Are there any Java-on-Mac developers willing to share their insights? Folks who actually use it, pay attention to it on an ongoing basis, etc.? I'm a professional Java-head, and I use a Mac most of the time. But if this shit keeps up, I might have to switch to Linux for my work (certainly not Windows, and probably not Solaris either).
The stuff I write is mainly server code that gets deployed on *nix boxes. (Which I think is Java's real strength - desktop Java apps and web applets seemed like a good idea at one point, but they're a lost cause.) I don't deal with the Java GUI libraries much, and I'm not particularly interested in the iPhone. I just want a stable, user-friendly Unix system that lets me run all the standard FOSS tools and that supports the latest versions of Java. Which Apple just doesn't do. Fortunately, most of the people I work for have a conservative approach to choosing their platforms, and they tend to stay away from the bleeding edge... and Java 1.6 doesn't seem to offer anything revolutionary, anyway... but the present situation is unacceptable.
The thing that really pisses me off is Apple's secretive attitude. They actually had a beta release of Java 1.6 available for download - but a few weeks ago, they pulled it off their site with absolutely no explanation. And nobody knows if they're even working on it anymore.
I think I'll get in the habit of saving a copy before clicking on "I Agree" from now on. Just out of curiosity, how are you planning to prove that the EULA you have is the one they made you agree to you? How are they planning to prove that the EULA they have is the one you agreed to?
The reason they used the wacky GNU Java is that Sun's licensing made it hard to include their Java on free distros. This is now changing, fortunately. In Ubuntu, you can now install the Sun JDK with apt-get, just like any other package. (I think you have to activate the Universe repo first... it's been a while.)
You obviously don't know anything about the way streets are numbered in the US. You obviously don't know anything about the way "neighbor" is spelled in the US.
"I couldn't get a proper job despite my academic education(s) but hey, who can complain when you get millions for jumping up and down like a monkey?" Steve Ballmer?
At that angle, the tail rotor blades would be edge-on to the camera, so it might be hard to see them. Plus it's a really crappy photo. I really can't tell if they're there or not, but let's give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
And how big is this thing, anyway? The article says 12 m long and 7 m tall, but in the photo it looks only a little taller than the man next to it. Did he build multiple helicopters?
A maximum wage is always a bad idea. Now that's a bold statement. A maximum wage has never actually been tried, has it?
Imagine you hire a lawyer and he says "well, I don't care if I win this case or not, as I already reached my wage limit". If that lawyer reached his wage limit, he'd just take the rest of the year off and you wouldn't be able to hire him in the first place.
The approval rating for Congress as a whole doesn't mean dick. Most of the individual members have pretty good numbers among their constituents (otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten elected in the first place).
The US government is unbelievably not corrupt. Political corruption in the US is institutionalized. They call it "campaign contributions". If a politician is practicing some type of non-sanctioned corruption, then yes, there's actually a chance that he'll get in trouble for it. And it's also true that small-scale corruption (cops or government clerks demanding bribes, etc) is pretty rare in the US.
The fact that we have two very similar parties pretty much ensures that corruption will be brought to light quickly. Unless both of the ruling parties benefit equally from the corruption.
Nasrudin was walking down the street one day, and came upon a man arguing with a merchant who was selling stew out of a street stall. According to the merchant, the man spent all day hanging around next to the stall, inhaling the aroma of the stew, but not buying anything; the merchant was demanding compensation for the service that he provided.
Nasrudin, hearing this, took the man's money purse, held it near the merchant's head, and shook it gently for a few moments. Then he said: "Now you're even. He's smelled your food, and you've heard his money jingle."
I imagine it helps that they're not spending trillions on war. Thank God we managed to win the War On Drugs before starting the War On Terror. Otherwise we'd be paying for two wars at the same time.
Not so sure that's 100% the case. If it were, wouldn't we all be using Imperial measures? Oh, I didn't say 100%. There are definitely other factors. If the English language was as batshit crazy as the Imperial measure system, it wouldn't have gotten nearly as far.
Is it possible that the US became dominant in these areas at least in part because of english? Possible, sure, but I don't think it was a major factor. I think it's more to do with the fact that the US was the only industrial economy to make it through WWII intact.
Nonsense. The reason that English is so popular is not the "flexibility", it's the economic and scientific dominance of the US (and the British Empire before that). It's the same reason that Latin was so popular 2000 years ago. The qualities of the actual language have little to do with it.
There are already places where you can take your album, sell it on itunes, and keep 100% of the royalties. If you sell your music through CD Baby and iTunes, I think you get to keep something like 80% of the gross revenues. Right now, that's probably the best deal you can get, but I could be wrong - it's hard to keep up with these things. Of course, 80% is still about 30 times more than if you went with a traditional record contract.
Lucene's the bomb. And if you want something sort of in between Nutch and the bare Lucene library, check out Solr. It's a J2EE web application that provides an XML-based front-end to Lucene.
Since the plugins are the source of so many vulnerabilities, you need to know their versions etc. The auto-updater code needs to know the version of the locally installed software, and it needs to download the version of the current release, so it can compare the two. It does NOT need to send the local version to the vendor.
Since so much incompatibility may be caused by funky $_SERVER variables, you need to know their contents. What exactly do you need this for? I've read the linked thread, and the software author himself can't even come up with a concrete reason for sending the $_SERVER variables. Elsewhere in the thread, someone else claims that the system works just fine when it doesn't send this data, or sends dummy data.
And the blog URL tells you who it is. Again, this is totally unnecessary for automatic updates.
Windows Update has to send far MORE intrusive information. I won't even comment on that one.
Most big companies sneeze $16 million in IT expenses every day. Cut the political and "big-brother-gonna-get-ya" crap, editors. This is a complete non-story. Excuse me Moe, but what the fuck are you talking about? What "political crap"? I've read the summary twice (just the summary, mind, I can't be bothered to actually read the article), and I didn't see any sort of political content at all.
And just out of curiosity, how many million $ do you think it should take for a story like this to make the front page?
What OpenISO.org will do in case of such disputes is to have its employees or external experts selected by its employees evaluate the arguments for the various positions on their merits. Great. Who selects those employees and experts? Chances are, these people will be drawn from the same (academic, business, govt) groups as the committee members - so it'll be hard to avoid conflicts of interest.
Openness requirements will include that there should be no patent issues etc; maturity requirements include that there should be a BSD-, Apache- or LGPL-licensed reference implementation I like this one a lot. Without an open implementation, an open standard is meaningless.
But overall, I'm not convinced. Even if you manage to find enough people to follow you, I don't see how you can prevent the sort of corruption and political bullshit that we're seeing right now.
No conservative I have ever met has ever repeated this myth as truth. Most conservatives have asked why do the liberals constantly repeat this tired mantra when no one believes it? Washington Post, September 6, 2003:
"Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks"
[quoting a speech by GW Bush:] "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th"
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The stuff I write is mainly server code that gets deployed on *nix boxes. (Which I think is Java's real strength - desktop Java apps and web applets seemed like a good idea at one point, but they're a lost cause.) I don't deal with the Java GUI libraries much, and I'm not particularly interested in the iPhone. I just want a stable, user-friendly Unix system that lets me run all the standard FOSS tools and that supports the latest versions of Java. Which Apple just doesn't do. Fortunately, most of the people I work for have a conservative approach to choosing their platforms, and they tend to stay away from the bleeding edge... and Java 1.6 doesn't seem to offer anything revolutionary, anyway... but the present situation is unacceptable.
The thing that really pisses me off is Apple's secretive attitude. They actually had a beta release of Java 1.6 available for download - but a few weeks ago, they pulled it off their site with absolutely no explanation. And nobody knows if they're even working on it anymore.
The src.zip only contained parts of the source code.
The reason they used the wacky GNU Java is that Sun's licensing made it hard to include their Java on free distros. This is now changing, fortunately. In Ubuntu, you can now install the Sun JDK with apt-get, just like any other package. (I think you have to activate the Universe repo first... it's been a while.)
Unless you live in that weird part of the US that they call Canada. In which case, I apologize.
At that angle, the tail rotor blades would be edge-on to the camera, so it might be hard to see them. Plus it's a really crappy photo. I really can't tell if they're there or not, but let's give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
And how big is this thing, anyway? The article says 12 m long and 7 m tall, but in the photo it looks only a little taller than the man next to it. Did he build multiple helicopters?
The approval rating for Congress as a whole doesn't mean dick. Most of the individual members have pretty good numbers among their constituents (otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten elected in the first place).
It was probably ASCAP. And yes, they're still at it.
Nasrudin was walking down the street one day, and came upon a man arguing with a merchant who was selling stew out of a street stall. According to the merchant, the man spent all day hanging around next to the stall, inhaling the aroma of the stew, but not buying anything; the merchant was demanding compensation for the service that he provided.
Nasrudin, hearing this, took the man's money purse, held it near the merchant's head, and shook it gently for a few moments. Then he said: "Now you're even. He's smelled your food, and you've heard his money jingle."
Nonsense. The reason that English is so popular is not the "flexibility", it's the economic and scientific dominance of the US (and the British Empire before that). It's the same reason that Latin was so popular 2000 years ago. The qualities of the actual language have little to do with it.
Valuable enough to offset the cost of transporting it from Titan? I really can't think of any substance that's that expensive. Well, maybe inkjet ink.
Lucene's the bomb. And if you want something sort of in between Nutch and the bare Lucene library, check out Solr. It's a J2EE web application that provides an XML-based front-end to Lucene.
And just out of curiosity, how many million $ do you think it should take for a story like this to make the front page?
But overall, I'm not convinced. Even if you manage to find enough people to follow you, I don't see how you can prevent the sort of corruption and political bullshit that we're seeing right now.
"Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks"
[quoting a speech by GW Bush:] "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th"
Someone here is full of shit. My money's on you.