[The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
On Jan 13, 3:14 pm, Lenny P wrote: > Most heli, like airplane accidents are pilot error, so discounting > that it's safer to fly than to drive. And I image that if you discount mechanical failure then helicopter flying is safer still. It's disingenious to eliminate accidents that don't count (in

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
2010/1/13 Lenny P > Most heli, like airplane accidents are pilot error, so discounting > that it's safer to fly than to drive. > Most things are safer than driving. :) -Dom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this g

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Wright
Statistically, fixed wing is safer than rotating wing. That said, flying is the second safest way you can travel (walking included) The safest is hovercraft :) 2010/1/14 Dominic Mitchell > 2010/1/13 Lenny P > >> Most heli, like airplane accidents are pilot error, so discounting >> that it's

[The Java Posse] Regarding installers...

2010-01-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
I'm starting to convert to Maven a set of Ant tasks to create executables and installers for a desktop application. I used a bunch of third parties' software, such as JarBundler for the Mac OS X, Launch4J and IzPack for Windows, redline for Linux RPM and ant-deb-task for Linux DEB. The original

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread shainnif
Lies,dam lies and statistics Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Kevin Wright Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:29:18 To: Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter Statistically, fixed wing is safer than rotating wing. That said, flying is the second sa

[The Java Posse] New Java programmers

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[The Java Posse] Re: Tough verdict on JavaFx/Silverligt style RIA

2010-01-14 Thread Karsten Silz
For Flex automated UI testing, you have a number of options. I think with Flex 2 (or 3?), Adobe put in a UI automation toolkit that probably most of these tools use. I haven't used any of these, but IMHO it doesn't look to shabby. Commercial: HP Quality Center (formerly Test Director - probably

[The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Lenny P
You can certainly eliminate certain pilot errors from statistics depending on your mission. For example, if you are doing flight instruction, you can certainly eliminate weather and fuel exhaustion accidents, because instructional flights are very unlikely encounter those. I am airline trained so

[The Java Posse] Re: Regarding installers...

2010-01-14 Thread Stephen Gregory
As far as tools for migrating from ant to maven, I think running ant tasks in maven is probably the closest thing you'll get. You may need to use the ant integration for the rpm/deb packages I'm not sure if there are maven plugins for those off hand. So I have recently done something similar, thi

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Alexey Zinger
This is silly. Majority of flying is done by a self-selected group of people (almost no one has to fly to work), unlike driving, which in places like the US is done by the general public out of necessity. However, the statistics that state that flying is safer than driving take into account th

[The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Stephen Gregory
>This is silly. Majority of flying is done by a self-selected group of people >(almost no one has to fly to work), unlike driving, which in places like the >US is done by the general public out of necessity. I don't think you can argue against the fact that flying is safer currently. I don't

[The Java Posse] Communication skills

2010-01-14 Thread Rakesh
Hi fellow Javaposse'ers! turns out being right isn't enough. No, I'm not just talking about relationships!! I'm struggling to get my point across in meetings with other developers/management and I think its me. Anyone else feel the same? Anyone done anything about it? NLP? Presentation skills? B

[The Java Posse] Re: Regarding installers...

2010-01-14 Thread Jason Whaley
For bundling OSX apps in maven, check out this plugin: http://mojo.codehaus.org/osxappbundle-maven-plugin/ And to echo what Stephen already suggested, put each of your distinct packaging types in their own module - do your best not to shove everything in to one pom. You can activate which modules

Re: [The Java Posse] Communication skills

2010-01-14 Thread Viktor Klang
My recommendation is to try to see where the others are coming from. Why they do what they do, and how you can interact with them without doing unintentional harm. (honor, rank etc) Being right isn't key, it's to collaborate to achieve the goals at hand. And don't forget to have fun while you do it

[The Java Posse] Re: Tough verdict on JavaFx/Silverligt style RIA

2010-01-14 Thread RogerV
We use Flex Monkey It works However, we also use Google MDI library and do some other advanced things in our forms that don't immediately work with Flex Monkey scripting We are having to develop some special code to get some of that to work On Jan 14, 6:07 am, Karsten Silz wrote: > For Flex au

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Regarding installers...

2010-01-14 Thread Erlend Hamnaberg
For unix packaging take a look at http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/ the unix-maven-plugin. This will be able to make packages for rpm / debian and solaris. --Erlend On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Jason Whaley wrote: > For bundling OSX apps in maven, check out this plugin: > http://mojo.codehaus.

[The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread fcassia
On Jan 5, 9:56 am, Jack wrote: > Is it anything like this one by any chance? > > (Possibly NSFW)http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/b527/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnySBqioB0 FC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To pos

[The Java Posse] Re: JDK 6u18, Bug in java.sql.Date.valueOf method?

2010-01-14 Thread hayden.paul.jo...@gmail.com
Looks like they're tightening the spec... http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6898593 On Jan 14, 1:40 pm, "hayden.paul.jo...@gmail.com" wrote: > I agree with your comments that this might actually be a fix of the > 6u17 (and before) implementation. > > Still, it might take many u

[The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
On Jan 14, 2:27 pm, Lenny P wrote: > You can certainly eliminate certain pilot errors from statistics > depending > on your mission. Indeed. I was merely pointing out that in your mission to demonstrate that helicopters were safer than cars, you were comparing helicopter accidents that excluded