eclemma is probably what you are talking about witht he emma/junit.
I'm also a fan of 'findBugs' for statistical analysis and I use Q4E for Maven2 integration.
Also, 'extract method' is a great refactoring thing to know... and you can make it so saves automatically organize imports and format the code...

... I prefer eclipse. Netbeans has some nice wizards, but eclipse I feel is more polished and has far more plugins to help with the coding.

If you want to play a FPS with great story and playability, I'd suggest Metroid:Prime3. Of course, I'd say go get the first two gamecube games and play them so you are entirely into the story and everything in the game, but I'm a metroid fan since the original NES version, so I think its completely and entirely worth it...

Obviously, in the interest of runtime efficiency, I don't want to use the modulus operator, or a for loop, or a switch statement, or a bunch of ifs ...

Seems like mod + for loop would make for the quickest and easiest code. Why make something complex when there is no requirement to do such a thing? This could be a process that runs on its own machine in the middle of the night where those 'wasted' cpu cycles wouldn't matter...

Cause the bailout probably saved my job, otherwise I'd be penniless and jobless...

Spammers already try to use it... they get banned pretty fast...

There jvm is bug filled and error prone... and maybe they feel that websphere is threatened by glassfish?

And the ability to have the specs first and have websphere always being the first app server to apply all the new specs coming out can be a boon to marketshare, especially up against JBoss that is eating into websphere, heavily...

When we got my son a DS for christmas, it was the first game I purchased for him to play... yes there is a DS port to the game, and its just like the original (and, yes, he loves it).

1. Teacher
2. Game Designer
3. Chef
4. Carpenter/General Contractor
5. Professional Athlete (completely unpractical with my age and build, but wth, you said impractical was ok)

If you lump catholicism and all the variations of protestant together as one "Christianity", I think you'll find atheism still isn't close. Yeah, it may get bigger than the protestant sects, but won't get bigger than christianity (or just protestantism, if you ask me) anytime soon.

I've been lucky enough to visit Fl during launches twice. You can be as far away as daytona and still see the launch well... totally worth it to go see it :D

Hmmm... weird. I assume you're talking about this:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6202552/index.html ... which is very odd, because in the screenshots, I can indeed see the fence on the 360 one. I can't see it on the PS3 though.

Raw Power

Sorry, but I prefer my power cooked, thanks.

As in, I prefer it to actually be usable. And not to have to use half of it to make up for a lousy GPU.

On the PS3, the Cell (SPUs) are mostly used for:

• Audio decoding, output & mixing
• Vertex culling to reduce the load on the woefully underpowered and bandwidth limited GPU
• Shader patching, again to reduce load on the woefully underpowered and bandwidth limited GPU

Sure, it occasionally does other things, but all of the above are things that the 360 has dedicated hardware to do. Your Cell processor? It's not doing what you think it should be.