It didn't start with Copland. Copland was their last failure.
Before that, they had the Pink and Taligent fiasco.
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The product I work for has 700 megs aof source. Somewhere around 30 to 40% is Mac specific, and Carbon based.
I've been trying for 4 years to convince the company that we could have trhe same product with about 200 megs of sources, be more maintainable and modern if we would rewrite using Objective-C (except for the shared code wich would still be C or C++).
It's hard to convince big companies to make such a move. They usually only care for the balance sheet of the current quarter. Nor the year-round one.
Given that the last patent in GIF recently expired (info here), GIF is not likelly to be replaced in drove on web sites.
There is, however, Apple next major OS wich makes screen snapshots as PNG now, rather than the current PDF format. I'd rather it being jpeg because it's more common, but I can live with PNG. Besides, the Preview application can export to other formats.
Also, there's a way to change the ouput file type of screen snaptshots using the command line to change defaults. Google it baby.
As a Canadian, able to compare news broadcasts from US, Canada and Europe, I've become increasingly doubtful of the election process in the United States.
Quite frankly, anyone in the US who still think they have a democracy ought to seriously re-assess their knowledge base and information sources.
Everything, from the outside, looks incredibly staged, forfeited and just plain wrong.
I'm increasingly worried of what it means to be a US neighbor. News like this only add to the worries.
I find this hard to believe. Even if they did misplace a couple of tape backups, I'm sure they have ESCROW disks running around.
Those who are oblivious to ESCROW distributions, they are copies of entire source trees given to third parties (usually, a law firm) as a guarantee exchange to a client to provide them to access to sources if the supplier goes under. It's a way to secure big contracts.
Oracle does such ESCROW releases, and other companies do so as well.
That's Modula-2. And Modula-3, although this one didn't go anywhere much.
I've actually written two commercial applications in Modula-2. Did you know that MetroWerk's CodeWarrior is actually a descendent of their original product (and company name) that was then known as MetCom Modula-2? I still have those books in a box. First language I actually coded in for the Mac. That was in 88.
Oh please don't lecture me about capitalisation issues. I have two OPENSTEP machines here ( http://homepage.mac.com/mouser/PhotoAlbum6.html ) so I know about that. But let's keep things simple here.
Also, if you review your history, Jobs demonstrated OPENSTEP on PPC hardware in 96, just when Apple was about to buy BeOS. That's what turned the table.
and have it up and running in about the same amount of time it would take Apple to get Mac OS X running on common Intel hardware
Apple has regular builds of it's code OS, Darwin, on both Intel and PPC hardware. This is available to anyone here.
It's been said that Apple still build all of their apps on Intel-based Darwin, therefore keeping an eye on portability, while giving them a chance to see where optimisation could break other platforms.
Apple had to change processor in the past and wants to keep it's options open, this time around. Besides, don't forget Mac OS X is basically a souped-up OpenStep, wich ran on both 68K, PPC and Intel hardware. (Oh yeah... Sun hardware too for a while).
This still doesn't explain while some african prostitutes seem totally immune to HIV.
I saw a report on this a while ago. These specific women work in a town where a fairly large percentage of the population is infected. Yet, for some reason, these prostitutes have yet to contract the desease despite multiple exposures daily.
And to think some mutant gene would only have been present in caucasian is somewhat ludicrous. Unless it was related to the nose bone or something... sheesh.
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It didn't start with Copland. Copland was their last failure.
Before that, they had the Pink and Taligent fiasco.
The product I work for has 700 megs aof source. Somewhere around 30 to 40% is Mac specific, and Carbon based.
I've been trying for 4 years to convince the company that we could have trhe same product with about 200 megs of sources, be more maintainable and modern if we would rewrite using Objective-C (except for the shared code wich would still be C or C++).
It's hard to convince big companies to make such a move. They usually only care for the balance sheet of the current quarter. Nor the year-round one.
They dont have to run the same version of NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP.
My NeXT Cube was running NEXTSTEP 3.3 when I was remotelly hosting applications (Websters) off my PowerMac 8600/200 running Rhapsody DP2.
PNG supporters are still marginal.
Given that the last patent in GIF recently expired (info here), GIF is not likelly to be replaced in drove on web sites.
There is, however, Apple next major OS wich makes screen snapshots as PNG now, rather than the current PDF format. I'd rather it being jpeg because it's more common, but I can live with PNG. Besides, the Preview application can export to other formats.
Also, there's a way to change the ouput file type of screen snaptshots using the command line to change defaults. Google it baby.
I think it's brilliant.
If he fell the Feds nearing, then putting it up on eBay was the smartest thing to do.
Now, he can plead insanity.
Or at least moronity.
As a Canadian, able to compare news broadcasts from US, Canada and Europe, I've become increasingly doubtful of the election process in the United States.
Quite frankly, anyone in the US who still think they have a democracy ought to seriously re-assess their knowledge base and information sources.
Everything, from the outside, looks incredibly staged, forfeited and just plain wrong.
I'm increasingly worried of what it means to be a US neighbor. News like this only add to the worries.
You beat me to the shard.
On the other hand, we could have accompanying dip for old backups. Better yet: data burritos.
One idiot computer nerd with social skills is not something that's easy to come by.
The problem is, any nerd with some money would not even need social skills to be as malignant. Thus increasing the problem factor by manyfold.
Woah... Palpatine with a light saber... that ought to be interesting. And more Kermit action.
And somehow, I knew Vador was into bondage.
You only need to start a couple of wars to get rid of the waste as shell casing.
Given this site or this story, I say US position raked as 22 to be bull.
And then some unsuspecting douf adds code that throws an exception that goes uncaught in a given condition and the whole thing blows.
thus making C++ exceptions viable in several scenarios
By experience, C++ exceptions are the worse way of handling errors and leads to too many warp jumps that are difficult to track, trace and debug.
C++ in a kernel is fine with me. But throwing exceptions in there is asking for trouble.
For a moment there, I read SnatchCam.
Blame it on my employer that uses this capitalisation.
I find this hard to believe. Even if they did misplace a couple of tape backups, I'm sure they have ESCROW disks running around.
Those who are oblivious to ESCROW distributions, they are copies of entire source trees given to third parties (usually, a law firm) as a guarantee exchange to a client to provide them to access to sources if the supplier goes under. It's a way to secure big contracts.
Oracle does such ESCROW releases, and other companies do so as well.
That's Modula-2. And Modula-3, although this one didn't go anywhere much.
I've actually written two commercial applications in Modula-2. Did you know that MetroWerk's CodeWarrior is actually a descendent of their original product (and company name) that was then known as MetCom Modula-2? I still have those books in a box. First language I actually coded in for the Mac. That was in 88.
The original MacApp framework, in the 80s and early 90s, was also based on Object Pascal before Apple moved the code to C++.
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Oh please don't lecture me about capitalisation issues. I have two OPENSTEP machines here ( http://homepage.mac.com/mouser/PhotoAlbum6.html ) so I know about that. But let's keep things simple here.
Also, if you review your history, Jobs demonstrated OPENSTEP on PPC hardware in 96, just when Apple was about to buy BeOS. That's what turned the table.
and have it up and running in about the same amount of time it would take Apple to get Mac OS X running on common Intel hardware
Apple has regular builds of it's code OS, Darwin, on both Intel and PPC hardware. This is available to anyone here.
It's been said that Apple still build all of their apps on Intel-based Darwin, therefore keeping an eye on portability, while giving them a chance to see where optimisation could break other platforms.
Apple had to change processor in the past and wants to keep it's options open, this time around. Besides, don't forget Mac OS X is basically a souped-up OpenStep, wich ran on both 68K, PPC and Intel hardware. (Oh yeah... Sun hardware too for a while).
...and most of humanity has been exposed to sex at some point.
:-)
Usually ends with laboratories nerds though.
HIV is the queen mother of STDs, once that is out of the way, there will be a lot more au naturale love happening in the world.
The problem is that the only people working on this are locked up in laboratories are face little prospect of exploiting their discovery.
Either way, they're not in a hurry to see others rack up all the fun while they grin, alone, on the dance floor, with their thick taped-up eye-ware.
This still doesn't explain while some african prostitutes seem totally immune to HIV.
I saw a report on this a while ago. These specific women work in a town where a fairly large percentage of the population is infected. Yet, for some reason, these prostitutes have yet to contract the desease despite multiple exposures daily.
And to think some mutant gene would only have been present in caucasian is somewhat ludicrous. Unless it was related to the nose bone or something... sheesh.