Posts by jwenting

yes, and Eclipse isn't known for being friendly to your memory OR your CPU.
If he's running a machine with 32bit Win7 and only 2GB RAM, his CPU will also be very, very marginal (and that's putting it mildly).
Most likely it's a Core2Duo, and an older moderl. Such machines are designed to run XP or at best Vista, not Win7. It's specs that were decent but not stellar 10 years ago.

For example, a friend of mine used to have an internship job where his job was to go around an entire power-plant and note down every temperature / pressure readings on the piping, and then come back to the office and enter them all into Excel, and then repeat. It would probably have been much more productive with a tablet from which he could just enter the values directly.

And have the tablet automatically record where he is using the GPS so he doesn't even have to fill in the sensor number, the system derives that from his location.

It's actually nearly one of the sample use cases Oracle uses to describe what a mobile device is good for.
They describe a pipeline inspector logging places in a miles long pipe that need repairs by walking or driving along and entering a log as he goes, then at the end hitting a button to upload the entire report to the head office (or even doing that on the fly if the device has 3G capability and there's a connection).

For me, it's mostly a device to contain documentation. Saves me lugging a dozen pounds or more of paper books around with me all day every day.
For note taking I still use pen and paper, as it's much more comfortable for stuff that doesn't need to be stored (mostly it's just notes of things I need to do next, rather than meeting notes or stuff like …

I need a keyboard, and an on-screen one that would sit vertical when I have the screen in a comfortable position would be useless, even if it were comfortable to use which an on-screen keyboard isn't.
And of course a 7" or 10" screen is just too small for serious use to replace a 15" laptop. Especially with that on-screen keyboard taking up 50% of the screen.

it's telling you to add the driver to your classpath. That's wrong with it and that's how to fix it...

get a faster computer.

well...

call a method within AQAReadTextFile2013.java,

sounds very suspicious, even more as he doesn't even list such a file among what he claims to have available.

my guess: he has 4 source files and expects that he can just call methods in those without compiling them.
Another guess: he has loose methods in those source files that are not inside any classes.

I do know that jInitiator is extremely picky about what JVMs it works on. It's quite likely you need to seek your problem in that area, incompatible JVM versions.
Your best place for support would be Oracle themselves, if you've the licenses to use that stuff you're going to have a support contract with them as well :)

if you lack the knowledge you need, get the knowledge... It's really that simple.
You're now at a stage in life where you're no longer being led by the hand, but expected to be able to figure out on your own what you need to know and find ways to acquire that knowledge.

I prefer to import individual classes.
Why? Because it gives some documentation on the top of your source file indicating which classes are used in your application.
Might not always be needed, but I've seen places where that was parsed into a document and used to determine dependencies between parts of the application and 3rd party libraries.
IDEs make it a lot easier to keep up to date of course. When coding quick prototypes or working in a simple text editor I often resort to just importing entire packages for convenience. Later an IDE (if needed) can then reorganise that.

Santa or father Christmas represents St. Nicolas.. However the red coat comes from a Coca Cola advert... He used to be green

the red coat and hat are corruptions of the red robes, cloak, and myter of a catholic bishop.
St. Nicholas was just that, bishop of Myra (in modern day Turkey).
His saints day is 6 December, still celebrated in the Netherlands, Turkey, Belgium, and parts of Germany as a children's festival with presents being brought for them on the evening of the 5th, the good man sending his helpers down the chimneys in days prior to check whether the kids have been good during the preceding year.

If all that sounds pretty much like the SantaClaus stories, no surprise. They're adopted from that, then moved in time a few weeks to coincide with Christmas.

So according to Rick, Obama is giving everyone free health care (it isn't free) because if he doesn't, poor people will get sick and die and not be able to vote against him.

No, he's stating that that's how Obama is trying to sell the ACA to his constituency, that it means they're getting free healthcare and that "the rich" are going to pay for it through higher taxes and premiums (his intended constituency of unemployed, low income, etc. etc. people are all getting such high subsidies on their premiums under the ACA they're effectively getting free healthcare, at least free health insurance which will often turn out to not cover the care they need when they need it).

It's the same way government run healthcare and health insurance is sold to the electorate in many countries, telling people "it's free" when in fact it's anything but.
Ask most people in the UK and they'll tell you the NHS provides "free healthcare". They've forgotten that that healthcare is paid for out of their taxes over the decades.
Same in Canada.
In the Netherlands, many people think their doctors are basically free. But they're not, they just get their healthcare paid for out of their health insurance completely and transparently, never seeing a bill, and the insurance bill is automatically taken from their bank accounts so they never see it (except once a year when a new policy arrives listing the new premiums).
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It tells me that, that is not a valid command

Which means you either don't have Java installed, or don't have it installed correctly.

IMO declaring Christmas as a federal holiday violates that law. (Public Law 90-363)

it doesn't, unless the federal government dictates that everyone join a specific religious group and forces them to celebrate Christmas within that group.

That's what the establishment clause means, that congress can't create (or declare) a state religion, a religion that all citizens MUST be a member of.

Just declaring Christmas day to be a day off for federal workers doesn't do that (and that is what congress did).

Note that this is about the federal government only, individual states under the establishment clause are not preventing from demanding their citizens be a member of a specific religious group, and indeed several states have had such requirements at one point or another.

Having a degree is not required, but it sure helps getting a foot in the door.
Doesn't have to be an IT related degree though, anything in the sciences especially will teach you valuable skills unrelated to the exact discipline, effectively teaching you to learn and think independently and outside the box, making you more likely to be a valuable addition to the team.

31 members can't be wrong ;)

they can, but in this case...

The problem is that gov't large scale IT projects aren't centralized enough! If the project was completely centralized: designed & developed by a single company/gov't entity rather than broken up and handed out to several independent contractors and getting imput from dozens of independent consultants/lobbyists there would be far fewer problems.

don't you love having to spread out the dollars to as many congressional districts as possible to buy as many votes as possible...

Almost always? More like always, unless science has invented artificial sperm. I'd like to respond to the logic here, but I'm having trouble properly putting it into words. Sorry.

artificial insemination. Sperm donors are anonymous for a reason, which is to prevent them ending up being held up for child support.
So why should they be held up for maternity care through a backdoor?

Of course such is the natural consequence of a one size fits all package.
Alternative would be different packages based on sex, race, marital status, age, etc. which would be even more unwieldy as the whole thing already is (and likely lead to screams about sexism, racism, and age discrimination as many specific groups of people who are not young single white men will end up with either reduced coverage and/or higher premiums because they are more susceptible (in fact often uniquely susceptible) to specific and often expensive to treat conditions that young single white men are not subject to (there are diseases that specifically target blacks, maternity care specifically targets women, etc.).

Are we allowed to live for an eternity?

were it possible, no doubt there'd be laws mandating euthenasia for anyone who's not paying more in taxes than they get in government benefits...

That's just stupid! How can Toco Bell NOT prove that their tocos contain beef? What else could they contain -- kangaroos or horsemeat? All the inspectors have to do is watch them make it and test the ingredients.

exactly the same idiocy as the urban legend that KFC changed its name to KFC from Kentucky Fried Chicken because "they don't actually serve chicken and are thus not allowed to use the word in their advertising", which is utterly bogus as they never changed their name, and use the word chicken liberally in all their marketing (including their own website).

Especially since there was no way to know that the insurance companies would respond by cancelling policies.

right... There was no way to know insurance companies were going to cancel policies if they were forced to do so because those policies were not in line with the ACA diktats...

If you're providing coverage beyond what ACA allows, at a price above what ACA allows, and now you're told by the ACA that you have to lower the price but aren't allowed to reduce the coverage, you as a company have but one option: cancel the policy.
The alternative would be to offer the policy below cost, which would hurt your business.
What kinda does surprise me is that not more insurance companies offered customers ACA compliant policies in exchange for their previous policies as a company policy (when a similar change happened here insurance companies did just that).
Maybe many of them left the health insurance industry, I don't know, but that could well be the reason.

Lowest bidder.

if only... The contract was granted to "the correct party" which was a company headed by an old college friend (of the correct skin colour of course) of Michelle Obama, which just happened to be a large campaign contributor to the Obama campaign.
A company with an international record of failed websites just like healthcare.gov.

Few times I've been to Taco Bell (admittedly the last time was in 2004, which is the last time I was in a country where they exist), the service was prompt, the place was clean, the food was decent (way too much fat, otherwise it was nice).
And yes, they used beef, or something that tasted so much like beef it may as well have been because making something that's not beef to taste so much like beef is bound to be more expensive than actual beef.

well, we could always go back to the good old days of the 1940s and use "undesirables", was all the rage back then in Germany, Japan, and yes the USA as well.

Mind, not my idea of a good idea, but the "animal rights" people are all in favour of killing humans by the billions so they no doubt think it a bloody good idea (then again, they also are opposed to any form of healthcare for anyone but themselves).

I agree that children can be unplanned but sometimes they are unplanned, not because of carelessness but because of ignorance (when proper sex-ed is not taught)

we never had sex ed when I was a kid, yet nobody got pregnant. There were no teen pregnancies in my school, and similarly when I was in university none of the students got pregnant (or ended up with a pregnant girlfriend afaik).
We also didn't have ready access to cheap condoms.

We just didn't go around and shag every bit of female flesh we saw...

ignorance is no excuse here, carelessness and an attitude that "the government will take care of me no matter what happens" are the culprits.
Not going to talk about moral decline, that's nonsense (every generation complains about the moral decline of the one that comes after them, this has been recorded for thousands of years).
No, it's a symptom of the entitlement generation, the "I'm not responsible for my own acts, whatever they may be" generation.

Deceptikon is right, breast feeding is almost always an option. And if not, if there really is a medical necessity, alternatives are available (like handpumps for a mother to milk her own breasts, then use the milk to feed the baby, those are cheap and can be rented or borrowed).
Artificial solutions are only needed in case the mother can't produce milk (or not enough) which is a medical emergency, and not subject to restrictions on …

forget about it.
But read the file format specifications, see if there's a defined API for it that can give you the data you need, then find a way to enforce the restrictions.
And THEN try to ensure that it's secure so people can't just hack their way around it (which is where you'd best start forgetting about it, as a beginner).

nothing urgent about it.
Just create a new String each time, showing just the already guessed letter.

mind that the "review" you link to is part of the corporate blog of a competitor to the company. Not exactly a reliable source of unbiassed information :)

As to the worth of "online certificates", what with the overwhelming flood of fraudulent institutions selling them to read anything and everything without any testing related to the subject matter that value is effectively zero.

wth are people still trying to use turbo C when that product is going on 35 years old (older than they are almost certainly), hasn't been supported for over 25 of those, and was created for an operating system and hardware architecture they've at most only read about or seen in a museum trip?
Yet if they don't get a new iPhone every few months they start complaining that they have such seriously outdated stuff...

far better to adopt an existing product that's proven to be secure, reliable, and performant.
Especially as you lack the experience...

google for "freelance programming", there are several sites where you can bid on jobs. Or try some temp agencies where you get paid only if they assign you to a job (which probably will require an interview with the prospective client).

of course without the necessary credentials, he's never going to get hired that way or any other...

He wants to get a job requiring a university level education with a high school level education, and without the practical experience to compensate for that lack.
That can only end in tears. Tears for whomever he tricks into hiring him by supplying false credentials or bluffing his way past a hiring manager with no clue about what she's vetting candidates on, and tears for himself as well.

There's millions of unemployed IT people with degrees and experience willing to take on jobs well below their education/experience in order to have an income.
And you think that just because you've read a few books and made a facebook page for yourself you can outcompete all of them on the labour market?

That attitude alone is a good reason you are not going to get hired, you're delusional.

While indeed you don't need a degree to get a job in some industries, you do effectively need one to get a job in this industry.
It's no different from applying to a job as a medical doctor and claiming that you can do the job because you know how to apply a bandaid when you've cut a finger in the kitchen.

Islam is myth, or rather the belief system behind it is, making its adherents believers in myths.
The toxic, aggressive, way in which they behave themselves towards everyone else is sadly not a myth at all.

don't worry, there will be no Christians and Jews left in Syria after the Islamists win, they'll all have been killed or forcibly converted to islam at gunpoint and then killed.

seems you didn't get the message: we're not your project idea generator, use your brain for that.

In our experience, 90%+ of kids coming here asking us to give them their ideas then come back to ask us to implement those ideas for them.

Same reason Europe is supporting them, they think/hope that showing themselves good little dhimmis will stop AQ turn them into the next target.
Idle hope of course, they just show themselves to be even more spineless and even easier targets than they already are.

we're still waiting for an automated project idea generator...

in fact the AQ/Taliban couldn't care less about the people. We have seen time and again how they treat their conquered subjects, which is not at all nice.
And in this case those conquered subjects are even worse off, being members of a different islamic sect to the AQ/Taliban core, and in part being not muslims at all but Christians.

what about a basic course in using a search engine? Would help you much more than being dripfed things to "study" every few hours here (which is way too little time to gain any knowledge about any concept).

actually, WMDs and components were found in Iraq but nowhere near the quantities or battle readiness levels previously suspected.
Classic intelligence failure, nothing nefarious about it.

As to Syria, guess where Saddam shipped a lot of his stuff when things started heating up in 2002?

And there's no indication who used that Sarin there, only that it was used. With a strong suspicion that it was in fact the AQ linked "rebels" that are the culprit.

For any potential future employer what you know as a rank rookie is far less important than that you show enthousiasm and an ability and willingness to learn and do basically anything.

You're not expected to know anything yet, and will most likely spend the first several months at least learning skills, getting coffee for team mates, and analysing bug reports.

In the short time frame of a graduation project, forget about writing your own game engine from scratch, especially if you're doing it solo rather than as part of a large and experienced team, and especially as you apparently don't even know the programming language you want to use yet.
Choose something a lot less ambitious, and using an existing engine would be that.
Of course you'd need to include a detailed analysis of various engines and the criteria you used to arrive at which to use for your implementation as part of your thesis. Anything less would (or at least should, if you have a decent teacher grading you) lead to serious deductions on your final score, no matter how good your implementation will turn out to be (in fact that implementation is or should be the least of the items scored on).

depends on the contract, but you do indeed pay more for the phone if you get it as part of a contract than when you buy it outright.
Which is hardly surprising. You're effectively buying the phone on credit...

no need to mortgage your phone to a contract, just buy one that's not locked and put your existing SIM card in it...

used to ride a bike 20-30km a day, hike 5-10km a day, swim several hours a week.
Then I got into an accident that destroyed my knees...

And coherent writing skills, with the ability to write things other people can and want to read.
OP's blurb is a prime example of what they don't want to see. Poor formating, lots of typographical and grammatical errors, etc..

And in snow up to my waist :)

while facing a blizzard headon, wearing only shorts and sandals.

I'm hoping the random full discharge of my 2 year old phone last year isn't the beginning of the end for it.
If it is, I might look for a new one, or just revert to a 6 year old model I keep as a spare and use that for another 2-3 years.

I thought that was Yahoo!?

no, it's 15.000 yahoos applying to work at Google.

IMO there's no such thing as "unacceptably rich". The whole idea that people should be kept poor (or at least all within a specific and small margin of the poorest members of society) is a major factor in getting us into the economic crisis we are in and making it next to impossible to get out.
Potential investors are taxed to the point they have no money to invest, potential entrepreneurs think twice about starting a business on a loan (which that investor will likely deny them because he has no money to spend, but let's say he finds one able and willing to take the risk) because he'll just be penalised for his success (if he has it).

The Gold standard for currency worked well, until it was abandoned by countries needing a quick cash infusion for their governments that wanted to go on a spending spree for which their gold supplies lacked the backing volume.
So they abandoned the gold standard and just decided that the currency would be worth whatever the government said it was.
Result of course is inevitably high inflation, government budgets spiraling out of control, eventual monetary collapse, and poverty for all but those having control over the money presses who just print more money for themselves, leaving the rest of the population poorer still as a result.

my current TV is less than 5 years old, I hope it will last at least another 10-15. At that time I'll see what's current mid range technology and whether that's worth the investment for the half hour or so a day I use the darn thing.