It's pretty simple. Those rumor sites are hurting Apples sales. Who wants to by a new Powermac/iBook/iMac/Powerbook etc. if he knows that only 3 weeks later he can have more for the money.
That way Apple can't get enough old machines out of the channel and they're losing money with it.
I think you could easily develop something with similar functionality you want to have if you use the SystemConfiguration Framework - provided that you have some C/C++/Objective-C knowledge.
More informations about the framework mentioned above can be found here (http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Networ king/SysConfigOverview926/index.html
).
First of all Carbon is the C++ based MacOSX API based on the old toolbox functions from MacOS 9 backwards. It has nothing to do with Cocoa which is a Objective C API based on OpenStep.
GNUStep is the free (as in GPL) Implementation of the OpenStep specification.
Yes you can and I'm doing it this way (same with jboss). But the generation of the Websphere deployable jar simply takes as long as the complete build/deploy/test suite take with jboss.
Hey, calm down. I have a G4 Cube and a
Titanium Powerbook G4/667 myself. I love Mac OS X
and the last thing I would do, would be installing
Linux on my Macs - while it runs fine on my x86
servers...
But there are people who have their own plans
for those nice maschines... There's no problem
with that. Everybody it allowed to use their
maschine in the way they want.
do yourself a favour and take a look at
Objective C and the typical Frameworks
like Openstep or even more recent Cocoa.
As a converted Linux, now Mac User I recently
discovered those goodies and I really don't
understand why they didn't take off in the past
(NextStep has been around since the 80ies).
Objective C is such a powerful dynamic language
and it is real fun to write programs with it.
You have a clean and lean Smalltalk-in-C object
oriented syntax and are able to use all those
low-level C APIs... I don't know any better.
PS: For the use with Windows try to get one
of the OpenStep 4.2 packages one often find
at ebay. Besides the native Next/Sun/i386
OpenStep OSes it includes a devkit for
the use under WinNT... If use ever had to
use COM and alike, you will really, really love
OpenStep....
PS: There is even a GNU implementation of the
OpenStep API... -> GNUStep
Apples business is its hardware business...
Nothing more, nothing less. So there will never be any cheaper (cloned) mac because in this case apple would cease to exist...
They tried it once and learned a hard lesson from it...
Once I talk to a guy in my current project and he said that every kind of data wants to be stored into its naturally fitting format - what he meant was XML... Sorry, but I don't think so, Sir!
XML is nice when I have to do inter-application communication with unknown communication partners - thats it!!!
The power of XML was its simpleness, but with all those senseless 300+ pages specifications around it its worth nothing!
MacOS doesn't support SMP. It only supports
using more then one processor to do certain
tasks. One processor acts as master and the
OS has the capability to assign tasks to one or
more slaves. That not SMP!
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It's pretty simple. Those rumor sites are hurting Apples sales. Who wants to by a new Powermac/iBook/iMac/Powerbook etc. if he knows that only 3 weeks later he can have more for the money.
That way Apple can't get enough old machines out of the channel and they're losing money with it.
I think you could easily develop something with similar functionality you want to have if you use the SystemConfiguration Framework - provided that you have some C/C++/Objective-C knowledge.
More informations about the framework mentioned above can be found here (http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Networ king/SysConfigOverview926/index.html
).
Read the "Dynamic Agents" chapter...
...and if you want you will never see an ad on /. again...
First of all Carbon is the C++ based MacOSX API
based on the old toolbox functions from MacOS 9 backwards. It has nothing to do with Cocoa which
is a Objective C API based on OpenStep.
GNUStep is the free (as in GPL) Implementation of
the OpenStep specification.
Yes you can and I'm doing it this way (same
with jboss). But the generation of the Websphere
deployable jar simply takes as long as the complete build/deploy/test suite take with jboss.
Sorry, but I had to work with versions from 3.02
to 4.x and it is really bad. We replaced it with
jBoss/ Jetty which is simply the better solution.
In the time you need to generate a Websphere
EJB jar, I can build, deploy the same EJBs on
jBoss and even run all 40 jUnit tests.
Hey, calm down. I have a G4 Cube and a
Titanium Powerbook G4/667 myself. I love Mac OS X
and the last thing I would do, would be installing
Linux on my Macs - while it runs fine on my x86
servers...
But there are people who have their own plans
for those nice maschines... There's no problem
with that. Everybody it allowed to use their
maschine in the way they want.
Hi,
do yourself a favour and take a look at
Objective C and the typical Frameworks
like Openstep or even more recent Cocoa.
As a converted Linux, now Mac User I recently
discovered those goodies and I really don't
understand why they didn't take off in the past
(NextStep has been around since the 80ies).
Objective C is such a powerful dynamic language
and it is real fun to write programs with it.
You have a clean and lean Smalltalk-in-C object
oriented syntax and are able to use all those
low-level C APIs... I don't know any better.
PS: For the use with Windows try to get one
of the OpenStep 4.2 packages one often find
at ebay. Besides the native Next/Sun/i386
OpenStep OSes it includes a devkit for
the use under WinNT... If use ever had to
use COM and alike, you will really, really love
OpenStep....
PS: There is even a GNU implementation of the
OpenStep API... -> GNUStep
Pointers:
http://www.stepwise.com
http://www.gnustep.org
Apples business is its hardware business...
Nothing more, nothing less. So there will never be any cheaper (cloned) mac because in this case apple would cease to exist...
They tried it once and learned a hard lesson from it...
You're absolutely right... They are Supercomputers, meant to do some serious calculations.
They are definitely no Playstations!
$1599 - 800Mhz G4, 40GB, CD-RW, Radeon 7500, 256MB
$2299 - 933Mhz G4, 60GB, SuperDrive, GeForce4 MX, 256MB
$2999 - Dual 1Ghz, 80GB, SuperDrive, GeForce 4 MX, 512MB
$3649 - Dual 1Ghz, 80GBx2, SuperDrive, GeForce 4 MX, 1.5GB
Does anybody here really cares to read the things he/she is replying to???
The topic is game development!
For that you need some tools with which you get a certain job done fast and clean - Objective-C/{NextStep,OpenStep,Cocoa} provides just that!
If you know C it only a matter of hours to understand Objective-C.
It's just a nice and small extension to normal C with only one syntax extension - the way to send a message to an object [object doSomething].
That's nearly all....
Sorry, but maybe you should read the article before you comment it. The article talks about tools for games development, not the games themselves.
Sorry, but that thing look like a shrunk PC and thats definitely not cute.
Beside the book reviewed here I recommend another
;)
book by her - The Dispossessed.
If you always wanted to know if something else
than captalism could work... Read that book
I totally agree...
Once I talk to a guy in my current project and he said that every kind of data wants to be stored into its naturally fitting format - what he meant was XML... Sorry, but I don't think so, Sir!
XML is nice when I have to do inter-application communication with unknown communication partners - thats it!!!
The power of XML was its simpleness, but with all those senseless 300+ pages specifications around it its worth nothing!
You got something wrong here...
"he" is a she!!
Not ECHELON itself is the object in question,
but it's usage to obtain information about
patented technologies.
I think you could call it "industrial espionage"
MacOS doesn't support SMP. It only supports
using more then one processor to do certain
tasks. One processor acts as master and the
OS has the capability to assign tasks to one or
more slaves. That not SMP!