Actually, that application was for intranet work, the 1300 users were call center people. But, yeah, departmental stuff, it is great for. I also prefer developing with it and then just porting to WebSphere. It helps keep things J2EE.
I found episode 1 uncomfortable to watch. I don't like fart jokes and there was a fart joke (jar jar standing behind the pod racer). I had been told the movie wasn't good beforehand but I find that usually lowers my expectations and I like the movie more. In this case I had a hard time with it.
After seeing it I've read about other things that people did not like "Anakin saying 'oops' when attacking the fighter, as if blowing whatever he shot at up was a complete mistake as Anakin is an innocent of the level of Han Solo, who would never shoot first." Often (like the example), I'd agree with the problem the people would have with it, even if I didn't catch it while watching the movie. This made me dislike it more.
Episode 2 was awesome, though. The cities, the jedi, droids vs clones; there was so much greatness in that movie, I feel it's the second best, and pretty close to Empire. The love dialogue was pretty forced, and was certainly a weak point but I was willing to suspend disbelief.
The sad thing is that it will never truly belong to us. Lucas must die and then 70 years must pass before we can make our own tales using his universe. We'll all be dead by then, the only people alive may have heard of this Star Wars thing.
[ANAKIN] Okay so, tell me again about the cantinas.
[OBI WAN] Okey what do you want to know?
[ANAKIN] Well, deathsticks are legal over there, right?
[OBI WAN] Yeah,It's legal but it ain't hundred percent legal, I mean, you just can't walk into a restaurant, roll a stick and start puffin' away. They want you to smoke in your home or certain designated places.
[ANAKIN] And those are the cantinas?
[OBI WAN] Yeah, It breaks down like this, ok, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, And if you're the proprietor of a cantina, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but...but that dosen't matter, 'cause, get a load of this; all right, If you get stopped by a cop on Tatooine, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops on Tatooine don't have.
[ANAKIN] Oh, man, I'm goin', that's all there is to it. I'm fuckin' goin'.
I find that every time someone asks me how "far" something is (e.g how far is Toronto from Ottawa), I'll respond with a time unit (e.g. about 5 and a half hours), and no one ever says "no, I want it in miles (or Km)". They really just care how long it takes to drive (or sometimes flying).
And it doesn't really matter about how constant you speed is. I live 12 average minutes from work. That's important to know. Distance isn't important since the speed isn't constant.
It won't help him now, but we could put a giant mirror or telescope a few light days away from earth and point it back towards us. With enough resolution, it could help figure out murders, kidnappings, confirm intelligence gathered after the fact.
Unfortunately, (I think) we don't have enough resolution currently, and the buffer would have to be huge, as the command "send this area from this time to this time" would take a few days to reach it.
Problems will be posed in English. During the contest, all communication between IPSC and contestants will be in English. If you are not able to communicate or read in English, you can invite an interpreter to help you with translations.
Not exactly fair towards non-English countries.
I also find the no www rule to be kind of bad, only in that it is impossible to enforce.
Feh, I personally think that people should have a certain internal caveat emptor when reading anonymous postings. Then again, I feel anonymous speech in important to free speech, so I do have a bias against requiring every stock message board publishing IPs.
Not for nothing, but there were several times I had wanted to tell the whole story behind a dot com I worked for that crashed and burned, but worried about being tracked. If I had, it may have gotten some people out of the company before it really tanked. Then again, I kind of figured most would just take it as an anonymous "short" trying to manipulate and it wouldn't really do much good. But who knows.
I know it's a joke, but JBoss is not the best choice in all cases. It has no license fees which is awesome, and there are things that make it easy to develop with over other J2EE containers. But if you are expecting a lot of users, it's not the way to go. When doing the performance improvements on a J2EE application, I couldn't get 200 simultaneous users to be able to use the JBoss system. Websphere 5 was handling 1300 (that was it's limit, though that ended the improvement work I did, since that was the target goal).
Squirting irritant cosmetic products in rabbits eyes? Not so sure about that. I'd prefer if we didn't, thank you.
So what is the solution. A company is trying to make a new concealer that doesn't clump when you sweat. How do they make sure it doesn't burn your skin off when you put it on?
Or is the solution to say that current cosmetics are enough for the market and no research should continue?
It also happens a alot where the grad student thinks they did 90% of the work, because they can only see the work that they are doing and discount the mentoring and pushes that the professors give them.
I never claimed that the GameCube outsold the PS2 in any region for any month.
This statement is rather disingenuous. You never explicitly stated it, but you did implicitly state it two ways. The first is with the statment: GameCube already outsold PS2 seven months ago, due to a price drop. PS2 quickly re-took second place (behind the GameBoy Advance) the following month.
The implication here is that the PS2 was out of second place for the month, having to retake it the following month.
The second place is with this statement: that's exactly what is being claimed here about the Xbox now which, from the blurb, we know that was is being claimed is: Microsoft's Xbox is "expected to have outsold Sony's PlayStation 2 for the first time on a monthly basis"
The implication is that the GameCube, exactly like the XBox, once outsold Sony's PlayStation 2 on a monthly basis.
If you truly did not mean to say that the GC outsold the PS2 over a month's tracing, then your statement about this being the same as the Xbox is wrong.
Yeah, I was pretty pissed when I went to a recent concert (Kid Rock) and they asked me if my phone had a camera on it. Not really thinking they'd have a problem with it I said yes, and they said I couldn't come in with it. So I went to another entrance and this time said it was a pager. The fact is that it's kind of rediculous tho, since the camera is ultra crappy, and I do think in a few years most of these phones will have them. When I got this phone I couldn't get another one that fulfilled all my requirements and didn't have a camera (clamshell with caller id on the front, silence ringer on the side, primarily noncellular, can get internet access to a laptop, mostly paid for by my contract).
I do find it is nice to have. I use it mostly for memory augmentation. If there is a product I want to checkout reviews for later, I snap it. Rental car - snap the plate. People here are missing the point when they say "you should just get a real digital camera". This is for taking pictures of thing when you don't have you main camera with you with you since you always have your phone on you.
You C example did not make a function swap(x,y), it made a functions swap(&x,&y), which is why I said it can't be done. In C++, of course, you would use references.
I have written JNI code to bridge to COM. I didn't really find it hard. You just make your java class with the native methods, run javah to make the header file, and then implement the C function, and make it into a DLL. In my case most of the C functions were just passthroughs to a DLL, so they had one line. Maybe it's because I've created DLLs before that I didn't find it hard.
A lot of that can be blamed on the IDE as well. Assymetrix's Supercede for Java had a C++ compiler built into it and would handle everything for you. Of course they folded so I later had to do the javah stuff (which I still don't think is hard), but it's an example of how an IDE can just make all this hard stuff go away.
I personally haven't found the reason of your objections to really be hampering, but I do find that C and C++ have a lot of annoying things about them that I do not like (manual garbage collection being a large one, but I once quit a job because DLL hell just got to me. Java symbolically links at runtime so no hell). It's a tool for a purpose, just like perl, sh, C/C++, and Visual BASIC (all of which I use). Ultimitely, I'm most productive in general Java and I learned it after all of the above except perl. For this I will forgive it being unable to swap inline or lack typedefs. You cannot to the following in C/C++:
void f()
{
do_something();
new Thread() { public void run()
{
do_forked_code();
}}.start();
}
(it make and instance of a new thread class, delcares what it does when running, and then starts the instance). It may be a little ugly, but it is very useful to declare it within the method like that (in C, you would have to make a separate funtion and pass it's pointer into a thread library).
I would hope they wouldn't. If there is a statistical difference between the performance of, say, the C++ group and the Pascal group, it could be attributed to the actual skill of the kind of person who would take it in C++. By normalizing between the tests, it could make it unfair to whichever group has more proficiency.
You'd be surprised how much the industry is sick of Java programmers, and on the lookout for good low-level engineers, or people who can do Forth or COBOL.
You're right, I would be surprised. In this town COBOL gets about 25K-40K/year less than Java, and Java requistions are hard to fill. I don't know much about low-level or orth jobs, having never looked at them, but the industry is hardly sick of Java programmers.
he has omnidirectional wireless internet connection (nope)
Um, why wouldn't he. My PCS phone can give me 128Kpbs (even more with a little knowhow) and it has 24-hour unlimited access. Plug this into a laptop, then use the RJ-45 port to connect to the WAP and you have portable sharable internet. What this guy did is not hard to do, but it is a very cool concept. I might make one of these up when I get a new laptop (gave my old one away).
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Actually, that application was for intranet work, the 1300 users were call center people. But, yeah, departmental stuff, it is great for. I also prefer developing with it and then just porting to WebSphere. It helps keep things J2EE.
I found episode 1 uncomfortable to watch. I don't like fart jokes and there was a fart joke (jar jar standing behind the pod racer). I had been told the movie wasn't good beforehand but I find that usually lowers my expectations and I like the movie more. In this case I had a hard time with it.
After seeing it I've read about other things that people did not like "Anakin saying 'oops' when attacking the fighter, as if blowing whatever he shot at up was a complete mistake as Anakin is an innocent of the level of Han Solo, who would never shoot first." Often (like the example), I'd agree with the problem the people would have with it, even if I didn't catch it while watching the movie. This made me dislike it more.
Episode 2 was awesome, though. The cities, the jedi, droids vs clones; there was so much greatness in that movie, I feel it's the second best, and pretty close to Empire. The love dialogue was pretty forced, and was certainly a weak point but I was willing to suspend disbelief.
They may have wrote it, but it BELONGS to us.
The sad thing is that it will never truly belong to us. Lucas must die and then 70 years must pass before we can make our own tales using his universe. We'll all be dead by then, the only people alive may have heard of this Star Wars thing.
[ANAKIN]
Okay so, tell me again about the cantinas.
[OBI WAN]
Okey what do you want to know?
[ANAKIN]
Well, deathsticks are legal over there, right?
[OBI WAN]
Yeah,It's legal but it ain't hundred percent legal, I mean, you just can't walk into a restaurant,
roll a stick and start puffin' away. They want you to smoke in your home or certain designated places.
[ANAKIN]
And those are the cantinas?
[OBI WAN]
Yeah, It breaks down like this, ok, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it,
And if you're the proprietor of a cantina, it's legal to sell it.
It's legal to carry it, but...but that dosen't matter, 'cause, get a load of this; all right,
If you get stopped by a cop on Tatooine, it's illegal for them to search you.
I mean that's a right the cops on Tatooine don't have.
[ANAKIN]
Oh, man, I'm goin', that's all there is to it. I'm fuckin' goin'.
[OBI WAN]
I know, baby, you'd dig it the most..
He is
"you've grown... more beautiful, that is"
I find that every time someone asks me how "far" something is (e.g how far is Toronto from Ottawa), I'll respond with a time unit (e.g. about 5 and a half hours), and no one ever says "no, I want it in miles (or Km)". They really just care how long it takes to drive (or sometimes flying).
And it doesn't really matter about how constant you speed is. I live 12 average minutes from work. That's important to know. Distance isn't important since the speed isn't constant.
It won't help him now, but we could put a giant mirror or telescope a few light days away from earth and point it back towards us. With enough resolution, it could help figure out murders, kidnappings, confirm intelligence gathered after the fact.
Unfortunately, (I think) we don't have enough resolution currently, and the buffer would have to be huge, as the command "send this area from this time to this time" would take a few days to reach it.
Problems will be posed in English. During the contest, all communication between IPSC and contestants will be in English. If you are not able to communicate or read in English, you can invite an interpreter to help you with translations.
Not exactly fair towards non-English countries.
I also find the no www rule to be kind of bad, only in that it is impossible to enforce.
Feh, I personally think that people should have a certain internal caveat emptor when reading anonymous postings. Then again, I feel anonymous speech in important to free speech, so I do have a bias against requiring every stock message board publishing IPs.
Not for nothing, but there were several times I had wanted to tell the whole story behind a dot com I worked for that crashed and burned, but worried about being tracked. If I had, it may have gotten some people out of the company before it really tanked. Then again, I kind of figured most would just take it as an anonymous "short" trying to manipulate and it wouldn't really do much good. But who knows.
I know it's a joke, but JBoss is not the best choice in all cases. It has no license fees which is awesome, and there are things that make it easy to develop with over other J2EE containers. But if you are expecting a lot of users, it's not the way to go. When doing the performance improvements on a J2EE application, I couldn't get 200 simultaneous users to be able to use the JBoss system. Websphere 5 was handling 1300 (that was it's limit, though that ended the improvement work I did, since that was the target goal).
Squirting irritant cosmetic products in rabbits eyes? Not so sure about that. I'd prefer if we didn't, thank you.
So what is the solution. A company is trying to make a new concealer that doesn't clump when you sweat. How do they make sure it doesn't burn your skin off when you put it on?
Or is the solution to say that current cosmetics are enough for the market and no research should continue?
here in Jax FL, it's under 1.80 a gallon for 87. I get the 89 octane, tho so that's about what I pay
It also happens a alot where the grad student thinks they did 90% of the work, because they can only see the work that they are doing and discount the mentoring and pushes that the professors give them.
I never claimed that the GameCube outsold the PS2 in any region for any month.
This statement is rather disingenuous. You never explicitly stated it, but you did implicitly state it two ways. The first is with the statment:
GameCube already outsold PS2 seven months ago, due to a price drop. PS2 quickly re-took second place (behind the GameBoy Advance) the following month.
The implication here is that the PS2 was out of second place for the month, having to retake it the following month.
The second place is with this statement:
that's exactly what is being claimed here about the Xbox now
which, from the blurb, we know that was is being claimed is:
Microsoft's Xbox is "expected to have outsold Sony's PlayStation 2 for the first time on a monthly basis"
The implication is that the GameCube, exactly like the XBox, once outsold Sony's PlayStation 2 on a monthly basis.
If you truly did not mean to say that the GC outsold the PS2 over a month's tracing, then your statement about this being the same as the Xbox is wrong.
Yeah, I was pretty pissed when I went to a recent concert (Kid Rock) and they asked me if my phone had a camera on it. Not really thinking they'd have a problem with it I said yes, and they said I couldn't come in with it. So I went to another entrance and this time said it was a pager. The fact is that it's kind of rediculous tho, since the camera is ultra crappy, and I do think in a few years most of these phones will have them. When I got this phone I couldn't get another one that fulfilled all my requirements and didn't have a camera (clamshell with caller id on the front, silence ringer on the side, primarily noncellular, can get internet access to a laptop, mostly paid for by my contract).
I do find it is nice to have. I use it mostly for memory augmentation. If there is a product I want to checkout reviews for later, I snap it. Rental car - snap the plate. People here are missing the point when they say "you should just get a real digital camera". This is for taking pictures of thing when you don't have you main camera with you with you since you always have your phone on you.
You C example did not make a function swap(x,y), it made a functions swap(&x,&y), which is why I said it can't be done. In C++, of course, you would use references.
I have written JNI code to bridge to COM. I didn't really find it hard. You just make your java class with the native methods, run javah to make the header file, and then implement the C function, and make it into a DLL. In my case most of the C functions were just passthroughs to a DLL, so they had one line. Maybe it's because I've created DLLs before that I didn't find it hard.
A lot of that can be blamed on the IDE as well. Assymetrix's Supercede for Java had a C++ compiler built into it and would handle everything for you. Of course they folded so I later had to do the javah stuff (which I still don't think is hard), but it's an example of how an IDE can just make all this hard stuff go away.
I personally haven't found the reason of your objections to really be hampering, but I do find that C and C++ have a lot of annoying things about them that I do not like (manual garbage collection being a large one, but I once quit a job because DLL hell just got to me. Java symbolically links at runtime so no hell). It's a tool for a purpose, just like perl, sh, C/C++, and Visual BASIC (all of which I use). Ultimitely, I'm most productive in general Java and I learned it after all of the above except perl. For this I will forgive it being unable to swap inline or lack typedefs. You cannot to the following in C/C++:
void f()
{
do_something();
new Thread() { public void run()
{
do_forked_code();
}}.start();
}
(it make and instance of a new thread class, delcares what it does when running, and then starts the instance). It may be a little ugly, but it is very useful to declare it within the method like that (in C, you would have to make a separate funtion and pass it's pointer into a thread library).
No, he's right. Lottery winnings are not taxable in Canada.
You can't do the first one in C. C++, you can.
4 is done easily tho not as elegantly as a true resize:
int[] x = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };
x = resizeArray(x,6);
private static Object resizeArray (Object oldArray, int newSize) {
int oldSize = java.lang.reflect.Array.getLength(oldArray);
Class elementType = oldArray.getClass().getComponentType();
Object newArray = java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance(
elementType,newSize);
int preserveLength = Math.min(oldSize,newSize);
if (preserveLength > 0)
System.arraycopy (oldArray,0,newArray,0,preserveLength);
return newArray; }
5 static float average(float[] list)
{
float avg=0.0f;
for (int i=0;ilist.length;i++)
avg+=list[i]/list.length;
return avg;
}
e.g.:
float x=1.5f;
average(new float[] { 1.0f, 2.0f, x });
7 can be accomplished with a functor.
Templates are coming in the next version and saying Java cannot call C functions isn't exactly true.
I would hope they wouldn't. If there is a statistical difference between the performance of, say, the C++ group and the Pascal group, it could be attributed to the actual skill of the kind of person who would take it in C++. By normalizing between the tests, it could make it unfair to whichever group has more proficiency.
Since left-hand values cannot be NULL by definition
By C++'s definition. But why couldn't a LHV be null, essentially saying you want the result dropped in the bitbin. You can do
getValue();
where you don't actually use the value gotten. But if that value comes back as in a reference you have to do
Type notGoingToUse;
getValue(notGoingToUse);
You'd be surprised how much the industry is sick of Java programmers, and on the lookout for good low-level engineers, or people who can do Forth or COBOL.
You're right, I would be surprised. In this town COBOL gets about 25K-40K/year less than Java, and Java requistions are hard to fill. I don't know much about low-level or orth jobs, having never looked at them, but the industry is hardly sick of Java programmers.
Or he's just partying like it's 1999.
Limit outgoing connections and bandwidth on port 24 would do it, but I don't know what software you could use to do that.
he has omnidirectional wireless internet connection (nope)
Um, why wouldn't he. My PCS phone can give me 128Kpbs (even more with a little knowhow) and it has 24-hour unlimited access. Plug this into a laptop, then use the RJ-45 port to connect to the WAP and you have portable sharable internet. What this guy did is not hard to do, but it is a very cool concept. I might make one of these up when I get a new laptop (gave my old one away).