Today I read one of the better quotes and guess from where! Our very own "Orkut" which has a habit of throwing some of the weirdest quotes that I have ever read.
Anyways, coming to the quote. So the quote is - "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat them at politeness".
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Diff'rent JVM's
A few days before, I came to know of another JVM (apart from the well-known Java's and the lesser-known Microsoft's).
It comes with the BEA's Weblogic (which has now been purchased by Oracle) - so, Oracle's JRockit (which incidentally Oracle states - "The Oracle JRockit JVM is the industry's highest performing Java Virtual Machine now built into Oracle Fusion Middleware.")
Now, the story starts when our team was given the responsibility to migrate our codebase from Win32 to x64. We use JNI and so when the migration was over, we tested it. And, whoa we got a core ;). After spending like a day going through the whole JNI and trying to find out the cause, we got an idea to try the Sun's JVM and bingo, it worked.
I will not like to jump into conclusion, might be some parameters were not right with JRockit, but definitely in future I will always be suspicious of these different JVM's flavor for sure.
It comes with the BEA's Weblogic (which has now been purchased by Oracle) - so, Oracle's JRockit (which incidentally Oracle states - "The Oracle JRockit JVM is the industry's highest performing Java Virtual Machine now built into Oracle Fusion Middleware.")
Now, the story starts when our team was given the responsibility to migrate our codebase from Win32 to x64. We use JNI and so when the migration was over, we tested it. And, whoa we got a core ;). After spending like a day going through the whole JNI and trying to find out the cause, we got an idea to try the Sun's JVM and bingo, it worked.
I will not like to jump into conclusion, might be some parameters were not right with JRockit, but definitely in future I will always be suspicious of these different JVM's flavor for sure.
False Hopes
False - Wiki states, "False is the antonym of True".
Hope - Again according to Wiki, "Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best".
The literal conversion of False Hopes turns out to be the feeling that the event will turn out for the best, infact, turns out for the worst. This applies to many situation we face in our day-today lives.
Okay, let me get the context straight. I am talking about the most important part of a democracy (for the uneducated - Election).
With every election, there comes a list of promises (from the illogical, baseless, biased, foolhardy, laughable...) from different political parties as well as leaders (distinguished as well as otherwise). These mostly turns out to be hollow promises. They hold little water when the election gets over.
So, where does the false hopes comes here? First of all, each election, we think our situation will get better and we try to elect the lesser evil (its also called TINA factor - There Is No Alternative). And after the elections, we feel betrayed by the very people we had put in our trust to.
This year may not be different. But again my false hope tells me otherwise. What to do - Hope Floats!!!
Hope - Again according to Wiki, "Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best".
The literal conversion of False Hopes turns out to be the feeling that the event will turn out for the best, infact, turns out for the worst. This applies to many situation we face in our day-today lives.
Okay, let me get the context straight. I am talking about the most important part of a democracy (for the uneducated - Election).
With every election, there comes a list of promises (from the illogical, baseless, biased, foolhardy, laughable...) from different political parties as well as leaders (distinguished as well as otherwise). These mostly turns out to be hollow promises. They hold little water when the election gets over.
So, where does the false hopes comes here? First of all, each election, we think our situation will get better and we try to elect the lesser evil (its also called TINA factor - There Is No Alternative). And after the elections, we feel betrayed by the very people we had put in our trust to.
This year may not be different. But again my false hope tells me otherwise. What to do - Hope Floats!!!
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