You could have the same thing in Windows since Windows 98..... I also have worked in Japan for over three years and have yet to see anyone using a Mac.
I'm pretty sure that Windows 98 was not available in Tokyo in the late 1980s.
I lived in Japan in the 80s, and the Japanese I worked with loved Macs, for one basic reason. There was a menu item always present that switched the interface from English to Japanese (and back) instantly. It was a machine truly usable by both Japanese readers and English readers, way ahead of the PCs in the office.
This little anecdote is meant merely to underscore your "Mac is not American-centric" point.
someone who thinks that because they are brilliant in one area that they are now all of a sudden uniquely qualified to render an opinion in all areas.
Actors and musicians often have that problem.
Leary on the subject:
And what about these rock bands that don't want to just be bands anymore? It's not enough to have a pop song that becomes a hit, or a dance number that people like to dance to. They want to be more than that. They want to tell us how to vote and how to feel about the environment. You know what I'm talking about? Like R.E.M. (Singing) "Shiny happy people. .." "Hey, pull that bus over to the side of the Pretentiousness Turnpike, all right? I want everybody off the bus. I want the shiny people over here and the happy people over here. I represent angry-gun-toting-meat-eating people, okay? So sit down and shut up!"
I got two words for Michael Stipe: Stevie Tyler. Okay? Don Henley's gonna tell people how to feel about the environment? I don't think so. A former member of the Eagles? I don't think so. I've got two words for Don Henley: Joe Walsh. Okay? Take off your ponytail and prepare to die. All right, Donny boy?
Amusing follow-up:
Denis Leary, who once insulted several musicians in a series of spots for MTV, often heard back from the rankled rockers whom he had offended. On one occasion, Leary was amused to learn that Eagles frontman Don Henley had written a letter to MTV "demanding that the garbage I produce be taken off the air." He was amused again shortly thereafter: "I got a letter from [former Eagle] Joe Walsh," he recalled, "saying, 'Congratulations for pissing off Don Henley!'"
If they are useful for people developing on the "mozilla platform", then they are useful features. For example, Firefox and Thunderbird, and extensions to each, can use these new features. They can't be used in web pages unless you want them to be Mozilla-only, of course.
Just like Napster implies that's the case. Isn't it funny how WMA-based services tend to advertise themselves as MP3-based services? It's like WMA is unwanted by the marketplace, and service providers have to lie about it to sell product.
The biggest advantage of Apple's FairPlay over Microsoft's DRM is that FairPlay establishes one set of rules for all items purchased via ITMS. With WMA, the rules are variable. You're never exactly sure what you're getting. FairPlay is a better deal for customers, and a more understandable one.
Look at it another way. Hilary Rosen is advocating the death of ITMS and the iPod and their replacement with WMA-based services. What does that tell you about the two systems?
I like the tabs-at-the-top thing. And they're not really "tabs" -- it's really the same thing as the previous ms-office-style sidebar, but takes up less screen space.
I noticed a speed improvement on every machine I've put it on. I wonder why we have has such different experiences.
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That may be true. But it's pretty sad that, for Bill, it's not enough to win; someone else has to lose. He hates sharing the stage. It's like Bill thinks all computers everywhere are his personal domain. There's probably medication available for that problem.
The function objc_msgSend(object, messageSelector) implements Objective-C's dynamic (runtime) binding. It looks up the method (a plain C function) that object associates with messageSelector, and then calls that method.
An objective-C message expression is nothing more than syntactic sugar for calling that function, so calling the function isn't any kind of an optimization.
However, if you're going to be sending the same message to the same object over and over again in a tight loop, and that loop is proving to be a bottleneck, you can get a pointer to the appropriate function outside the loop, eg
and then call the function (through the pointer) inside the body of the loop, completely bypassing the overhead of Objective-C's dynamic binding.
(I mention loops because that's the only scenario in which I've ever needed to bother with this technique, and even then, it's rarely been an issue. But the API is available to use anywhere you want in your code.)
That's the optimization you had in mind.
PS: I know you know. But others might not.
Thanks.:) That is what I had in mind. That's what I get for posting between meetings at work.:)
Actually, that's an optimization strategy in Objective-C programs. If you're sending a message many times in a tight loop, obtain a pointer to the C function and call it directly. That cuts out the (small but non-zero) overhead of the Objective-C runtime message dispatching.
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You could have the same thing in Windows since Windows 98..... I also have worked in Japan for over three years and have yet to see anyone using a Mac.
I'm pretty sure that Windows 98 was not available in Tokyo in the late 1980s.
The "Start Menu" is oen of the worst user-interface conventions ever conceived, and Gnoem and KDE ripping it off doesn't make it any better.
I lived in Japan in the 80s, and the Japanese I worked with loved Macs, for one basic reason. There was a menu item always present that switched the interface from English to Japanese (and back) instantly. It was a machine truly usable by both Japanese readers and English readers, way ahead of the PCs in the office.
This little anecdote is meant merely to underscore your "Mac is not American-centric" point.
No, it means Rob Enderle is a fucking moron. That's what his columns always mean.
Vroom vroom, Rob. Fire up your stupid Ferrari laptop and go from zero to troll in 3.4 seconds.
Hah!
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You may remember me from such films as, 'Man versus Nature, the Road to Victory!'."
Actors and musicians often have that problem.
Leary on the subject:
Amusing follow-up:
If they are useful for people developing on the "mozilla platform", then they are useful features. For example, Firefox and Thunderbird, and extensions to each, can use these new features. They can't be used in web pages unless you want them to be Mozilla-only, of course.
According to Bill, no.
The battle is Firefox vs IE. The danger is of Microsoft winning again, but not because they have a better product.
At best, IE 7 will work only on certain versions of Windows.
Exactly. Just like other desktop applications are not presumed to be inhernetly safe.
I'm just waiting for Lucas to stop murdering the memory of Star Wars.
That, and Serenity.
Just like Napster implies that's the case. Isn't it funny how WMA-based services tend to advertise themselves as MP3-based services? It's like WMA is unwanted by the marketplace, and service providers have to lie about it to sell product.
The biggest advantage of Apple's FairPlay over Microsoft's DRM is that FairPlay establishes one set of rules for all items purchased via ITMS. With WMA, the rules are variable. You're never exactly sure what you're getting. FairPlay is a better deal for customers, and a more understandable one.
Look at it another way. Hilary Rosen is advocating the death of ITMS and the iPod and their replacement with WMA-based services. What does that tell you about the two systems?
How come we bash Microsoft's monopolizing tactics but praise Apple for doing pretty much the same thing with iPods and iTMS?
Because Microsoft cares about control and winning at all costs, whereas Apple cares about making a good product.
Actually, I'd like a Tablet PC, but I don't want to deal with XP. I'd welcome an Apple tablet.
I like the tabs-at-the-top thing. And they're not really "tabs" -- it's really the same thing as the previous ms-office-style sidebar, but takes up less screen space.
I noticed a speed improvement on every machine I've put it on. I wonder why we have has such different experiences.
That may be true. But it's pretty sad that, for Bill, it's not enough to win; someone else has to lose. He hates sharing the stage. It's like Bill thinks all computers everywhere are his personal domain. There's probably medication available for that problem.
I do seem to recall he was complianing of "electile dysfunction" after the election...
He would have had the FBI investigate them first, if he behaved like the last Democratic-Party president.
Can you give us a link, please?
Those are some really cool ideas, especially the "drag one thing over another to associate and annotate". I can't wait!
Thanks.
Actually, that's an optimization strategy in Objective-C programs. If you're sending a message many times in a tight loop, obtain a pointer to the C function and call it directly. That cuts out the (small but non-zero) overhead of the Objective-C runtime message dispatching.
Move to Europe :)
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Uh, yeah... which part actually allows immigration these days?