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."

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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.