Exactly. The idea is to be able to fulfill a checkbox item. Now they can say they support open formats so customers feel all warm and fuzzy. Why in a plugin if they're going to do it anyway? Because people just expect plugins to be flakier. So, when it doesn't fully work, you just blame the plugin. So, customers stick with native Word format because it works better but feel all warm and fuzzy inside because they (think they) could use ODF if they wanted to.
Ok, joking aside... how often are you seriously going to get completely free reign? Companies/website/whatever are going to have an identity and there is significant value to that. Everyone has bounds to work within.
I understand what you're saying. It's nice when you get a wide-open palette to play with, but I can't see being surprised to angry when you don't get that. I would think you would be surprised/excited when you don't have restrictions. It's certainly not going to be the norm.
Yes, exactly. I know that there's a lot more I want Aperature to do and I've found a few bug, but I don't understand why it's gotten such a bad rap. It work perfectly 99% of the time. The other 1%... well it's 1.0. I already rely on it and can't imagine using anythign else. I've tried other competitors and they just don't measure up.
It think the psuedo-realtime effect layer rendering is just new enough that 1) yes, it can work the box like a dog and 2) it's got a few quirks to shake out.
I really hope Apple continues to put a lot of effort into Aperature. I for one think it's a great product.
In general I prefer having a GC because most of the time I don't want to have to worry about memory management... there's no need. However, sometimes it would really be nice to have more direct control. Not being a VM expert myself, it seems like it should be possible (though I can imagine the types of problems that would arise) to allow specifying that you're assuming manual memory control either over certain objects or while inside a particular context.
You'll find more discussion on the Java-dev mailing list... but not much. I think part of the problem is that the mentality behind Java is usually for cross-platform development. If I wanted to tie it to the OS, I'd be using Obj-C.
If you allow anyone to do anything with the music, the record industry won't allow songs to be sold digitally or would require higher fees to make up for the losses. I love getting my music digitally, so I would prefer that a few bad DVD John-like people not ruin it for me. So, yes... they were looking out for me when they made that move.
"Apple has unlawfully bundled, tied, and/or leveraged its monopoly in the market for the sale of legal online digital music recordings to thwart competition in the separate market for portable hard drive digital music players, and vice-versa," the lawsuit said.
I think you missed the whole point of why this Jabber announcement is a Good Thing. Jabber is open and there are implementations of pretty much everything. We have a server at work that has clients running on Linux, Windows and Mac. To have a major OS support open standards is good for everyone... not just Mac users.
The most important thing to avoid this is to make sure you get a good doctor. Get referrals. See how much experience they have. There is definitely a difference between a good surgeon and a not-so-good one and this is one place you might not want to go for the guy with the cheapest price.
All the tools you love on Linux with the beauty of Mac: Fink
Ok, so it doesn't really answer your question, but I guess I'd ask why you want to do such a thing? I think that's a lot of the reason for the poor distribution support (actually, I think Yellow Dog is fairly good). There's just not a lot of need to do what you're asking. If you like a tool, you can probably get it with Fink.
Take a look at NEXVU. It also does flow correlation in quasi-realtime, but is probably a good bit friendly to use. It's got some nice network overview views that make finding a lot of problems pretty trivial. Some nice reports too.
It's not open source or free, but is a really useful tool at work, IMHO.
I really don't have any more information to give. There were no apparent failures. The update said it ran fine. The Apple tech really didn't seem very knowledgable. We tried removing USB devices and reseting the PMU (Power Management Unit), both to no avail. After that, he simply said to take it to a repair center. I did and they just called to say it's ready, but I don't know what the problem was yet. (Haven't talked to the tech yet.)
I'm sure some bit just didn't get set right in the upgrade.
I'm sure it worked for most people, but it killed my box. I called Apple and I'm taking it to a repair center today.
So, I'm sure it works great for most, but I'm the 1%. As with all firmware updates... be careful!
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I think that would be akin to "crossing the streams" and signal the end of the universe as we know it.
I would think that's a good thing. We want good people who can genuinely understand the patents in the system.
Exactly. The idea is to be able to fulfill a checkbox item. Now they can say they support open formats so customers feel all warm and fuzzy. Why in a plugin if they're going to do it anyway? Because people just expect plugins to be flakier. So, when it doesn't fully work, you just blame the plugin. So, customers stick with native Word format because it works better but feel all warm and fuzzy inside because they (think they) could use ODF if they wanted to.
"I sense much anger in you..."
Ok, joking aside... how often are you seriously going to get completely free reign? Companies/website/whatever are going to have an identity and there is significant value to that. Everyone has bounds to work within.
I understand what you're saying. It's nice when you get a wide-open palette to play with, but I can't see being surprised to angry when you don't get that. I would think you would be surprised/excited when you don't have restrictions. It's certainly not going to be the norm.
Interesting that it's on all of them at the same time.
Yes, exactly. I know that there's a lot more I want Aperature to do and I've found a few bug, but I don't understand why it's gotten such a bad rap. It work perfectly 99% of the time. The other 1%... well it's 1.0. I already rely on it and can't imagine using anythign else. I've tried other competitors and they just don't measure up.
It think the psuedo-realtime effect layer rendering is just new enough that 1) yes, it can work the box like a dog and 2) it's got a few quirks to shake out.
I really hope Apple continues to put a lot of effort into Aperature. I for one think it's a great product.
Can it be that hard to do? Technically? No. But most things in business don't fail for technical reasons.
In general I prefer having a GC because most of the time I don't want to have to worry about memory management... there's no need. However, sometimes it would really be nice to have more direct control. Not being a VM expert myself, it seems like it should be possible (though I can imagine the types of problems that would arise) to allow specifying that you're assuming manual memory control either over certain objects or while inside a particular context.
You'll find more discussion on the Java-dev mailing list... but not much. I think part of the problem is that the mentality behind Java is usually for cross-platform development. If I wanted to tie it to the OS, I'd be using Obj-C.
This is great news, but the lack of mentioning Java 5 makes me think that it won't be included right away. That's sad news for me...
Do you know this or are you guessing? Since it just went BETA, I doubt you have any real numbers about the performance difference in release code.
Well, I'm guessing he won't do that again. Maybe it's better to have an employee who understands the severity of that kind of agreement.
If you allow anyone to do anything with the music, the record industry won't allow songs to be sold digitally or would require higher fees to make up for the losses. I love getting my music digitally, so I would prefer that a few bad DVD John-like people not ruin it for me. So, yes... they were looking out for me when they made that move.
Doug Lea's Concurrency Utilities - If you haven't yet made the plunge to Java 5.0, this is indispensable for anything thread related.
Trove4J - High performance collections that work with primitives. We do wire-speed packet capture and flow analysis with this stuff. 'nuf said.
Forget Fink, you should try Virtual PC. Windows would scream on that baby. :-)
Forget Fink, you should try Virtual PC.
I think you missed the whole point of why this Jabber announcement is a Good Thing. Jabber is open and there are implementations of pretty much everything. We have a server at work that has clients running on Linux, Windows and Mac. To have a major OS support open standards is good for everyone... not just Mac users.
The most important thing to avoid this is to make sure you get a good doctor. Get referrals. See how much experience they have. There is definitely a difference between a good surgeon and a not-so-good one and this is one place you might not want to go for the guy with the cheapest price.
Ok, so it doesn't really answer your question, but I guess I'd ask why you want to do such a thing? I think that's a lot of the reason for the poor distribution support (actually, I think Yellow Dog is fairly good). There's just not a lot of need to do what you're asking. If you like a tool, you can probably get it with Fink.
Maybe, but it's so fun to say, isn't it? :-)
By the way: MICROSOFT SUCKS
Your wish is granted.
It's not open source or free, but is a really useful tool at work, IMHO.
I'm sure some bit just didn't get set right in the upgrade.
I'm sure it worked for most people, but it killed my box. I called Apple and I'm taking it to a repair center today. So, I'm sure it works great for most, but I'm the 1%. As with all firmware updates... be careful!