A lot of the micro kernel was written by Avie Te..(something:-) when he was at University. More work was done in Next which was headed up by Steve Jobs. Next was bought by Apple, so you can say that large sections of the OS were written by them.
If you look at the driver model you'll see it's definately Apple specific (so i presume they created it).
The Cocoa framework was created by Next, and adopted/extended by Apple, so is that their innovation?
The display system using PDF is definately an Apple unique feature, but clearly is based on concepts used by Next (display postscript). I'm not sure what the timeline is on this compared to Sony's NEWS display system (which I think also used postscript).
Apple have done some truly innovative stuff. Opendoc was brilliant. A desktop bus for slow speed peripherals (ADB) was what USB is now but a long time ago. No fuss networking, hypercard, firewire etc. Not to mention the work they did on making GUIs truly usable.
It would be a little bit hard for them to -both- be the world's
wealthiest individuals. BTW I believe that Mr Jobs is quite happy - he's certainly as comfortable financially as anyone would need to be.
Yes, weight matters. That's why you don't want to carry scram jet engines that only work effectively for a few minutes at most as your spacecraft flies through the atmosphere, and then leaves all that oxygen behind.
The weight of oxygen doesn't matter all that much as the fuel/oxidizer is incredibly cheap, and it turns out that it is much simpler to simply build larger tanks to hold more in a conventional rocket, than to muck around with scram jet engines.
Ah, but i didn't tell you the bit about extracting hydrogen from other stars to keep our little favourite thermonuclear device just chugging along quite nicely.
Pity about the entropy heat death of the universe though.
That's if you let it. Do you say that in the future we wouldn't be able to mine the Sun for helium ash?
I rather big pipe dream, and who knows -what- we'll be then, or if we'll even care about the Sun and the Earth, but I think it's a bit early to write the Earth off entirely.
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Syntactic form that makes errors easy (e.g. == v.s. =).
Stupid precedence of operators
No checking for out-of-bounds errors
No namespaces
Over reliance on the preprocessor
No "inline" for functions
No abstractions for dealing with hardware (you have to do masks, bit shifts etc)
You can't have underscores in number literals
One more thing to note about the Spotlight Store: There is one content index and one meta-data store per file system. This keeps the content indexes and meta-data stores with the files they belong to--crucial when using external FireWire drives that travel from Mac to Mac.
The murderers who had South American presidents assasinated? The people who financed Mr Bin Laden in Afghanistan?
Making others pay for your mistakes
Not sure what you are saying...
Trying to legitimize abnormal behaviors
If you mean by "abnormal" anything that you don't do, then you are not really saying much. If "abnormal" means what only a small group does, then parachuting would qualify as abnormal.
If you mean anal sex, then there are lots of hetrosexual people that do that. Do you mean oral sex?
Presumably you mean gay sex. Oh well, I suppose we'll just have to disagree as to whether that is bad or not. I don't mind if people do it, so long as they aren't in abusive relationships. I try not to have images of it much, but if it keeps people happy, and they aren't hurting anyone...
Valuing vegetation higher than human life
You need vegetation to survive. How much of it do you need? Do you think we need none (presumably not). Where would you draw the line and say "we've probably cut down enough trees". When they only cover 1% of the land mass? 10%? I suspect you'll agree that we need some, perhaps you debate the %?
Stealing wealth from the successful and giving it to the wasteful
Some people are wasteful with welfare. I would hope that the welfare that is handed out is given on a truly needs basis. Would you ever consider anyone to be worthy of welfare?
Martha Stewart is doing xx? months of federal prison time for reacting to what someone told her in order to save money that was hers
Or to put it another way, we should let her sell her stock, which she knew was going to be worth less, to someone who didn't have the same knowledge and was therefore going to lose out on the deal.
I had a look at the site you mentioned, but couldn't find anything that referred to works already in the public domain remaining there. Can you quote the section from that page that says that, or point me to another source?
Microsoft Access. I hate it, of course, but people use it - it's easy to use. Filemaker is probably the straight-off answer to this one, but a ton of people who use or used Access simply hate Filemaker... not to mention that FM is even less of a RDBMS than Access is, if that's even possible.
The latest version of Filemaker is supposed to be relational...
Hmmm. Yes. The U.S. did invent it after all. You know, paid money for the development of what was local infrastructure. Just because other people found it useful doesn't mean the U.S. should have to change...
The planes with flapping wings - they don't change shape on the up stroke (unlike birds) so there would be no lift on the down stroke which would exceed the drag on the up stroke...
Apparently wind turbines don't kill birds dead. They only kill them to a half-way point, mainly because of the increased karma generated from a non polluting energy source.
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If you look at the driver model you'll see it's definately Apple specific (so i presume they created it).
The Cocoa framework was created by Next, and adopted/extended by Apple, so is that their innovation?
The display system using PDF is definately an Apple unique feature, but clearly is based on concepts used by Next (display postscript). I'm not sure what the timeline is on this compared to Sony's NEWS display system (which I think also used postscript).
Apple have done some truly innovative stuff. Opendoc was brilliant. A desktop bus for slow speed peripherals (ADB) was what USB is now but a long time ago. No fuss networking, hypercard, firewire etc. Not to mention the work they did on making GUIs truly usable.
Jobs- not
It would be a little bit hard for them to -both- be the world's wealthiest individuals. BTW I believe that Mr Jobs is quite happy - he's certainly as comfortable financially as anyone would need to be.
The weight of oxygen doesn't matter all that much as the fuel/oxidizer is incredibly cheap, and it turns out that it is much simpler to simply build larger tanks to hold more in a conventional rocket, than to muck around with scram jet engines.
Pity about the entropy heat death of the universe though.
That's if you let it. Do you say that in the future we wouldn't be able to mine the Sun for helium ash?
I rather big pipe dream, and who knows -what- we'll be then, or if we'll even care about the Sun and the Earth, but I think it's a bit early to write the Earth off entirely.
Syntactic form that makes errors easy (e.g. == v.s. =).
Stupid precedence of operators
No checking for out-of-bounds errors
No namespaces
Over reliance on the preprocessor
No "inline" for functions
No abstractions for dealing with hardware (you have to do masks, bit shifts etc)
You can't have underscores in number literals
One more thing to note about the Spotlight Store: There is one content index and one meta-data store per file system. This keeps the content indexes and meta-data stores with the files they belong to--crucial when using external FireWire drives that travel from Mac to Mac.
Not sure what you are referring to.
Not willing to stand up to murderers
The murderers who had South American presidents assasinated? The people who financed Mr Bin Laden in Afghanistan?
Making others pay for your mistakes
Not sure what you are saying...
Trying to legitimize abnormal behaviors
If you mean by "abnormal" anything that you don't do, then you are not really saying much. If "abnormal" means what only a small group does, then parachuting would qualify as abnormal.
If you mean anal sex, then there are lots of hetrosexual people that do that. Do you mean oral sex?
Presumably you mean gay sex. Oh well, I suppose we'll just have to disagree as to whether that is bad or not. I don't mind if people do it, so long as they aren't in abusive relationships. I try not to have images of it much, but if it keeps people happy, and they aren't hurting anyone...
Valuing vegetation higher than human life
You need vegetation to survive. How much of it do you need? Do you think we need none (presumably not). Where would you draw the line and say "we've probably cut down enough trees". When they only cover 1% of the land mass? 10%? I suspect you'll agree that we need some, perhaps you debate the %?
Stealing wealth from the successful and giving it to the wasteful
Some people are wasteful with welfare. I would hope that the welfare that is handed out is given on a truly needs basis. Would you ever consider anyone to be worthy of welfare?
Or to put it another way, we should let her sell her stock, which she knew was going to be worth less, to someone who didn't have the same knowledge and was therefore going to lose out on the deal.
Just another data point...
I had a look at the site you mentioned, but couldn't find anything that referred to works already in the public domain remaining there. Can you quote the section from that page that says that, or point me to another source?
This will mean works that are now in the 50-70 year period after the death of the creator will be back under copyright. :-(
That and we'll all start enjoying the US's wonderful software patents...
This must double the number of Itanium processors they've sold this year!
I actually ended up endorsing a different position than I expected going in.
A different position? Missionary? Doggy-style?
The latest version of Filemaker is supposed to be relational...
If people ignore you and continue to create these theories, shouldn't you "STFU" and not post these replies?
It seems everything you wrote about them, could be written about your reply.
Sheesh! :-)
Or do I have that backwards?
Hmmm. Yes. The U.S. did invent it after all. You know, paid money for the development of what was local infrastructure. Just because other people found it useful doesn't mean the U.S. should have to change...
The planes with flapping wings - they don't change shape on the up stroke (unlike birds) so there would be no lift on the down stroke which would exceed the drag on the up stroke...
I knew that guarenteed didn't look right! I should have checked. Generally my spelling is not too bad. Oh well...
Well, I had a look, but didn't find any comment about the hospital using this as an advertising feature.
Welcome to our hospital, where you'll be looked after by the lowest bidder - guarenteed!
Apparently wind turbines don't kill birds dead. They only kill them to a half-way point, mainly because of the increased karma generated from a non polluting energy source.
I don't know, but my oven goes up to 11!