Well IE is always supported as long as it makes financial sense, but do you see masses flow towards silverlight, I dont see em, one of the reasons simply is that developers dont like to use Microsoft tools anymore, after years of charades, this time the entire IE charade simply made Microsoft in developers circles more hated than ever!
And web development nowadays really is that Firefox is due to its excellent tooling the main development platform and IE compatibility goes into the last phase of breaking well conforming code down enough to make it work on IE!
You cannot neglegt IE, most developers would love to but customers pay for it even if it costs 30% more of the development time normally, but the love for IE is definitely not there anymore and never ever will be again!
I agree with the developer tools, I havent seen any web development going on on IE in years, basically Venkman and especially Firebug broke IEs neck entirely. It us usally that people code for firefox and then start the dreadful and hated IE conversation process to add enough hacks and conditional CSS that it works well with IE as well. The Firefox people really did an awesome job with Firebug, they basically hit the nail on the head and that was a bigger reason that websites are nowadays way more standards friendly and way more unfriendly to IE than any browser marketshare could ever be!
The only people who still use IE as their main development platform for browser testing nowadays are usually clueless beginners.
Ahem they have touched the spec, the took SVG change a few of the tags and called it differently it is now part of silverlight, no it is not SVG anymore it is a Microsoft invention. But this was one of the lousiest actions of them in a long time, taking the spec changing 2-3 functions, mostly just the naming and basically calling it theirs!
I agree here, same situation, development usually on firefox, if you are standards compliat it usually works out of the box with Fox, Safari, Opera and once you hit IE which you cannot neglegt due to customer demands (and yes 99% of the customers enforce IE due to their internal structures normally nowadays back ti IE6) you are in for a bloody surprise:-(. You cannot neglegt the customers, my only hope is that somebody with enough money finally will sue Microsoft for billions for the damage done to companies (and I assume the damage is on a worldwide scale multiple the times of what Microsoft currently has in their banks) for not adhering to standards even on a minimal level! If Microsoft had to pay for all the damage they have done to others by their tactics they would have gone out of business a long time ago! They even would have gone out of business for the entire IE6 charade, if somebody would have make to pay them only a small amount of the damage!
Actually iframes have there merits in the ajax domain if you push javascripts mixed with htmls through xmlhttprequest you cannot properly do the javascript part of things, xmlhttprequest enforces a separate eval of scripts.
Iframes can do that (but run into other browser issues especially in ie) if you use them as a transport layer.
This is one of the reasons why partial page rendering solutions are as problematic as they are.
Besides that the entire construct of dom, javascript xmlhttprequest is horrendously broken for rich client uis, it just would need a few fixes to make all that suitable. But another browser war is preventing that at the moment, and the main protagonist again is microsoft!
Well Tomtom sucks in the regards of user support, I never had an email answered.
I personally will move to a different vendor once my old tomtom goes the way of the dodo.
Well same here, not UK around 5%, anyway, the working laws regardings space would only affect things in unsane levels. It would not even matter here about the requirements of minimal office space, since most offices are not built over here as big halls. Even if someone would want to introduce a cubicle system he would fail, there simply is no such office space suitable. correc me if I am wrong, but the entire idea of the cubicle was that you added artifical walls so that persons had some private space, the idea before was to recycle factory halls into office spaces.
Most factories where I live are still intact or have ben torn down, offices are normally not in recycled factory halls and offices are mostly built around the idea of being able to either use it as an office or as a appartements, depending on the economical situation. So the entire cubicle discussion is more or less out of place for most of Europe anyway. I personally see the cubicle system as a disgrace for a human to work in, it reminds me of a hen box.
Nobody wanted two different hd formats, it was just that some companies wanted to cash in on their own stuff.
Id say this time I am on Microsofts side, they are just intelligent enough to see an idiocy where everybody outside of Sony, Toshiba etc... could see it as well!
Actually typical european style is having an open office of 2-5 persons with about 3-5 times the open space of a cubicle area...
really big offices can be found almost nowhere outside of britain.
Guess what the unemployment rate has nothing to do with cubicle farms, the biggest problem western europe faces are the rather high taxes on work which make work on western europe significantly more expensive with the same salaries to the employees than other countries.
I have yet to see one unemployed person because there are work laws which require a certain office space.
Actually in the UK the where there are Cubicle systems the unemployment rates are way higher than in other countries with no such systems. It really does not matter!
central europa I personally think the cubicle system is nothing more than a sick joke. The company I work for recently had to move offices because it was not conformant to working laws anymore, every person hat about 5 times the space a single cubicle has:-(
Over here normal offices with 2-3 people are the norm, cubicles would not even remotely adhere to the law, and when I see them I usually think on those chicken farms where chicken are in the boxes only to be in there to lay eggs.
Yes nintendo has never payed off developers for exclusive, back in the NES days they simply forced them to release on Nintendo only! So they didnt pay for it, they just said, hey if you want to be on the nes you can be, but nowhere else with your title.
This is worse than paying for it!
One of the reasons so many developers ran towards the PS1 when it became a serious competition, Sony simply was less restrictive in their exclusivity policy, and if Sony wanted something exclusive it simply paid for it instead of trying to blackmail it!
This is basically the same with all other goods, companies usually count a 1:1 dollar euro parity, now even if you count out the obvious 15-20% VAT which is included in the price given the current 1.5 : 1 Dollar/Euro exchange rate this is a nice extra money for companies. All of them do it, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, there is no company which has lowered the prices yet. But as soon as the dollar makes a hike up companies start to break out of that parity within half a year. Anyway there really is no shortage of Wiis here in Europe, people in the UK either get it from other mailorder shops if amazon does not ship em anymore, there are plenty of others who are willing to ship, or simply call up a friend on the continent to get you one.
In Europe the picture is pretty much the same situation everywhere, you can see boatloads of Wii almost everywhere. The only people constantly complaining about a Wii shortage are the people in the UK, and probably only because they simply are too stupid to do some EU boundary mail ordering, because they have not recognized yet that there is the EU.
Seriously, only the UK has a Wii shortage and no one really knows why those guys dont simply order it from within another EU country, but constantly lament on the web about the shortage.
As for the US guys, yes you can see boatloads of Wii here, but there is no use, they are region locked! Besides that at the current exchange rate you will have to pay around 350 Dollars for one over here!
Mario Galaxy is very good, so is Resident Evil 4, Excite Truck, Zelda, Trauma Center, Kororinpa, Super Paper Mario etc...
I dont think there is a lack of good games currently on the Wii!
No, boy growing up at evil stepparents, finding out about his sorcery talent, then enrolling into a sorcerers university, and constantly having an evil arch nemesis.
The main difference is, that in LeGuins book the entire arch nemesis angle becomes in the end a philosophical mirror about a person itself and his/her aspects, while in LeGuins book a monster is slain.
Ah yes and it took LeGuin about 150 pages to get to the point with a master writer weaving the story;-)
Yes and no, the first halfs are strikingly similar with a boy growing up at evil (step)parents then enrolling into a sorcerse academy, even the theme of the boy having a constant nemesis is similar.
Le Guin in the second half of the book then enrolls into one of her best philosophical stories, while harry potter then becomes standard monster fare.
I assume Rowling must have read the book, before writing HP, I dont know if she could get the philosophical background, I dont know, I doubt it.
Btw. even more similar to harry potter is Spellcasting 101 from Legend Entertainment in its beginning theme. But Spellcasting definitely is different since it makes an entire mockery out of everything.
Actually the Wizard of Earthsea was written in the mid 70s and the first harry potter in many parts almost looks like a blantant copy with dozends of pages more.
Besides that Le Guin is a way better author.
Ahem there is only a few problems in your reasoning, the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) neither was oriental, it was Roman and later Greek, nor was it a empire ruled by despotes, the only ursurpator the Empire really had was Phokas (who was the main reason for the almost downfall of the empire in the 7th centuriy and the raise of Islam by weakening the empire upfront and driving it into a useless war against persia)
The eastern roman Empire was ruled by emporers who got their title mostly by inheritage a few by election and almost none by ursurpation.
Despotism only was used in a handful occasions on the byzantine history (it was more common in the western roman empire especially at times the emperors title was not that solified politically, it in its early days was an equilibrium between senate and first citizen )
On the other hand China is only officially socialistic on paper in fact it probably is the most capitalistic country in the world currently.
With capital getting a free hand in everything without too many restrictions.
Note capitalism does not inherently come hand in hand with democracy. China is ruled by a single party which calls itself socialist peoples party, but in fact it is only socialist by heritage, it is just a one party system, thats basically it.
Netbeans irks me in some small areas, no incremental compilation, if you work on webprojects you have to go the entire compile/deploy cycle every time you do changes (which means a full war packaging cycle included)
I would have loved more flexibility in this area.
It depends on the toolchain, bare eclipse is best you can get for java editing second to none.
(Well Intellij is also very good but that is a different league)
but if you are forced to use the WTP, then Eclipse becomes a major pain. An example, a colleque of mine was using Eclipse he had to move up to Eclipse 3.3. I recommended Europa to him because he was using parts of the toolchain anyway, after Eclipse suddenly refused to given him code insight, he reverted back. Problems like this are myriad with the WTP and if I was forced to use it, I probably would have given up on Eclipse a long while ago.
Fortunately there are bearable other options in the Eclipse world, if you want to shell out some money.
Depends on where your main focus is, Netbeans 6 is really exciting
full ruby/rails tooling within the ide, the visual webpack simply is fantastic for small webapps
and the integrated jpa support also is not too shabby.
I have been using MyEclipse for years, but Netbeans slowly with every release becomes more and more a strong competitor to the Eclipse area, also mainly due to the fact that if you want something decent in eclipse you have to pay, and even then you run into the myriads of bugs the WTP is. WTP has hurt Eclipse more than anything else, and if they cannot get their act together qualitywise, Eclipse one day will be dead in the JEE area. For now it still has the credits of the incremental compilation and excellent refactoring, but if you are forced to use the WTP run as fast as you can.
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Well IE is always supported as long as it makes financial sense, but do you see masses flow towards silverlight, I dont see em, one of the reasons simply is that developers dont like to use Microsoft tools anymore, after years of charades, this time the entire IE charade simply made Microsoft in developers circles more hated than ever! And web development nowadays really is that Firefox is due to its excellent tooling the main development platform and IE compatibility goes into the last phase of breaking well conforming code down enough to make it work on IE! You cannot neglegt IE, most developers would love to but customers pay for it even if it costs 30% more of the development time normally, but the love for IE is definitely not there anymore and never ever will be again!
I agree with the developer tools, I havent seen any web development going on on IE in years, basically Venkman and especially Firebug broke IEs neck entirely. It us usally that people code for firefox and then start the dreadful and hated IE conversation process to add enough hacks and conditional CSS that it works well with IE as well. The Firefox people really did an awesome job with Firebug, they basically hit the nail on the head and that was a bigger reason that websites are nowadays way more standards friendly and way more unfriendly to IE than any browser marketshare could ever be! The only people who still use IE as their main development platform for browser testing nowadays are usually clueless beginners.
Ahem they have touched the spec, the took SVG change a few of the tags and called it differently it is now part of silverlight, no it is not SVG anymore it is a Microsoft invention. But this was one of the lousiest actions of them in a long time, taking the spec changing 2-3 functions, mostly just the naming and basically calling it theirs!
I agree here, same situation, development usually on firefox, if you are standards compliat it usually works out of the box with Fox, Safari, Opera and once you hit IE which you cannot neglegt due to customer demands (and yes 99% of the customers enforce IE due to their internal structures normally nowadays back ti IE6) you are in for a bloody surprise :-(.
You cannot neglegt the customers, my only hope is that somebody with enough money finally will sue Microsoft for billions for the damage done to companies (and I assume the damage is on a worldwide scale multiple the times of what Microsoft currently has in their banks) for not adhering to standards even on a minimal level!
If Microsoft had to pay for all the damage they have done to others by their tactics they would have gone out of business a long time ago! They even would have gone out of business for the entire IE6 charade, if somebody would have make to pay them only a small amount of the damage!
Actually iframes have there merits in the ajax domain if you push javascripts mixed with htmls through xmlhttprequest you cannot properly do the javascript part of things, xmlhttprequest enforces a separate eval of scripts. Iframes can do that (but run into other browser issues especially in ie) if you use them as a transport layer. This is one of the reasons why partial page rendering solutions are as problematic as they are. Besides that the entire construct of dom, javascript xmlhttprequest is horrendously broken for rich client uis, it just would need a few fixes to make all that suitable. But another browser war is preventing that at the moment, and the main protagonist again is microsoft!
Well Tomtom sucks in the regards of user support, I never had an email answered. I personally will move to a different vendor once my old tomtom goes the way of the dodo.
Well same here, not UK around 5%,
anyway, the working laws regardings space would only affect things in unsane levels.
It would not even matter here about the requirements of minimal office space, since most offices are not built over here as big halls. Even if someone would want to introduce a cubicle system he would fail, there simply is no such office space suitable.
correc me if I am wrong, but the entire idea of the cubicle was that you added artifical walls so that persons had some private space, the idea before was to recycle factory halls into office spaces.
Most factories where I live are still intact or have ben torn down, offices are normally not in recycled factory halls and offices are mostly built around the idea of being able to either use it as an office or as a appartements, depending on the economical situation.
So the entire cubicle discussion is more or less out of place for most of Europe anyway.
I personally see the cubicle system as a disgrace for a human to work in, it reminds me of a hen box.
Nobody wanted two different hd formats, it was just that some companies wanted to cash in on their own stuff. Id say this time I am on Microsofts side, they are just intelligent enough to see an idiocy where everybody outside of Sony, Toshiba etc... could see it as well!
Actually typical european style is having an open office of 2-5 persons with about 3-5 times the open space of a cubicle area... really big offices can be found almost nowhere outside of britain.
Guess what the unemployment rate has nothing to do with cubicle farms, the biggest problem western europe faces are the rather high taxes on work which make
work on western europe significantly more expensive with the same salaries to the employees than other countries.
I have yet to see one unemployed person because there are work laws which require a certain office space.
Actually in the UK the where there are Cubicle systems the unemployment rates are way higher than in other countries with no such systems.
It really does not matter!
central europa I personally think the cubicle system is nothing more than a sick joke. :-(
The company I work for recently had to move offices because it was not conformant to working laws anymore, every person hat about 5 times the space a single cubicle has
Over here normal offices with 2-3 people are the norm, cubicles would not even remotely adhere to the law, and when I see them I usually think on those chicken farms where chicken are in the boxes only to be in there to lay eggs.
Yes nintendo has never payed off developers for exclusive, back in the NES days they simply forced them to release on Nintendo only! So they didnt pay for it, they just said, hey if you want to be on the nes you can be, but nowhere else with your title.
This is worse than paying for it!
One of the reasons so many developers ran towards the PS1 when it became a serious competition, Sony simply was less restrictive in their exclusivity policy, and if Sony wanted something exclusive it simply paid for it instead of trying to blackmail it!
This is basically the same with all other goods, companies usually count a 1:1 dollar euro parity, now even if you count out the obvious 15-20% VAT which is included in the price given the current 1.5 : 1 Dollar/Euro exchange rate this is a nice extra money for companies.
All of them do it, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, there is no company which has lowered the prices yet. But as soon as the dollar makes a hike up companies start to break out of that parity within half a year.
Anyway there really is no shortage of Wiis here in Europe, people in the UK either get it from other mailorder shops if amazon does not ship em anymore, there are plenty of others who are willing to ship, or simply call up a friend on the continent to get you one.
In Europe the picture is pretty much the same situation everywhere, you can see boatloads of Wii almost everywhere. The only people constantly complaining about a Wii shortage are the people in the UK, and probably only because they simply are too stupid to do some EU boundary mail ordering, because they have not recognized yet that there is the EU.
Seriously, only the UK has a Wii shortage and no one really knows why those guys dont simply order it from within another EU country, but constantly lament on the web about the shortage.
As for the US guys, yes you can see boatloads of Wii here, but there is no use, they are region locked!
Besides that at the current exchange rate you will have to pay around 350 Dollars for one over here!
Mario Galaxy is very good, so is Resident Evil 4, Excite Truck, Zelda, Trauma Center, Kororinpa, Super Paper Mario etc... I dont think there is a lack of good games currently on the Wii!
Actually there are many java developers, but many of them have left the mac for developing java apps.
No, boy growing up at evil stepparents, finding out about his sorcery talent, then enrolling into a sorcerers university, and constantly having an evil arch nemesis. The main difference is, that in LeGuins book the entire arch nemesis angle becomes in the end a philosophical mirror about a person itself and his/her aspects, while in LeGuins book a monster is slain. Ah yes and it took LeGuin about 150 pages to get to the point with a master writer weaving the story ;-)
Yes and no, the first halfs are strikingly similar with a boy growing up at evil (step)parents then enrolling into a sorcerse academy, even the theme of the boy having a constant nemesis is similar. Le Guin in the second half of the book then enrolls into one of her best philosophical stories, while harry potter then becomes standard monster fare. I assume Rowling must have read the book, before writing HP, I dont know if she could get the philosophical background, I dont know, I doubt it.
Btw. even more similar to harry potter is Spellcasting 101 from Legend Entertainment in its beginning theme. But Spellcasting definitely is different since it makes an entire mockery out of everything.
Actually the Wizard of Earthsea was written in the mid 70s and the first harry potter in many parts almost looks like a blantant copy with dozends of pages more. Besides that Le Guin is a way better author.
No, the prices are lower in germany as well, the rates of the iphone contracts simply are hilarious...
Ahem there is only a few problems in your reasoning, the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) neither was oriental, it was Roman and later Greek, nor was it a empire ruled by despotes, the only ursurpator the Empire really had was Phokas (who was the main reason for the almost downfall of the empire in the 7th centuriy and the raise of Islam by weakening the empire upfront and driving it into a useless war against persia) The eastern roman Empire was ruled by emporers who got their title mostly by inheritage a few by election and almost none by ursurpation. Despotism only was used in a handful occasions on the byzantine history (it was more common in the western roman empire especially at times the emperors title was not that solified politically, it in its early days was an equilibrium between senate and first citizen ) On the other hand China is only officially socialistic on paper in fact it probably is the most capitalistic country in the world currently. With capital getting a free hand in everything without too many restrictions. Note capitalism does not inherently come hand in hand with democracy. China is ruled by a single party which calls itself socialist peoples party, but in fact it is only socialist by heritage, it is just a one party system, thats basically it.
The funny thing is, the russians trade in freedom for bread and butter, we do it for a false sense of security, which is way worse.
Netbeans irks me in some small areas, no incremental compilation, if you work on webprojects you have to go the entire compile/deploy cycle every time you do changes (which means a full war packaging cycle included) I would have loved more flexibility in this area.
It depends on the toolchain, bare eclipse is best you can get for java editing second to none. (Well Intellij is also very good but that is a different league) but if you are forced to use the WTP, then Eclipse becomes a major pain. An example, a colleque of mine was using Eclipse he had to move up to Eclipse 3.3. I recommended Europa to him because he was using parts of the toolchain anyway, after Eclipse suddenly refused to given him code insight, he reverted back. Problems like this are myriad with the WTP and if I was forced to use it, I probably would have given up on Eclipse a long while ago. Fortunately there are bearable other options in the Eclipse world, if you want to shell out some money.
Depends on where your main focus is, Netbeans 6 is really exciting full ruby/rails tooling within the ide, the visual webpack simply is fantastic for small webapps and the integrated jpa support also is not too shabby. I have been using MyEclipse for years, but Netbeans slowly with every release becomes more and more a strong competitor to the Eclipse area, also mainly due to the fact that if you want something decent in eclipse you have to pay, and even then you run into the myriads of bugs the WTP is. WTP has hurt Eclipse more than anything else, and if they cannot get their act together qualitywise, Eclipse one day will be dead in the JEE area. For now it still has the credits of the incremental compilation and excellent refactoring, but if you are forced to use the WTP run as fast as you can.