dietcokedrinker

Unsurprisingly all the answers here are from the Python and Ruby community folk. Have a look on a Job board for LoB apps that require those two languages and you'll get a shock.

You choose .NET or Java or C++ for the real world apps that large businesses use to talk to other large businesses. The reason is these companies (minus banks perhaps) all run Windows, with Active Directory and all use Outlook and Exchange.

Design agencies producing iPhone apps and websites don't use those technologies and get monkeys to produce HTML and JS.

I hope the bad Amazon reviews based on Origin, which is just a poor Steam clone, don't deter people from buying Battlefield 3 - it is easily the best PC FPS game there has been for a long time. With a half decent graphics card it's no exaggeration to say the graphics are jaw dropping, and the game play matches it.

Unfortunately if you lose your internet connection mid game, Origin closes the game immediately. You lose all XP/progress you have made in the game since you launched it.

Steam had its share of problems when it launched and it looks like Origin is exactly the same, except the tool isn't there to make our gaming lives better but to stop piracy without giving a crap about the gaming experience.