Huh, who knew. Last I checked, JavaFX was built on top of Swing. Apparently that may have changed with 2.0.
Or maybe not. I can't tell.
But one thing seems pretty clear from screenshots: your JavaFX applications will fit in with the native desktop just about as well as your Swing applications did. Which is to say, "not at all."
JavaFX is its own thing, but they've made it possible to include JavaFX panels in Swing apps.
Swing is definitely functional, and Nimbus doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out, but it's legacy as a cancerous outgrowth of AWT hurts it too much. It's amazing what they were able to do with that kind of foundation, but it's past time for something better.
K&R is perhaps the single ugliest coding style I have ever seen or used.
Let me introduce you to the GNU coding standards. Please pay particular attention to the crazy way they indent the braces in the function body.
I think Paul Bucheit probably meant it when he coined the phrase, and I doubt it was marketing BS back then. But Paul is long gone from Google and its not the same company it was back then.
I think you seriously overestimate the U.S. military. DID they turn off GPS during this launch, I doubt it. I pretty much doubt they would be able to shut off every GPS constellation in existence and planned in the near future for any event less than World War III.
Guidance is a lot easier now that there is this thing called GPS
I really want to see Packaged Apps take off across all browsers, mobile and desktop. I'm willing to take a little performance hit to have apps available across all platforms.
Like Java -- "Write once; debug everywhere."
Sigh. Slashdot used to be a FOSS / open standards blog. Moving away from an MS protocol to an open one would have been cheered. I wonder what happened to
Your interpretation is incorrect, not sure how it got modded up. This is a case of two behemoths colluding to build huge patent portfolio's to:
A. Protect themselves from patent law suits by competitors, though it doesn't really help against patent trolls since trolls don't make anything and can't use portfolios to defend against them
B. Potentially lock out competitors and disruptive small companies.
Startups and small companies tend to be the biggest casualties in this behavior since they usually don't have patent portfolios they can horse trade with to defend against patent suits and to cross license with the huge companies with the huge patent portfolios.
It remains to be seen if Apple and Google use their portfolio offensively or defensively. If its defensively its not a problem. If they use it to crush potential competitors it is horrible.
Apple is obviously the more aggressive of the two in using patents to crush competition, but then Android, Samsung and HTC did pretty aggressively copy the iPhone in the early days.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
