Why is it a bad thing?
Did SearchKing have a contract with Google that they broke? Was he paying them at all? Was there some implicit agreement that SearchKing would be able to use google for profit? As far as I'm concerned Google's page ranking algorithm is its own property and they're free to change it as they wish. And as long as google keeps returning good results for me I'll keep using them.
The OpenDarwin team have Mac OS X double-clickable installers too here: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/en/ x11.php I'm wondering whether or not Apple is merely leveraging their work... Esp. considering Jordan Hubbard is the lead of OpenDarwin.org
The Myth series did not use OpenPlay. Myth 1 used Bungie's own network code. Myth 2 user "Uber" which was written partly by Bungie and partly by Apple (the exact details are unclear). Not sure about Myth 3.
OpenPlay on it's own is incomplete - it is not a full game networking API. So work was done to wrap the old Mac OS NetSprocket API over the top. Various games use that API.
Personally I think OpenPlay is a pretty awful API - very incomplete, very buggy and rather useless. For example on Mac OS X it still uses the OpenTransport API for networking, instead of talkign directly to POSIX sockets which OpenTransport is actually sitting on top of anyway.
So if you use OpenPlay on Mac OS X the chances are there's 3 or 4 layers between you and the actual networking. NetSprocket -> OpenPlay -> OpenPlayPlugin -> OpenTransport -> POSIX Sockets.
It's much better to write your own custom network code on top of Posix sockets (or the new carbon network API). Yeah you don't get the benefit of using a standard API - but when the standard is so awful it's better to write your own custom code. (SDL experts please chime in and talk about any SDL network APIs).
Or alternatively let's take mankind as the galactic average. Then statistically any alien race has a 50/50 chance of having more advanced technology than us.;-)
I'd guess it depends on what the average "lifespan" is of a technology using civilisation within our galaxy and at what point during that lifespan radio is developed.
If I put a business website online, I'm going to design it how the hell I want. But if the amount of effort needed to make it accessible to the blind is negligible or nearly so (as asserted by the original poster) then it's a no brainer what you should do. And besides, if it's a business then making it inaccessible to certain customers is discrimination.
Can you folks not use the *phone* ?
As over posters have stated Airlines often give better rates on their websites.
RDP and X11 will always be faster than VNC, simply because they do not send bitmaps. They transmit API calls, which are much smaller, but come at the price of being tied to an architecture/subset of the functionality.
Microsoft has a Mac OS X RDP client. Guess they didn't find themselves too tied to the architecture.
RoadRunner Austin recently re-opened port 80 after a few months of blocking it off completely due to one of the various Microsoft IIS server exploits. Now I don't have to take 8080 onto all the URLs I give out...
"There's also no evidence to disprove that there's a flying purple elephant reading over your shoulder right now. DON'T LOOK! If you look he disappears."
So that would be a quantum flying purple elephant then?
Legacy because it didn't already come bundled in a Framework. Apple is recommending that developers don't bundle code up in a Framework just for the sake of it. They've gone and ignored their own recommendations before - OpenGL.framework being a prime example.
In fact OpenGL.framework is a really good example of why not to wrap things up in bundles - now all files that would include now have to be modified to include - annoying.
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And if I remember right Firebird was owned by British Telecom who also own patents on hypertext links. Maybe they need another new name for Phoenix.
I guess the war on Protoplanetary Disks is going well then.
And if you dont wan't want to have to write a "bit of C code" check out iRoster http://toxicsoftware.com/software/shareware/iroste r/.
Um, 1.
That's cool - but this thing is an iTunes plug-in and has its GUI embedded inside iTunes - very slick.
Why is it a bad thing? Did SearchKing have a contract with Google that they broke? Was he paying them at all? Was there some implicit agreement that SearchKing would be able to use google for profit? As far as I'm concerned Google's page ranking algorithm is its own property and they're free to change it as they wish. And as long as google keeps returning good results for me I'll keep using them.
The OpenDarwin team have Mac OS X double-clickable installers too here: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/en/ x11.php I'm wondering whether or not Apple is merely leveraging their work... Esp. considering Jordan Hubbard is the lead of OpenDarwin.org
Back to the Future? Please. Who cares?
"old 8-bit BASIC interpreters has been known to stunt the growth of a sense of structure in some programmers who started out on such a system"
And talking out your arse has been known to stunt the lifespan of slashdotters who don't know any better
The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR/Digital Cable box that Time Warner Cable is distributing has FireWire...
The Myth series did not use OpenPlay. Myth 1 used Bungie's own network code. Myth 2 user "Uber" which was written partly by Bungie and partly by Apple (the exact details are unclear). Not sure about Myth 3. OpenPlay on it's own is incomplete - it is not a full game networking API. So work was done to wrap the old Mac OS NetSprocket API over the top. Various games use that API. Personally I think OpenPlay is a pretty awful API - very incomplete, very buggy and rather useless. For example on Mac OS X it still uses the OpenTransport API for networking, instead of talkign directly to POSIX sockets which OpenTransport is actually sitting on top of anyway. So if you use OpenPlay on Mac OS X the chances are there's 3 or 4 layers between you and the actual networking. NetSprocket -> OpenPlay -> OpenPlayPlugin -> OpenTransport -> POSIX Sockets. It's much better to write your own custom network code on top of Posix sockets (or the new carbon network API). Yeah you don't get the benefit of using a standard API - but when the standard is so awful it's better to write your own custom code. (SDL experts please chime in and talk about any SDL network APIs).
It won't be by MAC address - you can change the MAC address from the XBOX Live Control Panel...
Or alternatively let's take mankind as the galactic average. Then statistically any alien race has a 50/50 chance of having more advanced technology than us. ;-)
I'd guess it depends on what the average "lifespan" is of a technology using civilisation within our galaxy and at what point during that lifespan radio is developed.
You haven't met the wife.
If I put a business website online, I'm going to design it how the hell I want. But if the amount of effort needed to make it accessible to the blind is negligible or nearly so (as asserted by the original poster) then it's a no brainer what you should do. And besides, if it's a business then making it inaccessible to certain customers is discrimination.
Can you folks not use the *phone* ? As over posters have stated Airlines often give better rates on their websites.
RDP and X11 will always be faster than VNC, simply because they do not send bitmaps. They transmit API calls, which are much smaller, but come at the price of being tied to an architecture/subset of the functionality. Microsoft has a Mac OS X RDP client. Guess they didn't find themselves too tied to the architecture.
Yeah but the shuttle has 2 PCI slots and an AGP slot.
They've already got plenty of terrestrial DNA from all the cattle tackle they've abducted.
Must... try... to... give... a... shit...
RoadRunner Austin recently re-opened port 80 after a few months of blocking it off completely due to one of the various Microsoft IIS server exploits. Now I don't have to take 8080 onto all the URLs I give out...
And how much data could you fit onto one the size of Rhode Island...
"There's also no evidence to disprove that there's a flying purple elephant reading over your shoulder right now. DON'T LOOK! If you look he disappears."
So that would be a quantum flying purple elephant then?
Legacy because it didn't already come bundled in a Framework. Apple is recommending that developers don't bundle code up in a Framework just for the sake of it. They've gone and ignored their own recommendations before - OpenGL.framework being a prime example.
In fact OpenGL.framework is a really good example of why not to wrap things up in bundles - now all files that would include now have to be modified to include - annoying.
This framework needs the Mac OS X Developer Tools Beta to compile available from connect.apple.com.
Interesting to see this library wrapped in a Framework despite Apple's recommendations for developers not to put 'legacy' unix code in a Framework.