Nonsense. All US G4 machines (servers, Xserve, etc) are built in Sacramento by Apple. I used to work there. All Euro/African/Middle Eastern G4 desktop/servers are built in Ireland by Apple. Don't believe me - check the serial tag.
Furthermore, almost all H/W R&D is done within Apple, as well as boatloads of the support infrastructure for manufacturing.
Information that the Finder uses to display the directory contents; geometry, mode, colours, etc..
Putting metadata in hidden files wouldn't be worse than putting whatever's in.DS_Store in hidden files, I would think.
Only you'd need a hidden file for every non-hidden one which contained metadata. Major waste...DS_Store is already a hidden file. Fortunately, there's only (up to) one for each directory. You should look through TN 1150 and see what the Attributes File's all about..
Apple also spec'd the file system (HFS+) to have the ability to store metadata in a btree, similar to the catalog file. This is the 'attributes file', explained in TN1150. Right now, it's unused so I imagine there are plans for this.
Having said that, there's no place in UFS for this sorta thing & I doubt Apple could get around it by 'bundling' (using folders) like they did the last time.
Paid upgrade, I'm guessing. All the other minor numbers 10.1, 10.2 were... There are supposed to be a *lot* of changes going into Panther, so it should be well worth it.
I think that's stretching things a bit. Chances are, task X has been solved in C in the interim. Doing the recompile & fixing the glitches would probably take as long as re-coding it in C...
Sure, but my point still stands. Aspartame is a source of phenylalanine & thus, the previous poster's assertion that "there is no link to aspartame and any problems" is not true.
Furthermore, now that the stuff is now so pervasive, those kids who do suffer from PKU have less and less choice of foodstuffs, considering they're severely restricted *already*...
I understand that there doesn't need to be a reason why something should be implemented so long as it scratches a programmer's itch, but Pascal on the Mac was dreadful as an API for developing Classic apps. Most Mac developers breathed a sigh of relief when Apple finally killed it. Even today, there's still a legacy of MacOS's Pascal origins (length-prefixed strings in APIs and file system structures, wacky structure alignment issues, etc.)
I can remember picking up maintenance on certain Mac apps and being horrified to find them written in a mixture of Pascal, C and 68K Assembler. All compiling under MPW and linking to a fat binary (yeah, with the 68K code).
Anyways - when I read the link, my initial reaction was 'Yeek! Pascal on the Mac again!'
All of the studies have shown there is no link to aspartame and any problems, and it has been one of the most studied substances on the planet.
Nope, I'm afraid. Any foodstuff containing aspartame has to be labelled "Contains a source of phenylalanine", which it does. This is because sufferers of phenylketonuria are likely to die if they continually ingest it. More info here
Co-incidentally, my wife gets severe migraine if she takes anything containing aspartame. This works regardless of whether she's aware of the contents or not....
(Controversially, the then commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Arthur Hayes, approved the general use of aspartame for the Searle corporation. Three months later, he was working for Burson-Marsteller, Searle's advertising agency. Co-incidence??)
So, I had a dig around on their site & there's very little on DRM (it's not in their extensive glossary). I found this press release from 2002, tho'...
Imaging and messaging applications.
Sony Ericsson's collaboration with Sony Pictures (with titles such as Men In Black, Charlie's Angels, Stuart Little 2 and the upcoming Spiderman), Sony Music Entertainment (one of the world's largest music companies) and Sony Style Imaging (Sony's digital imaging community on the Internet) constitute the core of Sony Group's entertainment content group. The collaborations will focus on three key areas:
Technology - to ensure optimization of content delivery on Sony Ericsson products, technology standardization, Digital Rights Management and strategic technology review forums. Sony Ericsson is fully committed to the open standards in the mobile environment and is a principal driver of many open standards initiatives. In addition, the collaboration with the Sony group delivers a powerful mobile entertainment solution to the consumers.
[snip] For the consumers, these collaborations will result in the possibility to personalize their phones with exciting content from the rich world of Sony. Examples are wallpapers and screensavers with motives from movies, personal images, downloadable ringtones from Sony's top musical artists and branded games.
So there ya go. Partner with Sony, guarantee DRM in future phones & peddle DRM-restricted ringtones, images, etc. Cha-chinnng!! $$$
It's got this 'Music DJ' function, but just how capable is it if it's got DRM. Is it crippled beyond belief? And with e-mail and Java built-in, how long before we see the first T610 virus?
.. but how does the ASA intend to enforce it seeing as most spam appears to originate from Chinese or south-American open relays/Spamhausen & is generally propagated by US companies?
I'd like to think it's a step forward in the fight against spam but I'm not sure quite how...
... a sneaky way for MS to hit OpenOffice by threatening mirror servers with legal action? The SysOp at uni.Muenster wasn't sure whether he was on shaky legal grounds or not. If the name OpenOffice gets any way muddied, people would turn off it. In short - more FUD.
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Really?? Then why am I sitting in the building right now, working away?
Apple's G4 desktop/server manufacturing in Cork is still running along. In fact, I was out on the production floor 5 minutes ago .. :-)
BTW - guess where the European support centre is? Cork, Ireland.
Correct. Portables are all built in Taiwan, as the label confirms. Desktops are quite different, as you say ...
'nuff said!
What makes you think there's only one engineer working on it?
Turly's the guy who wrote FinderPop for the Mac. He also contributed boatloads of gcc patches in his day ....
Information that the Finder uses to display the directory contents; geometry, mode, colours, etc ..
Putting metadata in hidden files wouldn't be worse than putting whatever's in .DS_Store in hidden files, I would think.
Only you'd need a hidden file for every non-hidden one which contained metadata. Major waste .. .DS_Store is already a hidden file. Fortunately, there's only (up to) one for each directory. You should look through TN 1150 and see what the Attributes File's all about ..
Having said that, there's no place in UFS for this sorta thing & I doubt Apple could get around it by 'bundling' (using folders) like they did the last time.
Just guessing ...
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Oops! It doesn't work, although the 'burn disk' option is there. It'd make sense if it was implemented ....
Paid upgrade, I'm guessing. All the other minor numbers 10.1, 10.2 were ... There are supposed to be a *lot* of changes going into Panther, so it should be well worth it.
Interestingly enough, Apple has started a trend by building in a Google search widget into their new safari browser.
Imagine what would happen if MS tried this tactic and built in, say, AltaVista into the next release of IE. Popularity would skyrocket overnight ...
I think that's stretching things a bit. Chances are, task X has been solved in C in the interim. Doing the recompile & fixing the glitches would probably take as long as re-coding it in C ...
Furthermore, now that the stuff is now so pervasive, those kids who do suffer from PKU have less and less choice of foodstuffs, considering they're severely restricted *already* ...
I can remember picking up maintenance on certain Mac apps and being horrified to find them written in a mixture of Pascal, C and 68K Assembler. All compiling under MPW and linking to a fat binary (yeah, with the 68K code).
Anyways - when I read the link, my initial reaction was 'Yeek! Pascal on the Mac again!'
That's true. It's an intolerance to a particular protein.
Nope, I'm afraid. Any foodstuff containing aspartame has to be labelled "Contains a source of phenylalanine", which it does. This is because sufferers of phenylketonuria are likely to die if they continually ingest it. More info here
Co-incidentally, my wife gets severe migraine if she takes anything containing aspartame. This works regardless of whether she's aware of the contents or not ....
(Controversially, the then commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Arthur Hayes, approved the general use of aspartame for the Searle corporation. Three months later, he was working for Burson-Marsteller, Searle's advertising agency. Co-incidence??)
*ack* You need to sign up to get access to Battery Reset. Sorry .. :-( You can get it from MacUpdate instead ...
Battery Reset is well-hidden on Apple's Download site Yeah, it's for iBook/PBG3, but who knows ....
You forgot to mention one key ingredient, though; the dogs!
Guess that's why Apple have downloadable firmware updates for iPod ....
DRM (Digital Rights Management)
It's got this 'Music DJ' function, but just how capable is it if it's got DRM. Is it crippled beyond belief? And with e-mail and Java built-in, how long before we see the first T610 virus?
I'd like to think it's a step forward in the fight against spam but I'm not sure quite how ...
Yeah, like MS's wonder-shell-script is going to read a robots.txt field. They can't even parse a dir listing correctly!
... a sneaky way for MS to hit OpenOffice by threatening mirror servers with legal action? The SysOp at uni.Muenster wasn't sure whether he was on shaky legal grounds or not. If the name OpenOffice gets any way muddied, people would turn off it. In short - more FUD.