...of Revolution OS are the bizarre physical mannerisms of RMS and ESR. I enjoyed all their commentary but I had to go home and take a shower to get rid of that creepy feeling.
No amount of tweeking to use special purpose instructions or multiple processors is going to beat that in the long term, so if the PPC people don't do something about it soon, Apple will have to switch.
How about a 900MHz front-side BUS like the IBM 970 has? Would that help at all?
Seriously though, this is exactly the kind of game you could easily write for the iPod - if only there was an open API for adding your own "Extras." Apple's not likely to open the API any time soon, but they need some kind of replacement for that tired "breakout" clone.
On the other hand if someone writes an HFS+ native Linux that plays MP3s out of the same folders as the iPod OS and runs all the Linux cruft it'd be worth the total conversion for some.
Try this: Use "Download checked items to Desktop" from the Software Update panel. This will give you a package installer so you don't have to download it again. Next run Disk Utility and do "Repair Permissions" on your startup disk. Next throw away the receipt for this update, which will be in the/Library/Receipts folder and has "2003-03-03" in its name (I haven't patched this machine here so I don't know the exact name). Finally, run the patch from the package file on your desktop. If this doesn't fix it I don't know what will!
Of course they tested it, don't have a cow. I've updated several computers over the past couple of weeks and have had absolutely no problems. I took the cautious step of running disk repair on each system before upgrading and then I used the Archive-and-Install method.
Every upgrade, no matter how trivial, can bring complications. One must be prepared for such an eventuality, and hopefully face inevitable problems with a bit of grace.... or in your case a bit of fucking grace.
Quite so. In fact one might say it's a rather unfortunate side-effect of being British. I would venture to say that within that milieu there are shades of subtlety that would be lost on the typical brash overstimulated American, who for the most part has no appreciation for understatement, having beaten his head against life for so long.
...It is my understanding that space is a co-relative property of energy, not an independent plenum in which things reside. That is to say, without taking into account the relationship between two or more energy peaks there is nothing which can be called "space." Space in this context simply means: spatial relationship, but that relationship is intercontained in the co-relative awareness which we call "energy."
That makes me one of those cosmologists who takes consciousness as the primary medium from which all else is composed. Although from a materialist standpoint this is difficult to conceive, it is a perfectly valid assumption from which to build. But it proceeds from a subjective experiential validity rather than an "objective" sensual validity. Since I know from experience that I am transcendently conscious I have no trouble trusting my own authority on the matter.
And frankly it leads to more elegant explanations of phenomena than proceeding from a materialist standpoint, and after all aren't aesthetics the real arbiter of truth?
So how long before Apple opens the source for Mac OS 9 - or at least the Mac OS 9 Finder? I'm sure there are plenty of APIs in there that were abandoned, from the TCP/IP stuff to the printing architecture. I'll bet there are a lot of geeks who would love to get their hands on Mac OS 9 and continue extending it, do some speed improvement, maybe bolt on a little pre-emptive MT, protected memory, and a real VM. I for one would love to hack the Finder into a standalone Carbon application to run under Mac OS X.
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space was produced by a two-man team, and they're able to use what they make on SAIS to fund their next game.... which you're really going to dig.
Indeed, in some distant future your incredibly useful 3D-transformation algorithms, fast fourier transforms, and Bresenham procedures will all be absorbed into the Hardware, and some will become part of the main processor, and still others will be inherent to the graphics cards.
Which leads to OS->Software->Hardware. I put OS at the top because the OS is an abstraction derived from all the combined software elements, libraries, executables, and data formats. For Apple, the OS is also the look and feel and style that ties it all together. The graphical interface lives on the same plane as the available frameworks and interfaces.
From a developer perspective, I see the manipulation of interactive applications as a form of programming. The contortion of data by an agent, the user, to achieve some communicable form. The programmer who types C all day makes it possible for the end-user to liberate himself from those details and focus on his interaction.
You have a point. But then again, McDonalds sells more hamburgers than anyone else. Still, they've got a long way to go before they become a gourmet restaurant.
...Banged my head on the wall until I found the solution you mention was suggested on the Apache site. They claim it's only a problem in a beta of MSIE but I've seen it in all recent versions up to 6.
I haven't looked at the source code for OpenOffice but I tend to think this is the wrong approach to get this software onto the Mac. I'm sure the development team is very excited to see their baby can walk, but why not take the longer road and get it right? What's kewl for geeks is not always kewl for end users.
Assuming the program is written using intelligent design the data model and I/O controller should be almost completely isolated from the display code. If this is so then the bulk of work should consist of putting a decent Aqua interface on it, putting the menu bar where it belongs, and using Quartz for the text rendering.
Could it be that there's a limited supply of Mac-savvy open source developers available?
PHP's braindead way of putting everything_in_the_same_namespace() gets really old.
Actually PHP has a few different namespaces. There's the global namespace, of course. There's the function-local namespace. There's an object-local namespace. The various global arrays, such as $_REQUEST and $_SERVER can be treated as their own namespaces in a manner of speaking.
Perl has references which can point to sub routines, arrays hashes or other contants or scalars.
PHP also has references, as in $myRef =& $myObject; or $myRef =& $myVar;. You can refer to functions by name and call functions through a variable, as in $val = $myFunctionRef();. PHP's unified method of handling arrays, scalars, hashes, and references is pretty nice IMHO, whereas perl's funky way of referring to members of hashes/arrays as scalars versus the hashes/arrays themselves with % @ designators is fairly pointless and the source of many bugs.
When they fix interpolation which is a nightmare
Silly rabbit. Interpolation in PHP is very simple and it just works: print "Interpolate $thevar"; print "Interpolate $thearr[itemhash]"; print "Interpolate {$arr['itemhash']}"; print "Interpolate {$thevar}yukyuk"; print "Interpolate $arr[5]";
Last I saw Perl has been ported to every major platform except Palm. Contrast to PHP which is on what Linux and Windows? Okay maybe some other Unixes. Perl is on dozens of Unixes, OS/2, Windows, MacOS (Before OSX)
Some correXions for you: PHP runs on about as many Unices as Perl, including Mac OS X. Perl 5 has been included with Mac OS X from its inception.
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I think an abbreviation is more like this:
"abbrev."
An acronym, on the other hand is
A Concise Reduction Obliquely Naming Your Meaning A Cross Reference Of Notes Yielding Messages Alphabetical Character Rendition Of a Name Yielding a Meaning Alphabetically Coded Reminder of Names You Misremember A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics....
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...of Revolution OS are the bizarre physical mannerisms of RMS and ESR. I enjoyed all their commentary but I had to go home and take a shower to get rid of that creepy feeling.
No amount of tweeking to use special purpose instructions or multiple processors is going to beat that in the long term, so if the PPC people don't do something about it soon, Apple will have to switch.
How about a 900MHz front-side BUS like the IBM 970 has? Would that help at all?
Seriously though, this is exactly the kind of game you could easily write for the iPod - if only there was an open API for adding your own "Extras." Apple's not likely to open the API any time soon, but they need some kind of replacement for that tired "breakout" clone.
On the other hand if someone writes an HFS+ native Linux that plays MP3s out of the same folders as the iPod OS and runs all the Linux cruft it'd be worth the total conversion for some.
If people don't know any better than they really aren't missing much of anything
That's what I've always said about dead people. What's the big deal about dead people? They don't know any better!
Try this: Use "Download checked items to Desktop" from the Software Update panel. This will give you a package installer so you don't have to download it again. Next run Disk Utility and do "Repair Permissions" on your startup disk. Next throw away the receipt for this update, which will be in the /Library/Receipts folder and has "2003-03-03" in its name (I haven't patched this machine here so I don't know the exact name). Finally, run the patch from the package file on your desktop. If this doesn't fix it I don't know what will!
Of course they tested it, don't have a cow. I've updated several computers over the past couple of weeks and have had absolutely no problems. I took the cautious step of running disk repair on each system before upgrading and then I used the Archive-and-Install method.
Every upgrade, no matter how trivial, can bring complications. One must be prepared for such an eventuality, and hopefully face inevitable problems with a bit of grace.... or in your case a bit of fucking grace.
Quite so. In fact one might say it's a rather unfortunate side-effect of being British. I would venture to say that within that milieu there are shades of subtlety that would be lost on the typical brash overstimulated American, who for the most part has no appreciation for understatement, having beaten his head against life for so long.
...It is my understanding that space is a co-relative property of energy, not an independent plenum in which things reside. That is to say, without taking into account the relationship between two or more energy peaks there is nothing which can be called "space." Space in this context simply means: spatial relationship, but that relationship is intercontained in the co-relative awareness which we call "energy."
That makes me one of those cosmologists who takes consciousness as the primary medium from which all else is composed. Although from a materialist standpoint this is difficult to conceive, it is a perfectly valid assumption from which to build. But it proceeds from a subjective experiential validity rather than an "objective" sensual validity. Since I know from experience that I am transcendently conscious I have no trouble trusting my own authority on the matter.
And frankly it leads to more elegant explanations of phenomena than proceeding from a materialist standpoint, and after all aren't aesthetics the real arbiter of truth?
So how long before Apple opens the source for Mac OS 9 - or at least the Mac OS 9 Finder? I'm sure there are plenty of APIs in there that were abandoned, from the TCP/IP stuff to the printing architecture. I'll bet there are a lot of geeks who would love to get their hands on Mac OS 9 and continue extending it, do some speed improvement, maybe bolt on a little pre-emptive MT, protected memory, and a real VM. I for one would love to hack the Finder into a standalone Carbon application to run under Mac OS X.
Wow, I guess there's just no accounting for taste.
The article says nothing about writing data at such high densities. Something about this invention reminds me of the chip in the Terminator's head....
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space was produced by a two-man team, and they're able to use what they make on SAIS to fund their next game.... which you're really going to dig.
Indeed, in some distant future your incredibly useful 3D-transformation algorithms, fast fourier transforms, and Bresenham procedures will all be absorbed into the Hardware, and some will become part of the main processor, and still others will be inherent to the graphics cards.
Which leads to OS->Software->Hardware. I put OS at the top because the OS is an abstraction derived from all the combined software elements, libraries, executables, and data formats. For Apple, the OS is also the look and feel and style that ties it all together. The graphical interface lives on the same plane as the available frameworks and interfaces.
From a developer perspective, I see the manipulation of interactive applications as a form of programming. The contortion of data by an agent, the user, to achieve some communicable form. The programmer who types C all day makes it possible for the end-user to liberate himself from those details and focus on his interaction.
Magic mirrors, these computing machines are.
Apple has posted a Safari Update to address the serious bugs users have been reporting.
Thank goodness, according to the latest reports it only affects Microsoft astroturfers.
That would be the world's stickiest thong!
You have a point. But then again, McDonalds sells more hamburgers than anyone else. Still, they've got a long way to go before they become a gourmet restaurant.
...Dark Matter detects YOU!
...Banged my head on the wall until I found the solution you mention was suggested on the Apache site. They claim it's only a problem in a beta of MSIE but I've seen it in all recent versions up to 6.
And here's the page!
I haven't looked at the source code for OpenOffice but I tend to think this is the wrong approach to get this software onto the Mac. I'm sure the development team is very excited to see their baby can walk, but why not take the longer road and get it right? What's kewl for geeks is not always kewl for end users.
Assuming the program is written using intelligent design the data model and I/O controller should be almost completely isolated from the display code. If this is so then the bulk of work should consist of putting a decent Aqua interface on it, putting the menu bar where it belongs, and using Quartz for the text rendering.
Could it be that there's a limited supply of Mac-savvy open source developers available?
PHP's braindead way of putting everything_in_the_same_namespace() gets really old.
Actually PHP has a few different namespaces. There's the global namespace, of course. There's the function-local namespace. There's an object-local namespace. The various global arrays, such as $_REQUEST and $_SERVER can be treated as their own namespaces in a manner of speaking.
Perl has references which can point to sub routines, arrays hashes or other contants or scalars.
PHP also has references, as in $myRef =& $myObject; or $myRef =& $myVar;. You can refer to functions by name and call functions through a variable, as in $val = $myFunctionRef();. PHP's unified method of handling arrays, scalars, hashes, and references is pretty nice IMHO, whereas perl's funky way of referring to members of hashes/arrays as scalars versus the hashes/arrays themselves with % @ designators is fairly pointless and the source of many bugs.
When they fix interpolation which is a nightmare
Silly rabbit. Interpolation in PHP is very simple and it just works:
print "Interpolate $thevar";
print "Interpolate $thearr[itemhash]";
print "Interpolate {$arr['itemhash']}";
print "Interpolate {$thevar}yukyuk";
print "Interpolate $arr[5]";
Last I saw Perl has been ported to every major platform except Palm. Contrast to PHP which is on what Linux and Windows? Okay maybe some other Unixes. Perl is on dozens of Unixes, OS/2, Windows, MacOS (Before OSX)
Some correXions for you: PHP runs on about as many Unices as Perl, including Mac OS X. Perl 5 has been included with Mac OS X from its inception.
Its really hard to type with those little sticks.
Wil Wheaton!
I think an abbreviation is more like this:
....
"abbrev."
An acronym, on the other hand is
A Concise Reduction Obliquely Naming Your Meaning
A Cross Reference Of Notes Yielding Messages
Alphabetical Character Rendition Of a Name Yielding a Meaning
Alphabetically Coded Reminder of Names You Misremember
A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics