Since much of the Mac OS X software written in C/C++ is being compiled with GCC using Apple's Developer Tools, GCC improvements like improved Altivec useage is going to seriously affect both PPC/Linux and Darwin/Mac OS X.
To say that GCC doesn't matter to Mac OS X is just wrong.
Just do everybody a favor and when you are running OS X and you find something you dislike, send Apple feedback. I've had a bunch of issues resolved after I complained about this or that and the consensus seems to be that on this round, Apple is actually listening to technical criticism.
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Others have noted that the demo version of Office is *very* insistant about announcing its demo status. You'd think a computer consultant (the author) would know the difference. Though maybe...
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From my personal experience with CompUSA managers, they would never consent to the 400+ dollar hit of officially putting a full working copy of office on the sales floor.To get that full copy of Office on there, that's what they would have to do.
Gee - And will the license fee entitle permanent useage or is it one of those 2 year repetitive payment deals? Apple needs to reduce its investment in coders reinventing the wheel. That's pretty much a permanent condition. The situation you describe where Apple tries to go back to their proprietary tendencies for common code would be a major signal to short Apple stock as they've lost their minds and are headed for the toilet again.
It's a theoretical problem, but probably not a practical one.
I don't think that people who just buy and use routers realize that the SSSCA is going to apply to them too because they aren't normally used to handle this sort of data,except in passing.
Re:This brings up an interesting point
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Nobody seems to be asking how a $400+ Office app appeared on the Apple demo machine?
Get a clue boys and girls, CompUSA stole it first and that's why nobody wanted to do anything about it.
Re:Is that bad?
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OK, let's take seriously the idea that Windows uninstallers usually work as advertised. If you want to kill the preferences file, you check in, ooh! two places/Library/Preferences or ~/Library/Preferences
According to the rules, those are the only things that should be outsid the application bundle except for saved files which would be normally saved in ~/Documents.
An application bundle is a folder that looks like a signle file application but is in reality a folder. Nobody puts their files inside an app bundle. That would be as asinine as trying to save everything on the root level of your hard drive in windows.
Re:Wasn't Kevin Webb...
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It's more than likely that the CompUSA employee knew exactly what was going on, being the guy who loaded Office on it in the first place.
To legally load Office on a demo machine, CompUSA has to take one of its copies, 'buy it' by filling out an internal use form, take the $400+ hit on their store profits and then load it. The cheap managers don't want to do that and certainly wouldn't have authorized it.
It was much more likely that a savvy employee took a copy out, loaded it, gave it to his friend downstairs that runs the shrinkwrap machine and it was back on the shelf, waiting to be sold in about 4 hours. Mac section has real software and improves mac sales, no harm, no foul, right? Wrong, according to the BSA.
Now if this employee would have actually done something about the 'theft' of already pirated software, their own theft would have come to light and the risk would have been entirely to CompUSA because they *are* big enough to get a BSA raid.
That's almost correct. Some people are storing serial numbers in the preferences file though which can be stored elsewhere, often under Library/Preferences either off the root or off the user account.
Another neat feature of Mac OS X's bundling is that if you follow the Apple guidelines and put all your strings in a separate plist file, it should be pretty easy for an end user to actually take your application and add a language without you having to do anything.
Re:It's newsworthy
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Just a small note, the OS for the iPod is a cellphone OS that has PDA capabilities built in. Apple actually stripped those out to make the iPod so it's a product that's just waiting to be made, just add industrial design...
One thing you are missing on that bitstream model, any home firewall/proxy you are passing that bitstream through has the ability to save the bitstream so for the MPAA/RIAA to truly get control they have to not only get their hands on the end-user computer but they have to be able to control your proxy/firewall as well.
Hmmm... Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes to mind. A bunch of Hong Kong (now part of the PRC) films have also had wide success in the US. Dare I guess how much japanese anime is actually produced in China?
Face it, the US earns its number 1 spot every day. Destroy the laws (that keep us free to innovate), destroy the lead
And yes the true freedom to innovate *is* at stake here.
Regardless. ------------ [Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so. --end quote--
If you find a term that is a logical absurdity and fit only for nonstandard speech and casual writing to be unfit for slashdot use than you have a very strange idea of what slashdot is.
Apple probably will encourage a Cocoa around 2005-2007. Photoshop 9 will be Cocoa because Carbon is going to be phased out over time. It's a native transition API.
First Classic's going to be deprecated by OSX 10.5 and probably gone by 11 (whatever they Chiat/Day calls it). After that, the push will be on towrds Cocoa for 12 because development gets very, very easy and you can write very little code yourself and get a functioning application with a lot of work being done via services.
I wouldn't doubt that in such a world Photoshop editing tools being available inside Quark would be a major inducement to the publishing market to pick up more copies of Photoshop. It would also reduce the temptation for people to move away from photoshop because a new tool has a few features the Photoshop of the moment doesn't have. They'll be available in Photoshop via services.
Re:OT: How to set preferences
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OK, it's not news for nerds. It is, however, stuff that matters. It's driving the universe closer to a Unix v. Microsoft world by reducing the number of desktops running neither (classic Mac OS). Every desktop that goes OS X incrementally changes the calculation that all developers do when they start programming, who is my target audience and to what platforms do I code?
If Mac OS programmers tweak their code so that Cocoa apps they write run under GNUStep, that's a win for Linux. If traditional Unix vendors tweak their code so their stuff compiles and runs under OS X, that's a win for Apple. If Windows programmers conclude that the collective Unix world is once again large enough to start supporting it's a win for everybody in that world BSD and Linux included.
Get it now? It's important because it goes to market share, specifically desktop market share and the software development houses largely follow market share because they've got to pay the bills.
Actually, artists who are heavily using Photoshop buy machines frequently to take advantage of better hardware speeds. It's just that they've been taking their machines and telling them to boot into OS 9 instead of OS X.
This holds back adoption of OS X because there's no compelling reason to invest in cocoa for such a small base and even carbon can be put off until you start getting requests for it. Well, now all those artists are going to start swapping over and that's going to make it easier to shift the programmers as well.
Upping the OS X adoption rate and moving forward with their competitive strategy is important for Apple because it provides unique abilities that you don't get on Windows boxen (like system wide spell checking for all Cocoa apps). It's going to be nice to be able to have functionality bought once and spread throughout your application irregardless of vendor. Apple wants us to get to that nice world fast because *that's* going to get a lot more boxes sold.
Remember, Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. They like OS X primarily because it's a driver of their hardware sales, and only secondarily because of the money they get directly from it.
They need to sell more boxes because if they get to a magic point, one very clear advantage will appear, PPC chips are smaller and cheaper to produce at like volumes. At that point, Macs will not only become the easier to use alternative, they will become the cheaper alternative as well.
Since a 3 button trackpad module should be available from any number of OEMs, what's keeping a 3rd party from just retrofitting them? At the price of a TiBook, an extra $60 shouldn't matter.
I'd rather have a Power 4 release than an Intel release. The porting costs would be minimal and IBM would have a kick ass unix that runs a huge numberof applications including Microsoft Office to sell to engineers.
Apple would get a new high end to the Mac OS X line that wouldn't flinch at a $900 OS license fee because their bottem end would start at 15K per machine.
I'm waiting for someone to come up with a wireless ISP in a box kit which would easily allow you to set up a local 802.11 network to a T-1/frac. T-1 line so anybody that didn't have DSL competition could still have broadband available.
When Apple begins to pressure its developers to move on from Carbon to Cocoa and MS Office vX.3 comes out in about 3-5 years as a cocoa app, A linux system running gnustep should have a realistic shot at running the application.
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Since much of the Mac OS X software written in C/C++ is being compiled with GCC using Apple's Developer Tools, GCC improvements like improved Altivec useage is going to seriously affect both PPC/Linux and Darwin/Mac OS X.
To say that GCC doesn't matter to Mac OS X is just wrong.
Just do everybody a favor and when you are running OS X and you find something you dislike, send Apple feedback. I've had a bunch of issues resolved after I complained about this or that and the consensus seems to be that on this round, Apple is actually listening to technical criticism.
Others have noted that the demo version of Office is *very* insistant about announcing its demo status. You'd think a computer consultant (the author) would know the difference. Though maybe...
DB
From my personal experience with CompUSA managers, they would never consent to the 400+ dollar hit of officially putting a full working copy of office on the sales floor.To get that full copy of Office on there, that's what they would have to do.
Running a pirate shop for mac software available off the net was a great way to pump mac sales.
theoretically, of course.
Gee - And will the license fee entitle permanent useage or is it one of those 2 year repetitive payment deals? Apple needs to reduce its investment in coders reinventing the wheel. That's pretty much a permanent condition. The situation you describe where Apple tries to go back to their proprietary tendencies for common code would be a major signal to short Apple stock as they've lost their minds and are headed for the toilet again.
It's a theoretical problem, but probably not a practical one.
I don't think that people who just buy and use routers realize that the SSSCA is going to apply to them too because they aren't normally used to handle this sort of data,except in passing.
Nobody seems to be asking how a $400+ Office app appeared on the Apple demo machine?
Get a clue boys and girls, CompUSA stole it first and that's why nobody wanted to do anything about it.
OK, let's take seriously the idea that Windows uninstallers usually work as advertised. If you want to kill the preferences file, you check in, ooh! two places /Library/Preferences or ~/Library/Preferences
According to the rules, those are the only things that should be outsid the application bundle except for saved files which would be normally saved in ~/Documents.
An application bundle is a folder that looks like a signle file application but is in reality a folder. Nobody puts their files inside an app bundle. That would be as asinine as trying to save everything on the root level of your hard drive in windows.
It's more than likely that the CompUSA employee knew exactly what was going on, being the guy who loaded Office on it in the first place.
To legally load Office on a demo machine, CompUSA has to take one of its copies, 'buy it' by filling out an internal use form, take the $400+ hit on their store profits and then load it. The cheap managers don't want to do that and certainly wouldn't have authorized it.
It was much more likely that a savvy employee took a copy out, loaded it, gave it to his friend downstairs that runs the shrinkwrap machine and it was back on the shelf, waiting to be sold in about 4 hours. Mac section has real software and improves mac sales, no harm, no foul, right? Wrong, according to the BSA.
Now if this employee would have actually done something about the 'theft' of already pirated software, their own theft would have come to light and the risk would have been entirely to CompUSA because they *are* big enough to get a BSA raid.
That's almost correct. Some people are storing serial numbers in the preferences file though which can be stored elsewhere, often under Library/Preferences either off the root or off the user account.
Another neat feature of Mac OS X's bundling is that if you follow the Apple guidelines and put all your strings in a separate plist file, it should be pretty easy for an end user to actually take your application and add a language without you having to do anything.
Just a small note, the OS for the iPod is a cellphone OS that has PDA capabilities built in. Apple actually stripped those out to make the iPod so it's a product that's just waiting to be made, just add industrial design...
Given the flack they've gotten over it, I doubt they will not rewrite the finder.
One thing you are missing on that bitstream model, any home firewall/proxy you are passing that bitstream through has the ability to save the bitstream so for the MPAA/RIAA to truly get control they have to not only get their hands on the end-user computer but they have to be able to control your proxy/firewall as well.
DB
Hmmm... Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes to mind. A bunch of Hong Kong (now part of the PRC) films have also had wide success in the US. Dare I guess how much japanese anime is actually produced in China?
Face it, the US earns its number 1 spot every day. Destroy the laws (that keep us free to innovate), destroy the lead
And yes the true freedom to innovate *is* at stake here.
DB
Let's take a look at the entry you are nitpicking on. You referred to dictionary.com so here's the entry
--begin quote--
irregardless Pronunciation Key(r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.
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[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
--end quote--
If you find a term that is a logical absurdity and fit only for nonstandard speech and casual writing to be unfit for slashdot use than you have a very strange idea of what slashdot is.
DB
Don't bother modding me up, I'm karma kapped
Apple probably will encourage a Cocoa around 2005-2007. Photoshop 9 will be Cocoa because Carbon is going to be phased out over time. It's a native transition API.
First Classic's going to be deprecated by OSX 10.5 and probably gone by 11 (whatever they Chiat/Day calls it). After that, the push will be on towrds Cocoa for 12 because development gets very, very easy and you can write very little code yourself and get a functioning application with a lot of work being done via services.
I wouldn't doubt that in such a world Photoshop editing tools being available inside Quark would be a major inducement to the publishing market to pick up more copies of Photoshop. It would also reduce the temptation for people to move away from photoshop because a new tool has a few features the Photoshop of the moment doesn't have. They'll be available in Photoshop via services.
OK, it's not news for nerds. It is, however, stuff that matters. It's driving the universe closer to a Unix v. Microsoft world by reducing the number of desktops running neither (classic Mac OS). Every desktop that goes OS X incrementally changes the calculation that all developers do when they start programming, who is my target audience and to what platforms do I code?
If Mac OS programmers tweak their code so that Cocoa apps they write run under GNUStep, that's a win for Linux. If traditional Unix vendors tweak their code so their stuff compiles and runs under OS X, that's a win for Apple. If Windows programmers conclude that the collective Unix world is once again large enough to start supporting it's a win for everybody in that world BSD and Linux included.
Get it now? It's important because it goes to market share, specifically desktop market share and the software development houses largely follow market share because they've got to pay the bills.
Actually, artists who are heavily using Photoshop buy machines frequently to take advantage of better hardware speeds. It's just that they've been taking their machines and telling them to boot into OS 9 instead of OS X.
This holds back adoption of OS X because there's no compelling reason to invest in cocoa for such a small base and even carbon can be put off until you start getting requests for it. Well, now all those artists are going to start swapping over and that's going to make it easier to shift the programmers as well.
Upping the OS X adoption rate and moving forward with their competitive strategy is important for Apple because it provides unique abilities that you don't get on Windows boxen (like system wide spell checking for all Cocoa apps). It's going to be nice to be able to have functionality bought once and spread throughout your application irregardless of vendor. Apple wants us to get to that nice world fast because *that's* going to get a lot more boxes sold.
Remember, Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. They like OS X primarily because it's a driver of their hardware sales, and only secondarily because of the money they get directly from it.
They need to sell more boxes because if they get to a magic point, one very clear advantage will appear, PPC chips are smaller and cheaper to produce at like volumes. At that point, Macs will not only become the easier to use alternative, they will become the cheaper alternative as well.
Since a 3 button trackpad module should be available from any number of OEMs, what's keeping a 3rd party from just retrofitting them? At the price of a TiBook, an extra $60 shouldn't matter.
I'd rather have a Power 4 release than an Intel release. The porting costs would be minimal and IBM would have a kick ass unix that runs a huge numberof applications including Microsoft Office to sell to engineers.
Apple would get a new high end to the Mac OS X line that wouldn't flinch at a $900 OS license fee because their bottem end would start at 15K per machine.
I'm waiting for someone to come up with a wireless ISP in a box kit which would easily allow you to set up a local 802.11 network to a T-1/frac. T-1 line so anybody that didn't have DSL competition could still have broadband available.
Actually, that's his dad.
When Apple begins to pressure its developers to move on from Carbon to Cocoa and MS Office vX.3 comes out in about 3-5 years as a cocoa app, A linux system running gnustep should have a realistic shot at running the application.
DB
Does this mean that anybody making corporate videoconferencing or videophone equipment can't use MPEG-4 without paying $.02/stream/hour?