It runs on all platforms so yes it is cross-platform. The development kit isn't out for Linux yet but that's coming very soon. Also please note that the development kit is out for non-Windows platforms and that Linux is hardly the target audience for desktop users;)
I was complaining about I/O performance. It's so bad in Vista is drags *everything* down. Windows uses preemptive multitasking so different tasks gets fair access to the CPU. The same can't be said for the hard-drive. All it takes is one rogue process to take down the entire machine by loading like crazy from the HD.
Unfortunately for us, some of the built-in Vista services are exactly such rogue processes.
Take a look at Superfetch and the indexing service. Both are *way* too aggressive! The HD loads for 5-10 minutes on boot-up and anytime you change a file on your hard-drive from that point it will load 5x more than it did under XP.
Seriously... Can't they fix Vista's performance problems already? I/O is a huge step backwards compared to XP. Many people have complained. Why don't they profile and fix the damn thing already?!
I dont think java6 update 10 makes sense on a mac. The main issue about java6 upate 10 simply is that the core vm is reduced down to 1 meg or so and the rest is loaded on demand from the web as needed. Now this makes sense on windows machines, which do not have a java installed so that you can finally add java plugins to enable the latest applet version. It simply does not make sense on a mac at all which usually has java installed by default!
Java6 update 10 provides *way* more new features than that. You just mentioned the Java Kernel feature, but there are many other features which Mac could really use some of the other features as well: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/java6u10/
Besides, the point of Java Kernel is that when a new Java version comes out you can install/upgrade to it with as minimal fuss as the Flash plugin. That might be less relevant on the Mac but it is still relevant. For example, Windows ships with Flash but people still upgrade their versions on a regular basis.
I'm rather surprised to hear that Apple even releases a version of Java. The Apple Tradition is to give you one way to do something and that's it. I can see Apple looking at Java and asking, "what does this have to do with us?" It's not a key part of their system and in fact probably competes to a certain degree with their official Jobs-sanctioned One True Development Platform.
And another thing: What's preventing Sun (or an interested third party, now that Java is open source) from releasing an up-to-date version of Java on Mac?
I suspect Sun was more than happy to let Apple take ownership (Sun isn't doing too well, financially speaking) and Apple was all too happy retaining full control of how Java behaved on their platform (Apple loves being in control ).
Personally I wouldn't trust Apple to keep on maintaining the port. Most 3rd-party JDK providers inevitably are busy doing something else and let the port fall behind. I almost wish Apple would pay Sun money to maintain the port. It would be a win-win for both parties.
It's worth noting that Java 1.6 was released on Dec 2006 while Apple released their version 1.5 years later. 3-6 months I can understand, 1.5 years is forever in the development world.
1) It's not clear what Java6 update release this corresponds to.
2) It's not clear when they will provide Java6 update 10 which provides a major improvement for desktop applications.
3) It's not clear whether they resolved a lot of the compatibility issues I keep on reading about on java.net...
In short, the community complains a lot that Sun isn't as open with it as they would like, but Apple is a heck of a lot worse.
Developers would love an open-source bug tracking system for Apple JDK and *some* kind of transparent mechanism for informing users of upcoming feature and bug fixes. At least Sun provides a clear schedule ahead of time. Apple keeps it top-secret until the day of the release. This is very frustrating to developers whose businesses depend on these dates.
There is a real serious concern that Applet will simply stop developing the JDK one day. No one is afraid Sun will do the same.
A sizable part of the programming community writes Java code and MacOSX is simply not an option for them.
Applet's JVM is buggy, poorly maintained and totally out of date. Sun plans on putting out Java 1.7 in a few months and Applet has yet to even release Java 1.6.
you are saying ignorance about computers means you are low-income? Bush was hardly low-income, and ignorant as hell. And just what did the tubes guy make a year? You sir, are the elitist prick.
The two are unrelated. I stand by my assertion that most people have no clue how to use computers and, separately, that low-income families wouldn't even have access to computers in the first place. In summary: the internet is not the gateway to true democracy because it is inaccessible to many people.
For one, most people have no clue how to use computers. If you were to drive government through the internet then it's safe to say it would be an elite-driven government and would leave out most lower-income families.
Unlike the elite-driven corporate government we have today....
Do you honestly believe internet-based polling is less or more prone to corruption?
You want to end corporate-driven governments? Simply ban the flow of money from corporations to government events (such as elections). Moving voting to internet doesn't help at all. If anything it makes things worse.
For one, most people have no clue how to use computers. If you were to drive government through the internet then it's safe to say it would be an elite-driven government and would leave out most lower-income families.
1) Your first statement acknowledges the fact that Entrapment was used. 2) You argue that the FBI was fishing for Israeli agents, yet it turns out they caught an unsuspecting American *civilian* instead. He was no Israeli agent, or Israeli at all.
So in conclusion: the FBI used Entrapment to convict an American civilian of passing information to Israeli NGOs.
Congratulations, they must be proud. They broke the law and acted maliciously against their strongest ally.
1) The FBI dangles fake intelligence in front of Lawrence Franklin that indicates an immediate threat to the lives of Israeli agents working with Iraqi Kurds and also indicates that the US is withholding this information from Israel. Key point: The FBI used entrapment, which is illegal.
2) Franklin decides to pass this information on to AIPAC members purely out of personal conviction to save lives.
3) There is a debate as to what happened at this point. One report said that AIPAC members pushed back on Franklin, telling him they're unwilling to accept classified information. Another report said the AIPAC member tried to pass that information on to the Israeli government and was rejected at that level. Either way, none of these individuals had a professional relationship with the Israeli government or intelligence agency. They acted out of personal conviction to save lives.
4) FBI busts Franklin.
What do you think would happen if the FBI dared using Entrapment on African Americans or Muslim Americans? You wouldn't here the end of it. What the heck is the FBI doing plotting ways to make the Jewish community look bad? If this was a genuine espionage case I'd be all over this, but it is not. If anything, the FBI should apologize for their actions.
On the other hand, do you know how often American agents are caught spying on the Israeli government and deported without a charge?
I'd love to know where you're pulling this out of, aside from your usual conspiracy theory sites. It's quite clear that Russia is both highly capable and highly inclined to spy on the USA... *much* more so than Israel.
Israel has had very few (you can count them on one hand) instances over its entire history (~60 years) where it was caught spying on the US. They put a firm stop to it the last time it happened (a few decades ago). China and Russia on the other hand...
Again, Russia has a very strong motive and capability to do this. Much more so than anyone else. And unlike our spying allies, they don't have our best interest at heart.
If you insist on using ORMs, I personally suggest using JPA which abstracts away the underlying implementation and then migrating from Hibernate to EclipseLink. The latter implementation is much more solid and has a much healthier community.
Hibernate's authors are notorious for being rude to their users and their code is notorious for the hard-to-debug exception messages they through. Just my 2 cents.
Quite a lot of people have actually read the manuals of git, and are using it in all manner of projects.
As I was hinting at with my first post, there is a world of difference between "a lot of people" and "the majority of people". I'm sure a lot of people use git, but far *more* people use some other repository such as CVS or SVN. Making the code available *exclusively* over Git is annoying. They should at least have provided a zip download or something.
They should make the source browseable directly off their website to spare us all this headache.
At least I did not, and I hope that few others do, have any difficulty locating the gitweb repository at http://android.kernel.org/
That's a step in the right direction but not 100% there either. I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to find the speech-recognition related code and found nothing. The developer API seems to be buried below tons of stuff.
Way to quote things out of context. For example, you neglected to point out that:
"You will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you." (Deuteronomy 28:53)
is proceeded by:
"If you don't obey all of the laws in the Old Testament, God shower you with the curses that are listed in the the next 52 verses."
At no point is God saying that people *should* do these things, rather he is threatening the people that if they do not follow the commandments terrible things will befall them.
And if you read further back in context you will realize why God even made such threats. The Jews weren't supposed to wonder in the desert for 40 years. They were supposed to enter Israel right after leaving Egypt. The above curse and 40 years of wondering in the desert are a result of "bad stuff" they did along the way which rendered them unworthy to enter right away. In short, they severely offended God once so he was just warning them to make sure they understood what happened if they did it again;)
Unfortunately for your argument, very few people have ever been sentenced to death for violating these or other bible laws. A person could only be sentenced to death if:
1) He was approached by (at least) two witnesses who informed him that he was violating the law and the consequences of his actions.
2) He acknowledged knowing that he was breaking the law and the consequences of such actions yet continued doing so nonetheless.
3) The two witnesses bring this issue to the attention of the Sanhedrin (Jewish Supreme Court), of whom it was said "A Sanhedrin that puts a man to death once in seven years is called destructive. Rabbi Eliezer ben Azariah says: even once in seventy years." [1]
4) The Sanhedrin reviewed the evidence and sentenced the person to death.
5) The witnesses had to personally carry out the execution. Something that no one was particularly inclined to do.
The end result is that it was virtually impossible for anyone to be sentenced to death. You can read the following article for more details.
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It runs on all platforms so yes it is cross-platform. The development kit isn't out for Linux yet but that's coming very soon. Also please note that the development kit is out for non-Windows platforms and that Linux is hardly the target audience for desktop users ;)
CPU? Who cares about the CPU?!
I was complaining about I/O performance. It's so bad in Vista is drags *everything* down. Windows uses preemptive multitasking so different tasks gets fair access to the CPU. The same can't be said for the hard-drive. All it takes is one rogue process to take down the entire machine by loading like crazy from the HD.
Unfortunately for us, some of the built-in Vista services are exactly such rogue processes.
Take a look at Superfetch and the indexing service. Both are *way* too aggressive! The HD loads for 5-10 minutes on boot-up and anytime you change a file on your hard-drive from that point it will load 5x more than it did under XP.
Vista kills hard-drive performance. Hands down!
Seriously... Can't they fix Vista's performance problems already? I/O is a huge step backwards compared to XP. Many people have complained. Why don't they profile and fix the damn thing already?!
For loading 200 random, tiny files, it's ten times faster.
Finally! That pesky Windows Indexing service will stop crippling my system!
I dont think java6 update 10 makes sense on a mac. The main issue about java6 upate 10 simply is that the core vm is reduced down to 1 meg or so and the rest is loaded on demand from the web as needed. Now this makes sense on windows machines, which do not have a java installed so that you can finally add java plugins to enable the latest applet version. It simply does not make sense on a mac at all which usually has java installed by default!
Java6 update 10 provides *way* more new features than that. You just mentioned the Java Kernel feature, but there are many other features which Mac could really use some of the other features as well: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/java6u10/
Besides, the point of Java Kernel is that when a new Java version comes out you can install/upgrade to it with as minimal fuss as the Flash plugin. That might be less relevant on the Mac but it is still relevant. For example, Windows ships with Flash but people still upgrade their versions on a regular basis.
That's excellent news!
I'm rather surprised to hear that Apple even releases a version of Java. The Apple Tradition is to give you one way to do something and that's it. I can see Apple looking at Java and asking, "what does this have to do with us?" It's not a key part of their system and in fact probably competes to a certain degree with their official Jobs-sanctioned One True Development Platform.
And another thing: What's preventing Sun (or an interested third party, now that Java is open source) from releasing an up-to-date version of Java on Mac?
I'm not sure. There was talk of porting the OpenBSD JDK to Apple but I'm not sure how far it went: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/MacOS_Java_16_Developer_Preview_1.20071120.html
I suspect Sun was more than happy to let Apple take ownership (Sun isn't doing too well, financially speaking) and Apple was all too happy retaining full control of how Java behaved on their platform (Apple loves being in control ).
Personally I wouldn't trust Apple to keep on maintaining the port. Most 3rd-party JDK providers inevitably are busy doing something else and let the port fall behind. I almost wish Apple would pay Sun money to maintain the port. It would be a win-win for both parties.
My mistake on "Applet" ;)
It's worth noting that Java 1.6 was released on Dec 2006 while Apple released their version 1.5 years later. 3-6 months I can understand, 1.5 years is forever in the development world.
I stand corrected, thank you!
There are still outstanding issues:
1) It's not clear what Java6 update release this corresponds to.
2) It's not clear when they will provide Java6 update 10 which provides a major improvement for desktop applications.
3) It's not clear whether they resolved a lot of the compatibility issues I keep on reading about on java.net...
In short, the community complains a lot that Sun isn't as open with it as they would like, but Apple is a heck of a lot worse.
Developers would love an open-source bug tracking system for Apple JDK and *some* kind of transparent mechanism for informing users of upcoming feature and bug fixes. At least Sun provides a clear schedule ahead of time. Apple keeps it top-secret until the day of the release. This is very frustrating to developers whose businesses depend on these dates.
There is a real serious concern that Applet will simply stop developing the JDK one day. No one is afraid Sun will do the same.
I have both Applets and Webstart working under Windows using a 64-bit JVM.
A sizable part of the programming community writes Java code and MacOSX is simply not an option for them.
Applet's JVM is buggy, poorly maintained and totally out of date. Sun plans on putting out Java 1.7 in a few months and Applet has yet to even release Java 1.6.
you are saying ignorance about computers means you are low-income? Bush was hardly low-income, and ignorant as hell. And just what did the tubes guy make a year? You sir, are the elitist prick.
The two are unrelated. I stand by my assertion that most people have no clue how to use computers and, separately, that low-income families wouldn't even have access to computers in the first place. In summary: the internet is not the gateway to true democracy because it is inaccessible to many people.
Unlike the elite-driven corporate government we have today....
Do you honestly believe internet-based polling is less or more prone to corruption?
You want to end corporate-driven governments? Simply ban the flow of money from corporations to government events (such as elections). Moving voting to internet doesn't help at all. If anything it makes things worse.
For one, most people have no clue how to use computers. If you were to drive government through the internet then it's safe to say it would be an elite-driven government and would leave out most lower-income families.
1) Your first statement acknowledges the fact that Entrapment was used.
2) You argue that the FBI was fishing for Israeli agents, yet it turns out they caught an unsuspecting American *civilian* instead. He was no Israeli agent, or Israeli at all.
So in conclusion: the FBI used Entrapment to convict an American civilian of passing information to Israeli NGOs.
Congratulations, they must be proud. They broke the law and acted maliciously against their strongest ally.
What a laughable example...
Let's put things in perspective shall we?
1) The FBI dangles fake intelligence in front of Lawrence Franklin that indicates an immediate threat to the lives of Israeli agents working with Iraqi Kurds and also indicates that the US is withholding this information from Israel. Key point: The FBI used entrapment, which is illegal.
2) Franklin decides to pass this information on to AIPAC members purely out of personal conviction to save lives.
3) There is a debate as to what happened at this point. One report said that AIPAC members pushed back on Franklin, telling him they're unwilling to accept classified information. Another report said the AIPAC member tried to pass that information on to the Israeli government and was rejected at that level. Either way, none of these individuals had a professional relationship with the Israeli government or intelligence agency. They acted out of personal conviction to save lives.
4) FBI busts Franklin.
What do you think would happen if the FBI dared using Entrapment on African Americans or Muslim Americans? You wouldn't here the end of it. What the heck is the FBI doing plotting ways to make the Jewish community look bad? If this was a genuine espionage case I'd be all over this, but it is not. If anything, the FBI should apologize for their actions.
On the other hand, do you know how often American agents are caught spying on the Israeli government and deported without a charge?
'05 yeah right. More like the 1980s.
I'd love to know where you're pulling this out of, aside from your usual conspiracy theory sites. It's quite clear that Russia is both highly capable and highly inclined to spy on the USA... *much* more so than Israel.
Israel has had very few (you can count them on one hand) instances over its entire history (~60 years) where it was caught spying on the US. They put a firm stop to it the last time it happened (a few decades ago). China and Russia on the other hand...
Again, Russia has a very strong motive and capability to do this. Much more so than anyone else. And unlike our spying allies, they don't have our best interest at heart.
All frameworks (versus normal libraries) are problematic to a certain point of view, but ORMs are far worse. To understand why, read this: http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Computer+Science.aspx
If you insist on using ORMs, I personally suggest using JPA which abstracts away the underlying implementation and then migrating from Hibernate to EclipseLink. The latter implementation is much more solid and has a much healthier community.
Hibernate's authors are notorious for being rude to their users and their code is notorious for the hard-to-debug exception messages they through. Just my 2 cents.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/25/experimental-minefield-browser-from-mozilla-is-crazy-fast/ and I quote:
"Let me tell you - it's crazy fast. In fact, Ars Technica is reporting that Minefield is 10% faster than Google Chrome" ... so what?
Amen! Good points, all of them!
Quite a lot of people have actually read the manuals of git, and are using it in all manner of projects.
As I was hinting at with my first post, there is a world of difference between "a lot of people" and "the majority of people". I'm sure a lot of people use git, but far *more* people use some other repository such as CVS or SVN. Making the code available *exclusively* over Git is annoying. They should at least have provided a zip download or something.
They should make the source browseable directly off their website to spare us all this headache.
At least I did not, and I hope that few others do, have any difficulty locating the gitweb repository at http://android.kernel.org/
That's a step in the right direction but not 100% there either. I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to find the speech-recognition related code and found nothing. The developer API seems to be buried below tons of stuff.
1) Who the heck uses Git? I know a lot of important companies do, but most people do not.
2) Who the heck is going to download 2.1GB just to look at 1-2 files in the source-code? That's just insane.
They should make the source browseable directly off their website to spare us all this headache.
Way to quote things out of context. For example, you neglected to point out that:
"You will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you." (Deuteronomy 28:53)
is proceeded by:
"If you don't obey all of the laws in the Old Testament, God shower you with the curses that are listed in the the next 52 verses."
At no point is God saying that people *should* do these things, rather he is threatening the people that if they do not follow the commandments terrible things will befall them.
And if you read further back in context you will realize why God even made such threats. The Jews weren't supposed to wonder in the desert for 40 years. They were supposed to enter Israel right after leaving Egypt. The above curse and 40 years of wondering in the desert are a result of "bad stuff" they did along the way which rendered them unworthy to enter right away. In short, they severely offended God once so he was just warning them to make sure they understood what happened if they did it again ;)
Unfortunately for your argument, very few people have ever been sentenced to death for violating these or other bible laws. A person could only be sentenced to death if:
1) He was approached by (at least) two witnesses who informed him that he was violating the law and the consequences of his actions.
2) He acknowledged knowing that he was breaking the law and the consequences of such actions yet continued doing so nonetheless.
3) The two witnesses bring this issue to the attention of the Sanhedrin (Jewish Supreme Court), of whom it was said "A Sanhedrin that puts a man to death once in seven years is called destructive. Rabbi Eliezer ben Azariah says: even once in seventy years." [1]
4) The Sanhedrin reviewed the evidence and sentenced the person to death.
5) The witnesses had to personally carry out the execution. Something that no one was particularly inclined to do.
The end result is that it was virtually impossible for anyone to be sentenced to death. You can read the following article for more details.
References:
[1] http://www.myjewishlearning.com/lifecycle/Death/About_Death_and_Mourning/Death_Penalty_Jacobs.htm