All I said is that "evil is in the eye of the beholder", just think back to the crusader days. When the "good" christians were down in middle east bashing muslims because they have a different religion. (yes, that was us europeans)
I DID NOT STATE THAT OSAMA IS A GOOD GUY. But you will have to remeber that the US DID help him and his possy during the Afghanistan-Soviet war, and supplied him with knowledge, bombs and other weapons. At that point Osama was a good guy, but if you have asked the soviet, then they would have said that he was evil/terrorist. So who was right?
"generally do a decent job" ? How many innocent killed are acceptable? How many invaded countries are accepteable? "Duh, every 2 out of 3 countries we meddle in come out ok". I would not like to live in the country where you fail, ie kill or indeirectly kill innocent people.
If a company says that another country is evil, is it ok to invade it? (Remember the banan/fruit war in central america)
It is ok to state that "Im a good guy, and I dont have any thing to hide". But what if someone decides that using the work computer for personal things (like writting slashdot) is evil and must be punished. Its all down to the people with the information, they cant choose whats evil and wants not. Fine, they can have the info now, but you dont know what will happen in the future and who is going to missuse it?
UUUHHHH. Now you are smoking crack. First of, saddam is/was a bad guy.
But really who is the person to make such judgment? Who has the knowledge to say "this guy is evil" or "this guy is not evil".
Please dont forget, that the US has meddled too many times in other countries internal affairs. Anyone remember Pinochet? A nice dictator that was helped by the US gov to seize power over Chile. (The man in charge that was removed, was choosen by the public in an election) So the US installed a dictator, that cant be right? Did they really remove a public elected president/statesman?
Yes, evil is really in the eye of the beholder.
About using goverment resources, everytime you write osama/plo/etc in a comment, it is probably going to be checked by some FBI. So you are wasting resources as well.
Your're kidding right? Osama and his possy is probably already technical adept, and will stay away from the cellphones, open emails, etc.. What these new systems are good for, is to keep the control of the masses, keep the masses alert that at all times you can get hit by a terrorist, keep them scared so they dont care that the deficit has doubled during last Bushies term.
And BTW, the russians probably already knew most of the stuff the US did, and the US probably knew all actions done by the russians. THe only people that are out in the dark, and doesnt know any of the secrets are us. We, the masses, are the last one to be informed, and when we are informed it is probably some cleaned up version of the brute truth.
Remember WMDs? What happened to them?
Just found out that Eliah Wood is going to play the mute Kevin. The nice friend that collects girls head and eats their bodies in front of them. That is a real nice turn from the sad and loser Frodo.
I was blown away by the trailer. It really has all the details that made the comic serie so outstanding. But as always, im doubtful that they will have all the nastiness in the comics in the movie.
For those wondering what SinCity is, here is a good page for its artwork
http://hem.passagen.se/fm4/sincity.html
(And stupid me, who thought Wood was burned after the Ring movies)
How can you say that it will recover when it reboots? If Im editing a document, and I have a BSOD (which happens to often), and then it reboots and leaves me in a clean state. How is that recovering? It is rebooting, not recovering my work.
Recover is when it will handle the problem, and try to change it to the same state it was before the problem. Reboot gives a clean state. our in Programming, recover is exception handling, reboot is crashing programs.
Yes, it is nice but there are some key properties that I dont get why they added those. About Exceptions, you can as an API maker easily force the API user to handle errors/exceptions when they occur in the API. In Java you will just add "throws YadaYadaException" and the API user must handle it. In.NET the developer can ignore it if he wants it, and it will probably have loads of troubles further down when they are trying to use API methods that are unavailable because of the state of the API. When you force the developer to handle exceptions, he/she will also think about the ramifications of the exception. Why did it occur, what should I do to clean up, was there something wrong in my call, etc? Letting the developer to produce sloppy code, will lead to *gasp* sloppy code.
Anyhow, hasnt development progressed since C's geterror() approach?
My suspicion is that they choosed to do this, so the VB developers wouldnt have to learn a new thing. WHy learn when you can stall?
BTW, try to have different access rights on Properties in.NET? If you have a property that has public get method, the set method must be public as well. Why put such a limit? I will stay with Get and Set methods...
Im amazed that MS (or other firms) have managed to let these rumors become facts. Java is not slow, at my last job we created an image viewer for professional photographers which was running on Java. The system had no problem showing 2000 thumbs (not at the same time, but scrolling was instant), zooming into 10mbs images was a breeze, you could play with the mouse buttons and it would instantly zoom to the 1:1 layer and back again. And this is something that Java has been known to be very bad with GUI and images. But we managed to pull it of anyway, and it was even quicker than the defacto industry standard application, which was written in C++.
So, please dont come with those crap arguments, because they are not true.
But what is true; c++ will always be faster than java,.Net might be (but thats because of the infamous shortcuts than only MS ppl know of). But is that the really point, when you are creating desktop applications? If you want speed, try develop a desktop app in Assembler. Now it will be the fastest around, but probably look like crap.
What must be really annoying, is that.NET has borrowed so many classes from Java so they should call it J--.
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All I said is that "evil is in the eye of the beholder", just think back to the crusader days. When the "good" christians were down in middle east bashing muslims because they have a different religion. (yes, that was us europeans)
I DID NOT STATE THAT OSAMA IS A GOOD GUY. But you will have to remeber that the US DID help him and his possy during the Afghanistan-Soviet war, and supplied him with knowledge, bombs and other weapons. At that point Osama was a good guy, but if you have asked the soviet, then they would have said that he was evil/terrorist. So who was right?
"generally do a decent job" ? How many innocent killed are acceptable? How many invaded countries are accepteable? "Duh, every 2 out of 3 countries we meddle in come out ok". I would not like to live in the country where you fail, ie kill or indeirectly kill innocent people.
If a company says that another country is evil, is it ok to invade it? (Remember the banan/fruit war in central america)
It is ok to state that "Im a good guy, and I dont have any thing to hide". But what if someone decides that using the work computer for personal things (like writting slashdot) is evil and must be punished. Its all down to the people with the information, they cant choose whats evil and wants not. Fine, they can have the info now, but you dont know what will happen in the future and who is going to missuse it?
UUUHHHH. Now you are smoking crack. First of, saddam is/was a bad guy.
But really who is the person to make such judgment? Who has the knowledge to say "this guy is evil" or "this guy is not evil".
Please dont forget, that the US has meddled too many times in other countries internal affairs. Anyone remember Pinochet? A nice dictator that was helped by the US gov to seize power over Chile. (The man in charge that was removed, was choosen by the public in an election) So the US installed a dictator, that cant be right? Did they really remove a public elected president/statesman?
Yes, evil is really in the eye of the beholder.
About using goverment resources, everytime you write osama/plo/etc in a comment, it is probably going to be checked by some FBI. So you are wasting resources as well.
Your're kidding right? Osama and his possy is probably already technical adept, and will stay away from the cellphones, open emails, etc.. What these new systems are good for, is to keep the control of the masses, keep the masses alert that at all times you can get hit by a terrorist, keep them scared so they dont care that the deficit has doubled during last Bushies term. And BTW, the russians probably already knew most of the stuff the US did, and the US probably knew all actions done by the russians. THe only people that are out in the dark, and doesnt know any of the secrets are us. We, the masses, are the last one to be informed, and when we are informed it is probably some cleaned up version of the brute truth. Remember WMDs? What happened to them?
Just found out that Eliah Wood is going to play the mute Kevin. The nice friend that collects girls head and eats their bodies in front of them. That is a real nice turn from the sad and loser Frodo.
I was blown away by the trailer. It really has all the details that made the comic serie so outstanding. But as always, im doubtful that they will have all the nastiness in the comics in the movie. For those wondering what SinCity is, here is a good page for its artwork http://hem.passagen.se/fm4/sincity.html (And stupid me, who thought Wood was burned after the Ring movies)
How can you say that it will recover when it reboots? If Im editing a document, and I have a BSOD (which happens to often), and then it reboots and leaves me in a clean state. How is that recovering? It is rebooting, not recovering my work. Recover is when it will handle the problem, and try to change it to the same state it was before the problem. Reboot gives a clean state. our in Programming, recover is exception handling, reboot is crashing programs.
Yes, it is nice but there are some key properties that I dont get why they added those. About Exceptions, you can as an API maker easily force the API user to handle errors/exceptions when they occur in the API. In Java you will just add "throws YadaYadaException" and the API user must handle it. In .NET the developer can ignore it if he wants it, and it will probably have loads of troubles further down when they are trying to use API methods that are unavailable because of the state of the API. When you force the developer to handle exceptions, he/she will also think about the ramifications of the exception. Why did it occur, what should I do to clean up, was there something wrong in my call, etc? Letting the developer to produce sloppy code, will lead to *gasp* sloppy code.
.NET? If you have a property that has public get method, the set method must be public as well. Why put such a limit? I will stay with Get and Set methods...
Anyhow, hasnt development progressed since C's geterror() approach?
My suspicion is that they choosed to do this, so the VB developers wouldnt have to learn a new thing. WHy learn when you can stall?
BTW, try to have different access rights on Properties in
Im amazed that MS (or other firms) have managed to let these rumors become facts. Java is not slow, at my last job we created an image viewer for professional photographers which was running on Java. The system had no problem showing 2000 thumbs (not at the same time, but scrolling was instant), zooming into 10mbs images was a breeze, you could play with the mouse buttons and it would instantly zoom to the 1:1 layer and back again. And this is something that Java has been known to be very bad with GUI and images. But we managed to pull it of anyway, and it was even quicker than the defacto industry standard application, which was written in C++.
.Net might be (but thats because of the infamous shortcuts than only MS ppl know of). But is that the really point, when you are creating desktop applications? If you want speed, try develop a desktop app in Assembler. Now it will be the fastest around, but probably look like crap.
.NET has borrowed so many classes from Java so they should call it J--.
So, please dont come with those crap arguments, because they are not true.
But what is true; c++ will always be faster than java,
What must be really annoying, is that