Re:OH GOOD, LETS REWRITE ALL SYSTEMS AGAIN
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The real world largely ignores the rambling of propeller-heads. There's more COBOL out in the wild than all of the Java ever written, and it isn't going anywhere.
Most people understand "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Re:Java will live because of Linux &opensource
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What about mono?
There's nothing that says.NET = MSFT and Windows any more than Jave = Sun and Solaris.
Re:Industry Newspeak
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Carpenters don't buy from hammer companies that change their hammers every "release".
Sure they do, there's been a lot of innovation going into hammers lately. They release new versions of hammers constantly, and other woodworking tools - to many oldtimers dismay, who will swear up and down the hand plane they used in 1952 was an order of magnitude better than todays.
Stanleys Anti-vibe series of hammers, for instance, they have whats basically a tuning fork built into the handle. The fork vibrates and takes the energy away from your hand. Spend a day ramming nails in with a wooden handled hammer, then a day with one of the newer models, and you definately feel the difference.
They're also constantly adjusting the weights and balances, tweaking the shape and makeup of the heads/claws.
Go look at the tool section at home depot and get an idea about hammers.
Re:Lies, statistics, and analysts
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Lower licensing costs than mono?
Theres a free solution for either.
Corporations who want someone accountable for their infrastructure will choose to license from Sun or MSFT.
Re:Java's not exactly pining for the fields just n
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Dot Net is also anything but small. It's possible to create ROMmable Java applications in just a couple megs of flash memory. On the other hand, there's no such thing as embedded dot Net just yet.
Which sums up the whole apples vs oranges nature of this "debate" quite nicely. Java was developed for embedded systems,.NET for enterprise/distributed computing.
Now Sun is trying to shoehorn Java into the enterprise world, and perhaps MSFT will try and do the opposite.
Here we go
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Another article that will serve no purpose besides starting goofy flamewars.
Why not just post a PS2 vs XBox article?
For my two cents, Java has had years to prove itself, and hasn't done so to any great extent.
But I don't think there are any wannabe security guards.
I've known some security guards in the past, they were all aspiring cops or FBI guys. Some of the stupidest folks I've ever had the misfortune of meeting.
One might suspect the odds are 1 in 65, but they'd be wrong. If I flip a coin twice and get heads both times, I might suspect the odds of getting heads are 1 in 1.
All you're saying that the ratio of failures to successes is 1:65, this has nothing to do with oddsmaking, though it could be a parameter.
Go to Vegas and have a chat with some real oddsmakers. The fact that some sports team is 12 and 5 for the season doesnt mean they have 12:5 odds for the superbowl.
I believe this is about minimizing cost and lead times, not risk reduction.
I think the idea is that each type of ship would have different requirements, so you could design each to meet the requirements of its cargo, be it human or stuff.
Ie; a cargo shuttle full of tiny screws to be sorted in space doesnt need fancy atmospheric systems and oxygen recirculators and a seven million dollar toilet, etc.
The Russians did this, all through Mir. They had the Soyuz (sp?) rockets for people, and another kind to send supplies up. Or something like that.
Re:E-democracy *should mean* direct voting
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Just to add to my other post, take a look at Nazi germany and see how easily the majority can be persuaded into "evil" decisions.
Re:E-democracy *should mean* direct voting
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The constitution sure did define basic human rights. It defines a black man as worth 2/3rds of a white man. This wasn't considered "evil", it was completely natural and normal.
If e-voting on every issue, how do you figure there'd be no DMCA or PATRIOT act? I'd wager there'd be a much stricter PATRIOT act, if you weren't paying attention, the general populous was pretty blinded with rage after 9/11. I'd be the majority of americans would have passed the "make the middle east a nuclear wasteland" act if it were put on the table on 9/12.
The majority of citizens think copyright infringement is theft, Napster was a criminal enterprise, and that it should be illegal to modify your xbox. I remember a poll that showed a majority who thinks the speed limits on public roads should be LOWERED.
Your premise is everyone feels about everything the same way that you do. They dont. The majority of the voting populous is much older than you and fairly conservative in their views.
Re:Government thinks you're stupid
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If you want the government to quit thinking you're stupid, quit proving them right.
There's always some dimwit to prove them right on any issue.
Re:Online vs. Person-to-person
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People are quick to judge, are too sensitive, anger too quickly, they resort to flamewars or trolling, etc. when online.
Sez you, you lunix hippie teabagger!
Re:The real problem with "E-Democracy"
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Imagine if any lunatic fringe zealot could filibuster any given issue. How would anything get done?
The issue is emergency action to be taken due to a hurricaine coming ashore, and some old crank is bitching about the pothole in his back alley.
Re:E-democracy *should mean* direct voting
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Sure, democracy is great, isn't it?
Imagine if we had direct voting all along. Blacks would still be slaves, women wouldnt be able to vote, children would still legally be property. Maybe you'd enjoy a society where you have to think, act, and live like everyone else, after all, you are here on slashdot.
My point is, the right decision isn't always the most popular one. That's why the USA is a Republic.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Re:Who exactly are you insulting here?
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That's pretentious bullshit, the type of thing that comes from an angst-ridden teen going through the "I'm not a child!" phase.
You know, the "gamecube is for babies", "cartoons are for babies" age, where everything they do has to look "growed up".
Take the Harry Potter series, or slashbots beloved HHGTTG or LOTR. These books are all equally enjoyable on different levels by a wide range of age groups. Or, try "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie - yes that same Rushdie. It's an incredible childrens story, but at the same time very intelligent and well written.
No, but when they bring him on to some goofy "news" interview show and he starts spewing ridiculous details like technical specs on Iraqi underpants, you know he's just blowing smoke out of his ass.
They can at least introduce him as an author. Those not familiar with him would think he's some informed higher-up.
Tom Clancy makes me insane. Whenever theres some sort of political or military conflict, all the CNNs and FOX News stations scramble to get Clancy to come on and comment. And he has no military or political experience, just a vivid imagination. They ask him all kinds of technical questions, like in Afghanistan they're asking him about the range of shoulder fired missiles and how many the Taliban have, and he's giving answers like "42" matter-of-factly.
It's ridiculous. What's next, getting Dennis Miller to be color man on Monday Night Football? Oh wait
I saw a movie just like this
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Imagine if William Gibson wrote a James Bond adventure in which a sexual tigress seduces Bond into a Caribbean political crisis, requiring a nighttime scuba-dive into a sunken treasure-wreck, and then a voodoo ceremony that reads like a nightmare acid trip. Now replace James Bond with an "overeducated hick" atheist literature professor from Minnesota
It was called "The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel"
Re:That alien head icon...
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Why is that even there? The reviewer makes it clear that this is not a sci-fi novel.
Who exactly are you insulting here?
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And target the writing to intelligent adults, rather than adolescents.
So are you saying Gibson or Fleming targets adolescents, and not "intelligent adults"?
Because you're wrong on both counts. The Bond books are far from the movies in terms of content and narrative style. And all you slashbots have read Gibson.
Whatever, I guess it's just not a slashdot article without some snide troll in the submission.
When I looked up that Bille Minginbam (or whatever his/her name is) on imdb I didn't see The Full Monty in the filmography, only a couple made-for-UK-TV movies.
It took about 5 seconds of the trailer to realize that this isn't merely an "indy film", but an amateur film done by a couple college kids with a handycam.
And if the UK Film Council as analgous to the National Film Board of Canada, then I'm sure the movie is just some tripe to justify ridiculous "promotion of the arts" grants.
But, this is what we need. Actual CONTENT on the internet. Broadband is still expensive, and on the decline, because people realize there's no need for it. Put legal movies, TV shows, etc, promote the hell out of them.
I've wondered if this would ever work; Comcast is big on their new video-on-demand thing, but why cant they set up a few fat-ass servers local to each station, cram them full of media, and let consumers download the stuff.
They could relax bandwidth caps on "locally downloaded" stuff. It's cheap for them, since there's no edge-bandwidth being used, and a great feature for the end-users and a great way to push cable internet over DSL. In a nutshell, this is what video-on-demand is, only it requires a special little box to use. They could take it much further though, cache popular stuff from download.com, or the latest game demos and previews. Only cost to them is a decent server farm with lots of storage.
Just a thought if any cable internet operators are listening.
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The real world largely ignores the rambling of propeller-heads. There's more COBOL out in the wild than all of the Java ever written, and it isn't going anywhere.
Most people understand "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
What about mono?
.NET = MSFT and Windows any more than Jave = Sun and Solaris.
There's nothing that says
Carpenters don't buy from hammer companies that change their hammers every "release".
Sure they do, there's been a lot of innovation going into hammers lately. They release new versions of hammers constantly, and other woodworking tools - to many oldtimers dismay, who will swear up and down the hand plane they used in 1952 was an order of magnitude better than todays.
Stanleys Anti-vibe series of hammers, for instance, they have whats basically a tuning fork built into the handle. The fork vibrates and takes the energy away from your hand. Spend a day ramming nails in with a wooden handled hammer, then a day with one of the newer models, and you definately feel the difference.
They're also constantly adjusting the weights and balances, tweaking the shape and makeup of the heads/claws.
Go look at the tool section at home depot and get an idea about hammers.
Lower licensing costs than mono?
Theres a free solution for either.
Corporations who want someone accountable for their infrastructure will choose to license from Sun or MSFT.
Dot Net is also anything but small. It's possible to create ROMmable Java applications in just a couple megs of flash memory. On the other hand, there's no such thing as embedded dot Net just yet.
.NET for enterprise/distributed computing.
Which sums up the whole apples vs oranges nature of this "debate" quite nicely. Java was developed for embedded systems,
Now Sun is trying to shoehorn Java into the enterprise world, and perhaps MSFT will try and do the opposite.
Another article that will serve no purpose besides starting goofy flamewars.
Why not just post a PS2 vs XBox article?
For my two cents, Java has had years to prove itself, and hasn't done so to any great extent.
But I don't think there are any wannabe security guards.
I've known some security guards in the past, they were all aspiring cops or FBI guys. Some of the stupidest folks I've ever had the misfortune of meeting.
One might suspect the odds are 1 in 65, but they'd be wrong. If I flip a coin twice and get heads both times, I might suspect the odds of getting heads are 1 in 1.
All you're saying that the ratio of failures to successes is 1:65, this has nothing to do with oddsmaking, though it could be a parameter.
Go to Vegas and have a chat with some real oddsmakers. The fact that some sports team is 12 and 5 for the season doesnt mean they have 12:5 odds for the superbowl.
I believe this is about minimizing cost and lead times, not risk reduction.
I think the idea is that each type of ship would have different requirements, so you could design each to meet the requirements of its cargo, be it human or stuff.
Ie; a cargo shuttle full of tiny screws to be sorted in space doesnt need fancy atmospheric systems and oxygen recirculators and a seven million dollar toilet, etc.
The Russians did this, all through Mir. They had the Soyuz (sp?) rockets for people, and another kind to send supplies up. Or something like that.
Just to add to my other post, take a look at Nazi germany and see how easily the majority can be persuaded into "evil" decisions.
The constitution sure did define basic human rights. It defines a black man as worth 2/3rds of a white man. This wasn't considered "evil", it was completely natural and normal.
If e-voting on every issue, how do you figure there'd be no DMCA or PATRIOT act? I'd wager there'd be a much stricter PATRIOT act, if you weren't paying attention, the general populous was pretty blinded with rage after 9/11. I'd be the majority of americans would have passed the "make the middle east a nuclear wasteland" act if it were put on the table on 9/12.
The majority of citizens think copyright infringement is theft, Napster was a criminal enterprise, and that it should be illegal to modify your xbox. I remember a poll that showed a majority who thinks the speed limits on public roads should be LOWERED.
Your premise is everyone feels about everything the same way that you do. They dont. The majority of the voting populous is much older than you and fairly conservative in their views.
If you want the government to quit thinking you're stupid, quit proving them right.
There's always some dimwit to prove them right on any issue.
People are quick to judge, are too sensitive, anger too quickly, they resort to flamewars or trolling, etc. when online.
Sez you, you lunix hippie teabagger!
Imagine if any lunatic fringe zealot could filibuster any given issue. How would anything get done?
The issue is emergency action to be taken due to a hurricaine coming ashore, and some old crank is bitching about the pothole in his back alley.
Sure, democracy is great, isn't it?
Imagine if we had direct voting all along. Blacks would still be slaves, women wouldnt be able to vote, children would still legally be property. Maybe you'd enjoy a society where you have to think, act, and live like everyone else, after all, you are here on slashdot.
My point is, the right decision isn't always the most popular one. That's why the USA is a Republic.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
That's pretentious bullshit, the type of thing that comes from an angst-ridden teen going through the "I'm not a child!" phase.
You know, the "gamecube is for babies", "cartoons are for babies" age, where everything they do has to look "growed up".
Take the Harry Potter series, or slashbots beloved HHGTTG or LOTR. These books are all equally enjoyable on different levels by a wide range of age groups. Or, try "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie - yes that same Rushdie. It's an incredible childrens story, but at the same time very intelligent and well written.
No, but when they bring him on to some goofy "news" interview show and he starts spewing ridiculous details like technical specs on Iraqi underpants, you know he's just blowing smoke out of his ass.
They can at least introduce him as an author. Those not familiar with him would think he's some informed higher-up.
Does Taiwan have nukes?
Tom Clancy makes me insane. Whenever theres some sort of political or military conflict, all the CNNs and FOX News stations scramble to get Clancy to come on and comment. And he has no military or political experience, just a vivid imagination. They ask him all kinds of technical questions, like in Afghanistan they're asking him about the range of shoulder fired missiles and how many the Taliban have, and he's giving answers like "42" matter-of-factly.
It's ridiculous. What's next, getting Dennis Miller to be color man on Monday Night Football? Oh wait
Imagine if William Gibson wrote a James Bond adventure in which a sexual tigress seduces Bond into a Caribbean political crisis, requiring a nighttime scuba-dive into a sunken treasure-wreck, and then a voodoo ceremony that reads like a nightmare acid trip. Now replace James Bond with an "overeducated hick" atheist literature professor from Minnesota
It was called "The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel"
Why is that even there? The reviewer makes it clear that this is not a sci-fi novel.
And target the writing to intelligent adults, rather than adolescents.
So are you saying Gibson or Fleming targets adolescents, and not "intelligent adults"?
Because you're wrong on both counts. The Bond books are far from the movies in terms of content and narrative style. And all you slashbots have read Gibson.
Whatever, I guess it's just not a slashdot article without some snide troll in the submission.
Sony is behind it! Sony is bad like MSFT! I hate them.
When Steve Jobs announces half the product for twice the cost, then I'll be interested!
I cant wait for my iWiFAIBO G5!
When I looked up that Bille Minginbam (or whatever his/her name is) on imdb I didn't see The Full Monty in the filmography, only a couple made-for-UK-TV movies.
It took about 5 seconds of the trailer to realize that this isn't merely an "indy film", but an amateur film done by a couple college kids with a handycam.
And if the UK Film Council as analgous to the National Film Board of Canada, then I'm sure the movie is just some tripe to justify ridiculous "promotion of the arts" grants.
But, this is what we need. Actual CONTENT on the internet. Broadband is still expensive, and on the decline, because people realize there's no need for it. Put legal movies, TV shows, etc, promote the hell out of them.
I've wondered if this would ever work; Comcast is big on their new video-on-demand thing, but why cant they set up a few fat-ass servers local to each station, cram them full of media, and let consumers download the stuff.
They could relax bandwidth caps on "locally downloaded" stuff. It's cheap for them, since there's no edge-bandwidth being used, and a great feature for the end-users and a great way to push cable internet over DSL. In a nutshell, this is what video-on-demand is, only it requires a special little box to use. They could take it much further though, cache popular stuff from download.com, or the latest game demos and previews. Only cost to them is a decent server farm with lots of storage.
Just a thought if any cable internet operators are listening.
Another bombshell hit the beleagered Heinlen community today when....
ah fuck it, I'll just go back to the front page and wait for first psot!