Yeah, I don't get it. Not that I ever understood card games appeal. But, there they are! Download the images and save them! Play with your friends! Play with your enemies! Sell them to Dumb Kids! Learn the art of Sarcastic Expressions Ending with Exclamation Points! Today!
Car? They're more like a boat. They have a captain and life preservers, have a branch of the millitary dedicated to them, move by pushing a fluid. They're "Air Boats".
You've never heard my wife tell stories, its completely non-linear with plenty of non-sequester tangents that revelel more than the main story arc does, before abruptly switching back to the main story, which now is really just a tangent to the previous tangent. You can participate in the piece, but emphasizing a word in the story with a facial remark or a brief "huh?" which will will start off another tangent related to that word, which may or may not become the main story.
Its pretty awesome to behold. I think I'm the only one who really loves her stories.
" And the application will run, unchanged, no matter what the users priorities are with regards to things like heap sizes, GC techniques, etc. That is pretty much the very essence of "write once, run anywhere"."
No, the application's performance is very much affected by run time switches, obviously. I can cause it to completly not run at all, with a run time switch, by setting the heap to a ridicoulously small number.
But the main point in our disagreement is you have an exceedingly small ability to understand abstract concepts. When people talk about the "spirit of open source" they are talking about more than strict license compliance. When I speak of "write once, run anwhere", I speak of more than just what the developer does ( the write part), but also what someone who uses the application does (the run part), and I assume the purpose of the heap size run time flag was part of that same line of thinking.
With the memory limitation built in, you can easily port your application to a server of completely different architecture that lacks the memory limitation feature. I don't see why that's so hard to understand, but apparently two of you do.
Ok, I wasn't specifically talking about the context of the book, but rather the rationale behind the run time options. Their "write once, run anywhere" philosophy extends beyond the actual writing of the code to the run time tuning parameters. Comprendes?
Double Bugger. I was going to mod you up, but you're sort of missing a piece of the puzzle. Java is supposed to be Write once run anywhere. So, yes a decent operating system should be able to enforce memory limits of applications so they don't bring your server to a crawl, but that's not built into Java, so they had to do it by default with the stupid limitation on all programs.
You have to figure out what the variables that you have problems with in real world usage, before you can start optimising your product to account for them. There has to be iterative cycles of real world, then fake internet testing to really make it work well. It would also help if you were able to test your competition alogn the same lines.
I additionally wonder if they are accouting for all of the different behavious of all of the various webservers out there. If they are only testing agianst iis, well, that's not very good.
Who the hell uses actual disks when performance is an issue?
Also, who the hell uses ssd's when performance is an issue?
The fast kids use PCI Express cards loaded with flash.
Texas Memory systems or Fusion IO.
Expensive, yes, but this is Mysql CLUSTER we are talking about. You don't use that unless you need the speed.
Its really amazing that they actually gave it to him. The RIAA sort of hates him for making their product more reasonably priced. I pay less now for an album ( on amazon, but itunes if you like) than I did 20 years ago, not accounting for inflation.
No, that's why you design redundancy into your app. Turns out having twice as many servers for high availability is cheaper than just buying a server with hot swappable cpu's.
Of course, you took the legal language out of his arguments which makes it seem silly now. He basically outlined a negitive of the other sides case.
In order to prove that he broke his neighbor's lawnmower the other side would have to prove all three things: 1) The lawnmower is broken now 2) The neighbor borrowed it 3) The lawnmower was not broken prior to the borrowing.
That's perfectly legit and happens all the time. Why focus on one part of an opositions case, when all three need to be proved. Don't make it easy on them!
As the other poster said, If you leave it up to the states, the already biased and racist drug laws will be even more racist. You can't have a weak federal government and consistant laws through out the country. If the drug laws are up to the states, you'll get 50 different sets of drug laws. Not zero.
No, an airplane is no more a flying car than a Dog is a four leg-ed whale. Freeze dried ice cream is as close to ice cream as dog shit. Virtual reality is as real as zombie- gay- hitler.
No you won't be sent away for a doobie, but maybe having the wrong color of skin would be enough. His newsletters published under his name were straight up white supremisist.
I'd rather have the relative equality we have today, than more theoretical freedom with less enforcement of civil right violations. Unfortunatly, our history as a nation seems to prove that we need a federal government strong enough to force states to treat everyone equally under the law.
Eh, that's up for debate. Some Evangelicals claim you can't be Catholic and Evangelical, but others are okay with it. Evangelical isn't a single denomination of christianity that have a set of formally agreed upon dogma. Its more like a style of practicing the faith, with emphisis put on certain areas.
I wouldn't say Gingrich is Evangelical, but Santorum kinda is.
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Uhm, this is slashdot. In order to suspend doing something, you must have done that at some point.
Its like me saying that I'm suspending my rock star career.
Who in their right mind wants a Subaru? That's the last car anyone should buy. They make Chrysler cars look good.
Yeah, I don't get it. Not that I ever understood card games appeal. But, there they are! Download the images and save them! Play with your friends! Play with your enemies! Sell them to Dumb Kids! Learn the art of Sarcastic Expressions Ending with Exclamation Points! Today!
You think this is bad, Take a look at what the gov did between 1941-1945.
Car? They're more like a boat. They have a captain and life preservers, have a branch of the millitary dedicated to them, move by pushing a fluid. They're "Air Boats".
You've never heard my wife tell stories, its completely non-linear with plenty of non-sequester tangents that revelel more than the main story arc does, before abruptly switching back to the main story, which now is really just a tangent to the previous tangent. You can participate in the piece, but emphasizing a word in the story with a facial remark or a brief "huh?" which will will start off another tangent related to that word, which may or may not become the main story.
Its pretty awesome to behold. I think I'm the only one who really loves her stories.
Why the heck are you using the binary drivers? Use the open source ones, and you'll get decent performance and no crashes.
" And the application will run, unchanged, no matter what the users priorities are with regards to things like heap sizes, GC techniques, etc. That is pretty much the very essence of "write once, run anywhere"."
No, the application's performance is very much affected by run time switches, obviously. I can cause it to completly not run at all, with a run time switch, by setting the heap to a ridicoulously small number.
But the main point in our disagreement is you have an exceedingly small ability to understand abstract concepts. When people talk about the "spirit of open source" they are talking about more than strict license compliance. When I speak of "write once, run anwhere", I speak of more than just what the developer does ( the write part), but also what someone who uses the application does (the run part), and I assume the purpose of the heap size run time flag was part of that same line of thinking.
With the memory limitation built in, you can easily port your application to a server of completely different architecture that lacks the memory limitation feature. I don't see why that's so hard to understand, but apparently two of you do.
Ok, I wasn't specifically talking about the context of the book, but rather the rationale behind the run time options. Their "write once, run anywhere" philosophy extends beyond the actual writing of the code to the run time tuning parameters. Comprendes?
Double Bugger. I was going to mod you up, but you're sort of missing a piece of the puzzle. Java is supposed to be Write once run anywhere. So, yes a decent operating system should be able to enforce memory limits of applications so they don't bring your server to a crawl, but that's not built into Java, so they had to do it by default with the stupid limitation on all programs.
Yes, I am wondering if they are all morons. No, I do not think more credit is due. Many compaines screw this up, badly.
Well, sometimes blaming tools is an excuse, other times you have no choice but to speak up and say, this isn't a pool stick, its a baseball bat.
You have to figure out what the variables that you have problems with in real world usage, before you can start optimising your product to account for them.
There has to be iterative cycles of real world, then fake internet testing to really make it work well.
It would also help if you were able to test your competition alogn the same lines.
I additionally wonder if they are accouting for all of the different behavious of all of the various webservers out there. If they are only testing agianst iis, well, that's not very good.
Who the hell uses actual disks when performance is an issue?
Also, who the hell uses ssd's when performance is an issue?
The fast kids use PCI Express cards loaded with flash.
Texas Memory systems or Fusion IO. Expensive, yes, but this is Mysql CLUSTER we are talking about. You don't use that unless you need the speed.
Its really amazing that they actually gave it to him. The RIAA sort of hates him for making their product more reasonably priced. I pay less now for an album ( on amazon, but itunes if you like) than I did 20 years ago, not accounting for inflation.
No, that's why you design redundancy into your app. Turns out having twice as many servers for high availability is cheaper than just buying a server with hot swappable cpu's.
Of course, you took the legal language out of his arguments which makes it seem silly now. He basically outlined a negitive of the other sides case.
In order to prove that he broke his neighbor's lawnmower the other side would have to prove all three things:
1) The lawnmower is broken now
2) The neighbor borrowed it
3) The lawnmower was not broken prior to the borrowing.
That's perfectly legit and happens all the time. Why focus on one part of an opositions case, when all three need to be proved. Don't make it easy on them!
Tao?
Awesomeablity?
Parrot-eske?
Tim Toady?
Maybe that would be due to the confusing habit of Sci-Fi writers only writing about Science Fiction. Tom Clancy might be able to do it though
That made sense 20 years ago, but China being afraid of a unified Korea, is like the US being afraid of a unified Dutch Antillies.
As the other poster said, If you leave it up to the states, the already biased and racist drug laws will be even more racist. You can't have a weak federal government and consistant laws through out the country. If the drug laws are up to the states, you'll get 50 different sets of drug laws. Not zero.
No, an airplane is no more a flying car than a Dog is a four leg-ed whale.
Freeze dried ice cream is as close to ice cream as dog shit.
Virtual reality is as real as zombie- gay- hitler.
No you won't be sent away for a doobie, but maybe having the wrong color of skin would be enough. His newsletters published under his name were straight up white supremisist.
I'd rather have the relative equality we have today, than more theoretical freedom with less enforcement of civil right violations. Unfortunatly, our history as a nation seems to prove that we need a federal government strong enough to force states to treat everyone equally under the law.
Eh, that's up for debate. Some Evangelicals claim you can't be Catholic and Evangelical, but others are okay with it. Evangelical isn't a single denomination of christianity that have a set of formally agreed upon dogma. Its more like a style of practicing the faith, with emphisis put on certain areas.
I wouldn't say Gingrich is Evangelical, but Santorum kinda is.