After trying out Windows 8 consumer preview for a couple of weeks, I have absolutely no desire to ever use a tablet that has the metro UI/UX. It is wretched.
I'm sure there are some people out there that like it... If you are one of these people, I'd really like to hear your opinion of it. I have a really hard time organizing everything. It always looks cluttered to me. If I did not discovered the feature where you can press the Windows key and start typing to search for applications, I would have reinstalled Windows 7 a long time ago.
If anyone has any tips and/or tweaks that improve the experience, please tell!
Your argument doesn't make sense. It is a touch focused UI and you have to atleast try it out with touch input and then comment. Yeah it might not be good for traditional mouse and keyboard input, but using that as an argument that you don't want it on a tablet is not right.
So you're saying that it would be less cluttered with touch input rather than a mouse and keyboard? I guess that makes sense... ;)
I did't say anything about it not working well with a mouse and keyboard. I said I had a hard time organizing things after I installed a lot of applications and widgets. I feel like no matter how much time I spend coloring panes and organizing them, the interface still slows me down. That's why I like using the Windows key and then typing in the application name.
I guess I just need to accept that the Metro UI is not for me, even though I wanted and tried really hard to like it.
You forgot to include these services: character name changes, character race changes, character transfers, guild transfers, vanity pets and mounts. I'm not proud to say that I have spent money on all of these except the guild transfer service.
That is true, although as mentioned above the Chinese get their own deal. And Blizzard did get into the 'real gold for virtual goods market' which is quite large. Teasing apart the revenue per subscriber from their reports, talks, and sometimes off hand remarks is very challenging. There is the 'max' rate of $15/month, there are the 'free til level 20' players, there are the 'Yearly Pass' types, and of course there are the pay per hour guys in China and elsewhere in southeast Asia.
So my guesstimate at $10 per was a 'blended' rate. Pessimists seem to put it closer to $7, not sure why though.
And then in a couple of months when you have to come back and figure out where that weird bug is hiding, you probably will wish that you spent a little more time writing your code properly. Just because PHP lets you write horrible code doesn't mean you should.
I think RoR and Django are both great frameworks. If you think that Django is too restrictive or inflexible, you are relying too much on the framework and not on your own abilities as a programmer. Django gets you up and running quickly, Python is where the real magic happens.
I can't believe I've read this far into an epic flamewar already, but thank you for making the one comment I can get behind.
My experience with most development teams is that they have their own custom version of whichever framework(s) they use with as much of the warts removed as possible, in their own style. There's just no way you're going to get around this part, no matter what framework you use.
Ruby: 6,401 Python: 8,299 .NET: 26,711 Java: 36,069
An interesting switch is: Django Developer: 1,199 Rails Developer: 3,682
I don't think Ruby, Python, etc will die anytime soon. There are too many small businesses that need products developed fast. PHP on the other hand...
PHP Developer: 10,317 What?! ;)