It is, however, a perfect choice when you need a cross-platform corporate application
translation: its a perfect choice where the users will have no choice but to put up with the differences between swing and thier native apps.
btw i think the windows pluggable look and feel is a stupid idea. it might fool some newbies to start with but ultimately having something that looks the same but isn't is just going to confuse more than help.
yep the clipboard issue is a biggie. java seems to lack any native support for copying vector images (for windows that means wmf for other platforms presumablly other formats both would need to be converted to something suited to java) to/from the clipboard so you are stuck with crappy bitmap copy/paste.
This is exactly why I don't understand people buying consoles to play the types of games available for PC. The PC will ALWAYS be one step ahead of the console. You will never have the absolute BEST graphics on the console the problem is that the PC game buisness is obsessed with making the best games possible no matter what the requirements. To keep up with the latest PC titles you need to spend several thousand a year at least.
wheras buy a console which is generally a few hundered at most and you will see new titles released that are tailored to the consoles hardware availible for quite some years.
If you say the bowling ball then you would be correct although it may be difficult to measure
because it is heavier then you would be partially correct. A heavier object of the same size and shape will fall faster because the gravitational force will be larger and the air resistance the same so the resultant force will not be proportional to the mass (even though the gravitational force increases in proportion to the mass) and therefore the resultant acceleration will be dependent on the mass.
An object of the same shape and density but greater size will fall faster because volume increases with the cube of dimensions whilst surface area only increases with the square of dimensions.
you need to go back to high school science classes. NO you need to realise that gravity isn't the only force acting on something dropped on earth despite the assumptions you made in your high school questions.
personally i'd consider it gross incompetance to let students use thier own machines in exams. If computers really are needed for an exam they should be university supplied and clean imaged. Otherwise how can you know what students are taking into the exam with them?
AWT: old, based on OS controls but didn't do a brilliant job of doing it cross platform. Age means its the best choice for portability (e.g. it will run on both the MSJVM shipped with many versions of windows and virtually every sun jvm)
SWING: built on some of the very basic awt classes (container window frame and applet) with a widget set written in 100% pure java, consistant behaviour accross operating systems but even if you choose the platform look and feel its still a clone and there are liable to be subtule differences between your app and native apps. Also has a reputation for being slow (which was undoubtablly true with some versions though i belive this has improved) can run with things like the msjvm provided you are prepared to put up with downloading the swing classes.
SWT: also based on the native gui components but didn't try to be quite as deep an abstraction so will generally run faster and be more familiar to those used to writing native code. However as a third party library using its own native code it cannot be used for stuff like browser applets or java web start.
learning how a tube or discrete transistor cuircuit works may be possible from just looking at it particularlly if you have an idea what the compoents do already but I just can't see how thats feasible without a LOT of prior knowlage when everything interesting is inside chips and over half the tracks are burried in the middle of the board.
Non-technical users could not use a windows server anymore than they could a Samba server. i was under the impression that running a basic windows server (not domains active directory etc) wasn't really any different from running a desktop version of windows. When the non-techie finds out that the desktop version can't do more than 10 clieants at once is he going to switch to something completely new or just upgrade to the server edition of what he has?
i think installing a regular linux distro to use as a server is unlikely unless they had someone particuarlly technical arround.
i think its far more likely they'd either use a windows desktop version (not sure where you hit the crippling with that though) buy windows server or buy a server appliance.
thing is in the last decade or so (possiblly longer i'm unsure when this started) most consumer electronics has become so complex and/or miniturized that you don't stand a chance of figuring out whats going on without a circuit diagram or a lot of electronics knowlage.
what did you take apart that taught you a lot about electronics?
Well if your going to learn a language on top of english i'd imagine something like mandarin would be far more valuable than another a european language.
we brits and you americans get away with only making a token effort in learning other languages because most of the western world speaks fairly good english.
Most of the Federal debt is in T-bills and other negotiable instruments that are redeemed after a fairly short period and have to be re-issued. If investors lose confidence in the dollar, the Government will have to finance its debt in other currencies or they could just print money to pay off the debt whilst its still in dollars. This would bring forward the hyperinflation but would avoid long term debt problems.
It's fun to bring up the spectre of radical Islam in every facet of modern society, but the facts don't support the notion that Yahoo would be placing itself at any danger in this case.
imo there are two parts to this:
Filtering allah --> scared of muslim fundamentalists. Filtering words containg allah --> filter implementation issue.
you see this sort of thing all the time with swear word filters inadvertantly censoring innocuous stuff (e.g. a filter thats supposed to be censoring the word cock censoring the word stopcock)
a further complication is that words are generally run together in screen names. its quite hard to programatically distinguish between a word containing allah e.g. "Callahan" and a run together phrase containing it "oldallahisafalsegod"
btw what is most of americas national debt denominated in?
if its denominated in foriegn currency then they are pretty much stuck with it but if its denominated in dollars then hyperinflation will effectively wipe it out.
agreed and at least the way i read it the original poster never said it did he clearly gave 3 seperate reasons why CDs made from itunes were inferior to purchased CDs.
They are CDRs, with higher fail rates Definately true, CDRs are far more failure prone than pressed CDs
they are lower quality audio true because they are burned from a lossy source
and they don't come with reference materials like images, track listings, artist's notes, etc. also true although many commercial CDs don't come with much of theese either.
2. Constructive reduction to practice - you file a patent application that contains a description that teaches someone of ordinary skill in the art how to make and use the invention (and satisfies the other requirements of 35 U.S.C. sec. 112).
the problem i see with a constructive reduction to practice is how do you prove it indeed will teach someone of "ordinary skill in the art" how to make and use the invention other than by getting someone with "ordinary skill in the art" to make it for you? I'm guessing the USPTO don't have the rescourses to go building models of every item that someone tries to patent.
But that depends. I think in calculus, a calculator should be banned unless it is a four function calculator. you'd probablly wan't to ban ones with automatic calculus tools but i can't see why you'd have to get them to specifically get a crappy 4 function (and presumablly limited in other ways like scrollback) unit. There is a middle of the road you know.
But then again, knowing how to use a calculator to evaluate a great deal of mundane information (especially in statistics) is very important. yeah though given the choice i'd rather use a computer for such things so it could take the stored data more easilly etc.
There is very little insight to be gained by finding the standard deviation by hand. I'd say there is insigt in knowing how standard deviation fits together and possiblly doing it by hand for small data sets. but i agree that making people do it by hand for more than 10 items or so is kinda pointless.
They couldn't invalidate any Copyright or Patent already in effect due to the prohibition of ex post facto laws. i don't follow, abolishing copyright would be changing the rules for copies made in the future not changing the status of actions that had happened in the past.
because your writing off a lossilly encoded copy! and not one encoded at a particularlly high bitrate either.
and generally lossless encodings suffer from generation loss. So not only will your CD be inferior to a commercially purchased one. The rip you make for your portabe player (assuming you aren't using an ipod) will also be inferior to a rip made direct from a factory made CD.
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It is, however, a perfect choice when you need a cross-platform corporate application
translation: its a perfect choice where the users will have no choice but to put up with the differences between swing and thier native apps.
btw i think the windows pluggable look and feel is a stupid idea. it might fool some newbies to start with but ultimately having something that looks the same but isn't is just going to confuse more than help.
yep the clipboard issue is a biggie. java seems to lack any native support for copying vector images (for windows that means wmf for other platforms presumablly other formats both would need to be converted to something suited to java) to/from the clipboard so you are stuck with crappy bitmap copy/paste.
to write a sufficiant wrapper to give a java applet the interface expected for a .net applet and compile it along with the applet using J#?
This is exactly why I don't understand people buying consoles to play the types of games available for PC. The PC will ALWAYS be one step ahead of the console. You will never have the absolute BEST graphics on the console
the problem is that the PC game buisness is obsessed with making the best games possible no matter what the requirements. To keep up with the latest PC titles you need to spend several thousand a year at least.
wheras buy a console which is generally a few hundered at most and you will see new titles released that are tailored to the consoles hardware availible for quite some years.
If you say the bowling ball
then you would be correct although it may be difficult to measure
because it is heavier
then you would be partially correct. A heavier object of the same size and shape will fall faster because the gravitational force will be larger and the air resistance the same so the resultant force will not be proportional to the mass (even though the gravitational force increases in proportion to the mass) and therefore the resultant acceleration will be dependent on the mass.
An object of the same shape and density but greater size will fall faster because volume increases with the cube of dimensions whilst surface area only increases with the square of dimensions.
you need to go back to high school science classes.
NO you need to realise that gravity isn't the only force acting on something dropped on earth despite the assumptions you made in your high school questions.
personally i'd consider it gross incompetance to let students use thier own machines in exams. If computers really are needed for an exam they should be university supplied and clean imaged. Otherwise how can you know what students are taking into the exam with them?
AWT: old, based on OS controls but didn't do a brilliant job of doing it cross platform. Age means its the best choice for portability (e.g. it will run on both the MSJVM shipped with many versions of windows and virtually every sun jvm)
SWING: built on some of the very basic awt classes (container window frame and applet) with a widget set written in 100% pure java, consistant behaviour accross operating systems but even if you choose the platform look and feel its still a clone and there are liable to be subtule differences between your app and native apps. Also has a reputation for being slow (which was undoubtablly true with some versions though i belive this has improved) can run with things like the msjvm provided you are prepared to put up with downloading the swing classes.
SWT: also based on the native gui components but didn't try to be quite as deep an abstraction so will generally run faster and be more familiar to those used to writing native code. However as a third party library using its own native code it cannot be used for stuff like browser applets or java web start.
iirc it also doesn't let you have any form of access control on shares.
learning how a tube or discrete transistor cuircuit works may be possible from just looking at it particularlly if you have an idea what the compoents do already but I just can't see how thats feasible without a LOT of prior knowlage when everything interesting is inside chips and over half the tracks are burried in the middle of the board.
Non-technical users could not use a windows server anymore than they could a Samba server.
i was under the impression that running a basic windows server (not domains active directory etc) wasn't really any different from running a desktop version of windows. When the non-techie finds out that the desktop version can't do more than 10 clieants at once is he going to switch to something completely new or just upgrade to the server edition of what he has?
Can't you purchase Office modules separately? I was sure I had seen boxes of Word, Excel, etc. a few years back.
iirc you can but the prices mean its rarely worth it
iirc it doesn't crash the system but it does play hell with some apps that use it for timing and don't take account of the wrap.
i think installing a regular linux distro to use as a server is unlikely unless they had someone particuarlly technical arround.
i think its far more likely they'd either use a windows desktop version (not sure where you hit the crippling with that though) buy windows server or buy a server appliance.
thing is in the last decade or so (possiblly longer i'm unsure when this started) most consumer electronics has become so complex and/or miniturized that you don't stand a chance of figuring out whats going on without a circuit diagram or a lot of electronics knowlage.
what did you take apart that taught you a lot about electronics?
Well if your going to learn a language on top of english i'd imagine something like mandarin would be far more valuable than another a european language.
we brits and you americans get away with only making a token effort in learning other languages because most of the western world speaks fairly good english.
Most of the Federal debt is in T-bills and other negotiable instruments that are redeemed after a fairly short period and have to be re-issued. If investors lose confidence in the dollar, the Government will have to finance its debt in other currencies
or they could just print money to pay off the debt whilst its still in dollars. This would bring forward the hyperinflation but would avoid long term debt problems.
It's fun to bring up the spectre of radical Islam in every facet of modern society, but the facts don't support the notion that Yahoo would be placing itself at any danger in this case.
imo there are two parts to this:
Filtering allah --> scared of muslim fundamentalists.
Filtering words containg allah --> filter implementation issue.
you see this sort of thing all the time with swear word filters inadvertantly censoring innocuous stuff (e.g. a filter thats supposed to be censoring the word cock censoring the word stopcock)
a further complication is that words are generally run together in screen names. its quite hard to programatically distinguish between a word containing allah e.g. "Callahan" and a run together phrase containing it "oldallahisafalsegod"
btw what is most of americas national debt denominated in?
if its denominated in foriegn currency then they are pretty much stuck with it but if its denominated in dollars then hyperinflation will effectively wipe it out.
agreed and at least the way i read it the original poster never said it did he clearly gave 3 seperate reasons why CDs made from itunes were inferior to purchased CDs.
he stated 3 things all of them true.
They are CDRs, with higher fail rates
Definately true, CDRs are far more failure prone than pressed CDs
they are lower quality audio
true because they are burned from a lossy source
and they don't come with reference materials like images, track listings, artist's notes, etc.
also true although many commercial CDs don't come with much of theese either.
2. Constructive reduction to practice - you file a patent application that contains a description that teaches someone of ordinary skill in the art how to make and use the invention (and satisfies the other requirements of 35 U.S.C. sec. 112).
the problem i see with a constructive reduction to practice is how do you prove it indeed will teach someone of "ordinary skill in the art" how to make and use the invention other than by getting someone with "ordinary skill in the art" to make it for you? I'm guessing the USPTO don't have the rescourses to go building models of every item that someone tries to patent.
But that depends. I think in calculus, a calculator should be banned unless it is a four function calculator.
you'd probablly wan't to ban ones with automatic calculus tools but i can't see why you'd have to get them to specifically get a crappy 4 function (and presumablly limited in other ways like scrollback) unit. There is a middle of the road you know.
But then again, knowing how to use a calculator to evaluate a great deal of mundane information (especially in statistics) is very important.
yeah though given the choice i'd rather use a computer for such things so it could take the stored data more easilly etc.
There is very little insight to be gained by finding the standard deviation by hand.
I'd say there is insigt in knowing how standard deviation fits together and possiblly doing it by hand for small data sets. but i agree that making people do it by hand for more than 10 items or so is kinda pointless.
They couldn't invalidate any Copyright or Patent already in effect due to the prohibition of ex post facto laws.
i don't follow, abolishing copyright would be changing the rules for copies made in the future not changing the status of actions that had happened in the past.
because your writing off a lossilly encoded copy! and not one encoded at a particularlly high bitrate either.
and generally lossless encodings suffer from generation loss. So not only will your CD be inferior to a commercially purchased one. The rip you make for your portabe player (assuming you aren't using an ipod) will also be inferior to a rip made direct from a factory made CD.
mmm about 360K possibilities. easilly within the range of what can be brute forced with computer help.