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The company got its start when founder Dean Zelinsky decided to shake up the guitar world with radical new designs. He had built his own guitars since childhood and by the 1970s, he had a hunch that the world was ready for an invigorating new spin on classic electric guitar designs.
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This ancient and powerful art of Chin Na ("Seize and Control") can enable you to control any opponent using fast and powerful joint locks. A part of almost all Chinese martial styles, it is a valuable addition to any martial art system. Demonstrated in slow and normal speeds are 125 techniques with applications in the categories of wrist, finger, elbow, shoulder, waist, leg, neck and takedowns. Perfect for military, security, law-enforcement personnel and the student of martial arts. Enhanced DVD edition. 90 minutes.


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Three years ago, when we were burying my uncle, Cleaver and some gross lady dog (Solstice???) showed up at the cemetery and starting going at it really loudly. It ruined everything and we had to have a "re-do" the next day and it cost a fortune. I've hated him ever since for that.
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A man who had his attempted murder conviction vacated but then pleaded guilty to a lesser offense just to get out of prison can sue the state for civil rights violations without running afoul of U.S. Supreme Court case law, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday.
Sitting en banc, nine Second Circuit judges held in Poventud v. City of New York, 12-1011-cv, that Marcos Poventud's lawsuit alleging that police withheld exculpatory evidence critical to his defense for the 1987 murder of a livery cab driver could proceed without violating the holding of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994).
Heck held that suits for damages under 18 U.S.C. §1983 are precluded where they would have the effect of challenging existing state or federal criminal convictions. It was cited by Southern District Judge Deborah Batts (See Profile) when she dismissed Poventud's lawsuit on the grounds that his plea to a lesser offense did just that.
Batts' decision was overturned by a divided panel of the Second Circuit in April (NYLJ April 24, 2013), a ruling that triggered debate at the circuit, which voted to rehear the case en banc (NYLJ June 10, 2013).
On Thursday, Judges Richard Wesley (See Profile), Robert Katzmann (See Profile), Guido Calabresi (See Profile), Rosemary Pooler (See Profile), Robert Sack (See Profile), Peter Hall (See Profile), Gerard Lynch (See Profile), Raymond Lohier (See Profile) and Susan Carney (See Profile) upheld the April panel's split decision vacating the Batts dismissal. Wesley wrote for the majority with Lynch and Lohier writing concurrences.
Dissenting were Judges Dennis Jacobs (See Profile), Jose Cabranes (See Profile), Reena Raggi (See Profile), Debra Ann Livingston (See Profile) and Christopher Droney (See Profile). Jacobs and Livingston wrote dissenting opinions and Judge Denny Chin (See Profile) dissented in part and concurred in part.
The case stems from the March 1997 shooting of livery driver Younis Duopo during an attempted robbery in the Bronx. Police recovered a wallet from his vehicle containing an identification card belonging to Francisco Poventud, Marcos Poventud's older brother.
Duopo saw the photo as part of an array and identified Francisco Poventud as the shooter, but police soon learned that he was in jail when Duopo was shot.
Police then showed Duopo a photo of Marcos Poventud as part of an array once, twice and three times, but Duopo failed to identify him as one of the robbers. It was only when they showed him the photo in a fourth array did he identify Poventud as the shooter.
Detectives did not preserve the photo array, nor did they tell Bronx prosecutors about the mistaken identification of Francisco Poventud.
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What I learned from the peer review process
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Back in March 2011, Micah wrote a post on the need for LIS students to foster a culture of writing and sharing. I followed his advice (as it has yet to lead me astray!), and this past semester I started as a Content Editor of San Jose State University's SLIS Student Research Journal (SRJ). I also submitted a paper I wrote in the fall semester to Library Student Journal (LSJ), which has been accepted for publication. Both experiences, as a reviewer and reviewee, have been great — so I thought I'd share a little bit about them.
As a Content Editor for SRJ, I review papers that have been submitted for publication. The process is blind, so I have no idea who wrote the manuscripts I review — and the authors don't know who is reviewing their papers. My review is based on a detailed rubric that's publicly available. Besides clear writing, the main things I generally look for are a research question, thesis, strong argument, and connection to other scholarly literature. I also consider if the topic is original and contributes to the existing scholarly discussion. I've gained a lot from being a reviewer — mainly, I've greatly improved my ability to articulate my criticisms better. Being a peer reviewer has also exposed me to a variety of LIS topics I would never have read otherwise. I'd list some of them, but it'd give away what manuscripts I reviewed! The reviewer perspective has also helped shape my current approach to research and writing by knowing what qualities can improve a paper.
The process of submitting a paper for publication is generally something like:
- submit your paper based on the author/submission guidelines on the journal's website
- receive comments on your paper — you'll probably be grouped in one of these categories: immediate reject, accept with minor revisions, accept with major revisions, provisional acceptance
- based on the category you fall into, you can decide to proceed with the process and revise your paper to submit again — or decide against revisions and withdraw your manuscript
My experience with LSJ involved receiving initial feedback, doing some minor revisions, re-submitting it, receiving feedback from the copy editor, and then revising it again.
Back in January, I questioned the value of the final research paper. I found that submitting my paper for publication in LSJ motivated me to further work on a piece of research I started in class and turn it into something I felt more confident about. Having a few sets of eyes look over it and give me feedback was really helpful. Even if my paper wasn't accepted for publication, I still think the comments I received were incredibly valuable. I realized areas I need to work on, such as inserting my own voice into my writing instead of relying on quoting sources. Based on comments from the editors, I ended up revising my paper twice — and the final product is definitely way better than my original submission. Yes, it can be hard to receive criticism, but how else can you learn to improve?
So in summary, publishing experience (in either role — reviewer or reviewee) helps sharpen your research and writing skills in different ways. I definitely encourage all students to submit your work for publication — you'll probably receive different feedback than what you get from your professor, and the process allows you to further explore research you've already started.
Have you submitted a paper for publication? If so, what'd you think of the process? If not, what's stopping you?
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Thanks for describing two angles of the process, Rose. Last summer, I answered a call for reports on conference topics, in PUBLIB (the listserv) well before the conference began. Luckily, I had a class built on attending a conference, reporting on the sessions attended, and composing a short paper on a topic addressed therein. It was a non-intimidating opportunity. I have a bee in my bonnet to work up a term paper for SRJ–maybe the online writing group idea will work out next term.
Very cool! Glad to see you getting involved in the field literature Rose. I'm making my own forays into publishing with some stuff forthcoming. In my (very strong) opinion, librarians have the opportunity to own our developing roles in the information landscape, and writing and publishing high-quality, well-researched "scholarly" pieces is fundamental to getting people to take you seriously. (I really love PC Sweeny's Great Librarian Write Out for this exact same reason.) Be confident, write what you know and be open to constructive criticism. Write on!
Thanks for sharing Mr Sweeney's prize, Micah. Maybe it is the encouragement I need to write more.
Rose, thank you for sharing your experience with SRJ. As the first managing editor for SRJ, I can tell you from my own experience that it is not always easy to maintain anonymity in a double-blind review process, even at a school with as many students as SJSU SLIS, and I was always extremely impressed by the ability of content editors (like Theresa Putkey, Cynthia Cohen, and everyone else!) to review content with no context and no ability to engage in sense-making interviews with the author. Your service as a content editor is very important to helping your fellow students develop their research and critical thinking skills. I am happy to see you encouraging others, and I hope you are very proud of the work that you've done to empower them!
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So I brought Xan home from camp early yesterday. He was banging his head and acting like he felt bad, and I felt kinda cruddy, so I figured he might he getting something like I might be getting something. It wasn't a smooth day when I got him home, either. He whipsawed from happy to angry to whiny to complainly - puberty in 15/16 time. I guessed he was more tired than anything, and we tried to get to him sleep early.
Didn't work AND he woke up at midnight after maybe two hours sleep. So I got up too, and stayed with him in the living room. After two more hours, he was sorta drowsy, so we tried sleep again. That lasted an hour, and then the whining and complaining came up again. It was a long night. I saw the sun up and wasn't to doggone pleased about that.
When Tracy got up, she asked what kind of night we had. I listed the litany of complaints, and then added in desperate optimism, "But at least I got to catch up on some of my magazine reading!"
That's a familiar thing to us - we search for infinitesimal silver linings in clouds so big they would cover Jupiter. I do it to remind me that no matter how bad it seems to be, we have a lot of good things. Yes, Xan is autistic, but by all accounts and opinions of his teachers, therapists and doctors, he's a genius. (And of course we think so too, but that's kinda expected, isn't it?) True, he doesn't talk much, but he's smart enough to get his points enough and we can sorta kinda figure out some of his signs, so at least it's not a complete mystery. He does have issues with things like echoes, but he can function outside the house, so we don't have to schedule everything second by second.
Of course, it may also be whistling past the graveyard, because the simple fact is any autistic person has a hard time of it. In my last post I mentioned the policeman stopping to talk to me - what if he had separated us on suspicion of kidnapping? What would have happened? What if I'm in public with him and something happens - he wouldn't know to go get help or go to safety. That's one of the reasons I started taking Tae Kwon Do, so I could defend myself and him if I had to.
More general things affecting families in general people may not know - many doctors and dentists won't see autistic kids. We met some people who had to drive to Birmingham to get their kids checkups. (By the way, in Anniston, we've used Dr. Cabellero and Dr. Norby for doctor and dentist, respectively, and they have been wonderful in working with us. In fact, they have often helped me over the phone when Xan was acting sick, giving me things to try before I had to take him in to one of them, because that can be a struggle.) How do you get childcare? It's a challenge for the parents, how can you expect your average babysitter to handle it? We're lucky and careful enough that I stay at home with him - many families can't. How do you handle a meltdown in public? As you've seen by my adventures, it can look very bad. And these are just the current problems - the future is a whole other set.
But I bet most families would choose to see the positives, listing what their child can do and how they're lucky in many ways. It could be worse. We probably know people who have it worse and still manage to find those tiny silver linings in their storm clouds. It helps.
But still. It's often nothing more than desperate optimism.
A few years ago, Xan's then-teacher asked if he could be used as a subject for the county - have some lady come in and interact with him with the teachers watching and seeing what handling an autistic kid was like. I said sure, why not?
Came the day. It was during the summer, and Xan wasn't too pleased about going to a school during his season of freedom, so he went in a little edgy. For my part, I was hobbling in on a cane, after tearing two of the ligaments in my knee. That hill to the school seemed AWFULLY long.
We go in, they set up, we start.
Right off the bat things go wrong. The teacher had placed a bunch of objects on the table - shapes, dolls, toys, models, and the whoopsie one I could have headed off - food. Xan seems to going through a continual growth spurt, and he saw that food and wanted it to the exclusion of everything else. I was consulted with and said may as well let him have it, because he could out-stubborn every single person in there on their BEST days and his WORST one.
They decided I could sit up there with him and perhaps...encourage...him to show off what he knew, since he hadn't done a blessed thing but demand that food. I tried but could tell he wasn't into it. I wasn't that upset - I knew he was smart. But I did hope he would show off a little bit.
The teacher leading the demonstration finally got to something he'd do. "Can you find the circle?" He reached for it. "Good!" (This was a tone of mixed praising and possible amazement he had listened to her.) In a spirit of unbridled yet disbelieving hope she said, "Do you think you can find another one?" I swear, he looked at her with utter disdain in his eyes - Nolan Ryan asked to pitch underhanded, Robin Williams asked to tell a knock-knock joke, Francis Ford Coppola asked to direct a school play disdain here. For a child with limited vocabulary, he gets his point across.
He reached out, gets more circles, puts them together. Then he gathered up different things of the same color, put them together. Then he got various items that went together in a kitchen and put them together. All this to gasps and mutters of approval from the audience. And after the kitchen items, he said, "Done!" and stood up.
I managed to hold off laughing until we got in the car.
Well, it's been a busy week. Still volunteering at camp, and this Friday we went to Birmingham and stayed overnight. (How is it that driving, where all you do is sit, push pedals and turn the wheel, is so exhausting?) The Autism Society of Alabama had a Group Leader's conference, and since my wife has the local group she was invited. We got to see Mr. Tumlin, our good friend, meet some more people, and Tracy learned some new things - like her walk last April took in almost $4000! W00t!
The trip went pretty well. The hotel had a pool, so Xander and I got to swim, and he handled it very well. Perhaps common with other autistic parents, we've discovered that giving him a countdown - we're stopping in ten minutes, five, four, etc. - does help them get ready to transition to stopping something he likes. Such as swimming. He got to spend almost two hours at a time, and quit when told to. He also spent almost the whole time in the pool without his life jacket, and loved it. I'm not sure I'll tell the camp here to let him swim without it - he seemed to do that preliminary kind of swimming, where you bounce off the bottom of the pool, gulp some air, and thrash a bit. You know, the kind that tends to attract some attention from lifeguards and curious passerby.
The trip was much, much better than last year's for us - Xander and me.
Last year, Xan had one of THOSE NIGHTS the night before our trek. The kind where you warn, warn again, explain just in case they don't understand, warn again for the last time, warn AGAIN for the last last time, warn for the absolute last time, threaten to punish, re-emphasize the punishment, and finally after exhausting every last possible chance and nerve, take something away.
In this case, I said he couldn't swim.
However, I did pack his swimsuit and life jacket at the last minute. Because, as probably every parent knows, as soon as you take away something major from a child they tend to do something that makes you burst with pride...and you can't reward them with their favorite thing, since you took it away. Betting the odds in my irony-filled life, I figured that would happen.
I want to point out that as it was at the last minute, they were kinda shoved in. Somewhere. I think...
Of course, Xan did something good. I think I was getting a headache, so we were stuck in the room, and there was nothing on TV to keep him interested. I begged for some peace and quiet, and he let me sleep uninterrupted for a couple of hours. For any child, much less autistic, this may rank as a minor miracle. So I said, okay big guy, you can go swimming.
I think you can guess where this goes.
Tear through the suitcase. Can't find the swimsuit. Didn't bring an extra one, because why think ahead?
Xan, completely understandably, gets mad. I said he could swim as a reward, bragged on it, made sure to point out he did very good so he gets to swim...and then he doesn't. He had a fit. A fit, not a meltdown. The difference between the two is like watered down Tabasco sauce and a habanero pepper, a slight cough versus pneumonia, or not getting arrested and almost getting arrested.
The fit reached such heights that I took away the swimming again. But I had to admit I was mostly at fault here, so that night, before going to a Group Leader's dinner, we'd stop at some shop and get him a new swimsuit. Unfortunately, Xander is like a usual child when it comes time for clothes shopping and expressed his dislike of the activity. Loudly. Emphatically. So I gave up. He was in such a bad mood we skipped out on the dinner, just dropping Tracy off and going back to the hotel.
Long night ensued.
Next day. D-day.
Tracy had some more meeting and we had to check out of the hotel long before she was done. So we went back to the mall, to a bookstore. I love books and Xander likes them, so I figured it would be a good place to kill some time, and perhaps after we'd check out the rest of the mall.
There was some kind of stage set up there. Xander, who had picked out some books he wanted, handed them to me and went up there and did his twirling. There were some little scenes set up, and he kept knocking them over. A repeat of warn, re-warn, on and on happened until finally that parental magic moment of ENOUGH was reached and I said that's it, we're leaving, and you can't get these books.
THEN the meltdown happened.
As spectacles go, it was pretty entertaining for anyone not directly involved in it. Screaming - and I mean screaming, not a slightly raised voice - check. Red face, check. Flinging himself on the floor, check. Banging his head with nice thunky sounds on the floor, check. After a fruitless attempt to calm him down, I get him up, grab his arm, restrain his head, and start dragging him to the door amid a chorus of incoherent screams and fighting.
If you think this looked more than a little suspicious, you think like a policeman. To be more specific, like the policeman who happened to be in the store.
A bit of polite questioning occurred, which luckily was helped along by my having some Kids ID cards of Xander which clearly showed he was my son, something I had had made for emergencies...not this specific one, but still. And by then Xan had calmed down, perhaps giving me some mercy and answering some questions about his name and birthday and the like that matched the ID cards.
We ended up sitting in the car outside, waiting for Tracy, for over an hour.
The lost swimsuit was the first thing unpacked.
I almost gave myself a concussion slapping my forehead.
One of my favorite movies is How To Train Your Dragon. Xander likes it too - it's one of those movies I can crank up and he'll stay and watch. There's a scene where Hiccup, the kid, is flying Toothless the dragon for the first time. Toothless is injured after being shot down by Hiccup, losing part of his tail. Hiccup, feeling guilty, has made a synthetic replacement but he has to control it with a foot lever. Getting used to it, he has a cheat sheet of different positions. He sends Toothless straight in the air, flying high. But he loses his cheat sheet, reaches back and comes undone from his saddle. He falls. Toothless also falls, since his new fake tail collapses.
They fall. You can't tell how far they've gone, until after a few seconds, a mountain appears behind Hiccup and quickly grows and rises off screen. It's an effective shot; you see it and think 'the ground's getting closer'. No matter how tall it is, it's still connected to the earth. A warning.
In real life, Xan has his own mountains. This weekend has been full of them. We have no idea what is going on with him; not being able to tell us leaves us in a guessing game. Does he feel sick? Is he mad we told him no to something? Is he upset he's not getting what he wants? Does he want more attention, less attention? Overexicted? Bored? Cranky? Tired? On and on.
It's been one of those days that seems to stretch on and on. Every parent has them, when the child you would walk through fire barefoot for has you wistfully remembering the times of peace before you had them. I wouldn't trade him for anything...but there are some times I'd come closer to entertaining offers.
So we have to watch carefully and see what signs we get. Does he have a fever? One of the more clear and easy to climb mountains. Is he chanting something over and over? That's what we've called looping, where he seems to get stuck on something he can't stop until he's all wound up and heading for a meltdown. Is he saying "and by contributions"? That means he's frustrated, more than likely because he can't have what he wants. And if he's not doing any of these more obvious than other signs? That means this mountain's a little harder to climb.
It's not easy. It's a hard climb. And sometimes it feels like that ground's getting closer and closer.
I wrote a post about how having an autistic child makes you alone in many ways, from what you deal with to having to pull back from society to celebrating individual triumphs and heartbreaks. Paradoxically, Xan's autism has also made me probably more involved and included in some ways.
This week has been light on entries because Xan is in camp and I'm volunteering up there. Six hours being in charge of a group of kids, with two of those hours spent walking around a pool in 95 degree heat to keep count of them, will wear you out and sweat you down.
I imagine I hear some people slapping their heads in a facepalm, saying "Heat...pool...gee, what can the missing answer to THIS equation be?" And contrary to majority vote and popular opinion, I'm not so dumb as to miss this body of cool water I'm pacing around. Once I did try swimming with him and my group. It was great, for a while - Xan and I played. He loves the water, he loves playing with me (possibly the only area where I outrank Mommy in anything), and while we were in the water, everything went swimmingly.
But when it was time to get out...
Xan was overexcited and didn't want to stop, and ended up so frustrated at the good times ending that he tried banging his head on concrete. Well, I say tried. More like succeeded. Thankfully, in response to my mixture of shock, fear and command voice, he only managed the one time. But still. Ow.
Any parent who has seen their autistic child headbutt something solid and strong like concrete, a wall, a table, etc. knows how amazingly tough and impervious to pain their skulls can be. I call Xan hardheaded as a statement of fact, in grudging admiration, and also more than a little fearful recognition. They'll also tell you they don't want it proven time and again, and in that spirit I don't get in the water with him much anymore. I get to watch him have fun, and that means a lot.
The volunteers at the camp can handle him well. But I like being there so I can try and end things before they start, head off problems before they become meltdowns, and warn unsuspecting people who think it's just adorable Xan's come up to them and taken their hands that "You're about to go for a spin." It's unknown how many squares acres of carpet cleaning have been avoided by my timely warnings. I stay away from his group but am always a short walk away.
In addition to this, if something is going on at Xan's school I also volunteer. I'm pretty much penciled in as soon as any field trip for his class is planned. It's good to do and sometimes I bend the rules and get him something from a gift shop - an impossibility if I'm not there. Doing good by doing well, as it were.
One of the nicer things about doing this is seeing what Xan can do. In this recent camp, he's made a friend he'll go to. He mainly manhandles this friend, pulling his head down so he can rub his hair or ask for tickle or things like that, and this guy is a saint in training to put up with it. He does, with a smile. Something we get crafts that seem to be more Xan's than the helper's hands - eyes off kilter, a casual regard of picture lines, some organized chaos of a picture that tantalizingly hints at some strange order I can just see out of the corner of my mind. Some of the school outings have also shown me more of Xan, like the time we were in an aquarium gift shop and he reached out and grabbed a white whale stuffed animal - after we had left the whale tank, where a white beluga whale had hovered at the second platform where Xan had been, right over him, and they stared at each other for some minutes.
(No, I don't think there was some communion of the minds or a recognition between two spirits or the like. That would be a miracle and I'm a cynical person. But on the other hand, Xan putting those things together like that was a kind of personal miracle all my cynicism crumbles in the face of.)
In being with him more outside the home, where in addition to the control and familiarity there's a lack of surprise and novelty, I get to be part of something else different, unexpected and unplanned. In helping out, I get paid back. I also get to be included in some of his successes, strides and surprises.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:52 am
Post subject: Java - A four letter word. :)
Just a thought, but in all the years I've been reading LXF I don't recall it ever running a series on Java programming. Not even in any of the 'Coding' specials.
Weird, given that Java's meant to be cross-platform and useful to one and all. And didn't Sun release it under the GPL a few years back...?
Like I say, just a thought.
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But now the current owners of Sun,Oracle what to make lots of money with it.
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D'you know, I think you're right. The only Java thing I can remember was a review of the book Head First Java. It may be quite nice to have a little Java Coding special.
Morning lok1950, I thought that Oracle could only make money out of the mobile side of things, not the big stuff like SE and EE. Or was only the test kit they could make money out of, just to get some JVM certified. I could be completely and hopelessly wrong on that mind you. It wouldn't be the first time I've been hopelessly wrong, just ask my wife and children. One day I may know who's who in Barbie movies
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The only part of Sun that they wanted was Java look what has happened to all of the other projects that Sun supported Open Office and MYSQL they have found Virtual Box a convenient money maker as well,though most of us get the free version.
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Yes, Most of Java is open, but not all.
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Hi guys,
Glad my thoughts on the 'openess' of Java have caused a little debate, getting people thinking and that....Good stuff!!
But, no-one's tackled my other 'thought':
Is Java the unruly step-child of programming? The one we don't mention!!?? Or is it still a valid language that's worth learning? (If so, why have LXF not covered it?)
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Java is not that unruly
it's main utility is for mid-ware in enterprise IT which explains Oracle interest for in-house use with their DB customers custom apps.And it's cross-platform nature does make it very attractive for lots of other apps but OpenJDK would probably be a better bet for an article or tutorial especially it's differences from the Sun version.After all the mid-ware utility is the reason Red Hat developed IcedTea to work with their jboss app system.
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Well yes, exactually!
It's the cross-platformabilty that I thought would make it an ideal vehicle for an LXF tutorial.
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Your point is well made, but rather moot, not because of Oracle owning Java, nor for the language itself not being of use in the world, but because...
If you're running Linux, you're probably the calibre of computer user whom knows a little about programming and so you know that today there are more powerful languages
(probably the languages you are using everyday) and Java is very much a secondary language for you.
This is my personal opinion of course, but I see it from a historical perspective, you see I was there, in line, outside the delivery suite as James Gosling was throwing the first edition of the Java language out there.
I was at University at the time, and had learned to program in Pascal (procedurally - I've recovered now thanks for asking), and the tutors, lecturers and even me myself got very excited about Java. Would it become the web defacto?... Would it become the only language, it does everything right, but has all these classes and libraries to utilise built in, and it handles memory clean ups for you freeing the programmer to be more creative and productive than C or C++... Right??!?!? Right?!?!?!
No, that's not how it went down, Java has its place, and that place is not really on my desktop, not on the desktop of anyone I know working in the software engineering game. I admit Java is useful, I actually do like to point people at it when they say "I want to learn how to program" rather than point them at C# (at least at the present). But in my humble, but informed opinion, Java's place for a Linux user is very much undermined by better performing more technically able languages, like C and C++...
If it were not so, there'd be a Java based operating system, maybe even the Linux Kernel ported to it
but there's not, and so it has a limited place.
Perhaps LXF could cover it as a dedicated learning language segment, but they've already covered the basics of coding time and time again.
P.S. I also hate the code style James Gosling (and hence Java) is listed in, where's that curly brace?... Oh oh there it is
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Your point is well made, but rather moot....
Which meaning of moot are you using, American or English?
I won't say more as this has been mentioned in another thread on these forums
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What is this "American" of which you speak?
And I definitely wasn't making a reference to a ring gauge to measure toenails
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I love the English language on little word two different meanings
1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful:
2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
Cleave is another: join or separate
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George Patton, once described the British and Americas as:
"Two peoples separated by a common language"
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George Patton, once described the British and Americas as:
"Two peoples separated by a common language"
And there was me thinking that George Bernard Shaw said it.
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Opinionatively, any business with a responsibility to itself researches making money from any of its owned resources.No great crime for Sun or Oracle there.
From looking above and what i know of my Java programming, i can tell you a bit about why about java in it becoming or competing.
First "the internet" with java applets and their standardisation of intergrating to web pages in any browser.
Second the acceptance of Java to most major web browsers was given because the design criteria of the languages runtime binaries are to be coherent to a JRE specification accross platform/OS's.
Third, the diversity of libraries and extensibility by the fact it is an OOP language from the base of the machine all the way up.
e.g. javax.imageio.spi.ImageReaderSpi is a class that is an
abstraction(common skeleton) for opening any image type
if you want to build an image opener class from "raw image file" whether the image type and any compression formula exists or not.
It's an abstract class , so it has no actual implementation for any actual image type, just the parts to integrate it with the basic javax.imageio API to compatiblise any image into the java API.
At the bottom of the language are these bases, at the top of the language are "frameworks" for all types of appliance to the real world of computing.
In internet servers there is the "servlet" framework and JSP and JSF frameworks(of all are actually servlets).
"Java beans" which are applied across servers, desktop software and background programs. Java beans is a type of simplification of auditing and indexing functions available by what they call introspection and registration of software components with a software device(conceptually) called beans.
And showing that more properly MIDP(Mobile Information Device Profile) and CLDC(Connected
Limited Device
Configuration) and the KVM(Kilo Virtual Machine).
Its main tout in programming is not requiring to use pointers or to allocate memory(though it seriously helps if you comprehend C/C++/Fortran pointers), and write once run anywhere(not strictly true but close enough if you know enough about each platform OS).
It's not a surprise to find it expanded neither is retained a little as owned because of its usefulness.
...thought that Oracle could only make money out of the mobile side of things, not the big stuff like SE and EE...
The web EE server side of things has SMS and WML server API's and SOA architecture and database classes just like the image example above.
Also you can hook into the servers binaries above at the container level not just the JSP "engine" level(a servlet)(above the JSP page, server servlet, or 'custom server web application').
That's the other end of the mobile system.
and they require paint and GUI API's which are there at all types of framework application.
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