When you fix a bug, which way is easier to distribute: contacting EVERY person that uses your library and have them apply the fix, recompile and resubmit their code and hope the users download it or fixing it in one location, uploading that and being done with it.
There have been a great number of interesting studies that show that clear and well-known rules, no matter how nonsensical and arbitrary they are, have a calming psychological effect while uncontrollable external judgement causes constant stress. So if you want to create a society of permanently stressed-out people, then by all means continue pushing for your proposal.
German driving statistics would back you up on that. There are roughly 5,000 traffic deaths per year in Germany for a population of 82 million, or roughly.061 fatalities per year per 1000 population. Now the rules in Germany are VERY complex but basically leave 0 ambiguity. Now compare that to the US where there are about 40,000 fatalities per year with a population of 300 million, or.13(over 2x!) fatalities per 1000 population per year. Now granted there are a lot of other factors involved(Germans actually are tough on drunk drivers, Americans don't give a shit about them), but overall I think the complex system that leaves 0 ambiguity is better than the hodgepodge of laws we have in the states. For instance, in PA the law states that "nobody has the right of way, some people must yield the right of way in certain situations" and really it just comes down to the drivers involved and how they interpret the laws.
I hope they won't go the route of a lot of news sites and make stuff that should be text video. I hate looking at a headline that grabs my attention only to find out it's video(when it could have just as well been text). I'm not always in a position where I can watch video, so having text is much better.
Who said they had to be modifiable at run time? Most shared libraries you run on your computer are not modifiable at run time, certainly not by non-privileged users. You would still require the dynamic library to be signed just like the regular code you run. It would be nice if you would think about why these decisions would-be made, from a technical point, before you make these kinds of statements.
The biggest PITA isn't the whole app store process etc. its the fact that developers cannot:
a)You cannot make your own dynamic libraries, only static ones(though the OS obviously supports it, you can include any of Apple's own dyilibs in your project) I don't need to go into why dynamic linking is much better than static....
b)There really isn't a clean way to talk between applications. You can send files, but it's really a drop box, I can COPY(not link!) something into another apps area, but after that the file is no longer mine. So if I want to send something to another app to process and then get it back to do some processing by my application I have to hope the app tells me about the changes, and considering the app may not even know I exist(nor should it, thats the beauty of decoupling), thats a lot to ask.
I can *sort* of understand 1 from a performance standpoint, if you allow user created dynamic libraries every time the application is swapped out of memory you have to find which dynamic libraries it uses, make sure nobody else is using them, then unload them. However as memory increases the rationale behind needing to constantly load/unload them starts to disappear.....
Maybe Apple will change it's tune, but long term I think you will be able to do more interesting things with Android because it allows for the creation of dynamic libraries and inter-application communication.
Yeah, that's why the two most popular smartphone platforms in Japan were developed by American companies, ditto for the most popular portable music player, the list goes on. Yeah certainly the selection and service at Japanese big box stores dwarfs those in the us and Canada, but so do the prices. You'd better prepare to pay out the ass for a lot of this stuff.
In one word: delegates. Delagates make GUI programming MUCH simpler in the Cocoa world than they do in the Java GUI world(now on servers they aren't nearly as useful, but I digress). Basically just telling a widget to do a callback on me when some event happens instead of forcing myself to register for each and every event I may or may not be interested in is a huge timesaver. Not to mention that unlike Java, in Objective-C there is 0 problem with only implementing PART of an interface(ie the part I am interested in).
Other nicities like core data, key-value observing also make life a lot easier in Objective-C than they are in the Java world. Now would I ever code enterprise apps in Objective-C? Doubtful since Apple seems to show very little interest in making enterprise-capable APIs, but for GUIs Cocoa is a dream.
Helps when your government has total control over your ostensibly "capitalist" system. They recently levied some random bullshit charges against Toyota as well, a not so thinly veiled swipe at the Japanese government. Then there is Rio Tinot case where China made sure Rio Tinto didn't compete against a Chinese company by jailing their executives on a bullshit charge. They are also the same market that abhors protectionism and then is protectionist every chance they get. Even during the heyday of Japanese protectionism there were no where NEAR as bad as the Chinese. But of course, protectionism is bad, unless it benefits the Chinese, then its good.
Japan the US and the EU really should team up to take China to task for all the bullshit its pulling.
You obviously have a very short or very selective memory. You know there are a LOT of great, original games for the NES and Super NES, there are many, MANY times more crapware/cloneware etc. games for those systems too, many coming from Japan. This situation is not new. According to 'kipedia there were 798 licensed games for the NES in NA/Europe and 1,055 for the famicom(obviously with a lot of overlap). Can you off the top of your head even name 5% of all NES games? My guess is that you cannot because you can only remember the really good ones(mario, metroid, zelda, final fantasy dragon warrior etc).
There is a happy middle there, and I thought Apple had found it. I actually do sort of like the general theme in Snow Leopard, but I absolutely HATE the new iTunes look because they went overboard taking color out of it. Now it's just dull with 0 increase in usability(and don't get me started on how much I hate the new icon).
Is Steves war on color in the Operating System. Every single release of OS X has removed significant amounts of color from the operating system and applications. The latest iTunes is just another example of that, I absolutely hate it because I cannot quickly glance at the icons and figure out which one is which. Maybe it's just a rationalization 20 years later for why Apple didn't adopt color graphics earlier.
Oh do you mean the scientific analysis that put it at about 87,000 people or the "faith" based 500k numbers that the tea party likes to tout. Again, the tea party shows how little they have in common with reality.(And of course, the other tea party motto, if the facts don't match the ideology, that means the facts are wrong)
You also seem to be under the impression that the publisher is essentially one entity with a singular vision and purpose, but in most corporations that simply isn't true. In any publisher of any reasonable size there is probably a very senior level manager in charge of DRM production. You can be sure as shit that he is fighting like hell to make sure that not only does the DRM stay in, that it grows in complexity as well because that means more bodies under him which leads to bigger salaries/bonuses. And since it's really difficult to quantify how much DRM really costs the publisher, you can also be sure that he is politicking senior management all the time to make sure his shit stays in. Really nothing short of customer revolt over DRM will dislodge this person from his salary and unfortunately we have yet to see that.
It's interesting that you brought up homosexuality, what they have found is that the more older siblings(but especially brothers) a guy has, the more likely he is to be gay. It's not just that they don't add kids to the family, they don't compete for women with their brothers either. It's also interesting to note that a lot more men identify as exclusively gay than women, and a significant # of gay identified women end up with men.
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Alright... that's it, that pun has to be paid for in blood...everybody dies.... I mean "Come on everyone, I'm taking you all to Vegas"
Just checked "portman petrified hot grits" isn't blocked so obviously the censors are falling down on the job!
When you fix a bug, which way is easier to distribute: contacting EVERY person that uses your library and have them apply the fix, recompile and resubmit their code and hope the users download it or fixing it in one location, uploading that and being done with it.
There have been a great number of interesting studies that show that clear and well-known rules, no matter how nonsensical and arbitrary they are, have a calming psychological effect while uncontrollable external judgement causes constant stress. So if you want to create a society of permanently stressed-out people, then by all means continue pushing for your proposal.
.061 fatalities per year per 1000 population. Now the rules in Germany are VERY complex but basically leave 0 ambiguity. Now compare that to the US where there are about 40,000 fatalities per year with a population of 300 million, or .13(over 2x!) fatalities per 1000 population per year. Now granted there are a lot of other factors involved(Germans actually are tough on drunk drivers, Americans don't give a shit about them), but overall I think the complex system that leaves 0 ambiguity is better than the hodgepodge of laws we have in the states. For instance, in PA the law states that "nobody has the right of way, some people must yield the right of way in certain situations" and really it just comes down to the drivers involved and how they interpret the laws.
German driving statistics would back you up on that. There are roughly 5,000 traffic deaths per year in Germany for a population of 82 million, or roughly
I hope they won't go the route of a lot of news sites and make stuff that should be text video. I hate looking at a headline that grabs my attention only to find out it's video(when it could have just as well been text). I'm not always in a position where I can watch video, so having text is much better.
Who said they had to be modifiable at run time? Most shared libraries you run on your computer are not modifiable at run time, certainly not by non-privileged users. You would still require the dynamic library to be signed just like the regular code you run. It would be nice if you would think about why these decisions would-be made, from a technical point, before you make these kinds of statements.
The biggest PITA isn't the whole app store process etc. its the fact that developers cannot:
a)You cannot make your own dynamic libraries, only static ones(though the OS obviously supports it, you can include any of Apple's own dyilibs in your project) I don't need to go into why dynamic linking is much better than static....
b)There really isn't a clean way to talk between applications. You can send files, but it's really a drop box, I can COPY(not link!) something into another apps area, but after that the file is no longer mine. So if I want to send something to another app to process and then get it back to do some processing by my application I have to hope the app tells me about the changes, and considering the app may not even know I exist(nor should it, thats the beauty of decoupling), thats a lot to ask.
I can *sort* of understand 1 from a performance standpoint, if you allow user created dynamic libraries every time the application is swapped out of memory you have to find which dynamic libraries it uses, make sure nobody else is using them, then unload them. However as memory increases the rationale behind needing to constantly load/unload them starts to disappear.....
Maybe Apple will change it's tune, but long term I think you will be able to do more interesting things with Android because it allows for the creation of dynamic libraries and inter-application communication.
Yeah till Todd kicks your ass and gives you a shitty haircut, he's still cool though.
You can just lure the atoms into a t rap with a trail of candy.
But Bush did did good for Daddy. Isn't that worth thousands of lives and trillions of dollars? So a man child can please his father?
Yeah, that's why the two most popular smartphone platforms in Japan were developed by American companies, ditto for the most popular portable music player, the list goes on. Yeah certainly the selection and service at Japanese big box stores dwarfs those in the us and Canada, but so do the prices. You'd better prepare to pay out the ass for a lot of this stuff.
In one word: delegates. Delagates make GUI programming MUCH simpler in the Cocoa world than they do in the Java GUI world(now on servers they aren't nearly as useful, but I digress). Basically just telling a widget to do a callback on me when some event happens instead of forcing myself to register for each and every event I may or may not be interested in is a huge timesaver. Not to mention that unlike Java, in Objective-C there is 0 problem with only implementing PART of an interface(ie the part I am interested in).
Other nicities like core data, key-value observing also make life a lot easier in Objective-C than they are in the Java world. Now would I ever code enterprise apps in Objective-C? Doubtful since Apple seems to show very little interest in making enterprise-capable APIs, but for GUIs Cocoa is a dream.
I am so worried about ALL their games that I don't watch, it's just too painful :P
are slipping to, something. *Gets my tin foil hat ready.*
Maybe beaming music directly into your tin foil hat?
Helps when your government has total control over your ostensibly "capitalist" system. They recently levied some random bullshit charges against Toyota as well, a not so thinly veiled swipe at the Japanese government. Then there is Rio Tinot case where China made sure Rio Tinto didn't compete against a Chinese company by jailing their executives on a bullshit charge. They are also the same market that abhors protectionism and then is protectionist every chance they get. Even during the heyday of Japanese protectionism there were no where NEAR as bad as the Chinese. But of course, protectionism is bad, unless it benefits the Chinese, then its good.
Japan the US and the EU really should team up to take China to task for all the bullshit its pulling.
Everyone knows that REAL international police chiefs only communicate via messages that will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
You obviously have a very short or very selective memory. You know there are a LOT of great, original games for the NES and Super NES, there are many, MANY times more crapware/cloneware etc. games for those systems too, many coming from Japan. This situation is not new. According to 'kipedia there were 798 licensed games for the NES in NA/Europe and 1,055 for the famicom(obviously with a lot of overlap). Can you off the top of your head even name 5% of all NES games? My guess is that you cannot because you can only remember the really good ones(mario, metroid, zelda, final fantasy dragon warrior etc).
There is a happy middle there, and I thought Apple had found it. I actually do sort of like the general theme in Snow Leopard, but I absolutely HATE the new iTunes look because they went overboard taking color out of it. Now it's just dull with 0 increase in usability(and don't get me started on how much I hate the new icon).
Is Steves war on color in the Operating System. Every single release of OS X has removed significant amounts of color from the operating system and applications. The latest iTunes is just another example of that, I absolutely hate it because I cannot quickly glance at the icons and figure out which one is which. Maybe it's just a rationalization 20 years later for why Apple didn't adopt color graphics earlier.
Why doesn't he try to baptize a Ginger Kid instead, they are assumed to have no soul and there are a lot more of them then there are aliens.
Oh do you mean the scientific analysis that put it at about 87,000 people or the "faith" based 500k numbers that the tea party likes to tout. Again, the tea party shows how little they have in common with reality.(And of course, the other tea party motto, if the facts don't match the ideology, that means the facts are wrong)
He's....he's not going to make it, better prepare for the worst. I mean "prpr 4 d wrst lol!"
You also seem to be under the impression that the publisher is essentially one entity with a singular vision and purpose, but in most corporations that simply isn't true. In any publisher of any reasonable size there is probably a very senior level manager in charge of DRM production. You can be sure as shit that he is fighting like hell to make sure that not only does the DRM stay in, that it grows in complexity as well because that means more bodies under him which leads to bigger salaries/bonuses. And since it's really difficult to quantify how much DRM really costs the publisher, you can also be sure that he is politicking senior management all the time to make sure his shit stays in. Really nothing short of customer revolt over DRM will dislodge this person from his salary and unfortunately we have yet to see that.
Actually the federal government already gives away tons of money to farmers to farm stuff then keep it inside a giant silo instead of selling it.
It's interesting that you brought up homosexuality, what they have found is that the more older siblings(but especially brothers) a guy has, the more likely he is to be gay. It's not just that they don't add kids to the family, they don't compete for women with their brothers either. It's also interesting to note that a lot more men identify as exclusively gay than women, and a significant # of gay identified women end up with men.