I apologize in advance should anything that follows should upset/.s Gentle Readers. It is not meant to offend but it does offer my raw opinion on the topic.
Currently, the only thing that comes close to an application development tool on the OS X platform from Microsoft is VBA which resides in their office suite. They have made it clear that with the next release of Office that VBA scripting will no longer be supported. The excuse given is that they are afraid to make any more patches to VBA for OS X because they believe that further modification might lead to a buggy monstrosity. Who wrote that buggy piece of code that is not worth updating? This was the same excuse used by the IE7 team for their lack of standards compliance. If they changed it to meet the standard it would break and the time since IE6 to IE7 was too brief a period (what a laugh) to start over and rewrite it correctly. Give me a break. This is as lame and transparent as the BS coming from a really bad politician.
I don't believe that it is a stretch to say that Microsoft will never release an application development tool for any OS other than Windows. The only way that this could possibly happen is if they release one that gives Microsoft a better choke hold on the market. They are in the business to primarily sell software where that software is acquired by buy-out of another company or generated in a half-assed manner so that customers can buy bundles and licenses from a single source.
I've been in the software development business for more than 25 years and have watched Microsoft practices, with amazement at times, as this company lucked out when IBM stumbled with its "PC" and got the foothold it needed, machines in businesses that would only buy IBM. The next thing they knew and IBM abandoned those businesses and they were stuck with "DOS", a rip-off of CP/M (from Digital Research).
All this is not to say the development tools in Visual Studio are bad. But even still they reflect the same corporate focus and that is to make nothing that might assist a competitor. This is exemplified by J++ and C#. This allows them to not only own code but they own the language it's written in.
Oh, and one last thing. TFA was written by John Carroll who:
has delivered his opinion on ZDNet since the last millennium. Since May 2005, he's been a Microsoft employee. (Emphasis mine)
I see what you mean with the resemblance to a Tokamak. This reminds me of a harmonics-optimised nightmare out of my college magentic machinery course. BTW how do you feed one of these. Do we have pellets with lots of pulsed energy beam equipment as in inertial confinement? Just curious.
Yawn, truly. If one reads the Apple patch notes they say quite plainly:
mDNSResponder
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3744
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.10, Mac OS X Server v10.4.10
Impact: An attacker on the local network may be able to cause a denial of service or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the UPnP IGD (Internet Gateway Device Standardized Device Control Protocol) code used to create Port Mappings on home NAT gateways in the Mac OS X implementation of mDNSResponder. By sending a maliciously crafted packet, an attacker on the local network can trigger the overflow which may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by removing UPnP IGD support. This issue does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.4. If one reads the entire note there were other, more noteworthy, bugs addressed rather than one that would take great care to craft and would have to be deployed on your LAN.
Also, the derogatory terms used to refer to people who have an operating system preference are reminiscent of my three year old calling someone "poopie butt." Save us all.
0.000000001A is one nanoamp, not a microamp (10^-6), that times.5Volts =.5x10^-9 or.5 nanoamps. One may also note that these are scalable:
It will produce its own electricity while immersed in biological fluids or other liquids, using ultrasonic waves as the energy source. So far, they achieved the nanogenerator effect in an array of nanowires that could produce as much as 4 watts/cubic centimeter. They convert mechanical energy (vibrations) into electrical energy.
Our next goal is to grow bigger nanowire arrays to raise the nanogenerators' current to microamperes, and to build a three-dimensional structure to raise the voltage to 0.5 V so that it can be used for powering devices. For more on this nanotechnology breakthru check out the editorial review of Dr Wang's books at
Nanowires and Nanobelts
Materials, Properties and Devices
Metal and Semiconductor Nanowires Volume I at http://www.nanoscience.gatech.edu/zlwang/book/book 8.htm
The Gecko core has not had the capability to cut and paste styled text and graphics on the Mac for several years and is a well documented bug that the bugzilla site notes is not a high priority to fix. While this may seem minor, anyone that hopes to copy and paste web page content while retaining even simple styles will be frustrated by ANY Gecko core browser. I do not believe that it would be in Apple's best interests to provide and a program that does not integrate even at the clipboard level.
Who cares how many dimensions? who says that Occam's selection is valid? Science and, yes, physics is only the practice of coming up with working models of what we can observe. If you want to worry about something, try and prove that "natural laws" are time-invariant. Might they even be discontinuous? What about Gödel's incompleteness theorem? Is mathematics even a valid means of modeling "Reality?" Hmmm...
These companies appear to me to be doing what many American investment firms used to/still do. They take something apparently worthless (a name) and help make it produce money. It does not and was not ever intended to be used to provide products or services. Trade deficit? I wonder why? Oh, yeh. We don't make anything any one wants/or can afford anymore (or will soon). Another topic.
Many domain name sites buy large blocks of domain names, park them, and then evaluate their worth by the amount of hits they get. This then determines their resell price. They then keep the the high-hitters and dump the rest back into the overall pool at no cost to them. Also persons wanting to obtain the rights to but not necessarily use variants on their domain (.com,.net,.org,.info, etc...) get "parking" privileges on some of these sites. They get "free" parking if they agree to let the registrar put their own ad page on them.
Buy 300,000+ domains, dump the ones that don't have a high value (hits, requests for purchase) before the registrar release deadline so they cost you nothing but up front money that you get back. Keep your ad income, free advertising, "hit rating" assessment, all for the small cost of a little overhead for equipment, licensing, power and personnel.
Why go into the business or making things or selling services when you just open yourself up to law suits, competition and all that nasty stuff when you can make money contributing nothing to the world (not even social networking). Junk bonds, buying on margin? I'm sure this is so much easier.
Somebody once said that "The love of money is the root of all evil." That the richest person in the world puts accumulating more money above any harm that may be caused by it comes as no surprise at all.
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Currently, the only thing that comes close to an application development tool on the OS X platform from Microsoft is VBA which resides in their office suite. They have made it clear that with the next release of Office that VBA scripting will no longer be supported. The excuse given is that they are afraid to make any more patches to VBA for OS X because they believe that further modification might lead to a buggy monstrosity. Who wrote that buggy piece of code that is not worth updating? This was the same excuse used by the IE7 team for their lack of standards compliance. If they changed it to meet the standard it would break and the time since IE6 to IE7 was too brief a period (what a laugh) to start over and rewrite it correctly. Give me a break. This is as lame and transparent as the BS coming from a really bad politician.
I don't believe that it is a stretch to say that Microsoft will never release an application development tool for any OS other than Windows. The only way that this could possibly happen is if they release one that gives Microsoft a better choke hold on the market. They are in the business to primarily sell software where that software is acquired by buy-out of another company or generated in a half-assed manner so that customers can buy bundles and licenses from a single source.
I've been in the software development business for more than 25 years and have watched Microsoft practices, with amazement at times, as this company lucked out when IBM stumbled with its "PC" and got the foothold it needed, machines in businesses that would only buy IBM. The next thing they knew and IBM abandoned those businesses and they were stuck with "DOS", a rip-off of CP/M (from Digital Research).
All this is not to say the development tools in Visual Studio are bad. But even still they reflect the same corporate focus and that is to make nothing that might assist a competitor. This is exemplified by J++ and C#. This allows them to not only own code but they own the language it's written in.
Oh, and one last thing. TFA was written by John Carroll who: has delivered his opinion on ZDNet since the last millennium. Since May 2005, he's been a Microsoft employee. (Emphasis mine)
I see what you mean with the resemblance to a Tokamak. This reminds me of a harmonics-optimised nightmare out of my college magentic machinery course. BTW how do you feed one of these. Do we have pellets with lots of pulsed energy beam equipment as in inertial confinement? Just curious.
The Gecko core has not had the capability to cut and paste styled text and graphics on the Mac for several years and is a well documented bug that the bugzilla site notes is not a high priority to fix. While this may seem minor, anyone that hopes to copy and paste web page content while retaining even simple styles will be frustrated by ANY Gecko core browser. I do not believe that it would be in Apple's best interests to provide and a program that does not integrate even at the clipboard level.
Anyone read a biography of Al Einstein? That was one focused person!
Before trying this, note that police radios convey information at 186,282 mps -- a good bit faster than any of the current means of human conveyance.
What is Microsoft going to do now after spending all that time coming up with their "Better DRM" based operating system, Vista?
And we were concerned about a national ID card.
Who cares how many dimensions? who says that Occam's selection is valid? Science and, yes, physics is only the practice of coming up with working models of what we can observe. If you want to worry about something, try and prove that "natural laws" are time-invariant. Might they even be discontinuous? What about Gödel's incompleteness theorem? Is mathematics even a valid means of modeling "Reality?" Hmmm...
These companies appear to me to be doing what many American investment firms used to/still do. They take something apparently worthless (a name) and help make it produce money. It does not and was not ever intended to be used to provide products or services. Trade deficit? I wonder why? Oh, yeh. We don't make anything any one wants/or can afford anymore (or will soon). Another topic. Many domain name sites buy large blocks of domain names, park them, and then evaluate their worth by the amount of hits they get. This then determines their resell price. They then keep the the high-hitters and dump the rest back into the overall pool at no cost to them. Also persons wanting to obtain the rights to but not necessarily use variants on their domain (.com, .net, .org, .info, etc...) get "parking" privileges on some of these sites. They get "free" parking if they agree to let the registrar put their own ad page on them.
Buy 300,000+ domains, dump the ones that don't have a high value (hits, requests for purchase) before the registrar release deadline so they cost you nothing but up front money that you get back. Keep your ad income, free advertising, "hit rating" assessment, all for the small cost of a little overhead for equipment, licensing, power and personnel.
Why go into the business or making things or selling services when you just open yourself up to law suits, competition and all that nasty stuff when you can make money contributing nothing to the world (not even social networking). Junk bonds, buying on margin? I'm sure this is so much easier.
Somebody once said that "The love of money is the root of all evil." That the richest person in the world puts accumulating more money above any harm that may be caused by it comes as no surprise at all.