If you didn’t see it, RedHat announced earlier this week that their completely Open Source Java implementation (IcedTea) had finally passed the Java Test Compatability Kit (TCK).
While most folks rejoiced, I think there were a fair number of us that sighed and thought: Goddamnit, here’s the beginning of the Java fragmentation.
Or if that not, were at least sufficiently annoyed at two such large significant and completely parallel efforts. Well I suppose Linux did this for 20 years and look at the incredible market-share that has given it for a billion-times the man-hours of development that has gone into Linux distro-dev across the board compared to Windows or Mac.
Today we get the news that Sun is right around the corner with releasing their own completely free Java implementation (after Open Sourcing or replacing encumbered code). Now that is actually good news, but I have to imagine that RedHat’s announcement pushed that schedu...
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Musion Systems - 3D Holographic Project / ConferencingFrom: breakitdownblog.com
Post Date: 2008-06-01 09:17:59
Musion is set to revolutionize porn… and maybe a few business meetings a long the way. At Cisco’s Globalization Centre East in Bangalore, India Musion showed off a collaborative technology they developed with Cisco in the form of 3D Holographic Projection technology.
Consider the following screenshot from the presentation:
The two guys on the right are actually projections of people from around the world in a separate location. It wasn’t clear from t...
more Crysis Extreme Physics - 5000 Exploding CarsFrom: breakitdownblog.com
Post Date: 2008-06-01 09:15:27
If you dig those crazy-physics movies that people create with game engines like Crysis where 10k barrels will explode or 5k watermelons will careen down a mountain (in Oblivion) then you’ll dig this… some guy blowing up 5k cars in Crysis… really looks brilliant:
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more eBay - Sellers Cannot Give Buyer FeedbackFrom: breakitdownblog.com
Post Date: 2008-05-30 05:51:25
I saw this today when I was directed to the feedback page to leave feedback on the seller that I just bought a Herman Miller Aeron from (great experience). At first it caught me off guard, my gut reaction being something like “Feedback has been limited?! WHAT?!”
but then I thought about it, and remembered a few other Aeron auctions I had seen where the poster of the auction had actually had the (IMO) audacity to add something equivalent to:
All auctions are fi...
more GNOME File Manager Gets Tabbed Browsing and Column View SupportFrom: breakitdownblog.com
Post Date: 2008-05-30 05:51:18
For GNOME fans out there that love the UI polish but are less than happy about the lack of tabbed browser in the file manager and sometimes obsessive use of the “spatial” paradigm, rejoice!
It looks like GNOME developer Christian Neumair has been working on adding tabbed browsing to Nautilus (the GNOME file manager); which ended up being a harrier job than most thought, requiring significant changes to Nautilus.
While the work has come a long way and is nearing ...
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