No, actually, this particular issue is one standing in the way of corporate adoption, not geek adoption. Corporate types don't want to have to hire Objective C developers - who are rare and expensive - to develop their iPhone apps. Apple, however, won't allow any other language to be implemented (other than Safari's javascript interpreter).
The language restriction applies only for App Store distribution. Software distributed internally doesn't need to go through Apple's approval process and can be written in any language.
I see absolutely no point in this. While it looks cool, why would I want to see results for "chee", "cheese" or "cheese and b" when I'm searching for "cheese and biscuits"?
10.60 finally syncs the version between all their supported versions (Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD; Solaris was dropped recently and is stuck on 10.10). The had to rush 10.50 to get it in the browser ballot, so they released only a Windows version with OS X being on beta and Linux/FreeBSD on alpha. Some weeks layer they released 10.52 (IIRC) for Windows and OS X and announced that there wouldn't be an official release for 10.5* for Linux or FreeBSD (betas were available).
Opera is also absent from the comparison. In my comparison (completely unscientific, Photoshop and a bunch of other heavy programs running on the background), Opera's last stable version (10.51) runs at a cool 60fps with cpu usage peaking at 35%. Firefox runs at 30fps, continuously using 50% of the cpu (one core). Chrome crawls at 2fps using about 40% of my cpu. IE8 also runs at 2-3fps using one core at its full.
Keep in mind that Vega, Opera's new display engine, uses software acceleration only, but it can use DirectX/OpenGL.
They quite clearly explained that this was because the Linux and Mac versions were undergoing much bigger changes than the Windows version.
Could you please point me to where they explained that? In my original post I was referring to this post, where he says that all desktop platforms are undergoing massive changes to platform integration. I can't find anywhere that the Linux and Mac versions are undergoing bigger changes than the Windows version.
Of course, I am not saying that if they have the Windows version ready before the others they should hold it back until everything is ready, but that post seems (to me at least) to imply that the "large number of great engineers" where allocated to the Windows version, allowing other versions to fall behind.
I also have to admit that I didn't think about the browser ballot, as other posters pointed out.
Opera, my favorite browser for years just, lost some major credit from me. I find 10.5 to be an exciting release, especially Carakan, but I always admired them for delivering a quality browser simultaneously for most platforms and this time they failed at that. According to a developer's blog post, 10.5 final will also come out for Windows before it comes out for other platforms, and then they are going to shift focus to them.
the skill set required for someone to get a Ph.D in any given field has very little correlation with the skillsets required for such tasks as dressing oneself, attending to personal hygeine, or speaking in coherent sentences.
That reminds me something that a professor told us in Cryptography 101. "Anyone that doesn't know that there are 24 letters (Greek) deserves to fail". There are some things that you just need to know to be able to function properly in a society. These include speaking, writing and simple math, regardless of your area of expertise.
Why don't they say "a 35TB tape is enough to hold 5 million full CDs, or 7,778 full DVDs? That's a comparison that people could actually relate to, that is actually factual, and isn't just some kind of primitive awe at how efficient we've become now that we store data on something not made of mashed trees.
And since we're on slashdot this is redundant too. Is there anyone reading this article and going "Golly gee 35TB, that's a mighty big number. I wonder how many CDs/DVDs/Libraries of Congress would fit in there".
I wonder if astrophysicists say stuff like "The diameter of the visible universe is 93 billion light years. That's 5 million billion billions Washington monuments"
PCWorld seems to be taking the opposite stance arguing that blaming IE for attacks is a dangerous approach that could cause a false sense of security.
Well, of course they'd say that - they are running a PC/Windows/Microsoft magazine, after all.
Well, yes, but what they're saying has some merit. I've known many a novice user that thought that because they used firefox they didn't need an antivirus program or common sense.
Hence the hopes for the iSlate which are so high that it may be difficult for even Apple to meet them.
Anyone who regularly reads rumors about Apple products knows that this is always true. The expectations set from rumors and fanboys are always too high for Apple to meet.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/
Wow. I guess Microsoft is open after all.
No, actually, this particular issue is one standing in the way of corporate adoption, not geek adoption. Corporate types don't want to have to hire Objective C developers - who are rare and expensive - to develop their iPhone apps. Apple, however, won't allow any other language to be implemented (other than Safari's javascript interpreter).
The language restriction applies only for App Store distribution. Software distributed internally doesn't need to go through Apple's approval process and can be written in any language.
I see absolutely no point in this. While it looks cool, why would I want to see results for "chee", "cheese" or "cheese and b" when I'm searching for "cheese and biscuits"?
And for the conspiracy nuts out there, here are 4 more unexplained broadcasts.
Unless your friend was Cracked's David Wong the Monkeysphere was not his idea.
Here's the unbelievably insightful original, adorable monkey pictures included.
Why would they spend extra time on code that users don't even realize they want?
Because if they don't they piss off Steve Jobs and they don't get to play with iOS.
10.60 finally syncs the version between all their supported versions (Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD; Solaris was dropped recently and is stuck on 10.10). The had to rush 10.50 to get it in the browser ballot, so they released only a Windows version with OS X being on beta and Linux/FreeBSD on alpha. Some weeks layer they released 10.52 (IIRC) for Windows and OS X and announced that there wouldn't be an official release for 10.5* for Linux or FreeBSD (betas were available).
Yeah but their App Store policies are atrocious.
Oh! Wait a second... I thought you said Apple. Nevermind.
Thank god you said average, because I thought you were talking about me and I was about to start a flamewar.
Opera is also absent from the comparison. In my comparison (completely unscientific, Photoshop and a bunch of other heavy programs running on the background), Opera's last stable version (10.51) runs at a cool 60fps with cpu usage peaking at 35%. Firefox runs at 30fps, continuously using 50% of the cpu (one core). Chrome crawls at 2fps using about 40% of my cpu. IE8 also runs at 2-3fps using one core at its full.
Keep in mind that Vega, Opera's new display engine, uses software acceleration only, but it can use DirectX/OpenGL.
They quite clearly explained that this was because the Linux and Mac versions were undergoing much bigger changes than the Windows version.
Could you please point me to where they explained that? In my original post I was referring to this post, where he says that all desktop platforms are undergoing massive changes to platform integration. I can't find anywhere that the Linux and Mac versions are undergoing bigger changes than the Windows version.
Of course, I am not saying that if they have the Windows version ready before the others they should hold it back until everything is ready, but that post seems (to me at least) to imply that the "large number of great engineers" where allocated to the Windows version, allowing other versions to fall behind.
I also have to admit that I didn't think about the browser ballot, as other posters pointed out.
Opera, my favorite browser for years just, lost some major credit from me. I find 10.5 to be an exciting release, especially Carakan, but I always admired them for delivering a quality browser simultaneously for most platforms and this time they failed at that. According to a developer's blog post, 10.5 final will also come out for Windows before it comes out for other platforms, and then they are going to shift focus to them.
At least he says that it's only for 10.5.
the skill set required for someone to get a Ph.D in any given field has very little correlation with the skillsets required for such tasks as dressing oneself, attending to personal hygeine, or speaking in coherent sentences.
That reminds me something that a professor told us in Cryptography 101. "Anyone that doesn't know that there are 24 letters (Greek) deserves to fail". There are some things that you just need to know to be able to function properly in a society. These include speaking, writing and simple math, regardless of your area of expertise.
Why don't they say "a 35TB tape is enough to hold 5 million full CDs, or 7,778 full DVDs? That's a comparison that people could actually relate to, that is actually factual, and isn't just some kind of primitive awe at how efficient we've become now that we store data on something not made of mashed trees.
And since we're on slashdot this is redundant too. Is there anyone reading this article and going "Golly gee 35TB, that's a mighty big number. I wonder how many CDs/DVDs/Libraries of Congress would fit in there".
I wonder if astrophysicists say stuff like "The diameter of the visible universe is 93 billion light years. That's 5 million billion billions Washington monuments"
Here it is. He is demoing NeXTSTEP release 3. The part where he builds the app starts at 23:09.
PCWorld seems to be taking the opposite stance arguing that blaming IE for attacks is a dangerous approach that could cause a false sense of security.
Well, of course they'd say that - they are running a PC/Windows/Microsoft magazine, after all.
Well, yes, but what they're saying has some merit. I've known many a novice user that thought that because they used firefox they didn't need an antivirus program or common sense.
Whoever registers the .con TLD will become ipso facto the king of phising...
$1 billion?? Give my 100 bucks and I'm your man.
Hence the hopes for the iSlate which are so high that it may be difficult for even Apple to meet them.
Anyone who regularly reads rumors about Apple products knows that this is always true. The expectations set from rumors and fanboys are always too high for Apple to meet.
Why on earth does the website of one of the grandest human accomplishments has an ad with the "1 tip of a tiny belly"?
Time to get that Betamax player out of the attic!
I just thought you made my day with this tip, but I tried it in several application and it didn't work. Did you mean to write something else?
I guess ars didn't think of this when they said that the movie industry won't go down like the music industry did.
What could possibly be bad in a code base that contains functions such as "void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void)"?
That it's not written in CamelCase.
Controlling computers with our minds may sound like science fiction, but one Australian company claims to be able to let you do just that.
Am I missing something here? OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator, a similar product, has been out since for about a year.