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Comment Next up is design (Score 1) 293

by beef3k (#31219910) Attached to: After Learning Java Syntax, What Next?
I could probably come up with 50 book recommendations for you, but to keep things simple:
  • Get a better feeling for OO design. I'd suggest "Head First Design Patterns"
  • As many others have suggested, grab a copy of "Effective Java, 2nd ed". Read a few items now and then, it'll improve your understanding of the language tremendously.

As you read these books, come up with a hobby project where you actually implement something.

Comment Re:And not even that imaginative. (Score 1) 421

by beef3k (#30641960) Attached to: You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020

Jacobson proposes that content — such as a movie, a document or an e-mail message — would receive a structured name that users can search for and retrieve. The data has a name, but not a location, so that end users can find the nearest copy.

There's a name for that "name" -- a URI.

Actually that sounds more like a .torrent file to me (no specific location for the data). In any case, I fully agree with your sentiments - this is a vision of the future based on a lack of understanding of the present technology. Good luck to the "scientists" with getting "rid" of DNS/IP/what have you in 11 years - it's been 11 years since IPv6 was standardized and we're still a long way off from having that in place.

Comment Zero availability (Score 1) 216

by beef3k (#28874473) Attached to: Tetraktys
Well, definitely sounds interesting but there's nowhere to buy this thing it seems. Amazon's stock is depleted and I can't find it anywhere else...
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Submission + - Google anounces Chrome OS 1

Submitted by MasterOfGoingFaster
MasterOfGoingFaster writes: And so it begins... Google announces a new OS based on their Chrome browser. Aimed at netbooks, Google aims to have the OS boot and have you on the net in "seconds". This will be an open source product, shipping with netbooks in 2010. Can you hear the blood vessels popping in Redmond?

"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

Comment No transcoding if natively supported on console (Score 4, Informative) 121

by beef3k (#27727337) Attached to: Windows 7 Streams Media To the Xbox 360 and PS3 Seamlessly
I stream video and audio content to my PS3 via TVersity (and MediaTomb on a linux box) all the time. There's never any transcoding involved for files that the PS3 natively supports. How exactly is a Windows 7 machine supposed to serve alien formats to a PS3? The ones "tested" in the article are all natively supported. There's no way for the PS3 to play back content in formats it doesn't support unless the host computer transcodes the media.

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