With all words of computerese, their meaning changes every five minutes (or every 200 blog revisions, where there are 2400 blogs), so just pick a definition of any word, and stick to it -- until some blog or book redefines it with a meaning that you prefer. "Virtual" is one of the words that's had the most (and the most contradictory) meanings. With Java, though, the whole "You can run any Java program on any machine on which Java is installed" is about as meaningful as "You can open any MS Word document on any machine on which MS Word is installed". The biggest difference there is that you can write programs in .NET, within the MS Word about-as-much-of-a-VM-as-Java, so you don't have to get your hands and brain all dirty with Oracle products. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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:laugh: Collect the whole set! Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

Exactly on this day one year ago i got my "blue notice" for successfully passing my 6 months job probation(i am not sure if this is the right word ) Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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_Maxxx_ wrote: So many == 1000? Yes that works. _Maxxx_ wrote: Why free? I know teachers are underpaid, but professionals sometime have to pay for resources. Because if there are in fact many excellent ones there the market will dictate that little or no price. Additionally it is much more likely that there will be independent evaluations of them. But feel free to provide a 1000 ones that you must pay for and the corresponding independent evaluations for each. _Maxxx_ wrote: what am I? Your mother? You made the claim that there are "many". I presumed that you actually knew of them. Thus it was possible for you to prove your point rather than requiring that I prove it. _Maxxx_ wrote: I don't think the results of the lessons are subject to a five year study on how well the students cope with team work after school. Which of course is a problem. It isn't a stretch to say that it is likely that teachers that are given new lesson plans are, on average, more likely to initially approach it enthusiastically and thus more likely, at the end of one year, to give it a higher rating. _Maxxx_ wrote: You think the teaching of, say, physics, chemistry, even Maths or English is not complex? The understanding of the first examples are very, very well known. There is no uncertainty about the equation for force or how one proves what the area of a right triangle is. As for the last there are in fact many ways to teach it and at the lower levels things like spelling and sentence construction are well understood however at the higher levels, again, one of the factors is complexity. Otherwise universities and even high schools would be turning out a vast number of best selling authors. _Maxxx_ wrote: A condition of employment as a teacher (in Qld anyhow) is continued professional development Poor understanding by of all of humanity not the teachers themselves. _Maxxx_ wrote: Surely they are as much life skills as other things one learns at school? Are you claiming that schools, average schools, are competently teaching "life skills" to a majority of the students?

Probably being replaced with required "do evil" time.