This is a catfish. A bottomfeeder. It survives by sucking up the wastes that acrete on the floor of its chosen body of water.
And you think the wastes that float to the top of the water are somehow more wholesome?
Have it your way. More catfish for the rest of us. In case anybody's wondering, the correct way to prepare those suckers is to coat them in a cornmeal batter and either deep-fry or pan-fry them until the outside is golden-brown and the inside is cooked all the way through. The Stonecat Cafe in Hector, NY serves them with a smoked tomato coulis, but cocktail sauce will do in a pinch.
Adding ObjC support to the Intel compiler is probably the least of their problems.
PPC Macs will be around for a while still, and Apple will have to support them. Since the Intel compiler doesn't do PPC, this means Apple will have to either keep using GCC, or use GCC together with the Intel compiler. And the second option brings up compatibility issues: exactly how well do the two compilers play together? Apple will want to ensure that developers can write cross-platform code without too much hassle.
So my guess is that GCC will stay around for the foreseeable future, in some capacity or another. But I could be wrong, of course: a couple of weeks ago, I was mocking the very idea of an Intel-based Mac. Maybe you should ask Dvorak what he thinks.
might even be able to run Windows on a Mac, but a Mac on generic PC hardware is less likely
What makes you say that? Darwin already runs on generic x86. The parts of MacOS that are closed-source are mostly high-level systems that don't talk to the hardware directly. So as long as they're recompiled for x86, they shouldn't care about the particulars of the hardware platform.
Generally speaking, private companies can be just as corrupt and inefficient as governments. (That's because there's never a shortage of corrupt and inefficient people.) It's just that these qualities tend to manifest themselves differently in companies and governments.
"Graft & Bungling"... damn. Try saying that out-loud several times in a row - just gets funnier every time. Kind of sounds like it could be the name of a legal firm.
The "hidden" documents weren't publicly accessible to everyone: they were inside a password-protected area, where the applicants could log in and check various kinds of information. So theoretically, for every one of the "hidden" documents there was only one person who had access to it.
But given that the site administrators clearly don't know how to keep their shit secure, it's entirely conceivable that someone else had stolen the passwords.
The bible was written 100-200 years after the death of Jesus
I can dig the gist of what you're laying down, but the above statement is wrong. The Old Testament was written several hundred years before Jesus. The Gospels were written soon after his death. The Book of Revelations (and possibly some other stuff that I can't remember) was written around the second century AD.
This "Mac OS on x86" rumor comes up every couple of years. And it seems like most people are still falling for it. This too shall pass.
There are plenty of good reasons why Apple will NOT be switching to x86 anytime in the foreseeable future. Most of them have already been brought up elsewhere on this page. Here's another one: they've only just started the transition to 64-bit PPC; they're not about to dump all that work and switch to yet another (completely incompatible) architecture.
One major exception with NetBeans is how the main menu is attached to the window, not the top of the screen.
Before anybody else gets the idea to fix this behavior by setting the system property com.apple.macos.useScreenMenuBar, I just want to warn you that this doesn't work so good. If you're running NetBeans in multi-window mode, the menubar will only be visible when the "toolbar" window is on top, which makes it kind of useless. In single-window mode, it works a little better, but not perfectly - for example, most of the keyboard shortcuts disappear.
I don't really consider this a major shortcoming, anyway. The job of an IDE is to make me program more efficiently, not to make me 'comfortable'.
That's the crux of it right there. Dvorak and O'Hara are both professional trolls, the only difference is that Dvorak's smarter: he knows where the invisible line is, and he might approach it, but he never crosses it.
The sad thing is, Dvorak's been doing this shit for 20+ years, and he still seems to be able to make a living out of it. He's the Rush Limbaugh of the computer press; it doesn't matter how blatantly wrong he is, his primary role is stirring up arguments.
From James Turner's personal page (http://turner.linuxworld.com/read/1262099.htm): "Clarification: Someone questioned the term "bylined article". Let me clarify as I have had it clarified by the publisher for me. No material authored by O'Gara will appear, period."
A friend of mine was offered a $2 blow job once. This was in Albany, NY (no, I didn't get the address. And I don't know if that included the sales tax.)
perhaps you're thinking of the Swing API which does not guarrantee any portability of its Serialisation at all
Yeah, that must be what I was thinking of. I haven't done much with serialization, so I wasn't too clear on the details - I just had this vague recollection of reading something about how serialized objects aren't portable. Thanks for clearing that up.
my reaction is always "WTF?" when gnu/linux people mention downloading and setting up Java as a problem.
These are often the same people who download entire operating systems and install them by compiling untarred coded.
I can't speak for the GP or any of the "same people", this is just my own take on it...
Sure, I've installed software from a tarball. Would I ever do it if I could get the software through a package manager? Hell no.
The hassle of installing Java on Linux might be minor compared to some of the other weirdness you have to deal with when setting up Linux, but what really annoys me is that this hassle is totally unnecessary. The only impediment to making Java available through apt or emerge is Sun's insistence on requiring a click-through license that no-one reads anyway.
And does "pre-release" include a movie that was already released in some other country, but not in the US? Because I recall some recent cases of a major US distributor buying the US distribution rights to some Chinese movies, then sitting on those movies for several years after they've already been available in Asia.
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This is a catfish. A bottomfeeder. It survives by sucking up the wastes that acrete on the floor of its chosen body of water.
And you think the wastes that float to the top of the water are somehow more wholesome?
Have it your way. More catfish for the rest of us. In case anybody's wondering, the correct way to prepare those suckers is to coat them in a cornmeal batter and either deep-fry or pan-fry them until the outside is golden-brown and the inside is cooked all the way through. The Stonecat Cafe in Hector, NY serves them with a smoked tomato coulis, but cocktail sauce will do in a pinch.
Adding ObjC support to the Intel compiler is probably the least of their problems.
PPC Macs will be around for a while still, and Apple will have to support them. Since the Intel compiler doesn't do PPC, this means Apple will have to either keep using GCC, or use GCC together with the Intel compiler. And the second option brings up compatibility issues: exactly how well do the two compilers play together? Apple will want to ensure that developers can write cross-platform code without too much hassle.
So my guess is that GCC will stay around for the foreseeable future, in some capacity or another. But I could be wrong, of course: a couple of weeks ago, I was mocking the very idea of an Intel-based Mac. Maybe you should ask Dvorak what he thinks.
might even be able to run Windows on a Mac, but a Mac on generic PC hardware is less likely
What makes you say that? Darwin already runs on generic x86. The parts of MacOS that are closed-source are mostly high-level systems that don't talk to the hardware directly. So as long as they're recompiled for x86, they shouldn't care about the particulars of the hardware platform.
Imagine if you were asked to operate an ordinary light switch using the passenger side rear corner of a dump truck while blindfolded.
Sounds like a great drinking game.
How much sillier can you get?
"Windows ME"
According to Ali G, it's "a country that's only a hundred miles away from Britain".
Generally speaking, private companies can be just as corrupt and inefficient as governments. (That's because there's never a shortage of corrupt and inefficient people.) It's just that these qualities tend to manifest themselves differently in companies and governments.
"Graft & Bungling"... damn. Try saying that out-loud several times in a row - just gets funnier every time. Kind of sounds like it could be the name of a legal firm.
The "hidden" documents weren't publicly accessible to everyone: they were inside a password-protected area, where the applicants could log in and check various kinds of information. So theoretically, for every one of the "hidden" documents there was only one person who had access to it.
But given that the site administrators clearly don't know how to keep their shit secure, it's entirely conceivable that someone else had stolen the passwords.
It's a British publication - what did you expect?
The bible was written 100-200 years after the death of Jesus
I can dig the gist of what you're laying down, but the above statement is wrong. The Old Testament was written several hundred years before Jesus. The Gospels were written soon after his death. The Book of Revelations (and possibly some other stuff that I can't remember) was written around the second century AD.
You're absolutely right.
This "Mac OS on x86" rumor comes up every couple of years. And it seems like most people are still falling for it. This too shall pass.
There are plenty of good reasons why Apple will NOT be switching to x86 anytime in the foreseeable future. Most of them have already been brought up elsewhere on this page. Here's another one: they've only just started the transition to 64-bit PPC; they're not about to dump all that work and switch to yet another (completely incompatible) architecture.
International Talking Like a Pirate Day, however is pretty much immoral.
Avast, scurvy dog! How dare you mock me alternative lifestyle?!
One major exception with NetBeans is how the main menu is attached to the window, not the top of the screen.
Before anybody else gets the idea to fix this behavior by setting the system property com.apple.macos.useScreenMenuBar, I just want to warn you that this doesn't work so good. If you're running NetBeans in multi-window mode, the menubar will only be visible when the "toolbar" window is on top, which makes it kind of useless. In single-window mode, it works a little better, but not perfectly - for example, most of the keyboard shortcuts disappear.
I don't really consider this a major shortcoming, anyway. The job of an IDE is to make me program more efficiently, not to make me 'comfortable'.
That's the crux of it right there. Dvorak and O'Hara are both professional trolls, the only difference is that Dvorak's smarter: he knows where the invisible line is, and he might approach it, but he never crosses it.
The sad thing is, Dvorak's been doing this shit for 20+ years, and he still seems to be able to make a living out of it. He's the Rush Limbaugh of the computer press; it doesn't matter how blatantly wrong he is, his primary role is stirring up arguments.
From James Turner's personal page (http://turner.linuxworld.com/read/1262099.htm):
"Clarification: Someone questioned the term "bylined article". Let me clarify as I have had it clarified by the publisher for me. No material authored by O'Gara will appear, period."
A friend of mine was offered a $2 blow job once. This was in Albany, NY (no, I didn't get the address. And I don't know if that included the sales tax.)
So whats your complaint that it wasn't a good law? People make mistakes. Does this mean they should be fired?
If you consistently make the same kind of mistakes, then yes, you should be fired. I would think that's a pretty common-sense position.
perhaps you're thinking of the Swing API which does not guarrantee any portability of its Serialisation at all
Yeah, that must be what I was thinking of. I haven't done much with serialization, so I wasn't too clear on the details - I just had this vague recollection of reading something about how serialized objects aren't portable. Thanks for clearing that up.
my reaction is always "WTF?" when gnu/linux people mention downloading and setting up Java as a problem.
These are often the same people who download entire operating systems and install them by compiling untarred coded.
I can't speak for the GP or any of the "same people", this is just my own take on it...
Sure, I've installed software from a tarball. Would I ever do it if I could get the software through a package manager? Hell no.
The hassle of installing Java on Linux might be minor compared to some of the other weirdness you have to deal with when setting up Linux, but what really annoys me is that this hassle is totally unnecessary. The only impediment to making Java available through apt or emerge is Sun's insistence on requiring a click-through license that no-one reads anyway.
It seems like maintaining binary compatibility between serialized classes (esp. for collections and java.lang classes) is essential
I was under the impression that serialized objects were never meant to be portable between different JVMs?
Emergency "around to John Negroponte emerges also the operation" and the difficulties of that evening in the particular chain of commando americana
Good Lord, it all makes sense now...
And does "pre-release" include a movie that was already released in some other country, but not in the US? Because I recall some recent cases of a major US distributor buying the US distribution rights to some Chinese movies, then sitting on those movies for several years after they've already been available in Asia.
He runs a non-Apple OS on it.
If you're talking about Linux, then you should know that the kernel has already been patched to include a fan controller module for the G5.
Same thing here. Thanks to all the people who pointed out the fix.
Anybody have any ideas on what exactly happened? Why did java get broken on some systems, but not others?