I think you're pretty much dead-on, but that's only part of the problem.
We've got slightly different copyright laws, and our own flavour of RIAA/MPAA for the content distributors to "negotiate" with before they can distribute digital media up here. Note how craptastic the Canadian iTunes store's selection is compared to the US one for another data point.
And even if we did, there'd be nothing to fear... pop off a nuke above the robotic assault forces (ground forces? who uses ground forces?!) and watch the EMP take them out.
Where's your army of slapstick robots now, fish men?
Is there any way to enable this globally (say, on XP or Mac OS X; I assume the OS X version of Java 1.6 isn't out yet) without hacking up a launch script for every Java app I use? This is right up there with having to tell the VM how much memory to use... like ancient DOS or Mac OS.
So, you're saying the user experience is similar to Eclipse, but lots more people will get to see it! Woo hoo!
(I grabbed NeoOffice last week when the zero-day Office exploit was reported, but haven't needed to use a word processor et al since then. My iBook is going to sweat when I load it up, but I've used Eclipse on it for years...)
One place I recently interviewed at, Eedo Knowledgeware (http://www.eedo.com/), seems to make pretty awesome online computer-based training products, and they support multiple platforms.
I chose a different job for other reasons, not because of their products.;-)
People keep saying we're taxed like crazy, but I think it's an illusion because of the way we add sales tax (taxes if you're in a province with a provincial sales tax) at the register instead of hiding it.
For example, I live in a city with rather high property taxes; I pay about $2400 CAD/year to the city, despite having a tiny lot (20'x100'; it's a townhouse sliver). A friend of mine in New Jersey was calling me a lucky bastard... he's looking at a condo townhouse where the property taxes are closer to $5400 US/year. Madness!
Our federal and provincial income taxes seem pretty similar, too.
Can I have $100k CAD to develop a multiplatform video game over the next year (sort of an adventure/exploration/sim shipwrecked on a desert island game)? Like id, I'll release the source code when I finish my next project.
The "l" in that is a typo, it's actually PaysForSure, and it refers to the user having to re-buy their content whenever they buy a new device. This is the RIAA/MPAA's holy grail, a constant revenue stream without any effort on their part.
OS9 had sucktastic memory management; unless it changed radically from OS7, etc. you were still stuck with specifying memory partition sizes per application (a detail end-users should NEVER have to deal with... can you hear me yet, Java?). The virtual memory there attempted to swap inactive code out to disk (much like on a real VM system)... but there's a problem with that. Many old Mac apps busy-wait on an event loop, and they trigger every now and then on a timer, even if they're not really doing anything. So if you run out of real memory, you're still boned, and you could run out of memory even when you had "free" memory because you tried to run an app that was bigger than the largest hunk of free memory.
OS X has a proper virtual memory system. You don't have to worry about telling the OS how much memory an application will use (the app does that by requesting memory). Inactive pages (8k blocks? not sure, and too lazy to look it up right now) an be swapped out as needed to disk, and there's no memory fragmentation... the kernel maps physical memory so it appears as a single contiguous chunk to the application. You're still not happy when you run out of physical memory and things start swapping to/from disk, but at least the OS can continue to run until things settle down again. Unless some bozo program stops repsonding to events and you're stuck looking at that damn rainbow beachball...
I summary... old versions of MacOS have an old-school memory model based on the good ol' days before microcomputer CPUs had support for memory protection. Mac OS X makes proper use of memory management units and other fancy bits supported by modern CPUs. OS X is good sauce.
[Note that I might have some of the details wrong, I never used OS9.]
If oil company profits are going through the roof (and they are, obviously), then their supply costs can't be going up that much, unless demand has gone crazy. They're gouging; every time any sort of Middle Eastern violence story is in the news, they crank up the price at the pumps, even if it doesn't affect the cost of a barrel of oil.
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I think you're pretty much dead-on, but that's only part of the problem.
We've got slightly different copyright laws, and our own flavour of RIAA/MPAA for the content distributors to "negotiate" with before they can distribute digital media up here. Note how craptastic the Canadian iTunes store's selection is compared to the US one for another data point.
And even if we did, there'd be nothing to fear... pop off a nuke above the robotic assault forces (ground forces? who uses ground forces?!) and watch the EMP take them out.
Where's your army of slapstick robots now, fish men?
Is there any way to enable this globally (say, on XP or Mac OS X; I assume the OS X version of Java 1.6 isn't out yet) without hacking up a launch script for every Java app I use? This is right up there with having to tell the VM how much memory to use... like ancient DOS or Mac OS.
So, you're saying the user experience is similar to Eclipse, but lots more people will get to see it! Woo hoo!
(I grabbed NeoOffice last week when the zero-day Office exploit was reported, but haven't needed to use a word processor et al since then. My iBook is going to sweat when I load it up, but I've used Eclipse on it for years...)
That's funny, because most
*rimshot*
How's he going to beat the RIAA in court for that when they've already got billions of dollars worth of lawyers aimed at his family?
He couldn't get through to Amazon.com for that $100 XBox 360 Core deal either.
The word you're looking for is "Schadenfreude"...
Damn, no seeders.
XBox 360 - bringing the PC gaming experience to consoles!
Are the magical Zune Points the same as XBox Live! Points? If they're different, can you transfer between the two "accounts" or are you boned?
Maybe they'll offer a streaming Halo 3 Live! Basic for people who just want to deathmatch and don't care about the "story" or "plot".
Welcome to the secret No Fly List, sucker.
One place I recently interviewed at, Eedo Knowledgeware (http://www.eedo.com/), seems to make pretty awesome online computer-based training products, and they support multiple platforms.
;-)
I chose a different job for other reasons, not because of their products.
People keep saying we're taxed like crazy, but I think it's an illusion because of the way we add sales tax (taxes if you're in a province with a provincial sales tax) at the register instead of hiding it.
For example, I live in a city with rather high property taxes; I pay about $2400 CAD/year to the city, despite having a tiny lot (20'x100'; it's a townhouse sliver). A friend of mine in New Jersey was calling me a lucky bastard... he's looking at a condo townhouse where the property taxes are closer to $5400 US/year. Madness!
Our federal and provincial income taxes seem pretty similar, too.
Can I have $100k CAD to develop a multiplatform video game over the next year (sort of an adventure/exploration/sim shipwrecked on a desert island game)? Like id, I'll release the source code when I finish my next project.
Clearly, this individual will excell as a lawyer and later as a politician; he's an expert at gaming the system.
Nope, that's a great, funny, underrated game; I keep meaning to go back and finish it.
The "l" in that is a typo, it's actually PaysForSure, and it refers to the user having to re-buy their content whenever they buy a new device. This is the RIAA/MPAA's holy grail, a constant revenue stream without any effort on their part.
Wait, that's every company's dream. Carry on.
You fight like a dairy farmer!
IIRC the issue with pacemakers and microwaves is the potential for the magnetron in the microwave to screw with the packmaker.
Seriously, it's one of the 2nd things I install when I'm given a Windows machine to use (the first being Firefox).
Yup.
OS9 had sucktastic memory management; unless it changed radically from OS7, etc. you were still stuck with specifying memory partition sizes per application (a detail end-users should NEVER have to deal with... can you hear me yet, Java?). The virtual memory there attempted to swap inactive code out to disk (much like on a real VM system)... but there's a problem with that. Many old Mac apps busy-wait on an event loop, and they trigger every now and then on a timer, even if they're not really doing anything. So if you run out of real memory, you're still boned, and you could run out of memory even when you had "free" memory because you tried to run an app that was bigger than the largest hunk of free memory.
OS X has a proper virtual memory system. You don't have to worry about telling the OS how much memory an application will use (the app does that by requesting memory). Inactive pages (8k blocks? not sure, and too lazy to look it up right now) an be swapped out as needed to disk, and there's no memory fragmentation... the kernel maps physical memory so it appears as a single contiguous chunk to the application. You're still not happy when you run out of physical memory and things start swapping to/from disk, but at least the OS can continue to run until things settle down again. Unless some bozo program stops repsonding to events and you're stuck looking at that damn rainbow beachball...
I summary... old versions of MacOS have an old-school memory model based on the good ol' days before microcomputer CPUs had support for memory protection. Mac OS X makes proper use of memory management units and other fancy bits supported by modern CPUs. OS X is good sauce.
[Note that I might have some of the details wrong, I never used OS9.]
If oil company profits are going through the roof (and they are, obviously), then their supply costs can't be going up that much, unless demand has gone crazy. They're gouging; every time any sort of Middle Eastern violence story is in the news, they crank up the price at the pumps, even if it doesn't affect the cost of a barrel of oil.
You're expecting people to switch platforms for a graphics format?!