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I don't think that hiring or retraining programmers is going to be an issue for most companies. I think that the issue is going to be the pre-existing codebase. Reimplementing old code in Objective C wouldn't involve just rewriting parts of the program, but it would also require testing the...

Overall, I think that it is a good idea. I don't think that an OS vendor should implement multiple API or support multiple languages. It increases development time, it multiplies the amount of testing that needs to be done, and it muddies the waters for third party developers. If they want to...

It has been way too long since I've used MPW to give you a definitive answer on how to fix this, but I can give you a few breadcrumbs: Yes, it is possible to change the compilers in MPW. If you are dealing with a new version of MPW and old MacTech articles, then the compilers definitely would...

Bah. The ability to solve an adventure game has little to do with intelligence. Here's why: 1. You have to realize that there is a puzzle to be solved. Sometimes this is obvious (e.g. a panel of buttons), but quite often the hints are subtle. Sometimes they are so subtle that you may think...

I played a bit of Space Quest on the Apple II, and another version on the PC. Wandering around in the beginning was kinda fun, but I always got stuck. I've since grown to hate adventure games, graphical or text. Graphical since they usually reduce to pixel hunting at some stage of the game...

I'll second Sierra. I used to love their adventure games as a kid, but never did get through one without a few hints. Story telling was always child-like or more of a hack-job (writer sense, not computer sense). Lotus, for not pushing Improv until it was the dominant metaphor for...

Nah, it was the schools PC. They just needed something to affirm their decision to go Mac. ;)

Yeah, Apple is pretty good at keeping old stuff on their site. Particularly developer stuff. They even have ancient stuff, for the Apple II. As for a System 6 browser running in System 7 through Mac OS 9, it should. I've even seen pre-System 6 stuff work in Mac OS 9. Indeed, I believe the...

I did a quick search, and it looks like HTML files are of the file type 'TEXT' and GIFs can be 'GIFf' or 'GIF ' (note the space at the end). Someone mentioned Internet Config, I don't think that it will make it easier to implement the web browser since it seems to be some sort of system to...

I understand that board operators have to work to keep their system clean. Having reliable information helps to keep vegrants out, and probably improves the overall behaviour of people. However, we're not in 1990 anymore. Which is why some people are going to be concerned about disclosing any...

Cry? Or, you avoid buffering all of the data from the web page. Something like can be regarded as "switch into header mode". You stick a shorthand (perhaps one byte) into a processed data buffer. You automatically reduce the token to a fraction of it's original size, a quarter in my...

They do have a point on our notability. Unfortunately, that hasn't prevented other non-notables from polluting Wikipedia for little more than self-promotion. :(

There are two problems with economists: - Most of them do not know how to do math, nor want to, which sucks when they're in a profession that is about the numbers. - Virtually all of them are indoctrinated with the same economic theories as a part of their training. So economics pretty much...

That Floyd-Steinberg name sounds familiar. And I think it's pretty cool how a black and white (not even monochrome!) image can look so good. It ranks right up there with those old teletype reproductions of photographs (i.e. the ones with over-typed letters).

I cannot speak for the video angle, but the only real advantage to the IIe is expansion. If you don't need expansion, you'll probably be happier with a IIc+. Here's why: - The IIc+ offers a 3.5" floppy drive. If you already have a 68k Mac, this will make it a lot easier to get data into the...

Of course, I gave other reasons for not supporting images. But I just had to comment that I think that colour images resampled as 1 bpp looks pretty cool on the Mac. I forget the name of the algorithm that Apple used, but it does a good job. (Particularly compared to dithering algorithms that...

Well, the video in question suggests that about 20% of the equipment that the receive doesn't work, and that they try to fix it. If they cannot fix it, then it ends up as landfill. They don't have recycling facilities. Here's a story from the BBC on the topic...

Since exporting our old computers to developing nations was mentioned, here's a video that someone put together to explain a bit about how it works:

True. I'm inclined to say go with the former and neglect the latter. Then again, I'm the type of person who believes that document structure is more important than the eye candy. The other option is to create a list of font mappings. Back in my naughty days I'd say something like use Arial...

With respect to fonts, those should be handled by the Macintosh's Toolbox. So, relatively speaking, they would be easier to implement. With respect to image support, most images are compressed. That would add a definite load to the CPU. Since a lot of pages have a lot of images, the browser...