Not to defend Greenpeace (I don't particularly like them), but the first article there made me chuckle a bit. Japan is one of the few countries operating a whaling business "legally" under the guise of the "research" quoted above. I'm sure that their findings are cutting-edge, nobel-prize worthy and the like, but they take a very small "sample" of the whale, then return the carcass to the mainland where it ends up in restaurants. I don't know why the Japanese government even puts up the pretense. They just like the taste of whale meat (it is pretty good...)
Because the rest of the world criticizes this habit, the whaler^H^H^H^H^H^Hresearchers get really defensive about their bus^H^H^Hresearch, and issue statements like the one above, reminding the world of how benevolent they are.
We do use timesten actually, precisely for that reason. The cache group feature to autosync with Oracle is very useful. And it is damn fast. We do have a license for all of Rogue Wave's libraries, but you're right, Java's library set is extensive (and generally well tested).
Not intended as troll - I work at a multinational financial institution. While most of our trading systems need incredible speed, and are done in C++, there is a firm-wide push to develop most of our server processes in Java. I am not a Java fanboy, but for many applications, Java is just easier to manage. To get code up and working quickly, Java is great. (if you're in the unfortunate position to have to write windows apps, C# is pretty quick as well) Lusers are lusers in any industry, but traders are generally more thickheaded than most, and they like to have software that works "pretty well" yesterday rather than perfect in 3 months.
in orbit with no atmosphere you have to worry about radiation disturbances of your circuits. solar flares frying your circuitry, micrometeors slamming into the satellites, backdoors in your software, and spam;P
There is no reason to pay for certificates - initially the issue was about trust. The infrstructure to set up a cert authority is not complicated, as mentioned...you just need people to trust the certificates that you issue. God (and slashdotters) know the kind of crap that VeriSign has pulled before. It's good to see alternatives.
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for those who might be interested in why Japanese like to eat whale, here's a decent read.
Not to defend Greenpeace (I don't particularly like them), but the first article there made me chuckle a bit. Japan is one of the few countries operating a whaling business "legally" under the guise of the "research" quoted above. I'm sure that their findings are cutting-edge, nobel-prize worthy and the like, but they take a very small "sample" of the whale, then return the carcass to the mainland where it ends up in restaurants. I don't know why the Japanese government even puts up the pretense. They just like the taste of whale meat (it is pretty good...) Because the rest of the world criticizes this habit, the whaler^H^H^H^H^H^Hresearchers get really defensive about their bus^H^H^Hresearch, and issue statements like the one above, reminding the world of how benevolent they are.
We do use timesten actually, precisely for that reason. The cache group feature to autosync with Oracle is very useful. And it is damn fast. We do have a license for all of Rogue Wave's libraries, but you're right, Java's library set is extensive (and generally well tested).
Not intended as troll - I work at a multinational financial institution. While most of our trading systems need incredible speed, and are done in C++, there is a firm-wide push to develop most of our server processes in Java. I am not a Java fanboy, but for many applications, Java is just easier to manage. To get code up and working quickly, Java is great. (if you're in the unfortunate position to have to write windows apps, C# is pretty quick as well) Lusers are lusers in any industry, but traders are generally more thickheaded than most, and they like to have software that works "pretty well" yesterday rather than perfect in 3 months.
BHOOMI patents the process of "online updation".
in orbit with no atmosphere you have to worry about radiation disturbances of your circuits. solar flares frying your circuitry, micrometeors slamming into the satellites, backdoors in your software, and spam ;P
There is no reason to pay for certificates - initially the issue was about trust. The infrstructure to set up a cert authority is not complicated, as mentioned...you just need people to trust the certificates that you issue. God (and slashdotters) know the kind of crap that VeriSign has pulled before. It's good to see alternatives.
Its still too easy to decompile C# code. Last I checked, MS is still trying to keep its secrets.