Tried to run the "Flying Saucer" demo, got a message: "This sample needs Java SE 6 Update 10." The dang app in the page should "just run" and download what is needed.
For the life of me I can't understand this thinking. I thought the show was quite enjoyable. Enterprise at least sometimes got beyond "alien of the week" and had some cool serialized plots.
I dare say that the show was even badass at times. Check this out.
Sure, there were a few continuity problems. But for 95% of the viewers who don't live in their mom's basement cackling with glee at the next star trek convention coming up, who cares.
"Ad Astra"... Hmmmm... Read the short story from the 1930s called "Proxima Centauri" by Murray Leinster. The earth ship was called the "Adastra." Coincidence?
In the story, the thrust rockets took the Adastra to a place they wish they hadn't gone. (Insert blood-curdling screams of carnivorous alien plant men here.)
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Knock Knock....
Who's There?....
Lotus Note$%^!@#..User CN=@#$@#@#$ cannot open database CN=@#$%@#$%@#$!!catalog.nsf
If you don't give me *one million* dollars, I'll use my *maser* on all of mankind. (evil laugh)
Knock Knock.
Who's there?
SUDDENLY! (.0001 microsecond later)
Java Fanbois: "JAVA IS NOT SLOW!"
Tried to run the "Flying Saucer" demo, got a message: "This sample needs Java SE 6 Update 10." The dang app in the page should "just run" and download what is needed.
FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL.
>>I expect to see Flash still reigning indefinitely..
There, fixed that for you.
Hmmm... let's see...
1. Honkin' long load time? Check.
2. A UI that doesn't do what you want? (slider can't move thru content but goes back to the beginning every time you click on slider) Check.
3. Finicky volume bar? (You have to hit the volume ticks right in the middle) Check.
4. Slow, jerky video on my brand new computer? Check.
5. Everything we have come to expect from applets so far for the last 13 years? Check.
6. Sense of foreboding that I will get burned if I adopt this technology, just like applets? Check.
Report card: FAIL.
It's only a matter of time before FX splinters into a dizzying array of obscure versions and frameworks, thus defeating its purpose.
Sun says that FX was built to work around this problem, but developers work very, very hard to find a way to make that problem resurface again.
For dog and pony shows, of course.
This is a quantum first post. The very act of you looking at the top of the thread changed its state though, and now it is here.
This is a quantum first post.
The very act of you looking at the top of the thread changed its state though, and now it is here.
For the life of me I can't understand this thinking. I thought the show was quite enjoyable. Enterprise at least sometimes got beyond "alien of the week" and had some cool serialized plots.
I dare say that the show was even badass at times. Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCNha9Xxas
Sure, there were a few continuity problems. But for 95% of the viewers who don't live in their mom's basement cackling with glee at the next star trek convention coming up, who cares.
Power corrrupts..
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely..
But it rocks absolutely too.
http://despair.com/power.html
Why hasn't anybody mentioned the Xindi superweapon?
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Xindi_superweapon
WSJ Article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122584386627599251.html
So this means the new Samsung brain-dump backup drives will be on the market by the end of the year.
If you meet a wolf, would a wolf wolf meat with a "woof woof" in a wolf meet?
The earth: What Arrakis will look like if we let Atreides and those $%#@! Fremen have their way.
"Ad Astra"... Hmmmm... Read the short story from the 1930s called "Proxima Centauri" by Murray Leinster. The earth ship was called the "Adastra." Coincidence?
In the story, the thrust rockets took the Adastra to a place they wish they hadn't gone. (Insert blood-curdling screams of carnivorous alien plant men here.)
You've got a nice long road ahead of you if you target the iPhone.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/how_apple_picks_which_apps_make_it_to_the_app_store-2.html
That is, unless it's a flashlight too.
var myVoteInstance = new votingObject();
var publicMediaInstance = new publicMediaObject();
while (publicMediaInstance.areTheyWhining() == true)
{
myVoteInstance.vote(youknowwho);
}
Hey man, don't mess with Grizzly Adams. IMHO, that show was just full of retro campy goodness. Plus, he has a full-grown pet bear waiting to attack.
Here's a Flowchart on how Applications get permission to enter the App Store.
http://gizmodo.com/5051273/how-apple-picks-which-apps-make-it-to-the-app-store
The parent post was hilarious! Why did it get modded down to troll???
The way to get programmers to learn something quicker is to add something catchy like "on rails" or "on struts" or, "on blocks" after it.
I agree. I'm going to pass this one around the office. Laughed so hard, I'm still wiping coffee off my screen.