Modern Javascript environment have JIT compilation and GC as well. The performance is not going to be as good for several reasons. But JIT is not a Java specific trait.
I do not like to mislead project management either. The less information people have about the actual de facto state of the project the more likely it is that things will go off track and development will end up in failure because you either blew up the deadline or funding. However it is also important that projects have a certain degree of quality in them. Otherwise the clients will end up not renewing their contracts and going somewhere else next time. Balancing these needs is certainly not easy.
I once had to do more work for what effectively was a misfeature requested by the client. No amount of arguing I did could convince him of that. I knew his misfeature had no actual performance impact although it made no practical sense. In fact it made life worse for the system administrators. In the end, after the software was deployed, the system administrators forced the rollback of the misfeature because it made their jobs hell. Sometimes only time can solve such problems and no amount of forcing will do it.
Great. Now try applying your argument to technical books. Especially books required to attend a class or course. And then watch your argument fall flat on its face.
No, they had a dominant position in the smartphone and tablet market which they attempted to leverage in order to get a dominant position in the ebook market. Having a monopoly by itself is not considered to be a crime. Using the monopoly as leverage to enter a separate adjacent market is.
It is derivative. But translations by themselves are worthy of copyright protection as well. If you are one of those people who only care about the letter of the law and not the spirit of a law you neither much of a citizen nor much of a human being.
You may have a point for things like books. But this is certainly not a case for movie subtitles. How many people do you know who will skip seeing a movie just because they have the subtitles? Even deaf people will want to see the visuals.
Actually the problem here is the same. Apple tried to leverage a monopoly in smartphones and tablets into a monopoly in ebooks. Much like Microsoft tried to leverage a monopoly in operating systems to a monopoly on browsers.
You know what. The way the Russians launch a rocket is by using a rotating table. They do horizontal stage integration then they rotate it to vertical and launch. So this method could actually work if done at the correct time.
Actually Lockheed Martin used to have an agreement with the people doing the Proton launches. The company was called International Launch Services or ILS.
Yes this happens. The trick to get around it is to sell the bug fixing or refactoring as a new feature. i.e. you refactor the code in order to fix the longstanding bug and you add a new feature to boot. If your manager is too stupid to figure out the bug really, really needs to be fixed, you can always convince the client to "persuade" them instead of you.
Are drones a way around the idiotic restriction on the army's use of fixed wing aircraft?
For now. But the USAF is already limiting the characteristics of the drones the Army can use. I would not be surprised if eventually the US Army was restricted to using itsy bitsy drones like the RQ-11 Raven.
Actually some drones have had Stinger air to air missiles. However Stingers are not particularly effective at downing enemy fighter aircraft.
To use full blown air to air missiles the drone would require more payload and a radar or IRST sensor. Which would put drone costs way up. Also typically a lot of the initial kinetic energy during launch is provided by the airplane flying at Mach speeds. That is why this isn't being done in drones at the moment.
Actually it is a lot worse than that. In the UK at least there was a claim back then that bombers had been made obsolete due to the existence of ballistic missiles. Since the job of the air to air defenses was to prevent bombing, fighters were supposed to be a waste of time and resources.
Then again this was also the time when Khrushchev had his pet missile tank project.
It depends on the usage scenario. Remote controlled drones are less responsive than a regular fighter aircraft. Especially when the controller is a continent away. This can make a lot of difference when you are attempting to do air-to-air combat. Modern fighter aircraft have radars which can track multiple targets at once. They can also carry a lot of air to air missiles. Drones keep getting bigger and more expensive as time goes by. Pilots are more resilient to jamming and cracking than remote controlled drones or AI controlled drones. Ferrying is mostly taken care of with the usage of autopilot already.
The F-35 has a lot of issues and being manned is the least of them.
Personally I would be more inclined to use AR rather than VR glasses. VR glasses try to replace your entire field of vision and they often lag enough that it causes motion sickness. AR does not have these issues to nearly the same degree. Any prototype is going to look like that since many forms of miniaturization are lousy to use during the experimentation phase and some are indeed only doable on large scale manufacturing plants. One example is surface mounted technology.
Yes any glasses are annoying to use. Especially if you already need to use a set of prescription glasses of your own.
Which is why you should stick to well defined objectives. Do the planned release. If you got more money than you expected then you release an expansion pack later for free.
That is why when talking with people in the Internet you should never, ever use the thousand unit separator. At most you can use space as a separator. At least that one is not likely to be mistaken for the unit separator.
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Modern Javascript environment have JIT compilation and GC as well. The performance is not going to be as good for several reasons. But JIT is not a Java specific trait.
Java is really lousy at doing floating point and it has no unsigned types. It has no vector support either. That is the main issue.
I do not like to mislead project management either. The less information people have about the actual de facto state of the project the more likely it is that things will go off track and development will end up in failure because you either blew up the deadline or funding. However it is also important that projects have a certain degree of quality in them. Otherwise the clients will end up not renewing their contracts and going somewhere else next time. Balancing these needs is certainly not easy.
I once had to do more work for what effectively was a misfeature requested by the client. No amount of arguing I did could convince him of that. I knew his misfeature had no actual performance impact although it made no practical sense. In fact it made life worse for the system administrators. In the end, after the software was deployed, the system administrators forced the rollback of the misfeature because it made their jobs hell. Sometimes only time can solve such problems and no amount of forcing will do it.
It is anti-Adam Smith. He was against collusion to raise prices. You just need to read The Wealth of Nations.
Great. Now try applying your argument to technical books. Especially books required to attend a class or course. And then watch your argument fall flat on its face.
I guess you have no clue about what a cartel is nor any idea of the negative impacts caused by such an existance.
So you assume books are fungible goods? Preposterous.
No, they had a dominant position in the smartphone and tablet market which they attempted to leverage in order to get a dominant position in the ebook market. Having a monopoly by itself is not considered to be a crime. Using the monopoly as leverage to enter a separate adjacent market is.
It is derivative. But translations by themselves are worthy of copyright protection as well. If you are one of those people who only care about the letter of the law and not the spirit of a law you neither much of a citizen nor much of a human being.
You may have a point for things like books. But this is certainly not a case for movie subtitles. How many people do you know who will skip seeing a movie just because they have the subtitles? Even deaf people will want to see the visuals.
Printing presses also have a higher output than someone hand-copying a piece of text. So what?
Actually the problem here is the same. Apple tried to leverage a monopoly in smartphones and tablets into a monopoly in ebooks. Much like Microsoft tried to leverage a monopoly in operating systems to a monopoly on browsers.
MacOS X is mostly irrelevant to this discussion.
You know what. The way the Russians launch a rocket is by using a rotating table. They do horizontal stage integration then they rotate it to vertical and launch. So this method could actually work if done at the correct time.
Actually Lockheed Martin used to have an agreement with the people doing the Proton launches. The company was called International Launch Services or ILS.
Yes this happens. The trick to get around it is to sell the bug fixing or refactoring as a new feature. i.e. you refactor the code in order to fix the longstanding bug and you add a new feature to boot. If your manager is too stupid to figure out the bug really, really needs to be fixed, you can always convince the client to "persuade" them instead of you.
Are drones a way around the idiotic restriction on the army's use of fixed wing aircraft?
For now. But the USAF is already limiting the characteristics of the drones the Army can use. I would not be surprised if eventually the US Army was restricted to using itsy bitsy drones like the RQ-11 Raven.
Actually some drones have had Stinger air to air missiles. However Stingers are not particularly effective at downing enemy fighter aircraft.
To use full blown air to air missiles the drone would require more payload and a radar or IRST sensor. Which would put drone costs way up. Also typically a lot of the initial kinetic energy during launch is provided by the airplane flying at Mach speeds. That is why this isn't being done in drones at the moment.
Actually it is a lot worse than that. In the UK at least there was a claim back then that bombers had been made obsolete due to the existence of ballistic missiles. Since the job of the air to air defenses was to prevent bombing, fighters were supposed to be a waste of time and resources.
Then again this was also the time when Khrushchev had his pet missile tank project.
It depends on the usage scenario. Remote controlled drones are less responsive than a regular fighter aircraft. Especially when the controller is a continent away. This can make a lot of difference when you are attempting to do air-to-air combat. Modern fighter aircraft have radars which can track multiple targets at once. They can also carry a lot of air to air missiles. Drones keep getting bigger and more expensive as time goes by. Pilots are more resilient to jamming and cracking than remote controlled drones or AI controlled drones. Ferrying is mostly taken care of with the usage of autopilot already.
The F-35 has a lot of issues and being manned is the least of them.
It might be bloated and slow. But it is also easily extendable and human readable.
Personally I would be more inclined to use AR rather than VR glasses. VR glasses try to replace your entire field of vision and they often lag enough that it causes motion sickness. AR does not have these issues to nearly the same degree. Any prototype is going to look like that since many forms of miniaturization are lousy to use during the experimentation phase and some are indeed only doable on large scale manufacturing plants. One example is surface mounted technology.
Yes any glasses are annoying to use. Especially if you already need to use a set of prescription glasses of your own.
I sort of doubt her social skills are that bad considering she used to own a hardware retail chain which initially started with only one shop.
Which is why you should stick to well defined objectives. Do the planned release. If you got more money than you expected then you release an expansion pack later for free.
Does it really matter how much income those companies have if you get the same salary you would have in an open source development company?
That is why when talking with people in the Internet you should never, ever use the thousand unit separator. At most you can use space as a separator. At least that one is not likely to be mistaken for the unit separator.