As someone whose job includes writing a lot of code, much of it in java, I can answer that. First of all, java browser applets generally are more trouble than they are worth (IMHO). Java applications, on the other hand, can be quite nice. Second of all, as with many languages, there are a lot of bad java programmers out there writing a lot of bad java code so don't automatically blame the language for the ineptitude of the programmer.:-) Java is not inherently unstable. I have several apps that run under heavy loads for extended periods on everything from PCs to some largish Sun iron without a single issue. Speed has not been an issue for a while now. I use the 1.4 JVMs and the speed of those VMs has *never* been an issue. I prefer java as my dev platform for a couple of reasons. Most of my code is intended to eventually run on a Sun server. Java allows me to develop and do the preleminary testing on my windows workstation which is a very efficient way to things for me. Also, I can usually bang out a program in java in less than half the time it would take me to code the same app in C or C++. Another personal preference for me is the garbage collection in java. I have to try pretty damn hard to write java code that leaks memory (it *can* be done tho).
Wouldn't it be great if movies never tried to make a political statement? Oh what a happy day it would be then.
You'll get no argument on this point from me. Personally I watch movies for entertainment as an escape from the ugliness of the reality in which we live. It pisses me off when I pay $8 to get someone's political agenda shoved in my face when I'm not expecting it.
Oh, and all the bush-approved ads on kerry are telling the truth?
I never said that. My point is that this movie is little more than a political advertisement against GWB but due to the fact that it is a movie, Moore is attempting to sidestep the intent of the campaign finance laws which limits the amount of money that can be spent on advertising a candidate once the conventions are held.
Personally, I don't feel that the Bush campaign needs to attack Kerry. Kerry does a fair amount of damage to himself every time he opens his mouth in public.
I'm not a Bush cheerleader. I do strive to keep myself informed and every time I read up on Kerry's record and his politics, I come away with a bad taste in my mouth.
Moore is telling you the part of the story you're not getting from Bush's PR team.
What the hell are you talking about? That might hold true if you get all of your news only from talk radio. Bush can't even fart without the mainstream media running headlines about how Bush is polluting the air or somesuch. Ok, that was a gross exaggeration, but you can't seriously claim that the media at large is giving Bush a free pass.
Damn you Moore, you filthy capitalist. I swear, those commie liberal bastards all love capitalism, um, wait, I meant hate, no, um, damn it, now I'm all confused.
Once again, you take aim and completely miss my point. Perhaps I was too subtle.
Moore is a fake. He pushes a message of hatred of GWB as an avenue to get money because he knows it will appeal to a sizeable segment of the country.
Moore is definately a capitalist. In my never-to-be-humble opinion, he embodies all the worst that capitalism can bring. I'm a capitalist myself (I don't bust my butt working just for poops-and-grins, afterall.)
But I digress...
That's called ad hominem, and it is a logical fallacy. The messenger does not influence the correctness of the message. Anyone who lets himself get swayed by who does the talking instead of what they are talking about is not being objective about things.
That's assuming that the message is correct. Moore is known to omit relevant information and invent 'facts' when the facts aren't sensational enough. To accept any message without considering the source is pure foolishness.
Don't take my word for it. Go do some research on the accuracy in "Bowling for Columbine"
Moore has 3 goals with this movie. Plain and simple.
1) Make a boatload of money. 2) He would very much like to influence the presidential elections this fall. Few who care to objectively watch this 'documentary' can deny that he presents his entire story with a good deal of bias and slant. Whether or not you agree with the Republicans, you should take this movie with a grain of salt the size of Manhattan. (It can be argued that presenting this message in the form of a documentary movie is an attempt to sidestep the campaign finance laws) By his own admission, Moore has omitted *all* material that might cast the current administration in anything other than a bad light. 3) Make a boatload of money.
Personally, I don't think this film will accomplish much politically. Those who hate GWB will still hate him and point to the film as proof of how evil he is. Those who think Moore is full of shit will still think so and will point to the movie as proof of how evil he is.
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Blackberry integration is something I can see as being useful. Can someone please explain how/why you would want to add any kind of VoIP functionality to a groupware server?
I'm probably feeding a troll here so moderate accordingly.
Using your wonderfully thought out logic, would you mind explaining why Linux 2.2.x and apache will outrun W2k and IIS5 on similar hardware configurations when serving up entirely dynamic content? Hmm? I don't believe there is any 32bit texture mapped 3d eye candy being generated there either...
(Hint: Think it might have something to do with the way static HTTP requests are handled in the kernel in W2k and not the 2.2.x linux kernels?)
If you honestly make decisions in your job based on the kind of reasoning exhibited in your post then I would have to call into question your fitness to be an admin.
I'm not a Linux fanatic either. I use several versions of unix as well as NT/W2K daily in my job.
Before I start ranting, let me say that I do agree with much of what you say here. Taxes are a necessary evil if we are to have any kind of social projects, roadways, etc. I'm taking issue with the idea that we are somehow greedy if we oppose a tax. Saying it that way makes it sound as though the government is being gracious by allowing us to keep as much of our paychecks as we presently do. This attitude is pure horse shit! We (the people) are, in theory, willingly giving up a portion of our income to the government so that they might be able to take the money and use it for the overall good. Is is *not* the government kindly allowing us to keep what they think we should have. *I* am the one who goes to work every freaking day and earns my paycheck. It is not greed if I want to keep what I've busted my butt to earn. I sat down a little while back and figured out just how much of my money goes to taxes. When you figure federal income, state income, local taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, usage taxes, and whyeverthefuckelsewewannalevythem taxes, over 55% of my income goes to the damn governments. Am I now greedy because I want to keep the remaining 45% of my wages? *Reasonable* taxation is necessary to maintain a functional government. I think we're well beyond the point of being reasonable here in the US.
Go ahead and run the numbers. See how much the government takes from you *then* ash who is being greedy.
If you're using RedHat 5 they you're messing with an ancient version that still uses the 2.0 series kernel. SCSI support at that time was admittedly less than wonderful. I've been using the 2.2 series for some time and have had absolutely no problems with any of the adaptec SCSI sontrollers (even those pesky controllers built into the motherboards) or SCSI devices attached to any of the machines I admin. I'm not saying this to flame, but Linux is developing at such a rapid pace that it's hardly appropriate to dredge up an old version of a distro when you want to compare features with another OS Just my opinion
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As someone whose job includes writing a lot of code, much of it in java, I can answer that. :-)
First of all, java browser applets generally are more trouble than they are worth (IMHO). Java applications, on the other hand, can be quite nice. Second of all, as with many languages, there are a lot of bad java programmers out there writing a lot of bad java code so don't automatically blame the language for the ineptitude of the programmer.
Java is not inherently unstable. I have several apps that run under heavy loads for extended periods on everything from PCs to some largish Sun iron without a single issue.
Speed has not been an issue for a while now. I use the 1.4 JVMs and the speed of those VMs has *never* been an issue.
I prefer java as my dev platform for a couple of reasons. Most of my code is intended to eventually run on a Sun server. Java allows me to develop and do the preleminary testing on my windows workstation which is a very efficient way to things for me. Also, I can usually bang out a program in java in less than half the time it would take me to code the same app in C or C++. Another personal preference for me is the garbage collection in java. I have to try pretty damn hard to write java code that leaks memory (it *can* be done tho).
Wouldn't it be great if movies never tried to make a political statement? Oh what a happy day it would be then.
You'll get no argument on this point from me. Personally I watch movies for entertainment as an escape from the ugliness of the reality in which we live. It pisses me off when I pay $8 to get someone's political agenda shoved in my face when I'm not expecting it.
Oh, and all the bush-approved ads on kerry are telling the truth?
I never said that. My point is that this movie is little more than a political advertisement against GWB but due to the fact that it is a movie, Moore is attempting to sidestep the intent of the campaign finance laws which limits the amount of money that can be spent on advertising a candidate once the conventions are held.
Personally, I don't feel that the Bush campaign needs to attack Kerry. Kerry does a fair amount of damage to himself every time he opens his mouth in public.
I'm not a Bush cheerleader. I do strive to keep myself informed and every time I read up on Kerry's record and his politics, I come away with a bad taste in my mouth.
Moore is telling you the part of the story you're not getting from Bush's PR team.
What the hell are you talking about? That might hold true if you get all of your news only from talk radio. Bush can't even fart without the mainstream media running headlines about how Bush is polluting the air or somesuch. Ok, that was a gross exaggeration, but you can't seriously claim that the media at large is giving Bush a free pass.
Damn you Moore, you filthy capitalist. I swear, those commie liberal bastards all love capitalism, um, wait, I meant hate, no, um, damn it, now I'm all confused.
Once again, you take aim and completely miss my point. Perhaps I was too subtle.
Moore is a fake. He pushes a message of hatred of GWB as an avenue to get money because he knows it will appeal to a sizeable segment of the country.
Moore is definately a capitalist. In my never-to-be-humble opinion, he embodies all the worst that capitalism can bring. I'm a capitalist myself (I don't bust my butt working just for poops-and-grins, afterall.)
But I digress...
That's called ad hominem, and it is a logical fallacy. The messenger does not influence the correctness of the message. Anyone who lets himself get swayed by who does the talking instead of what they are talking about is not being objective about things.
That's assuming that the message is correct. Moore is known to omit relevant information and invent 'facts' when the facts aren't sensational enough. To accept any message without considering the source is pure foolishness.
Don't take my word for it. Go do some research on the accuracy in "Bowling for Columbine"
Moore has 3 goals with this movie. Plain and simple.
1) Make a boatload of money.
2) He would very much like to influence the presidential elections this fall. Few who care to objectively watch this 'documentary' can deny that he presents his entire story with a good deal of bias and slant. Whether or not you agree with the Republicans, you should take this movie with a grain of salt the size of Manhattan. (It can be argued that presenting this message in the form of a documentary movie is an attempt to sidestep the campaign finance laws) By his own admission, Moore has omitted *all* material that might cast the current administration in anything other than a bad light.
3) Make a boatload of money.
Personally, I don't think this film will accomplish much politically. Those who hate GWB will still hate him and point to the film as proof of how evil he is. Those who think Moore is full of shit will still think so and will point to the movie as proof of how evil he is.
No good. I used all those watching CNN...
Blackberry integration is something I can see as being useful. Can someone please explain how/why you would want to add any kind of VoIP functionality to a groupware server?
Somebody get this guy some prozac...
Remember that an I/O process cannot migrate to a different host with Mosix ;-)
Are you kidding? That's one of the better series I've seen. I'm just afraid Jordan's going to croak before he finishes it :-)
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...the parent post to this is full of it.
I'm probably feeding a troll here so moderate accordingly.
Using your wonderfully thought out logic, would you mind explaining why Linux 2.2.x and apache will outrun W2k and IIS5 on similar hardware configurations when serving up entirely dynamic content? Hmm? I don't believe there is any 32bit texture mapped 3d eye candy being generated there either...
(Hint: Think it might have something to do with the way static HTTP requests are handled in the kernel in W2k and not the 2.2.x linux kernels?)
If you honestly make decisions in your job based on the kind of reasoning exhibited in your post then I would have to call into question your fitness to be an admin.
I'm not a Linux fanatic either. I use several versions of unix as well as NT/W2K daily in my job.
Karma? Who cares...
Before I start ranting, let me say that I do agree with much of what you say here. Taxes are a necessary evil if we are to have any kind of social projects, roadways, etc. I'm taking issue with the idea that we are somehow greedy if we oppose a tax. Saying it that way makes it sound as though the government is being gracious by allowing us to keep as much of our paychecks as we presently do. This attitude is pure horse shit! We (the people) are, in theory, willingly giving up a portion of our income to the government so that they might be able to take the money and use it for the overall good. Is is *not* the government kindly allowing us to keep what they think we should have. *I* am the one who goes to work every freaking day and earns my paycheck. It is not greed if I want to keep what I've busted my butt to earn. I sat down a little while back and figured out just how much of my money goes to taxes. When you figure federal income, state income, local taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, usage taxes, and whyeverthefuckelsewewannalevythem taxes, over 55% of my income goes to the damn governments. Am I now greedy because I want to keep the remaining 45% of my wages? *Reasonable* taxation is necessary to maintain a functional government. I think we're well beyond the point of being reasonable here in the US.
Go ahead and run the numbers. See how much the government takes from you *then* ash who is being greedy.
...renders the site beautifully on my Linux box
...when Diablo II comes out, how many of us would even notice for at least a week? :-)
...on a corporate level?
After all, it is running win98 ;-)
If you're using RedHat 5 they you're messing with an ancient version that still uses the 2.0 series kernel. SCSI support at that time was admittedly less than wonderful. I've been using the 2.2 series for some time and have had absolutely no problems with any of the adaptec SCSI sontrollers (even those pesky controllers built into the motherboards) or SCSI devices attached to any of the machines I admin. I'm not saying this to flame, but Linux is developing at such a rapid pace that it's hardly appropriate to dredge up an old version of a distro when you want to compare features with another OS Just my opinion
That should be just about enough space to install the next version of wndows, office 2002, IE6 and a couple of games... ;)