And, more specifically, it's got every other feature of GDB, too, since Xcode's debugger is just a pretty front end for gdb and lets you access the gdb console for all your old-school (or stuff Apple forgot in the GUI) debugging needs.
Well, if you read the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, you'll see exactly where the line is, and then you can maybe stop talking out of your ass on the subject.
Illegal behavior is explicitly not covered by the act.
As for the learning curve, it may take some time to get used to things being done differently in OS X, but moving from C++ to Java isn't too difficult if you choose to use Java Cocoa.
Objective C is generally a better bet for Cocoa development, but it will have a slightly steeper learning curve, since the syntax is significantly different.
Other than the change of language, the Cocoa frameworks might take a while to learn, but the documentation is very good.
I might also add that while the SQL specification can be written on two 8.5x11 sheets, the manual for Oracle is a 600 page book. Obviously it has a little more functionality than just any old database engine.
Umm, the size of the manual proves nothing. Take your 2 page SQL specification in one hand, and I'll write 4 pages on the use of the SQL SELECT statement. Does this prove that SELECT has more features than all of SQL (including SELECT) put together?
If a concise specification for C is shorter than the manaual for TRS-80 BASIC, does that make BASIC more powerful than C?
I suggest you take 4 hours to learn some logic, mr. genius.
But what if the government decides to start selling its emergency messages as DRM'ed WMP files on Real's website? There will be absolute chaos when all of the iPod owners can't play the message, and society will collapse.
We must act now to prevent this hypothetical disaster from occuring!
Poor analogy. It's arguable whether Windows popularity or poor coding is responsible for the higher amount of exploits.
It's practically a tautology, on the other hand, that a phishing scheme will be more successful when pretending to be from a more popular company, as the entire thing relies on the target believing the email is coming from a company with which he or she does business. Sending an email from some tiny bank in Nebraska to millions of people telling them to verify their information isn't going to fool too many, because they know they've never had an account with that bank. Sending it from a bank with a customer base as big as Citibank's, on the other hand, is a lot more likely to work.
Except, of course, by publishing Wikipedia's content, they're bound by Wikipedia's license, unless they wanted to get slapped with several hundred thousand counts of copyright infringement.
Umm, because they also believe she was a virgin, which is completely unrelated to the belief that she was born without Original Sin.
The Immaculate Conception doctrine came quite a bit after the Virgin Birth doctrine (which, as has been mentioned by other posters, is of biblical origin), as did the Catholic doctrine that Mary's hymen wasn't perforated by giving birth, and that she never had any other children (a definite retcon, that last one).
Well, considering it's a technical term of Catholic theology (and not, as a poster below suggests, a biblical misunderstanding; the Bible may or may not suggest that Mary was a virgin or a young girl, but it certainly doesn't say anything about the details of the mechanics of Original Sin or anything else a bunch of monks who read too much Aristotle came up with), I'd assume that any recent appropriation of the term by Protestants to describe the virgin birth is probably a misunderstanding.
I mean, you could just as easily say that "begging the question" has two meanings, depending on whether you're smart or not. Of course, the fact that one of them is a widely-used misuse of the term doesn't necessarily make it correct usage.
Completely off-topic (and pedantic) here, but "Immaculate conception" does not refer to a conception that takes place without sex, and is only related to the doctrine of Virgin Birth vaguely.
The conception of Jesus was not the "immaculate conception"; the conception of Mary was; even though she was conceived through normal means, the Catholic Church decided that she'd been given a singular gift of Grace, making her the only person ever born without the stain of Original Sin, to explain how she could possibly be a suitable vessel for Jesus before he died to forgive that sin.
Your analogy is a bad one. If the politician gives you a gun and you kill someone with it, you're just as guilty as he is, even if he paid you well and you used the money to support open source.
If the developer is so stupid that he didn't realize the guy paying him to put 300,000 webpages on his highly-ranked site was doing so to spam, he's an idiot and I feel less sorry for him than if he just had no ethics.
I don't think anyone suggested he was completely unaware of what was going on (i.e., that his site had been hacked), which would be the only defense against me considering him to be a spammer himself.
I don't think Apple will ever want their computers to be known as "good gaming platforms".
You're wrong. They've released 2 updates to Panther with the bulk of the listed features being improvements to World of Warcraft compatibility. If they didn't care about appearing to make a good gaming machine, they probably wouldn't have bothered working with Blizzard to optimize for their game, and they certainly wouldn't have emphasized those "features" over other improvements they made in the releases, some of which actually involved things that might help someone using their machine productively.
Apple would love to be taken seriously by more game manufacturers.
What right do you have to have a website that doesn't link to my site? I never agreed to any Terms of Service with you that say you can not link to me.
Google doesn't owe them anything. They're indexing them for free, and they can stop indexing them whenever they want if they don't meet Google's criteria for indexing.
Of course, since they obviously have no ethical standards, we can probably expect them to just release a new version of Wordpress that turns the machine of any blogger using it into a google-spamming zombie.
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And, more specifically, it's got every other feature of GDB, too, since Xcode's debugger is just a pretty front end for gdb and lets you access the gdb console for all your old-school (or stuff Apple forgot in the GUI) debugging needs.
You can develop Palm applications in Xcode, too, but I don't think that's what the OP is looking for...
Illegal behavior is explicitly not covered by the act.
As for the learning curve, it may take some time to get used to things being done differently in OS X, but moving from C++ to Java isn't too difficult if you choose to use Java Cocoa.
Objective C is generally a better bet for Cocoa development, but it will have a slightly steeper learning curve, since the syntax is significantly different.
Other than the change of language, the Cocoa frameworks might take a while to learn, but the documentation is very good.
That 2 page SQL spec isn't nearly as verbose as the Oracle manual.
He's been mathetizing things for 20 years. Stop judging him just because he forgot more vocabulary than you'll even know in your demential world.
Umm, the size of the manual proves nothing. Take your 2 page SQL specification in one hand, and I'll write 4 pages on the use of the SQL SELECT statement. Does this prove that SELECT has more features than all of SQL (including SELECT) put together?
If a concise specification for C is shorter than the manaual for TRS-80 BASIC, does that make BASIC more powerful than C?
I suggest you take 4 hours to learn some logic, mr. genius.
We must act now to prevent this hypothetical disaster from occuring!
It's practically a tautology, on the other hand, that a phishing scheme will be more successful when pretending to be from a more popular company, as the entire thing relies on the target believing the email is coming from a company with which he or she does business. Sending an email from some tiny bank in Nebraska to millions of people telling them to verify their information isn't going to fool too many, because they know they've never had an account with that bank. Sending it from a bank with a customer base as big as Citibank's, on the other hand, is a lot more likely to work.
Take off the tin foil hat.
The Immaculate Conception doctrine came quite a bit after the Virgin Birth doctrine (which, as has been mentioned by other posters, is of biblical origin), as did the Catholic doctrine that Mary's hymen wasn't perforated by giving birth, and that she never had any other children (a definite retcon, that last one).
Actually, I wasn't brought up Catholic, or even Christian. I'm just a pedant.
I mean, you could just as easily say that "begging the question" has two meanings, depending on whether you're smart or not. Of course, the fact that one of them is a widely-used misuse of the term doesn't necessarily make it correct usage.
The conception of Jesus was not the "immaculate conception"; the conception of Mary was; even though she was conceived through normal means, the Catholic Church decided that she'd been given a singular gift of Grace, making her the only person ever born without the stain of Original Sin, to explain how she could possibly be a suitable vessel for Jesus before he died to forgive that sin.
That term has been used in the philosophy of science for much longer than idiot business majors have been using it, thanks.
If the developer is so stupid that he didn't realize the guy paying him to put 300,000 webpages on his highly-ranked site was doing so to spam, he's an idiot and I feel less sorry for him than if he just had no ethics.
I don't think anyone suggested he was completely unaware of what was going on (i.e., that his site had been hacked), which would be the only defense against me considering him to be a spammer himself.
You're wrong. They've released 2 updates to Panther with the bulk of the listed features being improvements to World of Warcraft compatibility. If they didn't care about appearing to make a good gaming machine, they probably wouldn't have bothered working with Blizzard to optimize for their game, and they certainly wouldn't have emphasized those "features" over other improvements they made in the releases, some of which actually involved things that might help someone using their machine productively.
Apple would love to be taken seriously by more game manufacturers.
You must be new here.
Obviously someone on slashdot pointed out that terrorists could use it to find busses to blow up, so they had to discontinue it.
Google doesn't owe them anything. They're indexing them for free, and they can stop indexing them whenever they want if they don't meet Google's criteria for indexing.
Quite frankly, I don't care if a spammer is doing it to support his development of a blogging app, his crack habit, or a nearly-bankrupt orphanage.
Of course, since they obviously have no ethical standards, we can probably expect them to just release a new version of Wordpress that turns the machine of any blogger using it into a google-spamming zombie.
I'll show some restraint and not stereotype all Australians as being as stupid as you.
Excuse me, I'm got a Ferrari to return.
A brief, non-scientific survey I just conducted shows that demand for spam is decreasing all the time.