Playing old DOS games in a browser is cool enough for me. I have an old DOS application I would like to run in a browser but I don't know if its possible yet because it uses protected mode.
The possibility of running an x86 emulator in any Java supported platform is at least technically interesting.
what are the experiences using intel motherboards hardware raid 1 (for example P45 chipset)? I'm deciding my home network. I was thinking of a PC with Ubuntu Linux for server with two 1TB WD green power disks in raid 1 with the motherboard hardware controller. What happens if the mother dies? can I read the disks in another computer without raid? does software raid take a performance hit?
Wouldn't that restrict which mobile phone models you can buy? A lot of phones come with a MIDlet player based on the Java Micro Edition runtime environment.
That's, what, 28 incorrect base pairs out of 4000? I'm not a biologist, but is this considered an acceptable error rate?... but what uses is this "good enough" for?
Last time I checked, desktops were in the real world... or did you mean portables, palm devices and embedded systems? There's some Java there.
Let's see: palm usually uses Java? I don't know but isn't Palm dying anyway?;-) mobile phones: almost all use Java, except iPhone. BD players: use Java, if BD replaces DVD in the next years it would mean Java in every house smartcards: some use Java, how many?
why? Apache Harmony with enough support from IBM and ORACLE could be one.
Apache Harmony is not a commercially licensable version of Java, it isn't a version of Java at all because Sun doesn't let it be tested.
Oracle used to take Apache Httpd and rename it as Oracle Httpd. Apache license allows you that. Then you can sell under your commercial license. If SUN doesn't test it there will be some fragmentation, but you think all the companies in the world that have Java systems will just switch to PHP overnight in that case? not likely. A clean room Java version from IBM will be readily accepted as long as it shows compatibility with major applications. AFAIK you can sell licenses as you please for your own Java version, as long as you don't call it Java. That is why IcedTea.
OpenJdk is GPL'ed. So what happens if Sun falls off a cliff?
Then there will be no commercially licensable version of Java at all anymore. And that's a problem.
why? Apache Harmony with enough support from IBM and ORACLE could be one. Someone could buy SUN assets. And they have invested enough in Java to be interested. And lack of commercial licenses hasn't stopped Redhat or Ubuntu of offering GPL'd Linux, isn't it?
If, after a decade, nobody has managed to produce an independent, compliant, commercial implementation, then that suggests that doing so is too hard. Maybe Sun's specifications are incomplete, maybe the specs are so complex that they are too hard to implement, maybe Sun keeps changing the platform too quickly.
Why does it matter? If Sun were to go belly-up tomorrow, there would be no compliant commercial Java implementation left.
BTW, how many independent Perl implementations are there?
You mean because Java is the language in which enterprise applications, cellphone games and HD Blu-ray discs are programmed then its success should be put on display?
More FUD. I did work programming in COBOL for a couple of years. Java is nothing like COBOL. You don't know what you are talking about.
You can't really blame COBOL either for being verbose and bloated, it was one of the first high level programming languages ever. Show more respect for your elders!
This article and most of the posts are full of FUD. SUN open sourced its office suite, its operating system, its languages, application servers, development tools and processors (!). Java was open sourced under GPL. What else people want them to open source? this is ludicrous.
As fast as in almost every mobile phone, because Java is already in them, you know? I don't remember any "real" person complaining about the speed of their cell phone games because they are in Java, do you?
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My P3 512MB RAM home PC still works reasonable well for its age. How old are 9 years in computers years?
No luck; my motherboard only supports the MS ESP 1.0 protocol which is incompatible with most minds...
Damn, I have no mod points :-)
Playing old DOS games in a browser is cool enough for me. I have an old DOS application I would like to run in a browser but I don't know if its possible yet because it uses protected mode. The possibility of running an x86 emulator in any Java supported platform is at least technically interesting.
what are the experiences using intel motherboards hardware raid 1 (for example P45 chipset)? I'm deciding my home network. I was thinking of a PC with Ubuntu Linux for server with two 1TB WD green power disks in raid 1 with the motherboard hardware controller. What happens if the mother dies? can I read the disks in another computer without raid? does software raid take a performance hit?
A question: do you use hardware raid o linux software raid? in the later case what is the performance penalty?
Don't install java. On anything. Ever.
Wouldn't that restrict which mobile phone models you can buy? A lot of phones come with a MIDlet player based on the Java Micro Edition runtime environment.
and every Blu-Ray player.
That's, what, 28 incorrect base pairs out of 4000? I'm not a biologist, but is this considered an acceptable error rate?... but what uses is this "good enough" for?
three-eyed fish?
This one: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 more: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/50082-64-bit-java-plugin.html
obviously you need to reinstall... with 128-bits Linux...
I think there is a problem running a 64 bit browser with a 32 bit Java plugin.
Dr Who uses sonic technology, for example his sonic screwdriver. That's funny.
Dangers of breathing too much recycled air...
I know a good place for them; a tropical island in a non disclosed location accessible only by air crash...
Let's see: ;-)
palm usually uses Java? I don't know but isn't Palm dying anyway?
mobile phones: almost all use Java, except iPhone.
BD players: use Java, if BD replaces DVD in the next years it would mean Java in every house
smartcards: some use Java, how many?
Apache Harmony is not a commercially licensable version of Java, it isn't a version of Java at all because Sun doesn't let it be tested.
Oracle used to take Apache Httpd and rename it as Oracle Httpd. Apache license allows you that. Then you can sell under your commercial license. If SUN doesn't test it there will be some fragmentation, but you think all the companies in the world that have Java systems will just switch to PHP overnight in that case? not likely. A clean room Java version from IBM will be readily accepted as long as it shows compatibility with major applications.AFAIK you can sell licenses as you please for your own Java version, as long as you don't call it Java. That is why IcedTea.
Then there will be no commercially licensable version of Java at all anymore. And that's a problem.
why? Apache Harmony with enough support from IBM and ORACLE could be one. Someone could buy SUN assets. And they have invested enough in Java to be interested.And lack of commercial licenses hasn't stopped Redhat or Ubuntu of offering GPL'd Linux, isn't it?
OpenJdk is GPL'ed. So what happens if Sun falls off a cliff?
BTW, how many independent Perl implementations are there?
You mean because Java is the language in which enterprise applications, cellphone games and HD Blu-ray discs are programmed then its success should be put on display?
More FUD. I did work programming in COBOL for a couple of years. Java is nothing like COBOL. You don't know what you are talking about.
You can't really blame COBOL either for being verbose and bloated, it was one of the first high level programming languages ever. Show more respect for your elders!
This article and most of the posts are full of FUD. SUN open sourced its office suite, its operating system, its languages, application servers, development tools and processors (!). Java was open sourced under GPL.
What else people want them to open source? this is ludicrous.
Philip K. Dick knew what the drugs in water were for!
As fast as in almost every mobile phone, because Java is already in them, you know? I don't remember any "real" person complaining about the speed of their cell phone games because they are in Java, do you?
That was like in the '70s. Right now we are in may be 109 AD. But he was all right, or at least the little voice in his head generated by lasers was.
we are doomed I tell you. Doomed.