CNN is reporting that the worm hit at Capitol Hill. I wonder if Microsoft will get any sympathy from any Senator that has his/her computer distroyed by this.
You can go to school for 4 years, as I did, if you want to learn how to draw, paint, and design. But you would do yourself more good if you just take the time to understand the basics. Pickup a design fundamentals book that covers things like the "Golden Section", repitition, framing, etc.
The other great thing to learn is the use of color, and color combinations. http://www.pantone.com is a good place to start. You could also pick up a book about color.
Other than the basics like these, you would have to spend a lot of time and energy learning and practicing how to draw, that I don't think you are looking to do.
Oh. And don't design your website with programmer blue!
Altivec or Velocity Engine was developed by Apple, IBM and Motorola together (AIM), so Velocity Engine and Altivec are the same thing. The name Altivec is owned by Motorola, but the actual 128-bit vector processing unit is owned by AIM, so IBM can use it in their processors, they just can't call it Altivec.
The article says Java based, so if that is correct, to me that would mean Java in the background, and a Cocoa front. With that said, I don't think that would happen. Sun wouldn't like that much because it would go against the write once, run anywhere principle.
100% Java apps do however look like Cocoa apps on OS X. With a few minor problems of course. Apple has been working hard on getting the Aqua look and feel working with Swing. It's pretty close, but I don't think 100% Java as we know it is what will be used.
The third way is to use Objective-C. If StarOffice is written in C, then that is the way to go as far as I can see. You can use C alongside Objective-C, so mostly they would have to work on the interface part using Cocoa. I am not sure about C++. Also the Cocoa API came from Next, which ran on Intel. I have wondered a lot as to why Apple has not opened the libraries to other platforms. Objective-C will go nowhere, and there will be few developers until this happens. It would be good for Apple to open this up, and be great for development of cross-platform apps.
This would not be good for Sun though. How would it look if they make this great app, and didn't even use the progamming language that they created and have promoted as being the replacement for other languages. It would make it look like Java is sub-par to C, C++, and Objective-C.
My guess is that Apple and Sun are working together for something bigger. Sun is already looking to integrate into Java what Apple has done with hardware acceleration, who's to say that they aren't looking at something bigger. Like Swing2. A better windowing system than what they have now.
This is all speculation, but to me there is something bigger here. Why else would Steve Jobs be antagonizing an already upset Microsoft? And why has there been no talk of.NET for OS X?
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CNN is reporting that the worm hit at Capitol Hill. I wonder if Microsoft will get any sympathy from any Senator that has his/her computer distroyed by this.
You can go to school for 4 years, as I did, if you want to learn how to draw, paint, and design. But you would do yourself more good if you just take the time to understand the basics. Pickup a design fundamentals book that covers things like the "Golden Section", repitition, framing, etc. The other great thing to learn is the use of color, and color combinations. http://www.pantone.com is a good place to start. You could also pick up a book about color. Other than the basics like these, you would have to spend a lot of time and energy learning and practicing how to draw, that I don't think you are looking to do. Oh. And don't design your website with programmer blue!
Altivec or Velocity Engine was developed by Apple, IBM and Motorola together (AIM), so Velocity Engine and Altivec are the same thing. The name Altivec is owned by Motorola, but the actual 128-bit vector processing unit is owned by AIM, so IBM can use it in their processors, they just can't call it Altivec.
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The article says Java based, so if that is correct, to me that would mean Java in the background, and a Cocoa front. With that said, I don't think that would happen. Sun wouldn't like that much because it would go against the write once, run anywhere principle. 100% Java apps do however look like Cocoa apps on OS X. With a few minor problems of course. Apple has been working hard on getting the Aqua look and feel working with Swing. It's pretty close, but I don't think 100% Java as we know it is what will be used. The third way is to use Objective-C. If StarOffice is written in C, then that is the way to go as far as I can see. You can use C alongside Objective-C, so mostly they would have to work on the interface part using Cocoa. I am not sure about C++. Also the Cocoa API came from Next, which ran on Intel. I have wondered a lot as to why Apple has not opened the libraries to other platforms. Objective-C will go nowhere, and there will be few developers until this happens. It would be good for Apple to open this up, and be great for development of cross-platform apps. This would not be good for Sun though. How would it look if they make this great app, and didn't even use the progamming language that they created and have promoted as being the replacement for other languages. It would make it look like Java is sub-par to C, C++, and Objective-C. My guess is that Apple and Sun are working together for something bigger. Sun is already looking to integrate into Java what Apple has done with hardware acceleration, who's to say that they aren't looking at something bigger. Like Swing2. A better windowing system than what they have now. This is all speculation, but to me there is something bigger here. Why else would Steve Jobs be antagonizing an already upset Microsoft? And why has there been no talk of .NET for OS X?