Fat binaries aren't as useful as all that. They can only produce OSX 10.4+ code, due to differences in the GCC that was introduced in 10.4
Yes and no.
Fat binaries that are built using the PPC and Intel checkboxes are as you described above. However, you can *EASILY* build a PPC binary targeted as far back as 10.1, and an Intel binary targeted at 10.4u, and glue them into one fat binary. This doesn't make it take any longer than the build in system because you'll be building everything twice anyway. The other advantage is that you can also build just of of the two architectures for debugging and testing to make things go a little quicker.
It uses 3 build targets, one to build the binary only (I'm including the resources because it's faster for debugging) for PPC, one to build the binary only for X86, and a third one (which depends on the first two) to throw all the resources into a 3rd bundle, and use the lipo command line tool to glue them together into the 3rd bundle.
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Look at the graphs on the Macrumors.com buyers' guide. Look at the links to the Macrumors.com buyers' [sic] guide.
The actual truth is that contextual menus in Windows are so rarely well* implemented that they are a disaster. On Mac OS X, you can almost always find what you want in a handy popup-menu or in a logical menu. It's a great UI shortcut, because a rule with GUI design is to minimize mouse travel - the easiest spot to click is the point right under the mouse. Microsoft really needs to get this right. Mac OS X is definitely superior here.
*It is poor UI design to have options hidden. That is why Apples UI guidelines say that if you put something under a contextual menu, (or toolbar) you should also put it somewhere in the menubar.
i'm confused... you just described me as a hack (which i agree with, i hate web design, and i take as many shortcuts as i can!) and then said that i'm not... (my last "Professional" web site was tested against 7 zillion browsers) so am i a hack or not?! O_o
personally, i only rely on UAS as a way to work around layout bugs (read different HTML, no PNG's, different CSS for IE) and i set it up to be easily overridden. (how else am i supposed to validate it?) I believe i fall back on the "modern browser" (read not IE) path when i detect an unknown web browser. i'd have to check my code, but IE 7 will fall back on my modern path if i add maybe 1 line of code, maybe later.
Ah, but this particular library has been in most of the projects that i write myself. I find it quite valuable, and i'm happy to see that others find it valuable too. Not to mention that the hours spent writing it was a good learning experience.
Thats right. My goal with using the BSD license isn't to get code back (although i HAVE gotten code back!) - it's to get my name out there. If my name is included in the copyrights of a big product, people might recognize it when my resume crosses their desk, and it'll get me a job.
yeah, i know, i'm dreaming. on the other hand i'm getting a free $50 program because they used ONE of my BSD licensed libraries:) (It'll be quite ironic if it turns out my name isn't included as the BSD license says is needed)
ok.. so lego has a kit to make a star destroyer... yawn
if they had made it out of generic bricks it *MIGHT* be interesting, but in the mean time.... i want my 5 minutes back... and i'm sure they want here 11 hours back.
Apple bought SoundJam MP from Casady & Greene, and used it as the basis for iTunes. Just wanted to pick nits.... C&G was a publishing company only, they didn't own SoundJam MP, or any of the other software they ever published. The guy who wrote the SoundJam owned SoundJam - and he happened to be an Apple employee all along! Apple sure didn't have to look far for the basis of iTunes!
In fact, early version of iTunes have dialog boxes and controls identical to SoundJam, right down to screen placement when they're opened. Does it surprise you that the author of two different software products that do the same thing decided not to re-invent the wheel for his second product? It doesn't surprise me at all - I'd do the same thing - I DO the same thing, I reuse generic homegrown classes... wooo i must be cheating.
They were planning to make a sequel, and add multiplayer functionality, I heard. And then MS bought them.
It gets worse! Oni was in development with multiplayer from the beginning (i played that and it rocked. a lot.) but when Microsoft bought Bungie, while both Halo, and Oni were in development. MS made Bungie rush Oni so they could get on with Halo.
Part of the "Microsoft buys Bungie" deal was that ownership of Oni (and the Myth series which also rocked) would go to GoD Games, so Microsoft had no incentive to have Oni be cool, or a well rounded product when it shipped. The rushed product cut corners, and among the corners cut, were Muliplayer, and Mods. It's a darn shame really.
that looks like a good way to introduce it to new viewers (perhaps my now 6 year old nephew?) however there is one thing i would add... stay away from the (official) DVD of ESB for the first time though! Paplatine talks about luke as vaders son in that version.:\
We had to download a freeware application to provide [PPP]
No, we had to have a friend put said freeware application on a floppy (or go to our local MUG) so that we *COULD* do that. Anyone else remember what a HACK MacTCP and MacPPP were? Then apple had to come out with OpenTransport, and it STILL didn't have a dialer for ages! uhg.
i had no idea that every ethernet card on the planet (each one has a MAC as you probably well know) had a PowerPC on it. that means that the PPC has a penetration similar to the x86!!!!! yay!
oh wait, you were talking about Apple Macintosh (abbreviated Mac)computers... nevermind.
There's a huge difference between touching a point on a tablet and touching a point on the screen since you don't know where your pen is pointing on the tablet before you see the cursor on the screen.
I think you're confused...
The Wacom devices (commonly referred to as tablets) have positional sensing when the stylus is within approximately an inch above the display. That way the pointer follows the pen. The click (and pressure information) is only sent to the OS when the pen makes contact with the screen. The downside is that it only works with stylus' (stylii?) manufactured by Wacom - for that particular device. (IE a Intous stylus won't work with a Cintiq... or even Intous II)
Other devices such as the touch screen found in all PDA's and the DS send position information (and perhaps a click, depending on the OS) when something - anything - makes contact with the screen.
Steve Jobs said that that spotlight was inspired by iTunes' search system and capabilities when he introduced the feature at the TRUE Tiger world premier - WWDC 2004, so yeah, iTunes was first;)
my guess is that it has something to do with the upgrade to directory services.... as far as what... you'll have to ask apple (in the process of installing the server update remotely)
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Fat binaries aren't as useful as all that. They can only produce OSX 10.4+ code, due to differences in the GCC that was introduced in 10.4
Yes and no.
Fat binaries that are built using the PPC and Intel checkboxes are as you described above. However, you can *EASILY* build a PPC binary targeted as far back as 10.1, and an Intel binary targeted at 10.4u, and glue them into one fat binary. This doesn't make it take any longer than the build in system because you'll be building everything twice anyway. The other advantage is that you can also build just of of the two architectures for debugging and testing to make things go a little quicker.
See the Spychat 3.0.1 source code to see how i set up XCode to automate this:
It uses 3 build targets, one to build the binary only (I'm including the resources because it's faster for debugging) for PPC, one to build the binary only for X86, and a third one (which depends on the first two) to throw all the resources into a 3rd bundle, and use the lipo command line tool to glue them together into the 3rd bundle.
Look at the graphs on the Macrumors.com buyers' guide.
Look at the links to the Macrumors.com buyers' [sic] guide.
The actual truth is that contextual menus in Windows are so rarely well* implemented that they are a disaster. On Mac OS X, you can almost always find what you want in a handy popup-menu or in a logical menu. It's a great UI shortcut, because a rule with GUI design is to minimize mouse travel - the easiest spot to click is the point right under the mouse. Microsoft really needs to get this right. Mac OS X is definitely superior here.
*It is poor UI design to have options hidden. That is why Apples UI guidelines say that if you put something under a contextual menu, (or toolbar) you should also put it somewhere in the menubar.
i'm confused... you just described me as a hack (which i agree with, i hate web design, and i take as many shortcuts as i can!) and then said that i'm not... (my last "Professional" web site was tested against 7 zillion browsers) so am i a hack or not?! O_o
personally, i only rely on UAS as a way to work around layout bugs (read different HTML, no PNG's, different CSS for IE) and i set it up to be easily overridden. (how else am i supposed to validate it?) I believe i fall back on the "modern browser" (read not IE) path when i detect an unknown web browser. i'd have to check my code, but IE 7 will fall back on my modern path if i add maybe 1 line of code, maybe later.
you know, it's been a while since i've used Dvorak, but i'm still typing at an OK speed... (switched to it just now....)
it depends on how you define success......
i would say my project is a success just because it is in use.
Ah, but this particular library has been in most of the projects that i write myself. I find it quite valuable, and i'm happy to see that others find it valuable too. Not to mention that the hours spent writing it was a good learning experience.
Thats right. My goal with using the BSD license isn't to get code back (although i HAVE gotten code back!) - it's to get my name out there. If my name is included in the copyrights of a big product, people might recognize it when my resume crosses their desk, and it'll get me a job.
:) (It'll be quite ironic if it turns out my name isn't included as the BSD license says is needed)
yeah, i know, i'm dreaming. on the other hand i'm getting a free $50 program because they used ONE of my BSD licensed libraries
ok.. so lego has a kit to make a star destroyer... yawn
if they had made it out of generic bricks it *MIGHT* be interesting, but in the mean time.... i want my 5 minutes back... and i'm sure they want here 11 hours back.
well, with all the other comments, i'm now glad that i'm now able to view it. (why bother to support yet another format?)
Apple bought SoundJam MP from Casady & Greene, and used it as the basis for iTunes.
Just wanted to pick nits.... C&G was a publishing company only, they didn't own SoundJam MP, or any of the other software they ever published. The guy who wrote the SoundJam owned SoundJam - and he happened to be an Apple employee all along! Apple sure didn't have to look far for the basis of iTunes!
In fact, early version of iTunes have dialog boxes and controls identical to SoundJam, right down to screen placement when they're opened.
Does it surprise you that the author of two different software products that do the same thing decided not to re-invent the wheel for his second product? It doesn't surprise me at all - I'd do the same thing - I DO the same thing, I reuse generic homegrown classes... wooo i must be cheating.
or you can do the ad-libs version :)
They were planning to make a sequel, and add multiplayer functionality, I heard. And then MS bought them.
It gets worse! Oni was in development with multiplayer from the beginning (i played that and it rocked. a lot.) but when Microsoft bought Bungie, while both Halo, and Oni were in development. MS made Bungie rush Oni so they could get on with Halo.
Part of the "Microsoft buys Bungie" deal was that ownership of Oni (and the Myth series which also rocked) would go to GoD Games, so Microsoft had no incentive to have Oni be cool, or a well rounded product when it shipped. The rushed product cut corners, and among the corners cut, were Muliplayer, and Mods. It's a darn shame really.
that looks like a good way to introduce it to new viewers (perhaps my now 6 year old nephew?) however there is one thing i would add... stay away from the (official) DVD of ESB for the first time though! Paplatine talks about luke as vaders son in that version. :\
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as seen on G4/TechTV two fucking weeks ago!
We had to download a freeware application to provide [PPP]
No, we had to have a friend put said freeware application on a floppy (or go to our local MUG) so that we *COULD* do that. Anyone else remember what a HACK MacTCP and MacPPP were? Then apple had to come out with OpenTransport, and it STILL didn't have a dialer for ages! uhg.
True, but couldn't some of the things we've learned from building houses have been applied to writing software ?
you haven't used Bob lately have you?
Funny, my Oxford American Dictionary says...
verb [ trans. ] (usu. be architected) Computing
design and make : few software packages were architected with Ethernet access in mind.
Can the American and English version be that different, or is Apple's version different from the print version?
i had no idea that every ethernet card on the planet (each one has a MAC as you probably well know) had a PowerPC on it. that means that the PPC has a penetration similar to the x86!!!!! yay!
oh wait, you were talking about Apple Macintosh (abbreviated Mac)computers... nevermind.
you could try launchd....
*dawns a flame retardant jacket*
And in Tiger, it then pops up and offers to send the panic log to apple's bug servers as soon as it finishes rebooting.
There's a huge difference between touching a point on a tablet and touching a point on the screen since you don't know where your pen is pointing on the tablet before you see the cursor on the screen.
I think you're confused...
The Wacom devices (commonly referred to as tablets) have positional sensing when the stylus is within approximately an inch above the display. That way the pointer follows the pen. The click (and pressure information) is only sent to the OS when the pen makes contact with the screen. The downside is that it only works with stylus' (stylii?) manufactured by Wacom - for that particular device. (IE a Intous stylus won't work with a Cintiq... or even Intous II)
Other devices such as the touch screen found in all PDA's and the DS send position information (and perhaps a click, depending on the OS) when something - anything - makes contact with the screen.
Steve Jobs said that that spotlight was inspired by iTunes' search system and capabilities when he introduced the feature at the TRUE Tiger world premier - WWDC 2004, so yeah, iTunes was first ;)
my guess is that it has something to do with the upgrade to directory services.... as far as what... you'll have to ask apple (in the process of installing the server update remotely)