While air travel is technically much faster than rail, once you add in the overhead of scheduled flights, delayed flights, arriving 3 hours early at the airport, waiting for your connections, etc. it often seems that driving would be faster.
On the other hand, rail travel could be just as vulnerable to some of these delays.
More likely, "MacHeads is another cheap 'find a subculture and mock it' film that will pander to Apple haters, and bore or irritate Apple fans. It will broaden the minds of neither, and pass unnoticed by everyone else."
Of course, the 50 years of accumulated NASA research and experience has been completely useless to SpaceX, an organization that has accomplished everything so far by starting from Newtonian first principles.
I mean, think about it. "Delete it entirely and create a new space agency" - so, where shall we get experienced scientists and engineers to man this agency? And, where shall we find contractors to build everything this agency designs? Hey, this is all looking kinda familiar...
Okay, I'll buy that, but unless power outages (undefended by UPS) are a constant worry, it doesn't seem like it would be a real issue.
It's like not using the radio in your car because you're concerned it might affect the life of your car battery. You're probably not wrong, but it's a rare person who cares.
Funny, Googling "disable spotlight indexing" for Mac OS X turns up plenty of hits.
Oh, wait, you can even do it right from the Spotlight Preference Pane. Look at that!
Also on the list of taboos are hats, eyeglasses...
Local reaction: Newspaper reporter Clark Kent was quoted as protesting this in the strongest possible terms, while wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne said he didn't really see this as a problem.
The "recently troubled" link leads to a blog posting from February 2008. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Tabula Rasa's still having trouble, but that's an interesting definition of "recent".
"*If* Google were to abuse this like Apple have done then yeah, it'll be bad."
I know, Apple's yanked hundreds of apps from the iPhones of Internet users, and then used their Internet killswitch to delete all the blog postings about it.
Yeah, another version of that article pops up about once every two or three months: "Hey, did you know that if you configure a Windows-based computer similarly to a Macintosh, they cost about the same? Wow!"
Huh. I had a completely different OS X transition. Every Classic app worked seamlessly for the 7 years of OS X until Classic was finally put to bed by Leopard. Seven years served as plenty of time for me to find OS X substitutes for them all.
(Actually, that's not completely true. I couldn't play Deus Ex anymore. But VMWare took care of that little problem for me.)
Let's see... the 800MHz "desk lamp" iMacs shipped with 10.1.2 in early 2002. 10.2 shipped in late 2002... 10.3 shipped in late 2003, and 10.4 shipped in late 2005. (You can't really run Leopard on a machine of that speed.)
I'm not sure what I'd plan to run on a 6-year-old machine that would need more than 10.4... which was released almost three years ago. Imagine trying to run Vista on a stock 2002 PC!
Are you really suggesting that Apple should just make whatever random changes to their OS that any of those 99 game companies ask for? Changes that will still require someone to port the game to OS X, unless of course Apple abandons OS X and just makes Windows machines?
The companies that have produced or paid for ports - companies such as Blizzard, id, Activision, EA, and others - obviously made money out of the deal, because they all came back and did it again.
Apple's hardware and software runs the games. It's not impossible, and not impractical. If you make games, and don't want to write the port, don't blame it on Apple; stand up and admit "I didn't want to pay for the port." Don't whine about how hard Apple makes it when everyone else is managing, somehow.
What I was trying to say is that other companies (such as Cyan, as a mentioned example) seem to do extremely well without the support Newell was asking for. I can't help but notice that he's a bit vague about that support: one rumor is that he asked Apple to re-do their OpenGL implementation so it would work more like DirectX. Only a rumor, though.
That's my point. It's perfectly gamer-friendly. I've been gaming on it for decades.
There may be no "l33t" ultimate-gamer machines from Apple, but I'm not sure how big that market is. Meanwhile, I bet Half-Life 2 would have played just fine on the latest iMacs if Valve had cared. Maybe not at the most uber of frame-rate and resolution, but if that's the only reason to play a gmae, it's not much of a game.
Given that I've been able to run every Blizzard game since Warcraft II on my Mac, and that I've been able to run every Quake III- or Unreal Engine-based game that anyone bothered to port, the whole "Macs can't run games" argument is weak at best. Especially from Newell, who canceled a nearly-finished port of Half-Life I because he just didn't feel like supporting it.
I would indeed buy it. I still use a MessagePad 2100 that's far more reliable and longer-lived that the iPaq I purchased to replace it - even if, yes, the iPaq had more capabilities.
I'd love to have the best of both worlds - reliability, great handwriting recognitiion (yes the last Newtons had that), with a color screen, WiFi, and hackability.
"The OP of the ad made this up. The challenge was never accepted because it was never offered.
While this event WILL PROBABLY happen in the future, it will not happen this Saturday. [None of the Klingons in our group] are available on such short notice, and many of our best bowlers are off-world (cough) doing, um, Klingon stuff.
I admit I'm surprised how this is turning out to be so popular. Perhaps we can use this to benefit a sponsored charity."
If my avatar online is female, what difference does does it make whether the player behind it is male or female unless you're only online to try to have sex with me?
I really can't see any good reason that this is bothering anyone other than slightly creepy people. (Which I guess includes the game company running that MMO.)
There are no G5 laptops. Apple would be snubbing users with laptops purchased as recently as Xmas 2005; such behavior has not been their historical pattern.
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While air travel is technically much faster than rail, once you add in the overhead of scheduled flights, delayed flights, arriving 3 hours early at the airport, waiting for your connections, etc. it often seems that driving would be faster.
On the other hand, rail travel could be just as vulnerable to some of these delays.
More likely, "MacHeads is another cheap 'find a subculture and mock it' film that will pander to Apple haters, and bore or irritate Apple fans. It will broaden the minds of neither, and pass unnoticed by everyone else."
Of course, the 50 years of accumulated NASA research and experience has been completely useless to SpaceX, an organization that has accomplished everything so far by starting from Newtonian first principles.
I mean, think about it. "Delete it entirely and create a new space agency" - so, where shall we get experienced scientists and engineers to man this agency? And, where shall we find contractors to build everything this agency designs? Hey, this is all looking kinda familiar...
Good thing no teenager is tech-savvy enough to bypass this. I hear they're working on a porn filter next.
Do you often run your laptop down to a dead battery with a thumb drive plugged in?
Okay, I'll buy that, but unless power outages (undefended by UPS) are a constant worry, it doesn't seem like it would be a real issue.
It's like not using the radio in your car because you're concerned it might affect the life of your car battery. You're probably not wrong, but it's a rare person who cares.
Funny, Googling "disable spotlight indexing" for Mac OS X turns up plenty of hits. Oh, wait, you can even do it right from the Spotlight Preference Pane. Look at that!
OS X defragging your thumb drive made it less resistant to power outages? What are you talking about?
Also on the list of taboos are hats, eyeglasses...
Local reaction: Newspaper reporter Clark Kent was quoted as protesting this in the strongest possible terms, while wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne said he didn't really see this as a problem.
The "recently troubled" link leads to a blog posting from February 2008. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Tabula Rasa's still having trouble, but that's an interesting definition of "recent".
"*If* Google were to abuse this like Apple have done then yeah, it'll be bad."
I know, Apple's yanked hundreds of apps from the iPhones of Internet users, and then used their Internet killswitch to delete all the blog postings about it.
Monsters.
Yeah, another version of that article pops up about once every two or three months: "Hey, did you know that if you configure a Windows-based computer similarly to a Macintosh, they cost about the same? Wow!"
But, of course, who reads TF articles anyway?
Huh. I had a completely different OS X transition. Every Classic app worked seamlessly for the 7 years of OS X until Classic was finally put to bed by Leopard. Seven years served as plenty of time for me to find OS X substitutes for them all.
(Actually, that's not completely true. I couldn't play Deus Ex anymore. But VMWare took care of that little problem for me.)
Let's see... the 800MHz "desk lamp" iMacs shipped with 10.1.2 in early 2002. 10.2 shipped in late 2002... 10.3 shipped in late 2003, and 10.4 shipped in late 2005. (You can't really run Leopard on a machine of that speed.)
I'm not sure what I'd plan to run on a 6-year-old machine that would need more than 10.4... which was released almost three years ago. Imagine trying to run Vista on a stock 2002 PC!
So, er... TechCrunch says "multiple sources claim that Twitter is abandoning RoR."
The guy who founded Twitter says, "no, not really."
And TechCrunch says, "but we have MULTIPLE SOURCES."
Guess what? I have MULTIPLE SOURCES that say the Earth is flat!
Must be a slow news day.
It's pretty simple. NASA used to have the money for the MMO, but last week a tank in Baghdad needed a reload.
We have a whole building of Macs here using Active Directory. I won't say it's trouble-free, but it works fairly well.
Are you really suggesting that Apple should just make whatever random changes to their OS that any of those 99 game companies ask for? Changes that will still require someone to port the game to OS X, unless of course Apple abandons OS X and just makes Windows machines?
The companies that have produced or paid for ports - companies such as Blizzard, id, Activision, EA, and others - obviously made money out of the deal, because they all came back and did it again.
Apple's hardware and software runs the games. It's not impossible, and not impractical. If you make games, and don't want to write the port, don't blame it on Apple; stand up and admit "I didn't want to pay for the port." Don't whine about how hard Apple makes it when everyone else is managing, somehow.
What I was trying to say is that other companies (such as Cyan, as a mentioned example) seem to do extremely well without the support Newell was asking for. I can't help but notice that he's a bit vague about that support: one rumor is that he asked Apple to re-do their OpenGL implementation so it would work more like DirectX. Only a rumor, though.
That's my point. It's perfectly gamer-friendly. I've been gaming on it for decades.
There may be no "l33t" ultimate-gamer machines from Apple, but I'm not sure how big that market is. Meanwhile, I bet Half-Life 2 would have played just fine on the latest iMacs if Valve had cared. Maybe not at the most uber of frame-rate and resolution, but if that's the only reason to play a gmae, it's not much of a game.
Given that I've been able to run every Blizzard game since Warcraft II on my Mac, and that I've been able to run every Quake III- or Unreal Engine-based game that anyone bothered to port, the whole "Macs can't run games" argument is weak at best. Especially from Newell, who canceled a nearly-finished port of Half-Life I because he just didn't feel like supporting it.
I would indeed buy it. I still use a MessagePad 2100 that's far more reliable and longer-lived that the iPaq I purchased to replace it - even if, yes, the iPaq had more capabilities.
I'd love to have the best of both worlds - reliability, great handwriting recognitiion (yes the last Newtons had that), with a color screen, WiFi, and hackability.
I don't believe the rumors, though.
From TFA:
"The OP of the ad made this up. The challenge was never accepted because it was never offered.
While this event WILL PROBABLY happen in the future, it will not happen this Saturday. [None of the Klingons in our group] are available on such short notice, and many of our best bowlers are off-world (cough) doing, um, Klingon stuff.
I admit I'm surprised how this is turning out to be so popular. Perhaps we can use this to benefit a sponsored charity."
If my avatar online is female, what difference does does it make whether the player behind it is male or female unless you're only online to try to have sex with me?
I really can't see any good reason that this is bothering anyone other than slightly creepy people. (Which I guess includes the game company running that MMO.)
That's right! I just read yesterday how the new iPhone firmware won't work with the $600 iPhones, only with the new $400 ones.
Oh, wait, you're talking about something completely different and unrelated. Sorry.
There are no G5 laptops. Apple would be snubbing users with laptops purchased as recently as Xmas 2005; such behavior has not been their historical pattern.