Sure, Java generics work at compile time instead of runtime. At runtime, you can do whatever you want. But it's still true that Java generics provide a much safer interface which prevents a wide field of bugs, and which makes code much more readable. I think it's obvious that
l = new List(); l.add(foo); Foo foo = l.get(0);
is much safer and easier to read than
v = new Vector(); v.add(foo); Foo foo = (Foo) v.get(0);
especially when you consider that the obvious mistake
v = new Vector(); v.add(bar); Foo foo = (Foo) v.get(0);
throws a cast exception at runtime.
I've read a lot of complaints that type erasure (the means by which Java generics are implemented) doesn't solve the whole problem. But there was a certain class of program that generics solved, and it has made development in Java much more productive and safe.
You are practically proving my case here. These ballots were entered into evidence in the trial, before a Republican judge, in a hand-picked heavily Republican jurisdiction, and they case was STILL dismissed with prejudice. The judge determined that the ballots were reasonable human error and there was no evidence to suggest that the errors systematically favored either candidate. US Attorney McKay asked the FBI to investigate, and the FBI came back with nothing.
A huge number of people think the universe was created by an invisible, alternately compassionate and vengeful, space fairy. A very large fraction of Americans believe the world was inundated with water and a man sailed around in a boat full of animals. Quite a lot of people think Baywatch is a good TV show.
Go back to civics class. The FBI investigates crimes. (That's what the "I" stands for, in case you were curious.) The US Attorney takes their evidence of crime and prosecutes the case. If the FBI comes up with nothing then the US Attorney has nothing to go on.
The situation in Washington in 2004 was that the Republican Secretary of State thought the election was clean, the Republican-run FBI investigated and thought everything was clean, and the Republican US Attorney found no reason to bring any cases. In addition to all that the Republican judge in heavily a Republican jurisdiction found against the Republican party trying to nullify the election.
And yet, you blathering morons still go on and on about "voter fraud". There is _NO_ documentary evidence of coordinated voter fraud in Washington in 2004. Yes, some guy went to the voting place and signed his own name next to his dead wife's registration line. I'm sure that threw the election. And oh, by the way, he also did not sign next to his own name. Yes, the Republican Party tried to throw out a lot of voters based on their addresses, which turned out to be mainly apartments above warehouses and such things. That only goes to prove how out-of-touch the average suburban Republican brownshirt is with the urban dwellers of King County.
If you'd like to talk about real vote fraud, the kind that changes the outcomes of elections, why don't you talk about how majority-Black precincts in Ohio were systematically given too few voting machines, thereby suppressing the Black vote with 6-hour-long lines at the polls?
Congress has already demanded that the White House keep all emails, as well as all other communications, forever. This is known as the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and it was a result of the Nixon debacle. All material generated by the White House is property of the American people, and it must be turned over in its entirety to the national archivist when the administration leaves office. All records must be made available to the public 12 years after the end of the administration, except in case of national security. At the present time many George H. W. Bush and Reagan papers are secret due to an unconstitutional George W. Bush executive order.
Well, let's do a comparison. Democratic President Clinton: longest continuous economic expansion in history of nation; balanced budgets; paying down the debt; peace; vigorous investigations of Osama bin Laden's activities. Republican President Bush: recession; wage deflation; largest deficits ever; increasing debt; war; ignorance of Osama bin Laden. Conclusion: Republicans and Democrats are really different.
Wow, you are really brilliant. Whitewater documents were about Hillary Clinton, who was not an elected official, and they were destroyed before Bill Clinton was elected President. Perhaps you would like to illuminate the audience as to how those documents were covered under the Presidential Records Act?
I'm sure by "much higher sound quality than mp3" you meant "hardly discernible from mp3." You can only tell AAC from MP3 at, say, 160kbps with repeated critical listening on excellent equipment in a prepared setting. Most people can't tell the difference at all.
This was a very early attempt at DRM and it carried the force of law owing to the Digital Home Recording Act or some such claptrap. Fortunately it's completely trivial to remove the SCMS with less than $10 worth of parts. Simply hard-wire a CS8416 or a similar part to set the pro/consumer flag to pro, allowing unlimited serial copies.
Strikes only work for skilled labor. Circuit City sales staff are not skilled labor. If they went on strike it would be trivial to replace them. Just look at their existing turnover rates for proof that you can train a new sales staff member in less than a day. Anyway striking doesn't work when you are being fired. Why would the company care that a bunch of ex-employees were picketing?
You seem to have a strange idea about economics. Anyone can empty the trash, so emptying the trash is a low-paying job. If I drive down to the day laborer's pickup spot there will be 20 guys standing there every morning. If I only need 2 people to rake leaves behind my house, and there are 20 guys standing around looking for work, obviously I'd be a fool to offer anything other than the minimum wage.
On the other hand, few people can repair jet engines, so jet engine repair is a high paying job. If I drive down to the day laborer camp there will be zero jet engine mechanics. I would have to advertise for one, or hire and train one at great expense.
Pay has nothing to do with working hard and everything to do with specialization and ease of replacement.
The truth of the matter is that a Circuit City salesman performs a service to the public which is about on par with picking strawberries or washing cars. People who pick strawberries and wash cars make the minimum wage. These types of jobs are not intended to be long careers, they are supposed to put kids and part-timers to work. The stark truth of economics is that if you want a higher wage you have to do something more valuable. Try machining or engine repair.
A man named Terry Shannon published a newsletter called Shannon Knows DEC (and later Compaq, and HPC after that) for many years before he died. Shannon fit the definition of blogger except for the fact that his newsletter predated blogs. Shannon relied on rumor and secret information from his contacts at DEC. His newsletter was seen as a valuable contribution by the DEC user community, and alternately as a nuisance and a useful side channel by management. I would wager that the difference between Shannon and the blogger of the current article is that Shannon tried harder and didn't expect anything for free. He cultivated his information sources over the course of decades and frequently in the face of open hostility from the companies in question. Perhaps the blogger in question needs to cease whining and simply find a better way to operate.
If they "fixed" this "leak", the other bunch of fucknozzles would come back asking "Why are back and forward so slow?!??". I think for the time being you people are slightly less annoying, so the "leak" stays.
When most people refer to an Ubuntu release, they elide the noun. People running 6.10 usually refer to it as simply Edgy, not Edgy Eft. The previous release is commonly called Dapper, not Dapper Drake. So you can just call this one Feisty, or Ubuntu 7.04 if you prefer.
I'm with you. These guys are completely on crack. Haven't they ever read "Netheads vs. Bellheads"? You do not want to have intelligence inside the network, ever. Intelligence belongs at the edge. The core should be application-unaware, stupid, unreliable, and as simple as possible. Which is the Internet we have today, and it works great, thank you very much.
A smart card is the best place to keep your private keys. The key is generated on the card, and never leaves. It is not even possible to get private keys off a smart card, except (perhaps) with an electron microscope.
A Linux box spent hours creating and deleting 60k files? In 2004? I'm skeptical. On my machine it takes 2 minutes 10 seconds to create and less than 1 second to delete.
% time ( for foo in `seq 0 9`; do for bar in `seq 0 9`; do for baz in `seq 0 9`; do for quux in `seq 0 59`; do touch $foo/$bar/$baz/$quux; done; done; done; done) 66.28s user 64.58s system 100% cpu 2:10.33 total % time rm -rf * rm -rf * 0.02s user 0.66s system 98% cpu 0.679 total
I don't design GUIs either, but I find Eclipse to be amazingly productive. The best part is the continuous compilation (in Java, possibly other languages). Eclipse simply flags every single mistake you make. Left a semicolon off the end of a line? Eclipse flags it immediately. Asked for an Iterator from a List? Flagged instantly. With Eclipse, you know that your project is always in a compilable state, which removes one entire subloop from the code-compile-execute system.
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Restriction of Hazardous Substances. Taking the lead out of solder, etc.
Sure, Java generics work at compile time instead of runtime. At runtime, you can do whatever you want. But it's still true that Java generics provide a much safer interface which prevents a wide field of bugs, and which makes code much more readable. I think it's obvious that
l = new List();
l.add(foo);
Foo foo = l.get(0);
is much safer and easier to read than
v = new Vector();
v.add(foo);
Foo foo = (Foo) v.get(0);
especially when you consider that the obvious mistake
v = new Vector();
v.add(bar);
Foo foo = (Foo) v.get(0);
throws a cast exception at runtime.
I've read a lot of complaints that type erasure (the means by which Java generics are implemented) doesn't solve the whole problem. But there was a certain class of program that generics solved, and it has made development in Java much more productive and safe.
You are practically proving my case here. These ballots were entered into evidence in the trial, before a Republican judge, in a hand-picked heavily Republican jurisdiction, and they case was STILL dismissed with prejudice. The judge determined that the ballots were reasonable human error and there was no evidence to suggest that the errors systematically favored either candidate. US Attorney McKay asked the FBI to investigate, and the FBI came back with nothing.
A huge number of people think the universe was created by an invisible, alternately compassionate and vengeful, space fairy. A very large fraction of Americans believe the world was inundated with water and a man sailed around in a boat full of animals. Quite a lot of people think Baywatch is a good TV show.
Go back to civics class. The FBI investigates crimes. (That's what the "I" stands for, in case you were curious.) The US Attorney takes their evidence of crime and prosecutes the case. If the FBI comes up with nothing then the US Attorney has nothing to go on.
The situation in Washington in 2004 was that the Republican Secretary of State thought the election was clean, the Republican-run FBI investigated and thought everything was clean, and the Republican US Attorney found no reason to bring any cases. In addition to all that the Republican judge in heavily a Republican jurisdiction found against the Republican party trying to nullify the election.
And yet, you blathering morons still go on and on about "voter fraud". There is _NO_ documentary evidence of coordinated voter fraud in Washington in 2004. Yes, some guy went to the voting place and signed his own name next to his dead wife's registration line. I'm sure that threw the election. And oh, by the way, he also did not sign next to his own name. Yes, the Republican Party tried to throw out a lot of voters based on their addresses, which turned out to be mainly apartments above warehouses and such things. That only goes to prove how out-of-touch the average suburban Republican brownshirt is with the urban dwellers of King County.
If you'd like to talk about real vote fraud, the kind that changes the outcomes of elections, why don't you talk about how majority-Black precincts in Ohio were systematically given too few voting machines, thereby suppressing the Black vote with 6-hour-long lines at the polls?
Congress has already demanded that the White House keep all emails, as well as all other communications, forever. This is known as the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and it was a result of the Nixon debacle. All material generated by the White House is property of the American people, and it must be turned over in its entirety to the national archivist when the administration leaves office. All records must be made available to the public 12 years after the end of the administration, except in case of national security. At the present time many George H. W. Bush and Reagan papers are secret due to an unconstitutional George W. Bush executive order.
Well, let's do a comparison. Democratic President Clinton: longest continuous economic expansion in history of nation; balanced budgets; paying down the debt; peace; vigorous investigations of Osama bin Laden's activities. Republican President Bush: recession; wage deflation; largest deficits ever; increasing debt; war; ignorance of Osama bin Laden. Conclusion: Republicans and Democrats are really different.
Wow, you are really brilliant. Whitewater documents were about Hillary Clinton, who was not an elected official, and they were destroyed before Bill Clinton was elected President. Perhaps you would like to illuminate the audience as to how those documents were covered under the Presidential Records Act?
I'm sure by "much higher sound quality than mp3" you meant "hardly discernible from mp3." You can only tell AAC from MP3 at, say, 160kbps with repeated critical listening on excellent equipment in a prepared setting. Most people can't tell the difference at all.
This was a very early attempt at DRM and it carried the force of law owing to the Digital Home Recording Act or some such claptrap. Fortunately it's completely trivial to remove the SCMS with less than $10 worth of parts. Simply hard-wire a CS8416 or a similar part to set the pro/consumer flag to pro, allowing unlimited serial copies.
Well I think you nailed it in your own post. An airplane is a cruise missile and a train is not. You cannot use a train as a weapon.
So the users provide all the bandwidth, and BitTorrent Inc. keeps all the revenues? Great business model!
Strikes only work for skilled labor. Circuit City sales staff are not skilled labor. If they went on strike it would be trivial to replace them. Just look at their existing turnover rates for proof that you can train a new sales staff member in less than a day. Anyway striking doesn't work when you are being fired. Why would the company care that a bunch of ex-employees were picketing? You seem to have a strange idea about economics. Anyone can empty the trash, so emptying the trash is a low-paying job. If I drive down to the day laborer's pickup spot there will be 20 guys standing there every morning. If I only need 2 people to rake leaves behind my house, and there are 20 guys standing around looking for work, obviously I'd be a fool to offer anything other than the minimum wage. On the other hand, few people can repair jet engines, so jet engine repair is a high paying job. If I drive down to the day laborer camp there will be zero jet engine mechanics. I would have to advertise for one, or hire and train one at great expense. Pay has nothing to do with working hard and everything to do with specialization and ease of replacement.
The truth of the matter is that a Circuit City salesman performs a service to the public which is about on par with picking strawberries or washing cars. People who pick strawberries and wash cars make the minimum wage. These types of jobs are not intended to be long careers, they are supposed to put kids and part-timers to work. The stark truth of economics is that if you want a higher wage you have to do something more valuable. Try machining or engine repair.
A man named Terry Shannon published a newsletter called Shannon Knows DEC (and later Compaq, and HPC after that) for many years before he died. Shannon fit the definition of blogger except for the fact that his newsletter predated blogs. Shannon relied on rumor and secret information from his contacts at DEC. His newsletter was seen as a valuable contribution by the DEC user community, and alternately as a nuisance and a useful side channel by management. I would wager that the difference between Shannon and the blogger of the current article is that Shannon tried harder and didn't expect anything for free. He cultivated his information sources over the course of decades and frequently in the face of open hostility from the companies in question. Perhaps the blogger in question needs to cease whining and simply find a better way to operate.
If they "fixed" this "leak", the other bunch of fucknozzles would come back asking "Why are back and forward so slow?!??". I think for the time being you people are slightly less annoying, so the "leak" stays.
If you're happy with win2k you'll be happy with Firefox 2. Simple concept.
When most people refer to an Ubuntu release, they elide the noun. People running 6.10 usually refer to it as simply Edgy, not Edgy Eft. The previous release is commonly called Dapper, not Dapper Drake. So you can just call this one Feisty, or Ubuntu 7.04 if you prefer.
I'm with you. These guys are completely on crack. Haven't they ever read "Netheads vs. Bellheads"? You do not want to have intelligence inside the network, ever. Intelligence belongs at the edge. The core should be application-unaware, stupid, unreliable, and as simple as possible. Which is the Internet we have today, and it works great, thank you very much.
Wow, that's a hell of a lot easier than echo joeblow@gmail.com > ~/.forward. I have seen the light! Exchange is glorious!
A smart card is the best place to keep your private keys. The key is generated on the card, and never leaves. It is not even possible to get private keys off a smart card, except (perhaps) with an electron microscope.
I had a 12" G4, and these instructions worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=314036
There were numerous variants of iBook. Perhaps you could be more specific.
I don't design GUIs either, but I find Eclipse to be amazingly productive. The best part is the continuous compilation (in Java, possibly other languages). Eclipse simply flags every single mistake you make. Left a semicolon off the end of a line? Eclipse flags it immediately. Asked for an Iterator from a List? Flagged instantly. With Eclipse, you know that your project is always in a compilable state, which removes one entire subloop from the code-compile-execute system.