A good way to punish ad purveyors is to edit the cookie data manually after you receive it. I like messing with their data, because it diminishes its value to the folks who they will sell that data to.
You aren't guaranteed any freedoms to hack a commercial product to run on an unauthorized platform, especially if it breaks your agreement with the producer of said software.
However, Linux and FreeBSD both work fine on 'trusted computing' platforms.
I think you're mistaking the ability to pirate whatever the fuck you want with 'freedom'.
I can't stand it when shit gets activated by mousing to a screen corner.
I often whip the cursor to the side or corner to look at an image or text. I hardly want stuff happening when I'm just trying to move the pointer out of the way.
I'm sure by the time this goes from concept to product, it'll look even more like a 323 and have less sporty wheels too. So it'll be a 323 with a USB key and a smaller engine!
OS X didn't start out slow, it ran pretty well. It got better with each release on my hardware, and 10.4 runs well on it too! Openstep on a PPC was experimented with at Next, and since Apple got ahold of it and Steve again, they have optimized it by improving features while improving speed as well. OS X is truly just souped up Nextstep.
The optimizations carried out on Windows have resulted in a system that has become slower with each major release, expanding to consume available hardware. The APIs are often unstable between versions, and things frequently break. Longhorn/Vista has terrible performance at this point from all reports compared to XP, and it will predictably be so at launch too. And I'm sure that Vista's successor in 2015 or so will be even more bloated. The gap will continue to widen between Windows and OS X, with Apple actually deploying solid systems that run faster and are better with each release, and Microsoft again quite predictably reacting a few years later.
When I bought my first new Mac it was specifically to run OS X 10.0. I switched to 10.1 shortly thereafter, and have paid for every upgrade since. On the same hardware it gets measurably faster each time. Even with Spotlight, this older Ti Powerbook is snappy as hell. It has a decent video card, and I couldn't care less about getting a better laptop as long as I can get a substantially improved software update that speeds everything up on a regular basis as I have for years now.
This is in stark contrast to older Mac OS's and Windows. I have ran Mac OS 6 through 9 at various points, and the old Mac OS systems grew much more ponderous with each major release.
You've obviously never played Tribes. That makes me sad for you, because Tribes (pick any of 'em) are such better games that Bungie should be hauled out back and put down for not even trying to compete.
I guess if a single player game in a bunch of L shaped rooms is your bag, then Halo 2 might be fun. If you want actual massive online FPS action that's customizable to address whatever issues you feel like addressing, and huge environments that make Halo and Halo 2's areas seem like backyards, then Tribes is worth a play.
I hope the folks who think they can make tons of fat banner ad cash and t shirt cash off their blog will share some of their fantastic pot with me. Also whatever they are on that makes them think that the excruciating minutia of their daily lives needs to be shared.
Depending on the time of day and what you are doing with your computer, power consumption varies a lot. It'd be difficult to even establish a reliable baseline usage time per charge.
After you install, files are indexed as they are written. It really takes very cpu time or other resources to do this. If you don't believe me do some performance profiling.
If you did an upgrade install, you are already working with a sorely fragmented disk. Additionally, batteries age. Maybe it's these two factors that are causing your batteries to seem like they are giving out early.
Unless you are developing super-critical apps that use the G5's vector abilities in some way NOT supported by Apple's vector code, than I think you're just being a big baby. Steve Jobs stressed that software will be built as fat binaries just as in the Next/Openstep days, so your precious G5 will still be able to run the vast majority of applications in 5 years.
Heck, I am even thinking of getting whatever is the hottest dual G5 with the 30" display and special GPU as a good farewell to Apple's PPC platform. A dual 2.7 with the 1.35 mHz bus will still be a hot enough computer for all normal purposes 5 years down the line!
1. People often spend $$$$ on tricked out PCs for a wide variety of functions. Gaming is just one of those, but a PC tricked out for damn near anything these days will play the odd game or two just as well as a 'gaming' machine.
2. The games are of a different scope than consoles. Also, shall we have the mouse + keyboard vs. two sticks debate, anyone?
In other words, it's going to be much more expensive. Not an impulse buy for Mom at Wal-Mart.
Just as with the PS and PS2, I'm sure that eventually there will be a lower cost variant. But are there going to be enough first rate games to lure fans away from their PS2 and towards a $400+ system with extra controllers and at least one or two games, as a system is traditionally purchased?
They aren't bullshitting you, it's just the Japanese way of beating around the bush and giving you bad news in an indirect fashion.
Just as many clock cycles, of course, but faster? That makes me laugh. A 2 Ghz G5 blows away a 2Ghz P4. Then if you actually want to unplug the thing from AC and take it with you, it cycles way down to clock speeds reminiscent of the mid-1990s. Never mind that most Centrino laptops (all of them?) have crappy neutered Intel integrated video, and all recent Mac laptops at least have a real ATI or NVIDIA GPU onboard.
But I'm sure you and your kind will forever be pleased with your tiny mini form factor Mac Mini frankenstein clones, and notebooks that are either neutered and slow or large and heavy enough to actually crush your thighbones to powder.
This is exactly what I thought. Well, I thought about USB2, but close enough.
Why is everybody flipping their shit about Apple using X86 chips, when they have an extremely nice 64 bit system of their own? I think this is more of an ending of the Firewire / USB2 war with Apple conceding defeat, judging from the USB2 interfaces included with the Shuffle and the iPod. Now they are suing for peace, and perhaps even looking at a slice of the Centrino pie, or at least the 915 chipset for integrated audio / video / USB2 / SATA / etc?
Dude, give myself or any other competent geek the parts and 20 minutes tops. The OS installation takes 35 minutes, and pow - the machine is built and ready in one hour.
2. Apple's final update to 10.2 made it kind of suck.
Are you saying it works great? I found that the previous update was much more reliable. I am not implying a conspiracy, but it isn't completely, totally impossible.
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A good way to punish ad purveyors is to edit the cookie data manually after you receive it. I like messing with their data, because it diminishes its value to the folks who they will sell that data to.
You aren't guaranteed any freedoms to hack a commercial product to run on an unauthorized platform, especially if it breaks your agreement with the producer of said software.
However, Linux and FreeBSD both work fine on 'trusted computing' platforms.
I think you're mistaking the ability to pirate whatever the fuck you want with 'freedom'.
I can't stand it when shit gets activated by mousing to a screen corner.
I often whip the cursor to the side or corner to look at an image or text. I hardly want stuff happening when I'm just trying to move the pointer out of the way.
The Sassou looks just like a 323 with 16" wheels.
I'm sure by the time this goes from concept to product, it'll look even more like a 323 and have less sporty wheels too. So it'll be a 323 with a USB key and a smaller engine!
OS X didn't start out slow, it ran pretty well. It got better with each release on my hardware, and 10.4 runs well on it too! Openstep on a PPC was experimented with at Next, and since Apple got ahold of it and Steve again, they have optimized it by improving features while improving speed as well. OS X is truly just souped up Nextstep.
The optimizations carried out on Windows have resulted in a system that has become slower with each major release, expanding to consume available hardware. The APIs are often unstable between versions, and things frequently break. Longhorn/Vista has terrible performance at this point from all reports compared to XP, and it will predictably be so at launch too. And I'm sure that Vista's successor in 2015 or so will be even more bloated. The gap will continue to widen between Windows and OS X, with Apple actually deploying solid systems that run faster and are better with each release, and Microsoft again quite predictably reacting a few years later.
When I bought my first new Mac it was specifically to run OS X 10.0. I switched to 10.1 shortly thereafter, and have paid for every upgrade since. On the same hardware it gets measurably faster each time. Even with Spotlight, this older Ti Powerbook is snappy as hell. It has a decent video card, and I couldn't care less about getting a better laptop as long as I can get a substantially improved software update that speeds everything up on a regular basis as I have for years now.
This is in stark contrast to older Mac OS's and Windows. I have ran Mac OS 6 through 9 at various points, and the old Mac OS systems grew much more ponderous with each major release.
You've obviously never played Tribes. That makes me sad for you, because Tribes (pick any of 'em) are such better games that Bungie should be hauled out back and put down for not even trying to compete.
I guess if a single player game in a bunch of L shaped rooms is your bag, then Halo 2 might be fun. If you want actual massive online FPS action that's customizable to address whatever issues you feel like addressing, and huge environments that make Halo and Halo 2's areas seem like backyards, then Tribes is worth a play.
No, you don't have my money.
Sierra has my money - Tribes (2,V) is so much deeper than Halo that it isn't even funny. It's also customizable.
Halo was about 5 years too late.
I hope the folks who think they can make tons of fat banner ad cash and t shirt cash off their blog will share some of their fantastic pot with me. Also whatever they are on that makes them think that the excruciating minutia of their daily lives needs to be shared.
Blogging just irritates the hell out of me.
AvP: Copyright 1994 Capcom.
Depending on the time of day and what you are doing with your computer, power consumption varies a lot. It'd be difficult to even establish a reliable baseline usage time per charge.
After you install, files are indexed as they are written. It really takes very cpu time or other resources to do this. If you don't believe me do some performance profiling.
If you did an upgrade install, you are already working with a sorely fragmented disk. Additionally, batteries age. Maybe it's these two factors that are causing your batteries to seem like they are giving out early.
Off topic, but I love my Intellimouse. Everything else is shit.
For OS X fans, there's no need to install the drivers MS tries to foist off on you. Just use the CD as a coaster and plug the mouse in!
There are several tools out there to help you build custom live-cd's.
Yes, the AC who responded earlier about said it all.
Are you a pro Sony apologist?
Yeah, because heaven forbid that Sony should have designed their Memory Sticks with an eye towards the future.
They designed the Memory Stick format to obsolete itself.
Unless you are developing super-critical apps that use the G5's vector abilities in some way NOT supported by Apple's vector code, than I think you're just being a big baby. Steve Jobs stressed that software will be built as fat binaries just as in the Next/Openstep days, so your precious G5 will still be able to run the vast majority of applications in 5 years.
Heck, I am even thinking of getting whatever is the hottest dual G5 with the 30" display and special GPU as a good farewell to Apple's PPC platform. A dual 2.7 with the 1.35 mHz bus will still be a hot enough computer for all normal purposes 5 years down the line!
Yeah, once it's done it really doesn't use much overhead at all. The top command confirms this statement.
Two reasons.
1. People often spend $$$$ on tricked out PCs for a wide variety of functions. Gaming is just one of those, but a PC tricked out for damn near anything these days will play the odd game or two just as well as a 'gaming' machine.
2. The games are of a different scope than consoles. Also, shall we have the mouse + keyboard vs. two sticks debate, anyone?
In other words, it's going to be much more expensive. Not an impulse buy for Mom at Wal-Mart.
Just as with the PS and PS2, I'm sure that eventually there will be a lower cost variant. But are there going to be enough first rate games to lure fans away from their PS2 and towards a $400+ system with extra controllers and at least one or two games, as a system is traditionally purchased?
They aren't bullshitting you, it's just the Japanese way of beating around the bush and giving you bad news in an indirect fashion.
Just as many clock cycles, of course, but faster? That makes me laugh. A 2 Ghz G5 blows away a 2Ghz P4. Then if you actually want to unplug the thing from AC and take it with you, it cycles way down to clock speeds reminiscent of the mid-1990s. Never mind that most Centrino laptops (all of them?) have crappy neutered Intel integrated video, and all recent Mac laptops at least have a real ATI or NVIDIA GPU onboard.
But I'm sure you and your kind will forever be pleased with your tiny mini form factor Mac Mini frankenstein clones, and notebooks that are either neutered and slow or large and heavy enough to actually crush your thighbones to powder.
This is exactly what I thought. Well, I thought about USB2, but close enough.
Why is everybody flipping their shit about Apple using X86 chips, when they have an extremely nice 64 bit system of their own? I think this is more of an ending of the Firewire / USB2 war with Apple conceding defeat, judging from the USB2 interfaces included with the Shuffle and the iPod. Now they are suing for peace, and perhaps even looking at a slice of the Centrino pie, or at least the 915 chipset for integrated audio / video / USB2 / SATA / etc?
I must say that it's not possible to make the equivalent of a Mac Mini or any other Mac with an Intel compatible processor.
Dude, give myself or any other competent geek the parts and 20 minutes tops. The OS installation takes 35 minutes, and pow - the machine is built and ready in one hour.
How much do you make an hour? $300? $400?
Way to reinforce ethnic stereotypes, Steve!
1. I am not a rabid Linux zealot.
2. Apple's final update to 10.2 made it kind of suck.
Are you saying it works great? I found that the previous update was much more reliable. I am not implying a conspiracy, but it isn't completely, totally impossible.