Yeah Mac OS X is a decedent of OpenStep, but what would you expect from the guy that ran NeXT? However Mac OS X is in no way just FreeBSD: it has a Mach 3.0 derived kernel, a custom driver model and totally different APIs. Calling Mac OS X a BSD is like calling Windows NT 3.5, Windows Vista
I actually installed MediaWiki last week as an attempt to get documentation moved off the dreadful pile of crap that is Lotus Notes. Its amazing how quickly useful content has been added to this since the documentation on Lotus Notes is updated so infrequently. The difference is that Lotus Notes is not very easy to use and MediWiki content is a simple search away.
Even a couple of years ago, Apple's customizations to Swing illustrate that Swing was capable of being a first-class GUI citizen. Apple bundles a number of Java apps that are wrapped in a nice app bundle and no one would ever know there were Java rather than some native binary.
Except they don't have standard menus, are slow to start, scroll arrows don't work normally and tabbing doesn't behave as set in system preferences. Other than that they look pretty much native!
Under Java 6 on Windows things have definitely improved. Swing still doesn't look quite right and doesn't feel like you are using Win32 controls but the fonts are at least looking more or less native. They don't look quite the same as every other app though.
Sorry, but this appears to be FUD. If you want a native look and feel you need to put in one line of code to tell the UIManager to use it. A few more lines can give the user control of the L&F.
Once a Swing application is up and running it's not noticeably slower or less responsive than any other GUI application, assuming its been correctly written, and it will work cross-platform with no changes. I've taken desktop applications from Windows -> Linux -> Solaris -> HPUX with no porting effort.
This is simply not true. I have never seen a Swing app look or feel native on any platform under Java 5. On Windows fonts look terrible and on the Mac you do not get the standard menus and it is more than common to have incorrectly named items. Under Java 6, on Windows, Swing looks dramatically better but its still not quite right, and certainly doesn't feel like a Windows app.
SWT, although far from perfect, is a massive improvement over the mediocrity of Swing. It tries to bring the native look and feel to Java applications and succeeds with varying success, depending on platform. SWT has learned from the mistakes of Swing: no one API can provide a good cross-platform solution.
It is my belief that Swing is the primary reason for lacklustre adoption of Java on the desktop. Nobody actually wants to use applications written to it and so very few people write them. In fact I would go as far to say that Swing is the primary reason for the massive adoption of.NET. Windows Forms may not be cross-platform but it looks and feels native.
I personally believe that properties add extra syntax that makes the language that much more difficult to understand. And all this extra syntax can be easily represented through methods.
The Mac doesn't natively support it yet (wait till Saturday). Windows doesn't natively support it yet, as you note. Linux doesn't support it at all, really, because you can't write an open-source implementation due to patent issues.
I believe that QuickTime 6 added support for JPEG2000 on the Mac...
This is typical Microsoft. Add another pointless file format when there OS currently lacks support for many other common formats including PDF, PS, Flash, bzip, gzip, tar, jpeg2000, etc, etc. Maybe they should spend time fixing this rather than adding yet another feature that nobody needs or wants.
Does anyone else rememember when Apple used a similar phrase in their advertising, long after Windows had pre-emtive multitasking? My guess is: probably not.
Except that NeXTSTEP, which Mac OS X is, had preemptive multitasking back in 1989.
That really surprises me. The feedback we've gotten from developers trying to use Tiger builds, all the way up to A420, is that it's far too slow for everyday use. It's much slower than Panther in those builds because nothing has been optimized. It has a lot of debugging code that makes everything run very, very slowly compared to 10.3.
This is simply not true. The speed increases in 10.4 are probably larger than most other Mac OS X releases made. This OS made my 500MHz iBook feel as fast as an 800MHz G4 running 10.3.8 and Safari is faster still. Indexing does however slow things down for a while after installation.
Play a game like Gran Turismo and you'll see what I mean - you really can feel the terrain (and your car's grip or lack of) through the Dual Shock controllers - they aren't simply in an on-off mode.
And here I was stupidly thinking that variable speed motors had existed before this patent was filed!
Unfortunately my company is forcing me to learn and use this third rate language. I simply cannot understand what the point of it is as both J# and C# are more concise and not really any more difficult to learn. I certainly do not want to be stuck developing VB.NET code all my programming life when I'd much rather be developing in less verbose languages like C, Java or even PHP.
The statement on the front of the book, whether motivated by religion or not, is completley true. Evolution IS a theory, and not a fact.
Evolution is most certainly a theory but it is almost certainly a fact too. Therefore the sticker on the book is a lie.
Evolution has masses of scientific evidence to back it up where as creationism is nothing more than a fairy tail since there is absolutely no scientific evidence to back it up.
Fortunately this was posted on ThinkSecret who has a far better track record than most of the other rumor sites. So, if this rumor is correct, I'll be one of the first to order one of these on 10 Jan. The only thing I'd really like to see in this headless iMac is a higher-end model with a G5 processor, better graphics card and superdrive.
Maybe I'm not looking at this deep enough, but what does a piece of hardware for playing MP3s have to do with personal computers?
I'd say it comes down to integration. Yes an iPod works with Windows, and using iTunes no less. On the Mac, however, the experience is very different: iTunes is only a single part of the puzzle. Every one of the iApps, from GarageBand to iMovie, integrate together to make doing any of their tasks hugely easier. It is this that makes using the iPod on the Mac a far nicer experience than it is on Windows.
I had always thought that Mac users were a rabid, elitist group
Err...we are a rabid elitist group! Its because most of us Mac users strongly believe that we are using the best desktop computing products in the world and we find it difficult to understand why anyone would actually use Windows XP out of choice.
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Yeah Mac OS X is a decedent of OpenStep, but what would you expect from the guy that ran NeXT? However Mac OS X is in no way just FreeBSD: it has a Mach 3.0 derived kernel, a custom driver model and totally different APIs. Calling Mac OS X a BSD is like calling Windows NT 3.5, Windows Vista
I actually installed MediaWiki last week as an attempt to get documentation moved off the dreadful pile of crap that is Lotus Notes. Its amazing how quickly useful content has been added to this since the documentation on Lotus Notes is updated so infrequently. The difference is that Lotus Notes is not very easy to use and MediWiki content is a simple search away.
Even a couple of years ago, Apple's customizations to Swing illustrate that Swing was capable of being a first-class GUI citizen. Apple bundles a number of Java apps that are wrapped in a nice app bundle and no one would ever know there were Java rather than some native binary.
Except they don't have standard menus, are slow to start, scroll arrows don't work normally and tabbing doesn't behave as set in system preferences. Other than that they look pretty much native!
Under Java 6 on Windows things have definitely improved. Swing still doesn't look quite right and doesn't feel like you are using Win32 controls but the fonts are at least looking more or less native. They don't look quite the same as every other app though.
Sun, its time to let Swing die.
Sorry, but this appears to be FUD. If you want a native look and feel you need to put in one line of code to tell the UIManager to use it. A few more lines can give the user control of the L&F.
Once a Swing application is up and running it's not noticeably slower or less responsive than any other GUI application, assuming its been correctly written, and it will work cross-platform with no changes. I've taken desktop applications from Windows -> Linux -> Solaris -> HPUX with no porting effort.
This is simply not true. I have never seen a Swing app look or feel native on any platform under Java 5. On Windows fonts look terrible and on the Mac you do not get the standard menus and it is more than common to have incorrectly named items. Under Java 6, on Windows, Swing looks dramatically better but its still not quite right, and certainly doesn't feel like a Windows app.
SWT, although far from perfect, is a massive improvement over the mediocrity of Swing. It tries to bring the native look and feel to Java applications and succeeds with varying success, depending on platform. SWT has learned from the mistakes of Swing: no one API can provide a good cross-platform solution.
It is my belief that Swing is the primary reason for lacklustre adoption of Java on the desktop. Nobody actually wants to use applications written to it and so very few people write them. In fact I would go as far to say that Swing is the primary reason for the massive adoption of .NET. Windows Forms may not be cross-platform but it looks and feels native.
Any use of the word "extreme" with regards to a silicon chip is wrong.
Its probably named Extreme because it generates and extreme amount of heat.
Qt on the Mac looks anything but native! A swing Java app looks much much more native than Mac Qt!
If you don't want people to use your app, use Qt on the Mac.
I personally believe that properties add extra syntax that makes the language that much more difficult to understand. And all this extra syntax can be easily represented through methods.
iTunes has nothing to do with KHTML/webcore. It uses a completely proprietary XML based viewer.
I think the question all mac users are asking is, will this run on Virtual PC???
I am actually interested to know this. It would be a great way to test x86 compiles of my apps without paying $1500 for ADC select and a dev kit.
I think it is obvious why PHP has become so popular:
1. It is very easy to learn
2. It is easy to use (unlike ASP.NET) and relatively simple
3. The syntax is derived from C and perl
4. It is free
Apple has an H.264 version of the trailer at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/
The Mac doesn't natively support it yet (wait till Saturday). Windows doesn't natively support it yet, as you note. Linux doesn't support it at all, really, because you can't write an open-source implementation due to patent issues.
I believe that QuickTime 6 added support for JPEG2000 on the Mac...
This is typical Microsoft. Add another pointless file format when there OS currently lacks support for many other common formats including PDF, PS, Flash, bzip, gzip, tar, jpeg2000, etc, etc. Maybe they should spend time fixing this rather than adding yet another feature that nobody needs or wants.
Except that NeXTSTEP, which Mac OS X is, had preemptive multitasking back in 1989.
That really surprises me. The feedback we've gotten from developers trying to use Tiger builds, all the way up to A420, is that it's far too slow for everyday use. It's much slower than Panther in those builds because nothing has been optimized. It has a lot of debugging code that makes everything run very, very slowly compared to 10.3.
This is simply not true. The speed increases in 10.4 are probably larger than most other Mac OS X releases made. This OS made my 500MHz iBook feel as fast as an 800MHz G4 running 10.3.8 and Safari is faster still. Indexing does however slow things down for a while after installation.
Play a game like Gran Turismo and you'll see what I mean - you really can feel the terrain (and your car's grip or lack of) through the Dual Shock controllers - they aren't simply in an on-off mode.
And here I was stupidly thinking that variable speed motors had existed before this patent was filed!
It appears that Longhorn will also include piles (or stacks to MS) which were a long rumored feature in Mac OS.
Now if only they will end vb.net support ....
Unfortunately my company is forcing me to learn and use this third rate language. I simply cannot understand what the point of it is as both J# and C# are more concise and not really any more difficult to learn. I certainly do not want to be stuck developing VB.NET code all my programming life when I'd much rather be developing in less verbose languages like C, Java or even PHP.
HP have just decided for me that I will not ever buy one of their printers until this stupid idea is revoked.
Since the Keynote document format is open it is very likely that the other application in iWork will be too.
The statement on the front of the book, whether motivated by religion or not, is completley true. Evolution IS a theory, and not a fact.
Evolution is most certainly a theory but it is almost certainly a fact too. Therefore the sticker on the book is a lie. Evolution has masses of scientific evidence to back it up where as creationism is nothing more than a fairy tail since there is absolutely no scientific evidence to back it up.
Fortunately this was posted on ThinkSecret who has a far better track record than most of the other rumor sites. So, if this rumor is correct, I'll be one of the first to order one of these on 10 Jan. The only thing I'd really like to see in this headless iMac is a higher-end model with a G5 processor, better graphics card and superdrive.
Surely including an IE rendering engine negates one of the biggest advantages of moving to Firefox: fewer security exploits.
Maybe I'm not looking at this deep enough, but what does a piece of hardware for playing MP3s have to do with personal computers?
I'd say it comes down to integration. Yes an iPod works with Windows, and using iTunes no less. On the Mac, however, the experience is very different: iTunes is only a single part of the puzzle. Every one of the iApps, from GarageBand to iMovie, integrate together to make doing any of their tasks hugely easier. It is this that makes using the iPod on the Mac a far nicer experience than it is on Windows.
I had always thought that Mac users were a rabid, elitist group
Err...we are a rabid elitist group! Its because most of us Mac users strongly believe that we are using the best desktop computing products in the world and we find it difficult to understand why anyone would actually use Windows XP out of choice.