Huh? Under OS X you plug a fucking microphone and your speakers (or stereo) in and that's it! No AC97 Codec shit, or anything of the like.
If you are into pro audio vs. consumer, you are probably using a Mac right now anyway. There's a reason for that. The new drivers (AudioKit) make programming easy, and are very low latentcy (claims of 2ms) make it easy for innovative cool stuff to occur ON THE MAC as well as on the PC.
The only place where Macs are lacking is in the 'Prosumer' category. If you ask me, this category is pretty much a joke anyway.
Naw, in the future you'll 'rent' applications from over the internet for a per-use fee. If you need Norton Utilities (god knows why you'd think you would, but this is the hypethetical Joe Everyman I'm referencing here) you use MS Passport to pay for an encrypted binary, to which you don't have any of the keys, which gets downloaded into your hard drive and then runs with Palladium and the net effect is probably a lot of money will go to companies for questionable binaries. Like at the carnival, once you go for a ride you con't get your ticket refunded, even if the motor grinds to a halt and you are stuck upside-down for six hours. Bill and Steve B. will be laughing all the way to the bank. If you think your nice open-source programs on Windows are whizzy now (MAME here people) wait till Bill and Steve B. Disallow you from running anything that isn't 'secure!'
Windows is going straight to hell, and has been since the 80's. It's a word for getting fucking in the ass under the guise of 'computing.'
Not to sound anti-Semitic here, but Steve does drive a hard bargain sometimes. My TiG4 DVI 666 had a problem with the case coming apart at the corner by the CD drive. The top kind of cave in there, and Bad Stuff happened inside (friend logic board). I sent it to Apple and they called me up one day and said they weren't going to repair it - it was a cosmetic issue. I said "No, you are going to fix it. It is under warranty, and if you don't honor the warranty, I will contact my state's Attorney General!" Of course, they capitulated. You just have to be firm with them, much like any other company. At least Apple will eventually fix their shit, though, unlike, for example, Creative.
You obviously are retarded - you don't need to 'open up' a mac to zap the PRAM. you hold down command-option-P-R on boot (3 times to be safe)!
I spilled a fucking 16 ounce glass of water INTO my TiG4 (DVI 666) yesterday, while it was on and plugged into the ethernet, an audio out jack, a Cinema Display, my mouse, keyboard, and belkin ADB - USB adapter (for my Apple Extended Keyboard II). I turned the fucker off, dried it out, and am using it right now. The only thing that was damaged is the MS Optical mouse.
Apple is good at a great OS, great integration, the details. Not just slick packaging, but slick everything. Slick API, slick audio subsystem (on OS X anyway), slick networking (find me all the hordes of new PC laptops with Gigabit, will ya?), slick software installation / removal, slick compositing / rendering, and more. Think about the fact that I have NEVER had a consumer digicam fail to sync PERFECTLY with iPhoto (have tried more than fifteen kinds), never had a digicam with 1394 fail with iMovie (3 kinds), all without an ounce of effort expended downloading drivers and jerking off with Bill and Ballmer.
So, the only conclusions are that you are retarded, or you haven't actually used a Mac long enough to appreciate one.
GTA:VC has polish. GTA3 was fun, but lacked polish. I will be impressed when the newspapers blowing around on the street don't blow under a building, but pile up in corners for example. Also they STILL need a better algorithm for managing traffic spawning / destruction. You can whip by a motorbike, decide to steal it, pull a rockford, and it'll be gone! It reall pisses me off sometimes.
Don't knock the Live! rev A. That still is a great card. Some of the later models were definately flaky though. It's all about how generic your PC was at the time too...
The truly fucked thing about Creative is that they now want to charge you for substantial updates.
The undelivered promises about upgrading the EMU 10K piss me off too. If only they would document this now realitively old card some incredible things could be done with it. Think of the Creamware Pulsar - the Live! easily has enough balls to do the same stuff. Not to mention what the Audigy could do with half-decent drivers and some access to docs.
The NOMAD Jukebox Zen sports a sleek aluminum case and USB 2.0 connectivity for fast song transfers.
Correction. That sould actually read "The NOMAD Jukebox Zen sports a sleek aluminum case and USB 2.0 connectivity for slow, unreliable song transfers."
I think so too. It's obvoious that if they are using v6, they will have 6to4 anycast up and going too. That is a crucial part of the system that may not go away for a long time. Many sites will probably continue using 4 with anycast and NAT.
The crucial question isn't 'when will we be able to switch' it's 'when will the service providers provide widespread v6 access?' Many gamers, myself included, would jump on v6.
The point of IPv6 is that two hundred and sixty years from now when humanity decides to go out among the stars, or are hunkered down in widely-spaced underground enclaves well-shielded from radiation, there will be address space aplenty. One could allocate a v6 address for each molecule in the Earth with room to spare! The whole idea is that this is the last, big upgrade that we will EVER have to do (at least for a few hundred years or so) so even thoght there might be wrinkles, they can be ironed out. IPv6 is, like all that unused but viable 'dark fiber', an investment in the future.
I've installed 5-current on several machines and the only ones that have barfed are newer, but crappy generic p4's. Stay away from the SOYO DRAGON (I Think) and anything else too crappy.
I would maintain that a properly designed cluster of white boxen would outperform a multiprocessor SGI or Sun or Itanium2 &c wrt many tasks at any given price point. Single system image (or sometimes two - one for the master and another for the child).
Only the first couple of times. Then you realize that the way to kill the undead effectively is to be brazen. Except for that flamethrower mummy thing (no, not the flamethrower SS guy).
God knows PC hardware has been stagnant for the past decade.
I hope you are joking. Among the multitude of advances seen on Intel (and cohorts) desktop hardware are fast networking, digital video and audio, heavily accelerated 3D graphics, faster ram and bus speeds, USB, FireWire, &c. Unless you have been in a cave on Mars, with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears you would realize that your average new computer is a very high-performance mechine. Intel or AMD (or even Apple) can compete directly with workstation class hardware very favorably. Server side the ability to create big MP boxen has been largely superceded by the ability to hook together small cheap uniprocessor systems. How many of the worlds top 100 supercomputers are just white-box PC's networked together? A lot.
I feel that SGI really showed their future when they ported Maya. Their future is software and large visualization systems and servers. Their workstation market is already almost a ghost.
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And, they own emagic now too! They own a good third of pro sequencer packages as well!
Huh? Under OS X you plug a fucking microphone and your speakers (or stereo) in and that's it! No AC97 Codec shit, or anything of the like.
If you are into pro audio vs. consumer, you are probably using a Mac right now anyway. There's a reason for that. The new drivers (AudioKit) make programming easy, and are very low latentcy (claims of 2ms) make it easy for innovative cool stuff to occur ON THE MAC as well as on the PC.
The only place where Macs are lacking is in the 'Prosumer' category. If you ask me, this category is pretty much a joke anyway.
Not really, if you can be inspired by the open-source driver. IOKit is actually pretty easy to use.
15x15x17 is HUGE? Are you fucking Japanese or something?
I would flap my arms up and down, and screech at the top of my lungs "I WANT IT!"
I know I, for one, have to born with knowledge of either tool.
Right. Which in no way invalidates my statement that the Nomad has just USB 2.0.
Naw, in the future you'll 'rent' applications from over the internet for a per-use fee. If you need Norton Utilities (god knows why you'd think you would, but this is the hypethetical Joe Everyman I'm referencing here) you use MS Passport to pay for an encrypted binary, to which you don't have any of the keys, which gets downloaded into your hard drive and then runs with Palladium and the net effect is probably a lot of money will go to companies for questionable binaries. Like at the carnival, once you go for a ride you con't get your ticket refunded, even if the motor grinds to a halt and you are stuck upside-down for six hours. Bill and Steve B. will be laughing all the way to the bank. If you think your nice open-source programs on Windows are whizzy now (MAME here people) wait till Bill and Steve B. Disallow you from running anything that isn't 'secure!'
Windows is going straight to hell, and has been since the 80's. It's a word for getting fucking in the ass under the guise of 'computing.'
Just like with NextStep! Oh, wait, that not right at all!
Not to sound anti-Semitic here, but Steve does drive a hard bargain sometimes. My TiG4 DVI 666 had a problem with the case coming apart at the corner by the CD drive. The top kind of cave in there, and Bad Stuff happened inside (friend logic board). I sent it to Apple and they called me up one day and said they weren't going to repair it - it was a cosmetic issue. I said "No, you are going to fix it. It is under warranty, and if you don't honor the warranty, I will contact my state's Attorney General!" Of course, they capitulated. You just have to be firm with them, much like any other company. At least Apple will eventually fix their shit, though, unlike, for example, Creative.
You obviously are retarded - you don't need to 'open up' a mac to zap the PRAM. you hold down command-option-P-R on boot (3 times to be safe)!
I spilled a fucking 16 ounce glass of water INTO my TiG4 (DVI 666) yesterday, while it was on and plugged into the ethernet, an audio out jack, a Cinema Display, my mouse, keyboard, and belkin ADB - USB adapter (for my Apple Extended Keyboard II). I turned the fucker off, dried it out, and am using it right now. The only thing that was damaged is the MS Optical mouse.
Apple is good at a great OS, great integration, the details. Not just slick packaging, but slick everything. Slick API, slick audio subsystem (on OS X anyway), slick networking (find me all the hordes of new PC laptops with Gigabit, will ya?), slick software installation / removal, slick compositing / rendering, and more. Think about the fact that I have NEVER had a consumer digicam fail to sync PERFECTLY with iPhoto (have tried more than fifteen kinds), never had a digicam with 1394 fail with iMovie (3 kinds), all without an ounce of effort expended downloading drivers and jerking off with Bill and Ballmer.
So, the only conclusions are that you are retarded, or you haven't actually used a Mac long enough to appreciate one.
GTA:VC has polish. GTA3 was fun, but lacked polish. I will be impressed when the newspapers blowing around on the street don't blow under a building, but pile up in corners for example. Also they STILL need a better algorithm for managing traffic spawning / destruction. You can whip by a motorbike, decide to steal it, pull a rockford, and it'll be gone! It reall pisses me off sometimes.
Don't knock the Live! rev A. That still is a great card. Some of the later models were definately flaky though. It's all about how generic your PC was at the time too...
The truly fucked thing about Creative is that they now want to charge you for substantial updates.
The undelivered promises about upgrading the EMU 10K piss me off too. If only they would document this now realitively old card some incredible things could be done with it. Think of the Creamware Pulsar - the Live! easily has enough balls to do the same stuff. Not to mention what the Audigy could do with half-decent drivers and some access to docs.
Also, the Nomad Zen has USB 2.0 instead of Firewire. Bleargh!
The NOMAD Jukebox Zen sports a sleek aluminum case and USB 2.0 connectivity for fast song transfers.
Correction. That sould actually read "The NOMAD Jukebox Zen sports a sleek aluminum case and USB 2.0 connectivity for slow, unreliable song transfers."
After all, I could be wrong.
I think so too. It's obvoious that if they are using v6, they will have 6to4 anycast up and going too. That is a crucial part of the system that may not go away for a long time. Many sites will probably continue using 4 with anycast and NAT.
The crucial question isn't 'when will we be able to switch' it's 'when will the service providers provide widespread v6 access?' Many gamers, myself included, would jump on v6.
The point of IPv6 is that two hundred and sixty years from now when humanity decides to go out among the stars, or are hunkered down in widely-spaced underground enclaves well-shielded from radiation, there will be address space aplenty. One could allocate a v6 address for each molecule in the Earth with room to spare! The whole idea is that this is the last, big upgrade that we will EVER have to do (at least for a few hundred years or so) so even thoght there might be wrinkles, they can be ironed out. IPv6 is, like all that unused but viable 'dark fiber', an investment in the future.
Any ISP would be able to offer 6to4 anycast to their customers who had legacy OS's. The backbone could be switched in a year or two easily.
Telnet can be made to be reasonably secure by using OTP.
I've installed 5-current on several machines and the only ones that have barfed are newer, but crappy generic p4's. Stay away from the SOYO DRAGON (I Think) and anything else too crappy.
I would maintain that a properly designed cluster of white boxen would outperform a multiprocessor SGI or Sun or Itanium2 &c wrt many tasks at any given price point. Single system image (or sometimes two - one for the master and another for the child).
Only the first couple of times. Then you realize that the way to kill the undead effectively is to be brazen. Except for that flamethrower mummy thing (no, not the flamethrower SS guy).
Sounds like somebody needs a gaming fridge!
God knows PC hardware has been stagnant for the past decade.
I hope you are joking. Among the multitude of advances seen on Intel (and cohorts) desktop hardware are fast networking, digital video and audio, heavily accelerated 3D graphics, faster ram and bus speeds, USB, FireWire, &c. Unless you have been in a cave on Mars, with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears you would realize that your average new computer is a very high-performance mechine. Intel or AMD (or even Apple) can compete directly with workstation class hardware very favorably. Server side the ability to create big MP boxen has been largely superceded by the ability to hook together small cheap uniprocessor systems. How many of the worlds top 100 supercomputers are just white-box PC's networked together? A lot.
I feel that SGI really showed their future when they ported Maya. Their future is software and large visualization systems and servers. Their workstation market is already almost a ghost.