[The Java Posse] Re: GUI design tools ?

2011-11-02 Thread Scott Melton
The GWT Designer is a better tool, I think. It is open source under the Apache 2 license. It was derived from Window Builder, built by Instantiations then bought by Google. It has a free stand alone version and an Eclipse plugin that lets you go from graphical design mode to editing text. Both the

[The Java Posse] Re: Response to Dick's iPhone 4S comments on episode 367

2011-11-01 Thread Scott Melton
And the geeks shall inherit the earth... On Oct 27, 5:17 am, Jan Goyvaerts java.arti...@gmail.com wrote: Damn right ! And 32-bits multitasking ! The microdrives however were a real danger to their content. Cute though. :-) On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 14:10, Uberto Barbini

[The Java Posse] Re: No, Joe, Oracle/Google is *NOT* the same as Sun/Microsoft.

2011-02-09 Thread Scott Melton
On Feb 9, 2:03 am, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: It's something I have never understood about the way capitalism is implemented in the US. If you have money: ...you can get out on bail. ...you can get treated for your illness. ...you can hire attorneys and win most any case.

[The Java Posse] Re: Apple patents App Stores

2011-01-12 Thread Scott Melton
App Pants? Good info, Ryan. Thanks. On Jan 12, 10:05 am, Carl Jokl carl.j...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if the answer is to use more British terminology and call them App Shops. On Jan 12, 4:01 pm, Ryan Waterer aguitadel...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting -- Apple applied for this

[The Java Posse] Re: Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps

2010-12-09 Thread Scott Melton
I find it hard to believe that women would hide behind a male name. Maybe they do not want to be verbally abused, as unlikely as that would happen. I've been reading this forum for a while now. Many of you would jump out in front of a moving train to pop another guy for misstating something. I

[The Java Posse] Re: Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps

2010-12-07 Thread Scott Melton
My 12 year old niece is extremely jealous of her 10 year old brother who, at the last Cub Scout camp out slept in a tent, had a hatchet and knife throwing range, a hand built crane and a zip line. The boys get to do all the cool stuff, she said. She said all the girls do is camp in cabins and sell

[The Java Posse] Re: Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps

2010-12-07 Thread Scott Melton
of the industry. On Dec 7, 11:29 am, Scott Melton scott.melto...@gmail.com wrote: My 12 year old niece is extremely jealous of her 10 year old brother who, at the last Cub Scout camp out slept in a tent, had a hatchet and knife throwing range, a hand built crane and a zip line. The boys get to do all

[The Java Posse] Re: Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps

2010-12-07 Thread Scott Melton
thought it was natural and interesting to try and extrapolate from the extremely specifics of the OP (OSS community) into the generic... but I guess I'm the only one who think so. That makes two of us. I find it is easier to grasp the edges of an issue if it can be related to other issues.

[The Java Posse] Re: Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps

2010-12-07 Thread Scott Melton
Please tell me that is not you. LOL On Dec 7, 3:51 pm, Christian Catchpole christ...@catchpole.net wrote: I find this youtube video a true and accurate representation of the open source community.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWM2joNb9NE -- You received this message because you are

[The Java Posse] Re: Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps

2010-12-07 Thread Scott Melton
On Dec 7, 1:37 pm, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Just an interesting data-point from this years Devoxx: Out of 3210 attendants, only 125 were female - less than 4%. I wonder how many of them were hot? See, there I go again... 'just' incredibly rude and obnoxious verbal comments.

[The Java Posse] Re: The wonders of HTML 5

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Melton
No hangups here. er, uhem, no SYSTEM hangups... Is this where you were? http://www.devoxx.com/display/Devoxx2K10/Home My Windows XP SP3 Intel i7 CPU system uses around 12% CPU on: Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/ 20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR

[The Java Posse] Re: Java function that will convert an arbitrary base to a decimal

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Melton
I agree with Robert. Problem solving is a very important skill that a successful software developer must master. You might also want to concentrate on how to phrase a complex question where others can readily understand it. I could do your homework for you, but I am afraid I would be doing you a

[The Java Posse] Re: Quick NetBeans Question

2010-10-18 Thread Scott Melton
...@gmail.com wrote: Guilty as charged.  Sorry, couldn't help myself...was feeling a bit mischevious this morning.  Sorry if I offended anyone. On Oct 18, 3:34 pm, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: Netbeans and Scala folks work 24x7, I'd imagine. So you wanted to troll up a bit

[The Java Posse] Re: Quick NetBeans Question

2010-10-17 Thread Scott Melton
On Oct 17, 7:47 pm, Andrew am2...@gmail.com wrote: No answer? I think that must be because everyone here uses Eclipse. I think even Tor does now that he's left Oracle. :-))) Not hardly. I prefer Netbeans over Eclipse, hands down. Tor left what was left of Sun, not Oracle. It's the

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Quick NetBeans Question

2010-10-17 Thread Scott Melton
@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 10:10 PM Well it wasn't my question, and I was just trying to stir up a bit of pro Netbeans sentiment too. I bet the Scala community works on weekends though. :-)) On Oct 18, 2:29 pm, Scott Melton scott.melto...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 17, 7

[The Java Posse] Re: What if Java had become and ISO standard?

2010-10-05 Thread Scott Melton
Footnote 15 is a link to a pdf that describes an answer to your question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#cite_note-14 On Oct 5, 7:13 am, Carl Jokl carl.j...@gmail.com wrote: I must confess that I don't know the fine details of what happened historically with Java

[The Java Posse] Re: 24 hrs to get those CodeMash abstracts in

2010-10-03 Thread Scott Melton
Please don't spell it out. Let it stand as an example of why women are leaving this site. (If they are...) (Or why the guys think it is a locker room site. shruggingsmiley/) It stands in good company along with the endless pissing contests and Hilter revivals... laughingsmiley/ You guys crack

[The Java Posse] Re: [Scala] Martin Odersky says: Skills required

2010-10-02 Thread Scott Melton
Basic. There, I said it. Everyone was thinking it, you know you were... On Oct 2, 3:44 am, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if there are any languages targeted at below-average programmers and how its practitioners and non-practitioners feel about it. Moandji -- You received

[The Java Posse] Re: Martin Odersky says: Skills required

2010-09-28 Thread Scott Melton
A handle bar mustache has a +2 modifier on the 1D12 Sinister roll. On Sep 28, 9:42 am, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote:   On 9/28/10 16:29 , Mario Fusco wrote: Really ... aren't you tired of these pointless and endless discussions? I think that many of us have a bit

[The Java Posse] Instantiations Java Products Now Available from Google

2010-09-21 Thread Scott Melton
An email I received from dev-tools-sa...@google.com. quote Dear Google (formerly Instantiations) User, You may have heard the exciting news by now that Instantiations was acquired by Google! Please note that the following changes affect your access to Eclipse Java products formerly offered by

[The Java Posse] HP CEO Hurd to be new co-President at Oracle

2010-09-08 Thread Scott Melton
Sexually harass a few chickies then jump ship and take a job at your competitor for a healthy raise. I should have gone to business school. HP is suing Hurd to stop him. Not likely to fully succeed in California, but I pose these questions? In the current American system, will he be allowed to

[The Java Posse] Re: HP CEO Hurd to be new co-President at Oracle

2010-09-08 Thread Scott Melton
at 11:41 AM, Scott Melton scott.melto...@gmail.comwrote: Sexually harass a few chickies then jump ship and take a job at your competitor for a healthy raise. I should have gone to business school. HP is suing Hurd to stop him. Not likely to fully succeed in California, but I pose

[The Java Posse] Re: HP CEO Hurd to be new co-President at Oracle

2010-09-08 Thread Scott Melton
On Sep 8, 10:55 am, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Scott Melton scott.melto...@gmail.comwrote: Why should I stop this thread? It is on topic and thought provoking. IMHO I'm also puzzled why this thread should be stopped right here

[The Java Posse] Re: HP CEO Hurd to be new co-President at Oracle

2010-09-08 Thread Scott Melton
On Sep 8, 11:45 am, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Umm yeah except, your system is so rotten that with his $12.2 million in severance pay, it's just a matter of offering the right bribe - he settles with Fisher for an undisclosed amount. So much for proving anything! Respectfully,

[The Java Posse] Re: Meet Lady Java

2010-08-14 Thread Scott Melton
I couldn't agree more. We just had the primaries here in the States and to hear all the negative campaigning was just sickening. I'll vote for a positive campaigner any day. The sad commentary about negative ads is it is what a lot of people respond to... On Aug 14, 12:51 pm, Casper Bang

Re: [The Java Posse] Android Market analytics

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Melton
I'm guessing (just guessing) that information is not available because of personal privacy restrictions? http://www.android.com/privacy.html There seems to be fairly restrictive wording with regards to intentions and prior consent. If Google offers(ed) the developer service you request, I

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Software Patents and Joe bashing

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Melton
feeling you are , as we say in the UK, stirring. R On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: Do you really expect me to believe that one sentence from one letter from another country, taken out of context supports your assertion that patent lawyers

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Software Patents

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Melton
, April 13, 2010, 12:51 PM err...no On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: Are you by any chance Rakesh Menon? If you are, I found your JavaFX site. Great examples. Thanks for publishing. http://fxexperience.com/2009/11/text-effects/ --- On Sat

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Software Patents and Joe bashing

2010-04-10 Thread Scott Melton
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: Do you really expect me to believe that one sentence from one letter from another country, taken out of context supports your assertion that patent lawyers are retarded(special needs, LOL) morons and idiots? I may

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Software Patents and Joe bashing

2010-04-09 Thread Scott Melton
a baby baboon with a learning difficulty. You seem to be able to type, so, I doubt that. On Apr 8, 6:12 pm, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: In a free and open society it is easy to find fault in complicated systems, just as it is easy to have a bias, pick sides and misrepresent

[The Java Posse] Software Patents and Joe bashing

2010-04-08 Thread Scott Melton
. Take it or leave it. There is no reason to personally criticize or insult me for it. Apologies for high jacking this thread, Scott Melton Opinion sent from my ASS phone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

Re: [The Java Posse] Software Patents and Joe bashing

2010-04-08 Thread Scott Melton
and Joe bashing To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 10:49 AM On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: In a free and open society it is easy to find fault in complicated systems, just as it is easy to have a bias, pick sides

Re: [The Java Posse] Software Patents

2010-04-08 Thread Scott Melton
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:58 AM On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Scott Melton scott_rides_ag...@yahoo.com wrote: Not knowing much about anyone making the decisions(other than they are human, most of them), simply greedy, applied to this complex problem, would be an over simplification

Re: [The Java Posse] Software Patents

2010-04-08 Thread Scott Melton
@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 4:30 PM On 09/04/10 08:13, Scott Melton wrote: Would you agree that patents and property rights greatly accelerate the rate of innovations, accelerating the growth of a free market economy? Not at all -- I claim the opposite

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

2010-01-12 Thread Scott Melton
And the risk to life and limb? --- On Tue, 1/12/10, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 1:44 PM Besides the cost?