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Submission + - iPhone hacked to run Java 2

Submitted by LarsWestergren on Thursday November 22, 2007 @12:50PM

LarsWestergren writes: The project to get Java to run on the iPhone has had a breakthrough — Mark Wielaard has posted the first screenshots of the open source JamVM running on a jail-broken iPhone.

Submission + - Transition from Academia to Industry 2

Submitted by Pseudonymous on Thursday November 08, 2007 @05:25PM

Pseudonymous writes: I am an assistant professor in a computer science department wanting to go into industry (not out of choice but necessity). Over the past pretenure years, I have worked on pretty theoretical problems, involving algorithms and complexity so I think I am unprepared or unskilled to join the software industry. I have of course taught the basic courses in C and Java (which unfortunately does not mean that I know enough to jump into a huge software project). So how do I go from a theoretician to someone that industry might value ? What skills should I aim to develop before I put myself out there ?

Submission + - Announcing jMonkeyEngine version 1.0!

Submitted by Moondevil on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @05:05AM

Moondevil writes: After more than four years of hard work and many point releases, the developers behind the jMonkeyEngine are proud to announce the release of version 1.0 of their Java game engine. The jMonkeyEngine is a high performance game library providing all the tools needed to build quality 3D games and applications in Java. Used by professional game companies such as NCsoft, Three Rings, Jadestone and others as well as government and hobbyist developers, the jMonkeyEngine has raised the bar for quality Java-based 3D entertainment.

Learn more about the jMonkeyEngine and get involved today at its website.

I am transcribing the announcement made at their website.

Submission + - Java 6 and Leopard 3

Submitted by

nyri

on Sunday October 21, 2007 @10:49AM

nyri writes: "As a professional Java coder and consultant, I switched to OS X two years ago. I felt that my Java stuff works on it. After release on Java 6, I have felt otherwise: there is no OS X release. I assumed that Leopard would have Java 6 but I haven't seen a trace of it. I am seriously considering moving back to Windows (Linux, alas, is not an option for me in my corporate enviroment).
Has Apple, for some reason, decided that Java support does not pay off? Is this just a delay or has Apple decided to abandon Java support for good? Maybe you fellow slashdotters can give some answers to these questions.
All in all, other Java coders out there, how long are willing to put up with this kind of blatant ignorance of your needs? Or, do you have some nice technical solutions to this, which I am not-so-blissfully ignorant about?"

Submission + - Chinchilla Scaffold for Java Server Side Testing

Submitted by Adi Lane on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @12:41AM

Adi Lane writes: Now you can solve the problem of full content rebuilding and redeployment between the server and client for every minor modification with IBM Server Side Testing Scaffold for Java. It makes Java server side testing more agile by decoupling test logic and test contents using a generalized, dynamic proxy generation strategy.

Submission + - Is Java ready for Safety Critical Applications? (javolution.org) 4

Submitted by

dautelle

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @10:26PM

dautelle writes: "Last week, I was invited at the Space 2007 conference to introduce Javolution (open source Java library) to rocket scientists. Here is the paper presented. This might seem like good news for the Java platform. But is Java ready for use in safety critical applications? Or in other words would you trust your life to a Java program?"

Submission + - Adobe dumps HD-DVD for Blu-Ray

Submitted by

Miti

on Monday September 24, 2007 @05:28AM

Miti writes: "The media wars have taken a sharp turn as Adobe's latest software Premiere Elements package; version 6 will only support export options for Blu-ray rather than HD DVD. Adobe spokesman says that he is not sure why the company wont support the next gen format. However industry sources say that Adobe has cracked under pressure from Sony a close partner who ships all its Vaio PC's with Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements."

Submission + - OLPC News: OLPC Give 1 Get 1 Program: XO-1 Laptop (olpcnews.com)

Submitted by

wayan

on Sunday September 23, 2007 @09:09PM

wayan writes: "Oh My God! The event every geek has dreamed about for the last year is now here: OLPC XO laptop sales will start November 12th with promised delivery by Christmas in a Buy 1 Get 1 program from OLPC. $399 buys a XO laptop for you and one for a child in the developing world — Nicholas Negroponte's way to keep OLPC demand going when he's not getting government orders to fill Quanta's production line."

Submission + - Status report from the free games community

Submitted by

qubodup

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @05:50AM

qubodup writes: " Free Gamer , the leading blog when it comes to open source gaming, has recently become the center of open source artists, developers and gamers. In it's forums, the GPU-hungry Classical Java RPG and the Neverball-killer irrlamb have found their second home. So did sub-communities like extremist free gamers, who insist on games not only be free software but also to contain free content and want to build a knowledge base of existing free games, and free content artists, which address an old problem of open source games and want to supply graphics and sound for projects in need of game media."

Submission + - "Solar rainstorm" filled the first oceans (arxivblog.com) 1

Submitted by

KentuckyFC

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @05:39AM

KentuckyFC writes: "The origin of the oceans is a major mystery for planetary geologists. Now a new analysis by Japanese scientists indicates that the most likely source of water is the cloud of dust and gas from which the solar system formed, the so-called solar nebula. That means the oceans were filled when the Earth passed through a cloud of water causing a "solar rainstorm" of fantastic proportions"

Submission + - Free software made mandatory in Indian State (newindpress.com)

Submitted by

Praveen Arimbrathodiyil

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @04:11AM

Praveen Arimbrathodiyil writes: "The Free Software movement in Kerala got another boost when Free Software is made compulsory for practical exams in all Schools in the state. The Director of Public Instruction (DPI) has issued orders making free software compulsory. It says Linux Operating System should be used for IT education in eighth, ninth and tenth standards. Schools already have a choice to select Free Software (GNU/Linux) based platform or Microsoft based platform. Full Story"

Submission + - USB 3 optical connection in 2008-10 times as fast

Submitted by psychicsword on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @10:14PM

psychicsword writes: "Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires."
"The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second."
This should make USB hard drives easier and faster to use. The article can be seen here http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780794-7.html

Journal Journal: Arbor Networks Declares Botnets Most Serious Internet Threat 2

Journal by twitter on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @09:53PM

An Arbor Networks survey of 70 tier-1 and tier-2 service providers' customers, concludes botnets have become the biggest threat to internet infrastructure.

Submission + - Netbeans Wins Bossie for Best Open Source IDE

Submitted by theshowmecanuck on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @08:21PM

theshowmecanuck writes: According to the Info World Bossie Awards, Netbeans is the best open source IDE this year, eclipsing Eclipse.

In the open source IDE sector, the Eclipse-NetBeans rivalry was won long ago by Eclipse if all you count is market share. However, on innovation, things are not so clear. ... Eclipse has adopted a model of a platform, rather than an IDE... The result has been an IDE that is first to market with many products but that has an undeniably heavy feel. The Web is rife with articles by users, even advanced users, flummoxed by their inability to add, modify, or remove plug-ins.

By contrast, NetBeans has hewn closely to the vision of a lightweight, responsive, and easily configurable IDE. It works to provide top-of-the-line plug-ins (its Matisse GUI designer, performance profiler, and online collaboration tools are category leaders) and to integrate them seamlessly into the IDE. This year, NetBeans had the courage to completely redesign the code-editing experience to emulate the most user-friendly editor available for Java (IntelliJ) — resulting in a greatly improved user experience. For its commitment to quality over quantity and for the courage to rip and replace modules to improve developer productivity, we salute the NetBeans team and its stellar IDE. NetBeans wins the Bossie.

Submission + - Microsoft loses EU Anti-trust case (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has lost in its EU anti-trust case.

The European Court of First Instance has dismissed Microsoft's appeal in its long-running competition dispute with the European Commission.
The court upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
It was ordered to change its business and fined 497m euros (£343m; $690m).
Microsoft has now been ordered to pay 80% of the Commission's legal costs, while the Commission has to carry a specific part of Microsoft's costs.

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