I have to say that this game just isn't ready for prime time.
I found the CD to be dry and tasteless. There wasn't even any salt on it. If Sony is going to ship CDs that are so completely devoid of flavour they should at least ship it with a nice salsa or a cheese sauce.
And one other thing. I serious doubt that CD was biodegradeable. Don't ask me how I know. I'd rather not talk about it.
Ther blerb neglected Sony's original suck ass expansion Shadows of Luclin. Not only were 3/4 of the features listed on the box incomplete, but much touted the graphics engine brough most PCs to their knees. The load times to travel between zones went from seconds to minutes and frequently resulted in a game crash.
It took them nearly a year to fix the most severe problems, and to this day much of the content introduced in the game remains incomplete.
The intersting part of this is that when you copy things off of the internet, you are both the sender and the receiver. The guy in Australia who put GWTW up on his web site owns that copy. When you connected to his web server, you initiated the copy of the material onto your PC. That makes you the sender. When it arrived on your PC, tha made you the receiver.
I don't see how this suit has merit on even technical grounds
My bad! I should have read the advert more closely. Lets see if I can salvage this!
Barebones system: $30
CPU: Cel 2Ghz: $60 (from pricewatch)
Memory: 128M DDR DIMM $13. (tiger direct) CRAP! we're over by $3! I know! we can sell back the keyboard ANd bouse that came with the bare bones kit! So Close!
Hard Drive: No Hard Drive we're out of money! Crap! But do we relly need it? We could boot Knoppix from the CD and then store all of our essencial data in a ram drive - just DON'T TURN IT OFF. With an internet connection maybe we could get some free online storage, or $16 more we could store our files on a USB flash drive.
While it is true that you cannot be convicted on the basis of a polygraph, would you want the news that you had failed a polygraph leaked to the press?
Even if you aren't acused of a crime, consider that you can still lose your job because of a failed polygraph.
Polygraphs are bad science; They should not be used as the basis for making decisions.
Actually, it would turn every state into a potential 'florida situiation'. Recounts would be forced in all states where a relativly small number of votes could turn an electoral vote.
Firefox completely borked the formatting of the interview.
Here is is, in case any of you actually read.
Yakov Fain writes: I was able to catch Calvin right before the plane from San Francisco to New York where he'll be presenting the new features of the Java language to the New York Java Users Group this week.
YF: Please tell us about yourself and your role in the Tiger project
Calvin Austin: I'm the J2SE 5.0 Specification Lead, JSR 176 in the Java Community Process. The J2SE 5.0 expert group consists of 18 members including all the major industry partners and JVM porters.
YF: What are the main new features of the language being introduced in J2SE 5.0?
Austin: Four main themes ran through the release.
1. Ease of Development. These are the first significant updates to the Java language since 1.0 was released. The main ease of development features are generics, metadata, enhanced for Loop, enums, and autoboxing.
2. Monitoring and Manageability Monitoring a JVM using JMX and SNMP protocols, enhanced diagnostics, a low memory detector.
3. Performance and scalability. Faster startup time using class data sharing and automatically tuned server configurations, something we call "performance ergonomics."
4. Desktop Client. A refreshed new cross-platform look-and-feel called Ocean. OpenGL hardware acceleration for intensive graphics apps.
YF: You probably have received lots of different suggestions from the developers community about the "missing" features of the Java language. How did you make a decision?
Austin: Generics received the popular vote, it was one of the top 20 "Requests For Enhancements" (RFE) on the Java developer connection site. All 20 RFEs were added as potential features. For the other language features the final decision was made in the respective JSRs, like JSR 201 and JSR 14. Sun was the spec lead for both those JSRs and so also involved James Gosling and others in the initial reviews.
YF: Large corporations usually switch to newer version of any programming language with substantial delays. What do you think is a major selling point of the new version Java?
Austin: One of the major selling points of this release is that you'll be able to slot in a 5.0 JRE to your application and benefit from the improved performance, monitoring, diagnostic tools, and reliability without changing a line of code. However there are also benefits in also recompiling and updating your source code. Using Generics, the compiler can alert you to runtime class cast exceptions, the concurrency API gives you the flexibility to re-write code to have improved thread safety.
YF: Did you run into any compatibility issues between Java 1.4 and Java 5.0?
Austin: Running applications should be fine. The one thing developers need to watch for is that enum is now a keyword as the javac compiler language is 5.0 by default. This applies to the assert keyword that was added in 1.4
YF: Are there any performance improvements in the new version?
Austin: Startup time is improved even though Tiger is a bigger release, server side benchmarks with performance ergonomics are greatly improved on machines with two or more CPUs.
YF: What are the benefits for fat client Java applications?
Austin: Improved startup time, skinnable API (synth), reduced jar file sizes for downloading when using the pack API.
YF: Let's forget about the corporate world for a minute. What do you think is the coolest new feature of the language?
Austin: If I just restrict myself to the language it would be metadata (JSR 175). We've only scratched the surface of its potential. For the platform, it's a bytecode insertion for profiling (JSR 163).
YF: In some cases new features of a programming language not only improve the language, but also may change the style of programming in general. If you were a college professor or a Java trainer, would you teach your students using some new concepts of programmi
Here's a rule of thumb to follow: There is no such thing as a white hat cracker. The distinction is irrevalent. Whether he is breaking into other people's systems to steal from them or to save them, the fact is that they were using someone else's property without permission.
At best, hiring one of these fellows is a liability, at worst they will rob you blind.
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I have to say that this game just isn't ready for prime time.
I found the CD to be dry and tasteless. There wasn't even any salt on it. If Sony is going to ship CDs that are so completely devoid of flavour they should at least ship it with a nice salsa or a cheese sauce.
And one other thing. I serious doubt that CD was biodegradeable. Don't ask me how I know. I'd rather not talk about it.
500!!! that's all???
I could run over that many scientists on my way home. Just one of the buildings I'm in every week easily has that many scientists in it.
If you could only come up with 500 that agree with your hypothesis, then you may be doing something wrong.
Perhaps you need to phrase your questions in a different way.
It would help your position if you were to acually explain the differences.
Less than one quarter of Ohio use touch screen voting machines. The rest used punch cards.
One better.
The resume says "six years C++". The meat pronounces it "six years Cee Tee Tee"
President of the United States is one of those jobs where you can never really be on vacation. The job follows you wherever you go.
If Yassir Arafat calls and wants to make peace, his call does not go to voice meal; He get's the President.
Ther blerb neglected Sony's original suck ass expansion Shadows of Luclin. Not only were 3/4 of the features listed on the box incomplete, but much touted the graphics engine brough most PCs to their knees. The load times to travel between zones went from seconds to minutes and frequently resulted in a game crash.
It took them nearly a year to fix the most severe problems, and to this day much of the content introduced in the game remains incomplete.
The intersting part of this is that when you copy things off of the internet, you are both the sender and the receiver. The guy in Australia who put GWTW up on his web site owns that copy. When you connected to his web server, you initiated the copy of the material onto your PC. That makes you the sender. When it arrived on your PC, tha made you the receiver.
I don't see how this suit has merit on even technical grounds
My bad! I should have read the advert more closely. Lets see if I can salvage this!
Barebones system: $30
CPU: Cel 2Ghz: $60 (from pricewatch)
Memory: 128M DDR DIMM $13. (tiger direct) CRAP! we're over by $3! I know! we can sell back the keyboard ANd bouse that came with the bare bones kit! So Close!
Hard Drive: No Hard Drive we're out of money! Crap! But do we relly need it? We could boot Knoppix from the CD and then store all of our essencial data in a ram drive - just DON'T TURN IT OFF. With an internet connection maybe we could get some free online storage, or $16 more we could store our files on a USB flash drive.
he alose says that they are only 96% effective when done properly.
Apparently, 4% of the population constitutes "Almost no human being".
While it is true that you cannot be convicted on the basis of a polygraph, would you want the news that you had failed a polygraph leaked to the press?
Even if you aren't acused of a crime, consider that you can still lose your job because of a failed polygraph.
Polygraphs are bad science; They should not be used as the basis for making decisions.
Here's a brand new PC fro a mere 29.99 after rebates.
don't ask me why. I always liked that one.
whay kind of polish do you use on your tin foil hat?
Hrmmm
Visual Source Safe Enterprise.
AKA: Words that should not be used together.
Actually, it would turn every state into a potential 'florida situiation'. Recounts would be forced in all states where a relativly small number of votes could turn an electoral vote.
You might also ask, "What right do TV manufactures have to reserve part of the IR spectrum for their exclusive use?"
OK, maybe I'm being silly.
>> An anonymous coward, so sure about the strength of his opinions that he did not dare sign said:
or it could be that he forgot his password... or didn't care to log in... or was on someone else's machine and did't care to post usder their name.
Please don't damn the poor guy for not having a UID.
>>The biggest obstacle to this is the stupid belief americans have that everything that the government does is bad.
Good Point! We must never forget the Louisiana Purchase.
It's been while. I want to say it was around that time.
Resin was a working servlet/JSP engine while Tomcat was still just a wet dream.
My company used it in an EBJ product I was working on at the time. It was a pleasure to work with.
I'm glad it's GPLd now it might get the recognition it deserves.
Something like this happened to me too.
It turned out that the floor mat had curled up and trapped the gas pedal in the down position.
The cruise control was completely innocent.
Firefox completely borked the formatting of the interview.
Here is is, in case any of you actually read.
Yakov Fain writes: I was able to catch Calvin right before the plane from San Francisco to New York where he'll be presenting the new features of the Java language to the New York Java Users Group this week.
YF: Please tell us about yourself and your role in the Tiger project
Calvin Austin: I'm the J2SE 5.0 Specification Lead, JSR 176 in the Java Community Process. The J2SE 5.0 expert group consists of 18 members including all the major industry partners and JVM porters.
YF: What are the main new features of the language being introduced in J2SE 5.0?
Austin: Four main themes ran through the release.
1. Ease of Development. These are the first significant updates to the Java language since 1.0 was released. The main ease of development features are generics, metadata, enhanced for Loop, enums, and autoboxing.
2. Monitoring and Manageability Monitoring a JVM using JMX and SNMP protocols, enhanced diagnostics, a low memory detector.
3. Performance and scalability. Faster startup time using class data sharing and automatically tuned server configurations, something we call "performance ergonomics."
4. Desktop Client. A refreshed new cross-platform look-and-feel called Ocean. OpenGL hardware acceleration for intensive graphics apps.
YF: You probably have received lots of different suggestions from the developers community about the "missing" features of the Java language. How did you make a decision?
Austin: Generics received the popular vote, it was one of the top 20 "Requests For Enhancements" (RFE) on the Java developer connection site. All 20 RFEs were added as potential features. For the other language features the final decision was made in the respective JSRs, like JSR 201 and JSR 14. Sun was the spec lead for both those JSRs and so also involved James Gosling and others in the initial reviews.
YF: Large corporations usually switch to newer version of any programming language with substantial delays. What do you think is a major selling point of the new version Java?
Austin: One of the major selling points of this release is that you'll be able to slot in a 5.0 JRE to your application and benefit from the improved performance, monitoring, diagnostic tools, and reliability without changing a line of code. However there are also benefits in also recompiling and updating your source code. Using Generics, the compiler can alert you to runtime class cast exceptions, the concurrency API gives you the flexibility to re-write code to have improved thread safety.
YF: Did you run into any compatibility issues between Java 1.4 and Java 5.0?
Austin: Running applications should be fine. The one thing developers need to watch for is that enum is now a keyword as the javac compiler language is 5.0 by default. This applies to the assert keyword that was added in 1.4
YF: Are there any performance improvements in the new version?
Austin: Startup time is improved even though Tiger is a bigger release, server side benchmarks with performance ergonomics are greatly improved on machines with two or more CPUs.
YF: What are the benefits for fat client Java applications?
Austin: Improved startup time, skinnable API (synth), reduced jar file sizes for downloading when using the pack API.
YF: Let's forget about the corporate world for a minute. What do you think is the coolest new feature of the language?
Austin: If I just restrict myself to the language it would be metadata (JSR 175). We've only scratched the surface of its potential. For the platform, it's a bytecode insertion for profiling (JSR 163).
YF: In some cases new features of a programming language not only improve the language, but also may change the style of programming in general. If you were a college professor or a Java trainer, would you teach your students using some new concepts of programmi
You have confused Trolling with Karma Whoring.
Here's a rule of thumb to follow: There is no such thing as a white hat cracker. The distinction is irrevalent. Whether he is breaking into other people's systems to steal from them or to save them, the fact is that they were using someone else's property without permission.
At best, hiring one of these fellows is a liability, at worst they will rob you blind.
Stear clear of them.