I played around with it some, and for anything but relatively simple apps it can get a little unwieldy, even though you can encapsulate and collapse functional blocks in their own modules so you don't have to see your entire app layout all the time. It is still awfully cumbersome to do simple things like specifying the input parameters to a function, or the conditions for a loop, things that take a second in text. That said, the main limitation I ran into was that they didn't have a proper component for web service calls, something that any connected app nowadays can't really live without. Abandoned any further evaluation when I found that out.

Not so sure about that. I'm running Ubuntu on an Athlon 2700+ and both Chromium and Firefox absolutely choke on anything with more than one Flash animation on it. This is particularly bad with Google Reader rendering Flash loaded tech feeds, so much so that the scroll wheel on the mouse is totally useless--scrolling the page takes about 1 second for each jump. Booting into Windows XP and reading the very same feeds is buttery smooth, so the machine still has plenty of horsepower. And yes, Flash, Ubuntu, both browsers, and the Nvidia proprietary drivers are all on the latest versions. Considering that web use makes up 90% of my use of the machine this makes for a very unsatisfying experience, even though I very much prefer to live a Windows-less life.

Wow, two posts and we already slammed solidly into Godwin's law. Nice!

Have you seen Kyle?

I think your reference eludes most /. readers nowadays. If you quoted Justin Bieber OTOH...

Not necessarily. Take for example Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace. He did a complete 180 on nuclear power, seeing it now as one of the few vital long-term energy sources.

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/11/moore_qa

Agree 100%! That's the thing with this man: while possibly brilliant in some respects, his entire world is so foreign to what most people are familiar or could ever be comfortable with. I still expect him to cut off his ear one of these days...

Wow, careful there, cowboy--them's some mighty big words and concepts you're wielding there! You do realize you're posting on Slashdot, right? Still, this reaffirms my belief that it's not all just Lemmings and brain stem functionality ruling /.

Not only that, but the very thought of all these micro particles floating around in the cabin atmosphere and inevitably also being breathed in makes me cringe. Iron filings anyone?

Come on now, there's all sorts of wrong with making Justene Bieber lunch boxes, mate!!! FFS, what were you thinking?!