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So what was the 3G service advertised about 3 years ago when I eagerly raced out to buy one of the new phones for 250 bucks? I think Sprint (and others) jumped the gun somewhat, as that service (later known as 2.5G) only reached averages of around 120kbps.
Nice to know though that wireless broadband is finally a reality.
Ken Arnold writing in his blog on java.net thinks so. Ken believes that the benefits added to the language are not justified for the added complexity.
I must admit having read through some of the tutorials, at face value the concepts do not seem that complicated, but Ken has some examples on his site of some situations that seem pretty complicated to wrap your head around.
Sun are to release a coffee table book written by James Gosling that oulines and describes the history of Java, over the past 10 years. The book will be released in Sept 2005.
Last week, game studio Bizarre Creations released a couple of screenshots of their work in progress, Project Gotham Racing 3 for the upcoming XBox 360, and the press dismissed the images as actual screen shots, because they looked too real.
This week on their site Bizarre Creations have released a couple more in game screenshots, and confirmed that these pictures of New York buildings are real and are in game graphics. And to tell you the truth, they do look so real that I think we are truely in for a treat when the new next gen consoles (PS3 and XBox360) hit the streets.