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You forget some simple facts of economics: 1) people want to be entertained and are prepared to pay big money for that. 2) the only thing more profitable than boorish entertainment is sex 3) no government program that takes longer to turn a profit for the politicians voting for it …

how to get started using an array: int[] arr = new int[10000];

Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates' book is the best by general concensus :) [url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072226846[/url] I used nothing else (well, several years of professional experience can't hurt). From what I've heard about ucertify their product isn't very good. Certainly not good enough to justify the money spent on it. Exam cram …

Ditch the old crap that VS6. Why start out learning something that's going on 10 years old? You'll be teaching yourself outdated skills, almost worse than useless. The ONLY reason to use old versions of software for study is when you have a business requirement to use that specific version …

If it's as meaningful and well put as your question I'd start by completely rewriting it, including a more generous use of things like whitespace, interpunction, and other language features that make a text easier to read. As you may notice I have a tendency towards using longer than normal …

Give it some random thought? I think if you do some research and thinking you'll end up with a lot of ideas.

1) see the servlet API. You're likely looking at retrieving a large stream of data as part of a post request. 2) think about using the built-in XML support of the Java core API, or else to use a 3rd party XML parser like Xerces.

Read up on boolean logic. The fundamentals are simple but you do need a thorough understanding, more than a short summary can provide.

try the API docs. Everything you need to know is there. We're not here to be a walking index into the core documentation.

Eclipse has a built in compiler. Depending on the version it will support Java 1.4 or 5.0. Are you looking for another editor or do you have reason to be unhappy with the compiler Eclipse uses (in which case you will need to change to another editor as well because …

Nice name. Everyone knew (or could have known) that Longhorn would not be the name of the product. It's a project name only, and probably still is.

nah, CDRs cost pennies :evil:

compiler flags are case sensitive and need to appear BEFORE any files you are compiling.

Get O'Reilly's Java Network Programming book, it has a webserver as one of the easier examples :)

If you have hardware with a JVM built into it (which is possible) you can indeed write the rest in Java.

There is no difference in Java (in other languages there may be). Just be consistent in your use in order to avoid confusing people. The second syntax is preferred by many people because it more accurately describes what Java does under the hood (in Java an array of whatever is …

make sure there's an empty line after the mainclass argument. This is required!

VA Java was terrible and has at last met its overdue demise a few years ago with the release of WSAD. JBuilder is the ONLY one I've used in 8 years of working with Java that produces code that's close to being passably human readable (and of course JBuilder is …

Graphics is an abstract class, it's designed specifically for subclassing. Subclasses of Graphics will provide the actual implementation of the method, and whereever you see a Graphics instance returned from a method what you're actually getting is an instance of a Graphics subclass.

Get a good book and use that. Good books are: Head First Java (2nd edition) by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates Agile Java by Jeff Langr Loops are so basic you should pick them up easily from any tutorial, and not need someone else to write them out for you.

the best way to see things is to actually go there and see for yourself... Having travelled to over 25 countries I can tell I want to see more of the world. Had to do some thinking as I visited some of these before they broke apart... UK Belgium France …

from Wikipedia: " If you zoom in close enough you will notice that the moon is in fact, made of cheese"

There's nothing wrong with either path... And what about other operating systems?

yup, can be done easily.

And for Mercer's sake get a better book :) HeadFirst Java 2nd edition is the one to get.

Funny :) And a very interesting way to deliberately misinterpret a statement made to mean something else entirely.

heck, some people claim to be able to see the difference between 1000 and 1001 frames per second, doesn't mean they can. The human brain can detect motion at about 30 Hz, the eye can detect maybe up to 60 Hz but the brain can't handle that information. Most likely …

I guess he doesn't know what he knows, therefore doesn't know whether he wants to start :cheesy:

no, beginning users shouldn't use any IDE. It prevents them from learning the basics by hiding those basics from them.

had caviar (not that brand though I think), didn't like it. I know it's a sin to say that, but so be it :)

Good time to scrap Norton and go for a reliable product... Try McAfee or Kaspersky.

Intel all the way, certainly for machines that need stability and a long uptime. Intel beats AMD hands down when it comes to reliability, even if AMDs sometimes have slightly higer performance when measuring raw speed (and even there, AMD often deceives customers by listing performance comparisons between their highend …

The steps needed to activate your installation should have been included with your machine. In case you have no internet connection you should call Microsoft to help you out, the number is in the documentation.

Sounds like either a bad keyboard or a bad keyboard controller. Try using a different keyboard, if that doesn't work you're looking at a new motherboard (though sometimes a USB keyboard works when a PS/2 keyboard doesn't, but that's rare).

You can't, period. The normal way is to have the main method do nothing except handle commandline arguments, create a single instance of the application (usually its own class), and start that instance.

Never yourself use any of the sun.* packages and the classes in them. Those classes are not guaranteed to exist in any other version of the language (or even in different platform implementations (for example it might exist in Sun's 1.4.0 but not in their own 1.4.2 nor in IBMs …

interesting site, will have to see how objective they are though (oftentimes individual quotes from the Qu'ran (and other religious scriptures like the Bible) are taken out of context to make them appear to say something they don't).

That was my immediate idea when seeing your question (which I'd never seen before). But had you tried to set the JVM memory parameters? things like [quote] -Xms<size> set initial Java heap size -Xmx<size> set maximum Java heap size -Xss<size> set java thread stack size [/quote] maybe also enable incremental …

trying a C++ forum to ask C++ questions might also be a good idea...

If your Java skills are weak you need to improve those skills, not ask people for ready made solutions. Get a good book (or 2, or 10, or like me buy them until you run out of money), read the API docs, and experiment. DateFormat, Calendar, and Date together are …

Of course those translations are usually of a very poor quality and completely useless for technical stuff, humour, etc. etc. Best thing is to learn the other language. German isn't that hard, especially reading it. I've been speaking German reasonably well since about the age of 4, and I'm very …

Contact Microsoft sales for sufficient licenses for all clients. You will also have to purchase terminal server or a similar product.

ah, another terrorist sympathiser trying to turn Iraq into Vietnam. Like it or not bozo, but there are less people dead in Iraq from violence than there are people dead from traffic accidents. In fact, the number of troops hurt in Iraq due to accidents that would happen in peacetime …

One part of showing you're ready for your diploma is to show you can think for yourself. Thinking of something to write is a part of that. Of course actually writing it is a very large part as well.

1) this isn't urgent at all, certainly not to me. Don't try to get people to give you preferential treatment by claiming you're more important than others. 2) use proper English. I won't answer any question that uses "u" "ur", etc. etc. as words.

To go further: even if they were you should not use the services. NEVER reply to spam and NEVER EVER buy anything from a spammer.

Almost right, but not quite how I'd prefer it. Data is transmitted to a servlet. This servlet controls who is to process the data (based on request attributes probably). It then forwards the data somewhere else for processing. This can be another servlet, a javabean, or even a JSP (in …

The only ones who won were the lawyers who got multimillion dollar paychecks out of the farce. This is the usual result of large civil lawsuits, especially frivollous ones like this where the charged party has done nothing wrong and the accuser tries to get rich over someone else's back...

You're thinking way too complex thoughts :) [code] /* * created: Sep 23, 2003 * by: wtg */ package nl.wtg; import java.util.Map; import java.util.ResourceBundle; /** * @author wtg */ public class HandlerFactory { private static HandlerFactory instance = null; private static ResourceBundle handlers = null; private HandlerFactory() { handlers = …

put the money in the bank and keep it there. Maybe you could invest in another gigabyte of RAM if you have memory intensive stuff but otherwise you have a system that should last you another year or two (I know I plan to keep mine for another 2 years …