"Premier" doesn't mean "best" either. Technically it means "first", and I don't think anyone is going to claim that Cocoa was the first development tool of it's type. Another meaning is "influential"; because it's mac-based the vast majority of programmers not only don't use it but most of them probably have never even seen it.
I'd say that Steve Jobs WAS right in predicting the future. Many elements of Mac OS X are derived from the operating system developed at NeXT. Supposedly the next version of Windows takes many cues from the current Mac OS X.
No, he wasn't. First of all OS X has a what, 5% market share? Hasn't exactly caught on.
Secondly, he was responsible for BOTH SYSTEMS. How the hell is that "predicting"? Anyone can predict their own behavior.
Thirdly, let's see how many elements the next Windows borrows from THE NeXT-SPECIFIC aspects of OS X. That's the discussion we're having.
the Cocoa API in OS X is the updated NeXT API, so it lives on as the premiere app development tool.
Are you on crack? You think anything having to do with Cocoa, OS X, or Apple in general qualifies as a "premiere app development tool"? How many people do you really think use macs as opposed to PCs?
..because if there is anyone in the industry who could be described as an oracle to what the future holds, he's it. But more than just predicting it, he directs the company to make it. The NeXT machine heralded the future back in 1988....
And like he foresaw, NeXT is now at the nexus of modern computing. I mean, everyone here has a NeXT machine, and when was the last time you saw a non-NeXT computer in an office?
nor did it attempt to remain 100% true to the original and thus dated itself
The problem with remaining 100% true to the original isn't that it would date itself, but that it wouldn't be very good. 1970's BSG wasn't very good. The writing wasn't very good. The acting wasn't very good.
For every indignant comment on slashdot that "we never read about X in the news" I've ALWAYS managed to find X in the news. Every single time. There are plenty of articles around detailing exercise addiction.
If I could get my wife to move, I'll give you my 3 BR house in NYC for a place in Nebraska. After a few years, or worse, if you grow up here, you realize that you go see a play, or to all the night life a few times a year - the rest of the time, it's just not worth the hassle
Then you can move to a different city. I grew up in NYC, then moved to Miami a few years ago, and I'm loving it. The most rural place I've lived in was northern Virginia, and it was boring as hell.
The only reason that many people live in cities is because of access to more jobs.
That is certainly not the only reason that most people live in cities. Cities are generally more interesting places to live, and I'd rather take a studio in NYC over a mansion in Nebraska.
Parents who don't involve themselves in their kids lives still attempting to blame society for not raising their kids properly.
This article is showing exactly the opposite. Parents are involving themselves in their kids' lives by monitoring the ESRB rating. Or do you think parents should decide whether the game is appropriate themselves? i.e., plunk down 50 bucks, bring it home, and spend 40 hours playing it through before letting junior get his grubby hands on it? The ESRB ratings are voluntary, and I really don't see the problem with them.
Lawyers are still fat and happy with irresponsible parents, no plans for change.
Ah, lawyer-bashing time. How does this comment relate to the article? Has there been a single successful lawsuit aimed at video game violence?
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I've got to disagree, Wikipedia has some serious flaws in the information you get.
It's true that at any given time the content of any given Wikipedia page could be "omigod justin timberlake RULEZ", but you will notice that such changes last, usually, about 3-4 minutes.
Only you've targeted the least important problem with article content. The real misleading stuff is information that appears on its face to be true, but turns out not to be. One minor example that I ran into:
The entry on Aldous Huxley states: "His mother Julia died in 1908, when Aldous was only fourteen, and his sister Roberta died of an unrelated incident in the same month." Only problem is, Huxley never had a sister named Roberta, and certainly didn't have a sister who died then. I'm not sure where the author came up with this.
I've seen a few other entries like this, where the information presented seems reasonable, but turned out to be completely fictitious. How exactly would you suggest we catch these mistakes, since they're often added after the article's initial creation? As long as wikipedia allows perpetual re-editing the information will always be suspect.
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Yep, I did my anthropology degree years ago, and they had taught us about the dude back then.
It doesn't work that way, it's not like there's a big pirate community that shares information, these are rural uneducated villagers who get their hands on AK-47s and a few small boats and head out. Kill them and others take their place.
I personally had thought that cruise ships in contested areas would want to carry a very small contingent of military personell that would take the fight to pirates. I would think that a few stories about high-seas pirate ships being sunk by an RPG or two would probably help deter further incidents.
I wouldn't think so. The last thing you want on your cruise ship is a firefight with tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And honestly piracy isn't exactly a safe job. I know everyone likes to think "the bad guys" are cowards at heart, but if you're a desperate criminal who makes a living with his AK-47 you're probably expecting to run into resistance occasionally, so it's not like this would scare you off.
It's a freaking cruise ship, not a destroyer. Do Ma and Pa really want to spend their 50th wedding anniversary watching people getting slaughtered? Why does everyone on slashdot think life is just one big FPS?
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Ahh, cool, thanks for the link. I knew about the book of ratings but I had no idea they actually updated it.
Well then it's a hypercube since we have a fourth dimension. So 3x3x3x11.13s.
I really enjoyed the brunching shuttlecocks stuff, but wasn't a fan of the cartoons or the flash stuff there. Guess I'm verbal more than visual.
Wasn't that the Brunching Shuttlecocks guy? Didn't know he went over to Wired...
Huh? All those millions of songs that were sold were sold by the music industry. What do they need to do differently exactly?
"Premier" doesn't mean "best" either. Technically it means "first", and I don't think anyone is going to claim that Cocoa was the first development tool of it's type. Another meaning is "influential"; because it's mac-based the vast majority of programmers not only don't use it but most of them probably have never even seen it.
I'd say that Steve Jobs WAS right in predicting the future. Many elements of Mac OS X are derived from the operating system developed at NeXT. Supposedly the next version of Windows takes many cues from the current Mac OS X.
No, he wasn't. First of all OS X has a what, 5% market share? Hasn't exactly caught on.
Secondly, he was responsible for BOTH SYSTEMS. How the hell is that "predicting"? Anyone can predict their own behavior.
Thirdly, let's see how many elements the next Windows borrows from THE NeXT-SPECIFIC aspects of OS X. That's the discussion we're having.
the Cocoa API in OS X is the updated NeXT API, so it lives on as the premiere app development tool.
Are you on crack? You think anything having to do with Cocoa, OS X, or Apple in general qualifies as a "premiere app development tool"? How many people do you really think use macs as opposed to PCs?
..because if there is anyone in the industry who could be described as an oracle to what the future holds, he's it. But more than just predicting it, he directs the company to make it. The NeXT machine heralded the future back in 1988....
And like he foresaw, NeXT is now at the nexus of modern computing. I mean, everyone here has a NeXT machine, and when was the last time you saw a non-NeXT computer in an office?
Thinkpads are nice but very, very, very overpriced for what you get. The best price/quality ratio I've found have been HPs.
Whoa, tone down the technical mumbo-jumbo a bit, I'm having trouble following. So now what you're saying is that Linux thing is now on computers?
nor did it attempt to remain 100% true to the original and thus dated itself
The problem with remaining 100% true to the original isn't that it would date itself, but that it wouldn't be very good. 1970's BSG wasn't very good. The writing wasn't very good. The acting wasn't very good.
By the way, stop using IP as an acronym for Intellectual Property, IP is Internet Protocol.
No, stop using IP as an acronym for Internet Protocol. Intellectual Property came first.
For every indignant comment on slashdot that "we never read about X in the news" I've ALWAYS managed to find X in the news. Every single time. There are plenty of articles around detailing exercise addiction.
4) Install Linux and stop buying those ridiculously priced games.
Yep, who needs good games anyway? Much more fun to play a poorly done version of some 10 year old PC game.
If I could get my wife to move, I'll give you my 3 BR house in NYC for a place in Nebraska. After a few years, or worse, if you grow up here, you realize that you go see a play, or to all the night life a few times a year - the rest of the time, it's just not worth the hassle
Then you can move to a different city. I grew up in NYC, then moved to Miami a few years ago, and I'm loving it. The most rural place I've lived in was northern Virginia, and it was boring as hell.
The only reason that many people live in cities is because of access to more jobs.
That is certainly not the only reason that most people live in cities. Cities are generally more interesting places to live, and I'd rather take a studio in NYC over a mansion in Nebraska.
Parents who don't involve themselves in their kids lives still attempting to blame society for not raising their kids properly.
This article is showing exactly the opposite. Parents are involving themselves in their kids' lives by monitoring the ESRB rating. Or do you think parents should decide whether the game is appropriate themselves? i.e., plunk down 50 bucks, bring it home, and spend 40 hours playing it through before letting junior get his grubby hands on it? The ESRB ratings are voluntary, and I really don't see the problem with them.
Lawyers are still fat and happy with irresponsible parents, no plans for change.
Ah, lawyer-bashing time. How does this comment relate to the article? Has there been a single successful lawsuit aimed at video game violence?
I've got to disagree, Wikipedia has some serious flaws in the information you get.
It's true that at any given time the content of any given Wikipedia page could be "omigod justin timberlake RULEZ", but you will notice that such changes last, usually, about 3-4 minutes.
Only you've targeted the least important problem with article content. The real misleading stuff is information that appears on its face to be true, but turns out not to be. One minor example that I ran into:
The entry on Aldous Huxley states: "His mother Julia died in 1908, when Aldous was only fourteen, and his sister Roberta died of an unrelated incident in the same month." Only problem is, Huxley never had a sister named Roberta, and certainly didn't have a sister who died then. I'm not sure where the author came up with this.
I've seen a few other entries like this, where the information presented seems reasonable, but turned out to be completely fictitious. How exactly would you suggest we catch these mistakes, since they're often added after the article's initial creation? As long as wikipedia allows perpetual re-editing the information will always be suspect.
Yep, I did my anthropology degree years ago, and they had taught us about the dude back then.
Has anything been heard from employees of Sony's consumer products arm? By and large, they manufacture high-quality kit - they have high standards
Good one!
Only a few billion. You're talking about the largest demographic on the planet.
It doesn't work that way, it's not like there's a big pirate community that shares information, these are rural uneducated villagers who get their hands on AK-47s and a few small boats and head out. Kill them and others take their place.
I personally had thought that cruise ships in contested areas would want to carry a very small contingent of military personell that would take the fight to pirates. I would think that a few stories about high-seas pirate ships being sunk by an RPG or two would probably help deter further incidents.
I wouldn't think so. The last thing you want on your cruise ship is a firefight with tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And honestly piracy isn't exactly a safe job. I know everyone likes to think "the bad guys" are cowards at heart, but if you're a desperate criminal who makes a living with his AK-47 you're probably expecting to run into resistance occasionally, so it's not like this would scare you off.
It's a freaking cruise ship, not a destroyer. Do Ma and Pa really want to spend their 50th wedding anniversary watching people getting slaughtered? Why does everyone on slashdot think life is just one big FPS?