I was not aware that he designed the other Newton models besides the eMate 300 (which is a Newton). Are you sure that he designed the other ones? All of them? (OMP, 110, 120, 130, 2000, 2100?)
One could argue that's only 3 designs sincethe 110, 120, and 130 are basically the same and the 2000 and 2100 are basically the same.
So the problem is that the bytecode isn't "obfuscated enough" in its natural state, and therefore you have to run an obfuscator on it? Putting aside for the moment the fact that in most situations obfuscation is considered a bad thing (because it makes the code harder to work with), I still don't see any real problem here -- if it bothers you, run your code through an obfuscator and be happy.
Anyone can take non-obfuscated java IL code and get source code back out of it. Same problem with.Net. For some things, who cares, but do I really want to distribute a commercial application this way? Most companies I work for would want to avoid this. I write in C and C++, not Java or.Net, so I do not have this problem myself.
The difference is that when you write a MacOS X application with Objective-C you compile the application into PowerPC assembly. You then distribute the binary. With a JIT language, you distribute the IL and the virtual machine "compiles" the IL into assembly every time the user runs it.
From a business perspective, with IL, I do need to use an obfuscator with my Java or.NET app, which I don't really need to do with more traditional languages that do not use an IL.
You do not need to use Interface Builder to write GUI for a Cocoa app. Although, I don't really understand your objection (it seems weird to you? Do RC files seem weird to you?)
I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Steve and completely disagree with Mr. Dhanjani. I think that the language "choice" on.NET is silly - you can use whatever language you want so long as the language has exactly the same features as C#. For example, look at the feature set of "managed C++". No multiple inheritance and other non-C# features have been removed. Same for other languages.
I program with Objective-C and Cocoa all the time. I am mostly happy with it and in fact I will not be using the Garbage Collection feature for my apps.
I have complaints about Cocoa, but not being able to program in Ruby or Python is NOT one of them.
If you don't know enough about Steve Jobs to know the answer to that question, then you have no business posting on this thread.
Would Steve Jobs have been a major success in life if he had been brought up in poverty in a third world country? I don't know - certainly he would not have been able to found Apple from such circumstances. However, I have no doubt that Steve Jobs, like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison, would have been a success in life pretty much anywhere.
I'm not sure why you are saying Atari was a Japanese company. Are you trying to make some kind of subtle joke?
It was founed in Sunnyvale, CA by Nolan Bushnell who sold it to Warner Communications who sold it to Jack Tramiel who had his two sons, run the company.
I have found that iChat AV video chats work OK about half the time if you are talking to a Mac user, but doesn't work worth a damn if you want to do video chat with a windows user.
Movie theaters card kids for R-rated movies, why is this so hard?
They do? They sure didn't when I was a kid. When I was a child I didn't carry any kind of ID and I got into whatever R movies I wanted.
If the threater asks for ID for a PG-13 movie, what "card" does the child show them to prove they are 13? (I.e. most 13 year olds do not have a driver's license.)
Also, when I was a kid I was only occasionally carded for cigarettes, but 9 times out of 10 I left the store with cigarettes.
I didn't start trying to buy alcohol until I was about 19 or so. I was usually able to drink in bars at age 19. Sometimes not. I never bothered trying to buy from the liquor store until I was actually 21 because I knew so many people who were over 21 who would buy for me before then.
I recall the age rules being very easy to get around. Have things changed much?
I think the number of people who "won't take responsibility for themselves" is actually very small. The thing is that in the case you describe above (kid killing himself with pills), nobody would decide to sue themselves or their dead child because obviously that's ridiculous. The person who blames himself in that situation will not make the news.
Stop watching TV and reading the newspaper for a while and you will stop having such a warped perspective on reality. By warped, I mean the falacy of thinking that the cases reported on the news are the "normal" case when in fact they are of the "dog bites man" variety.
Would you really want to follow the Bible's teachings? Have you actually read the Bible? It is full of insane contradictory stories and advice. If you applied it literally to your life, you would be locked up for being a menace to yourself and others, if not for outright crime.
The Bible is not anything that you can base your life on. Those who claim to be doing so are picking and choosing which parts to pay attention to. Which they have to becase the Bible contradicts itself all over the place.
how can we expect the government and those charged with protection to keep up with all potential threats?
What makes you think we need the government to protect us against all potential threats?
First, I don't think it is possible to absolutely protect against terrorism. Remember, the people who really stopped the 9/11 hijackers were ordinary americans on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Our problem was the policy of allowing hijackers to take over an airplane in the first place. That will not happen again - the most they can hope for is a crashed plane.
Of course, there are other kinds of attacks, but giving up freedom is not the answer.
It is nice to see a comment like this from a non-Mac user. I can't help but think that more choices are better and that's why I've always been so baffled by folks who root for Apple to go out of business.
I only use Macs, and I was sorry to see the Amiga come to a bad end. I was sorry that Be didn't make it. I applaud when Linux makes gains. I don't wish for Windows to disappear.
As an aggregate, X cell phones will mean Y cars. It would take very little money to do such a study and figure out what the rate is.
You'd probably need to reevaluate it each year or after any laws go into effect that could effect the rate (such as laws saying you can't talk on a cell phone while driving - either in Missouri or in a neighboring state.)
The totally cool part of your post is the awesome use of the "and that's a fact" retorical device.
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I too had a bad case of carpal tunnel. I was sent to a hand therapy clinic by my primary care physician. The hand therapist did basically four things. One of them was deep tissue massage which really helped.
The other ones were to create a brace for my arm to wear at night, teach me certain exercises I could do to stretch tendons in my arms, etc. and the last one was that she used electric shock to completely tire out one of the mussles in my arm so that it would relax afterwards.
In my lay opinion, I think the deep tissue massage was the most effective thing for the immediate problem. The exercises were able to help me to keep it from being an acute problem in the future.
The brace wasn't really that helpful because it turns out I wasn't doing anthing at night to cause the problem. (Some people tense up at night.) The electric shock probably also helped, but the deep tissue massage on my arm really felt good at the time and seemed to really relieve the pain.
What's next? Married with Children, except without the horny, demanding wife, without the lazy, incompetent husband, without the slutty daughter, and without the social failure of a son? Sounds like a great show.
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I was not aware that he designed the other Newton models besides the eMate 300 (which is a Newton). Are you sure that he designed the other ones? All of them? (OMP, 110, 120, 130, 2000, 2100?)
One could argue that's only 3 designs sincethe 110, 120, and 130 are basically the same and the 2000 and 2100 are basically the same.
So the problem is that the bytecode isn't "obfuscated enough" in its natural state, and therefore you have to run an obfuscator on it? Putting aside for the moment the fact that in most situations obfuscation is considered a bad thing (because it makes the code harder to work with), I still don't see any real problem here -- if it bothers you, run your code through an obfuscator and be happy.
.Net. For some things, who cares, but do I really want to distribute a commercial application this way? Most companies I work for would want to avoid this. I write in C and C++, not Java or .Net, so I do not have this problem myself.
Anyone can take non-obfuscated java IL code and get source code back out of it. Same problem with
The difference is that when you write a MacOS X application with Objective-C you compile the application into PowerPC assembly. You then distribute the binary. With a JIT language, you distribute the IL and the virtual machine "compiles" the IL into assembly every time the user runs it.
.NET app, which I don't really need to do with more traditional languages that do not use an IL.
From a business perspective, with IL, I do need to use an obfuscator with my Java or
You do not need to use Interface Builder to write GUI for a Cocoa app. Although, I don't really understand your objection (it seems weird to you? Do RC files seem weird to you?)
I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Steve and completely disagree with Mr. Dhanjani. I think that the language "choice" on .NET is silly - you can use whatever language you want so long as the language has exactly the same features as C#. For example, look at the feature set of "managed C++". No multiple inheritance and other non-C# features have been removed. Same for other languages.
I program with Objective-C and Cocoa all the time. I am mostly happy with it and in fact I will not be using the Garbage Collection feature for my apps.
I have complaints about Cocoa, but not being able to program in Ruby or Python is NOT one of them.
If you don't know enough about Steve Jobs to know the answer to that question, then you have no business posting on this thread.
Would Steve Jobs have been a major success in life if he had been brought up in poverty in a third world country? I don't know - certainly he would not have been able to found Apple from such circumstances. However, I have no doubt that Steve Jobs, like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison, would have been a success in life pretty much anywhere.
I'm not sure why you are saying Atari was a Japanese company. Are you trying to make some kind of subtle joke?
It was founed in Sunnyvale, CA by Nolan Bushnell who sold it to Warner Communications who sold it to Jack Tramiel who had his two sons, run the company.
In your case, it sounds like you've "outgrown" buying more music. You aren't into new artists or looking forward to new records coming out.
To get my 70+ year old father to buy more music, you'd have to bring Bob Wills back from the dead to record another album.
I don't think you or my father are the kind of customer the RIAA is trying to attract.
Yes, thanks for the correction.
I have found that iChat AV video chats work OK about half the time if you are talking to a Mac user, but doesn't work worth a damn if you want to do video chat with a windows user.
The ISP may keep track of what IP was assigned to a particular customer at a given time.
Movie theaters card kids for R-rated movies, why is this so hard?
They do? They sure didn't when I was a kid. When I was a child I didn't carry any kind of ID and I got into whatever R movies I wanted.
If the threater asks for ID for a PG-13 movie, what "card" does the child show them to prove they are 13? (I.e. most 13 year olds do not have a driver's license.)
Also, when I was a kid I was only occasionally carded for cigarettes, but 9 times out of 10 I left the store with cigarettes.
I didn't start trying to buy alcohol until I was about 19 or so. I was usually able to drink in bars at age 19. Sometimes not. I never bothered trying to buy from the liquor store until I was actually 21 because I knew so many people who were over 21 who would buy for me before then.
I recall the age rules being very easy to get around. Have things changed much?
I think the number of people who "won't take responsibility for themselves" is actually very small. The thing is that in the case you describe above (kid killing himself with pills), nobody would decide to sue themselves or their dead child because obviously that's ridiculous. The person who blames himself in that situation will not make the news.
Stop watching TV and reading the newspaper for a while and you will stop having such a warped perspective on reality. By warped, I mean the falacy of thinking that the cases reported on the news are the "normal" case when in fact they are of the "dog bites man" variety.
Would you really want to follow the Bible's teachings? Have you actually read the Bible? It is full of insane contradictory stories and advice. If you applied it literally to your life, you would be locked up for being a menace to yourself and others, if not for outright crime.
The Bible is not anything that you can base your life on. Those who claim to be doing so are picking and choosing which parts to pay attention to. Which they have to becase the Bible contradicts itself all over the place.
Apple used to have the best support in the business, hands down. Support that today you would marvel at. Amazing support.
At the exact same time, people were abandoning Apple in droves for competitors who had lousy support.
So, you can't blame Apple for bad support. You have to blame the invisible hand of the free market.
When's the last time a code name was also used for the retail product? I can't remember that ever happening.
Macintosh
Newton
Jaguar
Panther
Tiger
There are probably others, but Apple has a long history of this.
how can we expect the government and those charged with protection to keep up with all potential threats?
What makes you think we need the government to protect us against all potential threats?
First, I don't think it is possible to absolutely protect against terrorism. Remember, the people who really stopped the 9/11 hijackers were ordinary americans on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Our problem was the policy of allowing hijackers to take over an airplane in the first place. That will not happen again - the most they can hope for is a crashed plane.
Of course, there are other kinds of attacks, but giving up freedom is not the answer.
It is nice to see a comment like this from a non-Mac user. I can't help but think that more choices are better and that's why I've always been so baffled by folks who root for Apple to go out of business.
I only use Macs, and I was sorry to see the Amiga come to a bad end. I was sorry that Be didn't make it. I applaud when Linux makes gains. I don't wish for Windows to disappear.
As an aggregate, X cell phones will mean Y cars. It would take very little money to do such a study and figure out what the rate is.
You'd probably need to reevaluate it each year or after any laws go into effect that could effect the rate (such as laws saying you can't talk on a cell phone while driving - either in Missouri or in a neighboring state.)
These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact.
The totally cool part of your post is the awesome use of the "and that's a fact" retorical device.
I too had a bad case of carpal tunnel. I was sent to a hand therapy clinic by my primary care physician. The hand therapist did basically four things. One of them was deep tissue massage which really helped.
The other ones were to create a brace for my arm to wear at night, teach me certain exercises I could do to stretch tendons in my arms, etc. and the last one was that she used electric shock to completely tire out one of the mussles in my arm so that it would relax afterwards.
In my lay opinion, I think the deep tissue massage was the most effective thing for the immediate problem. The exercises were able to help me to keep it from being an acute problem in the future.
The brace wasn't really that helpful because it turns out I wasn't doing anthing at night to cause the problem. (Some people tense up at night.) The electric shock probably also helped, but the deep tissue massage on my arm really felt good at the time and seemed to really relieve the pain.
I agree. I think the moderation system on slashdot is more like the *gameplay* on a system like WOW.
The changing of Taco's name by the GM seems really arbitrary and stupid. Why piss of a customer for no reason?
Perhaps he has a Mighty Mouse?
Apple sold something like 10,000 Apple IIs the first year. It was considered a huge success.
Apple sold something like 100,000 Newtons the first year. It was considered a huge failure.
I'm sure its worse now because any PDA is going to be compared to the huge market for phones. The dedicated PDA market just isn't that big.
What's next? Married with Children, except without the horny, demanding wife, without the lazy, incompetent husband, without the slutty daughter, and without the social failure of a son? Sounds like a great show.
It is a great show. It's about a dog.