Okay, after actually reading the wikipedia article: 1. halo is Myth in scifi (real time strategy) 2. halo is demoed as 3rd person shooter at macworld 3. halo is demoed at e3 2000 4. Microsoft buys bungie 5. halo is turned in to first person shooter. 6. remove half of foot from my mouth.
The original concept for Halo was an RTS along the same lines as an earlier Bungie title - Myth. It wasn't until Microsoft bought Bungie Studios that Halo became a FPS and the Xbox launch title.
Now, it may be that Halo was originally a RTS game, but it was definitely demoed as an FPS before the Microsoft buyout. It was originally demoed at the 1999 Macworld Expo in NYC.
It was a sad day when Microsoft bought Bungie in preparation for the Xbox release and postponed the Mac OS and Windows releases of Halo till after the release of the Xbox.
I'm assuming he was just confused with the express name. Some people get confused with PCI-X and PCIe. Both could possibly be short for PCI Express, especially if you don't already know about the PCIe name.
Doesn't 181 seem like small number of applicants for a program like Summer of Code? I looked at the faq for summer of code, and it looks like it's really demanding of your time.
So Apple's marketshare was never very large pre-osx and there were a few viruses available for the Apple Macintosh platform. The marketshare still isn't very large, but not a great deal smaller. Still, post mac osx, no real virus threats.
According to this posting at macobserver: http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/08/29.1. shtml He found 26 viruses that targetted Mac OS Classic, 553 Microsoft Macro viruses, and 0 Mac OS X viruses. This was in October of 2003.
So if you give Mac OS X a single virus to make the math work, there are 96% more viruses for Macintosh pre Mac OS X. There was not a 96% drop in market share for Apple from Classic to Mac OS X periods of time.
Lucas used Lowry Digital Images. Apple has an article on it. http://www.apple.com/pro/film/lowry/starwars/
Doing a quick google for Lowry's website turned up results for articles dealing with DTS' aquisition of Lowry Digital Images. http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/news/d tsacquire slowry.html
Back with Mac OSX 10.0, there was a maximum user count of 255. That might have changed since then, but I haven't toyed with that many users since then.
It was a direct result of only being able to have the user list at boot in a popup menu control. The control apparently had a limit of 255.
That was very frustrating, as it's running freakin Unix!
So anyway, if the maximum users (teenage coffehouse goers) is greater than the maximum number of possible users for whatever version of OSX you're installing, maybe multiple users is not the way to go.
I was a beta tester in betas 3 and 4. I suppose beta 4 was not 'huge' but it was big enough to uncover large amounts of network bugs. Everyone was merrily playing along, discovering bugs and such, until the end of beta 4. That's when Funcom let in more testers. Oh what a nightmare that was. Lag and disconnects were flying everywhere.
And that was in addition to the gameplay bugs. I would say that they were at least 2 months away from release when beta ended. We couldn't believe when it was announced the game had gone gold.
One of the points he tries to make in his letter is that Apple is wrong for cutting out older users.
That is the whole problem with the Wintel architecture. Everything supports legacy code. The original Pentium would be so much faster if it didn't have to support the old x86 code that Microsoft needed in order to not rewrite DOS.
So, when Apple is working on the next version of an operating system, they don't try to force legacy support. Did Apple force IBM and Motorola to have hardware support in the PowerPC to run 68k code? No. That's the key. Keep things simple and new.
All you need is MacOS 9 or Windows 98SE. Both are capable of Chinese input. With Windows 98SE, I believe you have to download it from Microsoft, but it's no big deal. There are two basic input methods for Traditional Chinese characters. Pinyin and BoPoMoFo. Pinyin is spelling out the sounds with arabic characters, and BoPoMoFo maps the Mandarin alphabet (of which the four first 'letters' are the name) to the standard keyboard layout.
Monkey Island, Kings Quest are adventure games. They are definitely few and in between. But, you can always check out games like Sanitarium, Grim Fandango, and the upcoming Monkey Island game.
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The Descent games are first person shooters that give you a hover ability.
There's nothing flight or simulation about it. A flight simulator seeks to give you something more, perhaps a link with reality.
The key here, is that Apple's operating system is called MacOS 9, and not OS 9. I think some company was trying to sue Apple over the OS 9 name. I don't know what happened with that though.
I agree with you. Excellent movie, with a crappy ending, and some pointless scenes. I constantly had the feeling that I was missing some sort of symbolism in many parts of the movie. Then there's that wierdly placed ( and unneccessary ) sex scene. geez.
My Newton MessagePad 2100 is one of the greatest purchases in my life.
It's my laptop for when I'm really on the go.
The problem is that it didn't fit the niche that people had carved out for it.
People wanted something to carry around in their pocket.
It is excellent for college students though. You can keep notes, plug in to the campus LAN and download your email to read during downtime, and even browse the web. You can even record a lecture or two and listen to it again later.
With so many things to remember, I'd be lost with out my Newton.
I also recently purchased a PalmIII. It's okay, but it doesn't touch my newton in what it can do. I only use it when taking my Newton along would be inconvenient.
I would love a Palm Pilot with the Newton OS though. That's one of the few things I don't like about the Pilot, the OS sucks. It's so clunky compared to NewtonOS.
There just seems to be a lot of statements that can be rebuffed with: "yes, but . .."
Stop trying to prove points with half facts.
Maybe I'm just not being open minded...
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Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh
Unix in general, was designed to run on RISC based computers. "PC"s are CISC. PowerMacs (including the iMac) are RISC.
These machines perform just fine
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Okay, enough with the iMac trashtalking. Sure, they may be overhyped, but they definitely do NOT underperform. No matter what you guys say, it still has a G3 processor. Where there is a G3 processor, there is a fast computer. Plus, running Linux, it should kick many a computer's behind. Forget that, a first generation PowerPC makes an awsome Linux machine. And as far as cost, you can get a first generation iMac for less than $800 new.
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Okay, after actually reading the wikipedia article:
1. halo is Myth in scifi (real time strategy)
2. halo is demoed as 3rd person shooter at macworld
3. halo is demoed at e3 2000
4. Microsoft buys bungie
5. halo is turned in to first person shooter.
6. remove half of foot from my mouth.
Now, it may be that Halo was originally a RTS game, but it was definitely demoed as an FPS before the Microsoft buyout. It was originally demoed at the 1999 Macworld Expo in NYC.
It was a sad day when Microsoft bought Bungie in preparation for the Xbox release and postponed the Mac OS and Windows releases of Halo till after the release of the Xbox.
Linkage:
http://www.themacobserver.com/perspectives/soare/
or even better wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved
I'm assuming he was just confused with the express name. Some people get confused with PCI-X and PCIe. Both could possibly be short for PCI Express, especially if you don't already know about the PCIe name.
Doesn't 181 seem like small number of applicants for a program like Summer of Code? I looked at the faq for summer of code, and it looks like it's really demanding of your time.
So Apple's marketshare was never very large pre-osx and there were a few viruses available for the Apple Macintosh platform. The marketshare still isn't very large, but not a great deal smaller. Still, post mac osx, no real virus threats.
. shtml
According to this posting at macobserver:
http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/08/29.1
He found 26 viruses that targetted Mac OS Classic, 553 Microsoft Macro viruses, and 0 Mac OS X viruses. This was in October of 2003.
So if you give Mac OS X a single virus to make the math work, there are 96% more viruses for Macintosh pre Mac OS X. There was not a 96% drop in market share for Apple from Classic to Mac OS X periods of time.
Lucas used Lowry Digital Images. Apple has an article on it. http://www.apple.com/pro/film/lowry/starwars/
d tsacquire slowry.html
Doing a quick google for Lowry's website turned up results for articles dealing with DTS' aquisition of Lowry Digital Images.
http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/news/
Back with Mac OSX 10.0, there was a maximum user count of 255. That might have changed since then, but I haven't toyed with that many users since then.
It was a direct result of only being able to have the user list at boot in a popup menu control. The control apparently had a limit of 255.
That was very frustrating, as it's running freakin Unix!
So anyway, if the maximum users (teenage coffehouse goers) is greater than the maximum number of possible users for whatever version of OSX you're installing, maybe multiple users is not the way to go.
right right, and the Macintosh in 1984... and probably the Apple Lisa which was before that.
I was a beta tester in betas 3 and 4. I suppose beta 4 was not 'huge' but it was big enough to uncover large amounts of network bugs. Everyone was merrily playing along, discovering bugs and such, until the end of beta 4. That's when Funcom let in more testers. Oh what a nightmare that was. Lag and disconnects were flying everywhere. And that was in addition to the gameplay bugs. I would say that they were at least 2 months away from release when beta ended. We couldn't believe when it was announced the game had gone gold.
One of the points he tries to make in his letter is that Apple is wrong for cutting out older users. That is the whole problem with the Wintel architecture. Everything supports legacy code. The original Pentium would be so much faster if it didn't have to support the old x86 code that Microsoft needed in order to not rewrite DOS. So, when Apple is working on the next version of an operating system, they don't try to force legacy support. Did Apple force IBM and Motorola to have hardware support in the PowerPC to run 68k code? No. That's the key. Keep things simple and new.
All you need is MacOS 9 or Windows 98SE. Both are capable of Chinese input. With Windows 98SE, I believe you have to download it from Microsoft, but it's no big deal. There are two basic input methods for Traditional Chinese characters. Pinyin and BoPoMoFo. Pinyin is spelling out the sounds with arabic characters, and BoPoMoFo maps the Mandarin alphabet (of which the four first 'letters' are the name) to the standard keyboard layout.
Monkey Island, Kings Quest are adventure games. They are definitely few and in between. But, you can always check out games like Sanitarium, Grim Fandango, and the upcoming Monkey Island game.
The Descent games are first person shooters that give you a hover ability. There's nothing flight or simulation about it. A flight simulator seeks to give you something more, perhaps a link with reality.
The key here, is that Apple's operating system is called MacOS 9, and not OS 9. I think some company was trying to sue Apple over the OS 9 name. I don't know what happened with that though.
I agree with you. Excellent movie, with a crappy ending, and some pointless scenes. I constantly had the feeling that I was missing some sort of symbolism in many parts of the movie. Then there's that wierdly placed ( and unneccessary ) sex scene. geez.
Um, you could always not use Linux. It worked fine on my iMacDV.
My Newton MessagePad 2100 is one of the greatest purchases in my life.
It's my laptop for when I'm really on the go.
The problem is that it didn't fit the niche that people had carved out for it.
People wanted something to carry around in their pocket.
It is excellent for college students though. You can keep notes, plug in to the campus LAN and download your email to read during downtime, and even browse the web. You can even record a lecture or two and listen to it again later.
With so many things to remember, I'd be lost with out my Newton.
I also recently purchased a PalmIII. It's okay, but it doesn't touch my newton in what it can do. I only use it when taking my Newton along would be inconvenient.
I would love a Palm Pilot with the Newton OS though. That's one of the few things I don't like about the Pilot, the OS sucks. It's so clunky compared to NewtonOS.
I agree somewhat with Mike Buddha.
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There just seems to be a lot of statements that can be rebuffed with:
"yes, but . .
Stop trying to prove points with half facts.
Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh
Unix in general, was designed to run on RISC based computers. "PC"s are CISC.
PowerMacs (including the iMac) are RISC.
Okay, enough with the iMac trashtalking. Sure, they may be overhyped, but they definitely do NOT underperform.
No matter what you guys say, it still has a G3 processor. Where there is a G3 processor, there is a fast computer.
Plus, running Linux, it should kick many a computer's behind. Forget that, a first generation PowerPC makes an awsome Linux machine.
And as far as cost, you can get a first generation iMac for less than $800 new.
Come on guys. . . You just scared off that one woman who read /.
:-)
But really, Buffy is a decent show, but it sometimes shows that cheezzy sheen that WB manages to give all their shows.
I like the Drew Carey show. It's funny. If it makes me laugh, it's good