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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D

« on: March 31, 2010, 06:21 AM »

I am dreaming of PC without coolers and probably with CULV processors.

The most annoying thing when you write your code during night is the noise of CPU/GPU coolers.

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Coding Snacks / Re: What language is the best for a new programmer to start with?

« on: March 31, 2010, 06:16 AM »

For sure during 80-90 it was Pascal.
But IMHO Now the best language to start is Java.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Release the source without the program being open source

« on: March 31, 2010, 05:25 AM »

If you do not want to publish your software under GNU license use other standard licenses.

There are many popular licenses like MIT or BSD:

http://en.wikipedia....ree_software_license

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Developer's Corner / Re: What do YOU do to keep your head cold when coding?

« on: March 31, 2010, 05:01 AM »

Actually I use fresh air from open window (not on the PC). 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Announcing Research Survey for Software Developers

« on: March 31, 2010, 04:55 AM »

I voted.

Is it possible to see results?

If not are you going to publish it here?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

« on: March 27, 2010, 02:16 PM »

this is just a typical rip-off of European customers.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Corel PaintShop Pro X - 4 Free

« on: March 27, 2010, 02:14 PM »

I tried PaintShop Pro X and I would say I prefer old version (3.12). IMHO PSP X is a bloatware.

y0himba, JASC Animation Shop v.3 rocks!

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General Review Discussion / Re: Opinions on remote PC control software

« on: March 27, 2010, 01:48 PM »

I used Radmin (Famatech), RealVNC and OpenVNC.  And IMHO Radmin keeps connection better.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Educational Software reviews?

« on: March 27, 2010, 01:32 PM »

On MIT website I found quite interesting children software to learn programming. It is called Scratch.
The thing is this language is visual. And you can create a software using just a mouse. From the other side the scratch language doesn't have some math functions like sin() or cos(), but there are  loops, if-operators and events.

Apart from controlling sprites, you can control sound, analyze mouse coordinates and keyboard input.

It really takes just a 5 minutes to explain basic ideas of programming.

Scratch is a freeware and can be downloaded from here: http://scratch.mit.edu/download