I see how this is an interesting concept, and maybe leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside, but unless an ipod is the type of thing you buy every couple of days on a whim, it doesn't seem that useful...
It's useful for getting your purchases rung up as quickly as possible when there's a line waiting to get into the store. If you'd been in an Apple store anytime in the last month, you'd understand.
I'm surprised that some spammer hasn't shelled out 1,000$ to have a big, pixelated cock-and-balls with "buy v14gra h3r3!" written on the shaft straight in the middle of the page...
.. like all the other Python coders on the Mac. While you're at it, check out PyObC. It gives you full access to all of Apple's Obj-C frameworks from Python.
The reason little Objective-C is used outside of the Apple/Cocoa world is that it isn't standardized.
I wouldn't agree that that's a factor at all. Obj-C is available everywhere that GCC is. The reason that most Obj-C coders are using Cocoa, is that they learned Obj-C because of Cocoa (or NeXTSTEP).
They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
To be precise, they're a nation of those whom the British Crown considered criminals. Sure, some of them were thieves or murderers, but others were transported just for speaking Gaelic or anything else the English didn't like them doing.
It appears Amelio already did much of the reorganisation needed for keeping the company afloat, thus paving the way to success for Jobs.
Well, yes and no. He did the necessary write-offs and shut down the Copland debacle, but there was still a hellacious amount of work to do when Steve took over.
The real irony here is that Steve Jobs is calling Garbage Collection "slow" despite the fact that Apple sells a micro-kernel based OS
OS X has the Mach Kernel and the BSD kernel services layer in the same address space, along with the device drivers, etc. Care to make any more uninformed pontifications?
If you don't love a woman enough to risk losing some money to her,
Money? If you're married, she's your next of kin, and can decide whether to pull the plug if you're in a coma. You'd better be able to trust her with your money, since you're going to be trusting her with your life.
Bread-lines are to communism what Diebold is to (representative) democracy.
The difference being that bread lines were pervasive throughout the soviet union for all of its history, while the diebold voting machines are a recent problem which is being vigorously fought in court.
It is truly sad that the ideals of communism and socialism are tainted by Soviet corruption
The true ideals of Communism and Socialism have always been vicious misanthropy, cloaked in the language of compassion. To paraphrase the Bible, by their body-counts shall ye know them.
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I see how this is an interesting concept, and maybe leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside, but unless an ipod is the type of thing you buy every couple of days on a whim, it doesn't seem that useful...
It's useful for getting your purchases rung up as quickly as possible when there's a line waiting to get into the store. If you'd been in an Apple store anytime in the last month, you'd understand.
-jcr
I'm surprised that some spammer hasn't shelled out 1,000$ to have a big, pixelated cock-and-balls with "buy v14gra h3r3!" written on the shaft straight in the middle of the page...
Spammers don't pay for ad space, silly!
-jcr
No, even 15 people on a bus is far more efficient than 15 people driving 15 cars in terms of space and fuel economy.
You're not paying attention. There are a lot of bus routes where you rarely have even 15 people on the bus in California.
-jcr
.. like all the other Python coders on the Mac. While you're at it, check out PyObC. It gives you full access to all of Apple's Obj-C frameworks from Python.
-jcr
The reason little Objective-C is used outside of the Apple/Cocoa world is that it isn't standardized.
I wouldn't agree that that's a factor at all. Obj-C is available everywhere that GCC is. The reason that most Obj-C coders are using Cocoa, is that they learned Obj-C because of Cocoa (or NeXTSTEP).
-jcr
It's rarely a virus vector.
-jcr
For instance, it says that 21% of males visited adult websites
79% of men are liars!
-jcr
The man page you cited doesn't say one way or the other.
-jcr
Of course they want to use firefox! It will save them a fortune in support calls.
-jcr
I guess you missed the part where he said he used Disk Utility. PGP Disk wasn't mentioned. Who's stupid now?
-jcr
As a matter of fact, this is how I manage personal info on my OS X Macintosh. I create an strong-encrypted virtual disk image
That has nothing to do with PGP. The Mac OS has had this feature since Panther, and the encryption it uses is AES-128.
-jcr
They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
To be precise, they're a nation of those whom the British Crown considered criminals. Sure, some of them were thieves or murderers, but others were transported just for speaking Gaelic or anything else the English didn't like them doing.
-jcr
It's entertainment. Get over yourself.
-jcr
In other words, one who has no idea what he's asking for, and why nobody else would ask for it.
-jcr
Microsoft is looking at exploiting the open source model of development for getting free developers.
Who isn't?
-jcr
Recent benchmarks at Anandtech showed OSX getting absolutely demolished by Linux in IO-related benchmarks.
That's because Apple really does flush to disk when you call fflush().
-jcr
It appears Amelio already did much of the reorganisation needed for keeping the company afloat, thus paving the way to success for Jobs.
Well, yes and no. He did the necessary write-offs and shut down the Copland debacle, but there was still a hellacious amount of work to do when Steve took over.
-jcr
Amelio was before my time at Apple, but he's pretty uniformly disliked by the people I know who were there when he was in charge.
-jcr
I think for the most part, Mac OS X focuses on ObjC *almost* as much as NeXT Step did.
I wish.
-jcr
The real irony here is that Steve Jobs is calling Garbage Collection "slow" despite the fact that Apple sells a micro-kernel based OS
OS X has the Mach Kernel and the BSD kernel services layer in the same address space, along with the device drivers, etc. Care to make any more uninformed pontifications?
-jcr
I wouldn't say that C++ has "evolved" so much as "metastasized".
-jcr
Let me guess... Some chick just dumped you?
-jcr
If you don't love a woman enough to risk losing some money to her,
Money? If you're married, she's your next of kin, and can decide whether to pull the plug if you're in a coma. You'd better be able to trust her with your money, since you're going to be trusting her with your life.
-jcr
Not as simple as LISP? I'd argue it is much simpler. You can teaching Objective-C in a day (assuming C knowledge!)
Exactly: "assuming C knowledge".
You can't teach C in a single lecture, like you can with LISP.
-jcr
Bread-lines are to communism what Diebold is to (representative) democracy.
The difference being that bread lines were pervasive throughout the soviet union for all of its history, while the diebold voting machines are a recent problem which is being vigorously fought in court.
It is truly sad that the ideals of communism and socialism are tainted by Soviet corruption
The true ideals of Communism and Socialism have always been vicious misanthropy, cloaked in the language of compassion. To paraphrase the Bible, by their body-counts shall ye know them.
-jcr