Advocacy over langauges usually result in nothing. Just have a look at some of the advocacy groups on usenet, what a waste of time, don't these people have better things to do. People have strong beliefs and aren't swayed easily. Java like every language has it's pluses and minues, pick the right one for the job. But for crying out loud, don't go out spreading FUD about something you know nothing about. I personally like Java and have been programming in it full time for the last 3 years, but I certainly haven't programmed in every language out there so I'm not qualified to say Java is the best or the worst, so why do people who have programmed one little applet (crapplet!) think that they know everything about Java!
My company was all set to allow the employees to telecommute once or twice a week, but then out of the blue they said they needed to work out a few things. One being how to measure performance, I figure as long as I get my projects done on time what difference does it make how much I get done at work or at home. In all reality I get more work done at home since their are far less interuptions. Anyway it's been about six months and they still are stalling, any ideas out there on how to convince my management that they can trust us?
This is so true, sometimes people in IT don't realize that their job is serve the rest of the company and not the other way around. I work for a small software development company and we've been through a couple of net admins that just can't seem to grasp this.
The other good time to pass is going into corners and braking later than the car right in front of you, presumably a robot could be programmed to master the art of braking late.
I for one think it's about time for this upgrade, they should have fixed the cheat bugs a long time ago... yeah so I'll have to wait for a few weeks to get all the mods, so what. That's why I have two copies of Q3 intalled. The new features are prety cool too, I can hardly wait for the new addon from Id.
"He insists that to say more would enable Napster and other MP3 programs to block the software."
I'm sure there is already a way to block this. It sounds to me this company is only interested in cashing in on going IPO and then it will fade away...
I'm currently involved in a successful commercial Java project and I would strongly disagree with the cockroach statement. In our specific case (a retail system) it turns out that the portability of our system has generated lots of extra revenue that would have been a lot harder to get had we not picked Java.
I get really tired of hearing at how Java is dead where it has so many great uses out there. I think it gets a bad rap from all those awful craplets that first appeared with it.
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That's pretty funny, I'd like to see you install Microsoft Office by hand and have it actually work.
Advocacy over langauges usually result in nothing. Just have a look at some of the advocacy groups on usenet, what a waste of time, don't these people have better things to do. People have strong beliefs and aren't swayed easily. Java like every language has it's pluses and minues, pick the right one for the job. But for crying out loud, don't go out spreading FUD about something you know nothing about. I personally like Java and have been programming in it full time for the last 3 years, but I certainly haven't programmed in every language out there so I'm not qualified to say Java is the best or the worst, so why do people who have programmed one little applet (crapplet!) think that they know everything about Java!
My company was all set to allow the employees to telecommute once or twice a week, but then out of the blue they said they needed to work out a few things. One being how to measure performance, I figure as long as I get my projects done on time what difference does it make how much I get done at work or at home. In all reality I get more work done at home since their are far less interuptions. Anyway it's been about six months and they still are stalling, any ideas out there on how to convince my management that they can trust us?
This is so true, sometimes people in IT don't realize that their job is serve the rest of the company and not the other way around. I work for a small software development company and we've been through a couple of net admins that just can't seem to grasp this.
The other good time to pass is going into corners and braking later than the car right in front of you, presumably a robot could be programmed to master the art of braking late.
I for one think it's about time for this upgrade, they should have fixed the cheat bugs a long time ago... yeah so I'll have to wait for a few weeks to get all the mods, so what. That's why I have two copies of Q3 intalled. The new features are prety cool too, I can hardly wait for the new addon from Id.
someone could steal your slashdot.org cookie and wipe out all your karma by troll posting! :)
"He insists that to say more would enable Napster and other MP3 programs to block the software."
I'm sure there is already a way to block this. It sounds to me this company is only interested in cashing in on going IPO and then it will fade away...
I'm currently involved in a successful commercial Java project and I would strongly disagree with the cockroach statement. In our specific case (a retail system) it turns out that the portability of our system has generated lots of extra revenue that would have been a lot harder to get had we not picked Java.
I get really tired of hearing at how Java is dead where it has so many great uses out there. I think it gets a bad rap from all those awful craplets that first appeared with it.