Archive: September 14, 2002
God bless him, Christopher Reeve is recovering a bunch. He can move his arms in a pool, push off the wall in a pool, breathe on his own a little - he has some sensation back... yay!
You know, Java as a language is wholly uninteresting. However, its class libraries are very interesting. Java's IO in particular, along with its Collections, things like Comparable, Serializable, Runnable, etc. seem pretty well done.
For instance, check out the introduction to Java's Collection inteface, and their I/O tutorial.
Over at LGF, a great comment on Bush's speech to the UN:
Bravo to George Bush. He is my hero.
As a Canadian, I find myself constantly defending this man to my liberal-left intellgentsia friends; all of whom believe that Bush is on par with Jethro Bodine in the brains department.
Well guess who is gloating now? I have always maintained that a good leader is one who recognizes his or her own shortcomings and then has the intelligence and foresight to surround himself with people who can make up for these shortcomings. As Kayrena Baby # 4 has already pointed out, Bush has clearly surrounded himself with such people. He doesn't make rash moves and when he does move, it appears, to me anyway, to be a carefully planned and executed. Our own imbecile of a Prime Minister could take a lesson from George Bush on how to think before you speak. But then again, one has to have a brain to start with, instead of a random collection of primeval ganglia.
Bush's latest speech to the UN was a coup d'etat. If you'll pardon my French, it was F***ing brilliant. He essentially called the mulitlateralists bluff. "Ok, lads, you want consensus on dealing with Iraq, how about we start off with enforcing the terms and conditions imposed on Iraq by UN security council over the past ten years?" "How about you start enforcing them instead of just talking about it?".
Via use Perl, Perl 6: Right Here, Right Now. Not too much there, but it's interesting to see how far along they are.
How much would you want to bet that when Parrot is released (assuming someone writes a Java compiler) that it can run Java faster than the JavaVM can?
Gasp! The Unreal Tournament 2003 demo has been released! Here's the official site - get your download on.
I barely meet the minimum system requirements. We'll see how well I can run this thing.
Thanks Matt!
Lots more at Slashdot.
First impressions:
- It's a lot less "cartoony" - much more "realistic" looking. In fact, in many many things in the game it's a lot more like Quake 3 than it is the old Unreal Tournament. The physics is even much closer to Quake 3 than it is to Unreal Tournament.
- Lots of weapon tweaks
- Flak cannon has much narrower primary shot, and the secondary shot doesn't go nearly as far
- The rocket launcher has lost its ability to save up a bunch of "capsules" and shoot them out. Instead, the primary shot is just an automatic, one rocket at a time shooter, while the secondary shot can save up up to 3 (not 5) rockets at a time.
- The weapon you start with has this capsule ability though, but it can only shoot one at a time, yet it lets you hold down the button and save up - but I don't know what it's saving up to.
- The biosludge weapon shoots more slowly and looks crappier
- The sniper rifle is gone and instead there's this funky lightning gun. You can still do headshots though.
- There's this adrenaline stuff and I don't know what it is.
- Double jump is awesome
The master server seems to be down (if it was even up yet) so I've only been able to play the two maps that come with it.
Basically, I have to get used to UT2003. I'm not sure I like it better than the old UT yet.
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