Friday May 27, 2005
Here's a story from the Pentagon which is using new technology to connect soldiers and weapons together in a single combat network. See: Java technology lifts the fog of war Here's a quote: The digital radios will be based in every element of FCS, from soldiers to fighter jets, transferring voice, data and video between man and machine. ... Version 1.0 had its share of bugs, and elements of the Java and C++ software used had pass rates of 69 percent and 67 percent, respectively, according to the Army's qualification test. Muilenburg said most of the problems have been corrected.Well, at least Java scored 2 points higher than C++. :-} Shhh... Usually, 69 is a failing score, but we won't tell the Pentagon that. ;-) This is the Army's qualification test anyway, so they probably have a different scale. Hopefully it was graded on a bell curve--then, actually we kicked butt! :-) Hope they used J2ME technology. |
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Gosub 60 has Solitaire card games for Java ME cell phones, but boy those graphics are cluttered and microscropic! See: Gosub 60 itty bitty Solitaire for Java ME They talk about their "Easy to Read" cards for playing on your cell phone. Ha! I'm no young chippy, but still I'd have to break out the Edmund Scientific zoom stereomicroscope to see these graphics properly. I guess I'll have to wait for VGA resolutions to finally shrink down to cell phone technology... or, for future add-on heads-up/virtual reality goggle displays attached to your screen. :-) |
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