On Monday 13 November 2006 19:45, Ric Moore wrote: >On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:18 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 13 November 2006 14:13, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >On Monday 13 November 2006 19:05, temlakos@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> Sun did it! They released all versions of Java under GNU GPL v2. >> >> Read this article for the details. Now: what will happen to the GNU >> >> Compiler for Java (gcj)? Will they be able to use Sun's own Java >> >> code to make the project fully compatible with all the Java >> >> applications built with Sun's version? Or will gcj give way >> >> completely to the presently built Java Development Kit? Will a >> >> fully Sun-compatible Java development environment be available for >> >> Fedora Core 7? 6? >> > >> >Listen to the next instalment of >> > >> >Dick Barton! Special Agent. Dum-de-dum-de... >> > >> >Sorry, couldn't resist. That's how every episode ended in my >> > childhood. >> > >> >Anne >> >> Yup, just like the old Captain Midnight shows. Thats what, 65 years >> ago? Sheesh, there I go again, showing my age. :-] > >Strange, today I noted a website while looking for pictures of Mr. >Muggs, and found Dvd collections of Captain Midnight, My little Margie, >Amos 'n Andy for fairly large bucks. Yeah, I'll bet that they've discovered there really is a fool born every minute. I heard most of them once, and that was enough. :-) >I mean who wouldn't want to own their very own Sabre jet to fly out of >their very own mountain top fortress? I always dreamed of that, that was one of the sexiest aircraft we ever built. But the per hour cost of running one of them precludes it being anything but a dream. I also understand it wasn't the most stable one we built, with the wick turned up it got very hard to control. >And to pack a revolver? I already do from time to time, complete with a concealed permit. I have one for situations where it should stay out of sight so as to not upset the natives, and one for show in case I do want to upset the natives, or for deer hunting. The show one is an all stainless Ruger Old Army replica, and at 44 calibre, it does an exellent job of grabbing attention when the hole is pointed at somebody I need to impress. But then I live in West Virginia where the firearms laws are what I would call enlightened. Because one never knows who's legally carrying, things are noticeably more polite, and we have statisticly much lower crime rates than those places where the populous has been disarmed. To me, thats a plus. Yes, we are generally proud of who we are, and we supply an inordinate percentage of the military when you compare our small population to the contributions of many other states and their populations. >That was >kinda overkill when you could just swoop down on your enemies from above >and blow 'em to smithereens with the nose cannons. But, that was then, >up close and personal. <cackles> ric I don't cackle when it comes out, because by that time, the other parties reason, if they ever had any, has fled. Thats not an occasion to cackle over because it can get dead serious in milliseconds. I do not intend to be, nor have I ever been, a willing victim. With that permit comes the responsibility of correct usage, and there are NO exceptions. -- Cheers, Gene
