Agreed. The X-Wing series nailed this one early on. The ships HUD displays took up a lot of screen real estate. But with the press of a button, all non-essential information disappeared so you could get a much fuller view of the battlefield.
I seriously doubt any laywer with half a brain cell is going to qoute the merits of a kiddie porn case.
It's the RIAA we're talking about here. You know - the ones who have no qualms about taking a 12 year old girl or granny to court and then threaten to take them for everything they have.
Agreed. The US military is arguably the most powerful, best trained, and best equipped army in the history of the world. Army vs. Army, they are unstoppable. The Iraqi army crumbled in less than a month.
However,three years later, and we're hamstrung against a force that uses little more than 20 year old rpg's and homemade bombs.
You mention finding *gasp* facts, but all I found in this [b]editorial piece[/b] were *gasp* opinions. Do you have an argument that isn't as fucktarded as that one? Or is this the best you can do?
The grandparent is right, there are no real affordable options. Either you pay 150-250 or you deal with the next to useless integrated video on your mobo. Something decent that will play most of the popular games at 'medium' without massive frame loss at around 75-100 dollars is needed.
Not true at all. With a 1300x, I can crank up most of the effects to "high" (or even "very high") at 1024x768 and still have a smooth experience.
Yeah, text editors are great... until you start debugging. I don't care how good you are, my conditional breakpoints, annotated stack frames, expression watchers, and hot code replace will run circles around your System.out.println()'s.
C++?? Eclipse does that too. While Eclipse, out-of-the-box is a Java IDE, it was designed to support multiple languages and frameworks, and does so quite well.
Easy really. Oh yes, pay them some ENglish classes, brng them to your country for one month so they become more profficient. There are solutions for all your problems.
Java's integration into the Linux environment is lousy: getting at Linux kernel or desktop APIs is a lot of work.
Trying to use Java to do native desktop or kernel development on *any* OS is like using a hammer to bang in a screw: It's the wrong tool for the wrong job.
Furthermore, the only really usable Java implementations are proprietary and don't even ship on many Linux systems.
Pardon my vlugarity, but "Big Fucking Deal". How hard is it to grab Sun's JDK off of sun and install it yourself? Two mouse clicks and an `rpm -i`.
Ok, *now* you're just talking bollocks! Novell is continuously donating code back to the FOSS community. Novell is essentially the "open source steward" that IBM tries to sell itself as. Yeah, they still have their trade secrets, and they're still out to make money. But that doesn't mean that they don't give a fair amount in return.
IBM can talk the talk all day but at the end of the day regardless of all the Linux lip service they really don't walk the walk, and probably never will.
Have we forgotten already that the Eclipse foundation started with millions of lines of proprietary code donated by IBM?
Of course not. But nor would you want to wait until the object is necessarily "out of scope" either. Such resources are best freed manually as soon as they're no longer needed. Which may happen loooong before an object using it goes out of scope.
...its great that they bought SuSE and all, except that they haven't done anything with the product since they've bought it.
Wrong.
Novell has bet their farm with SuSe being successful. Don't fool yourself. Novell may be mismanaged, but they do still have a huge install base running NetWare. And they've been gradually trying do get their existing NetWare customers to switch to Suse Enterprise. Virtually their entire product offering: E-directory, Identity Manager, ZenWorks, GroupWise, etc. have been ported to Linux and work smashingly well on it. Suse is arguably the best enterprise distro out there in terms of security and stability, and this is due in no small part to the work Novell has done on it. Not only that, but Novell has been a good "open source steward" with Suse. Much of the proprietary technology that they've built into their Enterprise distro has been gpl'd and released back into the community.
Red Hat, unlike Novell, is riddled with major OSS advocates from the top down
Wrong again. The suits at Novell mandated over a year ago that the *entire* company, from execs, to engineers, to the trophy secretary, gradually ditch their Windows workstations in favor of the Novell Linux Desktop. In fact, in their corporate directory portal, every employee has a gauge next to their picture that reflects what percentage of their daily work is done using Linux. Make no mistake, Novell needs to make Suse successful commercially if they are to survive, and they're very serious about making sure *all* of their staff is on board.
The ternary operator considered bad practice??
Methinks someone needs to go back to coding kindergarten. If I have a lot of simple if/else conditions it's a *HELL* of a lot easier to code and maintain
var foo = (condition) ? conditionIsTrue : conditionIsFalse;
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Agreed. The X-Wing series nailed this one early on. The ships HUD displays took up a lot of screen real estate. But with the press of a button, all non-essential information disappeared so you could get a much fuller view of the battlefield.
I seriously doubt any laywer with half a brain cell is going to qoute the merits of a kiddie porn case.
It's the RIAA we're talking about here. You know - the ones who have no qualms about taking a 12 year old girl or granny to court and then threaten to take them for everything they have.It's tremendously easier if you use the Spiral Attack available (much) earlier in the level. He'll die in about 2-3 hits.
Agreed. The US military is arguably the most powerful, best trained, and best equipped army in the history of the world. Army vs. Army, they are unstoppable. The Iraqi army crumbled in less than a month. However,three years later, and we're hamstrung against a force that uses little more than 20 year old rpg's and homemade bombs.
You mention finding *gasp* facts, but all I found in this [b]editorial piece[/b] were *gasp* opinions. Do you have an argument that isn't as fucktarded as that one? Or is this the best you can do?
The grandparent is right, there are no real affordable options. Either you pay 150-250 or you deal with the next to useless integrated video on your mobo. Something decent that will play most of the popular games at 'medium' without massive frame loss at around 75-100 dollars is needed.
Not true at all. With a 1300x, I can crank up most of the effects to "high" (or even "very high") at 1024x768 and still have a smooth experience.
Yeah, text editors are great... until you start debugging. I don't care how good you are, my conditional breakpoints, annotated stack frames, expression watchers, and hot code replace will run circles around your System.out.println()'s.
C++?? Eclipse does that too. While Eclipse, out-of-the-box is a Java IDE, it was designed to support multiple languages and frameworks, and does so quite well.
I'm pretty sure that as a condition of his bail he was given the standard conditions of "stay away from kids, stay off the Internet, etc."
A suffix of -en is common for forming plural nouns in German. That's where we get "Boxen" from.
Thanks for the irony! :P
Trying to use Java to do native desktop or kernel development on *any* OS is like using a hammer to bang in a screw: It's the wrong tool for the wrong job.
Furthermore, the only really usable Java implementations are proprietary and don't even ship on many Linux systems.
Pardon my vlugarity, but "Big Fucking Deal". How hard is it to grab Sun's JDK off of sun and install it yourself? Two mouse clicks and an `rpm -i`.
Then your god is a weak, impotent god....
Ok, *now* you're just talking bollocks! Novell is continuously donating code back to the FOSS community. Novell is essentially the "open source steward" that IBM tries to sell itself as. Yeah, they still have their trade secrets, and they're still out to make money. But that doesn't mean that they don't give a fair amount in return.
Have we forgotten already that the Eclipse foundation started with millions of lines of proprietary code donated by IBM?
Of course not. But nor would you want to wait until the object is necessarily "out of scope" either. Such resources are best freed manually as soon as they're no longer needed. Which may happen loooong before an object using it goes out of scope.
They did.
protected void finalize()
Yes, we have Camembert, sir. But, ummm, it's a bit runny...
We apologise for this comment. Rest assured that the poster, and those he associates with, have been sacked.
Wrong.
Novell has bet their farm with SuSe being successful. Don't fool yourself. Novell may be mismanaged, but they do still have a huge install base running NetWare. And they've been gradually trying do get their existing NetWare customers to switch to Suse Enterprise. Virtually their entire product offering: E-directory, Identity Manager, ZenWorks, GroupWise, etc. have been ported to Linux and work smashingly well on it. Suse is arguably the best enterprise distro out there in terms of security and stability, and this is due in no small part to the work Novell has done on it. Not only that, but Novell has been a good "open source steward" with Suse. Much of the proprietary technology that they've built into their Enterprise distro has been gpl'd and released back into the community.
Red Hat, unlike Novell, is riddled with major OSS advocates from the top down
Wrong again. The suits at Novell mandated over a year ago that the *entire* company, from execs, to engineers, to the trophy secretary, gradually ditch their Windows workstations in favor of the Novell Linux Desktop. In fact, in their corporate directory portal, every employee has a gauge next to their picture that reflects what percentage of their daily work is done using Linux. Make no mistake, Novell needs to make Suse successful commercially if they are to survive, and they're very serious about making sure *all* of their staff is on board.
Please don't be so *FRUMPLE*.
var foo = (condition) ? conditionIsTrue : conditionIsFalse;
than
if(condition)
{
foo = something;
}
else
{
foo = somethingElse
}
If only that were true. There is plenty of "Standards Compliant" HTML out there that will totally break your page in IE.
So when did Ohio stop allowing write-in's on their ballots? I voted Dave Mustaine for president in '96.
Happy *campers* are best. *Enjoy* the *sauce*.