Please call and complain and remember to vote them out come election time.
Your tax dollars should not go towards teaching kids how to use the current version of one (closed) vendors software. More math and science, less Britney, Bieber and iPhoto.
I HATE HATE apple's philosophy. Caretakers of the Walled Garden and proprietary habits I curse thee! Just keep making other people learn from your designers...
It's quite a stretch to make such an assumption, and I'm disappointed that it's/. front page worthy.
As a professional programmer, my weekend computing time is usually spent catching up on articles. I try to avoid thinking about work as much as possible, unless I get an "aha" moment, or a major issue comes up (which thankfully is rare).
I would imagine other possible explanations of this behavior to be:
1) People who are not professional programmers (e.g. sysadmins, tinkerers, etc...) prefer the languages that forgo things like compile steps, strict typing, etc...
2) People who are rapid prototyping ideas use scripting languages
3) People who are trying to get "home server open source projects" like photo apps, forums, etc... running or enhanced are asking the questions.
Not to say the scripting languages are bad, they definitely have a place, but IMO the maintainability and quality of languages like Java are far more important when your risking more than personal time.
If you're building a personal home page, then look at the other posts for recommendations.
If you're building something that other people will have to maintain, and is supposed to generate a significiant amount of income, or is dependent on it, read anything by Scott Meyers
And then:
Head First Java, 2nd Ed.
C++ How to Program (4th Edition)
Can't believe MS is wasting it's time on that POS. Java or C# is good for begineers. I'd recommend Java over C# mostly because Mono is significantly inferior to the JVM on Linux. Not to mention maturity. And if you're running your servers on Windows for anything but exchange, you've got bigger problems.
It's a horrible trend to see scripting languages with loose typing (e.g. a variale can be a string or a number) and poor OO implementations trying to passed off as "Enterprise" class application development platforms. The "P" languages mean crappy maintainability and scalability. Although if you don't have a qualified empowered architect on hand, and outsource most of your development, pass it off to tradesmen instead of engineers or hire a team of fresh students right out of school, I guess this is better than the alternative.
I never figured out why reader installs a BHO. I always disable it, and notice no detrimental effects. Of course I also disable OLE integration for PDFs, since I'd rather download them usually, and more importantly have it respond quicker and cause less stability issues.
What does the Browser Helper Object in acrobat reader do?
They lost the keys a long time ago, and have been trying to get the budget increased for the $80,000 it costs for new keys.
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You have to buy a USB based network adapter that is on their "compatible" list. This includes adapters from Dlink & Netgear.
Home Media Option used to have a one time fee of $99 bucks associated with it, it's now included with a normal subscription on Series 2 DVRs.
If for some bizzare reason you want to go past the first two steps of
Aquite PocketPC
Aquire Remote Control software for above PocketPC (the article listed a specific one that converts IR to audio, but you could have purchased any IR software and stopped at this stage with a far cleaner remote interface)
Why not just use a $30 MP3 player instead of the "trendy" iPod?... nevermind guess I answered my question.
I agree that those are all good changes however I would just like to see Sun put some of this money into more advancement in the language and JVM instead of wasting it on a mass marketing campaign like this. Just my preference though.
It took approximately 8 years for C++ to get Templates standardized.
Consumers don't care what language there application is written in as long as it does what is requested.
Consumers also play the part of PHBs. Consumers also get Microsoft thrown in their faces all the time.
I am a Java programmer and Sun seriously has to start doing something relevant with the language itself
Templates
Meta Data
type safe enums
autoboxing
Better thread library
simplistic syntax for iterations
I think that's a pretty good record for the latest release. What do you feel needs to be in now?
You know what, that's why Anders Hejlsberg didn't add checked exceptions to C#--because half the programmers don't handle them and instead just ignore them, because Java won't let you be otherwise. In C#, you ignore all exceptions and they propogate up (without having to declare them in the method signature).
Yup, and VB is RAD. Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. Checked Exceptions are just as valuable as types. If you don't believe in types, or checked exceptions, then it probably means you're not suited for large scale application development.
Microsoft most likely didn't use checked exceptions because
all those old programs would have to be rewritten rather than converted to run under.NET, which would slow down.NET adoption.
the low-end programmer would have a bigger barrier to entry, having to understand exceptions.
That's an improvement over Java, sorry.
Sorry, I can't disagree with you more. However I will mention that I like C#, they added some nice features and caused some healthy competition between C# and Java.
Because of C# Java 5 quickly got
Type safe enums
A better thread API
meta data (yummy!)
templates (Finally!)
autoboxing (convenient but I still like to be explicit)
simplistic looping syntax (another conveniance that I could have done without, but it's to appeal to the VB crowd)
Of course I still prefer Java just because of the mature and open source tools available out there. Just take a look at the # downloads of the various unit testing frameworks out there. It just appears to me that Java has just started (in widespread use outside of academia that is) a far more evolved perspective on software development.
To me Microsoft has always dismissed the flexible, scaling, and secure method to develop back end software, and seems to promote hacks. While the hacks may be cunning, they usually are quite detrimental in the long term. And almost all Microsoft technology leads to vendor lock in.
Please mod up.
At the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) action center it's really easy to do something to help stop things like this. Provide some basic contact information, read the prepared letters (or edit it), if you agree, submit the form for email, or have your computer print out Faxs to your representatives. It couldn't be easier.
Sorry but that's not true, most firewalls are configured to restrict incomming connections, your browsing and somebody uses an IE exploit to force some code on your machine that makes an outgoing connection, you're SOL. You need both for a secure system.
Slashdot Mirror
It's amazing that they gave it a premium price and are shipping with 1.6.
Please call and complain and remember to vote them out come election time. Your tax dollars should not go towards teaching kids how to use the current version of one (closed) vendors software. More math and science, less Britney, Bieber and iPhoto.
I HATE HATE apple's philosophy. Caretakers of the Walled Garden and proprietary habits I curse thee! Just keep making other people learn from your designers...
It's quite a stretch to make such an assumption, and I'm disappointed that it's /. front page worthy.
As a professional programmer, my weekend computing time is usually spent catching up on articles. I try to avoid thinking about work as much as possible, unless I get an "aha" moment, or a major issue comes up (which thankfully is rare).
I would imagine other possible explanations of this behavior to be:
1) People who are not professional programmers (e.g. sysadmins, tinkerers, etc...) prefer the languages that forgo things like compile steps, strict typing, etc...
2) People who are rapid prototyping ideas use scripting languages
3) People who are trying to get "home server open source projects" like photo apps, forums, etc... running or enhanced are asking the questions.
Not to say the scripting languages are bad, they definitely have a place, but IMO the maintainability and quality of languages like Java are far more important when your risking more than personal time.
If there are commercial versions of this, then why haven't the non-classified aspects of it been open sourced?
Objections to Ruby, Perl, insert scripting language here: weak typing and no compile step
If you're building a personal home page, then look at the other posts for recommendations. If you're building something that other people will have to maintain, and is supposed to generate a significiant amount of income, or is dependent on it, read anything by Scott Meyers And then: Head First Java, 2nd Ed. C++ How to Program (4th Edition)
Slashdot = Google Marketting? Nevermind what the trial was about...
Can't believe MS is wasting it's time on that POS. Java or C# is good for begineers. I'd recommend Java over C# mostly because Mono is significantly inferior to the JVM on Linux. Not to mention maturity. And if you're running your servers on Windows for anything but exchange, you've got bigger problems.
It's a horrible trend to see scripting languages with loose typing (e.g. a variale can be a string or a number) and poor OO implementations trying to passed off as "Enterprise" class application development platforms. The "P" languages mean crappy maintainability and scalability. Although if you don't have a qualified empowered architect on hand, and outsource most of your development, pass it off to tradesmen instead of engineers or hire a team of fresh students right out of school, I guess this is better than the alternative.
Why isn't this here already?
I never figured out why reader installs a BHO. I always disable it, and notice no detrimental effects. Of course I also disable OLE integration for PDFs, since I'd rather download them usually, and more importantly have it respond quicker and cause less stability issues. What does the Browser Helper Object in acrobat reader do?
They lost the keys a long time ago, and have been trying to get the budget increased for the $80,000 it costs for new keys.
You have to buy a USB based network adapter that is on their "compatible" list. This includes adapters from Dlink & Netgear. Home Media Option used to have a one time fee of $99 bucks associated with it, it's now included with a normal subscription on Series 2 DVRs.
No need to buy seperate hardware, now just need to find a resource that lists all the IR codes.
They don't want you to have a key so you don't poke somebodies eye out with it and hijack the statue of liberty! Oh wait....
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Why not just use a $30 MP3 player instead of the "trendy" iPod? ... nevermind guess I answered my question.
It took approximately 8 years for C++ to get Templates standardized.
They make their money through Licensing. Like how getting J2EE sticker on your software costs a hell of a lot.
Consumers don't care what language there application is written in as long as it does what is requested. Consumers also play the part of PHBs. Consumers also get Microsoft thrown in their faces all the time.
I am a Java programmer and Sun seriously has to start doing something relevant with the language itself
- Templates
- Meta Data
- type safe enums
- autoboxing
- Better thread library
- simplistic syntax for iterations
I think that's a pretty good record for the latest release. What do you feel needs to be in now?You know what, that's why Anders Hejlsberg didn't add checked exceptions to C#--because half the programmers don't handle them and instead just ignore them, because Java won't let you be otherwise. In C#, you ignore all exceptions and they propogate up (without having to declare them in the method signature).
Yup, and VB is RAD. Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. Checked Exceptions are just as valuable as types. If you don't believe in types, or checked exceptions, then it probably means you're not suited for large scale application development.
Microsoft most likely didn't use checked exceptions because
That's an improvement over Java, sorry. Sorry, I can't disagree with you more. However I will mention that I like C#, they added some nice features and caused some healthy competition between C# and Java. Because of C# Java 5 quickly got
- Type safe enums
- A better thread API
- meta data (yummy!)
- templates (Finally!)
- autoboxing (convenient but I still like to be explicit)
- simplistic looping syntax (another conveniance that I could have done without, but it's to appeal to the VB crowd)
Of course I still prefer Java just because of the mature and open source tools available out there. Just take a look at the # downloads of the various unit testing frameworks out there. It just appears to me that Java has just started (in widespread use outside of academia that is) a far more evolved perspective on software development.To me Microsoft has always dismissed the flexible, scaling, and secure method to develop back end software, and seems to promote hacks. While the hacks may be cunning, they usually are quite detrimental in the long term. And almost all Microsoft technology leads to vendor lock in.
Please mod up. At the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) action center it's really easy to do something to help stop things like this. Provide some basic contact information, read the prepared letters (or edit it), if you agree, submit the form for email, or have your computer print out Faxs to your representatives. It couldn't be easier.
Hack Your Way to Hollywood
You know, the word "hack" above really bothers me.
Sorry but that's not true, most firewalls are configured to restrict incomming connections, your browsing and somebody uses an IE exploit to force some code on your machine that makes an outgoing connection, you're SOL. You need both for a secure system.