Would any more private sector research money [...] go into finding a cure or better treatment for AIDS?
Uhm, what incentive is there for a private company to find a cure for a disease? It's much more cost efficient when the patient has to buy the medication in regular intervals for the rest of his/her life (see diabetes, AIDS, asthma, etc etc).
This is not a theoretical statement, but current practice. I've heard of research projects getting their commercial fundings withdrawn, because they were about to develop a permanent cure instead of a temporal one.
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If it's Java, you'll ignore a potential exception.
Well, when two different products are available, Mac-users will always pick the one that's more Mac-like, so who's going to be the one with more money in their pocket in the end?
The strange behavior is the few that do quit, including a few where Apple needs to read their own guidelines.
Well, the ones that quit are the ones where there's a monolithic window and it doesn't make sense to leave them running without it (like the calculator, System Preferences, iPhoto). However, it *does* confuse newbies, that's right, and some folks refuse to get out of the newbie state for their whole life.
if I pick an arbitrary feed I see ISO8601 dates. Has the spec changed?
No, most are no longer using pubDate now, an extension (Doublin Core) is used instead (that's why the tag name is "dc:date"). If anybody puts an ISO8601 date into pubDate, he deserves to be shot (yes, I had to write a parser for RSS).
My guess is that their plan wasn't to switch to Intel specifically, but when you keep you code working on ppc and x86, you can get it to run on just about anything (since there's no byte ordering issue, and no platform-dependent code like something depending on a specific Altivec behavior).
It's completely multi-platform, and is used on multiple platforms. Rewriting it in Objective-C isn't feasible from either a time standpoint, or from a platform availability standpoint (even if I did have years to rewrite and retest all this code in Objective-C, it would then only compile and run on OS X, and perhaps Linux if I was very careful). So it's not going to happen.
Ok, then write the controller part of the app using Objective C, and keep the model in Java. Problem solved. If you need some help on that, take a look at my article.
I know, but there's quite a difference between a procedural and an object-oriented interface.
Of course, you could just implement C++ in C (like Apple did for the userland driver-interface), but then you'd need a special compiler for generating the ABI...
If a driver is available for Darwin, even if it is a closed binary, could a layer be built to make it work on Linux, since Darwin is open source?
Theoretically, yes, practically it's a different matter. Linux uses C for drivers, while Darwin uses a special version of C++. You'd have to write a compiler for that one first...
Apache2 was much harder for me to setup, but I also had trouble in freeBSD so the fault is obviously mine.
hm... I installed apache2 with mod_ssl and subversion support on my Mac running Panther without any problems whatsoever, compiled straight from the source tarballs available from the official web sites...
Well, you can guess the location depending on the IP you're on (there are many free pages on the web that demonstrate that). It's not quite accurate, but better than getting CA's call center when you're on holidays in PA or something like that.
The G4's internal FireWire port is a remnant of the pipe dream that storage devices such as hard disks, optical and zip drives would one day gain native FireWire ports right on the mechanisms.
Well, IOI's 1394/IDE bridge boards all have an internal FireWire connector, so you could use one of those and add (for instance) four internal disks (if you have the physical space for that in the case).
Well, in addition don't forget that current Intel CPUs require about 150W and a cooling unit that's about the size of the Mac Mini. This was not the case when PCs on PCI-cards were popular.
There are some full-blown mini-PCs built for 5 1/4" slots, those should work fine, at least in the G4 units (since the G5 doesn't have the appropriate slot). You'd still need a KVM, though.
Now, you want to run Photoshop. OOH, which do you install? Photoshop for Mac OS X? No, it's compiled for PowerPC. Photoshop for Windows? No, it's compiled for Windows. You would need to buy a special Photoshop for OSX/x86, a third option.
Apple could integrate WINE into Mac OS X, to let it run like the bluebox (Mac OS Classic) does on Mac OS X/ppc. That way, you could use all of your Windows apps right there in Mac OS X!
The biggest test of the translator is converting from one language to another and then back again multiple times. If the content doesn't get corrupted then it works as advertised.
Well, a base64 encoder/decoder can do that too, but I wouldn't call that a natural language translator.
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Well, not FOSS, but there's already such a thing: RealBASIC.
The problem is, when you build them less robust, they might not survive the landing, so you would get a zero livespan...
Uhm, what incentive is there for a private company to find a cure for a disease? It's much more cost efficient when the patient has to buy the medication in regular intervals for the rest of his/her life (see diabetes, AIDS, asthma, etc etc).
This is not a theoretical statement, but current practice. I've heard of research projects getting their commercial fundings withdrawn, because they were about to develop a permanent cure instead of a temporal one.
Uhm, the Java compiler would complain about that.
Well, when two different products are available, Mac-users will always pick the one that's more Mac-like, so who's going to be the one with more money in their pocket in the end?
Well, the ones that quit are the ones where there's a monolithic window and it doesn't make sense to leave them running without it (like the calculator, System Preferences, iPhoto). However, it *does* confuse newbies, that's right, and some folks refuse to get out of the newbie state for their whole life.
No, most are no longer using pubDate now, an extension (Doublin Core) is used instead (that's why the tag name is "dc:date"). If anybody puts an ISO8601 date into pubDate, he deserves to be shot (yes, I had to write a parser for RSS).
However, they were one of the main supporters of software patents in the EU... Something is fishy here.
My guess is that their plan wasn't to switch to Intel specifically, but when you keep you code working on ppc and x86, you can get it to run on just about anything (since there's no byte ordering issue, and no platform-dependent code like something depending on a specific Altivec behavior).
Ok, then write the controller part of the app using Objective C, and keep the model in Java. Problem solved. If you need some help on that, take a look at my article.
...which correspond to mathematical vectors and have an index set (int usually).
uhm, it's called WIENUX (Wien [Vienna] + Linux), not WEINUX (Wein [wine] + Linux) :)
I know, but there's quite a difference between a procedural and an object-oriented interface.
Of course, you could just implement C++ in C (like Apple did for the userland driver-interface), but then you'd need a special compiler for generating the ABI...
I know, but how are you going to write a layer between those two without using the language the driver's using?
Theoretically, yes, practically it's a different matter. Linux uses C for drivers, while Darwin uses a special version of C++. You'd have to write a compiler for that one first...
Eagle is a great app for that and works fine in Linux.
spice is available, too (no pspice, though).
No, you can drive a 30" on the mini, just not at the native resolution.
hm... I installed apache2 with mod_ssl and subversion support on my Mac running Panther without any problems whatsoever, compiled straight from the source tarballs available from the official web sites...
Well, you can guess the location depending on the IP you're on (there are many free pages on the web that demonstrate that). It's not quite accurate, but better than getting CA's call center when you're on holidays in PA or something like that.
Well, IOI's 1394/IDE bridge boards all have an internal FireWire connector, so you could use one of those and add (for instance) four internal disks (if you have the physical space for that in the case).
Well, in addition don't forget that current Intel CPUs require about 150W and a cooling unit that's about the size of the Mac Mini. This was not the case when PCs on PCI-cards were popular.
There are some full-blown mini-PCs built for 5 1/4" slots, those should work fine, at least in the G4 units (since the G5 doesn't have the appropriate slot). You'd still need a KVM, though.
Probably b/c the card would be three times more expensive then a comparable regular PC.
Apple could integrate WINE into Mac OS X, to let it run like the bluebox (Mac OS Classic) does on Mac OS X/ppc. That way, you could use all of your Windows apps right there in Mac OS X!
Elgato already offers something like that: EyeHome
Well, a base64 encoder/decoder can do that too, but I wouldn't call that a natural language translator.