Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Phht! on screenscaping Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:03:48 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8473 On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:53:49 -0300, Arved Sandstrom wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Way over an hour. The whole process yes, writing the code to generate the file given the info was in a database I doubt would take me more than an hour. On the other hand, when you total up the total hours of clients and server side code, it is orders of magnitude easier to create and maintain a programmer API. The big advantage is not so much the format, but that it sits still (or is XML-style upward compatible) and has no undocumented variants. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It should not be considered an error when the user starts something already started or stops something already stopped. This applies to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone, e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.