IBM's big mistake with OS/2 was to include a Win16 compatibility layer. Thus there was no incentive to write apps targeting the "real" OS/2 and Presentation Manager stuff.
Apple were just as wise to exclude a "Flash compatibility": It puts the power in the hands of the Objective-C programmers that Apple have fostered over the developers targeting another company's tools and products. Android development will probably be a fair bit hurt by the inclusion of Flash in 2.2 because the incentive to write native apps is lessened when you can just open the existing Flash app.
I would love it if Oracle moved away from the shitty JRE 1.1.8 they ship with Oracle 9i and has the indecency to place first in the path. Have they actually upgraded that in recent times?
Counterargument: By supporting artists like Gary Glitter you support sexual child abuse. We need to prevent artists gaining so large egos that they think they can get away with anything. Er... FOR THE CHILDREN!
Some day you dogmatic libertarians, sitting and complaining in the comforts afforded by the collective solutions of the civilized world, will be kicked screaming into your own libertarian "paradise" where you must fend for yourselves like the wannabe barbarians you are.
Install ActivePython in Windows and through the magic that is Windows Scripting Host, you can use language="text/python" to your heart's content.
In Internet Explorer pages, and server-side in IIS.
That said, why do you dis Javascript? It is a very nice functional programming language with C-like syntax. And very ubiquitous even though DOM implementations vary, but there are libraries to shield you from having to deal with that.
Um, Apple cannot force Adobe to write good code for Mac OS X. If every other Mac OS developer can learn Core Graphics and Core Animation, there is no reason Adobe cannot pay someone who actually knows their way around the platform to optimize it for them.
The things you can do more in Flash is due to ActionScript but that is just fancy Javascript. Which HTML5 uses. With SVG, animation, event model etc. there is precious little left in Flash that is needed other than to let older browsers run complex content.
No, it's the default for people who get it handed to them without "going to the market" and choose a browser. Often without knowing there is a "market" with choices out there.
In many ways it is a communist browser. "Here, have this bare minimum solution with proprietary hooks, and do not question the Redmond Party."
Why? The people fearmongering over Apple's refusal to allow Flash developers access to their devices apparently don't need to get their facts straight.
What kind of competitor? It's rather that he didn't want to drive his own developers out of the marketplace by allowing a "free ride" for Flash developers to dump their browser apps onto the platform.
Disallowing Flash or cross-compiling from Flash on iOS is no more different than doing the same on the PSP or Nintendo DS. Or do you demand Sony and Nintendo open the flood gates for homebrew?
Flash on the Android is not such a big deal since noone are making any money on that platform anyway.
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Google also worked on Wave for some time... and Go is not that mature exactly...
IBM's big mistake with OS/2 was to include a Win16 compatibility layer. Thus there was no incentive to write apps targeting the "real" OS/2 and Presentation Manager stuff.
Apple were just as wise to exclude a "Flash compatibility": It puts the power in the hands of the Objective-C programmers that Apple have fostered over the developers targeting another company's tools and products. Android development will probably be a fair bit hurt by the inclusion of Flash in 2.2 because the incentive to write native apps is lessened when you can just open the existing Flash app.
Oh noes, C# has more syntactic sugar than Java! My coding teeth are rotting from the sweetness!
Creating getters and setters is something any Java programmer gets the IDE to do for them.
Pity the 1.7 release is dragging its feet, though.
I would love it if Oracle moved away from the shitty JRE 1.1.8 they ship with Oracle 9i and has the indecency to place first in the path. Have they actually upgraded that in recent times?
Careful, or I'll get a "[citation needed]" stamp and go all stamp-crazy on your Bible...
What more needs to be said? And here I thought Sweden would act more neutral than this...
Counterargument: By supporting artists like Gary Glitter you support sexual child abuse. We need to prevent artists gaining so large egos that they think they can get away with anything. Er... FOR THE CHILDREN!
Well, then... http://www.google.com/search?q=south+park+torrent is your friend.
More "clickbait" than "flamebait" methinks - Slashdot has gone tabloid years ago to attract more clicks which means more ad impressions.
Some day you dogmatic libertarians, sitting and complaining in the comforts afforded by the collective solutions of the civilized world, will be kicked screaming into your own libertarian "paradise" where you must fend for yourselves like the wannabe barbarians you are.
You mean the video that does not play in Android because the Flash container wrapped a H.264-encoded movie?
Install ActivePython in Windows and through the magic that is Windows Scripting Host, you can use language="text/python" to your heart's content.
In Internet Explorer pages, and server-side in IIS.
That said, why do you dis Javascript? It is a very nice functional programming language with C-like syntax. And very ubiquitous even though DOM implementations vary, but there are libraries to shield you from having to deal with that.
Um, Apple cannot force Adobe to write good code for Mac OS X. If every other Mac OS developer can learn Core Graphics and Core Animation, there is no reason Adobe cannot pay someone who actually knows their way around the platform to optimize it for them.
Pixelmator - shareware that retains the good parts of Photoshop without the expensive fluff.
SVG is a vector format used by HTML5. Problem solved.
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The things you can do more in Flash is due to ActionScript but that is just fancy Javascript. Which HTML5 uses. With SVG, animation, event model etc. there is precious little left in Flash that is needed other than to let older browsers run complex content.
No, it's the default for people who get it handed to them without "going to the market" and choose a browser. Often without knowing there is a "market" with choices out there.
In many ways it is a communist browser. "Here, have this bare minimum solution with proprietary hooks, and do not question the Redmond Party."
Why? The people fearmongering over Apple's refusal to allow Flash developers access to their devices apparently don't need to get their facts straight.
You want a reason for installing flash blocking plugins.
What kind of competitor? It's rather that he didn't want to drive his own developers out of the marketplace by allowing a "free ride" for Flash developers to dump their browser apps onto the platform.
Disallowing Flash or cross-compiling from Flash on iOS is no more different than doing the same on the PSP or Nintendo DS. Or do you demand Sony and Nintendo open the flood gates for homebrew?
Flash on the Android is not such a big deal since noone are making any money on that platform anyway.
"Nuke the USA" is something that is fun to do in Civilization IV. Substitute Persia for Iran and you have your game right there.
(And then you play the Fallout series which takes place in post-nuclear-apocalypse America.)
Remember: It's not art unless someone is offended. If it offends no-one it is merely entertainment.
Or we could restrict game topics to pre-1900 conflicts in case there are some long-lived victims around.
This is a "walks like a duck, talks like a duck, won't pay for the license for a duck" situation.
I think he even wrote that textbook...
Sure, the NOTV network. You know, "All static - all the time". Make a fortune in T-shirt and coffee mug sales.
I kid.