Posts by jwenting

why the hell is he using AWT instead of Swing, and why in heaven's name is he not keeping to the correct convention for naming variables and other entities?

you got to be kidding you honestly think greenhouse gases is a joke. people that dont believe that greenhouse gases such as CO2 cause heat insulation in the atmosphere dont know enough about chemistry to be talking about it.

Let me guess you think the trees will take care of it.

I know all about that. I also know that the effect is relatively small and certainly NOT causing any "global warming" as meant by the climate alarmists.
In fact if you check the real data (rather than the massaged stuff presented by Michael Moore and Greenpeace) you see clearly that temperature changes predate CO2 concentration changes throughout history.
You also note that the warmest period in recent history was the 1930s, when CO2 concentrations were a lot lower than they are now.
You notice that the earth is cooling down rather than heating up and has been for some years, despite rising CO2 levels.
You notice that 2000 years ago things were conciderably warmer than they are now, despite there being no "evil CO2 barfing cars" and powerstations pumping out the stuff.
You find that in the 1970s the same people who are now screaming "global warming" were screaming "global cooling" and proclaiming the next ice age.
You notice that the WWF is now blaming higher CO2 levels for the unusually cold winter Australia is going through.

their army did not attack first. They responded to violence by Russian supported separatists.

It was no different from had the US Army moved into Montana to take on the Montana Liberation Front who want to quit the Union and join Canada, despite the majority of the population not wanting that.

guess what, you never fill the array from which the dropdown is filled...

certainly feasible. I did something somewhat similar a decade ago.

What exactly "isn't happening"?
Check the generated html. Is the data there but isn't it shown?
If it is your html generation is at fault. If it isn't, you are almost certainly having an error in a loop somewhere in your code, causing the output of the list to be skipped.

So you come in here months later, create an account, and start flaming people?

If you'd looked carefully you'd have seen there was no question asked at all, fool.

of course you can have multiple forms. It's quite common in fact.
Of course each form stands on its own, don't expect values from one form to be submitted as part of a request generated when submitting another one.

Is there any way to check if str2 in str1?

yes.

research institute I graduated did the math, taking everything into account from the trucks used in the mines producing the raw materials (and the coal for a coal fired plant) to the maintenance vehicles, etc. etc. etc.
Of course they couldn't get it published as that would mean the end of their funding (that's the reality of environmental and energy research these days, if your conclusions don't fit the alarmist opinion you can't publish).

But someone else wrote about it recently: http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1541562/solar_panels_take_100_years_to_pay_back_installation_costssolar/index.html
While focussing on solar, the figures are similar (if not quite as bad) for wind.

"greenhousen gasses" are a farce, a hoax. The sole viable reason to reduce fossil fuel use is to gain energy independence from the Muslim radicals in the Middle east and other hostile regimes like Venezuela.
And by drilling at home the US can achieve that in short order.
For Europe the situation is more critical as we don't have the massive resources the US does, so we're dependent on inputs from Czar Vladimir's Russia.

Toxins released by burning fossil fuels are no problem, are actually less than what is produced (over the entire lifecycle) by wind and especially solar.

In fact, it is at the moment not possible to produce more energy over the entire lifetime of a solar or wind plant than is needed to build and later demolish it.
They're that inefficient. 20-30 year lifespan at most, and 50-100 years to recover the energy and materials investment.

grow up and stop using a 20 year old "programming" language hacked onto an operating system it doesn't belong to.

or more likely for the retry as the kiddo is likely to have failed his assignment last year ;)

Servlet filters always run on the server.
They can provide services that have to run before the web application processes the request, like authentication.
A filter can intercept the requests, look up credentials and permissions, and deny the request (with an error message) if the request is issued by someone who's not allowed to do so.

windfarms won't ever be able to reliably provide energy on anything approaching a decent scale.
Even if you place them at minimal distance on every inch of free ground they're only going to give you a fraction of required energy to keep the world running.
And that would have you cut down all the forests for starters...

A Google program won't ever be able to block Google ads, which are most of the ads on the 'net, so an adblocker in it won't be functional.

I wonder, does it even allow you to access competing services like Yahoo and Hotmail, or does Google fake DNS errors?

you can't. You can't mix text and binary content and JSP are designed for text.
While they can output binary content, they're not meant to do so and I'm not going to tell you how to do a bad thing (tm).

this has nothing to do with JSP.

you don't want to do that. It's not what JSP should be used for.

right. And then you'd install Vista and complain that you'd never install that new OS because it's so bad.

Typical of the slashdot kiddo.

it was never published in English, and as far as I know is still classified (for commercial reasons).

Suffice to say that 90% at least of the scaremongering about nuclear energy is based on no facts whatsoever, and most of the rest blown way out of proportion.
This scaremongering however has caused laws to be put into place in most countries that make it impossible to make optimal use of nuclear energy and reuse nuclear fuel elements.
These laws also mean that the amount of nuclear waste that needs to be stored is way larger than would be needed if all engineering capability to reduce the volume were used, and that storage both be more risky and longer lasting than strictly needed.

If we were allowed to recycle nuclear waste, we could refine it into fuel for nuclear power stations both of the standard type and fast breeders, and split the rest (a fraction of the total) into different categories, from non-nuclear waste that can be dealt with as chemical waste (or recycled and reused, like steel for example) to different grades of radioactive components, the bulk of which would only need storage for a short period (though being extremely dangerous to handle during that period) because it is highly radioactive with very short halflifes.
The technology exists, engineers just need to gain permission to employ it (and commercial incentive to build the required facilities of course).

Fusion has been shown to be technically …

can you explain a bit more please?

not to someone who can't understand something that's spelled out to them.

You really want me to believe that? I have a bridge to sell to you!

you'd better. My thesis deals with nuclear waste analysis.
Unlike most of the "experts" here and screaming on television, I hold a degree in physics (specialising in nuclear physics).

I won't touch anything created by Google. It's all spyware.
Anyway, the first 2 security leaks have already been identified in it. Rather quick, only a few hours after release...

change your database design. It's incredibly stupid to have a need for things like that.

in other words, don't doubt the garbage collection mechanism. It works well and there is no need to secondguess it by trying to force it to run.

I've worked in energy research, kiddo.
And you're the one getting your references from the ecoweenies...

Nuclear is far cleaner than is either wind or solar.
Best would be to build massive solar collectors in high orbit, beam the energy to earth.
Of course that would have to be done without launching everything from earth, we'd first need to build permanent living quarters in space, engineer ways to mine the asteroid belt for the raw materials, etc. etc.
That's all technically feasible, construction could start within a decade, 2 at most, IF we had the political will to do it. Sadly we don't as no politician thinks of anything that doesn't bring him votes in the next elections in 4 years or less, and these programs would not provide a financial return in more than that.

the madness stops when the last mad person (aka homework kiddo) dies a slow, painful, death.

And that won't happen as long as there are idiots who give those homework kiddos what they want.

step 1: read the community guidelines
step 2: tell your teacher that because of your laziness you're not going to get your assignment done in time
step 3: learn Java, you now have an extra year to do so after you were failed for the course.

solutions can be more simple, but they'd be far more specific than what Microsoft creates.
If Microsoft were to go that way you'd get software like Apple's Mac stuff that only runs on a particular CPU fitted onto a specific motherboard with a specific videocard and soundcard, etc. etc.

That's why Apple's Mac software is so much more stable than their Windows software. As soon as they enter the chaos that is the hardware market in which Microsoft moves they're subject to the same problems Microsoft is.

"neutron bombs" as Grimjack describes don't exist anyway.

What are called "neutron bombs" by those who don't know better are radiation enhanced nuclear weapons.
Usually a small (sub-kiloton) tactical weapon with an added mantle of materials that emit a high dose of neutrons when irradiated with radiation from a nuclear detonation.

The blast radius may be reduced, but it's still a bloody big boom going off somewhere, and to cover a wide area you do need a lot of them.
There's also enhanced fallout, though it's rather localised (depending on wind, weather, detonation altitude, etc. etc.).

says it all. Toplink can't find the jdbc driver for the database you're telling it to use.
Supply the driver and you'll get another error (or it might even work if everything else is correct).

nah. We use them to make fun of the kiddos instead ;)

and what have you done so far?
That's a very simple problem, should take a reasonably intelligent person with a bit of knowledge about the technologies involved no more than a few hours to implement.

no. That's not the way to use JSP so we're not going to help you do it.
We're not going to do what you want anyway, which is to give you a fully working application.

Do your own research, and your own work. It's been done a million times (at least) before so there's no reason any reasonably intelligent person shouldn't be able to figure it out.

hey will someone give me a code

no.

their quality control is no better or worse than that of any other company.
It's just that their products are so much more complex than most, which means that it's impossible to find all problems with them in a timeframe that's economically feasible.

I have no problems with IE for websites. As long as you stick to W3C standards IE will work with them well.
Can't say that of the competition.

15 days for learning everything you need to learn to create a web application?

Better emigrate to Mars, a day there takes about a month of earthtime, might give you enough time.

A machine that would prevent pollution or a machine that would prevent over population.

The second is easy, it's weapons of mass destruction. Employ those on a large enough scale and you can depopulate large areas.

That would also reduce pollution (though of course most of those weapons will cause quite a bit of it when deployed, but I'm thinking longterm solutions here).

Are you suggesting that nobody knows how to anything right? If so, I would have to agree.

Over a certain level of complexity it's theoretically impossible not to have defects.
The human brain can't handle such complexity and tries to oversimplify, leading to defects.

When breaking up the system into less complex subsystems these may each be free of defects but the resulting total system will still have that higher level of complexity and be defective.

Putting machines in there to handle the complexity only increases the level of complexity and those machines are designed ultimately by humans and therefore by definition prone to be defective.

And that doesn't even take into account failure due to wear and tear of components.

best report him to Homeland Security for a laugh. Gives them something to do and gets us rid of the idiot at the same time.
He's asking for help in killing people, last I checked that was a criminal offense...

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Do rich old folks make good leaders?

yes. They made their own fortune unlike young idiot kids who inherited it all and spend it like water because they never learned to handle money.
Kids like Osama bin Laden bin Barak ibn Hosseini...

> This will be just as much a piece of crap as vista is believe me!!
Out of curiosity, why is it that you hate Vista so much ?

quite simple. The typical kiddo style "I h8te Micro$oft" attitude. They just think it's "kewl" to "hate" Microsoft, that it will score then brownie points with their "friends".

char is an integer data type, the representation as a character is for convenience's sake only.

here, take some Aleve. I've found it helps clear the headpains after idiocy like this.

I live near several of them, kiddo. And I've SEEN the carnage.
It's the eco-idiots who spread disinformation.

and remember: if it "works perfectly EXCEPT XXX" it does NOT work perfectly.

I guess it is already there , you can unistall windows and install linux using some bootloader script :)

Which would replace one set of bugs with another.

Dutch police run regular operations against these scammers.
Yes, some of them do operate from here, but they're not locals.
They're (mainly) Nigerians living here who act as a front for Nigerian criminal gangs.
Of course it's not just Nigerians, but criminals from many parts of Africa and eastern Europe.

But the majority operating out of the Netherlands? No. Just the ones that get caught (the Nigerian and most other governemts where they originate don't do anything against them).

Wind energy is a complete farce.
Not only is it utterly unreliable, but it's also not at all "good for the environment".
Wind turbines are meat grinders, each one of them when built in a migration route for birds (which most places where there's good wind are) can kill thousands of birds a day.
They've actually had to remove several windfarms here because of that, others had to be relocated to less favourable spots or turned off during certain times of day and year.
Then there's the noise, which is quite loud when you're near them.
And of course the massive environmental cost to build the things in the first place.

They're bad, bad enough that the regional government here has banned any more from being built and dictated that replacement units for ones that are removed from service must be both smaller in size and have higher power than the ones they're replacing.