Do the old Mac operating systems not have a WINE/DOSbox equivalent?
No, but there are VirtualBox equivalents. SheepShaver and BasiliskII emulate old Mac hardware pretty well. But there is something about having the actual hardware that the emulators haven't been able to duplicate. Namely some of the control panels crash the emulators. For firing up an old game or two it's not so much of an issue, but it's different than the original in some way.
Sometimes I'll get into a discussion about gaming and someone will ask what system I use, my reply is almost always "PC. I'm a grown-up."
I retired from Console gaming 12 years ago. $60+ games, shitty fps controls, no upgrade-ability and a lot more have made console gaming something that I was happy to leave in my past.
Console gaming is kind of like prison-sex. Some people actually prefer it, some people enjoy it, a bunch of people do it because it's all that's available and I completely abstain. If I can't do something the right way, I'll not do it at all.
The coal industry today would be dead and buried if it wasn't for Greenpeace.
Probably not, coal is very important in the manufacture of all kinds of things. Steel can't be made without it. Coal is used to produce tar, ammonia and all kinds of other chemicals that we use on a daily basis.
So many guns in games are modeled backwards. These guns are designed to be fired by right-handed shooters. In that case, you don't want the empty cases to be ejected on the left side of the gun. No one wants hot brass (or steel, if you shoot Russian surplus garbage ammo) coming at their face while they're trying to shoot. But you can't see the ejection unless they reverse it for the game. I've had a hot casing land in my collar. It's not pleasant. I find it annoying and thing it's stupid that they do this for in-game guns.
My response matched the tone of its parent post. I was illustrating his attempt to be partisan while pretending to condemn partisanship. That's why it was modded insightful.
One significant difference between this and most other science is that this is being used as justification for sweeping social and economic changes on a global scale. It's only reasonable if I want to see the data for myself before I effectively cut my income in half.
They have telephoto lenses. They can get perfectly usable pictures from beyond 65 feet. It seems perfectly reasonable to keep people away while cleanup personnel are trying to do their jobs.
Steam proves that people want downloads more than physical media
Fuck that, I bought physical media for all of the steam games that I have. HL/CS/CS:S/L4D I bought physical media for all of them. I won't buy an online only game.
If I had a kid who had a nasty and currently incurable disease, I'd most certainly risk jail, or even death myself to give them a shot.
If my daughter was sick, I'd do anything that actually had a chance of working to help her. Going to some shady underground "clinic" and having them inject her with a cocktail of unknown chemicals and a few of her stem cells, is not on the list of possibilities.
In this case, at least it brings some semblence of regulation to an industry that has arisen from an environment born from holier than thou moral beliefs infiltrating politics, rather than hard science.
Hard science? Hard science requires clinical trials under controlled circumstances. Not some random asshole mixing up a remedy in his centrifuge and injecting it into someone.
It probably sucks to be a pro when some hobbyist undercuts you on price, with pictures that are not as good... but good enough for many clients' uses. But I'm not going to support changing the laws to keep them or anyone else in business.
Prostitutes probably hate sluts for much the same reason, but the fact is that pretty much no matter what you do, there's someone out there who does it just for the joy.
They're legal fictions with destruction of the market built into their fictional DNA.
No. On two county. They're not legal fictions; legally, and by no other measure do they exist. They're programmed to try to maximize all profits within the bounds of the law(sometimes that last part gets away from them), the destruction of markets is just a side-effect.
On most machines I use Compact Menu 2 when I use firefox, so that I can collapse the menu bar into a single toolbar button, because I want that screen real estate.
Which is all well and good, you have the CHOICE to do that.
Chrome and friends do this by default, probably in recognition of the fact that the average computer is now more likely to be a laptop and the average laptop has shrunk.
My problem isn't that it's the default. My problem is that it's the only option, which I find unacceptable. I have two 20 inch monitors on my desk. I don't need that extra quarter of an inch.
So why do you need a menu bar, again? Tradition is never sufficient justification to do a thing.
Because I like it. That's the only justification I need.
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Do the old Mac operating systems not have a WINE/DOSbox equivalent?
No, but there are VirtualBox equivalents. SheepShaver and BasiliskII emulate old Mac hardware pretty well. But there is something about having the actual hardware that the emulators haven't been able to duplicate. Namely some of the control panels crash the emulators. For firing up an old game or two it's not so much of an issue, but it's different than the original in some way.
LK
Where you're not whipping around your 50+lb high inertia sniper rifle faster than I can move my bare arm.
I call Shenanigans. Even the Barrett M82 isn't 50 pounds.
LK
Sometimes I'll get into a discussion about gaming and someone will ask what system I use, my reply is almost always "PC. I'm a grown-up."
I retired from Console gaming 12 years ago. $60+ games, shitty fps controls, no upgrade-ability and a lot more have made console gaming something that I was happy to leave in my past.
Console gaming is kind of like prison-sex. Some people actually prefer it, some people enjoy it, a bunch of people do it because it's all that's available and I completely abstain. If I can't do something the right way, I'll not do it at all.
LK
The coal industry today would be dead and buried if it wasn't for Greenpeace.
Probably not, coal is very important in the manufacture of all kinds of things. Steel can't be made without it. Coal is used to produce tar, ammonia and all kinds of other chemicals that we use on a daily basis.
LK
So many guns in games are modeled backwards. These guns are designed to be fired by right-handed shooters. In that case, you don't want the empty cases to be ejected on the left side of the gun. No one wants hot brass (or steel, if you shoot Russian surplus garbage ammo) coming at their face while they're trying to shoot. But you can't see the ejection unless they reverse it for the game. I've had a hot casing land in my collar. It's not pleasant. I find it annoying and thing it's stupid that they do this for in-game guns.
LK
You and I also have very different memories of 90s video game advertising.
LK
It's kind of hard to argue that you're just looking out for peoples' privacy when you're called "The Pirate Party".
LK
Everybody gathers around, then they all make John Romero their bitch.
LK
If I can have 6-8 orgasms at once you know which way I'm leaning.
I'll take one big orgasm over your 6-8 tiny ones.
LK
That's a common misconception. The REAL problem is the hydrogen hydroxide that is always present in dihydrogen monoxide.
LK
My response matched the tone of its parent post. I was illustrating his attempt to be partisan while pretending to condemn partisanship. That's why it was modded insightful.
LK
What if you want to make open source software that uses DRM as an integral part of its function? Like maybe, personal encryption?
You, sir, clearly do not understand what DRM is.
One significant difference between this and most other science is that this is being used as justification for sweeping social and economic changes on a global scale. It's only reasonable if I want to see the data for myself before I effectively cut my income in half.
LK
You forgot to mention Karl Rove, Tea Party Activists and a few other left-wing panic words.
LK
Discretion is the better part of valor.
LK
This is being used to hassle anyone coming near the site, 65 ft or not.
Is there video of this alleged hassling? I'll bet it's some asshole saying something to the effect of "Look, I'm 65 1/2 feet away so leave me alone!".
LK
They have telephoto lenses. They can get perfectly usable pictures from beyond 65 feet. It seems perfectly reasonable to keep people away while cleanup personnel are trying to do their jobs.
LK
Steam proves that people want downloads more than physical media
Fuck that, I bought physical media for all of the steam games that I have. HL/CS/CS:S/L4D I bought physical media for all of them. I won't buy an online only game.
LK
If I had a kid who had a nasty and currently incurable disease, I'd most certainly risk jail, or even death myself to give them a shot.
If my daughter was sick, I'd do anything that actually had a chance of working to help her. Going to some shady underground "clinic" and having them inject her with a cocktail of unknown chemicals and a few of her stem cells, is not on the list of possibilities.
In this case, at least it brings some semblence of regulation to an industry that has arisen from an environment born from holier than thou moral beliefs infiltrating politics, rather than hard science.
Hard science? Hard science requires clinical trials under controlled circumstances. Not some random asshole mixing up a remedy in his centrifuge and injecting it into someone.
LK
Thankfully, your opinion isn't likely to change things.
You must own stock in such a "clinic".
Most people who go to such clinics will have no other options.
They have the option of doing nothing. Doing nothing won't make the situation worse which these "clinics" almost always do.
LK
#1. Don't fucking go to one unless you want to be fleeced and risk death.
base this on a selective reading of the Old Testament
I hope you realize that you quoted New Testament verses as well.
You do realize that, right?
LK
It probably sucks to be a pro when some hobbyist undercuts you on price, with pictures that are not as good... but good enough for many clients' uses. But I'm not going to support changing the laws to keep them or anyone else in business.
Prostitutes probably hate sluts for much the same reason, but the fact is that pretty much no matter what you do, there's someone out there who does it just for the joy.
LK
They're legal fictions with destruction of the market built into their fictional DNA.
No. On two county. They're not legal fictions; legally, and by no other measure do they exist. They're programmed to try to maximize all profits within the bounds of the law(sometimes that last part gets away from them), the destruction of markets is just a side-effect.
LK
On most machines I use Compact Menu 2 when I use firefox, so that I can collapse the menu bar into a single toolbar button, because I want that screen real estate.
Which is all well and good, you have the CHOICE to do that.
Chrome and friends do this by default, probably in recognition of the fact that the average computer is now more likely to be a laptop and the average laptop has shrunk.
My problem isn't that it's the default. My problem is that it's the only option, which I find unacceptable. I have two 20 inch monitors on my desk. I don't need that extra quarter of an inch.
So why do you need a menu bar, again? Tradition is never sufficient justification to do a thing.
Because I like it. That's the only justification I need.
LK