I use Eclipse, I won't go back to NetBeans. But the reason is the refactoring tools and very nice plugins, not Swing. SWT doesn't come close to being a general GUI API. It was made for Eclipse, and has enough features for many but not all apps. My app requires inner frame windows, anti-aliasing and compositing, custom window frames - things I can't do with SWT. With Swing this stuff is trivial. Then again, I think Swing has a nice easy API though some people think otherwise.
By pushing for RFIDs everywhere, there is no need to try 'push' people into a cashless society.
If I buy a book that might be construed as inappropriate by the powers that be (say 1984?) I use cash. But with RFID tagged cash, as soon as I withdraw it from an ATM there is a paper trail to everything I use it for.
I bet the various government agencies in the world are delighted. Hey, will we not have to do tax returns anymore?
Install pygame and python, find the docs, and let them play.
However, they must want to do this. When I was 10 years old, I was programming on my Apple ][ in Basic and 6502 assembler. I had the computer, the tools and the books. But it also fascinated me - my parents didn't understand what I was doing, and my mom even discouraged me ("go play outside stop wasting time behind that thing").
And give kids credit - they are persistent and they don't have silly notions like 'failure' and 'I can't' yet. They stubbornly persue what they enjoy.
I think many pc gamers are tired of the upgrades. I got an xbox with the dvd kit thrown in (rebate) for less than a new high end card.
I bought a nice and tiny laptop for my development work, I don't need more than 1GHz to code, just ram. I have freedom to work anywhere I like.
I will get xbox live... who the heck has time to type in Quake III, xbox live will have voice. It has one nick, one password, etc. And at $50 a year, I can live with that.
Yes fps control is weird but with a level playing field, it is just something to get used to. No more contemplating who has an aiming bot/better card/better mouse etc.
So I am selling of the parts to my dual cpu beast, replacing it with mini itx based computer (www.mini-itx.com) for file serving etc. and when Quake III comes out, I will see if I will wait for the xbox version or pay up for a pc again.
My only wish is for a public xbox sdk for fun hacks, but I don't count on that any time soon.
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I use Eclipse, I won't go back to NetBeans. But the reason is the refactoring tools and very nice plugins, not Swing. SWT doesn't come close to being a general GUI API. It was made for Eclipse, and has enough features for many but not all apps.
My app requires inner frame windows, anti-aliasing and compositing, custom window frames - things I can't do with SWT. With Swing this stuff is trivial. Then again, I think Swing has a nice easy API though some people think otherwise.
By pushing for RFIDs everywhere, there is no need to try 'push' people into a cashless society.
If I buy a book that might be construed as inappropriate by the powers that be (say 1984?) I use cash. But with RFID tagged cash, as soon as I withdraw it from an ATM there is a paper trail to everything I use it for.
I bet the various government agencies in the world are delighted. Hey, will we not have to do tax returns anymore?
Install pygame and python, find the docs, and let them play.
However, they must want to do this. When I was 10 years old, I was programming on my Apple ][ in Basic and 6502 assembler. I had the computer, the tools and the books. But it also fascinated me - my parents didn't understand what I was doing, and my mom even discouraged me ("go play outside stop wasting time behind that thing").
And give kids credit - they are persistent and they don't have silly notions like 'failure' and 'I can't' yet. They stubbornly persue what they enjoy.
I think many pc gamers are tired of the upgrades. I got an xbox with the dvd kit thrown in (rebate) for less than a new high end card. I bought a nice and tiny laptop for my development work, I don't need more than 1GHz to code, just ram. I have freedom to work anywhere I like. I will get xbox live ... who the heck has time to type in Quake III, xbox live will have voice. It has one nick, one password, etc. And at $50 a year, I can live with that.
Yes fps control is weird but with a level playing field, it is just something to get used to. No more contemplating who has an aiming bot/better card/better mouse etc.
So I am selling of the parts to my dual cpu beast, replacing it with mini itx based computer (www.mini-itx.com) for file serving etc. and when Quake III comes out, I will see if I will wait for the xbox version or pay up for a pc again.
My only wish is for a public xbox sdk for fun hacks, but I don't count on that any time soon.