Posts by jwenting

Ditch JBuilder 3.
There's no reason whatsoever to still use that dinosaur.

Establishment of state religions is prohibited by the 14th amendment

And thus not the 1st...
IMO the 14th is restrictive of individual rights and therefore unconstitutional (as the constitution is designe to define the power of the federal government, not limit that of others).

There have been a lot of USSC rulings about what the 1st amendment means, most recently about teaching creationism in public schools and the states rights to establish religion.

Not all of which would stand up to close scrutiny and several of which will likely be overthrown if challenged before the USSC again.

> But I dunno, some of your kooky ideas have kinda grown on me.

Oh yeah? Like what? :)

A girl running a computer related website...

Hides in corner

if you failed to find it yourself with even minimal effort, you'd better give up right now and except that failing grade.
Why go through the trouble of trying to cheat people into helping you cheat yourself into a passing grade (and that's the only thing you can hope to accomplish if you can't even find the library) if you can spend the rest of the year lounging at the bar before signing up for unemployment benefits and lounging the rest of your life away waiting for the next social security paycheck to arrive?

I found it in maybe 10 seconds, it's that easy to find.
And no, I'm not going to help you find it for all the above reasons. Had you tried you'd have found it yourself.

Does anyone know if the new US passports have been hacked yet?

I don't know. The new Dutch passport containing chips were compromisd within days of being first released last year and probably use a similar system.

Yup, I agree. Separation of church and state. [public] Schools should not teach any form of religion at all..

Which is NOT what the first means. The first does NOT state that the "state" shall not be religious. It only states that the "state" shall not force its citizens to adopt any specific religion.
It doesn't even state that the "state" isn't allowed to promote a specific religion, as long as it doesn't do so by force (which might be interpreted as not giving preferential treatment to some religions over others, but even that may be stretching the definitions).

The ONLY thing the 1st states is that the FEDERAL government shall not force people to observe any specific religion.
It says NOTHING about whether agents of the federal government can be religion, or even openly religious, in the execution of their duties, as long as they don't force others to join that religion.

It explicitly states NOTHING about state and lower governments.
IF an individual state wishes to establish a state religion, it is free to do so unless prevented by its own state constitution.

It also states NOTHING about private citizens establishing religious requirements for for example their employees or customers.

It certainly does NOT state that schools (most or all of which aren't run by the federal government) are not allowed to teach their pupils about religion, cannot offer a morning prayer, or cannot be used as a venue for sunday school or other meetings of religious groups.

So it is highly specific. The federal government is not allowed to require citizens to be a member of any religion.
That's it, no more no less.

But do remember to use proper capitalisation, interpunction, spelling, and grammar.

If I saw the style you just used in your resume or cover letter it would get instantly binned.

$30 a month may pay for a single person for about half an hour (depending on how much they get paid, but if they're good they'll get decent pay...)
And that's without covering for the cost of infrastructure, study material, etc. so you'd better consider that only about $10 goes to paying that person.

So you're looking at companies that assign a human to each student for an average of 10 minutes per month.
I don't know, but that doesn't seem like a way to teach someone.
10 minutes per month to process your questions and homework, answer support calls, process your payment, mail you courseware, etc. etc. isn't a lot.

And those 10 minutes are assuming they're not into the profit making business...

well said. The only reason for a prospect to not want to sign a contract stating the terms and scope of the business you're entering into is that they don't intend to pay and/or intend to expand the scope of the work without increasing payment.

So you might end up spending months more there without pay because they claim you didn't do what was agreed and will get paid only when you do the work they tell you to do (and at the end say your work is below par and refuse to pay you at all).

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.
It is maybe unlikely claims like that would hold up in a court of law (but as we all know courts are not to be relied upon to act logically, many are ignorant of reality and especially jury trials are decided mostly by what the jurors perceive to be in their own personal interest rather than the law), but by the time you got that far you'd be out of a ton of money and be branded as a bad guy all over the internet.

So just avoid anything to do with the GPL. Use alternatives everywhere, if you do stumble upon GPL'd code or libraries by accident (it happens, not every file is recognisable as such before you open it and take a look) delete every trace of it immediately.

learn Java before you try to mess with things like that.
If you don't know how to use a library you get from somewhere, why go look for one?

try the C++ and Delphi manuals, which you will have if you have a legal version of the product.
If you don't, you don't deserve any help. In fact you deserve only contempt if you use pirated software.

They printed money which was not backed by anything

The money was backed by production capacity, which is the only real way money can be backed.

In fact the current economic system is as unstable as it is because the money supply isn't backed by production capacity.

NoClassDefFound isn't thrown from the compiler, only from the runtime...

So you probably did not in fact compile your class, or indeed forgot to include it on the classpath when trying to execute it.

any search engine...

But we can't run the special scientific applications we need on Windows So we have to use DOS.

You can. Don't blame the world for moving on when you keep standing still and refuse to upgrade your software...

Do you also blame the world for making cars which are so fast and loud that they scare the horse that's pulling your carriage?
As that's what people did a hundred years ago...

Al Jazeera is indeed bad. They're called the Osama News Network for a reason...

> PETA is a terrorist organisation. Anyone supporting them is a supporter of terrorism and should be removed from society.

I think thats going a bit to far. Do you think that supporters or members of PETA are bad people? My friends mom used to be a member of PETA and she doesn't strike as a particularly evil, immoral, and nasty person. How can you justify your absolutist stance? If anything we should get rid of closed minded individuals such as yourself.

PETA has documented links with several ecoterrorist groups, including highranking members being members of both and PETA supplying substantial funding and information to those groups.

So yes, they're a terrorist organisation for all purposes. This may not be known to most of their lowranking members who just fall for the public PR campaign (though how anyone'd fall for such smut as they pour out is beyond me), but certainly to the mid and top cadre.

you heretic. We'll let you Dig that bot's grave.

+1 that thing is destroying our hangouts.

UML pretty much replaced flowcharts as the de-facto standard to visualise software design.
There's some free software, but it's not good enough to be useful in my opinion.

by which I mean that you're describing a search engine...

hmm, ever heard of a "search engine"?

How to judge this depends on what your intentions were when writing it...

As a means of adding 2 numbers it's overly complicated, as a way of learning how simple classes can be written it's not bad.

no, we're not going to do that. We're certainly not going to sheepishly compile and run your code and fix it for you.

PETA is a terrorist organisation. Anyone supporting them is a supporter of terrorism and should be removed from society.

the only good peta member is a dead peta member. They're terrorists, fascists.

better yet, terminate him with extreme prejudice together with his followers and remove a major source of hot air and carbon dioxide...

your rant shows that the government was correct in turning down your proposal.
It stinks of incredible immaturity and an utter lack of capacity for analytical thought which can only mean your plan is not feasible, certainly not when executed by you.

actually... :-/ yes! haha.

On yourself of course. As you so graciously decided that it should be tested on humans you're morally required to vollunteer yourself as a guinea pig.

Of course the vast majority of people screaming that testing should be done on humans are hypocrits and won't vollunteer.
They'd rather see the return of the Nazi and Japanese death camps where people you don't like are used as experimental subjects before being disected while still alive to see what the substance under testing actually does to the living body.

don't use Hashtable, it's to be considered deprecated.
And never call anything "enum" or "Enumeration" to avoid major trouble with modern compilers.

If you want your data ordered, use a LinkedHashMap.

you're not. The code it generates is impossible to maintain outside Netbeans (which is an immediate disqualifier for any generated code), stinks badly because of all the forced code duplication you're required to have even in your own code that interfaces with it, and has abysmal performance.

>Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here are some examples:

Are they? Never noticed. But I have more than half a braincell.

> - Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions in radians, when most people use degrees?

Most people that count when it comes to spreadsheets and programming languages use radians.
All scientists and mathematicians for example. Others using those tools usually have little interest in mathematics, especially trigonometric functions (and those that do know how to do the conversion easily enough).

> - Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) have two different syntax forms to call functions with, depending on which function you want?

flexibility.

> - Why does Microsoft change the name of everything from what others called it before (a "directory" suddenly became a "folder", and a "procedure" became a "method").

first is marketing, it was decided after speaking with a lot of non-technical users that the term more easily fits their concept of what they're doing (so it's to make computers easier to use), second is not Microsoft.

> - In the 1980s, kids all over were programming computers. With the change to Windows, this suddenly stopped, as Microsoft made programming a lot harder to do. Why?

In the 1980s hardly anyone was programming because hardly anyone had a computer.
The percentage of kids programming may …

place it in the correct location within your web application and it will be picked up automagically.
that location is of course the WEB-INF/lib directory.

look at the c:fmt taglibrary from JSTL

kid seems hypersensitive...
Nowhere did I say anything about someone else not doing his work for him, yet he defends himself stating he isn't asking for that.

Which makes me wonder, as his words are pretty much standard issue for kids who do want others to do their work for them.
So will that be the next question, after we magically provide him with a document he should be able to get from his data suppliers (and should, as there's no way to know which version of the protocol he's going to have to code to, nor which fields in the records will be of relevance or even filled at all).

I've seen the protocol document (though not read it, implementing it was someone else's job). It's not thick, probably no more than 40 pages and most likely less.

not rude, realistic...
If you can't even think up something to do how can you ever be expected to think up ways to do it?

use your own brain, if you're indeed a student at that level you're supposed to have one.

uh, no.
All countries use 10 digit numbers, plus an optional country code :)

And then there's cellphone numbers which in many countries don't have an area code.

In other words, forget about "nice" formatting as it's just not going to work.

1) figure out what Pascal's triangle is
2) learn a programming language
3) implement the thing in that programming language

Quick question: If they're really interested in protecting animals from any and all harm, how many of them have gone out to argue with the wolves that they (the wolves) shouldn't be hunting and eating deer, elk, moose, etc...?

They're all for seeing animals suffer terribly from wounds inflicted by predators and accidents, disease, starvation, extreme weather conditions.

But shooting that animal to relieve its suffering or taking it in and nursing it back to health is in their minds animal cruelty.

An animal that in the wild lives 2 years of constant hardship is in their mind better off than that same animal living 10 years as a family pet with never a care, a constant supply of healthy food and water, full medical plan, and maybe even a choice of willing mates.

and now to hope you never get any phone number that's not a US number...

last spam got through my 3 layers of filters half an hour ago.
I don't even bother looking at what gets caught by my ISP, knowing it runs close to 2 per minute.

more idiot online petitions by kids who can't think for themselves and instead buy every screaming rant by PETA.

Their definition of "animal cruelty" is depriving animals of anything at all.
In fact their ultimate goal is the extermination of mankind in order to leave the planet to the animals who (in their ideology) are the "rightful owners" of the place.

I think avoiding a second pass over the string is a fantastic reason not to use it. Microseconds add up faster than you might expect.

Something every sane programmer'd do only once, he'd not call strlen for every iteration of the loop but once before entering the loop, saving the result.

An IDE isn't going to help you any if you don't know Java, so learn that first :)

And get a good protocol document on FIX (and make sure it's for the right version of FIX, there are several in use).

After that, the actual parsing and generation shouldn't be rocket science, the tricky part is usually determining what to do with the information once you've extracted it.

So change the default templates?

wont' do much if the code is generated on the fly rather than pulled from some file template...

The generators suck. Mind it's very hard to generate halfway decent code, even harder to interpret code humans have written and mix it with the code you're generating.

aaargh, darn site is way too slow to post the reply and ends up posting it twice.

If you know English, kiddo, show it and don't think you're "kewl" or something by trying to use text messaging shorthand which is highly annoying and only shows that you're an immature little kid who's too lazy to even think.