Good points. You could argue, however, that it is better to have tools that each are focused on performing a single task well (XML + gzip) and chain them, rather than try to build something that does it all.
The guy just keeps repeating over and over his own inability to understand the material, and his amazement at Linus's ability to write the kernel. He has no comprehension of any of the technical issues, and no experience, so it is hardly surprising that the Linux story is so "unbelievable" to him. That he thinks this is a convincing argument is what is truly unbelievable.
Some people, including all artists, pursue careers which offer little in the way of employment or renumeration, but have other satisfactions (intellectual, aesthetic, etc.). Surely that decision is best left to the individual, as are their other choices about their life. To attack them for it seems ungenerous, to put it mildly.
I personally think that our car problem is due to the fact that more and more people live in suburbs or "ex-urbs" (nowhere near a city). The price we pay for each having our own blue heaven is population distribution, and thus the need for more and more highways and cars.
The solution for any individual is simple: move into a dense city and take public transportation or bike. You don't get to have a big house anymore, but you get a cohesive neighborhood and car-free living. Just depends on your priorities.
Actually, take another look. These tools are a response to that very criticism. They are part of a move towards a more light-weight Java. I've used them both, and they are a dream to use. Hibernate in particular.
"Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Abell has a master's from Columbus University, a diploma mill Louisiana shut down. Deputy Assistant Secretary Patricia Walker lists among her degrees, a bachelor's from Pacific Western, a diploma mill banned in Oregon and under investigation in Hawaii"
These two, at least, are indeed just below cabinet level
There are large teams of people searching for the WMD, with little success. Sadly, we may never know what happened, because the archives were looted and the files burned. We can search for the weapons, while at the same time remaining suspicious of the run-up to the war. They are not mutually exclusive. And I think it is a matter of some concern whether we were deceived or not, worthy at least of rational discussion. I don't have to love Bush to hate Saddam. Thank you, by the way, for using your name and not posting AC!
Is Hotmail blacklisting (ie, he can't send even one email there), or is it just balking at the 600 addresses in the cc or bcc list?
Many ISP's see such bulk mails as spam, and block them. The solution is simple: send them out in batches of twenty. There are many mail management applications that will do this for you. I ran into this problem myself, and turned Mailgust for batched sending.
-Michael Greer
NPR had a great piece when Spirit first went down. They jokingly surmised that Beagle had been lying in wait and, silently, snuck up and disabled Spirit. Then they had a BattleBots guy discuss the matchup between Spirit and Beagle. Beagle had the element of surprise, but if Spirit could survive the first blow it could easy bore through Beagle with its rock-grinding arm. Looks like Spirit won!
I'm sorry, I was a little abrupt.
I have built major sites for Dunn & Bradstreet, Hitachi, Mitsui, and others.
What I meant was that the expense is not in J2EE, but in the others you mention (databases, backup, redundancy). App servers (and, of course, web servers) are not the cost. I have worked with Weblogic and Websphere, and have been unimpressed. For one, I am not impressed by EJBs (and I am not alone).
I just have not found costly J2EE solutions to be better than inexpensive or open source J2EE solutions, support included. So, my point again, J2EE is not in itself costly as a platform.
What are you talking about? Sure, the databases are expensive, but the subject is J2EE, not databases. If you mean Weblogic, then I have to disagree: it is a dog compared to the free or inexpensive (Resin) solutions. Never have known Bea to have good support either. That "enterprise" talk is for management, not us.
What's wrong with VARPTR? Is VariablePointer really better?
Yes. Obvously, it is clearer.
A post up top stated what I think is the best reason, which is to distiguish between class and object (their example):
Person person = new Person();
This is pretty common code for me. Without case sensitivity I would have to get quite awkward. Java strives for legibility and organization. Other languages strive for other things. Don't fault it for trying to meet its goals.
I am a big fan of PostgreSQL, but we still lack a great GUI interface to it. phpPgAdmin is wonderful, but not quite as good as phpMySql. I'm a Mac fellow, and love CocoaMySQL. I wish there were one for PostgreSQL. Certainly, admin of PostgreSQL is more complex and we need such a tool desperately.
At issue is not the "size" of the chip, but the heat dispersion. I do not see how this solves the heat issue, and thus how it could be engineered into a powerbook.
It was called "Magnetic Storms." A little sensationalistic, but it does appear that we are a few millennia overdue for a flip. A flip is preceded by just this kind of drop in magnetic force, as "islands" of positive polarity start appearing in the negative area and visa-versa. Already a big one near Antarctica.
Eclipse is a huge app, so we can tell little from you setup. Tomcat mem usage totally depends on your webapp's mem usage. I think tomcat starts in at around 20MB and moves on up from there.
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Good points. You could argue, however, that it is better to have tools that each are focused on performing a single task well (XML + gzip) and chain them, rather than try to build something that does it all.
The guy just keeps repeating over and over his own inability to understand the material, and his amazement at Linus's ability to write the kernel. He has no comprehension of any of the technical issues, and no experience, so it is hardly surprising that the Linux story is so "unbelievable" to him. That he thinks this is a convincing argument is what is truly unbelievable.
used books, used cars, used houses...all of that creativity stifled!
Some people, including all artists, pursue careers which offer little in the way of employment or renumeration, but have other satisfactions (intellectual, aesthetic, etc.). Surely that decision is best left to the individual, as are their other choices about their life. To attack them for it seems ungenerous, to put it mildly.
Do you really believe that there is no point in reading good books, thinking about them, and then collecting your thoughts in writing?
I will assume you meant to criticize po-mo literary criticism, not the very idea of writing about literature. That would be a reasonable criticism.
I personally think that our car problem is due to the fact that more and more people live in suburbs or "ex-urbs" (nowhere near a city). The price we pay for each having our own blue heaven is population distribution, and thus the need for more and more highways and cars.
The solution for any individual is simple: move into a dense city and take public transportation or bike. You don't get to have a big house anymore, but you get a cohesive neighborhood and car-free living. Just depends on your priorities.
Hey, no question: Perl regex rocks. I just pointed that since the parent seemed to not have looked a Java since 1.1 or something.
It does need basic things that I take for granted after working with Perl, Python or LISP. Regexes and flexible data structures come to mind.
Java has had regexes since 1.4.
Actually, take another look. These tools are a response to that very criticism. They are part of a move towards a more light-weight Java. I've used them both, and they are a dream to use. Hibernate in particular.
Why is Slashdot so anti-Java?
"Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Abell has a master's from Columbus University, a diploma mill Louisiana shut down. Deputy Assistant Secretary Patricia Walker lists among her degrees, a bachelor's from Pacific Western, a diploma mill banned in Oregon and under investigation in Hawaii"
These two, at least, are indeed just below cabinet level
There are large teams of people searching for the WMD, with little success. Sadly, we may never know what happened, because the archives were looted and the files burned.
We can search for the weapons, while at the same time remaining suspicious of the run-up to the war. They are not mutually exclusive. And I think it is a matter of some concern whether we were deceived or not, worthy at least of rational discussion.
I don't have to love Bush to hate Saddam.
Thank you, by the way, for using your name and not posting AC!
Yeah, and the US doesn't have any resource interests there, and has been involved in no scandals.
Is Hotmail blacklisting (ie, he can't send even one email there), or is it just balking at the 600 addresses in the cc or bcc list? Many ISP's see such bulk mails as spam, and block them. The solution is simple: send them out in batches of twenty. There are many mail management applications that will do this for you. I ran into this problem myself, and turned Mailgust for batched sending. -Michael Greer
Wow. I didn't know anyone here was old enough to make that joke.
It was in Chappaquiddick, by the way.
Isn't that the essential open source strategy, giving up some measure of control in return for a bigger growth of the market?
Its kind of like going public: less control, but more capital. Maybe someone put it this way to the suits.
NPR had a great piece when Spirit first went down. They jokingly surmised that Beagle had been lying in wait and, silently, snuck up and disabled Spirit. Then they had a BattleBots guy discuss the matchup between Spirit and Beagle. Beagle had the element of surprise, but if Spirit could survive the first blow it could easy bore through Beagle with its rock-grinding arm. Looks like Spirit won!
Luckily, no, not their website!
I'm sorry, I was a little abrupt. I have built major sites for Dunn & Bradstreet, Hitachi, Mitsui, and others. What I meant was that the expense is not in J2EE, but in the others you mention (databases, backup, redundancy). App servers (and, of course, web servers) are not the cost. I have worked with Weblogic and Websphere, and have been unimpressed. For one, I am not impressed by EJBs (and I am not alone). I just have not found costly J2EE solutions to be better than inexpensive or open source J2EE solutions, support included. So, my point again, J2EE is not in itself costly as a platform.
What are you talking about? Sure, the databases are expensive, but the subject is J2EE, not databases. If you mean Weblogic, then I have to disagree: it is a dog compared to the free or inexpensive (Resin) solutions. Never have known Bea to have good support either. That "enterprise" talk is for management, not us.
What's wrong with VARPTR? Is VariablePointer really better?
Yes. Obvously, it is clearer.
A post up top stated what I think is the best reason, which is to distiguish between class and object (their example):
Person person = new Person();
This is pretty common code for me. Without case sensitivity I would have to get quite awkward. Java strives for legibility and organization. Other languages strive for other things. Don't fault it for trying to meet its goals.
I am a big fan of PostgreSQL, but we still lack a great GUI interface to it. phpPgAdmin is wonderful, but not quite as good as phpMySql. I'm a Mac fellow, and love CocoaMySQL. I wish there were one for PostgreSQL. Certainly, admin of PostgreSQL is more complex and we need such a tool desperately.
At issue is not the "size" of the chip, but the heat dispersion. I do not see how this solves the heat issue, and thus how it could be engineered into a powerbook.
It was called "Magnetic Storms." A little sensationalistic, but it does appear that we are a few millennia overdue for a flip. A flip is preceded by just this kind of drop in magnetic force, as "islands" of positive polarity start appearing in the negative area and visa-versa. Already a big one near Antarctica.
Take a look at the website. It has a great video of a simulated flip. Scary stuff.
Eclipse is a huge app, so we can tell little from you setup. Tomcat mem usage totally depends on your webapp's mem usage. I think tomcat starts in at around 20MB and moves on up from there.
He never claimed to have created it. That is a right-wing lie spread by Bush's campaign people.