I don't use RIM products typically, and I still don't see the use of ever owning a tablet OS, but from what I've heard out of CES, the Playbook is sounding really nice, so all the best of luck to them.
The beginner zones in the game seem pretty mixed in terms of quality. In general you'll see a lot of young pukes that don't necessarily care about anything and run around acting like crud. I generally didn't have too much o f a problem with it, but occasionally I'd have to turn off global messages just to stop listening to a particularly inane conversation. Once you start to leave the beginner areas, the quality of the conversation and population seem to rise a lot. I suppose the kids that really have little attention span for the game end up getting bored and switch to different games instead of continuing.
In that scale, LOTRO is more on the line of TF2, but it sits somewhere in the middle. The items provided are usually along the lines of buying a gun from the TF2 store. It helps save time, but doesn't cause balance issues for those that don't want to use the store. There are content packs that are only available for pay, so that's like valve releasing 1-2 new maps that only paying users can connect to. The concept doesn't work well in the TF2 sense because it would mean servers having to be distinguished based on pay scale and in that sense the community is split in two (or more) pieces. In the LOTRO sense, Everyone plays in the same world, but you can only succeed in a zone if its free or paid for. Byt, it still allows everyone to play within the same world, talk, socialize, etc..
Microsoft owns Expedia, and although ITA makes software to facilitate an internet booking engine, the areas are similar enough for Google to create a site that would compete directly with them.
I've played TF2 totally alone for years and I could count less than 10 times that I've seen obvious cheaters gaming the servers. Note, this is hundreds of hours of in-game playing here. It may be true that PC gamers are more likely to form associations with one another (since the medium itself supports the ability to do so), but I do disagree that being an online solo seems to mean that you're swallowed up in a world of ass holes and cheaters.
I thought most MMO's flopped eventually, and it so happens that Star Wars was no exception. Pedigree doesn't save a game that isn't fun and MMO's are hard to make FUN for the number of people that have to like it in order for the game to keep on going successfully.
The application is as good as its programmer, and GUI programming of ANYTHING takes a baseline of ability. Java is usually used on Web and server platforms, so there are few Java GUI specialists. When a Java programmer is tasked to write a GUI app, it is more often than not a weak knowledge area for the individual. For those that can develop good GUI's in Java, I'm sure they do a great job. Its kind of sad that two of the most popular Java applications (Eclipse, Azareus/Vuze) are written in SWT but that's another problem all together.
Oh, one more point, its easy to write an ugly yet snappy GUI app in say VB because VB does most of the real work behind the scenes, so all you really need to do is drag-drop and event handlers for them. The traditional lack of a good GUI builder in Java means that a lot of developers have to write boiler plate code that may not be as well performing vs. a common and well tuned GUI builder.
Eclipse has an iterative compiler. I NEVER wait for a compile unless I've structurally changed a file that is literally used by 100's of classes. That alone is worth its weight in gold.
I always thought that the commonly assumed reason for buying them was that they made great a great GWT IDE, and a great GWT IDE means better GWT adoption which means more GWT mindshare. The company was probably available for sale cheaper than building a group would have been, so the reasons are pretty self-evident.
Oh, I could also see them using the team to build out the next generation of Android GUI development tools, because the current iteration of the tool is quite lacking in comparison to the builders these guys have made.
Maybe a continue on a 3 level+ nesting also has merit, but I try to avoid anything that nested if it can be expressed in a simpler manner without losing much performance.
While I'm not terribly interested in the distribution itself, its great to see a classic Slashdot story about some major or point release of a semi-well known OSS product.
Just a thought, as long as this is using DirectShow or the modern equivalent, doesn't this open up the web browser to any and all flaws in said stack? Are Microsoft or the rest of you really that open to rely on the multi-media stack for security tightness? I'll stay afraid and yet wish everyone else luck.
"i've made has been to add ram and move swap to ram" Wow, please just turn off swapping all together and save yourself the trouble. You're just robbing from RAM the very resource that you need, RAM! The entire point for swapping is to save on RAM, and the very act of ram driving is taking away more of that precious resource. Just turn your swap off and kill the RAMDrive. I assure you that unless windows is on some serious drugs, your performance should improve.
I could see this breaking sites that actually use those cookies for something meaningful across invocations. I'm surprised that Adobe didn't just go down Java's route and use the browser's built-in cookie management system for taking care of their own cookie needs.
If you're watching unbiased news about America then by all means don't watch an American new network. The closer you are to the conflict, the more likely you're going to have a charged opinion of it. If you want to get emotionally fired up about whatever side you're on, thats one thing, but if you want cold as close to objective news watching then find a network as far detached but still good quality.
I always have a preference for the BBC news channel personally, but that's just from my liking. I find the major American News channels to be way to sensationalistic for me to have a good objective opinion on a story.
I'd totally stand up for that. Slashdot gave me the opportunity to turn ads off years ago and sometimes they're on, and sometimes they're not. That is a really great idea, though you will probably have to tweak the idea to make it cookie based instead. The user of an IP is not always static, but you can be pretty sure that a cookie is at least tied to a given machine. You -could- make it based on login, but that drastically reduces the number of people who would turn it on.
A nice thought, but I'd be afraid that some cheap and careless outlets would just go back to scraping directly off the web site vs. the API which would cost more to host in the long run. Of course you could always attempt to ban the scrapers, but that as well is always an up hill and not terribly cheap solution.
I wouldn't trust an anonymous node to consistently host a given page to be the latest and greatest iteration of a given topic. Imagine all the politically slanted host providers that just host their given slant on one politician or another. I'll pass on the idea thanks.
I had a similar thought to yours when I read the story heading. The only time that comic books got decent adaptations were from people who really loved them. Why did it take decades for many good comic based movies to be made after their original stories have long sit idle? Because the people who pitch and produce passionate and -good- adaptations of these stories needed to grow up first. Plus, having a good history of success making comic movies has made it easier for the pay masters to open their wallets to the idea of comic movies. Video game based adaptations will have their days, but they will need those few first break-away hits to make people stand up and notice. Wing commander and company were not these success stories, alas.
To be fair, before the acquisition there were worries that Sun would just start tanking and take with it the ability to support Java in a meaningful way with it. I think the hope with Oracle was that they would actually capitalize the project to make certain that all of their own java based products worked better. Since they are heavily invested in Java based technologies for their own offerings, a better Java == a better product for them to offer. Things haven't turned out so rosy, but that's the position we're in now.
I don't get the joke. Oracle owns Weblogic, Glassfish, and I believe one more application server if memory holds true. There's no reason to move to an IBM solution when they have many in house.
Don't be so down on Oracle with this. This is pretty much the business model of most software developers. You don't necessarily make 100% of your investment back from first sales, but through support and maintenance, and updates, and customizations, etc.. Do you think the insane revenue from Windows comes free? No. They paid for Windows development for decades, and these quarters are the ROI from that. This is why some companies that look completely dead can still make good money long after they ever have anything interesting to contribute to innovation.
Do I hope Oracle dies? No. Do I hope that they have a better executed and more open Java strategy going forward? Absolutely. This poor attempt at executing their Java strategy post-acquisition has been nothing but horrible. Smarten up Oracle!
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I don't use RIM products typically, and I still don't see the use of ever owning a tablet OS, but from what I've heard out of CES, the Playbook is sounding really nice, so all the best of luck to them.
The beginner zones in the game seem pretty mixed in terms of quality. In general you'll see a lot of young pukes that don't necessarily care about anything and run around acting like crud. I generally didn't have too much o f a problem with it, but occasionally I'd have to turn off global messages just to stop listening to a particularly inane conversation. Once you start to leave the beginner areas, the quality of the conversation and population seem to rise a lot. I suppose the kids that really have little attention span for the game end up getting bored and switch to different games instead of continuing.
In that scale, LOTRO is more on the line of TF2, but it sits somewhere in the middle. The items provided are usually along the lines of buying a gun from the TF2 store. It helps save time, but doesn't cause balance issues for those that don't want to use the store. There are content packs that are only available for pay, so that's like valve releasing 1-2 new maps that only paying users can connect to. The concept doesn't work well in the TF2 sense because it would mean servers having to be distinguished based on pay scale and in that sense the community is split in two (or more) pieces. In the LOTRO sense, Everyone plays in the same world, but you can only succeed in a zone if its free or paid for. Byt, it still allows everyone to play within the same world, talk, socialize, etc..
I agree with basically everything but I still liked Jo Grant better, though Romana II would be in my top 5.
Microsoft owns Expedia, and although ITA makes software to facilitate an internet booking engine, the areas are similar enough for Google to create a site that would compete directly with them.
I've played TF2 totally alone for years and I could count less than 10 times that I've seen obvious cheaters gaming the servers. Note, this is hundreds of hours of in-game playing here. It may be true that PC gamers are more likely to form associations with one another (since the medium itself supports the ability to do so), but I do disagree that being an online solo seems to mean that you're swallowed up in a world of ass holes and cheaters.
I thought most MMO's flopped eventually, and it so happens that Star Wars was no exception. Pedigree doesn't save a game that isn't fun and MMO's are hard to make FUN for the number of people that have to like it in order for the game to keep on going successfully.
If it was done any way close to how Square did FF XIV did their control schemes then run away from this... FAST!
I've got boots of escaping! *flees*
The application is as good as its programmer, and GUI programming of ANYTHING takes a baseline of ability. Java is usually used on Web and server platforms, so there are few Java GUI specialists. When a Java programmer is tasked to write a GUI app, it is more often than not a weak knowledge area for the individual. For those that can develop good GUI's in Java, I'm sure they do a great job. Its kind of sad that two of the most popular Java applications (Eclipse, Azareus/Vuze) are written in SWT but that's another problem all together.
Oh, one more point, its easy to write an ugly yet snappy GUI app in say VB because VB does most of the real work behind the scenes, so all you really need to do is drag-drop and event handlers for them. The traditional lack of a good GUI builder in Java means that a lot of developers have to write boiler plate code that may not be as well performing vs. a common and well tuned GUI builder.
Eclipse has an iterative compiler. I NEVER wait for a compile unless I've structurally changed a file that is literally used by 100's of classes. That alone is worth its weight in gold.
I always thought that the commonly assumed reason for buying them was that they made great a great GWT IDE, and a great GWT IDE means better GWT adoption which means more GWT mindshare. The company was probably available for sale cheaper than building a group would have been, so the reasons are pretty self-evident.
Oh, I could also see them using the team to build out the next generation of Android GUI development tools, because the current iteration of the tool is quite lacking in comparison to the builders these guys have made.
I write GOTO's and it annoyed my fellow coworkers like crazy: pretty much only valid goto to make code simpler:
outer: for()
{
for()
{
dostuff();
if(something)
break outer;
doSomethingElse();
}
moreStuffHere();
}
Maybe a continue on a 3 level+ nesting also has merit, but I try to avoid anything that nested if it can be expressed in a simpler manner without losing much performance.
While I'm not terribly interested in the distribution itself, its great to see a classic Slashdot story about some major or point release of a semi-well known OSS product.
Just a thought, as long as this is using DirectShow or the modern equivalent, doesn't this open up the web browser to any and all flaws in said stack? Are Microsoft or the rest of you really that open to rely on the multi-media stack for security tightness? I'll stay afraid and yet wish everyone else luck.
"i've made has been to add ram and move swap to ram"
Wow, please just turn off swapping all together and save yourself the trouble. You're just robbing from RAM the very resource that you need, RAM! The entire point for swapping is to save on RAM, and the very act of ram driving is taking away more of that precious resource. Just turn your swap off and kill the RAMDrive. I assure you that unless windows is on some serious drugs, your performance should improve.
I could see this breaking sites that actually use those cookies for something meaningful across invocations. I'm surprised that Adobe didn't just go down Java's route and use the browser's built-in cookie management system for taking care of their own cookie needs.
If you're watching unbiased news about America then by all means don't watch an American new network. The closer you are to the conflict, the more likely you're going to have a charged opinion of it. If you want to get emotionally fired up about whatever side you're on, thats one thing, but if you want cold as close to objective news watching then find a network as far detached but still good quality.
I always have a preference for the BBC news channel personally, but that's just from my liking. I find the major American News channels to be way to sensationalistic for me to have a good objective opinion on a story.
I'd totally stand up for that. Slashdot gave me the opportunity to turn ads off years ago and sometimes they're on, and sometimes they're not. That is a really great idea, though you will probably have to tweak the idea to make it cookie based instead. The user of an IP is not always static, but you can be pretty sure that a cookie is at least tied to a given machine. You -could- make it based on login, but that drastically reduces the number of people who would turn it on.
A nice thought, but I'd be afraid that some cheap and careless outlets would just go back to scraping directly off the web site vs. the API which would cost more to host in the long run. Of course you could always attempt to ban the scrapers, but that as well is always an up hill and not terribly cheap solution.
I wouldn't trust an anonymous node to consistently host a given page to be the latest and greatest iteration of a given topic. Imagine all the politically slanted host providers that just host their given slant on one politician or another. I'll pass on the idea thanks.
I doubt these people would be donating anyways...
I had a similar thought to yours when I read the story heading. The only time that comic books got decent adaptations were from people who really loved them. Why did it take decades for many good comic based movies to be made after their original stories have long sit idle? Because the people who pitch and produce passionate and -good- adaptations of these stories needed to grow up first. Plus, having a good history of success making comic movies has made it easier for the pay masters to open their wallets to the idea of comic movies. Video game based adaptations will have their days, but they will need those few first break-away hits to make people stand up and notice. Wing commander and company were not these success stories, alas.
To be fair, before the acquisition there were worries that Sun would just start tanking and take with it the ability to support Java in a meaningful way with it. I think the hope with Oracle was that they would actually capitalize the project to make certain that all of their own java based products worked better. Since they are heavily invested in Java based technologies for their own offerings, a better Java == a better product for them to offer. Things haven't turned out so rosy, but that's the position we're in now.
I don't get the joke. Oracle owns Weblogic, Glassfish, and I believe one more application server if memory holds true. There's no reason to move to an IBM solution when they have many in house.
Don't be so down on Oracle with this. This is pretty much the business model of most software developers. You don't necessarily make 100% of your investment back from first sales, but through support and maintenance, and updates, and customizations, etc.. Do you think the insane revenue from Windows comes free? No. They paid for Windows development for decades, and these quarters are the ROI from that. This is why some companies that look completely dead can still make good money long after they ever have anything interesting to contribute to innovation.
Do I hope Oracle dies? No. Do I hope that they have a better executed and more open Java strategy going forward? Absolutely. This poor attempt at executing their Java strategy post-acquisition has been nothing but horrible. Smarten up Oracle!