Posts by jwenting

Tiny little bit of string manipulation should do it.

or you could just read the original post before adding your nonsense.

the main problem converting SQL from Access to anything else would be that Access's SQL dialect is rather weird and decidedly non-standard.
Shouldn't have many consequences for the Java code, but the SQL statements used in the JDBC related blocks will need some refactoring.

We're not a code review service...

There's for example cases where for performance reasons (and yes, those are rare) the overhead of a method call is simply too much.
Of course you can still make them safe from change by making all data members final, so they can not be changed after setting them in the constructor :)

never say never :)
There are special cases in which it's required, but they're special cases.

and buy a book "beginning Oracle administration" or something like that...

we're not in the process of helping lazy, thread hijacking, zombie resurrecting, homework kiddos like you.

Do your own homework.

If people knows that a leader whom they choose can be selfish, and willing to increase only his power, why would people vote for him?, at first place, and a leader is given power, because he is elected and chosen one by people, whereas, everyone think one unified will cannot be wrong, but it can be :D

Well, look at any "democracy" out there. People vote for such candidates by the hundreds of millions.

no different from any similar service then (or indeed most certification exams)...

try and try again until you do understand it or decide programming isn't for you. It doesn't get more basic than the tutorial.

It's certainly acceptable and even desirable if not required in some specific cases.
If and when you run into such cases, you'll know them as there will be no way to get the application compiling and/or running when doing things in other ways.

any logic used when creating a graph using only JSP is utterly flawed by definition and therefore not worth discussing.

in fact, nowhere does the constitution prevent there being a dictator. Most of the "election laws" created since are only marginally constitutional, in fact several constitutional ammendments are themselves technically unconstitutional in that they restrict constitutional rights and expand the government beyond what the constitution intends.
Which should hardly come as a surprise, as they're created by and for people whose main interest in doing so in perpetuating and increasing their own power.

Your calculator has more computing power than the computers that put a man on the moon (and got him back safely).

when you can't remember when you last used a slide rule. Calculators are never going to take off, just a fad for lazy schoolkids.

>> Worst job ever invented with the possible exception of congressman.

A lot of people love it for the power, the being above the law (in fact, being the law). Others do it out of a sense of duty, and get called terrible names because of it because they do things as president which aren't popular among the press but have to be done to protect the country and its citizens.

time to run through some tutorials about Java before you start thinking about such things.
If you had, you'd have known at least what you need to use, and have some idea as to where to find more information.

Sun/Oracle have good tutorials...

neither is part of a client/server architecture.

read up on them, and experiment.

AWT underlies Swing in many places, so you'll need to know something about it to use Swing effectively.
You won't have to know it in depth, but the concepts should be familiar.

good luck with your homework

in my experience, when that happens they usually unplugged it from the electrical power (and yes, that happens more often than you might think).

it's easy to create a database.
Just follow the installation instructions for your chosen database engine, and then read the manual on how to use it.

either that or he's trying to do something he'd know how to do if he had the skill to do it.

Credit card payment services are well known to those who're authorised to use them.

gosh, and you're surprised that you can't access a document if you don't know where to find it?

What'd a taxi driver say when you go to him and tell him "I'd like to visit a friend of mine, but I don't know where he lives or what his name is, I think it was a village with an "e" in the name somewhere"?

and who's going to pay the cost of those messages, pray?

There are many subscription based services to send SMS, most of which have Java APIs. But for the obvious reason that there's a cost attached to running such a service, they're not free to the subscriber (or offer only a limited number of free messages).

it all happens behind the scenes in the servers of Google and others. No need for you to do anything unless you work for them :)

same way you'd call it from a browser, using an http call to its published URI.

Clinton used to be the 2nd worst (after Carter), but now with Obama he's climbed to 3rd worst...

Such charts are only as good as the people making them. Get the right person (or rather, the leftist person) and you get a chart showing Obama is the best ever and Reagan the worst.

Road deaths in most countries are no problem, we're talking a few deaths a year per million citizens here (that's for places like the US or EU, not Guatemala or Peru).
The whole "if it saves one life it's worth it" argument is blatantly false. It's playing on peoples' emotions rather than reason.

You're not thinking about travel, but social engineering. Taking freedom and mobility away from people for political goals. That's communist thinking. Restrict people in what they can do, make them stay put, so you can control them better.

your DBAs will just love you if you keep firing off queries just to check for new data constantly... NOT!

Far better to only check when you need to generate a new screen of data for display purposes or need data for a batch job.

Electric cars are here now, and have all the drawbacks I mentioned (and more, like sensitive high voltage systems which are a danger to rescue workers in accidents, large quantities of highly toxic materials which are a danger to rescue workers as well as for recycling, etc.).

Most of those we can't easily solve either. Batteries take time to charge for example. It can be shortened a bit, but doing so always goes at the cost of severely reducing either the charge it can hold and/or its life.
Science and technology have no answer to this.

Charging the vehicle on the fly from solar cells on the roof can offer some relief in sunny areas, but in most of the places these cars would be used that's no real option.
They also have extremely limited lifecycles, so probably would need replacement long before the car wears out mechanically. And they contain more toxic materials and rare earth metals, which are very expensive (and the world supply is owned almost exclusively by China).

Does charm and wit a good president make? (or just a popular one)

if it did, Clinton wouldn't be the 3rd worst (after Obama and Carter) president ever.

Vive la Reagan Revolucion!

a well developed corporate strategy will see specific devices approved for use by employees, and those specific devices supplied to employees.
It will NOT allow employees to connect just any old (or new) smartphone or whatever to corporate resources.

And it will certainly not jump on the iPhone upgrade bandwagon and replace a thousand perfectly good iPhone Mk.1s with Mk.2s, then Mk.3s and Mk.4s as soon as Apple releases a new model.
The company should approve a single model (or maybe 2 competing models to give employees a choice in case one of them doesn't match all requirements), and purchase enough of them to last the desired period until they're economically written down.
That might mean purchasing 1000 phones at once to hand out 500 to employees and have another 500 in spare for future expansion and replacement of lost, stolen, or damaged devices.
Employees who complain about not having the latest gadgets can go fchk themselves.

search engines do take precautions against it, and constantly tweak their algorithms to detect and filter out the false results it yields.

don't hijack old threads to post nonsense.

it's the process of tricking Google into thinking your pr0n site is really something else entirely.

nope, this is a private company.
They've just too many, too confuzzled, policies and noone responsible for monitoring the results of actions.
So we apply for something to our local admin, who pushes it to head office halfway around the world for approval, which gets granted after a few hours to days, which triggers it being sent for implementation to another office on the other side of the world again where someone gets tasked to execute a script.
The script fails, but that person isn't tasked to check the results of the scripts he executes, so he closes the ticket as "executed" despite nothing having been accomplished.
We get told things have been done, when they haven't.
After a few dozen iterations like that, finally the CTO took notice and pulled some strings, and we did get access we needed. But then something was done to the server (we think a backup was restored) and all that was wiped, so we have to start from scratch.
Repeat ad infinitum.

Thank you policies.

That might work on some operating systems in some languages, but isn't universal.

There is no such concept as a "local drive". There's just a drive.

Policies create utter chaos. Feel free to fluff that up into a paragraph, but that's the core of it.

There, fixed it for you. Most "policies" do nothing but make work harder to do well, and many make work impossible to do at all.

Like the "security policy" where I now work, which means I've been waiting since early February for the permissions to upload and compile sources on our development server, causing several months delay and massive cost overruns on the project.

people have been predicting self-driven cars "within a few years" for at least 50 years.
It ain't happened yet.

Electric cars of course are utterly useless for anyone who needs to drive more than a very short distance per day, as their range is extremely limited and the recharging after use takes forever (think 20-50 mile range, after which you can't use it for 12 hours or more in case of the latest production models, not enough for the vast majority of people).
Another major problem with the large scale adoption of electric cars is that the national grid just can't cope with the extra load. It's groaning as is and government policy combined with greenie blocking of any new powerplants means that's going to get a lot worse.
And then there's the charging. For most people it'd mean running an extension cord from their living room across the sidewalk to their car, which of course would get stolen almost instantly, if they didn't get fined and sued first for creating a hazzard on the sidewalk.

everyone's employable, but a lot of people don't have a clue as to what they can really do and write on jobs way above their head.
Like they submit a resume to be a programmer when all they're good for is shining shoes.

and what have you done yourself? We're not a homework service.

Is the + necessary? If so that was my mistake when I tried doing it that way. The error I got was an incompatible types error. I'll try it again tomorrow with +14 and hopefully that solves it. Why must it have a + though?

No, the + is absolutely NOT necessary anywhere in Java.

it's buggy and solid at the same time? Doesn't compute.

Personally, I'd never use any "cloud" products for sensitive data unless there's a signed (on paper) and legally binding contract with the service provider about the security of that data and their inability to access and sell it.

If you want maximum performance, the overhead of TCP might be too much.
If you want maximum reliability, TCP alone may not be reliable enough.

what is the price range a professional company would charge per page?

they wouldn't charge per page. They'd either charge a fixed price for the entire project based on the project requirements, or a price per hour.

It's impossible to tell what something will cost "per page" without knowing the exact requirements.
A single "page" may take 10 minutes or 10 days depending on the design and what's supposed to go on it.

it's your project. And the first step is for you to research what you want to do.
Just asking others to make that decision for you is NOT the way to go forward.
What'll you do next, ask us to write the design document, implement it, document it, and write your thesis for you as well?

wrong assumption.
You need to know a lot about software design and engineering, mathematics, physics, etc. to create an engine.
Just starting to code at random will get you nowhere.

Once you have a proper design document, you can use that to figure out what programming tools/languages/libraries are appropriate to implement it.