We have it in Spain as well, where I am a foreigner. Pretty much anything you do here requires your national ID card, and (being British) I don't have one. I use my passport for some things and my driving licence for others, and have yet to have any problems. Doesn't mean I like it - I accept that it's a cultural difference - but I wonder whether it would really be a nuisance to foreigners in Germany.
Nonsense. The kids will hack their computers (either install Windows or change the root password - they have access to the hardware) and the parent will remain blissfully unaware.
Given that the thing which slows most sites down is advertising, if they don't then this announcement is just hot air. Of course, it depends on their measurements taking into account JavaScript execution time rather than just the server's response time, so I wouldn't want to rule out hot air.
However, the distinction between "rotten" and "moldy" is lost on most Americans. And frankly, although I understand the distinction
I'm not an American, but neither am I familiar with a meaning of the word "rotten" referring to food perishability (as opposed to the application to food of the same sense which can be applied to a night out) which doesn't include mouldiness.
Blue cheese seems to be produced in most Western European countries. Just looking through a list of blue cheeses on Wikipedia gives you Denmark, Italy, England, Spain and Finland in addition to France.
Java Webstart, not applet. Basically you download a.jnlp file, which is an xml config file telling it where to download an application to then execute. It's supposed to be sandboxed. But what matters is how your browser handles.jnlp files (or the corresponding mimetype), not how it handles applet tags (or the corresponding object tag).
Sure, you can use UTF-8 rather than UTF-16, but that's not such a great choice for a general-purpose string class. It's convenient for all characters to have the same width because then get-character-at-index and substring use simple pointer/array-index arithmetic rather than starting at the start of the string and working forward, decoding as you go.
There are existing toolchains which allow you to write in Java and compile for iPhone and Android. I think they use source-to-source translation into Obj-C for the iPhone one, but on my reading of the claimed novelty ("the exact same code base is used to build versions for five different environments" doesn't preclude that code base going through a lot of preprocessing in some of the build paths) that would still qualify.
Particularly desktop APIs needed for things like multimedia and games.
The advantage.Net has here is that MS can add stuff to it without caring about non-Windows platforms. There are a couple of widely used third-party Java bindings for OpenGL / OpenAL (and one of them was brought in-house until the Oracle buy-out), and I believe that OpenCL will be supported soon.
The Java game development community is small, but there are some very profitable companies. The big lack is multimedia support.
Also, there are some curious gaps in the.Net libraries which are currently filled by third parties -.zip (de-)compression springs to mind. So it's not entirely one-sided.
If I wanted to make Java as useful as possible I'd put some manpower into that, and find ways to put some of the newer interpreted languages on top of the Java JVM
Slashdot Mirror
That may well be so, but last time I checked, Slashdot was published in English.
Speaking as an Englishman, I suggest you check again.
A British chick walks into a hotel in the US, and asks the clerk, "Can you knock me up in the morning?"
I don't think that's very likely: she'd ask for an alarm call. She'd be much more likely to cause consternation by popping out to smoke a fag.
Something tells me that if it currently holds water, it's probably not flat.
I understand why developers need to understand things like data structures, but why are you teaching them about anti-aircraft artillery?
Here. Note that a flight level is 100 feet, so FL160 means 16000 feet (or about 3 miles, as GPP said).
If they've got any sense they're copy-pasting. Hopefully from a reliable source.
Ooh. They do actually seem to have added it. The last time I typed in Spanish with accents it broke, pero ahora no está para reñir.
Has Slashdot? I bet you had to type that using HTML escape codes.
At first he was only the animator, and only later started acting minor roles.
He was the knight with the rubber chicken from the first series.
We have it in Spain as well, where I am a foreigner. Pretty much anything you do here requires your national ID card, and (being British) I don't have one. I use my passport for some things and my driving licence for others, and have yet to have any problems. Doesn't mean I like it - I accept that it's a cultural difference - but I wonder whether it would really be a nuisance to foreigners in Germany.
Nonsense. The kids will hack their computers (either install Windows or change the root password - they have access to the hardware) and the parent will remain blissfully unaware.
Given that the thing which slows most sites down is advertising, if they don't then this announcement is just hot air. Of course, it depends on their measurements taking into account JavaScript execution time rather than just the server's response time, so I wouldn't want to rule out hot air.
However, the distinction between "rotten" and "moldy" is lost on most Americans. And frankly, although I understand the distinction
I'm not an American, but neither am I familiar with a meaning of the word "rotten" referring to food perishability (as opposed to the application to food of the same sense which can be applied to a night out) which doesn't include mouldiness.
Blue cheese seems to be produced in most Western European countries. Just looking through a list of blue cheeses on Wikipedia gives you Denmark, Italy, England, Spain and Finland in addition to France.
Wait, when did they start putting black pepper in Big Macs? I call shenanigans...
Sophophora: bearing wisdom. Lophophora: bearing a tuft/crest.
No, it is wisdom-bearing.
I've had doubleclick.net in my hosts file since before Firefox was launched. It's pretty simple to do and works cross-browser.
Java Webstart, not applet. Basically you download a .jnlp file, which is an xml config file telling it where to download an application to then execute. It's supposed to be sandboxed. But what matters is how your browser handles .jnlp files (or the corresponding mimetype), not how it handles applet tags (or the corresponding object tag).
Have you published your algorithm for determining liveness? Last I heard, that was considered a hard problem.
Sure, you can use UTF-8 rather than UTF-16, but that's not such a great choice for a general-purpose string class. It's convenient for all characters to have the same width because then get-character-at-index and substring use simple pointer/array-index arithmetic rather than starting at the start of the string and working forward, decoding as you go.
There are existing toolchains which allow you to write in Java and compile for iPhone and Android. I think they use source-to-source translation into Obj-C for the iPhone one, but on my reading of the claimed novelty ("the exact same code base is used to build versions for five different environments" doesn't preclude that code base going through a lot of preprocessing in some of the build paths) that would still qualify.
So when a sabre-toothed tiger is chasing him, slide rules do require electricity? How does that work?
AK47s?
Particularly desktop APIs needed for things like multimedia and games.
The advantage .Net has here is that MS can add stuff to it without caring about non-Windows platforms. There are a couple of widely used third-party Java bindings for OpenGL / OpenAL (and one of them was brought in-house until the Oracle buy-out), and I believe that OpenCL will be supported soon.
The Java game development community is small, but there are some very profitable companies. The big lack is multimedia support.
Also, there are some curious gaps in the .Net libraries which are currently filled by third parties - .zip (de-)compression springs to mind. So it's not entirely one-sided.
If I wanted to make Java as useful as possible I'd put some manpower into that, and find ways to put some of the newer interpreted languages on top of the Java JVM
Like Jython, JRuby, etc?