The point of java is not compile anywhere, but run anywhere. When you compile c/c++ on one platform, you get a binary for that platform. When you compile a java class file on one platform it (in theory) will work on a comparable jvm on any platform without needing to recompile. Distribution just got easier.
Of course theory and practice are still 2 different beasts.
I used to have a ton of fun on my grandparents all-mechanical typewriter seeing how fast I could type before making a totally mangled cluster of typebars.
I experimented with switching over back in my Apple//c days, since it had the nifty QWERTY/DVORAK switch. As a hunt-and-peck typist at the time I found both equally slow, but I stuck with QWERTY since it was the layout on everything I had used before and since.
I've never really seen DVORAK implemented anywhere else.
I'm not a M$ fan by any means, but this has got to be better than nothing. Mom and Pop aren't going to install firefox/adaware/etc. unless/we install it for them.
If M$ puts this on windows autoupdate as they SHOULD (the browser that brings the crap is free, so the cleanup tool should be equally free), then this will at least put a basic measure of protection in place for the majority of Win users who don't frequent/. for the latest spyware news.
I'm tempted to give kudos to M$ for the effort, but I fear I would get modded Troll for doing so.
Actually, I understood the early flaws in Hubble allowed lower-priority projects to be done first, like looking back to the origin closer to the "Big Bang", which is entirely consistent with the Biblical account. At one moment God spoke and the universe was created. Sounds like a Big Bang to me. Now the literalness of 7-day creation is open for debate. "A day is as a thousand years..."
What's time to a God who exists outside our dimension of time? just another axis on the graph. The ancient biblical writers had to wrap the unimaginable (millions of years) into an understandable unit "a day". We have enough trouble even today grasping such large quantites (a trillion- dollar deficit. uncomprehensible. Just call it The Deficit. suddenly an insanely large number becomes a small int. (1)
Historically the religious right promoted the earth was the center of the universe, making your point. Alternatively, at another point in history it may be argued that faith in a greater God enabled the enlightenment to happen since people's faith allowed them to explore the world around them without fear of retribution from monsters at the edge of the world or angry pagan gods.
One of the first things I did when I got an OSX machine was install xfree86 so I could run OpenOffice and ignore them M$ office trial versions that came pre-installed.
I found it easier to get this working than to figure out how the heck to get X-darwin going. Apple's site didn't seem much help at the time. It seems a little more klunky than I expected.. not as pretty as tying X natively into the desktop, butit go thte job done well enough so I moved on to setting up the main software I use on the system (recording).
Sounds more like a messaging queue than a database. Of course, I work with Oracle DB's all day, so I have a rather targeted perspective/perception on the topic.
The big dogs have messaging queues and data streaming technology built into the database, is this perhaps a way for it to come to the more "vanilla" MySQL/postgres world?
An excellent point! Mod parent up again.
My thought is you build a building and it is extremely hard to make any change so you've got no choice but to get it right or have it fall down around you - literally.
In programming, changes are *considered* easy ot make, therefore easxy to fix later if there is a problem.
Also there is no DIRECT physical threay to people from a computer program failing, but there is direct physical threat to a building structure failing. (ignoring the obvious inderect consequences of some software failure, such as power grids going down, etc.)
It depends who you talk to. A savvy real estate investor can easily earn returns of 16% to 35% regularly, with less risk than the stock market. This is becuase you are doing fewer large transactions than a bunch of relatively tiny stock transactions.
This is based on data and experience in some of Richard Kyosaki's books. Alas I have not had the capital to begin any level of investing myself to see how it plays out in my own experience.
This is the nature of a "global" economy as opposed to the nationalistic economy of days past. If you treat economy on a global scale... free trade, etc... The work will go to where it is cheapest, and those where the jobs leave MUST adapt or go back to burger flipping and hunter-gathering.
Its good for the economy where the jobs go, bad for the economy where jobs leave, and really nets the "global" economy -0-.
It continues to boggle my mind that we cry for a global economy and desire to join a global community, but then gripe when it happens because the impact is a lowering of the lifestyle we are used to from our nationalistic history.
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I see a worldwide market for maybe 5 mice, and a 640-button mouse is more than anyone should ever need.
Good questions... inquiring pirates want to know to work around them.
Of course theory and practice are still 2 different beasts.
1011010110001101 cats = 0
0101101000110010 s/cat/human
1011001001101010 exec
... they rebelled ... ... they evolved ...
Yeah, they tried that with the Metric System, too. We see how well *that* caught on State-side.
I used to have a ton of fun on my grandparents all-mechanical typewriter seeing how fast I could type before making a totally mangled cluster of typebars.
I experimented with switching over back in my Apple //c days, since it had the nifty QWERTY/DVORAK switch. As a hunt-and-peck typist at the time I found both equally slow, but I stuck with QWERTY since it was the layout on everything I had used before and since.
I've never really seen DVORAK implemented anywhere else.
baa. touche.
If M$ puts this on windows autoupdate as they SHOULD (the browser that brings the crap is free, so the cleanup tool should be equally free), then this will at least put a basic measure of protection in place for the majority of Win users who don't frequent /. for the latest spyware news.
I'm tempted to give kudos to M$ for the effort, but I fear I would get modded Troll for doing so.
What's time to a God who exists outside our dimension of time? just another axis on the graph. The ancient biblical writers had to wrap the unimaginable (millions of years) into an understandable unit "a day". We have enough trouble even today grasping such large quantites (a trillion- dollar deficit. uncomprehensible. Just call it The Deficit. suddenly an insanely large number becomes a small int. (1)
Historically the religious right promoted the earth was the center of the universe, making your point. Alternatively, at another point in history it may be argued that faith in a greater God enabled the enlightenment to happen since people's faith allowed them to explore the world around them without fear of retribution from monsters at the edge of the world or angry pagan gods.
It's late - I'm rambling.
I found it easier to get this working than to figure out how the heck to get X-darwin going. Apple's site didn't seem much help at the time. It seems a little more klunky than I expected.. not as pretty as tying X natively into the desktop, butit go thte job done well enough so I moved on to setting up the main software I use on the system (recording).
Sounds more like a messaging queue than a database. Of course, I work with Oracle DB's all day, so I have a rather targeted perspective/perception on the topic. The big dogs have messaging queues and data streaming technology built into the database, is this perhaps a way for it to come to the more "vanilla" MySQL/postgres world?
An excellent point! Mod parent up again. My thought is you build a building and it is extremely hard to make any change so you've got no choice but to get it right or have it fall down around you - literally. In programming, changes are *considered* easy ot make, therefore easxy to fix later if there is a problem. Also there is no DIRECT physical threay to people from a computer program failing, but there is direct physical threat to a building structure failing. (ignoring the obvious inderect consequences of some software failure, such as power grids going down, etc.)
It depends who you talk to. A savvy real estate investor can easily earn returns of 16% to 35% regularly, with less risk than the stock market. This is becuase you are doing fewer large transactions than a bunch of relatively tiny stock transactions. This is based on data and experience in some of Richard Kyosaki's books. Alas I have not had the capital to begin any level of investing myself to see how it plays out in my own experience.
This is the nature of a "global" economy as opposed to the nationalistic economy of days past. If you treat economy on a global scale... free trade, etc... The work will go to where it is cheapest, and those where the jobs leave MUST adapt or go back to burger flipping and hunter-gathering. Its good for the economy where the jobs go, bad for the economy where jobs leave, and really nets the "global" economy -0-. It continues to boggle my mind that we cry for a global economy and desire to join a global community, but then gripe when it happens because the impact is a lowering of the lifestyle we are used to from our nationalistic history.
Fax me up!
...this one goes to 11!
99.9% of calls on crack dealer cell phones promote illegal activity, therefore all telephone use is bad.