Posts by Mr Beardsley

Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE Cool. Why not go ahead and start buying Hummers from GM dealer as well.. they will get cheaper service and lower whole sale prices I don't think you can put a price on national security. The army...

Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE I was surprise that the DOD uses commercial OS. You would think that with their huge budget and resources they would develop their own in house variation of Linux. I've seen in the news that China...

As someone who has to use Windows at work, I'm glad that it is improving. Competition is a good thing. Diehard Windows users should appreciate that even if they don't like Apple or its products, the competition has been good for the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro As a user, you don't need bleeding edge OpenGL. NOTHING is written for it! It will take a year to 18 months before the first interesting apps or games come along with Open GL 3.2 code in it. It's...

Quote: Originally Posted by talksense101 Well, I don't know about the rest of the features, but I decided to splurge the cash and got me a 24inch iMac today. Moved data from my G4 imac over a firewire 9->6 pin cable. Took 2 hours...

Unfortunately the writing has been on the wall for WO for quite a while now. It was unfortunate that Apple moved it off of Obj-C and over onto Java. WO had an absolutely great architecture, and had extremely powerful set of tools. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Then I suppose you know more than Apple. You're not understanding. The scaling is done in Quartz. The Quartz Debug application just gives developers the ability to tell Quartz which scaling...

I imagine folks should expect a free Windows version of Xcode about the same time free Visual Studio comes to the Mac. I wonder why we don't hear about Mac developers clamoring for Visual Studio on the Mac so they can develop for...

It's nice to see Khrono's getting 3.1 done so quickly. I think that goes a long ways towards removing the feeling that OpenGL was dying. I wonder when we can reasonably expect to actually see this available in OS X though? It would...

I like the new direction it seems Apple is choosing for it's UIs. Here is a great blog post by a cocoa developer discussing "Administrative Debris". Static buttons and playheads just sit there as debris to the interface. ...