Nerdcore 4 Life

While I’d love to be playing Warhammer right now, Charter’s service is screwy today. It’s not slow, but I’m getting 10-30 second spans of no activity. Which means I am wandering around the server like a ghost as everyone fades in and out, but that’s only interesting for so long.

So I decided to sit down and get Android running, which I’ve been poking at for weeks. I was hesitant because you have to install Eclipse and some special pluggins and blah blah blah.  So I install it and the Android SDK and create a project and…nothing. I’m looking at the same welcome screen I’ve seen the whole time.

I assumed when you create a project it would open it up, probably in a tab next to the Welcome tab. So I check the files, everything was created. Delete, restart Eclipse and do it all over again. Still nothing. Can’t open a project under File or the Project menu.  In my random attempts to get something to happen I click on the X next to Welcome and boom, there’s my project.

So the people who make Eclipse essentially decided to add a fake tab at the top of a Welcome screen that covered up any work you tried to do. So anyone who fires it up for the first time is actively fooled into clicking through the Welcome interface.

At what point did free software become evil?