Never blame on conspiracy that which can be explained by stupidity.
Let's look at the original, "Unfortunately, Apple's platform is extremely difficult to develop for if you are a PC guy."
I reckon that lots of things are difficult for such an induhvidual. Shoelaces, eating with a fork, walking upright....;-)
Such people fear what they do not understand.
Mac OS X is by far the *easiest* OS to program (and post-Compaq VMS is the worst). The hardest part is choosing a password for free Online membership in ADC.
If you've been through a few rounds of PowerPlant and MFC the learning curve for Cocoa is shallow and smooth. And the resulting programs are much nicer, which gives you something to shoot for when it comes time to write a.NUT version for all the "PC guy"s out there.
If the Yangs vs. Coms was a liberal episode, then the Coms would have won. Liberals hate America.
And who's gonna call Lt. Cdr. Montgomery Scott a "liberal?" They guy don't take shiite from nobody, and believes (quite accurately) that the best diplomat is a fully charged phaser bank.
Sure, some eps ("Let That Be Your Last Battlefield") were typical simplistic liberalism. But the best eps were apolitical, or even a mix: Edith Keeler in "City" was isolationist PLUS bleeding-heart. A nuance that the current idiot liberal (I know, redundant) writers can't realize.
Fox, CNN, NBC etc. are all run by corporations and have a strong conservative bias
Obviously, this moron has never worked for a corporation. They are all damned liberal. I remember chowing down in the IBM cafeteria when they had 50-foot high fag love banners hanging in it. Damn perverted shit-fucking posters in a cafeteria where people try to eat! Just try to tell a good joke at work anymore -- you will be FIRED.
Humorless, brainless, perverted liberals have made all business suck.
if S/A were to be turned back on worldwide, then that would provide one more reason to oppose the war. COnsidering the current political climate, both in the US and worldwide, I can't see this happening.
Or it might remind the ungrateful morons of all the great things the United States has done for the World.
Coordination can be learned. If someone is too clumbsy to catch or throw properly, someone else didn't teach them properly.
Unless their bones, muscles, or nerves are damaged.
Fucking ape jocks love to pick on cripples. Kill the fucking ape jocks. Every single last one of them. Every single sports fan who worship the fucking ape jocks too. Kill them fucking all!!!!
Dude, you have one of the most f'd up definitions of Unix I've ever seen. I've been using Unix since System IV, read the photocopied kernel docs in high school, and to my decades of experience with Unix, Mac OS X is a true Unix.
I especially like your idea that X11 is bolted on to OS X. Damn, dude, X11 is "bolted on" to every Unix!
I cannot even remember the variety of Unixes I've used...PDP 11/33, 680x0 boxes of various kinds, SGI Indigo (is Irix a real Unix?), HP "Snake" (is HP-UX a true Unix to you mister G4dget?), AIX on RS/6000, perhaps a half-dozen to a dozen forgettable and forgotten boxes, and lately the glorious Mac OS X.
Oh hell look at all that and I forgot to mention the Sun pizza box that was on my desk. Did Sun ever ship a "true UNIX" oh mister expert nit-picker G4dget?!
So get over it. Not only is Mac OS X a real, true, complete Unix, but due to its incredible shipping volume, it is now THE UNIX.
You must be kidding! Your math is way too difficult. "Is a billion more than a million?" is a tough word problem for the drooling innumerate mouthbreathers who buy computers.
Slightly more seriously, how did you come up with your numbers? "20:7" sounds like you might be comparing pipeline stages to determine instructions per cycle, but it don't work that way (go read Hannibal at ArsTechnica).
I cannot figure out what you're doing with HT. Insufficient caffiene and you don't have units on your numbers;-)
I'm sure Apple would rather you multiply by 2x for 2 processors rather than your 1.5;-) but that number so much depends on what you're doing a few years ago I remember seeing an odd case where you could get >2 but that's impossible in everyday experience.
While we're talking multiple processors, remember that Quartz Extreme offloads the GUI to your fancy GPU. How much that helps depends on how many dock icons you set a-bouncing -- actually how much compositing you do is a better measure.
So maybe Apple should just guesstimate to round numbers like AMD. Or drop gigahertz entirely for gigaflops.
If you are a very impatient reader, follow the Good Critic's advice and just read Dune. It is really the only "must read" of the series. If you are a somewhat impatient reader, read Dune and skip ahead to God Emperor.
Messiah and Children are the weak middle and I'm glad Sci-Fi Channel is combining them to pick up the pace. God Emperor is just a big bunch of fun starring the best blowhard since Jubal Harshaw. Heretics and Chapterhouse are likewise
enjoyable and even at times profound.
So you, dear reader, can calibrate for my biases, let me expose myself. For me, a good sequel is one which adds depth to the first book (so I'm the kind of person who considers The Silmarillion to be important, but not exactly coherent enough to be "a book"). I don't expect to have the same kind of experience as when reading the original. I pretty much expect "weak middles" maybe I shouldn't be so tolerant.
The two Brian Herbert/Kevin Anderson books I read were worthless. Any real Dune-head can daydream better Dune stuff at will.
Frank Herbert's last three books in the series are a good place to leave it. Yeah, so there are better books to read, but not many of them are sequels. If you're in a sequel/series mood, God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse are just fine.
The American government can spend upwards of $200 BILLION dollars to murder hundreds of thousands of civilians
Yet another imbecile shoveling shit for the TERRORIST LEFT!!! Yes, I'm yelling, because the left is impervious to logic. The useful idiots have become useless morons.
Hey, uh, guys -- I don't think Sir Joel's point is that "abstractions are bad," because they certainly aren't. His point is that non-trivial abstractions leak. As programmers, we must prepare for, prevent if possible, and pusillanimize the impact of these leaks. I think his point is brilliant, and succeeds on an epistemological level with wider scope than "just" practical CS.
I'm getting curious about where in the world so many people get the idea that OS X isn't Unix. Perhaps you could help by telling where you heard this ornery lie?
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The Rolling Stone says, "Hey, you, get off of my cloud."
The Scottsman says, "Hey, McLeod, get off of my ewe!"
Kremlinologists need something to do since the fall of the USSR. So chill out for a while and see who's right about what.
Let's look at the original, "Unfortunately, Apple's platform is extremely difficult to develop for if you are a PC guy."
I reckon that lots of things are difficult for such an induhvidual. Shoelaces, eating with a fork, walking upright.... ;-)
Such people fear what they do not understand.
Mac OS X is by far the *easiest* OS to program (and post-Compaq VMS is the worst). The hardest part is choosing a password for free Online membership in ADC.
If you've been through a few rounds of PowerPlant and MFC the learning curve for Cocoa is shallow and smooth. And the resulting programs are much nicer, which gives you something to shoot for when it comes time to write a .NUT version for all the "PC guy"s out there.
German philosophy has killed more Russians than the German military!
Problems with the "professional" (game geek?!) cards is their professional prices and rather unprofessional reliability.
Your mind is controlled by Microsoft.
Where do you idiots come from? The William Henry Gates III School of Economics?
Unless inventors are rewarded for inventing, there will be no invention.
What you are advocating is nothing but theft, and nothing like capitalism.
Or smelling it, or feeling it....
And who's gonna call Lt. Cdr. Montgomery Scott a "liberal?" They guy don't take shiite from nobody, and believes (quite accurately) that the best diplomat is a fully charged phaser bank.
Sure, some eps ("Let That Be Your Last Battlefield") were typical simplistic liberalism. But the best eps were apolitical, or even a mix: Edith Keeler in "City" was isolationist PLUS bleeding-heart. A nuance that the current idiot liberal (I know, redundant) writers can't realize.
Object-oriented genes? After reading "The Selfish Gene" I'd call genes Objectivist-oriented ;-)
Obviously, this moron has never worked for a corporation. They are all damned liberal. I remember chowing down in the IBM cafeteria when they had 50-foot high fag love banners hanging in it. Damn perverted shit-fucking posters in a cafeteria where people try to eat! Just try to tell a good joke at work anymore -- you will be FIRED.
Humorless, brainless, perverted liberals have made all business suck.
Or it might remind the ungrateful morons of all the great things the United States has done for the World.
Heh, I think Twirly left the smiley off his last sentence ;-)
GraphicConverter is not available for Windows. In general, the ecosystem (system of programs) for creative work does not exist for Windows.
Unless their bones, muscles, or nerves are damaged.
Fucking ape jocks love to pick on cripples. Kill the fucking ape jocks. Every single last one of them. Every single sports fan who worship the fucking ape jocks too. Kill them fucking all!!!!
Eric and Dylan are my HEROES!!!
I especially like your idea that X11 is bolted on to OS X. Damn, dude, X11 is "bolted on" to every Unix!
I cannot even remember the variety of Unixes I've used...PDP 11/33, 680x0 boxes of various kinds, SGI Indigo (is Irix a real Unix?), HP "Snake" (is HP-UX a true Unix to you mister G4dget?), AIX on RS/6000, perhaps a half-dozen to a dozen forgettable and forgotten boxes, and lately the glorious Mac OS X.
Oh hell look at all that and I forgot to mention the Sun pizza box that was on my desk. Did Sun ever ship a "true UNIX" oh mister expert nit-picker G4dget?!
So get over it. Not only is Mac OS X a real, true, complete Unix, but due to its incredible shipping volume, it is now THE UNIX.
I think you mean "Schrödingerian." ;-)
Everything is music,
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OpenFirmware caught on with lots of platforms, like Sun and Apple, just not the one platform seemingly stuck forever in the early 80s ;-)
Slightly more seriously, how did you come up with your numbers? "20:7" sounds like you might be comparing pipeline stages to determine instructions per cycle, but it don't work that way (go read Hannibal at ArsTechnica).
I cannot figure out what you're doing with HT. Insufficient caffiene and you don't have units on your numbers ;-)
I'm sure Apple would rather you multiply by 2x for 2 processors rather than your 1.5 ;-) but that number so much depends on what you're doing a few years ago I remember seeing an odd case where you could get >2 but that's impossible in everyday experience.
While we're talking multiple processors, remember that Quartz Extreme offloads the GUI to your fancy GPU. How much that helps depends on how many dock icons you set a-bouncing -- actually how much compositing you do is a better measure.
So maybe Apple should just guesstimate to round numbers like AMD. Or drop gigahertz entirely for gigaflops.
Messiah and Children are the weak middle and I'm glad Sci-Fi Channel is combining them to pick up the pace. God Emperor is just a big bunch of fun starring the best blowhard since Jubal Harshaw. Heretics and Chapterhouse are likewise enjoyable and even at times profound.
So you, dear reader, can calibrate for my biases, let me expose myself. For me, a good sequel is one which adds depth to the first book (so I'm the kind of person who considers The Silmarillion to be important, but not exactly coherent enough to be "a book"). I don't expect to have the same kind of experience as when reading the original. I pretty much expect "weak middles" maybe I shouldn't be so tolerant.
The two Brian Herbert/Kevin Anderson books I read were worthless. Any real Dune-head can daydream better Dune stuff at will.
Frank Herbert's last three books in the series are a good place to leave it. Yeah, so there are better books to read, but not many of them are sequels. If you're in a sequel/series mood, God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse are just fine.
I think Freud called it "projection."
He didn't remember that because that never happened. The investment was a measly $150M. Apple had just paid $400M for Next.
What the investment did was convince a lot of idiots that Microsoft saved Apple!
Yet another imbecile shoveling shit for the TERRORIST LEFT!!! Yes, I'm yelling, because the left is impervious to logic. The useful idiots have become useless morons.
Go give Saddam a blow job. You know you want to.
Hey, uh, guys -- I don't think Sir Joel's point is that "abstractions are bad," because they certainly aren't. His point is that non-trivial abstractions leak. As programmers, we must prepare for, prevent if possible, and pusillanimize the impact of these leaks. I think his point is brilliant, and succeeds on an epistemological level with wider scope than "just" practical CS.
Mac OS X is a real Unix.
I'm getting curious about where in the world so many people get the idea that OS X isn't Unix. Perhaps you could help by telling where you heard this ornery lie?