Posts by jwenting

lol we used to send prisoners to australia

yah, those were the days...

larger screens can handle higher resolutions.
And some people seem to be able to handle them even on smaller screens...
Got a friend who uses 1600x1200 and higher on 17" TFT screens.
He recently bought a 23" screen to go even higher, to 2560 wide...

this has nothing to do with JSP...

And you seem to have defined your instance (I hope) variable conn as being of the wrong type.

Anyway, what you're doing is terrible. You should never open connections to external resources at a different place from where you're going to close them.
Doing so is a recipe for disaster.

and just because in practice most are, that doesn't mean that they have to be (which was the assertion).

as that code is C, not C++, unlikely.
You can't convert that code from C++ to C# for the same reason.

nope.

Forget about the mathematical notation.
Create a class to contain your complex numbers as 2 double precision floating point fields, one real and one imagenary.
Either create operators (one of the few valid reasons to have operator overloading is pure mathematics like this) or regular methods for mathematical operations.

As jar file can be easily decompiled. Try using a third party tool on your jar to build an exe. This way your source code will be secured.

Its just a suggestion. :)

and utter nonsense.
ANYTHING can be decompiled, and tools that turn jar files into executables in fact don't do that.
All they do is add a thin stub to the jar that launches a JVM and passes it that jarfile.
The jarfile is quite easy to extract from that.

"security" and "preventing decompilation" are the worst reasons to want to turn a jarfile into an exe, and at the same time the best.
In other words, there are no valid reasons whatsoever to want to do that, and people marketing such tools are effectively marketing snake oil.

Or do the smart thing, and supply a configuration file for log4j as explained in the manual.
Far more flexible, and you can tune logging options without needing to recompile everything.

yup. The code is returned to the operating system and can be polled from other programs (like shellscripts) to determine the reason why the program terminated (with 0 traditionally indicating that everything worked smoothly).

java compilers and the java runtime environment are created using C++

Possibly, but not necessarilly.
You can just as well write a JVM in say Fortran or Assembly.
Or create one in hardware.
Anyway, the language a compiler or operating system is written in is no indication that you should know that language first before you can master the language that compiler compiles.

learning both C and C++ is good but you may find yourself trying to unteach yourself things from C when you work in C++.

And the reverse is equally true (though enforced by the compiler).
If you're good enough you recognise the different paradigms and don't mix them without very good cause.

Lash, the beams didn't melt. They didn't have to.
The heat from the fires (which were started by burning fuel but soon fed on anything remotely flamable in the buildings, from wallpaper to wooden desks to computer terminals and books) was hot enough to change the molecular structure of the steel to a far weaker form which was unable to hold the weight of the building.

Anyone who knows a bit of metalurgy knows that this can happen. It's effectively the reverse of the process that forms high tensile steel, where heat is used to strengthen the steel rather than weaken it.
Just as heat can strengthen raw steel when applied correctly and evenly at the right time and for the right duration (and at the right temperature) during production, heat can also weaken steel fatally.
And that's exactly what happened in the WTC towers.
Steel beams were subject to heat enough to weaken its structure, causing it to loose its structural strength which in turn caused joints to fail. Only a few such failure points would have been needed to cause the first floor to collapse onto the one beneath it, which will have set off a chain reaction causing the entire structure to collapse in the manner shown (which is a similar effect as the one that brought down the Oklahoma city federal building in the McVeigh bombing, except there the floors collapsed due to their support columns having been ripped out by …

like all monitors, mine are too small. Whatever the actual size in inches, that's the only description that matters :)

someone equated an opinion not agreeing with his own with being Nazi...

Anti-semitism was pretty much the norm in Europe in the 1930s, the Germans just took it to the extreme but if they hadn't someone else would have (and indeed the Soviets killed more Jews between 1930 and 1945 than did the Germans).
Where the Germans were different is that they explained it away as removing an inferior race rather than being honest about it and claiming they didn't like Jews because they were economically successful and didn't want to adopt the religion of the general population.

Same with concentration camps. Pretty much every country had them in the 1920s and '30s to take up the overflow of a rapidly growing prison population as well as to house immigrants waiting to be processed (mostly economic refugees).
That's how the German concentration camps started, and that's what most were until the end of the war (albeit with a stricter regime than in most countries, especially the forced hard labour and starvation rations weren't the norm at the time but started in large part due to a lack of workers and food resources during the war when law abiding Germans were in ever larger numbers absorbed into the armed forces).

But all that has little to do with the topic of drugs legalisation, except insofar as that too is a terrible idea.

One point for jwenting as there is no paint interface and one point for Ezzaral as there is Paint interface which can be found here.

which are of course 2 completely different things as classnames (and thus interface names) are casesensitive :)

I'm quite aware of the existence of a Paint interface.

there is no "paint" interface, at least not in any well architectured API.

Anyone who doesn't know what an interface is or how to use one should resort to some beginner's tutorial btw.

Not too long about (maybe 100 years or so) we had similar speed of death penalty -- watch nearly any old american western movie and you will see the bad buy is tried, convicted, sentenced and hanged all in the same day.

yup. Public entertainment, law enforcement, and justice all rolled into one nice little package.
And it would be perfect for a 30 second soundbite on the evening news, no need to have a story stretch out over years and years and in the end the punters no longer know what it was all about.

- UFOs did not cause the 1965 Northeast Blackout. A shift in phase between voltage and current did.

Ah, but you can't prove that UFOs didn't cause that phase shift that caused the blackout :)

Ham raido enthusiasts with beam antennas were following the Apollo missions.

No doubt some conspiracy theorist will come up with a crackpot idea about the CIA having some secret device that makes people think transmissions come from somewhere else than they really do (just like the secret hurricane machine Bush supposedly has and a lot of other secret things that are beyond the realm of reality but that conspiracy theorists claim the US government has, the proof of that being them not existing openly).

These two facts makes me think there is another conspiracy - A "Get Bush" conspiracy in the news media.

That's fact. Though Bush is collateral, they'd have gone after any president who's not a member of the Dhimmycritter party.

it all depends on the compiler, the linker, and the options you set for them.
A suboptimal compiler or linker may link in a lot of stuff that's not needed, an optimising one may remove all that.
Runtime performance won't be affected by that (except maybe application loading times, which for a "hello world" style application will be a significant part of the total execution time of course), only storage space on disk will be.

The rest depends as already mentioned on the specific implementations in machine instructions created by the supplier of the libraries you use.
Theoretically the two programs you showed could be compiled into identical machine instructions, so theoretically there is no reason why the executable (or its image in memory) should of necessity be of different size.

and you're basically saying that I (as the client) have to accept your solution as final even if it's your fault that the solution is worthless. How many clients do you think would pay if you tried to pull that?

If the solution fits the requirements as laid out in the requirements document the customer signed off on as part of their contract, then yes he has to pay for it.

I'd (if I found out that the actual technical needs are different from what the customer stated) notify the customer that the requirements (and thus the contract) had better be ammended (possibly introducing extra cost for the customer, depending on the extra effort or investment needed on our part) or the software wouldn't meet his needs (rather than his stated requirements), but I would need to have some idea of the actual use he was going to make of the stuff beforehand.

turbo C isn't a standard C compiler :)

ah, so another fictional delusion?

yah, we've heard all the lame excuses before.
Do you really think you're the first kid to claim that your failure to pay attention in class is caused by your teacher not being "good"?

#include stdio.h

Visual Basic is considered the most concise and well implemented computer language currently in existence

By whom? Not by anyone with a grain of intellect...

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Incorrect. In fact VB should be particulary close to your heart jwenting.

are you deliberately insulting me, boy? Or is it your ignorance talking?

In either case a good spanking is in order to teach you to behave yourself in the future!

anyone who cares one way or another has no business being in professional software development...

1) your law doesn't apply if the contract (which you went into by installing the software) was written under another jurisdiction
2) there are always cheaper alternatives. You get what you pay for of course
3) if those colleagues commit suicide, will you follow their example? So why do you follow their example when they steal?
4) if they're colleagues, you're not competitors. If they are competitors gather evidence and get them convicted for their criminal activities, destroying them in the process and getting rid of the competition

Assuming you have fully tested it

Never assume that, it's hubris ;)

i hate free trials - i mean, how many of us have used winzip/winrar past the 30 days eh?

I have, but I paid for it ;)
Not only is it immoral and illegal not to, but I couldn't be bothered trying to crack it myself and at the time I didn't have a modem to scour BBSs for cracks (if I could even find underground BBSs).

I was told it WAS free.

In that case the person telling you that was wrong.

The simulation won't require any display code, the display code won't require any simulation.
While you may optimise the display code for specific data, it should never be mixed into the code that generates that data.

I think you are good people, i indeed believe that you are good people, and therefore it's natural that you want to believe that world is good, with occasional few bad guys somewhere.

you misunderstand me quite fundamentally if you think that way about me and the way I think...
I don't think the world is good and that most people are good at all. In fact I am firmly convinced that the vast majority of people are good (in the context of their own cultures and societies) only by the definitions of that culture and society and then only because they're afraid of the consequences of being anything else.

"only problem is that I have to do everything by hand"

That's no problem at all, unless your hand is broken (and if so you can learn to use your other hand).

First you should try to figure out what the heck you're trying to do, because you certainly don't explain it here.
After that you should figure out what XSLT actually is as you seem to think it's some kind of magic bullet that just does everything all the time.

because there's nothing to like about VB :)

The solution is to use the correct memory model for your project (see your compiler manual pages for details of how to do that).
A better solution is to use a modern 32-bit compiler and join the rest of the real world.

And the best solution is to do both :)

libsdl is a better choice than BGI since it has a host of functions and has better tutorials and support on the internet than BGI.

Whatever it is, it's a better choice if it supports 32 bit environments as BGI is 16 bit only :)

The basic game engine should not contain any display related code.
Write everything without a display system and then write a display system you can plug that code into.
Make both independent of the other and have some interface between them.

I think he was solving his own puzzle.

he was solving a problem in the way he understood it from the original requirements which were incomplete and unclear (though he didn't see them as such apparently so he didn't consider the later clarification).

Those questions aside, here's how i'd do it in C++
I like it. But I forgot to tell you that our development environment is extremely buggy and resource intensive (management is looking into replacing it). Using the standard library would be a bad idea for this component since it'll be used very often during a compilation phase.

Which would lead to the question "if not the standard library, what library are we to use and where can we find the documentation for it?".

But you would have to accept a solution using the standard library given your stated requirements since they lack mention of not being able to use it nor mention the alternative to use ;)

I'd also ask at this stage if this requirements process you're putting up is similar to the normal one in your company, and might well get second thoughts about the whole job if it it.

The discussion might well get to the point where the interview is concluded without any code being actually written (which may or may not influence the outcome of the interview process, depending on the who processes the interview results at your end and how, which could also be a question to ask).

Interesting article about the Flat Earth Society. I'll bet they are also creationists who believe the earth is only 6,000 years old. Both turn a blind eye to scientific fact.

Not quite. Creationists have some kind of a point, if you consider that God created the world he could have created it in such a way that it would appear to be a few billion year old, complete with fake dinosaur bones.
Remember that creationists hold the belief that God is omnipotent and thus can do whatever he wants and maybe he wants us to believe that the world is a few billion year old even if he wants us to know it was created 6000 years ago.

druggies are a drain on society. They're not productive (if you're always either high or low on something you can't hold a job), criminal (because they steal to fund their habbit), and tend to require more medical care than others.

The Singapore system works best: mandatory death penalty for posession of any amount for any purpose, and no silly 20 years sitting in prison while your lawyers try to get you off at the expense of the taxpayer.

if you know how to create a tree you should know how to create one in Java.
There's nothing that makes Java different from say C++ in that.

And what exactly are you trying to do with a List when you want to make a Tree?

9/11 conspiracy theories are (or are used as) political toys of people opposed to the current US administration.
"Blame Bush" is the only thing they have to "prove" their point. Remember these are the people who claimed that Bush has a secret machine that caused hurricane Katrina to kill people opposed to him in New Orleans (ignoring the fact that a lot of people who voted for him in harder hit areas lost everything).
These are the people who claim that Bush somehow caused the tsunami that hit Indonesia and Ceylon, killing tens of thousands.
These are the people that claim that Bush destroyed TWA800 using some secret anti aircraft missile when there wasn't a ship in the area that had the capacity to carry any missile with enough range or power (and independent checks of US military arsenals around the world turned up that no single missile was unaccounted for).
They're the same people that claim that the moon landings never happened, that tens of thousands of people involved in the program were all paid to keep their mouths shut forever.

you got suggestions. Instead of taking them up you start slagging what appear to be (given your terrible English it's hard to be certain) abuse at the people giving you suggestions.

If you think that's going to make those people eager to help you more you are gravely mistaken.

The file can't be deleted due to the lock in this case.

That depends on the operating system and the user permissions on that operating system...
On Windows it's indeed hard (but not imposssible) to remove an open file, on Linux it's quite possible.

What? How is it your fault if a pedestrian runs in front of you? From what I understand, as long as you are traveling within the speed limit, and obeying traffic laws.. then it is the pedestrian's fault

That's the difference between law (made by politicians) and logic.
Their logic goes that the pedestrian is a "vulnerable participant in traffic" and therefore if you're driving a car it's always your fault if they get hurt.

One example that was totally baffling (and was overturned in court, or all hell would have broken loose as you can imagine):
A drunken cyclist ran into a (correctly, legally) parked car and broke an arm.
The owner of the car was held responsible for causing the accident as well as for legal and medical bills of the cyclist.
He fought the decision in higher court and won, that time.

maybe a grammar checker? You do seem to be in serious need for one.

it's not a bug in IE.
Why the heck do kids always think their own incompetence is a "bug" in someone else's product?

Quite simply you're almost certainly running into connection timeouts.

lockfiles are extremely risky.
What if the running instance of the application crashes (or the computer it's running on crashes which has the same effect)?

The lockfile will still be there when you start it again, causing it to never start until the file is manually removed.
And what if some smartass finds out where the file is and removes it while the application is running? Now he can run as many instances as he wants side by side.

usually you start by figuring out WHAT it should do, and only after that start to figure out HOW it should do it.
From both the WHAT and HOW you should get a pretty decent idea about the core classes you're looking at, and others will no doubt pop up as implementation gets under way.

now let's try that with input (10000000000, 325523) :)
I do want some performance out of it of course...

and he fails to even bother to use code tags to make the thousand or so lines of terrible (how can it be otherwise) code he wants us to correct for him so he can pass it off as his own easier to read.

Incompetent liar, lazy, and inconsiderate as well.