Posts by jwenting

that won't be the end of the world though. The force of the Yellowstone explosion won't be enough to rip the planet apart, certainly not to rip it apart well enough that the pieces won't just collapse together again due to gravity afterwards ;)

and even when he attempts to explain his insult he fails to make anyone see how it's insulting :)

BlueJ is purely designed to teach programming concepts without exposing the language underneath.
It's solely an educational tool with no real value beyond that (and very little value in that).

The general impression we get from kids using BlueJ is that they don't learn the first thing about the underlying language, can't construct their own code, can't do a thing outside BlueJ (meaning it hides WAY too much), and have a very poor understanding of OO concepts.
Basically all they can do is click some boxes together in BlueJ and they think they're programmers.

We will however tell your teacher exactly how good you are and what your grade should be if you just give us his email address.

- Ronald Reagan

"If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded
appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom."

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will
be a nation gone under."

"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business ...frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite."

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." (predicting Al Gore and Bill and Hillary Clinton)

“When you see all the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee; Don't Inhale.”

"You know, there are only two places where communism works: in heaven, where they don't need it, and in hell, where they've already got it."

http://www.thereaganlegacy.com

Noone who is serious about Java uses BlueJ. It's only used by schoolteachers (who force it upon their pupils) who have no clue about Java themselves and don't want to bother with the details of the language.

If you look at professionals, it's IntelliJ, Eclipse, and to a lesser degree Netbeans (also called Notbeans by many for its lack of features and performance both) and JBuilder (loosing favour because of poor management, terrible marketing, and the decision to abandon the best IDE ever (which it was) and redo the whole thing as a bunch of Eclipse plugins when the majority of the users used it because they didn't like Eclipse).

do you mean Java the language or Java the platform?

Java the language is smaller than the JSE (or Java the platform) which consists of the language + the standard libraries + the runtime environment + optionally the compiler and tools.

JSE is the entire platform, standard edition.
JEE is a set of tools and libraries built on top of that which add "enterprise" capabilities like application servers, distributed transaction handling, etc. etc.

and oh, get into the habbit of always using packages for everything.
It may not be required by the language spec (an omission which by many is considered a major historical flaw in the language) but it's good practice and many application frameworks and libraries expect all classes to be in a package.
Many editors in fact will enforce it.

let's hope my father's heart and kidney condition gets better, my mother will soon be done with learning to walk on her new leg (which was finally delivered last week), and my back stops hurting.

none of the above. Calling it crap is an insult to crap anywhere and it's certainly no classic :)

in other words you're a lot of nothing ;)

if you don't know the acronym, assume you don't know the stuff it's meant to describe ;)

nope. Just another of those idiots who start accounts for no reason other than to post nonsense that we've been plagued with lately.

There's also issues of anonymity and secure transmission of the votes. Almost anything on the internet can be messed up with a man-in-the-middle attack, and a good many users don't know enough about how to avoid these.

I'd say that's a massive bonus for the government. They'd know who cast each vote (easier to pick up the troublemakers who voted for the wrong party) and are now able to without most people realising it's even possible manipulate the vote before it ever reaches their computer systems, reducing the risk of being detected.

You see, I've no delusions about theories like the outcome of elections here having anything to do with the way people actually vote and haven't had such delusions for over a decade.

Are you saying that most male voters are confused about their sexual orientation :)

nah, just giving a friendly nod to our transsexual countrycreatures.

It seems uniquestar and I will have to team up to have any chance of success. Alone neither of us is evil enough, together we might just make it (my genius combined with his cat...).

is that Martian? I was sure it was Gibberish.

And you need to keep track of item sets, where items reinforce each other.
For example Dungeon Siege has those. If you equip 2 items, each becomes extra strong, if you equip 3 that bonus goes up, until you have the maximum percentage bonus when you equip the entire set.

So an item with stats of +10 life could end up giving you +25 life if you have the rest of the set equipped as well.

well, we have to collect them because there's extra money to be paid to get the license printed (plus having to turn in a passport photograph and sign the thing under witness from a clerk).

that was a hint to write proper English instead of the gibberish you're spewing forth.

worse, turning in someone elses work as your own is plagiarism (and no teacher is going to accept something you say openly you didn't write yourself) which is enough to get you an automatic failure and exclusion from any form of higher education.

Do you own homework, kiddo. There are enough people out there with fake degrees, we're not going to help someone else get one.

71% evil genius. I'm too kind to animals and don't own a cat... Darn them critters, can't stand cats.

I'm sure there were heroes in Germany in WW1, just as I'm sure there were villains in Britain.

Especially in the air forces on all sides the old values of gallantry were observed. When pilots from opposing sides crashed and died they were given full military honours for their funerals for example, or contact was made to return the remains to the families even during battle.
Both the Germans and British blocks did that.

Or give them something that's extremely convoluted and just prints a message like "I'm a lazy kid who got someone else to do his homework and didn't even check whether it was what I wanted before turning it in as my own" on screen ;)

It's not hard. I wrote most of a complete system in just a week or so (and that included figuring out how Hibernate works, which I use to access the database).

If you want hints and tips, feel free to as. But don't expect to sit back while others do your work for you.
If you want that, there are people who will be more than happy to do so, at a price.
Normal consultancy fees start at $150 an hour, minimal 80 hours payable in advance. No fixed-price contracts awarded.

contract a certified driving instructor to give you instruction in a modified car (instruction cars are required to be modified with an extra set of brake pedals for the instructor and extra mirrors among other things).
Pass a written test on traffic law, signage, etc.
And after that pass a driving test with an examiner from the government institute responsible for those things.

When you pass all that you get a piece of paper you can use to (at city hall) get your driver's license.

nah. I just put in words what every sane person here thinks about people like you.
That spreads nothing, the only one spreading hatred here are people like you.

Voting via the internet is currently being experimented with in several countries.
It is possible, but there are still security issues to be overcome (especially how to make certain that the person casting the vote is really the person he says she is, to prevent people selling their access votes to the highest bidder).

OK. If you like that one you'll like HF Java as well.

it seems like you don't know what xslt is all about if you think it's a layout language or page makeup language like css.

I'd suggest you start learning what the acronyms you mention actually mean and what the technologies behind them can do for you.

php is certainly not suitable for large scale projects, and Oracle isn't usually associated with small scale projects. Therefore the combination is a rather weirs one and one that, were I to grade your project, would likely cause me to lower your score a bit unless you come up with a very good explanation as to why it's the best combination for this particular problem domain.

the game he's interested in running is one which will make full use of that 8800GTS TODAY :)

just another attempt by someone to increase his post count. Closed.

Thanks for the insult, You remind me of the heroes of world war II.

Insult quite intended.
And thanks for comparing me with Patton, Nimitz, and Montgommery. I am humbled by their example.

I'm all for forcing people to vote, but only if you also force politicians to actually live up to their election promises...

As politicians by definitions don't do the latter, the former should not be a requirement either.

Blank voting is always possible here. When using paper ballots just turn in the blank ballot form. When using electronic voting, there's always an option to vote blank here.
Yet it's hardly ever used. Everyone realises that a blank vote is effectively a vote for the largest liar, aka the one who wins the elections.

The HF series are weird like that. You either love them or you hate them :)
Given the sales volume and excellent reviews (plus my personal experience, I have several of them and browsed HF Java before giving it to someone else) it's an excellent series for most people.

Core Java is good too, but not recommended for people with no prior OO or programming experience.
Also excellent is the courseware for Sun's SL275 course, but of course that's only available to people who actually attend the course (recommended but expensive).

yup. Doing everything in one thread, and that being the Swing Event Dispatcher thread.
Guaranteed to cause application locks while waiting for things to happen on the network.

I think there's a library in the Jakarta Commons project that's supposed to pretty much automate commandline parameter parsing.
Whether it's easier to use that than parse them yourself I can't tell as I've not used it ;)

Just to cement the issue, any chance of something added to the rules forbidding commercial advertising in signatures?
(Kind of like the Royal Parks in London, No vehicle advertising services is allowed in (including Driving Schools))

excellent idea, and AFAIK already in place (but sadly not strictly enforced by the supermods who are the only ones who can change sigs).

we need a driver's license, other than that we don't need a permit to drive a car.

it's crap. The entire series is utter crap.

cart.add(item);

yes, kid. If you want to write something in C++ or Java you're going to have to learn C++ or Java.

yes, and come up with "final year project" titles for all the lazy kids who are too busy playing games to come up with their own.

And no, we're not going to give you "duh koduz"!

because the vast majority of people who aren't spammers are entirely against spam, and don't want anything to do with it.
They certainly aren't going to spam forums (and email, usenet, etc.) with spam messages in their signatures.
Adding spam to their signatures would make them outcasts, and rightly so.

Anyone selling a service like what you're proposing makes itself (such people are subhuman, therefore not to be called he or she, only it) an outcast automatically.

no it isn't. This entire thread was created by some idiots trying to increase their postcount by flooding the forums with nonsense.

"is it possible to delete just by clicking a button on the same page where the results are displayed? "

If you write code to do that, yes.
If you don't, no.

doing your own homework includes coming up with your own ideas if you're not given a specific assignment.
So you ARE asking us to do your homework for you by telling us to do your thinking for you.

And also, if you're incapable of even thinking of a topic how are you ever going to be able of actually implementing it?

why do links on your site refer to files on your harddisk?
Fix your html...

just add another harddisk...
All it takes is a screwdriver (if that, modern cases are ever more free of having to screw around inside them).

Starcraft was relatively poorly received and considered by many a ripoff of Total Annihillation.
The only reason it survived longer was the demise of CaveDog, the creators of Total Annihillation.