So instead of sending a roughly ~100 byte script that might waste some client cycles, you want to send a ~2MB of text/html data over the internet? Yeah, that sounds like a great idea and not at all a waste of the clients bandwidth! I hope he doesn't have a modem:)
You can freely download Java 1.5/Java 5 for no charge. It's available now.
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Trust me, we looked at that one. The "tool" can only be used in extremely simple circumstances and is not much more than a marketing trick from Microsoft.
I know bashing on Clear Channel is popular, but this is getting ridiculous.
First of all, it is not Clear Channel but National Association of Broadcasters that filed the complaint (contrary to what the original posting says) which Clear Channel is one of many members (as someone pointed out, they only got about 10% of the radio market).
Also, this request isn't that far out there. After all, local radio and TV stations have to pay fees and licenses to transmit locally, so why shouldn't satellite based radios have to-do the same if they want to have local content? DirecTV and Dish both provide local content, but they are very strict on the fact that you can only get your own local channels due to these rules. I don't see why satellite radio should be any different.
Now I wouldn't mind if the satellite services were allowed to have local content based on GPS, but I don't think its right to charge money of one group to transmit local content and not the other.
The point is here (which some other people also pointed out) is that the personal edition is not for geeks. Geeks should buy the Professional "swiss-army" knife edition that got everything you could possibly want.
Personal should be for people who doesn't care or doesn't know enough to care; they just want to use the computer.
I agree, java is fast enough, even swing, but I like native widgets with native themes on applications.
There already is an alternative to Swing which does use native widgets, and doesn't tie into a particular widget library, namely SWT from Eclipse. It can be used in standalone applications as well as within the "Eclipse platform".
SWT already has bindings for GTK/Linux, Motif on various platforms and Win32, so applications can be written to use native widgets on a various number of platforms. Hopefully there will even be QT bindings in the future (I'm a KDE user myself:)).
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checko ut ~/platform-swt-home/main.html
But why would you want a language that can solve both small and large problems? Why not use a good language to solve "small problems" for "small problems", and a good language to solve "large problems" for "large problems"?
Of course, I would probably argue that Perl cannot solve "large problems" after creating 100k+ line Perl applications. The problem lies that the reason languages like Perl is good for quick and dirty hacks is just the reason they are not that good for large systems that needs to be maintained over longer periods of time with many developers involved.
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So instead of sending a roughly ~100 byte script that might waste some client cycles, you want to send a ~2MB of text/html data over the internet? Yeah, that sounds like a great idea and not at all a waste of the clients bandwidth! I hope he doesn't have a modem :)
You can freely download Java 1.5/Java 5 for no charge. It's available now.
Trust me, we looked at that one. The "tool" can only be used in extremely simple circumstances and is not much more than a marketing trick from Microsoft.
I know bashing on Clear Channel is popular, but this is getting ridiculous.
First of all, it is not Clear Channel but National Association of Broadcasters that filed the complaint (contrary to what the original posting says) which Clear Channel is one of many members (as someone pointed out, they only got about 10% of the radio market).
Also, this request isn't that far out there. After all, local radio and TV stations have to pay fees and licenses to transmit locally, so why shouldn't satellite based radios have to-do the same if they want to have local content? DirecTV and Dish both provide local content, but they are very strict on the fact that you can only get your own local channels due to these rules. I don't see why satellite radio should be any different.
Now I wouldn't mind if the satellite services were allowed to have local content based on GPS, but I don't think its right to charge money of one group to transmit local content and not the other.
DirectX is great for PC Games - but for real scientific/commercial work it *SUCKS*.
Much more money in PC games though I'm afraid. And as always, money talks.
The point is here (which some other people also pointed out) is that the personal edition is not for geeks. Geeks should buy the Professional "swiss-army" knife edition that got everything you could possibly want.
Personal should be for people who doesn't care or doesn't know enough to care; they just want to use the computer.
I agree, java is fast enough, even swing, but I like native widgets with native themes on applications.
:)).
o ut ~/platform-swt-home/main.html
There already is an alternative to Swing which does use native widgets, and doesn't tie into a particular widget library, namely SWT from Eclipse. It can be used in standalone applications as well as within the "Eclipse platform".
SWT already has bindings for GTK/Linux, Motif on various platforms and Win32, so applications can be written to use native widgets on a various number of platforms. Hopefully there will even be QT bindings in the future (I'm a KDE user myself
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~check
But why would you want a language that can solve both small and large problems? Why not use a good language to solve "small problems" for "small problems", and a good language to solve "large problems" for "large problems"?
Of course, I would probably argue that Perl cannot solve "large problems" after creating 100k+ line Perl applications. The problem lies that the reason languages like Perl is good for quick and dirty hacks is just the reason they are not that good for large systems that needs to be maintained over longer periods of time with many developers involved.