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    There's a place for both, it's no popularity contest of "which is best" without any classification as to what scenario is being considered.
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    your assumption is wrong. First case you have 2 different object instances, that just happen to represent the same data. No problem, both are added. Second case you have single …
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    Replied To a Post in How to create a stand alone java Desktop application ??

    yes, but the documentation isn't. It's a separate download, and I don't have that one (and am too lazy to go browse through a heap of jar files).
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    sorry, I'm under an NDA and can't give you "zuh koduz" even if I had them on my harddisk.
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    Gave Reputation to syasya in Consider above code segment

    consider the following code segment String a="hello"; String b= "hello"; if (a==b) System.out.println("they are equal"); i ) Why does it not generate output? ii)How can we rewrite the program such …
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    Replied To a Post in I want to move PHP to JAVA ,How will i do it?

    hmm, from my experience looking at job openings last year Spring is on the way out, at least getting a lot less popular. Of course that might be regional :) …
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    Replied To a Post in String a ="SMS Message " or String a = new String ("SMS Message")?

    answer: simply add an else clause to your if statement to print something if the two are not equal ;)
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    Replied To a Post in Anyone in for homeopathy?

    many (not all) homeopathic products would work, IF they'd not been diluted to homeopathic dilutions but provided in more concentrated form... And that's the sad reality of homeopathy.
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    Replied To a Post in How to create a stand alone java Desktop application ??

    and who knows what 3rd party jars he's inadvertently pulled in by using netbeans to generate his screens for him... It's got better, but many IDEs still have a tendency …
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    Replied To a Post in Final Question . please help me

    what's supposed to be true? I can't look into the brain of your teacher, but I assume if he hands you an assignment it's a true assignment...
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    Replied To a Post in Please check my PL SQL (beginner)?

    except for the terminal output, you don't usually want that... At line 6, you're not guarding against the situation where there is no result or more than one result. This …
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    Download & Install Android SDK, Java Development Kit, Eclipse.
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    and of course you could get laid in bed, but for details about that you'd have to visit places that are definitely NSFW.
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    Replied To a Post in need help with creating menu system

    no, don't use Vector. Vector was made redundant over a decade ago and would have been marked as @deprecated had it not been in such widespread use already at the …
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    Replied To a Post in No back doors in TrueCrypt

    yah, like openSSL that supposedly had a major backdoor in it for 2 years until an NSA contractor just happened to come across it...
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    yes, it's correct. You're not laying in bed, though you may have been laid in bed by someone after being found unconscious on the floor.
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    Replied To a Post in Microsoft confirms it's dropping Windows 8.1 support

    interesting how they link to a lot of their own articles, but to nothing related that's been published by Microsoft themselves. Of course them being militant Microsoft haters might have …
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    Replied To a Post in need help with creating menu system

    Or see it as a good reason to start reading about switch statements :) Never be afraid to experiment and learn something new.
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    might even extend that by starting in the middle and determining what direction to go in, of course only if the list is sorted.
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    of course more often than not Dutch people don't know or care whether inanimate objects are supposed to be male or female and refer to them as genderless. It's not …
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    You will have a hell of a time proving you're supposed to have access to the account. If I were Google and some pundit called me saying "please give me …
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    Replied To a Post in Microsoft confirms it's dropping Windows 8.1 support

    You misrepresent it. Microsoft is making 8.1 the mandatory minimum to receive support, NOT dropping support for it. What's being dropped is Windows 8.0 support. Just as support was dropped …
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    Replied To a Post in LITTLE PROBLEM

    well, can see one little problem already. Your "tax rate" is hopefully a percentage, not a rate. If it's really a rate you have 850% tax :)
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    Replied To a Post in Help with arrays

    hmm, I'd write it to the same standards as the assignment, which is written horrendously, and then confront the teacher with that when and if he grades me poorly (keeping …
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    Replied To a Post in AddingOdd Numbers Recusively

    probably. Which shows once again how pointless such assignments are when presented outside their context :)
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    @AD for a while I used "it" when gender wasn't known. Got equally hostile reactions from men and women, problem solved :)
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    Replied To a Post in Start at the bottom or top rung?

    oh, razorblade and sticky tape. The original patch...
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    Replied To a Post in Could Someone Please Tell Me A Little About Borland 'Object Vision'?

    it's not too bad, just the lines tend to get extremely long (in part because of the very long classnames.
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    Replied To a Post in AddingOdd Numbers Recusively

    but why go to the trouble of using a recursive solution when it can be done far more easily otherwise... Very valid question if you ask me.
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    Replied To a Post in Start at the bottom or top rung?

    nah, ticker tape is much more flexible and you don't have to resort it every time you drop a bunch.
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    and he'd be correct. "their" in this context would mean the person handing the ticket, aka the police officer, yet many people seem to think it applies to the person …
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    Replied To a Post in java type mismatch

    in fact, in my experience Netbeans tends to outperform Eclipse on any reasonably up to date system (and on one that's very old, and seriously resource limited, Eclipse isn't going …
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    Replied To a Post in Computer Science Final Year Project Ideas

    LOL, there used to be one. It only led to MORE such rubbish demands for doing kids' thinking for them as it caused a lot of google hits on queries …
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    Replied To a Post in java type mismatch

    should be no more difficult than installing, setting your $JAVA_HOME to point to it, and adding it to Eclipse. Of course the version of Eclipse you have might not understand …
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    Replied To a Post in Start at the bottom or top rung?

    Nard, a lot of languages don't even have a command prompt any more, 90% of the first several weeks learning them is spent learning some IDE's menus and keyboard shortcuts... …
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    yes, usually retort things like that. And then grin at the confused looks I get.
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    that breeder is probably getting a pretty decent kickback from the insurance company... Conflict of interest anyone?
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    Replied To a Post in Start at the bottom or top rung?

    start with a language where you can simply see something on the command prompt after typing it in, like Python or Ruby. Java and C are almost as simple. PHP? …
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    Replied To a Post in Could Someone Please Tell Me A Little About Borland 'Object Vision'?

    you're wrong about Objectvision as not involving coding. There was no drag and drop system for building screens. Objectvision was rather a unified library for creating user interfaces for DOS …
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    Update window waste times much and data :(
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    by carefully reading your code and figuring out where you went wrong. It is rather obvious. Using proper class and variable naming conventions makes it easier to read btw. So …
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    You could even encode the actual size of each fragment into the sheet, but that would not be something you'd easily do by just copying and pasting images in gimp …
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    gets even worse when there's a cultural and/or language barrier. As with the classic error of Indians, saying "I have a doubt" when they mean "I have a question".
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    Replied To a Post in how to add username and password in SOAP header using netbeans

    you were given 2 ways to do that, which one is appropriate for your scenario and the implementation details are up to you to figure out.
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    Replied To a Post in how to add username and password in SOAP header using netbeans

    hmm, there's rather frequently a need to add request headers. Of course you will usually need to send things like username and password as an MD5 or SHA hash rather …
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    Stating "X is twice as expensive as Y" makes sense. So does, technically, "Y is half as cheap as X" (though I seriously dislike the phrase). But "Y is two …
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    Replied To a Post in I Need Some Help Understanding Incompatibility Between Windows OS Families.

    The Win32 API still exists, the operating system translating for you to Win64 equivalent calls. If it didn't, 32 bit applications would not work on a 64 bit version of …
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    Replied To a Post in Are computer scientists really programmers?

    the main problem defining whether a piece of software is correct is the lack of a closed definition of what that piece of software is supposed to do. More often …
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    Replied To a Post in 2D Side Scroller Collision Detection

    yes, and if your area is very large, maintain a larger box around the player, check all objects if their centers are in that box, then if they are check …
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    Replied To a Post in Question About Borland Turbo C 2.01 IDE

    well, Windows XP went the way of the dodo years ago, and has now officially become a fossil. But then, you're running 30+ year old software on it so you …

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