I've been running 9a559 full time on my MBP. No major problems. 99% of programs work just fine. The only thing that doesn't work that well that I use is TextExpander and Mozy Backup.
Objective-C 2.0 is supported in Leopard and one feature is garbage collection through a single check box in XCode. I highly doubt they have 2 versions of the frameworks in memory, one random, one normal, so they must have gotten it to work just fine.
I may be talking out of my ass, but presumably the framework knows where the addresses of functions are though a lookup table or something. This isn't any different than the current lookup table that they would use now except the function locations are now random. What this accomplishes is that if you have an exploit in Safari through a buffer overflow or something and you want to call some system framework function at a known address location because maybe it has another exploit you want to take advantage of, you can't hard code this any more. I don't see how this would really affect anything in an Cocoa application.
I'm just guessing, but probably Apple will check all their own applications to make sure they are signed by Apple. They say they are all signed so no one can replace your version of Mail with their own fake version without the OS complaining(I hope).
Presumably it uses a similar certificate system like SSL. You get a certificate from some CA and you are guaranteed that the website you are connecting to is the true owner of the SSL certificate.
Do something with an application and you can guarantee this code comes from the true author of the program, not just something else with the same name and icon. The only thing is, you don't have to use it so it doesn't enforce any security at all.
I saw a guy working in MS Project on Vista editing a Gantt chart. Just editing the start/end times and hitting enter would cause the cursor to turn into the spinning coloured circle for about 1/2 a second. I'm not sure why it takes so much CPU time to do that that vista decides to pop up that thing but it's ridiculous how many times it comes up. It reminds me of the early days of OS X a little.
It's actually a lot better than iTunes and I hate to say that because I do like the idea of iTunes even though I don't actually buy music or tv(not available in Canada, and too expensive) from the store. $0.89-$0.99 for DRM free music is not a bad deal.
Actually Leopard IS faster on my MBP than Tiger is, on the same drive, different partitions.
Spotlight is FAST. It's basically what it should have been from the start. Now it's actually useful for a program launcher too.
Spotlight in Tiger is still faster than the old method of searching but definitely not as instant as they made it seem when it first came out.
Also, it seems almost everything in Leopard is threaded now including some windows and program menus running in their own threads. No doubt this is from NSOperation which is their new object for doing things in threads without a lot of work by the programmer.
What would be great is if Apple started becoming a true music label. I think they finally settled the lawsuit from Apple Music or whatever they were called that prevented them from being a music producer. They could do it with another company with a secret contract with Apple where they are guaranteed that they will sell on iTunes. Then offer the artists better deals than their current labels and artists will be flocking to the new label.
My cell phone bill starts at $20 per month. With all the extra fees like system access fee and 911 fee and taxes it almost doubles in price to about $36-$38 per month.
I don't know about that. I know people who are buying new computers and wiping Vista from the drive and putting on XP. Eventually they will have to upgrade but there's a huge resistance to it.
Hey dummy, we're only at 10.4.10, one point release past the latest kernel source. You don't even know how much the kernel changed during that time anyways. I think this is good that they keep the source one point behind because then the assholes who pirate OS X and run it on their PCs with a hacked kernel are always behind a true Mac.
Apple has said it's going to keep releasing the source so STFU about stuff you don't know about.
What, you think they can actually shut down usenet? If they can't shut it down because of all other stuff on there(kiddie porn etc) they won't shut it down because you can download tv shows.
I don't know, they may have limits with AT&T on what they can put on there. No one really knows what the contracts between the companies are so I would find it hard to take a guess. But it seems you HAVE to buy the song from iTMS to even put it on the phone you can't use any self-ripped songs without going around the iTunes way of doing it.
Apple doesn't own the music they sell you, they license it from the music labels. If the music labels say they can't use the same songs for ringtones then Apple can't easily let you do it under the terms of their contract. Why don't you blame the labels because it's their fault not Apple's.
Yeah and all other phones come with free cell plans right? Screw off with that tired old argument. I pay about $40 CAD for my cell phone right now and I get a lousy 200 minutes and zero data included.
The reason I didn't like Google Desktop Search was because it ran about 3-4 processes in the background all the time that used quite a bit of RAM. Spotlight's only has mds and mdimport which use about 10% of the RAM that Google's processes used. They were using up to 20MB of physical RAM from what I remember which is unacceptable to have going all the time especially when I'm trying to run large programs such as Motor, Mokey or Shake. I don't want all the pageouts that I already get with Motor let along Google's stuff taking up lots of RAM for no reason.
Are there mitochondria in a woman's egg before fertilization? I'm wondering how they get there in the first place if it's not in the DNA of the 2 parents.
Don't they have a business service? If you're using it for work and it's a lot of bandwidth used then you probably should be getting a business service. I know here, Rogers has business plans which are identical to the residential ones but there's no bandwidth limit AFAIK, where as with the residential there is a 100GB cap and they also throttle torrents. I believe they throttle them on the business accounts too. Rogers started doing this same thing Comcast is doing, only a year or two ago. They finally came out with the actual cap numbers because people were leaving in droves.
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I've been running 9a559 full time on my MBP. No major problems. 99% of programs work just fine. The only thing that doesn't work that well that I use is TextExpander and Mozy Backup.
Objective-C 2.0 is supported in Leopard and one feature is garbage collection through a single check box in XCode. I highly doubt they have 2 versions of the frameworks in memory, one random, one normal, so they must have gotten it to work just fine.
I may be talking out of my ass, but presumably the framework knows where the addresses of functions are though a lookup table or something. This isn't any different than the current lookup table that they would use now except the function locations are now random. What this accomplishes is that if you have an exploit in Safari through a buffer overflow or something and you want to call some system framework function at a known address location because maybe it has another exploit you want to take advantage of, you can't hard code this any more. I don't see how this would really affect anything in an Cocoa application.
I'm just guessing, but probably Apple will check all their own applications to make sure they are signed by Apple. They say they are all signed so no one can replace your version of Mail with their own fake version without the OS complaining(I hope).
Presumably it uses a similar certificate system like SSL. You get a certificate from some CA and you are guaranteed that the website you are connecting to is the true owner of the SSL certificate. Do something with an application and you can guarantee this code comes from the true author of the program, not just something else with the same name and icon. The only thing is, you don't have to use it so it doesn't enforce any security at all.
That's bloody ridiculous.
I saw a guy working in MS Project on Vista editing a Gantt chart. Just editing the start/end times and hitting enter would cause the cursor to turn into the spinning coloured circle for about 1/2 a second. I'm not sure why it takes so much CPU time to do that that vista decides to pop up that thing but it's ridiculous how many times it comes up. It reminds me of the early days of OS X a little.
It's actually a lot better than iTunes and I hate to say that because I do like the idea of iTunes even though I don't actually buy music or tv(not available in Canada, and too expensive) from the store. $0.89-$0.99 for DRM free music is not a bad deal.
How do you know Apple won't unlock it after the exclusivity agreement is over?
Actually Leopard IS faster on my MBP than Tiger is, on the same drive, different partitions. Spotlight is FAST. It's basically what it should have been from the start. Now it's actually useful for a program launcher too. Spotlight in Tiger is still faster than the old method of searching but definitely not as instant as they made it seem when it first came out. Also, it seems almost everything in Leopard is threaded now including some windows and program menus running in their own threads. No doubt this is from NSOperation which is their new object for doing things in threads without a lot of work by the programmer.
What would be great is if Apple started becoming a true music label. I think they finally settled the lawsuit from Apple Music or whatever they were called that prevented them from being a music producer. They could do it with another company with a secret contract with Apple where they are guaranteed that they will sell on iTunes. Then offer the artists better deals than their current labels and artists will be flocking to the new label.
My cell phone bill starts at $20 per month. With all the extra fees like system access fee and 911 fee and taxes it almost doubles in price to about $36-$38 per month.
I don't think you're going to find that many people that know Smalltalk that are starting with Objective-C.
I don't know about that. I know people who are buying new computers and wiping Vista from the drive and putting on XP. Eventually they will have to upgrade but there's a huge resistance to it.
Hey dummy, we're only at 10.4.10, one point release past the latest kernel source. You don't even know how much the kernel changed during that time anyways. I think this is good that they keep the source one point behind because then the assholes who pirate OS X and run it on their PCs with a hacked kernel are always behind a true Mac.
Apple has said it's going to keep releasing the source so STFU about stuff you don't know about.
What, you think they can actually shut down usenet? If they can't shut it down because of all other stuff on there(kiddie porn etc) they won't shut it down because you can download tv shows.
I don't know, they may have limits with AT&T on what they can put on there. No one really knows what the contracts between the companies are so I would find it hard to take a guess. But it seems you HAVE to buy the song from iTMS to even put it on the phone you can't use any self-ripped songs without going around the iTunes way of doing it.
Apple doesn't own the music they sell you, they license it from the music labels. If the music labels say they can't use the same songs for ringtones then Apple can't easily let you do it under the terms of their contract. Why don't you blame the labels because it's their fault not Apple's.
Yeah and all other phones come with free cell plans right? Screw off with that tired old argument. I pay about $40 CAD for my cell phone right now and I get a lousy 200 minutes and zero data included.
You've had it for up to 2 months. Why should you get the full $200 back?
Did you miss the BUSINESS part or something?
The reason I didn't like Google Desktop Search was because it ran about 3-4 processes in the background all the time that used quite a bit of RAM. Spotlight's only has mds and mdimport which use about 10% of the RAM that Google's processes used. They were using up to 20MB of physical RAM from what I remember which is unacceptable to have going all the time especially when I'm trying to run large programs such as Motor, Mokey or Shake. I don't want all the pageouts that I already get with Motor let along Google's stuff taking up lots of RAM for no reason.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I don't remember learning that in HS Bio.
Are there mitochondria in a woman's egg before fertilization? I'm wondering how they get there in the first place if it's not in the DNA of the 2 parents.
Don't they have a business service? If you're using it for work and it's a lot of bandwidth used then you probably should be getting a business service. I know here, Rogers has business plans which are identical to the residential ones but there's no bandwidth limit AFAIK, where as with the residential there is a 100GB cap and they also throttle torrents. I believe they throttle them on the business accounts too. Rogers started doing this same thing Comcast is doing, only a year or two ago. They finally came out with the actual cap numbers because people were leaving in droves.