I can't think of any signs N. Korea is "unstable" or "in terminal decline". Even mass starvation can't dislodge those thugs. And though one may agree with the "never give in" approach theoretically, it is failing. Failing. Let's get realistic. Bush's foreign policy exists in a fantasy land.
I think South Korea is a bigger issue, but you are right that China is a major sticking point. They are the superpower in the area. However, N. Korea is, sadly, not a "puppet" of China. China has very little control over him: all they can do it turn off the oil spigots up north (which they do every once in a while).
That place is the craziest on earth, after Albania's dictatorship fell. The real scary part is that they are not a rational actor, and cannot be deterred using the traditional nuclear standoff.
These guys sent cremated remains of abducted Japanese citizens to Japan. The Japanese did DNA testing, and found that the remains were of other people. Apparently, the N Koreans did not know about DNA testing. They are locked in a crazy-box, now with nukes.
Have to say, Bush royally screwed this one up. Whatever you think of his big stick policy, it clearly is failing in Korea.
Hey, "boxen" is totally standard admin speak, so don't beat him up. And my "oxen" example is, as I said, not German, but an example of a German-derived plural in English. Just trying to figure out why admins call them "boxen," not supporting the strange practice.
Alright then, a reasonable point of view! If you live in a town considering this, I suggest you vote against it or vote out the mayor or council members who support it. If you don't live in that town, then leave them alone to decide what to do with their money.
The article was about a misinformation scheme, which is decidedly undemocratic, and which I'm sure you despise as much as everyone here, whatever our opinions on municipal wireless programs.
I happen to totally agree, and have a sick friend in CA using pot to ease his pain. But while the law may be wrong, that is not what punitive means. It is not intended to punish.
I was royally pissed off, for example, when my daughter's elementary school flew the flag at full staff, after sunset, with no illumination.
Don't you think that a rather extreme reaction? Its not a religious object. Nothing happens to people's souls if the flag is touched by the rays of the moon. Relax.
I agree with you that these are human rights, and as rights do not exist at the whim or pleasure of the state, but reside in ourselves
However, your weird idea that you are not a US citizen is quite beyond me. If you believe this, then I assume you forgo using highways, Pell grants, Social Security, Medicare, anything derived from federally funded science, etc. Otherwise, you are just taking other peoples money and then whining about it.
I don't think your example is apt. Your complaint that "governments routinely apply laws to the entire population... due to the irresponsibility of the few" is called the Rule of Law. Laws are always applied to the entire population, if they can be called just at all. Laws are not about "bad guys" and "good guys."
Also, the parent is talking about a class being punished for the actions of one. Banning pot is not punitive: it is prohibitive. Very different.
It seems totally reasonable that they, like Apple, would have an HTML rendering framework ship as part of the OS. IE uses that framework, as do other parts of the system. Other practices, like making IE hard to uninstall, pre-loading the framework to give IE a startup boost, and others, are more questionable.
Grab the data directly into javascript with xmlhttprequest. However, the web has many Ui conventions now which people don't want broken, even if its better. I still keep hitting the back button in Gmail, and I think it should work that way.
His question was about workflow frameworks, while these are OR frameworks. You left out the most prominant one: Hibernate. I have always thought the Naked Objects folks to be impractically OO purist in their approach, personally. I don't happen to think objects should have to know how to represent themselves. Keep them stupid.
I guess I'm talking about server deployment for web apps, since that is what Java is mostly used for. Thus, I called it "sysadmin stuff" since the code is not affected by it, nor could code in any language magically avoid deployment and system maintenance. I have deployed Java GUI apps, and believe me I spent plenty of time on the installer.
Actually, Java byte code is not interpreted, and has not been for some time. You are running just-in-time compiled code. This means startup is slow, and memory is hogged, but don't claim it has to do with an interpreter.
That is exactly where they initially promoted it, but AWT performance was terrible and few had the broadband to download the jars in a reasonable time. So focus moved to the server side, where it performed well. Now, IBM has built native SWT widgets and performance is not as bad, although still a slow start and a monster memory hog for GUI apps. The best thing about Java now, as with Linux, is the enormous community of developers building excellent libraries (jakarta, hibernate, spring, webwork, etc). That is where it truly shines.
This is an old joke from 1998. In my experience, I have rarely found a problem and I regularly code and compile in OS X or Windows and deploy onto Linux servers. The one area I always have to be careful about is setting up the AWT environment, but this is sysadmin stuff and does not effect the code. What experiences have you had (since 1998) that lead you so say this? Probably in GUI apps, where I do agree. Everything gets tested on Windows, and looks like utter crap on a Mac. Except Eclipse, of course.
You are right, I am being condescending, and I apologize. I'm feeling very pissed off at the rest of America these days for acting in what I think are short-sighted and insane ways. So, I fall back on being proud to be a New Yorker, since I'm not currently proud to be an American.
Stop living in a car-centered world. To do that, you have to stop urban sprawl, stop building those terrible suburbs, and live densely. I live in the most per-capita energy efficient place on earth: New York City. The density of housing makes for very efficient heating, and public transportation reduces pollution significantly. Also, we tend to walk everywhere.
Just because your lawn is green doesn't mean you are.
I am sure that during the initial phase, Microsoft's prices are so low that it drives competitors' prices down too. As with the Xbox, where they use their monopoly rent to pay for losses in the console area. This is called price gouging. Unfortunately. once their competitors are driven out or into niches, do not expect the prices to stay low: there is no longer any market pressure to do so. This is one of the ways monopolies operate.
It is not unreasonable to base trust on a brand name. That is indeed the purpose of the brand: otherwise we would have to sort through bins of goods and analyze them carefully with each and every purchase. Which we do sometimes (with fruit), but not with everything. We just don't have time for that and in purchases over the internet, it is impossible. Collective opinion (including websites) is often the basis for this trust. The only thing you can ask of people is that they ask around sufficiently before forming trust.
Your issue, I think, is actually that people think something is a brand because it has the logo on it. That is, they are too trusting of the logo itself not being counterfeit. I don't know what we should do about that. SSL can tell us that a website is who it says it is, but it can't verify the correctness of a logo or claimed corporate identity.
Whenever I've run into inefficient SQL in Hibernate, I've always been able to solve it. What cases are you talking about? You might want to take this to the forums for help. Hibernate will never run as fast as well-optimized custom SQL, but I've always had great performance from it or been able to tune it to the performance I want. Hibernate 3 will allow you to specify custom SQL to your heart's content, I believe.
Take a look at the auto-vacuum daemon in contrib. It looks at the statistics and vacuums tables when sufficient change has occurred to them. Runs more optimally than a cron job. Works great.
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I can't think of any signs N. Korea is "unstable" or "in terminal decline". Even mass starvation can't dislodge those thugs. And though one may agree with the "never give in" approach theoretically, it is failing. Failing. Let's get realistic. Bush's foreign policy exists in a fantasy land.
I think South Korea is a bigger issue, but you are right that China is a major sticking point. They are the superpower in the area. However, N. Korea is, sadly, not a "puppet" of China. China has very little control over him: all they can do it turn off the oil spigots up north (which they do every once in a while).
That place is the craziest on earth, after Albania's dictatorship fell. The real scary part is that they are not a rational actor, and cannot be deterred using the traditional nuclear standoff.
These guys sent cremated remains of abducted Japanese citizens to Japan. The Japanese did DNA testing, and found that the remains were of other people. Apparently, the N Koreans did not know about DNA testing. They are locked in a crazy-box, now with nukes.
Have to say, Bush royally screwed this one up. Whatever you think of his big stick policy, it clearly is failing in Korea.
Hey, "boxen" is totally standard admin speak, so don't beat him up. And my "oxen" example is, as I said, not German, but an example of a German-derived plural in English. Just trying to figure out why admins call them "boxen," not supporting the strange practice.
I don't think "oxen" itself is the reason. I think folks like the German plural form (of which "oxen" is an English example) 'cause it sounds cooler.
Don't leave us in suspense: what are the exploits?
Alright then, a reasonable point of view! If you live in a town considering this, I suggest you vote against it or vote out the mayor or council members who support it. If you don't live in that town, then leave them alone to decide what to do with their money.
The article was about a misinformation scheme, which is decidedly undemocratic, and which I'm sure you despise as much as everyone here, whatever our opinions on municipal wireless programs.
I happen to totally agree, and have a sick friend in CA using pot to ease his pain. But while the law may be wrong, that is not what punitive means. It is not intended to punish.
I was royally pissed off, for example, when my daughter's elementary school flew the flag at full staff, after sunset, with no illumination.
Don't you think that a rather extreme reaction? Its not a religious object. Nothing happens to people's souls if the flag is touched by the rays of the moon. Relax.
I agree with you that these are human rights, and as rights do not exist at the whim or pleasure of the state, but reside in ourselves
However, your weird idea that you are not a US citizen is quite beyond me. If you believe this, then I assume you forgo using highways, Pell grants, Social Security, Medicare, anything derived from federally funded science, etc. Otherwise, you are just taking other peoples money and then whining about it.
I don't think your example is apt. Your complaint that "governments routinely apply laws to the entire population... due to the irresponsibility of the few" is called the Rule of Law. Laws are always applied to the entire population, if they can be called just at all. Laws are not about "bad guys" and "good guys."
Also, the parent is talking about a class being punished for the actions of one. Banning pot is not punitive: it is prohibitive. Very different.
It seems totally reasonable that they, like Apple, would have an HTML rendering framework ship as part of the OS. IE uses that framework, as do other parts of the system. Other practices, like making IE hard to uninstall, pre-loading the framework to give IE a startup boost, and others, are more questionable.
Because it is just called "xml"httprequest: it can return anything. So don't be afraid. Iframe feels like a hack to me.
Grab the data directly into javascript with xmlhttprequest. However, the web has many Ui conventions now which people don't want broken, even if its better. I still keep hitting the back button in Gmail, and I think it should work that way.
His question was about workflow frameworks, while these are OR frameworks. You left out the most prominant one: Hibernate. I have always thought the Naked Objects folks to be impractically OO purist in their approach, personally. I don't happen to think objects should have to know how to represent themselves. Keep them stupid.
I guess I'm talking about server deployment for web apps, since that is what Java is mostly used for. Thus, I called it "sysadmin stuff" since the code is not affected by it, nor could code in any language magically avoid deployment and system maintenance. I have deployed Java GUI apps, and believe me I spent plenty of time on the installer.
Actually, Java byte code is not interpreted, and has not been for some time. You are running just-in-time compiled code. This means startup is slow, and memory is hogged, but don't claim it has to do with an interpreter.
That is exactly where they initially promoted it, but AWT performance was terrible and few had the broadband to download the jars in a reasonable time. So focus moved to the server side, where it performed well. Now, IBM has built native SWT widgets and performance is not as bad, although still a slow start and a monster memory hog for GUI apps. The best thing about Java now, as with Linux, is the enormous community of developers building excellent libraries (jakarta, hibernate, spring, webwork, etc). That is where it truly shines.
This is an old joke from 1998. In my experience, I have rarely found a problem and I regularly code and compile in OS X or Windows and deploy onto Linux servers. The one area I always have to be careful about is setting up the AWT environment, but this is sysadmin stuff and does not effect the code. What experiences have you had (since 1998) that lead you so say this? Probably in GUI apps, where I do agree. Everything gets tested on Windows, and looks like utter crap on a Mac. Except Eclipse, of course.
You are right, I am being condescending, and I apologize. I'm feeling very pissed off at the rest of America these days for acting in what I think are short-sighted and insane ways. So, I fall back on being proud to be a New Yorker, since I'm not currently proud to be an American.
Stop living in a car-centered world. To do that, you have to stop urban sprawl, stop building those terrible suburbs, and live densely. I live in the most per-capita energy efficient place on earth: New York City. The density of housing makes for very efficient heating, and public transportation reduces pollution significantly. Also, we tend to walk everywhere.
Just because your lawn is green doesn't mean you are.
I am sure that during the initial phase, Microsoft's prices are so low that it drives competitors' prices down too. As with the Xbox, where they use their monopoly rent to pay for losses in the console area. This is called price gouging. Unfortunately. once their competitors are driven out or into niches, do not expect the prices to stay low: there is no longer any market pressure to do so. This is one of the ways monopolies operate.
It is not unreasonable to base trust on a brand name. That is indeed the purpose of the brand: otherwise we would have to sort through bins of goods and analyze them carefully with each and every purchase. Which we do sometimes (with fruit), but not with everything. We just don't have time for that and in purchases over the internet, it is impossible. Collective opinion (including websites) is often the basis for this trust. The only thing you can ask of people is that they ask around sufficiently before forming trust.
Your issue, I think, is actually that people think something is a brand because it has the logo on it. That is, they are too trusting of the logo itself not being counterfeit. I don't know what we should do about that. SSL can tell us that a website is who it says it is, but it can't verify the correctness of a logo or claimed corporate identity.
Whenever I've run into inefficient SQL in Hibernate, I've always been able to solve it. What cases are you talking about? You might want to take this to the forums for help. Hibernate will never run as fast as well-optimized custom SQL, but I've always had great performance from it or been able to tune it to the performance I want. Hibernate 3 will allow you to specify custom SQL to your heart's content, I believe.
This is EXACTLY what Hibernate does, as the previous post states. Hibernate is excellent!
Take a look at the auto-vacuum daemon in contrib. It looks at the statistics and vacuums tables when sufficient change has occurred to them. Runs more optimally than a cron job. Works great.