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  1. Re:Terrible Hero on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That's why he needs a reboot. Back to the original comics where he didn't have all those extra bat-utility-belt powers.

  2. If you like old school MMORGPs on Why Are There No Popular Ultima Online-Like MMOs? · · Score: 1

    Then have a look at forgotten world. A remake of the old gold box styled Never Winter Nights game.

  3. Effective Java on After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. Will give you some deep insights into the workings of the language.

  4. Re:Games don't use multiple cores? on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Is this supported? The link from wikipedia points to the web archive.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20071224141002/www.sgi.com/products/software/performer/

  5. Re:30 to 40 thousand lines isn't large by any meas on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Now I've heard everything. Mission critical and PHP in the same sentence.

  6. We don't. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    mea culpa

  7. Re:Lawyers at work... on Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility · · Score: 1

    And Oracle doesn't?

  8. It's the 'free as in beer' problem on Red Hat Exchange Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Not to be confused with 'free as in freedom'.

  9. Re:More important projects to be chopped on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    Why?

  10. Re:Wonderland is suffering a similar fate on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well yeah - Wonderland runs on Darkstar so it looks like it's all going to be gone.

  11. Re:One of many... on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    True but there are also a dozen client implementations in other languages so this can benefit any client side game development platform.

  12. Re:Is anyone I know using this? on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    That would be great because this is could/should be the centerpoint for on-line open source MMOs.

  13. Re:Is anyone I know using this? on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    Well Sun's marketing being what it's been - not very many but there are production systems out there using it. I was planning on using it for my goldbox reboot.

  14. OR on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    You could just spend $20 on a regular Scrabble board game.

  15. Re:Machine profiles would be a good idea on Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common · · Score: 1

    Er no. User accounts don't control services and many resident applications that get installed.

  16. Machine profiles would be a good idea on Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common · · Score: 1

    I wished Windows or Linux had a feature to allow you to specify application sets in a special profile. When you logged in you could which machine configuration you wanted to log into. Then it would only run the apps specified in that profile (minus all the extra services etc from other software).

    So I would have a Game profile which would have most extras turned off. AV scanners, Printer driver etc.. And a Work profile (SQL, Visual Studio, IntelliJ) etc...

  17. Re:Stop quoting Monty on Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Well this is giving a lot of space to PostgreSQL which is a superior DB so I don't mind so much.

  18. Re:Java too complex on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You never have done any real development in Java on the desktop then right?

    http://www.amazon.ca/Filthy-Rich-Clients-Developing-Applications/dp/0132413930

    BTW Java comes out of the box on Mac and looks perfect on that platform. It also looks just like other Windows applications by setting 1 line of code.

    (Unlike QT applications which look like shit).

  19. Re:Java too complex on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 1

    These are 2 different issues. PermGen is the amount of memory given to the JVM. So you restart the JVM with more memory and your fine. The JVM is cleaning up memory while running. The issue pointed to by ,NET is there are cases where this doesn't occur leading to operating system out of memory errors.

    Big diff.

  20. Re:Ease of writing doesn't convince me on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points for you.

  21. Re:Why bother with MySQL? on Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns · · Score: 1

    Bruce you know I love you but that's seriously f*cked.

    Therefore it's OK for M$ to have had a totally non standard IE since "It makes sense that CLOSED Source could trump an Open Standard."

    It's an 18 year old standard! How hard could this really be?

  22. Why bother with MySQL? on Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know I'm going to be modded down for this but why bother with MySQL at all? There are other better free databases out there. MySQL is still not even ANSI 92 compliant yet.

  23. Re:Javascript is actually a great language on Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser · · Score: 1

    Evil type coercion is a bonus? WTF?

  24. Re:Javascript is actually a great language on Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser · · Score: 1

    Huh?

            var a = "false";
            if (a) {
                    alert("a is true?");
            }

    Evil type coercion is a foundation principle of this shitty language.

  25. Re:Games? Java? on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    Wish I could mod you up. Good question.