you dirty troll. Apple chose Objective C because the design they jacked for OS X, that of Steve Jobs' NeXTSTEP operating system, used Objective C.
aside from that, calling Objective C a "kludge" while suggesting C++ doesn't make much sense if you think about it.
have you ever even used Objective C? it's really quite nice, and you can program in ANSI C on an Objective C compiler and it's no big deal.
the NeXT Programmer's Manual (by Simson Garfinkel, i believe) is a very useful Mac OS X programming resource (although it doesn't help with Cocoa). the OS X programming environment is substantially the same as the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP environment. they're both based in Objective C, and even many of the windowing calls are the same (most of whose names still begin with "NS" for "NeXTSTEP"!).
the Shoshkele is a traditional Polish dance in which the dancers move around the space a lot. interesting it got used, but i wish it were for something less annoying.:)
these are the Olympic websites, which implies that there will be many live video feeds and even more saved clips. your "proposed solution" is very simplistic, failing to take into account the enormous bandwidth requirements (the condition which separates this network from any other generic Big Net).
for something like this, you need to think about multihoming (Akamai-style), server location, special hosting... sorry, can't just set up a few Linux servers in the phone room and call it quits.
while it's nice that people now have the option of watching movies on the 1" LCD of their cell phone anytime they want, i lay the odds 10000:1 that this technology will genuinely enrich anyone's life.
don't get me wrong -- it's great when things get faster and smaller and cheaper. i just think that the "transforming power of technology" often brings not a step forward, but just a hard step to the side.
seriously, the tips listed above, if they are any indication of what else the book "teaches" us, do not speak well for the book's usefulness except as a beginner's or For Dummies guide.
is there anyone among us here who does not follow these hints because of ignorance? i'd wager not; i think the only people who don't know this stuff are the ones too lazy/careless to absorb it from a book either.
"We are obviously not going to
respond instantly--we have to sieve the wheat from the chaff to determine how reliable the
vulnerability warning is," said Neil Laver, Windows product marketing manager for Microsoft. "Until we can investigate the issue, we are not
going to issue a bulletin, as that
would create a crying wolf situation."
can anyone argue with this? think how easily a crapflood of spurious security vulnerability reports could erode MS' product reputation. i would say if they didn't do this, they'd be acting irresponsibly.
so why the anti-MS tone? there's enough about them that's worthy of criticism; let them alone on the other points.
So if it's not a big deal, why was there a general call for prior art to overturn Apple's patent?
is there a problem with this? with the average IQ of a patent lawyer at about 35 these days, you can't be too careful. mark my words, the future of Open Source depends upon it.
the economic slump is hitting the entire country. of course the techies are getting the worst of it, what with the dot-com mass hallucination having ended. but singling out the Open Source movement seems a bit unfair, if not irrelevant:
we wrote free software before the companies were organized; we'll keep writing it even as they're about to close shop.
watch and watch closely. if we don't learn how to circumvent any and every restriction placed upon us, we'll have a hell of a time doing it when the restrictions are placed.
America is not there yet -- not by a long shot. but i think most of us here see the writing on the wall: the US may not stay the greatest country on earth for long, if the corps have their way.
i agree that 802.11a, at 54Mbps, is quite powerful, but i think the consumer would prefer an easier upgrade path: 802.11a requires entirely different hardware from 802.11 because it uses 5GHz instead of 2.5GHz. seeing as 99% of us cannot hose a 10Mbps ethernet for more than a few minutes at a time, i don't think the extra speed is going to justify to the consumer the cost of re-buying all the expensive hardware (new base station, new cards, new range-extender antennas, etc).
who knows, the market will decide. but i don't see it catching on in the next two years, at least.
"My biggest fear is that Intel will come out with a 32-bit processor with 64-bit extensions because it is the right thing to do," Sanders said. "The Itanium it turns out is a niche product...We are going to have a role in the industry because we better fulfill Microsoft's needs."
the Itanium is a niche product now. in a few years i expect its time will come. 64-bit is not cool now but eventually OEMs are going to lean that way for upward compatibility. remember that the PowerPC existed in relative obscurity for a while too, and now it's the basis for what are probably the best UNIX machines on the market.
with all the unguarded wireless networks around the cities of the US, there's almost no need to pay for access anymore. just get a burly antenna ($70-ish) and move it around until you get a signal. it's free, and free is a good deal!
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is probably the best computer science text ever written (with the possible exception of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming), and uses Scheme. it's such a small language (14 basic reserved words, i think?) with such clear syntax that little time is spent teaching the language, and more time is spent teaching programming.
after reading SICP, it will take you perhaps a week to learn any computer language. highly recommended.
As long as these languages are kept alive by their dedicated users, there is always the chance that the suits will see the light, and go for the productivity gains offered by high level languages.
currently high-level languages like Lisp are good for early prototyping and development stages, but lack the library hooks and other trappings needed for real, industrial strength application development. what i'd like to see Lisp and Smalltalk and Eiffel develop is a good compiler and a good interface to the system and GUI code.
(no, Java does not cut it.)
when i can write an app in Lisp and still use GTK, Athena widgets, etc, then we might see corps moving from C/C++ to languages where memory allocation, etc become fond memories and real high-level thinking may take place.
i haven't seen a Java IDE better than ahref="Sun's Forte. its use of EJBs to quickly develop J2EE apps is unmatched, IMHO, and its grasp of XML is a Really Good Thing (tm) to have in a development environment. the ESP toolkit is rad too.
too bad it's not Open Source, but hey, $20 for media is a really good price.
this is why Open Source is so cool. this doesn't hurt sales of Unreal Tournament in any way, and hackers can still build cool things with it. incidentally, they have open-sourced CaveUT.
Slashdot Mirror
the gist is "be thankful AbiWord exists at all".
which is ok, i guess, but it's probably just an excuse for how much AbiWord sucks.
the "MAC" in MacLisp stands for "Multiple Access Computers", the department at the MIT AI Lab in which MacLisp was developed.
MacLisp was developed in 1966, over ten years before Apple Computer got it together.
you dirty troll. Apple chose Objective C because the design they jacked for OS X, that of Steve Jobs' NeXTSTEP operating system, used Objective C.
aside from that, calling Objective C a "kludge" while suggesting C++ doesn't make much sense if you think about it.
have you ever even used Objective C? it's really quite nice, and you can program in ANSI C on an Objective C compiler and it's no big deal.
the NeXT Programmer's Manual (by Simson Garfinkel, i believe) is a very useful Mac OS X programming resource (although it doesn't help with Cocoa). the OS X programming environment is substantially the same as the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP environment. they're both based in Objective C, and even many of the windowing calls are the same (most of whose names still begin with "NS" for "NeXTSTEP"!).
this is great. $600 now means they'll be $150 three years down the line, and they'll be as ubiquitous as CD-RWs are now.
:D
boy there's gonna be some piracy problems
the Shoshkele is a traditional Polish dance in which the dancers move around the space a lot. interesting it got used, but i wish it were for something less annoying. :)
look at the previous story: "VA Linux Now VA Software". i bet you they didn't make the change because they had too much money...
does anyone put it past Slashdot to act as indirect advertising for VA and OSDN? why else would they own Slashdot in the first place?
they asked to be informed of linkers... now you (presumably) didn't inform them that you would be sending the Slashdot Horde their way.
now they're down. what conclusion will they draw from this episode?
these are the Olympic websites, which implies that there will be many live video feeds and even more saved clips. your "proposed solution" is very simplistic, failing to take into account the enormous bandwidth requirements (the condition which separates this network from any other generic Big Net).
for something like this, you need to think about multihoming (Akamai-style), server location, special hosting... sorry, can't just set up a few Linux servers in the phone room and call it quits.
while it's nice that people now have the option of watching movies on the 1" LCD of their cell phone anytime they want, i lay the odds 10000:1 that this technology will genuinely enrich anyone's life.
don't get me wrong -- it's great when things get faster and smaller and cheaper. i just think that the "transforming power of technology" often brings not a step forward, but just a hard step to the side.
everyone who's still online, check in below!
;)
(c'mon, VA's Linux servers can handle it
seriously, the tips listed above, if they are any indication of what else the book "teaches" us, do not speak well for the book's usefulness except as a beginner's or For Dummies guide.
is there anyone among us here who does not follow these hints because of ignorance? i'd wager not; i think the only people who don't know this stuff are the ones too lazy/careless to absorb it from a book either.
can anyone argue with this? think how easily a crapflood of spurious security vulnerability reports could erode MS' product reputation. i would say if they didn't do this, they'd be acting irresponsibly.
so why the anti-MS tone? there's enough about them that's worthy of criticism; let them alone on the other points.
So if it's not a big deal, why was there a general call for prior art to overturn Apple's patent?
is there a problem with this? with the average IQ of a patent lawyer at about 35 these days, you can't be too careful. mark my words, the future of Open Source depends upon it.
the economic slump is hitting the entire country. of course the techies are getting the worst of it, what with the dot-com mass hallucination having ended. but singling out the Open Source movement seems a bit unfair, if not irrelevant:
we wrote free software before the companies were organized; we'll keep writing it even as they're about to close shop.
watch and watch closely. if we don't learn how to circumvent any and every restriction placed upon us, we'll have a hell of a time doing it when the restrictions are placed.
America is not there yet -- not by a long shot. but i think most of us here see the writing on the wall: the US may not stay the greatest country on earth for long, if the corps have their way.
fight back!
i agree that 802.11a, at 54Mbps, is quite powerful, but i think the consumer would prefer an easier upgrade path: 802.11a requires entirely different hardware from 802.11 because it uses 5GHz instead of 2.5GHz. seeing as 99% of us cannot hose a 10Mbps ethernet for more than a few minutes at a time, i don't think the extra speed is going to justify to the consumer the cost of re-buying all the expensive hardware (new base station, new cards, new range-extender antennas, etc).
who knows, the market will decide. but i don't see it catching on in the next two years, at least.
"My biggest fear is that Intel will come out with a 32-bit processor with 64-bit extensions because it is the right thing to do," Sanders said. "The Itanium it turns out is a niche product...We are going to have a role in the industry because we better fulfill Microsoft's needs."
the Itanium is a niche product now. in a few years i expect its time will come. 64-bit is not cool now but eventually OEMs are going to lean that way for upward compatibility. remember that the PowerPC existed in relative obscurity for a while too, and now it's the basis for what are probably the best UNIX machines on the market.
with all the unguarded wireless networks around the cities of the US, there's almost no need to pay for access anymore. just get a burly antenna ($70-ish) and move it around until you get a signal. it's free, and free is a good deal!
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is probably the best computer science text ever written (with the possible exception of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming), and uses Scheme. it's such a small language (14 basic reserved words, i think?) with such clear syntax that little time is spent teaching the language, and more time is spent teaching programming.
after reading SICP, it will take you perhaps a week to learn any computer language. highly recommended.
(define (f n)
; calculates factorial of n
(if (= n 1)
n
(* n (f (- n 1)))))
there's plenty of room to hang comments...
As long as these languages are kept alive by their dedicated users, there is always the chance that the suits will see the light, and go for the productivity gains offered by high level languages.
currently high-level languages like Lisp are good for early prototyping and development stages, but lack the library hooks and other trappings needed for real, industrial strength application development. what i'd like to see Lisp and Smalltalk and Eiffel develop is a good compiler and a good interface to the system and GUI code.
(no, Java does not cut it.)
when i can write an app in Lisp and still use GTK, Athena widgets, etc, then we might see corps moving from C/C++ to languages where memory allocation, etc become fond memories and real high-level thinking may take place.
i haven't seen a Java IDE better than ahref="Sun's Forte. its use of EJBs to quickly develop J2EE apps is unmatched, IMHO, and its grasp of XML is a Really Good Thing (tm) to have in a development environment. the ESP toolkit is rad too.
too bad it's not Open Source, but hey, $20 for media is a really good price.
To get the perspective correction right, we subverted the OpenGL code in the open-source portion of UT's C++ code.
this is why Open Source is so cool. this doesn't hurt sales of Unreal Tournament in any way, and hackers can still build cool things with it. incidentally, they have open-sourced CaveUT.
way to go, guys!
is it a coincidence that the USian Time wouldn't carry that story, and there's no mention of this on NOAA's site?
it doesn't sit right with me.