I don't think they're right to be afraid of the all of two people who actually by this thing.
Not the two people actually using this device... but the thousands using the cheap versions when they become available. If one of the cheaper manufacturers gets sued then it's...
"Well, you didn't have a problem with Kaleidescope -- why are you picking on us?".
It allready has been done, unfortunately not in a healthy or sustainable manner. Here's a random link. I was hoping to find some of the more disturbing pictures of the pollution computer waste causes. There are whole villages buried in the stuff in China, and the heavy metals they are extracting is a severe health hazard. I think this kind of thing is why such recycling schemes are being proposed.
At risk of degenerating this to another.Net vs Java vs the-rest-of-the-world thread.... (too late?)
I would say java simply because of the number of proven, documented libraries and frameworks with active communities providing good support.
You can argue which platform is the best until you're blue in the face, but I think the most of your time is going to be saved by well documented, well supported libraries -- not language features or server features.
I bought myself an aopen EZ-18, which is similar to the shuttle in form and design. It is a terrific machine, and has given me no trouble. It is the best layed out (imho) of all the mini pc's, and working on it is no problem at all for me (I have skinny fingers though). If you are in the market for a mini, give one of these a look. (Don't be put off by the bad Engrish on the box or the crappy ads "Fun your life!" wtf?).
I have developed an application before using Flash in the front end and JBoss in the backend (OpenAMF makes up the glue in between, but there is also Macromedia's Flash Remoting). It's a very interesting way of developing a rich interface delivered via web, but it has it's limitations.
The first is the development effort in the front end. We had to create all our Flash widgets nearly from scratch because those that were included were not flexible enough. This was a fairly large job. An open library of flexible, easy to use widgets for Flash would make this less of an impact.
The second was the reaction speed of the UI, although this was considerably helped by the introduction of Flash 7 -- much smoother, plus the Flash programmers liked the addition of ActionScript 2.
The third was common to all web apps - the inability to "push" event from the server, relying always on user input to update the state of the gui.
Anyhow, all in all this is a legitimate use for Flash (besides advertising and annoying website navigation) which can be quite effective in differentiating a webb-app from the background noise.
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Yes, definately a feature in Sunbird/Mozilla Calendar.
I don't think they're right to be afraid of the all of two people who actually by this thing.
...
Not the two people actually using this device... but the thousands using the cheap versions when they become available. If one of the cheaper manufacturers gets sued then it's
"Well, you didn't have a problem with Kaleidescope -- why are you picking on us?".
We can't be letting this happen again.
See here for a brief summary of the toxicity of old electronics parts. There is plenty of toxic heavy metals in the components.
It allready has been done, unfortunately not in a healthy or sustainable manner. Here's a random link. I was hoping to find some of the more disturbing pictures of the pollution computer waste causes. There are whole villages buried in the stuff in China, and the heavy metals they are extracting is a severe health hazard. I think this kind of thing is why such recycling schemes are being proposed.
Its 80% WHO you know, and 20% WHAT you know
Never forget the value of WHAT you know ABOUT WHO you know.
At risk of degenerating this to another .Net vs Java vs the-rest-of-the-world thread.... (too late?)
I would say java simply because of the number of proven, documented libraries and frameworks with active communities providing good support.
You can argue which platform is the best until you're blue in the face, but I think the most of your time is going to be saved by well documented, well supported libraries -- not language features or server features.
$0.02
actually...
j = +-i
(i.e. j = plus or minus i).
So does that mean that being in debt can equate to evil?
I bought myself an aopen EZ-18, which is similar to the shuttle in form and design. It is a terrific machine, and has given me no trouble. It is the best layed out (imho) of all the mini pc's, and working on it is no problem at all for me (I have skinny fingers though). If you are in the market for a mini, give one of these a look. (Don't be put off by the bad Engrish on the box or the crappy ads "Fun your life!" wtf?).
I have developed an application before using Flash in the front end and JBoss in the backend (OpenAMF makes up the glue in between, but there is also Macromedia's Flash Remoting). It's a very interesting way of developing a rich interface delivered via web, but it has it's limitations.
The first is the development effort in the front end. We had to create all our Flash widgets nearly from scratch because those that were included were not flexible enough. This was a fairly large job. An open library of flexible, easy to use widgets for Flash would make this less of an impact.
The second was the reaction speed of the UI, although this was considerably helped by the introduction of Flash 7 -- much smoother, plus the Flash programmers liked the addition of ActionScript 2.
The third was common to all web apps - the inability to "push" event from the server, relying always on user input to update the state of the gui.
Anyhow, all in all this is a legitimate use for Flash (besides advertising and annoying website navigation) which can be quite effective in differentiating a webb-app from the background noise.