For that they need a method to split everything in modules. OSGi would be a very good choice for that. Acutally, I believe some guys once already did this. I agree that one should not have to download 35 MB or more just to run some applets. A small, well defined API would do much better.
I heard that Sun however had some problems within the OSGi alliance (Eclipse is build on OSGi, making it more or less a competing technology). One miracle at a time I guess.
Simply said, people don't like to start up 2 programs just to create one text document. And writing a complete GUI for this is not productive. There is no shame in using templates and/or macros for this. As long as the macro system is restricted to the document, there is no reason not to use macro's. If you need more, there is no problem in using some plugin either. This whole "scripting is bad" is just a problem because they created too big a sandbox.
My favorite example search is in the Basketcase category: 'i hurt when i think too much i love roadtrips i hate my weight i fear being alone for the rest of my life.'"
I don't know for who I feel more sorry. The people that use that as a search string, or the ones that find it enjoyable.
Put them in comments and use a tool to generate and test regular expressions. For the Eclipse IDE, there is QuickREx, it includes a paste function that automatically escapes the escapes.
A good idea is to include the regular expressions in a comment as well. Most of the time creating and testing a regular expression takes most of the time anyway. If you really hate the escaped regular expressions, just put them in a resource (e.g. a.ini file containing Java properties) instead of source code.
Once I saw the technology preview (well, it was one back then) called the of the Liquid Demo from the Microsoft site, showing off the 1280 x 720 (720p) resolution, I was sold. DVD gives "acceptable" quality and you won't notice the difference on the mayority of screens. With high resolution LCD screens, these old formats will become a thing of the past. High resolution MPEG4 is the way of the near future, and I expect that won't last *that* long either.
Try some content, if you can handle WM9, don't mind DRM for a technology showcase, and have a serious computer (2.4GHz..3GHz). Broadband would be a good idea too. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musi candvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx By the way, the downloads are self extracting zip's just holding the.wmv file. Talk about idiotic ways of distributing movies. It's not like.zip will offer much more compression anyhow.
"Let's not kid ourselves. The "single fee" deal just means they partially factor in the cost of the additional licenses into the overhead cost. You're paying for it if you use the VM licenses or not. I think we'll see exactly what that means when pricing for Vista Enterprice edition is announced."
What additional cost? Microsoft does not have any additional cost. You could install thousands of instances of vista, and they would still not have any additional costs....
For the coming years, I would not get your hopes up too high. Besides, if we even cannot keep a very friendly habitat like earth occupied, what would happen in space? If we even manage to mess up down here, we're history. And it sure looks like we're managing to screw things up for certain.
How can these statements ever become insightfull? Shall I send you a 256 bit AES encrypted text and request you to find the text within it? Can that be hacked? Or WPA2?
Currently, the cryptography seems to defeat crypto-analyses. Of course there will be bad implementations. But evem "It can't and it won't be" seems to be more insightfull than these kind of statements.
Hopefully, I won't have to close any of my sentences with the word "period" either.
True, but economics also values things like speed, reliability, power consumption, access times, heat dissipation, noise (etc). This translates into : No more HDD related calls to helpdesk, no more waiting on programs, the list goes on. If this gets anywhere near 8 GB / $500 for a unit, I would consider buying it for a PC if only to speed up compile time (together with many others I presume). Currently it is at 10 MB / $300 unfortunately. If does not have to go even near 250GB for under 100$ though.
For now, it is great technology for embedded devices that need to store things in persistent memory at great speeds. And I can imagine quite a few of them, lets hope that is enough to give this memory a boost, so it can compete with the other storage technologies out there.
I don't think blind people are really waiting to use headphones. I mean, there is no reason why to obstruct one of the other senses when your main sense is already missing. But maybe for privacy in e.g. public transport, I could see them use headphones. Any blind person reading this on his braille terminal is of course invited to confirm/reject this statement.
In that case more people would be hurt less hard. In financial terms, the loss stays the same. Thousands upon thousands if not more were affected by this. Ted Bundy certainly did not have as much impact. I hate it when these kind of leeches don't get what they deserve. With all that power and priveledges should come an enourmous amount of responsability. I've known scores upon scores of people that are very nice to be around. This generally does not make a good person. The biggest devils wear the biggest smiles.
"The bigger picture: She called it an "evolution of paper" but not an evolution of newspapers, and raised questions about whether editors are prepared to evolve into a medium where RSS feeds/aggregation, interconnections with other resources, and conversation are expected and demanded."
Well, she forgets that printing is a very high competitive business. I'm pretty sure they are prepared to evolve if one of the other newspapers tries this (in desperation because the paper version won't sell).
Why an MP3 player? Well, they probably had something like a sound chip (maybe even build in) from a PDA. This thing uses a 400 MHz XScale processor. It is very easy to add MP3 in software, and the software is probably even already available for this kind of configuration anyway. So why? Because it is already there.
As an early adopter, you definately do no like spending. If you look at Blu-Ray, you would have to put in a hell of a lot more cash to get one of those. I think the eInk market is in potential much, much bigger. For most companies at least, this is not much of a price to pay. I would love having one of these things, if only for not having to lug all the documentation to company meetings (and printing them out). Give me a single purpose eInk reader over a laptop anytime.
The resolution of 1024 x 786 would be the largest drawback for me. A laser easily does 600 dpi, almost 4 times the resolution, giving my eyes some much needed rest (what am I still doing here behind my computer:)
I specifically told in the post that it does not replace unit writing. Just that it is pretty easy to run, regardless of unit-testing. It's not that hard to configure these tools, especially when you are doing it for a whole team. I've switched on PMD and walked through an entire project in one day, switching off the more useless (in my opinion) tests as I went along. This takes much less time than writing Unit tests. So why not combine both. What kind of brainless moderator put my posting down as flamebait anyway?
As long as you take time to look at each bug. E.g. in PMD, it will find every field and local variable that could have been declared final. I don't even want those bugs as a warning. I want those as a tip, that does not show up as a warning for each build. It will not matter in 99% of the cases. Also, these kind of bugs should be automatically fixed, since they can be (maybe with a review screen beforehand, to exclude the ones that don't need fixing.
This is a stupid argument, because running these automated tools is pretty easy. I mean, it can find bugs without all this tedious unit-test writing. Of course, it does not relieve you from writing unit tests, and neither does it mean that it will find every possible bug. But most of the time it only takes limited amount of configuring in your software street, and every time you build something, you check out the bugs that have been found. In other words, the finding of bugs is almost for free. So why not use it? Even if they are bugs that never occur, you won't make them in other situations where they do matter, after they have been flagged.
Well, simply said, if you aren't mistaken, I would go back and grab C++, which can do more and for which there are more libraries for. In Java, it's a lot harder to make mistakes due to the inherent readability of the language, both for people, but also for tools. That said, it's still easy enough to make a mistake.
Please try the book "Java Puzzlers" if you are certain that you can find most Java bugs. I could figure out most bugs, although probably not on first sight. And definately not on first sight on a Friday afternoon. The funny thing is that I find most bugs in really "easy" pieces of code. You write those in a hurry, and are more bound to make mistakes. 90% of bugs are of the kind "jeez, I cannot believe I was that stupid." Currently, someone else is writing Unit tests for my code. It's amazing how many (small but irritating) mistakes one can make.
If I could, I would first put things through static analysis, then create developer tests, then have my code reviewed by somebody else and finally have unit tests written by yet another using only the specification. Finally I give it to some dumb programmers or users and let them play around with it. If a bug survives all that, it's a feature:)
"Because they are apparently simulating them under extreme conditions that are present during nuclear explosions. And nuclear tests are banned."
Never understood that stuff. You throw one, we throw 100, you throw 10000 and the earh is destroyed. It goes bang in a big way, and contaminates everything in the direct surrounding. What do you need a super-computer for? Why would you need to test such a thing in the first place?
Now if they would put UD on it you could topple the top ranking in cancer research./rant off
What I never understand with these kind of filters is where the waste ends up. There is quite a lot of salt in the water, so these filters should clog pretty quickly, and just rinsing them every minute does not seem to be very practical. Does anyone know how this works?
- This seems to be a binary package only, which uses a few common libraries beneath it - Installs without a hitch on my system, defaults to/usr/local/google-earth - Runs very smooth in Ubuntu 6.06 AMD 64 bit with nvidia driver, but it seems to need root permissions to start (installed with sudo on the 'binary' installer) - No real desktop integration yet (at least with Gnome) - Asks to install symlink in/usr/local/bin, but does not say which command (googleearth) - Probably not a good idea to run with nv driver in X, chech your/etc/X11/xorg.conf - Comes with nice Icon that works in Gnome in root of installation folder
Oh, I got a rather new 3GHz AMD 64/1 Gig, budget (fanless) videocard and 6 Mbit download. Not top of the bill, but quite nice anyway, your experiences may differ.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to be open source. A bit of a shame, the real work is in the infrastructure and obtaining the maps anyway.
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For that they need a method to split everything in modules. OSGi would be a very good choice for that. Acutally, I believe some guys once already did this. I agree that one should not have to download 35 MB or more just to run some applets. A small, well defined API would do much better.
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For some interesting stuff about splitting it all up, look at http://docs.safehaus.org/download/attachments/299
I heard that Sun however had some problems within the OSGi alliance (Eclipse is build on OSGi, making it more or less a competing technology). One miracle at a time I guess.
Well? Do YOU have a source for this?
Irritating are those people who end discussions with. Period.
But I agree, the best way to prevent violence is more violence. Works every time.
Simply said, people don't like to start up 2 programs just to create one text document. And writing a complete GUI for this is not productive. There is no shame in using templates and/or macros for this. As long as the macro system is restricted to the document, there is no reason not to use macro's. If you need more, there is no problem in using some plugin either. This whole "scripting is bad" is just a problem because they created too big a sandbox.
Put them in comments and use a tool to generate and test regular expressions. For the Eclipse IDE, there is QuickREx, it includes a paste function that automatically escapes the escapes.
i ls_plugin.jsp?plugin_id=964
.ini file containing Java properties) instead of source code.
http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/rating_deta
A good idea is to include the regular expressions in a comment as well. Most of the time creating and testing a regular expression takes most of the time anyway. If you really hate the escaped regular expressions, just put them in a resource (e.g. a
Once I saw the technology preview (well, it was one back then) called the of the Liquid Demo from the Microsoft site, showing off the 1280 x 720 (720p) resolution, I was sold. DVD gives "acceptable" quality and you won't notice the difference on the mayority of screens. With high resolution LCD screens, these old formats will become a thing of the past. High resolution MPEG4 is the way of the near future, and I expect that won't last *that* long either.
i candvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx .wmv file. Talk about idiotic ways of distributing movies. It's not like .zip will offer much more compression anyhow.
Try some content, if you can handle WM9, don't mind DRM for a technology showcase, and have a serious computer (2.4GHz..3GHz). Broadband would be a good idea too.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mus
By the way, the downloads are self extracting zip's just holding the
"Let's not kid ourselves. The "single fee" deal just means they partially factor in the cost of the additional licenses into the overhead cost. You're paying for it if you use the VM licenses or not. I think we'll see exactly what that means when pricing for Vista Enterprice edition is announced."
What additional cost? Microsoft does not have any additional cost. You could install thousands of instances of vista, and they would still not have any additional costs....
For the coming years, I would not get your hopes up too high. Besides, if we even cannot keep a very friendly habitat like earth occupied, what would happen in space? If we even manage to mess up down here, we're history. And it sure looks like we're managing to screw things up for certain.
How can these statements ever become insightfull? Shall I send you a 256 bit AES encrypted text and request you to find the text within it? Can that be hacked? Or WPA2?
Currently, the cryptography seems to defeat crypto-analyses. Of course there will be bad implementations. But evem "It can't and it won't be" seems to be more insightfull than these kind of statements.
Hopefully, I won't have to close any of my sentences with the word "period" either.
True, but economics also values things like speed, reliability, power consumption, access times, heat dissipation, noise (etc). This translates into : No more HDD related calls to helpdesk, no more waiting on programs, the list goes on. If this gets anywhere near 8 GB / $500 for a unit, I would consider buying it for a PC if only to speed up compile time (together with many others I presume). Currently it is at 10 MB / $300 unfortunately. If does not have to go even near 250GB for under 100$ though.
For now, it is great technology for embedded devices that need to store things in persistent memory at great speeds. And I can imagine quite a few of them, lets hope that is enough to give this memory a boost, so it can compete with the other storage technologies out there.
I don't think blind people are really waiting to use headphones. I mean, there is no reason why to obstruct one of the other senses when your main sense is already missing. But maybe for privacy in e.g. public transport, I could see them use headphones. Any blind person reading this on his braille terminal is of course invited to confirm/reject this statement.
In that case more people would be hurt less hard. In financial terms, the loss stays the same. Thousands upon thousands if not more were affected by this. Ted Bundy certainly did not have as much impact. I hate it when these kind of leeches don't get what they deserve. With all that power and priveledges should come an enourmous amount of responsability. I've known scores upon scores of people that are very nice to be around. This generally does not make a good person. The biggest devils wear the biggest smiles.
"The bigger picture: She called it an "evolution of paper" but not an evolution of newspapers, and raised questions about whether editors are prepared to evolve into a medium where RSS feeds/aggregation, interconnections with other resources, and conversation are expected and demanded."
Well, she forgets that printing is a very high competitive business. I'm pretty sure they are prepared to evolve if one of the other newspapers tries this (in desperation because the paper version won't sell).
Why an MP3 player? Well, they probably had something like a sound chip (maybe even build in) from a PDA. This thing uses a 400 MHz XScale processor. It is very easy to add MP3 in software, and the software is probably even already available for this kind of configuration anyway. So why? Because it is already there.
:)
As an early adopter, you definately do no like spending. If you look at Blu-Ray, you would have to put in a hell of a lot more cash to get one of those. I think the eInk market is in potential much, much bigger. For most companies at least, this is not much of a price to pay. I would love having one of these things, if only for not having to lug all the documentation to company meetings (and printing them out). Give me a single purpose eInk reader over a laptop anytime.
The resolution of 1024 x 786 would be the largest drawback for me. A laser easily does 600 dpi, almost 4 times the resolution, giving my eyes some much needed rest (what am I still doing here behind my computer
I specifically told in the post that it does not replace unit writing. Just that it is pretty easy to run, regardless of unit-testing. It's not that hard to configure these tools, especially when you are doing it for a whole team. I've switched on PMD and walked through an entire project in one day, switching off the more useless (in my opinion) tests as I went along. This takes much less time than writing Unit tests. So why not combine both. What kind of brainless moderator put my posting down as flamebait anyway?
As long as you take time to look at each bug. E.g. in PMD, it will find every field and local variable that could have been declared final. I don't even want those bugs as a warning. I want those as a tip, that does not show up as a warning for each build. It will not matter in 99% of the cases. Also, these kind of bugs should be automatically fixed, since they can be (maybe with a review screen beforehand, to exclude the ones that don't need fixing.
This is a stupid argument, because running these automated tools is pretty easy. I mean, it can find bugs without all this tedious unit-test writing. Of course, it does not relieve you from writing unit tests, and neither does it mean that it will find every possible bug. But most of the time it only takes limited amount of configuring in your software street, and every time you build something, you check out the bugs that have been found. In other words, the finding of bugs is almost for free. So why not use it? Even if they are bugs that never occur, you won't make them in other situations where they do matter, after they have been flagged.
Well, simply said, if you aren't mistaken, I would go back and grab C++, which can do more and for which there are more libraries for. In Java, it's a lot harder to make mistakes due to the inherent readability of the language, both for people, but also for tools. That said, it's still easy enough to make a mistake.
:)
Please try the book "Java Puzzlers" if you are certain that you can find most Java bugs. I could figure out most bugs, although probably not on first sight. And definately not on first sight on a Friday afternoon. The funny thing is that I find most bugs in really "easy" pieces of code. You write those in a hurry, and are more bound to make mistakes. 90% of bugs are of the kind "jeez, I cannot believe I was that stupid." Currently, someone else is writing Unit tests for my code. It's amazing how many (small but irritating) mistakes one can make.
If I could, I would first put things through static analysis, then create developer tests, then have my code reviewed by somebody else and finally have unit tests written by yet another using only the specification. Finally I give it to some dumb programmers or users and let them play around with it. If a bug survives all that, it's a feature
To sum it all up: Yes.
Why, they compare it with the 100ths of useless tests that pre-dated it of course. If it did not go "boom" it went wrong.
"Because they are apparently simulating them under extreme conditions that are present during nuclear explosions. And nuclear tests are banned."
/rant off
Never understood that stuff. You throw one, we throw 100, you throw 10000 and the earh is destroyed. It goes bang in a big way, and contaminates everything in the direct surrounding. What do you need a super-computer for? Why would you need to test such a thing in the first place?
Now if they would put UD on it you could topple the top ranking in cancer research.
I would not use an optimizing compiler on that one either :)
What I never understand with these kind of filters is where the waste ends up. There is quite a lot of salt in the water, so these filters should clog pretty quickly, and just rinsing them every minute does not seem to be very practical. Does anyone know how this works?
Hi all,
/usr/local/google-earth /usr/local/bin, but does not say which command (googleearth) /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- This seems to be a binary package only, which uses a few common libraries beneath it
- Installs without a hitch on my system, defaults to
- Runs very smooth in Ubuntu 6.06 AMD 64 bit with nvidia driver, but it seems to need root permissions to start (installed with sudo on the 'binary' installer)
- No real desktop integration yet (at least with Gnome)
- Asks to install symlink in
- Probably not a good idea to run with nv driver in X, chech your
- Comes with nice Icon that works in Gnome in root of installation folder
Oh, I got a rather new 3GHz AMD 64/1 Gig, budget (fanless) videocard and 6 Mbit download. Not top of the bill, but quite nice anyway, your experiences may differ.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to be open source. A bit of a shame, the real work is in the infrastructure and obtaining the maps anyway.
Well, it seems like you jumped into the wrong game. This here is slashdot, and we are talking transistors today.