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Snow Leopard Gets Cocoa Finder, ImageBoot?
Even though Snow Leopard is supposed to be all about tweaking and performance, AppleInsider claims to have some information regarding new features coming in Snow Leopard. They claim Apple is working on bringing Exchange support to iCal, Address Book, and Mail, a feature called ImageBoot, and - insert drum roll - a new Finder written in Cocoa. Testers also claim that other bundled applications are written in Cocoa. This isn't all that weird seeing Carbon doesn't come in a 64bit flavour.
Should engineers fix climate change?
Two weeks ago, I wrote that 1,500 ships could fight climate change. Many readers sent me interesting comments. And one of those, who wants to remain anonymous, sent me his thoughts about climate change. This started a conversation between the two of us and you'll see the result of our exchange below. Essentially, this person -- let's call him Joe -- is asking if we should we build 'environmental machines' to fix climate change or leave it to nature. Obviously, this would require that governments significantly reduce or eliminate most industrial sources of pollution within 30 years. Even if I don't totally agree with Joe's views, they're worth reading. Please tell us what you think... Joe starts by saying that "Greenland ...
Reiser Sentenced
Two years ago this past Labor Day weekend Linux programmer Hans Reiser murdered his estranged wife. Last Friday he was sentenced to 15 years to life as part of a deal that reduced his first-degree murder conviction and its mandatory 25 years-to-life sentence to second-degree murder in exchange for taking authorities to the wooded site where he had buried her body. read more