"who would win, red shirts or stormtroopers" is an old joke, but one made only by folk who don't make allowances for plot.
But that's the point. When the storyline has to alter 'reality' (stormtroopers ability to shoot) so blatantly that it's difficult to suspend disbelief just to support the plot, there's a problem with the script.
Quartz is not the only place they could play games. They could make every 1000th NSObject subclass instantiation check the hardware. And you can check the hardware in such a way that even though you don't trust the OS in between, you can still be sure the hardware is the hardware (think public key encryption/signing by the hardware).
Just a small correction. NeXTStep ran on 68K (NeXT Boxes), HP PA/RISC, Sun SPARC, and Intel (x86). Internally it ran on Motorola 88k boxes (for certain), and maybe PPC (prior to the apple acquisition) , but I doubt it.
Macs might be 90% PCs, but the 10% is very important. Monkeys and Humans share 98.4% of their DNA, but I'd like to think I'm a little different from a chimp:-)
Not sure I understand the value of this. I drop my iPod in the cradle, iTunes launches and syncs any new music, and iSync launches and syncs any contact/calendar changes. Not sure why they didn't move it the other way, where iSync is in charge of syncing the music to the iPod...
My wife told me there was a bunch of computer gear they were throwing out at the university she attends, so I went rooting... Found an obviously early Apple motherboard. With $$$s in my eyes I was thinking it might be an Apple I. Alas, the motherboard is for an early Apple ][. I'm loath to throw it out, but I've got a bunch of computer junk, and don't need more. So, if you're interested, email me and I'll ship it to you COD. Or, if you're in the North SF Bay area (Sebastopol), I can maybe drop it by...
I've heard that about CA as well, _if_ you possess the keys to the car, or they are present in the car. So, you just need to hot-wire your own car and you're safe:-)
It's a little more complicated than that in Cocoa. Controls (and possibly every NSView subclass [not sure, it's been awhile]) has an 'acceptsFirstMouseDown' or something like that property, which determines whether it will perform it's action on the 'click to activate the window/first-click' or not.
Yeah, way back when (1992, I think) Avie gave me and some other people a ride from one post-NeXTWorld party to another. I had a chance to ask him what he liked least about NeXTStep.
Well, Apple had a license agreement with Microsoft, that Apple believed Microsoft violated with the introduction of later (3.x?) versions of Windows. Characterizing comments about that as 'people complaining that Microsoft steals stuff' I'd agree with. But in the more common case of people complaining that Microsoft couldn't come up with an original idea if they had to to save the company, I'd say that's just bad grapes...
Hell, I got back in without ID! I was going to mexico for a friend's bachelor party (Tijuana), and we parked on the US side and walked into Mexico. Once there I realized I'd left my wallet on the wrong side of the fence. I was a little worried, especially since on the way back one of the other celebrants decided it would be fun to call out to the INS agent, "ask him for ID!". Asshole:-) Anyway, I guess I looked/sounded american enough, because they let me back in. All Pre-9/11 of course.
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These sleeves, and a plastic 2-drawer CD storage thingy that they don't seem to make anymore. IKEA still makes CD storage boxes, they're reasonably cheap ($5/pair). They don't hold that many (23) if you use the jewel cases, but using the sleeves doubles or tripples the storage.
Well, NeXTStep had -NXHost . Basically, you login to the remote host, then run the GUI app at the command line with the -NXHost option. The app runs on the remote host, and connects to the local window server for display. Not sure why Apple removed that capability when the changed from DPS to Quartz. Unless just to sell 'Remote Desktop'
Yes, because knowing who the 9/11 suicide hijackers were *AFTER THE FACT* really was useful. Now we know who not to let on the plane next time (assuming they had survived the suicide hijacking and were not capable of getting a fake ID, of course)
Sure. It was very useful to know that almost all of the hijackers were Saudi, so we could attack first Afganistan and then Iraq. Makes perfect sense to me...
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"who would win, red shirts or stormtroopers" is an old joke, but one made only by folk who don't make allowances for plot.
But that's the point. When the storyline has to alter 'reality' (stormtroopers ability to shoot) so blatantly that it's difficult to suspend disbelief just to support the plot, there's a problem with the script.
Sounds like an easy fix for good results with low risk of false positives.
Quartz is not the only place they could play games. They could make every 1000th NSObject subclass instantiation check the hardware. And you can check the hardware in such a way that even though you don't trust the OS in between, you can still be sure the hardware is the hardware (think public key encryption/signing by the hardware).
Just a small correction. NeXTStep ran on 68K (NeXT Boxes), HP PA/RISC, Sun SPARC, and Intel (x86). Internally it ran on Motorola 88k boxes (for certain), and maybe PPC (prior to the apple acquisition) , but I doubt it.
Macs might be 90% PCs, but the 10% is very important. Monkeys and Humans share 98.4% of their DNA, but I'd like to think I'm a little different from a chimp :-)
That's out of stock. And it's only 2.0 GHz. Heck, I want a 3.6GHz proc if I'm going to intel :-O
That's just sick. You just made my head explode. I love it.
It's almost as good as using your compiler to compile itself...
Remember, before dropping the cat out the window, tie a piece of buttered toast to the back of the cat, butter side up...
Hell, the only thing I've made money on lately (last 5 years) is real estate...
With my new research, I've been able to interpolate the entirety of the universe from a piece of fairy cake!
- syncing of contacts/calendars to iPod
Not sure I understand the value of this. I drop my iPod in the cradle, iTunes launches and syncs any new music, and iSync launches and syncs any contact/calendar changes. Not sure why they didn't move it the other way, where iSync is in charge of syncing the music to the iPod...
Jump back to the BASIC interp. from the monitor rom?
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What's $60 or $EA? and why were they useful?
My wife told me there was a bunch of computer gear they were throwing out at the university she attends, so I went rooting...
Found an obviously early Apple motherboard. With $$$s in my eyes I was thinking it might be an Apple I. Alas, the motherboard is for an early Apple ][.
I'm loath to throw it out, but I've got a bunch of computer junk, and don't need more.
So, if you're interested, email me and I'll ship it to you COD. Or, if you're in the North SF Bay area (Sebastopol), I can maybe drop it by...
I've heard that about CA as well, _if_ you possess the keys to the car, or they are present in the car. So, you just need to hot-wire your own car and you're safe :-)
It's a little more complicated than that in Cocoa. Controls (and possibly every NSView subclass [not sure, it's been awhile]) has an 'acceptsFirstMouseDown' or something like that property, which determines whether it will perform it's action on the 'click to activate the window/first-click' or not.
Yeah, way back when (1992, I think) Avie gave me and some other people a ride from one post-NeXTWorld party to another. I had a chance to ask him what he liked least about NeXTStep.
His answer: "Unix".
Well, there are java tools that let you use POP3 to access your Yahoo mail, if that would help.
Yeah, because otherwise, when you use your username as your password, it wouldn't be secure.
Well, Apple had a license agreement with Microsoft, that Apple believed Microsoft violated with the introduction of later (3.x?) versions of Windows. Characterizing comments about that as 'people complaining that Microsoft steals stuff' I'd agree with. But in the more common case of people complaining that Microsoft couldn't come up with an original idea if they had to to save the company, I'd say that's just bad grapes...
Yeah, that really should have been
Windows XP NeXTStep 4.0
Hell, I got back in without ID! I was going to mexico for a friend's bachelor party (Tijuana), and we parked on the US side and walked into Mexico. Once there I realized I'd left my wallet on the wrong side of the fence. I was a little worried, especially since on the way back one of the other celebrants decided it would be fun to call out to the INS agent, "ask him for ID!". Asshole :-) Anyway, I guess I looked/sounded american enough, because they let me back in. All Pre-9/11 of course.
These sleeves, and a plastic 2-drawer CD storage thingy that they don't seem to make anymore. IKEA still makes CD storage boxes, they're reasonably cheap ($5/pair). They don't hold that many (23) if you use the jewel cases, but using the sleeves doubles or tripples the storage.
I do that too, but I 'format c:' after I'm done...
Well, NeXTStep had -NXHost . Basically, you login to the remote host, then run the GUI app at the command line with the -NXHost option. The app runs on the remote host, and connects to the local window server for display.
Not sure why Apple removed that capability when the changed from DPS to Quartz. Unless just to sell 'Remote Desktop'
Sure. It was very useful to know that almost all of the hijackers were Saudi, so we could attack first Afganistan and then Iraq. Makes perfect sense to me...