Why only compare NetBeans to Eclipse? IntelliJ IDEA has for a long time been the most innovative Java IDE (IMHO) and it's the only one I use. Many of the features I see in Eclipse now were in IDEA first. Whilst I have no problem with Eclipse, I like to (a) get those cool features first and (b) support the guys at JetBrains who continually come up with the goods.
Come on, you accuse Sony and MS of making shit up then you pull all these predictions for what the games will look like out of your ass. Sure, maybe the 360 and PS3 won't be as great as they make out. Maybe they will. Let's wait and see...
I think the point is they look very unlikely to be able to maintain this profitability into the next generation. Whilst the GC didn't sell in spectacular numbers, it was technically comparable to the other two and so it's low price made it attractive to many people. This time around, they look to be a long way behind the curve performance wise. Whilst that might not matter to all gamers, it matters to a lot of them, and it also matters to publishers. If Nintendo lose 3rd party developers it's the start of a slippery slope which ends with them simply not selling any consoles.
I can hear my PC only at night, in an entirely silent room, with no traffic noise and no aircon. Then it's a just-noticable whisper from sitting right next to it. With any other sound in the room it's inaudible.
This is an Athlon XP 3200+ with 3x 200GB Seagate drives and an Nvidia 6600GT. It plays all the games I throw at it just fine, core temp never gets above 50 degrees C. All you need to do is be careful with your cooling solutions (I use a Panaflo case fan, SilenX PSU and Zalman CPU and GPU coolers all on FanMate speed controllers). Sure it's a custom job, but it wasn't hard. Newer Dells (that we have at work) are alomst as quiet as mine out of the box.
The solution is to never compare plaintext passwords (which you shouldn't be storing anyway). If you follow standard practise and hash the passwords, comparing just the hashes, then this is a non issue.
What you say about video overlay is interesting. I'm not at home right now so I can't test, but I'm SURE I've run (for example) Quicktime and WMP at the same time, and they both use overlays. I also just flicked through the DirectDraw documentation and it makes no mention of a single application limit. It does say that video hardware is able to report how many individual overlay surfaces it supports, maybe your video card only supports a single overlay?
As for the PCI bus saturation, you're right, an OS should handle that. And XP does. If you require a restart something else has gone wrong. Maybe your chipset drivers are bad, maybe the mobo itself is faulty, maybe your HDTV decoder app is faulty, I don't know. But I can tell you for sure that I can saturate my I/O for hours at a time with no issues other than the obvious slowdown.
Nothing's stopping you doing that at all, in fact that's exactly what I do with Vonage today, and have done for 6 months. A single base station hooked up to the Vonage box, and multiple handsets located throughout the house. Works very well indeed, highly recommended.
You really need to get your PC fixed. Seriously - all those crashes and reboots you talk about are not normal. I can run Azerus, firefox, burn a dvd and whatever else with no problems.
I don't think I agree. While it's true that there are people who want Java (the language) to change in some way or another, this is about creating an OS replacement for Java 5. To do that it has to be compatible - you can't change the language because then it ceases to be Java 5. As a professional Java guy responsible for a large installation you're going to have a hard enough time persuading me to drop Sun. You'll have even more trouble persuading me to switch to I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Java.
Speaking as a member of the Java community, the reason I don't care about an OS Java (beyond the "oooh neat" factor) is simply that I don't need one. I write Java for work, we need a stable, supported platform to run our apps on. Linux is _just_ getting to where it's useful for us, which is great. Java is there and has been for years. It doesn't cost us anything to run it, we get support, it works. Why again should we replace it?
You can do both of the "impossible" things in Java, of course you can. There just isn't a one-keyword syntatic sugar. Is that really the best advantage you can come up with for some other language, that it has more sugars? Please. I can do a foreach in my IDE as simply as typing itco[tab]. I can do your second example in pretty much the same way. 5 keystrokes. Now, your problem again?
I have no idea where you got that from, but it's completely wrong.
SkyOne (and the whole Sky network) is 35% owned by News Corp, 65% is freely on the market.
9. Who are BSkyB's shareholders? At 31 December 2004, our shareholders were: News UK Nominees Limited. (a subsidiary of News Corporation) : 35.75% Other public and institutional shareholders : 64.25%
News Corp own the Fox network, but not NBC (and not SciFi). Details here.
Humans are still involved in electronic exchanges, and there's just as much scope for fraud. In the end, the trades are between people (a computer can't own stock) and they're the ones making the decisions. The fact that they do it through a terminal rather than in open outcry is neither here nor there.
Some of us like to see people earn their sucess, and not steal it.
I don't remember Gates or Ballmer being prosecuted for any bank robberies lately. I think, maybe, they earned their success by, you know, selling lots of software. And I really like how the Xbox360 is a "clone" of a product which hasn't even been announced and doesn't have a public spec.
I have a feeling that Microsoft has screwed up pretty bad with this not being backward compatible
It hasn't yet been confirmed whether or not it will be backwards compatible. Last tumor I heard was "they're trying. but can't be sure yet". We'll have to wait a while to find out I think.
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They do great deals if you're buying a bunch of licenses - we get them for under half price. Not sure what the minimums are for such deals.
Why only compare NetBeans to Eclipse? IntelliJ IDEA has for a long time been the most innovative Java IDE (IMHO) and it's the only one I use. Many of the features I see in Eclipse now were in IDEA first. Whilst I have no problem with Eclipse, I like to (a) get those cool features first and (b) support the guys at JetBrains who continually come up with the goods.
How on earth did that get modded "Informative"?
Right. You know all that because....
Come on, you accuse Sony and MS of making shit up then you pull all these predictions for what the games will look like out of your ass. Sure, maybe the 360 and PS3 won't be as great as they make out. Maybe they will. Let's wait and see...
Nintendo owns 67% of the handheld units sold last week in Japan.
They used to own 100% of the market. If my company's main product had just lost 33% market share, I'd be wetting myself.
I think the point is they look very unlikely to be able to maintain this profitability into the next generation. Whilst the GC didn't sell in spectacular numbers, it was technically comparable to the other two and so it's low price made it attractive to many people. This time around, they look to be a long way behind the curve performance wise. Whilst that might not matter to all gamers, it matters to a lot of them, and it also matters to publishers. If Nintendo lose 3rd party developers it's the start of a slippery slope which ends with them simply not selling any consoles.
I can hear my PC only at night, in an entirely silent room, with no traffic noise and no aircon. Then it's a just-noticable whisper from sitting right next to it. With any other sound in the room it's inaudible.
This is an Athlon XP 3200+ with 3x 200GB Seagate drives and an Nvidia 6600GT. It plays all the games I throw at it just fine, core temp never gets above 50 degrees C. All you need to do is be careful with your cooling solutions (I use a Panaflo case fan, SilenX PSU and Zalman CPU and GPU coolers all on FanMate speed controllers). Sure it's a custom job, but it wasn't hard. Newer Dells (that we have at work) are alomst as quiet as mine out of the box.
The solution is to never compare plaintext passwords (which you shouldn't be storing anyway). If you follow standard practise and hash the passwords, comparing just the hashes, then this is a non issue.
For what this card costs, I could get a jillion-inch widescreen high-def DLP set to hook my PS3 and XBox 360's up to.
No, you couldn't. I agree though, consoles are coming in as much better value for money.
What you say about video overlay is interesting. I'm not at home right now so I can't test, but I'm SURE I've run (for example) Quicktime and WMP at the same time, and they both use overlays. I also just flicked through the DirectDraw documentation and it makes no mention of a single application limit. It does say that video hardware is able to report how many individual overlay surfaces it supports, maybe your video card only supports a single overlay?
As for the PCI bus saturation, you're right, an OS should handle that. And XP does. If you require a restart something else has gone wrong. Maybe your chipset drivers are bad, maybe the mobo itself is faulty, maybe your HDTV decoder app is faulty, I don't know. But I can tell you for sure that I can saturate my I/O for hours at a time with no issues other than the obvious slowdown.
Nothing's stopping you doing that at all, in fact that's exactly what I do with Vonage today, and have done for 6 months. A single base station hooked up to the Vonage box, and multiple handsets located throughout the house. Works very well indeed, highly recommended.
Here you go.
You really need to get your PC fixed. Seriously - all those crashes and reboots you talk about are not normal. I can run Azerus, firefox, burn a dvd and whatever else with no problems.
I don't think I agree. While it's true that there are people who want Java (the language) to change in some way or another, this is about creating an OS replacement for Java 5. To do that it has to be compatible - you can't change the language because then it ceases to be Java 5. As a professional Java guy responsible for a large installation you're going to have a hard enough time persuading me to drop Sun. You'll have even more trouble persuading me to switch to I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Java.
Speaking as a member of the Java community, the reason I don't care about an OS Java (beyond the "oooh neat" factor) is simply that I don't need one. I write Java for work, we need a stable, supported platform to run our apps on. Linux is _just_ getting to where it's useful for us, which is great. Java is there and has been for years. It doesn't cost us anything to run it, we get support, it works. Why again should we replace it?
You can do both of the "impossible" things in Java, of course you can. There just isn't a one-keyword syntatic sugar. Is that really the best advantage you can come up with for some other language, that it has more sugars? Please. I can do a foreach in my IDE as simply as typing itco[tab]. I can do your second example in pretty much the same way. 5 keystrokes. Now, your problem again?
SkyOne (and the whole Sky network) is 35% owned by News Corp, 65% is freely on the market.
News Corp own the Fox network, but not NBC (and not SciFi). Details here.
NBC is owned by Universal/Vivendi, who do indeed also own SciFi.
Have you seen a PS2 lately? It's tiny, and silent.
Well done! Be sure to keep us informed of where you go next so we can give them our page impressions :)
Humans are still involved in electronic exchanges, and there's just as much scope for fraud. In the end, the trades are between people (a computer can't own stock) and they're the ones making the decisions. The fact that they do it through a terminal rather than in open outcry is neither here nor there.
If someone makes an offer at a silly price, and someone else accepts - it's their problem. No insurer will cover you for dumb trading ;)
/me loves Hot Shots :)
There's an area set up on the first floor with a round table and a bunch of DS's so people can easily play wirelessly with eachother.
;)
Sounds cool. Think they'll mind if I take my PSP?
Some of us like to see people earn their sucess, and not steal it.
I don't remember Gates or Ballmer being prosecuted for any bank robberies lately. I think, maybe, they earned their success by, you know, selling lots of software. And I really like how the Xbox360 is a "clone" of a product which hasn't even been announced and doesn't have a public spec.
I have a feeling that Microsoft has screwed up pretty bad with this not being backward compatible
It hasn't yet been confirmed whether or not it will be backwards compatible. Last tumor I heard was "they're trying. but can't be sure yet". We'll have to wait a while to find out I think.