The problem with tablet PCs right now is the battery life. The whole advantage of a tablet PC is it lets you use it on the go, but if you have to plug in every two hours to recharge the batteries, that defeats the purpose.
I think there are some applications for tablet PCs now, hospitals, etc., but in order for them to reach mainstream-acceptance, they need to tackle the power/battery issue.
Section 1, In addition to the strict listing, however, are hundreds of examples of how to use the classes; some basic, some obvious, and some you probably haven't seen.
Section 2 provides a listing of every class in the covered packages in alphabetical order, along with all the signature of every public method in those classes.
Part 3 goes through every major JDK release, starting at 1.0, and tells you everything you could possibly want to know about that release.
I guess you would have to figure this part out yourself, but what real value is it anyway?
I know, I know, it's nice to have this in book form, but the sooner you learn how to parse through what javadoc provides, the better. Especially if you are serious about learning/using java, you need to become familar with javadoc. Plus the APIs are still changing, and the Sun website will always have the most up-to-date information. It takes a while to get used to looking at documentation online, but once you are familar with it, you will be proficent in finding what you want in no time.
The real value of the books seems to be the examples, but they are all on-line too.
Seriously, don't buy this book. If you want something that will truely make you a better Java programmer, get Effective Java. That book is worth its weight in gold.
Comcast is paying way too much, sounds familiar? We all know what happened to the dot coms, don't we? But CEOs can fix anything by "cost control" (read "laying off enough people"). Then they increase your dues, since they are now a monopoly. Then 5 year later, they go bankrupt because after all 30 billion was too much and because high speed wireless beat them to a pulp. But by this time the CEOs are gone and are laughing from their golden parachutes. Anyway, by this time, no one remembers that it was done on Bush's guard. This is called win-win for the CEOs and the politicians.
Yes, but this is the same company looking to make itself accessable to artist, etc, who want to display their creativity. Now they are going to lock it down so that everyone's Apple looks the same?
A lot of the standard computer interfaces -- hierarchical menus, contextual menus, even Aqua itself -- were dreamed up by people working in bedrooms or back offices, now they want to curtail this?
There *was* an arcade museum in St. Louis, in the mid-90's. It had all the old 80's arcade games there to play. They even had built or bought a plexi-glass cabinet for a Ms. Pac-Man machine, so you could see the internals. They had little placards on each of the machines, with the history of the games.
I used to go there when I worked for the government. I had a monthly meeting at MacDonald Douglas, and the "L"(or whatever they call it in St. Louis) dropped you off right next to it. This was right around the time arcade emulation was in it's infancy (Starcade was out, but MAME was just a Pengo emulator at that time).
I went back in '95 or '96 and it had shut down, though.
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The problem with tablet PCs right now is the battery life. The whole advantage of a tablet PC is it lets you use it on the go, but if you have to plug in every two hours to recharge the batteries, that defeats the purpose.
I think there are some applications for tablet PCs now, hospitals, etc., but in order for them to reach mainstream-acceptance, they need to tackle the power/battery issue.Section 1, In addition to the strict listing, however, are hundreds of examples of how to use the classes; some basic, some obvious, and some you probably haven't seen.
All the examples.
Section 2 provides a listing of every class in the covered packages in alphabetical order, along with all the signature of every public method in those classes.
Java 1.4 spec.Part 3 goes through every major JDK release, starting at 1.0, and tells you everything you could possibly want to know about that release.
I guess you would have to figure this part out yourself, but what real value is it anyway?
I know, I know, it's nice to have this in book form, but the sooner you learn how to parse through what javadoc provides, the better. Especially if you are serious about learning/using java, you need to become familar with javadoc. Plus the APIs are still changing, and the Sun website will always have the most up-to-date information. It takes a while to get used to looking at documentation online, but once you are familar with it, you will be proficent in finding what you want in no time.
The real value of the books seems to be the examples, but they are all on-line too.
Seriously, don't buy this book. If you want something that will truely make you a better Java programmer, get Effective Java. That book is worth its weight in gold.
Comcast is paying way too much, sounds familiar? We all know what happened to the dot coms, don't we? But CEOs can fix anything by "cost control" (read "laying off enough people"). Then they increase your dues, since they are now a monopoly. Then 5 year later, they go bankrupt because after all 30 billion was too much and because high speed wireless beat them to a pulp. But by this time the CEOs are gone and are laughing from their golden parachutes. Anyway, by this time, no one remembers that it was done on Bush's guard. This is called win-win for the CEOs and the politicians.
Yes, but this is the same company looking to make itself accessable to artist, etc, who want to display their creativity. Now they are going to lock it down so that everyone's Apple looks the same?
A lot of the standard computer interfaces -- hierarchical menus, contextual menus, even Aqua itself -- were dreamed up by people working in bedrooms or back offices, now they want to curtail this?
There *was* an arcade museum in St. Louis, in the mid-90's. It had all the old 80's arcade games there to play. They even had built or bought a plexi-glass cabinet for a Ms. Pac-Man machine, so you could see the internals. They had little placards on each of the machines, with the history of the games.
I used to go there when I worked for the government. I had a monthly meeting at MacDonald Douglas, and the "L"(or whatever they call it in St. Louis) dropped you off right next to it. This was right around the time arcade emulation was in it's infancy (Starcade was out, but MAME was just a Pengo emulator at that time).
I went back in '95 or '96 and it had shut down, though.