Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Did the sort do anything? Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:58:57 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 37 Message-ID: <43efb71ma8a5uslep746eh67p7ho6tr6lj@4ax.com> References: <4d8fb7l8qb1g820cphr4fh447a9uitlddj@4ax.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9736 On 07 Nov 2011 10:49:05 GMT, Andreas Leitgeb wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Did I miss any subtle but relevant change of the question? >Or did you re-ask it in the hope of getting new answers this >time? My memory is failing. I have to check a 24-hour clock to find out if it as AM or PM. HIV, chemotherapy and age take their toll. When I was younger it was exceptional. It is not something I can voluntarily control. It is damn nuisance. I examine my code. I see the problem but with no solution. If I did ask earlier, I did not write an essay on it for the Java Glossary. I did not get a solution that could be easily turned into code. Maybe I thought about asking but did not get around to it. Maybe I asked and the solutions were too much work or not applicable to my situation. So I ask again. Somebody with better memory will find the old discussion. Maybe someone new will have a new idea. Maybe someone will have had some time after percolating on the problem in the subconscious for a few months. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later. Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the best remedy.