Who the hell switches programming languages because of an IDE? Only a novice would characterize and utilize one language over another based upon an IDE.
I'm looking forward to when you switch back after Xcode 2.0 is released and subsequent incremental updates reveals even how much easier Java is to develop in Xcode than Eclipse.
Seeing all this about this kicks ass over this rhetoric it is too bad Apple decided to curtail the original WebObjects into Java and not provide WebObjects ObjC and the full-power of EOF and all the extensive frameworks.
Hopefully, they'll release it and rejuvenate their Enteprise presence, but who knows.
I guess they aren't interested in working with LizardTech and DjvuLibre.
This project is EXACTLY what this software technologies were developed to preserve.
http://www.djvuzone.org/links/
The site is littered with information and thanks to AT&T Bell Labs we have a wonderful product freely available.
It's a matter of desire to make the OCR capable of encoding the world's typefaces. If they can scan Sanskrit, Hebrew and Egyptian Hieroglyphics they sure as hell can scan Beowulf in it's original print form.
When was the last time you went into a courtroom, sat down and listend to the attrocious orations being displayed as Lawyers in debate?
Perhaps Lawyers are dismayed by the simple fact that jurors aren't as dense as they were in the past?
How about we stop redrafting the laws to make it less and less a requirement to be guilty of committing a crime by real evidence instead of the ever spreading epidemic of circumstantial heresay?
These Court TV cases are battles of illusion by the DAs and the Defense Attorneys. You can't tell me the average person today is smarter than they were fifty years ago. Fewer cases seem to be able to find corroborating evidence but more cases are returning convictions. WIth less cases managing to get real evidence to convict people and one would logically deduce that the juries of today are more easily swayed with the emotional court melodrama and media persecutions.
How about we require real physical forensic evidence before we can bring a heinous crime to trial? It would sure save the taxpayers a lot of money.
How about we fine every attorney who can't articulate in court and require all State Bar exams to revert back to the 50's of 3 days orals and 3 days written? That only seems logical and ethical. Everybody and their dog went into law for the fact it was 'easy money.'
Not to give the shows cudos for its accuracy and for helping Science. However, at least something is making Science prevalent and important in Society, besides building up our advanced technologies in future wars, ala the Internet Pentagon.
Not all. A few were derivatives of Lotus Improv that ran on NeXTSTEP.
Lighthouse Design developed Quantrix and since being buried at SUN a new Quantrix has emerged.
Quantrix Modeler 1.2 on Windows and OS X.
http://www.quantrix.com
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You are fondly refperring to the Brick that had NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on it.
Don't remind me about the Toshiba laptop. Or the IBM Laptop I had to configure for Avie to demonstrate to Gil which Scott needed Java to run on it and no one in Engineering told me in Enterprise Support about. But thanks to Mark Bessey and big help from Ali we got that special AppKit that Scott Forstall needed on the box over-night for Avie to demonstrate to Gil. For me it was a huge learning experience and fun.
Marc Driftmeyer
I remember watching everyone gasp at 1997 WWDC when the laptop had multiple copies of NeXTTIME running at once and switching between them. To bad the "like butter" smooth drawing fix Peter Grafanino fixed never got released for Openstep users. That really made DPS draw so smoothly.
Instead of redoing the ailing national power grid that would bring in many more jobs than this hidden gem--intelligent I know but not for general use nor for improving the ailing economy.
Is it just me or does The Pentagon think it has a blank check on all matters? Before anyone notes that there will be jobs done may I remind everyone this doesn't improve our security, for the general public. It makes sure that the Government can spy on its citizens more securely.
Too bad so many idiots voted for the Dems and Reps instead of The LP that wants to scale back government to its original intent and coordinate with the private sector to reinvigorate this pathetic economy.
Would we want to build a canal system to protect against floods and drought in the Midwest? Nope! We'll just charge more to the public and keep racking up a debt that will always accrue since Nature will always flood and bring droughts to the Midwest.
Do we want to invest in high-speed cargo railsystems to reduce heavy machinery on highways and make the transportations of products more efficient? Nope! We would rather offer funds to revamp the highest maintenance approach to highway restoration.
Do we want to build consumer commuter lightrails to reduce wasted congestion and traffic? Nope! We'd rather build a top secret Internet called GIG!!
Can people finally acknowledge they are complete door knobs and don't realize they aren't getting shit for a return on their investment via their vote?
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Steve Jobs didn't ask the board to oust Gil Amelio (I know I know, working there had me not seeing the forrest for the trees). Steve's frustrations resided in the fact that Gil didn't listen to his advice on what to do with the direction of the company: What's the point of being a Special Consultant if your years of experience in this industry gets ignored? He was fed up and was ready to spend more time at PIXAR, which really doesn't like Steve's nitpicking but just his skill at negotiation. Fred Anderson came to Steve and asked him to return--his trump to Steve was they already wanted to get rid of Gil. Steve insisted on being able to revamp the board and begin by settling the Microsoft bad public relations.
We at NeXT were in the middle of filing for an IPO as a WebObjects Enterprise Company. We lost one hell of a CFO during the merger.
NeXT Engineers began working with the Linux team at Apple to piggy back a non-commercially released version of Openstep onto PowerPC architecture. The idiot wars to parallel what the OS should be and not be have continued since 1997. In two more releases we'll finally get an OS that all the Mac Zealots will accept actually was the original intent of OS X. Glad to see it took forever to drown out the whining.
"Unlike OPENSTEP, users were able to save files directly to the desktop." --This was a design choice Keith Ohlfs, Steve Jobs and several others specifically didn't want in NeXTSTEP that obviously carried over to Openstep:: A non-cluttered Desktop to keep the clean, minimalistic look; hence THE SHELF: Reuse via the Shelf which is a collection of symlinks to files.
"Ultimately, Quartz performed better than Display PostScript, while maintaining very high output quality." --Ultimately PDF cost Apple nothing to license and Peter Grafanino(sorry if I spelled your last name wrong Pete--you are a genius and always will be) and his team who developed Quartz chose PDF firstly for cost saving measures and then to extend it in their own rights.
"Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia and Quark, the keystone of Macintosh development, had all yet to release their flagship products for OS X, and in the case of Quark, would not until two years later." --They didn't release their products because they insisted upon CARBON.
Now that Cocoa is finally getting its just dues how long before we see replacements to these Gorillas? They didn't want to invest in Cocoa programming then, but now six years later will they have taken the time to find the talent to do it now? Hard to tell but these are my predictions.
If they don't they'll be left behind. Adobe sees it by Apple entering into the market with better products.
Macromedia sees it but lets see if they really see it.
Quark seems to be the most cautious and I'm guessing they'll hedge their bets and have invested in such talent already.
Microsoft? Never. They'll figure that Office will always guarantee them supremacy in the platform. Then again I'm sure they'll be quite pissed if Apple releases a compatible Office suite worthy of knocking off Office. Afterall, XML is the measure of compatibility on all future Office suites.
The last section is obviously just conjecture but conjecture with history.
XNU Kernel has Objective-C in it as well as Objective-C++ ala I/O Kit.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Co nceptual/KernelProgramming/KernelProgramming.pdf
Don't waste your breath. The parent poster you respond to doesn't strike me as a Mechanical Engineer nor even deals with PDE's via FEM, let alone the vast aspect of accurately calculating Fluid Dynamic laws.
We instead should be investing in a modular new Power Grid that would generate millions of jobs over 50 years.
If that isn't a smart investment for the Banking Industry to have it privatized, but coordinated with the highest quality product, instead of the lowest bid fiascos by the Government, then nothing is.
We don't even need to specifically target this design, but graft the benefits from their extensive research to build a State by State infrastructure. That will most certainly get countless Americans and foreign workers off their collective asses and become productive.
The key is being productive.
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You said,
"I should add that all this does not apply to any APIs of the aforementioned products, in which I would agree with you (having used MFC, ATL, COM and WIN32), I don't see why informed person would choose these over the alternatives (wxWindows, stl, boost, Cocoa) if they had a choice."
Red flag. Clearly you don't know squat about Cocoa and particularly FoundationKit with AppKit, let alone I/O Kit, so on and so forth. I also don't see any mention of Objective-C. My conclusion is you don't know ObjC and the power of Cocoa and just used Java with Xcode1.5. I do recommend you revisit this with the pre-release Xcode 2.0, assuming you are a paid ADC member.
The interoperability of these systems, along-side the legacy of UNIX mixed with cutting edge development frameworks, scalability and quality hardware options results in a logical progression to OS X & Linux.
From the desktop to the regional Server stacks the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
From Web Services to databases, etc, the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
From quality of professional support contracts the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
Note: Having used all 3 systems, worked at NeXT and Apple and my primary system presently is Debian, the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
Myself I will have 2 systems: G5 and Debian AMD systems running OS X & Linux, respectively.
AT&T has history with Apple via NeXT both in the wireless and Ma Bell division.
Future directional support from IBM for both OS X and Linux makes it a logical choice. Linux can leverage both PPC64 and AMD64.
One great use of Konqueror is its drag n' drop between views while connecting a session via SFTP.
Yes obviously doing large projects you a versioning solution and I've got cvs and subversion. However, when not using such tools this capability is very useful.
It's called WebCore.
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html
And yes they are ObjC++ wrappers around KHTML/KJS including their own fixes to KHTML/KJS that fits within their model.
KDE folks then reintegrate as much of these changes as they can within their model.
This leveraging of KHTML/KJS made sense to Apple by joining two areas of technology well-developed, open and not nearly as big as Gecko. Expect when WebCore matures that it will have many portions of its code that have nothing to do with KHTML/KJS. Dave Hyatt has said as much.
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Who the hell switches programming languages because of an IDE? Only a novice would characterize and utilize one language over another based upon an IDE.
I'm looking forward to when you switch back after Xcode 2.0 is released and subsequent incremental updates reveals even how much easier Java is to develop in Xcode than Eclipse.
With GCC4.0 the latest Fortran for Mechanical Engineers and other disciplines with a need for numerical analysis and FEM will have this available.
I wonder do languages like SELF or Ada or Eiffel ever get notice like they once did?
Seeing all this about this kicks ass over this rhetoric it is too bad Apple decided to curtail the original WebObjects into Java and not provide WebObjects ObjC and the full-power of EOF and all the extensive frameworks.
Hopefully, they'll release it and rejuvenate their Enteprise presence, but who knows.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/rarebooksonline.h tml
Many of these books have long-s. In fact this series of Botany Magazines is a beautiful representation of a lost book format.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK1xC981/cbmmenu.html
I guess they aren't interested in working with LizardTech and DjvuLibre.
This project is EXACTLY what this software technologies were developed to preserve.
http://www.djvuzone.org/links/The site is littered with information and thanks to AT&T Bell Labs we have a wonderful product freely available.
It's a matter of desire to make the OCR capable of encoding the world's typefaces. If they can scan Sanskrit, Hebrew and Egyptian Hieroglyphics they sure as hell can scan Beowulf in it's original print form.
When was the last time you went into a courtroom, sat down and listend to the attrocious orations being displayed as Lawyers in debate?
Perhaps Lawyers are dismayed by the simple fact that jurors aren't as dense as they were in the past?
How about we stop redrafting the laws to make it less and less a requirement to be guilty of committing a crime by real evidence instead of the ever spreading epidemic of circumstantial heresay?
These Court TV cases are battles of illusion by the DAs and the Defense Attorneys. You can't tell me the average person today is smarter than they were fifty years ago. Fewer cases seem to be able to find corroborating evidence but more cases are returning convictions. WIth less cases managing to get real evidence to convict people and one would logically deduce that the juries of today are more easily swayed with the emotional court melodrama and media persecutions.
How about we require real physical forensic evidence before we can bring a heinous crime to trial? It would sure save the taxpayers a lot of money.
How about we fine every attorney who can't articulate in court and require all State Bar exams to revert back to the 50's of 3 days orals and 3 days written? That only seems logical and ethical. Everybody and their dog went into law for the fact it was 'easy money.'
Not to give the shows cudos for its accuracy and for helping Science. However, at least something is making Science prevalent and important in Society, besides building up our advanced technologies in future wars, ala the Internet Pentagon.
Not all. A few were derivatives of Lotus Improv that ran on NeXTSTEP.
Lighthouse Design developed Quantrix and since being buried at SUN a new Quantrix has emerged.
Quantrix Modeler 1.2 on Windows and OS X.
http://www.quantrix.comYou are fondly refperring to the Brick that had NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on it.
Don't remind me about the Toshiba laptop. Or the IBM Laptop I had to configure for Avie to demonstrate to Gil which Scott needed Java to run on it and no one in Engineering told me in Enterprise Support about. But thanks to Mark Bessey and big help from Ali we got that special AppKit that Scott Forstall needed on the box over-night for Avie to demonstrate to Gil. For me it was a huge learning experience and fun.
Marc Driftmeyer
I remember watching everyone gasp at 1997 WWDC when the laptop had multiple copies of NeXTTIME running at once and switching between them. To bad the "like butter" smooth drawing fix Peter Grafanino fixed never got released for Openstep users. That really made DPS draw so smoothly.
I hope Andrew Barnes is still working at Apple.
Instead of redoing the ailing national power grid that would bring in many more jobs than this hidden gem--intelligent I know but not for general use nor for improving the ailing economy.
Is it just me or does The Pentagon think it has a blank check on all matters? Before anyone notes that there will be jobs done may I remind everyone this doesn't improve our security, for the general public. It makes sure that the Government can spy on its citizens more securely.
Too bad so many idiots voted for the Dems and Reps instead of The LP that wants to scale back government to its original intent and coordinate with the private sector to reinvigorate this pathetic economy.
Would we want to build a canal system to protect against floods and drought in the Midwest? Nope! We'll just charge more to the public and keep racking up a debt that will always accrue since Nature will always flood and bring droughts to the Midwest.
Do we want to invest in high-speed cargo railsystems to reduce heavy machinery on highways and make the transportations of products more efficient? Nope! We would rather offer funds to revamp the highest maintenance approach to highway restoration.
Do we want to build consumer commuter lightrails to reduce wasted congestion and traffic? Nope! We'd rather build a top secret Internet called GIG!!
Can people finally acknowledge they are complete door knobs and don't realize they aren't getting shit for a return on their investment via their vote?
Now that Cocoa is finally getting its just dues how long before we see replacements to these Gorillas? They didn't want to invest in Cocoa programming then, but now six years later will they have taken the time to find the talent to do it now? Hard to tell but these are my predictions.
If they don't they'll be left behind. Adobe sees it by Apple entering into the market with better products.
Macromedia sees it but lets see if they really see it.
Quark seems to be the most cautious and I'm guessing they'll hedge their bets and have invested in such talent already.
Microsoft? Never. They'll figure that Office will always guarantee them supremacy in the platform. Then again I'm sure they'll be quite pissed if Apple releases a compatible Office suite worthy of knocking off Office. Afterall, XML is the measure of compatibility on all future Office suites.
The last section is obviously just conjecture but conjecture with history.Psst. It was 50,000 NeXT boxes and having worked there it was more but that's neither here nor there.
http://www.pstill.com
Do your homework before you declare nothing on Linux does PDF/X1-a.
And with the advent of Cocoa taking forefront in 10.4 those large apps will either switch or drop support for OS X.
Adobe we gave you 6 years to switch to Cocoa. Now do it or get run over.
XNU Kernel has Objective-C in it as well as Objective-C++ ala I/O Kit. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Co nceptual/KernelProgramming/KernelProgramming.pdf
Tell that to Apple. I'm sure they'll disagree strongly.
Everything you list is exactly why they won't make headways into small businesses.
Clearly, they want to drive your business needs through their expensive line leases.
End result: Nothing new, just a different face with the same predatorial business practices.
The FCC needs to back off and let small ISPs reinvigorate the tech sector. Clearly, the large Telcos won't.
And what is the AAC Apple license?
Me thinks the OGG license doesn't fit in with the AAC license and not to mention the future additions to AAC Apple is planning.
More importantly, why would Apple include OGG support when they want to push AAC and its MPEG-4 bits onto the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards.
This says it all: http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/3gpp/ not to mention the specifics on MPEG-4 http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/
I wouldn't pay someone to mow my lawn, let alone purchase a robot in the thousands of dollars to gouge the grass.
Sorry but this is pathetic. Let's rename the survey, "How lazy Humans are Becoming: Robots to do menial chores."
And sex robots? "Now for the weak and deprived you too can shot your juices inside!"
Don't waste your breath. The parent poster you respond to doesn't strike me as a Mechanical Engineer nor even deals with PDE's via FEM, let alone the vast aspect of accurately calculating Fluid Dynamic laws.
We instead should be investing in a modular new Power Grid that would generate millions of jobs over 50 years.
If that isn't a smart investment for the Banking Industry to have it privatized, but coordinated with the highest quality product, instead of the lowest bid fiascos by the Government, then nothing is.
We don't even need to specifically target this design, but graft the benefits from their extensive research to build a State by State infrastructure. That will most certainly get countless Americans and foreign workers off their collective asses and become productive.
The key is being productive.
Red flag. Clearly you don't know squat about Cocoa and particularly FoundationKit with AppKit, let alone I/O Kit, so on and so forth. I also don't see any mention of Objective-C. My conclusion is you don't know ObjC and the power of Cocoa and just used Java with Xcode1.5. I do recommend you revisit this with the pre-release Xcode 2.0, assuming you are a paid ADC member.
The interoperability of these systems, along-side the legacy of UNIX mixed with cutting edge development frameworks, scalability and quality hardware options results in a logical progression to OS X & Linux.
From the desktop to the regional Server stacks the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
From Web Services to databases, etc, the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
From quality of professional support contracts the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
Note: Having used all 3 systems, worked at NeXT and Apple and my primary system presently is Debian, the logical choice is OS X & Linux.
Myself I will have 2 systems: G5 and Debian AMD systems running OS X & Linux, respectively.
AT&T has history with Apple via NeXT both in the wireless and Ma Bell division.
Future directional support from IBM for both OS X and Linux makes it a logical choice. Linux can leverage both PPC64 and AMD64.
You get the picture.
One great use of Konqueror is its drag n' drop between views while connecting a session via SFTP.
Yes obviously doing large projects you a versioning solution and I've got cvs and subversion. However, when not using such tools this capability is very useful.
It's called WebCore.e /index.html
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcor
And yes they are ObjC++ wrappers around KHTML/KJS including their own fixes to KHTML/KJS that fits within their model.
KDE folks then reintegrate as much of these changes as they can within their model.
This leveraging of KHTML/KJS made sense to Apple by joining two areas of technology well-developed, open and not nearly as big as Gecko. Expect when WebCore matures that it will have many portions of its code that have nothing to do with KHTML/KJS. Dave Hyatt has said as much.