Really? REALLY?! You're trying to tell me that flash is innovation on the web?! FLASH!?! Are you high? Your comment is entirely devoid of any reason and sanity. Do you know who developed webkit? It was Apple, they forked konqueror. Now webkit runs half the browsers out there. Safari, which also runs on webkit, is, in their words:
The first browser to support HTML5 audio and video tags, Safari helps developers create media-rich sites that don't require additional plug-ins.
From where I sit, html5 is the innovation and the future of the web here, flash is holding innovation up because it's being forced to do things it was never designed to do. Apple is pushing the world forward by releasing us fro relying on a plugin that relies on a single manufacturer, i.e., Adobe.
Actually, they didn't fork Konqueror. They forked KHTML/KJS. During the development of Safari, KDE was slow to roll back any Apple fixes to KHTML/KJS, so Apple created WebKit and moved forward. KDE still won't move to WebKit proper inside it's KPart and is slowly mimicking the code of WebKit/Qt back into KDE 4.4/4.5. Opera has moved away from Qt being required for Opera and Konqueror isn't growing mind share. Yet, Epiphany 2.30 is rollin' right along.
I don't think so. I think Apple (and Steve Jobs) are ruthless about killing what they see as legacy tech. And they're pissed at Adobe for dragging their heels in adopting the new Cocoa APIs for UI development.
I think Apple (rightly or wrongly) have decided their mission is to drag the tech world kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Let's qualify, the new Cocoa APIs. Adobe was told in 1997 that Carbon was a transition API made for Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft, primarily, to give them what we said at Apple was a couple of years to migrate to Cocoa APIs. It's been 13 years and they still haven't done it lock, stock and barrel.
The iPhone OS platform isn't going to be held back like the OS X Cocoa proper platform. End of story.
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The problem is not that the UI is -completely- different.
It's an UI that is massively the same, just ran through a bulk rename, shuffle parameters order around in function calls and explode/implode some methods / typical sequences.
The UI -could- have been VERY similar, with only minimal differences easy to #ifdef through - the underlying philosophy is. Instead, there was some active effort put in making it totally incompatible, where making it compatible would be easier and more obvious.
A typical case of "an extra week of writing code can save you a hour you'd spend on reading documentation instead."
How the hell do you get listed as Interesting? Interesting to what? A 12 year old?
We're busy building iphone, android, facebook and twitter apps, with the delusion of a multi-million dollar payday.
BTW, thanks for all the open source stuff we're using.
Signed,
Young Developers
All those iPhone apps aren't relying on FOSS for app development. Neither is Java relying on it's existence due to FOSS. FOSS has been very useful for corporations needing a built-in testing pool, for free. However, money off of services only tends to be limiting.
You say Apple has the monopoly on WHAT? It's own store? Every manufacturer has the monopoly on his own products. I doubt the government wants to change that.
And since when is there an EDGE iPhone? I don't think there's something like that.
To me, bad publicity is the most likely reason.
Not bad publicity, just time to make way for the Store to expand it's ratings and categories to handle such content.
If this thing can run Firefox and VLC then it will beat the snot out of the iPad for those of us that are interested in more than just the Walled Garden.
Some of us are interested in using whatever media or website we happen to come across, not lame excuses from fanboys.
VLC is still a kludge on my Debian Linux. It's UI is garbage and it's ability to work out of the box can be hit n' miss. MPlayer seems to pick up the codecs more easily but it's UI makes VLC look like a dream.
Come on, surely if the NeXT computer was all that, it wouldn't have been the colossal failure it was. There were plenty of potential customers who could afford one but passed.
In fact I've always suspected that basing the next Apple OS on NeXTStep was necessary to get Jobs to return to Apple. That way he could essentially "erase" his failure.
The computer was a failure because it was 10 years ahead of the rest of the industry. Steve learned that you don't need to be the latest in hardware technology to become a leader in the industry. When people were crying foul about $5,000 workstations, we at NeXT were selling $10-$15k workstations to the education markets and research markets. The system was cutting edge. The rest of the industry was enamored with 256 colors while NeXT was standing here with 4096 colors. Then they jumped to 16 and 32 bit color solutions. Sorry, but NeXT was too far ahead to ever make a broad impact.
Steven P. Jobs has learned that invaluable lesson and it shows with Apple in it's present direction.
Steve Wozniak has said that he pre-ordered three iPads, two for himself and one for a friend. This is a testament to his incredible good nature and his loyalty both to the firm that marginalized him in the 1980s and to a friend, Jobs, who refused to write a foreword for his memoirs. Yet somewhere, deep inside, Wozniak must realize what the release of the iPad signifies: The company he once built now, officially, no longer exists.
That last sentence is really the core problem here. We were used to Steve Wozniak's Apple and we were in love with that Apple. Now the only Apple left is Steve Job's Apple. Times have changed but before we cast acerbic words at Jobs you must acknowledge he has led the company in a very profitable direction. Could he have done that while adhering to Wozniak's "open" idealism? That's the real debate here.
That is where your knowledge of history is askew. Steve Wozniak didn't build Apple. He built a computer which Steve Jobs leveraged to build a corporation. Steve Jobs and a group of talented venture capitalists, not to mention dozens of teams of engineers built Apple. Wozniak knows this as well.
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False.
A few PCs existed before Apple's brand. Off the top of my head - the Altair. And the number one best-selling computer of the 70s? The Tandy-Radio Shack 80 (TRS-80). It's sad how Apple and Microsoft have rewritten history to effectively erase other companies/inventors' achievements from our collective memories.
Hobbiest computer kits weren't the first personal computer. Try again.
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Add physicists, all variety of engineers deployed locally on-site and around the globe, Legal System and the medical industries custom enterprise applications, etc.
I see a lot of posts about how the camera looked like an RPG especially if you didn't already know it etc. That is no excuse. We are watching a low resolution b/w video, yet from the soldier comments it is obvious they can see details that are not visible to us, i.e. they can see pretty well and I would think they would be in a much better position than us to recognise weaponry (soldiers get some training in weapons, right?).
From their actions later in the video (saying a van stopped to pick up weapons) it is quite obvious to me that the trigger-happy immoral hicks on that hellicopter were simply making things up to get permission to shoot. It was mass murder, not war.
Correct. The CCD TV is a high resolution 4k unlimited zoom TV camera on the AH-64. At their range they can read the zit on your face, if they want. The black and white feed is the record caption from central command.
One of the claimed "RPG"'s looked a lot like a camera with a telephoto lens on it to me. It's where the person is leaning out from behind the edge of the building apparently kneeling.
You know- it occurs to me, this video is a lot more apparent to me on a 24" screen than it may be to the pilots on 4" or 6" screens.
Their CCD TV is a continuous zoom high magnification camera. They can see it just like they are looking at it on an iPad with high resolution color. The black and white is the data feed for the central command to see and view.
Disclaimer: I'm at work, and they have video stuff blocked, so I have not seen the video
What really got me was that they used a GUNSHIP on HUMAN TARGETS.
And what's wrong with this? The usage of 'gunships' on human targets is valid by the laws of war. There's normally nothing special on how you kill people during war.
Where I WILL get upset is the targeting of non-combatants, whether by gunship, missile, or even humble assault rifle. I understand that there can and will be collateral damage if you need to use something with explosives to take out a target, but sometimes this is necessary.
Open an apache door, pull out a sniper rifle and take out the target you can discern has an RPG or AK-47. End of story. Using the scatter gun 30mm cannon on a group with no immediate threat to your position is a crime. You can justify, albeit slimly, the killing of the one person with the RPG on the strap loosely hanging near the ground, if it were loaded. The scope or the full zoom on the Apache will discern that bit of information. This was a group of apathetic yahoos who deserve a war tribunal and full criminal indictment. There was one AK-47 and one RPG away from the view of the camera man with the long telephoto lens peaking around the building at the Apache and taking it's picture [the one who they claimed had an RPG pointed at them].
Can somebody please explain what is evil about Apple buying Intrinsity?
Because they continue to succeed and no multi-billionaire fanboy of linux has bought such cool technologies and taken billions in losses so linux fanboys can buy something cool with an aluminum unibody case housing a Tux logo on the backside?
I was with you up to the camel casing. Camel case is a fad I could have done without, not only is walkFaster less clear than walk_faster, it is also more error prone to type.
I think Apple just wants to prevent iControlPad or some other company patenting the idea first, as it would leave Apple with a bag of hurt if they wanted to create their own device later. If there is to be a controller accessory for the iPhone/iPod, it should be (from a pragmatic point of view) developed in-house and standardized, as you don't want every game to require a different accessory or have to support a dozen controller profiles.
IMO, it would be bad for everyone if the iControlPad did catch on, as it's simply a poor controller: The "new design" more than doubles the width of the iPhone/iPod, you have to reposition your hands to touch the screen, and it doesn't seem to give your other eight fingers anything to do. Considering the problems they mentioned getting it to work with various versions of the iPhone and iPod, I'm also not convinced it will work with the next OS or hardware version. It's nice to see an attempt, especially from hobbyists, but I wouldn't want it to become the standard game controller for Apple handhelds.
Stop making sense. People around here fall into groups of disgruntled hacks, disgruntled claiming to be engineer hacks, old engineering hacks with no profits from their past or a group young twits. They all seem to be horrific at patent law.
I recall that Apple only has method patent for multi-touch, they don't have hardware level patent for it. Maybe this other company has something of that sorts.
Repost to the top so all the sycophants can stop ranting about how this is a screw to software. It was a loop-hole that allowed many a start up to not pay their fair share. Microsoft still owes a billion plus and the part of the bill washing their hands free from this should be stripped from the bill. A fair law means all corporations pay a tax and the big ones don't get a freebie.
Well, a bit off-topic, but yes, I agree, which is why my business is relocating from NYC, where we pay:
- one of the highest state + city income tax rates in the nation
- 4% unincorporated business tax
- Metropolitan Commuter transportation mobility tax (something they invented this year to fund the MTA)
To Austin, TX, where we'll pay:
- No state income tax (corporate or personal)
- No UBT
- No spend-happy gov't
- 80% national avg cost of living rather than NYC (don't even want to know what percentage that is)
I'm not a tea party guy or anything but whenever I talk about this stuff, people look at me like I'm crazy. More money for my business means I can have more employees and charge my clients less. Everybody always assumes that the first thing we do when taxes are lower is pocket the difference. Yeah, right.
That list won't last for long. Texas currently subsidizes that ability by taking in nearly twice as much Federal Dollars as they give back in taxes. When that loop-hole is balanced to a 1:1 ratio you'll suddenly realize your decisions to relocate was a very costly one.
Maybe that should be their next step. If MS refuses to pay their fair share of taxes (after all, they enjoy the benefits of the roads, police, fire, and other services that are supported by these taxes, correct?), WA should launch an initiative to go open source. Whether they follow through or not isn't the point (although I'd love to see it happen). Getting MS back to the negotiating table to avoid being embarrassed in their own backyard would be priceless.
Agreed. Move it to OpenOffice for general office work, LaTeX/XeTeX for publication solutions and more.
All of these hacks are real-world drive-by attacks against fully patched machines with default OS mitigations in place (ASLR, DEP, sandboxing).
You get pwn3d if you go to a malicious page, go to a legit page with a malicious banner ad/embedded iframe, get redirected (via malicious WiFi AP) to a malicious page, etc.
This is the third year in a row that Miller did this. He has street cred, so think before you call BS.
From your explanation the issue is then with WebKit and not OS X.
Isn't your point about Chrome invalidated by your point about the time taken?
Did no one attack Chrome because none of these researchers had an exploit that would work against it?
VANCOUVER, BC -- For the third year in a row, Charlie Miller has hacked into a MacBook by exploiting a critical Safari browser vulnerability. At the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest here, Miller performed a clean drive-by download against Safari to get a full command shell on the MacBook.
In the attack, Miller set up a special Web page with the exploit. Using Safari, a conference organizer surfed to the Web page and watched and Miller took control of the machine.
I'd like to see whether the exploit was specific to WebKit or the Cocoa layer.
Slightly off-topic, but relevant to your desire to achieve a degree in M.E.:
As a Mechanical Engineer you might want to reconsider your career choice. You still have Differential Equations to go, not to mention any advanced FEA would have you needing Vector Analysis [dealing with Tensor Calculus]. Your Physics skills, not to mention Dynamics, Kinematics, Strengths of Materials, Machine Design, Dynamic Systems, Fluid Dynamics, not to mention Aerodynamics are greatly hampered due to your difficult grasp of Calculus III.
Calculus III is the most tangible of Calculus for one to VISUALIZE seeing as we're dealing with boundaries in 3 dimensions that allow one to determine the Volume, Torsion, Angular Acceleration, externally applied forces in Pressure and internally expanding forces in Temperature of thin walled pressure vessels, Sheering Stress/Strain, so on and so forth.
As someone whose worst grade was a B in Calculus II [not because the Professors were gods, but because my time spent on Calc II was less than the rest in this series of courses] I'd recommend you move to say, Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering where you won't be killing yourself off just to get your B.S. degree.
You rightly stated that fluency in the language of Mathematics is crucial for one to add to the applied group of languages which part of the body of work in say Physics, M.E., C.E., ChemE, E.E., etc.
Grand Central is not a novel concept, similar libraries like OpenMP have been around for years on *nix/Windows.
Also, why are you being an iPhone shill in a discussion about multicore processing? The iPhone OS doesn't even really support multitasking, and runs on a mobile device with a single CPU.
Except that Grand Central and it's blocks structure with LLVM does it system-wide, out-of-the-box and not like OpenMP which does it application wide.
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Really? REALLY?! You're trying to tell me that flash is innovation on the web?! FLASH!?! Are you high? Your comment is entirely devoid of any reason and sanity. Do you know who developed webkit? It was Apple, they forked konqueror. Now webkit runs half the browsers out there. Safari, which also runs on webkit, is, in their words:
From where I sit, html5 is the innovation and the future of the web here, flash is holding innovation up because it's being forced to do things it was never designed to do. Apple is pushing the world forward by releasing us fro relying on a plugin that relies on a single manufacturer, i.e., Adobe.
Actually, they didn't fork Konqueror. They forked KHTML/KJS. During the development of Safari, KDE was slow to roll back any Apple fixes to KHTML/KJS, so Apple created WebKit and moved forward. KDE still won't move to WebKit proper inside it's KPart and is slowly mimicking the code of WebKit/Qt back into KDE 4.4/4.5. Opera has moved away from Qt being required for Opera and Konqueror isn't growing mind share. Yet, Epiphany 2.30 is rollin' right along.
I don't think so. I think Apple (and Steve Jobs) are ruthless about killing what they see as legacy tech. And they're pissed at Adobe for dragging their heels in adopting the new Cocoa APIs for UI development.
I think Apple (rightly or wrongly) have decided their mission is to drag the tech world kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Let's qualify, the new Cocoa APIs. Adobe was told in 1997 that Carbon was a transition API made for Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft, primarily, to give them what we said at Apple was a couple of years to migrate to Cocoa APIs. It's been 13 years and they still haven't done it lock, stock and barrel.
The iPhone OS platform isn't going to be held back like the OS X Cocoa proper platform. End of story.
The problem is not that the UI is -completely- different.
It's an UI that is massively the same, just ran through a bulk rename, shuffle parameters order around in function calls and explode/implode some methods / typical sequences.
The UI -could- have been VERY similar, with only minimal differences easy to #ifdef through - the underlying philosophy is. Instead, there was some active effort put in making it totally incompatible, where making it compatible would be easier and more obvious.
A typical case of "an extra week of writing code can save you a hour you'd spend on reading documentation instead."
How the hell do you get listed as Interesting? Interesting to what? A 12 year old?
Dear Old People,
We're busy building iphone, android, facebook and twitter apps, with the delusion of a multi-million dollar payday.
BTW, thanks for all the open source stuff we're using.
Signed,
Young Developers
All those iPhone apps aren't relying on FOSS for app development. Neither is Java relying on it's existence due to FOSS. FOSS has been very useful for corporations needing a built-in testing pool, for free. However, money off of services only tends to be limiting.
You say Apple has the monopoly on WHAT? It's own store? Every manufacturer has the monopoly on his own products. I doubt the government wants to change that. And since when is there an EDGE iPhone? I don't think there's something like that.
To me, bad publicity is the most likely reason.
Not bad publicity, just time to make way for the Store to expand it's ratings and categories to handle such content.
If this thing can run Firefox and VLC then it will beat the snot out of the iPad for those of us that are interested in more than just the Walled Garden.
Some of us are interested in using whatever media or website we happen to come across, not lame excuses from fanboys.
VLC is still a kludge on my Debian Linux. It's UI is garbage and it's ability to work out of the box can be hit n' miss. MPlayer seems to pick up the codecs more easily but it's UI makes VLC look like a dream.
Always thought big brother looked a little Steve Jobsish
Sure. I always thought Big Brother resembled a Buddhist, LSD fan.
Come on, surely if the NeXT computer was all that, it wouldn't have been the colossal failure it was. There were plenty of potential customers who could afford one but passed.
In fact I've always suspected that basing the next Apple OS on NeXTStep was necessary to get Jobs to return to Apple. That way he could essentially "erase" his failure.
The computer was a failure because it was 10 years ahead of the rest of the industry. Steve learned that you don't need to be the latest in hardware technology to become a leader in the industry. When people were crying foul about $5,000 workstations, we at NeXT were selling $10-$15k workstations to the education markets and research markets. The system was cutting edge. The rest of the industry was enamored with 256 colors while NeXT was standing here with 4096 colors. Then they jumped to 16 and 32 bit color solutions. Sorry, but NeXT was too far ahead to ever make a broad impact.
Steven P. Jobs has learned that invaluable lesson and it shows with Apple in it's present direction.
Yeah, I read the book and I saw the commercial. Ironic.
This week, Slashdot featured a really good article form Slate that ended with this quote:
Steve Wozniak has said that he pre-ordered three iPads, two for himself and one for a friend. This is a testament to his incredible good nature and his loyalty both to the firm that marginalized him in the 1980s and to a friend, Jobs, who refused to write a foreword for his memoirs. Yet somewhere, deep inside, Wozniak must realize what the release of the iPad signifies: The company he once built now, officially, no longer exists.
That last sentence is really the core problem here. We were used to Steve Wozniak's Apple and we were in love with that Apple. Now the only Apple left is Steve Job's Apple. Times have changed but before we cast acerbic words at Jobs you must acknowledge he has led the company in a very profitable direction. Could he have done that while adhering to Wozniak's "open" idealism? That's the real debate here.
That is where your knowledge of history is askew. Steve Wozniak didn't build Apple. He built a computer which Steve Jobs leveraged to build a corporation. Steve Jobs and a group of talented venture capitalists, not to mention dozens of teams of engineers built Apple. Wozniak knows this as well.
False.
A few PCs existed before Apple's brand. Off the top of my head - the Altair. And the number one best-selling computer of the 70s? The Tandy-Radio Shack 80 (TRS-80). It's sad how Apple and Microsoft have rewritten history to effectively erase other companies/inventors' achievements from our collective memories.
Hobbiest computer kits weren't the first personal computer. Try again.
Add physicists, all variety of engineers deployed locally on-site and around the globe, Legal System and the medical industries custom enterprise applications, etc.
I see a lot of posts about how the camera looked like an RPG especially if you didn't already know it etc. That is no excuse. We are watching a low resolution b/w video, yet from the soldier comments it is obvious they can see details that are not visible to us, i.e. they can see pretty well and I would think they would be in a much better position than us to recognise weaponry (soldiers get some training in weapons, right?). From their actions later in the video (saying a van stopped to pick up weapons) it is quite obvious to me that the trigger-happy immoral hicks on that hellicopter were simply making things up to get permission to shoot. It was mass murder, not war.
Correct. The CCD TV is a high resolution 4k unlimited zoom TV camera on the AH-64. At their range they can read the zit on your face, if they want. The black and white feed is the record caption from central command.
One of the claimed "RPG"'s looked a lot like a camera with a telephoto lens on it to me. It's where the person is leaning out from behind the edge of the building apparently kneeling.
You know- it occurs to me, this video is a lot more apparent to me on a 24" screen than it may be to the pilots on 4" or 6" screens.
Their CCD TV is a continuous zoom high magnification camera. They can see it just like they are looking at it on an iPad with high resolution color. The black and white is the data feed for the central command to see and view.
Disclaimer: I'm at work, and they have video stuff blocked, so I have not seen the video
What really got me was that they used a GUNSHIP on HUMAN TARGETS.
And what's wrong with this? The usage of 'gunships' on human targets is valid by the laws of war. There's normally nothing special on how you kill people during war.
Where I WILL get upset is the targeting of non-combatants, whether by gunship, missile, or even humble assault rifle. I understand that there can and will be collateral damage if you need to use something with explosives to take out a target, but sometimes this is necessary.
Open an apache door, pull out a sniper rifle and take out the target you can discern has an RPG or AK-47. End of story. Using the scatter gun 30mm cannon on a group with no immediate threat to your position is a crime. You can justify, albeit slimly, the killing of the one person with the RPG on the strap loosely hanging near the ground, if it were loaded. The scope or the full zoom on the Apache will discern that bit of information. This was a group of apathetic yahoos who deserve a war tribunal and full criminal indictment. There was one AK-47 and one RPG away from the view of the camera man with the long telephoto lens peaking around the building at the Apache and taking it's picture [the one who they claimed had an RPG pointed at them].
Can somebody please explain what is evil about Apple buying Intrinsity?
Because they continue to succeed and no multi-billionaire fanboy of linux has bought such cool technologies and taken billions in losses so linux fanboys can buy something cool with an aluminum unibody case housing a Tux logo on the backside?
I was with you up to the camel casing. Camel case is a fad I could have done without, not only is walkFaster less clear than walk_faster, it is also more error prone to type.
Cocoa programming is not a fad.
I think Apple just wants to prevent iControlPad or some other company patenting the idea first, as it would leave Apple with a bag of hurt if they wanted to create their own device later. If there is to be a controller accessory for the iPhone/iPod, it should be (from a pragmatic point of view) developed in-house and standardized, as you don't want every game to require a different accessory or have to support a dozen controller profiles.
IMO, it would be bad for everyone if the iControlPad did catch on, as it's simply a poor controller: The "new design" more than doubles the width of the iPhone/iPod, you have to reposition your hands to touch the screen, and it doesn't seem to give your other eight fingers anything to do. Considering the problems they mentioned getting it to work with various versions of the iPhone and iPod, I'm also not convinced it will work with the next OS or hardware version. It's nice to see an attempt, especially from hobbyists, but I wouldn't want it to become the standard game controller for Apple handhelds.
Stop making sense. People around here fall into groups of disgruntled hacks, disgruntled claiming to be engineer hacks, old engineering hacks with no profits from their past or a group young twits. They all seem to be horrific at patent law.
I recall that Apple only has method patent for multi-touch, they don't have hardware level patent for it. Maybe this other company has something of that sorts.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/03/the-patent-wars-apple-reveals-new-high-end-multi-touch-technology.html#more
Repost to the top so all the sycophants can stop ranting about how this is a screw to software. It was a loop-hole that allowed many a start up to not pay their fair share. Microsoft still owes a billion plus and the part of the bill washing their hands free from this should be stripped from the bill. A fair law means all corporations pay a tax and the big ones don't get a freebie.
Well, a bit off-topic, but yes, I agree, which is why my business is relocating from NYC, where we pay:
- one of the highest state + city income tax rates in the nation - 4% unincorporated business tax - Metropolitan Commuter transportation mobility tax (something they invented this year to fund the MTA)
To Austin, TX, where we'll pay:
- No state income tax (corporate or personal) - No UBT - No spend-happy gov't - 80% national avg cost of living rather than NYC (don't even want to know what percentage that is)
I'm not a tea party guy or anything but whenever I talk about this stuff, people look at me like I'm crazy. More money for my business means I can have more employees and charge my clients less. Everybody always assumes that the first thing we do when taxes are lower is pocket the difference. Yeah, right.
That list won't last for long. Texas currently subsidizes that ability by taking in nearly twice as much Federal Dollars as they give back in taxes. When that loop-hole is balanced to a 1:1 ratio you'll suddenly realize your decisions to relocate was a very costly one.
Maybe that should be their next step. If MS refuses to pay their fair share of taxes (after all, they enjoy the benefits of the roads, police, fire, and other services that are supported by these taxes, correct?), WA should launch an initiative to go open source. Whether they follow through or not isn't the point (although I'd love to see it happen). Getting MS back to the negotiating table to avoid being embarrassed in their own backyard would be priceless.
Agreed. Move it to OpenOffice for general office work, LaTeX/XeTeX for publication solutions and more.
All of these hacks are real-world drive-by attacks against fully patched machines with default OS mitigations in place (ASLR, DEP, sandboxing). You get pwn3d if you go to a malicious page, go to a legit page with a malicious banner ad/embedded iframe, get redirected (via malicious WiFi AP) to a malicious page, etc. This is the third year in a row that Miller did this. He has street cred, so think before you call BS.
From your explanation the issue is then with WebKit and not OS X.
Isn't your point about Chrome invalidated by your point about the time taken?
Did no one attack Chrome because none of these researchers had an exploit that would work against it?
I'd like to see whether the exploit was specific to WebKit or the Cocoa layer.
Slightly off-topic, but relevant to your desire to achieve a degree in M.E.:
As a Mechanical Engineer you might want to reconsider your career choice. You still have Differential Equations to go, not to mention any advanced FEA would have you needing Vector Analysis [dealing with Tensor Calculus]. Your Physics skills, not to mention Dynamics, Kinematics, Strengths of Materials, Machine Design, Dynamic Systems, Fluid Dynamics, not to mention Aerodynamics are greatly hampered due to your difficult grasp of Calculus III.
Calculus III is the most tangible of Calculus for one to VISUALIZE seeing as we're dealing with boundaries in 3 dimensions that allow one to determine the Volume, Torsion, Angular Acceleration, externally applied forces in Pressure and internally expanding forces in Temperature of thin walled pressure vessels, Sheering Stress/Strain, so on and so forth.
As someone whose worst grade was a B in Calculus II [not because the Professors were gods, but because my time spent on Calc II was less than the rest in this series of courses] I'd recommend you move to say, Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering where you won't be killing yourself off just to get your B.S. degree.
You rightly stated that fluency in the language of Mathematics is crucial for one to add to the applied group of languages which part of the body of work in say Physics, M.E., C.E., ChemE, E.E., etc.
Grand Central is not a novel concept, similar libraries like OpenMP have been around for years on *nix/Windows.
Also, why are you being an iPhone shill in a discussion about multicore processing? The iPhone OS doesn't even really support multitasking, and runs on a mobile device with a single CPU.
Except that Grand Central and it's blocks structure with LLVM does it system-wide, out-of-the-box and not like OpenMP which does it application wide.