Apple has (in the early days you actually had to get a token) kept very tight control on who can develop on the Apple box. And third parties have to be "blessed" and pay homage to the alter of Steve Jobs.
Oh come on. XCode (Apple's IDE) and a slew of other developer tools come with every copy of OS X. Even back in the olden times of SEs and Quadras, there were numerous IDEs available from Borland (C/C++/Pascal), there was MPW, RealBASIC, FutureBASIC, etc. There really was no blessing involved that I can recall. Apple has always needed more developers on the Mac... it would go against logic to make it hard for them to enter the arena (especially in the mid-early years of Mac, Appple didn't really make much software for the platform - it was mostly third party software). Hell, going back to the Apple ][, which came with a BASIC interpreter, there was a widely distributed public domain Pascal compiler, not to mention tons and tons of third party software.
As much the DRM laden threat as Microsoft? Hardly. There are no DRM APIs in OS X. In fact, the only DRM I've seen on OS X is in iTunes. (And remember, they had to agree to DRM to get contracts with the labels.) Compare that to MS's pandering to DRM loving CEOs and including it in Vista! And, really DRM is much more an application specific problem so far and has little to do with any OS besides Vista.
From the DTrace source (in an #IFDEF APPLE): /*
* If the thread on which this probe has fired belongs to a process marked P_LNOATTACH
* then this enabling is not permitted to observe it. Move along, nothing to see here.
*/
Luckily no malicious programmer will mark their malware's process with this flag!
The changes in section 3.1. New Elements look really promising. Think of Opera's automatic linking of back and forward on webpages, except we could customize our browsers to say, display blogs and other online reading in a different way than more utilitarian pages, simply because the browser recognizes , , , etc. The changes to input are neat and would at least save developers a little trouble. All in all, it will be up to the browsers to implement this sort of thing, but having the possibility for the extra meta data could change the way certain types of pages are interacted with in a lot of novel ways.
What do you want to do with client side include?? With all the security flaws around these days, I'm happy my browser isn't going to be executing external code. Or do you mean something else by that phrase?
I'm a developer. I don't think I'll be annoyed (it's not like I can't just keep using HTML4 or hell even 1 if I wanted). In fact, I'm pretty excited. It looks like there may be some really powerful changes being made. And yes, I do edit the HTML text directly and very frequently.
If you RTFA you would have seen that there are a lot of interesting changes in HTML5 that integrate with what people are doing NOW and providing a seamless set of markup and APIs. The audio, video, and canvas tags are particularly interesting to me, as well as the host of new meta tags. HTML5 could really take the web to the next level (and I'm just talking about organizing content, here, not even web apps or anything - it has some neat features pertaining to those as well).
Something I found interesting is that they will not consider the spec complete until there are two fully working implementations (FTFA). Sounds good to me... the spec can be trimmed if no one is going to implement the full thing (so at least there will be a smaller spec to refer to instead of a complete spec that no one uses). Another good effect is that if MS drags their feet, they will look even more stupid:)
I would go with a reward plan. You could do something like give the top three most energy efficient people a gift certificate to the campus eatery (or whatever really). Calculate how much money is saved (out of everyone participating) and use part of that money to create a pool for the prizes. (It seems like for a large enough group of people, the energy and maintenance costs would reduce considerably, but I wouldn't really know;)
I know I would definitely turn off my work PC every night if I got a free lunch!
That's interesting. I prefer my mice to have two buttons, but when it cums to trackpads I greatly prefer the "two-finger technique(TM)" for the right-clicking. I wonder what preference / difference in use causes this...
There's a big difference between 1. sampling a few seconds of a riff, adding some new drums, and rapping over top of it and 2. distributing an entire movie with commentary added.
You know, I'm getting realy tired of people bitching about/. Sure the site has its flaws, but if you think it's a "waste" to be here, then leave! Please! Most of us don't want to hear you bitch. Personally, I enjoy a good laugh at MS' expense as time well spent.
That's all well and good, but what of our humanity? Raising animals is already a largely unnatural, industrial process. It is not our place to raise animals in that fashion. To turn this into an even more unnatural process will not be good for us as a race. We should be eating less meat, not thinking of new ways to devalue living beings. (Yes, I eat a mostly vegetarian diet. No, I don't think killing animals is wrong, per se.)
Ew. The main browser window looks so bad on OS X:( I can't say I'm a huge fan of brushed aluminum anywhere but iTunes (and similar list-operation programs). I do like the HUD and cover flow stuff, though. You know, as long as it doesn't kill performance...
Digital prints with limited runnings command a fair price in the art market. They could easily be reproduced, but no one would want to pay for a non original-run print. Think about the price fetched for an original Picasso or Van Gough compared to a "compressed" version on poster. I can only see creativity and creative persons being more valued due to the lifting of draconian copyright laws. The models of distribution and compensation may change, but there are already viable markets to emulate.
I thought that producing ethanol from sugar cane is efficient enough to make it usable as a fuel. (I can't find any sources after a quick look though.) Brazil and Venezuela both are using tons of ethanol for their fuel. The US can't grow sugar cane (needs a tropical climate) so we are looking for alternative sources that are efficient to grow in North America. If a plant requires little energy that has to be put in by humans, it will be efficient to use it as a fuel source (i.e. sugar cane grows really easily and doesn't need a lot of irrigation, fertilizer, etc).
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Apple has (in the early days you actually had to get a token) kept very tight control on who can develop on the Apple box. And third parties have to be "blessed" and pay homage to the alter of Steve Jobs.
Oh come on. XCode (Apple's IDE) and a slew of other developer tools come with every copy of OS X. Even back in the olden times of SEs and Quadras, there were numerous IDEs available from Borland (C/C++/Pascal), there was MPW, RealBASIC, FutureBASIC, etc. There really was no blessing involved that I can recall. Apple has always needed more developers on the Mac... it would go against logic to make it hard for them to enter the arena (especially in the mid-early years of Mac, Appple didn't really make much software for the platform - it was mostly third party software). Hell, going back to the Apple ][, which came with a BASIC interpreter, there was a widely distributed public domain Pascal compiler, not to mention tons and tons of third party software.
Street watches have a good price-to-value ratio :)
As much the DRM laden threat as Microsoft? Hardly. There are no DRM APIs in OS X. In fact, the only DRM I've seen on OS X is in iTunes. (And remember, they had to agree to DRM to get contracts with the labels.) Compare that to MS's pandering to DRM loving CEOs and including it in Vista! And, really DRM is much more an application specific problem so far and has little to do with any OS besides Vista.
From the DTrace source (in an #IFDEF APPLE):
/*
* If the thread on which this probe has fired belongs to a process marked P_LNOATTACH
* then this enabling is not permitted to observe it. Move along, nothing to see here.
*/
Luckily no malicious programmer will mark their malware's process with this flag!
Oh thanks! I meant , , and :)
The changes in section 3.1. New Elements look really promising. Think of Opera's automatic linking of back and forward on webpages, except we could customize our browsers to say, display blogs and other online reading in a different way than more utilitarian pages, simply because the browser recognizes , , , etc. The changes to input are neat and would at least save developers a little trouble. All in all, it will be up to the browsers to implement this sort of thing, but having the possibility for the extra meta data could change the way certain types of pages are interacted with in a lot of novel ways.
What do you want to do with client side include?? With all the security flaws around these days, I'm happy my browser isn't going to be executing external code. Or do you mean something else by that phrase?
Yeah. It's not like the W3C has contributed anything to the internet at all. Sheesh. Who do they think they are?
I'm a developer. I don't think I'll be annoyed (it's not like I can't just keep using HTML4 or hell even 1 if I wanted). In fact, I'm pretty excited. It looks like there may be some really powerful changes being made. And yes, I do edit the HTML text directly and very frequently.
What progress?
If you RTFA you would have seen that there are a lot of interesting changes in HTML5 that integrate with what people are doing NOW and providing a seamless set of markup and APIs. The audio, video, and canvas tags are particularly interesting to me, as well as the host of new meta tags. HTML5 could really take the web to the next level (and I'm just talking about organizing content, here, not even web apps or anything - it has some neat features pertaining to those as well).
Something I found interesting is that they will not consider the spec complete until there are two fully working implementations (FTFA). Sounds good to me... the spec can be trimmed if no one is going to implement the full thing (so at least there will be a smaller spec to refer to instead of a complete spec that no one uses). Another good effect is that if MS drags their feet, they will look even more stupid :)
I would go with a reward plan. You could do something like give the top three most energy efficient people a gift certificate to the campus eatery (or whatever really). Calculate how much money is saved (out of everyone participating) and use part of that money to create a pool for the prizes. (It seems like for a large enough group of people, the energy and maintenance costs would reduce considerably, but I wouldn't really know ;)
I know I would definitely turn off my work PC every night if I got a free lunch!
You're silly. Shut up now :)
That's interesting. I prefer my mice to have two buttons, but when it cums to trackpads I greatly prefer the "two-finger technique(TM)" for the right-clicking. I wonder what preference / difference in use causes this...
Well... they *do* suck :D
There's a big difference between 1. sampling a few seconds of a riff, adding some new drums, and rapping over top of it and 2. distributing an entire movie with commentary added.
You know, I'm getting realy tired of people bitching about /. Sure the site has its flaws, but if you think it's a "waste" to be here, then leave! Please! Most of us don't want to hear you bitch. Personally, I enjoy a good laugh at MS' expense as time well spent.
That's all well and good, but what of our humanity? Raising animals is already a largely unnatural, industrial process. It is not our place to raise animals in that fashion. To turn this into an even more unnatural process will not be good for us as a race. We should be eating less meat, not thinking of new ways to devalue living beings. (Yes, I eat a mostly vegetarian diet. No, I don't think killing animals is wrong, per se.)
Ew. The main browser window looks so bad on OS X :( I can't say I'm a huge fan of brushed aluminum anywhere but iTunes (and similar list-operation programs). I do like the HUD and cover flow stuff, though. You know, as long as it doesn't kill performance...
The same could happen to Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, etc.
;)
What? A trojan on Linux? That's crazy
I'd really like to know why the MO Dept. of Education uses the damn filth... I've picked up all sorts of annoying typos by doing VB work for them.
Digital prints with limited runnings command a fair price in the art market. They could easily be reproduced, but no one would want to pay for a non original-run print. Think about the price fetched for an original Picasso or Van Gough compared to a "compressed" version on poster. I can only see creativity and creative persons being more valued due to the lifting of draconian copyright laws. The models of distribution and compensation may change, but there are already viable markets to emulate.
We (Mac users) had a lot of good games back then, it's true.
LOL. Good one. I was just thinking I should have mentioned it doesn't have any THC in it!
I thought that producing ethanol from sugar cane is efficient enough to make it usable as a fuel. (I can't find any sources after a quick look though.) Brazil and Venezuela both are using tons of ethanol for their fuel. The US can't grow sugar cane (needs a tropical climate) so we are looking for alternative sources that are efficient to grow in North America. If a plant requires little energy that has to be put in by humans, it will be efficient to use it as a fuel source (i.e. sugar cane grows really easily and doesn't need a lot of irrigation, fertilizer, etc).