I agree... Except that on Vista, Visual Studio 2005 itself requires admin rights to be able debug anything or attach to any process for debugging. And VS2008? Forget about it.. At my place of work, we have VB6 projects that needs to be fixed and supported.
IANAL, but if you are referring to iPhone software, then the answer appears to be negative (pdf source):
1. General. The software (including Boot ROM code and other embedded software), documentation, interfaces, content, fonts and any data that came with your iPhone ("Original iPhone
Software"), as may be updated or replaced by feature enhancements, software updates or system restore software provided by Apple ("iPhone Software Updates"), whether in read only
memory, on any other media or in any other form (the Original iPhone Software and iPhone Software Updates are collectively referred to as the "iPhone Software") are licensed, not sold,
to you by Apple Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this License, and Apple reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. You own the media on which the iPhone Software is
recorded but Apple and/or Apple's licensor(s) retain ownership of the iPhone Software itself.
I see that you're really excited about iPhone, applications, etc.. Here are some facts though:
All these so called "level" apps use builtin LIS302DL accelerometer/motion sensor, which outputs values in range 0-38h for 0-1g accelerations. Do the math and you'll see that despite what apps says/shows, it cannot give you precision more that about 1.6 degrees tops (pdf spec)
Disclaimer: I am iPhone developer and I like developing for it - but people, please do some reality checks sometimes...
No, my contract do not say anything about "any and all hours required" I have to work. I strongly believe neither does yours (assuming you're in US). What it may say though, is that you're required to perform your professional duty as required to meet the deadlines. I worked in my share of companies and although conditions and work ethics is different, they all had the same problems with deadlines:
(a) Estimations were good and reasonable, but your team underperformed - see my first point;
(b) Estimations were initially off, or became unreasonable due to scope creep, etc. In this case, your professional responsibility was to let your management know about this problem, which you did not - see my second point.
In my 15 years of software development, I always declined and never worked on weekends or stayed late more than 1 hour, and no, I don't have kids for excuse. I guess that makes me a real bad person.
I hate to be harsh, but you and your team are either totally expendable as developers, or just corporate sheeple.
That's the problem - Apple just doesn't have enough resources to do app QA/testing that they're pretending to be doing. They are obviously cannot keep up - problem reports take a *week* just to get a standard canned reply "we're looking at problem and will contact you soon". I'd say - lift the NDA, loose the grip and let the market sort the crap out.
WTF are you talking about? Your Command or Tab is broken, or maybe you're talking about Kiosk mode? Well, you can't switch from one app to another in Kiosk mode, that's what Kiosk mode is designed to prevent.
I do not understand this obsession with cheap crap on Slashdot recently... This $130 "laptop" is a fine example. Seriously, I'm lost... why would anyone consider buying such thing?
Actually, as Mac OS X has its userland derived from BSD, there's not much FSF software on a Mac. The only big exception currently is gcc and that's gonna change soon when Xcode will switch to LLVM.
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Why not link directly to the list instead of the pointless poll?
No, major version doesn't matter. What most people feel afraid of is .0 releases - always start your public releases from .1 version.
Hair challenged, please.
I agree... Except that on Vista, Visual Studio 2005 itself requires admin rights to be able debug anything or attach to any process for debugging. And VS2008? Forget about it.. At my place of work, we have VB6 projects that needs to be fixed and supported.
like ? leave_alone : (void)0 ;
There, fixed it for you.
IANAL, but if you are referring to iPhone software, then the answer appears to be negative (pdf source):
1. General. The software (including Boot ROM code and other embedded software), documentation, interfaces, content, fonts and any data that came with your iPhone ("Original iPhone Software"), as may be updated or replaced by feature enhancements, software updates or system restore software provided by Apple ("iPhone Software Updates"), whether in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (the Original iPhone Software and iPhone Software Updates are collectively referred to as the "iPhone Software") are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this License, and Apple reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. You own the media on which the iPhone Software is recorded but Apple and/or Apple's licensor(s) retain ownership of the iPhone Software itself.
I see that you're really excited about iPhone, applications, etc.. Here are some facts though:
All these so called "level" apps use builtin LIS302DL accelerometer/motion sensor, which outputs values in range 0-38h for 0-1g accelerations. Do the math and you'll see that despite what apps says/shows, it cannot give you precision more that about 1.6 degrees tops (pdf spec)
Disclaimer: I am iPhone developer and I like developing for it - but people, please do some reality checks sometimes...
Almost 300 replies and no mention of Objective-C ?
developer.apple.com - Apple documentation, good reference but sometimes lacking in details
cocoadev.com - Cocoa wiki
cocoabuilder.com - Cocoa mailing list archives
You're looking at the wrong page. Try this one.
No, my contract do not say anything about "any and all hours required" I have to work. I strongly believe neither does yours (assuming you're in US). What it may say though, is that you're required to perform your professional duty as required to meet the deadlines. I worked in my share of companies and although conditions and work ethics is different, they all had the same problems with deadlines:
(a) Estimations were good and reasonable, but your team underperformed - see my first point;
(b) Estimations were initially off, or became unreasonable due to scope creep, etc. In this case, your professional responsibility was to let your management know about this problem, which you did not - see my second point.
And btw, yes, I do run my own business...
In my 15 years of software development, I always declined and never worked on weekends or stayed late more than 1 hour, and no, I don't have kids for excuse. I guess that makes me a real bad person.
I hate to be harsh, but you and your team are either totally expendable as developers, or just corporate sheeple.
Well then obviously their Calif is not up to the task. Maybe they should try to get Emir too.
Just curious... what Linux software have you bought ?
Georgia killed 6 people... Russia has killed thousands of Georgians.
Watching much Fox lately or just pulling numbers out of your ass?
No, an ideal phone antenna would be 5/8 vertical which usually has 3-4 dBi gain. That would save quite a bit of battery but ruin the whole esthetics :)
That's the problem - Apple just doesn't have enough resources to do app QA/testing that they're pretending to be doing. They are obviously cannot keep up - problem reports take a *week* just to get a standard canned reply "we're looking at problem and will contact you soon". I'd say - lift the NDA, loose the grip and let the market sort the crap out.
If only it also used Mac OS X Keychain for passwords...
WTF are you talking about? Your Command or Tab is broken, or maybe you're talking about Kiosk mode? Well, you can't switch from one app to another in Kiosk mode, that's what Kiosk mode is designed to prevent.
You seem to be pretty socialized. We need more Slashdot users like that.
No, what I'm saying is that all OS X updates are cryptographically signed since 2002. Good luck posing as an update server.
Are you living in 2002 or just making this up?
I do not understand this obsession with cheap crap on Slashdot recently... This $130 "laptop" is a fine example. Seriously, I'm lost... why would anyone consider buying such thing?
Yeah, but what about MPinky ?
Actually, as Mac OS X has its userland derived from BSD, there's not much FSF software on a Mac. The only big exception currently is gcc and that's gonna change soon when Xcode will switch to LLVM.
It's no longer a beta since iPhone 3G release. But NDA is still in effect.