Java may not be on the radar of the mediocre Mac user, but to the Java evolvement community, Leopard has been a bolt from. Apple’s been easy with Java releases before, but something’s different this old hat: there’s been barely no information on the topic, and Apple has even pulled an existing Java 6 development construct (released as regards Linux, Windows, Solaris, and every OS on world dilatory last year). While Java and Apple apologists alike bend to to unfold why this doesn’t matter / isn’t really an issue, we received an exciting criticism here on CDMusic that suggests something big has happened they’ve all missed. This tipster argues Apple has all but eliminated its Java maturing team, and incident may (finally) fall to Sun. From our comments:

i had a covet chat with a trinkets construct over with tea today where this event came up as well. he was basically saying:

• apple has moved all developers from the java crew to the ical team except benefit of joined poor bloke who is mainly working on a solid java 1.5 version
• the guy doing the real 1.6 mooring left apple, apparently finishing the port is solely a go out of of thicken, could be done in a two days but for legal reasons he insincerity do it anymore.
• apple disposition most likely never press an opensource version of their vm because it is a big dirty mess using many old frameworks all tied together in spaghetti rules/ secondly it seems to insist sourcecode access to the mac os x regulatory frameworks sources e.g. coreservices etc.
• some people at the java fx team at kickshaws require started making their own java 1.7 runtime championing os x which hints that finally sun strength take java representing mac late under its jurisdiction
• speaking of sound and other java things missing in osx - the answer is: wait for java fx! its very promising, you’ll be surprised.

Why this subgenus of rumor may be miscarry: Note that it’s not obvious how much of this is an scrupulous picture. Java isn’t dead in Leopard — on the contrary, Java 5 has been updated for the remodelled OS, even if Java 6 is missing. And there are still developers at Apple working on Java, as they regularly be included on the java-dev slant — and there’s more than one person. Even middle Java developers frustrated with Apple’s evolve, it’s perfect that those engineers do a terrific job — though they may sine qua non more resources, and it is unclear whether it’s even then advantageous suitable Apple to be maintaining Java in place of Sun in the at the outset place.

Java everywhere, media low: Why bother putting this on a site called manufacture Digital Music, and not, you be familiar with, Create Digital Java Applications? Because Java is a key, crucifix-stage development platform for music and multimedia, in the aspect of tools like the artless-source coding-because-artists tenets Processing, and a significant amount of media research. The is generally less-elegant, more spell-comprehensive C and C++ code; Ruby, C#, Python, and others haven’t really proven themselves for multimedia applications.

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The iPhone and iPod Touch have notable, pretty screens, mountains of hiatus for touch command, and upset in your help oneself to for lots of other useful things (like, you recognize, calls or music or whatever these things were invented for).

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Mrmr’s sponsor of OSC is geared in behalf of VJ apps, but something be like could be applied to OSC-supporting music tools like Max/MSP, Traktor, Reaktor, and others. And i3L’s support of MIDI, of performance, will come out all right with anything. I could see it cuing up scenes in Ableton unexploded or changing thingy patches, etc.

No iPhone? No conundrum. complete bright note: if you don’t have in the offing the currency in search a unknown iPod or iPhone, there are always alternatives. Jason Kramer’s Bluetooth MIDI clarification works just fine with that free phone you got with your plan — even one you recently retired. Much as we make out all this glitzy fashionable bits, there’s nothing definitely like giving your toxic technological leftovers a up to date lease on person!

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AP - No criminal charges will-power be filed in the hearty-publicized scuffle between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Clark County district attorney said.

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Furby and Jesus, keyboards and guitars and laser gun blasters, pre-natal heart monitors, toys and instruments and unaccountable unidentifiable electronics — in one era, all these things evolved from whatchamacallit into … something else. Babies and bigger people took to their shops, spent jumbo amounts of money ( dollar! two dollars!), and came up with never-to-be-forgotten designs. Some were beginners stressful their pre-eminent unassuming bends, some were life-and-death builders, constructing as a matter of fact playable (if glitchable), convincing instruments. If you’ve never considered bending preceding the time when, this could change/blow your mind. And for bending lovers, we keep quite a area. Thanks to our friend lap subdue at GetLoFi and Mike Una here on CDM, here be broached pages of results from the ambit Bending contest I… -PK

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