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yes, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. We're NOT a homework service, and we're also NOT going to help you write another pirate 2 pirate application.

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[quote]the crazy long line in the winner method [/quote] Start by splitting that line into fragments you can understand. As the error says, you can't perform boolean operations on something that's not a boolean. You're (it says, and I trust that it's right) comparing Strings with booleans there, which is …

You should also move things like database operations out of the JSP and into Javabeans and/or servlets. Ideally a JSP should only concern itself with displaying data that was retrieved and/or calculated in a servlet.

when will kids learn to NOT do that in JSP, in fact to NOT use any scriptlets or business logic AT ALL in JSP?

also, ALWAYS close database resources after use. And your connect string looks really weird. Normally you'd pass username and password separately.

That's not Java, but JavaScript. Post it in the appropriate forum.

why has noone told him yet that "the DOS command" will never be available from Java for the simple reason that Java doesn't work on DOS based machines?

The problem with that is that many kids will continue to scream and rant until someone indeed does their entire assignment for them... I've seen this in action many times here and (to a greater degree) elsewhere. If someone shows a willingness to learn I'll be the last to deny …

you fail. That was a quick exam!

destroying the form will not end the application. Use application.terminate to do that. That will also destroy any remaining objects at the same time, releasing (or it should) all application memory. But what do you mean by "Delphi will not write the exe"? Sounds like you are having some serious …

Check in your volume settings whether you have the microphone recording volume muted. If so, try unmuting it.

so first you are too lazy to think up your own project idea, and now you want people to write the code for you so you don't have to do that either. I hope you fail utterly.

for that very reason I won't touch any GPL'd code at any time. There is none on my system, I won't even look at any in an editor or print. By linking to the library at runtime you're using it, which forces you to release your own code under GPL. …

no use for Runtime (which seems to be WAY WAY overused by people in lue of native solutions that are a lot easier once you get your head around to you being working in Java rather than a scripting language). They're just Java classes...

learning about such things would be a good start. Learning how to ask questions that are not vague and ambiguous also helps a lot.

I'd never buy a Googlephone. Their track record when it comes to identity theft and invasion of privacy is way too bad for me to trust them not to record everything I do with it and send it home to daddy. And don't think the network provider determines the phone …

The problem with the vast majority of those "tests" is that they're useless. They don't test how a person acts under normal working conditions. They often don't test his actual skills at all. I've had several over the years, all were utterly useless. And where it is useful, what the …

Why worry? There's nothing you can do about it anyway... If you have large deposits, almost certainly they're locked into life insurance policies or similar instruments that you can't clean our or move to other institutions without the bank or insurance firm holding the account cleaning you out through massive …

Had you read what it is instead of recklessly clicking buttons like a fool you'd have had nothing to complain about. IMO they're quite open about what they do, and they do give you a clear choice to use it or not. It's no different from Amazon's recommendations feature, at …

Back to the dumb terminal... If this were to happen say byebye to your privacy as Google would have all your data, everything. You'd exist only as long as Google allowed it, and they could change your identity at will. You'd be what and who Google says you are. If …

Obama believes in destroying the US, economy and all, for the sake of his friends in Iran and for "the environment". That's all you need to know to determine who's the best candidate for the country.

Expect to see proposed new laws and regulations restricting or outright banning such devices to be introduced shortly. This is just laying the groundwork to get such things accepted by the people who've been so bludgeoned into wanting total "security" from everything they'll by now accept anything if it's explained …

personally, I've always liked the idea behind the things. The only thing that put me off getting one is the price (and to a lesser degree, the lack of room to put one).

No doubt Google is going to change things in Chrome so that only their own services work well through it. Not at first but slowly, insidiously, things will change so that for example other search engines start coming up poorly or not at all, Hotmail starts failing, etc. Won't happen …

Most maps on the 'net are of terrible quality, their data suspect. They're no better than the maps printed and sold in the Soviet Union, which were (and possibly still are) deliberately inaccurate to prevent people knowing the exact geography of the country or even the locations of the cities …

And that's exactly why you have beta programs, to find such problems that don't show up in a cleanroom environment of the software testing lab where all machines are fresh installations of everything recreated for every test cycle.

People "hating Microsoft" has become a self-fullfilling prophesy for the slashdot crowd. The more they repeat their mantra, the more kids start to believe that you should "hate Microsoft" to be "kewl" and therefore proclaim loudly that they "hate Microsoft". Meanwhile, real people who don't care for "kewlness" select the …

how do you feel now, Linus, that people are exposing the gaping holes in your "secure" operating system?

so now crime is "freedom of speech"? What's next, defending murder as "freedom of expression"?

replace "lost" with stolen, with the most likely culprits to be TSA "guards".

Excellent. Should serve as a deterrent to other cheating kids as well as get a budding hardcore criminal off the street for a long time. By the time he gets out he'll be harmless in society as his skills at anything except serving as a gay hooker should be pretty …

The EU has only a single goal: make as much money as possible for European Comission members and their stooges. Since the largest manufacturer of disposable batteries in Europe (and one of the largest in the world) is located in France, and another in Germany, which just happen to be …

read the thread about relaxing while coding. Many people code to music. The iTunes license apparently does not allow one to use iTunes for that while designing a weapon of mass destruction or its control software unless authorised to do so by the US government. Sounds reasonable to me :)

I wouldn't want an iPhone at that price, or just about any price. They're bulky, the user interface looks pathetic (designed for looks rather than usability), and the featureset as you notice is not what I want either. I'd rather have a Samsung i780 or something similar (and in fact …

next step, sueing these ISPs for violation of their contracts with their customers to provide unlimited access. Even though I don't like child porn, and would never knowingly download any (sometimes one does get tricked into visiting sites one doesn't want when they're misrepresented by search engines), blocking them when …

Keep on dreaming. As long as Linux SUCKS when it comes to software support, as long as people expect their machines to run Windows software (which they quite logically do, that being the vast majority of available software, with Linux and Mac versions being usually unavailable and if available more …

demagogues have always been good at "reaching out" to get their message across. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and now Obama are all examples of that.

the problem isn't that people are buying online to get a bargain (though that's often a delusion, and in the end puts more people out of work locally which is bad for the economy and thus your wallet) but WHAT they buy. Many of them buy pirated music, movies, and …

everyone knows that you have no privacy whatsoever when using ANY service provided by Goooooooogle or any of their subsidiairies... Goooooooogle stores and collects everything they can and sell it to the highest bidder, that's their entire business model.

the entire "manmade global warming" scare is a massive fraud enterprise based on a hoax. There is no "manmade global warming", only natural climate fluctuations. And thinking that anything we can do will influence those to any more than minimal degree and on a global scale is tantamount to insanity. …

correct. Offering support for touchscreens out of the box doesn't mean you won't be able to use a keyboard any longer. Microsoft isn't crazy, they know they'd never be able to sell the product if 99.9999% of their userbase won't be able to use it because they lack a touchscreen …

guess what, it doesn't matter. The vast majority of real downloads ARE upgrading users, FF market share in what people actually use is pretty flat and has been for a year or so. But all that is irrelevant. To get that "record" we're going to see a lot of fanboyz …

Another company releasing a failed product as "open source" in the hope it will get them some positive press which might generate some more sales and so recover at least a bit of the cost of creating that failed product.

I actually have one of those things, courtesy of my employer. The Samsung i780 works like a charm. Only gripes are the short battery life when using the GPS unit (which a car charger alleviates, it will keep the unit fully charged at all times), and the poor GPS signal …

Nothing new there. Under EU legislation ratified by the EC (and therefore under the EU "this is not a constitution" legally binding in all member states) ALL EU member nations will have to do that from next year. And it's not just email either. It's also all phone calls, IM …

and next week a cargo ship with produce arrives from in England from the Bahamas... Let's hope the critters don't survive in our wet and chilly climes.

ISPs have a duty to ALL their customers, and that means preventing users of Pirate 2 Pirate software from bogging down their networks by throttling their bandwidth to the point where there's enough capacity for everyone. Those kids are already stealing the stuff they're downloading, why should the ISPs let …

Not my experience. Roughly 60% of the spam I get is advertising for various goods and services (the rest are attempts at identity theft). Of that, roughly 80% is for medicines (fake or otherwise), mostly Viagra and similar products. The rest is about a mix of pirated software, porn (I …

So Google has found another way to steal peoples' personal data, this time by leeching it from social networking sites they can't index because the pages are password protected. Good call by Facebook to block the spyware.