No it isn't vague or kneejerk. The citizens of the U.S. have decided that the public has an interest in seeing healthy competition, and has enacted laws that govern how companies compete. Those laws are designed to reign in monopolies when they've crossed the line. They are *supposed* to be restrictive, if they weren't they wouldn't be effective.
If you can't see that unbridled capitalism is not only not good for the public, but ultimately self-destructive, as one company gobbles up its smaller competitors until there is no competition whatsoever and the whole thing comes crashing down from its own weight (causing collateral damage on the way to imploding), then I guess the rules might look a little vague. That doesn't prove that they are vague mind you, only that you lack an education on the subject.
Right now MS is guilty as charged but not serving the sentence, due to a lax enforcement policy of the current pro-big business administration. If the antitrust laws were being enforced as designed, MS would be under a lot more scrutiny and greater sanctions.
The Europeans have their own laws and if MS wants to do business in Europe then it must obey the laws over there. We wouldn't expect anything less of a foreign company doing business in the U.S. would we?
You don't subscribe to the false logic that every individual within a sub-group thinks exactly alike, do you? 20 years ago there were people saying that you don't need a CLI, and there were people *using* a CLI on the Mac (MPW). Today there are still some that say you don't need a CLI, and still people using CLIs (Terminal). Over that time-period some people have left the Mac world and some new people have joined it. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, even if you disagree (and believe me, I often disagree with other Mac users)
Its been shipping for awhile now. Open a movie in QuickTime Player Pro and choose export, open options, click on the settings button in the video pane, and look at the popup that contains the list of codecs. Its there.
I don't think watching one hollywood movie from the 80s (starring that paragon of understated acting Michael Douglas, no less) can ever give you a clear (or even accurate) idea of how complex things like corporate mergers actually work. Hollywood isn't exactly known for letting facts and logic get in the way of a good story, rightfully so.
Thats how you end up with flash animations running on a Mac infecting alien motherships with a computer virus.
What you saw in that movie was a leveraged buyout: a small organization borrowing large amounts of capital to buy a much larger business. The debt is repaid by liquidating assets of the target. Comcast is not a small organization, and the offer that they tendered for Disney was a share swap, so there is no debt to repay and thus no need to liquidate. Not much at all like your movie example. (Not to say that Comcast wouldn't sell off parts of Disney if they did buy them. But it isn't a given, and if they did it would be for reasons other than what you saw in that movie.)
But then again some people think that they can learn Unix just by watching the girl in Jurassic Park.:-P
I don't see it that way at all. I think that there are some companies that are embracing FOSS, using it where possible, and contributing back to the community. Apple and IBM are in this camp.
In the other camp are companies that see FOSS as antithetical to their way of doing business and fight it (legally and in the marketplace). Microsoft and a lot of others are in this camp.
In my opinion, someday (assuming FOSS wins, which I do) most companies will resemble Apple and IBM - a mix of FOSS and closed.
ObjC is a standardized language. Mac OS X uses GCC, the language parser is open and in the main branch of GCC, and you can compile ObjC code on any platform that has a GCC port. Nothing at all like.Net (or even Java)
The fact that for most of its life it has been associated with one set of frameworks (NeXT's/Apple's) is an unfortunate coincidence. In fact Objective-C predates NeXT. ObjC even predates C++.
Apple doesn't own ObjC, and in fact didn't even create it.
Its usually due to a guest appearance by an artist with a contract with a publisher that doesn't do online publishing yet. Check the liner notes, I bet the missing particular track is a duet, or has an extra musician, or was remixed by a DJ, etc.
The other possibility was that it was a cover of a song under copyright by a different publisher, or whatever.
Obviously this is going to a be a situational problem. There are plenty of complete albums, and at least iTMS makes it clear when only the partial album is available.
If you're interested in trying OS X, Apple's online store has new iBook G3s for $799 (look in the Special Deals section). I bought one for my wife and 'borrow' it liberally;-) OK so it isn't a PowerBook G4 but it has to be one of the best values in laptops. Its fast enough to do reasonably sized software development, and its more than enough for couch-born web surfing and email. Unix + great GUI + lightweight portable = bliss.
Not trying to sound like an advertisement, just giving a heads up to people that want the cheapest way possible to run OS X. (well, on new gear, on the same page you can get factory refurbs for even cheaper)
You're making an artificial distinction between Apple and Unix which I feel is unwarranted. OS X is basically a variant of *nix. The distributed compiling in XCode *IS* distcc:
marke$ uname -a Darwin Lugh.local 7.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.2.0: Thu Dec 11 16:20:23 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc marke$ distcc --version distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632)
built Dec 9 2003 20:54:55
Of course this slashdot discussion is a day old already and its unlikely anyone will see this...
Wasn't the software error detection and correction algorithm deployed on the G5 super-cluster at least *part* of the point of the VA Tech cluster? I mean, wasn't that the project leader's subject for his thesis or something? I'm hazy on the details, I didn't really pay much attention at the time, but it was a research project, after all.
Anyways, its pardonable to do without ECC memory in a workstation (which is what the G5 tower is), however it makes sense that a server have ECC memory. Remember, however, that ECC isn't some magic bullet which makes your data uncorruptible. A software/hardware combo would provide even more protection against bit corruption, which maybe would be warranted in some cases?
... There is a *landfill's* worth of the likes of Britney Spear's Opps! I Did It Again.:(
The album format has been abused to overcharge for dreck for far too long. I really doubt that the listening public is entirely complicit in this turn of events.
Given that they hire their GUI designers from popular skins download sites, they probably did have their 'experts' design their website too.
Aren't flashy skins good UI???
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start farms out in the boonies
OK, this one I can see. But successful farming takes a LOT of work, even just for subsistence. I don't have any figures to support my assertion, so flame away, but I'd guess it takes more work than the ratrace you gave up.
backpack around the world
This is not a career, this is a leisure pursuit. How long can this last? It really depends on how big your cushion of savings is, which ironically enough, depends on how hard you were working up til the point you decided to take a jaunt around the world.
live as a family out on the ocean waves
OK, now you're just being a loon. What exactly does "live on the ocean waves" mean? Vagrancy? How do you intend to feed your family, panhandling?
The difference between Americans and Europeans is that we as Americans can't seem to balance our lives. We're either workaholics or layabouts. Europeans are much better at balancing work and leisure.
...used by mom-n-pops and small corporations to produce the video equivalent of company newsletters. FCP already took the high end.
If Adobe wants to compete with FCP its going to have to be with a ground up new app a la InDesign.
This isn't a platform vendor leveraging the platform to push their apps, Apple charges a pretty penny for FCP, there is room for a well designed app to compete on cost alone.
"However, it appears Bioware are pressing ahead (and doing it inhouse) because they are a games company that wants to be around in the long run, and stay one step ahead of its competitors. Writing portable code isn't something that comes as second nature to most Windows coders, least of all games coders, but they clearly think (correctly) that Linux is going to be a force in the long run on the desktop."
I wanted to respond to this even though its pretty late in the day and this topic is no longer near the top of the stack on Slashdot.
Writing portable code has benefits in and of itself, regardless of the economic factors of any particular platform. (I believe most games are profitable on the Mac however)
Portable code that has been run through multiple compilers, run in multiple environments, QA'ed by multiple testing teams, etc. is in my experience a damn sight more bug free than single platform code.
Just the differences in compilers can bring to light surprisingly subtle bugs in code.
Do yourself a favor and try to compile your projects with different compilers on different platforms. You may be surprised at the things that you find that would've slipped under your radar using only 1 toolchain on 1 platform. This does not mean GCC on Linux and BSD on x86. It means GCC on Linux/BSD for x86, GCC on Darwin/PPC, VC++ on Win32, and maybe another combo.
Of the 3 'paradigms' mentioned as alternatives to OOP, only aspect oriented programming is even on the same order as OOP. Patterns are a design methodology and XP is a workflow.
Aspect is best used in conjunction with OOP. In fact I would say that anyone that uses Objective-C's categories has been doing aspect all along.
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and I have a monopoly on Slashdot UIDs == 82333. Thats a pretty meaningless categorization.
No it isn't vague or kneejerk. The citizens of the U.S. have decided that the public has an interest in seeing healthy competition, and has enacted laws that govern how companies compete. Those laws are designed to reign in monopolies when they've crossed the line. They are *supposed* to be restrictive, if they weren't they wouldn't be effective.
If you can't see that unbridled capitalism is not only not good for the public, but ultimately self-destructive, as one company gobbles up its smaller competitors until there is no competition whatsoever and the whole thing comes crashing down from its own weight (causing collateral damage on the way to imploding), then I guess the rules might look a little vague. That doesn't prove that they are vague mind you, only that you lack an education on the subject.
Right now MS is guilty as charged but not serving the sentence, due to a lax enforcement policy of the current pro-big business administration. If the antitrust laws were being enforced as designed, MS would be under a lot more scrutiny and greater sanctions.
The Europeans have their own laws and if MS wants to do business in Europe then it must obey the laws over there. We wouldn't expect anything less of a foreign company doing business in the U.S. would we?
You don't subscribe to the false logic that every individual within a sub-group thinks exactly alike, do you? 20 years ago there were people saying that you don't need a CLI, and there were people *using* a CLI on the Mac (MPW). Today there are still some that say you don't need a CLI, and still people using CLIs (Terminal). Over that time-period some people have left the Mac world and some new people have joined it. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, even if you disagree (and believe me, I often disagree with other Mac users)
Try to avoid prejudice.
Pixlet is only on Mac OS X (I think). Are you using Windows?
/System/Library/QuickTime/ApplePixletVideo.compone nt
You can check to see if its installed in the System directory. On my system its at:
Its been shipping for awhile now. Open a movie in QuickTime Player Pro and choose export, open options, click on the settings button in the video pane, and look at the popup that contains the list of codecs. Its there.
I don't think watching one hollywood movie from the 80s (starring that paragon of understated acting Michael Douglas, no less) can ever give you a clear (or even accurate) idea of how complex things like corporate mergers actually work. Hollywood isn't exactly known for letting facts and logic get in the way of a good story, rightfully so.
:-P
Thats how you end up with flash animations running on a Mac infecting alien motherships with a computer virus.
What you saw in that movie was a leveraged buyout: a small organization borrowing large amounts of capital to buy a much larger business. The debt is repaid by liquidating assets of the target. Comcast is not a small organization, and the offer that they tendered for Disney was a share swap, so there is no debt to repay and thus no need to liquidate. Not much at all like your movie example. (Not to say that Comcast wouldn't sell off parts of Disney if they did buy them. But it isn't a given, and if they did it would be for reasons other than what you saw in that movie.)
But then again some people think that they can learn Unix just by watching the girl in Jurassic Park.
I don't see it that way at all. I think that there are some companies that are embracing FOSS, using it where possible, and contributing back to the community. Apple and IBM are in this camp.
In the other camp are companies that see FOSS as antithetical to their way of doing business and fight it (legally and in the marketplace). Microsoft and a lot of others are in this camp.
In my opinion, someday (assuming FOSS wins, which I do) most companies will resemble Apple and IBM - a mix of FOSS and closed.
ObjC is a standardized language. Mac OS X uses GCC, the language parser is open and in the main branch of GCC, and you can compile ObjC code on any platform that has a GCC port. Nothing at all like .Net (or even Java)
The fact that for most of its life it has been associated with one set of frameworks (NeXT's/Apple's) is an unfortunate coincidence. In fact Objective-C predates NeXT. ObjC even predates C++.
Apple doesn't own ObjC, and in fact didn't even create it.
Its usually due to a guest appearance by an artist with a contract with a publisher that doesn't do online publishing yet. Check the liner notes, I bet the missing particular track is a duet, or has an extra musician, or was remixed by a DJ, etc.
The other possibility was that it was a cover of a song under copyright by a different publisher, or whatever.
Obviously this is going to a be a situational problem. There are plenty of complete albums, and at least iTMS makes it clear when only the partial album is available.
If you're interested in trying OS X, Apple's online store has new iBook G3s for $799 (look in the Special Deals section). I bought one for my wife and 'borrow' it liberally ;-) OK so it isn't a PowerBook G4 but it has to be one of the best values in laptops. Its fast enough to do reasonably sized software development, and its more than enough for couch-born web surfing and email. Unix + great GUI + lightweight portable = bliss.
Not trying to sound like an advertisement, just giving a heads up to people that want the cheapest way possible to run OS X. (well, on new gear, on the same page you can get factory refurbs for even cheaper)
You're making an artificial distinction between Apple and Unix which I feel is unwarranted. OS X is basically a variant of *nix. The distributed compiling in XCode *IS* distcc:
marke$ uname -a
Darwin Lugh.local 7.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.2.0: Thu Dec 11 16:20:23 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
marke$ distcc --version
distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632)
built Dec 9 2003 20:54:55
Of course this slashdot discussion is a day old already and its unlikely anyone will see this...
Wasn't the software error detection and correction algorithm deployed on the G5 super-cluster at least *part* of the point of the VA Tech cluster? I mean, wasn't that the project leader's subject for his thesis or something? I'm hazy on the details, I didn't really pay much attention at the time, but it was a research project, after all.
Anyways, its pardonable to do without ECC memory in a workstation (which is what the G5 tower is), however it makes sense that a server have ECC memory. Remember, however, that ECC isn't some magic bullet which makes your data uncorruptible. A software/hardware combo would provide even more protection against bit corruption, which maybe would be warranted in some cases?
... There is a *landfill's* worth of the likes of Britney Spear's Opps! I Did It Again. :(
The album format has been abused to overcharge for dreck for far too long. I really doubt that the listening public is entirely complicit in this turn of events.
iTunes Music Store has been out for the Mac for quite awhile, well before the release of the new Napster, which includes a store.
is it that hard?
Decibel meters don't usually record sound, so I'm not sure why you'd bring up Big Brother, unless you just like to troll..
Given that they hire their GUI designers from popular skins download sites, they probably did have their 'experts' design their website too.
Aren't flashy skins good UI???
start farms out in the boonies
OK, this one I can see. But successful farming takes a LOT of work, even just for subsistence. I don't have any figures to support my assertion, so flame away, but I'd guess it takes more work than the ratrace you gave up.
backpack around the world
This is not a career, this is a leisure pursuit. How long can this last? It really depends on how big your cushion of savings is, which ironically enough, depends on how hard you were working up til the point you decided to take a jaunt around the world.
live as a family out on the ocean waves
OK, now you're just being a loon. What exactly does "live on the ocean waves" mean? Vagrancy? How do you intend to feed your family, panhandling?
The difference between Americans and Europeans is that we as Americans can't seem to balance our lives. We're either workaholics or layabouts. Europeans are much better at balancing work and leisure.
>Well I have had my dual Opteron system for about three weeks now, AND I ordered a G5 over a month ago....
:-D
I hate you
*hate in the envy sense of the word
Let me distill your post down to its essence:
"The good ole' boys network will keep the fat cats from suffering the same fate as the rest of us"
Thats my take on it anyways. And I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I don't have to like it either.
...used by mom-n-pops and small corporations to produce the video equivalent of company newsletters. FCP already took the high end.
If Adobe wants to compete with FCP its going to have to be with a ground up new app a la InDesign.
This isn't a platform vendor leveraging the platform to push their apps, Apple charges a pretty penny for FCP, there is room for a well designed app to compete on cost alone.
In that type of situation, a sudden alarming sound is only going to worsen the stress that the driver is in, causing him to overreact.
"However, it appears Bioware are pressing ahead (and doing it inhouse) because they are a games company that wants to be around in the long run, and stay one step ahead of its competitors. Writing portable code isn't something that comes as second nature to most Windows coders, least of all games coders, but they clearly think (correctly) that Linux is going to be a force in the long run on the desktop."
I wanted to respond to this even though its pretty late in the day and this topic is no longer near the top of the stack on Slashdot.
Writing portable code has benefits in and of itself, regardless of the economic factors of any particular platform. (I believe most games are profitable on the Mac however)
Portable code that has been run through multiple compilers, run in multiple environments, QA'ed by multiple testing teams, etc. is in my experience a damn sight more bug free than single platform code.
Just the differences in compilers can bring to light surprisingly subtle bugs in code.
Do yourself a favor and try to compile your projects with different compilers on different platforms. You may be surprised at the things that you find that would've slipped under your radar using only 1 toolchain on 1 platform. This does not mean GCC on Linux and BSD on x86. It means GCC on Linux/BSD for x86, GCC on Darwin/PPC, VC++ on Win32, and maybe another combo.
Of the 3 'paradigms' mentioned as alternatives to OOP, only aspect oriented programming is even on the same order as OOP. Patterns are a design methodology and XP is a workflow.
Aspect is best used in conjunction with OOP. In fact I would say that anyone that uses Objective-C's categories has been doing aspect all along.
I'm much more comfortable with the idea of having someone help me (or helping someone else) debug a really tough problem that I'm stuck on.
So on that note, give me an extreme debugger as nice as this Hydra thing is for editing.