The GP and you are both right on observable properties in Obj-C, I'm not sure why he'd whip out a claim like it was "really fast," though 90% of the time you're doing all your key-value work in response to events, and it seems fast because you aren't doing it very often. ObjC doesn't have observable NSStream's, NSPorts or other such things thank goodness.
The big hole in.NET's observer pattern support would appear to be that you cannot receive notifications when a property WILL change. We use this all over the place in Cocoa and it's very important when you're allocating resources or maintaing entities in an object graph.
As an ObjC junkie, i must assent that the lack of namespaces is a major fail, and a lot of us are still scratching our heads about why Apple didn't add them in ObJC 2.0 (particularly if they were taking the time to add godforsaken "attribute" dot-notation).
A reimplementation of the NextStep/Cocoa classes in JavaScript, and extremely close modeling of the Cocoa app development process. The way you write an Objective-J Cappucino application is almost identical to the way you develop an Objective-C Cocoa application.
No, that's just one kind of memory system. There are a number of designs, and recovery also depends on the kind of error. IIRC, one design is somewhat similar to the CD Red Book spec, in that the bits for a given byte are distributed around - a physical byte is composed of bits all from different memory locations.
Red Book audio CDs, Sony MiniDisks and DATs all use a form of Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon coding, which is has the nice characteristic of being able to use the fact that a piece of information is known to be missing when reconstructing the original signal, whereas other systems can't necessarily be improved by being informed of the difference between an "error" and an "erasure." Side information about "known-bad" media areas are a natural fit for physical media, not necessarily for serial data or other things.
CDs also have parity bits on every (EFM-encoded) byte on the media, which can contribute to the "erasure" side-information along with tracking data from the laser. Also working in the CD's favor is the fact that they carry relatively low-information PCM data, and if there is a complete loss of a sample or two, the decoding device can just do a 1st order interpolation between the surrounding known good samples. This is why CDs can sound excellent until one day it might just not play at all, without an significant period of declining quality, because errors were accumulating until you reached a critical point where your player couldn't spackle over the errors anymore, and it juts gives up.
If Nokia or Samsung's technical support organization were saturated with nuisance calls, how could anyone tell the difference? The only reason the FSF would even consider this tactic is because Apple's in-person technical support is so effective, with high customer satisfaction.
Another question we might ask is "Why doesn't the FSF target Verizon for crippling the available software for their phones."
The FSF continues its reputation of complete shock, shock that anyone would dare try to make money on technology, and that consumers are not entitled to make their own purchasing decisions without checking with the Software Morality Brigade.
Stated this way, this technology would closely resemble Mac OS X "QuickLook", though this particular feature pointedly does not work in a tree view, but in a separate not-so-modal window that can be summoned. Maybe Apple came up with coverflow view in the Finder and the QuickLook HUD window just to get around this particular patent.
But reading it myself, it seems more concerned with the presentation of "non-filesystem" objects in the filesystem, so you can open a folder and see email messages or printers in it, even though these entities are not actually in the filesystem (the word filesystem is avoided more often than not, in favor of the concept of "namespaces," which is a somewhat roundabout way of saying "folders" from the filer's practical perspective.
If I were reading this patent, and I had a generally Unixy disposition, I'd say the filer was going to end up confusing a ton of people by implying that objects that are not files may be treated as files. The patent focuses almost completely on presenting information to the user, and has nothing about facilitating operations on the presented objects.
Example: I needed to add a user. I bought up the little user management app and didn't see any add user button. After a short Google, I found that to add a user, you click the small plus sign at the bottom.
Don't tell me, instead of two buttons with a "plus" and "minus," you wanted one button two screens away that said "Manage User Profiles." And clicking that, you expected three radio buttons: "Add A User Profile," "Create A Personality with the PersonalityWizard(tm)," and "Advanced". You wanted the Mac to kernel panic if you selected "Add A User Profile," you wanted the PersonalityWizard(tm) to ask for your MSN password and a credit card number, but never add a user, and you wanted Advanced to open up the Wifi configuration panel.
My friends will pass away
My enemies will pass away
My happiness and dreams will pass away
My sorrows and failures will pass away
I, and the reflection of that who I am, too will pass away
Remarkable statement for a man that has been reincarnated over a dozen times...
As was the practice with many silent films: a live pianist would play the music during the film.
This is partially true, but most modern scholarship on the subject suggests that all but the smallest houses had at least a four-piece ensemble. Large city houses would have entire orchestras, and even hire actors to read the intertitles in character from behind the screen. Metropolis had an entire orchestral score composed, which can be heard on most available DVDs nowadays, and the sheet music sent to most venues would either be the full score or a reduction.
Later, a colorized version came out with a modern Heavy Metal score. I didn't care for it at all. It's not that I dislike Heavy Metal, but that the music chosen really didn't work for the film.
This is the Giorgio Moroder version, alternately ignored and despised; some of the "lost footage" from the original version was present in this cut however, not in its actual form but mocked up with illustrations from the pre-production that were animated on a rostrum camera. Particularly jarring in this version are the extended stadium-rock-inspired lyrics, in English no less.
I read somewhere that Adolf Hitler was really into Metropolis, and that he held it up as an example that all filmmakers should strive for. Food for thought.
Hitler and Goebbels personally sought out Lang to ask him to make films for the government, essentially to take the job eventually given the Leni Riefenstahl. Lang caught the first boat out of the country; he could see that it'd be impossible to work outside of the government in the years to come. But his wife, Thea von Harbou, who wrote the original novel of Metropolis, had Nazi sympathies and stayed in Germany to work for the regime.
Robert Byrd was a Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, and opposed desegregation of the armed forces to such an extent that he did not volunteer for service during World War II.
It is also worth mentioning that he opposed the Iraq War resolution vociferously, as well as the creation of the Homeland Security department, and has endorsed Barack Obama for president, despite Obama's loss in Byrd's home state in a rather race-baiting campaign.
You have a link on that? Amit Singh's has dtraced all of Apple's system software and says this is wrong, and the latest Mac Pro's don't even have a TPM.
Typed on a TPM-free Mac Pro, confirmed in ioreg(8).
This framework is all in javascript and locally executed, however; with HTML5 local storage you should be able to run it as well as any server app once it's loaded.
If you haven't tried the demo you should, it's really quite superb, just the initial load is rough now that it's been slashdotted.
Keep an eye on Jindal... He's often mentioned as a possible (though somewhat improbable) running mate for McCain, on account of his ethnic background (he's East Indian, I believe) and his youth. These details are supposed to figure into some kind of counter to Obama.
He may have been a bio major, but he's very Catholic and very socially conservative, however, and claims to be a faith healer and to have performed exorcisms.
Oh, I might add, if you the phone company don't comply with our polite request, not only will we keep you from getting contracts, we'll also throw your CEO in prison for "insider trading."
Interesting? Can't sue them for what?
I believe that they have broken their privacy commitments. That being a civil matter, they would still be open to litigation... or so the thinking goes.
You can sue them, but you won't get anywhere, because the federal government has put a gag on them and has declared all evidence with regard to your claim a state secret. If the phone company DID try to defend itself by providing any evidence one way or the other, it would be committing a federal crime.
I think this whole debate is pointless because even if you can sue your phone company, the matter of the truth coming out is still a long ways off legislatively; it's really only a detail.
Look at it from the phone company's perspective: the President asks you to let his folks hear all your international phone calls, says its legal, and subtly threatens to take away all your government contracts if you don't comply (this happened to Qwest). And if you tell anyone about it, you're committing a Federal crime. And now, all your customers are justifiably sueing you, but you can't defend yourself without violating state secrets, because in order to allege you were extorted, you have to acknowledge the fact that the program exists. Pain in the ass!
After all, the little people are not so carefully handled.
Not always, but it happens more and more all the time. Look at all the trouble our government is going to now to try to get people out of mortgage loans THEY THEMSELVES signed up for (not just fraudulent loans, mind you, but loans they KNEW they couldn't afford). Look at all the little hauptscharfurer's that were supposed to hang but got sentenced to time served in de-nazification courts. Or all the ANC militants in South Africa that essentially were committing treason against their government (according to the *rule of law* at the time) that were forgiven through Truth and Reconciliation.
This lack of holding leaders accountable is not a sign that it is hard to do, but rather a weakness in our society related to revering figures/leaders perhaps left over from our tribal past
Nothing of the kind. They were not forgiven on account of their name, their heredity, or their identity in any way. They were forgiven their actions on account of the fact that everyone agreed with the actions at the time, and so many normal people were implicated that it would have degraded the meaning of the word "guilty" to apply it to such a multitude.
In any case, if one's disposed to support Obama, and they find this issue gives them pause, I can't see their side, because nobody's ever going to jail on this issue. It's a wash, and politicians that rail against it and demand "answers" are selling a bridge to Brooklyn, and are really more interested in making drama and playing kabuki. They say they're defending the Constitution, but if they are, they're doing a piss-poor job.
He is a head of state, c-in-c of military forces and chief of a vast security and bureaucratic apparatus. If he is not a king, it's really only a matter of terminology at this point.
This is a representative democracy and power is supposed to be dispersed among three branches - the legislature with the greatest amount of elected representatives having most of it.
This is a republic, not a democracy; though it has some democratic aspects, all policy originates in representatives, and the people merely have the right to pick the people, not the policy itself. And I don't see where the Congress is anything like the "most powerful" branch of government. Only if the primary role of government were to pass laws would that be true, and for the last few decades the primary role of government has been to spend money and prosecute wars.
Unlike what you say, the legislature is quite capable of stopping Bush, but the politicians do not have the will and are similarly compromised.
The Congress can file charges against the president's people in court, and it has on occasion filed contempt of congress citations, which is the logical place to begin, but the way jurisdictions work for such cases it's almost impossible to get the charges to move, because the judges are appointed by the President and the cases are officially prosecuted by his appointees. The Congress can impeach the elected executive officials, including the President, but even the current guy hasn't done anything slam-dunk Impeachable, and anyways his appointee would be the presiding judge, and Roberts tends to grant the executive benefit of the doubt on most of the offenses he could be impeached for (we'll see if he's so lax with a Democratic administration).
Finally, the Congress can cut off war funding, but the Republicans put soldiers in the field several years ago, and they hold the soldiers' lives ransom in order to essentially get whatever they want in Congress. That's why the Democrats are frantic to get troops out of Iraq; as long as troops are there, the Republicans can make the Congress do whatever they want by stalling defense appropriations, and every day the checks don't go to the pentagon the Democrats are "letting down the troops," and any modifications the Democrats make is "micromanaging the war." The only way to break the vicious cycle is to either (a) get a veto-proof majority in the House and a cloture-sized majority in the Senate or (b) make the Executive someone who will actually remove troops from harms way if there isn't money to feed and arm them, instead of leaving them planted there as a sort of bargaining chip.
If there is not a candidate that is good for President, stop focusing on the position of president and work for candidates on lower positons starting with state senators/representaives.
Your 3 libertarian mayors won't be able to get your phone lines untapped, and besides, they'd probably contract out your sheriff's department so Accenture can loose your arrest records on a mislaid DLT one day. Your 5 Green city councilmen can vote on as many non-binding anti-Bush resolutions they want, but that seems to be ALL they do, except for their compulsory carpooling during rush hour policy and their demand for Slavery Reparations. And NEITHER of these groups will be able to get one of their people in the Congress, let alone the senate, because they are riven with internecine squabbling over what the meaning of the Article 1 Elastic Clause is, or whether buying a Prius is beneficial or "corporatist."
But let's not leave out the governing coalitions... You can vote for Democrats like Mark Udall and Russ Feingold, or Republicans like Ron Paul, who profoundly oppose the legislation in public, with the plain understanding that their opposition will have no effect on the outcome. And this is because the voti
I don't see him forcing anybody to do anything; he just asks if you support him, and if you do he says "you can support me better if you do X." The internet and social networking just makes the second part ultra-efficient and targeted. I don't see him demonizing his opponents, or their supporters.
Regular "fireside" Internet chats from a President Obama (the country just got a sample of that in his preemptive Web video announcing his reversal on public funding).
Online town-halls held by cabinet members, and important meetings of public agencies streamed live with an ability for public input â" a sort of White House C-SPAN.
Laws posted on the Web for public comment five days before Obama would be due to sign them, and federal grants, contracts, earmarks, and lobbyist contacts with officials made easily available for citizen tracking.
Your argument only makes sense if you conflate his campaign with "The State."
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The GP and you are both right on observable properties in Obj-C, I'm not sure why he'd whip out a claim like it was "really fast," though 90% of the time you're doing all your key-value work in response to events, and it seems fast because you aren't doing it very often. ObjC doesn't have observable NSStream's, NSPorts or other such things thank goodness.
The big hole in .NET's observer pattern support would appear to be that you cannot receive notifications when a property WILL change. We use this all over the place in Cocoa and it's very important when you're allocating resources or maintaing entities in an object graph.
Under OS X, all of the non-character text editing keystrokes can be remapped by making your own ~/Library/DefaultKeybindings.dict
Here is an excellent demonstration.
Honest question: Which would you prefer?
Option 1
launchEvent.time = 12.0; // minutes until launch, positive values indicate time *before* launch.
Option 2
setMinutesBeforeLaunch(&launchEvent,12.0);
Option 3
In units.h:
typedef minutes double;
In LaunchActions.h:
void setPreLaunchTime(LaunchEventStruct *event, minutes time);
As an ObjC junkie, i must assent that the lack of namespaces is a major fail, and a lot of us are still scratching our heads about why Apple didn't add them in ObJC 2.0 (particularly if they were taking the time to add godforsaken "attribute" dot-notation).
You know what, I'm wrong about that I think. I'm just going to shut up and keep reading.
Except HTML instead of NIBs
A reimplementation of the NextStep/Cocoa classes in JavaScript, and extremely close modeling of the Cocoa app development process. The way you write an Objective-J Cappucino application is almost identical to the way you develop an Objective-C Cocoa application.
Red Book audio CDs, Sony MiniDisks and DATs all use a form of Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon coding, which is has the nice characteristic of being able to use the fact that a piece of information is known to be missing when reconstructing the original signal, whereas other systems can't necessarily be improved by being informed of the difference between an "error" and an "erasure." Side information about "known-bad" media areas are a natural fit for physical media, not necessarily for serial data or other things.
CDs also have parity bits on every (EFM-encoded) byte on the media, which can contribute to the "erasure" side-information along with tracking data from the laser. Also working in the CD's favor is the fact that they carry relatively low-information PCM data, and if there is a complete loss of a sample or two, the decoding device can just do a 1st order interpolation between the surrounding known good samples. This is why CDs can sound excellent until one day it might just not play at all, without an significant period of declining quality, because errors were accumulating until you reached a critical point where your player couldn't spackle over the errors anymore, and it juts gives up.
only ot fyi :)
If Nokia or Samsung's technical support organization were saturated with nuisance calls, how could anyone tell the difference? The only reason the FSF would even consider this tactic is because Apple's in-person technical support is so effective, with high customer satisfaction.
Another question we might ask is "Why doesn't the FSF target Verizon for crippling the available software for their phones."
The FSF continues its reputation of complete shock, shock that anyone would dare try to make money on technology, and that consumers are not entitled to make their own purchasing decisions without checking with the Software Morality Brigade.
Stated this way, this technology would closely resemble Mac OS X "QuickLook", though this particular feature pointedly does not work in a tree view, but in a separate not-so-modal window that can be summoned. Maybe Apple came up with coverflow view in the Finder and the QuickLook HUD window just to get around this particular patent.
But reading it myself, it seems more concerned with the presentation of "non-filesystem" objects in the filesystem, so you can open a folder and see email messages or printers in it, even though these entities are not actually in the filesystem (the word filesystem is avoided more often than not, in favor of the concept of "namespaces," which is a somewhat roundabout way of saying "folders" from the filer's practical perspective.
If I were reading this patent, and I had a generally Unixy disposition, I'd say the filer was going to end up confusing a ton of people by implying that objects that are not files may be treated as files. The patent focuses almost completely on presenting information to the user, and has nothing about facilitating operations on the presented objects.
Don't tell me, instead of two buttons with a "plus" and "minus," you wanted one button two screens away that said "Manage User Profiles." And clicking that, you expected three radio buttons: "Add A User Profile," "Create A Personality with the PersonalityWizard(tm)," and "Advanced". You wanted the Mac to kernel panic if you selected "Add A User Profile," you wanted the PersonalityWizard(tm) to ask for your MSN password and a credit card number, but never add a user, and you wanted Advanced to open up the Wifi configuration panel.
I kid but only a little.
Remarkable statement for a man that has been reincarnated over a dozen times...
This is partially true, but most modern scholarship on the subject suggests that all but the smallest houses had at least a four-piece ensemble. Large city houses would have entire orchestras, and even hire actors to read the intertitles in character from behind the screen. Metropolis had an entire orchestral score composed, which can be heard on most available DVDs nowadays, and the sheet music sent to most venues would either be the full score or a reduction.
This is the Giorgio Moroder version, alternately ignored and despised; some of the "lost footage" from the original version was present in this cut however, not in its actual form but mocked up with illustrations from the pre-production that were animated on a rostrum camera. Particularly jarring in this version are the extended stadium-rock-inspired lyrics, in English no less.
Hitler and Goebbels personally sought out Lang to ask him to make films for the government, essentially to take the job eventually given the Leni Riefenstahl. Lang caught the first boat out of the country; he could see that it'd be impossible to work outside of the government in the years to come. But his wife, Thea von Harbou, who wrote the original novel of Metropolis, had Nazi sympathies and stayed in Germany to work for the regime.
Robert Byrd was a Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, and opposed desegregation of the armed forces to such an extent that he did not volunteer for service during World War II.
It is also worth mentioning that he opposed the Iraq War resolution vociferously, as well as the creation of the Homeland Security department, and has endorsed Barack Obama for president, despite Obama's loss in Byrd's home state in a rather race-baiting campaign.
You have a link on that? Amit Singh's has dtraced all of Apple's system software and says this is wrong, and the latest Mac Pro's don't even have a TPM.
Typed on a TPM-free Mac Pro, confirmed in ioreg(8).
What's funny is the moment I read this I immediately went to starcraft2.com to see if you were telling the truth.
But alas, it was only a joke.
This framework is all in javascript and locally executed, however; with HTML5 local storage you should be able to run it as well as any server app once it's loaded.
If you haven't tried the demo you should, it's really quite superb, just the initial load is rough now that it's been slashdotted.
Keep an eye on Jindal... He's often mentioned as a possible (though somewhat improbable) running mate for McCain, on account of his ethnic background (he's East Indian, I believe) and his youth. These details are supposed to figure into some kind of counter to Obama.
He may have been a bio major, but he's very Catholic and very socially conservative, however, and claims to be a faith healer and to have performed exorcisms.
Oh, I might add, if you the phone company don't comply with our polite request, not only will we keep you from getting contracts, we'll also throw your CEO in prison for "insider trading."
You can sue them, but you won't get anywhere, because the federal government has put a gag on them and has declared all evidence with regard to your claim a state secret. If the phone company DID try to defend itself by providing any evidence one way or the other, it would be committing a federal crime.
I think this whole debate is pointless because even if you can sue your phone company, the matter of the truth coming out is still a long ways off legislatively; it's really only a detail.
Look at it from the phone company's perspective: the President asks you to let his folks hear all your international phone calls, says its legal, and subtly threatens to take away all your government contracts if you don't comply (this happened to Qwest). And if you tell anyone about it, you're committing a Federal crime. And now, all your customers are justifiably sueing you, but you can't defend yourself without violating state secrets, because in order to allege you were extorted, you have to acknowledge the fact that the program exists. Pain in the ass!
They don't have to open any emails anymore, they just call the NSA to give them the gist of it...
It means there's about to be an explosion in models and theoretical sciences. Always beware the End of History ;)
Not always, but it happens more and more all the time. Look at all the trouble our government is going to now to try to get people out of mortgage loans THEY THEMSELVES signed up for (not just fraudulent loans, mind you, but loans they KNEW they couldn't afford). Look at all the little hauptscharfurer's that were supposed to hang but got sentenced to time served in de-nazification courts. Or all the ANC militants in South Africa that essentially were committing treason against their government (according to the *rule of law* at the time) that were forgiven through Truth and Reconciliation.
Nothing of the kind. They were not forgiven on account of their name, their heredity, or their identity in any way. They were forgiven their actions on account of the fact that everyone agreed with the actions at the time, and so many normal people were implicated that it would have degraded the meaning of the word "guilty" to apply it to such a multitude.
In any case, if one's disposed to support Obama, and they find this issue gives them pause, I can't see their side, because nobody's ever going to jail on this issue. It's a wash, and politicians that rail against it and demand "answers" are selling a bridge to Brooklyn, and are really more interested in making drama and playing kabuki. They say they're defending the Constitution, but if they are, they're doing a piss-poor job.
He is a head of state, c-in-c of military forces and chief of a vast security and bureaucratic apparatus. If he is not a king, it's really only a matter of terminology at this point.
This is a republic, not a democracy; though it has some democratic aspects, all policy originates in representatives, and the people merely have the right to pick the people, not the policy itself. And I don't see where the Congress is anything like the "most powerful" branch of government. Only if the primary role of government were to pass laws would that be true, and for the last few decades the primary role of government has been to spend money and prosecute wars.
The Congress can file charges against the president's people in court, and it has on occasion filed contempt of congress citations, which is the logical place to begin, but the way jurisdictions work for such cases it's almost impossible to get the charges to move, because the judges are appointed by the President and the cases are officially prosecuted by his appointees. The Congress can impeach the elected executive officials, including the President, but even the current guy hasn't done anything slam-dunk Impeachable, and anyways his appointee would be the presiding judge, and Roberts tends to grant the executive benefit of the doubt on most of the offenses he could be impeached for (we'll see if he's so lax with a Democratic administration).
Finally, the Congress can cut off war funding, but the Republicans put soldiers in the field several years ago, and they hold the soldiers' lives ransom in order to essentially get whatever they want in Congress. That's why the Democrats are frantic to get troops out of Iraq; as long as troops are there, the Republicans can make the Congress do whatever they want by stalling defense appropriations, and every day the checks don't go to the pentagon the Democrats are "letting down the troops," and any modifications the Democrats make is "micromanaging the war." The only way to break the vicious cycle is to either (a) get a veto-proof majority in the House and a cloture-sized majority in the Senate or (b) make the Executive someone who will actually remove troops from harms way if there isn't money to feed and arm them, instead of leaving them planted there as a sort of bargaining chip.
Your 3 libertarian mayors won't be able to get your phone lines untapped, and besides, they'd probably contract out your sheriff's department so Accenture can loose your arrest records on a mislaid DLT one day. Your 5 Green city councilmen can vote on as many non-binding anti-Bush resolutions they want, but that seems to be ALL they do, except for their compulsory carpooling during rush hour policy and their demand for Slavery Reparations. And NEITHER of these groups will be able to get one of their people in the Congress, let alone the senate, because they are riven with internecine squabbling over what the meaning of the Article 1 Elastic Clause is, or whether buying a Prius is beneficial or "corporatist."
But let's not leave out the governing coalitions... You can vote for Democrats like Mark Udall and Russ Feingold, or Republicans like Ron Paul, who profoundly oppose the legislation in public, with the plain understanding that their opposition will have no effect on the outcome. And this is because the voti
I don't see him forcing anybody to do anything; he just asks if you support him, and if you do he says "you can support me better if you do X." The internet and social networking just makes the second part ultra-efficient and targeted. I don't see him demonizing his opponents, or their supporters.
The campaign is the anti-Furerprinzip:
Your argument only makes sense if you conflate his campaign with "The State."