I really could not find much data, but the total number of surgical procedures performed in the U.S. per year is around 70 million. I'd expect the UK to have at least 10% of that. That means about 700 lost objects for 7000000 procedures, 1 in 10000. Pretty good track record, although these are not the only mistakes to happen of course.
Java's promise is not that any application runs anywhere, just as C doesn't promise that every program can compile and then run anywhere.
In C, you can build cross platform applications that run on many systems with a recompile. In Java, you can build cross plattform applications that run on many systems without a recompile.
In both cases, you must be careful to not use system specific features to be truly compatible.
I'm no evangelist... I'll bite anyway. LINQ for SQL seem to be basically a query builder pattern with syntactic sugar. I'd say most of it could be emulated in Java by some annotation processing and intelligently chosen constants. It looks nice, but I'm not _that_ impressed, sorry.
Does that mean that the ends of the universe are connected to each other? So if the universe is small enough, we could see the same objects multiple times, from Light that went around a few times? Maybe there is only one Galaxy, ours.
That is religion starting material. I claim copyright.
This may sound a bit whacky, but WoW is practically the only game you'll ever need. It has extensive single player content (questing) that will last for months. It has cooperative Multiplayer at it's best with random matchmaking for dungeons. If you're into it, you can raid or do pvp. You can switch your focus (single player, small group, big group, pvp) any time. You get a big pack of content roughly every two years with small bits of stuff in between. I can hook you up with a demo key (for european servers), the demo client download is very small, content is streamed in the background while you play.
Catch: It is expensive and you may burn out. And it will eat your life.
The Eclipse ecosystem is probably the easiest of the bunch to get running with good results on an open source jvm because it does not use AWT/Swing and would not have to use the X-Windows subsystem that the open source jvms use at the moment. SWT Libraries are native Cocoa, more or less, connected via jni.
Apple's JVM also has Mac-specific extensions, although most of it (Cocoa bindings) have already been deprecated for some time and the rest can be used without restricting portability.
If this really wants to be a "competitor" to AOL messaging they are going to need a lot more than just software. Of course they need users, but they also need a central organization and a LOT of servers. AOL is more than just a software interface, they have a massive # of globally distributed data centers that cost a ton of money. I doubt any one organization is going to put the same amount of resources behind this project. More than likely, if this amounts to anything it won't be a AOL competitor but instead a platform for much smaller communities to use. TFA even mentions this(but its not in the summary. Of course being open source it is theoretically possible then to "transfer" your message among communities, but that remains to be seen.
While I don't believe frivolous claims about vaccines and autism, I think this case is different. Vaccines can cause fever, it is pretty much excepted, and our doctor told us to the baby something against it to have it under control. Furthermore, high fever can (will) cause seizures. So the mechanism here should be clear.
While many people here say "Autobahn is dangerous", let me chime in to say 90 mph is not that fast (ca. 140 kph), standard cruising speed with a medium sized family car...
Microsoft's button layout is identical to the Dreamcast.
nope, at least not the colors...
Left X Blue, Right B Red, Down A Green, Up Y Yellow (xbox) Left Y Green, Right A Red, Down B Yellow, Up X Blue (snes eu / jap) Left X Yellow, Right B Blue, Down A Red, Up Y Green (dc)
Quickly from memory: Left X Blue, Right B Red, Down A Green and Up Y Yellow.
While I like the Xbox controller now, when I first started to use it I hated, how MS seemed to acknowlege the old SNES controller buttons while at the same time juggling everything around just a bit to screw with my head... See, SNES was
Left Y Green, Right A Red, Down B Yellow, Up X Blue
really subtle... Yes, I realize that it is the same configuration as on the original Xbox, but I never had one of those.
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So it seems to be good that I'm a programmer, not a surgeon ;)
I really could not find much data, but the total number of surgical
procedures performed in the U.S. per year is around 70 million. I'd expect the UK to have at least 10% of that. That means about 700 lost objects for 7000000 procedures, 1 in 10000. Pretty good track record, although these are not the only mistakes to happen of course.
Work and business don't mix
Actually true!
Java's promise is not that any application runs anywhere, just as C doesn't promise that every program can compile and then run anywhere.
In C, you can build cross platform applications that run on many systems with a recompile.
In Java, you can build cross plattform applications that run on many systems without a recompile.
In both cases, you must be careful to not use system specific features to be truly compatible.
Think "Americas Army". The enemy always looks like JarJar.
I'm no evangelist... I'll bite anyway. LINQ for SQL seem to be basically a query builder pattern with syntactic sugar. I'd say most of it could be emulated in Java by some annotation processing and intelligently chosen constants. It looks nice, but I'm not _that_ impressed, sorry.
Does that mean that the ends of the universe are connected to each other? So if the universe is small enough, we could see the same objects multiple times, from Light that went around a few times? Maybe there is only one Galaxy, ours.
That is religion starting material. I claim copyright.
Actually, 50000031 years.
My first thought exactly.
There is no way this could go wrong!
This may sound a bit whacky, but WoW is practically the only game you'll ever need. It has extensive single player content (questing) that will last for months. It has cooperative Multiplayer at it's best with random matchmaking for dungeons. If you're into it, you can raid or do pvp. You can switch your focus (single player, small group, big group, pvp) any time. You get a big pack of content roughly every two years with small bits of stuff in between. I can hook you up with a demo key (for european servers), the demo client download is very small, content is streamed in the background while you play.
Catch: It is expensive and you may burn out. And it will eat your life.
The writing has been on the wall for awhile now since they deprecated the cocoa-java bridge so I'm the sun/oracle folk saw this coming for awhile.
On the other hand, cocoa-java was an abomination. An elegant one maybe.
The Eclipse ecosystem is probably the easiest of the bunch to get running with good results on an open source jvm because it does not use AWT/Swing and would not have to use the X-Windows subsystem that the open source jvms use at the moment. SWT Libraries are native Cocoa, more or less, connected via jni.
Apple's JVM also has Mac-specific extensions, although most of it (Cocoa bindings) have already been deprecated for some time and the rest can be used without restricting portability.
Surprise Twist Ending: Actually, we are the machines.
It's not a perfect analogy...
If this really wants to be a "competitor" to AOL messaging they are going to need a lot more than just software. Of course they need users, but they also need a central organization and a LOT of servers. AOL is more than just a software interface, they have a massive # of globally distributed data centers that cost a ton of money. I doubt any one organization is going to put the same amount of resources behind this project. More than likely, if this amounts to anything it won't be a AOL competitor but instead a platform for much smaller communities to use. TFA even mentions this(but its not in the summary. Of course being open source it is theoretically possible then to "transfer" your message among communities, but that remains to be seen.
I'm german, english is not my first language and I meant expected. Sorry for the mistake.
While I don't believe frivolous claims about vaccines and autism, I think this case is different. Vaccines can cause fever, it is pretty much excepted, and our doctor told us to the baby something against it to have it under control. Furthermore, high fever can (will) cause seizures. So the mechanism here should be clear.
Incidentally, I love how the wikileaks thing just highlights the problem with the way the powerful handle their business.
The rich and powerful, they take what they want. We steal it back for you.
While many people here say "Autobahn is dangerous", let me chime in to say 90 mph is not that fast (ca. 140 kph), standard cruising speed with a medium sized family car...
Microsoft's button layout is identical to the Dreamcast.
nope, at least not the colors...
Left X Blue, Right B Red, Down A Green, Up Y Yellow (xbox)
Left Y Green, Right A Red, Down B Yellow, Up X Blue (snes eu / jap)
Left X Yellow, Right B Blue, Down A Red, Up Y Green (dc)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/SNES_Controller.jpg
Ah sorry, I'm from germany... US controllers looked different to ours.
Quickly from memory: Left X Blue, Right B Red, Down A Green and Up Y Yellow.
While I like the Xbox controller now, when I first started to use it I hated, how MS seemed to acknowlege the old SNES controller buttons while at the same time juggling everything around just a bit to screw with my head... See, SNES was
Left Y Green, Right A Red, Down B Yellow, Up X Blue
really subtle... Yes, I realize that it is the same configuration as on the original Xbox, but I never had one of those.
wait till we turn the equipment on!