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There was a young lady from Thrace who's corset would no longer lace. Her mother said "Nelly, there's more in your belly than ever went in through your face." Hmm, perhaps I should stick to quoting Chinese philosophy :blink:

This may cause a revolution in the PC industry. I predicted back in 2000 that the version of Windows after XP would be the last with a monopoly, it's looking like that may well be the case although I expected it to happen in 2005ish rather than 2009. Damn Microsoft and their eternally slipping...

No issue, I was playing a game of on-topic-slashdot-meme-fusion B)

1. Pre-order a Pandora 2. ... 3. Profit! 4. Pay for sex change op 5. +1 Kidding, I have no wish to become a transexual.

Thanks Eniko, I now understand your reservations in regard to serialization. All the problems you have mentioned can be worked around within a serialization library but I agree that the default serialization functions in the languages I am familiar with are pretty simple and don't handle details...

This is where I GP2X... Or were you talking about where I browse these boards?

Eniko: Why do all that when you could just serialize the map array? I'm not particularly familiar with Java, is there some problem with serialization?

As billykater said, serialization is your friend. You may also want to look at a 3rd party library for your project if the particulars of your CS assignment permit it. This one is designed for games such as you describe (free as in beer, I don't think it's open source) and is pretty simple to...

Funnily enough, with all the surveillance and tracking in the UK I was planning to use wifi to browse anonymously and to post politically sensitive comments.

From the Tao Te Ching, verse 61... QUOTE When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea all streams run downward into it. The more powerful it grows, the greater the need for humility. Humility means trusting the Tao, thus never needing to be defensive. A great nation is like a...

I'm in the same boat, but I'll wait a week or 2 until the team are done with the reordering thing. I imagine they are a bit busy ATM.