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  1. Re:EMI on planes is a problem on Wireless Computing and Airplanes? · · Score: 1

    Edgar Cayce was reincarnated as a psychic fly!?!?

  2. In other news on Jeff Bezos' Shot At Space · · Score: 1

    Jeff Bezos has applied for a patent for space.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    And what I don't understand is how we can talk about Java OO-purist when the primitive data types like integers aren't object and needs a wrapper to stick it in a container. That is a pain in the ass. Apparently though, 1.5 takes care of this...

  4. Re:stuff I remember about Osborne on Portable Pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64 · · Score: 1

    That just doesn't make sense... A "port" implies that the code was recompiled in the least, so there wouldn't be any reason for the bytes to be there. The only way for the bytes to be there would be if he copied the object code, which wouldn't work anyway...

  5. Re:Huh? on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Yes, Dennis is so brave...

    Just last year, he was proposing legislation that would make it illegal for Major League Baseball teams to only broadcast games on cable.

    He just says what he thinks his audience, I mean, voters want to hear. Dennis never had a problem with Clinton going around the UN to bomb Kosovo.

  6. Re:Huh? on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Dennis the Mennace? The boy mayor who bankrupted Cleveland? Who gives a Monkey's ass what that fool thinks?

  7. Re:since 1980.... on Dell CIO Says "Unix is Dead" · · Score: 2, Funny

    BTW, when using Info remember that you're actually using a hacked version of Emacs. By learning to use Info you are learning some parts of Emacs. If you have some kind of religious conflict with this, you should probably stop using Info.


    Is there a vi version of Info?

  8. Java is great for server-side programming. on The Future of Java? · · Score: 1

    Now I may sound like an idiot for saying this, but java never made sense as a server-side language. It wasn't designed as a server-side language, it was designed as a client-side language. I've never really understood why people say "we use java on the server because it's write-once run-anywhere." It doesn't make sense: on a server you have complete control of the hardware so compiling to machine code is both possible and good for performance.

    I guess you've never had to support mulitple servers... Not every company uses one server for everything. Under one vp, they buy a Sun. The next one comes in, they buy an hp. Maybe somebody else brings in 3 Windows 2000 boxes... Do you really want to compile, test, and support your app in each environment?

    Anyway, I have a fairly large app (no gui) that I develop on NT, test on Linux, and run on Solaris, Linux, NT, and Windows 95. I don't have to do anything to make this work. It just works.

  9. Remember the $150 million? on Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java · · Score: 1

    Remember all that cash Microsoft gave Apple a few years back? Part of it was to settle the look & feel nonsense...

  10. PCB's ? on Digital Domesday Rescued By Emulation · · Score: 1

    Um... My guess is that your average computer power supply transformer is most likely not to contain PCB's.

  11. Re:When are people going to figure out... on Java Developers Almanac 1.4 Vol. 1 · · Score: 1

    And just how many books are out there about C & C++?