text mode scroller like in the movie "The Matrix"

Main.java

/**
 *
 * Today was on stackoverflow a question about how to convert a C++ source into
 * Java source. The code was implementing a scoller like in the movie "The Matrix".
 *
 * As the question was not fulfilling the stackoverflow requirements for a valid
 * questions, it has been deleted in the meantime by the moderators. Which is a
 * little bit bad, as the code was nice.
 * 
 * So I create this gist with my answer I would like to have posted to the
 * questioner.
 *
 *
 * stackoverflox question:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24666716/can-anyone-here-debug-this-java-code-this-code-implements-the-matrix-movie-s
 *
 * based on source:
 * http://www.snip2code.com/Snippet/62524/http---www-quora-com-What-is-the-best-C-
 *
 */
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class Main {

    static final int width = 158;        // Width of terminal window - 1
    static final int flipsPerLine = 5;    // No. of columns changed per line
    static final int millisecondsOfSleep = 50; // Delay between lines in millisecond

    public static void main(String... args) {
        // std::cout << set_color(GREEN);
        
        // only if the terminal/console supports ANSI escape sequences
        // System.out.print((char)27 + "[2J"); // blank screen
        // System.out.print((char)27 + "[1;32m"); // foreground color green

        //srand(time_t(NULL));
        Random rand = new Random(System.nanoTime());

        // bool switches[width] = { true };
        boolean[] switches = new boolean[width];
        for (int i = 0; i < switches.length; i++) {
            switches[i] = true;
        }

        //const std::string garbage = "1234567890/*-+.,./;[]\\=_~`!@#$%^&*()";
        String garbage = "1234567890/*-+.,./;[]\\=_~`!@#$%^&*()";

        int glen = garbage.length();
        while (true) {        // Waiting for Ctrl-C
            for (int i = 0; i != width; ++i) {
                if (switches[i]) {
                    // std::cout << garbage[rand() % glen];
                    System.out.print(garbage.charAt(rand.nextInt(glen)));
                } else {
                    // std::cout << ' ';
                    System.out.print(' ');
                }
            }
            //std::cout << std::endl;
            System.out.println("");

            for (int i = 0; i != flipsPerLine; ++i) {
                // int x = rand() % width;
                int x = rand.nextInt(width);

                switches[x] = !switches[x];
                // Was switches[x] = (switches[x]) ? false : true; thanks to Adrian Petrescu
                // Flipping switches
            }
            try {
                TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(millisecondsOfSleep);
            } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
                System.out.println("sleep interrupted");
            }
        }
    }
}