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Java and Gosling have done irreparable damage to the industry as a whole. Care to elaborate? i could write a 10 page essay, but I'll keep it to 2 strong points: its floating point implementation and the detrimental effect it has had on education and a generation of CS students. That is absolutely l...

I just wonder if many people make the mistake of confusing minimalism with technical superiority.

I say this without looking into the matter but I could actually see Arlen Specter opposing the broadcast flag. He seems to be the only Rep. with on the clue-train.

Abandon Java? You guys sound like radical nutters. ... I mean that's just laughable. I must say, the idea that Sun should simply abandon everything and simply work on Open Office .. is just stupid. I'm not quite sure how to respond to that. Anyway, with respect to placing Solaris, Java, etc under G...

Abandon Java? You guys sound like radical nutters. ... I mean that's just laughable. I must say, the idea that Sun should simply abandon everything and simply work on Open Office .. is just stupid. I'm not quite sure how to respond to that. Anyway, with respect to placing Solaris, Java, etc under GP...

Technologies like Flash make me wonder why anyone even bothers with the "Web." What is the point in having free and standards based system like the Web if we are going to be beholden to proprietary garbage like Flash? That may sound a bit "RMSish" but doesn't strike anyone else as being a bit odd th...

Well, currently I'm on an Apple, for what it's worth, and I think those commericals are silly. The one where they tout Mosberg a "great journalist" just annoys me. That guy is little more than Steve Jobs' tool. Also, that one where they were all holding hands was a bit awkward. As well, I was a bit ...

Ok, well I work a *lot* on writing code in this space and here's the problem. Network View uses WMI to gather this information. So on Windows machines there is a WMI namespace called Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration. The problem is that there is no implementation on *nix which allows querying of WM...