I did install their JavaFX plugin, first I watched a video from the marketing department. A popup appeared telling me that an application was about to be downloaded Ok or cancel, it was signed and verified, I click OK.

Then I moved to the demo site...I click on one of their demo, again a popup appeared with the same warning and OK or Cancel.

My question is, does this popup message appears every single time you browse a new javaFx app?

Looks like JavaFX plans to make money with certified signatures. (not the first time I see this business model with SUN, I remember J2ME and their certified mobile application). Sorry guys even if your technology is interesting, I won't enter into such a business model...It is a total no go for end user (quite disturbing) and pretty scary for developers like me who are supposed to pay their roylaties each time they dare to release a new web app. Find another way to make money.

Javascript can't. The biggest problem imho is animation and vectors. You can't really use formats like SVG which is poorly supported by most browsers (if not all). So if you plan a 100% javascript+html+css, you have to stick to bitmap sprites and even there, there are some issues (slow, browser compatibility, etc.).

Depends of the job...See CPAN for example and all modules available. If you need OOP, don't use Perl, if you need to glue quickly few modules, Perl is still my favorite.

Who's considering them obsolete? I still play with 2003 video games. I'm a big fan of those "classic" games as they call it. I'm not ready to spend +$50 per game nor do I plane to play them on anything than my cheap laptop. Budget? less than $10 per game.

The result? There are usually 10 titles available for that budget in the biggest store of my city. And most of them were had bad review on the release (somes I haven't ever heard of). You have to be lucky to find one with a good review.

Let's take Halo for example. Is Halo 1 or Halo 2 impossible to sell nowadays? I seriously doubt so.

I can buy old movies for $5. When I say old...it is usually 90's movies. But there are some pretty good ones.

They miss sales...Just like they did when they refused to sell arcade games (abandonware) and fans released their own version. And then they rushed to take that market back. They are poor "asset managers", very bad ones.

Movies too, but you don't hear hollywood producers complaining about the cost each time they release their new movie.

The irritating thing about the video game industry is that they make more money than the movie industry and they keep complaining. When you have such an amount of revenues and you still have difficulties to keep the whole thing afloat, the real issue is the management.

Well I had a large project (server) under mono few months ago and Mono + monodevelop did the trick. But of course if you want "linux programming" you would be slightly disappointed :-), it looks so much like windows ;-).

The problem I had were the weak winform port for the rest...And few problems while marshalling across platefom...For the rest well it works.

Well I really don't know if he has such a link, but the thing I know for sure is that he is a shame for Italy and now for the whole Western Europe.

I work with openoffice only.

So here are a couple of things:

• Grammar check is rather poor in French (yeah I know but the whole planet doesn't speak English yet).
• Weird problems with MS office for mac (and my main clients are communication agencies working almost exclusively with Apple), mainly spreadsheet and doc forms.
• If you receive files in the last MS office format, you are screwed (or you need to use somekind of a automatic convertor, doesn't work well each time).
• Some problems with numbering styles (1.1 subchapter, 1.1.1 sub-sub chapter, etc).

I don't complain, I saved money thanks to it, but I'm no fanboy either and I don't care about all opensource politic/idealism/whatever. This is businness. I can easily understand why some people prefer to stick to MS Office. If licenses costs weren't such an issue for my company, I would migrate to MS office.

Same for me but I didn't left the entrepreneurship. When you have no diploma, beeing self employed is an option worth considering. It usually takes more time to get decent earnings (the first years are extremely difficult). But now after 11 years, I truly enjoy being the owner of a small web development company. In those days I would rather advice taking a self employed activity as a second job and make it your primary job once you've got enough clients and turnover.

I guess the algorithm is linked in a way or another to a clock (time)...If they point to a atomic clock sync, isn't possible to spoof the IP (or change locally domain name config) and then to trace the next domain name?

The whole world doesn't resolve around the USA you know...The first coal & steel treaty was aimed at creating friendship amongst western European countries. The goal of the founding father was basically trade is the best tool to prevent any further misunderstanding leading to a bloody war. There were no form of pride...Just the fear of a third collective suicide on the European continent.

Switzerland isn't part of the EU.

Most Scientists don't give a damn about nationalist pride...What matters to them is knowledge and too often their own personal interests (publication, reputation, etc)

CERN is run by scientists, not politicians.

"God particles" is a term used by reporters, not politicians as far as I know.

I'm no idealist, I just base my thought on facts.

Well I'm maybe wrong but I think those characters existed prior to UTF-8. For those of us who have to deal with middle east characters, turkish or nordic ones (names and surnames) in a single database, UTF-8 is the only sane option.

And let me guess...That's your native tongue, right? :-)

American scientists are a major contribution to the LHC:

reference

I feel like nationalist rivalry aren't part of this equation.

Second CERN is an independant institution. See their directors CERN press release and tell me where is the politician responsible for this blackout.

I'm a user of piratebay, I know what I do is illegal and I won't reject my fault on somebody else. They define their price that's up to you to buy or not. Sure I might consider to buy their stuffs if it was slightly cheaper but in the end, I know I'm the offender, they aren't. It's a bit childish to try proving we are on the right side, IMHO.