> Many Java developers are frustrated by the not-so-open > process to improve/correct/augment the Java core libraries.
First Java fanatics sing praises to the fact that in Java EVERYTHING is built-in to the language, unlike in C++, where you actually have to download a separate library. Now they are complaining that those built-in libraries are not easily extended. Well, duh!
Doesn't a gory image of a blood-spattered dismembered zombie with blood-shot eyes and half-flayed decaying skin, reeling from a shotgun blast that put a ragged, gaping, gore-dripping hole in its torso, qualify somewhat as a visible warning label?
All this hand waving is completely worthless until you concretely define what "good code" is. Most people just assume that if it has no horrible hacks, is formatted ok, and has some documentation, then it is good code.
Let's ban ghettos! In there you will find all these stereotypes walking around where anyone can see them! Even little children. Save the little children!
Bosses that will leave them alone when asked... check!
Sane working hours... check!
Yeah, that's a lot of motivation to spend 4+ years at college in a tech degree. Perhaps we should write a HOWTO on attracting men into computer science.
> Seemingly a particular cliff (which could very > well be the volcano), if it were to fall into the > sea, would cause a tidal wave large enough to take > out New York (and would be in line with taking out New York).
Did you know, that if all the people in China simultaneously jumped into the Pacific ocean, the resulting tidal wave would completely destroy the West coast? The Chinese government offers no comment except for hinting at dire consequences should we ever rescind its "most favored nation" status.
They are really baffled by the drop in unemployment concurrent with a drop in jobs. I think that quite a few people simply said: "Do I want to make lousy wages working 80 hour weeks in a high-stress deadline-driven environment? Or I could work 40 hours a week as a plumber and make more money? Hmm..."
> Virgins!?! It's all sounding very biblical to me.
The Big Man is not even a virgin. Surely, the Slashdot crowd has far better experts in this area.
What about turning off bounds checking?
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> for example, in Java, you can't go outside the bounds of an array. Ever. Period.
As I recall, it used to be possible to turn off runtime bounds checking. I also think that most people would do this once the code is debugged. Did this feature get disabled recently?
I can just imagine a Palm pilot running a PC emulator running a PDP-11 emulator running a program in an ENIAC emulator. Life just doesn't get better...
Having trouble concentrating on those OSS projects? Feeling tired when you come home from work? Here's a solution that is helping billions of people around the world: get married! Marriage provides you with many incentives for coming home, completely forgetting about programming, and... ahem... relaxing. After a few years of this, you'll have children. Ah, the joy of children! They sure make the time fly in fun and pleasure. Who needs Java when you have little Jack, who is much nicer to come home to. In this manner you will arrive at work refreshed and ready to write some code for your employer. Sure you won't write much free software, but you can help propagate the human race, which is perhaps far more important.
So when will GTA get realistic events like parking tickets, license revocation for reckless driving, and hordes of lawyers that would descend upon you should you as much as scratch the paint on another car?
Specifically, it detracts funding from important projects into these rather pointless studies. Should we not spend money on researching asteroid mining or something, before we decide to fund studies of the sex life of squirrels?
It is nice to know that we are spending time on such important research as the decoding the screams of squirrels or measuring the airspeed of unladen swallows. After all, who needs all that knowledge about molecular manufacturing, or stem cells, or space flight? Write to your congressman and commend them for contributing so greatly to the progress of science.
I am sure everybody here knows the difference between closed source software and open source software. There will, no doubt, be the usual comments on how easy it is to fix programs for which you have the source (even though nobody does it except for the people who wrote it in the first place), how easy it is to make money with open source (1. talking to irate ignorant morons on the phone all day. 2. begging at some large corporation for some superfluous modifications to the program. 3. Intentionally releasing an incomplete and buggy product to facilitate number two.), how great it is that you can download all this stuff for free (even though you can download Windows just as easily). Haven't we heard enough already? Nearly everyone here is a convert and believes that OSS is the future. Or are they just trying to find some reassurance that _somebody_ is making money on it? It's getting more and more like a religion: develop OSS or burn in hell. The strange part is that "hell" appears to be where the money is, which agrees with another common slashdot belief that money is evil.
> would be a nice way of seeing what the world is like.
Especially for those of us who telecommute and only leave home to buy food once a week. We'll finally know that there really is a world out there instead of asking "World? What world?"
So you are the Seattle Troll! I didn't know you posted on Slashdot too. What kind of a connection are you getting under that bridge? And by the way, what's the story about the volkswagen?
> Unstable means that going from one release to the > next you may have complete systems ripped out form > under you and replaced with a diffrent interface.
Why would this matter to you if you are not writing drivers? I have not seen any single user-visible feature removed yet from the kernel during development. In fact such features are added instead, like the event device was added during 2.5. To an application developer the interface remains as stable as it can be. The only exception I can think of is the removal of ide-scsi that broke cd recording apps that relied on that.
> Right, women can handle magazine images and models > much better then men. Really, they won't think > their breasts are too small, thighs too fat, > stomach not toned enough.
There are quite a few women in this country (US) whose thighs really are too fat and whose stomach has never even heard the word "tone". Being obese and out of shape is much worse for your health than being underweight.
> No way, it's not like it might help them along > the path to an eating disorder or anything.
Eating disorders are not caused by wanting to lose weight, but by not knowing how to do it. There should be considerably more emphasis on exercise and less on removing fat from your diet (because eating fat does not make you fat, calories make you fat, and you can eat a lot more carbohydrate calories than fat calories)
> Yup, most women sure aren't effected by the pictures...
But they should be. Yes, I know you are being sarcastic, but it is far better for women (and men, for that matter) to have a trim and fit body for a goal than to be "content" with all those jiggling extra pounds.
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> Many Java developers are frustrated by the not-so-open
> process to improve/correct/augment the Java core libraries.
First Java fanatics sing praises to the fact that in Java EVERYTHING is built-in to the language, unlike in C++, where you actually have to download a separate library. Now they are complaining that those built-in libraries are not easily extended. Well, duh!
> Putting big visible warning labels on packaging
Doesn't a gory image of a blood-spattered dismembered zombie with blood-shot eyes and half-flayed decaying skin, reeling from a shotgun blast that put a ragged, gaping, gore-dripping hole in its torso, qualify somewhat as a visible warning label?
All this hand waving is completely worthless until you concretely define what "good code" is. Most people just assume that if it has no horrible hacks, is formatted ok, and has some documentation, then it is good code.
Let's ban ghettos! In there you will find all these stereotypes walking around where anyone can see them! Even little children. Save the little children!
Yeah, that's a lot of motivation to spend 4+ years at college in a tech degree. Perhaps we should write a HOWTO on attracting men into computer science.
> Seemingly a particular cliff (which could very
> well be the volcano), if it were to fall into the
> sea, would cause a tidal wave large enough to take
> out New York (and would be in line with taking out New York).
Did you know, that if all the people in China simultaneously jumped into the Pacific ocean, the resulting tidal wave would completely destroy the West coast? The Chinese government offers no comment except for hinting at dire consequences should we ever rescind its "most favored nation" status.
They are really baffled by the drop in unemployment concurrent with a drop in jobs. I think that quite a few people simply said: "Do I want to make lousy wages working 80 hour weeks in a high-stress deadline-driven environment? Or I could work 40 hours a week as a plumber and make more money? Hmm..."
> Virgins!?! It's all sounding very biblical to me.
The Big Man is not even a virgin. Surely, the Slashdot crowd has far better experts in this area.
> for example, in Java, you can't go outside the bounds of an array. Ever. Period.
As I recall, it used to be possible to turn off runtime bounds checking. I also think that most people would do this once the code is debugged. Did this feature get disabled recently?
I can just imagine a Palm pilot running a PC emulator running a PDP-11 emulator running a program in an ENIAC emulator. Life just doesn't get better...
> The game was present in the victim's home, not the
> killer's... This may present a problem for those
> looking to turn this case to their own ends.
Your slogan seems to be literally true in this case.
So what does Solaris have that Linux doesn't, except for the hefty price tag? It sure isn't multiprocessing anymore.
Having trouble concentrating on those OSS projects? Feeling tired when you come home from work? Here's a solution that is helping billions of people around the world: get married! Marriage provides you with many incentives for coming home, completely forgetting about programming, and... ahem... relaxing. After a few years of this, you'll have children. Ah, the joy of children! They sure make the time fly in fun and pleasure. Who needs Java when you have little Jack, who is much nicer to come home to. In this manner you will arrive at work refreshed and ready to write some code for your employer. Sure you won't write much free software, but you can help propagate the human race, which is perhaps far more important.
> Why are you writing code nine hours a day?
You mean you actually have an option not to?
> Is it worth the (presumably significant) additional
> pay that you're getting working longer than 9 to 5 hours
What additional pay? Full-time programmers get no overtime.
So when will GTA get realistic events like parking tickets, license revocation for reckless driving, and hordes of lawyers that would descend upon you should you as much as scratch the paint on another car?
Specifically, it detracts funding from important projects into these rather pointless studies. Should we not spend money on researching asteroid mining or something, before we decide to fund studies of the sex life of squirrels?
It is nice to know that we are spending time on such important research as the decoding the screams of squirrels or measuring the airspeed of unladen swallows. After all, who needs all that knowledge about molecular manufacturing, or stem cells, or space flight? Write to your congressman and commend them for contributing so greatly to the progress of science.
I am sure everybody here knows the difference between closed source software and open source software. There will, no doubt, be the usual comments on how easy it is to fix programs for which you have the source (even though nobody does it except for the people who wrote it in the first place), how easy it is to make money with open source (1. talking to irate ignorant morons on the phone all day. 2. begging at some large corporation for some superfluous modifications to the program. 3. Intentionally releasing an incomplete and buggy product to facilitate number two.), how great it is that you can download all this stuff for free (even though you can download Windows just as easily). Haven't we heard enough already? Nearly everyone here is a convert and believes that OSS is the future. Or are they just trying to find some reassurance that _somebody_ is making money on it? It's getting more and more like a religion: develop OSS or burn in hell. The strange part is that "hell" appears to be where the money is, which agrees with another common slashdot belief that money is evil.
> would be a nice way of seeing what the world is like.
Especially for those of us who telecommute and only leave home to buy food once a week. We'll finally know that there really is a world out there instead of asking "World? What world?"
So you are the Seattle Troll! I didn't know you posted on Slashdot too. What kind of a connection are you getting under that bridge? And by the way, what's the story about the volkswagen?
Read "A Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven for an example when it really is a good idea to instantly nuke them.
Are you sure you are hard enough for her?
> If it can duplicate CD's and DVD's, the RIAA are going to be annoyed.
Not really. You can't play stone DVDs.
> Unstable means that going from one release to the
> next you may have complete systems ripped out form
> under you and replaced with a diffrent interface.
Why would this matter to you if you are not writing drivers? I have not seen any single user-visible feature removed yet from the kernel during development. In fact such features are added instead, like the event device was added during 2.5. To an application developer the interface remains as stable as it can be. The only exception I can think of is the removal of ide-scsi that broke cd recording apps that relied on that.
> Right, women can handle magazine images and models
> much better then men. Really, they won't think
> their breasts are too small, thighs too fat,
> stomach not toned enough.
There are quite a few women in this country (US) whose thighs really are too fat and whose stomach has never even heard the word "tone". Being obese and out of shape is much worse for your health than being underweight.
> No way, it's not like it might help them along
> the path to an eating disorder or anything.
Eating disorders are not caused by wanting to lose weight, but by not knowing how to do it. There should be considerably more emphasis on exercise and less on removing fat from your diet (because eating fat does not make you fat, calories make you fat, and you can eat a lot more carbohydrate calories than fat calories)
> Yup, most women sure aren't effected by the pictures...
But they should be. Yes, I know you are being sarcastic, but it is far better for women (and men, for that matter) to have a trim and fit body for a goal than to be "content" with all those jiggling extra pounds.