Zwets - Slashdot User

Comment Re:perhaps, but if not flash, Silverlight'll do it (Score 1) 181

by Zwets on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:26AM (#29678059) Attached to: Decoding Adobe's Big Device Push

Or does Google use some kind of 'compiled to machine code' Java variant?

Aren't most Java VMs nowadays JIT compilers? I don't know if the version(s) for Android devices do JIT, but if so, the answer to your question is yes.

A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas 188

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday December 05, 2008 @05:52PM from the good-vintage-year-for-browsers dept.

Harry writes "I can't remember another time when there were so many Web browsers in prerelease form — 2009 should be a really, really good year for final browser versions. I have posted a quick recap of the state of the upcoming versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari." It is nice to see a healthy market of competition driving innovation in a market that has been largely stagnant in recent history. What do other folks see on the scorecard?

Submission + - id Shows Rage and id tech 5 Engine At Quakecon (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:21PM

MojoKid writes: "During closed-door briefings at QuakeCon this past weekend, id revealed some details regarding their upcoming game, Rage. The game is in simultaneous development for the PC, PS3, Xbox360 and Macintosh, and uses the 'id tech 5' engine which employs a second generation version of id's Megatexture technology. As you can see in the trailer and screenshots available here, Rage will involve a combination of shooting and driving, and the visuals are nothing short of amazing. Unfortunately, id hasn't given a solid release date, saying only that the game will ship when it is done."

Submission + - a spell checker in 21 lines of python

Submitted by dorren on Thursday April 12, 2007 @02:54AM

dorren writes: Peter Norvig has posted a 21 lines spell checker http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html on his homepage. Because most spelling errors are only 1 or 2 letters off, so using Bayes' Theorem can match the most probable word really fast.

Submission + - Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 84, dies

Submitted by

SPK

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @02:06AM

SPK writes: "The NY Times, CNN, and other news sources are reporting that Kurt Vonnegut Jr, 84, died Wednesday. According to the NY Times: "Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' 'Cat's Cradle' and 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan [...] Mr. Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago, according to his wife, Jill Krementz." He will be remembered not only as a great writer, but also as a staunch civil libertarian (long-term member of the ACLU) and as a "mainstream/literary" author who integrated science fiction concepts into his writing. So it goes."

Submission + - Design Patterns In VB.NET School

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @02:05AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Using design patterns can lead to better designed and implemented object oriented programs. They can also help make code more understandable. The Programmer's Heaven design patterns school covers each design pattern, complete with explanations and code examples in VB.NET. It also looks at the approach taken by the creators of design patters and the motivation for using them in your own development."

Slashdot Top Deals