Indeed, and from what I can tell from the pictures on Apple's website, it's not unused space on the sides of the keyboard, but some good sized stereo speakers. A nice thing to have on a laptop if you find yourself headphone-less.
Anybody else find it interesting that Apple didn't include comparisons with Opera and Omniweb? I really would have liked to have seen how Safari stacks up against those two. Oh well, we can always do subjective tests...
shameless college radio station plug: anybody in the Greensboro, NC area should check out 90.9 FM, WQFS.
disclaimer: I'm a volunteer DJ (and student) there. It's great fun. I play just about every genre of electronic music under the sun, from ambient techno to industrial synthpop (yum).
Do you mersan ClearChannel? (http://www.clearchannel.com/). They own a good number of the radio stations in the US. And they have a nice press release about "fighting internet piracy" on their front page, containing some nice supportive quotes from Hilary Rosen. No surprise there.
Apple actually made some DVI flat panels (both the Studio and Cinema series I do believe) for a while, before they switched to ADC. You might be able to find one somewhere.
I have a feeling this has something to do with the fact that the economy is tanking right now. Maybe in a few years, when people have enough money to pay for bandwidth bills for their mom-and-pop website, and when companies aren't going out of business or scaling back left and right, better information will return to the net.
I the realm of high perfomance laptops I'd have to throw in a mention for the top-of-the line Apple TiBook - 1Ghz G4, 60 gig drive, 1 gig ram, dvd-rw, only $3300 and.75 inches thinner than one of those Dells.;) Depending on the needs of the orginal story poster (he wasn't terribly specific), it could be an attractive option.
Perhaps the genre should be renamed to "real-time tactics?"
dictionary.com says of the word tactics: "The military science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy, especially the technique of deploying and directing troops, ships, and aircraft in effective maneuvers against an enemy."
That would be a much better word to use.
Oh, and the term "real-time strategy" was coined to differentiate the old turn-based strategy games from games where the clock was always ticking and the player had to make quick decisions. I don't think it was ever intended to refer to the nature of the time scale of the game.
The fact that a lot of Mac users are ignorant idiots who would jump off a bridge if Steve Jobs told them to shouldn't dissuade you from the fact that the Mac is actually a very nice platform.
Apple bundles iMovie, it's "cool." Microsoft bundles Home Movie Maker, it's "anti-competitive." Seems like that might be an unfair judgement to make. But then again, Apple doesn't have 90% of the desktop share, nor are they getting sued for antitrust violations.
I never liked napster very much. It may have been because I didn't have broadband back then, but to this day I still have a number of 98% complete mp3 files, thanks to stupid napster bugs.
Nevertheless I try here in no way to demonize MP3 in the name of the sound carrier industry, because most music CDs are definitely 2 to 4 times overpriced and everybody who practices by downloading private "self law" against the sound carrier industry has my solidarity.
I don't think the author is any more a fan of the RIAA than you or I.
I dunno - my interpretation of this is that software written under this license couldn't be used to create the Great Firewall of China, say, or things of nature. The idea is that the software itself must not be used to violate human rights, not necessarily that the users of the software also must not do so.
No, that wasn't what Bond was always about. Back when Sean Connery was Bond (remember him?) it was a SPY movie. Not an overdone action flick. Bond works terrible as an action movie, as the last two movies have evidenced. I hope, but doubt, that DAD will be any better than Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is not Enough.
Given that whoever wrote that website has no idea what he's talking about, I'm a bit skeptical.
I quote: Chrono and Marle are from Secret of Mana
Moreover he claims that Yasunori Mitsuda did the music for FF7 and FF8, which is entirely false.
In my eyes, Chrono Trigger was made by Square with help from some good talent from Enix (and elsewhere perhaps? I dunno), but not exactly an even collaboration.
Yeah, I've heard good things about C4D. I do believe it's less expensive than most of the other top-end 3d packages, and has a pretty good interface. I don't know much about its rendering capabilities, but I think the latest version does support radiosity.
With the first version of Mac OS X, and the hardware available at the time it came out, it was pretty slow. My 400 mhz G3 does not run 10.0.4 at what I consider an acceptable speed (G4's of comparable or slightly higher speed fare better). However, Apple has greatly bumped the speed with each major revision (10.1, 10.2 Jaguar), and the hardware has gotten a lot faster. So on current Apple hardware I imagine there is no speed problem at all.
And yeah, RAM is a big issue too. So I think varying system specs have a lot to do with the "Mac OS X is slow" idea. It's not really, it just requires a better system to make it run well (same holds true for every new Windows OS too).
It's really too bad that the test didn't use Mac OS 10.2, instead of 10.1.5. Sounds minor, but the performance increase in 10.2 may have closed that 10% gap pretty well.
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Indeed, and from what I can tell from the pictures on Apple's website, it's not unused space on the sides of the keyboard, but some good sized stereo speakers. A nice thing to have on a laptop if you find yourself headphone-less.
Honestly, I take all benchmarks with a grain of salt (especially Apple's).
No, but it doesn't run on Windows.
Anybody else find it interesting that Apple didn't include comparisons with Opera and Omniweb? I really would have liked to have seen how Safari stacks up against those two. Oh well, we can always do subjective tests...
yes, netlabels are great! and most of them are based in germany for some reason.
one of my favs: www.thinnerism.com (excellent ambient/tech/dub/house if you like that kind of thing)
shameless college radio station plug: anybody in the Greensboro, NC area should check out 90.9 FM, WQFS.
disclaimer: I'm a volunteer DJ (and student) there. It's great fun. I play just about every genre of electronic music under the sun, from ambient techno to industrial synthpop (yum).
Do you mersan ClearChannel? (http://www.clearchannel.com/). They own a good number of the radio stations in the US. And they have a nice press release about "fighting internet piracy" on their front page, containing some nice supportive quotes from Hilary Rosen. No surprise there.
Apple actually made some DVI flat panels (both the Studio and Cinema series I do believe) for a while, before they switched to ADC. You might be able to find one somewhere.
Some common ADD medications are also used as dieting medications; as such, one notices a loss of appetite whilst on them.
I have a feeling this has something to do with the fact that the economy is tanking right now. Maybe in a few years, when people have enough money to pay for bandwidth bills for their mom-and-pop website, and when companies aren't going out of business or scaling back left and right, better information will return to the net.
I the realm of high perfomance laptops I'd have to throw in a mention for the top-of-the line Apple TiBook - 1Ghz G4, 60 gig drive, 1 gig ram, dvd-rw, only $3300 and .75 inches thinner than one of those Dells. ;) Depending on the needs of the orginal story poster (he wasn't terribly specific), it could be an attractive option.
Perhaps the genre should be renamed to "real-time tactics?"
dictionary.com says of the word tactics:
"The military science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy, especially the technique of deploying and directing troops, ships, and aircraft in effective maneuvers against an enemy."
That would be a much better word to use.
Oh, and the term "real-time strategy" was coined to differentiate the old turn-based strategy games from games where the clock was always ticking and the player had to make quick decisions. I don't think it was ever intended to refer to the nature of the time scale of the game.
The fact that a lot of Mac users are ignorant idiots who would jump off a bridge if Steve Jobs told them to shouldn't dissuade you from the fact that the Mac is actually a very nice platform.
Apple bundles iMovie, it's "cool." Microsoft bundles Home Movie Maker, it's "anti-competitive." Seems like that might be an unfair judgement to make. But then again, Apple doesn't have 90% of the desktop share, nor are they getting sued for antitrust violations.
Not positive, but I'm pretty sure Sony's dev kits have OpenGL as the graphics rendering library.
I never liked napster very much. It may have been because I didn't have broadband back then, but to this day I still have a number of 98% complete mp3 files, thanks to stupid napster bugs.
Now Audiogalaxy... THAT was the holy grail.
Umm, did you read the whole article?
I quote:
Nevertheless I try here in no way to demonize MP3 in the name of the sound carrier industry, because most music CDs are definitely 2 to 4 times overpriced and everybody who practices by downloading private "self law" against the sound carrier industry has my solidarity.
I don't think the author is any more a fan of the RIAA than you or I.
I dunno - my interpretation of this is that software written under this license couldn't be used to create the Great Firewall of China, say, or things of nature. The idea is that the software itself must not be used to violate human rights, not necessarily that the users of the software also must not do so.
No, that wasn't what Bond was always about. Back when Sean Connery was Bond (remember him?) it was a SPY movie. Not an overdone action flick. Bond works terrible as an action movie, as the last two movies have evidenced. I hope, but doubt, that DAD will be any better than Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is not Enough.
Given that whoever wrote that website has no idea what he's talking about, I'm a bit skeptical.
I quote:
Chrono and Marle are from Secret of Mana
Moreover he claims that Yasunori Mitsuda did the music for FF7 and FF8, which is entirely false.
In my eyes, Chrono Trigger was made by Square with help from some good talent from Enix (and elsewhere perhaps? I dunno), but not exactly an even collaboration.
The original question asked about 3d software for a Mac OS X system. There is no 3DS Max for OS X.
Yeah, I've heard good things about C4D. I do believe it's less expensive than most of the other top-end 3d packages, and has a pretty good interface. I don't know much about its rendering capabilities, but I think the latest version does support radiosity.
With the first version of Mac OS X, and the hardware available at the time it came out, it was pretty slow. My 400 mhz G3 does not run 10.0.4 at what I consider an acceptable speed (G4's of comparable or slightly higher speed fare better). However, Apple has greatly bumped the speed with each major revision (10.1, 10.2 Jaguar), and the hardware has gotten a lot faster. So on current Apple hardware I imagine there is no speed problem at all.
And yeah, RAM is a big issue too. So I think varying system specs have a lot to do with the "Mac OS X is slow" idea. It's not really, it just requires a better system to make it run well (same holds true for every new Windows OS too).
It's really too bad that the test didn't use Mac OS 10.2, instead of 10.1.5. Sounds minor, but the performance increase in 10.2 may have closed that 10% gap pretty well.
The Xbox's GPU is a little bit more powerful than the GeForce 3... it has pixel/vertex shaders, etc.