Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs

DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...`Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the`... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then`... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."

Comments

What's up with the punctuation

[emj]

Why... is there... there so much... punctionations in the summary?

Re:What's up with the punctuation

[Trepidity]

Slashdot is kind of an in-between case, though; when the editors post a story by submitters, it's sort of formatted as if they're "quoting" the submitters, but it's not quite like quoting a book or speech or something. It's expected that when submitting a piece to a site with editors (assume for the sake of argument we can call Slashdot editors that), that your text might be, well, edited before publication. The Economist, for example, edits letters to the editor before publication for style and brevity, without using ellipses to indicate where they removed text.

Re:What's up with the punctuation

[joeharrison]

Why... is there... there so much... punctionations in the summary?

Because it was written by William Shatner.

Re:What's up with the punctuation

[daveime]

I'm ... sure that ... even ... William ... Shatner ... can use ... a spellchecker.

Punctionation ... indeed ... !!!

Re:What's up with the punctuation

[noundi]

You're semi right. It's not Slashdot. It's kids on internet that haven't yet learned these rules. Also since ignoring these rules require less work they tend to become infectious to others. However internet lingo in all fairness, I don't really care if someone uses bold instead of italic when emphasising a word, or even spelling incorrectly. These are acceptable mistakes. But misquoting is unacceptable and it questions the whole liability of the text. To me, as a reader, using quotation incorrectly would be as confusing as swapping two letters with eachother. Some rules can be bent, some rules can't. If you want people to read what you write it's a good idea not to lie, even unintentionally.

Re:What's up with the punctuation

[johnlenin1]

Absolutely. When I worked on the editorial staff of an academic journal, all ellipses not present in the original text were to be enclosed in brackets.

Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename

[MrMista_B]

I threw up in your mouth a little.

Re:Living in the past

[jedidiah]

The problem with Floppies was what you would replace it with.

Until a standardized external expansion bus took hold (namely USB),
you had no way to plug in an alternate boot device to a PC in a
predictable way.

Back in the day, you couldn't even take for granted that you could
boot off of a CD.

Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename

[DNS-and-BIND]

+5 insightful for this schmaltzy piece of crap? "beacon of purity" *gag* *puke*. Just goes to show you, it's OK to be profane and irreverent, but when Something Important comes along, all the sudden reverence is right back in fashion.

Re:Why would my Mom upgrade to Snow Leopard?

[mmkkbb]

Gentoo, huh?