Everyone is complaing about their old legacy shareware MIDI program or MS Word 98 not working under Classic and how this upgrade will devistate them, but no one has actually posted yet (until the parent) on the physical limitations of not having OS 9. It will actually cripple the OS, and the parent poster makes very good points.
WTF. How is anyone supposed to get anything done? I can't even play StuntCopter or Cairo Shootout in the right resolution/screen depth! MacPaint becomes garbled and unstable under the "Finder", really just the damn MultiFinder in disguise! What a marketing ploy! Thanks ALOT, Apple!!!!!
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Seriously, if tons of people are worried about paying thousands to replace old shareware programs on the Mac with new commercial software, why not just write to your favorate Mac OS X shareware developer and request they create a replacement product? Be sure to elaborate on exactly what it would replace, and why such a thing would be popular with whoever needs that particular product. Panic and Ambrosia are probably two good places to start, and I'm sure there are hundreds more.
Trust me, the Mac shareware scene WANTS your feedback.
The joke was, someone was complaining about QuickTIme being a pain in the ass to install. I meant it's either part of an "it's easier on Mac" scheme, or it's jsut because that's what happens to anyone's good software when you let a team of Windows programmers hack it up and make an installer.
I'm not sure if this is an Apple move to get people to switch, citing it's "easier on a Mac", of if it's really just because, hell, to port QuickTime to Windows, they're gonna need a team of Windows programmers...
First off, someone PLEASE meta-mod this into the GROUND. I will be actively meta-moderating in the hopes of finding this on my list for the next few weeks. This is a BLATANT Flamebait. +1 Insightful? I won't even call any names.
To answer your question, troll, it's style. Pure and simple.
When have you ever met a homo who doesn't primp himself to be "pretty"?
Macs are the slickest computer solution. The hardware configs are easily known/coded for, our OS isnt' bloated with a million hardware config "maybes". The sleek plastic designs are sometimes kind of ugly (witness the toilet seat iBook! Yech!) but for the most part are well refined and thought out, both for appearance and functionality. The OS keeps it simple, while allowing flexibility.
The Macintosh is the Armani of the computer world. Well designed, comfortable, sleek, ( expensive:-\ ). The PC is like the suit you can buy at Ames. Looks alright, works for what you need, not the most elegant thing but can be taylored to you needs, plus it's cheap.
I'm Tokerat. I'm not gay, and I use a Macintosh. Three, actually. And I will never switch.
...because of the overhead of having to use inefficient APIs to draw everything.
it was finally possible to do a Mac game decently, since OpenGL could be used to control the 3D card directy, mostly avoiding QuickDraw and all that overhead. There was also the short-lived GameSprockets API, that never really caught on, and as far as I know isn't used/supported by Apple anymore
QuickDraw takes advantage of any QuickDraw accelerated video cards, and many of the Mac-specific cards supported this until 3D acceleration become popular.
QuickDraw is VERY fast (250Mhz machine, 22FPS full screen with CopyBits()).
GameSprockets is still a part of Mac OS X today, although it's mostly used to do screen resolution changes.
What prevents somebody from starting their own TLD and just claiming it for use? Are there laws? Trust issues? Or is it just that everyone's DNS server would filter out/be incompatable with it? With all this trouble that ICANN('T?) seems to cause, I guess my real question is, who needs them?
I'm not too familiar with the technicalities of the whole domain thing...can someone elaborate?
Do you know where detailed information can be found about the Power4 chips? I've heard a lot of buzz lately around this and would like to see for myself.
It's really sad that Motorola is delivering as poorly as they are. I wished for the longest time that they where just "stalling" with the incremental upgrading because they had somrthing cool in the works that needed refining...however now I have lost hope. I was really looking forward to the period in time when the "G6" would be seeing the light (2005? 06?), because by then I'd have the money to buy a new top-of-the-line Apple, which, for a full, decent system-of-my-dreams, would set me back a good $12,000 or more (note: including a complete Dolby Digital 5.1 reciever and speakers, audio card to go with it, dual head 23" Cinema displays, etc:-) ). Now I wonder if I'll buy buying an Apple Macintosh Power5 or something....
...whatever, as long as it's fast and fundementally still Mac, I'll be alright.
Um... or for the Mac user who actually *knows* what HTML is (read: Grandma says "HTM what?", it's a simple matter of Preferences->"Ignore Rich Text commands in HTML files". TextEdit is like Wordpad and NotePad combined. I use TextEdit for quickly touching up HTML on my OS X webserver.
A little configuration goes a long way. It isnt' that hard to find this stuff people. You say you "explore" a system... I think you just play around with it and if you're unhappy with the default settings you decide this is "not for you".
RED ALERT! All computers need to be configured the way YOU like them when you get them home. Mac does. Windows does. Linux/*BSD/other UNIXs most certianly do.
Get used to it. No one can EVER hand YOU the perfect interface/default options. They are as varied as personalitites.
Apple is a hardware company. The only reason they make software (Mac OS X, the iSuite, etc.) is so their hardware is not useless (yea, yea, you're begging to get modded down for bad puns on that.)
Apple makes iDVD as a component of their DVD-Burner enabled machines. As such, it is not MEANT to be used in any other manner. If you buy an external burner, use another program. Why? Because iDVD wan't meant to work with it.
Once again, this software (iDVD) is meant ONLY for use with an Apple Macintosh which was built with the ability to burn DVD disks. It is perfectly legal for someone to develop an alternative and sell it, or even give it away.
The reason the DMCA applies here is because when you apply this patch, you are actually circumventing a security feature in this software (even though it is merely one to secure Apple some hardware sales, heh).
And for those who compare Apple to Microsoft for supposed "lock-in" tactics used here, think of it like this: The deal is, if you buy a DVD burner from Apple, they include the ability to create DVD content for free. They DON'T force you to buy some other product, citing that this computer "has the ability". It's included.
One more thing I would like to mention: iDVD isn't just the "ability" to burn a DVD; iDVD actually lets you create menus and divide movies into chapters, etc. just like a DVD you'd buy from the store (LOTR for example).
Maybe a few of you people should read Apple's iDVD site before you assume this means "no 3rd party DVD burners allowed".
...ok so it doesnt' solve everything, but I notice alot of pages that are "IE Only" and use CSS also use quotation marks in the CSS code, as in
p { background="#FF0000"; }
This works just fine in IE but will break many versions of AOL and just about every version of any other browser that supports style sheets and causes page rendering with no styles, which is at best, ugly, at worst, completely useless, possibly invisible or non-functional.
I'm not sure if this has been addressed yet but it would enable more "IE Only" pages to be viewed, at least a little better, in Mozilla. The only problem is standards compliance, as far as I know quotation marks are not part of the standard...perhaps a "More friendly towards 'IE-Only' pages" option in the prefs?
Popups are any and all script-created browser windows, and onLoad popups are ones created by the onLoad directive when loading a web page.
onLoad is the most common way for annoying popup ads to be thrown at you, as it happens automatically. Other popup windows may be used, but may be spawned by user actions, i.e. clicking a link and requesting an image, which then loads in its own small window, for example. This is why you have two options.
I'm not very intimately familiar with Mozilla, is there a way to have popups move to a tab in their parent window instead of becomming their own window? I wouldnt' care about pop-up windows if they didn't make so much clutter, and I suppose it would be quite easy to close those pesky "pop-unders" (you know, the ones that blank the title and use onFocus or whatever to hide themselves behind another window, and then use a timer to create a new popup ad every 30 seconds...) if they had nothing to hide behind. I could just close the tab, correct?This woudl conviniently allow me to use sites that rely on the onLoad directive, such as www.facethejury.com's "IM" system...
If it's there I might just be ready to wean off IE.
No, his display was in sleep mode, i.e. the computer turns off the signal from the video card until wakeup. Turning the monitor on/off would do nohting unless there is a VGA source for it.
That bring up another thought: Possibly it's the video card giving display sleep problems?
OK, I haven't been good at physics since high school, so I woudl jus tliek to know if I am correct in my understanding:
It is (theoretically) impossible to accelerate to the speed of light, because it would require an infinite amount of energy to do so, so the best we can do is approach the speed of light.
The closer you get to the speed of light, the harder it is to accelerate, because of said energy requirement.
Wouldn't time distortion then simply occur because things simply could not happen as fast? Your aging, your blood flow, the chemicals flowing between your synapses (this altering preception), the rate at which something burns, the rate electricity moves at, etc. all happen slower than they would if the object where traveling at a lesser speed, because the whole process takes more energy, correct?
If this is true, what happens when an object comes to a complete halt in space, the absolute zero of velocity, if you will. Could that make a black hole or something?
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Everyone is complaing about their old legacy shareware MIDI program or MS Word 98 not working under Classic and how this upgrade will devistate them, but no one has actually posted yet (until the parent) on the physical limitations of not having OS 9. It will actually cripple the OS, and the parent poster makes very good points.
IANAM (I Am Not A Moderator, obviously)
I bought a Power Macintosh 8600/250 in 1997...
...AND IT WOULDN'T EVEN BOOT INTO System 4!!!!!!
WTF. How is anyone supposed to get anything done? I can't even play StuntCopter or Cairo Shootout in the right resolution/screen depth! MacPaint becomes garbled and unstable under the "Finder", really just the damn MultiFinder in disguise! What a marketing ploy! Thanks ALOT, Apple!!!!!
</FUNNY>
<INSIGHTFUL LIKELY="maybe">
Seriously, if tons of people are worried about paying thousands to replace old shareware programs on the Mac with new commercial software, why not just write to your favorate Mac OS X shareware developer and request they create a replacement product? Be sure to elaborate on exactly what it would replace, and why such a thing would be popular with whoever needs that particular product. Panic and Ambrosia are probably two good places to start, and I'm sure there are hundreds more.
Trust me, the Mac shareware scene WANTS your feedback.
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Yes, I know.
The joke was, someone was complaining about QuickTIme being a pain in the ass to install. I meant it's either part of an "it's easier on Mac" scheme, or it's jsut because that's what happens to anyone's good software when you let a team of Windows programmers hack it up and make an installer.
Maybe I should stop posting at 4AM...
You're not using a Mac are you?
I'm not sure if this is an Apple move to get people to switch, citing it's "easier on a Mac", of if it's really just because, hell, to port QuickTime to Windows, they're gonna need a team of Windows programmers...
AppleTalk over IP.
No, wait, that wasn't until OS 9, ID4 was 1996....
Maybe he just FTPed the thing to them. Yeah that must be it.
ahhh to tired for funnies
He's right. Shouldn't HP have leverage over Microsoft?
First off, someone PLEASE meta-mod this into the GROUND. I will be actively meta-moderating in the hopes of finding this on my list for the next few weeks. This is a BLATANT Flamebait. +1 Insightful? I won't even call any names.
:-\ ). The PC is like the suit you can buy at Ames. Looks alright, works for what you need, not the most elegant thing but can be taylored to you needs, plus it's cheap.
To answer your question, troll, it's style. Pure and simple.
When have you ever met a homo who doesn't primp himself to be "pretty"?
Macs are the slickest computer solution. The hardware configs are easily known/coded for, our OS isnt' bloated with a million hardware config "maybes". The sleek plastic designs are sometimes kind of ugly (witness the toilet seat iBook! Yech!) but for the most part are well refined and thought out, both for appearance and functionality. The OS keeps it simple, while allowing flexibility.
The Macintosh is the Armani of the computer world. Well designed, comfortable, sleek, ( expensive
I'm Tokerat. I'm not gay, and I use a Macintosh. Three, actually. And I will never switch.
As much as that was meant to be -1 Flamebait, you're unfortunately right...
SpriteWorld is one of the best organized, fastest graphics libraries I've ever used. I highly recommend. See the parent of the parent for a link.
...because of the overhead of having to use inefficient APIs to draw everything.
it was finally possible to do a Mac game decently, since OpenGL could be used to control the 3D card directy, mostly avoiding QuickDraw and all that overhead. There was also the short-lived GameSprockets API, that never really caught on, and as far as I know isn't used/supported by Apple anymore
QuickDraw takes advantage of any QuickDraw accelerated video cards, and many of the Mac-specific cards supported this until 3D acceleration become popular.
QuickDraw is VERY fast (250Mhz machine, 22FPS full screen with CopyBits()).
GameSprockets is still a part of Mac OS X today, although it's mostly used to do screen resolution changes.
Ever seen SpriteWorld?
I heard about someone doing that as a joke a while back.
/. sake:
eBay apparently sold for $2.50.
The autioner was subsiquently punished.
Oh, and just for recent
3. PROFIT!!!
...it was awfuly funny to see "I'll admit, I'm stupid." (+5, Insightful) on the front page of
Good point, thought.
No ResEdit in OS X. :-(
I got an idea.
If you all really care SO MUCH, go to your local Barnes & Noble and RTFB.
If you want to know if something if bullshit, there's really nothing like seeing for yourself.
What prevents somebody from starting their own TLD and just claiming it for use? Are there laws? Trust issues? Or is it just that everyone's DNS server would filter out/be incompatable with it? With all this trouble that ICANN('T?) seems to cause, I guess my real question is, who needs them?
I'm not too familiar with the technicalities of the whole domain thing...can someone elaborate?
Do you know where detailed information can be found about the Power4 chips? I've heard a lot of buzz lately around this and would like to see for myself.
:-) ). Now I wonder if I'll buy buying an Apple Macintosh Power5 or something....
It's really sad that Motorola is delivering as poorly as they are. I wished for the longest time that they where just "stalling" with the incremental upgrading because they had somrthing cool in the works that needed refining...however now I have lost hope. I was really looking forward to the period in time when the "G6" would be seeing the light (2005? 06?), because by then I'd have the money to buy a new top-of-the-line Apple, which, for a full, decent system-of-my-dreams, would set me back a good $12,000 or more (note: including a complete Dolby Digital 5.1 reciever and speakers, audio card to go with it, dual head 23" Cinema displays, etc
...whatever, as long as it's fast and fundementally still Mac, I'll be alright.
Matrix are for kids!
Um... or for the Mac user who actually *knows* what HTML is (read: Grandma says "HTM what?", it's a simple matter of Preferences->"Ignore Rich Text commands in HTML files". TextEdit is like Wordpad and NotePad combined. I use TextEdit for quickly touching up HTML on my OS X webserver.
A little configuration goes a long way. It isnt' that hard to find this stuff people. You say you "explore" a system... I think you just play around with it and if you're unhappy with the default settings you decide this is "not for you".
RED ALERT! All computers need to be configured the way YOU like them when you get them home. Mac does. Windows does. Linux/*BSD/other UNIXs most certianly do.
Get used to it. No one can EVER hand YOU the perfect interface/default options. They are as varied as personalitites.
Apple is a hardware company. The only reason they make software (Mac OS X, the iSuite, etc.) is so their hardware is not useless (yea, yea, you're begging to get modded down for bad puns on that.)
Apple makes iDVD as a component of their DVD-Burner enabled machines. As such, it is not MEANT to be used in any other manner. If you buy an external burner, use another program. Why? Because iDVD wan't meant to work with it.
Once again, this software (iDVD) is meant ONLY for use with an Apple Macintosh which was built with the ability to burn DVD disks. It is perfectly legal for someone to develop an alternative and sell it, or even give it away.
The reason the DMCA applies here is because when you apply this patch, you are actually circumventing a security feature in this software (even though it is merely one to secure Apple some hardware sales, heh).
And for those who compare Apple to Microsoft for supposed "lock-in" tactics used here, think of it like this: The deal is, if you buy a DVD burner from Apple, they include the ability to create DVD content for free. They DON'T force you to buy some other product, citing that this computer "has the ability". It's included.
One more thing I would like to mention: iDVD isn't just the "ability" to burn a DVD; iDVD actually lets you create menus and divide movies into chapters, etc. just like a DVD you'd buy from the store (LOTR for example).
Maybe a few of you people should read Apple's iDVD site before you assume this means "no 3rd party DVD burners allowed".
Think about it:
- Costumes
- Animals
- Video feeds from other sources
Ew, video feeds... telemarketers will probably now call you with commercials. Oh boy! "Honey, the advertising alarm is going off again!"Fuck video phones. My webcam sucks but I think I'd rather stick with it.
I really would like to make some prank calls in a costume though...
...ok so it doesnt' solve everything, but I notice alot of pages that are "IE Only" and use CSS also use quotation marks in the CSS code, as in This works just fine in IE but will break many versions of AOL and just about every version of any other browser that supports style sheets and causes page rendering with no styles, which is at best, ugly, at worst, completely useless, possibly invisible or non-functional.
I'm not sure if this has been addressed yet but it would enable more "IE Only" pages to be viewed, at least a little better, in Mozilla. The only problem is standards compliance, as far as I know quotation marks are not part of the standard...perhaps a "More friendly towards 'IE-Only' pages" option in the prefs?
Popups are any and all script-created browser windows, and onLoad popups are ones created by the onLoad directive when loading a web page.
onLoad is the most common way for annoying popup ads to be thrown at you, as it happens automatically. Other popup windows may be used, but may be spawned by user actions, i.e. clicking a link and requesting an image, which then loads in its own small window, for example. This is why you have two options.
I'm not very intimately familiar with Mozilla, is there a way to have popups move to a tab in their parent window instead of becomming their own window? I wouldnt' care about pop-up windows if they didn't make so much clutter, and I suppose it would be quite easy to close those pesky "pop-unders" (you know, the ones that blank the title and use onFocus or whatever to hide themselves behind another window, and then use a timer to create a new popup ad every 30 seconds...) if they had nothing to hide behind. I could just close the tab, correct?This woudl conviniently allow me to use sites that rely on the onLoad directive, such as www.facethejury.com's "IM" system...
If it's there I might just be ready to wean off IE.
I woudl have liked that song better without the vocals but true.
:-D
If they take the internet away, we'll just have to start our own.
No, his display was in sleep mode, i.e. the computer turns off the signal from the video card until wakeup. Turning the monitor on/off would do nohting unless there is a VGA source for it.
That bring up another thought: Possibly it's the video card giving display sleep problems?
- It is (theoretically) impossible to accelerate to the speed of light, because it would require an infinite amount of energy to do so, so the best we can do is approach the speed of light.
- The closer you get to the speed of light, the harder it is to accelerate, because of said energy requirement.
Wouldn't time distortion then simply occur because things simply could not happen as fast? Your aging, your blood flow, the chemicals flowing between your synapses (this altering preception), the rate at which something burns, the rate electricity moves at, etc. all happen slower than they would if the object where traveling at a lesser speed, because the whole process takes more energy, correct?If this is true, what happens when an object comes to a complete halt in space, the absolute zero of velocity, if you will. Could that make a black hole or something?
IADNAP.
Tokerat/21/Massachusetts