There are only very few mass produced consumer products that can lay claim to being true works of art, and Disney's two new entries to the Blu-ray arena, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, may represent the best that high-definition discs today can offer, and as such can be said to have crossed the line into true art.
The care...
I was watching Triumph of the Nerds earlier today because of my renewed interest in computer history after me and my wife visited the Museum of Computing History in California after JavaOne 2007.
One of the more interesting segments dwelt on the paranoia of Bill Gates, and about how he could never get it out of his head that the next "Microsoft" might arise at any time and eclipse the real...
The current Java.net poll asks people what was the most important announcement from the JavaOne 2007 general sessions, and the runaway winner of the poll seems to be the hints that Sun intends to introduce a Fast-loading "Consumer JRE". Now, wouldn't it be funny if this is based on Java ME's CDC?
As Sun's Hinkmond Wong notes, Java ME's CDC is:
....nicely slimmed down to about 4.6MB, well-...
Before I lay me down to sleep, here are some of the top items I thought were discussed in the Java Entertainment sessions (Blu-ray's BD-J and OCAP/cable Java):
OCAP development (developing Xlet apps for cable) is just as interesting as Blu-ray BD-J
development, albeit perhaps less "glamorous", but probably more lucrative in the
short-term.
If you can develop BD-J apps, then it is but a...
Contrary to what server-side jockeys would have you perceive, or what Swing and SWT proponents would like to believe, the action at JavaOne is most furious in those fields that value the small and simple.
I'll be flying in on Wednesday and will be attending the TV Track, which features sessions and talks on Blu-ray (BD-Java) and Java on Cable, but for those with an itch to switch to the...
Letting your Java app monitor your HOT
playstation 3 and even your beloved plants is easy to do when you have
alert midlets to shepherd the way. By passing the information to a hosted
Java EE webapp, anyone can remotely monitor the PS3 and plants from
anywhere using a browser.
Click here
to view some dynamically updated graphs showing...
