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lefthandedness has been associated with a greater than average ability for logical thought and problem solving, which would explain the higher than normal percentage of lefthanded people in the sciences and IT. Of course one isn't the cause of the other, rather they're both probably caused by related differences inside …

[QUOTE=Ezzaral;512409]No, it's not a warning - it's an error. Apparently they removed the compareTo(Object) signature from the String API. You could either cast the elementAt() to String or explicitly call toString() on it.[/QUOTE] With the introduction of generics in 1.5 the Comparable interface became Comparable<E> which far better documents it …

My parents bought their previous home for 35K Guilders in 1970. They sold it in 2000 for 1.5 million. Admittedly they'd added a 1 acre garden along the way, but still it's a major difference. Closer to home: In 2000 I received a brand new Ford Focus as a company …

#1 happens periodically. #3 never went away since 1944. #2 is quite possible. In fact given historical record of major wars (wars involving all or most of the largest global powers fighting each other) we're several decades overdue for it.

[QUOTE=ShawnCplus;508739][inlinecode]x++[/inlinecode] is known as a prefix increment and [inlinecode]++x[/inlinecode] is a postfix increment. [/QUOTE] Actually it's the other way around :) pre == before post == after

As to a copy of a prerecorded DVD not working, there's nothing mysterious in that. You're not supposed to copy them and many have all kinds of protection systems including data contained in tracks that can be read by computer players but not written to (thus effectively given the prerecorded …

and remember to supply the output directory for the compiler as well if you don't want to compile to the directory from where you're executing the compile action.

J2E doesn't exist. And if it did exist there would be no "best" book for it, but a series of books, each with its own pros and cons.

I found [url]http://www.altavista.com[/url] It's an excellent search engine for people who find Google too complicated.

and any fingerprint scanner that includes a public API to program it will come with examples.

Whether you're using Notbeans or whatever has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Change the relevant attribute of the LayoutManager controlling the component's container to set the alignment of components inside that container.

yup. You're trying to access an element either before the beginning or after the end of the array. You do realise that arrays in Java are 0-based?

1) we don't do your homework for you, show some effort 2) we're certainly not going to let you order us around to do it "asap". If and when we do anything it'll be at a time and place of our choosing, not yours, suggesting anything else makes us LESS …

no. Restructure that monstrosity first, think about what it is you want, and give a LOT more information.

Most of it would end up being invested in such a way as to provide me with a comfortable income. A small percentage I'd likely use to buy a house (cheaper in the long run than renting), hire a maid (I hate housework), and make some extended voyages. Why squander …

if it's not working well, you need to fix it. If you show us what you have, what it's supposed to do, and what it actually does, we may be able to give you some hints. If you have nothing, that's the reason it doesn't work. You can't expect nothing …

[quote]I belive there sort of saying China that say "There are no bad students just bad teachers." Think about it... [/quote] Something I utterly disagree with. There are a lot of kids who are completely unwilling to learn anything if it costs them any effort at all. Even the best …

people trying to establish world peace are the greatest threat to world peace as they invariably try to do it through violence and intollerance towards anyone who doesn't agree with their definition of "peace". Muslim radicals are an example (in their mind "peace" means Muslim world domination). Communists are another …

What you want can only be achieved by removing the two disks, installing the new one on its own, installing Windows on it, installing all the software you need on it. After that, add the old disks back into the system and move over any data you want to keep …

AD, it's implicitly copyrighted (as is every single work anyone creates) by the act of creating it. If you mean he should patent the idea, I doubt that would work.

[QUOTE=sporkly;500992]As many have found, maxtor/seagate's help is no help at all. They will charge $1000 for the data recovery, or replace it. No other options. [/quote] Wrong. Their warranty support is second to none. The recovery service is that costly, they don't overcharge. The price is market value, probably less …

You'll have to install some software that encrypts and decrypts the disk content on the fly and make it available only to your own account. Of course any encryption can be broken (except possibly some one-way systems) given enough time and resource :)

What you want to do isn't going to work without a LOT of effort on your part to write plugins for every relevant application and operating system to read your files. File formats can be anything you want them to be. What they look like and how they're defined is …

and rightly so. The clipboard does not belong to websites. And removing things from it that you didn't put there yourself is something you should never do.

include the directory in the classpath for the run by using the -classpath parameter to the java commmand.

Let's harvest all the hot air generated by the treehuggers and use that (after filtration of course) for heating. Gets rid of 2 problems at once: no more gas needed for heating and the greens are muzzled so we don't have to listen to them anymore.

read the rules, we're no homework service and we're not going to send any private help your way.

1) we're no homework service 2) why are you creating a new account for each question? 3) don't SCREAM AT PEOPLE!!@!!!

[url]http://www.thoseshirts.com/atf.html[/url] better ;)

yup. Doing everything in one thread, and that being the Swing Event Dispatcher thread. Guaranteed to cause application locks while waiting for things to happen on the network.

[QUOTE=Asif_NSU]Anyone want to visit Iraq now?[/QUOTE] As of "at this time" or "at some point in the future"? At this time, it's too risky for me. At some point, I'd love to visit the old sites. [quote]I would love to go to Amsterdam. [/quote] Been there, done that, live near …

ah, but what's a "C++ game"? You kids assume it's a game written in C++, but is it? Sounds more like a game which has C++ as the topic/storyline to me, and I don't think that would make for a good game.

were I that teacher I'd have written those answers on that desk myself (of course deliberately making them the wrong ones) in order to catch cheaters. But I'm sneaky :)

yah, the noise is there for the deaf, the light for the blind. Anything the government "produces" (iow, makes available internally or externally in its organisations) should carry a label mentioning the exact cost in tax money of the item. This should extend from sachets of coffee creamer in the …

I'd be more worried about the tectonic plates if there were no more earthquakes. It would mean they'd stopped moving which would in turn indicate the mantle no longer moves, which is the result of the earth's core having cooled down too much. That means the loss of the earth's …

none of the above. Calling it crap is an insult to crap anywhere and it's certainly no classic :)

[quote]but to start validating forms creating shopping carts and ecommerce online transactions wowow that gonna be very veyr tough please help [/quote] And that's why you should start small... Baby steps, not giant leaps. And do NOT use that linked tutorial. It's about 7 years out of date, and teaches …

Look at a decorator pattern.

And you need to keep track of item sets, where items reinforce each other. For example Dungeon Siege has those. If you equip 2 items, each becomes extra strong, if you equip 3 that bonus goes up, until you have the maximum percentage bonus when you equip the entire set. …

tough luck kid. If you can't do the job it's time to come clean to your boss and tell him you lied about your capabilities when you applied for the job.

THE most influential game of all time must be the original Pong. For RTS games, the most influential ever is Total Annihillation. It redefined the genre when it was released in 1997 (I believe it was, maybe late 1996) and set the standard to which RTS games are measured to …

Get rid of ALL your comments except the header comments. Replace them all by a proper Javadoc block per method. Close ALL your JDBC resources as soon as you're done with them. General rule: never let them survive outside the method in which they're used. Concentrate all database operations in …

71% evil genius. I'm too kind to animals and don't own a cat... Darn them critters, can't stand cats.

AFAIK in all of Europe all driving lessons and tests are done using manual shift vehicles, except special tests specific to automatic transmission. If you opt for those you get a special license (at least you used to, not sure if it's still the case) restricting you to only driving …

don't bother with Vector. It's a legacy class that's best forgotten.

try and see for yourself. You're annoying with your flooding of this place with stupid "questions" that show only that you have no clue whatsoever about anything.

a String is never void. And you can never pass a method.

and don't think that just running some samples will teach you programming (it does seem a common misconception at the moment).

[code] public class YouFail { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("brightstar fails, is didn't turn in its homework so has no grades"); } } [/code] There you go.

it works by annoying the living daylights out of people and getting whoever uses it kicked off the network.