lazlo at jay dot net

thanks mate

They should recall it and ship it when it is done ...

From what I have read BF3 will be micro payment hell, where you have to pay real money to get each and every weapon upgrade.
Call of duty 3 looks like it will have a monthly fee to play online without a handicap.

Finally a chance to kick my FPS addiction?

I hope that google will pick up Scala soon as a first level language at google.
Scala is just so damn cool and useful.

I never get any modpoints any more, but if I had I'd mod you up.

For a personal app, the time and effort it takes to get it done also counts and here Swing and Java2D are well thought out.

Another hint.
Last I tried any drawing in java was 5 years ago.
I found it easy to set up a look that kept redrawing my canvas every 500ms.
I then ran the program through the debugger in eclipse, and I could see the image change as I changed the code, due to javas hot code replace.

Now a days I wouldn't write java code in my spare time.
Scala is more entertaining, and Scala also takes the pain out of Swing applications.
Take a look at this spreadsheet demo application:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/OTS/Sisalto/examples/html/ch33.html

Example is from Programming Scala. Best programming book I have read in years.
http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala

I am just pointing out that they have a comparison page which includes Scala, and makes it look like Scala has less useful features than Gosu.

If they put up a page like that it looks to me like they ARE trying to sell something, despite GP assurances otherwise.

Fine then. Convince me (and the rest of the world) that Gosu is better than Scala.

I read your comparison, but it begs the question. Which features from Scala did you leave out?
Pattern matching, mixins and co/contravariance generics comes to mind.

I am from Denmark and thus need three keys to type our three extra vowels.
The national danish keyboard layouts has gone around that by moving the [ ] ; keys to wierd Alt Gr positions.
That works well for most people, but if you are a java programmer you need your curly braces and your semicolons.

I fixed that by getting the US version of the keyboard. I then downloaded this program:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx

And modified my layout so I was able to make the danish vowels Æ, Ø, Å in way that uses caps lock as an modifier.

I also liked the MS keyboards. But I got a sore arm from reaching out to far to the right to reach my mouse.

I opted to get rid of the numeric keypad and after a long search I found the Fujitsu Siemens KBPC E.
It looks kinda wierd, but it has good keys and you can keep the mouse closer at hand.

http://uk.shopping.com/Fujitsu-Siemens-KBPC-E-S26381-K261-L165/info

Good luck with selling that point to all the games that wants to buy the latest blockbusters along with their friends.

But IF you get the world to accept your argument, I just happen to have the blueprints for the 1985 Yugo.
I am sure that you would be an excellent salesman. "We have an excellent collection of cars. You just have to be able to look past the newer models. Yes, you just have to adjust your expectations a bit." ;-)

I am now guilty of the same crime as the other helpful guys in this thread.
I whined that MW2 doesn't really work on Wine, and got prompt replies that Team Fortress 2, Starcraft 2 and Quake 3 runs just fine.

And you get this in all "Linux sucks" threads. Really infuriating imho.

Hope you can accept my apology.

Actually Photoshop is platinium rated at winhq:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1336

But you might need to pull a few geek tricks to get it installed ..

I changed the font, but I can't change the fact that my first language isn't english.

But rest assured that I'll ready to correct you, should you ever attempt to write a sentence in danish :-P

Ok, so it was about half a year ago I last tried WINE.
At that time (I think it was wine 1.2rc1) was able to run MW2, which is pretty amazing, if you think of all the work that takes.
The bad news is that it was like 10 fps in 800x600, low quality vs. fluent in 1600x1200 high quality.
I might have improved, I am sure it has, but now it is too late.

November 9., Black Ops will be available and I am sure that THAT won't work for another 1/2-1 year.

I am not saying that wine is bad or that they are doing a bad job.
They are doing an amazing job.

It's just mission impossible, since they are trying to hit a moving target.