In a 2 party system, both the candidates might suck, but you still need to vote for the one that sucks less. Imagine if the supreme court hadn't given the presidency to Bush in 2000 and Gore had won. Things would be alot different to say the least. Never again will I believe that the two candidates are the same.
There are over 400,000 frozen embryos in fertility clinics around the US, that will most likely be destroyed. I think it would be hard to use up frozen embryos at a rate greater than they are created.
Smart people lose their jobs sometime too you know. Some live paycheck to paycheck because they have a family and need to pay for college, so their kids can learn a useful skill.
What happens when for some unexpected reason you dont have health insurance when you retire? Shouldn't the government help you, and keep you from dying needlessly?
I too will serve my country with honor if asked. But I believe the public deserves to expect that the civilian leadership has a plan to win the peace, so that I don't have to be there forever. And hopefully they will give me body armor too.
I'm still pissed at the republicans for not supporting Kerry's 87-billion funding bill that provided funds by repealing the tax cut for those making more that 1 million a year. NEVER in a time of war have taxes been cut. When you vote against a bill sometimes its because you want to vote for a different bill that you think is better.
Democrats dont want to take your guns. They just want them to be licenced, so criminals can't buy them. Weapons that can kill alot of people fast won't make me feel safer. Ask any police officer if they like assualt weapons on their streets. Also Kerry worked to keep 600 guns out of the assault weapons ban that are used for hunting.
You might like your tax cut but your state probably had to raise taxes because the federal government won't fully fund mandated federal funded programs, like education. Also that tax cut was paid for by a high-interest loan. So guess what? You or your children will pay that tax cut + interest sometime in the future.
It might not seem important to you, because, I'm guessing:
* you have a job
* you have health insurance
* not draftable
* not sending body armor to a relative in Iraq
* not a law enforcement officer (assault weapons ban lifted)
* you are rich and benefit from the tax cut
etc.
BUT if you lose your job, lose health insurance, start making less money or get drafted, then this election WILL matter to you.
SWT is not as complete as Swing, but thats the trade-off, SWT is faster since your using native widgets. The new SWT 3.0M6 milestone has support for embedding AWT/SWing components inside SWT composites. Also if you need to build your own widget in SWT you can (by using the SWT graphics api). Furthermore, SWT is cleaner, though you do have to manually dispose certain objects such as fonts and colors. One gripe about SWT is that although the layout managers seem to be cleaner I am having trouble making them do what I want. Making a composite scrollable is also a pain in the ass, where Swing it is relatively easy. I decided to use SWT when I saw Azureus (bittorrent client), which looked really good and performed well, abd was easy to install. Deploying SWT apps is really not that hard, you just have to install an extra library which is easy in JWS. Furthermore there is lots of native support if you know you are going to run primarily on one platform. Also java's browser was crappy last time I used it and work on the SWT browser is promising.
Write once, run/test everywhere is a benefit of AWT/Swing, but for GUI stuff you need to be able to expand functionality that perhaps can only be used in particular enviroments (like creating a systray icon in windows).
Also Image support is lacking but if you know what you are doing, you can use JAI (java advanced imaging) to do image manipulation, and generate (SWT) ImageData objects from their output (using IO streams). This is what I am doing now and I am getting good performance.
SWT also uses hints when computing sizes which Swing doesn't do and this is necessary when you are trying to calculate preferred sizes on multi line text which is a nightmare in Swing.
I haven't done much "cell" rendering type stuff but in SWT you are restricted to text and image objects for native widgets which makes sense. THis new support for swing embedded in SWT composites might fix this but it would be nice to have your own Canvas objects in a native widget although i dont see how that is possible.
At least sun now has native L&F support in 1.4.2 which is nice.
Anyway, both have their strengths and after using SWT I am impressed enough to continue using it.
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In a 2 party system, both the candidates might suck, but you still need to vote for the one that sucks less. Imagine if the supreme court hadn't given the presidency to Bush in 2000 and Gore had won. Things would be alot different to say the least. Never again will I believe that the two candidates are the same.
There are over 400,000 frozen embryos in fertility clinics around the US, that will most likely be destroyed. I think it would be hard to use up frozen embryos at a rate greater than they are created.
--gabe
God created light on the first day but didn't create the sun and the stars until the 3rd day. Obviously God forgot that stars are the source of light.
Remember they once tried to ban violence in comic books once. This is the same thing decades later.
It might not seem important to you, because, I'm guessing:
* you have a job
* you have health insurance
* not draftable
* not sending body armor to a relative in Iraq
* not a law enforcement officer (assault weapons ban lifted)
* you are rich and benefit from the tax cut
etc.
BUT if you lose your job, lose health insurance, start making less money or get drafted, then this election WILL matter to you.
SWT is not as complete as Swing, but thats the trade-off, SWT is faster since your using native widgets. The new SWT 3.0M6 milestone has support for embedding AWT/SWing components inside SWT composites. Also if you need to build your own widget in SWT you can (by using the SWT graphics api). Furthermore, SWT is cleaner, though you do have to manually dispose certain objects such as fonts and colors. One gripe about SWT is that although the layout managers seem to be cleaner I am having trouble making them do what I want. Making a composite scrollable is also a pain in the ass, where Swing it is relatively easy. I decided to use SWT when I saw Azureus (bittorrent client), which looked really good and performed well, abd was easy to install. Deploying SWT apps is really not that hard, you just have to install an extra library which is easy in JWS. Furthermore there is lots of native support if you know you are going to run primarily on one platform. Also java's browser was crappy last time I used it and work on the SWT browser is promising. Write once, run/test everywhere is a benefit of AWT/Swing, but for GUI stuff you need to be able to expand functionality that perhaps can only be used in particular enviroments (like creating a systray icon in windows). Also Image support is lacking but if you know what you are doing, you can use JAI (java advanced imaging) to do image manipulation, and generate (SWT) ImageData objects from their output (using IO streams). This is what I am doing now and I am getting good performance. SWT also uses hints when computing sizes which Swing doesn't do and this is necessary when you are trying to calculate preferred sizes on multi line text which is a nightmare in Swing. I haven't done much "cell" rendering type stuff but in SWT you are restricted to text and image objects for native widgets which makes sense. THis new support for swing embedded in SWT composites might fix this but it would be nice to have your own Canvas objects in a native widget although i dont see how that is possible. At least sun now has native L&F support in 1.4.2 which is nice. Anyway, both have their strengths and after using SWT I am impressed enough to continue using it.