Long ago, Apple's Installer app team decided that the default target for library files should be
That single decision has had the upshot that for the last decade and more, Apple has been training its users to type in their admin passwords at the drop of a hat.
I've never understood why they didn't realise it would come back to haunt them. Now they're going to have to learn on the back foot.
And the sum total of energy in bumps and scrapes you receive over your childhood presumably exceeds that of a bullet to the head. Radiation is not something you have to worry about if administered gradually enough.
What has any of your rant got to do with the BBC? You've posted three links, none of which has anything to do with that organisation. Are you trying to make an ironic point about unsupported claims?
I guess I should have searched before I posted, as I see that there's recently been a blog post on the former matter: http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2010/11/gnustep-is-not-openstep.html
But the latter?
As far as I understand it, Cocotron is more concerned with implementing Cocoa rather than OpenStep (i.e. it would be more attractive to iOS developers), and I'd have thought its license (MIT) would be easier for Sony to ensure compliance with than the GPL.
It used to be a lightweight extension to C, but ObjC-2.0 rather spoiled that with dot syntax for properties
I just engaged in an act which even the lowest member of the primates would know was illegal
If you think they don't know it's illegal, well, who's the stupid one?
Not really sure if your making a joke or what exactly. (I have not had coffee YET)
Have a coffee, then read what he said again.
Perfect, isn't it?!
I just wonder who scams the scammer-scammers?
1. once an effective way to control time travel is discovered, said method will be able to exist at all times.
CITATION NEEDED
(Yeah, I keep calling it the Large Hardon Collider. It's funny.)
CITATION NEEDED
Please mod parent insightful, even though it is also funny.
Why on earth would you reply to the post you did without including a link? Are you trying to discredit your own point?
However, it's not due to be public domain until the year 2044 in the US and 2020 in the EU, by which time the term of copyright will have been extended again.
Fixed that for ya.
That's not Obama's failure. That's capitalism's failure.
Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955
