Open Firmware blows anything else available out of the water. If the amount of stuff you have to type to accomplish an objective is the metric by which software is judged, you'd better not be using any Unix like system.
Gnome and KDE are not nearly as nice to develop for as Gnustep, and they are both in constant states of revision.
Gnustep is almost done implementing an open specification that's 10 years old(Openstep), and they're also tracking parts of Apple's Cocoa. The language is the same, but the libraries are different. It is possible to compile the same code on both systems, if it's written for portability.
Of course these girls are around to arouse male gamers. Why do you think they're sponsored? There may already be clans of all-girl gamers who kick the shit out of us on a regular basis, and just don't advertise that they're girls.
I frankly don't care either way. I'm just saying that advertising that you're a group of girl gamers makes that the selling point. The fact that they sport vaginas doesn't make them any more or less interesting than any other clan, and the fact that they're sponsored (and presumably paid) needs to be taken into perspective as well. Was this a rag-tag, already formed group of 'grrl' gamers just hoping to make it big, and finally and deservedly getting that break, or did they audition like the spice girls for an engineered promotional gig?
Then again, I'm married, so the idea of women isn't as shocking to me as perhaps it is to your average 15 year old gamer.
That's the problem with getting all your standards news from Apple. When they say "It's coming..." they really mean "Our implementation of that standard is coming, and you'd better be willing to get Quicktime Pro to use it..."
A couple of years ago, I bought a license for QT Pro, and it is great for a good deal of things, but I still feel a little jacked.
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Croquet is quite interesting. Much more interesting than anything else at this point.
Some mushrooms do similar things...
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I have read of many mushrooms that make some of the compounds found in hydrogogic rocket fuel, and of others which concentrate radioactive elements. There are probably a host of organic, ready to use 'factories' in these mushrooms that may even outperform our industrial ones.
The Mac works great for the games that come out for it. Of course, it doesn't have nearly the volume of titles as Windows, but many of the better games do get ported to the Mac. Some of them are even available on the Mac first!
There's no law that says that artists MUST sign with a major label. They do sign with heads full of dollar signs and dreams of 50,000 seat concerts. Is there an alternative to signing with a major label? Yep. Not just AN alternative, but many alternatives.
Two factions are to blame for the record companies domination - their oh-so-willing artists, and the oh-so-stupid public that supports them while the industry lobbies against their very freedom.
I have difficulty feeling sorry for artists who throw away their rights for a shot at the big time. It's not as if they don't know BEFORE they sign with a label that they'll be getting diddily-shit as recompense for making their masters a bit richer.
Artists are pretty dumb when it comes to defending their own rights. Wave a small advance check under their noses and they'll do anything. Even sell out their future and their art.
You think that MS has employees to do regression testing when they have an army of unpaid Beta testers out there to do it for them? You are a funny guy.
He's talking about his TCO, in his mom's basement, only having 1 user (him), and the only charter of his organization is to try to masturbate so much that hair grows on his palms.
Real organizations TCO are a little more complicated.
Not if you are doing anything with the vector processor (you know, like encoding MP3s in iTunes or editing DV or using it in any sort of a scientific setting). Altivec even on a lowly eMac is very powerful. It's also far easier to work with than MMX / SSE / SSE2 from a development point of view.
Thats *not* true. In fact you do not have to call the OS at *all*.
Are you aware how a modern OS chock full o' libraries and APIs works? Redraws, user input, file I/O, and about a million other things 'call the OS' on some level. Shit, all of Carbon AND Cocoa, are part of the OS. Every time the application draws a new scrollbar or pops up a dialog box, the application needs to 'call the OS'.
To make a window, create a process, write out to the hard drive, recieve a single keystroke, play audio, or in fact do ANYTHING involves making a 'call' of some kind or another. Even running an assembly language program involves making a 'call' to the OS to create a new process.
I wonder where you get your information. A quick trip to the Apple website and a quick read on the basics of Mac OS X will clear things up for you.
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Wake me up when the PPC architecture has accelerated X.
'till then I'll play 'Cube' on OS X at about 8 gajillion times the framerate of the folks playing around (jerking around?) with Gentoo on PPC.
Name a PC laptop that's more powerful (not 'higher clock' but more actual work per cycle) than the Mini, and is less than 72 cubic inches.
I doubt you can.
Actually, gigabit is NOT built in to the mini. I was kind of disappointed to find that out.
Actually, I just use Open Apple + Space to cycle between the input formats I use.
Open Firmware blows anything else available out of the water. If the amount of stuff you have to type to accomplish an objective is the metric by which software is judged, you'd better not be using any Unix like system.
Gnome and KDE are not nearly as nice to develop for as Gnustep, and they are both in constant states of revision.
Gnustep is almost done implementing an open specification that's 10 years old(Openstep), and they're also tracking parts of Apple's Cocoa. The language is the same, but the libraries are different. It is possible to compile the same code on both systems, if it's written for portability.
It's not a debate. It's the truth of the Universe that the K+M combo blasts the crap out of any console controller.
Of course these girls are around to arouse male gamers. Why do you think they're sponsored? There may already be clans of all-girl gamers who kick the shit out of us on a regular basis, and just don't advertise that they're girls.
I frankly don't care either way. I'm just saying that advertising that you're a group of girl gamers makes that the selling point. The fact that they sport vaginas doesn't make them any more or less interesting than any other clan, and the fact that they're sponsored (and presumably paid) needs to be taken into perspective as well. Was this a rag-tag, already formed group of 'grrl' gamers just hoping to make it big, and finally and deservedly getting that break, or did they audition like the spice girls for an engineered promotional gig?
Then again, I'm married, so the idea of women isn't as shocking to me as perhaps it is to your average 15 year old gamer.
That's the problem with getting all your standards news from Apple. When they say "It's coming..." they really mean "Our implementation of that standard is coming, and you'd better be willing to get Quicktime Pro to use it..."
A couple of years ago, I bought a license for QT Pro, and it is great for a good deal of things, but I still feel a little jacked.
Croquet is quite interesting. Much more interesting than anything else at this point.
Was ATI or NVIDIA the 'good' one this week?
I have read of many mushrooms that make some of the compounds found in hydrogogic rocket fuel, and of others which concentrate radioactive elements. There are probably a host of organic, ready to use 'factories' in these mushrooms that may even outperform our industrial ones.
The Mac works great for the games that come out for it. Of course, it doesn't have nearly the volume of titles as Windows, but many of the better games do get ported to the Mac. Some of them are even available on the Mac first!
Yes, it works. It then forwards you to the "rules for use" web site for information.
Have you ever heard of an online petition working?
I didn't think so.
You could write it yourself if you had the mental tools, though. It's not like Darwin is closed source or anything!
There is a terminal program for installing updates as well.
try typing in
man softwareupdate
into the terminal.
There's no law that says that artists MUST sign with a major label. They do sign with heads full of dollar signs and dreams of 50,000 seat concerts. Is there an alternative to signing with a major label? Yep. Not just AN alternative, but many alternatives.
Two factions are to blame for the record companies domination - their oh-so-willing artists, and the oh-so-stupid public that supports them while the industry lobbies against their very freedom.
Sheesh.
I have difficulty feeling sorry for artists who throw away their rights for a shot at the big time. It's not as if they don't know BEFORE they sign with a label that they'll be getting diddily-shit as recompense for making their masters a bit richer.
Artists are pretty dumb when it comes to defending their own rights. Wave a small advance check under their noses and they'll do anything. Even sell out their future and their art.
The Gimp isn't a product. It's just a program.
Since when does every open source program also have to be a product?
To be fair to Adobe, at leat they update their products more than twice per decade.
Quark might have been state of the art in 1996, but times have definately moved on.
HAHAHAHAHA!
*wipes away a tear*
You think that MS has employees to do regression testing when they have an army of unpaid Beta testers out there to do it for them? You are a funny guy.
Actually, if you check your facts, Q3 test was out for the Mac before it hit the Windows world.
Don't you remember?
He's talking about his TCO, in his mom's basement, only having 1 user (him), and the only charter of his organization is to try to masturbate so much that hair grows on his palms.
Real organizations TCO are a little more complicated.
Not if you are doing anything with the vector processor (you know, like encoding MP3s in iTunes or editing DV or using it in any sort of a scientific setting). Altivec even on a lowly eMac is very powerful. It's also far easier to work with than MMX / SSE / SSE2 from a development point of view.
Thats *not* true. In fact you do not have to call the OS at *all*.
Are you aware how a modern OS chock full o' libraries and APIs works? Redraws, user input, file I/O, and about a million other things 'call the OS' on some level. Shit, all of Carbon AND Cocoa, are part of the OS. Every time the application draws a new scrollbar or pops up a dialog box, the application needs to 'call the OS'.
To make a window, create a process, write out to the hard drive, recieve a single keystroke, play audio, or in fact do ANYTHING involves making a 'call' of some kind or another. Even running an assembly language program involves making a 'call' to the OS to create a new process.
I wonder where you get your information. A quick trip to the Apple website and a quick read on the basics of Mac OS X will clear things up for you.