Exult also runs under Mac OS X beautifully. I rebooted my BSD box into its vestigial Windows partition to install U7 and SI (hard to do on a Mac), and then moved 'em over to the Powerbook, reconnected the monitor, and was having fucking Iolo shoot me in the back faster than you can say Caddelite.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that we aren't here to hurt Microsoft.
Actually, one of my goals is to hurt Microsoft. We don't owe them any favors. Microsoft is out to make a profit, and if they hurt us in the process, they don't care. That much has been proven. MS is nothing less than a danger to the country and the future of the world. If allowed to continue their campaign of dominance and bribery of public officials, we'll all be staring down the barrel of trusted computing within a decade.
I remember HEARING about them, and deciding that XP isn't for me. I have Media Player for OS 9, and that along with Realplayer are the only applications I use from Classic (besides Spaceward Ho, who could deny that game some processor time).
Any large file transfer will slow any OS down. The difference between Windows and Linux is that in Windows, you'll notice it a whole helluva lot more.
Another difference between Windows and a Unix-like OS is that in your Unix box, you can renice (basically weight) a process to make it have more or less processor time. In Windows, you just have to wait while you [insert intensive task here]. There is no option to throttle up or down a process.
I usually don't respond to AC's, but here goes. Here's a quick test for you to run. Burn a CD, pull a bunch of DV down the Firewire, and watch a DVD at the same time on your PC.
Oops! While you are busy rebooting, throwing the corrupt CDR away, and hoping that Windows didn't somehow fuck up your DV file, I'll tell you what my 666 TiG4 (DVI) does under exactly the same situation - work. Yep, the CD comes out perfectly every time, the DV is intact on my hard drive, and the DVD hasn't dropped a frame. On a fucking laptop. At 666 megahertz. It's not as though PC's don't have a purpose, though. They're great as a Linux / BSD server, and I sure as hell can't play Tribes2 on my Mac. Other than that, though, you can do more work on a Mac. ESPECIALLY in DV.
Here's one: try burning a CD, pulling a big video down 1394, and watching a DVD full-screen at once on a Mac. Even my modest 666 TiG4 (DVI) doesn't drop frames on the DVD. The CD comes out perfect every time, and the DV is intact. Try this little demonstration on
ANY
PC. While you are rebooting, consider the fact that your 2+ gigahertz P4 is less machine than my G4 666.
The ability of Unix / G4 to keep chugging right along under load is amazing. No PC can touch that.
I'm sorry, but you lie. Unless you preemptively reboot the 2k / XP boxen on a weekly basis, or don't even have them turned on, you lie. Firewire is garbage on Windows, and I have seen 1394 crash XP Pro for NO good reason. I am not about to argue that modern Macs are faster than modern PCs, but OS X is worlds above Windows, in terms of uptime, ergonomics, and ability to do work.
You purport that XDV is 'better' than FCP! How? Why?
When I was in my early teens, I had the exquisite misfortune to be the owner of a series of Trident cards, starting with the TVGA8900C. Holy crap, what a smoking pile that thing was. I then upgraded to another card (I can't remember the model number) that was a 32-bit ISA card (remember those?)! It was a hair faster than the 8900, but the fucking thing wouldn't work with Linux. More recently, I had a buddy with a Trident card in his budget computer (made an E-Machine look like a friggin Cray) and that blew too.
Now is the perfect opportunity for Trident to re-invent itself! Or, more likely, now is the time for Trident to come up with another crappy video card.
Don't be a dick, and single the US out unfairly. If you think that by being European or Asian you have freedom from the policies we have here, you are DEAD WRONG!! Please do some research on intellectual property treaties that your governing bodies bent over backwards to sign with the US.
When a crappy law that makes little sense (except when viewed through the lens of profitability) passes here, it often passes in YOUR COUNTRIES TOO! There are few problems in this country that aren't also the whole world's problems too. Hollywood's arm is long and strong, and can probably shake you anywhere on earth except embargoes nations. Not that they need any more alienation and misfortune anyway.
This would not profit HP or the shareholders, so it will not be done. HP is not nice, nor do they care about you, or anyone else. HP is a publicly traded company, and hence is incapable of caring, or any other emotion. It is reasonable to assume (given that your scenario takes place), that HP will be creating new competition for itself. That would not sit well with the board. In addition to that, it would appear to the accountants and the board that they were giving away millions of dollars in possible future revenue. Why give a product away, if there is even a miniscule chance that holding on to it will turn some profit someday? Even if everybody involved in the decision agrees that the chances of actually selling the product in question is going to be a freak occurrence of the strangest kind, there is still the potential for profit.
Another sad day for true geeks everywhere. Get used to it - the ride to hell will be both long and agonizing.
As such, I feel that the analysis sort of begs the question.
From wsu.edu:
BEGS THE QUESTION: An argument that improperly assumes as true the very point the speaker is trying to argue for is said in formal logic to "beg the question." Here is an example of a question-begging argument: "This painting is trash because it is obviously worthless." The speaker is simply asserting the worthlessness of the work, not presenting any evidence to demonstrate that this is in fact the case. Since we never use "begs" with this odd meaning ("to improperly take for granted") in any other phrase, many people mistakenly suppose the phrase implies something quite different: that the argument demands that a question about it be asked--raises the question. If you're not comfortable with formal terms of logic, it's best to stay away from this phrase, or risk embarrassing yourself.
In Portland (OR, not the OTHER one) Fry's is down I-5 a ways. In traffic it can take almost two hours to get there and back. Rat Crap is all over - there are two locations that I could walk to in 10 minutes, or 3 minutes by cycle.
So, unfortunately, for some of us, Fry's doesn't entirely cancel out Radio Shack.
Other examples include oil and timber on government owned land, the airwaves (or electromagnetic spectrum if you want to get fancy), and probably a dozen more.
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Exult also runs under Mac OS X beautifully. I rebooted my BSD box into its vestigial Windows partition to install U7 and SI (hard to do on a Mac), and then moved 'em over to the Powerbook, reconnected the monitor, and was having fucking Iolo shoot me in the back faster than you can say Caddelite.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that we aren't here to hurt Microsoft.
Actually, one of my goals is to hurt Microsoft. We don't owe them any favors. Microsoft is out to make a profit, and if they hurt us in the process, they don't care. That much has been proven. MS is nothing less than a danger to the country and the future of the world. If allowed to continue their campaign of dominance and bribery of public officials, we'll all be staring down the barrel of trusted computing within a decade.
I remember HEARING about them, and deciding that XP isn't for me. I have Media Player for OS 9, and that along with Realplayer are the only applications I use from Classic (besides Spaceward Ho, who could deny that game some processor time).
Macintosh uses YOU!!!
Spock: But, Captain, think about how small the pixels are. You can barely see them!
Kirk: Spock, I don't give a damn about dot pitch. I need 1024x768!
Flamebait? This is on-topic and relevant. Maybe you should start reading parent posts.
You're welcome. When you make fabulous claims with little in the way of details, you make me think you're lying. I'm suspicious by nature, though.
Probably that's a good thing.
Nice rear action. Valiantly fought, but the Moors are more numerous than the Crusader.
No, the DMCA prevents that. Try again.
Because Windows has turds in place of logic. It works flawlessly.
Nobody ever complained? Really? Are you sure?
In related news, we used to have coal for dinner. If we were lucky. Nobody ever complained.
Any large file transfer will slow any OS down. The difference between Windows and Linux is that in Windows, you'll notice it a whole helluva lot more.
Another difference between Windows and a Unix-like OS is that in your Unix box, you can renice (basically weight) a process to make it have more or less processor time. In Windows, you just have to wait while you [insert intensive task here]. There is no option to throttle up or down a process.
I usually don't respond to AC's, but here goes. Here's a quick test for you to run. Burn a CD, pull a bunch of DV down the Firewire, and watch a DVD at the same time on your PC.
Oops! While you are busy rebooting, throwing the corrupt CDR away, and hoping that Windows didn't somehow fuck up your DV file, I'll tell you what my 666 TiG4 (DVI) does under exactly the same situation - work. Yep, the CD comes out perfectly every time, the DV is intact on my hard drive, and the DVD hasn't dropped a frame. On a fucking laptop. At 666 megahertz. It's not as though PC's don't have a purpose, though. They're great as a Linux / BSD server, and I sure as hell can't play Tribes2 on my Mac. Other than that, though, you can do more work on a Mac. ESPECIALLY in DV.
- ANY
PC. While you are rebooting, consider the fact that your 2+ gigahertz P4 is less machine than my G4 666.The ability of Unix / G4 to keep chugging right along under load is amazing. No PC can touch that.
Actually, a three button mouse with wheel is more useful.
I'm sorry, but you lie. Unless you preemptively reboot the 2k / XP boxen on a weekly basis, or don't even have them turned on, you lie. Firewire is garbage on Windows, and I have seen 1394 crash XP Pro for NO good reason. I am not about to argue that modern Macs are faster than modern PCs, but OS X is worlds above Windows, in terms of uptime, ergonomics, and ability to do work.
You purport that XDV is 'better' than FCP! How? Why?
Macs are slower now than they were before. Remember when the PowerPC was "faster than light?"
When I was in my early teens, I had the exquisite misfortune to be the owner of a series of Trident cards, starting with the TVGA8900C. Holy crap, what a smoking pile that thing was. I then upgraded to another card (I can't remember the model number) that was a 32-bit ISA card (remember those?)! It was a hair faster than the 8900, but the fucking thing wouldn't work with Linux. More recently, I had a buddy with a Trident card in his budget computer (made an E-Machine look like a friggin Cray) and that blew too.
Now is the perfect opportunity for Trident to re-invent itself! Or, more likely, now is the time for Trident to come up with another crappy video card.
Don't be a dick, and single the US out unfairly. If you think that by being European or Asian you have freedom from the policies we have here, you are DEAD WRONG!! Please do some research on intellectual property treaties that your governing bodies bent over backwards to sign with the US.
When a crappy law that makes little sense (except when viewed through the lens of profitability) passes here, it often passes in YOUR COUNTRIES TOO! There are few problems in this country that aren't also the whole world's problems too. Hollywood's arm is long and strong, and can probably shake you anywhere on earth except embargoes nations. Not that they need any more alienation and misfortune anyway.
This would not profit HP or the shareholders, so it will not be done. HP is not nice, nor do they care about you, or anyone else. HP is a publicly traded company, and hence is incapable of caring, or any other emotion. It is reasonable to assume (given that your scenario takes place), that HP will be creating new competition for itself. That would not sit well with the board. In addition to that, it would appear to the accountants and the board that they were giving away millions of dollars in possible future revenue. Why give a product away, if there is even a miniscule chance that holding on to it will turn some profit someday? Even if everybody involved in the decision agrees that the chances of actually selling the product in question is going to be a freak occurrence of the strangest kind, there is still the potential for profit.
Another sad day for true geeks everywhere. Get used to it - the ride to hell will be both long and agonizing.
As such, I feel that the analysis sort of begs the question.
From wsu.edu:
BEGS THE QUESTION:
An argument that improperly assumes as true the very point the speaker is trying to argue for is said in formal logic to "beg the question." Here is an example of a question-begging argument: "This painting is trash because it is obviously worthless." The speaker is simply asserting the worthlessness of the work, not presenting any evidence to demonstrate that this is in fact the case. Since we never use "begs" with this odd meaning ("to improperly take for granted") in any other phrase, many people mistakenly suppose the phrase implies something quite different: that the argument demands that a question about it be asked--raises the question. If you're not comfortable with formal terms of logic, it's best to stay away from this phrase, or risk embarrassing yourself.
In Portland (OR, not the OTHER one) Fry's is down I-5 a ways. In traffic it can take almost two hours to get there and back. Rat Crap is all over - there are two locations that I could walk to in 10 minutes, or 3 minutes by cycle.
So, unfortunately, for some of us, Fry's doesn't entirely cancel out Radio Shack.
Is this freehand, or was a certain image somehow converted?
Just curious.
Other examples include oil and timber on government owned land, the airwaves (or electromagnetic spectrum if you want to get fancy), and probably a dozen more.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Maybe the Matsushita zaibatsu owns them both?