Posts by Carl Jokl

Oracle's Ellison gambles with OpenOffice's future

Cynicism

Does Sun ever do anything without The Register writing a Cynical article about it?

I might mention that to say Nebeans is the only way to build JavaFX is out and out nonsense. For some time an Eclipse plug-in has been available and anyone who wants to create and IDE which just uses the FXDK can do so. Sun has also been clear that in the interests of speed as they are still very much figuring out what is to be in JavaFX they have avoided putting it in open source in the 1.x release. This allows them to make quick design decisions without having to consult lots of people while the platform is still in a lot of flux. It is expected 2.x will be open source.

Mormons demand ICANN plugs net smut hole

Tone

I can see a clear tone of this article is being disparaging towards Mormons.

I think it is desirable to be able to control adult content on the Internet. Those who want access to it can carry on accessing it and those that don’t have a way to block it out. I don’t see that is so unreasonable. I dare say I don’t think that the Mormons are the only ones who are trying to control adult content. Many parents would wish to keep their children away from adult material too.

As for Mormons being fruitcakes, I am but I know some others who are more normal.

I am not even from Utah or the US for that matter.

I must say it is disappointing to see the statistics of pornography usage in Utah though I am not all that surprised by them. It is true that members of the Church have moral standards which they endeavour to live by but ultimately do so imperfectly. I can understand why this causes others to make accusations of hypocrisy.

OpenGL 3.1 promise follows gamer revolt

We need OpenGL

I still feel in spite of the problems there is still a need for something like OpenGL providing a cross platform graphics API.

I am dissapointed how things have turned out but it is not over yet. I still like to at least hope this mess can be turned around.