Grails mono should be "Have your cake and eat it too". It's amazingly productive and it integrates seamlessly with current java environments and skillset.
Groovy however i find not as amazing. Specially with all inconsistencies that \type annotation\ bring to the table.The humongous stacktraces are a sore in the eyes and complicate debug. The current IDE support is lacking but rapidly improving with SpringSource team efforts(STS2.1 has a pretty decent groovy&grails support).
There's a lot of room for improvement but it's definitely heading the right way.
NB was like that when I was running 5.5 5 years ago in a 512mb win2K worstation.
In my current PC, NB6.7B takes 8s to boot, 2 more
than eclipse but still...
To be fair, the default LAF takes 15+ seconds to boot and is generally slow even for common tasks. Changing to Nimbus or Metal often improve NB responsiveness and boot time IMO.
Tecnically you can call and ask 'Linux' to fix it asap, but it costs money.
Or buy Oracle's Unbreakable Linux. If it breaks you can sue them for false advertising.
You misunderstood. One standard, not one manufacturer.
The control of the platform could be handled by a board of manufacturers, publishers, developers and consumers. Like and Open standard.
There would be no licenses or the license costs would cover the bureaucracy of the process, nothing else.
Hardware competition would come from Acer, IBM, Lenovo, Apple, Sony, Toshiba and whoever is capable of making computer hardware(and read the specs).
In the end, manufacturers would worry about competitiona dn lowering the prices, add functionalies and game deveopers woudl worry about making games and less about R&D for weird platforms, outrageous licesing fees, stupid content reviews(like MS does with live content), etc...
4. Supporting multiple-platforms can be a massive overhead. You develop a game for PC, than port it to 360 and PS3 to reach a bigger installed base and your game ends up costing 30~40% more plus taking 2x as long to be released.
5. You have to pay licensing fees in order to reach a bigger installed base by going multi-platform. Not to mention, having to bend over to manufactures to get your game approved for that platform.
A unified gaming platform would decrease costs by cutting #4 and #5. DRM could be included in the standard so interoperability would be guaranteed, cutting #3. The reduction in cost and the standardized platform/architecture would greatly affect #2 and #1 positively.
Their services are pretty good, but such functionality is indeed missing.
I missed a Metric show that I wouldn't have they, who know I'm a Metric fan, warned me.
They know what I like, and they have info about albuns and shows, how had it is to fire an actually interesting newsletter once in a while.
There is nothing wrong from profiting from OSS. In fact, I think you're incentivized to put a price different than free by some FOSS licenses, probably to enfisize the difference between free and free.
On thing can't be overlooked, if Apple becomes too much strong with a closed platform, that might push even more support for Android and if all those players were to release cellphones based on Android, all compatible with the same software, that becomes an enemy way bigger than even the Jesus phone can take.
People fail to realize that even the most secure content still needs to be converted to analog for our eyes and ears to understand.
With super high quality audio capture and 1080p60 cameras, the end result would be almost as good as the original wouldn't it?
That's their business model, offering you a free service supported by relevant ads defined by minining your habits, they are very transparent about this. It's in their TOS, if you don't agree with that, you shouldn't have accepted it in the frist place.
I still trust them more than MS.
You don't consider James Bond movies art?
I know the concept of art is highly debatable, partly because of the speed of digital media evolution, but movies are accepted as Art, no matter how crappy or without sense you think their plot(or lack thereof) are.
They want you running microsoft software on every device in every room in your house, forever.
No, that'sinnacurate. They want a lock-in in the e-distribution era. The living room will be the entry point for all media consumed in the house, they want to control that channel. The same objective as Sony with Ps3, Apple with AppleTV, etc...
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This is a good idea for Amazon. There are no taxes to be paid in the moon.
Or in Antarctica which is a smaller challenge.
Who's raging is the idiots who put their money on Silverlight/.net. The nerds are watching star wars in telnet.
Grails mono should be "Have your cake and eat it too". It's amazingly productive and it integrates seamlessly with current java environments and skillset.
Groovy however i find not as amazing. Specially with all inconsistencies that \type annotation\ bring to the table.The humongous stacktraces are a sore in the eyes and complicate debug. The current IDE support is lacking but rapidly improving with SpringSource team efforts(STS2.1 has a pretty decent groovy&grails support).
There's a lot of room for improvement but it's definitely heading the right way.
NB was like that when I was running 5.5 5 years ago in a 512mb win2K worstation.
In my current PC, NB6.7B takes 8s to boot, 2 more than eclipse but still...
To be fair, the default LAF takes 15+ seconds to boot and is generally slow even for common tasks. Changing to Nimbus or Metal often improve NB responsiveness and boot time IMO.
Tecnically you can call and ask 'Linux' to fix it asap, but it costs money.
Or buy Oracle's Unbreakable Linux. If it breaks you can sue them for false advertising.
Invisible wall?
If that actually exist, I'm sure I often trespass too.
I vote for anything with the initials G.U.N.D.A.M.
You misunderstood. One standard, not one manufacturer.
The control of the platform could be handled by a board of manufacturers, publishers, developers and consumers. Like and Open standard.
There would be no licenses or the license costs would cover the bureaucracy of the process, nothing else.
Hardware competition would come from Acer, IBM, Lenovo, Apple, Sony, Toshiba and whoever is capable of making computer hardware(and read the specs).
In the end, manufacturers would worry about competitiona dn lowering the prices, add functionalies and game deveopers woudl worry about making games and less about R&D for weird platforms, outrageous licesing fees, stupid content reviews(like MS does with live content), etc...
4. Supporting multiple-platforms can be a massive overhead. You develop a game for PC, than port it to 360 and PS3 to reach a bigger installed base and your game ends up costing 30~40% more plus taking 2x as long to be released.
5. You have to pay licensing fees in order to reach a bigger installed base by going multi-platform. Not to mention, having to bend over to manufactures to get your game approved for that platform.
A unified gaming platform would decrease costs by cutting #4 and #5. DRM could be included in the standard so interoperability would be guaranteed, cutting #3. The reduction in cost and the standardized platform/architecture would greatly affect #2 and #1 positively.
Their services are pretty good, but such functionality is indeed missing.
I missed a Metric show that I wouldn't have they, who know I'm a Metric fan, warned me.
They know what I like, and they have info about albuns and shows, how had it is to fire an actually interesting newsletter once in a while.
Mozilla will have Google's support as long as FF marketshare stays big and that google search textbox keeps bringing google several hits.
There is nothing wrong from profiting from OSS. In fact, I think you're incentivized to put a price different than free by some FOSS licenses, probably to enfisize the difference between free and free.
As long as you distribute the source you're ok.
Microsoft is even actively contributing to Eclipse now.
Now there's no middle term and we'll know the answer soon: Either they really saw the light or they are moving for the final strike.
I just hope have the worst come to be that someone from the future will bring us ablative hull armor technology.
With Vista being such a disaster and Windows 7+ looking into becoming paid services, I wouldn't doubt that...
Can a communitarian effort be labeled as charity?
If a group of people works toward a common goal for this group, then this isn't charity but simple cooperation.
On thing can't be overlooked, if Apple becomes too much strong with a closed platform, that might push even more support for Android and if all those players were to release cellphones based on Android, all compatible with the same software, that becomes an enemy way bigger than even the Jesus phone can take.
I believe that there's a good chance MS drops the price of the 360 around GTA4 release, so Sony will most certainly drop ps3's to keep it competitive.
People fail to realize that even the most secure content still needs to be converted to analog for our eyes and ears to understand. With super high quality audio capture and 1080p60 cameras, the end result would be almost as good as the original wouldn't it?
That's their business model, offering you a free service supported by relevant ads defined by minining your habits, they are very transparent about this. It's in their TOS, if you don't agree with that, you shouldn't have accepted it in the frist place.
I still trust them more than MS.
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You don't consider James Bond movies art?
I know the concept of art is highly debatable, partly because of the speed of digital media evolution, but movies are accepted as Art, no matter how crappy or without sense you think their plot(or lack thereof) are.
And then those danm hippies will say we're overusing the Sun's light.
I'm not a republican, I'm just joking.
They want you running microsoft software on every device in every room in your house, forever.
No, that'sinnacurate. They want a lock-in in the e-distribution era. The living room will be the entry point for all media consumed in the house, they want to control that channel. The same objective as Sony with Ps3, Apple with AppleTV, etc...
That's borderline reality, what makes It more sad than funny, so pardon if we don't laugh.