I think you've definately got a point, I use eclipse to do most of my coding and Poseidon to design. One comment got my attention, though:
although some actually think refactoring by hand is better
People must enjoy pain where you work. Hmm... would I rather change this class name once, or search for the 3,000 places that its referenced in the project. I think I'll use eclipse to refactor it instead of replacing all of it by hand.
There's a real simple reason that Sun isn't involved with Eclipse: Netbeans. Netbeans is Sun's open source java ide, of course they're not going to support a competing open source ide. I think that they true openess of the language has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Some of my classes use WebCT (I'm at Texas A&M). I've never been an admin, so I don't know what difficulties you might have with implementation, but I'm aware of how much WebCT sucks.
1. It only supports IE. You can use other browsers, but some functions (like adding an email address from webct's internal contact list) only work with IE
2. Its slow. If you have students that will be connecting dial-up they're going to be frustrated. WebCT likes to use large gifs as links.
3. It makes your students look in more places to find information. We have a campus wide email system that profs can use to send announcements. If you have a webct class you have to go check the site to make sure you're up to date.
4. It's message board sucks.
5. It's email capabilities suck.
6. It's layout sucks.
I'm tired of typing. Please, for the sake of your students, avoid webct. If you can't write HTML use front page or something, but don't rely on this horrible piece of crap.
The more appropriate question would be, have you ever tried SWT? The part that he's excited about is the new GUI Toolkit that IBM developed while building eclipse. SWT uses native widgets to draw the screen. It "feels" better than Swing and looks more like native applications.
We're certainly not getting a complete picture (where the special forces are, etc.), but don't you think the fact that they're allowing reporters to broadcast from a fucking moving tank says something? The military is being open to reporters because this is exactly the plan. Scare them so bad that they don't want to fight.
I remember using Prodigy in the early 90's or late 80's on a 1200 baud modem and they had banner ads. The adds were banners at the bottom of the page. I remember thinking that alot of bbs's were going to start using adds like that. Of course bbs's have turned into websites over the years.
The orb is now out of stock. I don't know if this is a first, but wow, we slashdotted a product.
1. Make something geeks will drool over (anything with glowing balls should suffice)
2. Post on slashdot
3. Profit!!!
The mystical second step has now been revealed.
I was a smoker for about 6 years and I smoked about a pack a day at my peak. I tried patches and gum with no success. I found that when I quit the nicotine supplements I was still firmly addicted to nicotine (duh..). At my income (student) I couldn't afford to stay on patches or gum for long enough. I went to my doctor and got a prescription to Wellbuterol (sp?). It's the same drug as Zyban but much cheaper. It's an anticompulsion drug (they use it for eating compulsions as well). You take it for a week while still smoking. At the beginning of the second week you double your dose and stop smoking. I thought it worked much better for me, it made ciggarettes taste disgusting. It's been 3 months and I still haven't smoked some I'm pretty hopefull that I'm done with this shit.
I know you've been smoking much longer than me, but it's worth a shot if you haven't tried it. Maybe you could work it into one of your stop smoking efforts to cut down on your compulsion to smoke.
Good Luck!
I worked for a very small domain registrar for a couple of years (GKG -- Global Knowledge Group) and you're absolutely right, there is no money in domain registration. It costs domain registrars about $6 to register a.net,.com, or.org domain (at least when I was employed there back in May). When you factor in the amount of customer support required to explain things like how a dns server works to the average Joe Shmoe, it's pretty obvious that you really can't make money by selling single domains to average people. The successful domain name registrars make their money in two main ways:
1. Volume registrants. Joe Schmoe might register one domain, once a year, but some high volume registrants will register 5000 domains a year. You give them a volume discount, but at this level of domain purchases it really is feasible to balance customer support costs with the meager income a domain registration provides.
2. Hosting. This is typically very profitable (at least compared to registrations). If a customer on the phone or at the website is interested in purchasing a domain they're probably also looking for hosting. Presenting a complete web package from design to registration to hosting makes it easy for a consumer to do it all in just one stop.
Versign (network solutions) is screwed. Sure it was a cash cow at first when they had a monopoly, but now they have a broken business model.
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Ok, points taken.
I think you've definately got a point, I use eclipse to do most of my coding and Poseidon to design. One comment got my attention, though:
although some actually think refactoring by hand is better People must enjoy pain where you work. Hmm... would I rather change this class name once, or search for the 3,000 places that its referenced in the project. I think I'll use eclipse to refactor it instead of replacing all of it by hand.
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There's a real simple reason that Sun isn't involved with Eclipse: Netbeans. Netbeans is Sun's open source java ide, of course they're not going to support a competing open source ide. I think that they true openess of the language has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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Some of my classes use WebCT (I'm at Texas A&M). I've never been an admin, so I don't know what difficulties you might have with implementation, but I'm aware of how much WebCT sucks.
1. It only supports IE. You can use other browsers, but some functions (like adding an email address from webct's internal contact list) only work with IE
2. Its slow. If you have students that will be connecting dial-up they're going to be frustrated. WebCT likes to use large gifs as links.
3. It makes your students look in more places to find information. We have a campus wide email system that profs can use to send announcements. If you have a webct class you have to go check the site to make sure you're up to date.
4. It's message board sucks.
5. It's email capabilities suck.
6. It's layout sucks.
I'm tired of typing. Please, for the sake of your students, avoid webct. If you can't write HTML use front page or something, but don't rely on this horrible piece of crap.
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The more appropriate question would be, have you ever tried SWT? The part that he's excited about is the new GUI Toolkit that IBM developed while building eclipse. SWT uses native widgets to draw the screen. It "feels" better than Swing and looks more like native applications.
We're certainly not getting a complete picture (where the special forces are, etc.), but don't you think the fact that they're allowing reporters to broadcast from a fucking moving tank says something? The military is being open to reporters because this is exactly the plan. Scare them so bad that they don't want to fight.
I remember using Prodigy in the early 90's or late 80's on a 1200 baud modem and they had banner ads. The adds were banners at the bottom of the page. I remember thinking that alot of bbs's were going to start using adds like that. Of course bbs's have turned into websites over the years.
The orb is now out of stock. I don't know if this is a first, but wow, we slashdotted a product.
1. Make something geeks will drool over (anything with glowing balls should suffice)
2. Post on slashdot
3. Profit!!!
The mystical second step has now been revealed.
I know you've been smoking much longer than me, but it's worth a shot if you haven't tried it. Maybe you could work it into one of your stop smoking efforts to cut down on your compulsion to smoke.
Good Luck!
When's the last time you ate your DRAM?
1. Volume registrants. Joe Schmoe might register one domain, once a year, but some high volume registrants will register 5000 domains a year. You give them a volume discount, but at this level of domain purchases it really is feasible to balance customer support costs with the meager income a domain registration provides.
2. Hosting. This is typically very profitable (at least compared to registrations). If a customer on the phone or at the website is interested in purchasing a domain they're probably also looking for hosting. Presenting a complete web package from design to registration to hosting makes it easy for a consumer to do it all in just one stop.
Versign (network solutions) is screwed. Sure it was a cash cow at first when they had a monopoly, but now they have a broken business model.