I, too, agree. NetBeans was written in SWING, taking years for seemingly simple things like menu dropdowns to occur even on powerful machines. Eclipse, which was written using SWT, has a smoother and faster GUI.
The way the author of the Robots article implies that useless inventions are, well...worthless, hits off the mark. Who knows, Aibo can be the very first beginning of the next revolution in technology. My point is that you cannot say some invention is worthless until you see how they influence future inventions and ideas.
For example, (I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for saying this) for years (starting in the late '70s) personal computers were considered useless for most people. Rather, they were just a toy for kids and a few enthusiasts to play around with. Then came the GUI and word processing and some killer apps, and suddenly everyone needed one.
On the other hand, this doesn't mean that I should go out and spend $500 to get an aibo (or a wind-up radio).
I'll give you one reason why the fuel producing companies will not tolerate leaking.
Hydrogen is much more combustible than fossil fuels. Any company producing Hydrogen for consumer use will be sure that their containers will not leak enough to cause anything to blow up. Otherwise, they'll be out of business pretty damn fast.
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I, too, agree. NetBeans was written in SWING, taking years for seemingly simple things like menu dropdowns to occur even on powerful machines. Eclipse, which was written using SWT, has a smoother and faster GUI.
Widespread Use of Hydrogen May Hurt Ozone Layer
Also, no one has mentioned anything to suggest that Hydrogen just may not be the big savior that everyone is touting it to be.
For example, (I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for saying this) for years (starting in the late '70s) personal computers were considered useless for most people. Rather, they were just a toy for kids and a few enthusiasts to play around with. Then came the GUI and word processing and some killer apps, and suddenly everyone needed one.
On the other hand, this doesn't mean that I should go out and spend $500 to get an aibo (or a wind-up radio).
Hydrogen is much more combustible than fossil fuels. Any company producing Hydrogen for consumer use will be sure that their containers will not leak enough to cause anything to blow up. Otherwise, they'll be out of business pretty damn fast.
Why did SCO choose to state the threat now? IBM has been touting Linux for years. What's changed to make SCO suddenly accuse IBM of wrongdoing?