Posts by jwenting

Probably -- but we don't want it. Besides, it wan't really a fair fight -- I don't call a playground bully beating up on a whip a fair fight either. In this case we were the bully and Sadaam was the wimp.

The wimp however started the fight, so it's no problem with me that it wasn't fair. If the wimp is stupid enough to kick the bully in the back and he gets what he's got coming to him that's what he deserves.

Saddam kicked the US and the entire world since 1992, it took until 2003 until someone said "enough's enough" and kicked back.

And indeed, the US could keep Iraq going on historical precedent, but they don't want it.
Too much sand, too much trouble (Iraq is the cradle of civilisation, if by civilisation you mean organised warfare and political assassination).

You cannot get citizenship, if you entered the country illegally!

Tell that to the millions who would get just that under the "immigration reform bill" or whatever euphemism they now use for what amounts to a wholesale amnesty for illegal aliens.

You have quite obviously not read the posting guidelines.
We're NOT a homework service, neither free nor for pay.

so you use a relatively rare material to create hydrogen. Quite an advance over using another material that's said to be becoming rare...

I think that you'll weigh more after you shower because you'll be soaking wet and water has weight to it.

OTOH the showering is supposed to cleanse you of all the dirt and grime that accumulated on your body since the last shower.
If that stuff were heavier than that water, you loose weight :)

City water is initially highly chlorinated to kill any bacteria, then filtered through a bed of charcoal to remove most of the chlorine so it can be consumed. However, charcoal and organic impurities react with the chlorine to produce amongst other things chloroform and carbon tetrachloride, both these chemicals are very well known carcinogens.

That depends on the city (or rather the waterworks where they get their water)...
Where I live the water is not treated with chlorine, nor have I ever lived in a place where there was a need to.
We use extensive biological filtration instead, pumping the water through deep sand layers.
Tastes better, and is cheaper too.

Yes, your city water contains some nasty chemicals in trace amounts, not necessarily any pesticides. Pesticides, particularly the polychlorinated ones, are added to your life by the pest control folks that you or your neighbour hires at great expense to kill a few spiders and termites.

Not necessarilly. Depends on where you are and where the water comes from.
Here the water comes from deep forest areas where there is no agriculture for long distances. Water retrieval areas are protected areas, no chemical use of any kind allowed.

Many bottled water makers purify their water using reverse osmosis and then ozonate it to keep bacterial contamination down.

and so do ever more waterworks...

people trying to establish world peace are the greatest threat to world peace as they invariably try to do it through violence and intollerance towards anyone who doesn't agree with their definition of "peace".

Muslim radicals are an example (in their mind "peace" means Muslim world domination).
Communists are another example (in their mind "peace" means communist world domination).

And as there's currently no world peace to speak of (and never has been...) the only threats are those to the establishment of world peace, in the definition of an absense of organised violence between population groups.

happy birthday, young padwana ;)
Live long and prosper.

and your problem was?

that's not the only thing it's telling you ;)

Anyway, why go to all that trouble to reverse a String when you can do it with a single line of code?
Sheesh, can't teachers ever come up with realistic assignments? ;)

1) you're not generating any random numbers at all. You're drawing your numbers from a collection of fixed numbers which has been ordered using a random sequence. That's not the same thing (but it's likely you want in this case).
2) you're explicitly printing a line terminator after every number when you call println, which is why you see your non-random numbers each on a line of their own.
3) you're not using code tags.

512 is extremely low these days, 256 is less than I've had for almost 10 years ;)

New computers ship with 1024 at least, if they have less don't even consider them.
And seriously consider doubling that to 2048 which I expect to be the standard by the end of 2008. Machines with 4096 fitted from the factory are already appearing on shelves in the middle segment.

or course Evian last year had to withdraw LOTS of water because of severe benzene contamination of their water, apparently introduced in the bottling plant where it's used as a solvent in the cleaning process...

In most places tapwater does not actually contain chlorine (and that's how you spell it).
When it does, the amount is usually so low it's utterly harmless when consumed in the quantities you get when drinking it.
The only times you really need to let it sit first is when you want to use it to for example fill an acquarium, which is a very sensitive environment where chlorine can kill the bacterial cultures which keep the fish and plants alive.

1) use code tags
2) tell us what those errors are, we're not going to guess
3) most errors are pretty self explanatory, try figuring out what they mean by yourself. It's a vital skill to develop.

you're doing nothing wrong per se, except that most likely the actual location of the image in your web app is different from where you tell the browser it is.

Check the real URL created for the image, and compare that with the location it exists on your application.
Most likely there's a discrepancy there.

people use the start menu? ;)

says it all really. You're passing the store method a String when it expects an integer.
That's what it says, I wonder what's not clear about that?
It's up to you to figure out where you're doing that, but that shouldn't be too hard.

the main problem with nuclear waste is regulatory. It's at the moment illegal for powerplants and storage facilities to refine and sort the waste in order to extract the vast quantities of non-dangerous materials and materials that can be reused.
If those are extracted and the rest sorted out by level of radioactivity (by halflife) things look up a lot.
Only a fraction of the waste needs to be stored at all, and the majority of that for short periods before its radiation levels are below background radiation (at which point it can be disposed of as chemical waste or used in other industries as raw material).

The main reason nuclear energy is relatively costly at this stage is also regulatory. Now, some of those regulations are necessary (safety and security), but many are way too cumbersome and expensive for no other reason than to make nuclear energy an economically unappealing alternative.

Anyone who's visited a nuclear powerplant will have seen that in operation...

just create a desktop shortcut to "cmd".

I recommend DDT.

yah, they just reran that episode for the Xth (X > some very large number) here as part of the constant rerunning of the early seasons (makes it cheaper for them, they don't have to buy new shows from Discovery US...).

I wonder if they selected a known flawed scanner on purpose. Going from a single sample of a single model and determining the entire class of devices doesn't work is of course not good science (but great entertainment).

yes, there are also still people stealing cars and cutting other peoples' throats...

not literally, seems I was in time to turn the thing off before permanent damage was done to the motherboard.
Getting a new CPU from a friend (who has connections ;) ) tomorrow, and already got me a massive CPU cooler to put on top of it just in case.

Please take a moment to mourn the loss of my faithful CPU, who died this morning in a blaze of heat :'(

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so you want to make a Java program that breaks into someone else's computer and takes over so you can run anything you want.

We're not fooled by your "our server" one bit. If it were your server and you'd have a need to you could get the admins to install whatever is needed there.

And no, we're not going to help you with that.

What was on your mind when you were 13?

trying to get to grips with my French and Greek language exams...

There is no such thing as pretty 39 year old woman! At that age beauty has become worn, wrinkly and baggy! Poor boy may be scared and scarred for life!

spoken as someone way younger than 39...

Hydrogen is not sourced from the air, it is generated from water. It takes a large amount of energy to generate hydrogen from water. If you are good at it, you can recover about 30% of the energy spent, by using/burning the generated hydrogen back to water to drive your hydrogen car. The other 70% of the energy is lost as heat. How is that for global warming?

Most hydrogen is in fact extracted from natural gas (methane, ethane, etc.) through chemical processes.
End result: hydrogen, CO2, and chemical residue.
It also costs a lot of energy. Like extraction from water it probably costs more energy than the burning of the hydrogen will produce.

Another factor you didn't take into account is storage and transport of the hydrogen. That is more expensive (both in terms of money and environmental impact) than is doing the same with gasoline (though in theory if the trucks were to run on hydrogen that would be negated, if only the production of hydrogen were to cost less energy than it produces).

but what you don't realise is that "spring" can mean just a pump and a pipe into an aquifer. It doesn't have to be some natural hole in the ground through which water bubbles up (and hardly ever is, those are generally located in nature preserves and can't be tapped into).

If you were to pump water from a river into the ground to clean it and later pump it up again you could claim to have "spring water" (and probably someone does, somewhere).

Military contracts are a double edged sword. They can be profitable but they can come back to bite you.
Many countries over the ages have resorted to nationalising weapons manufacturers in times of tension in order to have cheap and guaranteed access to their products for example.
Usually in such cases there's no compensation for the owners...
OTOH the R&D you can do at (in part) government expense can give you a major edge in your civilian spinoffs and as long as it lasts the sales are profitable. But remember that the market is (or was until the west started destroying their armed forces to save some money) in constant flux. Unless you spend massive amounts of money on R&D (only part of it funded by your customers), product development, and tooling/retooling you're not going to last long. So it's a high risk business, which is the kind of business where high prices are the norm.
The stock price of defense contractors reflects two things:
1) they're large companies with a very diverse product line, thus considered stable. Most of that product line however is not strictly military.
2) they have at the moment a stable customer base with ongoing sales.
As soon as either condition changes they plummet rapidly.

Boeing for example is doing well not so much because of its military departments (though they too are doing well) but the civillian market.
As I said the two are related …

that seems to be a case of RTFM.
I don't know that IBM product, so I can't help. But IBM usually has pretty decent documentation (at least the installation guides, not always the technical stuff).

why create it, why not use something that's already there?

A knowledge base is what you're looking for.
Makes answering questions that much easier and faster.
Expose parts of it through your website for customers to help themselves as well (but of course don't ever tell them to RTFM, at most hint that they can try the knowledge base for quick questions, that it may be faster than calling CS).
And if you get the same questions over and over again, realise that that means there's either something wrong with your product (it is apparently not very intuitive) or the documentation (not clear enough, missing something).

Good training of CS people is also vital. They should be expert users of the product they're supporting, knowing all the ins and outs so they can answer the most obscure questions rapidly.
And they should have short and well defined lines to the 2nd and 3rd lines, the people making and designing the product, for questions that surpass their knowledge (things relating to technical problems rather than user problems) and for passing along information that can lead to improvements in the product.

So most of your problem is NOT solved by a piece of software, it is solved by human beings acting professionally and by procedure.
Software can help in that. A good issue tracking system, a good knowledge base, a detailed list of phone numbers which mentions not just name and number but department and position and support level the person provides, maybe a secure …

especially since OP has apparently never been back after getting his answer to it...

invisible ink?

Wolfy, your personal attacks are out of line.
Josh said already he has nothing against Spanish. But everyone with a grain of sense can see that illegals are a scourge on society. They're highly criminal, most having multiple arrests for violent crimes to their names.
Immigrants (legal ones too) who refuse to learn the language of the land show they're not interested in becoming a part of society, that they're only there to leech money away from it at minimal expense to themselves.
They're the ones who go running around London with explosives strapped around their chest, or knifing the locals because they don't like white people.

Mexico lost Texas fair and square in a military defeat.
Maybe we should give the UK back to Italy, after all they never signed a piece of paper giving it back after the Romans left...

especially since what Americans call a "liberal", Europeans call a socialist.
The term "conservative" was coined by the left to make rightthinking people look like a bunch of stone age idiots who can't stand "progress". The left call themselves "progressive"...
In reality it's the left that can't stand progress, or rather they want change for the sake of change and only towards goals that have been shown time and again to lead to disaster (world communism, socialised healthcare, massive government, skyhigh taxes, total government control over everyday life, nationalisation of industry, etc. etc.).

Find me one person on here that would not have done the same thing as a 13 year old boy.

When I was 14 year old sex was the last thing on our minds. If at all, it only was mentioned during biology classes, and only as relating to animals reproducing...

Evian is actually French, not US, and is sold worldwide.
Only a naive American wouldn't know that ;)

you'd best base it on a thorough understanding of the theory behind the financial markets.

and half a year later someone creates an account for the sole purpose of reviving a dead and answered thread...
Excellent start to a posting career, NOT.

no, because your question makes no sense whatsoever.

AFAIK there's no decent JVM for Windows CE, and no free one at all.

you're also going to get into loads of trouble if you're caught.
Especially with online games it is NOT considered nice to cheat. And in many cases you can end up in court over breaching the license of the game as well (as they pretty much always tell you that decompiling is NOT allowed).

that's bad, as there's a few percent natural hydrogen in the air already ;)

Depends on where you are of course...
If your tapwater is heavily contamminated bottled is the best option. In many western countries though tapwater is actually cleaner than is bottled water as the requirements it has to meet when it comes to chemical and biological contamminants are stricter.

There was a test done in London a few years ago which showed that something like 80% of all tested bottled water would not be allowed to come through the watermains.

What is it with teachers having sex with minors?

In western Wisconsin a 39 yr old teacher has had sex with her daughters 13yr old boyfriend in the basement while husband and daughter slept upstairs.

See it as education, mother didn't want her daughter to have an untrained boyfriend ;)
And if your husband is sleeping with your daughter, you have to go somewhere...

why are you printing the count inside the loop?
why are you not doing anything with the returnvalue of the method?

and don't use Eclipse or any other IDE until you know the language. Those things slow down your learning by making you learn the tool and masking your own misunderstanding in places.

package myhomework;
public class LZ77 {
}

So, problem solved.

and don't send PMs asking for help to people who say they don't want them.