Posts by wikkity

Re: [citation needed]

Have I strayed onto wikipedia here? Can't see a begging banner.

Re: both major parties are split.

No, only one party is split, there are only a handful of non-tory MPs supporting leave

Re: grasp difference between using and reimplementing API ?

There is obviously a difference, but there have been many implementations of the Java API and android was based on one of them, Harmony. The only time licensing has ever been an issue with anyone but Google was when someone released an implementation and using the Java name without passing Suns/Oracles Java TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) process.

Microsoft fell foul of this when they shipped their own non compliant Java branded runtime. Android's only Java aspect is the programming language. Where are the lawsuits against GCJ, IcedTea or even Harmony.

It has been mentioned elsewhere on here Sun encouraged Java to be re-implemented which involves implementing the API. In a sane world where law makes sense the only potential issue would be around copying code that actually implements the API. If you go through the code that Oracle brought to the table in the first round of this, it were demonstrated to be test code inadvertently committed by a sub contractor or just so trivial that even the Judge stated that is the only sensible it could have been written (rangeCheck).

Re: just tell me what didn't work

just because the developers did not implement some code to give you a meaningful error message has nothing to do with the programming language it is implemented in,

Re: some apprenticeships can be useful

A friend was looking into apprenticeships for his son, he came across one for a sandwich technician at Subway.

Re: such requests would cost more than the stipulated £600

It would be interesting to do a FOI request asking how many requests were not performed because they would cost more than £600

Re: They're a bit thick.

I noticed this when I was looking to book a hotel, however a few days after the ads were orientated towards what to do at the resort I ended up booking.

Re: I'd rather the incompetent buffoons be local ones

Good job you aren't a Steel worker then, Europe seems to be wanting to help more than the UK government.

Re: doing extra paid work in your day job

Assuming you are not on a minimum wage zero hour contract or just a don't have the flexibility to work more hours as you'd like.

Re: can't remember who it was

Ron Davies

RE: To some extent, however Google Map's aren't the same quality as Streetmap's, probably because Streetmap uses Ordinance Survey maps..

That obviously depends on the purpose people are using them, OS is great for many things but not every usecase, but often you don't need to know contours or if a road is very steep. Generally, People obviously prefer a less cluttered and more interactive map, you can't overlay live traffic info on an OS map, it would look terrible.

Much of OS data is now open, Streetmap are very far behind, they just seem to be regurgitating OS raster maps, maybe if they just stopped whining and focused on improving thy could have got somewhere. Today, they could be using the OS datasets to create a much better product. I've used a lot of their data and you can create some nice accurate maps tailored to the task at hand.

Re: it is a church funded school,

They do not pay the running costs of the school, they might host the odd jumble sale now and agian.

Is this a Paypal bug or a java bug

It's a paypal bug, Anyone who accepts data from an untrusted source and uses it without validation should not be in the position they are in. It's quite a simple rule, and no different to the one we tell our children about strangers.

Java serialisation is something very useful, in the right circumstances, anyone who says that it flaw inherent in Java (as has been stated in comments to related articles) is simply wrong.

Re: Larger

It could be a golden or a blonde. However, judging by the lack of head it's probably not.

I concur

I have a number of private projects and the customer support is pretty bad and very slow, you need to do lot of chasing up. That said it doesn't cost much and so far I've had no show stoppers, if I do then git is trivial to switch elsewhere.

Re: oracle constrained by the GPL

Not really sure what you are getting at.

However, Oracle are free to do do what they want with openjdk apart from revoke the GPL license.

They own it and can license it under a different license at the same time to themselves or anyone else. They already do this with their own java distribution, an openjdk build is not the same as oracle's distribution, if they want to add non-gpl code to their build they are not obligated under the GLP to open source the extras. If you GPL some code you are allowing anyone to use it under the GPL, you however can do what you want with it, there are plenty of examples out there.

Re: happy to work to an ANSI 92 standard

Or better still _ISO_ standard rather than a single member country's national committee like ANSI. Sorry, but having put a lot of effort into three standards within BSI I hate to see people label standards as ANSI

Re: Drop Java

Browser yes, but on a desktop there is a good case for java. There is still no viable alternative for cross platform UIs, over the years I've developed apps that run unchanged on linux, windows, macs, solaris and irix. Write once debug everywhere is not something I've encountered

RE: odds

You forgot to account for the first strike killing them.

RE: Good time to buy shares then :)

If you believe they will go back up and do so in a timescale worth investing, then yeah.

Re: When I were a lad at school

Luxury, when I was a lad coal hadn't even started fossilising and had to write with damp peat.

Re: no terrorist has ever taken away any of my freedoms.

Then you are lucky you live where you do

RE: If redhat is gpl then why can't I download or obtain it for free?

Free != Free as in beer.

There is nothing preventing people from selling GPL software as long as you abide by the GPL and make the code available to those you distribute to. Over the years I've bought quite a number of linux distos and it was quite common before fast internet connections were widely available to be able to buy copies of various GPL'd software.

RE: Just in his mind I think

No, this is still a very common use case for java, especially at the enterprise level. What are the alternatives? A bespoke app for each platfrom? Too much effort. All the cross platform APIs I've seen are pretty rubbish.

HTML5 falls far form the mark for a lot of applications.