Yeah, Obama's record-high deficit spending has nothing at all to do with our budget problems. A trillion-dollar healthcare program will definitely give us the money to go to the moon. Have Slashdotters become retarded? You're seriously dismissing space travel and the future of science in favor of some government-run healthcare and all the associated bribes and backroom deals the Democrats made for it?
You lefties are sounding really desperate this year.
It literally feels dirty, to go to C/C++ after having worked in Haskell.
Give me a break. C and C++ aren't going anywhere, and barely anybody is using OCaml or Haskell, especially not for OpenGL applications. You sound like another amateur Reddit poster who thinks C is hard because it has pointers. C is simple, fast, and elegant.
In the real world, outside of the buzzword-laden, blog-driven, pseudo-academic world you were spawned, C and C++ remain the dominant languages for commercial application development. That includes Objective-C on the iPhone.
Yes, let's claim Microsoft paid off Valve so they wouldn't port to the PS3 in an article on Valve announcing ports to the Mac. Did Microsoft just forget to send the anti-Mac check or what?
You post is packed with misinformation. One of the big reasons, which Gabe Newell has mentioned before, is the difficulty of developing for the PS3 hardware. Source was designed to be modular, and adding OpenGL as a rendering path isn't some impossible task. This is an engine that is descended from Quake.
In reality, one of the things holding back Source on the Mac was the lack of Havok's physics engine for that platform and the hefty licensing fee they wanted to make it available.
Linux users don't pay for games, the userbase on the desktop is so small that it may as well be non-existent, and the APIs are a disaster (e.g., sound). Simple as that.
Worried about what? The direction of computing today is mobile devices and online services, and Apple and Google have soundly defeated Microsoft there. Windows 7 is a relic of an outdated paradigm. It may end up being the last of desktop Windows as we think of it today.
Apple doesn't criticize its competitors any more or less than everyone else does. Microsoft bashes Linux and mocks Apple. It's called business.
I will say that Windows fans are the worst about platform wars. They'll insist that the stereotype of the arrogant Mac user who constantly bashes them is true, yet it's always the Windows users who start the bashing, usually from a bunch of morons who have never even touched a Mac. You can find it on nearly any message board...the usual uninformed "macs lol" drivel.
Obama doesn't care. His administration flat-out says in the article that Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy." Along with his defense of Bush wiretapping, it sure looks like we got the hope and change we were promised, eh?
If you'd read the article you're linking to, you'd see that PowerPC was "a modified version of the POWER architecture" and that POWER3 "was only used in IBM's RS/6000 servers."
I've written software for both too. I wasn't exaggerating about Windows having so many interfaces. Much of OS X's interface conventions are the defaults built into the APIs. You can add custom views to things like save dialogs, toolbars, printer preferences, and so on, but Cocoa provides the default designs. When new visual styles are introduced in iLife apps, they're testbeds for future public releases, like the iTunes-style source list or the HUD panel in iPhoto which both became available to developers in Leopard.
OS X does have variations on common controls--a unified toolbar versus a standard one, a panel versus a HUD, a rounded button versus a square--but that's different from flat-out contradictory interfaces like ribbons versus toolbars, Windows 95 style dialogs versus Vista style dialogs, and so on. The whole experience feels grafted together from years of different versions of Windows.
Yep, I'm sure DDOS attacks from a bunch of immature b-tards will make Verizon change its mind about blocking their traffic. Without 4chan, where will idiots without original thoughts go to regurgitate tired memes and jerk off to webcam girls in their empty apartments?
I'm surprised that so much version specific code is needed to support a minor release of the OS. Why is that?
It's explained in the article. Mozilla would lose things like CoreText, GCC 4.2, out of process plug-ins, and more by supporting Tiger. Let it be an example to all anti-Apple trolls who claim OS X releases are overpriced little service packs.
Linux desktop drag-and-drop is a hack that still does not work consistently or reliably.
In OS X, objects are read from and written to NSPasteboard objects by a global pasteboard server. Your objects can implement protocols to enable direct read/write access to the pasteboard without needing to encapsulate them.
Windows 7 is significantly more consistent, UI-wise, than newer versions of OS X. If consistency is something you care about, you should be using Windows.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
There are at least five different menu styles in Windows, multiple dialog styles (including some dating back to Windows 3.1), toolbar styles including ribbons, and more.
OS X had...textured windows. And those were unified in Leopard.
Hey, now, don't forget "net neutrality." With ISPs required to keep logs on everybody, and the government regulating Internet traffic, we could finally live safely in a warez-free, threat-free environment. Thanks, big government.
Google has frankly set a new standard as far as how companies can become very successful by embracing the open and free software communities.
Google can afford to do that because their core, the search and ad engines, are closed source web technologies. They only use free software to get people onto their indexing and advertising platform while the stuff that matters is as closed as Windows.
That's one of the reasons all the good will Slashdot gave Google over the years was bullshit.
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Yeah, Obama's record-high deficit spending has nothing at all to do with our budget problems. A trillion-dollar healthcare program will definitely give us the money to go to the moon. Have Slashdotters become retarded? You're seriously dismissing space travel and the future of science in favor of some government-run healthcare and all the associated bribes and backroom deals the Democrats made for it?
You lefties are sounding really desperate this year.
Yeah, it's not like Obama's health care has been projected to cost $1 trillion over the next 10 years or anything.
Hope you're ready for a Republican Congress in the fall.
Give me a break. C and C++ aren't going anywhere, and barely anybody is using OCaml or Haskell, especially not for OpenGL applications. You sound like another amateur Reddit poster who thinks C is hard because it has pointers. C is simple, fast, and elegant.
In the real world, outside of the buzzword-laden, blog-driven, pseudo-academic world you were spawned, C and C++ remain the dominant languages for commercial application development. That includes Objective-C on the iPhone.
C++ is absolutely superior to Java. It's an industry standard language for a reason.
Yes, let's claim Microsoft paid off Valve so they wouldn't port to the PS3 in an article on Valve announcing ports to the Mac. Did Microsoft just forget to send the anti-Mac check or what?
You post is packed with misinformation. One of the big reasons, which Gabe Newell has mentioned before, is the difficulty of developing for the PS3 hardware. Source was designed to be modular, and adding OpenGL as a rendering path isn't some impossible task. This is an engine that is descended from Quake.
In reality, one of the things holding back Source on the Mac was the lack of Havok's physics engine for that platform and the hefty licensing fee they wanted to make it available.
The Microsoft remark was just stupid.
Linux users don't pay for games, the userbase on the desktop is so small that it may as well be non-existent, and the APIs are a disaster (e.g., sound). Simple as that.
Mac apps before OS X were written for a completely different operating system, so I wouldn't expect them to work.
So Slashdot is in favor of copyright licenses today? Just checking, since in piracy articles, they seem to be vehemently against them.
Worried about what? The direction of computing today is mobile devices and online services, and Apple and Google have soundly defeated Microsoft there. Windows 7 is a relic of an outdated paradigm. It may end up being the last of desktop Windows as we think of it today.
By the way, Windows is much older than 15 years.
Apple doesn't criticize its competitors any more or less than everyone else does. Microsoft bashes Linux and mocks Apple. It's called business.
I will say that Windows fans are the worst about platform wars. They'll insist that the stereotype of the arrogant Mac user who constantly bashes them is true, yet it's always the Windows users who start the bashing, usually from a bunch of morons who have never even touched a Mac. You can find it on nearly any message board...the usual uninformed "macs lol" drivel.
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the "texting" style of writing.
Obama doesn't care. His administration flat-out says in the article that Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy." Along with his defense of Bush wiretapping, it sure looks like we got the hope and change we were promised, eh?
If you'd read the article you're linking to, you'd see that PowerPC was "a modified version of the POWER architecture" and that POWER3 "was only used in IBM's RS/6000 servers."
I've written software for both too. I wasn't exaggerating about Windows having so many interfaces. Much of OS X's interface conventions are the defaults built into the APIs. You can add custom views to things like save dialogs, toolbars, printer preferences, and so on, but Cocoa provides the default designs. When new visual styles are introduced in iLife apps, they're testbeds for future public releases, like the iTunes-style source list or the HUD panel in iPhoto which both became available to developers in Leopard.
OS X does have variations on common controls--a unified toolbar versus a standard one, a panel versus a HUD, a rounded button versus a square--but that's different from flat-out contradictory interfaces like ribbons versus toolbars, Windows 95 style dialogs versus Vista style dialogs, and so on. The whole experience feels grafted together from years of different versions of Windows.
Yep, I'm sure DDOS attacks from a bunch of immature b-tards will make Verizon change its mind about blocking their traffic. Without 4chan, where will idiots without original thoughts go to regurgitate tired memes and jerk off to webcam girls in their empty apartments?
It's explained in the article. Mozilla would lose things like CoreText, GCC 4.2, out of process plug-ins, and more by supporting Tiger. Let it be an example to all anti-Apple trolls who claim OS X releases are overpriced little service packs.
Most Windows users are running XP, but most Mac users are not running Tiger.
Linux desktop drag-and-drop is a hack that still does not work consistently or reliably.
In OS X, objects are read from and written to NSPasteboard objects by a global pasteboard server. Your objects can implement protocols to enable direct read/write access to the pasteboard without needing to encapsulate them.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
There are at least five different menu styles in Windows, multiple dialog styles (including some dating back to Windows 3.1), toolbar styles including ribbons, and more.
OS X had...textured windows. And those were unified in Leopard.
So stick with older versions of the browser.
Hey, now, don't forget "net neutrality." With ISPs required to keep logs on everybody, and the government regulating Internet traffic, we could finally live safely in a warez-free, threat-free environment. Thanks, big government.
You actually think the iPhone runs Linux? Why are you even posting?
Google can afford to do that because their core, the search and ad engines, are closed source web technologies. They only use free software to get people onto their indexing and advertising platform while the stuff that matters is as closed as Windows.
That's one of the reasons all the good will Slashdot gave Google over the years was bullshit.
No one is using FreeBSD in the server room? What are you smoking?