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Leopard can’t run Java 1.6… and it’s Apple’s fault…

Guess completely owning your OS does open up chances of it backfiring… article copied below.

IN A THREAD on Apple’s discussion forum, software developers who use Macs are up in arms because Capuccinno Steve’s flash new Leopard OS chokes on Sun’s latest Java 1.6.

Apparently Apple’s OS/X 10.5 ships without an updated Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that can handle Java 1.6. Reportedly Java 1.6 crashes with a segmentation fault while trying to load on Leopard. Apple hasn’t commented officially but is said to be deleting forum complaints.

Some Mac based developers have been quick to blame Sun, but Sun’s Java visionary James Gosling has disclaimed responsibility, saying that Apple develops its own JVM for OS/X “because Apple wanted to do it. ”

Gosling wrote that Apple “wanted to do all sorts of customization and integration that only they could do — because they own the OS.” He also said that its lag on JDK support for Java 1.6 “keeps feeling like the big problem is that developers aren’t the ‘Target Demographic’.”

Best viewed with a group of people. Then you can really see opposing views and perspectives.

The Dancing Lady

Give it some time. Maybe she’ll change direction. She changed for me!

I wonder who would read this…

Looks like TPX is a “bad” group after all…

Before “social networking” became a buzz phrase, she told her clients to “find people who have the money behaviors you want to learn and start hanging out with them.” She suggests, for example, joining an investment club.

The corollary is to be careful around folks who’ll reinforce your bad tendencies. No one’s suggesting that you start dumping friends and family members who spend too much. But it makes sense to avoid going clothes shopping with them.

“It’s like going with alcoholics to a bar,” says money therapist Olivia Mellan, author of Money Harmony. “You’ll be sucked into the group’s norm.”

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