Regardless, selling the install disk is useless as you cannot install windows from it. OEMs now have an installation partition and the install/repair disk just calls the program on that partition. If you blow this partition away or don't have it on the target computer, then you can't reinstall. If you move the harddrive to another computer, the install typically won't work (it can, but often it won't because it'll be set up to look for your motherboard type). If you sell the disc, harddisk, and motherboard, then you've essentially sold the computer.
I bought this way, and I'd do it again if I had a bigger hardware budget. I didn't buy the top rated chip, though, since it always has an extra bump in the price, maybe for the brag factor. But the second highest chip, that I'd buy. The reason being that the computer would last longer: 6 years later it would still be useable. And since I need two computers, one for me and one for my wife, this means a computer purchase once every 3 years. And I disagree that I could buy a new systems 3 years from now that's 25% the cost of a a second best rated system of today. Used maybe, but there are often... issues with used hardware.
You say that as if COBOL were useless. I certainly see Java as the COBOL of the future as well, I guess the difference is that I don't see that as a bad thing.
Der, stack traces shouldn't go to the screen, they should be logged. I really wish that there was a way to get it such that the JSP code would whitespace such that line n in.jsp is line n in the generated.java. As it stand, I find I have to have "keepgenerated" on, and look in the.java file to see what the equivelent in the.jsp file is.
Luckily I don't have this problem as much using struts's taglibs. Any exceptions are using a result of deeper code and thus easier to find. But it is still a pain.
Maybe it's modded a troll because people use Java every day without knowing it. Major sites serve their content through servlets.
You are right that talking about J2EE stuff will get you hired. Mostly because there aren't enough good J2EE people around that if you can talk the talk it's enough to have them see if you can walk the walk. At many places, they don't have J2EE experience in house so you can coast when you get there because no one knows enough to realize what you don't know.
But take it from me, someone who knows J2EE, that there is actually some great stuff in there. Stuff that's useful for building real business applications. I'm not saying it's better or worse than.NET, since I don't know.NET. But Java is more than smoke and mirrors, it's a real technology that is continuing to prove itself.
There is no way even Together 4 takes 900 MB. I used it at my last two workplaces, and maybe it took 100 M on a midsized project. Maybe. There's something odd about that.
For me, it's finding the line the error came from. In Java, the exceptions have the line number and file listed, while in C++ I have to use a debugger to find that info. It doesn't seem like much, but it really makes a difference. If an error occurs ina server application, you can have those details automatically emailed to a tracking list. In C++, it's often lucky that the program didn't crash.
There's also the versioning across DLLs issues that C++ has. What a freaking pain that is.
BEing fluent in Java isn't the same as having a good understanding of J2EE. Distributed processing, asynchronous processing, security across tiers, transaction management. These are things J2EE handle for you in a reasonably simple way. Then there are 3rd party tools that bring things like legacy integration, load balancing, and a bunch of stuff businesses seem to want. Future enhancements like session and message beans as web services will bring more business value at little cost to the developers.
Yeah, it's arguably faster to write a page that selects an article out of a MySQL db using PHP over JSP, but that's not what enterprise web applications are about.
Clue: in 1996, there was a Java applet that would play Quake maps on a 200Mhz Pentium Pro just fine (and reportedly lesser machines, but that's what I had).
Clue: I've both written and used Java apps that don't have the speed problems you're talking about (dunno about memory, never really checked). Check out DbVisualizer for an example.
Maybe it is the programming. I've been brought on to a few server side projects that I've have to refactor extensively to get it such that performance was good. I can only imagine what happens in most client side apps.
Considering that compiling Java into a native executable would seriously improve its performance
People often say this, without realizing that in 1996 there was a native code compiler by Assymetrix (part of SuperCede for Java) which didn't do well in the market dispite being the only native compiler for Java. Currently there is gcj, which I don't know of any projects that use it, but I think may have a subset of the Java API.
For whatever reason, people say they want native compilation, but it's never really proven out as a need.
I think a more significant speed improvement in Java would be to remove the += operator for Strings. You wouldn't believe how badly one of those in a loop can tank an app's performance.
Yeah, but the antitrust stuff doesn't say you need a competitor with good rates. Essentially you are saying a PC with windows is cheaper than the competitor. How is this bad for the consumer again?
And yes, this is why MS has channeled funding to Apple in the past to ensure they continue to be able offer their alternative. Otherwise, MS would have a lot more problems.
Companies do have real valuation based on future earnings. Thus the real value of a stock is based on future earnings per share. Since future earning are unknown to us (the happen in the future, duh), projections are used.
If you look at their filings and projections, you'll see they have an EPS avg of 2.04, with a 5 year groth estimate of 14%. Their stock is at 46.58.
Whoopde doo, so what does it all mean, basil?
Basically, if I were to say to you "give me 46.58 and I'll give you 2.04 this year, 2.04*1.14 next year, 2.04*1.14^2 the next, etc etc" you might say "wow that's good" or you do some math and say "that's equivelent to a 5 year bond at 5.2%, not really that great but better than the bond market." You might do math on other companies and find it's not really that good a deal compared to many other stocks on the market, even ones higher on the F500 list than MS.
Now I know you're saying "they don't issue dividends, so they aren't actually giving me that." The leap here is realizing they don't have to. Think of it as if a big company came along and said, "we have enough money to buy all of microsoft and issue ourselves dividends from the profit. Is it worth it?" That's the end of the Ponzi scheme: someone buys it out. Int his case the company sees they'll get a 5.2% return on their purchase, which as I said before, isn't that great. The belief in this model should come from the fact that as the share price drops lower and profit is unchanged, then the % return on the investment is higher. Eventually, it makes sense to do a buyout.
MS right now is in a ponzi scheme mode because 5.2% isn't a good ROI. Unless the XBox or some other thing they are working on takes off and gives a positive "surprise" for the projections (possible), or the global econonmy shifts in such a way that 5.2% is a good ROI (pretty impossible), the share price as it stands won't be justified, and someone will eventually lose. Don't get me wrong tho, 5.2% isn't the worst on the F500 (some are sub-1%), but it isn't great (many are above 10%). I'd say most of MS's share price currently is because of the name recognition and past stock performance that has amatuer stockholders saying "I've gotta have this, it's a sure thing," and not realizing that there are better sure things out there, like Citigroup at 10.5% (still not the best, but 10.5 is pretty damn good for an F500. High risk bonds often yeild less).
This is kinda better for the club, because they can make sure the dancer pays their share of the tip to the bouncer, but really most clubs here just have a flat bouncer and dj tip for the girls, and strip clubs are more of an impulse buy thing. A girl'll work a guy until he's broke or convince a guy who wasn't going to get a dance that he wants one, emptying out his wallet. If you have to go vouchers it gives more of a chance for the guy to say "hmmm, maybe I shouldn't do this" and it ends up less money for the girls, which means you end up with worse girls as the good ones are at the cash places, which means you don't have as many guys buying drinks. A franchise could get away with this better, but I think it tends to work out better with a flat tip while you're out the door. The Star Wars quote about tightening grips and starsystems comes to mind.
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Mozilla doesn't inherently have a Japanese language pack, like MSIE. Instead, you have to install Japanese language support in Control Panel|Regional Options (at least that's where it is on Win2K) and insert your Windows disc. Mozilla will then use the OS support to display foriegn characters. I have installed it to be able to access the later lessons here where they use kana instead of romanji.
There is a difference between CC and subtitles: CC is crap. My wife is hard of hearing (deaf in one ear, 70% loss in the other) so we use CC for regular shows. When we watch a DVD though, we turn CC off and put the subtitles on if it has them (Little Nikki didn't, gr). CC is good when it's the onyl choice, but because there are only a certain number of chars per line, dialogue is always cut. In addition, it often gimps up and leave crap on the screen (problems with the analogue cable to the tv? I dunno. I have digital cable so the problem can't be to the reciever and it happens with dvds too). Plus, reading a movie in fixed width font is terrible.
This doesn't apply to Kazaa. When I share things, I have no expectation that I can download other things. It's likely the network won't shut down that day, but it could.
Similarily, there's nothing that forces me to share the files I download, and especially nothing that forces me to do so with the people I downloaded from.
I like gamefaqs for reviews. There's almost always 1 person who gives a high mark and another that gives a low mark. I'll read at least both of those (and then usually a few others) to get a feel for a game.
Not just parents. I can only assume that people who think identical twins can actually switch are people who didn't know them. A good friend of mine was one half of a twin pair (the other half I knew but didn't hang out with as much), and I could always tell him from the other when seeing their face. They have different blemishes on their skin, for example.
Slash caches the front page and the article pages in different configurations and regens them every so often (depnds on settings), so reading these pages basically pulling static data that doesn't hit the DB (except, perhaps to put the advertisments up, I'm not sure). The "real fucking slow" part comes in where you hit "reply to this" or a link to a comment that isn't blown up on the first page, and then wait, if in fact it comes up at all..
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And Here's the article you read it in. Bet you didn't realize you were admitting you read Salon:) Of course, so am I, but only for the articles.
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Well, we wanted that, but budget cuts have made it such that we can only have 2, and they have to share a typewriter.
Regardless, selling the install disk is useless as you cannot install windows from it. OEMs now have an installation partition and the install/repair disk just calls the program on that partition. If you blow this partition away or don't have it on the target computer, then you can't reinstall. If you move the harddrive to another computer, the install typically won't work (it can, but often it won't because it'll be set up to look for your motherboard type). If you sell the disc, harddisk, and motherboard, then you've essentially sold the computer.
I bought this way, and I'd do it again if I had a bigger hardware budget. I didn't buy the top rated chip, though, since it always has an extra bump in the price, maybe for the brag factor. But the second highest chip, that I'd buy. The reason being that the computer would last longer: 6 years later it would still be useable. And since I need two computers, one for me and one for my wife, this means a computer purchase once every 3 years. And I disagree that I could buy a new systems 3 years from now that's 25% the cost of a a second best rated system of today. Used maybe, but there are often... issues with used hardware.
You say that as if COBOL were useless. I certainly see Java as the COBOL of the future as well, I guess the difference is that I don't see that as a bad thing.
Ah I see. It was Windows. nm
Then what are you using as a benchmark
Der, stack traces shouldn't go to the screen, they should be logged. I really wish that there was a way to get it such that the JSP code would whitespace such that line n in .jsp is line n in the generated .java. As it stand, I find I have to have "keepgenerated" on, and look in the .java file to see what the equivelent in the .jsp file is.
Luckily I don't have this problem as much using struts's taglibs. Any exceptions are using a result of deeper code and thus easier to find. But it is still a pain.
Maybe it's modded a troll because people use Java every day without knowing it. Major sites serve their content through servlets.
.NET, since I don't know .NET. But Java is more than smoke and mirrors, it's a real technology that is continuing to prove itself.
You are right that talking about J2EE stuff will get you hired. Mostly because there aren't enough good J2EE people around that if you can talk the talk it's enough to have them see if you can walk the walk. At many places, they don't have J2EE experience in house so you can coast when you get there because no one knows enough to realize what you don't know.
But take it from me, someone who knows J2EE, that there is actually some great stuff in there. Stuff that's useful for building real business applications. I'm not saying it's better or worse than
There is no way even Together 4 takes 900 MB. I used it at my last two workplaces, and maybe it took 100 M on a midsized project. Maybe. There's something odd about that.
For me, it's finding the line the error came from. In Java, the exceptions have the line number and file listed, while in C++ I have to use a debugger to find that info. It doesn't seem like much, but it really makes a difference. If an error occurs ina server application, you can have those details automatically emailed to a tracking list. In C++, it's often lucky that the program didn't crash.
There's also the versioning across DLLs issues that C++ has. What a freaking pain that is.
BEing fluent in Java isn't the same as having a good understanding of J2EE. Distributed processing, asynchronous processing, security across tiers, transaction management. These are things J2EE handle for you in a reasonably simple way. Then there are 3rd party tools that bring things like legacy integration, load balancing, and a bunch of stuff businesses seem to want. Future enhancements like session and message beans as web services will bring more business value at little cost to the developers.
Yeah, it's arguably faster to write a page that selects an article out of a MySQL db using PHP over JSP, but that's not what enterprise web applications are about.
Clue: in 1996, there was a Java applet that would play Quake maps on a 200Mhz Pentium Pro just fine (and reportedly lesser machines, but that's what I had).
Clue: I've both written and used Java apps that don't have the speed problems you're talking about (dunno about memory, never really checked). Check out DbVisualizer for an example.
Maybe it is the programming. I've been brought on to a few server side projects that I've have to refactor extensively to get it such that performance was good. I can only imagine what happens in most client side apps.
at the top (linked of course). Makes the docs usable again (coming from a 1.0 world).
Considering that compiling Java into a native executable would seriously improve its performance
People often say this, without realizing that in 1996 there was a native code compiler by Assymetrix (part of SuperCede for Java) which didn't do well in the market dispite being the only native compiler for Java. Currently there is gcj, which I don't know of any projects that use it, but I think may have a subset of the Java API.
For whatever reason, people say they want native compilation, but it's never really proven out as a need.
I think a more significant speed improvement in Java would be to remove the += operator for Strings. You wouldn't believe how badly one of those in a loop can tank an app's performance.
Yeah, but the antitrust stuff doesn't say you need a competitor with good rates. Essentially you are saying a PC with windows is cheaper than the competitor. How is this bad for the consumer again?
And yes, this is why MS has channeled funding to Apple in the past to ensure they continue to be able offer their alternative. Otherwise, MS would have a lot more problems.
Companies do have real valuation based on future earnings. Thus the real value of a stock is based on future earnings per share. Since future earning are unknown to us (the happen in the future, duh), projections are used.
If you look at their filings and projections, you'll see they have an EPS avg of 2.04, with a 5 year groth estimate of 14%. Their stock is at 46.58.
Whoopde doo, so what does it all mean, basil?
Basically, if I were to say to you "give me 46.58 and I'll give you 2.04 this year, 2.04*1.14 next year, 2.04*1.14^2 the next, etc etc" you might say "wow that's good" or you do some math and say "that's equivelent to a 5 year bond at 5.2%, not really that great but better than the bond market." You might do math on other companies and find it's not really that good a deal compared to many other stocks on the market, even ones higher on the F500 list than MS.
Now I know you're saying "they don't issue dividends, so they aren't actually giving me that." The leap here is realizing they don't have to. Think of it as if a big company came along and said, "we have enough money to buy all of microsoft and issue ourselves dividends from the profit. Is it worth it?" That's the end of the Ponzi scheme: someone buys it out. Int his case the company sees they'll get a 5.2% return on their purchase, which as I said before, isn't that great. The belief in this model should come from the fact that as the share price drops lower and profit is unchanged, then the % return on the investment is higher. Eventually, it makes sense to do a buyout.
MS right now is in a ponzi scheme mode because 5.2% isn't a good ROI. Unless the XBox or some other thing they are working on takes off and gives a positive "surprise" for the projections (possible), or the global econonmy shifts in such a way that 5.2% is a good ROI (pretty impossible), the share price as it stands won't be justified, and someone will eventually lose. Don't get me wrong tho, 5.2% isn't the worst on the F500 (some are sub-1%), but it isn't great (many are above 10%). I'd say most of MS's share price currently is because of the name recognition and past stock performance that has amatuer stockholders saying "I've gotta have this, it's a sure thing," and not realizing that there are better sure things out there, like Citigroup at 10.5% (still not the best, but 10.5 is pretty damn good for an F500. High risk bonds often yeild less).
This is kinda better for the club, because they can make sure the dancer pays their share of the tip to the bouncer, but really most clubs here just have a flat bouncer and dj tip for the girls, and strip clubs are more of an impulse buy thing. A girl'll work a guy until he's broke or convince a guy who wasn't going to get a dance that he wants one, emptying out his wallet. If you have to go vouchers it gives more of a chance for the guy to say "hmmm, maybe I shouldn't do this" and it ends up less money for the girls, which means you end up with worse girls as the good ones are at the cash places, which means you don't have as many guys buying drinks. A franchise could get away with this better, but I think it tends to work out better with a flat tip while you're out the door. The Star Wars quote about tightening grips and starsystems comes to mind.
Mozilla doesn't inherently have a Japanese language pack, like MSIE. Instead, you have to install Japanese language support in Control Panel|Regional Options (at least that's where it is on Win2K) and insert your Windows disc. Mozilla will then use the OS support to display foriegn characters. I have installed it to be able to access the later lessons here where they use kana instead of romanji.
There is a difference between CC and subtitles: CC is crap. My wife is hard of hearing (deaf in one ear, 70% loss in the other) so we use CC for regular shows. When we watch a DVD though, we turn CC off and put the subtitles on if it has them (Little Nikki didn't, gr). CC is good when it's the onyl choice, but because there are only a certain number of chars per line, dialogue is always cut. In addition, it often gimps up and leave crap on the screen (problems with the analogue cable to the tv? I dunno. I have digital cable so the problem can't be to the reciever and it happens with dvds too). Plus, reading a movie in fixed width font is terrible.
This doesn't apply to Kazaa. When I share things, I have no expectation that I can download other things. It's likely the network won't shut down that day, but it could.
Similarily, there's nothing that forces me to share the files I download, and especially nothing that forces me to do so with the people I downloaded from.
I like gamefaqs for reviews. There's almost always 1 person who gives a high mark and another that gives a low mark. I'll read at least both of those (and then usually a few others) to get a feel for a game.
Not just parents. I can only assume that people who think identical twins can actually switch are people who didn't know them. A good friend of mine was one half of a twin pair (the other half I knew but didn't hang out with as much), and I could always tell him from the other when seeing their face. They have different blemishes on their skin, for example.
Hell, you didn't even try to download it:
/moonrock/qbob3213.exe was not found on this server.
Not Found
The requested URL
Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.moonrock.com Port 80
Slash caches the front page and the article pages in different configurations and regens them every so often (depnds on settings), so reading these pages basically pulling static data that doesn't hit the DB (except, perhaps to put the advertisments up, I'm not sure). The "real fucking slow" part comes in where you hit "reply to this" or a link to a comment that isn't blown up on the first page, and then wait, if in fact it comes up at all..
And Here's the article you read it in. Bet you didn't realize you were admitting you read Salon :) Of course, so am I, but only for the articles.