This was an experiment to see whether a crafted blog post containing errors could get +5 and between when I went to bed and when I awoke it appears the/. mods were working overtime to make my dribble stand out.
I don't work for Apple.
I have never used Aperture so I don't know how good/bad it is.
Why would Shake and Motion have anything to do with another project?
Why would core image be used on such a high end application?
This is why I should stop reading/. Anything can be modded up...
Sure there are cancers that can be beaten like ALL but what state does it leave the body in to fight off relapses and the obvious immune system deficiences inherent in fighting it? Cases such as this one (story on my company website) are really quite common even though the underlying cancer has been "cured".
The real cure will come when the body can safely shake off cancer and remain in a state that it can survive long term, whether that means the kidneys remain functional or the immune system is not massively compromised. My opinion is that this will only occur when we can synthesize and instruct immune system cells outside the body to attack the underlying cause, whether that be cancer, a virus or even a bacterium. Then they will simply get daily injections of those synthetic cells until they truly are cured.
Nope, they have deep pockets and a sustained space program based off military money is much better than no space program and more bombs being dropped on Iraq. Imagine the world without any affordable launch vehicle... the military provides a market to keep is partially self-sustaining.
It's not like Obj-C doesn't have a wow factor anyway.
For starters you can create basically the entire interface of an application without writing a line of code by using bindings. What's even better is you know you will never see a crash in that code and it acts how a normal Mac OS X app should work removing tons of testing and freeing you up to do cooler things to sell your application.
Secondly the ability to rapidly prototype a working application using the above glue code and the already built objects allows you a near unprecedented ability to experiment with the user interface.
And finally I guess is what you get for free. Everything from Core Image to threading, it's all there and works perfectly every time. There are so many objects which I guess shows its age... if you need something then quite likely it has already been built or tacked on to an existing object allowing you to continue on and again produced the cooler items that sell your app.
It's not like Obj-C doesn't have a wow factor anyway.
For starters you can create basically the entire interface of an application without writing a line of code by using bindings. What's even better is you know you will never see a crash in that code and it acts how a normal Mac OS X app should work removing tons of testing and freeing you up to do cooler things to sell your application.
Secondly the ability to rapidly prototype a working application using the above glue code and the already built objects allows you a near unprecedented ability to experiment with the user interface.
And finally I guess is what you get for free. Everything from Core Image to threading, it's all there and works perfectly every time. There are so many objects which I guess shows its age... if you need something then quite likely it has already been built or tacked on to an existing object allowing you to continue on and again produced the cooler items that sell your app.
I agree. When programming Obj-C you will rarely see any memory related errors if you know what you are doing. It is not a beast to manage and the memory management is flexible enough to cover nearly all situations from some quick interface code (autorelease) to tight loops or backend components (managed retain/release).
As a full time Cocoa programmer I can't really think of anything to change in that regard.
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Civ 4 patch 1.52 was released yesterday. It fixes many of the hardware problems associated with the original release and has much improved performance.
I also like the idea that it will help out the countries economies. Yeah right. Most of the BSA are big American corporations. If they reduce piracy by 10%, companies like Microsoft will increase revenue quite significantly. Sure it might help out the stores that sell software in those countries but that is a tiny drop in the ocean in comparison to how much money will be piped out of those countries and to the USofA.
Garage Band 2 is my very life blood. I *love* that app!
Garage Band is an extremely complex app with thousands of widgets that you don't see anywhere else in the OS. It has behaviour that is different (some instances of dragging loops don't do what dragging usually does) and the interface is crammed full of items except for the large gaping spaces between then. There is also that strange wood panelling...
X-Code is the bizz-omb.
XCode is darn nice except that it's preferences and project settings are wacked. Why are build settings in the project but build components somewhere else? Why is there so much duplicate information in the project settings and target settings? Why do the preferences require you to apply when no other app does? The list goes on...
Pages and Keynote are really neat.
Pages and Keynote have that many weird interface choices that I would need to devote an essay to them. They also don't behave like each other even though they are part of the same suite. Not to mention the new widgets (micro toolbar in the pallette anyone?).
iTunes is the only desktop music player worth getting excited over.
iTunes again looks like nothing else in Mac OS X. It has different sized splitviews, tables with different coloured backgrounds, different widgets, a toolbar looking device at the top of the window that isn't a toolbar, a zoom function that isn't a zoom function, etc.
Safari is a pretty good browser.
Safari is metal but it shouldn't be and Safari introduced a new style of toolbar with new styles of buttons. Fortunately that is all I can think of.
You would need a carrier drug to target the calcium to tumours (something we are not all that successful at doing right now). Knowing this, obviously they can make money so I am sure they have already researched it and rejected it.
Which brings me to a question that someone else might be able to answer, is oxygen a poison to cancerous cells? If it is only a poison in high dosages like it is to normal cells then using oxygen is an extremely inefficient and dangerous method.
I agree, that is a much better solution. More importantly though, these landing pads are not a natural part of the body so denying the ability for them to be created is much more beneficial to the short term prospects of the patient. I am pretty sure they would have an adverse affect on the cells around them, even without cancer taking hold.
Now a good question would be, how did cancer, something that doesn't spread between people, come up with something that clever? I guess after enough mutations of the cells they could produce a protein to trigger it off but that would be an impressive accidental mutation.
I just hope that whatever near term solution we come up with isn't as nasty as chemo and doesn't affect the bone marrow too much if at all. The body has enough stresses as it is.
There are settings in System Preferences that tell the system what do to when certain media is inserted (CDs and DVDs of various types). The system of course has to know that a piece of media has been inserted so it can mount it so I am sure it is just a global system notification being sent off that triggers it.
That probably only means that they have optimised the architecture over time as would be expected. Things like improved resource management, a slimmer kernel for each CPU, a better compiler, etc. can easily make up for that small performance gain.
Just to make a minor correction to an otherwise good post, the 'Nav Booster' is actually the service module which has the same task as the one on Apollo.
I don't think they will. The J-2 hasn't been built in years and while the J-2S (the more modern version) could have production restarted Thiokol believes it would take more than 4 years to restart production.
I suspect that development and certification of the SSME for orbital restarts would take significantly less time and money than the restarting of the entire J-2S program.
The Free Trade Agreement that Australia signed with the United States last year had certain gotchas including parts of the DMCA being forced upon us and software patents becoming law in Australia.
This is one of the reasons why the Kazaa case is being fought in Australia because our DMCA laws are nearly identical to the US version now.
Pepsi vs. Coke is a comparison over a marketable item that doesn't take much effort to change in your daily routine.
Linux vs. Windows on the other hand is "geek" stuff that would take phenomenal effort from standard users and businesses to switch to either platform.
Linux (and OSDL) are better suited to word of mouth and niche sectors of the market. Pepsi is better suited to TV ads and advertising slogans. OSDL should stay out of this comparison.
Just to add to this comment a little further, the glow was the exhaust from the 3 auxiliary power units (APU) on board the shuttle. They provide power for the hydraulic systems (stabilisers and landing gear) and some electrical power. They are only used in descent and landing and are powered by Hydrazine, the same fuel that is used for the OMS and the thrusters.
When I first saw it in infrared it reminded me a lot of the space shuttle Columbia coming back on a flight where one of the APU's caught fire and flames were seen pulsing out the back. A quick check of the visual feed showed that it was just hot gases.
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Well as I blew my cover earlier...
/. mods were working overtime to make my dribble stand out.
/. Anything can be modded up...
This was an experiment to see whether a crafted blog post containing errors could get +5 and between when I went to bed and when I awoke it appears the
I don't work for Apple.
I have never used Aperture so I don't know how good/bad it is.
Why would Shake and Motion have anything to do with another project?
Why would core image be used on such a high end application?
This is why I should stop reading
Haha, nice, I just posted in the wrong thread. Stupid slashdot post delay.
Nope, the group I now work for was incorrect on purpose. ;)
Sure there are cancers that can be beaten like ALL but what state does it leave the body in to fight off relapses and the obvious immune system deficiences inherent in fighting it? Cases such as this one (story on my company website) are really quite common even though the underlying cancer has been "cured".
The real cure will come when the body can safely shake off cancer and remain in a state that it can survive long term, whether that means the kidneys remain functional or the immune system is not massively compromised. My opinion is that this will only occur when we can synthesize and instruct immune system cells outside the body to attack the underlying cause, whether that be cancer, a virus or even a bacterium. Then they will simply get daily injections of those synthetic cells until they truly are cured.
That day surely cannot be too far away.
Nope, they have deep pockets and a sustained space program based off military money is much better than no space program and more bombs being dropped on Iraq. Imagine the world without any affordable launch vehicle... the military provides a market to keep is partially self-sustaining.
It's not like Obj-C doesn't have a wow factor anyway.
For starters you can create basically the entire interface of an application without writing a line of code by using bindings. What's even better is you know you will never see a crash in that code and it acts how a normal Mac OS X app should work removing tons of testing and freeing you up to do cooler things to sell your application.
Secondly the ability to rapidly prototype a working application using the above glue code and the already built objects allows you a near unprecedented ability to experiment with the user interface.
And finally I guess is what you get for free. Everything from Core Image to threading, it's all there and works perfectly every time. There are so many objects which I guess shows its age... if you need something then quite likely it has already been built or tacked on to an existing object allowing you to continue on and again produced the cooler items that sell your app.
It's not like Obj-C doesn't have a wow factor anyway. For starters you can create basically the entire interface of an application without writing a line of code by using bindings. What's even better is you know you will never see a crash in that code and it acts how a normal Mac OS X app should work removing tons of testing and freeing you up to do cooler things to sell your application. Secondly the ability to rapidly prototype a working application using the above glue code and the already built objects allows you a near unprecedented ability to experiment with the user interface. And finally I guess is what you get for free. Everything from Core Image to threading, it's all there and works perfectly every time. There are so many objects which I guess shows its age... if you need something then quite likely it has already been built or tacked on to an existing object allowing you to continue on and again produced the cooler items that sell your app.
I agree. When programming Obj-C you will rarely see any memory related errors if you know what you are doing. It is not a beast to manage and the memory management is flexible enough to cover nearly all situations from some quick interface code (autorelease) to tight loops or backend components (managed retain/release). As a full time Cocoa programmer I can't really think of anything to change in that regard.
Civ 4 patch 1.52 was released yesterday. It fixes many of the hardware problems associated with the original release and has much improved performance.
That would probably allow you to use the original X-Box controller then.
I also like the idea that it will help out the countries economies. Yeah right. Most of the BSA are big American corporations. If they reduce piracy by 10%, companies like Microsoft will increase revenue quite significantly. Sure it might help out the stores that sell software in those countries but that is a tiny drop in the ocean in comparison to how much money will be piped out of those countries and to the USofA.
Here is what the Woz is talking about:
Garage Band 2 is my very life blood. I *love* that app!
Garage Band is an extremely complex app with thousands of widgets that you don't see anywhere else in the OS. It has behaviour that is different (some instances of dragging loops don't do what dragging usually does) and the interface is crammed full of items except for the large gaping spaces between then. There is also that strange wood panelling...
X-Code is the bizz-omb.
XCode is darn nice except that it's preferences and project settings are wacked. Why are build settings in the project but build components somewhere else? Why is there so much duplicate information in the project settings and target settings? Why do the preferences require you to apply when no other app does? The list goes on...
Pages and Keynote are really neat.
Pages and Keynote have that many weird interface choices that I would need to devote an essay to them. They also don't behave like each other even though they are part of the same suite. Not to mention the new widgets (micro toolbar in the pallette anyone?).
iTunes is the only desktop music player worth getting excited over.
iTunes again looks like nothing else in Mac OS X. It has different sized splitviews, tables with different coloured backgrounds, different widgets, a toolbar looking device at the top of the window that isn't a toolbar, a zoom function that isn't a zoom function, etc.
Safari is a pretty good browser.
Safari is metal but it shouldn't be and Safari introduced a new style of toolbar with new styles of buttons. Fortunately that is all I can think of.
You would need a carrier drug to target the calcium to tumours (something we are not all that successful at doing right now). Knowing this, obviously they can make money so I am sure they have already researched it and rejected it.
Which brings me to a question that someone else might be able to answer, is oxygen a poison to cancerous cells? If it is only a poison in high dosages like it is to normal cells then using oxygen is an extremely inefficient and dangerous method.
I agree, that is a much better solution. More importantly though, these landing pads are not a natural part of the body so denying the ability for them to be created is much more beneficial to the short term prospects of the patient. I am pretty sure they would have an adverse affect on the cells around them, even without cancer taking hold.
Now a good question would be, how did cancer, something that doesn't spread between people, come up with something that clever? I guess after enough mutations of the cells they could produce a protein to trigger it off but that would be an impressive accidental mutation.
I just hope that whatever near term solution we come up with isn't as nasty as chemo and doesn't affect the bone marrow too much if at all. The body has enough stresses as it is.
The iTunes Music Store has made a profit, albeit small, in the last two quarters.
There are settings in System Preferences that tell the system what do to when certain media is inserted (CDs and DVDs of various types). The system of course has to know that a piece of media has been inserted so it can mount it so I am sure it is just a global system notification being sent off that triggers it.
That probably only means that they have optimised the architecture over time as would be expected. Things like improved resource management, a slimmer kernel for each CPU, a better compiler, etc. can easily make up for that small performance gain.
Just to make a minor correction to an otherwise good post, the 'Nav Booster' is actually the service module which has the same task as the one on Apollo.
I don't think they will. The J-2 hasn't been built in years and while the J-2S (the more modern version) could have production restarted Thiokol believes it would take more than 4 years to restart production.
I suspect that development and certification of the SSME for orbital restarts would take significantly less time and money than the restarting of the entire J-2S program.
The Free Trade Agreement that Australia signed with the United States last year had certain gotchas including parts of the DMCA being forced upon us and software patents becoming law in Australia.
This is one of the reasons why the Kazaa case is being fought in Australia because our DMCA laws are nearly identical to the US version now.
More information is available here:
- Linux.org.au
- The Agreement
There are other fun gotchas linked on this page that do not relate to the parent:
Trade Watch Oz
Yah I guess that was a bit off topic but the link to the iPod transfer mentions software that I wrote so it was on the front page.
I don't live there.
...now that I have made the front page of slashdot.
:) j/k
Perhaps I can move out of my parents basement now.
Pepsi vs. Coke is a comparison over a marketable item that doesn't take much effort to change in your daily routine.
Linux vs. Windows on the other hand is "geek" stuff that would take phenomenal effort from standard users and businesses to switch to either platform.
Linux (and OSDL) are better suited to word of mouth and niche sectors of the market. Pepsi is better suited to TV ads and advertising slogans. OSDL should stay out of this comparison.
Just to add to this comment a little further, the glow was the exhaust from the 3 auxiliary power units (APU) on board the shuttle. They provide power for the hydraulic systems (stabilisers and landing gear) and some electrical power. They are only used in descent and landing and are powered by Hydrazine, the same fuel that is used for the OMS and the thrusters.
When I first saw it in infrared it reminded me a lot of the space shuttle Columbia coming back on a flight where one of the APU's caught fire and flames were seen pulsing out the back. A quick check of the visual feed showed that it was just hot gases.
A video of the fire is available at John Young's website.