If it was as simple as the "unannounced new feature", I think he'd explicitly say Apple plans to release the source, wouldn't he?
No, he certainly would not.
Even mentioning a future feature as obliquely as that would be speaking about a future product, which is something that Apple does extremely rarely, if at all. All that's been said about Leopard, for example, is that WWDC attendees will get to see it. That doesn't even mean that there will be a WWDC release (although it's likely that there will be).
It shows how the author completely misses the criticism that he is trying to address and fails miserably in his arguments.
It does nothing of the kind. Read the whole article, and ALL of the comments, sparky, not just the ones that support your prejudice.
Peter's point is that the "benchmark" in question boils down to how quickly OSX will malloc and free 35KB blocks. It happens to cross the mmap() threshold for kernel versus heap allocations.
It also shows how Apple fanboys applaud the author's explaination, even though they haven't a clue about the subject matter - and even admit it in their posts.
If you had actually refuted anything that Peter had said in his article, you might have a leg to stand on, but since you didn't, and since you toss off an epithet like "fanboy" instead of doing so, I conclude that you are the clueless one.
There's this thing called contingency fees. If you have a decent case, you can find an attorney who will take the case for a percentage of any judgement or settlement you receive.
Not quite... If you have a decent case, and you have a reasonable prospect of recovering enough in damages from the defendant to make it worth the attorney's time, then you might be able to find an attorney who'll take the case.
You do realize that it's WalMart's logistical and networking infrastructure which has made as unstoppable and large as it is today, right?
Actually, I'd say it had more to do with Sam Walton's realization that there was a lot more business available in smaller towns than Sears and K-mart realized.
Patents are supposed to help small inventors make it big
Whatever gave you that idea?
A patent is supposed to be a deal between the inventor and the public: the inventor discloses his invention, in exchange for a limited period of exclusivity. Whether the inventor makes any money on it or not is beside the point.
Instead of "being as good as windows", OS X should have been the target (or model) for desktop developers.
No.
Unless you're trying to exceed the competition, you might as well not bother. It doesn't matter if they're trying to match windows or the Mac, playing catch-up is the wrong goal.
WTF? I thought we were talking about Linux!/sarcasm
Why is it that whenever someone points out the problem of complexity in the Linux world, the reply is always "oh, you just need to use MY favorite distro!" ?
Don't you realize that the fact there are so many different flavors of Linux is a MAJOR part of the problem?
Hell, for starters, pick one window manager, and FIX IT. Pick one package manager and ABANDON ALL of the others. Until and unless Linux converges on a standard, the very idea of desktop Linux is nothing but wishful thinking.
an OS that insists that you put your disks in the trash (the place you put things when you want them deleted) in order to eject them
You're a bit out of date, there. Dragging a disk to the trash still ejects it (if it's removable media), but you can also just select it and hit the eject key, or command-E, or the little eject button that appears next to it in the finder, etc.
Seriously, what real developments have Mac OS X and Windows seen in the past 5 years?
Well, windows of course is in its sixth year of failure to ship, but Mac OS X has had some pretty significant enhancements. You can see a list of the latest ones here.
The point of SOX is to prevent a repeat performance by a company using the same not-quite-illegal/barely-illegal tactics that Enron used.
Nope, that's just the rhetoric that Sarbanes used to sell it to the public. The real point of it is to make business that much more difficult for smaller companies.
Do a little bit of homework, will you? The NSA and its predecessor agencies have had vast budgets since the Truman administration. What do you think they were doing before 9/11?
And presidents have been impeached for less. Nixon only wiretapped a hotel.
Nixon wasn't impeached.
He resigned before the articles of impeachment were voted on. Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, Johnson was impeached for dismissing a cabinet secretary against a law that was later held to be unconstitutional. No US president yet has been impeached and convicted.
Before you jump to conclusions, you should realize that NSA has been doing precisely this kind of record keeping since long before the Bush administration. The democrats have always been just as enthusiastic about domestic spying as the republicans.
Basically, the two wings of the ruling party play a shell game, by pretending to be appalled at each other's encroachments on our privacy and liberty.
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I maintain that if Apple intends to release the source of XNU, he would have explicity said that.
"Maintain" it all you like, that doesn't make it so.
-jcr
If it was as simple as the "unannounced new feature", I think he'd explicitly say Apple plans to release the source, wouldn't he?
No, he certainly would not.
Even mentioning a future feature as obliquely as that would be speaking about a future product, which is something that Apple does extremely rarely, if at all. All that's been said about Leopard, for example, is that WWDC attendees will get to see it. That doesn't even mean that there will be a WWDC release (although it's likely that there will be).
-jcr
It shows how the author completely misses the criticism that he is trying to address and fails miserably in his arguments.
It does nothing of the kind. Read the whole article, and ALL of the comments, sparky, not just the ones that support your prejudice.
Peter's point is that the "benchmark" in question boils down to how quickly OSX will malloc and free 35KB blocks. It happens to cross the mmap() threshold for kernel versus heap allocations.
It also shows how Apple fanboys applaud the author's explaination, even though they haven't a clue about the subject matter - and even admit it in their posts.
If you had actually refuted anything that Peter had said in his article, you might have a leg to stand on, but since you didn't, and since you toss off an epithet like "fanboy" instead of doing so, I conclude that you are the clueless one.
No wonder you're an AC.
-jcr
There's this thing called contingency fees. If you have a decent case, you can find an attorney who will take the case for a percentage of any judgement or settlement you receive.
Not quite... If you have a decent case, and you have a reasonable prospect of recovering enough in damages from the defendant to make it worth the attorney's time, then you might be able to find an attorney who'll take the case.
-jcr
I find the longer i leave my jeans unwashed, the less problems they cause me!.
Sounds like a reaction to your laundry soap. What happens when you wash them twice, and don't add detergent the second time?
-jcr
You do realize that it's WalMart's logistical and networking infrastructure which has made as unstoppable and large as it is today, right?
Actually, I'd say it had more to do with Sam Walton's realization that there was a lot more business available in smaller towns than Sears and K-mart realized.
-jcr
Patents are supposed to help small inventors make it big
Whatever gave you that idea?
A patent is supposed to be a deal between the inventor and the public: the inventor discloses his invention, in exchange for a limited period of exclusivity. Whether the inventor makes any money on it or not is beside the point.
-jcr
You're not saying Apple stole it from Mark Miller are you????
Mark was quite happy to have the Smalltalkers at PARC adopt the idea, and he never complained to me about anyone else using it, either.
-jcr
The MacBook Pro has a conventional latch. Well-designed, with a nice feel, but not magnetic.
To be precise, there is a hook which is pulled out of its recess by a magnet when the lid gets close to closing.
-jcr
the column view even goes back to the Apple Lisa
It's earlier than that. Mark Miller invented the Miller-column browser when he was working on the Xanadu project in the late 1970's.
-jcr
Instead of "being as good as windows", OS X should have been the target (or model) for desktop developers.
No.
Unless you're trying to exceed the competition, you might as well not bother. It doesn't matter if they're trying to match windows or the Mac, playing catch-up is the wrong goal.
-jcr
Install SuSE
/sarcasm
WTF? I thought we were talking about Linux!
Why is it that whenever someone points out the problem of complexity in the Linux world, the reply is always "oh, you just need to use MY favorite distro!" ?
Don't you realize that the fact there are so many different flavors of Linux is a MAJOR part of the problem?
Hell, for starters, pick one window manager, and FIX IT. Pick one package manager and ABANDON ALL of the others. Until and unless Linux converges on a standard, the very idea of desktop Linux is nothing but wishful thinking.
-jcr
an OS that insists that you put your disks in the trash (the place you put things when you want them deleted) in order to eject them
You're a bit out of date, there. Dragging a disk to the trash still ejects it (if it's removable media), but you can also just select it and hit the eject key, or command-E, or the little eject button that appears next to it in the finder, etc.
-jcr
Seriously, what real developments have Mac OS X and Windows seen in the past 5 years?
Well, windows of course is in its sixth year of failure to ship, but Mac OS X has had some pretty significant enhancements. You can see a list of the latest ones here.
-jcr
SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Kanotix. All his Ipod and multimedia problems would have been solved if he'd have chosen these.
Right, and he'd have known that, if only he'd been as dedicated a Linux fan as you are, right?
Talk about missing the point.
-jcr
I do not recognize software as a product,
And we should care about what you "recognize" for what reason, exactly?
-jcr
Spying on the USSR?
Yes, and how do you think they were doing so? Hint: they've never had any field agents.
And it's clear to me that you don't actually know anything about how the NSA works.
Dude, if you want to believe that the NSA created its program of communications traffic analysis ex nihilo on 9/12/01, you go right ahead.
-jcr
I always assumed that a lot of the NSA budget in the past was consumed by having to deal with things like the cold war.
Yes, exactly. NSA doesn't have a pack of James Bond clones running around. They do signals intelligence.
-jcr
The point of SOX is to prevent a repeat performance by a company using the same not-quite-illegal/barely-illegal tactics that Enron used.
Nope, that's just the rhetoric that Sarbanes used to sell it to the public. The real point of it is to make business that much more difficult for smaller companies.
-jcr
Bush seems to see FDR and Truman as his role models.
Not exactly. FDR and Truman both had the guts to fight a war without pulling punches. (At least, Truman started out that way... Pity about Korea.)
-jcr
You have no evidence for this at all.
Do a little bit of homework, will you? The NSA and its predecessor agencies have had vast budgets since the Truman administration. What do you think they were doing before 9/11?
-jcr
And presidents have been impeached for less. Nixon only wiretapped a hotel.
Nixon wasn't impeached.
He resigned before the articles of impeachment were voted on. Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, Johnson was impeached for dismissing a cabinet secretary against a law that was later held to be unconstitutional. No US president yet has been impeached and convicted.
-jcr
right wing, overly religious, paranoid Republican
Before you jump to conclusions, you should realize that NSA has been doing precisely this kind of record keeping since long before the Bush administration. The democrats have always been just as enthusiastic about domestic spying as the republicans.
Basically, the two wings of the ruling party play a shell game, by pretending to be appalled at each other's encroachments on our privacy and liberty.
-jcr
Why do you say Bullshit?
Because you made an asinine assertion. Reading a blog entry does not tell you anything about how someone conducts himself on the job.
-jcr
He didn't actually have to interact directly with the guy to know what he's like
Bullshit.
-jcr