I have no illusion that Java is not fit for every scenario. My only intention was to point out that people get outdated about Java's capabilities. I work on the oil industry and a lot of big time software vendors are migrating their application products to 100% Java. We are talking about parallel seismic processing of files with 1terabyte worth of data and 3d visualization of this kind of monster. Companies like Halliburton, Landmark and Schlumberger are going this direction
And how do you explain the performance similarities then. AFAIK he run quake 2 game, original compilation for the bechmark. This is why there is no detail on compiler flag
It was runnning the original game. You should be aware that 90% of the code that is running is OpenGl and Java does not implement it. It uses a wrapper to the locally available native OpenGl libraries. So the only overhead is the JNI calls, which have been being reduced a lot on recend versions.
The point is: any language can do it reasonably well. 3d is done on the video card, not on the compiler or he VM.
My understanding is that the syntax changes were one of Gosu motivations. The changes were all in the direction to make the language more "easy to read". It almost got some pythonic aura in a sense
So you don't like to have choices? It's an honest question! If you get distro. the basically choose things for you... The difference is that is you don't like a given choice, you have options... I really can't see how bad this can be for the end user. Just pick a distro and go on. If something bothers your, THEN you look for those 299+ variations and pick one
I just started OO on a dell netbook running ubuntu (10.10, not the UNR version). It took 7 seconds. Its not fast, but then again, its not slow. And BTW, I am not preloading nothing on startup.
But are these financial backing or moral backing? I mean, these companies are putting money on the project or they agreed to ship LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice?
Man, this happens with everyone from time to time. Nobody knows everything. If every submitter tries do cover every conceivable gap of knowledge on slashdot's audience, we would't have any stories at all!
The submitter wrote based on what he believes is common knowledge. It he is wrong, some google-fu should do the work for you.
Just to be sure: if I get a gmarks extension on my firefox I can keep my bookmarls synchronized on Chrome AND Firefox? Because if its true, I am saved! That what I was really doing with xmarks...
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I have no illusion that Java is not fit for every scenario. My only intention was to point out that people get outdated about Java's capabilities. I work on the oil industry and a lot of big time software vendors are migrating their application products to 100% Java. We are talking about parallel seismic processing of files with 1terabyte worth of data and 3d visualization of this kind of monster. Companies like Halliburton, Landmark and Schlumberger are going this direction
See, for example JavaSeis
And how do you explain the performance similarities then. AFAIK he run quake 2 game, original compilation for the bechmark. This is why there is no detail on compiler flag
It was runnning the original game. You should be aware that 90% of the code that is running is OpenGl and Java does not implement it. It uses a wrapper to the locally available native OpenGl libraries. So the only overhead is the JNI calls, which have been being reduced a lot on recend versions.
The point is: any language can do it reasonably well. 3d is done on the video card, not on the compiler or he VM.
Which is good, because it teaches programmers the positive impact white space has on readability
and is not on the top part of the keyboard, which are harder to reach
VB is not a language! ;-)
My understanding is that the syntax changes were one of Gosu motivations. The changes were all in the direction to make the language more "easy to read". It almost got some pythonic aura in a sense
http://bytonic.de/html/benchmarks.html
"(mini-big) bang" is different than "mini-(big bang)". "Mini-big bang" works if and only if the operator ' ' has precedence over '-'
C'mon, this is not insightful, this is redundant. If you read parent, it says the same thing!
This is why a read a lot of Ars Technica nowadays...
If someone rate him troll and a lot of people rate him underrated, I think we can get a +5troll
So you don't like to have choices? It's an honest question! If you get distro. the basically choose things for you... The difference is that is you don't like a given choice, you have options... I really can't see how bad this can be for the end user. Just pick a distro and go on. If something bothers your, THEN you look for those 299+ variations and pick one
I just started OO on a dell netbook running ubuntu (10.10, not the UNR version). It took 7 seconds. Its not fast, but then again, its not slow. And BTW, I am not preloading nothing on startup.
A lot of people are waiting for java 7. They seems to promise better startup! I surely hope so...
But are these financial backing or moral backing? I mean, these companies are putting money on the project or they agreed to ship LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice?
.. but only does what evil Steve Jobs wants
Crap. VERY happy. My bad.
Mmm. The last sentence sounds more funny than I intended.
Hopefully Steam will get there and we all be vary happy
Man, this happens with everyone from time to time. Nobody knows everything. If every submitter tries do cover every conceivable gap of knowledge on slashdot's audience, we would't have any stories at all!
The submitter wrote based on what he believes is common knowledge. It he is wrong, some google-fu should do the work for you.
Using Southpark in your argument and as an example didn't do much good to your point. You can as that monster that is half man, half bear, half pig.
Wouldn't stallman be enough? The ninjas will hold him back
At work it's basically an old Firefox: I'm stuck with and OLD kernel, so its very hard to run anything that is up-to-date.
At home, I'm stuck with chrome: the main problem is the netbook, because firefox just lags around when I go to javascript-heavy pages (like gmail).
Besides those two, there is still my desktop, wich runs Windows and Linux and have both browsers installed.
I am currently evaluating delicious.com with some high hopes...
Nice idea. Like if every slashdotter had infine time and resources to do anything that is doable.
Just to be sure: if I get a gmarks extension on my firefox I can keep my bookmarls synchronized on Chrome AND Firefox? Because if its true, I am saved! That what I was really doing with xmarks...