And on that note, it really shouldn't be called "Objective-C" but rather "Apple's bastardized take on Objective-C."
Obj-C is a proprietary language, in a sense that it is unilaterally defined by a single entity. Said entity in this case was Stepstone, then NeXT, and now Apple. There's no ANSI or ISO Obj-C, nor any other standard, outside of the language spec that Apple publishes. So it's kinda silly to blame them for not toeing the line. If anything, you should blame GNUstep for not keeping up.
Incidentally, this also applies to just about every language on the list other than C.
Just to name a few: Java (Oracle), C# (Microsoft), JavaScript (Mozilla nee Netscape), PHP (The PHP Group), Ruby (Yukihiro Matsumoto), Python (Guido van Rossum)...
Actually, that would be the case if the news was "Objective-C is the most popular language for iOS development". If orange jumpsuits would be one of the most used form of clothing everywhere because they are used in prison, well, that would be newsworthy...
A more apt analogy would be that orange jumpsuits are the clothing item with the biggest increase in sales (to the government obviously) in America because we're sending more people to prison.
Even then, you can download JRockIt 28.2 separately. As far as I can tell, this is synced with Java 6 r29. Since Java6 r30 is the latest Java6, it's not that far out of date.
Now, whether it will be compatible with Java7 is a whole different ballgame.
Side note: java.com does not yet offer Java7 for download, so 6r30 is the latest version in its eyes, despite 7u2 being out.
I don't get this. Don't you guys have OpenJDK (in the form of IcedTea) over there? You know, the open-source replacement for the Oracle JDK endorsed by Oracle?
No, Ubuntu has the actual OpenJDK in its repositories, no IcedTea required.
The GPLed branch will only act as a safety net if it's kept up to date with features introduced in the dominant branch (Oracles), or if it becomes the dominant branch in the very near future and removes Oracles ownership over the future.
Oracle's version is just a repackaged version of OpenJDK, so that shouldn't be a problem.
As bad as it sounds, TF2 being PC only* *For the only version that has had updates.
What is up with that? TF2 on the PS3 was actually "more fun" in many ways than games like SOCOM were for me. I am very surprised how little attention the game got and that it received no updates.
EA ported Orange Box to the PS3. Not surprisingly, Valve wants nothing to do with it. Which puts Valve in an interesting position, as they have nothing to do with Portal on the PS3 (and it's out of print) while at the same time, they're pushing Portal 2 as the "lead console version." I assume Portal isn't in the PSN store for the same reason.
The Xbox 360 had 3 bugfix updates for TF2, but quickly got left behind. Statements from Valve indicate that this is due to difficulties with adding the amount of assets the PC version has due to the Xbox 360's 512MB RAM. The PS3 version would have worse problems with that, because its 512MB RAM it has was split 50/50 between video and system RAM.
That's true, but ultimately, TF2 is in a differerent marketplace to the MMOs I play. Despite a degree of character-persistence, it's an fps at heart, not a MMORPG. As such, its competitors are the Battlefield and Modern Warfare games.
Yes, TF2 is a F2P First Person Shooter/Hat Simulator. It's not meant to be an MMO.
As bad as it sounds, TF2 being PC only* makes for a higher barrier of entry than MW3. Now, if you were referring to MW3 on PC, I can't help you there.
Having said that, TF2 servers can opt out of QuickPlay traffic, which avoids most of the... problem... users.
I not only run my own TF2 server (which has sadly been pretty dead lately), but I also play on Reddit's Midwest server, which is a pretty laid back, but highly populated server. Even if their ping to me does suck, and it does sometimes take a long time for a slot to open on it..
On top of that Valve has had huge success by making Team Fortress 2 free. The best thing about TF2 is that it doesn't even feel like they're trying to cash you. You can get everything in the game, but the game is so good that I have happily spend some cash on the store too. On top of that they have created such a good in-game economy that people are spending time on trading inside it and cashing out. And just to say it again - all of this without making the game worse or anyone feeling like they need to buy something from the store, because you can get everything via game, trading or crafting too. And the vanilla weapons are often better than the unlockable ones!
Actually, F2P users can't get hats unless they're promotional hats they get from purchasing another game. You're also limited to a 50 item inventory (not counting the 27 stock items).
Your inventory will increase to the standard 300 items once you buy a single items from the in-game store. Meaning that buying a $0.49 weapon or $0.99 class starter pack, then spending the other $4.00-$4.50 (Steam Wallet makes you add $5 minimum) on another Steam game.
Note: The amounts are different in other currencies.
I ride the bus to and from work every day. I could carry a dumb phone, plus an mp3 player, plus a netbook, I suppose... but instead I have an original Droid, and it gets all that done in a much smaller and more convenient package, along with GPS navigation, flash drive file transport, encrypted password wallet, and a cheap camera.
I carry a dumb phone and have half the features you mention even on that... specifically mp3 player (yes, my dumb phone does play mp3s), flash drive file transport, and cheap camera.
The only catch is that I need to have a Micro SD card for storage and a USB cable A normal to B mini to transfer files off.... which incidentally comes with the phone as part of its charging cable.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga is an interesting space opera type show (side note: Star Trek is also considered space opera, so that kind of thing).
The books in Chronological order. If they are part of an Omnibus, the Omnibus title is in parentheses after the book title.
Shards of Honor (Cordelia's Honor)
Barrayar (Cordelia's Honor)
The Warrior's Apprentice (Young Miles)
The Vor Game (Young Miles)
Cetaganda (Miles, Mystery, & Mayhem)
Brothers in Arms (Miles Errant)
Mirror Dance (Miles Errant)
Memory
Komarr (Miles in Love)
A Civil Campaign (Miles in Love)
Diplomatic Immunity (Miles, Mutants, and Microbes)
Cryoburn
I recommend the Omnibus Editions, as they insert the side stories originally published in the book Borders of Infinity in their correct places in the timeline.
Note: The books Ethan of Athos and Falling Free are in the Omnibus editions, but don't star Miles.
Ethan of Athos takes place simultaneously with Cetaganda and features Miles' lover, Elli Quinn, as a major character. It's in the same Omnibus edition.
Falling Free sets up a lot of backstory for Diplomatic Immunity. It's in the same Omnibus edition.
They started removing features from the PS3 from iteration 2 on (USB ports, etc), which is always a way to make your customers love you.
Removing features from new models is very different from removing features from existing models after a customer bought it, and you know it.
The USB ports and PS2 CPU were removed in the console's second revision to reduce the console's price tag. The PS2 graphics system (and thus, PS2 Software support) were removed in the third revision for the same reason.
OtherOS was removed from the Slim edition, then once someone figured out how to bypass the Hypervisor, removed from all previous editions via firmware update.
SOPA I would say isn't reasonable for everyone to know what it is or what it stands for. For one it is new. It is for a new bill, it hasn't been around for years. Secondly it is what the United States Congress calls it, Other countries are not always involved what the US is doing all the time... Also us Americans may not always be into seeing every bill that comes out of the US. Third Slashdotters don't always log in every day, or week or month. So when they come it these articles make no sense.
SOPA has been mentioned at least once a week on/. for at least a few weeks, if not months, and you still don't know what it is?
SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act AKA the U.S. Government Lets RIAA/MPAA Hijack DNS With No Oversight Act.
Initial Ownership. -- Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint work are coowners of copyright in the work.
So close, but it's 201 b) you should have looked at, not 201 a)
Works Made for Hire. -- In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.
What if windows locked you into IE and windows app store only apps? So no open source apps, no steam games, no adult apps or games, no non MS office, no firefox, and so on.
I wonder if they (or Apple's lawyers) could tell this apart from the front of the Galaxy Tab... because if not, Apple has a serious problem, because that's a Samsung Digital Photo Frame from 2006, predating the iPad by 4 years.
Now, the back looks nothing like a Galaxy Tab, but that's not likely to be the part the court was showing when asking the question.
Here's a tip: If you rip off someone's design, don't sue the person you ripped off for ripping off said design in a different product.
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And on that note, it really shouldn't be called "Objective-C" but rather "Apple's bastardized take on Objective-C."
Obj-C is a proprietary language, in a sense that it is unilaterally defined by a single entity. Said entity in this case was Stepstone, then NeXT, and now Apple. There's no ANSI or ISO Obj-C, nor any other standard, outside of the language spec that Apple publishes. So it's kinda silly to blame them for not toeing the line. If anything, you should blame GNUstep for not keeping up.
Incidentally, this also applies to just about every language on the list other than C.
Just to name a few: Java (Oracle), C# (Microsoft), JavaScript (Mozilla nee Netscape), PHP (The PHP Group), Ruby (Yukihiro Matsumoto), Python (Guido van Rossum)...
Actually, that would be the case if the news was "Objective-C is the most popular language for iOS development". If orange jumpsuits would be one of the most used form of clothing everywhere because they are used in prison, well, that would be newsworthy...
A more apt analogy would be that orange jumpsuits are the clothing item with the biggest increase in sales (to the government obviously) in America because we're sending more people to prison.
Even then, you can download JRockIt 28.2 separately. As far as I can tell, this is synced with Java 6 r29. Since Java6 r30 is the latest Java6, it's not that far out of date.
Now, whether it will be compatible with Java7 is a whole different ballgame.
Side note: java.com does not yet offer Java7 for download, so 6r30 is the latest version in its eyes, despite 7u2 being out.
I don't get this. Don't you guys have OpenJDK (in the form of IcedTea) over there? You know, the open-source replacement for the Oracle JDK endorsed by Oracle?
No, Ubuntu has the actual OpenJDK in its repositories, no IcedTea required.
Actually, JRockit * is * being killed off.
Nonsense, Oracle still distributes it as part of Oracle Fusion.
The GPLed branch will only act as a safety net if it's kept up to date with features introduced in the dominant branch (Oracles), or if it becomes the dominant branch in the very near future and removes Oracles ownership over the future.
Oracle's version is just a repackaged version of OpenJDK, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Who would want anything they make?
I don't know about the actual product, but I hear The Daily WTF wanted to look at the code.
As bad as it sounds, TF2 being PC only*
*For the only version that has had updates.
What is up with that? TF2 on the PS3 was actually "more fun" in many ways than games like SOCOM were for me. I am very surprised how little attention the game got and that it received no updates.
EA ported Orange Box to the PS3. Not surprisingly, Valve wants nothing to do with it. Which puts Valve in an interesting position, as they have nothing to do with Portal on the PS3 (and it's out of print) while at the same time, they're pushing Portal 2 as the "lead console version." I assume Portal isn't in the PSN store for the same reason.
The Xbox 360 had 3 bugfix updates for TF2, but quickly got left behind. Statements from Valve indicate that this is due to difficulties with adding the amount of assets the PC version has due to the Xbox 360's 512MB RAM. The PS3 version would have worse problems with that, because its 512MB RAM it has was split 50/50 between video and system RAM.
That's true, but ultimately, TF2 is in a differerent marketplace to the MMOs I play. Despite a degree of character-persistence, it's an fps at heart, not a MMORPG. As such, its competitors are the Battlefield and Modern Warfare games.
Yes, TF2 is a F2P First Person Shooter/Hat Simulator. It's not meant to be an MMO.
As bad as it sounds, TF2 being PC only* makes for a higher barrier of entry than MW3. Now, if you were referring to MW3 on PC, I can't help you there.
Having said that, TF2 servers can opt out of QuickPlay traffic, which avoids most of the... problem... users.
I not only run my own TF2 server (which has sadly been pretty dead lately), but I also play on Reddit's Midwest server, which is a pretty laid back, but highly populated server. Even if their ping to me does suck, and it does sometimes take a long time for a slot to open on it..
*For the only version that has had updates.
On top of that Valve has had huge success by making Team Fortress 2 free. The best thing about TF2 is that it doesn't even feel like they're trying to cash you. You can get everything in the game, but the game is so good that I have happily spend some cash on the store too. On top of that they have created such a good in-game economy that people are spending time on trading inside it and cashing out. And just to say it again - all of this without making the game worse or anyone feeling like they need to buy something from the store, because you can get everything via game, trading or crafting too. And the vanilla weapons are often better than the unlockable ones!
Actually, F2P users can't get hats unless they're promotional hats they get from purchasing another game. You're also limited to a 50 item inventory (not counting the 27 stock items).
Your inventory will increase to the standard 300 items once you buy a single items from the in-game store. Meaning that buying a $0.49 weapon or $0.99 class starter pack, then spending the other $4.00-$4.50 (Steam Wallet makes you add $5 minimum) on another Steam game.
Note: The amounts are different in other currencies.
It has been for years. It's basically trial. Not sure what they name it now, but trial was always up to level 20 too.
The difference is that now the amount of time you can take to reach level 20 is unlimited rather than 14 days.
I ride the bus to and from work every day. I could carry a dumb phone, plus an mp3 player, plus a netbook, I suppose... but instead I have an original Droid, and it gets all that done in a much smaller and more convenient package, along with GPS navigation, flash drive file transport, encrypted password wallet, and a cheap camera.
I carry a dumb phone and have half the features you mention even on that... specifically mp3 player (yes, my dumb phone does play mp3s), flash drive file transport, and cheap camera.
The only catch is that I need to have a Micro SD card for storage and a USB cable A normal to B mini to transfer files off.... which incidentally comes with the phone as part of its charging cable.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga is an interesting space opera type show (side note: Star Trek is also considered space opera, so that kind of thing).
The books in Chronological order. If they are part of an Omnibus, the Omnibus title is in parentheses after the book title.
I recommend the Omnibus Editions, as they insert the side stories originally published in the book Borders of Infinity in their correct places in the timeline.
Note: The books Ethan of Athos and Falling Free are in the Omnibus editions, but don't star Miles.
Ethan of Athos takes place simultaneously with Cetaganda and features Miles' lover, Elli Quinn, as a major character. It's in the same Omnibus edition.
Falling Free sets up a lot of backstory for Diplomatic Immunity. It's in the same Omnibus edition.
Not to mention a long history of stupid proprietary formats... I've been boycotting Sony since MemoryStick and ATRAC3!
Yeah, stupid proprietary formats like the 3.5" floppy disk, CD, and Blu-Ray Disc...
They started removing features from the PS3 from iteration 2 on (USB ports, etc), which is always a way to make your customers love you.
Removing features from new models is very different from removing features from existing models after a customer bought it, and you know it.
The USB ports and PS2 CPU were removed in the console's second revision to reduce the console's price tag. The PS2 graphics system (and thus, PS2 Software support) were removed in the third revision for the same reason.
OtherOS was removed from the Slim edition, then once someone figured out how to bypass the Hypervisor, removed from all previous editions via firmware update.
SOPA I would say isn't reasonable for everyone to know what it is or what it stands for. For one it is new. It is for a new bill, it hasn't been around for years. Secondly it is what the United States Congress calls it, Other countries are not always involved what the US is doing all the time... Also us Americans may not always be into seeing every bill that comes out of the US. Third Slashdotters don't always log in every day, or week or month. So when they come it these articles make no sense.
SOPA has been mentioned at least once a week on /. for at least a few weeks, if not months, and you still don't know what it is?
SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act AKA the U.S. Government Lets RIAA/MPAA Hijack DNS With No Oversight Act.
The Xbox Pi?
I would post a Pi symbol, but Slashdot's comment system has a tendency to eat them.
And the Wii could play GameCube games, just not in the newest models that just hit the market.
At least Sony cut their console price when they removed functionality... Nintendo is charging the exact same amount.
Go back to watching "Dancing with the Stars" on that nice TV you bought in that installment plan.
Installment plan? Ugh, you mean like one of those Rent to Own places?
The ones who charge like $600 for a Nintendo Wii (retail price $150)?
Rather than bickering endlessly about this, lets just see what the US government says about this:
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html
Relevant sections...
Initial Ownership. -- Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint work are coowners of copyright in the work.
So close, but it's 201 b) you should have looked at, not 201 a)
Works Made for Hire. -- In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.
What if windows locked you into IE and windows app store only apps? So no open source apps, no steam games, no adult apps or games, no non MS office, no firefox, and so on.
I'd be more concerned over the Mac on this front.
If Samsung had changed a single thing on their products there would be no case.
The dimensions are different and doesn't Samsung's tablet have more than one button.
No, because the tablet being sued over is the 10.1, which has no face buttons.
Which is itself different from the iPad, which has one face button.
If it's so completely outlandish how is it that everybody but Samsung seems to have no problems whatsoever
Samsung isn't the only company Apple has sued. They just happen to be the first ones to counter-sue, hence why all the news is about them.
As I recall, Apple has also sued HTC, Motorola, and Amazon.
No, because in the 45 minutes since you posted this, they've released versions 87460 - 87521.
Looks like you've got Samsung's lawyers beat, then: Even Samsungâ(TM)s Lawyers Can't Tell the Difference Between Its Tablet and an iPad
You act like that's Samsung's problem.
I wonder if they (or Apple's lawyers) could tell this apart from the front of the Galaxy Tab... because if not, Apple has a serious problem, because that's a Samsung Digital Photo Frame from 2006, predating the iPad by 4 years.
Now, the back looks nothing like a Galaxy Tab, but that's not likely to be the part the court was showing when asking the question.
Here's a tip: If you rip off someone's design, don't sue the person you ripped off for ripping off said design in a different product.