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  1. Review - Total Commander

    7.0 Release Candidate 3 (Apr 19, 2007)

    TC is an outstanding program for file management. I downloaded v. 7 RC1 and played with it (for the first time) and it's great.
    The only problem I personally have - some familiar Windows explorer functions are not there or not immediately accessible.
    So I can opt to use Directory Opus v. 9 when it ships on April 27. Has anyone work with both TC and Dopus? Can you compare them?

  2. Review - DualXplorer

    0.866 (Apr 18, 2007)

    Has anyone heard of Total Commander, Directory Opus, xplorer2 etc?
    Why to write a similar program that is so inferior to existing file managers in every way?

  3. Comment - Sun's JavaFX Takes On Flash, Silverlight

    0.866 (May 8, 2007 - 4:42 PM)

    This whole JavaFX stuff somehow resembles an older package from Macromedia called Director. And Director was an outstanding multimedia authoring tool. Too bad that Macromedia and now Adobe stopped developing Director further and concentrated completely on Flash (not to say that Flash is bad).
    One interesting question that I have: will JavaFX system replace Swing based desktop applications? Is that an intention here or just create a JVM based multimedia authoring tool?

  4. Comment - Sun's JavaFX Takes On Flash, Silverlight

    0.866 (May 8, 2007 - 4:35 PM)

    NULLedge, you are mistaken.
    Netscape invented the scripting language with syntax resembling Java around 1996 and called it LiveScript. Then Netscape renamed it JavaScript - with requested and received Sun's blessing. That renaming was done for marketing purposes because of skyrocketing Java popularity.
    Then - much later - Javascript was presented to the European manufacturing standards organization ECMA for creating a world-wide standard for JavaScript. The standard was created and it was called ECMAscript.

  5. Comment - Sony's Kutaragi Steps Down

    0.866 (Apr 28, 2007 - 12:05 AM)

    Dsfargeg,

    it's not Kutaragi. SCE has become 7,000 people company. The core development (hardware and the OS) were done by a small group in Japan that included a weak team of software developers and hardware guys who were brilliant but argued all the time and created a system with great components but bad overall design. Their counterparts in US were even worse and couldn't contribute much even if they were asked (but they were not).
    PS 3 was doomed from the start on the price side as well because Sony top management decided to push Blue Ray through PS 3. Kutaragi didn't want it and fought and lost. As a result he was thrown out of the Sony board.
    Dropping Kutaragi shows what Sony has become - a house of stupidity and political intrigue. Kaz Hirai, Stringer and Phil Harrison are nothing but political stars. They could do well in the White House.

  6. Comment - Sony Readying eyeVio for Friday Launch

    0.866 (Apr 26, 2007 - 7:26 PM)

    No chance Sony will give real competition to YouTube. Just another way to loose money for Sony.

  7. Comment - Sony's Kutaragi Steps Down

    0.866 (Apr 26, 2007 - 7:23 PM)

    Sony is being taken over by non-technical managers.
    Good-bye old Sony and its amazing technical leadership. Here comes politicized bloated company that lost touch with reality. More blows to come!