Actually, first hand experience of making calls over 3G (HSDPA) packet data connections using Fring on Three shows that call quality is terrible. Admittedly this was in central London, where cells may be quite heavily contended, but once people actually start using 3G you can quite regularly see bursts of latency - causing the throughput to go through the floor.
You get a guaranteed QoS with a proper voice call. You do not with packet data. In fact, Three's own "Skype" service is based on iSkoot, which does uses packet data for getting the contact list, setting up a call etc - but it actually carries calls over a proper voice channel.
I don't know about that. Certainly at Imperial College London (where I happen to study), the courses run by the Department of Computing are varied enough that a lot of the skills necessary of a games programmer can be gained (graphics, AI, computer architecture, etc).
Although it might fair to say Imperial has an unusually strong link with the games industry, e.g. the Games and Media Event and EA has run an event on campus in the past.
There are people with the necessary skills and intellect coming out of UK universities. I'd wager the real problem is that they're ending up working in finance, which has far larger salaries than the games industry.
Despite the games companies constantly bleating about how much money they make and how games are now a bigger contributor to the British economy than films, they seem unwilling or unable to compensate leading engineering talent. Is it little surprise that graduates go elsewhere?
Actually, the latest BB is the curve (8300) and the 8800... Neither of which do 3G. You have to go back to a slightly clunkier 7xxx series model if you want UMTS (which doesn't have any of the sleek looks of the new ones, or the GPS or media functions etc).
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Phones are historically heavily subsidized in the UK, with a contract (and handset) churn rate of 12 months. The MNOs have been pushing hard to kick that out to 18 months, but it's nowhere near the state of affairs in the US where 24 months is standard.
Since that was written, the world has moved on. Apple launched the WebKit open-source project as part of OpenDarwin. This means that WebKit bugs are now being tracked in bugzilla (in addition to Apple's internal bug tracking system), and WebKit, WebCore and JavaScriptCore have moved to a publicly accessible CVS server.
You're missing the fundamental point that the Developer Transition System is intermediary hardware - the internals are all in flux, and any final Macintoshes with Intel processors will almost definitely be very different beasts (perhaps using EFI instead of BIOS, for example).
So taking what is possible with the DTS as a representation of what will be possible with shipping hardware is a fallacy, and likely one of the reasons that the transition systems are covered by such restricted terms.
Eric Seidel is not an Apple WebCore engineer. From TFM:
Disclaimer: Let me emphasize that at this time there is NO SVG support in Safari itself, nor has Apple (or myself) made any commitment to ship SVG support in Safari, now or in the future. However, with your help (the open source community) I would very much like to see full SVG integration in WebKit in the future.
This means that there is experimental support in WebCore, and experimental support may be in WebKit in the future, should you want to roll your own. I wouldn't expect Apple to ship anything "experimental" in Safari, though.
You do not have to buy an ADC Select membership to get a copy of the Xcode Tools. Xcode Tools 2.1 are available to ADC Online members. ADC Online membership is free.
WebObjects stuff has been used in lots of extremely high-traffic sites. Of course there are the high-profile Apple deployments, but probably the most visited WebObjects-powered site is BBC News Online. Actually, I don't know if they do any more, but they certainly did until fairly recently - they just never publicised it in their URLs.
Actually, Apple has released MORE source. Previously, only the source to the LGPL'd WebCore (khtml fork) and JavaScriptCore (kjs fork) were made avaialble. These were regarded as low-level frameworks and generally not for developer use on Mac OS X - in fact the API was never exposed officially.
As of yesterday, the source to WebKit - Apple's higher level Objective-C framework for embedding a rendering engine into any Mac OS X application - is also available (looks BSD licensed to me). This means that, amongst other things, it should be easier to download the source to Safari's rendering engine, hack it, and install your custom version.
RTFA. It's restricted to UK users, so no Yanks allowed (this is for the same reason that BBC America has adverts - the BBC is publicly funded by the TV license fee in the UK).
Indeed it is. However, the interesting bits of Bonjour are Multicast DNS and DNS Service Discovery, neither of which are the products of the IETF WG (which has been disbanded, I think).
Zeroconf.org is owned by Stuart Cheshire, not the IETF.
Actually, the client library portion has been re-licensed under the terms of the BSD license, largely to allow it to be used by software which is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
The mDNSResponder daemon remains under the terms of the APSL, which is not only OSI-approved but also accepted by RMS himself as being a valid Free Software license. The only problem he noted with it was that it is GPL-incompatible - but since the client library for Bonjour is GPL-compatible that shouldn't be a problem.
To be honest, I'd be surprised if the APSL is not DFSG free. On what grounds is it not?
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Simple put: you are wrong.
The course agreement for most universities attributes the copyright from any works you create during your studies to the unversity. They own it.
Actually, first hand experience of making calls over 3G (HSDPA) packet data connections using Fring on Three shows that call quality is terrible. Admittedly this was in central London, where cells may be quite heavily contended, but once people actually start using 3G you can quite regularly see bursts of latency - causing the throughput to go through the floor.
You get a guaranteed QoS with a proper voice call. You do not with packet data. In fact, Three's own "Skype" service is based on iSkoot, which does uses packet data for getting the contact list, setting up a call etc - but it actually carries calls over a proper voice channel.
I don't know about that. Certainly at Imperial College London (where I happen to study), the courses run by the Department of Computing are varied enough that a lot of the skills necessary of a games programmer can be gained (graphics, AI, computer architecture, etc).
Although it might fair to say Imperial has an unusually strong link with the games industry, e.g. the Games and Media Event and EA has run an event on campus in the past.
There are people with the necessary skills and intellect coming out of UK universities. I'd wager the real problem is that they're ending up working in finance, which has far larger salaries than the games industry.
Despite the games companies constantly bleating about how much money they make and how games are now a bigger contributor to the British economy than films, they seem unwilling or unable to compensate leading engineering talent. Is it little surprise that graduates go elsewhere?
Actually, the latest BB is the curve (8300) and the 8800... Neither of which do 3G. You have to go back to a slightly clunkier 7xxx series model if you want UMTS (which doesn't have any of the sleek looks of the new ones, or the GPS or media functions etc).
The Pearl doesn't have 3G either...
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Phones are historically heavily subsidized in the UK, with a contract (and handset) churn rate of 12 months. The MNOs have been pushing hard to kick that out to 18 months, but it's nowhere near the state of affairs in the US where 24 months is standard.
Again delayed Leopard? As far as I can tell, there has only been one delay to Leopard, from June to October.
The claim that "An unlocked phone can make GSM calls and send basic SMS. No MMS, no Internet, no iTS." is just wrong. Woefully wrong. See, for exampke, the Nokia gateway for pushing these settings to a phone (for example one which is new and unlocked.
Actually, to be pedantic, Safari is not opensource. However its rendering engine (WebKit) is.
Since that was written, the world has moved on. Apple launched the WebKit open-source project as part of OpenDarwin. This means that WebKit bugs are now being tracked in bugzilla (in addition to Apple's internal bug tracking system), and WebKit, WebCore and JavaScriptCore have moved to a publicly accessible CVS server.
You're missing the fundamental point that the Developer Transition System is intermediary hardware - the internals are all in flux, and any final Macintoshes with Intel processors will almost definitely be very different beasts (perhaps using EFI instead of BIOS, for example).
So taking what is possible with the DTS as a representation of what will be possible with shipping hardware is a fallacy, and likely one of the reasons that the transition systems are covered by such restricted terms.
Eric Seidel is not an Apple WebCore engineer. From TFM:
Disclaimer: Let me emphasize that at this time there is NO SVG
support in Safari itself, nor has Apple (or myself) made any
commitment to ship SVG support in Safari, now or in the future.
However, with your help (the open source community) I would very much
like to see full SVG integration in WebKit in the future.
This means that there is experimental support in WebCore, and experimental support may be in WebKit in the future, should you want to roll your own. I wouldn't expect Apple to ship anything "experimental" in Safari, though.
You do not have to buy an ADC Select membership to get a copy of the Xcode Tools. Xcode Tools 2.1 are available to ADC Online members. ADC Online membership is free.
WebObjects stuff has been used in lots of extremely high-traffic sites. Of course there are the high-profile Apple deployments, but probably the most visited WebObjects-powered site is BBC News Online. Actually, I don't know if they do any more, but they certainly did until fairly recently - they just never publicised it in their URLs.
I doubt WebKit will be that useful on GNUstep, as it uses other Apple technologies like ATSUI, Quartz, etc.
Actually, Apple has released MORE source. Previously, only the source to the LGPL'd WebCore (khtml fork) and JavaScriptCore (kjs fork) were made avaialble. These were regarded as low-level frameworks and generally not for developer use on Mac OS X - in fact the API was never exposed officially.
As of yesterday, the source to WebKit - Apple's higher level Objective-C framework for embedding a rendering engine into any Mac OS X application - is also available (looks BSD licensed to me). This means that, amongst other things, it should be easier to download the source to Safari's rendering engine, hack it, and install your custom version.
RTFA. It's restricted to UK users, so no Yanks allowed (this is for the same reason that BBC America has adverts - the BBC is publicly funded by the TV license fee in the UK).
Does NewScientist.com have editors?
If this upsets you, why are you reading Slashdot?!
Indeed it is. However, the interesting bits of Bonjour are Multicast DNS and DNS Service Discovery, neither of which are the products of the IETF WG (which has been disbanded, I think).
Zeroconf.org is owned by Stuart Cheshire, not the IETF.
The APSL gives you an automatic royalty-free license to any Apple patents which might cover any of the code, too.
ZeroConf is not any "official name" of any sort.
Actually, the client library portion has been re-licensed under the terms of the BSD license, largely to allow it to be used by software which is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
The mDNSResponder daemon remains under the terms of the APSL, which is not only OSI-approved but also accepted by RMS himself as being a valid Free Software license. The only problem he noted with it was that it is GPL-incompatible - but since the client library for Bonjour is GPL-compatible that shouldn't be a problem.
To be honest, I'd be surprised if the APSL is not DFSG free. On what grounds is it not?
Uh, no. This article has only been up on the apple.slashdot.org page, which nobody reads.
And if you can't stomach the soul-eating registration, use the OpenDarwin mirror (or get the tarball).