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According to Israeli business paper Calcalist, 45 out of 65 employees in the company’s offices in Israel were fired, including founder and CEO Bob Rosenschein and CTO Jeff Schneiderman. Another 25 employees or so work out of the United States, but it remains unclear if all of them have also been given a pink slip.
The image you posted does not inspire much confidencedoes anyone have experience with these typefaces?
-justice (June 27, 2011, 03:03 AM)
And what's wrong with limiting economic growth? Everything else in the *real world* has limits, so eventually economic growth must also be limited. We're just putting off the time line of that limitation artificially for the short-term gain of a few.-JavaJones (June 25, 2011, 12:48 PM)
Limiting economic growth without limiting population growth? You *really* want to talk about the haves and the have nots.-wraith808 (June 25, 2011, 03:18 PM)
Population growth is largely self-limiting in developed ("1st world") countries. Unchecked population growth only ultimately leads to the saturation of Earth as a habitable space, regardless of its cause. So clearly growth without limit is untenable, and any system that relies on it as a fundamental principle is not sustainable long-term. One can make the argument that it might make sense as a short-term strategy for various reasons, but pretending it can achieve sustainable long-term viability is not only foolish but dangerous. The physical laws of the universe itself are ultimately standing in the way, but much sooner than they will rear their head the limitations of our own comparatively tiny world and resources will do so. Not acknowledging that eventual reality and *planning for it* is irresponsible in the extreme. Our current economic models have no answer or solution to that "end game".
- Oshyan-JavaJones (June 26, 2011, 08:59 PM)
Yes, I tend to agree, but finding API details when you don't have a MSDN subscription can be a b****.
The one thing I like about Java over EVERY other language I have tried to work with is the self-describing documentation that can be viewed with any HTML browser. Moreover, it is instantly available online or off (because it just reads the details from the jar file as part of your SDK). It's format is also VERY easy to understand.
If Microsoft's API documentation was that easy to access and understand, I probably never would have started with Java. Since it isn't....-steeladept (June 26, 2011, 12:44 PM)
I may not be one of the programmers here, but I do work for a large corporation in infrastructure support. What I see most is Java, but .Net is creeping in where it can - pretty much anywhere they don't have a professional developer developing it. In other words, most people see .Net as an easy way to accomplish what they want based on what they already know (basic). Some are still working with VB6, but most have moved on to VB.Net because you can get the VisualStudio Express version for free and do what needs done in .Net with minimal learning curve. Beyond VB/ASP.Net, I tend to see a lot of Perl/Python/Java/JavaScript programming (depends heavily on what, or who, the user already knows) outside the "programming" groups. Those various languages tend to only be used for web development, though.-steeladept (June 26, 2011, 12:37 PM)
Question for the programmers here: is .Net that big a win for Microsoft? I don't see it as widely adopted as Microsoft seems to think it should be - but I'm an ousider to the trade so my impressions 'looking in' may not reflect the reality inside. I ask because to me it seems most development is still "business as usual" 32-bit and MFC (or other non-Net tool) based. I'm guessing .Net only lurks beneath something like 10-15% of what's out there?
Comments, correction, or shared insights greatly appreciated.-40hz (June 26, 2011, 12:19 PM)
Well, based on the fact that I had about 40 hours total in developing KyrCrypt, I've recouped, so far, about 35 cents for each of those hours, LOL. Still, some recognition is better than none. The comments I'm getting most is that people like the ability to schedulably encrypt an entire directory of files. One guy is using it to do this, and then backup the encrypted (supposedly sensitive) info to a site using FTP.-kyrathaba (June 26, 2011, 12:15 PM)
Let's base it inversely on the amount of CO2 and other crappy stuff in our air.-worstje (June 26, 2011, 11:26 AM)
Ooh, got another donation for KyrCrypt via PayPal. $2.00. Yee-haw!!-kyrathaba (June 26, 2011, 09:55 AM)
all browsers should come with animated gif turned off by default!-lanux128 (June 26, 2011, 01:42 AM)
But then you'd miss stuff like this!-app103 (June 26, 2011, 06:42 AM)
But enough of me writing about what's been written. Read it in the author's own words here.-40hz (June 25, 2011, 08:02 AM)
Java
You didn't really think I would forget Java in my rant about C-oid languages, did you? Now, Java is almost the solution. Almost, were it not for reality.
C#
I almost forgot this one. I actually did forget it, until feedback reminded me of it. Frankly, I hardly know C#. As a language, it seems to be nice, a great evolution of C and C++. What makes me stay away from it is the non-free nature.
Remember this is a real-world language. And it is there. And it works. What use is a beautifully constructed language that doesn't get stable, finished or fast enough for real-world problems? It's easy to nitpick on details, but to make it a real product, you need to address all constraints. That's what Go does.
Yeah, well, my home speed is about half your speed I would bet (can't test it, my home machine is down with a dead HD - waiting for the new one so I can rebuild it and try. Probably died from the same thing that killed the internet that day). I think my best scores then were somewhere around Deo's score or maybe a little lower.-steeladept (June 25, 2011, 02:07 PM)
:Finally!
This is the crack for Guitar and Drum Trainer v4!
Finally got around to cracking it, since there was no crack or serial ANYwhere on the web.
RenegadeMinds
C'mon guys! If you like it, please buy a license. That's how I put food on the table. You don't want to eat my lunch now, do you? Cut the poor boy some slack~!
All things considered, it's pretty cheap for what you get. It does a lot more than others and it's the same price or less. It's about dinner for 2 at a cheap restaurant.
If you don't decide to buy a license, make sure to tell lots of friends about GDT, but just don't tell them about the cracks. Maybe some of your buddies will help put food on my table!
Anyways, I hope people like it~!
Ryan
patyork
wow. That's awkward... Yeah we love it, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of business from this torrent. Adobe actually *allows* us to download Photoshop (and other products) because it drums up business. (The poorer people get the cracked version, and use it the most. the richer people buy it (for a cool grand i might add) and don't really use it.)
Anyways... Everyone loves it.
