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2010-06-24 , 00:50
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard. They introduced Grand Central Dispatch, which allows software built using Cocoa and Objective-C to handle small lumps of code off to the daemon which decides where and when to run it. Unsurprisingly, it can also enforce restrictions on said thread and kill them if it steps outside of them.

This is how they can halt (or kill) the main thread of a process while keeping a background thread running.
Ah ok. Interesting, though that means apps of course have to be programmed to take advantage of it? Is that as simple as just marking this process is necessary?

I agree with Benson. This is something that they would've figured out on the first prototype device. Though maybe your suppose to hold it in a specific way? There's gotta be some manufacturing reason this is happening.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...