d what you are saying be summed up by saying, "The more threads
you have the more important it is to keep your threads independent,
sharing as little data as possible."
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e are not started by me nor did i ever
>participate.
The reason you are unpopular has nothing to with what you say. It is
that you don't participate in discussions. You just pontificate from
on high. It implies a sort of haughty superciliousness that people are
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45 odd years ago.
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ly submit to having their usage spied on. These are not
a typical group or a large group.
Google has AdSense that will let them know in huge detail the hit
stats on a huge hunk of the web, but I don't know if they publish that
information anywhere.
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:27:04 -0500, Damien Kick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>"free as in beer".
but does not "free beer" nearly always come with a catch or implied
obligation?
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>What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
>based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows )
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ing to Einstein all time is local time, so perhaps our wish for
a clean UT is a pipedream.
To add to the confusion you have GPS, Loran and Julian day also used
as scientific times.
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someone who said :
>TAI? Care to provide a reference?
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errors mount up quickly in the calculation.
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ou are doing astronomy, your
advice would apply. If you are doing payrolls, you want effectively to
pretend the leap seconds never happened, just as Java does.
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m as longs in the database. The only catch is ad-hoc
queries won't work with them.
JDBC out the box should be fine.
one of :
DATEjava.sql.Date
TIMEjava.sql.Time
TIMESTAMP java.sql.Timestamp
BIGINT long
will be what you need.
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sanctioned one. It has instead on-the-fly code
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paces are unambiguous.
Ideally though you should run code through a beautifier before checkin
to avoid false deltas with people manually formatting code slightly
differently.
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entary on
them, not comp.lang.java.programmer.
It is one thing for a topic to drift but quite another to deliberately
post your initial message in the wrong place.
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se to spam, another form of
harassment.
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newsgroup. Newsgroups are about question and answer.
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of the languages that DO have
a standards body.
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e some result in a minimum of words.
Another measure might be how smoothly elements of the language map
onto elements of the problem domain.
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e.
that swaps fixed and variable pitch fonts. I gather you have one of
your fonts configured without many chars in it.
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with an encoding,
which is by default the platform encoding, not UTF-8. I have just
flipped it over to UTF-8. We'll see if that makes Xah's future UTF-8
messages more readable.
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has ever shown much interest in feedback, but you
pretty well have stick to vanilla ASCII to get your notation through
unmangled on newsgroups.
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what you are
talking about with participation in the discussions of day to day
coding problems.
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possible so
that you have maximal chance the next guy will already be familiar
with the tools.
>From that point of view Java is a nice choice, as is MySQL and JSP.
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ly and be
accurate. Your anger has nothing to do with his sexual preference.
In the process you got me thinking about plonking you to avoid ever
helping a bigot with his Darwinian quest.
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are you bawling out robico or Xah?
Attributions are necessary for personal attacks.
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based on Perl, of which i have mastery.
that's very lovely, but off topic. Trolling for language flame wars
belong is comp.lang.java.advocacy.
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eir will.
What if MS had simply made the threat without being specific about how
they were going to carry it off? Would you consider MS so innocent
then?
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to put me out of business was by
threatening to arm twist all wholesalers to refuse to sell MS product
to me, which any retailer needed to survive in those days.
It was obviously quasi legal or the threats would have had paper to
back them up so I could go to court now to sue the fuckers.
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x27;t uphold their
>contractual obligations.
You stupid fuck! How many times do I have to tell you.
There was NO contract. Just a THREAT to make me do what they wanted,
to go along with their extortion racket.
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e very
embarrasing if it were revealed to a spouse, without the tiniest hint
of a threat to do so.
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:31:41 GMT, Roedy Green
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :
>I used to be a retailer of custom computers. MS used a dirty trick to
>compete with IBM's OS/2. They said to me as a retailer. You must buy
>a copy
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:13:39 GMT, Roedy Green
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :
>To put this in perspective, IBM's salespeople made much nastier
>threats in their heyday. Dick Toewes, head of Inland Natural Gas, was
>in charge o
reputation as unreliable..."
There were the standard tactics on $1 million contracts. Imagine the
dirty tricks for the big ones. Mind you, back then $1 million was
serious money, especially when you considered the no-bid followons
over the years.
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:58:42 GMT, Roedy Green
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>I guess I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that
>>Microsoft demanded you pay them per machine you sold under the table in
the table in the
>absence of a written contract that said that? Or are you simply saying that
>they changed the terms of your agreement when it came up for renewal?
This was all under the table.
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nce of Microsoft actually using or threatening
>force?
YES . Have you not read a word I said.
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buying Windows wholesale.
No it was not . It was never on paper. It was not imposed until I
had been in business for at least 5 years.
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l agreements. We are talking junior Mafia
style enforcement.
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to by a court. Which is the whole reason for the
>existence of IBM clones, whether PCs or mainframes.
Back in the early days, IBM was just as bad as MS. Competition and
some smackdown by the DOJ, have made them much better behaved.
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uild the computers. Microsoft have no business telling me what
to do when they supplied only one component. I could not even sell a
BARE computer.
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On 26 Oct 2005 00:38:23 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>A Haskell A Day: Manifesto
This is the wrong newsgroup. Had you done the same for Java,
comp.lang.java.help would be the place to post it.
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>hundreds of millions of spam emails?
Of course he cares. He is a shill. He licks that hand that feeds him.
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gs with them because their low standards of conduct.
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put it this way. The pressured me into selling my soul.
They did not tempt me into it. They threatened to destroy my business
and my livelihood if I did not knuckle under. That is extortion.
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immoral scheme to screw OS/2 or go out of business. Your choice."
I call that extortion, even if their lawyers were careful enough to
skirt the letter of the law.
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got to do
with the price of eggs?
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:16:24 GMT, Roedy Green
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>>As well as blame. The commercialization of the Internet was grossly
>>mismanaged. Take the InterNIC - please!
>
>As global bureaucracies go, I think they have done a good job. Can
>y
job. Can
you imagine herding the cats of egotistical dictators and politicians
from every country on earth who have not a clue about what the
function of domain are?
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Why should the standards of acceptable conduct be any lower for groups
of people (namely corporations) than individuals?
It would be like excusing bad behaviour based on other group
memberships such as churches or gangs.
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:00:31 GMT, Roedy Green
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>The choice was go along with MS arm twisting or go out of business.
>
>I call that extortion.
I deeply resent this, because they not only ripped me off, they put me
a in position I felt compelled
is worth.
The choice was go along with MS arm twisting or go out of business.
I call that extortion.
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If what they did to me in the 90s was not illegal it damn well should
have been.
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than the average citizen.
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On 19 Oct 2005 09:41:09 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote or quoted :
>As far as I understand you, the company should ship the faulty model.
This is what they do. However, I find it odd people seriously
suggesting that is the way society SHOULD run.
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e shareholders. All other obligations come from the
>harm these failures will do to the shareholders.
That's the view of Republican, but it is not the only view. Some
might say the law trumps that. It does not matter if breaking the law
would be more profitable, you still don't do it.
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you can't divorce
that from the people who do the actions.
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in your language.
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fired. The company exists as a vehicle to execute the
>desires of the shareholders. That's why they get to vote on who runs it.
Why should loyalty to company trump all other loyalties -- family,
law, species, community, country, religion ... ?
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if making maximum profit for the
shareholders were the only consideration in determining conduct.
If that is not what you mean, I think you need to hedge more.
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almost as convincing as "that's what you think".
If your only obligation is to a group of person, that makes you a sort
of slave. What about obligations to family, community, yourself?
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e of school reading and picked an Ayn Rand
novel.
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tely on that sort of issue.
I started gay lib in my part of the world purely as a "futile moral
gesture". Within 2 years to my utter amazement, we had the gay rights
legislation.
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You still have spam to a lesser extent and strangers just wanting to
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n help let spammers know if they have reached a human :-|
If you think about it, much as you hate spammers you WANT them to have
that information. If you never read spam, and they know that, they
eventually might stop sending it to you and focus on the nitwits who
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ad thing.
>>
>> Because ... what are the consequences?
>
>If you mean if you are put in jail for 20 years, and tortured, none.
No. ANY consequences. You have not explained the downside.
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:40:26 GMT, Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>I didn't think unicode domain names existed.
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ng as it isn't force/fraud.
I avoid MS products whenever possible. Surely others feel the same
way because we have had it up to the teeth with MS dirty tactics. That
has to be factored into profitability as well.
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x27;s products at the center, using anything short of force or fraud.
I think that what they did borders on force/fraud.
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:43:16 -0700, "David Schwartz"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>I understand why the argument is invalid. I'm presenting it as an
>example of a similar invalid argument.
Not every post is meant to contradict or inform the OP.
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:37:35 -0700, Alan Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote or quoted :
>You've been around long enough to learn to recognize this poster and
>ignore him.
Sounds like your plonk filter is on the fritz then.
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t bribed Bush to
pull the plug on the prosecution.
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grossly unfair price advantage.
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no way to avoid the expense.
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:17:03 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
or quoted :
>
>Yup. When NS was the 800 lb gorilla on they acted like MS,
I think you would need to give some examples. They gave away a free
browser. What other evil thing did they do?
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US government tree?
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see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/sqlvendors.html
Here is a field where there is healthy competition.
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in them.
2. You can reasonably quickly turn computer printouts or paper
documents into web content.
3. You don't have to guess what the end user will see.
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educed in price, MS software
has increased.
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OSes.
That meant a customer who wanted OS/2 had to effectively also buy an
unwanted copy of Windows. How could OS/2 compete?
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hat a specious analogy.
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standard though, but when people
>babble about HTML standards they talk about W3C *recommendations*.
What do you think the Internet is based on? RFCs. That stands for
"Request For Comment". It is an in-sort of Internet humour to name
standards that way.
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and
distribution, not whether it can run a given piece of software.
Web apps, Java and other multiplatform tools force OSes to compete on
quality, not on proprietary lockin.
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s?)
There also had that Passport thing. They probably figured they would
take over Internet commerce and get rich off the user fees.
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MS refused to believe the Internet was more than a
passing fad. They are still frantically patching security holes in
their OS over a decade later.
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il, not
because they have a large market share.
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