It's not just limited penalties: it's also limited scope, in that the only spam prohibited is spam to personal addresses. I actually get more spam to my work address than my personal addresses, and am rather unamused by this... cop-out. ("Loophole" isn't quite the right word, because it's intentional).
So Widernet ships hard drives with a data dump of about 100G to place on the local network.... Some the of the problems they are dealing with are... how to provide the eGranery such that it can be setup with little or no IT knowledge
Surely anyone who can set up a local network can plug a hard drive into a machine and reboot it?
Radio stations play popular songs more frequently than unpopular songs. Does that really surprise you? Back when I listened to pop stations, the songs in the top 10 would usually be played about once every couple of hours.
RSI abbreviates Repetitive Strain Injury. OOS in American, I think.
The frustrating things were having to speak very slowly in the first place and being slowed down even more by error corrections. I'm used to typing about as fast as I think.
I don't have to imagine. Due to RSI, I wrote some of my dissertation using ViaVoice. Dictating LaTeX to speech recognition software is slightly faster than dictating it to my mother, but still extremely frustrating.
You do realise that Germany had allies? And you do also realise that the V-bombs and bomber aircraft sent at London weren't exactly targetted at military or industrial sites?
You mean, more fragmented than it already is with Sun, Microsoft, Apple, Kaffe, gcj, Latte, Jikes, and so on and so forth all providing their own implementations?
I thought Microsoft had been forced to stop fragmenting it by the U.S. courts. I know that Apple work with Sun, and the only real difference is that Apple write the native code.
Oh yes. About as portable as C, Python, Fortran, ADA, Pascal, Common LISP, Scheme, PHP, Ocaml and a plethora of other languages.
It's hardly a great insight that interpreted languages can be ported by porting the interpreter. It's possible to write portable code in the compiled languages you mention, provided you're careful and you provide copies of libraries for things like UIs, but you have the choice between compiling yourself on every target platform and distributing umpteen binaries, or distributing source and requiring the end-user to compile it. Doable, but it requires either superior end-users, or giving them a tool like Fink to handle everything for them, at which point you're back to doing the configuration yourself. With Java, you can distribute a jar and anyone with a VM can run it.
You lucky bastard. You must never have moved your code developed with a modern Sun JDK to a machine using Microsoft's VM. Or an old (1.0.x or 1.1.x) Sun JVM, for that matter.
Again, it's hardly a great insight that you need up-to-date libraries to run a program that uses libraries. The same applies to any language.
2. The official distribution is bloated to the top and runs slow even with JIT compilation
Define slow. 10% slower than optimised C isn't really slow.
3. GUIs in Java are a nightmare. AWT can be a bitch to code for, lacking many useful components. Swing uses "pure Java" widgets, which are slow and don't fit well with the native widgets on your system.
If Swing doesn't fit with the native widgets on your system, all you have to do is write a PLAF. I mainly use OS X, and Apple's libraries include a native-looking PLAF.
I mean, people will basiclly poke at the code and report you bugs.
Other developers will request tons of features that they will point how easy are to be done.
They already do. Sun make the source available - the source for the libraries is included in the SDK. So, for example, when I hit a bug in Color.HSBtoRGB, I dug around in the source, worked out what the problem was, and submitted a bug report. (I'd link to it, but you need to register for the JDC to view the bug database). It's just that the licence under which they release the source doesn't let you modify and redistribute.
Is GIF an open standard? If so, why was there all that fuss about the LZW patent?
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The only reason for the emulator was to allow closed source apps to be semi portable, but as closed source becomes less of an issue there will be less and less reason to pay the emulation penalty of the JVM
how up-to-date are you on the emulation penalty? With Hotspot, it's pretty slim, and there's an argument that dynamic optimisation is the future.
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It's not just limited penalties: it's also limited scope, in that the only spam prohibited is spam to personal addresses. I actually get more spam to my work address than my personal addresses, and am rather unamused by this... cop-out. ("Loophole" isn't quite the right word, because it's intentional).
"Not yet. But they've got oil, so I give them 3 years" would be equally funny (and knowing /. mods would probably get an Insightful mod too).
By way of example, propositional logic is complete.
Radio stations play popular songs more frequently than unpopular songs. Does that really surprise you? Back when I listened to pop stations, the songs in the top 10 would usually be played about once every couple of hours.
I'm no expert either, but I don't think 80 is a third of 300.
Where's the tautology in "McDonald's restaurant"?
Seems that some of the proposed uses assume that all cars will be fitted with them.
Now [i]that's[/i] creepy.
Oblivious to what, one wonders.
No, sex would still be legal if you used contraceptives.
The frustrating things were having to speak very slowly in the first place and being slowed down even more by error corrections. I'm used to typing about as fast as I think.
I don't have to imagine. Due to RSI, I wrote some of my dissertation using ViaVoice. Dictating LaTeX to speech recognition software is slightly faster than dictating it to my mother, but still extremely frustrating.
In the case of a publically listed company, the directors have a fiduciary duty to make the shareholders as much money as (legally) possible.
There's a subtle difference between "most" and "all".
You do realise that Germany had allies? And you do also realise that the V-bombs and bomber aircraft sent at London weren't exactly targetted at military or industrial sites?
No, he changed "Tony" to "Jason" for legal reasons.
And conversely, anything the Japanese can make the Americans can make bigger. With the possible exception of anime.
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how up-to-date are you on the emulation penalty? With Hotspot, it's pretty slim, and there's an argument that dynamic optimisation is the future.Have things changed recently? I was allowed to take my TI-83 into my A-levels in 1998/99.