As you can see on Google itself, there is already some (commercial) support for the GWT. Of course it always helps to know at least the basics of a toolkit even if you start to use an IDE GUI builder. But my experience with e.g. Instantiations is pretty good and the toolkit does not seem too expensive (and, you can see and change the generated code on the fly as well). Of course, if you really go for the GWT for a larger application, you need to know all the bits and bytes and you should at least buy one well written book.
Note that besides that I do not have any experience with any GWT GUI builder so if there is anyone wanting to share some information with me and the rest of/., please follow up on this.
I've never have seen a problem with that. I have worked for the Dutch tech support on Gateway and we never had a problem with that. Of course, different tech support people from different markets may react differently. I've worked with the tech support guys for the Irish and British market and I must say both the tech support people as well as the customers were a complete horror to me (in general - there were also some very cool guys working there).
That's not the same thing. That is asking for linux support while being provided with a windows only system. Asking a tech support engeneer (not a job for a high paid professional, trust me), asking about Xorg.conf updates is taking it a bit far.
Anyway, just put in 1024x768 at 60 or 72 Hz. If the thing cannot display that there is something very wrong. My 20" wide view Dell (VERY nice appart from the leakage) scales superbly - or not if you tell it not to. Then you can go experiment from the GUI. Linux nowadays lets you set the resolution from within the window manager itself - who'dvethunk!
"At 160Gb/s, each bit is about 1mm long in the fiber. The dispersion of a fiber will smear away the eye in a kilometer. Using zero dispersion fiber causes problems with DWDM, so this may only be usable in a data center.
Since bundles 10Gb/s X 16 are available as single plug, there will be little practical difference for users unless it is cheaper than the 10Gb/s X 16 bundles."
Well, that seems to be the idea of the article. If there is any way to bring our company network up to this speed at low cost, I would rather have it now than tomorrow. Allthough the current servers would probably slow everything down to a crawl anyway.
Mod parent up. If I look at the picture, where it says "chip-cap" and the paste is between the chip and the cap, then this is definitely a different area than between the chip cap and the heat spreader. Actually, the front page story reads "Overclockers already know how crucial it is to apply thermal paste the right way: too much, and it causes heat buildup." Of course, before that, a really good reader had already read "between the face of a chip and the heat spreader that sits directly over the core." But since this is Slashdot, most comments seem to be off the mark.
"I can understand buying the big steel box for your kids but why do you need it to commute? Why not leave the gas guzzler at home and drive something more economical when you're going someplace by yourself? And at any rate with the advent of airbags and crumple zones are big steel cars really that much safer?"
Besides that, you're really an arsehole when you buy an SUV to be safe. Because SUV's are really, really bad news for pedestrians, bikers and smaller cars. They do more damage, and they are very hard to look through or around. It's the perfect way to say: "fuck the rest of the world", no doubt about that.
I am very sorry for you that you don't get anything done by using Java. Unfortunately for you many, many people are and getting things done in smaller amounts of time than before. But your starting statement really discloses what you are: a troll. Calling a language that has had such an impact a failed academic experiment is simply wrong, if only for the number of Java applications out there.
Maybe you are currently running into things that you/Java cannot handle, but I hope that you will get them fixed eventually. Otherwise: get a different job, because it really sounds like you are eating yourself.
"The reason Java isn't a footnote in history is because of the enormous efforts people and companies other than Gosling and Sun have invested in fixing up its problems and turning Java into a decent platform for server-side development."
Bollocks. The Java API is rather brilliant in both its usability and its extensive features, not to mention its documentation. The Java language is rather easy to learn (many, many universities use it as the first language of choice) and isn't too far from C++ to be easily learned. And it's memory protection and garbage collection make life *much* easier and safer. That is the reason why Java succeeded, and most, if not all of it (in the first years) by extensive help by Sun. And Sun is also responsible for keeping Java the clean language it is today, without pre-processor, without operator overloading, properties and all the other things that makes maintaining C++ so much *fun*.
There is quite a lot of criticism about generating web pages through JSP (I am only stating this without taking any side on this - it's is not my main expertise). Also, stating that Ruby does more than web by allowing the Rails framework?
"Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern."
Uh, rails is more than web because it does web applications? Eh, color me surprised.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
Maybe we are indeed seeing the outcome of this happening, just on a smaller scale. These guys are probably doing something incredously stupid, like playing with a very large ray canon or starting a large nuclear fusion reactor. Well, I say they got it coming to them. Nosy bastards.
The Peruvian rain forest is one of the world's most biologically rich and diverse regions and provides habitat for highly threatened wildlife such as the jaguar, harpy eagle, and giant river otter.
Unfortunately, these creatures and their habitats are at risk from the unsustainable harvesting of timber, particularly of big-leaf mahogany, a threatened species so valuable that it can lead to the destruction of large forest areas. Peru is the world's largest exporter of big-leaf mahogany, with over 90% going to the North American market.
So not only are we going to use cases that use way too much natural resources, we are going to top it off by putting actual pieces of rainforest on them. Well done, cowboys. I would have thought better from a canadian company.
Wouldn't you just get only the surface heat away? The molten rock would solidify and the buildup below would simply continue. Only the bang in the end would be worse. Or maybe it would just make no difference at all - the amounts of energy stored beneath the vulcano seems rather staggering. Just a some thoughts.
I've read the article you pointed to, and it is made pretty clear she has not been prosecuted, arrested or imprissoned. She may not, according to the law, smoke dope legally, but the chances that she will be prosecuted are nill. Even the persons giving her the dope do not seem to have problems continuing to get the *medical* marihuana to her.
In other words, your article purposefully mangles the fact and should be modded as troll. Currently I can only mod you one down, but I hope this response will get the article the 0 troll rating it deserves. No one doubts that there is a lot of hypocrasy in the US, but this does not seem to be a good example of that fact.
"So yes, it woulf be GREAT to get rid of the bulky, loud, power hungry, slow access, mechanical HD of the last century, but... there is really nothing even close on the horizon right now:( Sadly, flash just isn't practical at all in it's current form for anythig OTHER than small devices that only need a small number of gig in a tiny form factor."
In a couple of Gig you can easily store an operating system, many applications and many documents. For company PC's it would make sense to just load the OS and applications from flash and store the documents on the network. Really big files -media files- may still be stored on a (external) disk, that spins up when needed.
Currently I am trying to create a (headless) server that just runs from flash, without any mechanical parts whatsoever (using a VIA EPIA mainboard, I don't need CPU cycles or high redundancy). With flash it will be silent, will use almost no power and quick to boot. Maybe I'll even try to use RAID-5 on a couple of flash drives, why not? RAID is rather fast when latency is low, so it should be possible to get rather high speeds even with flash ( 3 * 15 MB/s is still 45 MB/s - less than 60 MB/s for a hard drive, but close enough).
The biggest forest fires currently burning are in Indonesia, smoking up half of asia. So yes, forest fires are a big part of the picture, maybe even a very big part. Problem is that they are all ignited by the bigest poluters on this planet: mankind. So, back to you, smart ass.
It's always a bit hard to see if this is a hardware fault or not. But this is not yet a BSOD. Most BSOD's I've seen lately (and these are not common) are almost certainly due to failing hardware. Not that this is good; at least in Linux you can get a message that is slightly readable or coherert. But if the HDD responds badly the virtual memory system *will* go down, and Windows does definately not cope well with that. Still, that does not necessarily mean that the software is crashing.
Then again, today Eclipse managed (through a plugin that uses the native interface of Java) to crash Explorer again, taking most of my applications with it. That's not something you would want in a destroyer I suppose.
"The fact is that for less than 10000 values, the mergesort becomes faster in his own code."
Ok, I agree on all your other points, but this is one always irritates me. Only someone very theoretical would mention that for 10000 (integer) values or less this sort is sub-optimal. Come on, how many ms would that sort really take? For less than 10000 values you could use a 286 and get it over relatively quickly.
I almost laughed all the way from my chair when I heard this in college. Same mistake. Nobody cares for values that low. It could be O(N^2) for all I care.
Yup, first thing I point out to users is to buy more RAM when things slow down and they see the disk light go on and off during normal operations. For the average user, upgrading the RAM is fortunately one of the easiest internal upgrades. Of course, it's a good idea to check if you are running any applications that use lots of IO first, or if you are hacked. But this is almost always the cure for a slow system.
Yeah, but you still can copy only text (in multiple, sometimes incompatible, ways). And you have about 20 different "open file" dialog boxes, of which at least 5 are broken. And unless you count Xamp, there still is no good, simple default MP3 player installed. And to get it working I still need to program my monitor into the system, and thats for my 20", my 17" wide screen won't even work.
I hate Microsoft, they are simply bad, but all those things you mention, well, sometimes they don't mean squat.
"What's involved in getting an opteron with 64 GB of RAM and using it for something like PostgreSQL?"
Eh? Buy AMD server with 64 GB of RAM. Put in 64 bit distro DVD or CDROM, and make sure you select PostgeSQL? Try Live-CD first? First part is hardest, especially if you are low on cash.
It's more the problem that they are backing up things, but aren't able to find things in the backup libraries that worries me. What's the use of backups if you cannot find anything in them? Shame about all those KM (sorry, this is slashdot, miles) of tapes.
Actually, that is also basically the problem with my backups on a smaller scale. Then again, I'm not a company and non-finding backups usually means I have to reprogram that small Java application in 5% of the time it took me originally:)
"I want to solve sudoku. Now some computer can do it so fast that it's finished before they even start? What good is that? Sudoku is supposed to be about wasting time, not reversing it."
I've got a Sudoku Solver that can uses any common Sudoku and solve it. I've only tried it on the default 9x9 versions for now, but it can be easily extended, if I would have time.
"Evil" branded sudoku's in less than.2 seconds on a P4, excluding Java VM startup time (also below.2 seconds with the latest versions). It uses a few simple reduction rounds and guessing with depth first search. Maximum number of quesses with an evil sukoku is now 238. Pretty easy going for a computer. Took me half a day to write it and some off hours for optimization.
Now for the GUI....and to couple it to websudoku.com of course:)
Has everybody on slashdot certainly got mad, or is it just me? How many times do we have to scream that copyright infringement aint theft? Is the brainwash finally infecting slashdot readers as well? They have probably removed Captain Copyright because he has already succeeded, he's not needed anymore.
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Sounds like Homers car to me...
As you can see on Google itself, there is already some (commercial) support for the GWT. Of course it always helps to know at least the basics of a toolkit even if you start to use an IDE GUI builder. But my experience with e.g. Instantiations is pretty good and the toolkit does not seem too expensive (and, you can see and change the generated code on the fly as well). Of course, if you really go for the GWT for a larger application, you need to know all the bits and bytes and you should at least buy one well written book.
/., please follow up on this.
Note that besides that I do not have any experience with any GWT GUI builder so if there is anyone wanting to share some information with me and the rest of
I've never have seen a problem with that. I have worked for the Dutch tech support on Gateway and we never had a problem with that. Of course, different tech support people from different markets may react differently. I've worked with the tech support guys for the Irish and British market and I must say both the tech support people as well as the customers were a complete horror to me (in general - there were also some very cool guys working there).
That's not the same thing. That is asking for linux support while being provided with a windows only system. Asking a tech support engeneer (not a job for a high paid professional, trust me), asking about Xorg.conf updates is taking it a bit far.
Anyway, just put in 1024x768 at 60 or 72 Hz. If the thing cannot display that there is something very wrong. My 20" wide view Dell (VERY nice appart from the leakage) scales superbly - or not if you tell it not to. Then you can go experiment from the GUI. Linux nowadays lets you set the resolution from within the window manager itself - who'dvethunk!
"At 160Gb/s, each bit is about 1mm long in the fiber. The dispersion of a fiber will smear away the eye in a kilometer. Using zero dispersion fiber causes problems with DWDM, so this may only be usable in a data center.
Since bundles 10Gb/s X 16 are available as single plug, there will be little practical difference for users unless it is cheaper than the 10Gb/s X 16 bundles."
Well, that seems to be the idea of the article. If there is any way to bring our company network up to this speed at low cost, I would rather have it now than tomorrow. Allthough the current servers would probably slow everything down to a crawl anyway.
Mod parent up. If I look at the picture, where it says "chip-cap" and the paste is between the chip and the cap, then this is definitely a different area than between the chip cap and the heat spreader. Actually, the front page story reads "Overclockers already know how crucial it is to apply thermal paste the right way: too much, and it causes heat buildup." Of course, before that, a really good reader had already read "between the face of a chip and the heat spreader that sits directly over the core." But since this is Slashdot, most comments seem to be off the mark.
"I can understand buying the big steel box for your kids but why do you need it to commute? Why not leave the gas guzzler at home and drive something more economical when you're going someplace by yourself? And at any rate with the advent of airbags and crumple zones are big steel cars really that much safer?"
Besides that, you're really an arsehole when you buy an SUV to be safe. Because SUV's are really, really bad news for pedestrians, bikers and smaller cars. They do more damage, and they are very hard to look through or around. It's the perfect way to say: "fuck the rest of the world", no doubt about that.
I am very sorry for you that you don't get anything done by using Java. Unfortunately for you many, many people are and getting things done in smaller amounts of time than before. But your starting statement really discloses what you are: a troll. Calling a language that has had such an impact a failed academic experiment is simply wrong, if only for the number of Java applications out there.
Maybe you are currently running into things that you/Java cannot handle, but I hope that you will get them fixed eventually. Otherwise: get a different job, because it really sounds like you are eating yourself.
"The reason Java isn't a footnote in history is because of the enormous efforts people and companies other than Gosling and Sun have invested in fixing up its problems and turning Java into a decent platform for server-side development."
Bollocks. The Java API is rather brilliant in both its usability and its extensive features, not to mention its documentation. The Java language is rather easy to learn (many, many universities use it as the first language of choice) and isn't too far from C++ to be easily learned. And it's memory protection and garbage collection make life *much* easier and safer. That is the reason why Java succeeded, and most, if not all of it (in the first years) by extensive help by Sun. And Sun is also responsible for keeping Java the clean language it is today, without pre-processor, without operator overloading, properties and all the other things that makes maintaining C++ so much *fun*.
There is quite a lot of criticism about generating web pages through JSP (I am only stating this without taking any side on this - it's is not my main expertise). Also, stating that Ruby does more than web by allowing the Rails framework?
"Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern."
Uh, rails is more than web because it does web applications? Eh, color me surprised.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
Maybe we are indeed seeing the outcome of this happening, just on a smaller scale. These guys are probably doing something incredously stupid, like playing with a very large ray canon or starting a large nuclear fusion reactor. Well, I say they got it coming to them. Nosy bastards.
So not only are we going to use cases that use way too much natural resources, we are going to top it off by putting actual pieces of rainforest on them. Well done, cowboys. I would have thought better from a canadian company.
Wouldn't you just get only the surface heat away? The molten rock would solidify and the buildup below would simply continue. Only the bang in the end would be worse. Or maybe it would just make no difference at all - the amounts of energy stored beneath the vulcano seems rather staggering. Just a some thoughts.
I've read the article you pointed to, and it is made pretty clear she has not been prosecuted, arrested or imprissoned. She may not, according to the law, smoke dope legally, but the chances that she will be prosecuted are nill. Even the persons giving her the dope do not seem to have problems continuing to get the *medical* marihuana to her.
In other words, your article purposefully mangles the fact and should be modded as troll. Currently I can only mod you one down, but I hope this response will get the article the 0 troll rating it deserves. No one doubts that there is a lot of hypocrasy in the US, but this does not seem to be a good example of that fact.
"So yes, it woulf be GREAT to get rid of the bulky, loud, power hungry, slow access, mechanical HD of the last century, but... there is really nothing even close on the horizon right now :( Sadly, flash just isn't practical at all in it's current form for anythig OTHER than small devices that only need a small number of gig in a tiny form factor."
In a couple of Gig you can easily store an operating system, many applications and many documents. For company PC's it would make sense to just load the OS and applications from flash and store the documents on the network. Really big files -media files- may still be stored on a (external) disk, that spins up when needed.
Currently I am trying to create a (headless) server that just runs from flash, without any mechanical parts whatsoever (using a VIA EPIA mainboard, I don't need CPU cycles or high redundancy). With flash it will be silent, will use almost no power and quick to boot. Maybe I'll even try to use RAID-5 on a couple of flash drives, why not? RAID is rather fast when latency is low, so it should be possible to get rather high speeds even with flash ( 3 * 15 MB/s is still 45 MB/s - less than 60 MB/s for a hard drive, but close enough).
Or use the method used in Kill Bill (yuck).
The biggest forest fires currently burning are in Indonesia, smoking up half of asia. So yes, forest fires are a big part of the picture, maybe even a very big part. Problem is that they are all ignited by the bigest poluters on this planet: mankind. So, back to you, smart ass.
It's always a bit hard to see if this is a hardware fault or not. But this is not yet a BSOD. Most BSOD's I've seen lately (and these are not common) are almost certainly due to failing hardware. Not that this is good; at least in Linux you can get a message that is slightly readable or coherert. But if the HDD responds badly the virtual memory system *will* go down, and Windows does definately not cope well with that. Still, that does not necessarily mean that the software is crashing.
Then again, today Eclipse managed (through a plugin that uses the native interface of Java) to crash Explorer again, taking most of my applications with it. That's not something you would want in a destroyer I suppose.
"The fact is that for less than 10000 values, the mergesort becomes faster in his own code."
Ok, I agree on all your other points, but this is one always irritates me. Only someone very theoretical would mention that for 10000 (integer) values or less this sort is sub-optimal. Come on, how many ms would that sort really take? For less than 10000 values you could use a 286 and get it over relatively quickly.
I almost laughed all the way from my chair when I heard this in college. Same mistake. Nobody cares for values that low. It could be O(N^2) for all I care.
Yup, first thing I point out to users is to buy more RAM when things slow down and they see the disk light go on and off during normal operations. For the average user, upgrading the RAM is fortunately one of the easiest internal upgrades. Of course, it's a good idea to check if you are running any applications that use lots of IO first, or if you are hacked. But this is almost always the cure for a slow system.
Yeah, but you still can copy only text (in multiple, sometimes incompatible, ways). And you have about 20 different "open file" dialog boxes, of which at least 5 are broken. And unless you count Xamp, there still is no good, simple default MP3 player installed. And to get it working I still need to program my monitor into the system, and thats for my 20", my 17" wide screen won't even work.
I hate Microsoft, they are simply bad, but all those things you mention, well, sometimes they don't mean squat.
"What's involved in getting an opteron with 64 GB of RAM and using it for something like PostgreSQL?"
Eh? Buy AMD server with 64 GB of RAM. Put in 64 bit distro DVD or CDROM, and make sure you select PostgeSQL? Try Live-CD first? First part is hardest, especially if you are low on cash.
It's more the problem that they are backing up things, but aren't able to find things in the backup libraries that worries me. What's the use of backups if you cannot find anything in them? Shame about all those KM (sorry, this is slashdot, miles) of tapes.
:)
Actually, that is also basically the problem with my backups on a smaller scale. Then again, I'm not a company and non-finding backups usually means I have to reprogram that small Java application in 5% of the time it took me originally
"I want to solve sudoku. Now some computer can do it so fast that it's finished before they even start? What good is that? Sudoku is supposed to be about wasting time, not reversing it."
.2 seconds on a P4, excluding Java VM startup time (also below .2 seconds with the latest versions). It uses a few simple reduction rounds and guessing with depth first search. Maximum number of quesses with an evil sukoku is now 238. Pretty easy going for a computer. Took me half a day to write it and some off hours for optimization.
:)
I've got a Sudoku Solver that can uses any common Sudoku and solve it. I've only tried it on the default 9x9 versions for now, but it can be easily extended, if I would have time.
"Evil" branded sudoku's in less than
Now for the GUI....and to couple it to websudoku.com of course
"...downloading free music (i.e. stealing)"
Has everybody on slashdot certainly got mad, or is it just me? How many times do we have to scream that copyright infringement aint theft? Is the brainwash finally infecting slashdot readers as well? They have probably removed Captain Copyright because he has already succeeded, he's not needed anymore.