Wow. This is something I've been waiting for for a long time. I've never been a fan of the style of games on the iTunes App Store--I like my old school gaming, and I'm excited that it's available to me in a mobi--
What?
Oh, I have an iPhone. I'll never get to experience this.
Never mind then. Thanks, Steve.
And showing every bit of its age too, apparently
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GCC Turns 25
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I love GCC, don't get me wrong, but it seems to me from the research I've done that it's been left in the dust by Intel's and even Microsoft's compilers, which do a far better job at generating optimized code, especially for x86/x64. I have an application where I'd love to use GCC rather than a horrible vendor-specific C/C++ compiler to generate some ARM firmware, but I'm getting a lot of resistance due to its perceived poor/bloated code generation.
Can anyone confirm or deny this and make me at least able to justify GCC as a possible option again?
It's terribly unfortunate that Apple has decided that iPad owners have no right to install whatever software the owner sees fit on his or her own tablet, thus necessitating (and encouraging) the jailbreaking community.
Mad props to these guys and their reverse engineering skills. Perhaps one day Apple will decide it's simply not worth the effort to keep up with the cat-and-mouse game of jailbreak/patch and just finally allow people to sideload apps and use their tablets however they want. Sadly, I don't foresee this happening.
I don't necessarily disagree with you when you say 'We need to let people like that sink or swim', but in this world of tightly connected social networks where friendship among individuals governs their level of access to your details, I'm not so sure about that. You're only as secure as your weakest link. If one of your less technologically-savvy friends on Facebook happens to fall for this scheme and gives up his login information to the attackers, then your information is exposed to them, and you're put at risk. This is why while I sympathize with your point, I still think it's incredibly important that phishing attacks like this be cracked down upon as quickly as possible to prevent exactly that sort of thing from happening.
"The PR2 robots are capable of performing critical tasks like cleaning rooms and bringing beer from a refrigerator."
(emphasis mine)
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy several cold ones on a daily basis, but is it fair to qualify the ability of a robot to procure a can of lager from the fridge as a critical task?
I just wanted to take a few bytes of badwidth to say that Andy Herzfeld is one of my personal heroes and should be to any creative, true old-school hacker-type programmers/engineers out there. Among other things, he is the father of the desk accessory in the original Mac OS.
The original Mac had 128K of memory, some 27K of which was used for the screen buffer alone, and although much of the OS was in ROM, it used a significant amount of the available RAM for itself. And this isn't even to mention any currently running application. A Desk Accessory, then, and the ability to invoke it while an application was running (many people forget that the original Mac OS was not multitasking at all), required some pretty incredible feats of programming to make it fit in the tiny amount of memory left. And he found a way to make it work.
People often speak in awe of how the 512K Amiga did multitasking on its tiny memory budget, and while I also admire that effort (especially having been a Commodore kid from VIC 20 to C64 to Amiga), I still think the original Mac OS represents one of the most incredible feats of software engineering of the early microcomputer era. I get slightly down every so often when I think about how modern developers, including myself, have gigabytes of memory and ultra-fast processors to work with and don't often have to think about the resource consumption of their algorithms/designs. Must have been so cool to work that kind of stuff back there...
I always thought the marker for material being quoted as it was spoken or written was [sic].
For example,
'John be [sic] tripping. He always [sic] doin' shit like that.'
In this case, the [sic] denotes the use of the infinitive of the copula verb in African-American English Vernacular (AAEV) to mean a habitual action; the second is used to mark the elision of the copula verb in the sentence.
Just my two cents' worth (former English grad student and undergrad seminar leader/paper grader).
I give the probability of fair pricing to the consumer coming out at 2%.
I give the probability of anything actually getting built beyond a pilot in the next 10 years at 5%.
I give the probability that these jokers can actually work together at 2%.
I'd say you're being awfully generous with those numbers. This just sounds like one big clusterfuck to me. At some point along the line, one or more of these companies is going to decide that some part of the plan works against their own business interests, and pull out, leaving at best nothing changed, or at worst, a half-functioning network with poor coverage, even worse support and the early adopters (who pony up big bucks to use the new technology) shit outta luck. Like Ricochet, for example.
OT I know, but whatever happened to that guy anyway? He had a hit show that was pulling in more viewers on cable than the major networks during that time slot, then I heard he had a nervous breakdown. Any chance he might go back and make more episodes?
I found this out years ago when my GF was getting really persistent obscene phone calls.
Sorry about that. I've moved on and starting harassing someone else's GF. No hard feelings, I hope.:)
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Come on, Apple. This claim is bullshit. Stand up for the developers who make your App Store and ecosystem a success.
Fucking cowardice.
Wow. This is something I've been waiting for for a long time. I've never been a fan of the style of games on the iTunes App Store--I like my old school gaming, and I'm excited that it's available to me in a mobi--
What?
Oh, I have an iPhone. I'll never get to experience this.
Never mind then. Thanks, Steve.
I love GCC, don't get me wrong, but it seems to me from the research I've done that it's been left in the dust by Intel's and even Microsoft's compilers, which do a far better job at generating optimized code, especially for x86/x64. I have an application where I'd love to use GCC rather than a horrible vendor-specific C/C++ compiler to generate some ARM firmware, but I'm getting a lot of resistance due to its perceived poor/bloated code generation.
Can anyone confirm or deny this and make me at least able to justify GCC as a possible option again?
It's terribly unfortunate that Apple has decided that iPad owners have no right to install whatever software the owner sees fit on his or her own tablet, thus necessitating (and encouraging) the jailbreaking community.
Mad props to these guys and their reverse engineering skills. Perhaps one day Apple will decide it's simply not worth the effort to keep up with the cat-and-mouse game of jailbreak/patch and just finally allow people to sideload apps and use their tablets however they want. Sadly, I don't foresee this happening.
Imagine if you're the CEO of Porn Corp #1 and also serve on the broad of Porn Corp #2...
FTFY.
Crickey! Loo' at that. We're very lucky! You almost never see a four digit this far from its native habitat of lurking. Ah she's a beaut!
Can this become a new Slashdot meme, please?
I'd give you a million mod points if I had them.
I don't necessarily disagree with you when you say 'We need to let people like that sink or swim', but in this world of tightly connected social networks where friendship among individuals governs their level of access to your details, I'm not so sure about that. You're only as secure as your weakest link. If one of your less technologically-savvy friends on Facebook happens to fall for this scheme and gives up his login information to the attackers, then your information is exposed to them, and you're put at risk. This is why while I sympathize with your point, I still think it's incredibly important that phishing attacks like this be cracked down upon as quickly as possible to prevent exactly that sort of thing from happening.
STOP in the name of Godwin's Law!
Before you reich my heart?
why should some random 9-to-5er paid-hourly desk jockey in a car company know who the hell he is?
Because he was on Dancing With The Stars! Doesn't everybody watch that show?
So is your sig saying that I'd have to have root permission to access your arse?
How do you explain Yao Ming then?
I took at look at RealNetworks' filing, but it didn't elicit much useful information:
Plantiffs RealNetworks, Inc. (herein known as PlantiBUFFERING... 4%
(emphasis mine)
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy several cold ones on a daily basis, but is it fair to qualify the ability of a robot to procure a can of lager from the fridge as a critical task?
I just wanted to take a few bytes of badwidth to say that Andy Herzfeld is one of my personal heroes and should be to any creative, true old-school hacker-type programmers/engineers out there. Among other things, he is the father of the desk accessory in the original Mac OS.
The original Mac had 128K of memory, some 27K of which was used for the screen buffer alone, and although much of the OS was in ROM, it used a significant amount of the available RAM for itself. And this isn't even to mention any currently running application. A Desk Accessory, then, and the ability to invoke it while an application was running (many people forget that the original Mac OS was not multitasking at all), required some pretty incredible feats of programming to make it fit in the tiny amount of memory left. And he found a way to make it work.
People often speak in awe of how the 512K Amiga did multitasking on its tiny memory budget, and while I also admire that effort (especially having been a Commodore kid from VIC 20 to C64 to Amiga), I still think the original Mac OS represents one of the most incredible feats of software engineering of the early microcomputer era. I get slightly down every so often when I think about how modern developers, including myself, have gigabytes of memory and ultra-fast processors to work with and don't often have to think about the resource consumption of their algorithms/designs. Must have been so cool to work that kind of stuff back there...
Fawning mode off now...
I always thought the marker for material being quoted as it was spoken or written was [sic].
For example,
'John be [sic] tripping. He always [sic] doin' shit like that.'
In this case, the [sic] denotes the use of the infinitive of the copula verb in African-American English Vernacular (AAEV) to mean a habitual action; the second is used to mark the elision of the copula verb in the sentence.
Just my two cents' worth (former English grad student and undergrad seminar leader/paper grader).
Mars, bitches.
OT I know, but whatever happened to that guy anyway? He had a hit show that was pulling in more viewers on cable than the major networks during that time slot, then I heard he had a nervous breakdown. Any chance he might go back and make more episodes?
I thought emacs had become self-aware by now...
Indecent exspouser
That's one hell of a Freudian slip there.
any post which points out a error of grammar or spelling in another post will, it's elf, contain an error of grammar or spelling.
Truer words have never been spoken, apparently.
... and we have to have Marv Albert NFL.
Cool! I can't wait to unlock back-biting mode!
You might find a lot of references to that sort of this on this site...
450 million costumers? Man, I knew the EU was into theatre and Hallowe'en is fast approaching, but that seems a little high to me...
I found this out years ago when my GF was getting really persistent obscene phone calls. :)
Sorry about that. I've moved on and starting harassing someone else's GF. No hard feelings, I hope.