It isn't clear what Carmack exactly meant because that class can be used for both converting strings into numbers (ints or floats) or numbers into formatted strings, such as currency values. It has performance penalties, but it isn't the only way to do conversion. To do something like printf("%d", value) in objective-c you can just use printf("%d", value).
What you described is applications that don't support iOS multitasking, which requires rebuilding against the iOS 4.x SDK. If they don't support multitasking they don't sleep, they're shut down.
All the big tech companies are lobbying. Money-wise, Apple spends less on lobbying than other big tech companies. In 2009, Apple spent $1.5M while Google spent $4M.
I couldn't find anything in those ontheissues.org pages that validate your statement that "Al Gore would have gone to war with Iraq in his first term".
I'm guessing you meant Yao Ming the basketball player, but he's 6 inches shorter than that guy. Also, there's this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Xishun
Really? Last I heard they pulled out of the Japanese market. This article is from 2008:
Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it would stop selling and marketing its mobile devices in Japan because its market share there remained below expectations.
“In the current global economic climate, we have concluded that the continuation of our investment in Japan-specific product variants is no longer sustainable,” Timo Ihamuotila, executive vice president at Nokia, said in a statement.
The big difference is that employees ultimately aren't assets. They can leave if they wish. Chances are they will stay for their stock options to vest and changes are they will become quite wealthy. Quite a bit different from being a serf.
Yes, it is unfortunate that Apple hasn't standardized on some vector graphics format. In my iPhone development I often find it easier to generate an image programmatically than have an image for the different resolutions.
I haven't tried them out, but there are a number of apps available for the iPhone to view achievements and such. From what I understand that aspect of XBox Live is an open protocol. Perhaps Microsoft can build a better app and they'll market that angle more than Apple ever will, but I don't think viewing achievements is a killer feature.
On the other hand what Microsoft can do is integrate and/or port games between the two platforms. That will probably bring some users over.
According to the diagram Microsoft is suing HTC, but I haven't heard of such a thing. Instead they have a patent pact and HTC is paying Microsoft. Perhaps it could be said that if HTC wasn't paying Microsoft then there would be a lawsuit.
The Dynabook concept was developed by Alan Kay before he joined PARC, but of course the actual product was never developed. The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart at SRI. He also developed some early GUI concepts.
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That was true about earlier implementations of code completion in Xcode, but around Xcode 3.x it improved significantly.
It isn't clear what Carmack exactly meant because that class can be used for both converting strings into numbers (ints or floats) or numbers into formatted strings, such as currency values. It has performance penalties, but it isn't the only way to do conversion. To do something like printf("%d", value) in objective-c you can just use printf("%d", value).
What you described is applications that don't support iOS multitasking, which requires rebuilding against the iOS 4.x SDK. If they don't support multitasking they don't sleep, they're shut down.
they purdy.
All the big tech companies are lobbying. Money-wise, Apple spends less on lobbying than other big tech companies. In 2009, Apple spent $1.5M while Google spent $4M.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?year=2009&lname=B12&id=
I was surprised, but I recently met a COBOL programmer younger than me. Not only is COBOL still being used, new products are being created with it.
I couldn't find anything in those ontheissues.org pages that validate your statement that "Al Gore would have gone to war with Iraq in his first term".
Perhaps you meant the tallest Chinese woman? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Defen
The tallest man in China is not named Yao: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Juncai
I'm guessing you meant Yao Ming the basketball player, but he's 6 inches shorter than that guy. Also, there's this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Xishun
Really? Last I heard they pulled out of the Japanese market. This article is from 2008:
Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it would stop selling and marketing its mobile devices in Japan because its market share there remained below expectations.
“In the current global economic climate, we have concluded that the continuation of our investment in Japan-specific product variants is no longer sustainable,” Timo Ihamuotila, executive vice president at Nokia, said in a statement.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/nokia-to-pull-out-of-japanese-market
while everybody knows that TERRORISTS aren't elderly white cripples!
Of course, terrorists are always trying to do the unexpected...
These trailers are higher quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD0YQoAqmrU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0t0u1ofiv0
What's wrong with the failblog one? I found one that is of slightly better quality, but not by much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PMw023nS48
The big difference is that employees ultimately aren't assets. They can leave if they wish. Chances are they will stay for their stock options to vest and changes are they will become quite wealthy. Quite a bit different from being a serf.
if they include this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YruAOxWG5uU
but iLife '11 is still distributed on DVD.
i wish all my pictures came out that beautiful, but my friends aren't that pretty.
Yes, it is unfortunate that Apple hasn't standardized on some vector graphics format. In my iPhone development I often find it easier to generate an image programmatically than have an image for the different resolutions.
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Exactly. I remember reading about this when I was in high school, which is over 20 years ago.
I haven't tried them out, but there are a number of apps available for the iPhone to view achievements and such. From what I understand that aspect of XBox Live is an open protocol. Perhaps Microsoft can build a better app and they'll market that angle more than Apple ever will, but I don't think viewing achievements is a killer feature.
On the other hand what Microsoft can do is integrate and/or port games between the two platforms. That will probably bring some users over.
They'll keep making them, but the Windows versions will always be the main focus. They'll get released with the new features first.
Actually, that's not too different than the way things are now.
I really hope Apple buys Adobe instead.
Motorola is now suing Apple.
According to the diagram Microsoft is suing HTC, but I haven't heard of such a thing. Instead they have a patent pact and HTC is paying Microsoft. Perhaps it could be said that if HTC wasn't paying Microsoft then there would be a lawsuit.
The Dynabook concept was developed by Alan Kay before he joined PARC, but of course the actual product was never developed. The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart at SRI. He also developed some early GUI concepts.
PARC did invent OO programming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface