Posts by jwenting

You can easily help yourself by doing your own homework, and trying to learn something instead of sitting back waiting for others to do it all for you.

Most of teh UAE is completely tax-free only for citizens, expats need to pay some taxes there (like income tax, which doesn't exist for citizens).

P.S. Most of the chemicals used to produce the main excuse for invading Iraq was sold by US. There is hard evidece of that.

Wrong. Most were delivered from France and Russia.

But of course the avid Bush haters won't ever believe anything that contradicts their ideas...

Chaky, the US could have gotten hold of that oil FAR easier and cheaper had they just done what France did and sign a nice deal with Saddam.

Poison gas for oil, plutonium for oil, you name it and Saddam was willing to take it in payment for oil.

The fact that the US didn't go that way tells enough, oil was the last thing on the administration's mind (unless it was trying to prevent Iraq from threatening the flow of oil from Kuwait and Saudi like they had done in 1990) when they ordered the troops into the country.

I have buddies in the US Army that tell me that the few Dutch soldiers are too busy with their hairnets to do any good! You must be sponsored by the Shell Oil Company that has huge interests in Iraq.

The Dutch forces were completely demoralised by the way they are being treated by their own political leadership.
When an Iraqi looter was hit by a ricochet from a warningshot and killed the Marine firing the shot was arrested and tried for murder.
He was cleared of all charges, but not before his name and face were plastered all over the news as a murderer.

They even went as far as to take a government jet, fly police to Iraq, and drag the guy out of his tent in handcuffs before his fellow Marines.

Comatose, there never needed to be such a link.
Under the 1991 ceasefire arrangements every UN member has the obligation to use whatever means (up to and including military means) needed to make sure weapons inspectors are provided full and unhindered access to any place in Iraq that they may desire.
Iraq has been in violation of their treaty obligations to that regard from as far back as 1995 at least, and the world has failed to take appropriate action until 2003.
Now the inspections are complete, and the troops are kept in place to support the Iraqi people in their struggle against domestic and international terrorists and criminals who wish to disrupt the democratic process in Iraq for their own purposes (a democratic process first disrupted when Saddam took power in a military coup).
The international forces act as police, training cadre for the Iraqi armed forces, and as construction crews to rebuild damage done to Iraqi infrastructure during the war.
They're quite effective at that, large parts of the country are now at peace (or close to), more schools and hospitals are operational (and offer better quality services) than most Iraqi people have ever experienced, and there are free elections.
Most cities in Iraq are now safer to walk the streets than say LA or Miami.

We have the moral responsibility to help the people of Iraq do their own thing without falling prey to terrorists or (worse) Iranian invasion.

The goals set out have largely been achieved, Saddam has been removed as a supporter of terrorism and terrorists as a group are too busy now to bother the US or Europe.
The only failure is the one of the political left and their cronies in the press to convince the world that the mission in Iraq was unjust and has failed.
Of course there are always people who will fall for any leftist propaganda.

Well, a Wombat is the closest thing to a hedgehog listed so that's what I chose.
And I'm one BIG hedgehog :)

hmm, "computers are my life, sadly" is missing.
I'm starting to hate the things, but there's no avoiding them when you work as a software engineer...

I don't know, I don't visit dealers and they don't advertise in the papers ;)

try Class.getResourceAsStream to return the content as an InputStream.

most database engines will allow you to create a database with a single command or by filling out a single dialog box.
Can't get much easier than that.

Walked past a bar in Amsterdam saturday who had a large advertisement in the window mentioning a price of €1.10 for beer.
Didn't mention the dose, so I'll assume it's a regular beerglass which would be 0.2 or 0.25 (depending on brand) liter.

and if you don't know English you're never going to be able to explain it, nor to understand whatever we're trying to tell you ;)

learn English and don't be lazy...

1) use syntactically and gramatically correct English everywhere
2) ditto Java
3) O'Reilly

and more on political correctness than on anything else... My sister was told to march in anti-nuke rallies or she'd be failed her classes.
Only a complaint to the school administrator got that situation changed.

Better yet: just learn to use the toold you get without using an IDE to hide it all from you.

Short answer: you don't.
Way too complex to achieve what you can do far more easily with just 2 commands.
Which those are I leave to you, the API documentation is your friend.

write a distributed generator for project titles.
Should come in handy for websites like this, kids could just click a button and get a random project.
Saves us a lot of work answering the dozens of questions each semester from kids having to think of a project to do for school and too unimaginitive or lazy to think for themselves.

he does need the PSDK, as the versions shipped with VC6 are so far outdated that VC2005 will not work with them.
VC2005 requires the latest version of the PSDK.

nothing wrong with old tutorials, they teach the core instead of getting sidetracked into fancy new additions...

Why include XP skinning into a tutorial teaching introductory Win32 programming for example...

you can't write to a file inside a jar.

apart from renaming the function "median" to "average" to better reflect its function?
And of course renaming the local variable "average" to something like "sum" to reflect its function.
What's the reason for returning the stream from your "vec" function when you then discard the darn thing?

The express edition when you want it on CD costs money. Money to pay for making the CD, the box, etc., and for shipping it to the store.
Then the store will want some money for their effort.

I don't see a pro edition of Visual C++ 2005, only the Express and Standard versions.
So for the Pro version you're getting the entire Visual Studio (including C#, VB, J#). That's why the extra cost.
In addition to the standard version you're getting tools for developing Windows CE applications, remote debugging support, XSLT debugging, and "visual tools for Microsoft Office" (whatever that is).

All unrelated to C++ development unless you want to write for PDAs.

add the compiler flags "-source 1.4 -target 1.4" (without the quotes) when compiling and your 1.5 compiler will behave like it was a 1.4 compiler and spit out classfiles for 1.4 runtimes.

if you read the book correctly you'll find out that the grade you're working with here is a single double per student, which is calculated from the total series of grades before being stored in the vector.

Keeping 2 vectors in synch with each value in one relating to exactly one value in the other shouldn't be a problem.

the compiler takes care of that for you. See the documentation on how to invoke it.

except that it should be a String array of course ;)

Only the window that has keyboard focus can receive keyboard events AFAIK.
You'll have to instead create some interface that will allow the virtual keyboard to send data to your application forms and fill them that way, working outside the Windows message dispatcher system.

Maybe it's changed though, I've not done any Win32 API programming in quite a while.

Check whether your license expired, most if not all virus scanners are sold on a subscription basis and will disable themselves when your subscription expires.

If you want to WRITE software, you're in the wrong department with your study.
You're learning to write ABOUT software, mainly sales brochures :)

I fully agree that you can't manage a development team properly without having time in the trenches, too many people try and make miserable managers because they don't understand what makes their people tick and can't give estimates on performance and timelines worth a damn.

Good languages to learn on the side are Python and Ruby. They're relatively small and easy to learn so they don't take up too much time next to your main business.
Python is even used here and there (Ruby is too, but mainly in Japan).
Apart from those you'd have to look at things like Java, C++, and Cobol.

I'd start with getting a spelling and grammar checker. You seem to be in desperate need of one.

Correct. And employers don't look for unique solutions, they look for working solutions that can be maintained by others when you're gone.

Well, you'd have to put in a very serious security layer to prevent harmful code from being executed.
Too many websites (and other applications) forget about that, allowing the user to execute unguarded code on the server with often disastrous results.
That would be the real project, the presentation and user interface the icing on the cake.

Neat idea.

Don't go and implement those things yourself. There's many libraries available to take care of such things for you that do a far better job than what you could come up with.
Security is a complex issue, and very hard to get right (be careful selecting your tools therefore, many of them are bound to have serious flaws).

SSL for example starts at your webserver but doesn't stop there.

ALWAYS doublecheck all your input data, both clientside and serverside validation should take place on it.
Login details should be stored such that they can't be decrypted (just in case your database server gets compromised.
If that sounds impossible, it isn't (I've done it myself) :)

As said, use a proper architecture. Servlets, Javabeans, and JSP (using JSTL of course, not scriptlets).
Forget (IMO) about EJB, they're overkill for almost every scenario.

Write proper analysis and design documents. Those are IMO even more important than the actual code for a small project like this, especially in an academic setting (of course in the real world the code is the only thing that counts, but if the design sucks so will the code and most likely it will never get done).

JSP Wiki already exists :)
In fact there's an open source wiki with exactly that name (which is indeed written as a set of JSPs).

the original idea is indeed not very complicated. RSS feeds are just standard components to plug into existing frameworks and servers so add only the little complexity of adding a few lines to some configuration files.
You'll have to come up with something that actually requires some programming rather than plugging ready-made products together and maybe making some graphics and stylesheets.

No, you can not delete a thread.
Let others learn something from it if they can (and go to the trouble to search for an answer before asking a question), that's what a public forum is for.

gcc will never work under DOS, it's 32 bit only ;)

TC3 is NOT free, only TC1 is and I'd not advise that to anyone learning C++.
It's a pre-ANSI compiler which does not confirm to current language standards.
For the oldtimers and collectors it's a blast from the past, a reminder of the good old days.
http://bdn.borland.com/museum

The 5.5 compiler IS free and can be downloaded from here: http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_cbuilder.html
It's one of the best C++ compilers out there, has the highest ANSI compliance of them all (at least for the Win/Tel platform) and excellent performance.

Free registration required for all downloads. Borland is serious about not mailing you if you don't want them to.

Rice is an important staple food, it should get more attention.

Python looks like fun.
Got some books on it and can read it pretty well, didn't spend much time on it so far (too busy with Java).

if you're into Ethiopian cooking it doesn't matter what the weight is.
Just hold some rice (a few grains will do) near (but no closer than half a meter) from a cup of boiling water.
Reuse that rice for the next year.

Hi everyone,

The starting prompt needs to be the location of java.exe

Richard West

No it doesn't. As long as java.exe is on the path you're fine.
And that's not his problem anyway. His problem is a path problem where he can't find a jar he tries to launch.
So all he needs to do is call java with the correct location for the jar, which he doesn't seem capable of doing for some reason.

A beginner's course in using a command prompt might be in order :mrgreen:

you'd have to be in that very directory then. And add '.' to your classpath and path.

Where is your jarfile and where are you trying to do that?
And what's your classpath?

and of course use packages and proper class naming (which you don't seem to be doing at the moment)...

make sure there's an empty line after the mainclass argument.
This is required!

Make an executable jar or a jnlp.
But anyone with an installed JRE can run a Java application if they know the name of the class that contains the main method (or you provide a batchfile or other startup script for their OS).

If you had tried to learn to use the compiler and runtime instead of which button to press you'd have known that.

RFID can indeed be abused by oppressive governments (which at last count meant all governments) and corporate entities.
But the myth that RFID tags "call home" to tell the government where you are regularly is just that, a myth.
RFID tags of the kinds which could be used for implantation in humans (or clothes and other items) are passive.
They will give off the information stored on them (usually a single number) only when activated.
The tag has no powersource, the power to transmit is derived from the signal which requests the information.
When the signal is received the chip gets power. If the signal matches a signal the tag is programmed to respond to it transmits the information stored in it until the signal dies down.

Typically the range of RFID scanners is limited to a few meters at most. Higher powered tags require independent power sources (batteries), making them impractical for longterm use (how to replace the battery regularly?), larger (and thus more cumbersome to install and carry around), and far more expensive (given the now estimated 300 pound pricetag for the UK biometrics ID card they're trying to force on every resident that's clearly not a problem for governments, they just pass on the bill to the taxpayer/victim).

The myth that RFID tags are no larger than a grain of sand and cheap enough to install in penny items like pencils and candy wrappers is also just that, a myth.