There are all kinds of options out there for quick Java UI design. At work we use JFormDesigner plus some homebrew infrastructure to automate widget-model binding. This setup removes most of the UI plumbing, and lets us work on the real user requirements. Compared to hand written Swing, it's heaven.
Believe it or not, there is a reason. Halo 2's multiplayer will work through the spiffy, magical Live-anywhere contraption that MS announced at E3. Since it comes only with Vista, Halo 2 multiplayer would only work in Vista. Since the single player campaign is short and pretty uninspired, releasing the game for an OS where they won't support multiplayer doesn't seem like a good idea.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but really, you don't need half of that to do professional web development. The company I work has over a million dollars in revenue a day, and we don't use half of that. The entire Macromedia studio? We don't use Flash, and Fireworks really isn't really any better than cheaper alternatives. There are many alternatives to Dreamweaver that are significantly cheaper. Navicat, last time I checked, tied you to MySQL, something that might make all kinds of sense to you, running php. If you need to deal with a more featureful database like we do, powerful clients are free/very low cost. Most of your web development work won't require both Illustrator and Photoshop, and there still cheaper alternatives. If you were working with JSPs, and were strapped for money, you could easily use Eclipse as your IDE.
In fact, unless you have a tiny team, wouldn't you be better off separating graphic design from the programming side of web development, and save money per seat? How many big companies have their php monkeys creating graphics?
In my company, we spend less than $500 per web developer in software licenses. Since you had no intention of paying for licenses anyway, you just went for very expensive tools: after all, they are no more expensive to you than Eclipse or Gimp!. While it's true that the cost of those apps is insane for a place like Argentina, Hungary or Spain, you can be pretty productive without the big name apps using cheaper or Open Source alternatives. You just have to try, instead of just downloading warez. Given how little those companies you mention give to the Argentinian economy, I don't really blame you though.
Just in case you weren't trying to be funny: First parties are the ones that develop consoles, like Nintendo and Sony. Third parties are completely independent game developers, like Capcom, Konami and Rockstar. Second parties are companies that are either partially owned by one of the third parties, of they have signed an exclusivity agreement of some sort with one of the console makers. This includes companies like Polyphony Digital and Retro Studios. Rare was a Nintendo second party until Microsoft bought them a few years ago.
Most layout problems are solved by FormLayout by JGoodies. It's small, lightweight, and solves most of the stupid GridBag issues.
As far as layout management, JFormDesigner is fairly inexpensive, and supports both code generation and runtime xml-based layout loading. Add some data binding infrastructure voodoo, and developing Swing apps becomes quite easy.
I wish that the default table editors worked differently though. I've yet to see a user that found the default behavior acceptable.
Quantum leap? Last time I checked, the playable games for PS3 and 360 aren't really any different graphically. Where's the quantum leap? Is it the new DVD format that won't really output in high definition in the 'cheap' $500 console?
For those of us that would not consider buying any next gen DVD until the format wars are over, the only thing PS3 offers is a higher price than the 360. I, for one, am not convinced at all and will probably not buy either console in 2006.
By the format, I assume that he's giving you the figures that Media Create releases weekly. They are posted in a variety of sites, like Nintendojo, and sometimes even ign.
If you google 'japan media create' you'll probably find the same figures in quite a few websites.
That might be true for you, but consider one of the bigger audiences for videotapes: Kids under 10. I've seen little ones that want to watch the same movie 3 times in a row, every day of the week. This destroys tapes and VCRs really quickly. My little brother went through at least 5 copies of sleeping beauty, and he played them until the video was a bloody mess. A DVD can be watched many times without any quality degradation, as long as you don't let little timmy scratch it.
So, if you need a Swing expert with at least 4 years of experience to be a lead on an important project, and your market has plenty of Americans with a CS degree and no experience, should you hire an inexperienced american that will not be able to perform his duties?
In the St Louis area, my company has had problems hiring skilled programmers. Only 1 in 10 resumes come from Americans, and those tend to be quite weak. In one occasion, after looking for 8 months we got a single qualified applicant, who just happened to be an H1-B holder. Why not hire him?
Besides, some unemployment is healthy. If you've ever had an actual job, you'd probably know that there's plenty of programmers out there that are so incompetent that they create more work than they do. Those guys SHOULD be unemployed, regardless of their country of origin. Who in their right mind would want to hire a dog like that over someone with talent?
I guess you are right: If most americans don't know someone, he/she cannot be considered 'major'. Hopefully Google will listen to your advice, and instead of celebrating Miro's birthday, they'll celebrate Britney Spears', Jessica Simpsons' or Doctor Phils'.
It's pretty well known that US troops used depleted uranium weapons in Yugoslavia, just like they did in the gulf war. I'm not aware of the specific incident the grandparent is talking about though.
and the snippet only gives us the US equivilent, not the actual european prices.
I read the article, and it stated the following: "In a radio show with France's Europe 1, Fornay said that the PlayStation 3 will sell for between 499 and 599." Must I be new here?
Snippet is the key word. The slashdot snippet missed a key piece of information that could have easily been extracted from the article. Providing the price both in euros and dollars would have made the slashdot's blurb more appropriate and informative
Unfortunately, I couldn't find one in production that fit my needs. I could not find any assurance that I could do what I wanted with a MiniDisc player from specs I was seeing online. I eventually figured out that the people who had the MiniDisc recorders all got them overseas (Japan for sure, maybe Australia as well?). I see the article author does have a recorder; I wonder if that's new or something, or if he got it somewhere other than the U.S. as well.
If you had actually read the article, you'd have noticed that he claims he paid 150 Euros for his recorder. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that he bought it in Europe. Also, a google search on his last name returns a lot of pages in the Netherlands, and he mentions that he bought his first recorder using Florins. Do you think that he might be Dutch?
JFormDesigner rocks. Very cheap, supports JGoodiesForms out of the box,and does both code generation and dynamic GUI loading using XML, depending on your preferences.
Well, at the same time that the Spanish fisherman get subsidies, the Dairy farmers are not allowed to produce enough milk to fill Spain's internal demand. Every summer, french farmers stop Spanish produce trucks heading north and throw all of the cargo away.
EU's fishing and agricultural policies are pretty screwed up, but don't think, even for one moment, that it's all lopsided in one direction. There's people in every country getting screwed by this.
Because DVDs are encrypted, so the act of ripping the picture to an unencrypted format goes against the DMCA. If the DVD was not encrypted, it'd be perfectly legal.
This is why so many people raised a fuss about the DMCA back when Clinton was still in office: As far as digital content goes, it kills the fair use clause of copyright law. Any new media format WILL be encrypted, and breaking the encryptionsystem , or writing a program that breaks the encryption system is illegal. Just read about the Elcomsoft case, or 123 Copy DVD.
Don't worry about it. If a cure is found, but only sold in limited quantities and for prices that are not related to the drug's manufacture cost, many countries will ignore patent law, and start manufacture the drug on the double. For many countries out there, getting rid of their AIDS problem is wa more valuable than any trade restriction that the US might impose. Just look at what India and Korea are doing with Tamiflu.
I wish it was that simple. I work for a company that has to deal with sale taxes in inter-state sales, and it is a big pain. There are Origination States, that ask for a sales tax when the item originates from them, and then there are Destination states, that require a sales tax if the purchased item or service is received there. If two sales tax apply, you get to ignore the origination tax, but you have to pay the destination state's tax. Add local taxes and the shipping and handling taxability/non taxability situations, and you get a big mess that is really hard to figure out.
I'm no American either, but I can give you some insight. A staple on American political campaings is to run ads attacking a congressman/senator for their voting record. If I attach a ridiculous clause to an otherwise very popular bill, in the next election the politician that voted against it will be hit by 'voted to increase taxes 47 times'/'voted to deny medical treatment to veterans'/'voted against increasing education spending' ads. Since your average American doesn't care about the technicalities of the vote, a politician needs a really good reason to vote against one of this bills.
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Well, there are some differences. It seems that the gamecube version won't run on 480p, and it won't have a widescreen aspect ratio.
There are all kinds of options out there for quick Java UI design. At work we use JFormDesigner plus some homebrew infrastructure to automate widget-model binding. This setup removes most of the UI plumbing, and lets us work on the real user requirements. Compared to hand written Swing, it's heaven.
Believe it or not, there is a reason. Halo 2's multiplayer will work through the spiffy, magical Live-anywhere contraption that MS announced at E3. Since it comes only with Vista, Halo 2 multiplayer would only work in Vista. Since the single player campaign is short and pretty uninspired, releasing the game for an OS where they won't support multiplayer doesn't seem like a good idea.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but really, you don't need half of that to do professional web development. The company I work has over a million dollars in revenue a day, and we don't use half of that. The entire Macromedia studio? We don't use Flash, and Fireworks really isn't really any better than cheaper alternatives. There are many alternatives to Dreamweaver that are significantly cheaper. Navicat, last time I checked, tied you to MySQL, something that might make all kinds of sense to you, running php. If you need to deal with a more featureful database like we do, powerful clients are free/very low cost. Most of your web development work won't require both Illustrator and Photoshop, and there still cheaper alternatives. If you were working with JSPs, and were strapped for money, you could easily use Eclipse as your IDE.
In fact, unless you have a tiny team, wouldn't you be better off separating graphic design from the programming side of web development, and save money per seat? How many big companies have their php monkeys creating graphics?
In my company, we spend less than $500 per web developer in software licenses. Since you had no intention of paying for licenses anyway, you just went for very expensive tools: after all, they are no more expensive to you than Eclipse or Gimp!. While it's true that the cost of those apps is insane for a place like Argentina, Hungary or Spain, you can be pretty productive without the big name apps using cheaper or Open Source alternatives. You just have to try, instead of just downloading warez. Given how little those companies you mention give to the Argentinian economy, I don't really blame you though.
Just in case you weren't trying to be funny: First parties are the ones that develop consoles, like Nintendo and Sony. Third parties are completely independent game developers, like Capcom, Konami and Rockstar. Second parties are companies that are either partially owned by one of the third parties, of they have signed an exclusivity agreement of some sort with one of the console makers. This includes companies like Polyphony Digital and Retro Studios. Rare was a Nintendo second party until Microsoft bought them a few years ago.
The Wii has a 256MB internal flash drive. I'd be very surprised if you had to buy a n external flash card in the first couple of years of use.
Most layout problems are solved by FormLayout by JGoodies. It's small, lightweight, and solves most of the stupid GridBag issues.
As far as layout management, JFormDesigner is fairly inexpensive, and supports both code generation and runtime xml-based layout loading. Add some data binding infrastructure voodoo, and developing Swing apps becomes quite easy.
I wish that the default table editors worked differently though. I've yet to see a user that found the default behavior acceptable.
Quantum leap? Last time I checked, the playable games for PS3 and 360 aren't really any different graphically. Where's the quantum leap? Is it the new DVD format that won't really output in high definition in the 'cheap' $500 console?
For those of us that would not consider buying any next gen DVD until the format wars are over, the only thing PS3 offers is a higher price than the 360. I, for one, am not convinced at all and will probably not buy either console in 2006.
By the format, I assume that he's giving you the figures that Media Create releases weekly. They are posted in a variety of sites, like Nintendojo, and sometimes even ign.
If you google 'japan media create' you'll probably find the same figures in quite a few websites.
Of course they do:
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That might be true for you, but consider one of the bigger audiences for videotapes: Kids under 10. I've seen little ones that want to watch the same movie 3 times in a row, every day of the week. This destroys tapes and VCRs really quickly. My little brother went through at least 5 copies of sleeping beauty, and he played them until the video was a bloody mess. A DVD can be watched many times without any quality degradation, as long as you don't let little timmy scratch it.
In the St Louis area, my company has had problems hiring skilled programmers. Only 1 in 10 resumes come from Americans, and those tend to be quite weak. In one occasion, after looking for 8 months we got a single qualified applicant, who just happened to be an H1-B holder. Why not hire him?
Besides, some unemployment is healthy. If you've ever had an actual job, you'd probably know that there's plenty of programmers out there that are so incompetent that they create more work than they do. Those guys SHOULD be unemployed, regardless of their country of origin. Who in their right mind would want to hire a dog like that over someone with talent?
I guess you are right: If most americans don't know someone, he/she cannot be considered 'major'. Hopefully Google will listen to your advice, and instead of celebrating Miro's birthday, they'll celebrate Britney Spears', Jessica Simpsons' or Doctor Phils'.
It's pretty well known that US troops used depleted uranium weapons in Yugoslavia, just like they did in the gulf war. I'm not aware of the specific incident the grandparent is talking about though.
If you had actually read the article, you'd have noticed that he claims he paid 150 Euros for his recorder. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that he bought it in Europe. Also, a google search on his last name returns a lot of pages in the Netherlands, and he mentions that he bought his first recorder using Florins. Do you think that he might be Dutch?
JFormDesigner rocks. Very cheap, supports JGoodiesForms out of the box,and does both code generation and dynamic GUI loading using XML, depending on your preferences.
Well, at the same time that the Spanish fisherman get subsidies, the Dairy farmers are not allowed to produce enough milk to fill Spain's internal demand. Every summer, french farmers stop Spanish produce trucks heading north and throw all of the cargo away.
EU's fishing and agricultural policies are pretty screwed up, but don't think, even for one moment, that it's all lopsided in one direction. There's people in every country getting screwed by this.
Even the weakest entry level $250 computer out there comes with an 80 gb drive. 7200 rpm, 400 gb drives go for $130 or so.
Except when you are working in a large project with a large team. In that case, the cost of SVN's extra features becomes quite painful.
With just one developer though, SVN's features will matter more than the performance issues.
Because DVDs are encrypted, so the act of ripping the picture to an unencrypted format goes against the DMCA. If the DVD was not encrypted, it'd be perfectly legal.
This is why so many people raised a fuss about the DMCA back when Clinton was still in office: As far as digital content goes, it kills the fair use clause of copyright law. Any new media format WILL be encrypted, and breaking the encryptionsystem , or writing a program that breaks the encryption system is illegal. Just read about the Elcomsoft case, or 123 Copy DVD.
It'll be released in Japan in March, so I'd assume we'll have to wait at least until May, possibly later.
Don't worry about it. If a cure is found, but only sold in limited quantities and for prices that are not related to the drug's manufacture cost, many countries will ignore patent law, and start manufacture the drug on the double. For many countries out there, getting rid of their AIDS problem is wa more valuable than any trade restriction that the US might impose. Just look at what India and Korea are doing with Tamiflu.
I wish it was that simple. I work for a company that has to deal with sale taxes in inter-state sales, and it is a big pain. There are Origination States, that ask for a sales tax when the item originates from them, and then there are Destination states, that require a sales tax if the purchased item or service is received there. If two sales tax apply, you get to ignore the origination tax, but you have to pay the destination state's tax. Add local taxes and the shipping and handling taxability/non taxability situations, and you get a big mess that is really hard to figure out.
Yes, I don't like it either.