I can second this recommendation. If you're not going windows only look at Qt.

So it charges everyone who walks by and sends the money to me instead of the store?

Journalism 1: Write a story titled "Is xxx dead?"
Insert popular item of choice in place of 'xxx'.
Generates controversy and people keep falling for it.

NHibernate's implementation might be fine for Java but sucks for Desktop applications. Instead of paying the cost of parsing the object mapping files once (when the web server is started) you pay for it every time you start your application. It also guarantees that your efficiency is awful because of the way it's designed. Do yourself a favor and use something else.

Seems like the same old blather. I don't see anything in the authors credentials that lend any credibility to what he's proposing.

Amen! The article is just journalism 101 games to whip up controversy.

Didn't care about the characters. They didn't act like real people. The background made no sense. It's "pawn stars" writ large.

A pretty interesting write up :)

You can be sued at any time, by anyone, for any reason, no matter how stupid.
Further, you must defend yourself in court, or you will automatically lose.
It's expensive for the person suing you so it's not generally done unless they're really angry or really rich.
Does any of that description fit any person or corporation in the story you posted?

The suit will be thrown out but Microsoft hopes by the use of fear to control you without actually having to pay lawyers.
They have lawyers on staff who get paid anyway so there's no down side to this unless you call their bluff or stop buying their stuff because of their practices.
Up to you man.

OMG! Too funny. If I had mod points right now you'd get all of them.

Nukes will not go off accidentally. Which should be obvious if there were five opportunities and none of them went off. It's hard to get a nuclear explosion. It will not happen in a fire etc.

Thanks :) Given that it was 33 bits I assumed it might be the 8 bit version.

> Apple simply do not exist...they certainly did not invent the desktop analogy

but they did use the bible from the guys that did invent it.

>they have been fantastic.

They've done an above average job, but I wouldn't consider it up to professional standards.
The poor quality of the Gnome file manager is a perfect example.

They're also increasingly getting away from the what the average user wants to do with a PC.

Cloud computing? There are stories everywhere about companies being hacked and data stolen,
Internet root DNS servers being down for 18 hours, etc.
I don't want someone who doesn't care about my business or my data being responsible for it.
It's a niche market and they should be focusing on nailing down basic functionality still.
They wouldn't even have to write it themselves. A bounty would probably work just fine.

LOL. We're doomed. China is going to pass us by because we're idiots.

Man, I gotta get into the titanium dioxide production business if bioluminescent jelly fish are going to be cheaper.
There's gotta be a heck of a profit in there.