Objective-C is a language, and is available on a variety of platforms. Their usage of Objective-C has almost nothing at all to do with portability of the application. Porting to Carbon would not yield much in the way of advantages in portability, and would be a step back in the richness of the APIs.
As others have probably said by now, you have your XServe or whatever sharing its mamoth iTunes library in the closet. You have music sharing turned on. You use your laptop within range of the AirPort Express to access the shared iTunes of the XServe and broadcast to the speakers. This all requires about zero configuration.
One thing this is missing is a way to control iTunes remotely. A Laptop. If you're going to go to all the trouble to access a web interface yadda yadda, just use your laptop with iTunes to be the one streaming to the AirPort Express.
Slashdot isn't quite the place to come for Windows news, but occasionally makes with the scoop. BSD has its own section. Linux typically makes the front page most of the day. Any other questions?
Why do people come to the Mac section to bitch that there is Mac news in it?
Well said. I am taking a graph theory course that is, ahem, pretty theoretical. My background could have been better (I'm more of a cognitive scientist), but knowing that the primary goal for the class is to understand the material, it lets me sit back and watch a smart guy in action and pick up what I can rather than burying myself in studies that aren't exactly related to my research/career path, not getting any papers done, failing out of grad school, and dying alone and unhappy.
I'd say that depends on the professor and the program. Yes, there are some who give you the requisite B if you do the requisite amount of work, but it gives the added incentive to bust your ass and get the A so that you stand out. The places that give Bs easily are usually research schools, because they don't want to have good researchers fail out because they couldn't grok their multiprocessor architecture course.
I wish that Rob Enderle was my doctor, because that way if he told me, "Bill, I have bad news. You're going to die," I'd know that I would live forever!
Ok, I simply was pissed at the assertion that I was engaging at zealotry. I'm happy with most of their stuff, obviously, else I wouldn't purchase it. But I haven't purchased anything since my PowerBook G3, so maybe that's meaningful. I'll probably pick up a G5 in a year or so, but that's again because I am a "happy customer," but with no illusions. My purchases often come down to buying the thing that I don't like the least, so to speak.
Slashdot has plenty of people who try to cram Linux, Mac, BeOS [well, not anymore], etc. down people's throats. I just prefer not to have it suggested that I fall into that crowd, and formed my reply to give you perspective.
After googling you a bit, I agree that you have earned the right to be critical. Sometimes on/. it is just hard to separate constructive criticism from trolling - so again, let's call it a misunderstanding and move on.
CNet has really been piling on the FUD lately. First a crappy review of the otherwise well reviewed Panther, then bitching about extremely rare data loss issues, then lying by saying Apple doesn't plan to fix 10.2.8 issues that were fixed in Panther, and now slamming the iPod.
I guess that as a democrate, I have to live with that since people like me cause such problems:) It's part of that liberal guilt we have over having nice lives.
Also, I find it ironic that you suggest that I am a zealot, when the apparent majority of your posts are little anti-Apple newsbytes.
Examples:
You're signature on a post is "I sold my iPod on eBay to get a dellPod! The best choice I ever made"
You trolled on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84290&cid=7362 112
You flamebaited the "Bic Mac" cluster as being "a publicity stunt like 99% of what apple does" on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84181&cid=7354 108
You describe all mac users as overzealous on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83183&cid=7285 482
What kind of "Apple developer" proceeds to price out flamebait comparisons on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=82342&cid=7222 796 extol GDI+ and refer to quartz as crap on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84959&cid=7413 174 and suggest that Quartz is a knockoff of Display PostScript on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84959&cid=7413 155
Feel free to dig up my zealous comments. Oh wait, I don't have any, unless you consider me calling windows a P.O.S. in http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33083&cid=3577 032
Bravo, this fact somehow escaped callipygian-showsyst.
It's not like I'm "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore," I mean, I bought around 200 songs off iTMS, and wouldn't want the shoddy cheap plan PSU plans on implementing anyway - I just think it's bizarre that we're being forced to pay for something that I'm quite confident WILL NOT decrease our piracy.
If anything, it will get people interested in online music, they will use up their quota or whatever they get on this system, and then they will go pirate stuff.
Of any of the rebuttals to my post, yours is the most valid. But I think they would have been better off giving us $X per month to spend on music of our choosing, or simply on supporting broadcast streaming, or just anything other than stuff that people who use Windows 95/98, Mac, Linux, etc. can't use.
I am by no means a zealot. Yes, I like my platform, but I clearly can play along with others, I mean hell, I'm in the CS department.
What I wrote in about was the fact that I AM PAYING for something I CAN'T USE. Notice clever use of caps.
A person should not be a victim because they choose to use a particular computing platform, just as much as a woman shouldn't be a victim of rape because she chose to wear a trendy short skirt (or at least that's what the rapist would believe).
A computer is a computer, and we live in a democracy. We were not asked if we wanted this music service, and we were not asked if we'd be bothered to have to pay for something we can't use. The fact that a person on the RIAA sits on our board is the only reason we have ANY music service anyway -- I would much rather us have none. I am by no means begging for us to deploy an Apple solution. I am simply exerting my right to bitch about having to pay for something I can't use.
If you send me thirty dollars to reimburse the portion of my fees that I lose to pay for this, I'll pipe down. My address is on my webpage.
As a Penn State Student and a Mac geek, I did my part to write in complaints to the administration and the school paper about how this isolates people using other platforms. Well, other platform anyway - iTunes is certainly the lesser of the evils - but I fear Linux simply won't be supported by any major online music store [that uses DRM].
It's funny that just yesterday our paper ran a feature on how much students here like iTunes and then today say "Napster!" Similarly, last week they had a feature on how a lot of the labs are going to Mac OS X.
Hopefully my writein as a "computer science graduate student" will perk up some ears...
I think the point is that the G4 is essentially a G3 with an Altivec unit, and that Adobe's Altivec optimizations are quite crap. Similarly, their dual processor optimizations are also qutie crap. Thus, even though the actual machine was a 2x1.25 GHz G4, to AE it performed as would a 1x1.25 GHz G3.
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Lies! A Mac user would have used cut to get rid of the five spaces before the output! :)
Objective-C is a language, and is available on a variety of platforms. Their usage of Objective-C has almost nothing at all to do with portability of the application. Porting to Carbon would not yield much in the way of advantages in portability, and would be a step back in the richness of the APIs.
As others have probably said by now, you have your XServe or whatever sharing its mamoth iTunes library in the closet. You have music sharing turned on. You use your laptop within range of the AirPort Express to access the shared iTunes of the XServe and broadcast to the speakers. This all requires about zero configuration.
One thing this is missing is a way to control iTunes remotely.
A Laptop. If you're going to go to all the trouble to access a web interface yadda yadda, just use your laptop with iTunes to be the one streaming to the AirPort Express.
Don' be dissin' Howard!
Astroturfing implies that the company is putting people up to it. I can guarantee you that they don't have to do that.
I bow before your better explanation.
That's only if the set is infinite. There is not an infinite number of additional stores, particularly with even single digit marketshare.
Slashdot isn't quite the place to come for Windows news, but occasionally makes with the scoop. BSD has its own section. Linux typically makes the front page most of the day. Any other questions?
Why do people come to the Mac section to bitch that there is Mac news in it?
Well said. I am taking a graph theory course that is, ahem, pretty theoretical. My background could have been better (I'm more of a cognitive scientist), but knowing that the primary goal for the class is to understand the material, it lets me sit back and watch a smart guy in action and pick up what I can rather than burying myself in studies that aren't exactly related to my research/career path, not getting any papers done, failing out of grad school, and dying alone and unhappy.
Damn. My legs just fell off. What have you done!
Enderle, I will get you! Just as soon as I get a wheel chair. And 2 liters of type O.
I'd say that depends on the professor and the program. Yes, there are some who give you the requisite B if you do the requisite amount of work, but it gives the added incentive to bust your ass and get the A so that you stand out. The places that give Bs easily are usually research schools, because they don't want to have good researchers fail out because they couldn't grok their multiprocessor architecture course.
I wish that Rob Enderle was my doctor, because that way if he told me, "Bill, I have bad news. You're going to die," I'd know that I would live forever!
Ok, I simply was pissed at the assertion that I was engaging at zealotry. I'm happy with most of their stuff, obviously, else I wouldn't purchase it. But I haven't purchased anything since my PowerBook G3, so maybe that's meaningful. I'll probably pick up a G5 in a year or so, but that's again because I am a "happy customer," but with no illusions. My purchases often come down to buying the thing that I don't like the least, so to speak.
/. it is just hard to separate constructive criticism from trolling - so again, let's call it a misunderstanding and move on.
Slashdot has plenty of people who try to cram Linux, Mac, BeOS [well, not anymore], etc. down people's throats. I just prefer not to have it suggested that I fall into that crowd, and formed my reply to give you perspective.
After googling you a bit, I agree that you have earned the right to be critical. Sometimes on
Godspeed.
Could be! :)
CNet has really been piling on the FUD lately. First a crappy review of the otherwise well reviewed Panther, then bitching about extremely rare data loss issues, then lying by saying Apple doesn't plan to fix 10.2.8 issues that were fixed in Panther, and now slamming the iPod.
What crawled up their ass?
I guess that as a democrate, I have to live with that since people like me cause such problems :) It's part of that liberal guilt we have over having nice lives.
Also, I find it ironic that you suggest that I am a zealot, when the apparent majority of your posts are little anti-Apple newsbytes.
2 112
4 108
5 482
2 796 extol GDI+ and refer to quartz as crap on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84959&cid=7413 174 and suggest that Quartz is a knockoff of Display PostScript on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84959&cid=7413 155
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:)
Examples:
You're signature on a post is "I sold my iPod on eBay to get a dellPod! The best choice I ever made"
You trolled on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84290&cid=736
You flamebaited the "Bic Mac" cluster as being "a publicity stunt like 99% of what apple does" on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84181&cid=735
You describe all mac users as overzealous on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83183&cid=728
What kind of "Apple developer" proceeds to price out flamebait comparisons on http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=82342&cid=722
Feel free to dig up my zealous comments. Oh wait, I don't have any, unless you consider me calling windows a P.O.S. in http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33083&cid=357
But this is Slashdot
Good night, PC Zealot.
Bravo, this fact somehow escaped callipygian-showsyst.
It's not like I'm "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore," I mean, I bought around 200 songs off iTMS, and wouldn't want the shoddy cheap plan PSU plans on implementing anyway - I just think it's bizarre that we're being forced to pay for something that I'm quite confident WILL NOT decrease our piracy.
If anything, it will get people interested in online music, they will use up their quota or whatever they get on this system, and then they will go pirate stuff.
Of any of the rebuttals to my post, yours is the most valid. But I think they would have been better off giving us $X per month to spend on music of our choosing, or simply on supporting broadcast streaming, or just anything other than stuff that people who use Windows 95/98, Mac, Linux, etc. can't use.
I am by no means a zealot. Yes, I like my platform, but I clearly can play along with others, I mean hell, I'm in the CS department.
What I wrote in about was the fact that I AM PAYING for something I CAN'T USE. Notice clever use of caps.
A person should not be a victim because they choose to use a particular computing platform, just as much as a woman shouldn't be a victim of rape because she chose to wear a trendy short skirt (or at least that's what the rapist would believe).
A computer is a computer, and we live in a democracy. We were not asked if we wanted this music service, and we were not asked if we'd be bothered to have to pay for something we can't use. The fact that a person on the RIAA sits on our board is the only reason we have ANY music service anyway -- I would much rather us have none. I am by no means begging for us to deploy an Apple solution. I am simply exerting my right to bitch about having to pay for something I can't use.
If you send me thirty dollars to reimburse the portion of my fees that I lose to pay for this, I'll pipe down. My address is on my webpage.
As a Penn State Student and a Mac geek, I did my part to write in complaints to the administration and the school paper about how this isolates people using other platforms. Well, other platform anyway - iTunes is certainly the lesser of the evils - but I fear Linux simply won't be supported by any major online music store [that uses DRM].
It's funny that just yesterday our paper ran a feature on how much students here like iTunes and then today say "Napster!" Similarly, last week they had a feature on how a lot of the labs are going to Mac OS X.
Hopefully my writein as a "computer science graduate student" will perk up some ears...
Point. Match. Set.
Well played efflux.
I think the point is that the G4 is essentially a G3 with an Altivec unit, and that Adobe's Altivec optimizations are quite crap. Similarly, their dual processor optimizations are also qutie crap. Thus, even though the actual machine was a 2x1.25 GHz G4, to AE it performed as would a 1x1.25 GHz G3.
QED
You mean like whether or not you have weapons of mass destruction, right? :)