The impression among Windows developers that Java is necessarily slow is because they have something to compare it to on the same OS, which is functionally identical: The.NET CLR.
It still runs circles around Java on the same hardware.
This reminds of the Automatix debacle on Ubuntu - Have people forgotten that?
Or does Ubuntu get a free pass because it is Linux?:)
Third party applications that muck with the system in unsupported ways are bound to cause these kinds of problems. All I know is, I'm not installing that APE crap again.
The AMI BIOS of my AMD DX4/100 486 had mouse and rudimentary GUI support...since then it's been a text-only affair though, which is odd but I'm not complaining. I prefer the 80x25 text mode bios.
If you're unwilling to spend $2-5k, forget about getting your own written for less. Especially not if you intend to have any form of electronic payments as part of the solution.
There's a lot of engineering involved with making something reliable to the extent that financial integrity is preserved across power failures, transactions reversed if that happens, accepting offline payments w/ chip card, etc.
The certification fees alone exceed what you're willing to spend, by far.
As it happens, both of my parents are teachers as well, and I am of much the same opinion (if not as articulate).
It saddens me to see the little respect that is given to teachers nowadays, because they don't pull the huge pay packets that they could easily get were they to switch professions. My father is a headmaster, and the best manager and enabler of people that I have ever encountered. Problem students come in to the school hating him because he is pretty strict and doesn't back down if they bring their parents in to come bat for their precious little jewel. They graduate calling him the best teacher they have ever had. Over and over, I see this.
Yet, parents treat him as they would someone working retail. It boggles my mind.
If he did not love what he did, he would be running a corporation somewhere, and the world would be the poorer.
This is a problem endemic to the West, and we will wake up one day, when its too late, with a lost generation. It all comes down to parental responsibility.
For me, there's very little relation between the natural languages I speak and programming.
Maybe it's because I've grown up having to speak two languages (now three). Which one of these languages would I take and try apply its word order and grammar to programming? It doesn't make sense.
But even if I knew only one language - A programming language has its own rules, and confusing it with the language you speak? I can't see how that would happen, to be honest. It's not a big leap to understand that different contexts have different rules.
I'm not trying to have fireside chats with the compiler, I'm trying to build software:)
I'd be interested in whether this machine was connected to the public Internet, or part of the unconnected military network that people keep talking about. If the former, it is probably not a particularly critical breach.
I doubt that the US has not achieved similar penetrations against China - But you'll never hear of it from the Chinese.
Looking from the outside in, I'm sure the nations of Europe felt the same when the US was the nascent growing industrial power. Thing is, the US does not need to be #1 to do well. Europe is doing just fine. So will the US, when China/India become bigger superpowers.
The only thing that will be "lost" is some sense of national pride. And then it will be the US, freed from the requirement to be #1, that will be competing and eating the Chinese/Indians for lunch. It's a cycle. And it's a numbers game. No matter which way you swing it, 400 million people simply cannot produce the output that 1.4 billion people can, when their productivity rises.
one politician was apparently in a library, once, perhaps even on the same floor as several books on logic
Thank you, I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes.
I don't know. Proving that someone doesn't hold the copyrights (as stated in the summary) doesn't mean that someone else didn't violate them. It just means that the actual holder didn't care about the violations, no?
I haven't been following this case much, so correct me if I'm wrong in this. Feels like a bit of a cop-out, but a win is a win I guess, and that's probably the last we'll hear of something like this.
Lets just forget that the entire industry that is letting us today have this discussion would not exist if people did not tinker with stuff in their garages, shall we?
The key word being reasonable. If the fix is having to completely rewrite it from scratch, then it probably falls outside of normal definitions of reasonable.
I am using the Synology CS407e but even their lowend DS-106j model has a built in client. I believe these devices run some form of Debian too.
Works great sharing stuff over SMB to XBMC:)
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The impression among Windows developers that Java is necessarily slow is because they have something to compare it to on the same OS, which is functionally identical: The .NET CLR.
It still runs circles around Java on the same hardware.
Expense? The NSA knows not that of which you speak. *cough**cough*$500 billion budget*cough**cough*
The Internet is fine. L2play, noobs.
Actually Facebook is now worthless to me - My parents have joined :)
This reminds of the Automatix debacle on Ubuntu - Have people forgotten that? Or does Ubuntu get a free pass because it is Linux? :)
Third party applications that muck with the system in unsupported ways are bound to cause these kinds of problems. All I know is, I'm not installing that APE crap again.
Well, why doesn't Sun provide downloads for Java 6? Can't expect Apple to do all the work for *Sun*'s product.
This is what I did and I still encountered the blue screen.
Yep, I got it - I didn't have the patience to wait that long, so since I had backups, just whacked everything and did a clean reinstall.
For a while I was worried though, since I had dropped my MacBook about 3 feet the day before, and thought it was a hardware problem.
The AMI BIOS of my AMD DX4/100 486 had mouse and rudimentary GUI support...since then it's been a text-only affair though, which is odd but I'm not complaining. I prefer the 80x25 text mode bios.
Mod parent up.
:)
If you're unwilling to spend $2-5k, forget about getting your own written for less. Especially not if you intend to have any form of electronic payments as part of the solution.
There's a lot of engineering involved with making something reliable to the extent that financial integrity is preserved across power failures, transactions reversed if that happens, accepting offline payments w/ chip card, etc.
The certification fees alone exceed what you're willing to spend, by far.
But good luck anyway
As it happens, both of my parents are teachers as well, and I am of much the same opinion (if not as articulate).
It saddens me to see the little respect that is given to teachers nowadays, because they don't pull the huge pay packets that they could easily get were they to switch professions. My father is a headmaster, and the best manager and enabler of people that I have ever encountered. Problem students come in to the school hating him because he is pretty strict and doesn't back down if they bring their parents in to come bat for their precious little jewel. They graduate calling him the best teacher they have ever had. Over and over, I see this.
Yet, parents treat him as they would someone working retail. It boggles my mind.
If he did not love what he did, he would be running a corporation somewhere, and the world would be the poorer.
This is a problem endemic to the West, and we will wake up one day, when its too late, with a lost generation. It all comes down to parental responsibility.
It's a freakin' time zone file change. Time zone files are a known quantity. People know how they behave when changed. They're not executable code.
I'm sure they can manufacture some plausible sounding technical reason for not pushing the update, but they're just looking like asses.
Charging insane rates for roaming is hardly something unique to American phone companies.
My phone company happily does the same (Vodafone).
I think its in the "How to be a Telecoms Carrier" manual, under "Profit, Sweet Profit".
They're still working out the licensing kinks I take it.
For me, there's very little relation between the natural languages I speak and programming.
:)
Maybe it's because I've grown up having to speak two languages (now three). Which one of these languages would I take and try apply its word order and grammar to programming? It doesn't make sense.
But even if I knew only one language - A programming language has its own rules, and confusing it with the language you speak? I can't see how that would happen, to be honest. It's not a big leap to understand that different contexts have different rules.
I'm not trying to have fireside chats with the compiler, I'm trying to build software
I'd be interested in whether this machine was connected to the public Internet, or part of the unconnected military network that people keep talking about. If the former, it is probably not a particularly critical breach.
I doubt that the US has not achieved similar penetrations against China - But you'll never hear of it from the Chinese.
Looking from the outside in, I'm sure the nations of Europe felt the same when the US was the nascent growing industrial power. Thing is, the US does not need to be #1 to do well. Europe is doing just fine. So will the US, when China/India become bigger superpowers.
The only thing that will be "lost" is some sense of national pride. And then it will be the US, freed from the requirement to be #1, that will be competing and eating the Chinese/Indians for lunch. It's a cycle. And it's a numbers game. No matter which way you swing it, 400 million people simply cannot produce the output that 1.4 billion people can, when their productivity rises.
one politician was apparently in a library, once, perhaps even on the same floor as several books on logic Thank you, I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes.
I don't know. Proving that someone doesn't hold the copyrights (as stated in the summary) doesn't mean that someone else didn't violate them. It just means that the actual holder didn't care about the violations, no?
I haven't been following this case much, so correct me if I'm wrong in this. Feels like a bit of a cop-out, but a win is a win I guess, and that's probably the last we'll hear of something like this.
I'm looking for the +1 "Pwned By Science" option but I can't find it.
Lets just forget that the entire industry that is letting us today have this discussion would not exist if people did not tinker with stuff in their garages, shall we?
I weep for the generation.
Once upon a time, I had some Sybase ASE RPMs. That installed tarballs to /root. Then extracted them into /opt.
Hrm...Redundancy alert.
The key word being reasonable. If the fix is having to completely rewrite it from scratch, then it probably falls outside of normal definitions of reasonable.
Which, from TFA, it appears the fix is.
My favourite:
Lets play lets pretend with ABI! Heh.
I am using the Synology CS407e but even their lowend DS-106j model has a built in client. I believe these devices run some form of Debian too. Works great sharing stuff over SMB to XBMC :)
Somehow that strikes me as being more useful, what with it having 1.4TB of storage and all.