HOAX, people.
On brainiac (british show. mythbusters but zanier) they tried this by burying an egg under 60+ phones and repeatedly dailing them all (which mythbusters has already proven generates the largest wattage spikes).
Nothing happend to the egg.
Objective C for mac is analogous to C for linux and C++ for windows. It's the base, the language of the underlying OS and core libraries. When looking at it that way, macs absolutely and completely blow both windows and linux out of the water as development environments.
Not good enough for you? That's okay. It's not good enough for me either. macs ship with about the same set of alternative dev environments as linux - PHP, Python, Java (which is particularly well integrated - swing actually looks palatable on a mac), perl, and undoubtedly a bunch of others are installed by default, and no one is stopping you from adding eclipse or other alternative dev environments on your mac.
Exactly as it works on linux and windows, incidentally - except of course that neither linux or windows guaranteed ships with python, perl, PHP, and especially java, so releasing your software in such a language doesn't work when offering it to Joe Q. Average out there. No one wants to download 40MBs worth of a JRE first.
Can it be 'better'? Possibly. But looking at the big picture, I'm jobs on this one.
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HOAX, people. On brainiac (british show. mythbusters but zanier) they tried this by burying an egg under 60+ phones and repeatedly dailing them all (which mythbusters has already proven generates the largest wattage spikes). Nothing happend to the egg.
Objective C for mac is analogous to C for linux and C++ for windows. It's the base, the language of the underlying OS and core libraries. When looking at it that way, macs absolutely and completely blow both windows and linux out of the water as development environments.
Not good enough for you? That's okay. It's not good enough for me either. macs ship with about the same set of alternative dev environments as linux - PHP, Python, Java (which is particularly well integrated - swing actually looks palatable on a mac), perl, and undoubtedly a bunch of others are installed by default, and no one is stopping you from adding eclipse or other alternative dev environments on your mac.
Exactly as it works on linux and windows, incidentally - except of course that neither linux or windows guaranteed ships with python, perl, PHP, and especially java, so releasing your software in such a language doesn't work when offering it to Joe Q. Average out there. No one wants to download 40MBs worth of a JRE first.
Can it be 'better'? Possibly. But looking at the big picture, I'm jobs on this one.