If you only need source level compability, GNUstep can be used; its an implementation of the NextStep Reference platform, and they've been tracking changing on Cocoa, so for Objective-C apps, its great.
If you need to port Carbon apps, well, I dunno of anything yet.
As for actually running them, someone could probably cook up the necessary binary load.
I'm not even sure holyfreakingshit covers it. Its the patent office doing something nonbraindead. That itself is almost enough to make one believe in God.
I also work on developing games (I'm the lead developer on Castle Infinity), and when I got the source code to the project, it based on Visual Studio. VS is a great tool, and as far as IDEs go it blows away just about everything beside Eclipse/CDT (which on the other hand is extremely so for me) with basic C/C++ code.
We've recently moved our project from VS based project files to a CMake based solution since we're planning to port to Linux and needed GCC support. Despite the fact that our project is compiler neutral (mostly), all our developers are on some version of VS, either 2005 or 2008 (I'm using VS2005 Pro personally).
Games often have a lot of custom tools (we have three compilers; one to generate artwork metadata, one to compile levels, and one to compile scripts) which have (or at least should) intergrate into the build process. Until CMake came around, the choices were handling these events nmake makefiles (I've never seen these in the wild; I only use them when I need to cross-compile to x64 or IA-64 using the PSDK), autoconf (which is a nightmare on Win32), or Visual C++ Project Files which could handle custom events and dependencies with an easy to use interface.
I'm not saying that Visual Studio isn't a great tool, but until fairly recently, there was nothing that could do what it could so nicely on Windows.
Wow, I guess you've never seen anyone suffer. I've watched my grandfather waste away for years; quite frankly, its a crime that he's still alive in his condition.
I work in EMS and fire, every once in awhile, we get called to the scene of a suidice, and yes, it is a tragic thing, but when you think about the conditions some of these people are living in, or the pain they are constantly in, then I don't see a problem with it.
Disclaimer: I went to private school and I'm Generation Y, this post might not apply to most people
When I was in high school (two years ago), I got so much work, I wasn't able to hold a job at the same time (I was often working up and past midnight to finish all the work I got). Could I have held a job on the weekend? Maybe, but the added stress would have been a nightmare, there were times were I was already close to cracking under the stress - and to compound the fact, I'm not good at math, so that work usually took twice as long as most of the other work). I did work during the summers, and I made a good amount of money (enough that I was able to take trips to see other parts of the US by myself after I turned 18). Now I have a friend who came to my school from public school and she almost instantly cracked on the stress, and the culture shock, so I can see where your coming from, but at least not everyone is caught by the horrible crap going on in the classroom.
I got into a good college, but I've been bouncing around majors trying to find something I WANT to do, not what pays well (or what my parents want). I'm good with tech, I'm a developer on GNU Hurd (insert standard jokes here), and I have a social life, but right now, I'm majoring in Criminal Justice because its one of the few majors that is semi-interesting. I do work as a volunteer firefighter, and I was going to buy my own motorcycle before my parents caught wind, yelled at me for wanting to buy a "death-cycle", and got my current SUV since I wasn't going to let it drop (you try living in a suberbs with no access to public transportation, and the closest convientent store is a 40 minute hike).
Where is it law that they must sell without a contract? I used to be a T-Mobile reseller, and we were told that it couldn't be done, and I fought hard to try and get a no-contract line of service, and gave up in failure (I signed a one year contract, and let it expire; that was over two years ago, and I've remained month to month since).
I used to service HP printers, and in the offical service manual for the HP LaserJet 4, it actually means Primary Casette. The messages you could get were:
MF LOAD LETTER (manual feed) PC LOAD LETTER (Primary Casette) SC LOAD LETTER (Secondary Casette)
I think there was also a TC, but its been a few yearsl
Pull email is also traditional email. A client polls the server and checks to see if any email is available. If it is, its downloaded. New messages are checked every few minutes but you don't instantly get the message unless your holding an open connection.
Push email has the server tell the device that the email is now available, and sends it to the phone (or part of it; I use Microsoft's version with my MDA which only sends the first kilobyte until I request the rest). This saves battery life because the phone doesn't constantly have to poll, and the email is delivered within seconds of it arriving in the server. It's similar to IMAP IDLE expect that the phone doesn't need to keep a connection open.
Damn, I've been interested in Windows CE for ages, and I always wanted to pick the bugger apart, but I never had $3,000 dollars for the platform builder. For those you don't know, 90% percent of Windows CE code (I think its everything expect Windows Media Player and Pocket Internet Explorer) and only charges small royalities (I think it's $6 dollars) per device, and you can do things like port it to a new platform if you wish (assuming you had the required compiler).
I realize this isn't open source persay, but I'm very interested in it, and I wonder why they decided to open the CE kernel up. I also wonder if there is enough code to flash CE 6 onto a CE 5 device (I have a T-Mobile MDA with Windows CE 5, I wonder if I can simply drop the new kernel in there).
Considering how much processing power is already packed into the XBox 360, I'm curious on how they intend to top that and keep it cost effective. Also, just how much processing power does a game console need? At the rate they're going, they are going to soon have the power of an enterprise server!
The fans will automatically rev up to 6000RPM max if necessary to keep the machine cool, and as a failsafe, the machine will automatically turn off if it gets too hot*
* At least, I believe it will, a lot of other PCs do, and my old mac did...
I reset my fan seed to 6000 to see how cool my laptop could get, and its amazing getting cooler then most PCs I owned, whose fans are 10x as load. I would pay for this app if it was a commerial program!
I wonder how it works, I'd love to see the source code for it...
Judging by the thread, it seems Vodoo opened up the sources to there drivers since he talks about how they were written.
Can someone please explain in detail about this? It would be news to me if said sources were actually available, and I simply didn't misread the thread.
It makes the cheap stuff taste better, but it doesn't make it as good as the high end stuff. I think the cheap stuff (on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest), got 4 the first time around, and 6 or 7 after filtering a few times. The good stuff got an 8 or 9. It was really quite some time ago, so I can't say for sure.
Can't spammers use this thing to break CAPTCHAs on sites like Slashdot and many other internet forums? CATCHAs have been very effective in stopping spammers in the past, but if they can now just read them and answer correctly, then they are effectively rendered useless...
This combined with the mentality that being accused instantly makes you guility in our society will result in many people's lives being ruined for doing nothing wrong in the first place. I can't see one good reason why they should have this system setup at all for people who aren't convienced!
Having parents that I own an AOL account, and one I use from time to time, this terrorifies me. I haven't downloaded the datasheet yet, but I intend to and see if I'm there. I'm waiting for this to reach the mainstream papers so people will start talking about it, and put pressure on AOL.
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Just duct tape everything down, so it can't be removed without a lot of effort.
I tagged the article "lotsofducttape"
If you only need source level compability, GNUstep can be used; its an implementation of the NextStep Reference platform, and they've been tracking changing on Cocoa, so for Objective-C apps, its great.
If you need to port Carbon apps, well, I dunno of anything yet.
As for actually running them, someone could probably cook up the necessary binary load.
I'm not even sure holyfreakingshit covers it. Its the patent office doing something nonbraindead. That itself is almost enough to make one believe in God.
Try using Darwine (http://darwine.sourceforge.net/), or if you wish for commercial support, use CrossOver Office for Macintosh.
I also work on developing games (I'm the lead developer on Castle Infinity), and when I got the source code to the project, it based on Visual Studio. VS is a great tool, and as far as IDEs go it blows away just about everything beside Eclipse/CDT (which on the other hand is extremely so for me) with basic C/C++ code.
We've recently moved our project from VS based project files to a CMake based solution since we're planning to port to Linux and needed GCC support. Despite the fact that our project is compiler neutral (mostly), all our developers are on some version of VS, either 2005 or 2008 (I'm using VS2005 Pro personally).
Games often have a lot of custom tools (we have three compilers; one to generate artwork metadata, one to compile levels, and one to compile scripts) which have (or at least should) intergrate into the build process. Until CMake came around, the choices were handling these events nmake makefiles (I've never seen these in the wild; I only use them when I need to cross-compile to x64 or IA-64 using the PSDK), autoconf (which is a nightmare on Win32), or Visual C++ Project Files which could handle custom events and dependencies with an easy to use interface.
I'm not saying that Visual Studio isn't a great tool, but until fairly recently, there was nothing that could do what it could so nicely on Windows.
Argh, don't these guys watch TV?, the entire planet will be reduced to the size of a pea once the mass of the Higgs boson is known ....
...)
(for the mods, its a reference to the scifi show Lexx
Winston Churchill said it best: "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."
Wow, I guess you've never seen anyone suffer. I've watched my grandfather waste away for years; quite frankly, its a crime that he's still alive in his condition. I work in EMS and fire, every once in awhile, we get called to the scene of a suidice, and yes, it is a tragic thing, but when you think about the conditions some of these people are living in, or the pain they are constantly in, then I don't see a problem with it.
While its true DC isn't a state, anyone born in DC is still a naturally born citizen.
Disclaimer: I went to private school and I'm Generation Y, this post might not apply to most people
When I was in high school (two years ago), I got so much work, I wasn't able to hold a job at the same time (I was often working up and past midnight to finish all the work I got). Could I have held a job on the weekend? Maybe, but the added stress would have been a nightmare, there were times were I was already close to cracking under the stress - and to compound the fact, I'm not good at math, so that work usually took twice as long as most of the other work). I did work during the summers, and I made a good amount of money (enough that I was able to take trips to see other parts of the US by myself after I turned 18). Now I have a friend who came to my school from public school and she almost instantly cracked on the stress, and the culture shock, so I can see where your coming from, but at least not everyone is caught by the horrible crap going on in the classroom.
I got into a good college, but I've been bouncing around majors trying to find something I WANT to do, not what pays well (or what my parents want). I'm good with tech, I'm a developer on GNU Hurd (insert standard jokes here), and I have a social life, but right now, I'm majoring in Criminal Justice because its one of the few majors that is semi-interesting. I do work as a volunteer firefighter, and I was going to buy my own motorcycle before my parents caught wind, yelled at me for wanting to buy a "death-cycle", and got my current SUV since I wasn't going to let it drop (you try living in a suberbs with no access to public transportation, and the closest convientent store is a 40 minute hike).
Where is it law that they must sell without a contract? I used to be a T-Mobile reseller, and we were told that it couldn't be done, and I fought hard to try and get a no-contract line of service, and gave up in failure (I signed a one year contract, and let it expire; that was over two years ago, and I've remained month to month since).
Michael
I used to service HP printers, and in the offical service manual for the HP LaserJet 4, it actually means Primary Casette. The messages you could get were:
MF LOAD LETTER (manual feed)
PC LOAD LETTER (Primary Casette)
SC LOAD LETTER (Secondary Casette)
I think there was also a TC, but its been a few yearsl
I'm pretty sure this joke is offical dead now.
Pull email is also traditional email. A client polls the server and checks to see if any email is available. If it is, its downloaded. New messages are checked every few minutes but you don't instantly get the message unless your holding an open connection. Push email has the server tell the device that the email is now available, and sends it to the phone (or part of it; I use Microsoft's version with my MDA which only sends the first kilobyte until I request the rest). This saves battery life because the phone doesn't constantly have to poll, and the email is delivered within seconds of it arriving in the server. It's similar to IMAP IDLE expect that the phone doesn't need to keep a connection open.
Damn, I've been interested in Windows CE for ages, and I always wanted to pick the bugger apart, but I never had $3,000 dollars for the platform builder. For those you don't know, 90% percent of Windows CE code (I think its everything expect Windows Media Player and Pocket Internet Explorer) and only charges small royalities (I think it's $6 dollars) per device, and you can do things like port it to a new platform if you wish (assuming you had the required compiler).
I realize this isn't open source persay, but I'm very interested in it, and I wonder why they decided to open the CE kernel up. I also wonder if there is enough code to flash CE 6 onto a CE 5 device (I have a T-Mobile MDA with Windows CE 5, I wonder if I can simply drop the new kernel in there).
Why would these machines transmit radio signals, and why would they broadcast who someone was voting for?!
We're going to have the XBox 720?
Considering how much processing power is already packed into the XBox 360, I'm curious on how they intend to top that and keep it cost effective. Also, just how much processing power does a game console need? At the rate they're going, they are going to soon have the power of an enterprise server!
The fans will automatically rev up to 6000RPM max if necessary to keep the machine cool, and as a failsafe, the machine will automatically turn off if it gets too hot*
...
* At least, I believe it will, a lot of other PCs do, and my old mac did
I reset my fan seed to 6000 to see how cool my laptop could get, and its amazing getting cooler then most PCs I owned, whose fans are 10x as load. I would pay for this app if it was a commerial program!
...
I wonder how it works, I'd love to see the source code for it
Judging by the thread, it seems Vodoo opened up the sources to there drivers since he talks about how they were written.
Can someone please explain in detail about this? It would be news to me if said sources were actually available, and I simply didn't misread the thread.
It makes the cheap stuff taste better, but it doesn't make it as good as the high end stuff. I think the cheap stuff (on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest), got 4 the first time around, and 6 or 7 after filtering a few times. The good stuff got an 8 or 9. It was really quite some time ago, so I can't say for sure.
iTunes 1 was three notes, all different shades of purple. iTunes 2 was blue. iTunes 3 and later have been green.
Can't spammers use this thing to break CAPTCHAs on sites like Slashdot and many other internet forums? CATCHAs have been very effective in stopping spammers in the past, but if they can now just read them and answer correctly, then they are effectively rendered useless ...
This combined with the mentality that being accused instantly makes you guility in our society will result in many people's lives being ruined for doing nothing wrong in the first place. I can't see one good reason why they should have this system setup at all for people who aren't convienced!
From the Microsoft XNA FAQ:
Q: What does XNA stand for?
A: XNA's Not Acronymed
It seems this is what Microsoft said that they were learning to embrace open source software!
Having parents that I own an AOL account, and one I use from time to time, this terrorifies me. I haven't downloaded the datasheet yet, but I intend to and see if I'm there. I'm waiting for this to reach the mainstream papers so people will start talking about it, and put pressure on AOL.