I guess he meant, the parts of MPEG4 that Apple has snubbed have failed, whereas the parts they adopted haven't.
Wouldn't know if that's correct, though.
You mean Quartz Extreme. Quartz is to OS X what GDI is to Windows. If you rule out Quartz, you can just use Darwin (which is basically Mac OS X without Quartz). And no, you don't want that.
After all, at least it's got a PPC (with a whopping 75 MHz, too!). The fact that OS X is RAM bound and the thing comes with 16 megs soldered in should only be a minor quibble...
There are no Mac ROMs, and there haven't been any since at least 1998. Even the classic Mac OS didn't need the ROMs anymore in its last incarnation. The less-than-modern Macs had driver support for booting in its ROM, and loaded the Toolbox from a file in the system folder (it's named "Mac OS ROM", though). Modern Macs use OpenFirmware, which is, as the name says, open. Moreover, it's easily emulated, allowing for running OS X on arbitrary PPC machines (with MOL). Yes, that means e.g. Genesis or AmigaOne boards. Or anything with a PPC, really.
There's an answer to that: all libraries in.apps are.frameworks. The system knows what.frameworks are available and uses the newest. Also, common frameworks can be stored centrally to avoid bloat due to redundant frameworks. Main advantage in the central storage case is easy installation: since all resources (such as headers, images, sounds or translations) are inside the framework folder, it's sufficient to drag the framework to your frameworks folder.
This article (german, sorry) is about a research effort to construct "warm ice" as a dessert. The "ice" is a solid at 60 degrees, and melts at 37. The tactile experience is supposed to be similar to regular ice, but (of course) in warm. According to some stuff on German TV about this project, they are currently at the stage of getting the taste in there.
I read that more ARM CPUs are shipped than any other sort. However, this is not a contradiction to the above post: ARM licenses it's core out to manufacturers. That would mean that they ship less cores than Motorola themselves.
- the materials used for the fusion reactor are supposed to have a halflife of about 100 years, whereas the fission products have halflives in the 10,000 year range. Also, current designs are based on a lithium blanket "shielding" the reactor walls, at the same time producing new tritium for fueling the reaction.
- lithium as fusion fuel is available in abundance, unlike fossil fuels.
- technologies like solar power have their own, hidden costs, e.g. the energy cost of creating the cells. Also, for many areas of the world, the intensity of solar radiation is simply too low. Other techniques may be viable in those regions (wind power), but these, again, have their own pitfalls (noise, effects on wildlife, high servicing costs).
This is about fraudulent advertising.
The law invoked was the "Wettbewerbsrecht", meaning this is about an issue between two commercial entities. On a private (i.e. non-profit) homepage these laws wouldn't apply.
The only thing that is forbidden after this decision is to put irrelevant keywords into the meta tag. (such as "SEX SEX SEX BRITNEY SPEARS NAKED" into a the meta tag of a cell phone fraud site such as these).
There have already been several decisions on the topic wether it is allowed to use your competitors trademarks in meta tags (like MS putting "WordPerfect" in the Office site meta tags); there's a new one every six months:-).
"chip with an onboard video processor" implies to me that the chip comes with a video processor on the same board (i.e. on the GC there's the GPU, and then there's the onboard-VP). That would be different to, say, a chip with an on-chip video processor.
There are so-called "quiet" SMS that the police use for tracking cell phone users. These are SMS without text payload which "ping" the mobile phone without ever showing up on the display. Of course, their tracking method goes a bit different: they triangulate the distance from the towers. Since every cell phone tower consists of an array of antennas, you can simply measure on which antenna the signal is strongest for an approximate direction. Combined with the distance measurement (from signal strength), this gives quite a nice accuracy (~100m). Of course, that would be of no use on large events, but it's enough to track, say, a software patent violator in the woods.
Note that here (in Germany) you officially need a judges permit to actually use this technique, but since these messages are basically invisible, their use without permit is to be strongly suspected. Here is an article (in German) dealing with this topic.
There is something different to be said for Linux ports: once you did the Linux port, any ports to other platform suddenly become easier. And if you planned porting your game in the first place (you do make plans, don't you?), the Linux port becomes very easy indeed.
Imagine this: most compatibility issues stem from the choice of API. The other big problem, endian compatibility, will have to be tackled anyway (you want to do a Mac port, after all). So you choose an API that's compatible with most of the platforms you want to deploy on. "Mostly POSIX" comes to mind. Use OpenGL for your 3D support, OpenAL for sound, and you're good as set. Of course, you'll probably want to design a plug-in system for rendering, since not every platform has support for OpenGL, but once you've done that, everything will be fine. Now, why would you do that? After all, Windows is the largest market? It is, but even if were to distribute solely on Windows, the amount of bugs you'll find by testing your code on a wide variety of platforms is astounding (e.g. overflowing your memory may work on your Windows box, but not under Linux. And not under the next version of Windows, either).
In OS X, you cannot maximize windows. There's no button for it. The window buttons are, left-to-right, close, minimize, and optimize. Try it once: go to Finder, open a folder with few files in it (say, Macintosh HD), switch to icon view, and click the green button. See how the window resizes to its optimum size (i.e. such that you can see all icons, but the window doesn't take excessive space) ? Incidently, this is how it always has been in Mac OS (and also in BeOS). If you want to resize the window, just resize it (although I'd like to know what you'd do with a window that's larger than its optimum size).
Wrong. You don't have to agree to the license terms to use a software. It is wholly irrelevant to this question if you are the copyright holder or not; after all, the copy is already made. By the copyright holder. That is, you bought the copy from the copyright holder, and now you have the legal right to use it. The copyright holder may triy to impose additional restrictions on your use of the software, which is quite irrelevant to the fact that you already own a copy: if you find a way of using your copy without falling prey to the copyright holders attempts of castrating your usage rights, you may do so. The GPL works similarly: you acquire a copy of the software (free of charge, in most cases), and thereafter you may use it. Without agreeing to the GPL. The GPL itself makes clear that:"You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it". However, if you make copies, you might have to agree to the GPL, since it is probably the only way to get permission to modify/copy the program (of course, you might have been allowed to make copies by the copyright holder, in which case you wouldn't have to agree to the GPL, but that is rather far-fetched).
Out of interest, what is the supposed difference between velocity and speed? Googling for the definition brought up "distance travelled per unit time" as first hit for both, and my dictionary says has the same translation for both.
What a novel idea to use FLAC for the low-resolution, lossy part of a DVD. Hint: low-resolution, lossy means that high-res, lossless CODECs (such as FLAC) are straight out.
I've never heard of this supposed food, searching google for "ausberger rezept" gets no hits at all, and ausberger alone only gives me lots'n lots of plumbers with that name. Are you sure that this is actually a german food?
"Big endian is where the most significant byte is stored at the lowest address, and the least significant bit is stored at the highest address. " - everything2.com
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I guess he meant, the parts of MPEG4 that Apple has snubbed have failed, whereas the parts they adopted haven't.
Wouldn't know if that's correct, though.
You mean Quartz Extreme. Quartz is to OS X what GDI is to Windows. If you rule out Quartz, you can just use Darwin (which is basically Mac OS X without Quartz). And no, you don't want that.
It's probably faster to install OS X on this.
After all, at least it's got a PPC (with a whopping 75 MHz, too!). The fact that OS X is RAM bound and the thing comes with 16 megs soldered in should only be a minor quibble...
There are no Mac ROMs, and there haven't been any since at least 1998.
Even the classic Mac OS didn't need the ROMs anymore in its last incarnation.
The less-than-modern Macs had driver support for booting in its ROM, and loaded the Toolbox from a file in the system folder (it's named "Mac OS ROM", though). Modern Macs use OpenFirmware, which is, as the name says, open. Moreover, it's easily emulated, allowing for running OS X on arbitrary PPC machines (with MOL). Yes, that means e.g. Genesis or AmigaOne boards. Or anything with a PPC, really.
There's an answer to that: all libraries in .apps are .frameworks. The system knows what .frameworks are available and uses the newest.
Also, common frameworks can be stored centrally to avoid bloat due to redundant frameworks.
Main advantage in the central storage case is easy installation: since all resources (such as headers, images, sounds or translations) are inside the framework folder, it's sufficient to drag the framework to your frameworks folder.
This article (german, sorry) is about a research effort to construct "warm ice" as a dessert.
The "ice" is a solid at 60 degrees, and melts at 37. The tactile experience is supposed to be similar to regular ice, but (of course) in warm.
According to some stuff on German TV about this project, they are currently at the stage of getting the taste in there.
The patent on aspirin was taken from Bayer as part of the reparations for WW2. unproductive google search
What a novel idea.
A "factor" is part in a multiplication. In an addition, it's a summand.
I read that more ARM CPUs are shipped than any other sort. However, this is not a contradiction to the above post: ARM licenses it's core out to manufacturers. That would mean that they ship less cores than Motorola themselves.
- the materials used for the fusion reactor are supposed to have a halflife of about 100 years, whereas the fission products have halflives in the 10,000 year range. Also, current designs are based on a lithium blanket "shielding" the reactor walls, at the same time producing new tritium for fueling the reaction.
- lithium as fusion fuel is available in abundance, unlike fossil fuels.
- technologies like solar power have their own, hidden costs, e.g. the energy cost of creating the cells. Also, for many areas of the world, the intensity of solar radiation is simply too low.
Other techniques may be viable in those regions (wind power), but these, again, have their own pitfalls (noise, effects on wildlife, high servicing costs).
This is about fraudulent advertising.
:-).
The law invoked was the "Wettbewerbsrecht", meaning this is about an issue between two commercial entities. On a private (i.e. non-profit) homepage these laws wouldn't apply.
The only thing that is forbidden after this decision is to put irrelevant keywords into the meta tag. (such as "SEX SEX SEX BRITNEY SPEARS NAKED" into a the meta tag of a cell phone fraud site such as these).
There have already been several decisions on the topic wether it is allowed to use your competitors trademarks in meta tags (like MS putting "WordPerfect" in the Office site meta tags); there's a new one every six months
"chip with an onboard video processor" implies to me that the chip comes with a video processor on the same board (i.e. on the GC there's the GPU, and then there's the onboard-VP). That would be different to, say, a chip with an on-chip video processor.
There are so-called "quiet" SMS that the police use for tracking cell phone users. These are SMS without text payload which "ping" the mobile phone without ever showing up on the display.
Of course, their tracking method goes a bit different: they triangulate the distance from the towers. Since every cell phone tower consists of an array of antennas, you can simply measure on which antenna the signal is strongest for an approximate direction. Combined with the distance measurement (from signal strength), this gives quite a nice accuracy (~100m). Of course, that would be of no use on large events, but it's enough to track, say, a software patent violator in the woods.
Note that here (in Germany) you officially need a judges permit to actually use this technique, but since these messages are basically invisible, their use without permit is to be strongly suspected. Here is an article (in German) dealing with this topic.
There is something different to be said for Linux ports: once you did the Linux port, any ports to other platform suddenly become easier. And if you planned porting your game in the first place (you do make plans, don't you?), the Linux port becomes very easy indeed.
Imagine this: most compatibility issues stem from the choice of API. The other big problem, endian compatibility, will have to be tackled anyway (you want to do a Mac port, after all).
So you choose an API that's compatible with most of the platforms you want to deploy on. "Mostly POSIX" comes to mind. Use OpenGL for your 3D support, OpenAL for sound, and you're good as set. Of course, you'll probably want to design a plug-in system for rendering, since not every platform has support for OpenGL, but once you've done that, everything will be fine.
Now, why would you do that? After all, Windows is the largest market? It is, but even if were to distribute solely on Windows, the amount of bugs you'll find by testing your code on a wide variety of platforms is astounding (e.g. overflowing your memory may work on your Windows box, but not under Linux. And not under the next version of Windows, either).
In OS X, you cannot maximize windows. There's no button for it. The window buttons are, left-to-right, close, minimize, and optimize. Try it once: go to Finder, open a folder with few files in it (say, Macintosh HD), switch to icon view, and click the green button. See how the window resizes to its optimum size (i.e. such that you can see all icons, but the window doesn't take excessive space) ?
Incidently, this is how it always has been in Mac OS (and also in BeOS).
If you want to resize the window, just resize it (although I'd like to know what you'd do with a window that's larger than its optimum size).
Many german research centers are named after Max Planck. Google for "Max Planck institute" to find many many other fields Planck didn't do work on.
Wrong. You don't have to agree to the license terms to use a software. It is wholly irrelevant to this question if you are the copyright holder or not; after all, the copy is already made. By the copyright holder. That is, you bought the copy from the copyright holder, and now you have the legal right to use it. The copyright holder may triy to impose additional restrictions on your use of the software, which is quite irrelevant to the fact that you already own a copy: if you find a way of using your copy without falling prey to the copyright holders attempts of castrating your usage rights, you may do so.
The GPL works similarly: you acquire a copy of the software (free of charge, in most cases), and thereafter you may use it. Without agreeing to the GPL. The GPL itself makes clear that:"You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it".
However, if you make copies, you might have to agree to the GPL, since it is probably the only way to get permission to modify/copy the program (of course, you might have been allowed to make copies by the copyright holder, in which case you wouldn't have to agree to the GPL, but that is rather far-fetched).
Motorolas PPC implementation is only partly dual-endian. The G3s are byte-sexual, most G4s are, but some G4 chipsets are not.
Out of interest, what is the supposed difference between velocity and speed? Googling for the definition brought up "distance travelled per unit time" as first hit for both, and my dictionary says has the same translation for both.
What a novel idea to use FLAC for the low-resolution, lossy part of a DVD.
Hint: low-resolution, lossy means that high-res, lossless CODECs (such as FLAC) are straight out.
I've never heard of this supposed food, searching google for "ausberger rezept" gets no hits at all, and ausberger alone only gives me lots'n lots of plumbers with that name.
Are you sure that this is actually a german food?
"Big endian is where the most significant byte is stored at the lowest address, and the least significant bit is stored at the highest address. "
- everything2.com
So you're the big-endian one.
Say again?
Descriptive indeed.
After all, photoshop is just like the iTunes Music Store, Poser is a program that "habitually pretends to be something [it] is not", or rather one that "can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.", or is it "the bishop's examining chaplain"? A puzzeling question.
The only thing "Visual Basic" says is that it's easy and you can see it. I like that in french girls.
The only name that really is descriptive in your list is Word, and that's not only descriptive, but totally generic.