Hello Lynn,
Tuesday July 15 1997 22:00, Lynn Nash wrote to Steve Mccrystal:
 LN> It took my 40meg Laptop to its Knees trying to update once a second.
 LN> That is absolutely the last time I visit their Web page.  How dumb
 LN> can you get, a Java high resolution real time clock applet in a frame
 LN> no less, with no sleep delays, apparently programmed like a DOS app.
Or at least, the last time you visit their site (from that laptop) without
disabling Java first?  Wouldn't that solve the problem?
Or not DOS, specifically, but rather they assUmed that everyone is running
the same hardware they used to write it. :)  Granted, that IS more commonly
seen among DOS-based programmers. ;)
 LN> Java is not bad but the implimentation abuse is already a real
 LN> problem.
In this case, it's a question of letting "someone else" decide what programs
you are going to run on your machine.  It's not Java in particular, but
rather the fact that the applets can be invoked just by stopping by a place.
If { BASIC | COBOL | ForTran | etc. } apps could be run on your machine
without your advance knowledge, you'd have the same gripe I suspect.
If I wrote an asm routine to low-level format your drive, I rather doubt
you'd be happy if I ran it on your machine without your advance permission.
Although that's not possible with Java, per se, I think it's the same
principle.  Any programmer can write an app you don't like running. :)
I'm not trying to sound like a Java evangelist here, but rather trying to
refocus the issue to your last sentence quoted. :)
 LN>> www.warpcity.com has a pointer.
 SM>> Closed as of yesterday, due to incessant whining. :(
 LN> Nice site in some ways
I didn't manage to get there until AFTER I saw you recommend it, but BEFORE
I saw Steve's reply.  It was already gone by then. :(  I guess timing is
everything.  What was nice about it?  (What did I miss, so I can look for
it elsewhere?)
 LN> I will still miss Warpcity as they provided a useful service that no
 LN> one had undertaken even it they were sometimes wrong.
A useful service?  (See above.)
 LN>> As I pointed out the International version
On the subject of International vs. English or American ... the Linux version
seems to only come in that one flavor, so I suspect the differences may be in
preconfigured options, as suspected, and possibly also the inclusion of
greater than 40-bit support for the "secure" aspects.  (Does the American
version provide 128-bit?  If so, it's probably that damned ITAR again.)
This is only conjecture on my part, re the International version though.
                        Bill Brown
... I idiot-proof my programs then along comes a dumber idiot.
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