Speaking of evidence... There's not a single mentioning of explosives discovered, which would be the kind of thing they would widely publish.
I'm inclined to believe that they have found some explosives or have an idea of what they these people had/have. This belief is based on the fact they are specifically warning against liquids brought aboard flights. I don't think they would pull something that specific right out of their ass, but I could be wrong.
It should be interesting to watch this all play out
It makes sense that they would issue an advisory to tell people to protect their machines. While the R in CERT traditionally stood for Response (it is not Readiness), I still don't think its a huge deal for them to be proactive in telling people to get their act together
Just Watch - the mid term elections this cycle will again be driven by raising the alert and fear level to drive voters into a panic, "Trust Our Imperious Leaders!" mode, no matter how corrupt, no matter how self-serving these alert levels are.
Do you realize that 3 out of the last 5 years have been election years?
Furthermore, this happened in the UK, not here. The UK just had its general election last year. Do you really think the RNC would get the entire British government to pull some massive prank just for mid-term elections? Especially when the elections are 4 months away?
Seriously, some cyniscm is good in life but you really need to take a deep breath and actually think through what you're saying.
technology that promises to convert Windows games to Mac OS X on Intel processors without the need for the long porting process traditionally required to bring titles to the platform. The company said that it has already forged agreements "with a number of the top tier video game publishers" to bring many of their titles to Intel-based Macs "in the next few months."
Yahoo! also reserves the right to require you to cease distributing these feeds at any time for any reason.
So, while it's cool and all, is there any value to using their weather RSS feed (and I assume it's similar with other services), beyond my ability to play with them? I mean, even I'm not making any money off it, presumably, if I put the effort in accessing those feeds, I expect them to be available to me in the future? Or do they provide a paid-for version for this?
I would imagine that its just cover-your-ass legalese on their part but I could be wrong. I wouldn't not use the feeds based on the extremely off chance that they would stop letting you use them.
Furthermore, unlike their previous offerings, they have released little new code here. The only code they have released is an API to their search engine. The rest seem to be HOWTOs on how to python to access their services.
Returning a negative number for failure would have been better- you don't have to worry wether 0 ltmeans an empty file or an error, it would always mean an empty file, and < 0 would always mean an error. You could also then return different negative numbers for different error conditions. It may have a work around, but its a poor design.
If you're talking about C++, you should really be throwing an exception for errors (otherwise known as exceptional conditions). Return codes went out of style a long time ago and are considered poor design when you have alternatives
Returning a negative number for failure would have been better- you don't have to worry wether 0 means an empty file or an error, it would always mean an empty file, and
If you're talking about C++, you should really be throwing an exception for errors (otherwise known as exceptional conditions). Return codes went out of style a long time ago and are considered poor design when you have alternatives
Boycott I.E.? How are people supposed to do that? Just code to the standards and screw the users?
Most users don't care about your ideology or standards. Some of them aren't even aware that there are other browsers, much less why they would want one. If your site doesn't work, they'll just move on to one that does, not complain to Microsoft that xyz.com doesn't render properly.
So if the submitter is clearly identified with Networkworld, how is it astroturfing?. Looks to me like he submitted his own article that we might find interesting.
I don't see what the problem is. Especially considering there aren't any ads on the site.
Incidentally, does anyone know the deal with returning box sets of DVDs if, several months after buying them, you discover that disc 6 of 7 doesn't play? It seems unreasonable to expect a customer to watch the entire box set within a few days of buying them, but there's also potential for abuse if a retailer must accept the set back several months later when any damage may or may not have had anything to do with the condition of the DVDs when they were sold.
I had ordered a set of DVDs for a TV series I liked from Amazon. Only after watching for a few weeks did I realize that the last disk was missing. I filled out an online complaint it was processed immediately. They give you a pre-printed label and off it goes. I had my new dvd set in a few days. I was really impressed with the whole process
I have a Java client on my webserver and half the mails I get are because the Java client doesn't work on people's computer. Usually this is because they have some old version of Microsoft's Java Runtime installed, which only supports Java 1.1 (badly).
What a mess! I can't really see how opening it up will make it any worse than it already is today.
Tell me about it!
I have a Windows program on my webserver and half the mails I get are because the program doesn't work on people's computer. Usually this is because they have some old version of DOS installed, which only supports 32MB harddisks.
What a mess! I can't really see how opening it up will make it any worse than it already is today.
So, at that point, you need to install Java. Which one? Nobody knows. People want to be able to use java plugins in their web browser (more on that in a sec), they want to be able to compile java, and they want to be able to run java apps in some sort of java environment. I think. But which one do you install? Java_jdk, Java_Jre, or Java_j2ee?
JDK: Java Development Kit. Use this to DEVELOP Java software. This comes with a compiler and other Development tools
JRE: Java Runtime Environment. Use this to RUN Java software. This will be installed if you need to run someones jar files or when you download the plugin for your web browser
J2EE: Java Enterprise Edition. This is for developing Java Software using Enterprise features. This might be confusing for you but its pretty simple. Just think of J2EE as some heavyweight libraries that most users probably don't need or want. Hence the need for a separate spec and download.
Since you're you seem like an admin, your users will know what they need. I'm guessing the SDK willl do.
Then, there's the "where does it install" question. They distribute as binaries, so you just kind of chmod u+x file;./file and cross your fingers. Sometimes it's/usr/java/bin/java, sometimes, it's/usr/bin/java, sometimes it's/usr/local/java, sometimes it's/usr/local/bin/java, sometimes it's/opt/SUNWappserver/java/bin/java. Who knows? Good thing all Unix and Linux distro's use exactly the same order in their $PATH and the same file structure and organization.
This is more of a sysadmin configuration issue than a java issue. Once you get it installed and configured, you'll be good to go. The same issue happens with a lot of things if you don't watch where you install them
Then, you've got to figure out which one to run. "which java" can yeild any one of 50 outputs, and that's if you don't let users set their own shells and rc scripts. Not to mention, you may end up chasing symlinks down for an hour to find the exact binary (/usr/java ->/etc/alternatives/java ->/usr/bin/java ->/usr/local/java/bin/java etc). Oh, and some of the installers are command line and some are X windows required. And I've had trouble with the J2EE 1.4 installer claiming it was out of diskspace on a partition with 60 GB free, aside from all that.
Again, this is really more of a sysadmin issue. So far, your complaints have been limited to downloading and installing Java, not even using it! Regardless, if your users must have a specific version of Java, then you should make it clear to those users where it resides on the system. Once its in their path, they're done.
Then, you have to get it so the plugins run in the web browser. How do you do this?
Sorry, I'm not really qualified to speak on plugin installation on Linux. On Windows, its an easy install. You really just need to have a JRE (see above) installed and then configure your browser to use it.
Good grief. If it's this hard just to install and maintain, why would ANYONE ever code in it? From what I can tell, it's major selling point is that it's 1.) object oriented (welcome to the 90's) and 2.) it's cross platform - the same code will compile and work on Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac. Except that it's not, cause people complain all the time about having to put in exceptions for operating systems and versions of java that do things differently. Are you all gluttons for punishment?
Its not really that hard to install and maintain, you're just in a semi-unusual "teaching" situation which requires a little bit of finegling to get right
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Oh, really?
Relax, it was the author himself that submitted it.
He should have known better
Weird, I didn't know this but according to Wikipedia, the number of Van Allen belts has tripled in the last three months.
I'm inclined to believe that they have found some explosives or have an idea of what they these people had/have. This belief is based on the fact they are specifically warning against liquids brought aboard flights. I don't think they would pull something that specific right out of their ass, but I could be wrong.
It should be interesting to watch this all play out
Rather, that should be, it is now Readiness
Doesn't the United States CERT fall under DHS?
It makes sense that they would issue an advisory to tell people to protect their machines. While the R in CERT traditionally stood for Response (it is not Readiness), I still don't think its a huge deal for them to be proactive in telling people to get their act together
Do you realize that 3 out of the last 5 years have been election years?
Furthermore, this happened in the UK, not here. The UK just had its general election last year. Do you really think the RNC would get the entire British government to pull some massive prank just for mid-term elections? Especially when the elections are 4 months away?
Seriously, some cyniscm is good in life but you really need to take a deep breath and actually think through what you're saying.
Since the summary didn't explain what Cider is:
Isn't Apple notorious for having issues with products that are "1st Generation"?
I thought it was pretty common amongst macheads to always wait until at least the 3rd iteration of a product so it becomes stable
I would imagine that its just cover-your-ass legalese on their part but I could be wrong. I wouldn't not use the feeds based on the extremely off chance that they would stop letting you use them.
Furthermore, unlike their previous offerings, they have released little new code here. The only code they have released is an API to their search engine. The rest seem to be HOWTOs on how to python to access their services.
Still good info though. Thanks
Python developer, I think this is great. I'm glad that Python is gaining more acceptance.
If the quality is on par with their Javascript library, we're in for a real treat
If you're talking about C++, you should really be throwing an exception for errors (otherwise known as exceptional conditions). Return codes went out of style a long time ago and are considered poor design when you have alternatives
You're referring to the golden era known as HTML 3.2?
Thats the problem, none of the browsers fully implement any of the standards. Some are just better than others.
Boycott I.E.? How are people supposed to do that? Just code to the standards and screw the users?
Most users don't care about your ideology or standards. Some of them aren't even aware that there are other browsers, much less why they would want one. If your site doesn't work, they'll just move on to one that does, not complain to Microsoft that xyz.com doesn't render properly.
If you're doing Java/J2EE work, you should really have a look at DWR
It makes it disgustingly simple to expose pretty much anything as AJAX calls
Your other arguments aside, I really don't care for people who keep spouting, OMG ITS AN ELECTION YEAR, TEH FAT CATS ARE TRYING TO SCREW US!!!1
Every other year is an election year.
I came in here to say pretty much the same thing:
Thats really all there is to it
I've never seen a developerworks article that required a login/password but this one does. Bugmenot has several though.
Anyways, has anyone actually used RCP. How does it compare to Swing?
So if the submitter is clearly identified with Networkworld, how is it astroturfing?. Looks to me like he submitted his own article that we might find interesting.
I don't see what the problem is. Especially considering there aren't any ads on the site.
Is that so? And how would you expect them to accomplish this with "simple html"?
I had ordered a set of DVDs for a TV series I liked from Amazon. Only after watching for a few weeks did I realize that the last disk was missing. I filled out an online complaint it was processed immediately. They give you a pre-printed label and off it goes. I had my new dvd set in a few days. I was really impressed with the whole process
Tell me about it!
I have a Windows program on my webserver and half the mails I get are because the program doesn't work on people's computer. Usually this is because they have some old version of DOS installed, which only supports 32MB harddisks.
What a mess! I can't really see how opening it up will make it any worse than it already is today.
I'll do my best to address your concerns
Since you're you seem like an admin, your users will know what they need. I'm guessing the SDK willl do.
This is more of a sysadmin configuration issue than a java issue. Once you get it installed and configured, you'll be good to go. The same issue happens with a lot of things if you don't watch where you install them
Again, this is really more of a sysadmin issue. So far, your complaints have been limited to downloading and installing Java, not even using it! Regardless, if your users must have a specific version of Java, then you should make it clear to those users where it resides on the system. Once its in their path, they're done.
Sorry, I'm not really qualified to speak on plugin installation on Linux. On Windows, its an easy install. You really just need to have a JRE (see above) installed and then configure your browser to use it.
Its not really that hard to install and maintain, you're just in a semi-unusual "teaching" situation which requires a little bit of finegling to get right