Huh? People ARE using it and they ARE improving it!
Have you ever seen the humongous list of JSRs in which companies from all over the world are working to improve and extend Java?
And I don't think there is ONE succesful language project out there that just lets anybody change the basics of the language. Doing that would result in pure chaos and an unworkable situation. Why? Because the big majority of people have no idea whatsoever what it takes to build a succesful programming language. Just adding more and more features is one of the worst things you could do.
And with Microsoft "opening up" and submitting C# to a standards commitee I'm still waiting for others to jump on the bandwagon and start changing and extending it.... but that's strange, the only one doing the changing and extending is... Microsoft!
Just to show that a free license does not have to change anything.
What might be a good thing to do is to put control of Java into the hands of group of companies/institutes and to make the JSR process more public (make it possible for people to participate at any given moment).
Does more? It only recently has started adding things like refactoring and quick fixes which made me switch to Eclipse in the first place. That and the fact that the GUI is much more responsive than NetBeans'
I've got a very old remote control lying here for a Grundig video recorder that has exactly the same "wheel" to control fast forward and rewind (with variable speed).
I can tell you that an application like you suggest would get a one-way ticket to the trashcan in my company. We don't need any loud-mouths who think the world of themselves.
On the other hand, saying "please" probably won't help much either;-)
But he might be saying please to the rest of us who could help by pointing out job offers they know about.
(Sorry, I'm not anywhere near the NYC/LI area;-)
Only proves that statistically your experiences mean _nothing_. One can smoke 3 packets of sigerettes a day for your entire life and live till 90 and die of old age. We still know sigarettes are bad for your health.
And yes, I've lost dozens of CDs that I wrote 5 years ago, that never left their cases and never have been in direct sunlight. I checked them a couple of weeks ago and about 4 out of 30+ still had salvagable data on them (but reading speed dropped to a crawl!). Most of them were some kind of no-name brand though so I had no high expectations of them anyway, but 5 years does seem very short.
Wish I could prove with u URL of some sort but I'm 2000% positive that I've seen galloping robots in a documentary years and years ago made by some university or MIT.
I remember that they were made using hydraulics and that they had quadrupeds and even a monoped running/hopping through the hallways (with the researchers running to keep up with cables and such;-)
I also remember that the movements were not preprogrammed but the system "learned" how best to cope with N legs. It developed all of the gaits found in a horse for example.
Very good stuff.
Yes, but 1) is exactly the reason why I would happily back up the 3,9GB of data that lives in my home directory. But even better, 1.8GB of that is downloaded stuff which doesn't need backing up so that leaves me with 2.1GB of data which fits on just a couple of CDs and it will take almost no time with a modern and fast CD burner. I don't even want to think about having to back up the entire 20+ GB that makes up my entire Linux system.
With regards to point 2) I think it is not necessary to do any "fancy" configuration, everybody will at least change SOMETHING about the programs they work with and even my parents who are complete computer no-noes use more than just Internet.
So the fact that a inexperienced user could easily be taught how to back up the few personal files and settings he/she has in their personal folder combined with the fact that you can be reasonably sure that no virus will be able to mess up the rest of the system seems to me reason enough to keep the separation between root and normal users.
And using KDE myself where most programs that need root acces (most of which are programs that a normal user wouldn't normally need to use) ask for the root password using a pop-up dialog there is no need to use a console and "su" which would make it easy enough for most users.
Huh? But I don't want to back up my programs, I would care less that a virus deletes something that can be easily replaced than something that cost me hours, days or even months to make.
But I can easily back up my own work, it won't take tens of GBs and multiple DVDs or tapes (and therefore a lot of my precious time) to do it.
What I do care about is the enormous amount of time it takes to set up a new system. Maybe the time it takes to install Linux or Windows is short enough, but before you have a system that is exactly suited to your needs you need to spend long days of installing and configuring all the programs that you want to use.
So personally I'd rather back up my own, irreplacable, work and the program settings in my home directory so I quickly go back to work if a virus ever wipes my personal files.
This is such a lousy article, the list of supposed "cheating" by the computer at the end is laughable.
Does a calculator cheat because it calculates its answers in a different way than humans do? Come on!
Actually I've read that here in Holland they are currently investigating this because they want to know exactly how secure the system is. The company making the machines has already been told to change the locks on the casing because they were too easy to open.
Don't be too sure of that, we said once "the oceans are very big, wel'll never be able to pollute it or fish out all the [name any kind of almost extinct sea creature]".
I think he points out a valid reason for describing this technology as "kid stuff". I agree when somebody tells you they have a revolutionary new technology 9000x faster than the next guy and then forget to tell you "oh yes, it only works for small databases and you can't do any queries"
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Huh? People ARE using it and they ARE improving it! Have you ever seen the humongous list of JSRs in which companies from all over the world are working to improve and extend Java? And I don't think there is ONE succesful language project out there that just lets anybody change the basics of the language. Doing that would result in pure chaos and an unworkable situation. Why? Because the big majority of people have no idea whatsoever what it takes to build a succesful programming language. Just adding more and more features is one of the worst things you could do. And with Microsoft "opening up" and submitting C# to a standards commitee I'm still waiting for others to jump on the bandwagon and start changing and extending it.... but that's strange, the only one doing the changing and extending is... Microsoft! Just to show that a free license does not have to change anything. What might be a good thing to do is to put control of Java into the hands of group of companies/institutes and to make the JSR process more public (make it possible for people to participate at any given moment).
Does more? It only recently has started adding things like refactoring and quick fixes which made me switch to Eclipse in the first place. That and the fact that the GUI is much more responsive than NetBeans'
So what are these words if I might be so ?
I've got a very old remote control lying here for a Grundig video recorder that has exactly the same "wheel" to control fast forward and rewind (with variable speed).
I can tell you that an application like you suggest would get a one-way ticket to the trashcan in my company. We don't need any loud-mouths who think the world of themselves. On the other hand, saying "please" probably won't help much either ;-)
But he might be saying please to the rest of us who could help by pointing out job offers they know about.
(Sorry, I'm not anywhere near the NYC/LI area ;-)
Only proves that statistically your experiences mean _nothing_. One can smoke 3 packets of sigerettes a day for your entire life and live till 90 and die of old age. We still know sigarettes are bad for your health.
And yes, I've lost dozens of CDs that I wrote 5 years ago, that never left their cases and never have been in direct sunlight. I checked them a couple of weeks ago and about 4 out of 30+ still had salvagable data on them (but reading speed dropped to a crawl!). Most of them were some kind of no-name brand though so I had no high expectations of them anyway, but 5 years does seem very short.
Wish I could prove with u URL of some sort but I'm 2000% positive that I've seen galloping robots in a documentary years and years ago made by some university or MIT. I remember that they were made using hydraulics and that they had quadrupeds and even a monoped running/hopping through the hallways (with the researchers running to keep up with cables and such ;-)
I also remember that the movements were not preprogrammed but the system "learned" how best to cope with N legs. It developed all of the gaits found in a horse for example.
Very good stuff.
Yes, but 1) is exactly the reason why I would happily back up the 3,9GB of data that lives in my home directory. But even better, 1.8GB of that is downloaded stuff which doesn't need backing up so that leaves me with 2.1GB of data which fits on just a couple of CDs and it will take almost no time with a modern and fast CD burner. I don't even want to think about having to back up the entire 20+ GB that makes up my entire Linux system. With regards to point 2) I think it is not necessary to do any "fancy" configuration, everybody will at least change SOMETHING about the programs they work with and even my parents who are complete computer no-noes use more than just Internet. So the fact that a inexperienced user could easily be taught how to back up the few personal files and settings he/she has in their personal folder combined with the fact that you can be reasonably sure that no virus will be able to mess up the rest of the system seems to me reason enough to keep the separation between root and normal users. And using KDE myself where most programs that need root acces (most of which are programs that a normal user wouldn't normally need to use) ask for the root password using a pop-up dialog there is no need to use a console and "su" which would make it easy enough for most users.
Huh? But I don't want to back up my programs, I would care less that a virus deletes something that can be easily replaced than something that cost me hours, days or even months to make. But I can easily back up my own work, it won't take tens of GBs and multiple DVDs or tapes (and therefore a lot of my precious time) to do it. What I do care about is the enormous amount of time it takes to set up a new system. Maybe the time it takes to install Linux or Windows is short enough, but before you have a system that is exactly suited to your needs you need to spend long days of installing and configuring all the programs that you want to use. So personally I'd rather back up my own, irreplacable, work and the program settings in my home directory so I quickly go back to work if a virus ever wipes my personal files.
This is such a lousy article, the list of supposed "cheating" by the computer at the end is laughable. Does a calculator cheat because it calculates its answers in a different way than humans do? Come on!
Actually I've read that here in Holland they are currently investigating this because they want to know exactly how secure the system is. The company making the machines has already been told to change the locks on the casing because they were too easy to open.
Don't be too sure of that, we said once "the oceans are very big, wel'll never be able to pollute it or fish out all the [name any kind of almost extinct sea creature]".
I think he points out a valid reason for describing this technology as "kid stuff". I agree when somebody tells you they have a revolutionary new technology 9000x faster than the next guy and then forget to tell you "oh yes, it only works for small databases and you can't do any queries"