If you think it's bad to check in a driver if the device you speak to is really the one the driver was written for, you're a morron.
If you think it's apple's duty to write drivers for unrelated products from third parties, you're a morron as well.
Apple doesn't force incompatibility, apple just knows how to write drivers. No one with half a brain would sue apple for not writing drivers for other people.
Apple a monopoly? Get a clue. Apple is not even close enough to dominate any market.
Palm violated their contract, lied to their customers, continue to lie to every device their hardware is connected and you defend it? But why do I waste my time arguing with a corporate shill anyway...
Cracking plastic into little bits for easier storage and usage does not violate the conservation of energy law since no energy is gained from nothing. You could burn the plastic without cracking it up first just as well.
There are many ways to create PDFs and read PDFs without relying on Adobe. Mac OS X offers wide support for this format, every application that can print can create a PDF file. PDFs can be opened with Preview and many other applications understand it. LaTeX can create PDF files either directly or with ghostscript, which creates PDFs out of Postcript files. Many different libraries exist to create a PDF programmatically. Not all implementations might be feature complete, but it's far from being as proprietary as Office from Microsoft.
Outside restrictions never bring any benefit for users appart from protecting them from themselves. In this case, the only ones that profit are those that control who can play music and who can not.
Apple's main language of choice for application development is not C++ but Objective-C. Objective-C is closely related to C, so putting the changes into C makes sense.
How many cycles does a 1 GHz CPU make per second? How many bits are transferred over a GBit ethernet link? How many seconds does it take to download one million bits with a 1 MBit internet downlink?
I use mplayer even on Mac OS X. It's a great player, low on resources and with a great support for all common and most exotic formats. With MPlayer OS X Extended, there's even a nice user interface wrapper for it.
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If you think it's bad to check in a driver if the device you speak to is really the one the driver was written for, you're a morron.
If you think it's apple's duty to write drivers for unrelated products from third parties, you're a morron as well.
Apple doesn't force incompatibility, apple just knows how to write drivers. No one with half a brain would sue apple for not writing drivers for other people.
Apple a monopoly? Get a clue. Apple is not even close enough to dominate any market.
Palm violated their contract, lied to their customers, continue to lie to every device their hardware is connected and you defend it? But why do I waste my time arguing with a corporate shill anyway...
For message integrity you can just append a hash value or a mac.
Considering a car that doesn't move does not use any energy, it's probably quite efficient.
More like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZADXc8hcZKA
The only provable encryption scheme OTP works with XOR. The only drawback is the key length.
Cracking plastic into little bits for easier storage and usage does not violate the conservation of energy law since no energy is gained from nothing.
You could burn the plastic without cracking it up first just as well.
5-1/2 = 5-0.5 = 4.5 in hours
That's 270 minutes.
There are many ways to create PDFs and read PDFs without relying on Adobe. Mac OS X offers wide support for this format, every application that can print can create a PDF file. PDFs can be opened with Preview and many other applications understand it.
LaTeX can create PDF files either directly or with ghostscript, which creates PDFs out of Postcript files.
Many different libraries exist to create a PDF programmatically.
Not all implementations might be feature complete, but it's far from being as proprietary as Office from Microsoft.
Outside restrictions never bring any benefit for users appart from protecting them from themselves. In this case, the only ones that profit are those that control who can play music and who can not.
Allways sanitize your input.
Apple's main language of choice for application development is not C++ but Objective-C. Objective-C is closely related to C, so putting the changes into C makes sense.
Big parts of Mac OS X are open source, including the kernel, the compiler and some basic libraries. Now including LLVM, Clang and GCD.
Locked into open source software? I can think of worse things.
Abstraction is the main theme in progression in programming. Blocks (Language change) and the rest of the package provide such an abstracted view.
GCD also does not need kernel changes as written in the sumary.
But computers use base 10.
How many cycles does a 1 GHz CPU make per second?
How many bits are transferred over a GBit ethernet link?
How many seconds does it take to download one million bits with a 1 MBit internet downlink?
No one uses a base 15 system besides you.
I use mplayer even on Mac OS X. It's a great player, low on resources and with a great support for all common and most exotic formats. With MPlayer OS X Extended, there's even a nice user interface wrapper for it.