Re:general principle of abandoned intellectual pro
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Abandoned Games
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Five years is simply too short for some types of property. For classical music or novels you may not even get noticed in your lifetime, let alone get enough income from a single work (or even a number of simultaneous works) in five years to be able to live off of it. In the fast-moving world of software you have a point, but music or literature? No way. Of course then there's the equally annoying and difficult question of how long estates or corporations should be able to hang on to that property after the original creator dies.
I got mine on Thursday. It certainly gets warm, though I wouldn't call it untouchable. I even spent a few hours at lan party on Saturday with it on my lap. Even under the load of 3d games and 3dmark06 (scored 1114, btw) it wasn't terrible. As for noise I could hear the fan when 3dmark was running, but it was awfully quiet even then.
I was at a lan party this weekend with my new 15.4" MacBook Pro and spent several hours playing games (WoW in OS X and Dawn of War: Winter Assault in XP, still need to pick up UT2k4 for the Mac) and while the top certainly got warm right near the screen, I didn't mind it on my lap. Then again, I don't want kids anyway.
I agree that many of their comics are unfunny - it's just when they get a good one in it's genius. "Dear lord, bless the fucking nub. Bless him right in his stupid face!"
And toward this end I would like to propose a license of my own creation - the ECTFD License or Everybody Calm The Fuck Down License. I don't know what kind of terms it will have yet, but if everyone would just calm the fuck down I'd come up with something good.
I'm interested to see what will happen (I know what my money is on). Hopefully ZDnet will run a follow-up after the test is complete.
I also find it impressive that a little mac mini can withstand a slashdotting (granted, the page is just plain text with one graphic). How's the load on that little guy?
Wasn't Jobs selling us on the fact that 64 bit was the way to go only a year ago? Correct me if I'm wrong but these intel core duo chips don't have any of the x86_64 stuff built in, do they? That bothers me more than giving up my precious Altivec. Not that I do much that requires 64 bit processing, but having more than 2gb of memory was a nice option.
Anyway, I've become an apple whore. I'd take a new iMac and like it. Actually, if the rumored 13.3" widescreen laptop becomes reality I might not be able to help myself.
I have this same issue and I can recall dating in high school and college being a real challenge. I would be on a date with someone and not at all able to remember their name. If there were other friends around I could usually just wait and someone else would say their name (not that I'd remember it in half an hour), or I would play a game where I'd try to see their driver license/other form of ID that'd have their name on it. You'd be surprised, though, how long you can go without saying another person's name.
Fortunately, I've since discovered World of Warcraft which means 1) I don't have to worry about dating ever again, and 2) everybody I want to talk to has their name written in blue above their heads.
Re:The review and the Headline seem at odds or ?
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Wicked Cool Java
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I agree with your observation that the headline and review seems a bit at odds.
I have looked through this book at the local borders and I agree with the outcome of the review. There is a lot of neat stuff in this book and the only reason it's not currently in my collection is that I've had a more pressing need for other titles (job related).
I started migratring from Eclipse to NetBeans when I saw how nice 4.1 was. Now I'm using the daily builds of 5.0 and it's fantastic. Great for doing GUI or J2EE work. Integrates with JBoss, which is key for my work.
Haven't used IDEA so I can't help you there.
Have you read the Sun Community Source License? I don't exactly like its terms compared to other licenses but I would hardly call it viral. Sun definitely owns whatever you do to Java, but it doesn't encumber other work you do. Look, I'm an open source hippy too, but no need to get carried away with things.
It's been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, but you can download the Java source yourself from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp It's a rather restrictive license, so I wouldn't go so far as to call it 'open source', but it's certainly not 'closed'.
What if you are trying to learn how to write enterprise scale apps? Something that's great about NetBeans/JBoss is that any schmoe can download it and learn J2EE programming writing simple hello world/todo style apps and be using the the same technology that the big girls and boys use.
It's nice of them to provide some limited version free, but this is a role for free enterprise-class development environments in learning.
I'm proud owner of a new 15" 1.5ghz powerbook. I'm selling off all my PC stuff. I've had an iBook for the past two years and its grown so much on me that the only thing stopping me from using it for everything was that it wasn't fast enough.
I love Linux, but damnit, sometimes I don't want to have to tinker to get things to work. Don't take that as a flame - that's a hard for me to say since I've been pimping the penguin for 10 years now.
The poster doesn't need a different monitor - he or she just needs a shorter monitor cable. It's taking way too long for the electrons to reach the screen.
I agree for the most part, but I do Java development on my g3-600 iBook and when I launch my editor of choice (Eclipse) things get ugly with 256mb of ram. iMovie makes things interesting too, although that probably has as much to do with CPU speed as it does the memory.
Now, if newegg comes through, I should be up to 640mb by tomorrow.:) It hard to complain about the base memory a system comes with (128mb in my case) when a 512mb stick is under $100.
My work in Cleveland can't hit google (i.e. gets the 503), but my home in Cleveland Heights (2 mi away) can. I know both end up connecting over SBC/Ameritech's network, but are on considerably different netblocks. So you are not any closer to an answer to your question.:)
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Five years is simply too short for some types of property. For classical music or novels you may not even get noticed in your lifetime, let alone get enough income from a single work (or even a number of simultaneous works) in five years to be able to live off of it. In the fast-moving world of software you have a point, but music or literature? No way. Of course then there's the equally annoying and difficult question of how long estates or corporations should be able to hang on to that property after the original creator dies.
I got mine on Thursday. It certainly gets warm, though I wouldn't call it untouchable. I even spent a few hours at lan party on Saturday with it on my lap. Even under the load of 3d games and 3dmark06 (scored 1114, btw) it wasn't terrible. As for noise I could hear the fan when 3dmark was running, but it was awfully quiet even then.
I was at a lan party this weekend with my new 15.4" MacBook Pro and spent several hours playing games (WoW in OS X and Dawn of War: Winter Assault in XP, still need to pick up UT2k4 for the Mac) and while the top certainly got warm right near the screen, I didn't mind it on my lap. Then again, I don't want kids anyway.
Oh - and I got the quote slightly wrong... My bad.
I agree that many of their comics are unfunny - it's just when they get a good one in it's genius. "Dear lord, bless the fucking nub. Bless him right in his stupid face!"
And toward this end I would like to propose a license of my own creation - the ECTFD License or Everybody Calm The Fuck Down License. I don't know what kind of terms it will have yet, but if everyone would just calm the fuck down I'd come up with something good.
I was under the impression that if you didn't want to buy a laptop "made in China" that you pretty much couldn't buy a laptop? Am I wrong?
I also find it impressive that a little mac mini can withstand a slashdotting (granted, the page is just plain text with one graphic). How's the load on that little guy?
will it play WoW?
I'm wearing an Android watch right now. It's pretty spiffy, I have to say, and frequently gets compliments.
Since Vista will likely ship on every new computer anyone buys...
Um, apple, anyone?
Reading one of this guy's article is like feeding the trolls - he won't go away until we stop. So join me in a boycott of any of this guy's crap.
Anyway, I've become an apple whore. I'd take a new iMac and like it. Actually, if the rumored 13.3" widescreen laptop becomes reality I might not be able to help myself.
Fortunately, I've since discovered World of Warcraft which means 1) I don't have to worry about dating ever again, and 2) everybody I want to talk to has their name written in blue above their heads.
I have looked through this book at the local borders and I agree with the outcome of the review. There is a lot of neat stuff in this book and the only reason it's not currently in my collection is that I've had a more pressing need for other titles (job related).
I started migratring from Eclipse to NetBeans when I saw how nice 4.1 was. Now I'm using the daily builds of 5.0 and it's fantastic. Great for doing GUI or J2EE work. Integrates with JBoss, which is key for my work. Haven't used IDEA so I can't help you there.
Have you read the Sun Community Source License? I don't exactly like its terms compared to other licenses but I would hardly call it viral. Sun definitely owns whatever you do to Java, but it doesn't encumber other work you do. Look, I'm an open source hippy too, but no need to get carried away with things.
It's been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, but you can download the Java source yourself from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp It's a rather restrictive license, so I wouldn't go so far as to call it 'open source', but it's certainly not 'closed'.
What if you are trying to learn how to write enterprise scale apps? Something that's great about NetBeans/JBoss is that any schmoe can download it and learn J2EE programming writing simple hello world/todo style apps and be using the the same technology that the big girls and boys use. It's nice of them to provide some limited version free, but this is a role for free enterprise-class development environments in learning.
I love Linux, but damnit, sometimes I don't want to have to tinker to get things to work. Don't take that as a flame - that's a hard for me to say since I've been pimping the penguin for 10 years now.
The poster doesn't need a different monitor - he or she just needs a shorter monitor cable. It's taking way too long for the electrons to reach the screen.
I agree for the most part, but I do Java development on my g3-600 iBook and when I launch my editor of choice (Eclipse) things get ugly with 256mb of ram. iMovie makes things interesting too, although that probably has as much to do with CPU speed as it does the memory.
:) It hard to complain about the base memory a system comes with (128mb in my case) when a 512mb stick is under $100.
Now, if newegg comes through, I should be up to 640mb by tomorrow.
My work in Cleveland can't hit google (i.e. gets the 503), but my home in Cleveland Heights (2 mi away) can. I know both end up connecting over SBC/Ameritech's network, but are on considerably different netblocks. So you are not any closer to an answer to your question. :)
7.1.4 now comes with 27% more lawsuit!
Why not Oracle? It's better and less pain then DB2.
DB2 earns them money, MySQL and Oracle (and I'm willing to bet flatfiles and DB files as well) don't.