When accessing GMail via IMAP, it emulates folders by interpreting a '/' in the tag as the "directory separator". It gives you the flexibility of tags with the organization of folders, if you want it. However, the web interface doesn't do this.
And, of course, it doesn't solve the problems others mention with consistent use.
They have way more success on their unmanned programs
I don't want to denigrate NASA, but I don't really think that's the case. There have been a number of high-profile failed unmanned craft:
The Mars Polar Lander
The Mars Climate Orbiter
The Hubble telescope (which was only salvaged due to the ability of manned servicing missions)
Galileo (failed hi-gain antenna--mission salvaged using heroic means of using the low-gain antenna)
Genesis sample return crash
Of course, a failed unmanned mission is just a loss of money and science, and not a loss of life. But let's face it--this is bleeding edge stuff, and it fails a lot. If our manned program failed as much as the unmanned, we'd have given up long ago.
Maybe someday, we'll wise up and just allow people to make their own choices.
As much as I approve of the sentiment, I have to note that we will probably never allow it. For example, if you hurt yourself gaming, should health insurance pay? If so, then you are costing everyone in the plan. If you die, life insurance pays out, as does Social Security death benefits. And since these pay out to the survivors, I find it harder to deny them this because their loved one was some sort of addict.
And then there's the question of what choices we penalize people for. Drugs? Drinking? Smoking? Skiing? Heli-skiing?
I'd say the difference to Python, Perl, et al. is the client-side platform nature of Java. There's a very good example of what happens when there are "platform wars" like this: HTML.
Look at how MS took HTML and started "enhancing" it. Good or bad, the fact that their installed base footprint was so big their version of HTML started being the one people wrote to. Look at all the web sites that could not be viewed well (or at all) using Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera. I dare say that would have happened to Java as well.
I'm not all that familiar with J++ etc. and how they translate to the client desktop, but even if they had the same model as Java, by forcing them to not be Java, at least you can keep them well segregated.
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When accessing GMail via IMAP, it emulates folders by interpreting a '/' in the tag as the "directory separator". It gives you the flexibility of tags with the organization of folders, if you want it. However, the web interface doesn't do this. And, of course, it doesn't solve the problems others mention with consistent use.
I don't want to denigrate NASA, but I don't really think that's the case. There have been a number of high-profile failed unmanned craft:
The Mars Polar Lander
The Mars Climate Orbiter
The Hubble telescope (which was only salvaged due to the ability of manned servicing missions)
Galileo (failed hi-gain antenna--mission salvaged using heroic means of using the low-gain antenna)
Genesis sample return crash
Of course, a failed unmanned mission is just a loss of money and science, and not a loss of life. But let's face it--this is bleeding edge stuff, and it fails a lot. If our manned program failed as much as the unmanned, we'd have given up long ago.
Ghost Hunters is on the SciFi channel.
As much as I approve of the sentiment, I have to note that we will probably never allow it. For example, if you hurt yourself gaming, should health insurance pay? If so, then you are costing everyone in the plan. If you die, life insurance pays out, as does Social Security death benefits. And since these pay out to the survivors, I find it harder to deny them this because their loved one was some sort of addict.
And then there's the question of what choices we penalize people for. Drugs? Drinking? Smoking? Skiing? Heli-skiing?
Look at how MS took HTML and started "enhancing" it. Good or bad, the fact that their installed base footprint was so big their version of HTML started being the one people wrote to. Look at all the web sites that could not be viewed well (or at all) using Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera. I dare say that would have happened to Java as well.
I'm not all that familiar with J++ etc. and how they translate to the client desktop, but even if they had the same model as Java, by forcing them to not be Java, at least you can keep them well segregated.