Built corporate infrastructure with Java for about ten years now. I've coded probably a million lines of Java in that time frame.
Except because of the most minor of Java changes on Sun's part I've never had to re-write anything.
My Java programs from ten years ago still run just fine.
Sun has many times declared many classes and methods as being obsolete, but they have never turned anything I use off so that I could no longer use it.
So go ahead, complain all you want, but there are people like me out there that are moving forward a lot faster because they use Java, and there are a lot of people moving slower because they cannot get past ideology.
It's fine by me, my children will eat well because of your ineptitude.
TIVO's guide speed is dependent on which guide style you use. But, I could believe that TIVO's guide speed is slower than any other box's. But, remember, one TIVO guide style is much faster than the other.
> the 30-second skip works perfectly
So what's the big deal, just click four or five buttons on the TIVO remote to enable the capability and then it's 30 second skip works perfect also.
> it's got the predictive resume
Ok, so how does that make TIVO more frustrating?
> we actually like the fact it does NOT guess what we want to watch and fill up our hard drive
Obviously you didn't become as familar with the TIVO as you originally claimed. That feature is easily turned off.
> Tivo's max fast forward speed only seems to be about 8x real time
The actual speeds are 3x, 20x, and 60x. You did press the fast forward button three times, right?
> We looked at the HDTV version of the DirecTivo, and it was even worse than the basic DirecTivo.
I can hardly imagine why. It's the same box except it has four tuners (two HD, two SD), can record from two of them simultaneously, upconverts or downconverts to different resolutions seamlessly and is substantially more configurable.
> Systems (for example, Windows 98/ME/2000, CDE) that do not support it will see no visual change in OpenOffice.org
Per my experience the theme is quite different on Windows 2000. Personally I don't like it. It reminds me of the psychodelic sixties, a lot of color that accomplishes nothing.
Beyond that, the Impress presentation program seems to be a lot slower than the 1.1 version.
It's so slow it's annoying to me. I just updated yesterday a 100+ page tutorial I'd written using 1.1 and it was torturous on my 2ghz machine (1 gig of ram, no swapping involved).
I really think the analysis in the parent article is pretty darn weak.
I mean, come on, who really thinks MS is going to jump into bed with the Cell (i.e. PowerPC) chip?
It seems as though the author kinda forgot that MS's arch-enemy IBM holds the strings on the PowerPC chip. IBM isn't Intel and IBM has been burned badly by MS before.
My Radioshark, if you are listening "live", or rather no time shift involved, the Shark has a tendency to garble the sound which is output to your speakers. Almost like it is having a hard time keeping up or something.
It records the material correctly if you listen to it a second time.
Basically means I wind up trying to listen to everything about 3 minutes behind. But when you change stations you are immediately caught back up so you have to drag the little time shift bar back over to about 2 to 3 minutes of delay to get rid of the garbled effects. Just annoying.
All those who modded down the parent take note of the following:
It's Sun's property, they can do whatever they want with their property.
Anybody/everyone who thinks that if source code is opened for viewing that it must also be opened for use with the GPL or Tom-Dick-and-Harry's License is full of it.
I'm sure that the powers that be at Sun would be more than happy to tell RMS to stick it you know where. Just as RMS seems to think it is his God given right to do all so often.
I don't live in a gutter, it's people who make unjustifiable statements about others who live in the gutter.
If Mr. Sanger thinks he can make his statement stand up in a court of law then more power to him. But, if I were on a jury, I'd have a hard time siding with Sanger, regardless of Wales behavior.
Sanger's opinion about a fellow human being is exactly that, an opinion, and he should keep it to himself.
If he goes out and says Jimmy Wales has brown hair (BTW, I have no idea what color Wales hair is...) and Mr. Wales has a problem with that then Mr. Wales is just out of luck.
But, making derogatory statements about Wales, and how he conducts himself, is once again, opinion, and out in the open is not a good place for that sort of thing.
If he wants to give an opinion about the project then that's a lot less of a problem.
> NO Iraqi connection to the counter-attacks of 9/11. PROVEN
Not proven, merely someone's word versus someone elses!
> NO intent to threaten the USA from Iraq. PROVEN
Idiot, I saw Saddam on CNN plenty of times describing how he would 'take care' of the USA.
> NO ability to threaten the USA from Iraq. PROVEN
Excuse me, 19 men from places just like Iraq killed almost 3,000 US citizens. No ability, bullshit!
> LIES from Baby Bush about the weapons held by Iraq. PROVEN
I don't care if they only had box-cutters like the 19 Islamic fascists had, they had weapons that could kill innocents.
> Genocide against the Iraqi people by the USA. PROVEN
Proven since when? We have used every means possible to limit death. What do you call precision weapons.
Saddam gassed his own countrymen.
> People in the USA being hauled off the street by the FBI for speaking out against Bush. PROVEN
Funny, I haven't noticed a whole lot of people missing in my neighborhood. Who is missing in yours?
> War-crimes committed against civilians being held against by the USA in contravention of all established international protocols. PROVEN
Once again, there is no evidence of this type of accusation. You lie to suit your own needs, as sick as they must be.
> The continued genocide of Iraqi civilians. PROVEN
I'm sure that if the US wanted to kill Iraqi citizens then we could do a much better job than what you claim is being done at the moment.
> flaunts international law to attack other countries because it claims those countries are flaunting international law
To hell with international law. The only 'law' that counts is at the business end of the F-16 that is getting rid of despotes around the world and you know it.
If you think I will let France choose if my children are to live or die you are seriously screwed up.
> the actions of your country have made you the most hated nation on earth
I doubt it, I'm sure you are a Jew hater as well, and I'd be hard pressed to believe that the US is more hated than Israel.
One day you will lie at deaths door and you will dearly wish that someone would spend $5880 to save your worthless soul.
I'm sure that a majority of those that I helped pay for their freedom are happy that they can choose the direction they want to take their country in the future. Lest they be staring down the end of Saddam's, or a similar tyrant's, gun barrel.
There is a damn good reason that people are still clamoring to come to the United States of America. And I think you know what they are!
The same cannot be said for Cuba, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, or any of the other god-forsaken hell-holes that still exist on this planet.
> If I rent the bike, I am also preventing a possible usage by another paying customer.
Nobody believes there should be multiple users of "a single bicycle" simultaneously.
If you rent it by definition you are not depriving the owner of his/her possible revenues. You are providing revenue, not preventing it.
Randomly joy-riding bikes without paying that are meant for rental is theft.
"What if I came by your home one night took you car to joy-ride in it and then returned it a week later. If you were standing in front of your house when I drove up in it you probably would feel as though I had stolen it."
So then what is the difference in the following statement:
"What if I came by your home one night took you car to joy-ride in it and then returned it a minute later. If you were standing in front of your house when I drove up in it you probably would feel as though I had stolen it."
There is only a small difference, the time frame, and in both cases you have stolen my property. Or rather, I have deprived you of your right to use your private property.
No difference between the above example and the bicycles. Theft!
In my example you didn't have to leave you car sitting out on the street for me to "borrow". You locked the doors of your car in anticipation that if it were used without your permission that you could go to police, report the crime, collect insurance monies, etc.
In the bicycle case being explored it is no different. The bicycles are being used in an unauthorized manner. Theft! THERE IS NO FUZZY GRAY AREA. It is THEFT and you are a thief if you take that bicycle.
> supermarkets over here had a huge problem with trolleys being taken home
Those that took the trolleys are thieves, pure and simple. They should be punished.
My wife is a front line development manager for Oracle. And she is good, real good, in what she does.
She occasionally has to do the 3am priority one bug fix for a client. Not only does she have to suffer but so do I since I cannot sleep through her getting paged, getting up, clacking on the keyboard, etc.
But, the reality is "Just exactly how many open-source database products give you TOP TALENT who get up in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT to fix the bug which is currently keeping you from processing your payroll (and making 40,000 employees happy)?"
When open-source can provide that sort of support then it will be ready to compete with Oracle.
Anybody who thinks MySQL, Postgress, etc. is ever going to reach that sort of commitment needs to have their head examined.
Guess it's probably configurable somewhere, but if the KDE folks don't learn to put the "Ok Button" to the left of the negative response I think they are going to frustrate a LOT of people.
And that ain't gonna help anybody. I can deal with it, but there are a lot of people who will consider that sort of behavior to be foreign and quite frankly, unacceptable.
In the past few days I've been setting up a Linux webserver and believe me, having most, but not all (the inconsistancy is maddening also) of the affirmative buttons on popup dialogs on the far right is really annoying.
Then when I move to Windows the affirmative button on the same program, same dialog box, is on the left side. ARRGGGHHH!!!!
Mostly it is Firefox that I have the issue with, I haven't used a whole lot of other programs on both the Windows and Linux platforms.
Being different just to be different simply makes everyone look at you like your the problem and not the solution.
Therefore, if you are gonna live in Gordo learn to speak as the Gordonese speak. And if you really want the Gordonese natives to feel all warm and cozy, speak as much Gordonese as possible back at your place as well.
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World would be a more beautiful place if Symbolic links were to find themselves in Longhorn alongside those new permission restraints.
O'Reilly,
Must be evil because we all know how evil Java is...
Brought to you sarcastically by the TABJC (The Anything But Java Crowd).
I've,
Built corporate infrastructure with Java for about ten years now. I've coded probably a million lines of Java in that time frame.
Except because of the most minor of Java changes on Sun's part I've never had to re-write anything.
My Java programs from ten years ago still run just fine.
Sun has many times declared many classes and methods as being obsolete, but they have never turned anything I use off so that I could no longer use it.
So go ahead, complain all you want, but there are people like me out there that are moving forward a lot faster because they use Java, and there are a lot of people moving slower because they cannot get past ideology.
It's fine by me, my children will eat well because of your ineptitude.
I,
Personally would be kinda worried if a distro never has a security warning.
Is there actually anybody paying attention to that distro?
Is that distro perfect, I think not.
It ain't fun applying security patches, etc., but never applying them is just as disturbing....
As,
The other person stated, "You are the moron!"
The person who gave away the trade secret broke the law.
The interest of the citizenary here is that contracts that are dutifully signed by willing parties must be upheld by all those parties.
Hiding behind the cloak of "journalism" is not ever an excuse for breaking the law.
No,
It is not a "early" press release.
It is theft of Apple's property.
Someone at Apple signed a binding agreement to hold everything they know secret.
Those people chose to ignore their binding agreement.
Now those same people are going to be in a world of hurt because what they did is illegal.
Legally, you must either keep you mouth shut or suffer the consequences.
My guess is that there is someone in the Silicon Valley right now crapping his pants waiting for the hammer to fall.
> we were so frustrated by the Tivo's limitations
Huh?
> the guide appears and scrolls far faster
TIVO's guide speed is dependent on which guide style you use. But, I could believe that TIVO's guide speed is slower than any other box's. But, remember, one TIVO guide style is much faster than the other.
> the 30-second skip works perfectly
So what's the big deal, just click four or five buttons on the TIVO remote to enable the capability and then it's 30 second skip works perfect also.
> it's got the predictive resume
Ok, so how does that make TIVO more frustrating?
> we actually like the fact it does NOT guess what we want to watch and fill up our hard drive
Obviously you didn't become as familar with the TIVO as you originally claimed. That feature is easily turned off.
> Tivo's max fast forward speed only seems to be about 8x real time
The actual speeds are 3x, 20x, and 60x. You did press the fast forward button three times, right?
> We looked at the HDTV version of the DirecTivo, and it was even worse than the basic DirecTivo.
I can hardly imagine why. It's the same box except it has four tuners (two HD, two SD), can record from two of them simultaneously, upconverts or downconverts to different resolutions seamlessly and is substantially more configurable.
> Systems (for example, Windows 98/ME/2000, CDE) that do not support it will see no visual change in OpenOffice.org
Per my experience the theme is quite different on Windows 2000. Personally I don't like it. It reminds me of the psychodelic sixties, a lot of color that accomplishes nothing.
Beyond that, the Impress presentation program seems to be a lot slower than the 1.1 version.
It's so slow it's annoying to me. I just updated yesterday a 100+ page tutorial I'd written using 1.1 and it was torturous on my 2ghz machine (1 gig of ram, no swapping involved).
Yeah,
I really think the analysis in the parent article is pretty darn weak.
I mean, come on, who really thinks MS is going to jump into bed with the Cell (i.e. PowerPC) chip?
It seems as though the author kinda forgot that MS's arch-enemy IBM holds the strings on the PowerPC chip. IBM isn't Intel and IBM has been burned badly by MS before.
Not,
At my house. Seems to depend on what type of objects the signal has to travel through.
With,
My Radioshark, if you are listening "live", or rather no time shift involved, the Shark has a tendency to garble the sound which is output to your speakers. Almost like it is having a hard time keeping up or something.
It records the material correctly if you listen to it a second time.
Basically means I wind up trying to listen to everything about 3 minutes behind. But when you change stations you are immediately caught back up so you have to drag the little time shift bar back over to about 2 to 3 minutes of delay to get rid of the garbled effects. Just annoying.
Otherwise I like the gadget.
To,
All those who modded down the parent take note of the following:
It's Sun's property, they can do whatever they want with their property.
Anybody/everyone who thinks that if source code is opened for viewing that it must also be opened for use with the GPL or Tom-Dick-and-Harry's License is full of it.
I'm sure that the powers that be at Sun would be more than happy to tell RMS to stick it you know where. Just as RMS seems to think it is his God given right to do all so often.
You know the story
Dude,
I don't live in a gutter, it's people who make unjustifiable statements about others who live in the gutter.
If Mr. Sanger thinks he can make his statement stand up in a court of law then more power to him. But, if I were on a jury, I'd have a hard time siding with Sanger, regardless of Wales behavior.
Sanger's opinion about a fellow human being is exactly that, an opinion, and he should keep it to himself.
If he goes out and says Jimmy Wales has brown hair (BTW, I have no idea what color Wales hair is...) and Mr. Wales has a problem with that then Mr. Wales is just out of luck.
But, making derogatory statements about Wales, and how he conducts himself, is once again, opinion, and out in the open is not a good place for that sort of thing.
If he wants to give an opinion about the project then that's a lot less of a problem.
Whether he is right or wrong has nothing to do with it.
If he were saying things like that about me, I'd make him pay big time to hire a lawyer to defend himself.
A lawyer hired by myself wouldn't care if it was true or not, the whole purpose would be to shut his mouth, or his keyboard in this case, up tight.
You just cannot go around saying things like that in the real world and expect to get away with it perpetually.
> it became very clear that the most active and influential members of the project-- beginning with Jimmy Wales ... were decidedly anti-elitist
Larry probably better be careful what he says, it just might get him in a world of hurt...
I will not tolerate this bullshit.
> NO Iraqi connection to the counter-attacks of 9/11. PROVEN
Not proven, merely someone's word versus someone elses!
> NO intent to threaten the USA from Iraq. PROVEN
Idiot, I saw Saddam on CNN plenty of times describing how he would 'take care' of the USA.
> NO ability to threaten the USA from Iraq. PROVEN
Excuse me, 19 men from places just like Iraq killed almost 3,000 US citizens. No ability, bullshit!
> LIES from Baby Bush about the weapons held by Iraq. PROVEN
I don't care if they only had box-cutters like the 19 Islamic fascists had, they had weapons that could kill innocents.
> Genocide against the Iraqi people by the USA. PROVEN
Proven since when? We have used every means possible to limit death. What do you call precision weapons.
Saddam gassed his own countrymen.
> People in the USA being hauled off the street by the FBI for speaking out against Bush. PROVEN
Funny, I haven't noticed a whole lot of people missing in my neighborhood. Who is missing in yours?
> War-crimes committed against civilians being held against by the USA in contravention of all established international protocols. PROVEN
Once again, there is no evidence of this type of accusation. You lie to suit your own needs, as sick as they must be.
> The continued genocide of Iraqi civilians. PROVEN
I'm sure that if the US wanted to kill Iraqi citizens then we could do a much better job than what you claim is being done at the moment.
> flaunts international law to attack other countries because it claims those countries are flaunting international law
To hell with international law. The only 'law' that counts is at the business end of the F-16 that is getting rid of despotes around the world and you know it.
If you think I will let France choose if my children are to live or die you are seriously screwed up.
> the actions of your country have made you the most hated nation on earth
I doubt it, I'm sure you are a Jew hater as well, and I'd be hard pressed to believe that the US is more hated than Israel.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
One day you will lie at deaths door and you will dearly wish that someone would spend $5880 to save your worthless soul.
I'm sure that a majority of those that I helped pay for their freedom are happy that they can choose the direction they want to take their country in the future. Lest they be staring down the end of Saddam's, or a similar tyrant's, gun barrel.
There is a damn good reason that people are still clamoring to come to the United States of America. And I think you know what they are!
The same cannot be said for Cuba, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, or any of the other god-forsaken hell-holes that still exist on this planet.
I can just hear it now when the lowly fly becomes an endangered species.
> If I rent the bike, I am also preventing a possible usage by another paying customer.
Nobody believes there should be multiple users of "a single bicycle" simultaneously.
If you rent it by definition you are not depriving the owner of his/her possible revenues. You are providing revenue, not preventing it.
Randomly joy-riding bikes without paying that are meant for rental is theft.
"What if I came by your home one night took you car to joy-ride in it and then returned it a week later. If you were standing in front of your house when I drove up in it you probably would feel as though I had stolen it."
So then what is the difference in the following statement:
"What if I came by your home one night took you car to joy-ride in it and then returned it a minute later. If you were standing in front of your house when I drove up in it you probably would feel as though I had stolen it."
There is only a small difference, the time frame, and in both cases you have stolen my property. Or rather, I have deprived you of your right to use your private property.
No difference between the above example and the bicycles. Theft!
In my example you didn't have to leave you car sitting out on the street for me to "borrow". You locked the doors of your car in anticipation that if it were used without your permission that you could go to police, report the crime, collect insurance monies, etc.
In the bicycle case being explored it is no different. The bicycles are being used in an unauthorized manner. Theft! THERE IS NO FUZZY GRAY AREA. It is THEFT and you are a thief if you take that bicycle.
> supermarkets over here had a huge problem with trolleys being taken home
Those that took the trolleys are thieves, pure and simple. They should be punished.
You get what you pay for,
My wife is a front line development manager for Oracle. And she is good, real good, in what she does.
She occasionally has to do the 3am priority one bug fix for a client. Not only does she have to suffer but so do I since I cannot sleep through her getting paged, getting up, clacking on the keyboard, etc.
But, the reality is "Just exactly how many open-source database products give you TOP TALENT who get up in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT to fix the bug which is currently keeping you from processing your payroll (and making 40,000 employees happy)?"
When open-source can provide that sort of support then it will be ready to compete with Oracle.
Anybody who thinks MySQL, Postgress, etc. is ever going to reach that sort of commitment needs to have their head examined.
Bullshit,
If you "borrow" the bike you are effectively preventing a possible usage by a paying customer.
Therefore you are stealing!
Justifying of stealing is not acceptable, regardless of the country you reside.
Yeah,
And the crazy woman who just hacked a baby out of the womb of a lady she just murdered probably justified it as "adoption".
Didn't your mother teach you that stealing is wrong whether you are doing it for financial gain or for "bragging rights".
I,
Guess it's probably configurable somewhere, but if the KDE folks don't learn to put the "Ok Button" to the left of the negative response I think they are going to frustrate a LOT of people.
And that ain't gonna help anybody. I can deal with it, but there are a lot of people who will consider that sort of behavior to be foreign and quite frankly, unacceptable.
In the past few days I've been setting up a Linux webserver and believe me, having most, but not all (the inconsistancy is maddening also) of the affirmative buttons on popup dialogs on the far right is really annoying.
Then when I move to Windows the affirmative button on the same program, same dialog box, is on the left side. ARRGGGHHH!!!!
Mostly it is Firefox that I have the issue with, I haven't used a whole lot of other programs on both the Windows and Linux platforms.
Being different just to be different simply makes everyone look at you like your the problem and not the solution.
Therefore, if you are gonna live in Gordo learn to speak as the Gordonese speak. And if you really want the Gordonese natives to feel all warm and cozy, speak as much Gordonese as possible back at your place as well.
I,
Did that over a year ago yet they still cache practically my entire website.
Shows how much I change my site, but you would think they would eventually expire the results in some manner.