Please explain, oh Wise One, how someone smoking a joint after an exam in college drags down the rest of society??
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Yeah, but that's not Java's problem, it's yours:) Just like when I was a big advocate of OS/2 in the early days, you're going to have to buy the hardware for the OS for a while...
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My cousin's husband works for Sun and he said that the next version (1.5?) of Java will have Swing ported to OpenGL underpinnings... that way, even 2D apps will be MUCH faster.
He said they're realizing 4X speed increases on plain old 2D apps.
They're also working on making 3D game demos (some with 3rd parties) to demo that Java can actually now compete in the desktop game market...
How do you think HONDA and HYUNDAI became so big in the US?
It's an age old formula... come out with a really cheap product whose quality is not really great, but is a serious bargain. Improve its quality over time and slowly increase its cost. The people who couldn't afford the good stuff in the past and bought your product will continue to buy your product as it improves through brand loyalty and personal income increase.
That is why we will never see the fabled car that drives itself to your destination. If you and I are in an accident, and both of us were letting the cars drive themselves, who is at fault? The manufacturer(s) of course. The liability of such systems is unbelievably high.
Well, in the US, that's why we have political lobbyists... they'll pay^H^H^H convince the law makers to indemnify them against any such lawsuits..:)
When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.' Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?"
My friend was the project manager on the project that brought the loyalty cards to Giant Foods (big in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, not sure about elsewhere) and he told me this is _exactly_ what they do. They track all your purchases and which sale items you buy, etc. Heck, the management there was giving him crap about not shopping at their stores because they were looking up his records at work!!
We are being tracked... more and more and with greater efficency every day. Personally, it scares the crap out of me.
well, you definitely can access "this" in a C# constructor. How would you set member variables otherwise?
and when it comes to constructors in superclasses, it is completely counter-intuitive to OO concepts to NOT construct a superclass in the manner in which it was intended. That is the whole point to inheritance. You will be doing things just like the base class and you look just like that base class, you just override some implementation. Construction is a contract. If the base class requires that it is done a certain way, that's just the way it is. I'm not very familiar with Python, but if it allows you to ignore base class contracts, then it is a really bad tool for OO solutions. That idea (not using base class constructors) should even pop into the head of a person trying to implement an OO solution.
I agree on multiple inheritance, but referencing "self" in construction? Could you elaborate?
And, avoiding calling super-classes' constructors completely violates the concept of polymorphism. If that base class was designed to be constructed in a certain way, that's it! If you don't want to construct it that way, use something else.
All you have to do is use a hole puncher on the side that doesn't have a hole and flip the disk over! Voila! Twice as much space! Gosh... I've been doing this since the early 80s!
Of course, it's hard to find a hole puncher strong enough to get through a hard drive, but I've used a hack saw a couple of times... works like a charm!
but I use my pipe pretty heavily*... * My definition of heavy usage is a freenet node, capped at about a quarter of my bandwidth each way, plus daily large downloads to feed my Debian unstable habit and frequent large downloads from allofmp3.com. On average, I use about half of the bandwidth available to me
I use my pipe pretty heavily too. My definition of heavily is three times a day... four when I've been looking at too much pr0n...
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Please explain, oh Wise One, how someone smoking a joint after an exam in college drags down the rest of society??
Yeah, but that's not Java's problem, it's yours :) Just like when I was a big advocate of OS/2 in the early days, you're going to have to buy the hardware for the OS for a while...
My cousin's husband works for Sun and he said that the next version (1.5?) of Java will have Swing ported to OpenGL underpinnings... that way, even 2D apps will be MUCH faster.
He said they're realizing 4X speed increases on plain old 2D apps.
They're also working on making 3D game demos (some with 3rd parties) to demo that Java can actually now compete in the desktop game market...
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 15:35:46 -0800 ...
From: David Chapman
To: UNIX-HATERS
Subject: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
That wasn't MARK David Chapman was it?
How do you think HONDA and HYUNDAI became so big in the US?
It's an age old formula... come out with a really cheap product whose quality is not really great, but is a serious bargain. Improve its quality over time and slowly increase its cost. The people who couldn't afford the good stuff in the past and bought your product will continue to buy your product as it improves through brand loyalty and personal income increase.
It's an old trick that works well.
It would have been more appropriate if he kissed him full on the mouth like Michael Corleone did to Fredo... "You broke my heart Fredo!"...
:)
Next thing you know, Bill Gates is going to ask McNealy if he wants to go for a boat ride...
Umm... there ARE tarrifs on cars from foreign countries. Why do you think they make Hondas inside the US now?
I think they should all be sterilized... problem solved!
That reminds me...
:)
How long until you can sit in your driveway playing Project Gotham Racing/Gran Turismo in a real car??
That would be really cool...
That is why we will never see the fabled car that drives itself to your destination. If you and I are in an accident, and both of us were letting the cars drive themselves, who is at fault? The manufacturer(s) of course. The liability of such systems is unbelievably high.
:)
Well, in the US, that's why we have political lobbyists... they'll pay^H^H^H convince the law makers to indemnify them against any such lawsuits..
I don't fear pathetic Canadians (aren't they all?). After all, they're pathetic, right? oh wait...
The original Star Trek was only on for 3 seasons. Maybe not such a good comparison??
Especially now that Jessica Alba looks tastier than ever... in the mean time, I'll just keep watching Alias ;)
I agree... they blew up the main people... how's that work? What? They were their evil twins or something?
I just don't get it.
When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.' Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?"
My friend was the project manager on the project that brought the loyalty cards to Giant Foods (big in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, not sure about elsewhere) and he told me this is _exactly_ what they do. They track all your purchases and which sale items you buy, etc. Heck, the management there was giving him crap about not shopping at their stores because they were looking up his records at work!!
We are being tracked... more and more and with greater efficency every day. Personally, it scares the crap out of me.
You're worshipping at the FSF's altar and you ask them to define RMS?
Let me guess... you're new here?
Department of Homelad Security: ...
Is that the department that keeps littly boys safe at home?
Oh... that's MUCH easier than Windows Update. Can't wait for my mom to try doing this...
</asbestos suit>
I'm so sick of uninformed people bashing Microsoft with inaccurate information!
I mean, really, there are TONS of ways to CORRECTLY bash them! Check your facts!
well, you definitely can access "this" in a C# constructor. How would you set member variables otherwise?
and when it comes to constructors in superclasses, it is completely counter-intuitive to OO concepts to NOT construct a superclass in the manner in which it was intended. That is the whole point to inheritance. You will be doing things just like the base class and you look just like that base class, you just override some implementation. Construction is a contract. If the base class requires that it is done a certain way, that's just the way it is. I'm not very familiar with Python, but if it allows you to ignore base class contracts, then it is a really bad tool for OO solutions. That idea (not using base class constructors) should even pop into the head of a person trying to implement an OO solution.
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I agree on multiple inheritance, but referencing "self" in construction? Could you elaborate?
And, avoiding calling super-classes' constructors completely violates the concept of polymorphism. If that base class was designed to be constructed in a certain way, that's it! If you don't want to construct it that way, use something else.
All you have to do is use a hole puncher on the side that doesn't have a hole and flip the disk over! Voila! Twice as much space! Gosh... I've been doing this since the early 80s!
Of course, it's hard to find a hole puncher strong enough to get through a hard drive, but I've used a hack saw a couple of times... works like a charm!
Chicks with small tits?
You really did a Beowulf cluster? Wow. I could never have imagined that!
but I use my pipe pretty heavily* ...
:)
* My definition of heavy usage is a freenet node, capped at about a quarter of my bandwidth each way, plus daily large downloads to feed my Debian unstable habit and frequent large downloads from allofmp3.com. On average, I use about half of the bandwidth available to me
I use my pipe pretty heavily too.
My definition of heavily is three times a day... four when I've been looking at too much pr0n...
Guess I need to get a girlfriend...