I wouldn't be surprised if it were written by the same person. Apple tends to listen to developers and will post technical documentation that users provide.
As with any preview release, there are lots of bugs. Some related to 1.4.1, some related to this specific implementation. Apple spends a lot of time with their Java implementation, so anything fixed in Sun's 1.4.1_01 will be fixed by the time this is released.
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But like the song goes, "won't be fooled again."
Don't you mean the George W. Bush saying:
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.
Teaching ConTeXt would give them a nice head start as well. I switched to ConTeXt from LaTeX and find it to be easier to use and more powerful out of the box.
Of course there isn't a huge following, but the documentation is decent.
It's as if I didn't already have enough distractions. I have enough problems getting actual work done because of me getting sidetracked on a computer. If there weren't books I could grab and strand myself with, I'd never get anything done.
I'd never want to go to a school without a (paper) library.
It's not way out of date. The GCC delivered in the April developer tools is version 1041, based on gcc version 3.1 20020105 (experimental). This is version 1151; Quite a bit newer, and also signifies the code freeze for the version that will ship with Jaguar.
Robert always seemed to be out of place; I still remember one episode where he was wearing a pink suit. The entire class ended up giggling the entire time -- even the instructor. (Yes, childish, but this was high school.)
Mireille was just about the only reason I bothered paying attention.
I went to a smallish private school in Delaware and we used VCDs in the French language courses. As much as I hated the class, VCDs were a nice choice for learning a language -- quick playback for review, easy to maintain, simple to use. (If anyone cares, the material was French in Action.)
I find it odd that techniques like this aren't used more widely; My school wasn't large or that wealthy, yet they decided to use VCD to teach the course. It seems that VCD isn't widespread just because it takes a little more work to generate a course around it; My French teacher worked hard for a high school level class, but I doubt most do.
The only disadvantage to using video material is the fact that it's video material -- television anyone? It's very easy to stare at a screen and completely zone out, ignoring whatever you're trying to be taught. If not interrupted constantly for questioning and such, VCDs are useless.
How many times has AOL blocked Trillian? That's why iChat is the first 'compatible' with AIM. AOL considers iChat as an official AIM client; they say the exact opposite about Trillian.
I believe Microsoft helped Apple fix OS X bugs in the same manner any developer would. Microsoft, in their development of Office v.X and IE for Mac, discovered problems that were not created by their code; Apple's problems. Microsoft notifies Apple, Apple fixes bugs in their OS.
The main problem Microsoft has is that they feel their Mac division is somewhat wasted; Apple isn't advertising their products enough to justify the expense of creating and maintaining Office/IE and whatever else they may be doing.
But I propose a switch to hexadecimal. While we're at it, let's switch the U.S. to Celsius, switch the U.S. to metric units, win the war on 'terrorism', save the whales, and assume pi is equal to 3. Or, we could just not attempt to change things that have been established for centuries.
Being tied down isn't the best solution. There's really no point to getting a laptop if you're going to have to plug it in all the time. Mobility is key.
One assignment I had gotten in my high school C++ course was a nice introduction to elementary image processing. The design required a simple program that would read a matrix of 1s and 0s from an ASCII text file to perform operations on. A 1 was considered white (on), while 0 was black (off); this part could be expanded to support the full spectrum, although it's good to keep it simple for beginners.
After loading the 'image', we were required to provide operations that the user could select and perform on the image, such as blob detection, scaling, blurring, etc. (This would be a nice way to introduce modular programming by defining an API for each operation to use and such.) Saving of the image was also supported.
An assignment such as this would be a great way to bring it all together; matrices, for loops, bounds checking, modular style and others would be covered, showing how all the little things contribute to a larger application.
There's always firewire. The Formac tuners are firewire, probably Apple-centric, but capture at 720x480. The higher end version even includes a 48gb HD. Both convert analog to DV and have radio tuners; The $399 version is what I'd end up getting if I were in the market for one.
I don't know how well these would be supported in other platforms, but it's still nice hardware.
I'd like to give you my perspective on Macs right now. I have a 1.4ghz Palomino, lots of RAM, the works. It was very fast when I built it for $1500, and it's still fast now. Despite this, I recently bought a $2800 800mhz PowerBook; it'll be slower, but there's no way you can duplicate the experience of OS X.
Find me a laptop with the features of the Powerbook (gigabit ethernet, dvd/cdrw drive, the slim size) for a comparable price, and an advertised battery life of five hours (they all inflate, it's reasonable to compare the inflated values), and I might consider an x86 laptop. Sure, the Powerbook may be slower in some aspects, but it makes that up with features.
Combine that with Cocoa and a user-friendly UNIX, and you'll see why I (and many others) are willing to pay more for a Mac. I'm willing to pay more just for a stable development environment; no fuss about what GUI toolkit to use, what language, or things like that. The tools they provide (interface builder, project builder, gcc3) are all I'll ever need --- and they're free.
Looking at the upcoming features of Jaguar, I'm even more pleased with my purchase. Where else can I get an OpenGL accelerated GUI, ZeroConf, and a tool like Sherlock 3 just by using this consumer-level OS? Speed should always come second to usability and the ability to get work done.
That's why I'm becoming a Mac user, and I suspect it is the same reason for many others. We realize how much faster x86 is --- but it doesn't matter. Experience is key.
Do you really want to build a PC case out of a material that's 39 times more insulating than fiberglass? You're going to need a good cooling system to handle that.
But they do have grilles. I'm not sure why they're not in most of the display pictures on Apple's site, but they're clearly shown in the PDF data sheet of the eMac.
They look adequate for deflecting pencil stabs.
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The url was included in the Software Update download note, but hadn't actually been enabled yet. I'd imagine the submitter got it from there.
10.2.2 has been posted to Software Update. See here for the knowledge base document (may not be posted yet).
I wouldn't be surprised if it were written by the same person. Apple tends to listen to developers and will post technical documentation that users provide.
Who wants to touch your 3.5" floppy when you can touch a 4.625" hard disc?
As with any preview release, there are lots of bugs. Some related to 1.4.1, some related to this specific implementation. Apple spends a lot of time with their Java implementation, so anything fixed in Sun's 1.4.1_01 will be fixed by the time this is released.
Don't you mean the George W. Bush saying:
Of course there isn't a huge following, but the documentation is decent.
They've been using that versioning scheme for quite a while. This is nothing new to OS X or 10.2.
It's as if I didn't already have enough distractions. I have enough problems getting actual work done because of me getting sidetracked on a computer. If there weren't books I could grab and strand myself with, I'd never get anything done.
I'd never want to go to a school without a (paper) library.
It's not way out of date. The GCC delivered in the April developer tools is version 1041, based on gcc version 3.1 20020105 (experimental). This is version 1151; Quite a bit newer, and also signifies the code freeze for the version that will ship with Jaguar.
Robert always seemed to be out of place; I still remember one episode where he was wearing a pink suit. The entire class ended up giggling the entire time -- even the instructor. (Yes, childish, but this was high school.)
Mireille was just about the only reason I bothered paying attention.
I find it odd that techniques like this aren't used more widely; My school wasn't large or that wealthy, yet they decided to use VCD to teach the course. It seems that VCD isn't widespread just because it takes a little more work to generate a course around it; My French teacher worked hard for a high school level class, but I doubt most do.
The only disadvantage to using video material is the fact that it's video material -- television anyone? It's very easy to stare at a screen and completely zone out, ignoring whatever you're trying to be taught. If not interrupted constantly for questioning and such, VCDs are useless.
How many times has AOL blocked Trillian? That's why iChat is the first 'compatible' with AIM. AOL considers iChat as an official AIM client; they say the exact opposite about Trillian.
I believe Microsoft helped Apple fix OS X bugs in the same manner any developer would. Microsoft, in their development of Office v.X and IE for Mac, discovered problems that were not created by their code; Apple's problems. Microsoft notifies Apple, Apple fixes bugs in their OS.
The main problem Microsoft has is that they feel their Mac division is somewhat wasted; Apple isn't advertising their products enough to justify the expense of creating and maintaining Office/IE and whatever else they may be doing.
But I propose a switch to hexadecimal. While we're at it, let's switch the U.S. to Celsius, switch the U.S. to metric units, win the war on 'terrorism', save the whales, and assume pi is equal to 3.
Or, we could just not attempt to change things that have been established for centuries.
I think you mean the terrorists have won.
Apache 1.3.26 fixes the hole; This is the Apache version supplied in the OS X update.
Being tied down isn't the best solution. There's really no point to getting a laptop if you're going to have to plug it in all the time. Mobility is key.
One assignment I had gotten in my high school C++ course was a nice introduction to elementary image processing. The design required a simple program that would read a matrix of 1s and 0s from an ASCII text file to perform operations on. A 1 was considered white (on), while 0 was black (off); this part could be expanded to support the full spectrum, although it's good to keep it simple for beginners.
After loading the 'image', we were required to provide operations that the user could select and perform on the image, such as blob detection, scaling, blurring, etc. (This would be a nice way to introduce modular programming by defining an API for each operation to use and such.) Saving of the image was also supported.
An assignment such as this would be a great way to bring it all together; matrices, for loops, bounds checking, modular style and others would be covered, showing how all the little things contribute to a larger application.
When hell freezes over, or when Steve's reality distortion field fails. Whichever comes first.
There's always firewire. The Formac tuners are firewire, probably Apple-centric, but capture at 720x480. The higher end version even includes a 48gb HD. Both convert analog to DV and have radio tuners; The $399 version is what I'd end up getting if I were in the market for one. I don't know how well these would be supported in other platforms, but it's still nice hardware.
Blasphemy! If it's not cartoonish, it's not a viable alternative to a Windows desktop.
I'd like to give you my perspective on Macs right now. I have a 1.4ghz Palomino, lots of RAM, the works. It was very fast when I built it for $1500, and it's still fast now. Despite this, I recently bought a $2800 800mhz PowerBook; it'll be slower, but there's no way you can duplicate the experience of OS X.
Find me a laptop with the features of the Powerbook (gigabit ethernet, dvd/cdrw drive, the slim size) for a comparable price, and an advertised battery life of five hours (they all inflate, it's reasonable to compare the inflated values), and I might consider an x86 laptop. Sure, the Powerbook may be slower in some aspects, but it makes that up with features.
Combine that with Cocoa and a user-friendly UNIX, and you'll see why I (and many others) are willing to pay more for a Mac. I'm willing to pay more just for a stable development environment; no fuss about what GUI toolkit to use, what language, or things like that. The tools they provide (interface builder, project builder, gcc3) are all I'll ever need --- and they're free.
Looking at the upcoming features of Jaguar, I'm even more pleased with my purchase. Where else can I get an OpenGL accelerated GUI, ZeroConf, and a tool like Sherlock 3 just by using this consumer-level OS? Speed should always come second to usability and the ability to get work done.
That's why I'm becoming a Mac user, and I suspect it is the same reason for many others. We realize how much faster x86 is --- but it doesn't matter. Experience is key.
Do you really want to build a PC case out of a material that's 39 times more insulating than fiberglass? You're going to need a good cooling system to handle that.
But they do have grilles. I'm not sure why they're not in most of the display pictures on Apple's site, but they're clearly shown in the PDF data sheet of the eMac.
They look adequate for deflecting pencil stabs.