You didn't get my point at all. Here, let me try again with a simple example:
It is really, really hard to type and click on my laptop to get my ON DEMAND music while biking down a path in the woods because my DEMAND happens pretty far away from any computer. Remember, we are talking about music, don't get lost in an inappropriate analogy.
Not insightful? What does that make you, uneducated?
No, that makes me someone who has a substantial portion of a life out of reach of computers and network connections and on-demand services.
I forsee that I'll be about as interested in owning music as I am in owning an encyclopedia. Welcome to the on demand world.
False comparison, not insightful. I don't read the encyclopedia while driving to work in the morning. I don't read the encyclopedia while jogging or riding a bike. I don't read the encyclopedia for hours on end just for simple entertainment. I don't go to concerts to watch a live encyclopedia performance.
And like a LOT of other people, I would not pay for a subscription to an encyclopedia, either.
In the article, the author assumes that the J2EE application includes EJB's and from this assumption he builds in additional layers of overhead, especially with RMI calls to the EJB layer. His assumption is incorrect.
If you really want performance in a J2EE app, you can stick to JSP's and servlets and limit the usage of EJB's. Still keep the presentation in the JSP layer and isolate the business logic in servlets. This approach is quite lean and scales hugely.
When and how to use EJB's is just one part of J2EE application design.
Last time I checked, the V-22 main flight computers were AYK-14's running a Boeing-developed real-time kernel, I think it's name is JASS (pronounced "jazz"). Don't remember what the acronym stands for. And most of the remaining issues with the V-22 have little to do with any particular sub-system, rather they are more about flight envelope (especially in/near ground effect), proper flight procedures, warnings/cautions/advisories, etc.
Wow, that is the ugliest case I have seen in years. It doesn't even have a nice, clean industrial look. It's just ugly, really really ugly. Oh well, maybe I can hide it behind a wall or in a closet. But wait! if I do that, why would I care that it's fanless?:P
7. Go to space. With my wife. Close the hatch for some privacy. Get our space freak on to the music of "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" (the 2001 music) for our own "docking manuevers".
Now, there's a Freudian slip! I am pretty sure it's Zarathustra, no thrust involved, at least not the kind you're implying. Wow, you could start a whole series of jokes playing on "thrust" in "space" or a porn version of 2001: A Space Odyssey with background music by Nietzsche and the Zara Thrusta's!
Worked just fine on my dual 533 G4 with a puny GeForce2 FX, windowed or full screen. I wasn't sure what the bandwidth limit did so I left it set to the default, None. The other end was my dad's 800 MHz iMac. He is on DSL and I am on cable. The only problem we noticed was sketchy sound quality at times. The video window resized smoothly and easily without stopping the video. I didn't notice any huge processor hit and I probably would have noticed because I keep CPU meter running in the dock all the time.
You said, "But there are many hundreds of qualities possesed by Chimps and other species on this planet that we drastically lack."
But they can't be that different from us because our genome differs by less than 3 percent! Right? Right?
Wrong. You essentially agreed with me and missed doing it. As you said, humans and chimps are very different, far more than a tiny difference in genome might suggest. And that was my point, the one that you seem to have missed.
I said that chimps were still swinging in trees - I did not say that was a bad thing. I said that humans were reaching for the stars - I did not say that was necessarily better than swinging in trees. You read some sort of moral judgement into my statements that is simply not there. My point was the ridiculous huge magnitude of the differences between chimps and humans, something obvious to anyone who has not spent too much time contemplating gene sequences.
But there are many hundreds of qualities possesed by Chimps and other species on this planet that we drastically lack.
Don't you find it a bit peculiar that the qualities that you judge to be obviously more important than all others just happen to be the ones you posses?
Tell you what: you go off and discuss it with a chimp who can debate the point and let us know what you come up with.
You call my logic "falacious" [sic] and then abandon logic to anthropomorphize evolution for the rest of your post? Evolution is not some external force that selects attributes of species and analogies that suggest so are flawed from the start. A change selects itself by the simple expedient of effectively perpetuating itself in the face of pressure from other changes in the environment.
The random occurrence of intelligence selected itself by succeeding far beyond non-intelligence. Intelligence is better by the only measure that counts: it beats the pants off all other factors, every time. For everything a human can do, there exists a species that can do it far and away better, except for one very important ability: thinking.
I wasn't trying to pass any moral judgement on the relative value of species. That's a whole 'nuther discussion. I was only trying to say that the differences between human and animal are far greater than can be measured by genetic differences alone. Confining the definition of our uniqueness to the 1-3% difference in genetic code basically misses the point of the real differences that make us human.
I once read a description in a science fiction novel that I particularly like. The analogy was made between intelligence and heating water. Below the boiling point, water is just water and can be compared to other bits of water in a fairly nice linear fashion according to temperature. But as the water hits the boiling point, interesting things begin to happen that make it altogether different. Sure, you can continue to compare the boiling water to cooler water according to the common measure of temperature, but the really important differences now lie elsewhere. Temperature becomes only one small part of a whole host of interesting differences.
Yes, this analogy breaks down in a whole bunch of ways, but the central idea is that finding only a tiny difference between human and animal means we just aren't measuring the right thing. And even if we found some common measure, humans have passed a nonlinear threshold across which comparisons don't hold much meaning.
As for who is the fair arbitrator of excellence, exactly whose other opinion are you going to compare with? Yes, both humans and chimps get wet in the water, we both require oxygen, we both ingest plant and animal matter for fuel, we both crap in the woods. But I still maintain that the more interesting factors are the differences, for that's where we will find clues to what makes us human.
It's amazing to me that this comment was modded "Insightful". Chimps have had 4-7 million years since we split from a common ancestor (according to the article) and they're still swinging in trees. Humans are reaching for the stars.
It should be obvious to any cretin that there is a definite qualitative difference between human and chimp, indeed between human and all of (observable) nature. And that supposedly insignificant quality makes all the difference. The fact that we cannot (yet) measure its true magnitude in scientific terms does not make it any less ridiculously obvious. No human is just another monkey. Not even you.
Hey, I'm an Application Developer!...wait a minute...
Seriously, though, I love designing new systems, I love writing code and I love my job. Even with all the corporate weight on my shoulders, I still wouldn't want to do anything else. I would hate working in "systems, networking or security". They're all just so focused and liimited and, well, boring (to me). App developers touch on a little bit of all of that and more.
And it's not my job to keep the servers patched! Happy!
Unit-test based programming says why pay so much for such a weak guarentee of correctness when you can spend that time writing unit tests and test for useful properties?
Maybe it's just me, but I've found that much (most?) non-trivial systems that I write are not easily unit-testable. They are usually part of or dependent on large libraries and infrastructure. Most of that infrastructure I did not write nor do I have access to its source. Much of it is often poorly documented, so that one does not have any clear spec upon which to build tests.
Instead, I tend to rely on the tools to do as much as possible for me, type checking being just one tool in one phase. I expect and plan for unexpected behavior and design for graceful error handling and degradation at every level of code. I know that the developer that wrote that library is at least as lazy as me, probably even more, so I cannot depend on documentation and correct behavior and I definitely do not have the time to write test cases for every interface in every external library that I use.
Maybe its my early background in military systems. I just got used to disciplined development and I don't really have to think too much about type correctness. I just tend to be careful about it out of habit.
And finally there is the one iron-clad fundamental rule of software development: a defect found earlier is much easier to fix. I prefer to catch as many errors as I can by compile time. Everything after that starts getting much more expensive really fast.
Steve Jobs is way too far left of center for my tastes. Given that Bush managed to beat (tie?) Gore coming from a successful incumbent administration, I figure someone more centrist could wipe the floor with someone like Jobs in a real race. Of course, Bush is far more rabidly right than I initially thought, so what do I know?
But as far as Jobs goes, give me a break, the guy actively supported Hillary Clinton's senate campaign. That alone is unforgiveable.
Yes but white males already get a free pass, so why shouldnt their competition get the same?
I am a white male. I grew up in a 4 room rental house with about 800 square feet of living space. My father worked 60-70 hour weeks for years to save up money for my college education. Even then, I had to work full-time while going to school full time to afford to go to college. It took me 6 years to get an engineering degree because I couldn't pass a full course load and work full time. And I didn't qualify for grants because my father had the ridiculous idea of working hard to better himself and his family, so we were not "poor enough" to get a free ride.
I made more in my second year as a junior engineer than my father or grandfather had ever made in any single year in their entire lives. Next year I make twice as much as my father ever made. Thanks to the hard work of several generations, my children now have better opportunities than anyone else in my family has ever had.
I sure wish I had known about these free passes. It would have been a lot easier with them, I guess.
All Corvettes are made at the GM plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The plant tour is free and very cool. And the Corvette Museum is right next door. Be aware that the tour schedule can change with holidays and special events so you might want to call ahead. I have never (yet) done it, but I have heard that one option on buying a new Corvette is to take delivery at the plant or maybe the museum, I forget the details.
The on-line demo / example pages do not appear to work without cookies. Sorry, thank you for playing! One of the cardinal rules of a good general purpose web app framework is that it should not require cookies to work. It may be that the framework itself does not require cookies. If so, it was a poor decision to write demos that do. Oh well. Next player, please!
Forgot: the ozone treatment takes weeks, for my stuff it was 2 weeks. Be sure to get itemized signed receipts for everything that they take away to be cleaned or fixed. Yeah, it's a pain and hassle, but do it anyway. There's probably some other stuff I'm forgetting, just talk a lot with your insurance adjuster, don't be afraid to argue and ask lots of questions. Good luck.
Definitely, Ozone. Talk to your insurance agent/adjuster on how to do it. I had a significant fire where almost nothing except some of my roof was actually burnt. Everything else was smoke and water damage. Anyhow, my adjuster got all of our clothes, electronics, furniture, anything that was smoke damaged and had it all carted away in a truck. There are special fire cleaning services that take smoke damaged stuff and put them in big sealed rooms with some kind of ozone generation. This works very well for clothes and some furniture.
Eletronics on the other hand are another problem. Although the smell mostly goes away, electronics stink again when they heat up under normal operation. This is a hit-or-miss thing. As soon as possible, get the equipment back, plug it in and run it for a while and see if any smells come out. If so, the smell will probably never go away.
Anything with any significant plastic content, throw away, try to get replacement costs from your adjuster. Don't even bother trying to clean it, you will NOT be able to get the smell out.
Trust your nose, if it smells even after cleaning or treatment by cleaners, don't bother trying to save it. You will have a LOT of stuff to go through and the smallest items can produce an amazing stink that is hard to locate once all of your stuff is back together. It's much easier to diagnose before it is put away.
Is it any surprise that there's a high sales tax and no income tax in one of the least educated states [vanderbilt.edu] in the country? Sales taxes are regressive, a greater percentage of poor people's income goes to such taxes than rich people.
I was just trying to add some context to the isolated statistic about Tennessee state sales tax. I was not intending to argue tax "morality". Your point diverges into tax purposes, e.g. necessary services versus wealth redistribution. I didn't intend to get into that argument here.
Actually, I thought the comment about Tennessee to be particularly topical precisely because any hint of a state income tax has been so strongly opposed in the state. Without an income tax, the state of Tennessee will probably be among those most interested in taxing on-line transactions. Also, as with most human issues, the question and answer(s) are a lot more complicated than we like and they vary a lot, even from state to state.
The point was, if the sales tax were lower revenue would flow into the State rather than out of it.
Got your point, I was just trying to add some context for those who might not know. Also, I was kind of making a sideways point that one might prefer decreased overall taxes to increased state revenues.
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You didn't get my point at all. Here, let me try again with a simple example:
It is really, really hard to type and click on my laptop to get my ON DEMAND music while biking down a path in the woods because my DEMAND happens pretty far away from any computer. Remember, we are talking about music, don't get lost in an inappropriate analogy.
Not insightful? What does that make you, uneducated?
No, that makes me someone who has a substantial portion of a life out of reach of computers and network connections and on-demand services.
I forsee that I'll be about as interested in owning music as I am in owning an encyclopedia. Welcome to the on demand world.
False comparison, not insightful. I don't read the encyclopedia while driving to work in the morning. I don't read the encyclopedia while jogging or riding a bike. I don't read the encyclopedia for hours on end just for simple entertainment. I don't go to concerts to watch a live encyclopedia performance.
And like a LOT of other people, I would not pay for a subscription to an encyclopedia, either.
No accent. He was born in New York.
And I'm guessing from this that you are from, oh, I dunno, New York maybe?
In the article, the author assumes that the J2EE application includes EJB's and from this assumption he builds in additional layers of overhead, especially with RMI calls to the EJB layer. His assumption is incorrect.
If you really want performance in a J2EE app, you can stick to JSP's and servlets and limit the usage of EJB's. Still keep the presentation in the JSP layer and isolate the business logic in servlets. This approach is quite lean and scales hugely.
When and how to use EJB's is just one part of J2EE application design.
Last time I checked, the V-22 main flight computers were AYK-14's running a Boeing-developed real-time kernel, I think it's name is JASS (pronounced "jazz"). Don't remember what the acronym stands for. And most of the remaining issues with the V-22 have little to do with any particular sub-system, rather they are more about flight envelope (especially in/near ground effect), proper flight procedures, warnings/cautions/advisories, etc.
Wow, that is the ugliest case I have seen in years. It doesn't even have a nice, clean industrial look. It's just ugly, really really ugly. Oh well, maybe I can hide it behind a wall or in a closet. But wait! if I do that, why would I care that it's fanless? :P
7. Go to space. With my wife. Close the hatch for some privacy. Get our space freak on to the music of "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" (the 2001 music) for our own "docking manuevers".
Now, there's a Freudian slip! I am pretty sure it's Zarathustra, no thrust involved, at least not the kind you're implying. Wow, you could start a whole series of jokes playing on "thrust" in "space" or a porn version of 2001: A Space Odyssey with background music by Nietzsche and the Zara Thrusta's!
Worked just fine on my dual 533 G4 with a puny GeForce2 FX, windowed or full screen. I wasn't sure what the bandwidth limit did so I left it set to the default, None. The other end was my dad's 800 MHz iMac. He is on DSL and I am on cable. The only problem we noticed was sketchy sound quality at times. The video window resized smoothly and easily without stopping the video. I didn't notice any huge processor hit and I probably would have noticed because I keep CPU meter running in the dock all the time.
You said, "But there are many hundreds of qualities possesed by Chimps and other species on this planet that we drastically lack."
But they can't be that different from us because our genome differs by less than 3 percent! Right? Right?
Wrong. You essentially agreed with me and missed doing it. As you said, humans and chimps are very different, far more than a tiny difference in genome might suggest. And that was my point, the one that you seem to have missed.
I said that chimps were still swinging in trees - I did not say that was a bad thing. I said that humans were reaching for the stars - I did not say that was necessarily better than swinging in trees. You read some sort of moral judgement into my statements that is simply not there. My point was the ridiculous huge magnitude of the differences between chimps and humans, something obvious to anyone who has not spent too much time contemplating gene sequences.
Yeah. No chimpanzee has ever dropped a nuclear bomb on a city. Chimps don't have napalm. We're obviously superior to them.
On the other hand, those million monkeys still haven't produced the works of Shakespeare. I guess it's a toss-up!
But there are many hundreds of qualities possesed by Chimps and other species on this planet that we drastically lack.
Don't you find it a bit peculiar that the qualities that you judge to be obviously more important than all others just happen to be the ones you posses?
Tell you what: you go off and discuss it with a chimp who can debate the point and let us know what you come up with.
You call my logic "falacious" [sic] and then abandon logic to anthropomorphize evolution for the rest of your post? Evolution is not some external force that selects attributes of species and analogies that suggest so are flawed from the start. A change selects itself by the simple expedient of effectively perpetuating itself in the face of pressure from other changes in the environment.
The random occurrence of intelligence selected itself by succeeding far beyond non-intelligence. Intelligence is better by the only measure that counts: it beats the pants off all other factors, every time. For everything a human can do, there exists a species that can do it far and away better, except for one very important ability: thinking.
I wasn't trying to pass any moral judgement on the relative value of species. That's a whole 'nuther discussion. I was only trying to say that the differences between human and animal are far greater than can be measured by genetic differences alone. Confining the definition of our uniqueness to the 1-3% difference in genetic code basically misses the point of the real differences that make us human.
I once read a description in a science fiction novel that I particularly like. The analogy was made between intelligence and heating water. Below the boiling point, water is just water and can be compared to other bits of water in a fairly nice linear fashion according to temperature. But as the water hits the boiling point, interesting things begin to happen that make it altogether different. Sure, you can continue to compare the boiling water to cooler water according to the common measure of temperature, but the really important differences now lie elsewhere. Temperature becomes only one small part of a whole host of interesting differences.
Yes, this analogy breaks down in a whole bunch of ways, but the central idea is that finding only a tiny difference between human and animal means we just aren't measuring the right thing. And even if we found some common measure, humans have passed a nonlinear threshold across which comparisons don't hold much meaning.
As for who is the fair arbitrator of excellence, exactly whose other opinion are you going to compare with? Yes, both humans and chimps get wet in the water, we both require oxygen, we both ingest plant and animal matter for fuel, we both crap in the woods. But I still maintain that the more interesting factors are the differences, for that's where we will find clues to what makes us human.
It's amazing to me that this comment was modded "Insightful". Chimps have had 4-7 million years since we split from a common ancestor (according to the article) and they're still swinging in trees. Humans are reaching for the stars.
It should be obvious to any cretin that there is a definite qualitative difference between human and chimp, indeed between human and all of (observable) nature. And that supposedly insignificant quality makes all the difference. The fact that we cannot (yet) measure its true magnitude in scientific terms does not make it any less ridiculously obvious. No human is just another monkey. Not even you.
Hey, I'm an Application Developer! ...wait a minute...
Seriously, though, I love designing new systems, I love writing code and I love my job. Even with all the corporate weight on my shoulders, I still wouldn't want to do anything else. I would hate working in "systems, networking or security". They're all just so focused and liimited and, well, boring (to me). App developers touch on a little bit of all of that and more.
And it's not my job to keep the servers patched! Happy!
If your identity is tied to your iris and someone steals that identity (iris image), you have to get a new eye. Bummer.
Unit-test based programming says why pay so much for such a weak guarentee of correctness when you can spend that time writing unit tests and test for useful properties?
Maybe it's just me, but I've found that much (most?) non-trivial systems that I write are not easily unit-testable. They are usually part of or dependent on large libraries and infrastructure. Most of that infrastructure I did not write nor do I have access to its source. Much of it is often poorly documented, so that one does not have any clear spec upon which to build tests.
Instead, I tend to rely on the tools to do as much as possible for me, type checking being just one tool in one phase. I expect and plan for unexpected behavior and design for graceful error handling and degradation at every level of code. I know that the developer that wrote that library is at least as lazy as me, probably even more, so I cannot depend on documentation and correct behavior and I definitely do not have the time to write test cases for every interface in every external library that I use.
Maybe its my early background in military systems. I just got used to disciplined development and I don't really have to think too much about type correctness. I just tend to be careful about it out of habit.
And finally there is the one iron-clad fundamental rule of software development: a defect found earlier is much easier to fix. I prefer to catch as many errors as I can by compile time. Everything after that starts getting much more expensive really fast.
Steve Jobs is way too far left of center for my tastes. Given that Bush managed to beat (tie?) Gore coming from a successful incumbent administration, I figure someone more centrist could wipe the floor with someone like Jobs in a real race. Of course, Bush is far more rabidly right than I initially thought, so what do I know?
But as far as Jobs goes, give me a break, the guy actively supported Hillary Clinton's senate campaign. That alone is unforgiveable.
Yes but white males already get a free pass, so why shouldnt their competition get the same?
I am a white male. I grew up in a 4 room rental house with about 800 square feet of living space. My father worked 60-70 hour weeks for years to save up money for my college education. Even then, I had to work full-time while going to school full time to afford to go to college. It took me 6 years to get an engineering degree because I couldn't pass a full course load and work full time. And I didn't qualify for grants because my father had the ridiculous idea of working hard to better himself and his family, so we were not "poor enough" to get a free ride.
I made more in my second year as a junior engineer than my father or grandfather had ever made in any single year in their entire lives. Next year I make twice as much as my father ever made. Thanks to the hard work of several generations, my children now have better opportunities than anyone else in my family has ever had.
I sure wish I had known about these free passes. It would have been a lot easier with them, I guess.
All Corvettes are made at the GM plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The plant tour is free and very cool. And the Corvette Museum is right next door. Be aware that the tour schedule can change with holidays and special events so you might want to call ahead. I have never (yet) done it, but I have heard that one option on buying a new Corvette is to take delivery at the plant or maybe the museum, I forget the details.
The on-line demo / example pages do not appear to work without cookies. Sorry, thank you for playing! One of the cardinal rules of a good general purpose web app framework is that it should not require cookies to work. It may be that the framework itself does not require cookies. If so, it was a poor decision to write demos that do. Oh well. Next player, please!
Forgot: the ozone treatment takes weeks, for my stuff it was 2 weeks. Be sure to get itemized signed receipts for everything that they take away to be cleaned or fixed. Yeah, it's a pain and hassle, but do it anyway. There's probably some other stuff I'm forgetting, just talk a lot with your insurance adjuster, don't be afraid to argue and ask lots of questions. Good luck.
Definitely, Ozone. Talk to your insurance agent/adjuster on how to do it. I had a significant fire where almost nothing except some of my roof was actually burnt. Everything else was smoke and water damage. Anyhow, my adjuster got all of our clothes, electronics, furniture, anything that was smoke damaged and had it all carted away in a truck. There are special fire cleaning services that take smoke damaged stuff and put them in big sealed rooms with some kind of ozone generation. This works very well for clothes and some furniture.
Eletronics on the other hand are another problem. Although the smell mostly goes away, electronics stink again when they heat up under normal operation. This is a hit-or-miss thing. As soon as possible, get the equipment back, plug it in and run it for a while and see if any smells come out. If so, the smell will probably never go away.
Anything with any significant plastic content, throw away, try to get replacement costs from your adjuster. Don't even bother trying to clean it, you will NOT be able to get the smell out.
Trust your nose, if it smells even after cleaning or treatment by cleaners, don't bother trying to save it. You will have a LOT of stuff to go through and the smallest items can produce an amazing stink that is hard to locate once all of your stuff is back together. It's much easier to diagnose before it is put away.
Is it any surprise that there's a high sales tax and no income tax in one of the least educated states [vanderbilt.edu] in the country? Sales taxes are regressive, a greater percentage of poor people's income goes to such taxes than rich people.
I was just trying to add some context to the isolated statistic about Tennessee state sales tax. I was not intending to argue tax "morality". Your point diverges into tax purposes, e.g. necessary services versus wealth redistribution. I didn't intend to get into that argument here.
Actually, I thought the comment about Tennessee to be particularly topical precisely because any hint of a state income tax has been so strongly opposed in the state. Without an income tax, the state of Tennessee will probably be among those most interested in taxing on-line transactions. Also, as with most human issues, the question and answer(s) are a lot more complicated than we like and they vary a lot, even from state to state.
The point was, if the sales tax were lower revenue would flow into the State rather than out of it.
Got your point, I was just trying to add some context for those who might not know. Also, I was kind of making a sideways point that one might prefer decreased overall taxes to increased state revenues.