Any enterprise still using Java 1.4 is putting themselves at risk. Java 1.4 end-of-life support from Sun ended ages ago, and Java 5 enters end-of-life support this summer when Java 7 is released.
Your framework observation is a failure of those frameworks. They should be passing objects by different interfaces that describe the functionality. Generally you should not be relying on instanceof/casting within code - it is ugly and inefficient and suggests a nasty design.
Must folk neer heear strugle wiv it an' ain't get no sustificate in it iva. (Gloucester, UK - and yes, people say sustificate and WHA-SSPS (the capitals are necessary to get the short, aggressive sound) for "wasps").
Dialect is great:)
That's rubbish - you just needed to contact Microsoft to reactivate it and wouldn't get off your high horse to do so, or you are making it up. Even when substantially upgrading hardware (motherboard, hard drive, etc) on dozens of machines I've been able to ring Microsoft and reactivate within a couple of minutes, and without having to speak to anyone.
Oh, and for the record, I don't enjoy Microsoft products at all (indeed, my home machines are now all MacOSX or Linux)
This is the stupid thing though - there are lots of machines with 1TB or more of RAM (HP SuperDomes have up to 2TB in a single machine for example, SGI make a "clustered" beast with a shared memory model that will scale to 128TB of RAM if you really want it and can afford it) and many people use machines this large regularly - particularly in research, weather, government etc.
You are right, but "beeb" was also the name we used to refer to the computer itself. There were loads of "Beeb micro user groups" over the country, and even "Beeb user" magazine iirc.
It is worse than that. The Catholic church in Africa has told people that condoms do not help in stopping AIDS as the rubber allows the HIV virus to pass through (http://media.www.westerncourier.com/media/storage/paper650/news/2003/10/29/Opinion/Catholic.Church.Claims.Condoms.Dont.Protect.Against.Aids.Virus-542117.shtml) because it is so small, and that many condoms from Europe are laced with the virus to kill off Africans (eg http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20999747/)
Most sane distributions let you do this if you want to (Ubuntu/Debian, Gentoo etc). Live CDs or full basic installation CDs are attractive for lots of reasons though (eg if you need a machine for a closed LAN environment and don't want to download the entire package repository)
Maybe in California, but most of the rest of the USA you still have to pay for Wireless - at least that has been my experience so far. Other countries can be far worse - the UK is EXTORTIONATE in comparison, although the launch of 3G wireless contracts for PCs is helping with that.
No, they are capable of working. If they are capable of breeding, driving, stealing, bodging repairs to cars, etc, they can work. And paying benefits doesn't stop crime.
And no, I don't like the slave labour, chain gang and whip approach. I just work fucking hard in three jobs and don't see why I should have to subsidise people to live without working on the same new housing development as me when I'm working my arse off to struggle to live here. I want to have kids at some point, but I can't see any way that I could possibly afford to do that in the next 5-10 years, yet these people are quite happy to sponge off everyone else to achieve it.
Hell no. The sooner the welfare state is reformed the better. I'm sick of people I know that genuinely need support (Downs, CGD, dementure, chronic arthritis, etc) not getting it and all of the little 14 year old shits from the neighbouring estates getting council properties - or better still, NEW built housing association flats.
My father works in a particularly bad secondary school in the area and the career aspiration of many of the teenage girls is to get pregnant as soon as they can - and they are OPEN about this with everyone. We are now on a second generation of people that haven't had to work as a result of entering welfare support because of the economy and reforms in the 70s and 80s, and its not doing us any good. The majority of people don't want to learn, nobody has any respect for other people or property, and everything is just getting a mess.
Looking back at documentaries or sitcoms/soaps that demonstrated social issues from 1950-1980 is really quite interesting. How I'd love to experience some those problems over the current situation.
and you're right, standard def TV is pretty much unwatchable on the panels (IMHO).
IMHO this suggests the screen is far too big for the viewing distance. We sit about 15 feet from a 26" screen and it isn't a problem. I think more than 32" at that distance and non-HD viewing starts to get unpleasant.
And the managers have to issue a change request to the manager of the programmers in the other department, so that a change advisory board can sit (involving all the managers but no technical people) so they can decide which programming resources to allocate. The programmers wont ever be allowed to communicate with the request originator though, and the solution invariable wont be right because the managers changed it before it got to implementation stage, 12 meetings ad 6 months after the request went in.
It's getting better - most out of town shopping areas are open to 8pm, 9pm or 10pm (especially the bigger malls), but the banks still close at 5pm despite charging more and more. There are lots of smaller grocery stores too that have longer opening times - Co-op, Spar, Tesco Metro etc, plus many small independents. You do need to be somewhere with a larger population generally to take advantage of that though.
Try living in the UK. For example, Cheltenham - a small town with a number of large technical organisations, a lot of wealth, and some of the countries best (or at least most exclusive) schools in the town or nearby. The library opening times:
And if you wanted a computer access was limited to 30 minute slots (at least it was the last time I went), which you had to pre-book for, and the machine took 5 minutes to log in.
Oh, and lets hope you didn't want any modern books!
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Or we over-fit to the training data and end up performing badly in the real world when trends change (eg new style of film production appears)
am...addicted...to...RAM......must...keep...buying...more....
Any enterprise still using Java 1.4 is putting themselves at risk. Java 1.4 end-of-life support from Sun ended ages ago, and Java 5 enters end-of-life support this summer when Java 7 is released.
Your framework observation is a failure of those frameworks. They should be passing objects by different interfaces that describe the functionality. Generally you should not be relying on instanceof/casting within code - it is ugly and inefficient and suggests a nasty design.
Must folk neer heear strugle wiv it an' ain't get no sustificate in it iva. (Gloucester, UK - and yes, people say sustificate and WHA-SSPS (the capitals are necessary to get the short, aggressive sound) for "wasps"). Dialect is great :)
Err, you mean like the RFC specified "message-id", "in-reply-to" and "references" headers?
That's rubbish - you just needed to contact Microsoft to reactivate it and wouldn't get off your high horse to do so, or you are making it up. Even when substantially upgrading hardware (motherboard, hard drive, etc) on dozens of machines I've been able to ring Microsoft and reactivate within a couple of minutes, and without having to speak to anyone.
Oh, and for the record, I don't enjoy Microsoft products at all (indeed, my home machines are now all MacOSX or Linux)
This is the stupid thing though - there are lots of machines with 1TB or more of RAM (HP SuperDomes have up to 2TB in a single machine for example, SGI make a "clustered" beast with a shared memory model that will scale to 128TB of RAM if you really want it and can afford it) and many people use machines this large regularly - particularly in research, weather, government etc.
You are right, but "beeb" was also the name we used to refer to the computer itself. There were loads of "Beeb micro user groups" over the country, and even "Beeb user" magazine iirc.
It is worse than that. The Catholic church in Africa has told people that condoms do not help in stopping AIDS as the rubber allows the HIV virus to pass through (http://media.www.westerncourier.com/media/storage/paper650/news/2003/10/29/Opinion/Catholic.Church.Claims.Condoms.Dont.Protect.Against.Aids.Virus-542117.shtml) because it is so small, and that many condoms from Europe are laced with the virus to kill off Africans (eg http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20999747/)
I think you mean Scientology ?
Yes. The BBC is commonly known as "Auntie Beeb" after a 1980's comedian made the term popular.
Most sane distributions let you do this if you want to (Ubuntu/Debian, Gentoo etc). Live CDs or full basic installation CDs are attractive for lots of reasons though (eg if you need a machine for a closed LAN environment and don't want to download the entire package repository)
Read http://view.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/The_Landscape_of_Parallel_Computing_Research:_A_View_From_Berkeley (specifically the white paper linked from it)
How is an 80-core cpu a cut down version of a dual-CPU box? This is the kind of technology the authors are discussing, not your Core2 duo MacBook...
Maybe in California, but most of the rest of the USA you still have to pay for Wireless - at least that has been my experience so far. Other countries can be far worse - the UK is EXTORTIONATE in comparison, although the launch of 3G wireless contracts for PCs is helping with that.
No, they are capable of working. If they are capable of breeding, driving, stealing, bodging repairs to cars, etc, they can work. And paying benefits doesn't stop crime. And no, I don't like the slave labour, chain gang and whip approach. I just work fucking hard in three jobs and don't see why I should have to subsidise people to live without working on the same new housing development as me when I'm working my arse off to struggle to live here. I want to have kids at some point, but I can't see any way that I could possibly afford to do that in the next 5-10 years, yet these people are quite happy to sponge off everyone else to achieve it.
He was discussing the software they use - ie FLOSS vs Microsoft vs Novell vs...
Hell no. The sooner the welfare state is reformed the better. I'm sick of people I know that genuinely need support (Downs, CGD, dementure, chronic arthritis, etc) not getting it and all of the little 14 year old shits from the neighbouring estates getting council properties - or better still, NEW built housing association flats.
My father works in a particularly bad secondary school in the area and the career aspiration of many of the teenage girls is to get pregnant as soon as they can - and they are OPEN about this with everyone. We are now on a second generation of people that haven't had to work as a result of entering welfare support because of the economy and reforms in the 70s and 80s, and its not doing us any good. The majority of people don't want to learn, nobody has any respect for other people or property, and everything is just getting a mess.
Looking back at documentaries or sitcoms/soaps that demonstrated social issues from 1950-1980 is really quite interesting. How I'd love to experience some those problems over the current situation.
Pretty much the whole compute facility runs open source operating systems.
IMHO this suggests the screen is far too big for the viewing distance. We sit about 15 feet from a 26" screen and it isn't a problem. I think more than 32" at that distance and non-HD viewing starts to get unpleasant.
And the managers have to issue a change request to the manager of the programmers in the other department, so that a change advisory board can sit (involving all the managers but no technical people) so they can decide which programming resources to allocate. The programmers wont ever be allowed to communicate with the request originator though, and the solution invariable wont be right because the managers changed it before it got to implementation stage, 12 meetings ad 6 months after the request went in.
:(
At least that's how it is where I work
It's getting better - most out of town shopping areas are open to 8pm, 9pm or 10pm (especially the bigger malls), but the banks still close at 5pm despite charging more and more. There are lots of smaller grocery stores too that have longer opening times - Co-op, Spar, Tesco Metro etc, plus many small independents. You do need to be somewhere with a larger population generally to take advantage of that though.
Try living in the UK. For example, Cheltenham - a small town with a number of large technical organisations, a lot of wealth, and some of the countries best (or at least most exclusive) schools in the town or nearby. The library opening times:
Opening Hours:
Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 5.30pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 5.30pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
And if you wanted a computer access was limited to 30 minute slots (at least it was the last time I went), which you had to pre-book for, and the machine took 5 minutes to log in.
Oh, and lets hope you didn't want any modern books!
At least we have a good library at work...
Isn't getting turned on what causes most of the problem in the first place ? :o
Dude, the US created Scientology. Nuff said I think...