The question then becomes:
Does everyone that wants to play a java game on their gameboy have to buy the $200 SDK? If not, what other options do they have?
Now, I just heard this from an EB manager, but he said the plans are for the next Gameboys to have bluetooth in them to allow multiplayer without any cords. This would make it like calculators where you can just 'beam' (non-cartridge)games/apps to other people.
J2ME has become extremely popular with most handheld devices. Most new PDA's and Mobile Phones contain some variation of the J2ME. So if you are an ambitious entrepreneur (maybe dreaming of getting into the gaming industry?), J2ME may be your ticket. J2ME (IIRC) comes with J3D (at least it does in the Zarus), so there is a lot you can do with it.
You ONLY have a year and a half of struts experience?? I just interviewed a guy with five years, and a guy with three!
Umm... the guy with five is flat out lying (or the original author), and the guy with three must be a part of the struts open source development team, right (Struts 1.0 was released 6/01. I had this interview like 6 months ago)?
Java would have been a much better language if you wanted the project to be reusable. JDBC means that we have the same code for every type of DB's. So you could have a 'read all from DB' set of code and a 'write all to DB' set of code, then simply plug the two DB's into an XML config file, and voila, you have exactly what is needed for any type of DB with JDBC drivers (which is everything except the extremely rare and extremely obscure).
That is something worth writing an article about. Not just one very specific case.
We have all read the numerous RIAA articles on Slashdot
Makes you wonder. Why we don't have an RIAA topic, but we have new 'console' based game topics. Honestly, look at how many times articles on/. speak specifically of PS2, Gamecube, XBox (or even RPGs, FPS (not Quake), strategy).
New topics are nice, especially when you have enough stories to make one.
A point in time where the book becomes 100% accurate could prove this invention had (or will have) been invented. Think about it....
I'm going off topic here, but I believe that if we are ever to time travel, it would be to go forward only, not back. There is too much complexity when going back, unless it is completely 'read only', and you can only observe and not interfere.
Millions of people thought about flying machines, but the wright brothers actually put one in the air (unless you want to count da vinci's helicopter). Who deserves the credit? The thousands of dreamers or the one 'doer'?
You are almost saying that because he writes fiction he can't think about the state of the world. That seems a very limited view. I mean, what special knowledge MUST one have to be able to criticize or comment on something?
Yes, he does think about the state of the world, and he does have an educated view, but he ALSO has his own 'world' that he thinks the world is becoming. Does he have an overactive imagination? Have you played Deus Ex?
Take this article with a grain of salt.
We are talking about a good science fictional game writer (that helped write a game about conspiracy theories, and a terrible future), writing about conspiracy theories and a terrible future.
I'm sure he has insight, but he also has an active imagination (not necessarily a bad thing, but, like I said, take it with a grain of salt).
I concur. It looks like color coordinated suppositories to me.
Perhaps we can offer some suggetions? Perhaps rob in a trench with glasses looking like Neo? Or even the "falling encryption codes" that everyone relates to the matrix?
I don't know. Think about this. PVR's piss off hollywood because you FF through commercials. But, even though you WILL FF through commercials on this also, the commercials will be permantntly burned into a DVD. What sales company doesn't like the idea of permanent commercials on a DVD?
I have no problems with people shootin rockets this way and that, as long as its no where near me.
Amateur rocketry usually leads to one thing (think "smoking empty boots sitting at the bottom of a large crater"), and I don't want to get hit with the shrapnel.
I always buy packaged sets (although I'm a SuSE user, not RedHat).
I get support if I get stuck on something new, and I give them cash for supplying me with a hardcopy of the goods.
Whoops. This wasn't supposed to be submitted. Was joking with the guy in the next cube, and meant to hit 'preview'. Please mod down and ignore (although I'm SURE I'll get at least 15 replies that state how wrong I am).
The best way to help Open Source Companies (a la RedHat) survive is to circumvent their income strategies!
Tell RedHat to screw off! Circumvent the subscription policy with P2P!
Slashdot needs a "Shameless Plug" tag to put on articles like this. Look at the submitters address. Slashdot is for news, not PR (unless they are getting paid for this story, in which case, I hope slashdot subscribers don't even get this story displayed to them).
BTW - What's up with all the Error 500's? Can't the Slashcode guys test the code before pushing it to the 'production' server (btw - these ARE the guys that complain about crashes in windows, then produce slashcode)?
However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments
And an unsuccessful Google IPO could make things worse.
With the war and the volitality of the market right now, I say "Stay Lazy for a While Longer, Google!"
Slashdot Mirror
I actually submitted this to slashdot back in november:
;-)
2002-11-22 15:19:35 Why Cooling is Important In Laptops! (articles,humor) (rejected)
At least it gets the laugh it deserved several months later
That would have to be a SERIOUSLY large cartridge. How can you put a 60+minute video onto a gameboy cartridge??
The question then becomes:
Does everyone that wants to play a java game on their gameboy have to buy the $200 SDK? If not, what other options do they have?
Now, I just heard this from an EB manager, but he said the plans are for the next Gameboys to have bluetooth in them to allow multiplayer without any cords. This would make it like calculators where you can just 'beam' (non-cartridge)games/apps to other people.
J2ME has become extremely popular with most handheld devices. Most new PDA's and Mobile Phones contain some variation of the J2ME. So if you are an ambitious entrepreneur (maybe dreaming of getting into the gaming industry?), J2ME may be your ticket. J2ME (IIRC) comes with J3D (at least it does in the Zarus), so there is a lot you can do with it.
Heh... I get a lot of this, too.
You ONLY have a year and a half of struts experience?? I just interviewed a guy with five years, and a guy with three!
Umm... the guy with five is flat out lying (or the original author), and the guy with three must be a part of the struts open source development team, right (Struts 1.0 was released 6/01. I had this interview like 6 months ago)?
Java would have been a much better language if you wanted the project to be reusable. JDBC means that we have the same code for every type of DB's. So you could have a 'read all from DB' set of code and a 'write all to DB' set of code, then simply plug the two DB's into an XML config file, and voila, you have exactly what is needed for any type of DB with JDBC drivers (which is everything except the extremely rare and extremely obscure).
That is something worth writing an article about. Not just one very specific case.
We have all read the numerous RIAA articles on Slashdot
/. speak specifically of PS2, Gamecube, XBox (or even RPGs, FPS (not Quake), strategy).
Makes you wonder. Why we don't have an RIAA topic, but we have new 'console' based game topics. Honestly, look at how many times articles on
New topics are nice, especially when you have enough stories to make one.
I actually watched a (made for TV?) movie about this exact topic. Was interesting. I can't remember the title, so I'll dig around for it.
I hate overclocking. Now I can't accidentally do it.
YOU RULE INTEL!
A point in time where the book becomes 100% accurate could prove this invention had (or will have) been invented. Think about it....
I'm going off topic here, but I believe that if we are ever to time travel, it would be to go forward only, not back. There is too much complexity when going back, unless it is completely 'read only', and you can only observe and not interfere.
I am 100% behind you.
Millions of people thought about flying machines, but the wright brothers actually put one in the air (unless you want to count da vinci's helicopter). Who deserves the credit? The thousands of dreamers or the one 'doer'?
You are almost saying that because he writes fiction he can't think about the state of the world. That seems a very limited view. I mean, what special knowledge MUST one have to be able to criticize or comment on something?
Yes, he does think about the state of the world, and he does have an educated view, but he ALSO has his own 'world' that he thinks the world is becoming. Does he have an overactive imagination? Have you played Deus Ex?
Take this article with a grain of salt.
We are talking about a good science fictional game writer (that helped write a game about conspiracy theories, and a terrible future), writing about conspiracy theories and a terrible future.
I'm sure he has insight, but he also has an active imagination (not necessarily a bad thing, but, like I said, take it with a grain of salt).
p.s. The icon for the matrix is lame.
I concur. It looks like color coordinated suppositories to me.
Perhaps we can offer some suggetions? Perhaps rob in a trench with glasses looking like Neo? Or even the "falling encryption codes" that everyone relates to the matrix?
The article doesn't discuss whether it is Tomcat based or not
I'd assume that it wouldn't include EJB's, which makes it ok to run in Tomcat (if it had EJB's, you'd need JBoss).
Remember, its java, so it should run in any J2EE app-server (tomcat is merely a servlet server).
I don't know. Think about this. PVR's piss off hollywood because you FF through commercials. But, even though you WILL FF through commercials on this also, the commercials will be permantntly burned into a DVD. What sales company doesn't like the idea of permanent commercials on a DVD?
What's this 'Mozilla' everyone is talking about?
I have no problems with people shootin rockets this way and that, as long as its no where near me.
Amateur rocketry usually leads to one thing (think "smoking empty boots sitting at the bottom of a large crater"), and I don't want to get hit with the shrapnel.
I always buy packaged sets (although I'm a SuSE user, not RedHat).
I get support if I get stuck on something new, and I give them cash for supplying me with a hardcopy of the goods.
Whoops. This wasn't supposed to be submitted. Was joking with the guy in the next cube, and meant to hit 'preview'. Please mod down and ignore (although I'm SURE I'll get at least 15 replies that state how wrong I am).
The best way to help Open Source Companies (a la RedHat) survive is to circumvent their income strategies!
Tell RedHat to screw off! Circumvent the subscription policy with P2P!
Is that a bullethole in your foot?
Slashdot needs a "Shameless Plug" tag to put on articles like this. Look at the submitters address. Slashdot is for news, not PR (unless they are getting paid for this story, in which case, I hope slashdot subscribers don't even get this story displayed to them).
BTW - What's up with all the Error 500's? Can't the Slashcode guys test the code before pushing it to the 'production' server (btw - these ARE the guys that complain about crashes in windows, then produce slashcode)?
However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments
And an unsuccessful Google IPO could make things worse.
With the war and the volitality of the market right now, I say "Stay Lazy for a While Longer, Google!"
You are waaay overreacting.
Given that the things we need to do in our jobs will be illegal in a couple of years
What exactly do you do at your job that will be illegal in a couple of years?