I've never had any problem getting the live timing applet to work on my Mac, even with Lion.
The flip side of course is that it doesn't work on Android, and Bernie god bless his gold-plated cotton socks discontinued the free live timing app this year to allow SoftPauer, who presumably are paying a hefty premium, to be the sole official provider of live timing on all mobile platforms. Unfortunate then that they try to charge £20 for a season... their free app has hugely negative feedback because it isn't as much a free app as an advert for the paid app, and we don't like the price. I'd kill to do some work in F1. I've heard McLaren use Java a fair bit, and I came close to getting involved in ECU programming relating to the development of prototypes for the 2014 engines a year or so back, but that particular fish got away, more's the pity. On Apr 22, 4:32 pm, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:54:03 +0200, Phil <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > As a big F1 fan I should have dropped this one in sooner - F1.com uses > > Java for their live timing application. They originally dud this > > primarily, I think, because it made it difficult to harvest the data. > > Hmm... I disagree. It perhaps makes it harder than a JS stuff which could > be cracked by 1,000,000 of teenagers; in any case anything like that even > in Java is crackable by probably tens of thousands of teenagers. The end > result is that somebody cracks it anyway, so I wouldn't waste time picking > a technology only because a just smaller crowd can hack it. > > Unfortunately I was involved with F1 only a couple of years ago when Java > was starting to make its way into telemetry and I don't know anything > since 2007 - and I admit I've never looked at the recent F1.com live > timing application and didn't think that it could be Java - but I suppose > this environment is one of those where Java delivers a better solution > even on the client. > > BTW, LOL:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2796553?start=0&tstart=0 > > > However I'm now seeing alternative Live Timing applications in the > > Google Play app store where people have reverse engineered the data > > stream. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > [email protected]http://tidalwave.it-http://fabriziogiudici.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
