Hmm, thank you. I was not aware of that, HOwever, i would argue about Hollywood having anything from Xenos, having the Wii devkit next to me. It's basically an speed evolution of Dolphin, with some new functions, but nothing drastic.
Funny thing is, everyone knew Core2 will beat X2, even before X2 came out. AMD must have crapped their pants when they saw the samples. (no, I'm no fanboy, but please search the archive from bitnet for example, and see for yourself). Core2 was the hammer for AMD like K8 was the "sledgehammer" for intel back in the day.
Yes, except neither the Xbox GPU nor hte Wii chip has unified shaders. Check out the Bioshock FAQ - ATi has stated many times that the R500-something chip in the X360 will _NOT_ do DX10.
Miguel, please. I believe you have the sincerest intensions in making Microsofts technology run on Linux (.Net). Mono is a great piece of technology - Banshee would not be without it.
However, i get the feeling like youre doing the devils work for Microsoft - youre spreading their technology when the market doesnt want it. What youre basically doing is helping the "bait and switch" strategy to work - and they get it for free (by making the community do it for them). Silverlight and the other runtime gizmo is not needed and not wanted in the Linux world. However oncw you do port it, some people will look at it, decide it's the fastes/first thing they found good-enough for thir project. Or even more possible, it gets a killer app. Now Microsoft kills your effort (or severs it badly thru legal-foo) and now the project is in shatters. Do you really want that?
.Net got remote attention because of Mono (i didnt meet any windows aplication except crap stuff like the ATi Control Panel that required.net), and i view that as a mixed bag of things. This however should be left alone to either rot or prevail - then the discussion if we should implement should begin.
Youre right about paying - lets be clear - MacOS X is paid software. However, you don't need to install from the ground up on every revision!
Ill summarize : you pop the DVD into your mac, Click the "Install MacOS X" icon, a window appears with a restart button on it. You click it, it reboots and runs off the DVD (you don't need to hold C if you do it this way). You get greeted into the installer. When it asks you where to install you select your drive, and if you select the one with the old OS, you automatically get the slide-out window with a selection of options:
-Clean Install
-Install Over (and preserve User home dirs, Applications etc.)
-Move the old System to a folder and do the same as the option above.
So in fact the upgrade process is there, and ive used it - its VERY reliable (which is because its unix-based, you just need to upgrade a dozen of directories and files, no stupid meddling with a registry and hoopla of.ini files).
However, I admit, that the ubuntu upgrade process is nicer - you dont need to even boot of the cd - it just upgrades the packages and runs script in those packages. I think OSX _Could_ do this since it also has packages - check your/Library/Receipts and youll find a lot of package information. In fact, i believe i upgraded my 10.4.6 to a 10.4.8 using a.dmg and runnign OSInstall.pkg and i did it straight from my running 10.4.6 - worked without a problem.
Only when yo compare them to bottom line machines from Dell. But do you have such a design with Dell? Wheres the nice remote? The magnetic plug (if you use a laptop like me), the everything-built-in? The small form-factor?. For example its only fair to compare Macbooks to the more expensive Sony VAIOs, and then price-wise apple wins. But if you want a cheap-o machine, then you probably will see them as expensive. But after 2 iBooks, one Dell and one HP i know as far as portables go, Macs are the only way to go (at least for me). The more money spent on apple is for me well spent.
No. OSX only runs on Apple computers. Now you _can_ hack it and run on any PC (provided the hardware is copatible), but this is not supported, endorsed or even seen legal by Apple. Actually, you can't do that legally with Tiger either, since you can't buy a boxed Intel version of it, and the PPC ones dont work on Intel. With Leopard, thats going to change (its a universal disc, that boots up on both PPC and Intel Macs) and provided you do buy a boxed copy, then crack the kernel in some way and make it work, id say youre in a very grey zone, not to mention that in the US youre braking the DMCA. Buy a Mac and be done with it, its really worth it.
Yes, indeed Cleartype sucks, and ive not even known you can have it under linux. For an ever better font setup you can enable BCI in freetype and have freetype display font quality on par with Mac OS X (which nobody can dispute displays the best quality). For example ubuntu people can download debs with prepatched freetype here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343670&hi ghlight=feisty+fonts. The standalone patches are here http://david.freetype.org/lcd/
#1 Because its backed by the largest Online Music Store
#2 Its backed by the MPEG working group (and its a subset of MPEG-4)
#3 If you don't know why #3 is important try to remember why MP3 is called MP3, and where did it (partially) come from
All in all it always seems that MPEG-group made formats always get the prime. So yeah, im willing to believe that AAC will superseed MP3. Besides, ive been using it for about 1 year now (yes, i re-ripped my music), and whilst i had to have MP3s at about 192kbs VBR, i get the same with 128-160kb, thus i can carry more music with me! Yay!
Which is pretty nice, the bling is there, however it uses nil of you OpenGL-compositing goodness, which beryl&compiz are all about. Rasterman specifically said no Xgl/AIGLX for E17.
What you say is partially right, but they've lost theyre primary weapon - DRM. Now they can't say "the piracy is killing us! we need more DRM", because this will sell. The next logical step would be for some other conglomerate to advertise DRM-free tracks for less. This move alone in my eyes has cracked the floodgates - the rest is a matter of time
I just bought some DRM-Free iTunes Music. Everything as advertised - no DRM, 256kbs quality. For those that complain about the format, you can EASILY have it in MP3 format.
Howto Follows> Launch your iTunes, Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing. Select desired format in "Import Using.." (You have AAC, MP3, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV), select quality (if applicable), Ok.
Now right-click your DRM-Free music, and select "Convert to $your_chosen_format". Tada!
I actually RTFA and noticed that you have to install the Google Toolbar for it to work. This probably means sooner or later i will have to view Google ShitAds for the service to work. Also, it doesnt run on Linux (Linus doesn't accept binary-poop in the kernel) or on a Mac (Macs are too clean shiny and the Google ShitAds just slide off. Those that don't take shitload of work to scrub off)
Umm, wrong again. Love as well as other emotions are steered by psychoreceptors in your brain by various chemicals. The most blatant example is rage which is pumped by adreanline.Note: i am not a biologist nor a chemist so the terms used in this post may be vague. A quick trip to wikipedia will give you the needed details
Sounds like the AI in the original Unreal Tournament - even on the highest settings it could mi-calculate the ripper trajectory and cut itself in the process or make a bad jump. Sadly, it's not as good in UT2k3 and later.
I just hope we can survive as a country till Noon Jan 20, 2009.Regardless of who wins the not too well concealed game of musical chairs, we at least will be rid of one 'born again Christian' and can begin to try to heal the pain and suffering of the legacy he leaves behind. Ok, so let's for a moment imagine that in 2009 you will finally make the right decision, elect a trusted man for the job, and that he replaces the circus people that are running your country. Lets assume they are so trustworthy that the international community allows the US to oversee the Internet. Also lets say that ICANN gives out the keys. 4,8,12, years after your country ones again elects a bozo of equal or more potential to desabilize the world. What then? We'll just hope that he won't do too much damage till we can kick him out?
If it happens to be that way i urge you to eat your words. The internet has many years ago stopped beeing a US military project and has turned around beeing a world-wide communication network, much like the telephone. How would you feel if a remote country could just plug you out?
I think you have some point there, but this rather makes me think of the Titanic. Should we cower that the "world's largest passenger plane" will find it's iceberg?
Most of what you sau is true, if not all. Youre forgetting one thing though: remember when the quality of the video was dependant on the quality of low-pass filters on the graphics card? Remember how a rightly-placed radio antenae could totally mess up your video signal? I DO. I remember when i swtiched from my Asus-made GeForce 256 to a somecompany-made Radeon 9500. The image on the Radeon looked like shit. Now i have a DVI-D LCD monitor, and guess what? I couldn't care less, because the image is purely digital, with no electrical interference to mess it up. And yes, it can be really bad. Just look at some internet cafes which still have CRT monitors. Most of the PCs there are from cheap parts = bad image quality (the most common is beeing a skippy picture and the "pumping effect") And yes, these flaws even showed up on VGA-based LCD monitors. VGA was good for CRTs. But now theres no need to translate from digital to analog and back to digital again (especially when now most of our monitors are LCD). Conversion == bad in this instance.
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Hmm, thank you. I was not aware of that, HOwever, i would argue about Hollywood having anything from Xenos, having the Wii devkit next to me. It's basically an speed evolution of Dolphin, with some new functions, but nothing drastic.
Funny thing is, everyone knew Core2 will beat X2, even before X2 came out. AMD must have crapped their pants when they saw the samples. (no, I'm no fanboy, but please search the archive from bitnet for example, and see for yourself). Core2 was the hammer for AMD like K8 was the "sledgehammer" for intel back in the day.
Yes, except neither the Xbox GPU nor hte Wii chip has unified shaders. Check out the Bioshock FAQ - ATi has stated many times that the R500-something chip in the X360 will _NOT_ do DX10.
Miguel, please. I believe you have the sincerest intensions in making Microsofts technology run on Linux (.Net). Mono is a great piece of technology - Banshee would not be without it.
.Net got remote attention because of Mono (i didnt meet any windows aplication except crap stuff like the ATi Control Panel that required .net), and i view that as a mixed bag of things. This however should be left alone to either rot or prevail - then the discussion if we should implement should begin.
However, i get the feeling like youre doing the devils work for Microsoft - youre spreading their technology when the market doesnt want it. What youre basically doing is helping the "bait and switch" strategy to work - and they get it for free (by making the community do it for them). Silverlight and the other runtime gizmo is not needed and not wanted in the Linux world. However oncw you do port it, some people will look at it, decide it's the fastes/first thing they found good-enough for thir project. Or even more possible, it gets a killer app. Now Microsoft kills your effort (or severs it badly thru legal-foo) and now the project is in shatters. Do you really want that?
The UI is not Java anymore. Starting from version 2 its straight Objective C Cocoa.
I know where i saw one! In Lion King (the first one)! They killed Mustafa!
Youre right about paying - lets be clear - MacOS X is paid software. However, you don't need to install from the ground up on every revision! Ill summarize : you pop the DVD into your mac, Click the "Install MacOS X" icon, a window appears with a restart button on it. You click it, it reboots and runs off the DVD (you don't need to hold C if you do it this way). You get greeted into the installer. When it asks you where to install you select your drive, and if you select the one with the old OS, you automatically get the slide-out window with a selection of options: -Clean Install -Install Over (and preserve User home dirs, Applications etc.) -Move the old System to a folder and do the same as the option above. So in fact the upgrade process is there, and ive used it - its VERY reliable (which is because its unix-based, you just need to upgrade a dozen of directories and files, no stupid meddling with a registry and hoopla of .ini files).
However, I admit, that the ubuntu upgrade process is nicer - you dont need to even boot of the cd - it just upgrades the packages and runs script in those packages. I think OSX _Could_ do this since it also has packages - check your /Library/Receipts and youll find a lot of package information. In fact, i believe i upgraded my 10.4.6 to a 10.4.8 using a .dmg and runnign OSInstall.pkg and i did it straight from my running 10.4.6 - worked without a problem.
Only when yo compare them to bottom line machines from Dell. But do you have such a design with Dell? Wheres the nice remote? The magnetic plug (if you use a laptop like me), the everything-built-in? The small form-factor?. For example its only fair to compare Macbooks to the more expensive Sony VAIOs, and then price-wise apple wins. But if you want a cheap-o machine, then you probably will see them as expensive. But after 2 iBooks, one Dell and one HP i know as far as portables go, Macs are the only way to go (at least for me). The more money spent on apple is for me well spent.
No. OSX only runs on Apple computers. Now you _can_ hack it and run on any PC (provided the hardware is copatible), but this is not supported, endorsed or even seen legal by Apple. Actually, you can't do that legally with Tiger either, since you can't buy a boxed Intel version of it, and the PPC ones dont work on Intel. With Leopard, thats going to change (its a universal disc, that boots up on both PPC and Intel Macs) and provided you do buy a boxed copy, then crack the kernel in some way and make it work, id say youre in a very grey zone, not to mention that in the US youre braking the DMCA. Buy a Mac and be done with it, its really worth it.
Yes, indeed Cleartype sucks, and ive not even known you can have it under linux. For an ever better font setup you can enable BCI in freetype and have freetype display font quality on par with Mac OS X (which nobody can dispute displays the best quality). For example ubuntu people can download debs with prepatched freetype here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343670&hi ghlight=feisty+fonts.
The standalone patches are here http://david.freetype.org/lcd/
#1 Because its backed by the largest Online Music Store #2 Its backed by the MPEG working group (and its a subset of MPEG-4) #3 If you don't know why #3 is important try to remember why MP3 is called MP3, and where did it (partially) come from All in all it always seems that MPEG-group made formats always get the prime. So yeah, im willing to believe that AAC will superseed MP3. Besides, ive been using it for about 1 year now (yes, i re-ripped my music), and whilst i had to have MP3s at about 192kbs VBR, i get the same with 128-160kb, thus i can carry more music with me! Yay!
Actuallym not true. The original Black & White had this option, though i never got around testing it since i didn't have broadband back then.
Which is pretty nice, the bling is there, however it uses nil of you OpenGL-compositing goodness, which beryl&compiz are all about. Rasterman specifically said no Xgl/AIGLX for E17.
O RLY?
n fo.apple.com/iTunes7/Win/061-3153.20070316.3RRgf/i TunesSetup.exe
sudo apt-get install wine
wget -c http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.i
wine iTunesSetup.exe
Works for me (on Linux, i use a Mac usually)
What you say is partially right, but they've lost theyre primary weapon - DRM. Now they can't say "the piracy is killing us! we need more DRM", because this will sell. The next logical step would be for some other conglomerate to advertise DRM-free tracks for less. This move alone in my eyes has cracked the floodgates - the rest is a matter of time
I just bought some DRM-Free iTunes Music. Everything as advertised - no DRM, 256kbs quality. For those that complain about the format, you can EASILY have it in MP3 format.
Howto Follows>
Launch your iTunes, Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing. Select desired format in "Import Using.." (You have AAC, MP3, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV), select quality (if applicable), Ok.
Now right-click your DRM-Free music, and select "Convert to $your_chosen_format". Tada!
I actually RTFA and noticed that you have to install the Google Toolbar for it to work. This probably means sooner or later i will have to view Google ShitAds for the service to work. Also, it doesnt run on Linux (Linus doesn't accept binary-poop in the kernel) or on a Mac (Macs are too clean shiny and the Google ShitAds just slide off. Those that don't take shitload of work to scrub off)
I think this is the only story today that isn't an aprils fool joke. And if it is - the joke failed miserably.
Dude, EVERYONE knows that Newtonian Laws are just a bunch of lies! It's all because of Intelligent Falling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_falling/!
Spelling correction : Adrenaline. Should have used the preview button *hits himself with a bat*
Umm, wrong again. Love as well as other emotions are steered by psychoreceptors in your brain by various chemicals. The most blatant example is rage which is pumped by adreanline.Note: i am not a biologist nor a chemist so the terms used in this post may be vague. A quick trip to wikipedia will give you the needed details
Sounds like the AI in the original Unreal Tournament - even on the highest settings it could mi-calculate the ripper trajectory and cut itself in the process or make a bad jump. Sadly, it's not as good in UT2k3 and later.
Ok, so let's for a moment imagine that in 2009 you will finally make the right decision, elect a trusted man for the job, and that he replaces the circus people that are running your country. Lets assume they are so trustworthy that the international community allows the US to oversee the Internet. Also lets say that ICANN gives out the keys. 4,8,12, years after your country ones again elects a bozo of equal or more potential to desabilize the world. What then? We'll just hope that he won't do too much damage till we can kick him out?
If it happens to be that way i urge you to eat your words. The internet has many years ago stopped beeing a US military project and has turned around beeing a world-wide communication network, much like the telephone. How would you feel if a remote country could just plug you out?
I think you have some point there, but this rather makes me think of the Titanic. Should we cower that the "world's largest passenger plane" will find it's iceberg?
Most of what you sau is true, if not all. Youre forgetting one thing though: remember when the quality of the video was dependant on the quality of low-pass filters on the graphics card? Remember how a rightly-placed radio antenae could totally mess up your video signal? I DO. I remember when i swtiched from my Asus-made GeForce 256 to a somecompany-made Radeon 9500. The image on the Radeon looked like shit. Now i have a DVI-D LCD monitor, and guess what? I couldn't care less, because the image is purely digital, with no electrical interference to mess it up. And yes, it can be really bad. Just look at some internet cafes which still have CRT monitors. Most of the PCs there are from cheap parts = bad image quality (the most common is beeing a skippy picture and the "pumping effect") And yes, these flaws even showed up on VGA-based LCD monitors. VGA was good for CRTs. But now theres no need to translate from digital to analog and back to digital again (especially when now most of our monitors are LCD). Conversion == bad in this instance.