you immediately have programatic access to almost every program installed on the computer
Utter bullshit.
You have access to certain COM interfaces (most are undocumented). Most of those are made by Microsoft, and unless you're a complete masochist most of them are not practical to use.
I've got a book on how to do OLE embedding.. The code to do it covers 3 chapters (IAdviseSink, etc. and they're not particularly well documented either). Why do you think nobody except MS ever bothers (and even they don't bother for the most part... the last time I tried it only Word and Excel ever implemented it).
You most certainly do *not* have access to 'almost every program installed on the computer'.
Also, Unix has had corba for far longer than Windows has had COM, and derivatives of that are in both gnome and KDE.
It's normal behaviour for the caller to control the state of the call - it's actually useful - for example if someone phones you and you pick it up on an extension you can hang up and go to the another phone and pick up.. and the caller will still be there.
In this country all phones work like this, even the new digital exchanges. I'd expect in the US it's more varied as there isn't one telco running everything.
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00353 is Ireland.
They may speak with a funny accent there but they're pretty likely to know English..
Damn, only 10 years after I threw out all my useless turntables too...
"Turn one piece of obsolete kit into another piece of obsolete kit... yeah, slashdot will go fo that one"
Turntables were always onto a loser, as one audiophile friend pointed out to me... they're destructive - once you have played an album the needle has subly altered the sound by scratching it, so a true audiophile would only ever play a record once (if at all). Add to that a Linn Sondeck would require expensive recalibration every 2 weeks (and replacement every 6 months) otherwise the quality suffers and you've got yourself a hobby only the rich can afford... but then this guy had a *lot* of spare cash and could afford to do it.
By slashdot perhaps but OSX has its flaws as well (I know that's sacrelige but it's true).
Of course with OSX on Intel hardware it's going to be competing with Windows directly for the first time... so when finder crashes for the 50th time people are going to start pushing apple to fix it or replace it with something that actually works..
No Tivo in the UK (they blew themselves out of the market with the notorious 'Spam TV' episode, so the brand name is tainted).
Recording all 5 freeview multiplexes is a reasonable idea, but storing it all for a month is just stupid IMO. Something that did that for a couple of hours would be nice... for when you switch channels and catch the end of something that looks good - you can rewind it and watch it properly.
I'm assuming it's recording DTT.. recording analogue would be pointless because it takes more processing power, plus analogue is due to begin shutting down in a couple of years.. by the time it got to market it'd be obsolete.
The BNP is a more 'established' party.. UKIP is little more than a pressure group at the moment (it remains to be seen whether they grow beyond that - Kilroy Silk* didn't help their cause any).
The Greens should probably have been listed but they've never done much... they have one MP on an offshore island somewhere I think.
Going back a little further Edward Heath had *excatly* the same problem with Unions (3 day week anyone?)... back then it wasn't a party political issue but an endemic one to britian.
Thatcher sorted that out, it's true (and should be commended for that). She also mishandled the economy so badly we ended up in the worst recession since the 30's.
It's pretty much the memory of Thatcher that keeps the conservatives out of power (not of John Major, who was too uninteresting to be hated).
Labour copied the conservatives to get into power ('New' Labour).
This freaked the conservatives out so much they basically collapsed in a mess (they changed their internal rules after a lot of fighting, elected a succession of lame duck leaders who nobody can remember the names of, and they've just changed the rules again... who knows if they'll get out of the pit their in.. politics suffers when there's no opposition)
only in the last couple of years are they starting to be a credible oppositition, basically by taking a leap to the right to differentiate themselves, and copying everything Labour do.
The problem is Labour just keep pulling the same trick.. if the Conservatives ever have a good idea it'll be government policy within a couple of weeks.
The only people with any guts now are the Lib Dems and they're able to be like that as they're unlikely to get elected in my lifetime anyway.
With me it's the Graphics card.. the PSU and CPU fans are inaudible by comparison (I don't overclock).
A 6800GT has 2 noisy fans on it and generates so much heat it can make the room nice and toasty even on a cold day.. luckily my wife is the one that needs the big gfx card & I just use standard ones.
I don't know about the GUI (never used it.. all my stuff is autoconf based.. heck I didn't even know there *was* a gui until I read it on slashdot a couple of months ago) but the gcc in xcode definately does *not* produce fat binaries by default.
I'd be rather pissed off if it did. Doubling the size of the download doesn't seem to me to be a particularly sane idea.. better to provide 2 packages.
As far as the idea of PPC macs being the majority for years.. as a software developer it doesn't make sense to support people who never upgrade - people with that mentality aren't going to be using new sofware either. You target the people who are most likely to be purchasing and downloading new software... and they'll mostly be intel mac users within 12-18 months.
Footnote: To the f***King slashdot developer who seems to be conspiring to stop people posting.
1. I did *not* post 1 minute ago. It took 4 minutes just to type this message. 2. Stoppping people then using the submit button to try again is just *insane*. What is this 'you cannot reuse the form' bullshit. If it's going to be that hard to post I'm not sure I'll bother. Now I have to go back to the story and press 'reply' again??? *WHY*?? 3. Oh FFS. Having gone through all that bullshit it now won't let me submit the new message because 'it's been 10 seconds since you hit reply'.
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I don't know about the GUI (never used it.. all my stuff is autoconf based.. heck I didn't even know there *was* a gui until I read it on slashdot a couple of months ago) but the gcc in xcode definately does *not* produce fat binaries by default.
I'd be rather pissed off if it did. Doubling the size of the download doesn't seem to me to be a particularly sane idea.. better to provide 2 packages.
Fat binaries aren't as useful as all that. They can only produce OSX 10.4+ code, due to differences in the GCC that was introduced in 10.4 (they started using shared libraries for the C runtimes rather than static linking I believe). 10.4 ships with the older GCC for backward compatibility but of course that won't produce fat binaries...
Since 99% of OSX users are still on 10.3, you still have to produce 2 binaries anyway.. so fat binaries don't make all that much sense. Better to produce a 10.3 binary which runs on 10.4 PPC, and an intel binary (when it makes sense to).
Once the intel platform is released drop the PPC binary, and you're all set.
If you install libraries, services, users, or a command line component you have to use the OSX installer.
Un-installing is quite a challenge. The installer has no uninstall function at all. On my test mac mini I periodically wipe and reinstall the entire system, but then I don't use it a lot... not sure how a home user would cope.
In XP (and every windows since 3.1) that's called 'tile'. In practice it's the worst possible way to view windows once you have more than about 4 of them.
I played with expose but hated it.. alt tab is so much easier. OTOH on osx I try to keep as few applications open as I can as my mini hasn't got a lot of memory and OSX has a habit of leaving things running without telling you (there's a little black mark on the taskbar that's the only thing that tells you the app is still running and chewing memory.. that's easy to miss.. I'd love it if you could tell it to always shut down the app when you close it but osx seems to prefer that to be a separate operation).
It's a contract. No matter what they say to your face the *only* think that matters is what is written down.
If they say they'll never actually enforce it get that in writing an have it added to the contract before signing. I bet you $100 they refuse to do that... guess why...
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you immediately have programatic access to almost every program installed on the computer
Utter bullshit.
You have access to certain COM interfaces (most are undocumented). Most of those are made by Microsoft, and unless you're a complete masochist most of them are not practical to use.
I've got a book on how to do OLE embedding.. The code to do it covers 3 chapters (IAdviseSink, etc. and they're not particularly well documented either). Why do you think nobody except MS ever bothers (and even they don't bother for the most part... the last time I tried it only Word and Excel ever implemented it).
You most certainly do *not* have access to 'almost every program installed on the computer'.
Also, Unix has had corba for far longer than Windows has had COM, and derivatives of that are in both gnome and KDE.
It depends on the phone system in use.
It's normal behaviour for the caller to control the state of the call - it's actually useful - for example if someone phones you and you pick it up on an extension you can hang up and go to the another phone and pick up.. and the caller will still be there.
In this country all phones work like this, even the new digital exchanges. I'd expect in the US it's more varied as there isn't one telco running everything.
00353 is Ireland.
They may speak with a funny accent there but they're pretty likely to know English..
Nokia can do what they like... nobody enforces it.
Check out the broadcom kernels sometime.. they're about 20% closed source binary crap compiled into the kernel.
Nobody cares. Really.
If you're using VOIP as a transparent replacement to POTS there's no change.
POTS is wide open to MIM attacks.. in fact anyone with a cheap earpiece can do it - no need for a PC even.
I sent a complaint to root@localhost just in case.
Just a minute... I have an email...
Damn, only 10 years after I threw out all my useless turntables too...
"Turn one piece of obsolete kit into another piece of obsolete kit... yeah, slashdot will go fo that one"
Turntables were always onto a loser, as one audiophile friend pointed out to me... they're destructive - once you have played an album the needle has subly altered the sound by scratching it, so a true audiophile would only ever play a record once (if at all). Add to that a Linn Sondeck would require expensive recalibration every 2 weeks (and replacement every 6 months) otherwise the quality suffers and you've got yourself a hobby only the rich can afford... but then this guy had a *lot* of spare cash and could afford to do it.
By slashdot perhaps but OSX has its flaws as well (I know that's sacrelige but it's true).
Of course with OSX on Intel hardware it's going to be competing with Windows directly for the first time... so when finder crashes for the 50th time people are going to start pushing apple to fix it or replace it with something that actually works..
No Tivo in the UK (they blew themselves out of the market with the notorious 'Spam TV' episode, so the brand name is tainted).
Recording all 5 freeview multiplexes is a reasonable idea, but storing it all for a month is just stupid IMO. Something that did that for a couple of hours would be nice... for when you switch channels and catch the end of something that looks good - you can rewind it and watch it properly.
I'm assuming it's recording DTT.. recording analogue would be pointless because it takes more processing power, plus analogue is due to begin shutting down in a couple of years.. by the time it got to market it'd be obsolete.
Enlighten us then...
My understanding of the word payola is it's a slang term for wages. Certainly is around here. I *hope* that's not illegal in the US!!!
The BNP is a more 'established' party.. UKIP is little more than a pressure group at the moment (it remains to be seen whether they grow beyond that - Kilroy Silk* didn't help their cause any).
The Greens should probably have been listed but they've never done much... they have one MP on an offshore island somewhere I think.
* I'm really glad that fucktard lost his deposit.
Going back a little further Edward Heath had *excatly* the same problem with Unions (3 day week anyone?)... back then it wasn't a party political issue but an endemic one to britian.
Thatcher sorted that out, it's true (and should be commended for that). She also mishandled the economy so badly we ended up in the worst recession since the 30's.
It's pretty much the memory of Thatcher that keeps the conservatives out of power (not of John Major, who was too uninteresting to be hated).
It used to be like that...
Labour copied the conservatives to get into power ('New' Labour).
This freaked the conservatives out so much they basically collapsed in a mess (they changed their internal rules after a lot of fighting, elected a succession of lame duck leaders who nobody can remember the names of, and they've just changed the rules again... who knows if they'll get out of the pit their in.. politics suffers when there's no opposition)
only in the last couple of years are they starting to be a credible oppositition, basically by taking a leap to the right to differentiate themselves, and copying everything Labour do.
The problem is Labour just keep pulling the same trick.. if the Conservatives ever have a good idea it'll be government policy within a couple of weeks.
The only people with any guts now are the Lib Dems and they're able to be like that as they're unlikely to get elected in my lifetime anyway.
With me it's the Graphics card.. the PSU and CPU fans are inaudible by comparison (I don't overclock).
A 6800GT has 2 noisy fans on it and generates so much heat it can make the room nice and toasty even on a cold day.. luckily my wife is the one that needs the big gfx card & I just use standard ones.
Apple's developer tools only allow a compile for PowerPC, or PowerPC+Intel.
You can compile for intel only too, or PPC64 (except they don't provide the libraries for that and the compile fails).
You could do all 3 if you liked... it'd triple the size of your application though.
I don't know about the GUI (never used it.. all my stuff is autoconf based.. heck I didn't even know there *was* a gui until I read it on slashdot a couple of months ago) but the gcc in xcode definately does *not* produce fat binaries by default.
I'd be rather pissed off if it did. Doubling the size of the download doesn't seem to me to be a particularly sane idea.. better to provide 2 packages.
As far as the idea of PPC macs being the majority for years.. as a software developer it doesn't make sense to support people who never upgrade - people with that mentality aren't going to be using new sofware either. You target the people who are most likely to be purchasing and downloading new software... and they'll mostly be intel mac users within 12-18 months.
Footnote: To the f***King slashdot developer who seems to be conspiring to stop people posting.
1. I did *not* post 1 minute ago. It took 4 minutes just to type this message.
2. Stoppping people then using the submit button to try again is just *insane*. What is this 'you cannot reuse the form' bullshit. If it's going to be that hard to post I'm not sure I'll bother. Now I have to go back to the story and press 'reply' again??? *WHY*??
3. Oh FFS. Having gone through all that bullshit it now won't let me submit the new message because 'it's been 10 seconds since you hit reply'.
I don't know about the GUI (never used it.. all my stuff is autoconf based.. heck I didn't even know there *was* a gui until I read it on slashdot a couple of months ago) but the gcc in xcode definately does *not* produce fat binaries by default.
I'd be rather pissed off if it did. Doubling the size of the download doesn't seem to me to be a particularly sane idea.. better to provide 2 packages.
Fat binaries aren't as useful as all that. They can only produce OSX 10.4+ code, due to differences in the GCC that was introduced in 10.4 (they started using shared libraries for the C runtimes rather than static linking I believe). 10.4 ships with the older GCC for backward compatibility but of course that won't produce fat binaries...
Since 99% of OSX users are still on 10.3, you still have to produce 2 binaries anyway.. so fat binaries don't make all that much sense. Better to produce a 10.3 binary which runs on 10.4 PPC, and an intel binary (when it makes sense to).
Once the intel platform is released drop the PPC binary, and you're all set.
News for Nerds, stuff that mattered 3 years ago.
It only works for simple GUI apps.
If you install libraries, services, users, or a command line component you have to use the OSX installer.
Un-installing is quite a challenge. The installer has no uninstall function at all. On my test mac mini I periodically wipe and reinstall the entire system, but then I don't use it a lot... not sure how a home user would cope.
What init script issues?
Does anyone actually *use* launchd? It's just an overcomplex solution looking for a problem.
Non-techie users will never see a config file if their admin has any sense.
In those circumstances Windows is *far* more brittle, as you can screw it up as an ordinary user very easily.
In XP (and every windows since 3.1) that's called 'tile'. In practice it's the worst possible way to view windows once you have more than about 4 of them.
I played with expose but hated it.. alt tab is so much easier. OTOH on osx I try to keep as few applications open as I can as my mini hasn't got a lot of memory and OSX has a habit of leaving things running without telling you (there's a little black mark on the taskbar that's the only thing that tells you the app is still running and chewing memory.. that's easy to miss.. I'd love it if you could tell it to always shut down the app when you close it but osx seems to prefer that to be a separate operation).
Nah.. this is a mac.
'additional mouse buttons' is button 2.
btw. don't be suckered by the 'friendly' line.
It's a contract. No matter what they say to your face the *only* think that matters is what is written down.
If they say they'll never actually enforce it get that in writing an have it added to the contract before signing. I bet you $100 they refuse to do that... guess why...