i thought the dot com bubble already burst? didn't we figure out that a specific generic name does not = lots of visitors? are these guys arguing over who owns it for their ego's sake? what a waste of time.
Hmm, there is definately somthing to be said for the 8500 then. On a powerbook I have the neutered version of a Radeon 7000, as near as I can tell. It is probably the major downfall for my portable gaming experience. How does one achieve 448 megs of ram, instead of the traditional 512?
There was an attempt to port it to the mac, some third party did the port, but it didn't pass Valve's quality controls, and they wern't able to get the network code (highly optimized on the PC end) to work properly. Thus it was nixed. Considering how quiet Valve has been about HL2, it wouldn't suprise me in the least if they announced a simotanious release for PC and mac, just to capture that much more of the market.
I'm a gamer at heart too. I did download and play the game 5 hours before you even posted this, didn't I?:) I suppose i wasn't clear when implying that most mac people don't play games on their mac simply because the games aren't there, causing a catch-22, no market for games on macs because the market doesn't exist (for the most part, aspyr would disagree).
Most mac users don't play that many games. Secondly, that claim only holds true for OS 9, OS X has alot of "eye candy" that slows office & non game applications way the hell down, even with a $400 video card.
As for apples older than 12 months old, apple released their 733mhz desktop system in February of 2001... it just took a while for Apple's laptops to break the 700mhz barrier (for marketing reasons). Granted, that model came with a 16 meg video card, but also a 4x AGP bus, so you can pick up a 32 meg card on the cheap these days... which would make the age:performance ratio of the apple about as good as your computer, although you obviously win out on price.
Since you're using my laptop, usually viewed as a lesser peforming computer compared to a traditional desktop at the same speeds, how well would a laptop in the PC world from circa October 2001 fare next to mine? This would be a better comparison.
first off, i f-ing hate the slashdot games section color scheme.
secondly, bit torrent does work on a 550 mhz G4 powerbook w/16 MB agp vid card, 512 MB ram. so does UT2003. on OS X 10.2.5 no less.
if you're up for UT2003 slideshow.
Granted, with a minimum system requirement of a 700mhz processor, and a 32 meg video card, the fact that it ran on my system at all is impressive. I get about 0.5FPS by my guess, durring "the action", while I got a decent(?!) 10 or so fps when walking through low poly areas, with everything turned to low, very low, or off.
what does this mean? basically that if you bought your computer in the last 8-12 months, it should meet the minimum sys requirements (mine is closer to 18-20 months old). good luck with this, I guess I'll just have to stick with Quake 1,2,3 and the original UT for now.
p.s. i managed to kill one of the bots on novice skill with the flak cannon! amazing!
p.p.s. shouldn't this be in the apple section, not the games section?
Aha, ok, makes sense now. Thanks for the link, I didn't want to blatantly come out and say the editors wern't using spell check or whatnot.... it appears they've improved considerably, either that, or people calling them on spelling/grammar are getting modded down into oblivion (I generally read @ 3+)
had this been announced 2 years ago my dad would still be alive. no shit. i don't know wether to feel regret, hate, or to be relieved that there is now a cure for this terrible, terrible disease.
ha, the joys of getting older. i suppose i should enjoy my youth while i'm not spending 10 minutes a day on the john then. as the qDq group gets older, I can see how they might contribute to laptop-sitting-on-the-john sales, making this apple's "year of the notebook.... what, with the qDq group edging into their early 30's and all. they could start putting time into halflife done quick on the laptop on the john next, who knows:)
kensington flylight + 5v wall wart + radioshack toggle switch + 10 min of soldering + epoxying the whole mess to the old booklight's clip
=
good early evening project, at the cost of about $20 (you can find flylights @ the apple store and compUSA), and cannibalizing the awnsering machine's wall wart.
You're probably right, the last time i heard anything about qDq was before the planetquake redesign a two or three years back. Still, 12 and a half minutes is pretty damn quick.
What was the ultimate record for Quake done Quick (qDq)? Somthing on the order of 8 minutes, 30 seconds, where you had to get 100% of the items and secret areas on one life.... the original speed gamer's challenge. Also a collosal waste of time, IMO.
i'll second that. i'd like my computer to load all my applications at boot, and then hide them until i need them, stored in ram, for instantanious load times. running photoshop & mozilla & a rendering program can really eat up your memory. i HATE having to close down applications to use their ram for other apps.
i own quake 1,2,3 and halflife, the latter i can't play on my mac and the former i haven't picked up except at the bi-monly lan-ing i do; i'm not a great FPS person by any means, probably somewhere in the 65th percentile. I'm in the 20th percentile when it comes to RTS games. I don't even own BF1942 and play(ed) it about once a week for 2 hours at a time on my friend's PC rig, and within 2 weeks was ranking #1 or #2 on any server I played on. There's no fun when you realize that this isn't a very competitive game, and very little teamwork is actually involved; far less than in counterstrike. Two decent players on one team can dominate the playing field. While this has alot of fun features, driving people over with a jeep, flying a Zero into a battleship to finish it off and ejecting at the last second, crawling under tanks unhurt, etc, it's just entirely way too unbalanced if two people on a 14 person team can turn the tables in a game in under 5 minutes.
i'll agree with that. the only people who desire that kind of censorship are those who grew up at least as sheltered as their own children. learning about sex in middle school is probably the worst time to learn about it, as you're more tempted to try out your new knowledge than you would be when you're age 6-12 or 17-21. The former has alot of time to better understand sex before they're even capable of having it, while the latter ends up fearing sex until they learn that everyone else considers it commonplace and they decide to have responsible sex. i, and most of my friends learned about sex before middle school, and we're all reasonably well adjusted individuals.
why not do it blatantly right here on slashdot? here goes:
looking for (18-21 year old) couple(s) to go salsa/tango/mambo dancing in the DFW area; beginners prefered, probably will take first set of dancing lessons at the end of may... looking for a learning experience. reply if interested.
how well does the amp deal with the audio signal providing that weak/strong of a volume signal? did you use a specific amp type for this application, or would any cheap 30-100 watt amp work? did you have to upgrade your speakers for this?
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i thought the dot com bubble already burst? didn't we figure out that a specific generic name does not = lots of visitors? are these guys arguing over who owns it for their ego's sake? what a waste of time.
So DeLong wants a computer term/law named after him. Whee. Next story?
-2, offtopic/in a pissy mood.
Hmm, there is definately somthing to be said for the 8500 then. On a powerbook I have the neutered version of a Radeon 7000, as near as I can tell. It is probably the major downfall for my portable gaming experience. How does one achieve 448 megs of ram, instead of the traditional 512?
There was an attempt to port it to the mac, some third party did the port, but it didn't pass Valve's quality controls, and they wern't able to get the network code (highly optimized on the PC end) to work properly. Thus it was nixed. Considering how quiet Valve has been about HL2, it wouldn't suprise me in the least if they announced a simotanious release for PC and mac, just to capture that much more of the market.
I'm a gamer at heart too. I did download and play the game 5 hours before you even posted this, didn't I? :) I suppose i wasn't clear when implying that most mac people don't play games on their mac simply because the games aren't there, causing a catch-22, no market for games on macs because the market doesn't exist (for the most part, aspyr would disagree).
You speak truth; thank you for your input.
Most mac users don't play that many games. Secondly, that claim only holds true for OS 9, OS X has alot of "eye candy" that slows office & non game applications way the hell down, even with a $400 video card.
As for apples older than 12 months old, apple released their 733mhz desktop system in February of 2001... it just took a while for Apple's laptops to break the 700mhz barrier (for marketing reasons). Granted, that model came with a 16 meg video card, but also a 4x AGP bus, so you can pick up a 32 meg card on the cheap these days... which would make the age:performance ratio of the apple about as good as your computer, although you obviously win out on price.
Since you're using my laptop, usually viewed as a lesser peforming computer compared to a traditional desktop at the same speeds, how well would a laptop in the PC world from circa October 2001 fare next to mine? This would be a better comparison.
first off, i f-ing hate the slashdot games section color scheme.
secondly, bit torrent does work on a 550 mhz G4 powerbook w/16 MB agp vid card, 512 MB ram. so does UT2003. on OS X 10.2.5 no less.
if you're up for UT2003 slideshow.
Granted, with a minimum system requirement of a 700mhz processor, and a 32 meg video card, the fact that it ran on my system at all is impressive. I get about 0.5FPS by my guess, durring "the action", while I got a decent(?!) 10 or so fps when walking through low poly areas, with everything turned to low, very low, or off.
what does this mean? basically that if you bought your computer in the last 8-12 months, it should meet the minimum sys requirements (mine is closer to 18-20 months old). good luck with this, I guess I'll just have to stick with Quake 1,2,3 and the original UT for now.
p.s. i managed to kill one of the bots on novice skill with the flak cannon! amazing!
p.p.s. shouldn't this be in the apple section, not the games section?
heh. good one. link from oct 7, 2002
5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned.
Aha, ok, makes sense now. Thanks for the link, I didn't want to blatantly come out and say the editors wern't using spell check or whatnot.... it appears they've improved considerably, either that, or people calling them on spelling/grammar are getting modded down into oblivion (I generally read @ 3+)
Balder or Bolder?
Atari was briefly in the engineering/scientific/graphics workstation business!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Transputers!
Hmm, I see a continuity break in Penny Arcade in the near future.
had this been announced 2 years ago my dad would still be alive. no shit. i don't know wether to feel regret, hate, or to be relieved that there is now a cure for this terrible, terrible disease.
ha, the joys of getting older. i suppose i should enjoy my youth while i'm not spending 10 minutes a day on the john then. as the qDq group gets older, I can see how they might contribute to laptop-sitting-on-the-john sales, making this apple's "year of the notebook.... what, with the qDq group edging into their early 30's and all. they could start putting time into halflife done quick on the laptop on the john next, who knows :)
kensington flylight + 5v wall wart + radioshack toggle switch + 10 min of soldering + epoxying the whole mess to the old booklight's clip
=
good early evening project, at the cost of about $20 (you can find flylights @ the apple store and compUSA), and cannibalizing the awnsering machine's wall wart.
You're probably right, the last time i heard anything about qDq was before the planetquake redesign a two or three years back. Still, 12 and a half minutes is pretty damn quick.
Where's my OS X port?
/snobbish mac user
lol
What was the ultimate record for Quake done Quick (qDq)? Somthing on the order of 8 minutes, 30 seconds, where you had to get 100% of the items and secret areas on one life.... the original speed gamer's challenge. Also a collosal waste of time, IMO.
i'll second that. i'd like my computer to load all my applications at boot, and then hide them until i need them, stored in ram, for instantanious load times. running photoshop & mozilla & a rendering program can really eat up your memory. i HATE having to close down applications to use their ram for other apps.
just my two cents, your milage may vary:
i own quake 1,2,3 and halflife, the latter i can't play on my mac and the former i haven't picked up except at the bi-monly lan-ing i do; i'm not a great FPS person by any means, probably somewhere in the 65th percentile. I'm in the 20th percentile when it comes to RTS games. I don't even own BF1942 and play(ed) it about once a week for 2 hours at a time on my friend's PC rig, and within 2 weeks was ranking #1 or #2 on any server I played on. There's no fun when you realize that this isn't a very competitive game, and very little teamwork is actually involved; far less than in counterstrike. Two decent players on one team can dominate the playing field. While this has alot of fun features, driving people over with a jeep, flying a Zero into a battleship to finish it off and ejecting at the last second, crawling under tanks unhurt, etc, it's just entirely way too unbalanced if two people on a 14 person team can turn the tables in a game in under 5 minutes.
i'll agree with that. the only people who desire that kind of censorship are those who grew up at least as sheltered as their own children. learning about sex in middle school is probably the worst time to learn about it, as you're more tempted to try out your new knowledge than you would be when you're age 6-12 or 17-21. The former has alot of time to better understand sex before they're even capable of having it, while the latter ends up fearing sex until they learn that everyone else considers it commonplace and they decide to have responsible sex. i, and most of my friends learned about sex before middle school, and we're all reasonably well adjusted individuals.
why not do it blatantly right here on slashdot? here goes:
looking for (18-21 year old) couple(s) to go salsa/tango/mambo dancing in the DFW area; beginners prefered, probably will take first set of dancing lessons at the end of may... looking for a learning experience. reply if interested.
how well does the amp deal with the audio signal providing that weak/strong of a volume signal? did you use a specific amp type for this application, or would any cheap 30-100 watt amp work? did you have to upgrade your speakers for this?