I loved that game. DopeWars is basically the same thing, but IMHO much less fun for all it's fancy pants graphics etc. And no the Palm version of taipan is nowehere near as compulsive for some reason. also does anyone else remember the fabulous trash-80 game Asylum? there was only one place in the game where if you 'look up' a piano does not fall on you. ahh now that was a game. and it could parse instructions like 'get everything off the table except the dagger with the blue handle'. try doing that in quake. in fact does anyone know is there is a decent trash-80 emulator and binary copy of asylum out there anywhere?
Man that is so bitter. I have been on both sides of the employee/employer fence and as an employee I have always been willing to ask for what I think I am worth, and as an employer have always treated my staff as well as I could possibly afford. Enron != all employers, just as bush != all americans. sure try and form a union if you can but that takes solidarity brother. and a student on 20 hrs a week ain't got no solidarity. my point was that (s)he should be prepared to go into bat for themselves as his/her skills improve, and use that perfromance increase to justify a request for a pay rise. whether you get that raise depends entirely on you and your employer. you can always walk with your new skills. most employers are reasonable people who are used to working out their bottom line. note here I am not talking about mega-corp kleptocrats who hire unskilled labour here, i am talking about employers you'd actually want to work for. they exist.
Anyone who knows the joy of programming machine language for the 6502 knows the answer.
ahh yes the thrill of using a lookup table to address the screen properly because of the famous venetian blind screen memory, and the joy of poping an integer onto the accumulator so you could add it to another integer in one of those little addreses. still, i helped write a kick-ass 3d games back then in 6502 that never came close to being released. i also remember we had a kitten that was so small it would curl up and sleep on my apple ][c's power-supply.
that's cool because you are learning and earning, even tho it's not much, it's an honest living and as a young person you have minimal expenses. mind the pennies and the pounds mind themselves as they say. but always push for a pay rise when you feel you deserve one. the more you learn the more productive you are, and thus the more money you make yourt employer, therefore you deserve more. productivity gains ==> higher pay.
you take home $5 per hour to be a techie? I don't want to sound rude but where do you work? if you are in the US, UK or EU then surely a tech get's more than that. I know there are countries where $5 is a lot of money, but most cleaners in the UK get more than that.
okay granted but in general the UK plugs are solid as a rock. also I have many euro plugs that are slightly different widths, some almost 1mm thicker than others. this matches the points in my current house well, as many of the sockets seem to have been installed in the dark ages and they too vary slightly in width. making some plugs so flimsy they just fall out of their own accord, and some so tight you can not get the plug in there without a hammer. i am yet to have a UK plug fall out, or be impossible to plug in.
come on. what would Apple actually do with sun if they bought them. Sure Apple would make great stewards of java, but if Sun just opened up java properly and gave it over to the java community in a manner similar to Jini, then they can quietly die and those of us who earn a living writing java can sleep safe at nights.
Apple already make a damn fine entry level rack mounted server and I a sure would make some killer big-iron if they figured there was a real market for apple branded big-iron. I kicked the power cord out of a sun rackmount once and the whole damn machine dies forever. that's never happened to any apple i know. people said to me afterwards "oh man, that's unix - you can't just kill the power to a unix machine". what bollocks, my mac is a unix machine and i've killed the power on it just as violently (by accident of course) in the past with no ill effects whatsoever. seems to me that sun's kit is just too fragile.
from the article The cabling in Britain includes the typical ridiculous power plug combined with a standard RJ-11 telephone cable + adapter.
I don't know about you but those plugs never fall out of a wall socket. compare and contrast to the pissy little european two pin plugs, or even worse those very flimsy US two pin (easy-bend) plugs. The only thing that rivals it is the australian 3 pin power plugs but even they are prone to falling out from time to time. no for me the UK monster 3 pin plug is a great thing.
whhaa whhaa whhaa macs are too expensive. bullshit.
speaking as someone who has a shiny new tibook, bought his gf a shiny new 12" g4 and uses an g3 bronse keyboard laptop as a home stereo controller i have one thing alone to say. get a job.
seriously, $400 is the price of a decent meal for 2 in a posh restaurant, a box of 25 hand rolled cuban cigars, a new jacket (to get you in to the afore mentioned posh restaurant in rome), or a return flight to amsterdam + all the northern lights you can smoke in a month.
as a contract programmer, you should be able to earn $400 in under a day, after paying tax. or under two days tops if you are a wage-slave programmer, so stop your lousy cheap-ass whinging and go earn some money.
in fact, fuck you, you've pissed me off so bad I am going out right now to buy a new 30GB ipod.
In case you hadn't noticed, half of windows depends on IE- it's not an app anymore, it's a system library, much like QT. Explorer? That's IE. The Help system? IE. The actual IE application is a very thin wrapper around the system libraries, much like the QT player is a thin wrapper around the QT libs that are embedded deep in OSX.
Not ever having used windows beyond occasionaly surfing the web in some shitty net cafe, I hadn't noticed. But tell me does Netscape use IE to do it's page rendering? I think not. Does the VLC for OSX use quicktime - yes it does. Does Real Player use Quicktime, yes. Avid? Yep. Quticktime is an enabler for media apps. Almost all the Mac media apps use quicktime. IE is most clearly an application. The rendering engine it uses is not identified as a separate technology that I am aware. Apple are moving towards the same thing, but in a very different way. The page renderer that displays the iTunes shop in iTunes in the same KHTML page renderer that Safari uses. Soon omniweb will be using this same page renderer, as probably will Netscape's family of browsers. The help screens will also be rendered using this core technology. But KHTML is not Safari. Safari adds UI components and takes advantage of the core. Any 3rd party developer can do that. Same for QT. Any developer can incorporate QT into their code, be it Java, RealBasic, Python, Obj-C, ASM, etc. Where is the API for 3rd parties to use M$'s html rendering technology? And I don't mean with ActiveX or whatever they call their application scripting system.
Also the real truth is that no-one else makes anything like quicktime, whereas there are lots of HTML renderers. Apple bundle quicktime to enhance their overall offering and to enable a whole new generation of media savvy software, developed by a whole host of 3rd party developers, M$ bundle IE to stifle competition.
Ok, now remove Quicktime from your Mac and replace it with some other media viewer. Can't be done.
I am sure you meant 'remove the Quicktime player' not quicktime per-sé. removing the quicktime player is as easy as dragging it to the trash, but to remove quicktime from OSX is just daft. Quicktime enables hundreds of apps to handle all manner of media - it is core to the OS. Why not remove OpenGL while you are at it, or TCP/IP. Quicktime is not an application.
That list goes a long way to explaining why the store is open to US shoppers only right now. I looked for Camper van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling" and found zip. Beasts of Bourbon - nada. Cold Chisel. nothing either. Found only 3 mudhoney albums, and no DJ Spooky. Found "The Kick Inside" by Kate Bush but it only has half the tracks for some reason.
on the whole I quite like the shop, but it needs to let the other 55% of mac users buy from it too. One problem I do have with the price per song thing is that many albums I like have lots of short songs - think punk rock, whereas a quick search for Beethoven shows you can only buy the whole album in cases where the track length is > 5 mts. So suddenly it is much more expensive to buy a No-FX record (assuming there was one in the store, which there is not) than a Kylie Minogue best of.
6) Once Apple has expanded the service outside of America, they should provide a way to buy music from overseas as well. Under the current distribution model, (true) international music is difficult to find and get.
Why is this service only avail in the US? what's the logic?
That's very nice for all those BeOS users out there:-)
smart folders sounds like an awesome idea to me. Piles, althugh the name will be the butt of many jokes, seems like an excellent UI enhancement, but what I really want is not fancy, not modern; just gimme text handling that works and works fast. I mean iPhoto can seamlessly resize thousands of my photos in thumbnail view in realtime but it takes 30 seconds to change the title of a single image! wtf is going on there. See my extensive bitch on this topic. It's just text like derrida said.
Color: take it or leave it. I think the 'pod should stand alone as a kickass music player, video would be a distraction.
yep i agree I don't want the colour for watching movies, but for photo storage and previews it would rock. I travel lots and really don't want to cart my mac around with me, especially osme of the places I go. I pay a whacking 8% premium just to insure my laptop because I travel with it. Now I could take that down to 2.5% and with the extra change buy a fancy iPod and take that with me instead and have music and somewhere to archive my photos on the road.
60GB HD: Hell yes. I'm probably going to end up trading in my 10GB when this announcement comes through, the more space the merrier
My 5Gb iPod was stolen from me at gunpoint. bastards! mut yeah I have 20Gb of music on my laptop and 10GB of photos, so 60Gb would do just fine.
Bluetooth: For synching contacts and calendar info ONLY, I'd go for it. Hardcore data transmission over bluetooth would be painful. Beside, you've got to plug the damn thing in to charge it anyway. Power over bluetooth, that I'd go for;) A BT headset would be cumbersome - the theoretical max on BT data transfer isn't really sufficient for music and that means you'd need some kind of cumbersome powersource in your headphones. No thanks.
but streaming music (and yes Bt is fast enough to stream music, not copy it for sure - keep the firewire for that - but hell fast enough to stream music and if you already have a BT headset then that's cool. also synch contacts and timezone crippled ical shite with yr phone, w no wires.
Video Out: meh. No thanks. See above.
here I am thinking more about as a photoplayer/keynote player/presentation aid than as a movie player
iPhoto synching: again, leave it to an Apple-made PDA. Leave to music to the pod.
yep and a computer needs no more than 64k of ram too. I don't want lots of gadgets when i can just carry one.
What I'd love is recording capability - a line-in or Firewire Microphone. THAT I'd seriously drool over. Not that I'm not drooling over the prospects of next week now anyway...:)
recording - oh yeah i suppose, but what I want is some way of using two of them to DJ - now that would be cool
My favourite Mac shop refused to sell me a 20GB iPod the other week on the grounds that I am a good customer and he said "You do yourself a favour and wait a few weeks.. you'll be blown away.". I I walked out of the store with my £400 or so still in my pocket. I've emailed him since to see what he knows so well that he'll turn away good hard kash, but he just says "wait, i can't say yet, but you'll be amazed." Is he just shitting me? Or does he know something. Or is it just that blind-freddy could see that a new ipod is on the way. Either way I went back in and bought a 12"G4 for my girlfriend a week later so he's still doing okay out of me.
and for what it is worth, yes I do think a colour, 60GB bluetooth enabled, firewire][ iPod with video out and full support for syncing to iphoto would be the duck's nuts and I'll buy one the instant it comes out.
As a US citizen I want the same rights as Iraqi citizens have now. Like the right to loot or to kill who I please.
If you want to go to Iraq I believe you'll find your govt does grant you those 'additonal rights'. You are simply discouraged from doing it at home. Of course your govt also reserves the right to kill you - at home or abroad. Lucky you eh.
this has the advantage too that you can see what you are about to trash, you cmd z to undo that move to the trash, or you can pick thru your trash and selectively put back any files you didn;t mean to trash. try doing that with rm -r *e*
so your dad's mac is visible to his neighbour - big deal. assuming it's set up using the default permisions all your neighbour will be able to do is log in as a guest and drop files into his drop box. (/Users/${yrdad}/Public/Drop\ Box/) - now sure the neighbour could start filling that drop box with p0rn or whatever but if that'sa real concern then change the perms on the drop box. on the other hand yr dad could just be a good neigbour and make a shared volume of system upgrades, has equiv access to the neighbours drop box and they can both share itunes/ichat/iconquor/etc etc and get the some benefit out of having nice seamless integration with the neighbour. for what it's worth i always leave a "whoseMacIsThis.txt" file in my drop box so strays who happen to wander into my mac can quickly work out who i am and contact me if needs be.
on the topic of open macs hwoever, if you happen to be in central london someday with some spare time, just sit down at bar italia on frith street soho, pop on yr wifi and see how many drop boxes you can visit. i found at least 5 open wifi networks and each one of those exposed lots of macs. didn't find any ichat users tho... but plenty of rendesvous (or liberty connector as i hear you merkins prefer nowadays) shared web sites (99% default index pages).
oh and if you really wanna get into closed wifi networks remeber there is always KisMAC.
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I loved that game. DopeWars is basically the same thing, but IMHO much less fun for all it's fancy pants graphics etc. And no the Palm version of taipan is nowehere near as compulsive for some reason. also does anyone else remember the fabulous trash-80 game Asylum? there was only one place in the game where if you 'look up' a piano does not fall on you. ahh now that was a game. and it could parse instructions like 'get everything off the table except the dagger with the blue handle'. try doing that in quake. in fact does anyone know is there is a decent trash-80 emulator and binary copy of asylum out there anywhere?
Man that is so bitter. I have been on both sides of the employee/employer fence and as an employee I have always been willing to ask for what I think I am worth, and as an employer have always treated my staff as well as I could possibly afford. Enron != all employers, just as bush != all americans. sure try and form a union if you can but that takes solidarity brother. and a student on 20 hrs a week ain't got no solidarity. my point was that (s)he should be prepared to go into bat for themselves as his/her skills improve, and use that perfromance increase to justify a request for a pay rise. whether you get that raise depends entirely on you and your employer. you can always walk with your new skills. most employers are reasonable people who are used to working out their bottom line. note here I am not talking about mega-corp kleptocrats who hire unskilled labour here, i am talking about employers you'd actually want to work for. they exist.
ahh yes the thrill of using a lookup table to address the screen properly because of the famous venetian blind screen memory, and the joy of poping an integer onto the accumulator so you could add it to another integer in one of those little addreses. still, i helped write a kick-ass 3d games back then in 6502 that never came close to being released. i also remember we had a kitten that was so small it would curl up and sleep on my apple ][c's power-supply.
that's cool because you are learning and earning, even tho it's not much, it's an honest living and as a young person you have minimal expenses. mind the pennies and the pounds mind themselves as they say. but always push for a pay rise when you feel you deserve one. the more you learn the more productive you are, and thus the more money you make yourt employer, therefore you deserve more. productivity gains ==> higher pay.
there is still plenty of time for that.
you take home $5 per hour to be a techie? I don't want to sound rude but where do you work? if you are in the US, UK or EU then surely a tech get's more than that. I know there are countries where $5 is a lot of money, but most cleaners in the UK get more than that.
okay granted but in general the UK plugs are solid as a rock. also I have many euro plugs that are slightly different widths, some almost 1mm thicker than others. this matches the points in my current house well, as many of the sockets seem to have been installed in the dark ages and they too vary slightly in width. making some plugs so flimsy they just fall out of their own accord, and some so tight you can not get the plug in there without a hammer. i am yet to have a UK plug fall out, or be impossible to plug in.
Apple already make a damn fine entry level rack mounted server and I a sure would make some killer big-iron if they figured there was a real market for apple branded big-iron. I kicked the power cord out of a sun rackmount once and the whole damn machine dies forever. that's never happened to any apple i know. people said to me afterwards "oh man, that's unix - you can't just kill the power to a unix machine". what bollocks, my mac is a unix machine and i've killed the power on it just as violently (by accident of course) in the past with no ill effects whatsoever. seems to me that sun's kit is just too fragile.
I don't know about you but those plugs never fall out of a wall socket. compare and contrast to the pissy little european two pin plugs, or even worse those very flimsy US two pin (easy-bend) plugs. The only thing that rivals it is the australian 3 pin power plugs but even they are prone to falling out from time to time. no for me the UK monster 3 pin plug is a great thing.
speaking as someone who has a shiny new tibook, bought his gf a shiny new 12" g4 and uses an g3 bronse keyboard laptop as a home stereo controller i have one thing alone to say. get a job.
seriously, $400 is the price of a decent meal for 2 in a posh restaurant, a box of 25 hand rolled cuban cigars, a new jacket (to get you in to the afore mentioned posh restaurant in rome), or a return flight to amsterdam + all the northern lights you can smoke in a month.
as a contract programmer, you should be able to earn $400 in under a day, after paying tax. or under two days tops if you are a wage-slave programmer, so stop your lousy cheap-ass whinging and go earn some money.
in fact, fuck you, you've pissed me off so bad I am going out right now to buy a new 30GB ipod.
Not ever having used windows beyond occasionaly surfing the web in some shitty net cafe, I hadn't noticed. But tell me does Netscape use IE to do it's page rendering? I think not. Does the VLC for OSX use quicktime - yes it does. Does Real Player use Quicktime, yes. Avid? Yep. Quticktime is an enabler for media apps. Almost all the Mac media apps use quicktime. IE is most clearly an application. The rendering engine it uses is not identified as a separate technology that I am aware. Apple are moving towards the same thing, but in a very different way. The page renderer that displays the iTunes shop in iTunes in the same KHTML page renderer that Safari uses. Soon omniweb will be using this same page renderer, as probably will Netscape's family of browsers. The help screens will also be rendered using this core technology. But KHTML is not Safari. Safari adds UI components and takes advantage of the core. Any 3rd party developer can do that. Same for QT. Any developer can incorporate QT into their code, be it Java, RealBasic, Python, Obj-C, ASM, etc. Where is the API for 3rd parties to use M$'s html rendering technology? And I don't mean with ActiveX or whatever they call their application scripting system.
Also the real truth is that no-one else makes anything like quicktime, whereas there are lots of HTML renderers. Apple bundle quicktime to enhance their overall offering and to enable a whole new generation of media savvy software, developed by a whole host of 3rd party developers, M$ bundle IE to stifle competition.
I am sure you meant 'remove the Quicktime player' not quicktime per-sé. removing the quicktime player is as easy as dragging it to the trash, but to remove quicktime from OSX is just daft. Quicktime enables hundreds of apps to handle all manner of media - it is core to the OS. Why not remove OpenGL while you are at it, or TCP/IP. Quicktime is not an application.
on the whole I quite like the shop, but it needs to let the other 55% of mac users buy from it too. One problem I do have with the price per song thing is that many albums I like have lots of short songs - think punk rock, whereas a quick search for Beethoven shows you can only buy the whole album in cases where the track length is > 5 mts. So suddenly it is much more expensive to buy a No-FX record (assuming there was one in the store, which there is not) than a Kylie Minogue best of.
6) Once Apple has expanded the service outside of America, they should provide a way to buy music from overseas as well. Under the current distribution model, (true) international music is difficult to find and get. Why is this service only avail in the US? what's the logic?
smart folders sounds like an awesome idea to me. Piles, althugh the name will be the butt of many jokes, seems like an excellent UI enhancement, but what I really want is not fancy, not modern; just gimme text handling that works and works fast. I mean iPhoto can seamlessly resize thousands of my photos in thumbnail view in realtime but it takes 30 seconds to change the title of a single image! wtf is going on there. See my extensive bitch on this topic. It's just text like derrida said.
how about "mounds"?
Color: take it or leave it. I think the 'pod should stand alone as a kickass music player, video would be a distraction.
yep i agree I don't want the colour for watching movies, but for photo storage and previews it would rock. I travel lots and really don't want to cart my mac around with me, especially osme of the places I go. I pay a whacking 8% premium just to insure my laptop because I travel with it. Now I could take that down to 2.5% and with the extra change buy a fancy iPod and take that with me instead and have music and somewhere to archive my photos on the road.
60GB HD: Hell yes. I'm probably going to end up trading in my 10GB when this announcement comes through, the more space the merrier
My 5Gb iPod was stolen from me at gunpoint. bastards! mut yeah I have 20Gb of music on my laptop and 10GB of photos, so 60Gb would do just fine.
Bluetooth: For synching contacts and calendar info ONLY, I'd go for it. Hardcore data transmission over bluetooth would be painful. Beside, you've got to plug the damn thing in to charge it anyway. Power over bluetooth, that I'd go for ;) A BT headset would be cumbersome - the theoretical max on BT data transfer isn't really sufficient for music and that means you'd need some kind of cumbersome powersource in your headphones. No thanks.
but streaming music (and yes Bt is fast enough to stream music, not copy it for sure - keep the firewire for that - but hell fast enough to stream music and if you already have a BT headset then that's cool. also synch contacts and timezone crippled ical shite with yr phone, w no wires.
Video Out: meh. No thanks. See above.
here I am thinking more about as a photoplayer/keynote player/presentation aid than as a movie player
iPhoto synching: again, leave it to an Apple-made PDA. Leave to music to the pod.
yep and a computer needs no more than 64k of ram too. I don't want lots of gadgets when i can just carry one.
What I'd love is recording capability - a line-in or Firewire Microphone. THAT I'd seriously drool over. Not that I'm not drooling over the prospects of next week now anyway...:)
recording - oh yeah i suppose, but what I want is some way of using two of them to DJ - now that would be cool
we'll see in a few days i guess
and for what it is worth, yes I do think a colour, 60GB bluetooth enabled, firewire][ iPod with video out and full support for syncing to iphoto would be the duck's nuts and I'll buy one the instant it comes out.
If you want to go to Iraq I believe you'll find your govt does grant you those 'additonal rights'. You are simply discouraged from doing it at home. Of course your govt also reserves the right to kill you - at home or abroad. Lucky you eh.
of course. and my point is that with the gui you can undo it when you realise what a dumb thing it was that you did. :-)
- type 'e' in the search box and hit return
- cmd a to select all
- cmd delete to trash them
this has the advantage too that you can see what you are about to trash, you cmd z to undo that move to the trash, or you can pick thru your trash and selectively put back any files you didn;t mean to trash. try doing that with rm -r *e*nice you have both options tho..
on the topic of open macs hwoever, if you happen to be in central london someday with some spare time, just sit down at bar italia on frith street soho, pop on yr wifi and see how many drop boxes you can visit. i found at least 5 open wifi networks and each one of those exposed lots of macs. didn't find any ichat users tho... but plenty of rendesvous (or liberty connector as i hear you merkins prefer nowadays) shared web sites (99% default index pages).
oh and if you really wanna get into closed wifi networks remeber there is always KisMAC.
enjoy
Oh hell I laughed at that. Double Vaginal, Double Anal.
well you could look here for starters http://econ.lse.ac.uk/
funny, I didn't think stocks were traded on the weekend.