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JEE 6 is a huge leap forward compared to how J2EE used to be. However, there are a few problems.

First of all, JSF is the most horrible framework for creating web applications that I've ever used. Its intention is to make web development easier, but what you get is a huge mess of HTML and JavaScript that introduces a lot of new problems. Escpecially since it gives you the impression that you don't need to know HTML and JavaScript to work with it.

EJBs are a lot easier, and as long as you don't access them remotely, you don't need interfaces or XML files. If you put them remotely, you need both. With injection you don't need to look up EJBs manually, except if you put them remotely - because if the reference to the remote EJB is invalidated (i.e. if it's accessed while the remote server is down), you'll need to look it up manually again.

As long as you choose something other than JSF, JEE 6 is fine.

Of course, then there's the application servers. I've only tried Glassfish (for a while it was the only fully certified JEE 6 app server), but it had a few problems - I heard one of the latest versions had a GZip filter that would have spinning threads taking 100% CPU.

JEE has come a long way, but I'll probably choose Spring for my next Java project.
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Since the Kony video became viral, a lot of celebrities have shows support as well, and what better way to do that by posting it to social media sites such as facebook, twitter, and blog accounts.

See below:

http://felldowntherabbithole.tumblr.com/post/18984415138 - Diana Agron (Actress)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2012/03/kony-2012-whi... (shows celebrities who are being targeted to support KONY 2012)
Actually its not Zynga - I think the original was a Korean MMORPG which set the tone for other AAA MMOs.

The f2p model was tested with a lot of other games, both in China and Korea. I think gunz online was one of them.

Anyhoo - the major American brands resisted because of the cultural idea behind an MMO of the time - as in a world, which you subscribed to be in, and act within.

Being able to pay money to advance faster than other people broke the golden rule of immersion the original founders/artists had in mind.

Dont forget, this is now a bygone age of gaming - where people created games as an extension of their imagination and a hope to enact cool things in character.

Today those drives are still there, but completely leashed to the need to ensure profitability.

Its led to more attempts and games, but you now don't have things like sprawling empty wastelands in the barrens of WoW. Every square inch has been maximized to ensure that it has no dead spaces, or environments which let people advance at anything beyond the average rate decided by the designers.

Most designers for MMOs will avoid selling advancement enhancing goods - it destroys the game in the long run.

The model they use is one where if you aren't paying, you are the content. They need to make sure it is egalitarian at a gameplay level.

Beyond that, its free for monetization.
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Vendors are already tracking all my itemized purchases and sharing with every advertising company in existence, it would be nice if they would share the data with me, too.

"Google Takeout" indeed.
Can anybody explain what this is approximately about?
OS maps don't show details within private property like ranks in car-parks.
I was half expecting to see Dart powering this sucker. Looks like a lot of fun.
Why is there no recycling? It seems like a no-brainer to for the LP to allow recycling, so maybe I'm failing to see some perverse incentive that would exist if recycling were allowed?
How do you scan 230,000 pages of paper?
He perhaps uses email (in part) the way you use instant messaging, testing, or twitter.

And a 10 minute chat may count as a meeting.
There's not even that much to TL;DR. Someone proposed a patch that would break binary compatibility. There was some argument about having to keep "30+ years of backwards compatibility."

Linus said the whole thing was dumb, the patch wasn't worth it, and that programs exist for users, so we can't just break things for the hell of it and expect people to use Linux.
In my experience binary compatibility on linux is a train wreck. Ever tried to get a binary compiled 5 years ago to run on a fresh install of linux?

Good luck.

If you still have the specific version of every shared library that it loaded you might be able to get it to work.

This isn't the fault of the kernel team though.

It is probably to be expected on platforms in which distributing source code is the default option, but it makes the platform very hostile to closed source applications, particularly games.
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I'm exceeding unconvinced by this article. His plus points for JEE were really stretching:

- Sustainability - do we really think Spring is going to die?

- Light weight testing is possible - so JEE has caught up with spring...

- Convention over configuration - like spring.

- Multiple providers - OK that's a potential benefit but I'm not seeing the realisation of it yet. It could also mean that different providers have different bugs.

From my personal investigations Spring offers many advantages. In some places JEE has matched them in others it's still behind. So I would ask myself do I want to go with the framework that's driving the advancement, or the framework that is playing catchup? Also these days Spring is the standard.
it seems the whole point is simplicity

> Tasks should be easy to define -- one decorator, no options

lets see how long it lasts... at some point they will realize they need a build-tool. Rake is a build-tool. Shovel is not.
A prediction engine (aka adaptive shorthand, or similar) would give even better ROI than manual practice in standard typing.

Why are predictive keyboards so popular on phones but not desktops and laptops?
Actually the game designers completely understand those human emotions like greed, envy and fear.

They design these things into the game [i] on purpose [/i]

The economics of video games, in terms of GDP is simple - people constantly produce thing from a never ending well of digital resource nodes.

As a result of crafting + drop + trash sales, total gold in the servers always goes up, causing unending price inflation.

Its a pretty cool example of what would happen in a world with plenty.

Game designers create gold sinks to give people - especially the stupidly rich - something to dump their gold into.

I've been on the wow servers soon after vanilla launched - some gamers (and some human beings in general) are just wired to enjoy amassing wealth and gaming the economy.

These sinks were created to ensure that those players end up doing minimal damage to the average player.
I think we have philosophical differences partly because we can see the potential impact on all users somewhat ahead of time.

It's quite hard to convince people that it really is important to maintain some ability to control their own computing devices even if they have no intention of directly doing so themselves.

I often think that climate scientists must have similar problems.
It makes it hostile to abandonware.
There are some similar products from sgvsarc called Crystal REVS from SGV Sarc (http://www.sgvsarc.com/products.htm). Does anyone know how they compare against Codesurfer and related products from GrammaTech ?
Why would you ever ask a human how many commits someone made? # of phone calls I can almost understand, but we should be beyond that as well.
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Compare and contrast: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/24/45779...
Anyone remember when game developers would outsource platform porting to other developers? A lot of the time they didn't even end up using the same code!

How times have changed...
If you want to be sure it'll work, you compile it statically, and waste a little bit of disk space and memory.
Auto-feed, like how a printer consumes paper.
Hostile to people who use their machines for Real Work.
Why are companies defecting from Google Maps?
lol :) i loved the 'enterprise programmer' version ...
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SW was a case study of what never to do in an MMO. Its pretty much necessary knowledge when designing a game of the type.
There is one problem that worries me, 1.4 came out with a known (for few RC's and 2-3 releases before) regression that makes Photoshop CS5 unusable - not sure about older ones too but it might also be the case :(
I'm really happy that Google is doing so much to support Bletchley Park, but I'm equally sad that no British firm is taking Google's place in this.

Where's ARM?
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I don't think I'd use the word steal in respect of copyright works. But here it is the moral rights which are being denied.

How do you steal something given to you as a gift? Claim it was yours all along and so deny the owner their attribution. Even if the owner of the copyright retains access to the data you can still deny them their lawful attribution - that is what has arguably been stolen here I think.
It's like reading a Plato book where Socrates is bullying the guests :-)
Thats pretty cool.

Did you hit the gold cap, and do you still run the programs?
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"did Apple succeed in magically upping the compression?"

The threshold for magic used to be "sufficiently advanced technology" now it's apparently debased to such a degree that using a different encoding profile of a decade old ISO standard codec qualifies.
Are the measured effects of tDCS really large enough to outweigh any effects from confirmation bias and statistical anomalies? Were the tests performed double-blind using placebo units?
Pretty stupid stab, to be honest. Every major desktop/workstation operating system uses microkernel or hybrid architecture (even NT, yeah, that's true; I know that Linux thinks hybrid is another word for macro-). And it is like this for some purpose.
To my best knowledge being macrokernel makes Linux "huge and bloated" like someone has once said.
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You sound like someone who would end up enjoying dwarf fortress.

I posted this earlier, on another forum and its valid here -

Your talking about being interesting. And no one had an interesting life by remaining safe and within their comfort zone.

At least thats my 2 c.\

Morrowind also had the uncanny valley going for it, you could fill in a lot of gaps with your own imagination. Oblivion added far too many guard rails and bread crumb paths - it became disney land.
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As much as I love the idea of a turnkey home server, I can't help thinking that will be Apple's next move. Some of us just won't use iCloud due to legal issues. If the gov't suddenly has an exigent need for, say, photos taken on a certain day, time, and place, their snooping won't be limited to plucking those from iCloud. They'll grab all the photos stored and sort through them afterwards. And that without legally having to serve search warrants to each individual user. I don't want my privacy and rights violated like that. So I'd like "iCloud for the Home," with a Mac mini that is where I put it and where the gov't needs to serve me personally with a warrant to access the data.

Also, despite this company's assurance about encryption, hell, the way Anonymous has cracked open things out there, I'm not about to trust anyone with even fractions of my data, especially since I think many Anonymous members will scoop this up and get busy hacking it.

[typo edit]
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> one can type and use a mouse just fine while walking on a treadmill, at least up to—for me—a speed of about 2.5 mph.

Anything you can do while typing and talking on the phone isn't much exercise.
This seems far more annoying and inefficient than simply taking a 10 minute 5-6mph jog on the treadmill around the block before lunch.
I like how they have an impress.js-enabled site.
I got a good laugh from this quote: "[Linux] is not some crazy drug-induced microkernel"
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I see that you're making the API requests on the client side (a good idea because of last.fm's API restrictions), but you should really consider caching them server side.

It takes quite a while to fetch all plays if you have a lot, and currently, if you want to share the graph with your friends, they would have to wait too.
Definitely. I'm perfectly happy with Spring. A developer can create the most lightweight web application with the most manageable code with Spring.
It could be the hurd project. He does have that semi-famous "just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people" quote.
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I tried using CrossOver to run Office 2007 a year ago, and while it basically worked I found it was just as good if not better to run Windows in VirtualBox (and I don't even have VM instructions on my processor).
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I am looking forward to moving into a house so I can have that noisy hot supercomputer in the basement on Gigabit Ethernet / wifi to the living room.
Why don't I see anything worthwhile happening in the startup space?
In looking around scoping out competition, in looking for employment, and in looking for interesting startups to talk about, I've realized that I don't see anything worth mentioning. Maybe a few established players are gaining a bit of traction, but that's about it.

What's going on, is everyone hoping for a "talent" acquisition from a mid-sized company? It's kinda strange that with all the startup hype, I don't yet see anything that I couldn't piece together in my "mother's basement," and I don't see anything that will amount to anything more than a dissapointing acquisition-based money grab.

Am I missing something? Where are some examples? I think this is strange.
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Ah, I misunderstood. Sorry.
Yup this article is wrong, only passed the house so far. That being said, I think the bill is a real double edged sword. Deregulation is always going to lead to bad actors, and I see a rise in fraud from startups that raise funds from the crowd . As for the IPO, look at how the SEC treated Groupon. That is the kind of oversight a IPO demands.
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Hint to law enforcement:

It doesn't matter whether copyright infringement is ethically good or bad. It doesn't matter whether these sites are legally liable for copyright infringement that goes on using them.

You look like complete morons trying to take down site after site. You are pissing people off and what do you have to show for it except a few hollow victories?

If copyright infringement through file sharing has decreased, it's due to itunes, amazon, google, and all the smaller companies offering digital versions of content. Guess who is missing from that list? MPAA and RIAA members.

Trying to fight copyright infringement through punitive fines or throwing people in prison is sick. It's like the drug war, only worse. At least you can point to a few crazy meth heads as a danger to the public. "Pirates" hurt... the meatspace content distributors that are rapidly becoming obsolete?
An amusing choice of titles here.

On the front page right now is '"Space Monkey" Dropbox Competitor Wins Launch, Has Already Raised $750K', and just below it, is this title ('A fresh new Dropbox on the web'). I was expecting this to be a post praising their new competitor.

Anyway, a redesign was badly needed for the web interface. The last time I used Dropbox on the web I remember questioning how this could be a multi-billion dollar company.
About this point :

> What's even better: you can put labels on your nested loops and break out of multiple levels using them. Finally!

This is possible in other languages, too, even if it's a little known fact.

For example in java :

ext: for (int i=0; i<4; i++) {
System.out.println("ext "+i);
for (int j=0; j<4; j++) {
System.out.println(" in "+j);
if (j==2) break ext;
}
}
These kids developed something similar: http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/04/kids-get-innovative-with...
Nobody does pure ASM anymore. And frankly, all you need for this level of obfuscation is a new compiler pass, something very easy to do in LLVM.

If I were to guess, from the description they gave, it sounds like someone compiled erlang. The two have already been combined: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2011/speakers/...
A great example of how positioning is everything. It's hard to believe that a startup saying "we lease an inexpensive NAS box running crashplan for $10/mo" would be winning events or getting press like that.
Running Firefox 10.0 on Windows XP, I get this message :

"Your browser doesn't support the features required by impress.js, so you are presented with a simplified version of this presentation."

So I have to say I'm not too impressed by impress.js
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Oh really, might read that. I read Black Man and enjoyed it. (possibly called something else if you're in the US, by the same author as Altered Carbon)
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I have aggregated some of the other similar sources for vessel tracking:-

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml
http://www.mariweb.gr/ecs
http://www.vesseltracker.com/app
http://vesseltrax.com/
http://www.shippingexplorer.net/en
http://www.fleetmon.com/
http://www.shiptracking.eu/ais/
http://www.worldvtsguide.org/index.html

Similarly live air traffic from around the world is aggregated and it uses ADS-B technique to receive flight information from aircraft:-

http://www.radarvirtuel.com/
http://www.flightradar24.com/
http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do
http://casperflights.com/
http://radar.piopawlu.net/
Use any argument, take any emotional stand you want, but you'll be smacked down again and again by the guy who wrote that post.

Fact: Alcohol prohibition failed.

Fact: The War on Drugs has failed.

Objections against the "pirates" are nothing more than a repeat of that history.

The customer -- and potential customer -- is talking. Start listening!
Might as well asks "why use Fabric/Capistrano/Chef/etc" instead of Makefiles. We have progressed beyond that, and beyond caps-lock only keyboards.

Why not "just use makefiles".

Because they use a BS syntax and are not as convenient as Python.

Because they are not even portable, whereas Python scripts run on Windows just fine.

Because they weren't even invented for that purpose, but for compiling stuff, and they failed even that so much, that every other project has it's own implementation (cmake, qmake, ant, scons, ...) or at the very least uses automation tools on top make, like the autotools, etc.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel search Windows or NT. OS X, Linux and NT don't use microkernels.
An easy way to read the whole thread:

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I don't understand why Mark Mail doesn't get more love. I wish they had better SEO or something, it's so much easier to read a long thread on their site then most mailing list archives.
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This.

I used to use Flashblock with Chrome but this works just as well, not to mention being built in. I use this setting on my CR-48 (Chromebook).
> The problem with these arguments is they boil down to "I will never pay more than $x for product type y" when these prices should really be dictated by the market itself.

I kind of like the complete view that the OP provides. Copyright infringement is a very real market force in this system. It is empirically the case that the OP will not pay more than $x and that price seems to be surprisingly close to what I 'feel' is right. I wonder how many others agree with these numbers. This price is dictated by the market when the relatively low risk of legal action is factored into the equation.

What he seems to be arguing is that publishers should be less concerned with rectifying this market force via legal means and more concerned with rectifying it via improving the services offered.