Aside from that...not happy with with the windows UI standards? Everyone else seems to be.
Actually, if you read the article, you'll realise that his point was that Microsoft's own developers seem to be unhappy with their UI standards as illustrated by many of their own applications that don't adhere to them.
So let's hear it... is xcode a real competitor to visual studio ?
No it's not. I've been using Xcode for several years and I still haven't figured out how to build a Windows application with it. Conversely, Visual Studio cannot be used to build a Macintosh application either. The two IDEs are used for different tasks so they can never be competitors.
Is Xcode as good for developing Mac applications as Visual Studio is for Windows applications. I think probably not. It has some superior features (NB the most recent version of VS I have used is 2005 so my knowledge may be out of date). It has some features I like better than VS but that''s probably because I prefer the Mac environment. It has some features that are worse than VS. The debugger is the worst of these IMHO.
On balance Visual Studio is a far better developer environment, but that counts for nothing if you are trying to write a Mac GUI application, in which case Xcode is the only game in town as far as I know.
I have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard for my Mac and the network at the office is wireless. Therefore, when I'm in the office, I have a grand total of two things to plug in - the monitor and the power supply. Even if I was using USB for mouse and keyboard, that only adds an extra one thing, and none of the connectors are particularly difficult.
Docking stations belong to an era where everything had its own connector and fiddly little screws.
It's the stuff in your home folder that is the valuable stuff though. If the operating system gets hosed, you can reinstall it. However, the 500 page novel you are writing which you haven't backed up for a while is irreplaceable.
The Mac OS X kernel is entirely written in C except for the bits that have to be written in assembler.
The preferred run time for graphical applications is Objective C but I'm willing to bet that the low level graphics are done in C.
And Objective C is the bastard son of C and Smalltalk (but it's still my favourite programming language). It's probably equally closely related to Java and C++.
I had no idea who Uwe Boll is until I read this article. Thanks, Slashdot for wasting a few more of my brain cells (which are already in short supply).
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This is my BIGGEST gripe about what you're talking about because PPC CPUs are far less proprietary than anyone ever seems to imagine them to be. It is _THE_ most popular embedded chip in modern devices.
Was true for many years, but I think ARM has overtaken PPC.
No, evolution says nothing about dinosaurs and humans being unable to live at the same time.
Actualy, it does. Evolution says that the human species appeared about 200,000 years ago and dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. Were human remains and dinosaur remains unambiguously found together and were there no explanation found other than they lived together at the same time, pretty much all of evolutionary theory would collapse. That would include a of of what we think we know about palaeontology, geology and genetics. For that reason I would happily bet everything I own against a copy of Windows Vista Home edition that it will never happen.
Evolution has nothing to say about the reasons we are here
Actually it does. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (OK I moved the goal posts by referring to a specific version of evolution) says that I am here because all of my ancestors were well adapted to the conditions in which they lived.
From this he fails to make the right conclusion, that Safari is ass and should be fixed, and instead draws a completely ridiculous conclusion.
He can't make that conclusion because Firefox 3 exhibits similar symptoms. If he assumes Safari is ass, he must also assume his own baby, Firefox, is ass. It's much easier and more emotionally satisfying to accuse Apple of some conspiracy.
Read the article properly. They're not going to inert adverts into HTTP responses from arbitrary sites. It'll operate just like Google ads do, except that the ads chosen will be selected based on the browsing history of the client IP address.
Yes but the majority of the non English speaking World also use the word "football" or some variant thereof to refer to soccer rather than the pansy version of rugby that you use to stop the advertising breaks from running together.
NAT is here to stay and it's not an ugly hack. A company like, say, IBM does not want to have to go to ICANN every time it hooks another laptop to its internal network. Nor does the rest of the Internet need to know about IBM's internal network topology. NAT is actually a useful piece of technology to make TCP/IP networks manageable.
Actually, there is no microkernel in OS X. Everything in the operating system runs in the same kernel address space. Although individual subsystems within OS X can talk to each other with Mach messages (and also user space) they can also see each other's memory. Also, the VFS subsystem system and the network stack were lifted direct from BSD (although as of 10.4 they are much modified).
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No it's not. I've been using Xcode for several years and I still haven't figured out how to build a Windows application with it. Conversely, Visual Studio cannot be used to build a Macintosh application either. The two IDEs are used for different tasks so they can never be competitors.
Is Xcode as good for developing Mac applications as Visual Studio is for Windows applications. I think probably not. It has some superior features (NB the most recent version of VS I have used is 2005 so my knowledge may be out of date). It has some features I like better than VS but that''s probably because I prefer the Mac environment. It has some features that are worse than VS. The debugger is the worst of these IMHO.
On balance Visual Studio is a far better developer environment, but that counts for nothing if you are trying to write a Mac GUI application, in which case Xcode is the only game in town as far as I know.
What the hell do you need Vista for on a Mac?
If you have business software that needs Vista, you aren't seriously going to consider Macintosh at all.
I don't think it is a big one.
I have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard for my Mac and the network at the office is wireless. Therefore, when I'm in the office, I have a grand total of two things to plug in - the monitor and the power supply. Even if I was using USB for mouse and keyboard, that only adds an extra one thing, and none of the connectors are particularly difficult.
Docking stations belong to an era where everything had its own connector and fiddly little screws.
BASIC anniversaries usually go in tens but they must have forgotten one and not have a renumbering utility.
Galileo is a GPS. The US military system that everybody refers to incorrectly as "the GPS" is really called Navstar.
It's the stuff in your home folder that is the valuable stuff though. If the operating system gets hosed, you can reinstall it. However, the 500 page novel you are writing which you haven't backed up for a while is irreplaceable.
I fon't know. I've found that Dijkstra hasn't said anything new or profound in more than five years.
The Mac OS X kernel is entirely written in C except for the bits that have to be written in assembler.
The preferred run time for graphical applications is Objective C but I'm willing to bet that the low level graphics are done in C.
And Objective C is the bastard son of C and Smalltalk (but it's still my favourite programming language). It's probably equally closely related to Java and C++.
I had no idea who Uwe Boll is until I read this article. Thanks, Slashdot for wasting a few more of my brain cells (which are already in short supply).
Yes, and your comment is posted on a Sourceforge website. You have granted them permission to do anything they like with your comment, including allowing it to be read and quoted by other site members royalty free.
The point is that the compiler is supposed to catch the error before you even run the program once.
You need to invite everybody in Slashdot to your network so that we can see who's on the other end of that URL.
Your case is helped by the blatant lie about Minesweeper.
Safari 3 doesn't pass ACID 2. It's actually a regression in this respect in comparison to Safari 2.
Actualy, it does. Evolution says that the human species appeared about 200,000 years ago and dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. Were human remains and dinosaur remains unambiguously found together and were there no explanation found other than they lived together at the same time, pretty much all of evolutionary theory would collapse. That would include a of of what we think we know about palaeontology, geology and genetics. For that reason I would happily bet everything I own against a copy of Windows Vista Home edition that it will never happen.
Actually it does. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (OK I moved the goal posts by referring to a specific version of evolution) says that I am here because all of my ancestors were well adapted to the conditions in which they lived.
Read the article properly. They're not going to inert adverts into HTTP responses from arbitrary sites. It'll operate just like Google ads do, except that the ads chosen will be selected based on the browsing history of the client IP address.
Yes but the majority of the non English speaking World also use the word "football" or some variant thereof to refer to soccer rather than the pansy version of rugby that you use to stop the advertising breaks from running together.
NAT is here to stay and it's not an ugly hack. A company like, say, IBM does not want to have to go to ICANN every time it hooks another laptop to its internal network. Nor does the rest of the Internet need to know about IBM's internal network topology. NAT is actually a useful piece of technology to make TCP/IP networks manageable.
Actually, there is no microkernel in OS X. Everything in the operating system runs in the same kernel address space. Although individual subsystems within OS X can talk to each other with Mach messages (and also user space) they can also see each other's memory. Also, the VFS subsystem system and the network stack were lifted direct from BSD (although as of 10.4 they are much modified).