While the Ruby 1.8 VM is quite slow, the YARV VM used in 1.9 is much faster, resulting in similar performance to most other dynamic languages. These tests are showing MacRuby being 3x faster than 1.9, which puts it in "quite fast" territory.
Now ask me if I think Apple did an ethical thing by flying into Creative's camp, pissing on their tent, and taking Creative's fair? share of Rio's MP3 player market. Hmm?
Actually, I'd say that in many ways, Guildwars is World of Diablo, not least because arenanet (the company who produces it) was founded by three ex-blizzard developpers.
A monthly fee would be great, and free even better, but I have a good feeling it's going to be per-game, and likely not as cheap as we'd like it to be (judging by the pricing of the nes reissues for the gameboy).
1) Installed base. If Apple intends to promote a movie download service that only runs on Macintels, it's going to flop big time and worse than just flopping, it's going to really piss off people who bought PPC hardware in the past couple of years.
Indeed; given the installed base of PPC macs (which is going to be around for a long time), apple would be shooting themselves in the foot if they rolled out any kind of functionality that required TCM. To me, it's pretty clear this has been put into place to prevent developers from leaking OSX for intel, and as such may not even need to be in the final product if apple finds other ways of locking the OS to their systems.
if you're using Codewarrior, you must migrate to Xcode before you can even start.
This is something I've been wondering about; why will developers have to abandon Codewarrior? Wouldn't it make sense for Metrowerks to update the product to make universal binaries as well?
The XP boosts work only if you play a bit less than other people; a week off can easily create a gap big enough to make playing together a problem. I made a fair amount of friends early in the game that I played with regularily, but as time went on I logged on less often and they all easily surpassed me.
As an aside, the recent glut of ferrari 'branded' products, like laptops , pdas and clothing has certainly cheapened the brand in my opinion; It just screams crass commercialism, and apple is wise to avoid falling into that trap.
You might want to specify that it you're talking celsius, and that it's equivalent to 82.4 fahrentheit... here in montreal, it's 28 as well, with a relative humidity of 62%; definitely AC temperature...
...any software he will buy will become obsolete faster as software developers switch to the new Intel based platform and put more resources into that and that new versions of software might not be available to ppc apple users.
I highly doubt that's going to be an issue. Apple has stated it's commited to keeping both platforms alive for quite a while, and have gone out of their way to make applications easily compilable for both platforms; developers will have more incentive to make their apps work on both CPUs than to make the intel only.
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I used Sajax on a recent project; it was easy to use (only a single php file to include) and worked flawlessly. The only complaint I would make is that it uses neither PHP's nor Javascript's object oriented features, although that could probably be easily hacked together.
I had a system once that started mysteriously rebooting, and then had a hard drive fail; and it turned out to be the system overheating because the PSU's fan had died. I've been much more carefull as to the quality of my power supplies since.
None of the browser completely pass it, but Safari and Firefox are making progress. Right now, Safari's support is best, with firefox in 2nd place and Opera a bit further back in 3rd; Internet Explorer is so broken you can't even recognize the smiley face. There's a post on Dean Edward's blog that has been tracking progress.
while others will be merged so consumers can get the best of both worlds (Photoshop, Fireworks).
That's what worries me the most; for web design work, I vastly prefer Fireworks to Photoshop, and I'd hate to see it go. Fireworks does what it does well, whereas photoshop does many many things, but is filled with little things that annoy me to no end.
According to Wikipedia , Number Sign is the prefered unicode name for the glyph, but it notes further in the entry that:
[The # sign is] used as the symbol for the pound avoirdupois in the U.S. (where lb. would be used in the UK and Canada; note that lb. or lbs. is common in the U.S. as well and is used by the general public more often than #). Never called "pound" in the UK, where the term denotes the pound sterling and its symbol (£).
Keith Gordon Irwin in, The Romance of Writing, p. 125 says: "The Italian libbra (from the old Latin word libra, 'balance') represented a weight almost exactly equal to the avoirdupois pound of England. The Italian abbreviation of lb with a line drawn across the letters was used for both weights. The business clerk's hurried way of writing the abbreviation appears to have been responsible for the # sign used for pound."
Part of the problem is that every territory has it's own bodies and laws that govern music licensing, and rates can vary enormously, so it's quite possible that they're charging more in europe and britain because the licensing is more expensive. As an example, take Allofmp3.com, which was found to be operating within the law (as it stands) in Russia, but which could never exist here.
I think government is one of the areas where going open-source makes the most sense; I'd much rather see tax-payer money go into FOSS than Microsoft's pockets...
I've been looking forwards to getting into PHP5 for a while now, but for the time being I'm stuck developing in PHP4, because the majority of my costumers' hosting providers haven't upgraded yet. Does anybody have any good providers to recommend that support it?
I know you were trying to make a joke, but if you'd RTFA you would know that MSN is as susceptible to this as Google is. Only Yahoo has addressed the issue.
No. Designing for IE only is simply encouraging their bad behavior, and can cause you headaches in the long run. One of the big advantages to doing things in a standards compliant way is that you're guaranteed forwards compatibility, which means that if Microsoft decides to fix their bugs one day (as they did with IE5's broken box model), you can be guaranteed that your site will still work. Not to mention the possibility that IE will fall from it's spot one day.
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While the Ruby 1.8 VM is quite slow, the YARV VM used in 1.9 is much faster, resulting in similar performance to most other dynamic languages. These tests are showing MacRuby being 3x faster than 1.9, which puts it in "quite fast" territory.
The website is available in english, it's the java app for actually runing the games that only seems to be available in german.
You forgot to mention the bad part, which is that the UI is in german... unless you know something I don't?
Actually, I'd say that in many ways, Guildwars is World of Diablo, not least because arenanet (the company who produces it) was founded by three ex-blizzard developpers.
A monthly fee would be great, and free even better, but I have a good feeling it's going to be per-game, and likely not as cheap as we'd like it to be (judging by the pricing of the nes reissues for the gameboy).
It's already fixed in the current beta
a more accurate (and literal) translation would be 'shiver', as in sending a shiver down your spine.
if you're using Codewarrior, you must migrate to Xcode before you can even start.
This is something I've been wondering about; why will developers have to abandon Codewarrior? Wouldn't it make sense for Metrowerks to update the product to make universal binaries as well?
The XP boosts work only if you play a bit less than other people; a week off can easily create a gap big enough to make playing together a problem. I made a fair amount of friends early in the game that I played with regularily, but as time went on I logged on less often and they all easily surpassed me.
I haven't tried any of them, but PEAR has a number of packages for dealing with internationalization. You might want to try looking there for insight.
You might want to specify that it you're talking celsius, and that it's equivalent to 82.4 fahrentheit... here in montreal, it's 28 as well, with a relative humidity of 62%; definitely AC temperature...
I highly doubt that's going to be an issue. Apple has stated it's commited to keeping both platforms alive for quite a while, and have gone out of their way to make applications easily compilable for both platforms; developers will have more incentive to make their apps work on both CPUs than to make the intel only.
I used Sajax on a recent project; it was easy to use (only a single php file to include) and worked flawlessly. The only complaint I would make is that it uses neither PHP's nor Javascript's object oriented features, although that could probably be easily hacked together.
I had a system once that started mysteriously rebooting, and then had a hard drive fail; and it turned out to be the system overheating because the PSU's fan had died. I've been much more carefull as to the quality of my power supplies since.
None of the browser completely pass it, but Safari and Firefox are making progress. Right now, Safari's support is best, with firefox in 2nd place and Opera a bit further back in 3rd; Internet Explorer is so broken you can't even recognize the smiley face. There's a post on Dean Edward's blog that has been tracking progress.
Part of the problem is that every territory has it's own bodies and laws that govern music licensing, and rates can vary enormously, so it's quite possible that they're charging more in europe and britain because the licensing is more expensive. As an example, take Allofmp3.com, which was found to be operating within the law (as it stands) in Russia, but which could never exist here.
I think government is one of the areas where going open-source makes the most sense; I'd much rather see tax-payer money go into FOSS than Microsoft's pockets...
I've been looking forwards to getting into PHP5 for a while now, but for the time being I'm stuck developing in PHP4, because the majority of my costumers' hosting providers haven't upgraded yet. Does anybody have any good providers to recommend that support it?
I know you were trying to make a joke, but if you'd RTFA you would know that MSN is as susceptible to this as Google is. Only Yahoo has addressed the issue.
No. Designing for IE only is simply encouraging their bad behavior, and can cause you headaches in the long run. One of the big advantages to doing things in a standards compliant way is that you're guaranteed forwards compatibility, which means that if Microsoft decides to fix their bugs one day (as they did with IE5's broken box model), you can be guaranteed that your site will still work. Not to mention the possibility that IE will fall from it's spot one day.