For a developer who needs to test their cross platform 3D application on Windows, OS X and Linux then triple booting a Mac means that they have a single machine that is legal and supported by Apple, Microsoft and Canonical - and all in one attractive package.
But I would imagine that for any computer geek who wants choice (play current PC titles, try out Intrepid Ibex, have their everyday computing platform be reliable and almost maintenance free), a triple booting Mac is a thing of desire.
Whilst I felt my post and the parent contained enough information to define what the ages 25 and 30+ were refering to, let me clarify these figurers especially for you.
25 years is the minimum age of members in the clan - which suggests that there an age range of 25 to infinity. 30+ years refers to the age of someone who legally played the original Duke Nukem:
Year of release = 1996
Current year = 2008
Minimum age required to legally play Duke Nukem = 18
Maximum age required to legally play Duke Nukem = infinity
Years since Duke Nukem release = Current Year - Year of release = 2008 - 1996 = 12 years
Current minimum age of a Duke Nukem player = Minimum age required to legally play Duke Nukem + Years since Duke Nukem release = 18 + 12 = 30
Current maximum age of a Duke Nukem player = Maximum age required to legally play Duke Nukem + Years since Duke Nukem release = infinity + 12 = infinity
So 30+ seems good to me. I'm sure a catamite will tell us that their "daddy" let them play Duke Nukem when they were 8 or something but who cares.
I (36, Married, 2 kids) play in a clan where the minimum age is 25 and the oldest players are in their sixties. We have around a hundred members signed up (even a few of the fairer sex) with a good portion of them playing regularly (few nights a week).
The clan plays just about anything with COD4 being the current favorite (30 people in the COD4 channel last night) - so if DNF actually turns out to be even remotely worth the wait with a good multiplayer element then I am pretty sure it'll get played.
I'll wager there will be quite a few 30+ gamers slapping down their cash (or firing up their torrent for evaluation purposes) to see what 12 years of development has done (and what pixel shader lap dancers look like:P).
Forgive me if i'm note sure about the resolution or the codec or whatever, but I know for sure that my local copy of hot_webcam_dance.mov runs perfectly well - i'd have noticed a long time ago if this had been a widescale Toshiba+Vista+local.mov problem...
I'd like to smoke it too - but that doesn't mean that Vista isn't a buggy piece of shit that requires MS to force out.NET 3.0 (2.5 at best) and tie in DX 10 (G80/R600 features) and some crappy bungled apps to it's newly squeezed out log, just to make the eye candy and a piss poor layer of security (which should have been there a long time ago) look like a desirable addition to the flagging Windows hegemony. But then, after using VS 2005 and.NET 3.0 on Vista for the past 6 months, i'll smoke anything if it makes Vista look anything but a product of.HUBRIS,.EMPTYPROMISES and defensive knee jerk management...+0.000001% to the Mac.
Once you have tried Vista, I doubt you will want to use a Mac again. Don't take my word for it though. You should just try it for yourself. Funny, after using Vista as a my everyday desktop and as a developer platform since TAP releases first appeared, I can honestly say I don't want to use Vista again (pending spectacular improvments in SP1 and VS 2007/8)! Alas as far as work goes I don't have a choice...
Which part of Microsoft are you looking at. You would be hard pushed to find much innovation of value in Vista (Search, gadgets, GPU accelerated UI, UAC...where have I seen these implemented better?), Office (ribbon bar is lipstick on a pig) or Zune (I don't consider wireless DRM a useful innovation) - but LINQ, XAML, ATLAS, POWERSHELL and their marketing of a monopoly certainly show innovative ideas.
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How do you know for certain that the magical elf Jesus isn't going to hand us eternity in a bright white suit? I personally don't subscribe to the "magical elf Jesus handing out eternity in any form of atire" concept, but I certainly don't have any firm evidence which would allow me to categorically state it isn't the case - so maybe you have that evidence?
His kids will know they were loved by their father, they will know that their father provided for them, they will know from his work that he died doing something he truly loved and they will know that their father was a good man. Compared that to what millions of other children around the world get for a father, they would happily make the trade of "some people on a website they will never read having a joke about the way their father lived his life" against "never knowing who raped their mother and left them to simply exist on a rubbish tip in some hell on Earth". Get some perspective and get over yourself.
You seem to be confusing the operating system with the computer.
I can put any PC game I want on my MacBook Pro computer so long as I have a native install of appropriate operating system - but then you should know that, as the same goes for the PC.
DirectX 4 didn't ship at all and from what I remember from the time, Microsoft said that they stopped the project when DirectX 5 offered far more changes relevant to developers and the hardware of the time.
Oddly though all versions of DirectX have a version number starting with 4.0x with an unusual numbering scheme...
1.0 = 4.02 2.0 = 4.03 3.0 = 4.04 4.0 = N/A - Did it ever really exist? 5.0 = 4.05 6.0 = 4.06 7.0 = 4.07 8.0 = 4.08 9.0 = 4.09 10.0 = Just reports DirectX 10 in current Betas.
Just imagine the possibility if Hubble spots an oil rich space colony...NASA will get half a trillion dollars and Boeing and Lockheed will be building the tools to deliver freedom to said colony in no time!
...What's the origin of the saying "pork barrel" politics?"
The phrase is derived from the pre-Civil War practice of distributing salt pork to the slaves from huge barrels. By the 1870's, congressmen were referring to regularly dipping into the "pork barrel" to obtaining funds for popular projects in their home districts.
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For a developer who needs to test their cross platform 3D application on Windows, OS X and Linux then triple booting a Mac means that they have a single machine that is legal and supported by Apple, Microsoft and Canonical - and all in one attractive package.
But I would imagine that for any computer geek who wants choice (play current PC titles, try out Intrepid Ibex, have their everyday computing platform be reliable and almost maintenance free), a triple booting Mac is a thing of desire.
Unfortunately the 1600lbs+ of kludge is going on Ares I not on Ares V. Saying that however, Ares V hasn't got any spare capacity for TLI either!
The only new picture i've seen is this grainy airborne spy shot that shows the wing attached to at least one of the booms.
I'm a little surprised that there are not more frequent progress updates from Virgin Galactic given the level of interest in the project.
Whilst I felt my post and the parent contained enough information to define what the ages 25 and 30+ were refering to, let me clarify these figurers especially for you.
25 years is the minimum age of members in the clan - which suggests that there an age range of 25 to infinity.
30+ years refers to the age of someone who legally played the original Duke Nukem:
Year of release = 1996
Current year = 2008
Minimum age required to legally play Duke Nukem = 18
Maximum age required to legally play Duke Nukem = infinity
Years since Duke Nukem release = Current Year - Year of release = 2008 - 1996 = 12 years
Current minimum age of a Duke Nukem player = Minimum age required to legally play Duke Nukem + Years since Duke Nukem release = 18 + 12 = 30
Current maximum age of a Duke Nukem player = Maximum age required to legally play Duke Nukem + Years since Duke Nukem release = infinity + 12 = infinity
So 30+ seems good to me. I'm sure a catamite will tell us that their "daddy" let them play Duke Nukem when they were 8 or something but who cares.
http://www.snrclan.com/
The married part covers the "who's watching the children!?". If the kids are not asleep, then the gaming is confined to the Wii anyway.
I (36, Married, 2 kids) play in a clan where the minimum age is 25 and the oldest players are in their sixties. We have around a hundred members signed up (even a few of the fairer sex) with a good portion of them playing regularly (few nights a week).
:P).
The clan plays just about anything with COD4 being the current favorite (30 people in the COD4 channel last night) - so if DNF actually turns out to be even remotely worth the wait with a good multiplayer element then I am pretty sure it'll get played.
I'll wager there will be quite a few 30+ gamers slapping down their cash (or firing up their torrent for evaluation purposes) to see what 12 years of development has done (and what pixel shader lap dancers look like
The 2D dock can be enabled using the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Vote parent up!
.mov problem...
Forgive me if i'm note sure about the resolution or the codec or whatever, but I know for sure that my local copy of hot_webcam_dance.mov runs perfectly well - i'd have noticed a long time ago if this had been a widescale Toshiba+Vista+local
I'd like to smoke it too - but that doesn't mean that Vista isn't a buggy piece of shit that requires MS to force out .NET 3.0 (2.5 at best) and tie in DX 10 (G80/R600 features) and some crappy bungled apps to it's newly squeezed out log, just to make the eye candy and a piss poor layer of security (which should have been there a long time ago) look like a desirable addition to the flagging Windows hegemony. But then, after using VS 2005 and .NET 3.0 on Vista for the past 6 months, i'll smoke anything if it makes Vista look anything but a product of .HUBRIS, .EMPTYPROMISES and defensive knee jerk management...+0.000001% to the Mac.
22% got what they paid for.
A street-corner hooker is significantly cheaper than a high-class escort.
Marble Madness 2 - perhaps not the existing Marble Man version but a nice genuine update to it on the Wii would be nice.
Mirrors:
l c/0.8.6/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/videolan/v
http://videolan.kn.vutbr.cz/vlc/0.8.6/
Which part of Microsoft are you looking at. You would be hard pushed to find much innovation of value in Vista (Search, gadgets, GPU accelerated UI, UAC...where have I seen these implemented better?), Office (ribbon bar is lipstick on a pig) or Zune (I don't consider wireless DRM a useful innovation) - but LINQ, XAML, ATLAS, POWERSHELL and their marketing of a monopoly certainly show innovative ideas.
How do you know for certain that the magical elf Jesus isn't going to hand us eternity in a bright white suit? I personally don't subscribe to the "magical elf Jesus handing out eternity in any form of atire" concept, but I certainly don't have any firm evidence which would allow me to categorically state it isn't the case - so maybe you have that evidence?
His kids will know they were loved by their father, they will know that their father provided for them, they will know from his work that he died doing something he truly loved and they will know that their father was a good man. Compared that to what millions of other children around the world get for a father, they would happily make the trade of "some people on a website they will never read having a joke about the way their father lived his life" against "never knowing who raped their mother and left them to simply exist on a rubbish tip in some hell on Earth". Get some perspective and get over yourself.
You seem to be confusing the operating system with the computer.
I can put any PC game I want on my MacBook Pro computer so long as I have a native install of appropriate operating system - but then you should know that, as the same goes for the PC.
DirectX 4 didn't ship at all and from what I remember from the time, Microsoft said that they stopped the project when DirectX 5 offered far more changes relevant to developers and the hardware of the time.
Oddly though all versions of DirectX have a version number starting with 4.0x with an unusual numbering scheme...
1.0 = 4.02
2.0 = 4.03
3.0 = 4.04
4.0 = N/A - Did it ever really exist?
5.0 = 4.05
6.0 = 4.06
7.0 = 4.07
8.0 = 4.08
9.0 = 4.09
10.0 = Just reports DirectX 10 in current Betas.
Just imagine the possibility if Hubble spots an oil rich space colony...NASA will get half a trillion dollars and Boeing and Lockheed will be building the tools to deliver freedom to said colony in no time!
...What's the origin of the saying "pork barrel" politics?"
The phrase is derived from the pre-Civil War practice of distributing salt pork to the slaves from huge barrels. By the 1870's, congressmen were referring to regularly dipping into the "pork barrel" to obtaining funds for popular projects in their home districts.
http://www.porkboard.org/DidYouKnow/trivia.asp
"One Me Is Aiming For A Grammar Checker On Slashdot By Next Year"
Microsoft PR are just hope the "10 Million people aim to buy at least one 360s By Next Year" appears soon.
Doesn't look like their build of ReactIIS 1.0 is quite up to the load...