Re: what is expected malloc behavior re. limits/insufficient resources?
Re: what is expected malloc behavior re. limits/insufficient resources?
- Subject: Re: what is expected malloc behavior re. limits/insufficient resources?
- From: Esteban Bodigami <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:11:06 -0600
Fitt's Law. Like if i haven't read about it and commented on the IxDA mailing list, back in '07. Why always compare to the worst? Windows. Compare it to BeOS, KDE4, Gnome and obscure X and X-less windowing systems... hey, even Plan 9 has some nice ideas about interfaces!
PPC, x86-64 and OpenSparc compatibility... the C way, give me the code and i compile it on the hardware architecture of my choice. O. Systems are part of the infrastructure of a computer, if I buy a house from an architect I want the plans, the source... gived as part of the deal. Everything, not just the first floor (the kernel and some core utilities).
Apple software architects should be competing with Adobe. Apple hardware engineers should be competing with Cisco... that's the Apple I want; one that makes great products but also has some ethics. Gold EPEAT ratings are great, but LiPO has its limits. "desktops" (or stationary computers as i call 'em) are here to stay. Bring back the cube, but now called xMac (Ars Technica forum's lore)!
Apple isn't perfect, and it has made some wrong decisions. Aqua isn't free software and isn't perfect, but the trademark of Mac OS X is quite strong... Macintosh, a kind of Apple, a computer... the epoch may be 1984, 2 years before i was born... which, by age makes me probably a padawan, so to speak. That's why i like talking with pro's that have fancy titles and can charge $10 000 per month for that privilege... I prefer Euros, but that's off topic.
2552/7/21 Juan Madrigal
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Don't like X? use Aqua! What's so 90's about? Don't tell me you prefer a task based GUI like Windows where everything is always changing (aka Office Ribbon) hindering the users memory motor skills and pretty much breaking Fitt's Law. You can keep that obmination. A webkit window system? Might be interesting, but if it's a desktop Application Aqua/Cocoa is the way to go. If you are thinking crossplatform GUI think Qt.
As for Sparc, Intel etc... PowerPC is the better ISA. Unfortunately Intel has the market whether they used proper tatics or not to get it, they have the market. So for now that's what there is to work with. Though I would love to see Mac's with PPC & Intel chips sold side by side, but that's off subject.
-z3r0
On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Esteban Bodigami <
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you call your sub-processes daemons and i call a lot of things as pixies; and laugh at that? wanna have some technical discussion?
X is not really needed if we have OpenGL and HMTL 5 + CSS_current, and if we "made a lightweight windowing system based on Webkit + some hacks to add an OpenGL element to HTML". X is a drag. Aqua is stuck in the GUI's philosophies of the 90's. The tabs of Safari_current are an abomination; there are better ways to do this; but it implies killing the menubar or changing drastically the dock. Darwin is not being properly updated; installing Darwin on VMware Fussion is possible but more difficult than other "Unix distros". BSD licenses are too permissive, GPL too restrictive. Being "married" to an Intel architecture, when Sparc had an 8 core, highly efficient processor, when the x86 world was only dreaming of 4 cores (where is my MacBook Pro/Mac Pro/xServe with an 8 core niagara processor?)
if Apple is now only an inc, then what are they doing next? a car with a collaboration of Tesla and the Pininifarina design firm? A B2 or B3, with a more sportier look maybe.
Terry Lambert
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On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
IainS wrote:
I have no idea what's going on here - no action of mine should have precipitated this...
I filed the radars, they've been acknowledged... and I'm awaiting the outcome.
I suspect what happened is that Terry's iPhone Mail.app inadvertently flagged a 7 months old message as unread, which prompted him to reply without looking at the date. Maybe he should file a bug with Apple ;-)
-- Terry
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