Why would anyone make the effort to port to a non-long term support version (e.g. 9, 10)? By the time your application container supports those versions (some still don't) and your application would be ported to those versions they are already going off support.
The entire support life cycle for Java 9+ along with the change in licensing are just a collection of not terribly bright ideas from Oracle. There's a reason that Azul, IBM, Redhat, etc. are offering extended support for Java previous versions.
The new Java LTS version (11) has only been out for a few months. The interesting question will be what is the usage of Java 11 a year or so from now.
What really needs to happen to regain trust in crypto algorithms generated by the US is to split the NSA into two separate organizations. Move the role of securing US government communications and computer systems into a new agency. Then assign the spy on foreign nationals role to a separate organization under the CIA.
While it would still take a long time to regain the trust of allies, this is a necessary first step.
From what I've seen, I think it is much more likely that the vast majority of those 300k democrats voted for Trump and the only reason that Trump didn't win in a complete landslide is because 150k republicans defected to the libertarian party.
Not even close. Compare the Wisconsin 2012/2016 numbers. Trump slightly under performed Romney, who lost Wisconsin (1.405m vs 1.407m). Clinton on the other hand, under performed Obama by 240k votes (1.382m vs 1.620m). Also note that Wisconsin had the lowest statewide presidential vote turnout in 20 years.
Clinton's problem was that a sizable chunk of the Democratic vote either stayed home or voted third party. Michigan and Pennsylvania had similar problems. I highlighted Wisconsin as that is where I live.
You're misunderstanding. I get what you are saying, I do, but now take a family of four, and remember that the summary is pointing out it could (being an operative word) cost around $2350 on average.
The issue here is that the summary is misleading. The actual article (I know, who would look at that) says the family's "perfect weekend" would cost $2328. So yes, you could certainly fit in several weekend trips to nearby state parks for much less than the "perfect weekend".
By 2030, that same photo of 5th Ave. will show an ocean of EV's with only one ICE vehicle in view.
Considering that the average age of an auto in the US is eleven years and increasing, that is probably overly optimistic. Manufacturer projections are that they will be only selling 1-2% EVs by 2020, so anything beyond 20-25% by 2030 is unfortunately unrealistic (based on what the manufacturers will be producing if nothing else).
Actually the US has a shortage of doctors as well. Which is why many hospitals were complaining about the new US travel restrictions as they adversely impacted their staff.
There's something wrong when you need "plenty of money" in order to assure your rights aren't violated. We need to modify the system where, if you challenge a bad law and prevail, you get your legal costs reimbursed.
In many states it does work that way. Recently in Wisconsin, our Republican Gov and Legislature had to reimburse Planned Parenthood over a million dollars for legal expenses when the latest anti-abortion law was thrown out.
The problem is you still have to have someone who can front the legal expenses as you go through the multi-year legal process.
Actually if you look at the Gartner numbers (broken out by brand), you will see that Android owns the low end market with off brands. If you just compare Samsung vs Apple at the high end, it is about 63% to 37%. So while still a commanding lead, it isn't the overwhelming majority when you consider Apple's target customer base.
You should realize that he is also benefiting from the US government more than either of us as well. Without the infrastructure and legal system of the US government he wouldn't have been able to accumulate all that wealth. No one would like to go back to the era where you needed your own private army to protect your wealth.
I'm not seeking to "punish" anyone, I am just pointing out that people who think that the wealthy are actually providing the vast majority of the funding for the US government are wrong.
Actually it's both. There is a portion of the payroll tax that is taken out of your paycheck for both Social Security and Medicare. There is also a portion of these taxes that is paid by the employer.
However these taxes are capped to approximately the first $117,000 of earned income, not income from capital gains or dividends. So for someone like Mr. Ballmer, they are just round off error.
we are talking about total dollars, not percentages. you said you want them to pay their fair share, well they are as this article shows. being that that top 1% give the governement 38% of ALL money the government gets and the top 50% pay 97% of the total. meaning the bottom 50% share paying 3% of all taxes
Need to stop with the idea that 100% of the government's revenue is from income tax. You should realize that the amount of money from income tax is roughly on par with the amount of money from payroll taxes - revenue breakdown.
Now realizing that since payroll taxes are capped, meaning they are essentially round off error for the top 1%. So realizing that the top 1% with their 28% of the total income in the US are really only paying about 20% of the actual tax revenue doesn't sound quite so unfair anymore.
Allow the government to install back doors on our crypto only after the same back doors are installed on all the government crypto systems.
It is only fair that if the government thinks they have a need to monitor the people for criminal activities, that the people have even more of a need to monitor the government for malfeasance and criminal activity.
You are correct, that should be Mbit. Must have been too early in the morning to post.
An extra $50 = 50Mbit, down to an extra $20 = 20Mbit. Still wasn't worth it even for the 20Mbit. Now if the 50Mbit service was an extra $20/month I may have taken it. But can only deal with what's offered.
I had the option of upgrading to Time Warner's new top tier of 50Gbit download speed and passed. Of course, they wanted an additional $50/month for the upgrade, so roughly a total of $100/month for the service.
At that price it wasn't worth it. If the upgrade were more reasonably priced, I would consider it.
Except UPS doesn't charge a flat rate to ship a envelope sized package to anywhere in the country. There are distinct rates for business addresses, and also escalating charges based on where the destination is.
Compare the cost to send a small package via UPS to a business in a major city near to you with the cost to ship something to a residence in Nome, AK and note that there is a significant difference in price between the two. That is something the Post Office is not allowed to do.
Actually, the people who have tried anyway had a rate half that of the USPS. Of course the government shut them down, because monopolies are efficient and virtuous.
Actually in that article the "American Letter Mail Company" did exactly what UPS, FedEx or any other private company would do if allowed to compete - pick large cities and only serve that market. USPS has the mandate of serving any address in the country for the same cost, regardless of whether it is the middle of Alaska or downtown Manhattan.
It is easy to undercut USPS if you only serve New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
I been a Java developer for 8 years, worked at several different consulting companies and large in-house corporate environments. I've never seen Windows+Tomcat being used in an actual production setup.
I work for a large corporation and we have several in production. It almost always boils down to vendor A supports a few different OS's. When none of the Unix versions comply with corporate standards, then you deploy Java applications (including Tomcat) on Windows.
The next question is what exactly are these people going to do for a job out there?
While the population density may be similar to Manhattan, there is no easy way to go anywhere away from where you live/work. Especially when you consider what it would take to make a floating runway capable of supporting commercial airliners. So it may be really hard to find enough people who would be able to tolerate living on these floating communities for any length of time.
But the problem is with the publisher, not with the educational institution.
I'll take issue with that, at the college level at least. Go back and look at your college texts, how many of them were written by some professor at the school? If institutions didn't insist on using using the textbook from "their professor", you could have significantly larger printing runs of the textbooks which would greatly reduce costs.
Not saying the publishing companies aren't making a profit, but both sides are responsible for gouging the students.
Whereas the leftover warheads from the former USSR........well, they're not lost, I'm sure that former officials in Russia know exactly who they sold them to.
Yes they do. They were paid quite well for them. Of course why take the risk of selling them to a terrorist organization when there are legitimate agencies ready to buy them as well.
Yes, the cost of nuclear power has gone down since the 1990's because those decommissioned nukes are much easier to de-enrich to civilian nuclear power plant levels than it is to enrich normal uranium ore.
IBM still has a competing JVM, though it is only at the 1.5 spec. It is what webshpere 6.1 runs on.
Actually the current version of Websphere is 7.0 (about 4 months old) and it runs on a Java 6.0 JVM (which is IBM's for the Windows and AIX versions of Websphere).
What we need is some form of write only media that can be cached for later verification. Paper is just the most redily available form that I know of, not to mention that it is already widely accepted.
There are two problems here. First is the ability to recount the results of the votes independent of the summary tally produced by these machines. A write-only media would work in that you could see each vote as recorded by the machine.
Where simple write-only media (WORM) doesn't help is in ensuring that the vote recorded by the machine actually matches what the voter intended. Note in this article, the machine recorded the votes incorrectly.
That is why it is important that the record that is going to be used for recounts be readable by the voter. The voter needs to have the capability to verify that the machine is recording his vote correctly. Currently only paper trails provide this capability.
For the intelligence-impaired, the set of "Americans" does not contain all members of the set of "all citizens of Earth."
<sarcasm>However judging by the last election results, the set of all Americans does include a sizable fraction of all the intelligence-impaired citizens of Earth</sarcasm>
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Why would anyone make the effort to port to a non-long term support version (e.g. 9, 10)? By the time your application container supports those versions (some still don't) and your application would be ported to those versions they are already going off support.
The entire support life cycle for Java 9+ along with the change in licensing are just a collection of not terribly bright ideas from Oracle. There's a reason that Azul, IBM, Redhat, etc. are offering extended support for Java previous versions.
The new Java LTS version (11) has only been out for a few months. The interesting question will be what is the usage of Java 11 a year or so from now.
What really needs to happen to regain trust in crypto algorithms generated by the US is to split the NSA into two separate organizations. Move the role of securing US government communications and computer systems into a new agency. Then assign the spy on foreign nationals role to a separate organization under the CIA.
While it would still take a long time to regain the trust of allies, this is a necessary first step.
From what I've seen, I think it is much more likely that the vast majority of those 300k democrats voted for Trump and the only reason that Trump didn't win in a complete landslide is because 150k republicans defected to the libertarian party.
Not even close. Compare the Wisconsin 2012/2016 numbers. Trump slightly under performed Romney, who lost Wisconsin (1.405m vs 1.407m). Clinton on the other hand, under performed Obama by 240k votes (1.382m vs 1.620m). Also note that Wisconsin had the lowest statewide presidential vote turnout in 20 years.
Clinton's problem was that a sizable chunk of the Democratic vote either stayed home or voted third party. Michigan and Pennsylvania had similar problems. I highlighted Wisconsin as that is where I live.
You're misunderstanding. I get what you are saying, I do, but now take a family of four, and remember that the summary is pointing out it could (being an operative word) cost around $2350 on average.
The issue here is that the summary is misleading. The actual article (I know, who would look at that) says the family's "perfect weekend" would cost $2328. So yes, you could certainly fit in several weekend trips to nearby state parks for much less than the "perfect weekend".
By 2030, that same photo of 5th Ave. will show an ocean of EV's with only one ICE vehicle in view.
Considering that the average age of an auto in the US is eleven years and increasing, that is probably overly optimistic. Manufacturer projections are that they will be only selling 1-2% EVs by 2020, so anything beyond 20-25% by 2030 is unfortunately unrealistic (based on what the manufacturers will be producing if nothing else).
Refs: NY Times, Wired, Boston Globe.
So even though our systems costs significantly more. We don't have better supply or better results.
There's something wrong when you need "plenty of money" in order to assure your rights aren't violated. We need to modify the system where, if you challenge a bad law and prevail, you get your legal costs reimbursed.
In many states it does work that way. Recently in Wisconsin, our Republican Gov and Legislature had to reimburse Planned Parenthood over a million dollars for legal expenses when the latest anti-abortion law was thrown out.
The problem is you still have to have someone who can front the legal expenses as you go through the multi-year legal process.
Actually if you look at the Gartner numbers (broken out by brand), you will see that Android owns the low end market with off brands. If you just compare Samsung vs Apple at the high end, it is about 63% to 37%. So while still a commanding lead, it isn't the overwhelming majority when you consider Apple's target customer base.
Semis create 80x the road wear compared to cars, not thousands.
Actually he was correct. The actual number based on US Dept of Transportation reports is 9600x for a semi compared to a passenger car - source.
You should realize that he is also benefiting from the US government more than either of us as well. Without the infrastructure and legal system of the US government he wouldn't have been able to accumulate all that wealth. No one would like to go back to the era where you needed your own private army to protect your wealth.
I'm not seeking to "punish" anyone, I am just pointing out that people who think that the wealthy are actually providing the vast majority of the funding for the US government are wrong.
However these taxes are capped to approximately the first $117,000 of earned income, not income from capital gains or dividends. So for someone like Mr. Ballmer, they are just round off error.
we are talking about total dollars, not percentages. you said you want them to pay their fair share, well they are as this article shows. being that that top 1% give the governement 38% of ALL money the government gets and the top 50% pay 97% of the total. meaning the bottom 50% share paying 3% of all taxes
Need to stop with the idea that 100% of the government's revenue is from income tax. You should realize that the amount of money from income tax is roughly on par with the amount of money from payroll taxes - revenue breakdown.
Now realizing that since payroll taxes are capped, meaning they are essentially round off error for the top 1%. So realizing that the top 1% with their 28% of the total income in the US are really only paying about 20% of the actual tax revenue doesn't sound quite so unfair anymore.
It is only fair that if the government thinks they have a need to monitor the people for criminal activities, that the people have even more of a need to monitor the government for malfeasance and criminal activity.
You are correct, that should be Mbit. Must have been too early in the morning to post. An extra $50 = 50Mbit, down to an extra $20 = 20Mbit. Still wasn't worth it even for the 20Mbit. Now if the 50Mbit service was an extra $20/month I may have taken it. But can only deal with what's offered.
I had the option of upgrading to Time Warner's new top tier of 50Gbit download speed and passed. Of course, they wanted an additional $50/month for the upgrade, so roughly a total of $100/month for the service.
At that price it wasn't worth it. If the upgrade were more reasonably priced, I would consider it.
Compare the cost to send a small package via UPS to a business in a major city near to you with the cost to ship something to a residence in Nome, AK and note that there is a significant difference in price between the two. That is something the Post Office is not allowed to do.
Actually, the people who have tried anyway had a rate half that of the USPS. Of course the government shut them down, because monopolies are efficient and virtuous.
Actually in that article the "American Letter Mail Company" did exactly what UPS, FedEx or any other private company would do if allowed to compete - pick large cities and only serve that market. USPS has the mandate of serving any address in the country for the same cost, regardless of whether it is the middle of Alaska or downtown Manhattan.
It is easy to undercut USPS if you only serve New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
I been a Java developer for 8 years, worked at several different consulting companies and large in-house corporate environments. I've never seen Windows+Tomcat being used in an actual production setup.
I work for a large corporation and we have several in production. It almost always boils down to vendor A supports a few different OS's. When none of the Unix versions comply with corporate standards, then you deploy Java applications (including Tomcat) on Windows.
The problem affects Firefox 7 users,
I know it is nice to bash McAfee and Norton all day, but Firefox's rapid release/upgrade cycle appears to be at fault here as well.
The next question is what exactly are these people going to do for a job out there? While the population density may be similar to Manhattan, there is no easy way to go anywhere away from where you live/work. Especially when you consider what it would take to make a floating runway capable of supporting commercial airliners. So it may be really hard to find enough people who would be able to tolerate living on these floating communities for any length of time.
But the problem is with the publisher, not with the educational institution.
I'll take issue with that, at the college level at least. Go back and look at your college texts, how many of them were written by some professor at the school? If institutions didn't insist on using using the textbook from "their professor", you could have significantly larger printing runs of the textbooks which would greatly reduce costs.
Not saying the publishing companies aren't making a profit, but both sides are responsible for gouging the students.
Whereas the leftover warheads from the former USSR........well, they're not lost, I'm sure that former officials in Russia know exactly who they sold them to.
Yes they do. They were paid quite well for them. Of course why take the risk of selling them to a terrorist organization when there are legitimate agencies ready to buy them as well.
Yes, the cost of nuclear power has gone down since the 1990's because those decommissioned nukes are much easier to de-enrich to civilian nuclear power plant levels than it is to enrich normal uranium ore.
IBM still has a competing JVM, though it is only at the 1.5 spec. It is what webshpere 6.1 runs on.
Actually the current version of Websphere is 7.0 (about 4 months old) and it runs on a Java 6.0 JVM (which is IBM's for the Windows and AIX versions of Websphere).
There are two problems here. First is the ability to recount the results of the votes independent of the summary tally produced by these machines. A write-only media would work in that you could see each vote as recorded by the machine.
Where simple write-only media (WORM) doesn't help is in ensuring that the vote recorded by the machine actually matches what the voter intended. Note in this article, the machine recorded the votes incorrectly.
That is why it is important that the record that is going to be used for recounts be readable by the voter. The voter needs to have the capability to verify that the machine is recording his vote correctly. Currently only paper trails provide this capability.
<sarcasm>However judging by the last election results, the set of all Americans does include a sizable fraction of all the intelligence-impaired citizens of Earth</sarcasm>