I prefer Flex for now because 1) I already know it, 2) Flash has larger market penetration.
Presumably, you can use any.NET language for Silverlight development, so that's a major plus for Silverlight IMHO. With Flex, you're stuck with ActionScript 3 and MXML. ActionScript 3 and MXML aren't really all the bad, but it's nice to have options. Also, the Silverlight runtime will probably come standard with all Windows versions from here on out, so it can potentially kill off Flash if Adobe doesn't do something about it.
I make $51k a year, and I can tell you that doesn't get me very far in Maryland, USA. I believe after taxes, my take home pay per month is a little more than $3k.
It's funny how idiots like the AC I'm responding to like to make Japan out to be the victim here. If you think they were, why don't you ask the Chinese.
Japan of today is nothing like Japan of the WWII era.
Hey numbnuts... this chip idea is for the illegals crossing the Mexican border. Not for the legal immigrants. You didn't even have to RTFA to know that as it's right in the goddamn article summary!
The point of using Flash in this context is to create an application that is deployable via the web that feels like a regular desktop application and not like a web site. Flash is indeed good for this, or at least better than AJAX in my opinion. Your complaints "i.e. NO HISTORY" aren't very relevant here.
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NT had an OS/2 subsystem up until Win2k with which you could run 16-bit console OS/2 binaries. But you seem to imply that the Windows XP kernel of today is derived from the OS/2 kernel, which would be incorrect. Thats like saying the FreeBSD kernel is derived from the Linux kernel because it can run Linux binaries.
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wxWidgets optionally (and I think is the default anyway) wraps around GTK+ on UNIX like OSes. So when you use wxWidgets on these operating systems, you indirectly also use GTK+.
Wasn't informed?!?! For god's sake, stop already. It's not Microsoft's fault that the developers in your group were clueless. Microsoft didn't tell me that.NET was a free download and I knew about it.
Do your fellow developers also know that we no longer have to use punch cards too? Jezus christ....
.NET development has always been a free download from Microsoft. You just don't get the fancy IDE that Visual Studio gives you. I'm not sure what the hell you're smoking, but you're just plain wrong. Oh wait... this is Slashdot. Here it's ok to speak a bunch of bullshit, as long as it's anti-Microsoft or pro-Linux.
Oh, and Solaris didn't come with development tools; you had to pay extra for Sun's compiler. I don't know about the free version now though.
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I prefer Flex for now because 1) I already know it, 2) Flash has larger market penetration. Presumably, you can use any .NET language for Silverlight development, so that's a major plus for Silverlight IMHO. With Flex, you're stuck with ActionScript 3 and MXML. ActionScript 3 and MXML aren't really all the bad, but it's nice to have options. Also, the Silverlight runtime will probably come standard with all Windows versions from here on out, so it can potentially kill off Flash if Adobe doesn't do something about it.
Developing applications in Flash is old school. These days, you're supposed to use Flex.
This idea isn't entirely unheard of. Some Tandy 1000 models had MS-DOS burned into it's ROM for instant start-up times.
I make $51k a year, and I can tell you that doesn't get me very far in Maryland, USA. I believe after taxes, my take home pay per month is a little more than $3k.
> While X is defacto free but can't be run through a browser,
... I doubt it'd work at an acceptable performance level over DSL/cable though.
I'm not so sure about that.
FWIW, it works ok on a LAN
NT didn't make use of the 64-bit architecture of Alphas. It was like running DOS on 32-bit 386s.
It's funny how idiots like the AC I'm responding to like to make Japan out to be the victim here. If you think they were, why don't you ask the Chinese. Japan of today is nothing like Japan of the WWII era.
Hey numbnuts ... this chip idea is for the illegals crossing the Mexican border. Not for the legal immigrants. You didn't even have to RTFA to know that as it's right in the goddamn article summary!
Wow ... in attempt to save face by defending your erroneous original statement, you still ended up looking like a total douche bag. Good job!
You mean something like this?
The point of using Flash in this context is to create an application that is deployable via the web that feels like a regular desktop application and not like a web site. Flash is indeed good for this, or at least better than AJAX in my opinion. Your complaints "i.e. NO HISTORY" aren't very relevant here.
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He waits.
NT had an OS/2 subsystem up until Win2k with which you could run 16-bit console OS/2 binaries. But you seem to imply that the Windows XP kernel of today is derived from the OS/2 kernel, which would be incorrect. Thats like saying the FreeBSD kernel is derived from the Linux kernel because it can run Linux binaries.
wxWidgets optionally (and I think is the default anyway) wraps around GTK+ on UNIX like OSes. So when you use wxWidgets on these operating systems, you indirectly also use GTK+.
Wasn't informed?!?! For god's sake, stop already. It's not Microsoft's fault that the developers in your group were clueless. Microsoft didn't tell me that .NET was a free download and I knew about it.
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Do your fellow developers also know that we no longer have to use punch cards too? Jezus christ
.NET development has always been a free download from Microsoft. You just don't get the fancy IDE that Visual Studio gives you. I'm not sure what the hell you're smoking, but you're just plain wrong. Oh wait ... this is Slashdot. Here it's ok to speak a bunch of bullshit, as long as it's anti-Microsoft or pro-Linux.
Oh, and Solaris didn't come with development tools; you had to pay extra for Sun's compiler. I don't know about the free version now though.
> Use a platform native that run likedy split but is a pain to port,
Not if you use something like wxWidgets
Do tell. How in the world do you have equity in a property you don't own? Enquiring minds want to know.
He also lost a finger during WWII.
Donate to the National Amputation Organization.
You idiot. WinNT always followed a pre-emptive multitasking model. Win9x preemptively multitasked Win32 applications only.
No, he said that at the time he didn't think a new keyword would've been accepted.
Just FYI .... J-Lo is actually quite pale herself naturally. She's just always tanned now.
Ya .. I would agree that wxWidgets' API is not the prettiest thing in the world. But the advantages of wxWidgets far outweigh any disadvantage, IMHO.
> 8. Qt has the only C++ string class worth using,
> QString. Who couldn't love
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> str = str.stripWhiteSpace();
wxWidgets wxString has this:
wxString str = " hello, world! ";
str.Trim().Trim(false);
> 9. Regex support!
wxWidgets got ya covered here too, baby! See wxRegEx.
Software engineers use the best tool for the job, and if that means using a "lowly scripting language" like Python, then so be it.