Google Go?! Really?

The one very strong point that java has is not the language itself but the absolutely massive support structure behind it that encompasses a collaborative library base unmatched by any other language as well as extensive development tools, server software and support software and IDE's too support not only the language but also the most productive and popular libraries.

Replacing the language is trivial at best but replicating the support base the language has and the knowledge associated with it is a completely different matter.

If Java is no longer the no choice ansewer to development, that would actually be a good thing as it would promote and encourage innovation with a language that at this point is definitely showing its age and heritage (not to say that its is a bad language but it certainly has grown some evolutionary quirks).

Yup seriously dude, avoided Doom for all these years and then decides on FLASH Doom! WTF... I think this guy didn't play Doom for all these years because he is a bit mentally deficient. And then... XBox demo... ohhh man.

Then we wrights the review after the first level it seems... please stop... or at the very least stick with reviewing XBox games.

For expressing your opinion:

US SC2 Thread:
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25626109041 (337 posts atm)

US Forums Thread:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1 (4517 posts atm)

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http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816838128 (858 posts atm)

You got to admit, its a killer file system... :P

I find 'fuckadmin01' much more ascetically pleasing :)

Bahhh the 2week expiration policy at work makes me want to kill somebody. So the trick:

fuckyouadmin01
fuckyouadmin02
fuckyouadmin03 ...

Really helps security!

I would only consider Vodafone and T-Mobile as your options, these two have established cell networks, all the others borrow on these networks and as such tend to be at the bottom of the traffic prioritization.

From my experience O2 is absolutely awful for any 3G, they are building up their own network, but if your not in range of one of their cells you can forget it.

As for getting it, I'd wait till your here, you are mandated to provide your passport details to get any SIM card, so they probably can't service you overseas.

As for getting a 3G stick and SIM once your here, just rock on in with your passport and a bunch of cash and you can be setup that day... however as for data plans...

Germany is crazy expensive... so don't expect to do any downloading over it, but you should be able to browse the net and check email 'n stuff.

In addition, as a developer I NEVER want to know root passwords for production systems, as this only means two things, support calls and being on the short list for the which hunt when something enviably goes seriously wrong. There is nothing quite as cover your ass as 'I never had access'.

LOL! Giving developers admin access to production machines is like giving grenades to babies, its only a matter of time.

Ultimately it comes down to a conflict of interest between developers who's interest is to changes things (new features, new version, etc) and admins who's interest is not to change things (SLA's, guaranteed uptime, don't touch a working system).

If this conflict is not properly balanced (dev's with fingers in production, admins controlling the dev environment), you will have problems and usually ends up being a very costly mistake.

Having worked in various mega corps, admin privileges for developers seems to be ubiquitous. It seems ironic that most development tools do not adhere to best practices in this regard.

But I'm not complaining, its nice to have full control of the machine, even if it always comes with the caveat 'you break it, the only support you get is a re-imaging'. At my current company this standoffish behavior has resulted in the developers running whatever OS they desire, much to the chagrin of infrastructure :).

I'd have to disagree, if your running a heavy development shop your going to be doing a lot more work than maintaining a bunch of apps on limited user accounts fully managed by active directory on homogenized hardware.

But yeah...

Don't you mean, vim has so few friends because its so difficulty, the social reject can pretend to be picky, but its just deluding itself :)

We worked with a product who's acronym was JIS (when said, can not be differentiated with jizz, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4 for definition). Everything had the lable JIS in it including the package names, documentation, server names, job titles (JIS Expert was one of them).

It took us about 6 months before we could say JIS expert with a straight face, at which point we inflicted this humor on our clients during boardroom meetings, it was hilarious watching them not trying to crack.

Cause you eat to much fat f*ck!

Body weight management is a basic input/output formula (barring influencing medical conditions). I have no sympathy for the majority of obese people, a little self discipline goes a long way.

Oddly the article does not list exercise duration, but assuming that the 500kcal per session is accurate, these people are eating the equivalent of a small African village, which is hardly surprising.

Seems that the conclusion that this study found is that, getting a bunch of people consisting of mostly fat, make em actually move, generates muscles, weight reduction is not that significant, as they are mostly replacing fat with muscles. Any gym bunny could tell you that...

That ... is ... awesome! Good on you!

It is one of my pet peeves that as a transit passenger (on intentional soil) I am forced to jump though the hosting countries whims. I don't want to visit your country, the only reason I am here is because the plane can't fly direct!