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after intensive research..

On: Space Elevator May Become Reality

..scientists have found this to be an improvement over the escalator to nowhere.

..aaaahhh... ..aaaaahh... ... ..aaaahhh...

jbuilder or forte

On: Java IDEs?

i use jbuilder professional and like it because:

• it's written in pure java, so can run on windows, linux, or solaris
• project files are stored in xml
• it has a good debugger
• i can link it to my source control system (perforce)
• i can use a vi keymapping with it
• it generates clean code (useful for me, because i build UIs)

my second choice would be sun's forte because:

• also written in pure java
• the UI is a lot slicker, and doesn't actually feel like a java application (at the cost of requiring a beefier system)
• it also has a good debugger, but i haven't used it extensively enough to compare with jbuilder
• the community edition, which is free, includes some enterprise features only available in jbuilder's much more expensive enterprise version (including remote debugging)
• built in CVS support (good if that's your source control system)
• also generates clean code, but doesn't let you edit it (which is good or bad, depending on your point of view)
• you have a choice between MDI or SDI (jbuilder is MDI only)

Re:CNN Loads much faster

On: All Hallow's Eve

shh! don't tell anyone, but..

http://robots.cnn.com gets rid of ads entirely. (although not all sections appear to be on that server)

Re:Thing is....

On: Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts?

You can make the same forms and GUIs with C++ or Java but it will take you longer, it's much harder to do complex things and lots of times your design will LOOK awkward.

er.. there are plenty of IDEs out there that make building GUIs simple. to name a few: Borland C++Builder, Microsoft Visual C++, Borland JBuilder, WebGain Visual Cafe.

funny, all the windows apps i use that were written with C++ look just fine to me too

In the same vein, making a GUI would be better suited to a GUI programming tool, with the backend being designed with real code.

ahh, i see. i better not tell my manager about all this fake code i've been using for my GUIs.

sounds like CIRA

On: Will New TLDs' Restrictions Negate Their Aims?

interestingly enough, these sound a lot like the types of restrictions that CIRA used to have for the .ca TLD. The rules have since been broadened to allow for more of a .com approach.

Re:dot tv

On: Will New TLDs' Restrictions Negate Their Aims?

in fact all 2 letter top level domains belong to countries, as listed in ISO 3166-1

Intensional HTML

On: On Creating Multilingual Web Sites?

There's something called Intensional HTML that might be worth investigating. This site lists papers and information including a link to this document by its authors. Of particular interest is section 3, which gives this site as an example (a site that can be viewed in English or Turkish).

I personally never got the hang of it, but the version we used was still pretty beta and we only spent a few weeks with it. Still, it is designed for multiversioned sites.