After a couple of years or so, the lawyers would descend, empowered by this new, unlimited energy, and gum up the works in a storm of IP lawsuits. In the end, you would be paying slightly more to the same vendors you were buying your energy resources from before the discovery.
Although it would be nice if some of these would be made public (or better yet, Open Source), Private frameworks are just that. Perhaps they are not robust enough for wide public release, or specific enough to the application that they aren't the gold mine of fun you would want them to be.
Open source would solve that, but it's no use griping about it, Apple is Apple. Releasing the source to the iApps or many of the system utilities would sure be nice.....
I'm not actually sorry - you're a fucking tool. And you're articulate and insightful.
...The lack of documentation for thread priority switching and timing came about, actually, from my writing a multi-threaded audio application.
I'm running 16 threads with 250 simultaneous stereo audio tracks in my game tranquility and it's doing it while drawing 10,000 objects in OpenGL. Sometimes, if not always, you have to dig for the right information, but most things are possible immediately or eventually, or you end up taking an alternative approach to solving the problem.
I gripe about Apple's sparse or non-existent documentation as much as anyone, but what I was addressing was the accusation that the iApps etc. were built on intentionally non-published APIs and I don't think that's a fair assessment.
With every non-trivial app there's always some aspect you get stuck on when trying to get things just right (or just working), but Apple's pretty good at disclosure, and getting better as time goes by. The new FireWire SDK is an excellent example of that.
Closer to the truth is that internal development of applications at Apple drives the extensions of the toolkits more than third parties do. A team is building something like iPhoto against a specification and when they need some specific part, they either write it, or ask the department in another building to extend an API to accommodate their needs. So naturally, Apple gets first crack at the new functionality. Eventually that new functionally gets documented and tested, and Apple publishes it to developers. But that's not a real-time pipeline.
but people like you are embarrassments to the platform That's not true. I'm a unique and beautiful snowflake. There's no one like me. And besides, to Apple, anyone that buys a few Macs isn't an embarrassment to the platform.
Have you even looked at the latest FireWire SDK? Or QuickTime? Or WebKit? Or CoreAudio? Or iMovie Plugin? Or Image Capture? Or Information Access Toolkit? Or the rest of the Cocoa and Carbon APIs?
After you've written something that has exhausted the possibilities in those APIs, then you might have a reason to gripe, but until then, you're just spreading FUD.
Could be that the WSJ article was PR spin. I had thought that SoundJam being bought by Apple would have been a windfall. I just wrote what the guy told me.
...wants ILLEGAL aliens to have a legal drivers license. WHAT THE HELL.
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free so they can do our gardening, clean our toilets, and any other nasty little job that's beneath us, and we can pay them next to nothing and they won't complain because they are under constant threat of the law. Besides, they don't look like us.
"We" are not the wealthiest. There is only a fraction of the US that is wealthy. It's only "we" when the wealthy need muscle to protect their wealth.
There's also a difference in self protection and aggression against the weak.
From a letter to Colin Powell from the executive director of the International Criminal Court, 6/30/2003:
-- Dear Secretary Powell:
I am writing to convey our strong dismay over recent U.S. government actions towards the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"Whatever the administration thinks of the International Criminal Court, its tactics in pursuing these bilateral agreements are unconscionable. Other governments can plainly see that punitive measures are being used primarily against poor and relatively weak states with few options other than to give in to the United States."
--
This is just another example of how the US sees itself in the world now. It's a government of thugs, cold, calculating, manipulative, greedy, and power mad.
These are not weapons of defense, these are weapons of aggression to be used as a threat to go in and pillage any nation that has resources that "the wealthy" want, in order to gain greater wealth. The good guys are not in charge any more, and haven't been for a long time.
When I see all of these posts that praise this weaponry, that only see that the way to meet a threat is to escalate the potential for death and violence even higher, I feel frustrated and hopeless for a better future for my kids, and yours.
We contacted them when we were looking for a publisher. They wanted 85%, wanted to delay payments to us for up to 180 days, if they wanted new "features" either we had to implement them or they would pay to have it done and -we- would have the cost deducted from royalties. We said no thanks.
When talking to them, the SoundJam/iTunes thing happened a few months earlier and I asked the guy about it. He said that Apple approached them, with a fixed price. They advised them to take it, or get buried by an Apple product. He wouldn't say how much they got, but it wasn't a huge number, plus they had to relinquish the programmers as part of the deal. I like Apple, and I like iTunes and what it's become, but Apple sort of rolled over them and they never recovered.
As long as there are threats, the US will need to have a strong military. And the rest of the world should be glad that the US is not in the business of building an empire.
And to fund this war mindset continually, we'll invent the threat, continually.
The US is building an empire, and the rest of the world is not glad about it.
This whole "peace through strength" mindset is total bullshit and if we could rid the world of people that think that way, the rest of us would be better off.
Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming.
To save you time, here's your response:
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went on your way."
Slashdot Mirror
After a couple of years or so, the lawyers would descend, empowered by this new, unlimited energy, and gum up the works in a storm of IP lawsuits.
In the end, you would be paying slightly more to the same vendors you were buying your energy resources from before the discovery.
An IRIX post. The slience is deafening.
an excellent idea.
Although it would be nice if some of these would be made public (or better yet, Open Source),
Private frameworks are just that. Perhaps they are not robust enough for wide public release,
or specific enough to the application that they aren't the gold mine of fun you would want them to be.
Open source would solve that, but it's no use griping about it, Apple is Apple. Releasing the
source to the iApps or many of the system utilities would sure be nice.....
And you're articulate and insightful.
I'm running 16 threads with 250 simultaneous stereo audio tracks in my game tranquility
and it's doing it while drawing 10,000 objects in OpenGL. Sometimes, if not always, you have to dig for the right information,
but most things are possible immediately or eventually, or you end up taking an alternative approach to solving the problem.
I gripe about Apple's sparse or non-existent documentation as much as anyone, but what I was addressing was the
accusation that the iApps etc. were built on intentionally non-published APIs and I don't think that's a fair assessment.
With every non-trivial app there's always some aspect you get stuck on when trying to get things just right (or just working),
but Apple's pretty good at disclosure, and getting better as time goes by. The new FireWire SDK is an excellent example of that.
Closer to the truth is that internal development of applications at Apple drives the extensions of the toolkits more than third
parties do. A team is building something like iPhoto against a specification and when they need some specific part, they
either write it, or ask the department in another building to extend an API to accommodate their needs. So naturally, Apple
gets first crack at the new functionality. Eventually that new functionally gets documented and tested, and Apple publishes
it to developers. But that's not a real-time pipeline.
but people like you are embarrassments to the platform
That's not true. I'm a unique and beautiful snowflake. There's no one like me.
And besides, to Apple, anyone that buys a few Macs isn't an embarrassment to the platform.
would rather be force-fed whatever Apple wishes to shove down your throat.
Yum!
Hidden, unpublished APIs?
Have you even looked at the latest FireWire SDK?
Or QuickTime?
Or WebKit?
Or CoreAudio?
Or iMovie Plugin?
Or Image Capture?
Or Information Access Toolkit?
Or the rest of the Cocoa and Carbon APIs?
After you've written something that has exhausted the possibilities in those APIs,
then you might have a reason to gripe, but until then, you're just spreading FUD.
Could be that the WSJ article was PR spin.
I had thought that SoundJam being bought by Apple would
have been a windfall. I just wrote what the guy told me.
...wants ILLEGAL aliens to have a legal drivers license. WHAT THE HELL.
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free
so they can do our gardening, clean our toilets, and any other nasty
little job that's beneath us, and we can pay them next to nothing and
they won't complain because they are under constant threat of the law.
Besides, they don't look like us.
Ain't that America?
Apple is my computer,
Bush is not my president.
We'll only stop running benchmarks until Intel wins.
We'll only stop counting until Bush wins.
Buncha damn liberal hippies anyway...
..in pursuit of that almighty symbol $ they absolutely will not stop until your buisness is dead.
Microsoft or the Justice Department?
well, sort of.
There's been 5 articles about gaming on slashdot today with a meager total of 136 comments.
Nothing to say about that, just an observation.
Who cares about that when I can't buy that bitchen' poster of Vin Diesel on Amazon?
Wow. That was pretty good. ./
I'm just some guy posting on
You shouldn't take me that seriously, considering none of this matters.
Jesus loves you.
"We" are not the wealthiest. There is only a fraction of the US that is wealthy.
It's only "we" when the wealthy need muscle to protect their wealth.
There's also a difference in self protection and aggression against the weak.
From a letter to Colin Powell from the executive director of the International Criminal Court, 6/30/2003:
--
Dear Secretary Powell:
I am writing to convey our strong dismay over recent U.S. government actions towards the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"Whatever the administration thinks of the International Criminal Court, its tactics in pursuing these bilateral agreements are unconscionable. Other governments can plainly see that punitive measures are being used primarily against poor and relatively weak states with few options other than to give in to the United States."
--
This is just another example of how the US sees itself in the world now.
It's a government of thugs, cold, calculating, manipulative, greedy, and power mad.
These are not weapons of defense, these are weapons of aggression to be used as a threat to
go in and pillage any nation that has resources that "the wealthy" want, in order to gain greater
wealth. The good guys are not in charge any more, and haven't been for a long time.
toglodyte?
It's "troglodyte"
and "pie hole"
Thank you for your insightful reply. I apologize.
When I see all of these posts that praise this weaponry,
that only see that the way to meet a threat is to escalate
the potential for death and violence even higher, I feel
frustrated and hopeless for a better future for my kids,
and yours.
So.. you thought this was really clever when you wrote it didn't you?
Sad.
We contacted them when we were looking for a publisher.
They wanted 85%, wanted to delay payments to us for up to 180 days,
if they wanted new "features" either we had to implement them or
they would pay to have it done and -we- would have the cost deducted
from royalties. We said no thanks.
When talking to them, the SoundJam/iTunes thing happened a few months earlier
and I asked the guy about it. He said that Apple approached them,
with a fixed price. They advised them to take it, or get buried by an Apple product.
He wouldn't say how much they got, but it wasn't a huge number, plus they had
to relinquish the programmers as part of the deal. I like Apple, and I like iTunes
and what it's become, but Apple sort of rolled over them and they never recovered.
As long as there are threats, the US will need to have a strong military. And the rest of the world should be glad that the US is not in the business of building an empire.
And to fund this war mindset continually, we'll invent the threat, continually.
The US is building an empire, and the rest of the world is not glad about it.
This whole "peace through strength" mindset is total bullshit and if we could
rid the world of people that think that way, the rest of us would be better off.
Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming.
To save you time, here's your response:
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who
rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions
the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went
on your way."
if you can't build it yourself why bother?
I feel the same way about cars, major home appliances, and especially consumer electronics.
Does anyone else smell wire burning?
I gotta go....
...just have a field day with this stuff.