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Does New Development For Mac OS X Make Sense?
DLWormwood wonders: "As a long time Mac developer, originally as a hobbyist and then a professional, I'm feeling pessimistic about the future of the platform now that Apple is embracing Intel and abandoning the few remaining 'Mac' technologies (like the PowerPC and OpenTransport) left to the platform. With the high likelihood that these new Macs will offer a full speed version of Virtual PC and (what I think is) the almost assurance that some clever hacker will make 'X for x86' run on commodity hardware, I'm doubting the willingness of most IT and development houses to even give the Carbon and Cocoa APIs a first glance. (If it wasn't for the poor past performance of VPC, I would not have gotten my first Mac programming job.) Can anybody with a more optimistic view think of a scenario where a modern development house will do Mac development in an age where the help desk will just say either 'switch boot to Windows/Linux' or 'run Virtual PC?'"
> its just ...too gui for me
Put Terminal in your dock and then click on it once in a while. Your problem will clear right up.
-- Mark
You fucking idiot. You did NOT buy a Mac because of the processor. You bought it because it's quiet. Do you think, after the huge backlash of the G4 towers and all the work Apple put in to building a quiet G5, that Apple will EVER ship a noisy computer, EVER?
Nobody gives a shit about the CPU. If you say you do, you're either lying or you're an idiot.
You should leave the OS X development arena. It'll leave more room for me...
It's unfortunate, but endianness is the most important part of an API. You're going to have to reverse to order of the bytes for the string literal in "Hello, World!" to make it work. It's just not worth the effort.
English is easier said than done.
. . .could you imagine telling your mother to run out, buy a beige box, download some boot hack, install it, then install OS X on top of that?"
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And I own two G4 Powerbooks, 15 and 17", two partioned volumes each, running Tiger, max RAM, broadband, wifi / Airport Express, Nokia Bluetooth . .
I'm also a grandmother, and you all need to get: (who am I talkin' to: dateless geeks) women are not what you think.
Unless it's a robot, in which case, it's an inanimate machine. Or a classic Mac.
Yeah, it's sad when it comes down to having to lie just to get some cross-platform settings. I'm glad things have improved over the years.
-- Using the preview button since 2005