Across the country it can do millions of counts per hour. Australia has been doing so for years, we normally have a result by 10 or so in the evening. The size of the country really makes no difference, America is much larger but would have about the same number of votes per voting place to count.
Voting here is also really fast, I've never had to wait a single minute -- and that's not because of low turn out as it is compulsary.
People here don't appreciate it but netscape has one thing over FF and that is branding.
Most people who are not new to the internet remember Netscape. If you tell them it's back bigger and better they may just user it. Unlike an unknown and untested FF.
This is especially important if you're not actually sitting there converting them to FF manually.
In Australia, we have preferential voting. This means one can vote for some small party, and if they don't get in (likely), the vote still goes to the second preference so it isn't wasted.
This also benifits the small parties in two additional ways:
1. as they get to direct preferences (on their how to vote cards), bigger parties will make deals to get the preferences. This means the little parties get to have policy input on the big parties, proportial to the amount of primary votes they get (or the big parties think they will get).
2. The more votes they get, the more public election campaign funding they get for next time.
You are allowed to, and it is certainly possible to nativly compile Java apps. Look at Jet, or GCC. One does need to use SWT as the windowing API but I believe Azureus does (not 100% sure on that).
Java also works excellently on OS X, and SOLARIS, and AIX, and...
Some Apps are not very cross-platform friendly, but Azureus is.
Azureus has been doing this as well. But, no tracker means you can't JOIN a swarm. This means that it will slowly die unles the tracker returns sometimes. I believe this change will eliminate this problem.
What of the charge that PJ has retroactively modified comments on this topic?
Authored by: PJ on Saturday, April 30 2005 @ 03:05 PM EDT
I just got it. He objected to my saying it was a stopgap.
I modified the sentence he objected to, so as to say that
it was viewed from 2000 onward as a stopgap for
ebusiness customers, but not necessarily for all. I felt
he was right about that point. I do fix articles all the
time, when I learn more or realize I have made a
mistake or need to nuance something. I had an article
ready to say so, but his article came out while I was
sleeping.
It's why my readers trust Groklaw, actually, I think.
They know I care about being accurate above all things,
and if anyone has more information that would result
in further editing or correcting, I'm happy to receive it.
Our policy from the beginning has been to correct anything
that needs correcting, so don't hesitate to let me know if
you see any needed corrections. We are striving for an
accurate portrayal of the SCO litigation, for future historians,
and so getting it right is vital. And Groklaw's advantage is
that it's a group effort, not just me, so all the input is of
great value.
having already outstripped camera manufacturers in the photography market
With respect, this is hardly true. Just because they shipped more devices than camera manufacturers doesn't mean they outstipped them in the photography market.
You can't really classify a camera phone as being in the "photography market". They are in the "camera phone" market, and there is a large difference. Anyone looking for decent optics, a zoom, good resolution and a raft other other features that camera phone's lack, will still need to buy a real camera.
Granted they may replace the bottom of the range camera's with very few features as it is, or even if they get good enough the really compact ones (saves you carrying two devices), but for those of us who want half decent photos not just "happy snaps", we'll stick to a real photographical camera thank you very much.
Will.
Re:OS at odds with MS again, no surprise there..
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I think you are thinking of trademarks which must be enforced to remain valid.
I agree, it's incredably ironic that SCO's mission (to destroy Linux) has backfired and the exact opposite is happening, they are helping to legitimise it.
As history has shown, one of the best ways to unify people behind a cause is to attack them.
Next time you are in the market for linux server, use IBM hardware. That's what my company has done. The IBM hardware is rock solid so you're doing yourself a favour at the same time.
I agree - PJ seems to think the GPL is holy writ, but theres a lot more to software engineering and OSS than the GPL.
It's a pity Groklaw didn't stick to SCO as it covers that well.
If I want conspiracy theories there are plenty of other places to go.
Will.
Re:Java on top of OpenGL is happening...
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hey, i'm lazy, and i often want exceptions thrown all the way back to the original caller without having to declare each intermediate method's throw signature
easy - just wrap them in a RuntimeException (or if you are throwing your own - throw RuntimeExceptions or extensions of that class).
Will.
Similarly for a Java application or just about every Linux program. Common libs like DX are just assumed to already be installed and in most cases this is correct.
I don't see anyone complaining that you need an OS to run it - caus that would blow the size out to over 600MB!
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Across the country it can do millions of counts per hour. Australia has been doing so for years, we normally have a result by 10 or so in the evening. The size of the country really makes no difference, America is much larger but would have about the same number of votes per voting place to count.
Voting here is also really fast, I've never had to wait a single minute -- and that's not because of low turn out as it is compulsary.
Will.
Who's got some links to tools or info about creating homebrew PSP content?
Will.
Easy to solve, use an abstraction layer (e.g. JDBC).
Will.
While no one but Sun has really dared touch the core language and bytecode
My friend, you must not have heard of the JCP. http://tankammo.com/article/javamyths#Sun
, they "touch" the core language and bytecode every day.Will.
hehe, damn just when my mod points run out :(
Well nothing at all is available right now, but, from TFA: Some day it will be split ('ergonomic').
Will.
I agree. I think this is pretty good proof of Sun's good intentions. Hopefully Groklaw's PJ can stop with the Sun conspiracy theories now.
Will.
Apart from anything, since when have people complained when libraries get more money?
The amount of collective interest would be a fair bit if there were enough users, but this is great! The library can get more books.
There is certainly a case to be made against people making profit out of deposits, but in the case of a library, really who cares?
Will.
People here don't appreciate it but netscape has one thing over FF and that is branding.
Most people who are not new to the internet remember Netscape. If you tell them it's back bigger and better they may just user it. Unlike an unknown and untested FF.
This is especially important if you're not actually sitting there converting them to FF manually.
This is really good.
Will.
In Australia, we have preferential voting. This means one can vote for some small party, and if they don't get in (likely), the vote still goes to the second preference so it isn't wasted.
This also benifits the small parties in two additional ways:
1. as they get to direct preferences (on their how to vote cards), bigger parties will make deals to get the preferences. This means the little parties get to have policy input on the big parties, proportial to the amount of primary votes they get (or the big parties think they will get).
2. The more votes they get, the more public election campaign funding they get for next time.
Will.
Honestly want's the point though?
That person could be making a more useful contribution to some other project.
We're not talking about an API here where it IS useful to have in heaps of languages, but an application.
While he's at it, why doesn't he port _everything_ to python?
Will.
Mr Anonymous Coward,
You are allowed to, and it is certainly possible to nativly compile Java apps. Look at Jet, or GCC. One does need to use SWT as the windowing API but I believe Azureus does (not 100% sure on that).
Java also works excellently on OS X, and SOLARIS, and AIX, and...
Some Apps are not very cross-platform friendly, but Azureus is.
Will.
Azureus has been doing this as well. But, no tracker means you can't JOIN a swarm. This means that it will slowly die unles the tracker returns sometimes. I believe this change will eliminate this problem.
Will.
It's UDP so there's no sockets anyway. Datagrams are connectionless and have far less overheads.
76,000 would still kill most apps though...
Will.
But, doesn't python run though a VM too? That really voids the argument that it should be ported to Python for that reason?
Really, I don't think it matters. The portability for me (I use OS X, Linux and Winodws) makes the small cost of a VM well worth it.
Will.
You obviously have neither parents nor an Uncle Bob who "knows computers" but who is always ringing you up for advise.
I do, several.
None however run Linux, (nor use bittorrent). With OS X, Java is already there. With Windows it is really simple to install. Will.
With respect, this is hardly true. Just because they shipped more devices than camera manufacturers doesn't mean they outstipped them in the photography market.
You can't really classify a camera phone as being in the "photography market". They are in the "camera phone" market, and there is a large difference. Anyone looking for decent optics, a zoom, good resolution and a raft other other features that camera phone's lack, will still need to buy a real camera.
Granted they may replace the bottom of the range camera's with very few features as it is, or even if they get good enough the really compact ones (saves you carrying two devices), but for those of us who want half decent photos not just "happy snaps", we'll stick to a real photographical camera thank you very much.
Will.
I think you are thinking of trademarks which must be enforced to remain valid.
Will.
I agree, it's incredably ironic that SCO's mission (to destroy Linux) has backfired and the exact opposite is happening, they are helping to legitimise it.
As history has shown, one of the best ways to unify people behind a cause is to attack them.
Will.
Next time you are in the market for linux server, use IBM hardware. That's what my company has done. The IBM hardware is rock solid so you're doing yourself a favour at the same time.
Will.
I agree - PJ seems to think the GPL is holy writ, but theres a lot more to software engineering and OSS than the GPL.
It's a pity Groklaw didn't stick to SCO as it covers that well.
If I want conspiracy theories there are plenty of other places to go.
Will.
hey, i'm lazy, and i often want exceptions thrown all the way back to the original caller without having to declare each intermediate method's throw signature
easy - just wrap them in a RuntimeException (or if you are throwing your own - throw RuntimeExceptions or extensions of that class). Will.
Name one compiler that completely follows the standard. I don't think one exists.
javac
Similarly for a Java application or just about every Linux program. Common libs like DX are just assumed to already be installed and in most cases this is correct.
I don't see anyone complaining that you need an OS to run it - caus that would blow the size out to over 600MB!
Will.