.log : 2010 : April

Apple introduced some new terms to its developers contract on Thursday. Buried away in the 21,000-odd words of the agreement is this interesting clause:

3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++ or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++ and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

на каждом углу повсеместно раздаются плач и стенания^[1].

а результат-то, однако, абсолютно не настолько трагичен, как многим хотелось бы представить: разработчики в очередной раз вспомнят о рекоммендациях и инструментах Apple, и начнут ими пользоваться (те, кто не делал этого раньше), а пользователи, надеюсь, выдержат отсутствие в App Store еще 347 милионов уродливых игрушек (которых, скажем прямо, и так хватает), и будут радоваться наступающей многозадачности:

The primary reason for the change, say sources familiar with Apple’s plans, is to support sophisticated new multitasking APIs in iPhone 4.0. The system will now be evaluating apps as they run in order to implement smart multitasking. It can’t do this if apps are running within a runtime or are cross compiled with a foreign structure that doesn’t behave identically to a native C/C++/Obj-C app.

ну, и не надо, конечно, забывать про очевидное:

So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. Not Adobe’s Flash. Not .NET (through MonoTouch). If that were to happen, there’s no lock-in advantage. If, say, a mobile Flash software platform — which encompassed multiple lower-level platforms, running on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry — were established, that app market would not give people a reason to prefer the iPhone.

не вижу, в общем-то, ничего плохого:

And, obviously, such a meta-platform would be out of Apple’s control. Consider a world where some other company’s cross-platform toolkit proved wildly popular. Then Apple releases major new features to iPhone OS, and that other company’s toolkit is slow to adopt them. At that point, it’s the other company that controls when third-party apps can make use of these features.

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^[1] — более всего потешают обычные дворовые выкрики:

Тогда от этого решения окружающим одни плюсы, разработчикам можно спокойно забыть про их платформу и заняться чем-нибудь другим, нет так нет.

сразу видно, насколько люди понимают и разбираются в происходящем:

Адобу надо в ответ объявить о прекращении всех разработок под мак вообще – и программу обмена лицензий мак-версий софта на windows. Чтоб огрызки вспомнили кто их кормит 20 лет.

как говорится:

Гувер — это голова. И Гинденбург — голова. Гувер и Гинденбург — это две головы.

в ежовых рукавицах

9 April 2010 | Biology, Culturology, Lifeform | No Comments

пока Миша tiphareth Вербицкий мучается за образование, кое-где и вовсе давно уже не стесняются:

New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows.

Those findings, by a team from Rutgers and Columbia, are almost certain to add fuel to a long-running debate. Do too many children from poor families receive powerful psychiatric drugs not because they actually need them — but because it is deemed the most efficient and cost-effective way to control problems that may be handled much differently for middle-class children?

конечно, так проще.

опасный выбор

9 April 2010 | Software | No Comments

самое главное, конечно, — это наступать по всему фронту и не останавливаться на достигнутом:

<...> an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy – or even worse.

замечательные, натурально:

<...> the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they use open source software.

What’s Special 301? It’s a report that examines the “adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights” around the planet – effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure – often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods – to try and force governments to change their behaviours.

как говорится, you’re downloading communism.

иллюстрации

9 April 2010 | Copyright, Google, Software | 1 Comment

перспектива всемирной библиотеки смотрится все сомнительней:

On Wednesday, the American Society of Media Photographers and other groups representing visual artists plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google, asserting that the company’s efforts to digitize millions of books from libraries amount to large-scale infringement of their copyrights.

не загнать силком в рай, никак.

за Buzz, кстати, им тоже на днях досталось.

между строк

7 April 2010 | Culturology | No Comments

забытое в книгах, современная археология. very touching indeed.

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провода и звуки

6 April 2010 | Music instruments | No Comments

еще музыкальные инструменты: раз (попроще) и два (посложнее; абсолютно прекрасный набор).

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навсегда

5 April 2010 | Apple, Hardware | 1 Comment

Джон Патрик, бывший вице-президент IBM вспоминает будущее:

When we introduced the ThinkPad in 1992 it seemed like a huge deal just to get everyone at IBM to agree with the name. No one, certainly not me as VP of marketing at the time, had any idea that more than 30 million ThinkPads would be sold. The iPad will surely sell multiple times that number but more important the iPad will change the model of personal computing — not immediately and not for everyone, but for many millions of people the PC will begin to look like a dinosaur.

что тут спорить, в общем-то. наоборот, украл цитату только чтобы поддержать разговор о начавшихся продажах.

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