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Comment Objective-C to Language X instead? (Score 2, Interesting) 711

People are complaining "I can't write my app in precious language X and cross compile it (or whatever conversion they do) to run on iPhone" whether language X be Java, Flash or whatever.

Has anyone ever considered going to other way? Write something in Objective-C and cross compile to other platforms? Hell, most of the specifications are open, we even have GNUStep! It's really not THAT complicated a language, C with a Smalltalk style OO model strapped to it and a few libraries.

Why not have a converter that takes an Objective-C iPhone app's code and converts it to Dalvik, .NET or whatever your other targets are, instead of moaning because you can't write your app in Java or whatever you pick?

Seems to be all one sided, even lazy, if you ask me. Objective-C isn't THAT hard to learn, and the majority of specs are open.

Comment Of course a non-colourblind person would ask this (Score 3, Informative) 981

Those of us that ARE colourblind would LOVE to have it corrected. People don't realise how much of an impact it can have.

I work in IT, not because it's what I dreamt of doing as a kid, but because I wasn't allowed to be a Pilot, a Captain (my father used to drive tugboats for a living) or even a Police officer.

If you haven't experienced it first hand, then you have no right to question whether people who do experience it every single day of their lives, should be "allowed" to change it.

I want the same employment opportunities as everyone else, and I want my nephew (son of my sister) to have the same employment opportunities as everyone else too, whether he's inherited the gene or not as well.

/rant

Comment Re:Bollocks (Score 1) 5

Pretty healthy: http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.finkproject.org/ have both come in handy for me in the past. As for why not jump to MacOS? I own a PowerBook G4, but don't have the money to upgrade to an Intel Mac so I'm stuck on OS X 10.5, as well as the PowerBook G4 although 5 years old, still has plenty of life left in it. Will I get another Mac so I can continue running OS X, sure, once I save enough money for it. I've been an Ubuntu user, I still have a cheap server running it. However I tend to lend more toward FreeBSD and PC-BSD these days for my commodity hardware.

Comment Bollocks (Score 1) 5

I welcome proprietary applications that run on top of Linux. Hell, one of the biggest barriers to Linux adoption on the desktop is the availability of applications produced by commercial vendors. I suspect that the only people bothered by these moves to inclusion of commercial softwares and services are over the top Linux zealots. GPL this, GPL that. At the risk of being flamed, I disagree that the GPL is truly free when you compare it to say something like BSD licensing.
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Submission + - 64-bits Flash Player for Linux finally in Alpha (adobe.com) 1

Luchio writes: Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bits enthusiasts! As noted, "this is a prerelease version", so handle with care. Just remove any existing flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins).

Submission + - Opera Mini for iPhone tested (wired.co.uk)

Lanxon writes: Opera Software has shown Wired a version of its popular mobile web browser, Opera Mini, built for the iPhone. Like the Java versions it features effective data compression to shrink web sites before sending them to your phone, plus the "Speed Dial" bookmarking interface, but lacks the multitouch functionality as used in Safari. The question now is, will Apple accept it? Opera thinks so, telling Wired, "We're going through the proper channels. We're not cannibalising a partnership like AT&T, and there are a number of streaming music apps on the iPhone already despite Apple's own iTunes app, so we feel there is enough leniency in Apple's approval process. We're confident of getting Opera Mini onto the iPhone."

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