Unless things have changed in recent years, JSPs do get compiled, twice. First, they get compiled into Java Servlet objects, where your HTML lines get turned into print() calls. Then they get compiled into bytecode to be executed. Your server may hide this process from you, but that is what Tomcat did when I had to use it about 4 years ago.
You actually hit on a very poorly supported area. I went through this too and found myself wanting to boot back into XP just to use MovieMaker (which is actually a really good program for making short webcam videos). I ended up wrestling with Cinelerra, but it was obvious I was not the target audience for that. Now that I have updated to openSUSE 11.0 from CentOS 5, I am playing with the new Gnome app Cheese which seems very intuitive.
Now, the QUALITY of my tacos is better, but that's not the same question.
My question addressed both price and nutrition. Poor quality foods can easily be masked with enough sodium and fat to make it taste delicious. I really hope that you are not eating all 10 of those tacos from Taco Bell by yourself. The nutrition calculator I linked to will show you just how much fat and sodium can come with that meal( hint, sodium is in the thousands of milligrams).
I would be surprised if the likes of Taco Bell and McDonald's were losing any money on the poor quality food they sell. You are right at least about the drinks, soda sales are like free money to them.
As many others have indicated, healthy food is well within reach of the poor. Go the grocery store and go buy some chicken thighs, a bag of rice, and some beans and compare the price and nutrition to eating your meals at McDonald's.
Poor education, in general and specifically in nutrition, is a bigger direct contributor to obesity than low income, but there is a correlation between income and education.
The GP said that Linux users have a sense of entitlement, not that they are cheap. If I don't think a game is worth $20 to me, then I am not going to buy it for that price. As I indicated, I have a small collection of games that I bought because they are so good that I still occasionally pull them out. I probably only paid about $20-$30 max for any of those games. With the Internet, media markets are wide open and have low barriers of entry. According to the laws of supply and demand, this puts me, as a consumer, in the position of being able to pick the price I put on something and buy accordingly. My thinking is not limited to video games. When I buy CDs, I almost always buy used. I never buy DVDs because I get a much better percieved value out of NetFlix (why pay $10-$20 for a DVD that will be watched a couple of times and then just take up space?). The same thing goes for books, but if there is something I am really interested in, I will buy new for full price. But things change in the other direction as well. Content creators can reach a worldwide market. With that kind of possible volume, the profit margin does not need to be high for each customer. That is why I pointed out the free flash-based games. There are companies probably making good money with simple games that are free and ad-supported. Any company that fails to understand these market trends and fails to adapt to their competition is running the risk of being left behind by their customers.
This is a bit of a plague among linux users, but the status quo of the software biz may not hold up in the future. Many large software companies are switching to different business models (i.e. service oriented around open source products). The business landscape is changing and that should not be ignored.
Your games (democracy, kudos) look very interesting and I am sure your current business model does well, but there are other ways people make money in the small games market. For example, what if your game was flash delivered and ad-supported? You might get more people playing it and more often (i.e. at work). This may or may not be the right choice for you, but it is a model that you do have to compete with in the small games market.
Anyway, democracy looks interesting and I might try the demo, but it would have to be pretty awesome for me to shell out $20 USD. It looks like the kind of game that I might pay $5 or less for. As a matter of full disclosure, I typically only buy used video games that are $10-$15 or less and only about 3 in a year. So I am a bit of a tough sell. Any other games I play are open source (Urban Terror), abandonware (I just tried the old Neuromancer game), or one of my small collection (Fallout [2], System Shock [NOT 2, that game pales in comparison to the original], Ascendancy).
Well said. This comparison can be made with many companies making both inkjet and laser printers. Laser printers are much more likely to use standard interfaces, but watch out for the new consumer range ~$100 bw lasers. That new market is starting to use some techniques from the inkjet market. In general, unless you really like printing pictures (which is barely an excuse given the on demand printing many professional shops do now), you should just buy a laser printer. I have vowed never to go back to inkjet and it has been a great decision.
This lawyer's actions are deserving of sanctions. Ms. Seidel's motion to quash was extremely well written and I am very happy that a judge was able to see through this BS.
... Ballmer to be my personal court jester,complete with stupid hat and pointy shoes. He will have to do the monkey dance for my amusement and I will send him to crush my enemies with chairs and his super B.O. So... are you implying that Steve Ballmer is The Mule? I guess that would explain Microsofts mysterious assimilation or destruction of all who dare to stand in their way and, really, why anybody would like Steve Ballmer in the first place. I would have suspected frail Bill Gates, but you might just be on the right track.
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I have done and do this quite often. The killer is latency, not bandwidth. Running apps from within my company's network is nearly as fast as running them on my desktop. If I want to run from my university a few miles away, it feels a bit sluggish. If you try to run from across the country, you will feel the latency. If you are using satellite, you will probably feel the latency. So, it does have its uses, but a user needs to understand the limitations as well.
If you have not heard of it yet, the newest drug battle is an herb called salvia. It is supposed to provide a short hallucinagenic effect and is available over the counter in many places. State governments have moved to create laws to ban it locally, but the DEA has still not scheduled it. There has been no hard evidence of negative health effects. It will be interesting to see how the DEA classifies it and what the justification is. Salvia might be the rallying point for reform of drug laws, or it could just become another marijuana. Worst of all, the news media has spread FUD about kids getting HIGH using COMPLETELY LEGAL OVER THE COUNTER herbs from MEXICO.
I don't know how "dollars to doughnuts" works, but here it goes. My wife and I live in Tucson, AZ. The public transportation is not great, but I use it. When we married, we each had a small ~30 mpg car. I sold my car and now we have one small car and a bus pass. We decided to buy a small house in the city, not a big house in the suburbs. We turn our major electronics; TV, modem, wireless router, and DVD player off at the plug. And most bulbs have been replaced by CFL's. Our electronic thermostat is set at a temp that most people would find uncomfortable in a city that is currently above 100 F. When we moved in, we even paid to have all of the AC ducts cleaned for better efficiency. We also reuse and recycle as much as we can. Nobody is forcing us to do any of this. We could easily afford the extra electricity and gas, but we made the decision to do these things because we think it is the right thing to do. I may not be living in commune with mother nature, but I am trying my best to do what is right. What I have been trying to convey is that change has to start somewhere and waiting until the government forces you to change is for people who just don't know any better. If you see the problem, why not try to make it better?
I am sorry if I sounded condescending, but I passionately believe the world can only improve if individuals make the choice on their own to make it better.
There always needs to be people who take the first steps towards, as you say, "the greater good", if we are to progress. People like you have to be herded like cattle to fall into the order of civilization.
Call me selfish Okay, you are selfish. You have just said that your daughter's life is more important than some other person's daughter. How far are you willing to go with that one? If you could kill some other person's daughter to save your daughter, would you?
The problem here is that these companies are not doing enough to convince developers of the cost-saving benefits of their products. If you just want to sell a source code editor, it better make my tea and answer my phone if you expect me to pay for it or convince my boss to pay for it. Tools companies need to step up their game and innovate in the market if they want to stay alive. Look at a company like Trolltech. They have an end-to-end approach selling not only the application framework, but the tools to build with it.
Bottom line, any company that says open-source is putting them out of business is failing to innovate in the market and adjust to their customers' needs.
stateless client-server applications While that statement may have made sense in the early 1990's, it makes no sense today. The web sites seen today have browser side cookies that typically represent server side session data. In fact, there is more "state" floating around than most privacy-minded people would like.
I think the interesting thing to point out about his equation is that if you just paid for the data recovery part and not the anti-virus, you would have the same outcome for less cost. This could suggest that anti-virus is a game that can't win, but something like stateless computing is the real answer. Got a virus? Just dump that image and load a new one and you are ready to go. This is a different way of thinking for desktop/laptop computers and would require some new technology, but it is the way the server is going with virtualization technologies.
I have to agree. This is a pretty straight forward improvement to an invention patent. The patent seems to be specific on many details of implementation. It is also specific enough that it probably can't rule out any possible use of a hand impression on a portable device. While it may not be the most novel and innovative idea, it is a far cry from the software/process patents that usually appear in the "Your Rights Online" section.
My statement was not passing judgement, but demonstrating that every society draws a line to decide what is "decent". That line will always be drawn by the majority. For many, it is what defines them as a culture. Calling censorship in general a human rights violation is absurd.
The "crowded theater" analogy does not apply to child pornography and snuff films in a practical way. Under your logic I could simply import child pornography from somewhere else and be free and clear to sell it and show it in my own country( because you know there will always be some corner of the world where it is easy to make). In your single-minded idealism, you seem to have ignored all other considerations.
I am just curious here. Which "human right" are you talking about? If you are suggesting that censorship is a human rights violation I would like you to point out a single modern country without some version of censorship. Sure some countries will allow you to show nudity and even sex on TV, but what about snuff films or child pornography?
Whether you are American or not, I hope you understand the historical context. British English is a way people used to speak in the United States. Therefore, it is not out of the question for an American to call British English "old-fashioned". Furthermore,
"IUPAC adopted the spelling 'sulfur' in 1990, as did the Royal Society of Chemistry Nomenclature Committee in 1992 and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for England and Wales recommended its use in 2000." [wikipedia from cited sources]. So saying that "sulfur" is wrong is a very close-minded provincial thing to say.
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Thank you for a great answer. If I hadn't already posted to this topic, I would mod you up.
I am curious. How do you tell a retarded mouse from a regular mouse? (No, they don't say NARF)
Unless things have changed in recent years, JSPs do get compiled, twice. First, they get compiled into Java Servlet objects, where your HTML lines get turned into print() calls. Then they get compiled into bytecode to be executed. Your server may hide this process from you, but that is what Tomcat did when I had to use it about 4 years ago.
You actually hit on a very poorly supported area. I went through this too and found myself wanting to boot back into XP just to use MovieMaker (which is actually a really good program for making short webcam videos). I ended up wrestling with Cinelerra, but it was obvious I was not the target audience for that. Now that I have updated to openSUSE 11.0 from CentOS 5, I am playing with the new Gnome app Cheese which seems very intuitive.
You are making the bold assumption that those professor read your work well enough to detect a lie.
My question addressed both price and nutrition. Poor quality foods can easily be masked with enough sodium and fat to make it taste delicious. I really hope that you are not eating all 10 of those tacos from Taco Bell by yourself. The nutrition calculator I linked to will show you just how much fat and sodium can come with that meal( hint, sodium is in the thousands of milligrams).
I would be surprised if the likes of Taco Bell and McDonald's were losing any money on the poor quality food they sell. You are right at least about the drinks, soda sales are like free money to them.
As many others have indicated, healthy food is well within reach of the poor. Go the grocery store and go buy some chicken thighs, a bag of rice, and some beans and compare the price and nutrition to eating your meals at McDonald's.
Poor education, in general and specifically in nutrition, is a bigger direct contributor to obesity than low income, but there is a correlation between income and education.
The GP said that Linux users have a sense of entitlement, not that they are cheap. If I don't think a game is worth $20 to me, then I am not going to buy it for that price. As I indicated, I have a small collection of games that I bought because they are so good that I still occasionally pull them out. I probably only paid about $20-$30 max for any of those games. With the Internet, media markets are wide open and have low barriers of entry. According to the laws of supply and demand, this puts me, as a consumer, in the position of being able to pick the price I put on something and buy accordingly. My thinking is not limited to video games. When I buy CDs, I almost always buy used. I never buy DVDs because I get a much better percieved value out of NetFlix (why pay $10-$20 for a DVD that will be watched a couple of times and then just take up space?). The same thing goes for books, but if there is something I am really interested in, I will buy new for full price. But things change in the other direction as well. Content creators can reach a worldwide market. With that kind of possible volume, the profit margin does not need to be high for each customer. That is why I pointed out the free flash-based games. There are companies probably making good money with simple games that are free and ad-supported. Any company that fails to understand these market trends and fails to adapt to their competition is running the risk of being left behind by their customers.
This is a bit of a plague among linux users, but the status quo of the software biz may not hold up in the future. Many large software companies are switching to different business models (i.e. service oriented around open source products). The business landscape is changing and that should not be ignored.
Your games (democracy, kudos) look very interesting and I am sure your current business model does well, but there are other ways people make money in the small games market. For example, what if your game was flash delivered and ad-supported? You might get more people playing it and more often (i.e. at work). This may or may not be the right choice for you, but it is a model that you do have to compete with in the small games market.
Anyway, democracy looks interesting and I might try the demo, but it would have to be pretty awesome for me to shell out $20 USD. It looks like the kind of game that I might pay $5 or less for. As a matter of full disclosure, I typically only buy used video games that are $10-$15 or less and only about 3 in a year. So I am a bit of a tough sell. Any other games I play are open source (Urban Terror), abandonware (I just tried the old Neuromancer game), or one of my small collection (Fallout [2], System Shock [NOT 2, that game pales in comparison to the original], Ascendancy).
Well said. This comparison can be made with many companies making both inkjet and laser printers. Laser printers are much more likely to use standard interfaces, but watch out for the new consumer range ~$100 bw lasers. That new market is starting to use some techniques from the inkjet market. In general, unless you really like printing pictures (which is barely an excuse given the on demand printing many professional shops do now), you should just buy a laser printer. I have vowed never to go back to inkjet and it has been a great decision.
This lawyer's actions are deserving of sanctions. Ms. Seidel's motion to quash was extremely well written and I am very happy that a judge was able to see through this BS.
... Ballmer to be my personal court jester,complete with stupid hat and pointy shoes. He will have to do the monkey dance for my amusement and I will send him to crush my enemies with chairs and his super B.O. So... are you implying that Steve Ballmer is The Mule? I guess that would explain Microsofts mysterious assimilation or destruction of all who dare to stand in their way and, really, why anybody would like Steve Ballmer in the first place. I would have suspected frail Bill Gates, but you might just be on the right track.I have done and do this quite often. The killer is latency, not bandwidth. Running apps from within my company's network is nearly as fast as running them on my desktop. If I want to run from my university a few miles away, it feels a bit sluggish. If you try to run from across the country, you will feel the latency. If you are using satellite, you will probably feel the latency. So, it does have its uses, but a user needs to understand the limitations as well.
If you have not heard of it yet, the newest drug battle is an herb called salvia. It is supposed to provide a short hallucinagenic effect and is available over the counter in many places. State governments have moved to create laws to ban it locally, but the DEA has still not scheduled it. There has been no hard evidence of negative health effects. It will be interesting to see how the DEA classifies it and what the justification is. Salvia might be the rallying point for reform of drug laws, or it could just become another marijuana. Worst of all, the news media has spread FUD about kids getting HIGH using COMPLETELY LEGAL OVER THE COUNTER herbs from MEXICO.
I don't know how "dollars to doughnuts" works, but here it goes. My wife and I live in Tucson, AZ. The public transportation is not great, but I use it. When we married, we each had a small ~30 mpg car. I sold my car and now we have one small car and a bus pass. We decided to buy a small house in the city, not a big house in the suburbs. We turn our major electronics; TV, modem, wireless router, and DVD player off at the plug. And most bulbs have been replaced by CFL's. Our electronic thermostat is set at a temp that most people would find uncomfortable in a city that is currently above 100 F. When we moved in, we even paid to have all of the AC ducts cleaned for better efficiency. We also reuse and recycle as much as we can. Nobody is forcing us to do any of this. We could easily afford the extra electricity and gas, but we made the decision to do these things because we think it is the right thing to do. I may not be living in commune with mother nature, but I am trying my best to do what is right. What I have been trying to convey is that change has to start somewhere and waiting until the government forces you to change is for people who just don't know any better. If you see the problem, why not try to make it better?
I am sorry if I sounded condescending, but I passionately believe the world can only improve if individuals make the choice on their own to make it better.
Sidebar: You actually own a large car in NYC?
There always needs to be people who take the first steps towards, as you say, "the greater good", if we are to progress. People like you have to be herded like cattle to fall into the order of civilization.
The problem here is that these companies are not doing enough to convince developers of the cost-saving benefits of their products. If you just want to sell a source code editor, it better make my tea and answer my phone if you expect me to pay for it or convince my boss to pay for it. Tools companies need to step up their game and innovate in the market if they want to stay alive. Look at a company like Trolltech. They have an end-to-end approach selling not only the application framework, but the tools to build with it.
Bottom line, any company that says open-source is putting them out of business is failing to innovate in the market and adjust to their customers' needs.
I think the interesting thing to point out about his equation is that if you just paid for the data recovery part and not the anti-virus, you would have the same outcome for less cost. This could suggest that anti-virus is a game that can't win, but something like stateless computing is the real answer. Got a virus? Just dump that image and load a new one and you are ready to go. This is a different way of thinking for desktop/laptop computers and would require some new technology, but it is the way the server is going with virtualization technologies.
I have to agree. This is a pretty straight forward improvement to an invention patent. The patent seems to be specific on many details of implementation. It is also specific enough that it probably can't rule out any possible use of a hand impression on a portable device. While it may not be the most novel and innovative idea, it is a far cry from the software/process patents that usually appear in the "Your Rights Online" section.
It may be slow as molasses, but it does tend to work out. At this rate, in about 200 years we might have female priests.
My statement was not passing judgement, but demonstrating that every society draws a line to decide what is "decent". That line will always be drawn by the majority. For many, it is what defines them as a culture. Calling censorship in general a human rights violation is absurd. The "crowded theater" analogy does not apply to child pornography and snuff films in a practical way. Under your logic I could simply import child pornography from somewhere else and be free and clear to sell it and show it in my own country( because you know there will always be some corner of the world where it is easy to make). In your single-minded idealism, you seem to have ignored all other considerations.
I am just curious here. Which "human right" are you talking about? If you are suggesting that censorship is a human rights violation I would like you to point out a single modern country without some version of censorship. Sure some countries will allow you to show nudity and even sex on TV, but what about snuff films or child pornography?