hang on - comic sans for money??
I think the thing everyone's missing is that someone is trying to make money by selling a Comic-Sans clone font!
The horror!
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you're having a giraffe!
Removing the reliable way of deploying a thick program to people's desktops basically blocks an awful lot of "older" (but good) java code from even being deployed under these newer Javas.
Yes everyone should be writing web apps these days (c) but there's a lot of enterprise apps that have just been crippled by successive releases of Java just because Oracle wants to ignore that fact that in many cases running a program on a PC is a really good solution to an awful lot of problems. Let's not talk about the addition of mandatory signed JNLP files added as a minor-release that broke hundreds of users of the app wot we wrote, let's just instead look at the shoddy stick that's been rubbed all over JavaFX - a great GUI tool kit that came of age and got added into Java 8 as a standard part of the install. Only to be ejected in Java 11 because - well Desktop.
Oh yeah, and let's mention Paid Support for Java 8 only; although you could instead go to the six-month-cycle of upgrade and carp that's being forced on us; that's if you've worked out a way to deploy the stuff again. Maybe we're back to a network drive with a ".bat" file on... All for another Island for Larry...
>> The problem is "what do you pay?" its the usual complete cluster-cluck of opaque Oracle Pricing designed to make the simplest of situations as complex as possible. Mumble, mumble, grumble.
There are lots of wishes I'd use a time machine for, but top of the list these days would to try to persuade IBM to buy Java; or Redhat. In fact anyone other than Oracle or Microsoft; although these days MS look like softies.
I can't even finish on a joke, because I've found nothing to laugh about recently :(
The methodology doesn't seem sound. Just because someone fixed "x" bugs in a program (or made "x" commits fixing the same bug) doesn't mean that program had "x" bugs in it.
I've worked on big code bases where actually the buggiest piece of code is the most complicated and _least_ touched because "everyone knows" that they'll only introduce more bugs if they try to "fix" bugs.
I've also seen *perl* programs and it's obvious why they don't get many bugs fixed - no one dare touch it (write-once-languages...)
An olde programmmer of yore measured programs in their "brittleness", (and they were Cobol programs mind you) and how you should avoid touching the brittle programs.
Just give me competent developers who actually like to think and want to learn why they should code "in the best way" and we'll have less buggy code, whatever language we write in.
My selection of Power Supplies is broad enough to make anyone weep. I'm particularly fond of my fine collection of Nokia Phone Chargers Throughout The Years. I'm sure there should be a Collector's Edition Box Set in there somewhere...
But I think what I have most pride in is my collection of PS-2/USB adaptors for keyboards and mice. These little green and purple dongles nearly 2" long make me smile every time I find another one in the back of a drawer; actually I can see ten of them from where I'm sitting... They'll come in useful one day.
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much till then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM.
2095, 2095, 2095, 2095
I love you, sincerely
Yours truly, yours truly...
She's only programmed to be very nice
But she's as cold as ice
Whenever I get too near
She tells me that she likes me very much
But when I try to touch
She makes it all too clear.
She is the latest in technology
Almost mythology
But she has a heart stone
She has an I.Q. of 1001
She has a jumpsuit on
And she's also a telephone.
2095, 2095, 2095, 2095
I love you, sincerely
Yours truly, yours truly...
Once the robot can pull apart two tightly stacked two-by-two Lego flats without effort or braking either piece I'll be happy to say that they are Up To Scratch, until then, meh.
Oooh - and picking up a needle from the floor! once robots can do that I won't be needed at home at all!
As technology marches ever on we have less and less need for the trappings of literacy and, well, other real-world skills. I offer Dan Simmons Illium/Olympos books for an example.
Although I apologise for actually typing these words I should have just left a small video.
That is actually a really good idea for a two-parter.
The first part shows you how it ended, but you've no idea what happened in the first place, then the second part shows you how it starts. I think the trick would be getting enough into the first part (the end) that made sense internally but making sure that the second part (the beginning) was absolutely necessary to understand what was going on. And I'm not talking about the "one minute of preview then overlay text 'two days ago'" I'm meaning a whole episode. Must be doable...Oh yes - a bit like River's arc but shorter...
We have a Tap20 as our Lounge PC (yes! I was the person who bought one) and the Win10 upgrade went simply and smoothly. The PC seems all well and good and the missus (the main user of such) hasn't complained to me about any of its magic new workings.
The Win 10 Update Check did originally say that the display drivers wouldn't be available, but its capable of playing EVE still (although the missus is a Miner/Manufacturer and so Fleet battles not normally part of her normal day-to-day play) I'm putting that down to fear, or Intel & MS pulling their fingers our in time.
If I get better drivers come November; fine...
Similar but fictitious
There was an episode of Boston Legal where Denny Crane found out he was on the US no-fly list and was blocked from, well, getting on a plane. He then took the government to court because the only detail on the no-fly list was the name, not the sex age or any other identifying figures - so he took thirty other Denny Cranes with him so when the judge said "Would Denny Crane please stand" the whole room got up.
Re: "Windows 95 had a search button"
It didn't.
It had a "FIND" button (Luckily I've got a Win95 box handy so I could make sure I wasn't mistaken)
It promised that it would do the job, it wouldn't just look for things it would actually FIND them.
Ever since then Windows hasn't been quote so positive and the action has become "Search"...