Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java Conference 2011 (Oct 15th in Hyderabad) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:16:57 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <009caac3-4d65-4385-b53b-bedc72e7b890@v26g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8242 On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:34:34 -0700 (PDT), vinod kumar wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I believe it is worth attending as there are interesting topics. (See >the Sessions below). I remember going to Java One, hearing Gosling, meeting Peter van der Linden, and talking to hundreds of people. Sun also provided banks of Solaris machines which was like eating Ben & Gerry ice cream. They also had JavaOS machines which were not ready for prime time, and which were discontinued. The hit of the conference were Java Rings, a ring with a tiny Java chip on board that remembered how you liked your coffee. I also went to two Colorado Summits, one when I got to ask questions of Bill Joy, one of the high points of my existence. It was so fun to rub shoulders with people from all over the globe, especially the wild and crazy Australians. You can collect brochures more easily on the net, but nothing beats face to face questioning with the people who created the various products. I hope your conference goes well. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It should not be considered an error when the user starts something already started or stops something already stopped. This applies to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone, e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.