And this is the root of the problem right there, which everyone seems to be ignoring. What kind of an ass-backwards economy do we have when it's cheaper to make shit in China and send it (literally) halfway around the world, rather than make it locally?
It's not bad for Ireland, but it's not great, either. The arrangement doesn't give them any benefits other than the tax revenue; and this revenue will vanish the moment the companies find a better tax shelter in some other country.
Scala looks nice, but it runs on top of a JVM. If Oracle manages to destroy the Java platform (which is a real possibility), then Scala programmers are fucked. Remember, this is one of the reasons why the guy said he wants to get away from Java.
I am not sure what the "extensible type system" means
It means that you can add methods or properties to a class without subclassing it. This feature is one of the very few things that I actually like about Objective C.
On the other hand, I once owned a Mac desktop (can't remember the model, it was from the mid-1990s) that had absolutely the dumbest internal design I've ever seen. I had to completely disassemble the whole thing and remove the motherboard just to get to the RAM slots. And it wasn't particularly compact or portable, so there weren't even any good excuses for making it that way.
If the JVM is patent-encumbered, then it's not really open, so Larry can do whatever he wants with it. I'll be watching the Google lawsuit pretty closely.
With web/tv/radio/print, it's possible to communicate complex ideas (even though most so-called journalists never make use of that capability). With Twitter, the medium actually makes it impossible to say anything that won't fit on a bumper sticker.
There are people who wouldn't mind paying a few bucks extra for products that aren't made in third-world poison-spewing hell-holes; but most of the time, that's not even an option. Thank you, Free Trade.
Application signing will come in that form, this is just easing you into it, boiling the frog as it were.
That frog thing is a myth. If the water gets too warm, the frog will jump out. And that's exactly what will happen if Apple really tries to lock down their desktop OS. They got away with locking down the iOS because that's a completely new product; removing functionality from an existing product won't go over so good.
Remember the people that use OSX for very technical purposes are in the extreme minority.
Yes, we are. We're also the ones that regular people go to for advice on buying their next computer.
Yeah, OpenJDK is the one I'll be keeping an eye on. The problem is, right now it doesn't run on the Mac. I heard that you can build the BSD version on Mac OS if you jump through a lot of hoops, but it uses X11 for the GUI layer, and I'm sure there are all sorts of other problems. Making a proper port will be a pretty big job. Right now, I don't think anyone's working on it - but after today's announcement, that could change.
In the late 90's when the Mac wasn't going well Apple decided to license Java and fix those things since Sun wasn't likely to put much time and effort on it. It's actually really good and well done.
Yeah, it is. It's so well done that nobody ever bothered to write an alternate implementation for the Mac. Which now becomes a problem.
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Actually, we have no idea what he's looking for (and I don't think he does either). "Paint custom objects"? That could mean just about anything.
shipping plastic trinkets from China
And this is the root of the problem right there, which everyone seems to be ignoring. What kind of an ass-backwards economy do we have when it's cheaper to make shit in China and send it (literally) halfway around the world, rather than make it locally?
It's not bad for Ireland, but it's not great, either. The arrangement doesn't give them any benefits other than the tax revenue; and this revenue will vanish the moment the companies find a better tax shelter in some other country.
Bartering is all well and good until you have to make change for 1.95 goats.
Scala looks nice, but it runs on top of a JVM. If Oracle manages to destroy the Java platform (which is a real possibility), then Scala programmers are fucked. Remember, this is one of the reasons why the guy said he wants to get away from Java.
Replace the athletes with algorithms. Just think of the savings.
To blame Bush for Katrina is a straw man argument.
It may or may not be correct, but it sure as hell is not a straw man argument. Words have meaning. You can't just use them for decoration.
Gold is a "heavy metal", but it's non-toxic. That's why they can make dental crowns out of it.
There are many reasons why this is a stupid idea, but that isn't one of them.
I am not sure what the "extensible type system" means
It means that you can add methods or properties to a class without subclassing it. This feature is one of the very few things that I actually like about Objective C.
http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?&context=gosu&src=enhancements&topic=Using_Enhancements
With any luck, they'll ban children.
On the other hand, I once owned a Mac desktop (can't remember the model, it was from the mid-1990s) that had absolutely the dumbest internal design I've ever seen. I had to completely disassemble the whole thing and remove the motherboard just to get to the RAM slots. And it wasn't particularly compact or portable, so there weren't even any good excuses for making it that way.
Airwolf.
If the JVM is patent-encumbered, then it's not really open, so Larry can do whatever he wants with it. I'll be watching the Google lawsuit pretty closely.
And after English colonies.
It is evolution, Dave. But... not as we know it.
That's right.
With web/tv/radio/print, it's possible to communicate complex ideas (even though most so-called journalists never make use of that capability). With Twitter, the medium actually makes it impossible to say anything that won't fit on a bumper sticker.
If people are voting based on what Twitter tells them then we've got much bigger problems.
Instead, we say "affirmative".
There are people who wouldn't mind paying a few bucks extra for products that aren't made in third-world poison-spewing hell-holes; but most of the time, that's not even an option. Thank you, Free Trade.
"Mazda expects it to come in at 28 mpg city, 35 mpg highway with the five-speed manual, and 1 mpg less on highway mileage with the automatic."
Does not compute.
28 + 35 = 63. That's not quite 70, but it's still a pretty respectable number.
Application signing will come in that form, this is just easing you into it, boiling the frog as it were.
That frog thing is a myth. If the water gets too warm, the frog will jump out. And that's exactly what will happen if Apple really tries to lock down their desktop OS. They got away with locking down the iOS because that's a completely new product; removing functionality from an existing product won't go over so good.
Remember the people that use OSX for very technical purposes are in the extreme minority.
Yes, we are. We're also the ones that regular people go to for advice on buying their next computer.
Yeah, OpenJDK is the one I'll be keeping an eye on. The problem is, right now it doesn't run on the Mac. I heard that you can build the BSD version on Mac OS if you jump through a lot of hoops, but it uses X11 for the GUI layer, and I'm sure there are all sorts of other problems. Making a proper port will be a pretty big job. Right now, I don't think anyone's working on it - but after today's announcement, that could change.
And the dots. Let's not forget the dots.
In the late 90's when the Mac wasn't going well Apple decided to license Java and fix those things since Sun wasn't likely to put much time and effort on it. It's actually really good and well done.
Yeah, it is. It's so well done that nobody ever bothered to write an alternate implementation for the Mac. Which now becomes a problem.
The problem is, there is no other implementation of Java for Mac OS. If they were turning the maintenance over to Oracle, they would have said so.