Phone designers have seem to have this insane need for removing all "real" buttons. I have a HTC HD mini which is mostly ok (leaving a side that it's a Windows mobile). But since they insist on putting in cameras on these things I really would like a physical button on the side of the phone to take picures. Having to push a field in the middle of the touch screen is not even remotely a good idea. I've always had this impression that it's preferable to keep the camera reasonably still when taking picures.

Well I'm leaving aside any discussion on which type of object orientation (static class vs prototype objects) is considered the "real" or "best" and are assuming that both Simula and Smalltalk qualify by todays perception as object oriented languages. Simula does preceded Smalltalk by a few years, and since I'm not aware of any earlier general programming language that has syntax supporting an object oriented programming paradigm directly wouldn't that make Simula the "first"?

Just to keep the record straight, Simula 67 is considered the first object oriented programming language.

If you are one person writing a 50 page document Word may very well be perfect. However, imagine you have 20 people who need to collaborate on keeping a 1000 page documentation set updated.

Now imaginge doing this in Word.

As fairly recently promoted from developer to a manager I have a comment to the above.

We all love "can do" guys, but only if they really can do. If your you are already fully booked please learn to say so. If you over commit you either

• need to work a lot of extra hours in order to complete your tasks or
• fail to deliver work on time

While the first is mainly a problem for you initially, it will most likely hurt everyone in the long run when the quality of your work starts to drop.

It worked for WildTangent... which turned out to be spyware. They interfaced to Direct3D as well. They were windows-only as well. A lot of people paid them for their technology and used it to make all kinds of crappy 3d games in a browser. When that turned out to be profitless people stopped and as far as I know it's been relegated to making crapware games packaged by Gateway and others with new PC installs... just one more piece of spyware in their crapflood. There's no particular reason to believe that this will turn out any different.