You don't necessarily need Mac OS X or GNUstep to use Obj-C in any significant way.
Debian Etch (and many other distros) has both the gcc-objc compiler and libFoundation libraries in the stable repository. I use them all the time to write GUI-less server applications. The Foundation library (the non-GUI toolkit for Objective C) makes it trivially easy (much like Java) to write a little piece of multi-threaded code that sits around waiting for input on a socket - WITHOUT all the overhead of launching yet another JVM instance.
Obviously, with the earning potential of iPhone software, more and more developers will discover ObjC either because they either they're curious, or because their bosses will say, "hey, port our XYZ app to iPhone."
Objective-C is one of those languages that looks obscure until you start playing with it, and then you realize it's just C with a very nice object-oriented messaging toolkit bolted on.
About 5-6 years ago, I worked at an academic research lab with access to Internet2. I remember being absolutely amazed that I could download RedHat ISOs (from another University's mirror) in just about 2 minutes.
Haven't had any real experience with it since, but I was certainly impressed at the time.
AFAIK, high-resolution bathymetry is considered some of the most highly classified data the US Navy has. Many people and organizations over the years have tried to access that data and been told that it is protected due to unspecified national security concerns.
OTOH, the kind of data that is easily available with Google Earth was once the exclusive domain of agencies such as NRO...
Don't think it's just P2P that Comcast is trying to control. I've noticed that when I attempt large downloads from Apple (regardless of material, I've seen it on both iTunes movies and the iPhone SDK), they just craaawl along. (~200 kbps).
When I switch to the VPN at my company, the speeds suddenly shoot up to around 7-8 Mbps, even with the encryption/tunnel overhead, and still traveling over Comcast's network. Can't just be coincidence, eh?
Silly Debian, they're not trolls, they're Hobbits!
That being said, this is stupid. Time Zones should "just work" no matter where you are. It's not volitile code, it's a line in a config file. Trust me, if one of the US states that doesn't fallow the national DST system were to change, you KNOW the update would be pushed up immediately.
This is discrimination driven by laziness (the worse kind IMHO).
Is the number of women low because the men are unaccommodating or are the men unaccommodating because there are so few women?
The department I work in has a high percentage (maybe 30-40%) of women for a software group. Interactions seem much smoother than other places I've been that have had far fewer women, but I chalk that up to the fact that a man working here is just going to be forced to interact with women more of the time - not that the men here are fundamentally different in any way.
So the general low number of women in IT may be a chicken-and-egg problem, but I'm not sure the causality has really ben pinned down yet.
I know you're trying to be funny, but seriously -- every women I've known who wouldn't touch makeup with a 10' pole still appreciated nice, tasteful jewelry. Everybody does. Even most men own at least one piece of (masculine) jewelry, even if it's only a class ring.
I once worked in a building with a classified side and a unclassified side. Being in the unsecured area, I had no idea what they were doing on the other side, but one day someone noticed that 2 fluorescent lightbulbs leaned up against the hallway wall adjacent to the secure side were glowing. Tip the bulbs away from the wall, they dimmed. Scary.. if only they had had that film in the walls, I might not have to worry about shooting blanks!
it would be interesting to see how the system differentiates from a driver talking on a cell phone versus a mere passenger Oh, that's a non-issue in the U.S. More than likely there is no passenger!
Using Bush's and Cheney's personal behavior as justification for anything is setting a dangerous president. Don't you mean 'precedent'? Oh, wait, never mind...
[...] we had company restricted secrete data on the disks... I informed IBM of the dilemma [...] You 'secreted' what data on the disks!? That's disgusting... no wonder you didn't want IBM to get at the disks...
I've always been under the impression that biofuels were important not because they were environmentally friendly or clean burning but that they brought energy production "back home" to reduce or eliminate US dependence on foreign oil and the cartels that produce it and the wars fought over it.
Well, that and the renewable factor -- you can plant corn every year.
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You don't necessarily need Mac OS X or GNUstep to use Obj-C in any significant way.
Debian Etch (and many other distros) has both the gcc-objc compiler and libFoundation libraries in the stable repository. I use them all the time to write GUI-less server applications. The Foundation library (the non-GUI toolkit for Objective C) makes it trivially easy (much like Java) to write a little piece of multi-threaded code that sits around waiting for input on a socket - WITHOUT all the overhead of launching yet another JVM instance.
Obviously, with the earning potential of iPhone software, more and more developers will discover ObjC either because they either they're curious, or because their bosses will say, "hey, port our XYZ app to iPhone."
Objective-C is one of those languages that looks obscure until you start playing with it, and then you realize it's just C with a very nice object-oriented messaging toolkit bolted on.
Last time I checked, that country name wasn't hyphenated...
They're getting closer all the time, it seems...
"brayons"?
Are those like crayons for donkeys?
About 5-6 years ago, I worked at an academic research lab with access to Internet2. I remember being absolutely amazed that I could download RedHat ISOs (from another University's mirror) in just about 2 minutes.
Haven't had any real experience with it since, but I was certainly impressed at the time.
You can look at Internet2 to the regular Internet as ESPN2 is to regular ESPN.
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Nobody's going to understand that...
AFAIK, high-resolution bathymetry is considered some of the most highly classified data the US Navy has. Many people and organizations over the years have tried to access that data and been told that it is protected due to unspecified national security concerns.
OTOH, the kind of data that is easily available with Google Earth was once the exclusive domain of agencies such as NRO...
...which they claim can be commercialized within 5-10 years and essentially make fuel out of anything that grows. SOYLENT FUEL IS...... PEOPLE!Don't think it's just P2P that Comcast is trying to control. I've noticed that when I attempt large downloads from Apple (regardless of material, I've seen it on both iTunes movies and the iPhone SDK), they just craaawl along. (~200 kbps).
When I switch to the VPN at my company, the speeds suddenly shoot up to around 7-8 Mbps, even with the encryption/tunnel overhead, and still traveling over Comcast's network. Can't just be coincidence, eh?
Really? I've never had a problem with pages being changed along the way, even though I think Comcast IS GREAT. IT'S COMCASTIC(TM)!
Yes! With our new robotic workers, which we call "Cylons," we will usher in a new era of peaceful space exploration and colonization.
I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 2008 it's a little hard to come by!
Ministry of Defence? I would have thought it would be developed by the Ministry of Sound...
Too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.
Wow, I didn't realize that clowns had a distinct smell!
Um... who is this "Paul" that you speak of?
Silly Debian, they're not trolls, they're Hobbits!
That being said, this is stupid. Time Zones should "just work" no matter where you are. It's not volitile code, it's a line in a config file. Trust me, if one of the US states that doesn't fallow the national DST system were to change, you KNOW the update would be pushed up immediately.
This is discrimination driven by laziness (the worse kind IMHO).
Is the number of women low because the men are unaccommodating or are the men unaccommodating because there are so few women?
The department I work in has a high percentage (maybe 30-40%) of women for a software group. Interactions seem much smoother than other places I've been that have had far fewer women, but I chalk that up to the fact that a man working here is just going to be forced to interact with women more of the time - not that the men here are fundamentally different in any way.
So the general low number of women in IT may be a chicken-and-egg problem, but I'm not sure the causality has really ben pinned down yet.
I know you're trying to be funny, but seriously -- every women I've known who wouldn't touch makeup with a 10' pole still appreciated nice, tasteful jewelry. Everybody does. Even most men own at least one piece of (masculine) jewelry, even if it's only a class ring.
I once worked in a building with a classified side and a unclassified side. Being in the unsecured area, I had no idea what they were doing on the other side, but one day someone noticed that 2 fluorescent lightbulbs leaned up against the hallway wall adjacent to the secure side were glowing. Tip the bulbs away from the wall, they dimmed. Scary.. if only they had had that film in the walls, I might not have to worry about shooting blanks!
I've always been under the impression that biofuels were important not because they were environmentally friendly or clean burning but that they brought energy production "back home" to reduce or eliminate US dependence on foreign oil and the cartels that produce it and the wars fought over it.
Well, that and the renewable factor -- you can plant corn every year.