Man, I really want it to ship. I'm ready to buy a pile of puts on MSFT at the time the press starts to report on how thoroughly mediocre it is after six years of waiting..
Was the militia not supposed to be in the service of the government?
The militia was understood at the time to consist of all of the men capable of fighting. Also, in the USA the government theoretically serves the people, not the other way around.
this is largely an American idea "the right to bear arms"
Actually, it's an idea from the English common law, which was preserved in America while England abandoned the traditional rights of Englishmen. Before the suppression of the Jacobites, there wasn't much dispute in Britain that free men are entitled to posess arms for their own defense.
In America, we wrote it into our bill of rights, because having just overthrown our king about a decade earlier, we decided that placing a monopoly on armaments in the hands of government was a very dangerous idea.
-jcr
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The insurance companies, of course...
They're the ones who would benefit financially from not having to pay for complications of diabetes. It seems that you don't have much understanding of the economics of insurance. Curing diabetes will save tens of billions of dollars, no matter how cheap insulin gets.
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With a dramatic cut in the cost of insulin a cure that cost the same amount to produce is less interesting to pursue.
What utter nonsense. Even if insulin was cheaper than air, who in the world would lose interest in not having to monitor his blood sugar and take injections, risk blindness, amputation, and all other hazards of diabetes?
Your story of the benefits of using Shark can repeated by hundreds, perhaps thousands of other developers. Tools with this kind of capability exist for other platforms, but they sell for thousands of dollars per seat. When I was working in Apple developer relations, I saw many cases of people finding performance issues in their apps on OS X, which they then applied to the windows versions of their products as well.
Seems that the biggest mistake people kept on making was in failing to realize the cost of integer/float conversions.
I'm a bit of a heretic, but I think Apple might do well to wholeheartedly embrace.NET/C#
Not a heretic, just someone who knows not whereof he speaks. If you proposed Smalltalk as an alternative to Obj-C, you might have a point, but proposing that Apple embrace the least common denominator of mediocrity is simply absurd.
Also, Objective-C objects are ALWAYS accessed via pointers. You can't create one on the stack.
Well, you could do it, but it would be rather pointless. You can allocate an arbitrary amount of memory on the stack set its first four bytes to point to the class you want it to be, and then cast it.
I learned C-syntax early, and I'm most familiar with it. But that didn't prevent me from learning Pascal syntax, BASIC syntax, COBOL (ugh) syntax, or any number of other languages of various types (programming, scripting, document description, etc.). But Obj-C was the nut that wouldn't crack.
Gee, none of the languages you cited are OO languages..
Obj-C uses the [reciever message] syntax, because it was familiar to Smalltalkers, and didn't conflict with any existing C syntax.
I stand by my assertion that Obj-C is not readable.
Yes, she's a case in point. She was able to get the deal she wanted out of HP, because they weren't doing too well, and they thought she had a decent track record at Lucent. Of course, she's pretty much unemployable now, at least in the tech world.
BG's pay isn't for his performance as CEO and then Chairman, it's capital gains from his ownership of MSFT shares. His salary over the years is trivial compared to his equity.
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Gee, do you think the first idea they had for a name was "schtup"?
Note to BG and Monkey-Boy: Seit nicht meshugga.
-jcr
At this stage, for Microsoft to try and get into this market comes across as desperate and pathetic.
Yeah, it's almost as bad as their attempt to enter Google's market.
-jcr
MSFT is up on the news that they're going to spend billions to buy back their own shares.
-jcr
Man, I really want it to ship. I'm ready to buy a pile of puts on MSFT at the time the press starts to report on how thoroughly mediocre it is after six years of waiting..
-jcr
Was the militia not supposed to be in the service of the government?
The militia was understood at the time to consist of all of the men capable of fighting. Also, in the USA the government theoretically serves the people, not the other way around.
-jcr
this is largely an American idea "the right to bear arms"
Actually, it's an idea from the English common law, which was preserved in America while England abandoned the traditional rights of Englishmen. Before the suppression of the Jacobites, there wasn't much dispute in Britain that free men are entitled to posess arms for their own defense.
In America, we wrote it into our bill of rights, because having just overthrown our king about a decade earlier, we decided that placing a monopoly on armaments in the hands of government was a very dangerous idea.
-jcr
The insurance companies, of course...
They're the ones who would benefit financially from not having to pay for complications of diabetes. It seems that you don't have much understanding of the economics of insurance. Curing diabetes will save tens of billions of dollars, no matter how cheap insulin gets.
-jcr
With a dramatic cut in the cost of insulin a cure that cost the same amount to produce is less interesting to pursue.
What utter nonsense. Even if insulin was cheaper than air, who in the world would lose interest in not having to monitor his blood sugar and take injections, risk blindness, amputation, and all other hazards of diabetes?
-jcr
Your story of the benefits of using Shark can repeated by hundreds, perhaps thousands of other developers. Tools with this kind of capability exist for other platforms, but they sell for thousands of dollars per seat. When I was working in Apple developer relations, I saw many cases of people finding performance issues in their apps on OS X, which they then applied to the windows versions of their products as well.
Seems that the biggest mistake people kept on making was in failing to realize the cost of integer/float conversions.
-jcr
I'm a bit of a heretic, but I think Apple might do well to wholeheartedly embrace .NET/C#
Not a heretic, just someone who knows not whereof he speaks. If you proposed Smalltalk as an alternative to Obj-C, you might have a point, but proposing that Apple embrace the least common denominator of mediocrity is simply absurd.
-jcr
Multiple inheritance is a bug, not a feature.
-jcr
Also, Objective-C objects are ALWAYS accessed via pointers. You can't create one on the stack.
Well, you could do it, but it would be rather pointless. You can allocate an arbitrary amount of memory on the stack set its first four bytes to point to the class you want it to be, and then cast it.
-jcr
I learned C-syntax early, and I'm most familiar with it. But that didn't prevent me from learning Pascal syntax, BASIC syntax, COBOL (ugh) syntax, or any number of other languages of various types (programming, scripting, document description, etc.). But Obj-C was the nut that wouldn't crack.
Gee, none of the languages you cited are OO languages..
Obj-C uses the [reciever message] syntax, because it was familiar to Smalltalkers, and didn't conflict with any existing C syntax.
I stand by my assertion that Obj-C is not readable.
Better coders than you disagree.
-jcr
, can we get a C-syntax version of it already?
Let me be the first to say: HELL, NO.
Apple tried that once, and that idea was taken out behind the barn and shot.
-jcr
The number native OS X developers is tiny.
Guess again. Over 5,000 of us made it to WWDC last year, and more that half a million developers are registered with the Apple Developer Connection.
-jcr
What is the point of doing native OS X development?
I do it to make money. So do rather a lot of other developers.
-jcr
I can't believe no-one has mentioned Textmate.
Umm.. It's #2 in TFA. You didn't RTFA, did you?
-jcr
More like, the compatibility of C, and the messaging power of Smalltalk.
-jcr
Yes, she's a case in point. She was able to get the deal she wanted out of HP, because they weren't doing too well, and they thought she had a decent track record at Lucent. Of course, she's pretty much unemployable now, at least in the tech world.
-jcr
Give me a $7M golden parachute and I'll spend the rest of my days snorting coke out of supermodels' cleavage on my private island,
Dude, you haven't checked the prices of private islands lately, have you?
$7M will barely buy you a decent jet to get to your island.
-jcr
BG's pay isn't for his performance as CEO and then Chairman, it's capital gains from his ownership of MSFT shares. His salary over the years is trivial compared to his equity.
-jcr
That's fraud, whether or not the company is publicly traded. If you have knowledge of a crime, report it. If you're a shareholder, sue the bastard.
-jcr
So it's a design flaw because it's a design flaw? Or is it a design flaw because you say so?
No, it's a design flaw because it renders the system unsecurable. Try to keep up, will you?
-jcr
Try again. A design flaw is a design flaw, even if the incompetent designer thinks otherwise.
-jcr
I did refute the statement
Nope, you just dismissed it on the basis of it being in a Wikipedia article.
-jcr