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Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs

Posted by kdawson on from the see-you-at-the-base-camp dept.

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."

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  1. Title is misleading by tyrione · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll leave it up to the author to see how it's incorrect.

  2. What's up with the punctuation by emj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    1. Re:What's up with the punctuation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      k... daw... son... m'kay?

    2. Re:What's up with the punctuation by Trepidity · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      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.

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    3. Re:What's up with the punctuation by joeharrison · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

      Because it was written by William Shatner.

    4. Re:What's up with the punctuation by daveime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

      Punctionation ... indeed ... !!!

    5. Re:What's up with the punctuation by noundi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

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    6. Re:What's up with the punctuation by johnlenin1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

  3. Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You don't think it's an apt name because snow leopards can't roar?

    (I'll let you figure out the analogy).

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  4. Mod parent +5 Satire by MrMista_B · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    olololo

  5. Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename by MrMista_B · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I threw up in your mouth a little.

  6. Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I returned the favor.

  7. Re:Living in the past by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  8. Re:Snow leopard is such an apt codename by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +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.

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  9. Excuse me, sir... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But are you by chance kneeling before a glory hole somewhere in San Franscisco right now?

  10. Fag crashes trolley while texting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7561561&page=1

    Well MBTA, I hope your liberal Jim Crow hiring practices were worth $9.6M in damaged property and 46 lawsuits...

  11. Re:Why would my Mom upgrade to Snow Leopard? by mmkkbb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gentoo, huh?

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