Hibernate and Struts are both very well known packages for the Java world. My company has plenty of apps that use both of them.
As far as ruby on rails... who in the business world uses that? Can you name any website or application currently in production that does. I have a guy who messed around with a website using it, but it is far from perfect and far from production.
never use absolute values when posting to Slashdot. "Never", "No One", "Nobody", "Always" will just get you into trouble. Why, becaue as of 5 minutes ago... I have downloaded gnustep and I am using it for my own devious purposes.
Now, I understand what you meant, but a lil search shows that at least some people are using it:
I, and most people I talked with and most critics actually LOVED the Hitchiker movie as much as a book. And that even though I was rather pessimistic before seeing it.
They killed so many jokes with the love story. Exactly where does Random Frequent Flyer Dent fit in now?
I am not impressed by this at all. If you read the article header, it makes it seem like the Green slime somehow controls the robot in a way that it knows it is moving the robot to a dark corner. Instead, all that has been done is to sense the natural movement of the slime away from light and carry those command over to a robot. This, for me, is no different than the way we make CG characters like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This is no new technology, just a new subject with a nudge to force the slime to do something.
Simply amazing only because they advertised the bare minimum/worst case scenario as the life expectancy. Honestly, NASA couldn't chance another failure so they played it safe.
This is a machine... a very well built one. The fact that both are running just shows that many of the NASA assumptions were incorrect, such as how well a machine would function on the surface, the effects of the varying temperature on components and the overall dependability of a machine.
We should be thinking of the 3 months number as nothing more than a warranty. The engineers(whoever they were) gave a conservative number that these things would run for 3 months. Just as car makers give me a 2-3 year warranty, I still expect my car to work well after that warranty is up.
Anyways, it is amazing, but demonstrates a problem with goverment research projects and the importance of a tangible success/failure as opposed to just saying, it will run until it stops and we will collect as much data as possible. This is also the same problem with Hubble. While Hubble gives us tons of useful scientific research, it is a project without an end and without a tangible success to be stamp on a piece of paper to justify all those tax payers money. (Man... where did this rant come from:-/)
I looked forward to playing Madden on my PSP. Which turned out to be one of the buggiest games ever released. The game crashed repeatedly and the load times were unbearable. It would even tease you and make you think that the load times were over at some points. Now, the load times are mostly Sony's fault(UMD is slow), but the crashing of the game was inexcusable and I stopped playing this after the first night I owned it.
How is intel optimizing my code? As far as I can tell... I use a gcc compiler on PowerPC processor. Regardless of that, how exactly would intel be optimize my code?
Where in my post did I say that Java and C# weren't popular? Also, just because something is popular does not make it right, or even something nice to use. Most companies got pushed into Java because Sun had created so much buzz around it. What I can't understand is that some of the people in this thread are "asking" for Java bindings of Cocoa. Why? Java's strength is its write-once, deploy-anywhere capabilities. I hate seeing Java code that is tied to a platform due to a developer using some Microsoft media library instead of the JMF or Quicktime bindings(yes, Windows and Mac only).
What is worse, is that if you are tied to only 1 platform, their are plenty of better languages to write in. I personally don't believe in bytecode if you are writing for 1 platform because of the speed differences(yes, you can show me all the studies you want... but do use these languages before citing a study). And since I don't believe in bytecode, this means that I consider.NET highly inferior to Microsofts previous offerrings and with it largely being pushed out to aid Microsoft(think of the problems Microsoft has had maintaining multiple languages across multiple platforms).
I hate these fucking developers like this. These people that don't want to write code, but would rather have everything taken care of them in an unpredictable manner.
Garbage Collection==excuse for not writing better code and don't give me the excuse that you can write your code faster. The time spent writing nasty code results in memory problems, garbage collections freezing an application, and numerous bugs. Not to mention that these developers use memory like its candy... Not knowing that every one of their objects in a list uses 2 megs of memory.
pointers==I don't understand how my computer allocates, deallocates and references memory so I would rather have Sun wrap all that confusion and trust that they did it well. Sorry... but if you have never used pointers then you obviously do not understand the benefit of using them. And while it is nice that Sun can take away the need to use them, they should still be available in some manner to the developer. I feel I can optimize my code a lot more than sun can.
IDE whores==hold my hand while I code. Honestly, developers that depend on an IDE and the hitting of a period to find the Integer.parseInt() method end up writing some of the worst code. I work at a company where I refuse to write Java code for them. Basically because these developers are morons and don't understand any of the hardware and software that they implement. A good example was a lot of developers started implementing JGroups which is a multicast memory replication useful for clustering. It worked great except every developer copied the same code snippet and every application was using the same multicast group and port. Instead of changing the address, they decided to handle it at the application level and filter it after they had read the packets off the socket. Gross.
Bytecode is great==I don't understand how fast a computer really is with native code. Bytecode solves a few problems, but it is totally unacceptable for large applications. Whatever happened to Sun's Web Brower? It died despite being Java. Everyone says Eclipse is a great IDE, but its bloated and slow. I worked at a company that put all its Apples(No Pun Intended) into Java/Swing combination. When I left, 4 years after the project was started, they were still having UI speed problems. When I develop, I don't want anyting getting in my way and I don't want to have to buy a 3ghz processor to do it/run it.
Now, I know all the Buzz word slashdot people will disagree with me, but Object Oriented programing adds a layer of abstraction, taking away pointers adds another layer of abstraction and then adding in a garbage collection adds another layer of abstration. And also having Sun hide all those pointers behing an extrememly gross hierachy of classes that always seem to hand-off work to another class has its penalties.
The next 5+ years are going to be people buying bigger and better TV/Projectors... Ever watched a DVD stream on a projector... it is really bad and is frankly the reason I stopped buying DVDs.
Since I am too lazy to look up the stats or anyting... I will just say that at a million dollars a minute, a 120 minute movie becomes a 120 million which is more like the figure we expect to hear.
After looking at the site... I am honestly scared.
First, this technology(GPS part), could easily be produced very soon. Just a battery with a GPS chip could easily be hidden in pairs of jeans, jackets, etc...
Now, the panties thing is far-fetched because if I buy my girlfriend 8 pairs of panties one day... she might be a lil suspicious, especially if I keep saying, wear these today.
Not at the iMax in Atlanta. People were cheering, but I wasn't sure why.
Now, the reason that this movie is a lot more successful than the others(IMHO), is that it plays a lot on nostalgia, it has some pretty good effects, and it answers a lot of questions that we all had.
Oh, before I forget about it
Anybody else remember in Empire when Ghost Obi Wan is talking about "he is our last hope" and Yoda says... "No, their is another". Exactly why was Obi Wan so clueless!!!! That was the first thing that popped in my head when I saw Obi Wan hearing the names of the two kids and seeing them off.
however, you run the risk of race conditions, where you try to serve a page that is part-way through a rebuild.
Already solved the race condition... At my last company, we generated about 20-25 webpages that took over 35 seconds a piece to generate. These accessed a heavily taxed DB server and was processing around a million rows. Simply generate the code to a temp file. Once finished move the temp file in place of the old file. The time it takes to move the file is extremely quick and should(under most circumstances) keep the blank/half webpages from showing up.
database backed webpages are a trap and a bottleneck. Notice that Slashdot generates static pages from comments. Databases are not a limitless resource and notice how many webpages get sucked into the "No more connections" trap when you visit them from Slashdot.
Now people will argue that a server is not scalable either, but you can always have 5000 servers serving up that same static data. You really can't expect 5000 servers to access a single database and expect the database to survive.
Databases are needed for some webpages, but don't throw them in as a simple shortcut.
the fact that 95% of all programs run under XP and no others
wtf?!? Did you just pull this right out of your ass. First off, XP is less than 4 years old(Oct 2001). That is an extremely brave statement to say considering that almost every application can run on previous versions of Windows and today we have virtual machines to run any OS anywhere as well. But... what applications do you really need that have no replacement?
Games... You got every OS on that one, but console gaming is clearly an alternative.
Office... OpenOffice, and you can run MS Office on OS X.
Video Editing... several open source projects and Apple has all but destroyed Adobe's Premiere.
Image Editing... several multi-platform apps
Audio... iTunes/Quicktime/Real Player/Media Player... all multi-platform, some more than others
Browser... several multi-platform apps.
Chatting... several multi-platform apps.
So exactly what programs can you not live without? I think you are exaggerating.
Slashdot Mirror
You would of thought wrong.
Hibernate and Struts are both very well known packages for the Java world. My company has plenty of apps that use both of them.
As far as ruby on rails... who in the business world uses that? Can you name any website or application currently in production that does. I have a guy who messed around with a website using it, but it is far from perfect and far from production.
never use absolute values when posting to Slashdot. "Never", "No One", "Nobody", "Always" will just get you into trouble. Why, becaue as of 5 minutes ago... I have downloaded gnustep and I am using it for my own devious purposes.
Now, I understand what you meant, but a lil search shows that at least some people are using it:
apps
The most popular application to use it would probably be Window Maker.
Hey, backoff off my indirect Mod-Parent up reply. I don't get many of them and would like to bathe in its glory.
I, and most people I talked with and most critics actually LOVED the Hitchiker movie as much as a book. And that even though I was rather pessimistic before seeing it.
They killed so many jokes with the love story. Exactly where does Random Frequent Flyer Dent fit in now?
I am not impressed by this at all. If you read the article header, it makes it seem like the Green slime somehow controls the robot in a way that it knows it is moving the robot to a dark corner. Instead, all that has been done is to sense the natural movement of the slime away from light and carry those command over to a robot. This, for me, is no different than the way we make CG characters like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This is no new technology, just a new subject with a nudge to force the slime to do something.
Apple, however, will actually have to comply with government orders.
why?
8 billion dollars buys a lot of lawyers.
Simply amazing only because they advertised the bare minimum/worst case scenario as the life expectancy. Honestly, NASA couldn't chance another failure so they played it safe.
This is a machine... a very well built one. The fact that both are running just shows that many of the NASA assumptions were incorrect, such as how well a machine would function on the surface, the effects of the varying temperature on components and the overall dependability of a machine.
We should be thinking of the 3 months number as nothing more than a warranty. The engineers(whoever they were) gave a conservative number that these things would run for 3 months. Just as car makers give me a 2-3 year warranty, I still expect my car to work well after that warranty is up.
Anyways, it is amazing, but demonstrates a problem with goverment research projects and the importance of a tangible success/failure as opposed to just saying, it will run until it stops and we will collect as much data as possible. This is also the same problem with Hubble. While Hubble gives us tons of useful scientific research, it is a project without an end and without a tangible success to be stamp on a piece of paper to justify all those tax payers money. (Man... where did this rant come from:-/)
I thought that was the directions on how to fly... I am so confused now
I looked forward to playing Madden on my PSP. Which turned out to be one of the buggiest games ever released. The game crashed repeatedly and the load times were unbearable. It would even tease you and make you think that the load times were over at some points. Now, the load times are mostly Sony's fault(UMD is slow), but the crashing of the game was inexcusable and I stopped playing this after the first night I owned it.
hence why the article headline said that it was unlikely that Sony would get the online thing correct on the first try.
the PSP was not an iPod Killer.
/me whips out ethereal to get to work.
Oh wait, I didn't buy an XBox360
doh!
How is intel optimizing my code? As far as I can tell... I use a gcc compiler on PowerPC processor. Regardless of that, how exactly would intel be optimize my code?
Where in my post did I say that Java and C# weren't popular? Also, just because something is popular does not make it right, or even something nice to use. Most companies got pushed into Java because Sun had created so much buzz around it. What I can't understand is that some of the people in this thread are "asking" for Java bindings of Cocoa. Why? Java's strength is its write-once, deploy-anywhere capabilities. I hate seeing Java code that is tied to a platform due to a developer using some Microsoft media library instead of the JMF or Quicktime bindings(yes, Windows and Mac only).
.NET highly inferior to Microsofts previous offerrings and with it largely being pushed out to aid Microsoft(think of the problems Microsoft has had maintaining multiple languages across multiple platforms).
What is worse, is that if you are tied to only 1 platform, their are plenty of better languages to write in. I personally don't believe in bytecode if you are writing for 1 platform because of the speed differences(yes, you can show me all the studies you want... but do use these languages before citing a study). And since I don't believe in bytecode, this means that I consider
From his thread:
I _still_ have to look out for yucky pointers?
I hate these fucking developers like this. These people that don't want to write code, but would rather have everything taken care of them in an unpredictable manner.
Garbage Collection==excuse for not writing better code and don't give me the excuse that you can write your code faster. The time spent writing nasty code results in memory problems, garbage collections freezing an application, and numerous bugs. Not to mention that these developers use memory like its candy... Not knowing that every one of their objects in a list uses 2 megs of memory.
pointers==I don't understand how my computer allocates, deallocates and references memory so I would rather have Sun wrap all that confusion and trust that they did it well. Sorry... but if you have never used pointers then you obviously do not understand the benefit of using them. And while it is nice that Sun can take away the need to use them, they should still be available in some manner to the developer. I feel I can optimize my code a lot more than sun can.
IDE whores==hold my hand while I code. Honestly, developers that depend on an IDE and the hitting of a period to find the Integer.parseInt() method end up writing some of the worst code. I work at a company where I refuse to write Java code for them. Basically because these developers are morons and don't understand any of the hardware and software that they implement. A good example was a lot of developers started implementing JGroups which is a multicast memory replication useful for clustering. It worked great except every developer copied the same code snippet and every application was using the same multicast group and port. Instead of changing the address, they decided to handle it at the application level and filter it after they had read the packets off the socket. Gross.
Bytecode is great==I don't understand how fast a computer really is with native code. Bytecode solves a few problems, but it is totally unacceptable for large applications. Whatever happened to Sun's Web Brower? It died despite being Java. Everyone says Eclipse is a great IDE, but its bloated and slow. I worked at a company that put all its Apples(No Pun Intended) into Java/Swing combination. When I left, 4 years after the project was started, they were still having UI speed problems. When I develop, I don't want anyting getting in my way and I don't want to have to buy a 3ghz processor to do it/run it.
Now, I know all the Buzz word slashdot people will disagree with me, but Object Oriented programing adds a layer of abstraction, taking away pointers adds another layer of abstraction and then adding in a garbage collection adds another layer of abstration. And also having Sun hide all those pointers behing an extrememly gross hierachy of classes that always seem to hand-off work to another class has its penalties.
I want the new format.
DVDs are Low Resolution and Low Capacity.
The next 5+ years are going to be people buying bigger and better TV/Projectors... Ever watched a DVD stream on a projector... it is really bad and is frankly the reason I stopped buying DVDs.
or an IDE with a vi mode:-)
Grandparent most likely meant per minute.
Since I am too lazy to look up the stats or anyting... I will just say that at a million dollars a minute, a 120 minute movie becomes a 120 million which is more like the figure we expect to hear.
ummmm, I saw it at the iMax at the Mall of Georgia. 9:45AM on the opening weekend. I got co-workers back me up:-P
It wasn't like they had 3d glasses or anything for it. Just a top of the line theater with awesome sound and a massive screen.
It has been said several times.
After looking at the site... I am honestly scared.
First, this technology(GPS part), could easily be produced very soon. Just a battery with a GPS chip could easily be hidden in pairs of jeans, jackets, etc...
Now, the panties thing is far-fetched because if I buy my girlfriend 8 pairs of panties one day... she might be a lil suspicious, especially if I keep saying, wear these today.
Not at the iMax in Atlanta. People were cheering, but I wasn't sure why.
Now, the reason that this movie is a lot more successful than the others(IMHO), is that it plays a lot on nostalgia, it has some pretty good effects, and it answers a lot of questions that we all had.
Oh, before I forget about it
Anybody else remember in Empire when Ghost Obi Wan is talking about "he is our last hope" and Yoda says... "No, their is another". Exactly why was Obi Wan so clueless!!!! That was the first thing that popped in my head when I saw Obi Wan hearing the names of the two kids and seeing them off.
however, you run the risk of race conditions, where you try to serve a page that is part-way through a rebuild.
Already solved the race condition... At my last company, we generated about 20-25 webpages that took over 35 seconds a piece to generate. These accessed a heavily taxed DB server and was processing around a million rows. Simply generate the code to a temp file. Once finished move the temp file in place of the old file. The time it takes to move the file is extremely quick and should(under most circumstances) keep the blank/half webpages from showing up.
database backed webpages are a trap and a bottleneck. Notice that Slashdot generates static pages from comments. Databases are not a limitless resource and notice how many webpages get sucked into the "No more connections" trap when you visit them from Slashdot.
Now people will argue that a server is not scalable either, but you can always have 5000 servers serving up that same static data. You really can't expect 5000 servers to access a single database and expect the database to survive.
Databases are needed for some webpages, but don't throw them in as a simple shortcut.
Nobody is going to want to download 30+GBs of MPEG-2 video just to watch a 30-minute video (minus commercials).
Get your Numbers right
Broadcast quality mpeg-2(8 megabits) runs about a megabyte a second. So 30 minutes * 60 seconds = 1800 total seconds for a 30 minutes clip.
1.8 gigs is a far cry from 30 gigs. While that is broadcast quality and not HDTV quality, HDTV is not going to be of a 15x the size.
I did a quick google to find the size of a HDTV stream... The EyeTV guys write it up as about 8 GB an hour.
the fact that 95% of all programs run under XP and no others
wtf?!? Did you just pull this right out of your ass. First off, XP is less than 4 years old(Oct 2001). That is an extremely brave statement to say considering that almost every application can run on previous versions of Windows and today we have virtual machines to run any OS anywhere as well. But... what applications do you really need that have no replacement?
Games... You got every OS on that one, but console gaming is clearly an alternative.
Office... OpenOffice, and you can run MS Office on OS X.
Video Editing... several open source projects and Apple has all but destroyed Adobe's Premiere.
Image Editing... several multi-platform apps
Audio... iTunes/Quicktime/Real Player/Media Player... all multi-platform, some more than others
Browser... several multi-platform apps.
Chatting... several multi-platform apps.
So exactly what programs can you not live without? I think you are exaggerating.
POSIX is a standard and it is the reason my C/C++ code can easily be ported to any UNIX machine imaginable.