The problem is not with the storage mechanism, it is with the sick person creating the content. That's where the problem lies, not in the bits and bytes on your hard drive.
Yes, but it'd be nice to make the kiddie porn pushers lives a little harder by not storing their data (or being able to trace & report them).
Apple's TTS (in 10.2) alters the pronunciation of words based on their context not just within the sentence, but the paragraph. When it was demoed at the WWDC the difference was very clear, and they said that there weren't any other TTS systems around that could do this.
It's only true if the application in question uses GetKeys() to determine the state of the modifier keys. In some recent posts to the mac-games-dev mailing list (many games still use this function) this was acknowledged by Apple as a known bug (#3149605).
The proper way to do it is call GetCurrentModifierKeys(), as GetKeys() is one of the bits of rot that didn't get dropped when Apple moved to OS X.
My shirt was one of another dozen that I'd added one more symbol to. On the sleeve under the crossed fingers were two words, printed in bold letters: "GO IRA!" Back in the launch control complex, Nick wore his GO IRA shirt as well.
You may not want to wear those next time you visit Belfast... Not unless you happen to have any sort of attachment to your kneecaps.
But that doesn't alter the fact that since the first soft-powered boxes came out a decade ago, I have never seen any OS, open source or closed, that consistently does the right thing on all machines by default when I push the button.
What the hell computers do you buy? Press button - computer turns on. Press it again - computer turns off.
Did anyone else find these jokes NOT funny? The lecturers funniest math moment in the Simpsons was 2 children reciting pi - how is that funny? OK, it goes on infinitely, but this guy needs help.
Yes, there are references to math in the Simpsons, but they aren't all jokes.
I'd love to get the "other endian machine" and compile some game code on it. Anyone have any recommendations? How did id do the Quake3 port to Macs ?
I ported Doom to the Mac about a year ago, and let me tell you - endianness is a bitch to debug. There is no easy way to do it other than running the game until it crashes, then stepping through the suspect functions until you find the culprit.
It was probably a little easier for id, seeing as how they wrote Quake3 themselves with cross-platform compatibility in mind.
If you don't have garbage collection or reference counts, programs obsess on who owns what. A basic problem of C and C++ is that it's essential to track who owns which objects and when they're supposed to be released, yet the language offers no help whatsoever in doing so.
Objective-C (used in NeXTStep and Cocoa frameworks) has been around for quite some time now.
The documentation clearly states that if an object allocates another object, it must either release it explicitly or autorelease it, using the reference-counting features that NeXTStep/Cocoa provides.
I can tell you, its a lot easier than any other language I've used.
There was a recent post on opengl.org that announced the GeForce3's OpenGL extensions exceeded the DirectX8 specifications. OK, it will take some time for other companies (ie. ATI) to implement these extensions and therefore make them standard, but it is a sure sign that OpenGL is alive and kicking.
Who cares if OpenAL and OpenGL are seperate downloads? Are you saying that users and developers will ignore an entire API because it comes in 2 files as opposed to whatever form DirectX comes in?
I don't think you can count DirectX as one library either. It is made up of several seperate components; DirectDraw, Direct3D etc may have similar names but developers still have to understand each library seperately.
OpenGL may lose a little momentum sometimes, but all it takes to get moving again is some new extensions to keep it up to date with what 3D hardware can do.
Yes - Id did give a huge boost to OpenGL, but they did so for a reason. It's a more portable API, that's very easy to write code for. I wouldn't say that OpenGL wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Id - OpenGL is not only for games. It's used a lot in 3D modelling packages.
If you think about it, its like saying that Microsoft have made $5 billion out of these people, and that these people have lost $5 billion because of Microsoft. Maybe these are exceptionally talented individuals, but surely they should only ask for how much they have actually lost?
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Switching to a Mac costs money, switching to Firefox doesn't.
The problem is not with the storage mechanism, it is with the sick person creating the content. That's where the problem lies, not in the bits and bytes on your hard drive. Yes, but it'd be nice to make the kiddie porn pushers lives a little harder by not storing their data (or being able to trace & report them).
Overlooked? Where were you yesterday?
I think most of us will be doing something else on the 15th
I remember a story about a testee who was confused with a computer as the judge thought surely no-one knew that much about Star Trek.
Apple's TTS (in 10.2) alters the pronunciation of words based on their context not just within the sentence, but the paragraph. When it was demoed at the WWDC the difference was very clear, and they said that there weren't any other TTS systems around that could do this.
It's only true if the application in question uses GetKeys() to determine the state of the modifier keys. In some recent posts to the mac-games-dev mailing list (many games still use this function) this was acknowledged by Apple as a known bug (#3149605).
The proper way to do it is call GetCurrentModifierKeys(), as GetKeys() is one of the bits of rot that didn't get dropped when Apple moved to OS X.
Can I enter your competition?
It would be an IPv6 application competition with a $2500 prize.
Don't forget your/you're! What is it so hard for some people to realise that one should be used in place of "you are"?
Steve Wozniak gets my vote.
You may not want to wear those next time you visit Belfast... Not unless you happen to have any sort of attachment to your kneecaps.
What the hell computers do you buy? Press button - computer turns on. Press it again - computer turns off.
It's 42 in reverse - obviously.
Do you think Gates has ever tried emacs? I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that moment.
Did anyone else find these jokes NOT funny? The lecturers funniest math moment in the Simpsons was 2 children reciting pi - how is that funny? OK, it goes on infinitely, but this guy needs help.
Yes, there are references to math in the Simpsons, but they aren't all jokes.
Just because you can't afford a new car, doesn't mean you can steal one.
I ported Doom to the Mac about a year ago, and let me tell you - endianness is a bitch to debug. There is no easy way to do it other than running the game until it crashes, then stepping through the suspect functions until you find the culprit.
It was probably a little easier for id, seeing as how they wrote Quake3 themselves with cross-platform compatibility in mind.
Kind of a huge generalisation you're making there, isn't it? I wouldn't say that an all-in-one Mac with flat panel display has been done before.
Objective-C (used in NeXTStep and Cocoa frameworks) has been around for quite some time now.
The documentation clearly states that if an object allocates another object, it must either release it explicitly or autorelease it, using the reference-counting features that NeXTStep/Cocoa provides.
I can tell you, its a lot easier than any other language I've used.
Who cares if OpenAL and OpenGL are seperate downloads? Are you saying that users and developers will ignore an entire API because it comes in 2 files as opposed to whatever form DirectX comes in?
I don't think you can count DirectX as one library either. It is made up of several seperate components; DirectDraw, Direct3D etc may have similar names but developers still have to understand each library seperately.
OpenGL may lose a little momentum sometimes, but all it takes to get moving again is some new extensions to keep it up to date with what 3D hardware can do.
Yes - Id did give a huge boost to OpenGL, but they did so for a reason. It's a more portable API, that's very easy to write code for. I wouldn't say that OpenGL wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Id - OpenGL is not only for games. It's used a lot in 3D modelling packages.
If you think about it, its like saying that Microsoft have made $5 billion out of these people, and that these people have lost $5 billion because of Microsoft. Maybe these are exceptionally talented individuals, but surely they should only ask for how much they have actually lost?
The problem with that is that the index of the metallica song would be so huge it may be bigger than the mp3 itself.
Its probably the same reasons as to why people use GUI's and not CLI's - they look cooler.
If anyone has seen Bryce then you will know that the interface was definately not influenced by any user-interface models available today.
Just like mine, then:-)
Seriously, how many paople can read their own writing?