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  1. Re:You can't win.... on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you should use web clients. LAMP it is. .NET or J2EE is just not the answer hardly ever. How I wish there was a perl or PHP framework, though.

  2. Re:Need extra stuff on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't resolve the problem, it avoids it. In essense, you are statically linking every library, (except --sometimes-- tools.jar) into every app. how many xalan-impl's does one computer need. Especially since a dozen apps each with a dozen megs for a library that most of them are using as a substitute for a .properties file, or maybe a very simple csv dataset.

  3. Re:its that simple on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    RE: 3 He's complaining performance, not price.

  4. Re:ARGH!!!!!! on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    Java is nice because it is easy to use so there are a lot of open source libraries. But as a result of the way java is designed, things like PDF viewers or data entry forms or servlets take a boatload of memory and run slow.

  5. Re:ARGH!!!!!! on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    Java isn't slow, my computer is slow when it runs java applications.

  6. Re:Is it really worth the trouble? on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 1

    That's nice, but the DMCA, by explicitly not prohibiting the opposite, implicitly prohibits it. It's the whole clause about "If the ISP removes allegedly offending material within x amount of time, they cannot be held liable" which means in American legal terms that the ISP is presumed guilty (as is the offender -- two separate, non-complicit guilty parties, how's that for justice?) if the don't do whatever the "copyright holder" demands.

  7. Re:they might be able to harrass you legally on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 1

    God bless the USA and laissez faire capitalism. If the telco/cable oligopoly started feeling threatened, I wouldn't be suprised if their "terms of service" would start claiming that by purchasing cable television you agree not to compete with them by selling internet access.

  8. Re:Maybe I should be more familiar, but... on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    but were the brown people in the movie the same color of brown that Ursula imagined them?

  9. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    There is very little risk of a truck driving into the USA with a nuclear cargo. While it is possible to sneak a truck across the border, it is not easy. What is easy, is detecting nuclear material in sufficient quantity to do any harm. A few thousand geiger counters, a dozen sattelites, and some infra-red googles for border guards are all it would take to keep a truck with a nuclear bomb from entering the country. However, a supersonic, intercontinental missile is much harder to stop, and most nukes are currently attacked to just such devices.

  10. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    Well, many of Columbus' crew believed the Earth was flat (according to Columbus's own diaries.) Experienced mariners trained in Astronomy and Geography would count as educated people in my book. Even if they were superstitious, ignorant, and wrong.

  11. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    You can still find isolated incidents of people who call themselves scientists using what was called the "Scientific Method" by some. It doesn't mean that you can trust anyone with a white smock and a pocket-protector.

  12. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    The idea of someone writing the idea down and and then printing multiple copies of it using a press with moveable type dates from around Galileo's time.

  13. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm smart enough to know that scramjets will never work. At least never as economically as rockets. Scramjets will always be a waste of money, but researching them might lead to efficiencies in traditional jets.

  14. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    You've got to be kidding! Russia is believed to be what by whom?

  15. Re:Your sense of "waste" is downright scary.. on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    Daily indoctrination into a certain belief system is required for a restaurant management position?

  16. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    It has worked in the past. The trick is to try and get it to work more often. Saddam's AA guns have shot down cruise missiles. Our phalanx guns can shred incoming anti-ship missiles. Nike Ajax ABMs have been in production since the 70s. Patriot Missiles have been proven in combat. There have been successful tests and unsuccessful tests in the past few years. They're just trying to bring the success rate up and the range out.

  17. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the holy annointed True Scientists all agree. Any schism among True Scientists is a deception of the evil Christian Creationist Anti-Global Warming/Cooling Spotted Owl Hating Apostate Newtonian Euclidian Heathens.

  18. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    This missile defense system does exactly that. See an Iranian arms dealer with ties to Hesbollah visits a hooker while brokering a deal for some more AK-74s in Hong Kong. The hooker turns out to be an informant for the Chinese Government and plants a tracking device on him. Tensions between the USA and China heat up over some sabre rattling maneuvers in the Formosa Straits. Because they are worried that America may arm the Taiwanese with Anti-ballistic missiles, they share some very interesting information learned from the prostitute concerning terrorist activities. A predator drone in the Yemeni desert takes out the accountant for an al Qeida splinter group and they are unable to bribe their way into a protected site in Azerbaijan where they were going to pick up nuclear material to build a dirty bomb to be carried to the USA.

  19. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    we use missiles all the time to watch TV and protect from terrorists and beat commies and intimidate frogs. Scramjets are a pet project of a few nerds that shows little sign of ever having any practical use.

  20. Re:Maybe I should be more familiar, but... on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    I thought the difference was that Star Wars was a great show with an inner consistence and Minority Report sucked and contracticted itself.

  21. Re:Did you slashdot the nice lady's website? on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 2, Informative

    Her "rainbow people" utopia was a pretty common motif in 1940s sci fi, and everyone from Isaac Asimov to Roger Zelazny had brown-skinned characters (even real black African from real Earth) in their stories before her.

  22. Re:Did you slashdot the nice lady's website? on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    It seems her only real complaint is that the got the skin-colors she imagined her characters to have (I don't think it's mentioned or particulary relevant in the book, although the Earthsea Archipelago culture is markedly Euro- or even Anglo-centric, not a surprise coming from a white author to a white audience.) I suppose she feels an dShakespearean production of "Othello", or a Sowetto schoolchildren's "A Christmas Carol" would also be inauthentic and in violation of original authorial intent. Her only other gripe seems to be an assumption that the hollywood producers were hardcore rightwing idealist warmongers serving their republican President's interest with their slavish and cunning propaganda. That said, it was a lousy cheap overbudget typical S&S fantasy though. I could only watch a few minutes, and it sounds like the "dualism" is actually blessed by her, but she prefers to think of "Spirituality" and "Paganism" as two sides on the same coin, and was afraid the producers meant "Christianity" and "pop-witchcraft."

  23. Re:Tax Cuts are going the wrong way .... on More Fallout From FCC VoIP Decision · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are an awful lot of guys growing pot in their basement knocking over liquor stores these days. In fact, I bet a majority of armed robberies are drug related -- as in the perpetrator uses illegal drugs, most often marijuana.

  24. Re:Tax Cuts are going the wrong way .... on More Fallout From FCC VoIP Decision · · Score: 1

    Or you could have hired 2 doctors and a specialist to sit by her side for a whole year.

  25. Re:Tax Cuts are going the wrong way .... on More Fallout From FCC VoIP Decision · · Score: 1

    So?

    If he just paid cash, his wife had a baby every other year, each kid got a broken arm, eyeglasses, and braces; his medical bills would still be less than his insurance, if he paid them all with cash advances from his credit card with 24.98% interest.

    Get rid of medical insurance. It's the problem. You'll find out if you rack up more than a couple years worth of premiums, the company will drop you and refuse to pay, anyway.

    And if the insurance is gone then doctors will treat patients, take only what they can get from them, and make more money to boot.