as THE reason why there is no or only weak support for devices in Linux. While of course this is A reason there are others. Microsoft helps hardware manufactures creating the drivers. As a manufacturer one can use the Windows Driver Kit or the Driver Development Kit which provides a manufacturer with the interface the driver has to implement, test tools, and so on. Similar DDKs exist for Mac OS. There is no such thing for Linux. And even if there was then quite likely it had to be different for the various Linux distributions and/or kernel versions. It's a pita to maintain a device driver for Linux.
And even if the hardware is supported the user might be forced to enable it in numerous configuration files. It took me a day of searching the web and trying different configuration options to enable the advanced touchpad options (scrolling...) of my Sony notebook. And it took me weeks (!!!) to finally activate the sound chip. Support was compiled into the kernel, the Gnome mixer opened without errors or warnings but I could hear nothing. After weeks of searching I finally found I had to recreate some of the devices. I'VE GOT A DIPLOMA IN CS! Most people would be completely out of luck. Windows on the other hand will prompt one with messages like "no audio device found" or will show non-working devices in the device manager should that ever be the case.
There is no auto-update from Firefox 1.5 to 2.0 yet. And there is no Windows Update for IE7 yet. Those figures are all but meaningless. The numbers show that early adopters are equaly likely to download FF2 and IE7 (or maybe download both).
He is right with the four variables. Size, time, quality and cost are the four variables that (some people believe) can be tweaked in any project but since they all are connected and affect eachother, any change to one of the four will require changes in at least one more.
In practice however quality is not really negotiable and it should not be (that makes your point 3 invalid). And changing the required time is not easy. A project that takes two month with two people will maybe take only one month with four people. But it will not take only a week with 16 people. Customers usually have either a cost or a time limit and many times both.
The only real variable in a project and the one which makes the most impact is size or scope of a project. Usually customers can agree to substantial scope reductions when they see the price for the "required" features. At least this happened to me quite often.
I (not the gp author) left EJB because I could not stand the redundant XML configuration, -Home and -Remote classes and so on. EJB3 gets rid of those classes but a (for most users) completely redundant configuration stays as it is present with Hibernate and many other persistence frameworks. I never understood why everyone would want those since it all can be written in pure Java code.
But now there is cope which I try to use as much as a can (read: as much as clients permit me to) since it does everything (schema, persistence mapping, searches and so on) in Java. Small, fast and very powerful.
Really. Just shows some light smoke coming from behind a wall. And there is a loud beeping in the background which likely comes from a fire detector. Neither flames nor servers visible and although the video is 3MB large it is only 18 seconds long.
I use both JBoss and OC4J on a daily basis. While I do not have real problems with either one it is OC4J which usually starts up / shuts down much faster. So as a developer who has to restart the appserver every few minutes I prefer OC4J. Given that OC4J also was not developed by Oracle but by Orion* (see www.orionserver.com) I am quite certain that if Oracle bought JBoss than one of the appservers would die.
That is not a project but a description of an arguably possible project like those used by the framework developers to "demonstrate" the need for the framework. Just because something is possible this does not mean it has to be done that way. And just because "sometimes it is useful to" it does not underline the standpoint of the parent poster who claimed that real men generate XML./the good IDE and the plugins/
AFAIK Netbeans did not provide those tools at least until version 3.x. Maybe now it does. I don't care. I know for sure that our CruiseControl server would not be able to check all those things until someone introduced another complex library/plugin/ant scribt/whatever. All our projects have one thing in common - the code is compiled by the Java compiler. That is the common determinator and I want this to cover most if not all the code.
Oh and since I developed JSP tags myself I know for sure that the type of tag attributes is not checked at all. I even had to work with tags which accepted EL expressions, pointers to session/request/page variables and string values in the same attribute. No compiler is able to check this.
I am not at all opposed to using frameworks. I just hate the overhead introduced by badly constructed frameworks like Struts and JSF. In fact I regularly use a frontend framework I am unfortunately not allowed to talk about in detail. It is developed in-house, is 100% pure Java, completely compile-time-checked, is a lot faster even than compiled JSPs and is really simple. We did some Struts projects and we even tried Tapestry (although only versions up to 3.x). We won't be using those again except if a customer forces us to.
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Well... You must hate yourself for almost 10 years now for being 4 positions too late. :-)
Just turn the shark upside down before turning it upside down, that makes it go into tonic immobility for about 20 minutes.
Well, my pre-(first-gen-iPod) noname MP3 player does work pretty well with XP, Vista and the 64bit versions thereof.
I bought my first smart in 2000 and I got the second one in 2003. Both have been different revisions of the original smart. What now (or soon) comes to the US is again a new revision ("the new smart fortwo") which was released to european markets in April this year.
For a timeline see here
For a complete list of revisions (in German though) see here.
That is wrong (at least for my definition of "better quality").
720p is 1280x720 (921,600 pixels/frame).
1080i is 1920x1080/2 (1,036,800 pixels/frame).
Your 540p would probably be 720x540 (388,800 pixels/frame).
IANAL. As long as Google automatically indexes all web pages and treats them the same, there is no problem. As soon as Google starts to manually prefer some pages and puts thought into creating a "new work" using the indexed pages it might become a copyright violation. Not sure about this though.
Java can use native threads. Java can run on Unix/Linux/BSD. There are versions of those operating systems optimized for webserver use (e.G. special schedulers for very fast thread creation and massive amounts of threads). .Net is on Windows. Maybe this is what the GP thought.
=> Java on those systems is probably better at serving web pages then
Hear hear. The berlin wall was also built to prevent fascists from entering the democratic country GDR. Or so they said.
Many times the will of hardware manufactures to create drivers for Windows is cited as THE reason why there is no or only weak support for devices in Linux. While of course this is A reason there are others. Microsoft helps hardware manufactures creating the drivers. As a manufacturer one can use the Windows Driver Kit or the Driver Development Kit which provides a manufacturer with the interface the driver has to implement, test tools, and so on. Similar DDKs exist for Mac OS. There is no such thing for Linux. And even if there was then quite likely it had to be different for the various Linux distributions and/or kernel versions. It's a pita to maintain a device driver for Linux.
And even if the hardware is supported the user might be forced to enable it in numerous configuration files. It took me a day of searching the web and trying different configuration options to enable the advanced touchpad options (scrolling...) of my Sony notebook. And it took me weeks (!!!) to finally activate the sound chip. Support was compiled into the kernel, the Gnome mixer opened without errors or warnings but I could hear nothing. After weeks of searching I finally found I had to recreate some of the devices.
I'VE GOT A DIPLOMA IN CS! Most people would be completely out of luck. Windows on the other hand will prompt one with messages like "no audio device found" or will show non-working devices in the device manager should that ever be the case.
There is no automatic update from 1.5 to 2.0 yet. It will be available over the next weeks as it says here
There is no auto-update from Firefox 1.5 to 2.0 yet. And there is no Windows Update for IE7 yet. Those figures are all but meaningless. The numbers show that early adopters are equaly likely to download FF2 and IE7 (or maybe download both).
He is right with the four variables. Size, time, quality and cost are the four variables that (some people believe) can be tweaked in any project but since they all are connected and affect eachother, any change to one of the four will require changes in at least one more.
In practice however quality is not really negotiable and it should not be (that makes your point 3 invalid). And changing the required time is not easy. A project that takes two month with two people will maybe take only one month with four people. But it will not take only a week with 16 people. Customers usually have either a cost or a time limit and many times both.
The only real variable in a project and the one which makes the most impact is size or scope of a project. Usually customers can agree to substantial scope reductions when they see the price for the "required" features. At least this happened to me quite often.
I (not the gp author) left EJB because I could not stand the redundant XML configuration, -Home and -Remote classes and so on. EJB3 gets rid of those classes but a (for most users) completely redundant configuration stays as it is present with Hibernate and many other persistence frameworks. I never understood why everyone would want those since it all can be written in pure Java code.
But now there is cope which I try to use as much as a can (read: as much as clients permit me to) since it does everything (schema, persistence mapping, searches and so on) in Java. Small, fast and very powerful.
Both have expiriences with massive recalls.
And one can download a video of the raid right here: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3491995 :)
Now if that is not enough to prove the legitimate uses of the site...
Really. Just shows some light smoke coming from behind a wall. And there is a loud beeping in the background which likely comes from a fire detector. Neither flames nor servers visible and although the video is 3MB large it is only 18 seconds long.
Sorry for being o.t. but this post reads like bad code.
Since the Czech Republic is now part of the European Union I would not bet much money on this. Especially not on the "even from illegal source" part.
Simply because our customers demand either OC4J (and Oracle DB) or JBoss (and MySQL). I quess they don't know about Orion.
I use both JBoss and OC4J on a daily basis. While I do not have real problems with either one it is OC4J which usually starts up / shuts down much faster. So as a developer who has to restart the appserver every few minutes I prefer OC4J.
Given that OC4J also was not developed by Oracle but by Orion* (see www.orionserver.com) I am quite certain that if Oracle bought JBoss than one of the appservers would die.
Exactly. I see you understand my point :-D
/your example/
/the good IDE and the plugins/
That is not a project but a description of an arguably possible project like those used by the framework developers to "demonstrate" the need for the framework. Just because something is possible this does not mean it has to be done that way. And just because "sometimes it is useful to" it does not underline the standpoint of the parent poster who claimed that real men generate XML.
AFAIK Netbeans did not provide those tools at least until version 3.x. Maybe now it does. I don't care. I know for sure that our CruiseControl server would not be able to check all those things until someone introduced another complex library/plugin/ant scribt/whatever. All our projects have one thing in common - the code is compiled by the Java compiler. That is the common determinator and I want this to cover most if not all the code.
Oh and since I developed JSP tags myself I know for sure that the type of tag attributes is not checked at all. I even had to work with tags which accepted EL expressions, pointers to session/request/page variables and string values in the same attribute. No compiler is able to check this.
I am not at all opposed to using frameworks. I just hate the overhead introduced by badly constructed frameworks like Struts and JSF. In fact I regularly use a frontend framework I am unfortunately not allowed to talk about in detail. It is developed in-house, is 100% pure Java, completely compile-time-checked, is a lot faster even than compiled JSPs and is really simple. We did some Struts projects and we even tried Tapestry (although only versions up to 3.x). We won't be using those again except if a customer forces us to.