Does it really matter? The two are fairly similar.
I got my current job which is working more in C#, with experience only in Java, and I am fairly confident I can get a Java job having worked in C# most recently.
Although... our next program is likely to be Java because C# doesn't seem to provide all the functionality we want, but that aside...
Languages come and languages go, and when it happens people don't usually fret, they either port, or keep using the last working release of the runtime for the dead language. People move on.
Java: The Language is quite good. It's more clean than C# in most ways, though has a few issues such as the existence of primitive types.
Java: The VM Spec is quite good too. It's simple, easy to implement, and secure.
The only place the whole thing is really falling down is that most implementations (but not all!) of Java: The Runtime are relatively slow. Now... the problem isn't that slow runtimes exist, the problem is that the official runtime from Sun is one the slowest. If a faster one were bundled with the JRE everyone installed, everybody would shut up about the runtime speed pretty quickly.
But that aside, why can't we have Java and.NET as part of one big system? Who is to say that Java won't compile to.NET-runnable code? Who is to say that C# won't compile to JVM-runnable code (well, apart from the 'unsafe' blocks in C#, which suck)? These divisions between language and runtime are for a reason, and.NET at least was designed with multiple languages in mind so why shouldn't we be able to use Java with it?
The Qt API is already about as easy to use as Swing anyway, and people can use QtJava if they want to use Qt. But honestly what we needed Sun to do was to increase the number of widgets in AWT rather than developing Swing. Then we could implement more AWT peers using native toolkits and everyone would be happy.
And most importantly, SWT would never have existed.
Is it feasible to have iptables run in hardware? I mean, if NVIDIA say they're going to help third parties set up their software to use the hardware, they had better help the only firewall software we care about.
Now you know they actually did this for the tamagotchi game, right? Even when out of the GBA it had its own battery and alerted you when it got hungry. It's a small step to voice. Beware.
I just want any decent D&D game to be made for it, personally. And I'm not talking about the Baldurs Gate action-oriented bullshit, I'm talking a turn-based strategy-style D&D game.
They have perfected the turn-based strategy engine, in Advance Wars and more recently Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Fire Emblem... why can't somebody get a Wizards license and use a similar engine with a real RPG ruleset?
No, it can't do everything the GBA can do. It is particularly lacking in the area of sprite acceleration... actually, it doesn't have sprite acceleration whatsoever.
The Tapwave Zodiac looks like a slightly better product as its GBA emulator apparently runs at full speed, unlike GP-32's. Possibly this is because the Zodiac has a 3D accelerator which is being used to accelerate the sprites.
There are other reasons for having a GBA-SP of course, such as hooking up to a GameCube. And it's all Nintendo trickery to make you buy it... since you can't play the new Final Fantasy without it, you don't get much choice.
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Does it really matter? The two are fairly similar.
I got my current job which is working more in C#, with experience only in Java, and I am fairly confident I can get a Java job having worked in C# most recently.
Although... our next program is likely to be Java because C# doesn't seem to provide all the functionality we want, but that aside...
Languages come and languages go, and when it happens people don't usually fret, they either port, or keep using the last working release of the runtime for the dead language. People move on.
Java: The Language is quite good. It's more clean than C# in most ways, though has a few issues such as the existence of primitive types.
Java: The VM Spec is quite good too. It's simple, easy to implement, and secure.
The only place the whole thing is really falling down is that most implementations (but not all!) of Java: The Runtime are relatively slow. Now... the problem isn't that slow runtimes exist, the problem is that the official runtime from Sun is one the slowest. If a faster one were bundled with the JRE everyone installed, everybody would shut up about the runtime speed pretty quickly.
But that aside, why can't we have Java and .NET as part of one big system? Who is to say that Java won't compile to .NET-runnable code? Who is to say that C# won't compile to JVM-runnable code (well, apart from the 'unsafe' blocks in C#, which suck)? These divisions between language and runtime are for a reason, and .NET at least was designed with multiple languages in mind so why shouldn't we be able to use Java with it?
Rambling over. :-)
The Qt API is already about as easy to use as Swing anyway, and people can use QtJava if they want to use Qt. But honestly what we needed Sun to do was to increase the number of widgets in AWT rather than developing Swing. Then we could implement more AWT peers using native toolkits and everyone would be happy.
And most importantly, SWT would never have existed.
Why duplicate effort?
Though you could reimplement SWT using Qt, like IBM already did.
Well which one is the egg? Since everyone knows the egg comes first, this should shed some light on what you were trying to say.
And then the real article says it was a 2.8GHz P4 with a GeForce FX5600.
The Xbox is hardly a 2.8GHz P4, guys.
Is it feasible to have iptables run in hardware? I mean, if NVIDIA say they're going to help third parties set up their software to use the hardware, they had better help the only firewall software we care about.
Ethereal doesn't exactly have trouble looking at UDP packets so I don't know what you're getting at.
Microsoft would never do that. They might cut into the profits from each of the GPL products as they copy them for their own versions.
Yeah, the performance. Otherwise it might be identical.
I wouldn't mind Flashback. That would be cool.
Good thought. I might set up the NES emulator on my GBA to see what this game is like that Nintendo deprived us of the first time around.
Pfft. We never even got Earthbound over here the first time around. I hate Nintendo sometimes...
Now you know they actually did this for the tamagotchi game, right? Even when out of the GBA it had its own battery and alerted you when it got hungry. It's a small step to voice. Beware.
I just want any decent D&D game to be made for it, personally. And I'm not talking about the Baldurs Gate action-oriented bullshit, I'm talking a turn-based strategy-style D&D game.
They have perfected the turn-based strategy engine, in Advance Wars and more recently Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Fire Emblem... why can't somebody get a Wizards license and use a similar engine with a real RPG ruleset?
No, it can't do everything the GBA can do. It is particularly lacking in the area of sprite acceleration... actually, it doesn't have sprite acceleration whatsoever.
The Tapwave Zodiac looks like a slightly better product as its GBA emulator apparently runs at full speed, unlike GP-32's. Possibly this is because the Zodiac has a 3D accelerator which is being used to accelerate the sprites.
There are other reasons for having a GBA-SP of course, such as hooking up to a GameCube. And it's all Nintendo trickery to make you buy it... since you can't play the new Final Fantasy without it, you don't get much choice.
What would you expect, Nintendo to provide a port on the GameCube to which you attach a device which receives relevant events from the game?
Ruh-roh!
Yeah, calling your company Xerox is just begging to get copied. No wonder the GUI was stolen!
Well it's spelled "Linux," but it's pronounced, "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."
Once upon a time there was an installation of Windows. Now look how many there are!
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Isn't it possible to implement an open source solution which doesn't involve Linux?..