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Comment Re:Alright! (Score 1) 330

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.

Comment Re:Alright! (Score 1) 330

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.

Comment .. and customize the layout if you need it (Score 1) 310

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.

Comment Fujitsu Siemens KBPC E (Score 1) 310

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

Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1348

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." ;-)

Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1348

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.

Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1348

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

Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1348

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.

Comment Games (Score 3, Interesting) 1348

All I need is games.

I need nothing, absolutly nothing exception playable games.
WINE doesn't cut it, and I don't think that it ever will, I try it out regulary and it just sucks for the games I play.

Since 2004 I have been dual-booting between Ubuntu, where I do all serious and not so serious stuff, and Windows where I keep my FPS addiction alive (currently MW2)

Google

Submission + - Oracle sues Google over Android with Java patents (blogspot.com) 1

FlorianMueller writes: Oracle announced a patent infringement suit against Google, claiming that Android infringes seven Java patents. Oracle also says there is copyright infringement (without specifying). This patent attack raises serious questions. Is Java now less open than C#? Did Oracle try to reach an agreement with Google on a license deal or is Oracle pursuing purely destructive objectives? What is the Open Invention Network good for if one licensee (Oracle) can sue another (Google) over patents in a Linux context? What do the open source advocates who supported Oracle's takeover of Sun say now?
Google

Submission + - Oracle Sues Google Over Android Java Use

An anonymous reader writes: The Android operating system uses Java both in its software development kit and a Java-like virtual machine, called Dalvik, in the runtime environment. It is both the SDK and Dalvik that Sun targeted with its suit, claiming that they infringed Sun's patents. Sun also claims that Google has infringed its trademarks, including code and documentation.

Ironically, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was formerly chief technical officer at Sun, where has credited with helping lead the development of the Java programming language. He even receives a credit in the Java specification itself for "technical assistance and advice".

AND the thing we all wonder about:

  "Sun released their 'free java' source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community," Mazzocchi wrote. "For the java standard edition (aka 'the cat is out of the bag') there is an exception to the GPLv2 that makes it "reciprocal" only for the Java platform code itself but not for the user code running on it (or most people wouldn't even dare touching it with a pole).

"But such exception to the GPLv2 is not there for the mobile edition (aka 'where the money is')," Mazzocchi added.

"This brilliant move allows Sun to play 'free software paladin' on one hand and still enjoy complete control of the licensing and income creation for the Java ME platform on mobile and embedded devices on the other (because cell phone makers would rather pay than being forced to release all their code that runs on the phone under the GPLv2 or, in many cases, they can't even if they wanted to as they don't own the entire software stack)," Mazzocchi concluded.

Dear Slashdotters, Did Google anticipate that and base their Java implementation on the GPLed version?

Comment Scala (Score 1) 276

The java language isn't that important to develop any further.
It is the platform that matters and the platform will live on long after java the language goes into decline.

Currently the successor to java looks to be Scala.
http://www.scala-lang.org/

Scala compiles to java byte code, so standard java libraries will work just fine.
It is type safe (unlike ruby and groovy)
It performs about the same as java code

If you are a java developer, I will highly recommend getting "Programming Scala"

Comment Re:But... it's a Treyarch game. (Score 1) 69

I liked World of War a lot better than Modern Warfare 2.
The sole reason for that is that I find 48 people in a game much more fun than 12 people.

It's a battle rather than a skirmish.

Also World of war had free map packs, rather than the 14€ MW2 ones.

I look forward to Black ops. I wouldn't have bought the game if it was like MW2.

Comment Refactoring (Score 3, Interesting) 168

I have actually been thinking about this.

Just like Computer Science got Design Patterns from architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander)

Lawmakes should take the concept of refactoring from computer science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring)

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