Why are you whining about that small of a code base. GCC is far larger and I've ported it to several systems some that required rewriting core elements of the code generators. It's a few million lines of code. Thirty to forty thousand lines of code is a small program and probably a single executable at that. Build yourself a picture of the major elements of the code and from that map you can get anywhere you want. It's only computer science after all it's not rocket...oh sorry some of the code I've written is in a rocket so I guess it could be rocket science too. Well you get the picture. Just like any new city you need a map. Once you have that it's cake. Oh and the cake is a lie...
Yup and if you think that's a great idea then go out and build your hardware, advertise it, build and give away the infrastructure for free to your customers and potential customers. Sell your hardware and profit! Sounds like what Apple did. Don't see the problem here. If you want to make money selling things to people on their devices I'd say try licensing the technology, I know Apple has done it in at least 1 case.
Yes you can save arbitrary mp3 files through Itunes itself. I use Amazon regularly to buy music and I manage to get it to my iphone through iTunes. I don't buy directly from Amazon on the iPhone but I think you could actually write an application to do that. iTunes is not the only way to get content onto an Iphone/iPod either, as there is an API that alternate sync apps can and do use. Do a little research. Sorry for your troubles. There is no way to apply the Sherman act here either as there is no monopoly. Apple is not the only vendor of music players, they are not the only vendor of music over the internet and you aren't locked into anything if you just buy someone else product. Stop whining, and start using your wallet instead of your pie-hole!
The issue is completely on Apple for trusting a certificate
Um sorry but how do you figure this? If Verisign is issuing certs that can be trusted without verification then they are the problem. Don't use Verisign any more.
Level 1 certificate statuses
I didn't see exactly what you are talking about here either, but perhaps I mis-interpreted it.
the anonymous researchers obtained a signature certificate from VeriSign for a company named Apple Computer.
From the article it looks like Verisign is the problem here.
alerts for IM
actually alerts for IM do come thru without multitasking. Gaining root access is a normal operation which is enabled on all device (not only "special developer" ones) letting advanced users make weird uses of their phones if they want.
Also allowing other less advanced users to completely hose their system with the possibility to take down a whole network in the process. Hasn't happened yet, but ya never know. Glad I'm no longer a Sprint customer. Oh yeah did I mention the possibility of Trojans which are only a problem on jail broken phones and systems that give you root access on a whim.
They are only unnecessary to a bitter whiner like yourself. It's not rocket science here folks. Computers are not cars, get that through your thick skulls. If you don't like it don't buy it. Obviously you don't need Apple products so why the bitterness and clothes tearing?
You still don't get it do you. You have choice, buy an Apple product and use the app store or buy someone other brand product and don't. Simple but it seems like rocket science to these morons.
Ok obviously you just don't understand the principles involved.
1. No compiler works with the architecture exactly as you want it to and even worse if it's an embedded system.
2. I have more like six or seven C/C++ compilers installed for the upwards of 7 or 8 systems I program for. Different processors require different compilers.
3. I've forgotten more languages than you have brain cells apparently. If you don't use them you lose them. My FORTRAN is so rusty I couldn't write a compilable hello world right now.
4. You install and uninstall Linux distros for the sole purpose of familiarity if nothing else. Being flexible get's you the next job and even if you are a captive programmer standing still let's the younger more energetic guys grab the brass ring and take off leaving you behind.
To stay alive in this field and I've been in it for 35 years now, you have to run twice as fast just to stay in one place. Oh and I've done it without a degree and I make more than the top of that scale.
So obviously you are someone I'm not going to have to worry about outperforming, you will get replaced by a younger more energetic programmer when you cease to be relevant in your company, or you will get a nice "window seat".
Hey I bought one and I own one simply because I AM Better than someone who can't or won't afford one. "Smug Assholes" of the world Unite. We can beat the Windows and Linux weenies wherever they pop up. We are better than they are and we know it. Why don't we just accept the superiority that they assign to us, we have it anyway. Inferior people simply refuse to recognize the perfection that we have and that they don't, they are insanely jealous of our coolness and superior taste in computing devices.
Most people I know who bash mac people for being extreme fanboys are also terrible at recognizing the fact that they are in fact extreme fanboys themselves of well several things, themselves included (yes they generally have this attitude that their opinions are more valid than any one else's).
And this like nearly all generalizations and comments about apocryphal things like "most people I know..." is completely inaccurate and insulting in general.
It's a bad development when you think simply because these people happen to like and support one particular hardware platform that they are not generally free thinkers.
Modding the parent of this post as insightful is a bit like modding a post funny that insults several groups of people simultaneously simply because you aren't in any of the groups insulted.
once you understand them, it only takes a few lines
Yeah this is the bane of all development systems in the end isn't it. The learning curve for VS is fairly shallow and the functionality is pretty deep if you need to get more sophisticated. I'm tired of trying to debug my build process while debugging the code. Make files are a whole other language to deal with. Very useful because once you understand them, it only takes a few lines to accomplish what you want, the trick is finding those few lines.
Visual Studio has provisions for multiple independent external steps in compilations/builds so that's not really an issue. I've used a YACC like step in a few cases during a build and it works quite nicely.
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Not very likely, but as I have not seen details of either algorithm it's possible but not probable.
It's called being a Movie star. Your importance is ranked by how many people really like you. And it can be gamed just like the Google one.
Why are you whining about that small of a code base. GCC is far larger and I've ported it to several systems some that required rewriting core elements of the code generators. It's a few million lines of code. Thirty to forty thousand lines of code is a small program and probably a single executable at that. Build yourself a picture of the major elements of the code and from that map you can get anywhere you want. It's only computer science after all it's not rocket...oh sorry some of the code I've written is in a rocket so I guess it could be rocket science too. Well you get the picture. Just like any new city you need a map. Once you have that it's cake. Oh and the cake is a lie...
Yup and if you think that's a great idea then go out and build your hardware, advertise it, build and give away the infrastructure for free to your customers and potential customers. Sell your hardware and profit! Sounds like what Apple did. Don't see the problem here. If you want to make money selling things to people on their devices I'd say try licensing the technology, I know Apple has done it in at least 1 case.
Yes you can save arbitrary mp3 files through Itunes itself. I use Amazon regularly to buy music and I manage to get it to my iphone through iTunes. I don't buy directly from Amazon on the iPhone but I think you could actually write an application to do that. iTunes is not the only way to get content onto an Iphone/iPod either, as there is an API that alternate sync apps can and do use. Do a little research. Sorry for your troubles. There is no way to apply the Sherman act here either as there is no monopoly. Apple is not the only vendor of music players, they are not the only vendor of music over the internet and you aren't locked into anything if you just buy someone else product. Stop whining, and start using your wallet instead of your pie-hole!
Not the point. Apple Computer is a known entity, easily verified by Verisign. But it somehow wasn't. Odd that.
I'm supposed to believe a site that calls itself "PC tools iAntivirus"?
Closer to the Ron Popeil!
The issue is completely on Apple for trusting a certificate
Um sorry but how do you figure this? If Verisign is issuing certs that can be trusted without verification then they are the problem. Don't use Verisign any more.
Level 1 certificate statuses
I didn't see exactly what you are talking about here either, but perhaps I mis-interpreted it.
the anonymous researchers obtained a signature certificate from VeriSign for a company named Apple Computer.
From the article it looks like Verisign is the problem here.
Get a Mac.
alerts for IM
actually alerts for IM do come thru without multitasking.
Gaining root access is a normal operation which is enabled on all device (not only "special developer" ones) letting advanced users make weird uses of their phones if they want.
Also allowing other less advanced users to completely hose their system with the possibility to take down a whole network in the process. Hasn't happened yet, but ya never know. Glad I'm no longer a Sprint customer. Oh yeah did I mention the possibility of Trojans which are only a problem on jail broken phones and systems that give you root access on a whim.
This whole subject is one large troll. So, I'm done.
They are only unnecessary to a bitter whiner like yourself. It's not rocket science here folks. Computers are not cars, get that through your thick skulls. If you don't like it don't buy it. Obviously you don't need Apple products so why the bitterness and clothes tearing?
You still don't get it do you. You have choice, buy an Apple product and use the app store or buy someone other brand product and don't. Simple but it seems like rocket science to these morons.
Ok obviously you just don't understand the principles involved.
1. No compiler works with the architecture exactly as you want it to and even worse if it's an embedded system.
2. I have more like six or seven C/C++ compilers installed for the upwards of 7 or 8 systems I program for. Different processors require different compilers.
3. I've forgotten more languages than you have brain cells apparently. If you don't use them you lose them. My FORTRAN is so rusty I couldn't write a compilable hello world right now.
4. You install and uninstall Linux distros for the sole purpose of familiarity if nothing else. Being flexible get's you the next job and even if you are a captive programmer standing still let's the younger more energetic guys grab the brass ring and take off leaving you behind.
To stay alive in this field and I've been in it for 35 years now, you have to run twice as fast just to stay in one place. Oh and I've done it without a degree and I make more than the top of that scale.
So obviously you are someone I'm not going to have to worry about outperforming, you will get replaced by a younger more energetic programmer when you cease to be relevant in your company, or you will get a nice "window seat".
No actually, I was asking for your attention so here here is correct.
LOL precisely! Thank you for getting the joke!
Man nobody ever finishes the fraking sentence.
About $500 more then a PC user did what?
Hey I bought one and I own one simply because I AM Better than someone who can't or won't afford one. "Smug Assholes" of the world Unite. We can beat the Windows and Linux weenies wherever they pop up. We are better than they are and we know it. Why don't we just accept the superiority that they assign to us, we have it anyway. Inferior people simply refuse to recognize the perfection that we have and that they don't, they are insanely jealous of our coolness and superior taste in computing devices.
Wow, I had no idea that you could buy a mac user. How much do they generally cost and how do you keep them?
Most people I know who bash mac people for being extreme fanboys are also terrible at recognizing the fact that they are in fact extreme fanboys themselves of well several things, themselves included (yes they generally have this attitude that their opinions are more valid than any one else's).
And this like nearly all generalizations and comments about apocryphal things like "most people I know..." is completely inaccurate and insulting in general.
It's a bad development when you think simply because these people happen to like and support one particular hardware platform that they are not generally free thinkers.
Modding the parent of this post as insightful is a bit like modding a post funny that insults several groups of people simultaneously simply because you aren't in any of the groups insulted.
Quitter!
once you understand them, it only takes a few lines
Yeah this is the bane of all development systems in the end isn't it. The learning curve for VS is fairly shallow and the functionality is pretty deep if you need to get more sophisticated. I'm tired of trying to debug my build process while debugging the code. Make files are a whole other language to deal with. Very useful because once you understand them, it only takes a few lines to accomplish what you want, the trick is finding those few lines.
Visual Studio has provisions for multiple independent external steps in compilations/builds so that's not really an issue. I've used a YACC like step in a few cases during a build and it works quite nicely.