"You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future." mikejuk, are you trying to troll us?
Visual programming tools have existed for years now, but they won't replace textual programming because they can't handle complex scenarios without making the interface uncomprehensible (check out Max MSP).
Also visual tools are usually domain specific, while general purpose languages (like Java, Ruby, Python are not).
It's annoying to always hear the line "you used to be assholes with us, but now you can't cause your country is fucked up" whenever something bad happens in Argentina.
Maybe in 2 hours you learned the very basics, like changing fonts and colors.
Learning how to do complex layouts will take you a much longer time, due to broad scope of CSS (CSS 3 is massive) and because every browser implements CSS differently.
Take it easy gramps... they're making it easier for us to share interesting things in other networks. If you don't wanna share, then don't click the icons.
It's not like they are showing tweets with the comments...
I guess you are right, Google could have just ignored the problem but aren't because they could have proofs that the government is behind the incidents. From the post it sounds like they are pissed off with them.
While the impact for chinese people could not be that large, the impact for Google is huge. It is a really ballsy move from them to risk losing the enormous chinese market.
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"You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future." mikejuk, are you trying to troll us? Visual programming tools have existed for years now, but they won't replace textual programming because they can't handle complex scenarios without making the interface uncomprehensible (check out Max MSP). Also visual tools are usually domain specific, while general purpose languages (like Java, Ruby, Python are not).
...this strikes me as someone who has too much time on his hands.
Or too many Windows licenses.
Or OS/2
Looking at the screenshots, it seems they made Gnome look like KDE 4!!
It's annoying to always hear the line "you used to be assholes with us, but now you can't cause your country is fucked up" whenever something bad happens in Argentina.
Do you have a source for this?
Yes! What the world needed, more gasoline!
well done, mister!
... and Baby Jesus
I'm curious, the interoperability issues are from the different Android versions, or from different devices running the same version?
Maybe the judge is an Apple fanboy.
You forgot: Do nothing.
Well, it wouldn't be the first time the Internet is in an acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0
Maybe in 2 hours you learned the very basics, like changing fonts and colors. Learning how to do complex layouts will take you a much longer time, due to broad scope of CSS (CSS 3 is massive) and because every browser implements CSS differently.
It's not like they are showing tweets with the comments...
Interesting? What the hell!? Why would Google want to kill Firefox and spend BILLIONS trying to do it??
That's not an encyclopedic article, it's an opinion column.
I guess you are right, Google could have just ignored the problem but aren't because they could have proofs that the government is behind the incidents.
From the post it sounds like they are pissed off with them.
because they have no other choice
While the impact for chinese people could not be that large, the impact for Google is huge. It is a really ballsy move from them to risk losing the enormous chinese market.
They use the metric percent.
I agree wih most of your post, but you are wrong about XMLHttpRequest, which was introduced by Microsoft.
It's called Relationnelle with Cheese.
Although they are blocking exploits on every iPhone OS release, I didin't know that Apple was sending C&Ds to jailbrakers.