OOP, Java generics and TVs from Hell
So, I had the pleasure to attend the OOP 2004 conference. As the name well points out it was a conference dealing mostly with Object oriented Programming issues.
I must say that due to reasons out of my control I was only able to attend three days, but by the third day my processor was overheating due to a stack overload, namely >oop->java->german->english->spanish->propietary brain language>
But, what do you do when your brain feels like a reheated overclocked CPU? Of course, attend a Java Generics Talk. Let me start by saying that templates in C++ were one of the reasons why I began to curse the language, but the really bad news is that the way that in which they will be implemented in Java really really sucks. I am not going to discuss it in detail but if you want to discuss it, look at the spec and then write me an email.
The really interesting thing comes here, when I woke up I turned the TV on to see the weather forecast and what do I see? A guy that looks exactly like Guy Ecker!!! And speaking in German!!!
For those of you too young to remember, or with no tv and no social contact (which is hard to believe, because the whole fucking country saw that telenovela best known as Cafe, Aroma de Mujer) , Guy Ecker played Sebastian Vallejo. So half awake I say to myself: "Well, the guy was kind of German, and actually they kinda look all the same, so why am I surprised?", but the more I look at the stupid program, the more it comes apparent that it takes place in one of those southamerican countries were the tv people look all suspiciously european, and even the most humble maid looks like a supermodel, so I thought .... hmmm, maybe a vene-novela?
However after some of the characters threatened to leave "Mexico City" to never, ever, ever return, and then the big Salome stamp blinked on the upper right corner for half an hour, it became clear that the damn thing took place in Mexico.
I must admit and confess that I have never seen a single chapter of that in it's original language , but the real funny thing was the effect of the translation. I don't know why everything was so terribly hilarious, I mean, really really really funny, not like my jokes, but really quality entertainment. Really! What I can't wait to see, is a "telenovela colombiana" dubbed in english, the english they speak in england, the one with the british accent (tm). On the minus side, a lot of behaviors of the kind that we so much like to criticise become apparent out of sheer contrast.
Not that German soaps are any better, Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten (GZSZ) , the german "Padres e Hijos", really doesn't stand a chance.
I can't wait to dubb some of it into "Cachaco"(*)!
(*) Spanish from Bogotá.
So, I had the pleasure to attend the OOP 2004 conference. As the name well points out it was a conference dealing mostly with Object oriented Programming issues.
I must say that due to reasons out of my control I was only able to attend three days, but by the third day my processor was overheating due to a stack overload, namely >oop->java->german->english->spanish->propietary brain language>
But, what do you do when your brain feels like a reheated overclocked CPU? Of course, attend a Java Generics Talk. Let me start by saying that templates in C++ were one of the reasons why I began to curse the language, but the really bad news is that the way that in which they will be implemented in Java really really sucks. I am not going to discuss it in detail but if you want to discuss it, look at the spec and then write me an email.
The really interesting thing comes here, when I woke up I turned the TV on to see the weather forecast and what do I see? A guy that looks exactly like Guy Ecker!!! And speaking in German!!!
For those of you too young to remember, or with no tv and no social contact (which is hard to believe, because the whole fucking country saw that telenovela best known as Cafe, Aroma de Mujer) , Guy Ecker played Sebastian Vallejo. So half awake I say to myself: "Well, the guy was kind of German, and actually they kinda look all the same, so why am I surprised?", but the more I look at the stupid program, the more it comes apparent that it takes place in one of those southamerican countries were the tv people look all suspiciously european, and even the most humble maid looks like a supermodel, so I thought .... hmmm, maybe a vene-novela?
However after some of the characters threatened to leave "Mexico City" to never, ever, ever return, and then the big Salome stamp blinked on the upper right corner for half an hour, it became clear that the damn thing took place in Mexico.
I must admit and confess that I have never seen a single chapter of that in it's original language , but the real funny thing was the effect of the translation. I don't know why everything was so terribly hilarious, I mean, really really really funny, not like my jokes, but really quality entertainment. Really! What I can't wait to see, is a "telenovela colombiana" dubbed in english, the english they speak in england, the one with the british accent (tm). On the minus side, a lot of behaviors of the kind that we so much like to criticise become apparent out of sheer contrast.
Not that German soaps are any better, Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten (GZSZ) , the german "Padres e Hijos", really doesn't stand a chance.
I can't wait to dubb some of it into "Cachaco"(*)!
(*) Spanish from Bogotá.
