Depends on what grocery store you go to or what kind of beef you eat. Grass-fed (read: the way its supposed to be) is far healthier than the crap in that most people in the US like (corn-fed beef. cows arent supposed to eat corn which is why they get sick and need anti-biotics and such. dont get me started on rBGH). You can get that. Organic chicken tastes nothing like the Tyson crap at a "regular" grocery store and can be had any many places including large chains like Whole Foods.
At one time, as recently as the 40s, we didnt have agribusiness, supermarkets, monoculture farming, etc. Personally I dont think any of those has done anyone any good.
Marigolds are supposed to keep out the pests. Seems to be confirmed by family members and friends of mine. I just planted my first garden over the last few days and put a border of marigolds around the whole garden plot (not a large plot). Maybe try some around the plants youre having problems with.
Yes. A whole class of bugs that I have yet to have seen;) Thats why I don't get the hype. The code reading part I can understand. I don't design classes for others to use (ie: like a class library of some kind) so I can see that it might be helpful to some folks but I just cant see how generics are gonna do a lot for people error-wise. If you dont know what you're putting in a collection and then pulling stuff out well....just very weird;)
Generics: Thank you God, yes! Having to explicitly cast objects out of Containers is tedious and error-prone.
Please explain why you think this is so. I know many people who *arent* looking forward to generics and don't really care about them (myself included). I still don't understand how in most situations that casting objects out of Containers is tedious and error-prone. How often are you putting objects in collections that you don't know what they are? Yes there are certain situations where generics are handy. I just dont see the hype tho.
NT is NOT "based" on VMS. David Cutler lead the design of both and they are sure to share similarities because of it, but one is not BASED on the other and to say that NT is some "clone" of VMS is flat wrong.
Mark Russinovich's article doesn't seem to agree with you. According to that article they are *very* close. No...not clones but they apparently share a lot of similarities.
Your rationalizing why you're using pirated software is amusing. The particulars of your situation really are irrelevant. Did you steal your car too because of divorce and the IT economy? At least have the balls to say you use pirated software because you don't want to pay for it vs. the sob story. The low-end Quicken is $50. I find it hard to believe that in several years you couldn't save $50 for something that is apparently vital to your life.
But apparently Swing is good enough to create quick-UI IDEs like JEdit and IntelliJ IDEA. Swing has its own issues but like anything else when you learn to work with it properly it can be fast. SWT has its own issues. It is far from a panacea. I'd still choose Swing over SWT exactly because of the way Swing is written. Its highly extensible and used properly it is fast.
1: Yes...Oracle is expensive. You get what you pay for. It is an excellent database. 2: Oracle *database* support is the finest support group I have ever dealt with...*period*. Their other groups leave something to be desired but the people who support the database product know their shit well and all of my issues have been resolved quickly. 3: Bullshit. Especially with the release of 8i R3 and above. It takes less to maintain Oracle with every release. It used to take expensive talent to maintain in the past. That is not necessarily true now (I know...I've been maintaining Oracle databases since 8.0.5).
The size of the runtime really is irrelevant to porting Java to a given platform since the majority of the runtime is java class files. The part that needs to be ported is the VM and any other native stuff (which isn't much).
You don't have to implement your own data model for a dropdown list. JComboBox can take an array or a Vector of items as a list. Thats a far cry from having to implement your own data model.
I looked at the survey and I think they're just considering whether to suck up the gtk/KDE L&F, and whether to make that the default L&F. Someone was telling me the Eclipse IDE does this for gtk to good effect.
Umm...Eclipse uses SWT which uses native UI elements on platforms where it is implemented. The only time it emulates something is if there isn't a native widget.
Compare to Perl - one extremely high-quality free implementation and it's a considerably better thought out and more powerful language to boot.This is a ridiculous statement. Both languages are powerful and each has its place. To say that Perl better thought-out is just plain ridiculous. Perl is a mess.
I hate to break this to you but Fowler's work has never been about the language but about the ideas. He could do the patterns in Lisp and it wouldn't make a difference. The language used is irrelevant.
One of them. One of them is. One of them Of course you knew that the Playstation 2 is actually the top console (By a fair margin, too), and that Nintendo are also "one of" the top consoles.
And your point is what exactly? The other poster seems to think that the Japanese have some huge lead on the US in game technology. The Xbox proves that they are wrong. The number of consoles in the top x is irrelevant.
I seem to remember Sega; a Japanese company. Who were the top console companies during the 80's and early 90's? Oh yeah, Sega and Nintendo. Japanese companies!
The top console companies until 1984 were American companies. Atari, Coleco, Mattel. Then the market crashed and Nintendo came out with the NES. American companies were still coming out with good consoles during that period (Atari Jaguar, and the innovative Lynx...created by ex-Amigans, 3DO...same guys who did the Amiga and Lynx) but they didn't sell as well. Popularity of consoles has more to do with licensing but you knew that already didnt you?
As for the lame "jingoist" comment do you even know what the term means? I don't quite see how jingoism comes into the conversation at all. The simple fact is that American companies have been the innovators in the areas we are discussing. Jingoism plays no part in that.
I'd be shocked if the poster was referring to anything other than platforms for which a player exists. Its obvious that Flash doesn't run on all platforms. Like in Java...WORA really means (obviously) Write-Once-Run-Anywhere(there is a Java VM).
Actually no Sun shouldn't have replaced Swing with SWT yesterday. SWT is pretty much designed for Eclipse and it works well there. Swing is vastly more complex and extendible than SWT. Swing doesn't have to be slow either. Like anything else there is well-written Swing code and poorly written Swing code. IntelliJ IDEA and JEdit are examples of well-written Swing code.
Actually, I used to code VB for a living (shame on me), back when it was VB4 or whatever. What are they up to now, 7 ? Anyway, all I needed to do was design some forms, double-click their properties, and add event handlers so that the "Ok" button closes the form. Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that software is smart enough to do this now -- but the process is hardly creative. I am sure that some creative programs can be (and have been) written even in VB; my argument is simply that such programs are no longer really needed.
And your argument is still wrong. You seriously think that every single business problem can be solved by dragging a few items onto a form and connecting them?
Actually, unless I am mistaken, Japan leads US at least 3-5 years in technology, and has done so for a while. For example, can you name the top gaming consoles on the market today ? Or any other electronics for that matter ?
You're mistaken. One of the top gaming consoles is the Xbox. If I recall Microsoft is an American company. I also recall that the innovators were Atari, etc. American companies. The Japanese do one thing very well and have done so for years: take an existing idea and make it more efficient.
Boo-freaking-hoo that they don't cover... what... the 0.01% of the *desktop* market that HP-UX represents. Its like crying that there isn't a Flash player for the C-64,
This response is pure trash. I've never actually used PostgreSQL but I can tell you why this response is pure trash:
"Maybe there are some who really really really need triggers. God knows why. As the MySQL developers point out (and they are quite correct) - this sort of thing should NOT happen on the server; it should be contained in the client software or middle tier. Views? See above. Don't need them. Stored procedures? Handy but honestly can be done just as easily at the client end."
Written by someone who either doesn't care about proper programming techniques or has no clue about them. If the MySQL developers are putting out some trash that say things like triggers should not be in the database but in the client they deserve no respect. They have no clue what they're talking about.
The poster needs to learn the reasons behind using stored procedures. Sure the same thing can be done on the client. The client doesn't offer any of the advantages of stored procedures however: separation of model/view/controller, precompiled for speed, etc.
IMHO autoboxing is one of the best things to happen to Java. Want to use primitives in collections? Sorry...cant because collections only take objects. That means you have to use the wrapper classes. I'd much rather have the system take care of that crap rather than having to code it myself. Even Smalltalk does something similar.
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Depends on what grocery store you go to or what kind of beef you eat. Grass-fed (read: the way its supposed to be) is far healthier than the crap in that most people in the US like (corn-fed beef. cows arent supposed to eat corn which is why they get sick and need anti-biotics and such. dont get me started on rBGH). You can get that. Organic chicken tastes nothing like the Tyson crap at a "regular" grocery store and can be had any many places including large chains like Whole Foods.
At one time, as recently as the 40s, we didnt have agribusiness, supermarkets, monoculture farming, etc. Personally I dont think any of those has done anyone any good.
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Marigolds are supposed to keep out the pests. Seems to be confirmed by family members and friends of mine. I just planted my first garden over the last few days and put a border of marigolds around the whole garden plot (not a large plot). Maybe try some around the plants youre having problems with.
Yes. A whole class of bugs that I have yet to have seen ;) Thats why I don't get the hype. The code reading part I can understand. I don't design classes for others to use (ie: like a class library of some kind) so I can see that it might be helpful to some folks but I just cant see how generics are gonna do a lot for people error-wise. If you dont know what you're putting in a collection and then pulling stuff out well....just very weird ;)
Please explain why you think this is so. I know many people who *arent* looking forward to generics and don't really care about them (myself included). I still don't understand how in most situations that casting objects out of Containers is tedious and error-prone. How often are you putting objects in collections that you don't know what they are? Yes there are certain situations where generics are handy. I just dont see the hype tho.
Modern Smalltalks also use primitives under the hood for performance reasons. The use of primitives doesn't make a language not OO.
ADO and JDO are nothing alike. Read the specs.
Mark Russinovich's article doesn't seem to agree with you. According to that article they are *very* close. No...not clones but they apparently share a lot of similarities.
Your rationalizing why you're using pirated software is amusing. The particulars of your situation really are irrelevant. Did you steal your car too because of divorce and the IT economy? At least have the balls to say you use pirated software because you don't want to pay for it vs. the sob story. The low-end Quicken is $50. I find it hard to believe that in several years you couldn't save $50 for something that is apparently vital to your life.
But apparently Swing is good enough to create quick-UI IDEs like JEdit and IntelliJ IDEA. Swing has its own issues but like anything else when you learn to work with it properly it can be fast. SWT has its own issues. It is far from a panacea. I'd still choose Swing over SWT exactly because of the way Swing is written. Its highly extensible and used properly it is fast.
Have you actually used Oracle?
1: Yes...Oracle is expensive. You get what you pay for. It is an excellent database.
2: Oracle *database* support is the finest support group I have ever dealt with...*period*. Their other groups leave something to be desired but the people who support the database product know their shit well and all of my issues have been resolved quickly.
3: Bullshit. Especially with the release of 8i R3 and above. It takes less to maintain Oracle with every release. It used to take expensive talent to maintain in the past. That is not necessarily true now (I know...I've been maintaining Oracle databases since 8.0.5).
The size of the runtime really is irrelevant to porting Java to a given platform since the majority of the runtime is java class files. The part that needs to be ported is the VM and any other native stuff (which isn't much).
Hate to break this to you but C#/.NET Framework is no speed demon. Its about the same as Java.
You don't have to implement your own data model for a dropdown list. JComboBox can take an array or a Vector of items as a list. Thats a far cry from having to implement your own data model.
Umm...Eclipse uses SWT which uses native UI elements on platforms where it is implemented. The only time it emulates something is if there isn't a native widget.
Compare to Perl - one extremely high-quality free implementation and it's a considerably better thought out and more powerful language to boot.This is a ridiculous statement. Both languages are powerful and each has its place. To say that Perl better thought-out is just plain ridiculous. Perl is a mess.
I hate to break this to you but Fowler's work has never been about the language but about the ideas. He could do the patterns in Lisp and it wouldn't make a difference. The language used is irrelevant.
And your point is what exactly? The other poster seems to think that the Japanese have some huge lead on the US in game technology. The Xbox proves that they are wrong. The number of consoles in the top x is irrelevant.
I seem to remember Sega; a Japanese company. Who were the top console companies during the 80's and early 90's? Oh yeah, Sega and Nintendo. Japanese companies!
The top console companies until 1984 were American companies. Atari, Coleco, Mattel. Then the market crashed and Nintendo came out with the NES. American companies were still coming out with good consoles during that period (Atari Jaguar, and the innovative Lynx...created by ex-Amigans, 3DO...same guys who did the Amiga and Lynx) but they didn't sell as well. Popularity of consoles has more to do with licensing but you knew that already didnt you?
As for the lame "jingoist" comment do you even know what the term means? I don't quite see how jingoism comes into the conversation at all. The simple fact is that American companies have been the innovators in the areas we are discussing. Jingoism plays no part in that.
Were you even out of diapers in the 80s?
I'd be shocked if the poster was referring to anything other than platforms for which a player exists. Its obvious that Flash doesn't run on all platforms. Like in Java...WORA really means (obviously) Write-Once-Run-Anywhere(there is a Java VM).
Actually no Sun shouldn't have replaced Swing with SWT yesterday. SWT is pretty much designed for Eclipse and it works well there. Swing is vastly more complex and extendible than SWT. Swing doesn't have to be slow either. Like anything else there is well-written Swing code and poorly written Swing code. IntelliJ IDEA and JEdit are examples of well-written Swing code.
And your argument is still wrong. You seriously think that every single business problem can be solved by dragging a few items onto a form and connecting them?
Actually, unless I am mistaken, Japan leads US at least 3-5 years in technology, and has done so for a while. For example, can you name the top gaming consoles on the market today ? Or any other electronics for that matter ?
You're mistaken. One of the top gaming consoles is the Xbox. If I recall Microsoft is an American company. I also recall that the innovators were Atari, etc. American companies. The Japanese do one thing very well and have done so for years: take an existing idea and make it more efficient.
Boo-freaking-hoo that they don't cover ... what... the 0.01% of the *desktop* market that HP-UX represents. Its like crying that there isn't a Flash player for the C-64,
This response is pure trash. I've never actually used PostgreSQL but I can tell you why this response is pure trash:
"Maybe there are some who really really really need triggers. God knows why. As the MySQL developers point out (and they are quite correct) - this sort of thing should NOT happen on the server; it should be contained in the client software or middle tier. Views? See above. Don't need them. Stored procedures? Handy but honestly can be done just as easily at the client end."
Written by someone who either doesn't care about proper programming techniques or has no clue about them. If the MySQL developers are putting out some trash that say things like triggers should not be in the database but in the client they deserve no respect. They have no clue what they're talking about.
The poster needs to learn the reasons behind using stored procedures. Sure the same thing can be done on the client. The client doesn't offer any of the advantages of stored procedures however: separation of model/view/controller, precompiled for speed, etc.
What a ridiculous posting.
Have you ever used IDEA? It simply is the best Java IDE I've ever used...period.
IMHO autoboxing is one of the best things to happen to Java. Want to use primitives in collections? Sorry...cant because collections only take objects. That means you have to use the wrapper classes. I'd much rather have the system take care of that crap rather than having to code it myself. Even Smalltalk does something similar.