Saddam Hussein was a brutal ruler, nobody can defend some of his actions - but seriously, he has been demonized far more than even he deserves. How about a reputable, impartial source? (Anything that GWB / Rumsfeld have used doesn't qualify as a reputable source, nor impartial for that matter).
I believe that what you are trying to say comes more under the definition of "not reinventing the wheel."
The whole point of software is to enable you to accomplish a task (or accomplish it more easily), AC, not to avoid manipulating pulses.
Almost all software builds on the work done by other software, but somewhere in the pile of software that you are building on, there is software that directly manipulates these electrical pulses.
So, yes, you build on what others have done to avoid directly manipulating electrical pulses, but, AC, that is definately not the point of software - if there is no other way to implement the functionality, i assure you that you will be manipulating pulses (how do you think that the firmware in chips works? yes, firmware is software.).
The term "engineering" doesn't specifically mean "electrical engineering" or "mechanical engineering". Rather it implies complex design.
Ever heard of a "Software Engineer"? He/She is involved with the design of software - it is the job of the Software Engineer to make sure that the end result will fulfil the functional requirements and will be scalable and extendable. It is very different than a software developer or a programmer (unfortunately, the term Software Engineer is often incorrectly used interchangeably with these), who build something to fit within a design (or hack something together to accomplish a task).
Some sculpture does have a great deal of mechanical engineering involved - e.g. how do i make the bottom support the top. However, any significant piece of software, if it is to be viable on a large scale, absolutely needs proper *engineering*.
how do you figure that software doesn't depend on physics? follow the trail, buddy...software->hardware->physics
besides... the definition of engineering doesn't necessarily imply dependency on physics... although, the argument could easily be made
according to www.m-w.com Engineering is:
2 a : the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people b : the design and manufacture of complex products
no, no... "nuclear" is the kind, gentle warm-glow power generating thing.
"nucular" is the stuff to really watch out for.(the kind of stuff that Saddam Hussein was making into weapons which the military keeps finding in various places in Eye-RAQ along with the facilities that were used to make them;) )
The hatred that most Palestinians have for the Israelis is rooted in the frustration caused by decades of oppression. They are not in a position to compromise, they have very little to lose (not to be interpreted that i agree with the terrorist activities of some).
The Israelis, on the other hand, have everything to gain - their terrorism (using your definition) is just as widespread as that of the Palestinian militants, except that it is presented as "collateral damage" in pursuing military targets or "retribution" (obviously Israel has a far better PR spin machine than the Palestinians do). Bottom line, the IDF kill far more Palestinian civilians than Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa MB.
Golda Meir put it quite eloquently, but only presented half of the solution - the other half would go something like "... they hate us, and we love our children more than we hate them."
what about the "Settlers" that are put into the occupied territories... if they are not asking to become targets, i don't know how else to classify them.
not to mention... the jews took the land from whoever had it before them (Caananites if you choose to use the Bible / Torah).
The whole "we had it first" is a circular argument - of course there is no such thing as a "pure jew" anymore in the same way that there is no person who is completely any race.
Who are you to say they are not fighting a war. They are fighting a war against an oppressive tyrannical occupation.
While i am not in the least condoning terrorist actions, the "Israel is proactively defending themselves" is bullshit. "Preemptive defense" is better known as "offense".
The fact that you think Java sells sun hardware shows the root of the problem. The Java implementation on SPARC Solaris is really slow compared to the x86 implementation on Linux or Windows.
So, if you are talking about running on Sun hardware, it isn't surprising that you would think that Java was unnecessarily slow. Try running on Linux, you will be surprised at the speed difference.
Not to go into details, but there are many extremely fast Java based applications running out there.
I work for an ASP that develops and hosts a J2EE application (originally iPlanet on Solaris and now JBoss on Linux on x86).
Most decent J2EE application servers have built-in clustering functionality that enables you to scale easily by adding another server node to the cluster.
Like many others have said, you can make a slow application in any language - even if you hack something up in C if you don't know what you are doing, chances are it will suck.
The point that i want to make is that while there is some overhead in running the Java JVM over native binaries, with modern hardware and a well written application, this overhead will be negligible.
I happen to think that J2EE applications, when implemented correctly, offer an excellent framework for building scalable, cost-effect solutions. I'm willing to bet that root of the poster's problem is that the application was poorly designed and the database is poorly designed and maintained - the fastest application will be dog-slow connected to a database that isn't indexed correctly.
Unfortunately, and this should be a commentary on the sad state of the nation, you are right that he will be re-elected - the worst part about it is that he won't need to rig anything.
The Balfour Declaration by not means gave Israel any sort of territorial rights - it was merely a letter written by the British Foreign secretary, specifying that the British government would support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. (link)
This would be similar to Jack Straw (the current British FS) writing a letter to some "pro-Chilean" figure, stating that the British government would support the establishment of a Chilean nation in Argentina.
The Israelis, in fact, initiated the 6-Day war. It is true that there were troop build-ups on both sides and that there was a great deal of threatening from all parties, but it was the Israelis that started the fighting. (link)
It is interesting to note that as part of the Israeli's initial attack, they assaulted a clearly marked American recon ship (USS Liberty) from the air - disabling it completely with several phases of attacks, there is also evidence that the Israelis shot down US planes that were deployed to the assitance of the Liberty. (link1 link2link3).
Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights were occupied by Israel during the 6-Day war (There were other pieces of land occupied during the war that were later returned).
The reason that it is accurately refered to as "Occupation" is that it precisely describes the situation (Similarly in concept to how the US is now occupying Iraq). The legal situation is that Israel has been mandated to return to its pre-1967 borders by a UN Security Council Resolution (242) and has ignored the international community's pressure along with several other Security Council Resolutions. Therefore, it is illegallyoccupying these territories.
What are these "Rules of War" that you are referring to? We've come a long way since the times when people could just take land from eachother just because they had a bigger army.
This discussion kinda reminded me of the Sheik guy who was murdered by some rednecks after 9-11.
Clearly what they were trying to say was:
<QUOTE> They weren't your poster-boy blonde hair, blue eyes hotties, in fact they didn't have light colored skin, but they weren't dark enough to be black, so... since we're assuming that these theives were after the information on these machines, it would only be useful to them if they were terrorists - consequently, since we know that terrorists can only be Indian / Pakistani / Arab, we can safely make the assumption that these no-good types where of that variety and not Aboriginal Australians, Hispanics or any other people with darker-than-white-but-not-quite-black skin. </QUOTE>
in MI we have no-fault insurance - it is supposed to keep rates lower, but we still have higher rates than IL, IN, OH (i believe that all of them are not no-fault)
Apache HTTPD (running on Windows) does support.exe files - it can run whatever you want as CGI. Obviously you don't understand WTF you are talking about and are a merely a troll.
I am a Python fan, i've used it for quite a few projects including some supporting projects for work.
The problem with Python is that it just doesn't offer a complete framework like J2EE to run an enterprise application - i know that i'm going to get ppl saying "What about Zope?" and stuff like that, but there honestly isn't a competitive server framework.
For standalone applications, i would certainly consider Python / wxWindows over Swing, but not for a enterprise level server application.
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal ruler, nobody can defend some of his actions - but seriously, he has been demonized far more than even he deserves. How about a reputable, impartial source? (Anything that GWB / Rumsfeld have used doesn't qualify as a reputable source, nor impartial for that matter).
That is utter bullshit (the sculpture statement).
I believe that what you are trying to say comes more under the definition of "not reinventing the wheel."
The whole point of software is to enable you to accomplish a task (or accomplish it more easily), AC, not to avoid manipulating pulses.
Almost all software builds on the work done by other software, but somewhere in the pile of software that you are building on, there is software that directly manipulates these electrical pulses.
So, yes, you build on what others have done to avoid directly manipulating electrical pulses, but, AC, that is definately not the point of software - if there is no other way to implement the functionality, i assure you that you will be manipulating pulses (how do you think that the firmware in chips works? yes, firmware is software.).
The term "engineering" doesn't specifically mean "electrical engineering" or "mechanical engineering". Rather it implies complex design.
Ever heard of a "Software Engineer"? He/She is involved with the design of software - it is the job of the Software Engineer to make sure that the end result will fulfil the functional requirements and will be scalable and extendable. It is very different than a software developer or a programmer (unfortunately, the term Software Engineer is often incorrectly used interchangeably with these), who build something to fit within a design (or hack something together to accomplish a task).
Some sculpture does have a great deal of mechanical engineering involved - e.g. how do i make the bottom support the top. However, any significant piece of software, if it is to be viable on a large scale, absolutely needs proper *engineering*.
really?
how do you figure that software doesn't depend on physics? follow the trail, buddy...software->hardware->physics
besides... the definition of engineering doesn't necessarily imply dependency on physics... although, the argument could easily be made
according to www.m-w.com
Engineering is:
2 a : the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people
b : the design and manufacture of complex products
>>just a pretty picture to brighton your day!
ahh... yes i have been to Brighton at one time.. and i can see the usage as a verb synonymous with "bollix".
i would assume not... one would hope that they would play with what was dealt to them; it would be cheating otherwise.
With that said... it does seem like they are trying to bring their own deck.
no, no...
;) )
"nuclear" is the kind, gentle warm-glow power generating thing.
"nucular" is the stuff to really watch out for.(the kind of stuff that Saddam Hussein was making into weapons which the military keeps finding in various places in Eye-RAQ along with the facilities that were used to make them
Surprisingly, I actually agree with your definition of terrorism.
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check this out, it is very interesting http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/429/429lect01.ht
The hatred that most Palestinians have for the Israelis is rooted in the frustration caused by decades of oppression. They are not in a position to compromise, they have very little to lose (not to be interpreted that i agree with the terrorist activities of some).
The Israelis, on the other hand, have everything to gain - their terrorism (using your definition) is just as widespread as that of the Palestinian militants, except that it is presented as "collateral damage" in pursuing military targets or "retribution" (obviously Israel has a far better PR spin machine than the Palestinians do). Bottom line, the IDF kill far more Palestinian civilians than Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa MB.
Golda Meir put it quite eloquently, but only presented half of the solution - the other half would go something like "... they hate us, and we love our children more than we hate them."
what about the "Settlers" that are put into the occupied territories... if they are not asking to become targets, i don't know how else to classify them.
not to mention... the jews took the land from whoever had it before them (Caananites if you choose to use the Bible / Torah).
The whole "we had it first" is a circular argument - of course there is no such thing as a "pure jew" anymore in the same way that there is no person who is completely any race.
Who are you to say they are not fighting a war. They are fighting a war against an oppressive tyrannical occupation.
While i am not in the least condoning terrorist actions, the "Israel is proactively defending themselves" is bullshit. "Preemptive defense" is better known as "offense".
The fact that you think Java sells sun hardware shows the root of the problem. The Java implementation on SPARC Solaris is really slow compared to the x86 implementation on Linux or Windows.
So, if you are talking about running on Sun hardware, it isn't surprising that you would think that Java was unnecessarily slow. Try running on Linux, you will be surprised at the speed difference.
Not to go into details, but there are many extremely fast Java based applications running out there.
I work for an ASP that develops and hosts a J2EE application (originally iPlanet on Solaris and now JBoss on Linux on x86).
Most decent J2EE application servers have built-in clustering functionality that enables you to scale easily by adding another server node to the cluster.
Like many others have said, you can make a slow application in any language - even if you hack something up in C if you don't know what you are doing, chances are it will suck.
The point that i want to make is that while there is some overhead in running the Java JVM over native binaries, with modern hardware and a well written application, this overhead will be negligible.
I happen to think that J2EE applications, when implemented correctly, offer an excellent framework for building scalable, cost-effect solutions. I'm willing to bet that root of the poster's problem is that the application was poorly designed and the database is poorly designed and maintained - the fastest application will be dog-slow connected to a database that isn't indexed correctly.
Unfortunately, and this should be a commentary on the sad state of the nation, you are right that he will be re-elected - the worst part about it is that he won't need to rig anything.
The Balfour Declaration by not means gave Israel any sort of territorial rights - it was merely a letter written by the British Foreign secretary, specifying that the British government would support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. (link)
.
This would be similar to Jack Straw (the current British FS) writing a letter to some "pro-Chilean" figure, stating that the British government would support the establishment of a Chilean nation in Argentina.
The Israelis, in fact, initiated the 6-Day war. It is true that there were troop build-ups on both sides and that there was a great deal of threatening from all parties, but it was the Israelis that started the fighting. (link)
It is interesting to note that as part of the Israeli's initial attack, they assaulted a clearly marked American recon ship (USS Liberty) from the air - disabling it completely with several phases of attacks, there is also evidence that the Israelis shot down US planes that were deployed to the assitance of the Liberty. (link1 link2 link3).
Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights were occupied by Israel during the 6-Day war (There were other pieces of land occupied during the war that were later returned).
The reason that it is accurately refered to as "Occupation" is that it precisely describes the situation (Similarly in concept to how the US is now occupying Iraq). The legal situation is that Israel has been mandated to return to its pre-1967 borders by a UN Security Council Resolution (242) and has ignored the international community's pressure along with several other Security Council Resolutions. Therefore, it is illegally occupying these territories
What are these "Rules of War" that you are referring to? We've come a long way since the times when people could just take land from eachother just because they had a bigger army.
Do you actually know how little teachers are paid?
I didn't think so.
sure...
On that note... did anyone see the Indian Miss Universe (i think it was in 2000)
She didn't look "stereotypically Indian", but DAMN, she was hot!
yup...
This discussion kinda reminded me of the Sheik guy who was murdered by some rednecks after 9-11.
Clearly what they were trying to say was:
<QUOTE>
They weren't your poster-boy blonde hair, blue eyes hotties, in fact they didn't have light colored skin, but they weren't dark enough to be black, so... since we're assuming that these theives were after the information on these machines, it would only be useful to them if they were terrorists - consequently, since we know that terrorists can only be Indian / Pakistani / Arab, we can safely make the assumption that these no-good types where of that variety and not Aboriginal Australians, Hispanics or any other people with darker-than-white-but-not-quite-black skin.
</QUOTE>
You obviously havn't met very many people from more than one of those places.
Your "stereotypical Frenchman" does not look at all link your "stereotypical Russian" who also doesn't look like your "stereotypical Scandinavian".
In fact... most Russians and "Scandinavians" don't look like your stereotypical presupposition of them.
in MI we have no-fault insurance - it is supposed to keep rates lower, but we still have higher rates than IL, IN, OH (i believe that all of them are not no-fault)
I can parallel park though I prefer not to, esp with my new car that you can't really see the front end while seated inside.
is there a car that you can actually see the front end??? Its all a matter of getting a feel for the size of the car.
AMEN
Apache HTTPD (running on Windows) does support .exe files - it can run whatever you want as CGI. Obviously you don't understand WTF you are talking about and are a merely a troll.
That has got to be one of the funniest posts i've ever seen!
A better observation would be:
"people have been killing and/or persecuting people for the past $number_of_years_since_we_evolved_into_people years"
I am a Python fan, i've used it for quite a few projects including some supporting projects for work.
The problem with Python is that it just doesn't offer a complete framework like J2EE to run an enterprise application - i know that i'm going to get ppl saying "What about Zope?" and stuff like that, but there honestly isn't a competitive server framework.
For standalone applications, i would certainly consider Python / wxWindows over Swing, but not for a enterprise level server application.