Jon is assisted by Opera's PR manager who will be rowing alongside the adventurous CEO in the company inflatable raft on the trip across the Atlantic as an act of guilt after making the CEO's statement public. The fearless crew is currently on its way to an undisclosed location in the Oslo fjord to begin the long journey toward America in the true spirit of the Vikings before them.
The author busted his cheek with his tongue, I think.
Wow... you guys wasted no time bringing out the flamethrowers.;-)
I'm not advocating Java, but the parent asked what it's good for, so I gave the most commonly cited advantages.
I still prefer C++ myself, unless I don't care about performance or need some specific feature of Java that I don't feel like implementing/obtaining myself.
I'm no Java fanboi, but these are some the classical advantages of Java over other languages:
The compiled code is completely (well, almost) platform-independent, eliminating the need to port or even recompile code when moving between platforms. This can be especially handy for GUI's, as it gets around the problem of different windowing systems having their own mutually exclusive API's. Write and compile your interface once, and it can be run on any machine that has a JVM installed, whether it be Windows, Mac, XFree86, or whatever.
It's ALMOST as fast (and in many cases just as fast) as C code. Additionally, it compiles much faster than C, though C binaries make up for it with substantially shorter load times (Java has been improving in this regard recently, however).
The language is designed to avoid some of the "problems" in C and C++.
Java provides free (in terms of effort) garbage collection, which (usually) prevents memory leaks.
Java applets can run in web browser. This allows websites to provide visitors to their sites with custom mini-applications to provide various functionality or visual effects. One of the major benefits to this (especially when combined with the use of application servers) is that a large organization can install all their software in a central place and allow its users to access it from any machine just by using their web browsers.
There are others, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind for me.
I'm a C++ coder myself, but I do appreciate Java's value for certain situations.
Unless it gets into state "D", "uninterruptible sleep" (as per top's man page).
All it has to do is access an NFS mount from a server that has become unresponsive. I had this happen just this morning. Bash (which had frozen up during auto-complete) wouldn't die even after the NFS server was rebooted!
The problem with Trade Wars was that it basically required Trade Wars Helper in order to have any chance of success, as well as playing the game every single day without fail.
Dtfinch is right. Last I checked, there wasn't any money to be made in the "poisoning people with radiation" business. Phishing has the potential to make a lot of money, so stronger deterrents are needed to prevent it.
That's not an oxymoron. It would be a self-contradiction, if he were actually discussing leveraging and not the discussion of leveraging, but either way, it's not an oxymoron.
Somebody in or near my apartment building has an unsecured wireless network. I generally prefer to use my own (secure) network, especially I need to in order to access the other machines on it, but sometimes I lose connectivity (cordless phones seem to intefere with it) and I wind up automatically connecting to the other network. Somewhat amusingly, that network is named after the brand of the access point (Motorola), which I assume means that the owner just hooked it up and let it run with default settings, making absolutely no effort whatsoever to configure it.
I feel sort of bad about stealing their bandwidth, but given that my laptop will automatically connect to it without any interaction by me (which sort of worries me about the security of my laptop), and the owner is obviously either very generous or extremely incompetent regarding computer networks, I have little sympathy.
There wasn't a whole lot of detail in the article I read (it was on CNN.com, after all), but I think it meant to say that China and India combined would produce >50% of the total CO2 emissions in the next 15 years. As a developed country, the US emissions are high, but they're not increasing substantially, while countries like China and India that are still developing their economies have steadily increasing pollution. That last sentence was my reasoning on what was meant, so it could be off. The CNN article only mentioned "China", "India," "most CO2", and "next 15 years."
By that reasoning, we should immediately halt all factory production everywhere, forget about driving anywhere, and, oh yeah, shut down the power plants that power your computer so you can post on./
The environment is more important, after all.
If I'm not mistaken, the primary US objection to the treaty is that it does not apply to India or China, who are expected to be responsible for most of the world's CO2 emissions in the next couple decades. The reasoning is something like, "Why should we limit our emissions (and suffer the economic consequences), when the biggest polluters get to keep on polluting?"
The same applies to CMU in general. It seems that people think that every person who graduated from CMU spent their entire time as a student hanging out at the SEI building learning about CMM.
FYI, the Software Engineering Institute is Carnegie Mellon University's Department-of-Defense-sponsored research center whose "core purpose is to help others make measured improvements in their software engineering capabilities and to develop the right software, delivered defect free, on time and on cost, every time."
Actually, one of the biggest problems that AT&T has faced was trying to remain profitable while remaining competitive in a market where one of its biggest competitors (MCI) turned out to be cooking its books to cut (apparent) costs.
Of course, it didn't help that the (now-former) senior management decided to spin off one of its most profitable business units (AT&T Wireless) because they didn't think the cell phone business would get off the ground. Ironically, now that Cingular is buying up that unit, AT&T proper is taking the name back so it can get back into the cell phone business.
I tried, but the person taking my call just hung up on me for some reason. They really need to improve their customer service if they want people to send them donations.
Last I checked, my net worth was somewhere around -$20,000 (mostly due to student loans). 1.5% of that is -$300. Hell, I'll even go one up and donate 2%! Now who's the generous one, Mr. Gates?
Well, first of all, it won't compile, since printf expects as const char * as its first argument, not an int.
Secondly, not that I'm advocating writing all our code in XML, but your example isn't really fair from a readability standpoint. You didn't provide any whitespace (especially indentation)!
The equivalent C program would look like this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){printf(0);return 0;}
Hmm... well, that really isn't too hard to read, but if you through some newlines and tabs into your XMC version, that really isn't that horrible to read either (just excessively long).
In any case, as was pointed out in other comments, the point of the article is to provide a standardized format for storing and internally representing source code within editors, which will convert it into a more human-friendly representation.
I agree that XML is overhyped, though. Automake kicks ant's butt any day of the week.
The offending website seems to have bitten the dust. It's been replaced by an "account suspended" page showing all the email received or sent by the hosting providing regarding Nigel's complaint.
Slashdot Mirror
From TFA:
The author busted his cheek with his tongue, I think.
Wow... you guys wasted no time bringing out the flamethrowers. ;-)
I'm not advocating Java, but the parent asked what it's good for, so I gave the most commonly cited advantages.
I still prefer C++ myself, unless I don't care about performance or need some specific feature of Java that I don't feel like implementing/obtaining myself.
I'm no Java fanboi, but these are some the classical advantages of Java over other languages:
There are others, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind for me.
I'm a C++ coder myself, but I do appreciate Java's value for certain situations.
Ever seen Blue Gender?
And he kicked in the door, not the keypad.
Unless it gets into state "D", "uninterruptible sleep" (as per top's man page). All it has to do is access an NFS mount from a server that has become unresponsive. I had this happen just this morning. Bash (which had frozen up during auto-complete) wouldn't die even after the NFS server was rebooted!
Yeah, I noticed that too and even filled out their correction form and sent it in. I guess they haven't gotten around to reading it, though. :-/
No, really?
The problem with Trade Wars was that it basically required Trade Wars Helper in order to have any chance of success, as well as playing the game every single day without fail.
YOU CANNOT DEFEAT THE DRAK'HAI!
I know, wrong game, but same series. :-)
Dtfinch is right. Last I checked, there wasn't any money to be made in the "poisoning people with radiation" business. Phishing has the potential to make a lot of money, so stronger deterrents are needed to prevent it.
That's not an oxymoron. It would be a self-contradiction, if he were actually discussing leveraging and not the discussion of leveraging, but either way, it's not an oxymoron.
"Literate Slashdot poster" is an oxymoron.
Somebody in or near my apartment building has an unsecured wireless network. I generally prefer to use my own (secure) network, especially I need to in order to access the other machines on it, but sometimes I lose connectivity (cordless phones seem to intefere with it) and I wind up automatically connecting to the other network. Somewhat amusingly, that network is named after the brand of the access point (Motorola), which I assume means that the owner just hooked it up and let it run with default settings, making absolutely no effort whatsoever to configure it.
I feel sort of bad about stealing their bandwidth, but given that my laptop will automatically connect to it without any interaction by me (which sort of worries me about the security of my laptop), and the owner is obviously either very generous or extremely incompetent regarding computer networks, I have little sympathy.
There wasn't a whole lot of detail in the article I read (it was on CNN.com, after all), but I think it meant to say that China and India combined would produce >50% of the total CO2 emissions in the next 15 years. As a developed country, the US emissions are high, but they're not increasing substantially, while countries like China and India that are still developing their economies have steadily increasing pollution. That last sentence was my reasoning on what was meant, so it could be off. The CNN article only mentioned "China", "India," "most CO2", and "next 15 years."
By that reasoning, we should immediately halt all factory production everywhere, forget about driving anywhere, and, oh yeah, shut down the power plants that power your computer so you can post on ./
The environment is more important, after all.
If I'm not mistaken, the primary US objection to the treaty is that it does not apply to India or China, who are expected to be responsible for most of the world's CO2 emissions in the next couple decades. The reasoning is something like, "Why should we limit our emissions (and suffer the economic consequences), when the biggest polluters get to keep on polluting?"
The same applies to CMU in general. It seems that people think that every person who graduated from CMU spent their entire time as a student hanging out at the SEI building learning about CMM.
FYI, the Software Engineering Institute is Carnegie Mellon University's Department-of-Defense-sponsored research center whose "core purpose is to help others make measured improvements in their software engineering capabilities and to develop the right software, delivered defect free, on time and on cost, every time."
A solar parachute, of course! It'll be like a drag racer. ;-)
Actually, one of the biggest problems that AT&T has faced was trying to remain profitable while remaining competitive in a market where one of its biggest competitors (MCI) turned out to be cooking its books to cut (apparent) costs.
Of course, it didn't help that the (now-former) senior management decided to spin off one of its most profitable business units (AT&T Wireless) because they didn't think the cell phone business would get off the ground. Ironically, now that Cingular is buying up that unit, AT&T proper is taking the name back so it can get back into the cell phone business.
I tried, but the person taking my call just hung up on me for some reason. They really need to improve their customer service if they want people to send them donations.
Last I checked, my net worth was somewhere around -$20,000 (mostly due to student loans). 1.5% of that is -$300. Hell, I'll even go one up and donate 2%! Now who's the generous one, Mr. Gates?
Well, first of all, it won't compile, since printf expects as const char * as its first argument, not an int.
Secondly, not that I'm advocating writing all our code in XML, but your example isn't really fair from a readability standpoint. You didn't provide any whitespace (especially indentation)!
The equivalent C program would look like this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){printf(0);return 0;}
Hmm... well, that really isn't too hard to read, but if you through some newlines and tabs into your XMC version, that really isn't that horrible to read either (just excessively long).
In any case, as was pointed out in other comments, the point of the article is to provide a standardized format for storing and internally representing source code within editors, which will convert it into a more human-friendly representation.
I agree that XML is overhyped, though. Automake kicks ant's butt any day of the week.
The offending website seems to have bitten the dust. It's been replaced by an "account suspended" page showing all the email received or sent by the hosting providing regarding Nigel's complaint.
I think the picture of loon is actually the photo of the moderator that mod'd that as "informative".