Java applets as a technology was hurt by a myriad of factors,
1. The rapid evolution of the language 2. The poor VM performance (before Hotspot) 3. Poor browser support 4. No default installations, except the MS JVM. 5. MS introduced incompatibilities and extensions
Sun should have laid off the "Java replaces the desktop" rhetoric, and paid Microsoft to ship the JVM on Windows. It would be as ubiquitous as Flash is today.
it's really intrusive when it sits in your system tray and constantly announces its new updates </quote>
You can't really use this as a downside when Flash and every other application does the same damn thing.
Something which isn't an issue in the Linux world anyway, with smart package repository technology... Are you listening, Microsoft? Extend Windows Update to everyone, please...
Here's a clue for you buddy - you CAN'T just install the 64bit JVM. You need both the 32bit JVM and the 64bit JVM.:-) I run into this all the time with app servers where the 64bit JVM actually makes sense. Azureus surely doesn't need it.
Portability? I can't count the number of times I've copied a jarfile from one platform to another and had it just work. Java suffers from dependency hell just as much as a the next platform, which is perhaps it's biggest deficiency...
The idea of a data warehouse is that it gloms all the other data from your other systems, aggregates it, and generates lots of reports, extra BI data. Ideally, it can be completely lost, and it can be rebuilt from scratch the next day. Pain in the ass, but not particularly necessary to have fully redundant. But you want powerful, because all your business users will be hammering it for reports, and data mining.
After the Luxor Al tank failures that spawned the whole electrical neck inspection craze, I keep saying the same thing every time I strap a SCUBA tank to my back. I'm walking in the water with a shit-ton of explosive power on my back in a steel/Al bottle that's an undefined amount of metal fatigue away from catastrophic failure.
Hibernation is a poor solution to the problem. It would be nice if apps would be able to talk to the OS to store state such that what the GP mentions is possible. Many apps already do this internally, but to be able to say, Click on this button, and it brings up Word + Eclipse + ClearCase in this configuration, and if I click on this button it bring up Word, Excel, Outlook and SQLPlus in this other configuration is a powerful feature. Perhaps overkill.
Track-It was dead simple to use, but performance sucked (we had to purge our case history every 8 months), and their support was horrible. RT has been the best I've used so far.
A big difference between pilots and doctors, liability-wise however, is that the pilot usually dies with everyone else he's killing when his checklist fuckup crashes the whole airplane.
When my first niece was born, she went directly to surgery to remove a small section of obstructed bowel. So my first visit with her was in the NICU, and let me tell you that's one place that's both awe-inspiring and terrifying. Twenty years ago half the kids in there would have been DOA, but now had a fighting chance at life.
Well, the baby in the incubator next to my niece, alarms would go off on his every five minutes or so. Sometimes a nurse would be near and would turn it off, sometimes they'd wait 5-10 minutes to come by and shut it off. It's sort of like the warning lights on your car... you ignore the check engine light until the water pressure, oil temp and voltage meters go off the charts... You set such a low threshold for alert that you tend to ignore it until the higher thresholds kick in and start really screaming.
Not saying it's right, but I think it's explainable by more than just callous disregard or disinterest.
I accidently OD'd on Tussin one day in the midst of a horrible cold. I wasn't paying attention to dosage, and was swiggin' it like Diet Coke. Anyway, about 30 minutes in I wanted to throw up. So 30 minutes later my stomach's happy again, and I go back to work, only now my screen is all squiggly and colorful and bright like I'm trippin' on acid.
yah, I shut down, parked my keister on the futon and watched the snow come down out the back window until I could drive my sorry ass home and get some sleep.
10 years later I can barely take the stuff - just a whiff of the tussin has me gaggin.
One place I worked with was looking at deploying custom versions of RedHat as pseudo Live-CDs. We (vendor) would buy the licenses and maintain the patch updates and periodically run the RHN update. Our software phoned home alot, part of it's job was real-time updates of datasets, so it was feasible that only a few settings would need saving across invocations.
A proof-of-concept barely got off the ground before it was nixed for headcount reasons, but having the appliance concept is one that more Linux vendors should take. If Xen or KVM could ever implement shared FrameBuffer support, then it really wouldn't matter for something like ProE or SolidWorks - run whatever pseudo appliance setup your vendor supports.
Let's use apache as an example, threading MPM vs. forking MPM. Note that forking is the original heavyweight threading model.
Apache gets a request on port 80, forks a copy of itself, and starts processing the incoming request. Now if that forked copy throws an exception, it won't kill the master port 80, or the other 10's or 1000's of child processes that are still processing requests. Access to shared memory has the same problems as threads - it must be synchronized, and access must be explicity granted.
With threading, all this is cheaper and faster, but it's also far less robust. One thread deferencing NULL improperly and they all die.
I'll give drug dealers a pass if they refrain from violence, stay away from schools and playgrounds, and focus on adults who have the life experiences to make informed decisions (we've decided as a society that that's what adults can do, right?)
Then again, I'm pretty easygoing about drugs, right up until someone's addiction inflicts pain and suffering on me and mine.
Flamebait? Oh come on? Clearly an on-topic reference to the parent's question as to the significance of 11/04. Surely deserved a Funny... or maybe a Troll.. but Flamebait?
Damn root-tootin! American through and through. I'm no more French Canadian, Polish or 3% American Indian than I am a Mongrel American. Though it'd be nice to know what tribe I belong to so I can join in all the sweet peace-piping.
Obama the First, Supreme Overlord of the Western Hemisphere, was elected Dictator for Life by an electorate of his peers all looking for a their share of a $700 Billion Dollar Bailout.
As an American, I abhor that Bush chose to pursue this ABM system unilaterally. It's completely useless against an agressor like Russia with THOUSANDS of weapons, and of marginal use against terrorist-level state organizations.
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I think that should be the case for plugins period... Keep them out of process.
Java applets as a technology was hurt by a myriad of factors,
1. The rapid evolution of the language
2. The poor VM performance (before Hotspot)
3. Poor browser support
4. No default installations, except the MS JVM.
5. MS introduced incompatibilities and extensions
Sun should have laid off the "Java replaces the desktop" rhetoric, and paid Microsoft to ship the JVM on Windows. It would be as ubiquitous as Flash is today.
it's really intrusive when it sits in your system tray and constantly announces its new updates
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You can't really use this as a downside when Flash and every other application does the same damn thing.
Something which isn't an issue in the Linux world anyway, with smart package repository technology... Are you listening, Microsoft? Extend Windows Update to everyone, please...
And how exactly does Javascript get access to your local filesystem?
Here's a clue for you buddy - you CAN'T just install the 64bit JVM. You need both the 32bit JVM and the 64bit JVM. :-) I run into this all the time with app servers where the 64bit JVM actually makes sense. Azureus surely doesn't need it.
Portability? I can't count the number of times I've copied a jarfile from one platform to another and had it just work. Java suffers from dependency hell just as much as a the next platform, which is perhaps it's biggest deficiency...
Ah, another spineless AC Ruby/Python fan. :-)
Sorry, been there, done that. I'll keep my statically typed languages, thank you.
I think you mean that long is always at LEAST 4 bytes.
The idea of a data warehouse is that it gloms all the other data from your other systems, aggregates it, and generates lots of reports, extra BI data. Ideally, it can be completely lost, and it can be rebuilt from scratch the next day. Pain in the ass, but not particularly necessary to have fully redundant. But you want powerful, because all your business users will be hammering it for reports, and data mining.
After the Luxor Al tank failures that spawned the whole electrical neck inspection craze, I keep saying the same thing every time I strap a SCUBA tank to my back. I'm walking in the water with a shit-ton of explosive power on my back in a steel/Al bottle that's an undefined amount of metal fatigue away from catastrophic failure.
Oh well.
Says who? All it takes is proper APIs.
Hibernation is a poor solution to the problem. It would be nice if apps would be able to talk to the OS to store state such that what the GP mentions is possible. Many apps already do this internally, but to be able to say, Click on this button, and it brings up Word + Eclipse + ClearCase in this configuration, and if I click on this button it bring up Word, Excel, Outlook and SQLPlus in this other configuration is a powerful feature. Perhaps overkill.
But certainly not impossible.
Or just watercool the damn thing, and in the winter stick the radiator out the window.
Track-It was dead simple to use, but performance sucked (we had to purge our case history every 8 months), and their support was horrible. RT has been the best I've used so far.
A big difference between pilots and doctors, liability-wise however, is that the pilot usually dies with everyone else he's killing when his checklist fuckup crashes the whole airplane.
Pretty good incentive for doing it right, IMHO.
When my first niece was born, she went directly to surgery to remove a small section of obstructed bowel. So my first visit with her was in the NICU, and let me tell you that's one place that's both awe-inspiring and terrifying. Twenty years ago half the kids in there would have been DOA, but now had a fighting chance at life.
Well, the baby in the incubator next to my niece, alarms would go off on his every five minutes or so. Sometimes a nurse would be near and would turn it off, sometimes they'd wait 5-10 minutes to come by and shut it off. It's sort of like the warning lights on your car... you ignore the check engine light until the water pressure, oil temp and voltage meters go off the charts... You set such a low threshold for alert that you tend to ignore it until the higher thresholds kick in and start really screaming.
Not saying it's right, but I think it's explainable by more than just callous disregard or disinterest.
Anybody who doesn't understand that, can cash in their geek card and never return to Slashdot. :-) Nearly spit my soda on my keyboard I did.
I accidently OD'd on Tussin one day in the midst of a horrible cold. I wasn't paying attention to dosage, and was swiggin' it like Diet Coke. Anyway, about 30 minutes in I wanted to throw up. So 30 minutes later my stomach's happy again, and I go back to work, only now my screen is all squiggly and colorful and bright like I'm trippin' on acid.
yah, I shut down, parked my keister on the futon and watched the snow come down out the back window until I could drive my sorry ass home and get some sleep.
10 years later I can barely take the stuff - just a whiff of the tussin has me gaggin.
<shudder>
One place I worked with was looking at deploying custom versions of RedHat as pseudo Live-CDs. We (vendor) would buy the licenses and maintain the patch updates and periodically run the RHN update. Our software phoned home alot, part of it's job was real-time updates of datasets, so it was feasible that only a few settings would need saving across invocations.
A proof-of-concept barely got off the ground before it was nixed for headcount reasons, but having the appliance concept is one that more Linux vendors should take. If Xen or KVM could ever implement shared FrameBuffer support, then it really wouldn't matter for something like ProE or SolidWorks - run whatever pseudo appliance setup your vendor supports.
Let's use apache as an example, threading MPM vs. forking MPM. Note that forking is the original heavyweight threading model.
Apache gets a request on port 80, forks a copy of itself, and starts processing the incoming request. Now if that forked copy throws an exception, it won't kill the master port 80, or the other 10's or 1000's of child processes that are still processing requests. Access to shared memory has the same problems as threads - it must be synchronized, and access must be explicity granted.
With threading, all this is cheaper and faster, but it's also far less robust. One thread deferencing NULL improperly and they all die.
I'll give drug dealers a pass if they refrain from violence, stay away from schools and playgrounds, and focus on adults who have the life experiences to make informed decisions (we've decided as a society that that's what adults can do, right?)
Then again, I'm pretty easygoing about drugs, right up until someone's addiction inflicts pain and suffering on me and mine.
Flamebait? Oh come on? Clearly an on-topic reference to the parent's question as to the significance of 11/04. Surely deserved a Funny... or maybe a Troll.. but Flamebait?
Lol.
Damn root-tootin! American through and through. I'm no more French Canadian, Polish or 3% American Indian than I am a Mongrel American. Though it'd be nice to know what tribe I belong to so I can join in all the sweet peace-piping.
Obama the First, Supreme Overlord of the Western Hemisphere, was elected Dictator for Life by an electorate of his peers all looking for a their share of a $700 Billion Dollar Bailout.
Layers. Smart people don't build castles with only one wall... same should be true of their flood-control plans.
As an American, I abhor that Bush chose to pursue this ABM system unilaterally. It's completely useless against an agressor like Russia with THOUSANDS of weapons, and of marginal use against terrorist-level state organizations.
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