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We've had that kind of crap for years in the Netherlands (slightly different, but it takes about 20/30 seconds)... It's really very annoying, but I continue to buy my dvd's.
Downloads are missing subs, have wrong subs, are in a wrong spoken language, are in a bad quality, are corrupted, are seemingly really very good until the very end when the big showdown starts and suddenly the movie just stops... I know, I'm just not looking good enough. That's my experience with them anyway (and not just my own downloads).
Buy a dvd, put it in your dvd player and it just works. I can watch it on my own tv, I can watch it downstairs on the big ass tv screen, I can lend it to friends who lend me theirs in return. It never let's me down. That's worth a few bucks to me and I just take those 20/30 seconds government crap for granted 
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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So is it OK to play a library copy or my friend's copy. That is sort of the same thing.
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Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company has decided that Visual Studio 11 Express, the free-to-use version of its integrated development environment, can produce nothing else. Pay to play.
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Unfortunate decision for sure, the Express editions were/are excellent products and I thought were more of a 'grab'em young, keep'em forever' strategy.
But I can see that MS knows Metro will die/survive based on its apps, and they need Metro to survive if they can continue to modernise the Windows platform and drag its from its nasty legacy roots. This move *will* increase the amount of support resources for Metro dev (which is also required) and the apps.
And given that they are free, we can't really complain! The 2010 editions will still work on Windows 8, and if need be coexist with the 11 editions.
Also given that better Metro design relies on MVC/MVVM patterns, it would also mean that more younger devs have exposure to the core ideas that will help them later.
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cjb110 wrote: I thought were more of a 'grab'em young, keep'em forever' strategy.
No, that's what Dreamspark is. Students can get VS Professional, the Expression suite, server OS's, and more for free. I can get multiple copies of most of those because my school also has a program with MS to offer a bunch of software free to its students (including the desktop OS's, the only thing Dreamspark really lacks). That's the real 'grab'em young, keep'em forever'.
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cjb110 wrote: And given that they are free, we can't really complain!
If it doesn't do what I need it to do then free doesn't matter.
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This might be the impetus that SharpDevelop needs to become BIG!
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The current SharpDevelop 4.2 release is already ready for .NET 4.5 and async/await, just install .NET 4.5 and it'll appear in the target framework list.
Yes I guess this might boost our user numbers a bit
Though I'm not too hopeful that that will translate into increased contributions - Windows developers tend not to think about contributing 
Unfortunately the reduced Windows SDK will also screw us over in some aspects, e.g. the XML documentation files (documentation in IntelliSense) for the .NET 4.5 BCL are no longer available without Visual Studio (previously these were part of the .NET/Windows SDKs).
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Microsoft can "want" for me to write "Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications" but I suspect it will be a while before I actually do so, and even longer before I do so without being paid for it. For example, I will probably keep writing OpenGL applications for Windows, and compiling them with MinGW, until Microsoft completely removes support for this mode of development. What's going to compel me to change my ways? Guilt over not using the very latest thing? I'm over that.
I suppose it's possible that the new technology will just be so awe-inspiring that I'll switch over despite the availability of existing, free development tools that I really like. Windows 8 / "Metro" would have to be very good indeed for me to feel this way, though, especially after the way WPF turned into a non-event. The credibility of these Earth-shattering pronouncements from Microsoft is at a low ebb right now, in my estimation.
modified yesterday.
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are they going to give everyone touch-screen monitors?
no?
screw them.
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No-cost desktop software development is not really dead on Windows 8[^]
Quote: Two packages were used in this mindblowing revelation:
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express (C++ compiler and toolset)
Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (for Win32 headers)
Wiring this up to the ‘Express UI is a trivial exercise for the developers out there. (In response to Peter Bright’s story.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In Windows 8 development, you have several options for building your applications. XAML is one. HTML5 is one. Platforms, distribution, and everything else being equal, I would pick XAML/C# every time over HTML/CSS/JS, and I’ve been a web developer for 14 years. Which would you rather use?
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i would use XAML/C# instead of HTML5/JS
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I would say XAML/C# for Windows 8...unless someone told me the HTML5/JS will properly 'just work' on other platforms.
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XAML by far. It's by far my favorite way to develop. I really hope this HTML5="Greatest end all coding option" hype bubble bursts soon. Sure, HTML5 is powerful, but nothing close to XAML.
I realize this leaves mobile out of the picture, however I'm considering a desktop application only.
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Are there only 2 choices?
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Still, I'd happily go back to GDI-pre-plus if we only could agree on one UI technology.
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Seems to me everyone here likes XAML/C#. I have to 100% agree. I have avoided ASP.NET as much as I can. WIth Silverlight and WPF I get the MVVM pattern, which I absolutely love. Not available with HTML.
In my mind JavaScript was one of the worse decisions made on the web. Almost anything would have practibally been better: VB, C++, .... Personally think they should have come up with a language that played nice with XML.
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So many developers my age have had plenty of chances to ditch coding and move into management, but we've stuck with coding because it's what we love to do. We'd earn more in management, but writing software is in our blood. We wouldn't stop doing it for anything. ...and more importantly, how not to code.
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Some do. I knew 3 old farts at a previous job. One knew how to code (though he was really middle aged, and had no kids AFAIK), one was mediocre, and the other should not have been allowed near a computer. I suspect they didn't move into management because then they'd have to learn something new.
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Another way to spell management is "S T R E S S" - I've been programming for more than 40 years and no way would I want to deal with all of the crap that department managers have to deal with; both with the people they manage and the people they report to 
Steve
_________________
I C(++) therefore I am
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I imagine so. There's no way I want to get into management, especially with people like me to manage. 
Project manage, sure. People manage, no thanks.
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Speaking as an Old Fart who started programming in machine code on LEO III/6[^] I tried being a manager for a while. I gave it up as soon as I found a technical post because i)I hated it and ii)I was useless as a manager. I won't claim to be a great programmer but I did manage to write some code that worked, and I was not bad at debugging others'.
Programming is work, it isn't finger painting. Luc Pattyn
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