You've still failed to do anything other than repeat a sales pamphlet.
1) good build quality (aluminum case, bright LED, etc)
2) Unix system w/ very solid UI
3) retain ability to run Windows/play games.
1. I have had two HP laptops (one for 3 or so years now and the other recently as a gift) and their build quality seems pretty good to me. I even took apart the older one to dust it and I didn't notice anything substandard about the components that went into it. The older one has survived some wear and tear from being in a travel bag slung about as I explore a wildlife refuge too, so it's obviously more than sturdy for my use.
2. This is an honest question, but what advantages would I get over using OS X compared to what I am already using? I do perl, C, C++ and play with a handful of other languages, is there something OS X offers me over Ubuntu here?
3. I can already play these games without paying extra on said desktop (which used to dual boot).
The only thing you're really telling me is that you think the OS X GUI is nice. I admit it is pretty, but what justification do I have to relearn an OS's UI if I already have working environments? If I'm going to spend an extra $1000 or so on pretty, I'm just going to get tattoos, but then, like your statements above, this is just my preference.
Because with the Windows PC you only get games; at least that was the only advantage you mentioned. With the Mac, you get a more polished experience in many other aspects of computing--plus the games by using BootCamp and Windows.
-dZ.
Polished how? You haven't explained to me anything I can't already do in my Windows Desktop or my Ubuntu Laptop. All you've done is throw a buzzword or two my way.
This used to be a huge problem, then Apple switched to Intel and you can load Windows via Bootcamp for gaming. I had friends get the 512MB video card option on their MBP's just so they could play the latest games.
You still haven't convinced me. Why I should pay more now (Apple License and a Windows License) for a mac with bootcamp, when I can just have my regular ole PC (Just a windows license) to play games?
While off-topic to the post at hand, I am uncertain how voicing an opinion such as the one above constitutes a troll. Perhaps I have hurt someones feelings in which case I apologize. Any of the lower UIDs care to fill me in?
If that were not the case, why would they make cars in various colours?
I dunno, why do they make assorted models of cars? Never said that 'cool' has no value. I own an iPod Touch, and I love the thing, but it makes it damned hard to love at times. Hell, I owned a HipZip with fewer quirks: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/iomegahipzip/
It is a nice product tho, and despite it's odd behavior (does anyone else owning an iPod touch have it just cut to HOME in the middle of some action several times during the day?) it is a good player. I will admit to buying it for the cool factor. That and it lets me rock out to Nightwish and Eluveitie at work...
Really the question I have is why would anybody NOT buy a mac? What benefit do Windows or Linux offer (for a user/developer machine!!! (not server))?
Oh, this is gonna land me in karma hell... GAMES! I beta and sometimes alpha test some of the games. Not a whole lot of em mind you, but enough. I like games. I like to blow apart zombies, or relive wars I was never in, fly amazing air and space craft, or even send my mystical death cow (taruen deathknight), the necromouser (ratongan necromancer) or any other assorted character into battle. With a mac, I just don't have the range of games I look to play. Sure the mac gaming experience is expanding, but with overpriced graphics cards and a less than enticing selection.
For me, a mac would not be worth it for that one factor alone. For everything not games, I have an HP laptop that runs Ubuntu.
It's just economics: things are worth only what people will pay for them.
You're not just buying the thing being offered in many cases though. With advertising and PR you're also buying into the image that comes with it. iPods that make you part of the trendy crowd, shoes that make you a super basketball player or a car that attracts all the babes. Sure, it may be a good product but how many people would be willing to buy the equivalent product that has little or no image / cool factor attached to it?
Sophisticated is one way of putting it. Another would be to point out they didn't spend thousands of hours grinding pawns so they could finally take down that bishop.
But the cheating bastard only moves diagonally! Nerf bishops! Pawns need love too!
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll
Yeah, plus TRAINING the damned mouse to make the correct facial gestures for something as simple as joy and disgust takes a long time. By the time you've got enough emotions trained into the mouse for the software to correctly guess his likes and dislikes he is either too old or the Cue CAT gets him.
R&C is one of the few series I'll pick up on release days. It lets you go from powerful to OMFG OVER 9000! over the course of the game play which appeals to my more destructive side. The humor spices up the game and isn't used as the primary vehicle to push the story along. Look forward to another romp with the Lombax and his robot buddy.
That said, when is Sucker Punch releasing another Sly Cooper? That was a seriously fun series.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Bill Gates, 1981
As much as I would just LOVE to defend ole Bill, no one can prove that he actually said this at any one point in time. Is just a nerd urban legend. Unless someone has proof?
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside. Look out, he's fuzzy, let's get out of here.
As I see it this could serve two purposes at once. The first one has already been stated in taking care of mosquitoes. The other would be if this system were deployed in key locations, we could turn every marsh and swamp in the world into techno/rave hot-spots, thus taking care of another issue I currently have! Brilliant!
I got this game a few days after it came out and while the game mechanics are pleasing and the controls easy enough to learn for an RTS using a gamepad, I must say one thing has me very disappointed. The soundtrack.
Where the hell is my kickass soundtrack going on in the background? The game is visually pleasing, I especially like watching the warthogs drive around. I feel like the music was ignored, but this is just my opinion. That was one of the draws for playing Halo for me, the music that would swell up and seemed to tie in with the situations very well. I just don't have that in Halo Wars. Maybe I am knit-picking. Did anyone else feel let down by the musical score or lack there of?
WHEREAS, the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas and should train students in all disciplines of study and research and to use independent thinking and free inquiry...
By paragraph THREE it is condemning Dawkins for, and I am not making this up:
views that are not shared and are not representative of the thinking of a majority of the citizens of Oklahoma
As an Oklahoma resident, let me assure you, most of us don't think, at all, ever. *hides from angry Okie mob*
I really should get off my butt and get those glasses/contacts like I keep saying I will. For a second there I thought some foreign entity discovered our method of raising young kids to be farmers and how to determine if your cow had been eating from onion patches by merely drinking the milk the cow produces.
Vote for Pedro!
I am unsure about the rest of/. but for me 2009 is the year of 'No Debt'. I've made it my goal to obliterate as much of my personal credit debt as possible. No more use of the magic plastic, and by the end of February, I'm gonna pay off one card entirely and possibly have the second card near paid by the end of May. I'm not going to list specifics of my debt as it is embarassing that I let it happen to me. No more though, if I can't buy it with cash (or debit card as I am a small guy and carrying cash makes me paranoid), then I don't need it now and can do without for a while.
Sorry for getting off topic, but I figure if I kill off my debt, save up my cash to give an emergency buffer and can still once a paycheck afford a nice steak dinner, I should be happy. The 'I need it now' mentality, almost killed me here.
I guess what I'm getting at is this 'Gotta have it now!' mentality and the illusion of easy money got more than just me into trouble with money.
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1) good build quality (aluminum case, bright LED, etc)
2) Unix system w/ very solid UI
3) retain ability to run Windows/play games.
1. I have had two HP laptops (one for 3 or so years now and the other recently as a gift) and their build quality seems pretty good to me. I even took apart the older one to dust it and I didn't notice anything substandard about the components that went into it. The older one has survived some wear and tear from being in a travel bag slung about as I explore a wildlife refuge too, so it's obviously more than sturdy for my use.
2. This is an honest question, but what advantages would I get over using OS X compared to what I am already using? I do perl, C, C++ and play with a handful of other languages, is there something OS X offers me over Ubuntu here?
3. I can already play these games without paying extra on said desktop (which used to dual boot).
The only thing you're really telling me is that you think the OS X GUI is nice. I admit it is pretty, but what justification do I have to relearn an OS's UI if I already have working environments? If I'm going to spend an extra $1000 or so on pretty, I'm just going to get tattoos, but then, like your statements above, this is just my preference.
Because with the Windows PC you only get games; at least that was the only advantage you mentioned. With the Mac, you get a more polished experience in many other aspects of computing--plus the games by using BootCamp and Windows.
-dZ.
Polished how? You haven't explained to me anything I can't already do in my Windows Desktop or my Ubuntu Laptop. All you've done is throw a buzzword or two my way.
This used to be a huge problem, then Apple switched to Intel and you can load Windows via Bootcamp for gaming. I had friends get the 512MB video card option on their MBP's just so they could play the latest games.
You still haven't convinced me. Why I should pay more now (Apple License and a Windows License) for a mac with bootcamp, when I can just have my regular ole PC (Just a windows license) to play games?
While off-topic to the post at hand, I am uncertain how voicing an opinion such as the one above constitutes a troll. Perhaps I have hurt someones feelings in which case I apologize. Any of the lower UIDs care to fill me in?
If that were not the case, why would they make cars in various colours?
I dunno, why do they make assorted models of cars? Never said that 'cool' has no value. I own an iPod Touch, and I love the thing, but it makes it damned hard to love at times. Hell, I owned a HipZip with fewer quirks:
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/iomegahipzip/
It is a nice product tho, and despite it's odd behavior (does anyone else owning an iPod touch have it just cut to HOME in the middle of some action several times during the day?) it is a good player. I will admit to buying it for the cool factor. That and it lets me rock out to Nightwish and Eluveitie at work...
Really the question I have is why would anybody NOT buy a mac? What benefit do Windows or Linux offer (for a user/developer machine!!! (not server))?
Oh, this is gonna land me in karma hell... GAMES! I beta and sometimes alpha test some of the games. Not a whole lot of em mind you, but enough. I like games. I like to blow apart zombies, or relive wars I was never in, fly amazing air and space craft, or even send my mystical death cow (taruen deathknight), the necromouser (ratongan necromancer) or any other assorted character into battle. With a mac, I just don't have the range of games I look to play. Sure the mac gaming experience is expanding, but with overpriced graphics cards and a less than enticing selection.
For me, a mac would not be worth it for that one factor alone. For everything not games, I have an HP laptop that runs Ubuntu.
It's just economics: things are worth only what people will pay for them.
You're not just buying the thing being offered in many cases though. With advertising and PR you're also buying into the image that comes with it. iPods that make you part of the trendy crowd, shoes that make you a super basketball player or a car that attracts all the babes. Sure, it may be a good product but how many people would be willing to buy the equivalent product that has little or no image / cool factor attached to it?
Sophisticated is one way of putting it. Another would be to point out they didn't spend thousands of hours grinding pawns so they could finally take down that bishop.
But the cheating bastard only moves diagonally! Nerf bishops! Pawns need love too!
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll
I love that quote.
Yeah, plus TRAINING the damned mouse to make the correct facial gestures for something as simple as joy and disgust takes a long time. By the time you've got enough emotions trained into the mouse for the software to correctly guess his likes and dislikes he is either too old or the Cue CAT gets him.
R&C is one of the few series I'll pick up on release days. It lets you go from powerful to OMFG OVER 9000! over the course of the game play which appeals to my more destructive side. The humor spices up the game and isn't used as the primary vehicle to push the story along. Look forward to another romp with the Lombax and his robot buddy.
That said, when is Sucker Punch releasing another Sly Cooper? That was a seriously fun series.
Maybe a different idea was held when hearing about the first to 'pwn the box' was said?
640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981
As much as I would just LOVE to defend ole Bill, no one can prove that he actually said this at any one point in time. Is just a nerd urban legend. Unless someone has proof?
Check out the 'misattributed' section for him here:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
*sigh* Something tells me I'm gonna be modded to hell.
It's a shame your constitution defines treason so narrowly.
And that's the way I like it.
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside. Look out, he's fuzzy, let's get out of here.
Thanks to Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)
As I see it this could serve two purposes at once. The first one has already been stated in taking care of mosquitoes. The other would be if this system were deployed in key locations, we could turn every marsh and swamp in the world into techno/rave hot-spots, thus taking care of another issue I currently have! Brilliant!
I got this game a few days after it came out and while the game mechanics are pleasing and the controls easy enough to learn for an RTS using a gamepad, I must say one thing has me very disappointed. The soundtrack.
Where the hell is my kickass soundtrack going on in the background? The game is visually pleasing, I especially like watching the warthogs drive around. I feel like the music was ignored, but this is just my opinion. That was one of the draws for playing Halo for me, the music that would swell up and seemed to tie in with the situations very well. I just don't have that in Halo Wars. Maybe I am knit-picking. Did anyone else feel let down by the musical score or lack there of?
No kidding. The resolution begins:
By paragraph THREE it is condemning Dawkins for, and I am not making this up:
As an Oklahoma resident, let me assure you, most of us don't think, at all, ever. *hides from angry Okie mob*
A cross between Mandatory Fun Day and FISH! gone horribly wrong...
Never thought a Star Trek TNG quote would apply to anything but...
"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone - including their parents." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Is this taking place in Soviet Russia?
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - MLK Jr.
I really should get off my butt and get those glasses/contacts like I keep saying I will. For a second there I thought some foreign entity discovered our method of raising young kids to be farmers and how to determine if your cow had been eating from onion patches by merely drinking the milk the cow produces.
Vote for Pedro!
I am unsure about the rest of /. but for me 2009 is the year of 'No Debt'. I've made it my goal to obliterate as much of my personal credit debt as possible. No more use of the magic plastic, and by the end of February, I'm gonna pay off one card entirely and possibly have the second card near paid by the end of May. I'm not going to list specifics of my debt as it is embarassing that I let it happen to me. No more though, if I can't buy it with cash (or debit card as I am a small guy and carrying cash makes me paranoid), then I don't need it now and can do without for a while.
Sorry for getting off topic, but I figure if I kill off my debt, save up my cash to give an emergency buffer and can still once a paycheck afford a nice steak dinner, I should be happy. The 'I need it now' mentality, almost killed me here.
I guess what I'm getting at is this 'Gotta have it now!' mentality and the illusion of easy money got more than just me into trouble with money.
I propose we call them Super Hurried Individual Transports.