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I'm confused, if you're using FF 99% of the time, what "important" stuff are you doing in IE?-Stoic Joker (February 11, 2011, 11:17 AM)
I was tempted to try again.. I shouldn't have been
All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness-wraith808 (February 11, 2011, 11:01 AM)
How do you manage to stand up without falling over, your Holiness?-timns (February 11, 2011, 11:02 AM)
And it's Royalness! Get it right!The ineffable Stoic Joker the Categorical: Capricious Bitch-Queen of the Archane Wilderness-Stoic Joker (February 10, 2011, 11:17 AM)All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness-wraith808 (February 11, 2011, 11:01 AM)
Hay man, looks like we're neighbors...
-Stoic Joker (February 11, 2011, 11:53 AM)
Some dangerous ideas:
- Could we pull together enough DC coders to do a Coding-Snack-A-Day throughout all of march?
-mouser (February 11, 2011, 09:27 AM)
-- The model publishers are following with DRM and pricing is RIAA in the 1990s all over againAgreed. Totally.-zridling (February 11, 2011, 10:20 AM)
-- Stop confusing the iPad as an e-reader. It can't do what the Kindle/Nook does and doesn't have the Ink clarity.Agreed only in part. Can it use e-ink or have the advantages that e-ink provides. No. But can it do what the kindle/nook does? Of course it can! What the readers to is allow you to read ebooks. And iPads (and a variety of other devices) allow you to do that also.-zridling (February 11, 2011, 10:20 AM)
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Professor wraith808 Pointless: Obscene Knave of Tinkling-on-the-Water
Pretty cool that he's into programming.
Hello World!
Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
They have pretty good sales on Manning from time to time; I believe I purchased the book and the pdf for $15.00 around Christmas.-wraith808 (February 10, 2011, 10:13 AM)
Good one - I'll grab that thing. There's a big element of running before walking when it comes to computering these days IMHO. Would be a great idea to cover some more basics.-timns (February 10, 2011, 11:11 AM)
My brain just can't quite wrap around open source as a cut throat business model.-mouser (February 10, 2011, 06:15 PM)
Me neither, but then maybe it's not opensource which is the business model, it's probably the business men in the background, not the programmers.-Eóin (February 10, 2011, 06:41 PM)
I have yet to see Archos hit a homerun with their devices. They always seem so promising, yet they never quite cross that line of truly awesome.-superboyac (February 10, 2011, 04:18 PM)
He's already into Java, so this recommendation is probably Pointless () but there's a really good book I purchased for my son to get started (and his uncle used it too!)that's not quite the same kind of tablet, i.e. it doesn't have an LCD (or whatever) screen built into it. instead it's a bit like the standard type of drawing tablets that Wacom does.-nudone (February 09, 2011, 08:01 AM)
The acid test will be the day some major best-selling author does a book, and they announce it will only be available on Kindle. That will be the first warning that hardball is about to commence.
How the public reacts and (more importantly) buys will determine future publishing directions.
Just my two anyway.-40hz (February 07, 2011, 09:55 AM)
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However, if I felt the Nook was going to get the last of a popular book, the completionist in me would prefer the Nook over any exclusive titles the Kindle may offer because I feel I must have at least invested in that series of books and willing to support the author to really get that final book barring things like Twilights and Harry Potters. On the other hand, if something was exclusive to the Kindle alone, I get the perception that the author must not be putting as much effort in that book and if it did eventually become popular - it will have a non-Kindle version.
<snip />-Paul Keith (February 07, 2011, 10:04 AM)
I wonder is this sale the part of some bigger plan for resurrecting whole IDE or just last effort before sinking. Embarcadero has been sleeping for a long time and some developers moved on to VS or Lazarus. How is it supposed to get them back?
Well, even Christian Ghisler is rewriting Total Commander for Lazarus.-fenixproductions (February 05, 2011, 10:48 PM)
^ This +1. It's all in the licensing. You don't sell anything (hobbyist or Open Source projects), you don't pay anything. If you sell anything, you upgrade to the personal edition.-wraith808 (February 05, 2011, 12:00 PM)
The personal editions that Borland used to release were free but the licensing stated it could not be used to produce commercial software. Anything released that was built with them had to be freeware. (they also had some limitations, like no database related components were included).
The community editions were intended for producing open source software, only. (C++ Builder X comes to mind)-app103 (February 05, 2011, 03:35 PM)
No, my phrasing was just ambiguous. My intended definition was: the less you accept government intervention, the more "right-wing" you are.
Hmm... sounds like Libertarianism to me.-Paul Keith (February 05, 2011, 03:30 PM)
It will be helpful to get my daughter's nookI like "community editions". Free for non-commercial use or single developers, minimal fees for small developers ($50~$1000 depending on the product), etc.
Well, we'll see.-Renegade (February 05, 2011, 09:31 AM)
Does anybody know how to get the non-trial version of Axialis Icon WS? I emailed Marc EMILE this morning but haven't gotten a reply. It appears that the trial version is not able to upgrade with the serial number.-edbro (February 04, 2011, 02:24 PM)
You've done an amazing job, Perry. Many thanks!-mrainey (February 04, 2011, 02:02 PM)
He's DoCo's Agent P! 
