Yes, the light speed is constant as measured in distance/time, but time itself isn't constant when you're moving (in relation to your time reference point).
Afaik this is BIOS-specific, you just need an open firmware-compatible ROM on the board. Since Sparc use open firmware, too, AFAIK you can use the PCI cards interchangably there (if you can find any OS drivers).
qt and gtkmm have different workarounds for an issue that's in the basic C++ design (I'm talking about libsignal and moc). C++ sacrifices usability for speed on too many places to be usable/maintainable for large GUI projects.
In addition, each and every library implements their own autopointers, wtf?
If you want to know how to do it right, take a look at the AppKit (now part of Apple's Cocoa). It's much easier to code, all of the tedious stuff is done without any code whatsoever! That's simply not possible in C++ (b/c you can't call methods by name at runtime).
operators are cool as long as you don't have to use other people's code, b/c you don't know the side effects of those operations. (For example, you could try writing (*blah).xyz() as blah->xyz(), but that might actually call a different method!)
That's an issue with Carbon apps with developers that don't give a shit, and not related to Mac OS X. Cocoa automatically switches to another font when the current one doesn't include the requested character.
I've also heard that the dual Ethernet ports work well when it is used as a router/NAT box.
The Mac Mini offers three network connectors: Ethernet, 802.11g and FireWire. You might not even need a network connection for Internet if you're on dialup.
Also, whenever Steve Jobs is on the stands and giving a presentation (sometimes with questionable accuracies...), the audience seem to clap their hands every so often.
FYI, the common term for that phenomenon is "Steve Jobs' reality distortion field", and is discussed pretty often on the Internet.
New headless sub-$500 iMac: ThinkSecret is almost ALWAYS spot-on with these stories, so it's probably true. This could easily be an AV component IF it includes tuner capabilities, or some provision for adding them
I'd bet my ass that this thing will include a FireWire connector, so this would be dead simple.
At least with a standard camera we know that its output actually looks right to us.
Uh, I presume you've never tried to use a digital camera in a closed room? The colors are nowhere near the thing you can see there with your own eyes.
You can try to correct it by setting the white point and compare it with what you think is right (which is what the brain does automatically, btw), but that's pretty much impossible when you have no clue how the area looks like to human eyes.
The iPod is definitely fast enough to handle ogg vorbis. The problem is just that the iPod has two different processors, which the tremor decoder wasn't designed for (or anything else except the original Apple firmware). Linux on iPod currently doesn't use the second processor except for some very basic stuff.
If you're an American looking for a new car, I strongly suggest you gave the few imported diesel VWs, Audis or Mercedeses a try before you go the gasoline route.
Uhm, I guess you've never been to the USA. As a European (like myself), it's hard to believe, but NO gasoline station I've seen there carries diesel, so there'd be no way to refuel.
iChat is the only client I know of that implements that (via LAN/Rendezvous it's using the XMPP protocol, and video/audio chat is working fine -- in Tiger it'll support XMPP servers).
Every complaint about this that I've investigated has turned out to be either a broken RSS reader or an IP that's proxying a ton of traffic (which we usually do make an exception for).
Well, I got banned twice while developing some RSS-reader, because I wanted to make sure that it works with slashdot's feed, and relaunched it about 51 times in an hour... a co-worker of mine got hit with the same problem, so we ended up removing slashdot from the default feed while developing the application.
Note that this application supports the HTTP standard for checking for updates, didn't really help in that case.
You're 100% right. I stumbled upon the same problem when I was trying to implement a simple Jabber client some time ago (b/c all currently existing for Mac OS X suck pretty badly), and I had a pretty simple solution: I wrote a parser that only balanced the tags (look for <, check for / as the first or last non-whitespace character of the tag, look for ? or ! as the first or last non-whitespace character, etc), that took only a few lines of code and worked fine.
It's more complicated than it's supposed to be, yes.
if you didn't have the reassurances provided by annual inspections, periodic engine overhauls, mandatory logging of all maintenance activity, federal certification of the specific model and all installed equipment, rigorous training and certification of aircraft mechanics (and pilots for that matter)
We have all that for regular cars here in Europe...
Not that it really helps me much with work, I bang out several lines of code, and consider what I'm going to write next.:)
I'm pretty sure it does help you, it's some kind of direct brain-computer connection.
To get a feeling how it's like without that, try switching to Dvorak for a few hours (if you're using QWERTY usually, that is). When I did that, I felt totally helpless, because I had to search for every single key (like non-typists have to do on every layout). When you have to concentrate on typing, there's not much time left to think about your program.
I'm actually using my iPod as an eBook-reader when I'm on vacation. I've got four Douglas Adams eBooks (in ASCII text format) on it as notes (I split them into multiple smaller files, because it has a rather small file size limit), works fine for reading, esp. with the backlight on.
People tend to get confused on why I'm staring on my iPod for multiple hours in a row, though:)
You can use some limited HTML-tags in those notes (esp. links), btw.
As someone who's trying to write a device driver for Linux 2.6, I have to disagree. There's NO documentation, the source is NOT commented and just a huge pile of lines without any meaning to anybody who didn't write it. Usage examples, specifications about the parameters and step-by-step guides would be a huge time-saver (about 50-90%).
(the book about writing kernel drivers hasn't been updated to 2.6 yet)
The big plus about Mac OS X is that there's no full source, so Apple was forced to hire some documentation writers, who did a really good job.
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Yes, the light speed is constant as measured in distance/time, but time itself isn't constant when you're moving (in relation to your time reference point).
Afaik this is BIOS-specific, you just need an open firmware-compatible ROM on the board. Since Sparc use open firmware, too, AFAIK you can use the PCI cards interchangably there (if you can find any OS drivers).
Like...uhm...the vendor of Age of Empires?
Well, except that it's easy to switch IP once you're in the right network (that's what Mitnick did, the system was using rlogin/rcp).
qt and gtkmm have different workarounds for an issue that's in the basic C++ design (I'm talking about libsignal and moc). C++ sacrifices usability for speed on too many places to be usable/maintainable for large GUI projects.
In addition, each and every library implements their own autopointers, wtf?
If you want to know how to do it right, take a look at the AppKit (now part of Apple's Cocoa). It's much easier to code, all of the tedious stuff is done without any code whatsoever! That's simply not possible in C++ (b/c you can't call methods by name at runtime).
operators are cool as long as you don't have to use other people's code, b/c you don't know the side effects of those operations. (For example, you could try writing (*blah).xyz() as blah->xyz(), but that might actually call a different method!)
That's an issue with Carbon apps with developers that don't give a shit, and not related to Mac OS X.
Cocoa automatically switches to another font when the current one doesn't include the requested character.
The Mac Mini offers three network connectors: Ethernet, 802.11g and FireWire. You might not even need a network connection for Internet if you're on dialup.
FYI, the common term for that phenomenon is "Steve Jobs' reality distortion field", and is discussed pretty often on the Internet.
I'd bet my ass that this thing will include a FireWire connector, so this would be dead simple.
Uh, I presume you've never tried to use a digital camera in a closed room? The colors are nowhere near the thing you can see there with your own eyes.
You can try to correct it by setting the white point and compare it with what you think is right (which is what the brain does automatically, btw), but that's pretty much impossible when you have no clue how the area looks like to human eyes.
The iPod is definitely fast enough to handle ogg vorbis. The problem is just that the iPod has two different processors, which the tremor decoder wasn't designed for (or anything else except the original Apple firmware). Linux on iPod currently doesn't use the second processor except for some very basic stuff.
I don't live there (I'm from Europe, where every single gas station carries at least one kind of diesel), but I've been to the east coast (Florida).
Uhm, I guess you've never been to the USA. As a European (like myself), it's hard to believe, but NO gasoline station I've seen there carries diesel, so there'd be no way to refuel.
You can access the resource fork pretty easily from POSIX calls by appending /rsrc to the file name.
iChat is the only client I know of that implements that (via LAN/Rendezvous it's using the XMPP protocol, and video/audio chat is working fine -- in Tiger it'll support XMPP servers).
Yep, and in central Europe, everyone has at least an ICQ account and assumes you have one. It's really weird.
Well, I got banned twice while developing some RSS-reader, because I wanted to make sure that it works with slashdot's feed, and relaunched it about 51 times in an hour... a co-worker of mine got hit with the same problem, so we ended up removing slashdot from the default feed while developing the application.
Note that this application supports the HTTP standard for checking for updates, didn't really help in that case.
Actually, iChat does exactly that when you're using VoIP via Rendezvous (iChat uses XMPP when talking to each other via the local network).
You're 100% right. I stumbled upon the same problem when I was trying to implement a simple Jabber client some time ago (b/c all currently existing for Mac OS X suck pretty badly), and I had a pretty simple solution: I wrote a parser that only balanced the tags (look for <, check for / as the first or last non-whitespace character of the tag, look for ? or ! as the first or last non-whitespace character, etc), that took only a few lines of code and worked fine.
It's more complicated than it's supposed to be, yes.
We have all that for regular cars here in Europe...
The thing you're explaining has nothing to do with MVC, I'd call it "on-demand fetching".
Cocoa on Mac OS X uses on-demand fetching for tables and optionally popup buttons (and optionally menus since 10.3).
I'm pretty sure it does help you, it's some kind of direct brain-computer connection.
To get a feeling how it's like without that, try switching to Dvorak for a few hours (if you're using QWERTY usually, that is). When I did that, I felt totally helpless, because I had to search for every single key (like non-typists have to do on every layout). When you have to concentrate on typing, there's not much time left to think about your program.
I'm actually using my iPod as an eBook-reader when I'm on vacation. I've got four Douglas Adams eBooks (in ASCII text format) on it as notes (I split them into multiple smaller files, because it has a rather small file size limit), works fine for reading, esp. with the backlight on.
People tend to get confused on why I'm staring on my iPod for multiple hours in a row, though :)
You can use some limited HTML-tags in those notes (esp. links), btw.
As someone who's trying to write a device driver for Linux 2.6, I have to disagree. There's NO documentation, the source is NOT commented and just a huge pile of lines without any meaning to anybody who didn't write it. Usage examples, specifications about the parameters and step-by-step guides would be a huge time-saver (about 50-90%).
(the book about writing kernel drivers hasn't been updated to 2.6 yet)
The big plus about Mac OS X is that there's no full source, so Apple was forced to hire some documentation writers, who did a really good job.