Super Soft Cafe

How could the suffering of so many mean so little.

There is so much hate in this world. All the time people hurting each other for no better reason than self pitty or hate. We are constantly bombarded with negativity from the press, boosting our negative views of the world and contemptuous opinions of others….    Where is the good!!..

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Quite some time ago Sun decided that Java needed a new IO architecture, and so NIO was born. You can use Java and be safely ignorant of NIO for most purposes, until you come to high performance servers, fast copy operations, etc…  Anywhere where speed is of the essence.

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I have re-released PASM (Portable ASeMbler). It’s an architecture neutral API for runtime code generation that is usefull for applications that require JIT. It’s 10 years old this August, so perhaps I’ll arange some sort of birthday. I don’t have much time to play with it these days, unless somebody wants to pay me.

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You remember seeing robots on TV. Not the SCI-FI ones, I mean the real ones, the ones that keep popping up in documentaries about the future. They are rubbish aren’t they!

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Oh you can’t image how much I love the idea of real time raytracing. From the moment when I first heard about this kid that linked up a network of machines and played quake ray-traced, I thought that this was where it is at. This is the future of graphics.

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