Comment Re:Apple's response? (Score 1) 345
Then you would have performance issues, particularly for games.
Then you would have performance issues, particularly for games.
Hmm, got logged out there. I'll try that again:
6502 -> Mototola 68k -> PowerPC -> Intel.
There is absolutely zero technical reason for this, it's all to force developers to code to Apple's APIs.
One technical reason for this is to make sure that everybody is on the same playing field when it comes to things like architecture changes.
If you know anything about Apple history, they have been able to make successful transitions between chipsets on more than one occasion. By requiring everybody to use the same development tools, any significant architecture changes are just a recompile away in an updated Xcode.
Just one of several reasons, along with UI consistency and performance amongst others, but one of the most important.
Fair enough, but I'd argue that NeoOffice is a pretty niche install, and doesn't LibreOffice have a native UI now?
There are excellent native torrent clients in uTorrent and Transmission. Vuze is also a pretty good example of why Java apps on OS X are a bad idea. All in all, I doubt any of those examples would be missed.
This is about treating Java-in-general as a second class citizen on MacOS.
It is and has for a long time been a second-class citizen on Mac OS X. I can think of no major (or even many minor) applications for the OS X platform that are written in Java. It hasn't proven itself necessary. It's costly and difficult for Apple to maintain for no tangible benefit when they can simply provide the hooks for the actual owner of Java to implement their own package if they so desire.
Where's the beef?
Which is all very noble. I'm just saying OO already had a mountain to climb without its supporters attaching heavy weights to its backpack. Or, erm, something.
Well that's bollocksed up what little name recognition it had then. Well done OSS community. Shot itself in the foot with infighting again.
Yeah, that works.
Doesn't really sound any different to what the search companies store. Sans encryption, nothing you do on the Internet is private. Caveat Browsor. Or, erm, something.
No mod points today, but +1 sir, +1.
It's one of Apple's magic combined analog/digital 3.5mm jacks. Plug in an optical TOS cable and you've got your digital audio. It's what I do on my iMac.
I've had great success with my teenager with Game Maker from YoYo Games.
Windows only unfortunately, but excellent. It'll teach simple variables and loops to start with, with instant results, before leading into more advanced coding as his skills and ambition increase.
With your bare hands?!?