I grappled back and forth on that issue, but it seems that (from my limited usage of.NET) Windows.Forms still heavily uses the Windows subsystems below it, and thus many of the.NET app's routine's would be faster.
I'm really excited about Mono, and I think that it may be able to emulate Windows.forms in the future! (with GTK...or some other binding). That said, right now Mono on the Mac is still somewhat immature (FYI)
While the addition of the virtualized graphics cards will certainly help speedup some operations, I'm curious if the Virtual PC team would be able to make ".NET" applications work better with VPC. It seems that the VPC team could write a "G4" and "G5" CLR JIT compiler, which would be faster than purely trying to emulate the x86 instructions...
I can't wait to read all of the comments where posters claim $PREFERRED_WIRELESS_TECHNOLOGY is better than $OTHER_WIRELESS_TECHNOLOGY, even though they have no idea what they are talking about...
I agree. I posted a similar response to another politics message. I understand many people want to talk about Politics, but personally, if I want to talk about politics, I will go to another politics-related board. This is (IMHO), is something that should be stuffed into the politics page where only those people
I don't think all politics should be banned from the main page, just these template of stories:
1. Voting machines and other political tools being updated to the electronic age
2. $CANDIDATE saying something about $TECH
3. The every-four-years interview all of the candidates questions
Thanks...Hopefully the editors will listen to us;-) (Note: I have no problem with stuff like "$CANDIDATE says $XYZ about $TECHNOLOGY" making the front page, nor the annual "Interview the Presidential Candidates" thread...)
Why is this on the front page of/.? While I have my personal opinions of the movie, IMHO, this has nothing specific to do with "News for Nerds", and thus should be buried in the Politics section for those who wish to discuss it...
The CDMA providers/phone manufactures are just getting a clue about Bluetooth. In the US, Verizon should be selling a Bluetooth Motorola phone. Sprint has sold a Bluetooth Sony Ericsson phone (with lots of BT bugs), and Nokia has announced a CDMA flip-phone with bluetooth...
Ummmm...welcome to/. Obviously you haven't been here very long, or else you'd understand that this site is for uneducated speculation and theories, not informed discussion...please make a note of that for the future
I understand the comment from the article differently than you do.
My take is that the person is saying Real shouldn't "hack" the iPod, and gain access to playing songs on it, if they aren't willing to allow their ".rm" format be "hacked" and played in any player that someone else wants to use...
The linux colors aren't too bad, IMHO...however, if you were to go to the "IT" section and offer a normal color link, I bet you would get a +5 insightful:-)
My personal experience with phones suggests that 900MHz is better because it tends to travel through walls better, thus making it appear like it works further away. If you only used your phone outside, or in a large empty warehouse, then you'll likely find that the 2.4GHz phones work equally well.
(IIRC, a few years ago, 2.4GHz phones were allowed to operate with more power, thus making those phones appear to work better...however, (again IIRC), the FCC up'd the max. allowable power of the 900MHz phones a few years ago)
I'd guess slighty more than 1 million hard drives are made in a year. According to this article, Apple shipped 876,000 Macs and 860,000 iPods last quarter. That's 1.6 million hard drives shipped by one (small) vendor in a quarter, so you'll need to up your numbers:-)
Nokia's phones have recently been designed really poorly, IMHO. They are either too big or have a weird, non-standard design that doesn't always improve functionality.
That being said, for the most part, their GSM phones work better than most of their competitors for call quality and reception, but their competitors are quickly catching up!
Maybe my memory is foggy, plus, I realize that the incident occurred at Oxford University, which is in the UK, not the US, but.... (Is that enough of a disclaimer?)
I recall that in the US, the Supreme Court has afforded protection to journalists who intentionally broke security laws to protect the public interest. For example, I seem to remember that in the pre-9/11 days, it was ok for a journalist to try and sneak a gun past the security checkpoints, as long as they didn't ever board a plane.
If caught, the journalist would go to jail, but charges would be thrown out...I don't remember how everything worked, and I'm too lazy to type it into google:-)
I agree with the poster above, that Safari isn't primarily a tool to manage interfaces... (though I have my doubts that Steve personally said "make it metal")
Also, there are several apps that have lists (directory services, etc) that aren't metal. Although I've read your other responses, I don't think that the Human Interface Guidelines are very clearly defined for when to use metal, and when not to.
I admit I'm not a Mac developer, but I am writing this comment on my Powerbook running os x 10.3
Very few of Verizon's markets have greater than 144kbps.
In areas with Analog-only service, you won't get any data! (Which tends to be in areas that have extremely low population densities...in other words, you'll probably not spend much time in those areas.
With the exception of the above areas, just about everywhere in the US has CDMA One, which supports data rates of up to 14.4kbps. (Note, there was a 128kbps support added to the standard, but I don't think that any network supported that)
All of the major cities and highways are covered with "CDMA 2000 1xRTT" which will deliver a sustained transfer rate of about 50-80kbps depending on network congestion (burst up to 144kbps)
In San Diego & Washington, DC (with many more major cities coming online before the end of 2004), Verizon supports a standard called CDMA 1xev-do. This supports burst rates up to 2.4mbps, with sustained likely in the 300-500kbps range. (See Ars' review)
...because, with only one standard, there would never be any competition between standards, which would probably lead to stagnation...but at least you can make the call on your analog network:-)
...or the current way, where you can select features based on your needs (high-speed data, highest call quality in your area, international roaming, etc)
I suggest you RTFA before posting this. Google suggested getting a neutral party to evaluate the claim. Affinity refused. It sounds like Affinity is trying to pull an SCO...
Only engineering samples were released in 1989. In the early 1990s, the 386 was still the fastest affordable processor available. (There were lots of bugs in the early 486, and IIRC, there were all sorts of issues in making the 486, so the ones that worked were anything but affordable until 1993?)
using common name conventions , that method ought to be called
getName()
In C/C++/Java, I would certainly agree with you. However, if you were programming in another language (say Obj-C), then the accepted syntax would just be name()
And Windows XP SP1 has had more vulnerabilities since its release than OS X has had. (Both were released in 2001.) That says a lot more, don't you think?
I don't think that is a fair comparison, either. Since so many more people use Windows on a day-to-day basis than MacOS X, there is more of an incentive for people to create virii for Win, and there are significantly more people that know how to program Windows than OS X...
As Linux/BSD/OS X/(insert favorite OS here) grow in popularity, there are going to be more exploits in each of these OSs. This just means that everybody needs to pay more attention to their computers, and keep those security patches up to date!
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I grappled back and forth on that issue, but it seems that (from my limited usage of .NET) Windows.Forms still heavily uses the Windows subsystems below it, and thus many of the .NET app's routine's would be faster.
I'm really excited about Mono, and I think that it may be able to emulate Windows.forms in the future! (with GTK...or some other binding). That said, right now Mono on the Mac is still somewhat immature (FYI)
While the addition of the virtualized graphics cards will certainly help speedup some operations, I'm curious if the Virtual PC team would be able to make ".NET" applications work better with VPC. It seems that the VPC team could write a "G4" and "G5" CLR JIT compiler, which would be faster than purely trying to emulate the x86 instructions...
Just a thought...
I can't wait to read all of the comments where posters claim $PREFERRED_WIRELESS_TECHNOLOGY is better than $OTHER_WIRELESS_TECHNOLOGY, even though they have no idea what they are talking about...
I agree. I posted a similar response to another politics message. I understand many people want to talk about Politics, but personally, if I want to talk about politics, I will go to another politics-related board. This is (IMHO), is something that should be stuffed into the politics page where only those people
I don't think all politics should be banned from the main page, just these template of stories:
1. Voting machines and other political tools being updated to the electronic age
2. $CANDIDATE saying something about $TECH
3. The every-four-years interview all of the candidates questions
Thanks...Hopefully the editors will listen to us ;-) (Note: I have no problem with stuff like "$CANDIDATE says $XYZ about $TECHNOLOGY" making the front page, nor the annual "Interview the Presidential Candidates" thread...)
Why is this on the front page of /.? While I have my personal opinions of the movie, IMHO, this has nothing specific to do with "News for Nerds", and thus should be buried in the Politics section for those who wish to discuss it...
The CDMA providers/phone manufactures are just getting a clue about Bluetooth. In the US, Verizon should be selling a Bluetooth Motorola phone. Sprint has sold a Bluetooth Sony Ericsson phone (with lots of BT bugs), and Nokia has announced a CDMA flip-phone with bluetooth...
I can see how it could make you more productive...you could have it lite up green whenever /. is not throwing up 503 errors :-)
Ummmm...welcome to /. Obviously you haven't been here very long, or else you'd understand that this site is for uneducated speculation and theories, not informed discussion...please make a note of that for the future
I understand the comment from the article differently than you do.
My take is that the person is saying Real shouldn't "hack" the iPod, and gain access to playing songs on it, if they aren't willing to allow their ".rm" format be "hacked" and played in any player that someone else wants to use...
The linux colors aren't too bad, IMHO...however, if you were to go to the "IT" section and offer a normal color link, I bet you would get a +5 insightful :-)
My personal experience with phones suggests that 900MHz is better because it tends to travel through walls better, thus making it appear like it works further away. If you only used your phone outside, or in a large empty warehouse, then you'll likely find that the 2.4GHz phones work equally well.
(IIRC, a few years ago, 2.4GHz phones were allowed to operate with more power, thus making those phones appear to work better...however, (again IIRC), the FCC up'd the max. allowable power of the 900MHz phones a few years ago)
I'd guess slighty more than 1 million hard drives are made in a year. According to this article, Apple shipped 876,000 Macs and 860,000 iPods last quarter. That's 1.6 million hard drives shipped by one (small) vendor in a quarter, so you'll need to up your numbers :-)
This view that every problem can be solved with Linux and Postgres is both naive...
:-)
Obviously, Linux & Postgres can't solve every problem. Instead, I recommend Linux & mySql
Nokia's phones have recently been designed really poorly, IMHO. They are either too big or have a weird, non-standard design that doesn't always improve functionality.
That being said, for the most part, their GSM phones work better than most of their competitors for call quality and reception, but their competitors are quickly catching up!
Maybe my memory is foggy, plus, I realize that the incident occurred at Oxford University, which is in the UK, not the US, but.... (Is that enough of a disclaimer?)
:-)
I recall that in the US, the Supreme Court has afforded protection to journalists who intentionally broke security laws to protect the public interest. For example, I seem to remember that in the pre-9/11 days, it was ok for a journalist to try and sneak a gun past the security checkpoints, as long as they didn't ever board a plane.
If caught, the journalist would go to jail, but charges would be thrown out...I don't remember how everything worked, and I'm too lazy to type it into google
I agree with the poster above, that Safari isn't primarily a tool to manage interfaces... (though I have my doubts that Steve personally said "make it metal")
Also, there are several apps that have lists (directory services, etc) that aren't metal. Although I've read your other responses, I don't think that the Human Interface Guidelines are very clearly defined for when to use metal, and when not to.
I admit I'm not a Mac developer, but I am writing this comment on my Powerbook running os x 10.3
Additionally, I challenge you to find an Apple-made program using brushed-metal that doesn't conform to the above guideline.
Ummm...Let's see...
Safari?
Very few of Verizon's markets have greater than 144kbps.
In areas with Analog-only service, you won't get any data! (Which tends to be in areas that have extremely low population densities...in other words, you'll probably not spend much time in those areas.
With the exception of the above areas, just about everywhere in the US has CDMA One, which supports data rates of up to 14.4kbps. (Note, there was a 128kbps support added to the standard, but I don't think that any network supported that)
All of the major cities and highways are covered with "CDMA 2000 1xRTT" which will deliver a sustained transfer rate of about 50-80kbps depending on network congestion (burst up to 144kbps)
In San Diego & Washington, DC (with many more major cities coming online before the end of 2004), Verizon supports a standard called CDMA 1xev-do. This supports burst rates up to 2.4mbps, with sustained likely in the 300-500kbps range. (See Ars' review)
...because, with only one standard, there would never be any competition between standards, which would probably lead to stagnation...but at least you can make the call on your analog network :-)
...or the current way, where you can select features based on your needs (high-speed data, highest call quality in your area, international roaming, etc)
I suggest you RTFA before posting this. Google suggested getting a neutral party to evaluate the claim. Affinity refused. It sounds like Affinity is trying to pull an SCO...
Only engineering samples were released in 1989. In the early 1990s, the 386 was still the fastest affordable processor available. (There were lots of bugs in the early 486, and IIRC, there were all sorts of issues in making the 486, so the ones that worked were anything but affordable until 1993?)
using common name conventions , that method ought to be called
getName()
In C/C++/Java, I would certainly agree with you. However, if you were programming in another language (say Obj-C), then the accepted syntax would just be name()
And Windows XP SP1 has had more vulnerabilities since its release than OS X has had. (Both were released in 2001.) That says a lot more, don't you think?
I don't think that is a fair comparison, either. Since so many more people use Windows on a day-to-day basis than MacOS X, there is more of an incentive for people to create virii for Win, and there are significantly more people that know how to program Windows than OS X...
As Linux/BSD/OS X/(insert favorite OS here) grow in popularity, there are going to be more exploits in each of these OSs. This just means that everybody needs to pay more attention to their computers, and keep those security patches up to date!