I have both editions, and I have to say that the second edition content and writing are better.
He has incorporated 2 years worth of experiences from the teaching of the first edition at Big Nerd Ranch into this book... so it is little wonder that the second edition is better. He approached the book with the idea that "it'll be released when it is ready", and it shows. He didn't rush this out the door. You cannot find a better resource for Mac OS X programming than this author. I suggest reading anything he writes, if you are serious about programming the Mac.
As far as the content goes -- everything development (CodeWarrior aside...) in Panther is Xcode, not Project Builder -- and the second book reflects this. I had a terrible time implementing the first edition's projects in Xcode, because all of the screen shots were different -- even Interface Builder has changed quite a lot. If you are looking at both editions and do not have the first one, you won't regret getting the second one. If you have the first one, but have not started learning from it yet, you will want to skip it and get the second one. If you've already gone through the first one, the second one might help you dig more into Xcode, but the Xcode website might be all you need for that.
Making the company donate millions of dollars to needy organizations (Churches, low income school districts, etc) to be spent however they choose would be a good start, but money should not be the driving force behind making companies pay "penance" for Anti-Trust violations -- there must muST !MUST! be some other kind of penalty that these companies are forced to pay.
The non-monetary penalty that I would suggest the government enforce is that of a business ethics class -- you know the one that Bill Gates missed when he dropped out of college to take the software industry hostage? Gates and Ballmer should be FORCED to take that class and be graded on it, just like any other kid who previously failed the class. No less than an "A" grade would be accepted -- and they'd have to take the class over and over until the correct grade was received. I suppose that the next step would be for the companies to establish business ethics divisions (with heavy emphasis on anti-trust education) that are mandatory for all decision making employees to attend.
That's my.02 and I'm sticking with it. These people must be forced to understand the law and what it stands for.
What is so bad about this article is that the headline says "Review of Gnome 2.6" and then the article only discusses Nautilus -- which is only a single part of Gnome. Imagine someone reviewing "WindowsXP" and only discussing something about the Windows Explorer that they don't like. Not exactly good reporting, eh?
Furthermore, the "reporter" didn't really report anything other than his complete lack of knowledge of what Nautilus is trying to accomplish. There was no mention of spatial filesystems, their pros / cons, nothing. He just spouted his opinion and acted like he was all informed, which he wasn't.
Do us all a favor -- if you know this moron, smack him really, really hard right in the middle of the forehead and tell him next time he doesn't research what he is reporting, you'll move it down a couple of feet.
I've seen people yelling and screaming at the FOSS community to be creative.. to innovate, to come up with something different. Then once they do, I get to read how it's not like how this OS does it, or that OS does it. If you want something that looks and works just like Windows... JUST USE WINDOWS!
They are creating a solution for THEIR problem, not a problem that anyone in the real world is having. This is catering to a "product" driven marketplace rather than a "market" driven marketplace.
These situations are almost always bound to fail, because the law of supply and demand is being ignored. If there is no demand for your product (well, except for 5 Record Companies), and there are hundreds of millions of people all the world that want to see your product fail... what does that say?
It says to me that Microsoft (which isn't a stupid company, no matter what you personally think) is getting paid a LOT of money to give something to the Record Companies that they can stuff down the throats of hundreds of millions of people, whether they like it or not.
Kinda sounds like the "pop music" concept, doesn't it? This means it may just work...
I think this is terrible. I run my own mail server, because ISP's are generally terrible at delivering mail. They have to worry about thousands (or hundreds of thousands, or even millions) of users, I have to worry about... well... me. If my server goes down, it's probably my fault. If their server goes down, it's their fault and I get to put up with it. I don't like that.
Furthermore, since when should it be a requirement to spend thousands of dollars to serve content to the Internet? Doesn't this go against what the Internet has stood for since its inception?!
When some tech company applies for a software patent, the USPTO should post the application to a specially created website, along with all relevant details. They should then post a reward -- $50 or whatever -- to each person who submits a unique instance of valid prior art, maybe up to 3 instances to keep it cheap. Then if after a certain number of days, like 30 or 60 or whatever, the patent review processor takes the information that has been submitted about the patent and uses that to *help* determine if the patent should even be awarded.
I think this could help avoid 99% of blatant patent abuse problems.
It sounds like you may need to talk with IBM (or other large open source based company, maybe RedHat? ) about some of this stuff -- they probably have done a lot of the homework for you.
What part of the 3 H's don't the director/writers understand? The Predator hunts when it is very very hot -- that was the underlying theme of the first 2 movies. They need heat, possibly because they are reptilian/cold blooded. Put them in the arctic, and you take them out of their natural hunting environmental conditions, and quite possibly kill them like a Vampire in the desert at high noon.
That problem aside, I think everyone should watch the featurette. It's pretty cool.
The problem is that the US Government has declared it a felony to point at a naked man and say that he has no clothes!
Solution: Sue the government for being STUPID and making pretty much every citizen in the United States a felon at the behest of companies that (for the most part) reside in OTHER COUNTRIES! I believe the only record company that is actually a US corporation is Warner Brothers. The rest are all "Germany" or "Japan" or "England" based.
Until China can take the source code, compile into binaries and distribute, they should NOT trust the creators of the programs to deliver them the "real" and "true" source code for what they may be running.
Would YOU trust someone who says "here's the program" and then "here's the source code, but you can't do anything with it other than just look at it"?!
Remove a box without losing functionality (at least today) sign me up!
At least WRT Time Warner Cable's new DVR device, there is not a 1 to 1 match of functionality with a TiVo. The TiVo unit offers recordings to begin x number of minutes before and to continue y number of minutes after, so you don't miss shows that have a tendency to run long and/or early (Friends, for instance).
There is also "TiVo suggestions", which allows you to thumbs up/down a show, and then the TiVo suggests what other shows you might like as well.
Then there is the TiVo only content - movie trailers and behind the scenes stuff that even HBO doesn't have. Interviews, for instance.
This stuff isn't available in the TWC DVR, but since the DVR can still be considered "good enough" (Microsoft does this same thing with their just "good enough" OS and applications suite. Look what wonderful things have happened with the software industry to get an idea of what we may be up against here).
So in summary, is the added convenience of a single box solution worth losing functionality and content (and possibly giving up your control of the future) worth more than teaching your wife which button to push on the remote?
But here's the kicker -- these people are competing for TiVo's current and future market share. They know that if they block people from being able to zip through commercials on previously recorded shows, that people will skip this product and go with a TiVo, which doesn't have such a restriction. They are also offering (in my area) this upgraded cable box with PVR for only $7 a month.
But what happens when these "good enough" devices put TiVo out of business? The good money is on them suddenly announcing that you will no longer be able to speed through commercials. You will only be able to store your shows for x number of days before they will be forcibly erased, you will only be able to watch your recordings from x time to y time, and oh yeah, the $7 a month fee just went up to $14 a month, sorry for any inconvenience. Once their is no competition, the restrictions will be unleashed and we won't have an alternative.
I say to hell with these upgraded cable boxes, go with TiVo (or build your own) and don't trust the Cable companies to do the right thing. Most of them are owned by big media companies anyways (It's called "Time Warner Cable" for a reason), so you know that they are just itching to control your viewing habits even more than they already do.
Easy. All communications in and out are encrypted. Your usage data just shows that you at IP [w.x.y.z] connected to IP [a.b.c.d] on such-n-such date and time, and transmitted some unintelligable data. It doesn't say what you did there, or every how you did it, aside from a port number that you used. Without certain peices of information, they would have no case.
RIAA: "Your honor, we show here that said defendant connected to this other person at noon on the 15th. We suspect that they downloaded a copyrighted song file!"
Judge: "And which song was it?"
RIAA: "We have no idea, your honor, and they won't tell us!(stomps around courtroom and waves fist in the air)"
Defendant: "I'll use the Chewbacca defense! If it doesn't make sense, you must aquit!"
Judge: "The defendant has countersued you for his attorney fees. I find for the defendant on the grounds that you have wasted all of our time here today. His lawyer fees came to $5,000,000. Now pay up."
how can I apply FreeNet to misusing GPL'd software for my own benefit?
Short answer: You can't. Long answer: You shouldn't.
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Who are they going to send the letter to? You? Me? The hackers at the Freenet project? The Freenet project isn't pirating their software, the people on the network are. This is Grokster all over again. Freenet has legitimate uses, just like Grokster does... the BSA will never be able to shut it down, because it is GPL'd. The software will always be there.
And since the BSA will never know what anyone is downloading or uploading, they really have no-one to send their stupid letters to.
This is the same scenario as the firing squad -- everyone knows that one gun contains a blank, but noone knows which one it is... therefore each person has a lingering hope that they were the one with the blank.
The fact that someone may have produced kiddie porn and shoved it onto Freenet does not mean that it is sitting on your machine. Since the content on your machine is encrypted, you'll never know for sure anyways.
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.
True, but he can only be in trouble if he's been told by the government not to release it, and then it would be a fight -- he's free to release whatever he wants, really. That's where we're still different from China -- not to beat up too much on China, they are just notoriously "closed" and beat up on their citizens for acting like they are free.
Since when did we become a nation of wimps?
If it were up to our current government, the biology of the human body would be suppressed, so that "terrorists" wouldn't know where to shoot us in order to kill us. Just like this case - if we can figure it out, so can they.
This information is just like any other information -- it can be used for good or evil. Obviously there is information that is more pertinent than other information, the size of Jenna Bush's bra, for instance, would be considered by most to be unimportant. How that information was obtained; however, would be a little more important.
In what way is our government censoring this information any different than what the Chinese government does?
Perhaps he should release this onto Freenet. It would finally validate what Ian Clarke has been saying for the last few years. Censorship must be eliminated if we are to have a democratic society.
The beginning of the "War on Piracy(tm)". The corporations of America have now begun asking the US government to do the same thing to software that they did to drugs -- put millions of people in prison for something that should be perfectly legal in the first place.
Now don't get me wrong - I don't advocate wholesale usage of drugs, especially not massively mind altering drugs that make you do stupid things to innocent people (you know, like run them over in your car on the way home from the bar because you couldn't steer your car straight), but I think that what someone does in the privacy of their own home should be up to them. If someone wants to smoke a J in their living room... so what?! As long as I don't have to be there smellin it, I'm perfectly happy.
If the creators of software don't want anyone copying the software, they should make it technologically impossible to do so. If people want to copy software, and the software is not copyable, then they'll have to look for other software.
That's why I wish more power to Microsoft's Activation program -- I sincerely hope that they prevent every single illegal copy of every program that they sell. That way when no-one can run copies of their programs for free, they'll have to either cough up the hundreds of dollars or look for something else that works just as good.
... that Michael Robertson heads up the an Anti-Trust suit against Microsoft within the next 2 years for anti-competitive practices.
This is price dumping to prevent a competitive marketplace, raising the barrier to entry for competitors, pure and simple. If Microsoft keeps this up, the Justice Department is going to actually have to do some real work and actually punish them.
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I have both editions, and I have to say that the second edition content and writing are better.
He has incorporated 2 years worth of experiences from the teaching of the first edition at Big Nerd Ranch into this book... so it is little wonder that the second edition is better. He approached the book with the idea that "it'll be released when it is ready", and it shows. He didn't rush this out the door. You cannot find a better resource for Mac OS X programming than this author. I suggest reading anything he writes, if you are serious about programming the Mac.
As far as the content goes -- everything development (CodeWarrior aside...) in Panther is Xcode, not Project Builder -- and the second book reflects this. I had a terrible time implementing the first edition's projects in Xcode, because all of the screen shots were different -- even Interface Builder has changed quite a lot. If you are looking at both editions and do not have the first one, you won't regret getting the second one. If you have the first one, but have not started learning from it yet, you will want to skip it and get the second one. If you've already gone through the first one, the second one might help you dig more into Xcode, but the Xcode website might be all you need for that.
I hope this helps.
Making the company donate millions of dollars to needy organizations (Churches, low income school districts, etc) to be spent however they choose would be a good start, but money should not be the driving force behind making companies pay "penance" for Anti-Trust violations -- there must muST !MUST! be some other kind of penalty that these companies are forced to pay.
.02 and I'm sticking with it. These people must be forced to understand the law and what it stands for.
The non-monetary penalty that I would suggest the government enforce is that of a business ethics class -- you know the one that Bill Gates missed when he dropped out of college to take the software industry hostage? Gates and Ballmer should be FORCED to take that class and be graded on it, just like any other kid who previously failed the class. No less than an "A" grade would be accepted -- and they'd have to take the class over and over until the correct grade was received. I suppose that the next step would be for the companies to establish business ethics divisions (with heavy emphasis on anti-trust education) that are mandatory for all decision making employees to attend.
That's my
What is so bad about this article is that the headline says "Review of Gnome 2.6" and then the article only discusses Nautilus -- which is only a single part of Gnome. Imagine someone reviewing "WindowsXP" and only discussing something about the Windows Explorer that they don't like. Not exactly good reporting, eh?
Furthermore, the "reporter" didn't really report anything other than his complete lack of knowledge of what Nautilus is trying to accomplish. There was no mention of spatial filesystems, their pros / cons, nothing. He just spouted his opinion and acted like he was all informed, which he wasn't.
Do us all a favor -- if you know this moron, smack him really, really hard right in the middle of the forehead and tell him next time he doesn't research what he is reporting, you'll move it down a couple of feet.
I've seen people yelling and screaming at the FOSS community to be creative.. to innovate, to come up with something different. Then once they do, I get to read how it's not like how this OS does it, or that OS does it. If you want something that looks and works just like Windows... JUST USE WINDOWS!
Great, I guess Microsoft will just have to copy the BSD TCP/IP code again to ensure that their customers are safe ;-)
They are creating a solution for THEIR problem, not a problem that anyone in the real world is having. This is catering to a "product" driven marketplace rather than a "market" driven marketplace.
These situations are almost always bound to fail, because the law of supply and demand is being ignored. If there is no demand for your product (well, except for 5 Record Companies), and there are hundreds of millions of people all the world that want to see your product fail... what does that say?
It says to me that Microsoft (which isn't a stupid company, no matter what you personally think) is getting paid a LOT of money to give something to the Record Companies that they can stuff down the throats of hundreds of millions of people, whether they like it or not.
Kinda sounds like the "pop music" concept, doesn't it? This means it may just work...
I think this is terrible. I run my own mail server, because ISP's are generally terrible at delivering mail. They have to worry about thousands (or hundreds of thousands, or even millions) of users, I have to worry about... well... me. If my server goes down, it's probably my fault. If their server goes down, it's their fault and I get to put up with it. I don't like that.
Furthermore, since when should it be a requirement to spend thousands of dollars to serve content to the Internet? Doesn't this go against what the Internet has stood for since its inception?!
When some tech company applies for a software patent, the USPTO should post the application to a specially created website, along with all relevant details. They should then post a reward -- $50 or whatever -- to each person who submits a unique instance of valid prior art, maybe up to 3 instances to keep it cheap. Then if after a certain number of days, like 30 or 60 or whatever, the patent review processor takes the information that has been submitted about the patent and uses that to *help* determine if the patent should even be awarded.
I think this could help avoid 99% of blatant patent abuse problems.
It sounds like you may need to talk with IBM (or other large open source based company, maybe RedHat? ) about some of this stuff -- they probably have done a lot of the homework for you.
Good luck, please let us know how this goes!
What part of the 3 H's don't the director/writers understand? The Predator hunts when it is very very hot -- that was the underlying theme of the first 2 movies. They need heat, possibly because they are reptilian/cold blooded. Put them in the arctic, and you take them out of their natural hunting environmental conditions, and quite possibly kill them like a Vampire in the desert at high noon.
That problem aside, I think everyone should watch the featurette. It's pretty cool.
The problem is that the US Government has declared it a felony to point at a naked man and say that he has no clothes!
Solution: Sue the government for being STUPID and making pretty much every citizen in the United States a felon at the behest of companies that (for the most part) reside in OTHER COUNTRIES! I believe the only record company that is actually a US corporation is Warner Brothers. The rest are all "Germany" or "Japan" or "England" based.
Awfully nice of them to do that to us, eh?
Until China can take the source code, compile into binaries and distribute, they should NOT trust the creators of the programs to deliver them the "real" and "true" source code for what they may be running.
Would YOU trust someone who says "here's the program" and then "here's the source code, but you can't do anything with it other than just look at it"?!
US Citizen: What's a meter?
Remove a box without losing functionality (at least today) sign me up!
At least WRT Time Warner Cable's new DVR device, there is not a 1 to 1 match of functionality with a TiVo. The TiVo unit offers recordings to begin x number of minutes before and to continue y number of minutes after, so you don't miss shows that have a tendency to run long and/or early (Friends, for instance).
There is also "TiVo suggestions", which allows you to thumbs up/down a show, and then the TiVo suggests what other shows you might like as well.
Then there is the TiVo only content - movie trailers and behind the scenes stuff that even HBO doesn't have. Interviews, for instance.
This stuff isn't available in the TWC DVR, but since the DVR can still be considered "good enough" (Microsoft does this same thing with their just "good enough" OS and applications suite. Look what wonderful things have happened with the software industry to get an idea of what we may be up against here).
So in summary, is the added convenience of a single box solution worth losing functionality and content (and possibly giving up your control of the future) worth more than teaching your wife which button to push on the remote?
But here's the kicker -- these people are competing for TiVo's current and future market share. They know that if they block people from being able to zip through commercials on previously recorded shows, that people will skip this product and go with a TiVo, which doesn't have such a restriction. They are also offering (in my area) this upgraded cable box with PVR for only $7 a month.
But what happens when these "good enough" devices put TiVo out of business? The good money is on them suddenly announcing that you will no longer be able to speed through commercials. You will only be able to store your shows for x number of days before they will be forcibly erased, you will only be able to watch your recordings from x time to y time, and oh yeah, the $7 a month fee just went up to $14 a month, sorry for any inconvenience. Once their is no competition, the restrictions will be unleashed and we won't have an alternative.
I say to hell with these upgraded cable boxes, go with TiVo (or build your own) and don't trust the Cable companies to do the right thing. Most of them are owned by big media companies anyways (It's called "Time Warner Cable" for a reason), so you know that they are just itching to control your viewing habits even more than they already do.
Easy. All communications in and out are encrypted. Your usage data just shows that you at IP [w.x.y.z] connected to IP [a.b.c.d] on such-n-such date and time, and transmitted some unintelligable data. It doesn't say what you did there, or every how you did it, aside from a port number that you used.
Without certain peices of information, they would have no case.
RIAA: "Your honor, we show here that said defendant connected to this other person at noon on the 15th. We suspect that they downloaded a copyrighted song file!"
Judge: "And which song was it?"
RIAA: "We have no idea, your honor, and they won't tell us!(stomps around courtroom and waves fist in the air)"
Defendant: "I'll use the Chewbacca defense! If it doesn't make sense, you must aquit!"
Judge: "The defendant has countersued you for his attorney fees. I find for the defendant on the grounds that you have wasted all of our time here today. His lawyer fees came to $5,000,000. Now pay up."
how can I apply FreeNet to misusing GPL'd software for my own benefit?
Short answer: You can't.
Long answer: You shouldn't.
Who are they going to send the letter to? You? Me? The hackers at the Freenet project? The Freenet project isn't pirating their software, the people on the network are. This is Grokster all over again. Freenet has legitimate uses, just like Grokster does... the BSA will never be able to shut it down, because it is GPL'd. The software will always be there.
;-)
And since the BSA will never know what anyone is downloading or uploading, they really have no-one to send their stupid letters to.
Freenet, saving trees one BSA letter at a time
This is the same scenario as the firing squad -- everyone knows that one gun contains a blank, but noone knows which one it is... therefore each person has a lingering hope that they were the one with the blank.
The fact that someone may have produced kiddie porn and shoved it onto Freenet does not mean that it is sitting on your machine. Since the content on your machine is encrypted, you'll never know for sure anyways.
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.
True, but he can only be in trouble if he's been told by the government not to release it, and then it would be a fight -- he's free to release whatever he wants, really. That's where we're still different from China -- not to beat up too much on China, they are just notoriously "closed" and beat up on their citizens for acting like they are free.
Since when did we become a nation of wimps? If it were up to our current government, the biology of the human body would be suppressed, so that "terrorists" wouldn't know where to shoot us in order to kill us. Just like this case - if we can figure it out, so can they. This information is just like any other information -- it can be used for good or evil. Obviously there is information that is more pertinent than other information, the size of Jenna Bush's bra, for instance, would be considered by most to be unimportant. How that information was obtained; however, would be a little more important. In what way is our government censoring this information any different than what the Chinese government does? Perhaps he should release this onto Freenet. It would finally validate what Ian Clarke has been saying for the last few years. Censorship must be eliminated if we are to have a democratic society.
Hey, it's not the fall that kills you -- it's that sudden stop at the end ;-)
The beginning of the "War on Piracy(tm)". The corporations of America have now begun asking the US government to do the same thing to software that they did to drugs -- put millions of people in prison for something that should be perfectly legal in the first place.
Now don't get me wrong - I don't advocate wholesale usage of drugs, especially not massively mind altering drugs that make you do stupid things to innocent people (you know, like run them over in your car on the way home from the bar because you couldn't steer your car straight), but I think that what someone does in the privacy of their own home should be up to them. If someone wants to smoke a J in their living room... so what?! As long as I don't have to be there smellin it, I'm perfectly happy.
If the creators of software don't want anyone copying the software, they should make it technologically impossible to do so. If people want to copy software, and the software is not copyable, then they'll have to look for other software.
That's why I wish more power to Microsoft's Activation program -- I sincerely hope that they prevent every single illegal copy of every program that they sell. That way when no-one can run copies of their programs for free, they'll have to either cough up the hundreds of dollars or look for something else that works just as good.
Enter GNU/Linux.
Jobs:
You.. You are FIRED...
and YOU! You are SOOO FIRED!
and you... you too are very VERY FIRED!
Guy:
But.. I wasn't even HERE yesterday!
Jobs:
I don't care! You are FIRED!
... that Michael Robertson heads up the an Anti-Trust suit against Microsoft within the next 2 years for anti-competitive practices.
This is price dumping to prevent a competitive marketplace, raising the barrier to entry for competitors, pure and simple. If Microsoft keeps this up, the Justice Department is going to actually have to do some real work and actually punish them.
Or not.
free... it's the 2nd one (upgrades, in this case) that will really cost ya...