It all depends on what you expect out of your tools and what you are used to. For me, the debugging capabilities just are substandard. I can't even remember when I used another IDE that did not have a debug callstack window. And in a way you are right, AVR Studio is similar to most other microcontroller IDEs, it's just that all the other IDEs are not that good either.

Carbide and TRK is similar in that aspect. It's very buggy and crash prone. In my opinion, with the computing power of today's workstations there is no reason "application" developers should have jump through hoops to develop simple apps.

Same experience here. Developing in Symbian C++ is very slow and tedious. It is almost as bad as developing for AVR with AVRStudio.

They also fumbled big time when it some to Python.I created a few apps with it but unfortunately the runtime has too many crashing bugs and it looks like they are not interested in fixing those.

Every mobile platform has issues (even or especially the JesusPhone). Symbian has issues, WinMo has issues. It just a question your perseverance and if the target platform is willing to deal with you. WinMo is cheap to develop, but the manufacturers don't give you drivers to the nice hardware. Symbian is expensive and difficult, but Nokia has API for every piece of hardware they stick into their phones etc.

As for Apple, well I joined the anti -apple cult...

Loved the article. There are not many people/companies that will share these kinds of details. Kudos.

Once the slashdoting dust settles could you please update the article with post slashdot data ;-)

Thanks

Like I said in a previous post: You have to have an education, will and resources to fight.

How many people end-up fighting is difficult to say, but judging by the changes in German society in the last 15 years I would say a large percentage.

Thats why it's such a big business to buy and sell debt here in the states. What does unsecured debt go for nowadays for? 1C on the dollar? Five years ago it was 6-25 cents per dollar. Thats actually quite a lot for a slim chance to collect on it, yet business was booming at the time ;-)

Besides, we are not talking about a 411 scam here. It's more like direct tv vs Canadian hackers/resellers. The border did not stop DTV against filing court order AND once they lost the first case (they did not have a license to broadcast to Canada) they managed to bribe the gov into changing laws.

Anyhow, did you know that DTV here in the states run a much better extortion racket than RIAA? Unlike RIAA they actually collected on a large percentage of their letters.

Not that frequent, but at least I have first-hand experience ;-)

(unlike some other people here)

All loopholes I guess, most of this shit is done across borders. In this case the law firm was Swiss, website was hosted in Germany, company owning the site in some other god forsaken country.

The point is yes people complain about it BUT it's only a small fraction of people that have the EDUCATION and will to fight.

I saw the letter and it was VERY well written for a scam. There was enough law and tech jargon to convince most people.

Again most people don't know what is and is not legal, what can be proven and at the same time most people did break laws at one point or another (like download an mp3 from a website). So scams like this are based on fear, lack of knowledge and lack of resources on the side of defendants...

So when did you live in Germany? I did for 10 years so STFU!

yeah sure, but it's a new revision to the "get our free magazine and by getting it you subscribe to 12 months and you can only cancel in writing 13 months prior to the subscription running out" scam.

Again, this scam is rampant in Germany right now. Law firm is in Switzerland, mails shit to Germany that demands money. Most people pay up because 450 is much less then a consultation with a lawyer...

I guess you have not lived in Germany yet. Here are a few idiotic things in that country when it comes to paying:

* A lot of times when you "pay online" or get a subscription, you give the vendor the explicit ability to WITHDRAW money from your checking account

* Unlike in the US, credit collectors will come to your home with a court order and TAKE your things ;-)

* Fighting fraudulent charges is as cost-prohibitive as it's here in the US. Meaning it's cheaper to pay up than to fight the fraudulent charge

Best example: my sister (complete moron when it comes to computers) just recently got a letter from some law firm to pay up 450 euros BECAUSE she visited a site (WAREZ or something similar, but the point is JUST by viewing the site she agreed to pay 450 euro).