Yes, unfortunately Mozilla isn't all that fast on OS X (although my complaints lie more in the interface).
However, Chimera (0.5 and the latest nightlies) smokes IE at rendering just about anything so I don't know where you're coming from with that one. As a quick (and imprecise) test I just loaded cnn.com in Chimera and timed it from the moment it started transferring data. ~4 secs for Chimera on my G3/500 laptop, ~8 seconds for IE.
While Conker was generally well-reviewed its sales were dismal on n64. Much of that could be attributed to the n64's demographic, but I suspect sales will not be much better on Xbox. Just look at Sega's exclusive titles for the platform (JSRF, CT3, and Gun Valkyrie), all of which have sold well under 100,000 copies worldwide. Unfortunately I can't quote a source here so I'm sticking to a generalized figure.
I will admit that Starfox Adventures is fun (I got my copy this morning), but long development time is seen here again. The game was originally "Dinosaur Planet" for n64 and was repeatedly pushed back and eventually made a cube title and remade into a Starfox game (and it shows).
I suppose that's true, I merely used the PSOne sales mark to show that an obsolete console is outselling it. For awhile the Dreamcast was outselling the Xbox too, but magicbox doesn't list those sales.
For reference, ~15,000 GCs were sold, to ~3000 Xboxes according to the-magicbox.com's figures.
Not to sound like an MS hater here, but this is an incredibly poor purchase. Rare as a development studio was cut loose by Nintendo because (in addition to making up very little of Nintendo's revenue for 2001 and 2002 prior to Starfox) they missed deadlines and put out subpar games (DK64, Jet Force Gemini, Perfect Dark (if you can't stand the horrid framerate)) for the last several years. To make matters worse, most of the decent devs (including the founders) have left to form their own companies and Rare itself only has two or three marketable licenses (Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, and Conker (maaaaybe)). So MS is paying hundreds of millions for a game developer recently known for its overbudget, late games that aren't very good and doesn't even get any big licenses in the bargain. Why didn't they just sink $10 mil into 20 or 30 dev houses to fund a bunch of big exclusive games? They'd get more results faster and almost assuredly higher quality.
With the delay of Panzer Dragoon Orta to 2003 the Xbox's Christmas lineup is also fairly lackluster and sales this Xmas could be very poor. Of course, if MS keeps pumping marketing dollars into it maybe they can convince America that the console is doing great.
I'm not trying to start a console flamewar (I go where the games are in most cases, and I will probably pick up an Xbox at the next price drop), but with Xbox's sales figures for Japan (the-magicbox.com) showing that in some weeks even the PSOne is outselling it, I wonder if the Japanese game studios will be abandoning what little development they already do on Xbox and concentrating on the two surviving consoles instead.
Apple has to add "enablers" into the System Folder for every new hardware release. It is a very safe assumption to say that they won't be writing those enablers for new hardware starting in 2003 and that is why the OS won't boot.
While it has been said numerous times in comments thus far, I cannot recommend Aphex Twin highly enough. Aphex Twin is actually the work of one man (Richard D. James) and runs the gamut from soft and beautiful (Xtal off Selected Ambient Works 85-92) to acid metal styling (Come To Daddy off Come To Daddy) to abstract noise (almost anything off Selected Ambient Works Volume II). aphextwin.nu is the website for all things Richard D. James, but be sure to pick up the Richard D. James album (contains Girl/Boy song, most likely his most popular song ever), Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Come To Daddy (if only for Flim), and I Care Because You Do (once you ease yourself into his more abstracted music you will likely enjoy Ventolin, Start As You Mean To Go On, and more).
You also could consider picking up some of his singles such as On, or even look for some of the work he has done under other names (Powerpill was a group name he made up when he did a Pacman remix that many people have heard).
Obviously I cannot recommend Aphex Twin highly enough, so don't take my word for it, check out his work! Full albums are difficult if not impossible to find on the net so sample individual tracks when you can find them prior to buying.
This is untrue. Any and all versions of TiVo software all the way through 3.0 will allow you to record without a subscription. You lose most of the benefits of scheduling, but you can still program it like a super-VCR with repeating recordings, live TV buffering, etc.
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Why would you think Williams can't play a serious role? Have you ever seen Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting? He definitely doesn't look like he can act calm and remain serious for long when you see most things he's done (or any interview with him), but those movies above (as well as Insomnia) prove that he's capable of it.
Many PS2 games support 16:9 and newer ones now support 480p. Xbox can support 1080i whereas the PS2 cannot though. Too bad the games it can make look so good are so mediocre.
Obviously the OS X keynote will focus more specifically on Jaguar, but presumably most of Steve's presentation will be about Jaguar with a little of his trademark recapping. Anybody think that Steve's presentation won't really show anything about Jaguar and it'll be left to the official OS X keynote?
Some good criticisms, but please drop the tired mouse argument. Yes everybody knows it, no nothing will change, yes OS X supports multibutton mice natively so just buy a USB one for $20 and throw the other one away. Also, you never had to use the mouse to choose cancel. In almost all cases you could command-. and it would automatically choose cancel for you. It isn't so much that keyboard navigation wasn't there, it was just totally undocumented. As for 6, very unlikely...Apple makes most of their money from hardware. Finally, I'm not sure if it is still true but Bungie announced over a year ago that despite coming to XBox first, Halo would be coming for Mac and PC.
Pissing off most of your existing customer base by getting rid of a useful and legal product because of a product you haven't released yet (and those pissed off customers won't buy) is in poor form.
I'm going to take an excerpt from the WC3 beta EULA I have here (yes, I know this is of dubious legal value and EULAs are evil monsters at/., but it is nonetheless theoretically something agreed to. FWIW, this is the same license that came with D2 and SC, etc).
Responsibilities of Beta Tester
C. You are entitled to use the program for your own use, but you are not entitled to:
(I) sell, auction or grant a security interest in or transfer reproductions of the Program to other parties in any way, nor to rent, lease or license the Program to others without the prior written consent of Blizzard; and
(II) exploit the Program or any of its parts for any commercial purpose including, but not limited to, use at a cyber cafe, computer gaming center or any other location-based site without the prior written consent of Blizzard; and
(III) host or provide matchmaking services for the Program or emulate or redirect the communications protocols used by Blizzard in the network feature of the Program, through protocol emulation, tunneling, modifying or adding components to the Program, use of a utility program or any other techniques now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose including, but not limited to network play over the Internet, network play utilizing commercial or non-commercial gaming networks or as part of content aggregation networks without prior written consent of Blizzard;...
It seems an evil wizard has cursed the denizens of lineage with KNEECAPS OF STONE thus rendering my character unable to walk at a greater than 2 tiles per minute pace! Oh, and apparently blinded them so most non-magic attacks miss. Maybe I'll go to the focus group I was invited to in Austin and ask them why?:)
First Family Guy, now Futurama. Fox seems hell-bent on making sure I never watch their crappy network again. I have religiously watched both of these shows since their inception despite constant preemption, horrible timeslots (Family Guy went up against both Survivor *and* Friends), and lackluster promotion. I even have every episode in MPEG and my friends and I watch them all the time when we can't see new eps/reruns on TV. When people come over and I show them the shows most of them have never even *heard* of Family Guy (or sometimes even Futurama) yet when they leave they love it. I'm tellin' ya, there ain't no justice (tanj!).
As a beta tester of WC3 I can tell you that it leans HEAVILY away from this. A pop limit of 90, heros with levels/items/skills, and a thing called upkeep* all force you to use real strategy, not just hordes of units.
*Upkeep works like this. During the 0-30 food period you are in "no upkeep" and you get 10 gold for every 10 you mine. 30-60 is "low upkeep" and you get 7 gold for every 10. 60-90 is "high upkeep" and you get only 4 for every 10. This discourages you from building large armies and emphasizes strategy over quantity.
It's called HLTV and it is in use by quite a few CS servers out there already. You log into the HLTV server and you watch from a bunch of different angles as a spectator and you can get overhead view maps that show where everyone is and how they're moving, etc. That + a static movement behind every living player movement choice would make it the most interesting.
unless you are a MacOS freak who thinks that running Office 98 on MacOS really is "Thinking Different"
Is this a troll or do you really mean it? Office 98 has since been supplanted by Office 2001, and now just a few weeks ago by Office X for OS X. It would seem you need to either get your head screwed on straight or check your facts prior to posting.
* Apple design -- stainless steel also a FireWire hard drive
* iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by.78" thick 6.5 ounces
* One hour recharge, 10 hour battery capacity charges over FireWire -- no charging cable needed
* 20 minute skip protection FireWire built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* "To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap when it comes to music. And iPod fits in your pocket. Never before possible."
* 3 breakthroughs in iPod: 1. Ultra-portable. Ultra-thin hard drive. 1.8 inch hard drive is.2 inches thick. 5 Gigabytes. 1000 songs at 160K bit rate.
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Yes, unfortunately Mozilla isn't all that fast on OS X (although my complaints lie more in the interface).
However, Chimera (0.5 and the latest nightlies) smokes IE at rendering just about anything so I don't know where you're coming from with that one. As a quick (and imprecise) test I just loaded cnn.com in Chimera and timed it from the moment it started transferring data. ~4 secs for Chimera on my G3/500 laptop, ~8 seconds for IE.
While Conker was generally well-reviewed its sales were dismal on n64. Much of that could be attributed to the n64's demographic, but I suspect sales will not be much better on Xbox. Just look at Sega's exclusive titles for the platform (JSRF, CT3, and Gun Valkyrie), all of which have sold well under 100,000 copies worldwide. Unfortunately I can't quote a source here so I'm sticking to a generalized figure.
I will admit that Starfox Adventures is fun (I got my copy this morning), but long development time is seen here again. The game was originally "Dinosaur Planet" for n64 and was repeatedly pushed back and eventually made a cube title and remade into a Starfox game (and it shows).
I suppose that's true, I merely used the PSOne sales mark to show that an obsolete console is outselling it. For awhile the Dreamcast was outselling the Xbox too, but magicbox doesn't list those sales.
For reference, ~15,000 GCs were sold, to ~3000 Xboxes according to the-magicbox.com's figures.
Not to sound like an MS hater here, but this is an incredibly poor purchase. Rare as a development studio was cut loose by Nintendo because (in addition to making up very little of Nintendo's revenue for 2001 and 2002 prior to Starfox) they missed deadlines and put out subpar games (DK64, Jet Force Gemini, Perfect Dark (if you can't stand the horrid framerate)) for the last several years. To make matters worse, most of the decent devs (including the founders) have left to form their own companies and Rare itself only has two or three marketable licenses (Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, and Conker (maaaaybe)). So MS is paying hundreds of millions for a game developer recently known for its overbudget, late games that aren't very good and doesn't even get any big licenses in the bargain. Why didn't they just sink $10 mil into 20 or 30 dev houses to fund a bunch of big exclusive games? They'd get more results faster and almost assuredly higher quality.
With the delay of Panzer Dragoon Orta to 2003 the Xbox's Christmas lineup is also fairly lackluster and sales this Xmas could be very poor. Of course, if MS keeps pumping marketing dollars into it maybe they can convince America that the console is doing great.
I'm not trying to start a console flamewar (I go where the games are in most cases, and I will probably pick up an Xbox at the next price drop), but with Xbox's sales figures for Japan (the-magicbox.com) showing that in some weeks even the PSOne is outselling it, I wonder if the Japanese game studios will be abandoning what little development they already do on Xbox and concentrating on the two surviving consoles instead.
Back in 1997 Microsoft invested $150 million in non-voting shares. Those shares were already sold at a tidy profit by MS.
Apple has to add "enablers" into the System Folder for every new hardware release. It is a very safe assumption to say that they won't be writing those enablers for new hardware starting in 2003 and that is why the OS won't boot.
Hey look i said "I cannot recommend Aphex Twin highly enough" twice in one post. Well obviously I can't recommend him highly enough.
That'll teach me to proofread (no it won't).
While it has been said numerous times in comments thus far, I cannot recommend Aphex Twin highly enough. Aphex Twin is actually the work of one man (Richard D. James) and runs the gamut from soft and beautiful (Xtal off Selected Ambient Works 85-92) to acid metal styling (Come To Daddy off Come To Daddy) to abstract noise (almost anything off Selected Ambient Works Volume II). aphextwin.nu is the website for all things Richard D. James, but be sure to pick up the Richard D. James album (contains Girl/Boy song, most likely his most popular song ever), Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Come To Daddy (if only for Flim), and I Care Because You Do (once you ease yourself into his more abstracted music you will likely enjoy Ventolin, Start As You Mean To Go On, and more).
You also could consider picking up some of his singles such as On, or even look for some of the work he has done under other names (Powerpill was a group name he made up when he did a Pacman remix that many people have heard).
Obviously I cannot recommend Aphex Twin highly enough, so don't take my word for it, check out his work! Full albums are difficult if not impossible to find on the net so sample individual tracks when you can find them prior to buying.
This is untrue. Any and all versions of TiVo software all the way through 3.0 will allow you to record without a subscription. You lose most of the benefits of scheduling, but you can still program it like a super-VCR with repeating recordings, live TV buffering, etc.
Why would you think Williams can't play a serious role? Have you ever seen Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting? He definitely doesn't look like he can act calm and remain serious for long when you see most things he's done (or any interview with him), but those movies above (as well as Insomnia) prove that he's capable of it.
Many PS2 games support 16:9 and newer ones now support 480p. Xbox can support 1080i whereas the PS2 cannot though. Too bad the games it can make look so good are so mediocre.
Obviously the OS X keynote will focus more specifically on Jaguar, but presumably most of Steve's presentation will be about Jaguar with a little of his trademark recapping. Anybody think that Steve's presentation won't really show anything about Jaguar and it'll be left to the official OS X keynote?
Some good criticisms, but please drop the tired mouse argument. Yes everybody knows it, no nothing will change, yes OS X supports multibutton mice natively so just buy a USB one for $20 and throw the other one away. Also, you never had to use the mouse to choose cancel. In almost all cases you could command-. and it would automatically choose cancel for you. It isn't so much that keyboard navigation wasn't there, it was just totally undocumented. As for 6, very unlikely...Apple makes most of their money from hardware. Finally, I'm not sure if it is still true but Bungie announced over a year ago that despite coming to XBox first, Halo would be coming for Mac and PC.
He's talking about himself in the third-person in an amusingly self-deprecating way. If we can't make fun of ourselves, who else is left?
:)
You?
Sorry, couldn't resist!
This is beautiful. I forsee losing many friends in my future!
Pissing off most of your existing customer base by getting rid of a useful and legal product because of a product you haven't released yet (and those pissed off customers won't buy) is in poor form.
I'm going to take an excerpt from the WC3 beta EULA I have here (yes, I know this is of dubious legal value and EULAs are evil monsters at
Responsibilities of Beta Tester
C. You are entitled to use the program for your own use, but you are not entitled to:
(I) sell, auction or grant a security interest in or transfer reproductions of the Program to other parties in any way, nor to rent, lease or license the Program to others without the prior written consent of Blizzard; and
(II) exploit the Program or any of its parts for any commercial purpose including, but not limited to, use at a cyber cafe, computer gaming center or any other location-based site without the prior written consent of Blizzard; and
(III) host or provide matchmaking services for the Program or emulate or redirect the communications protocols used by Blizzard in the network feature of the Program, through protocol emulation, tunneling, modifying or adding components to the Program, use of a utility program or any other techniques now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose including, but not limited to network play over the Internet, network play utilizing commercial or non-commercial gaming networks or as part of content aggregation networks without prior written consent of Blizzard;
It seems an evil wizard has cursed the denizens of lineage with KNEECAPS OF STONE thus rendering my character unable to walk at a greater than 2 tiles per minute pace! Oh, and apparently blinded them so most non-magic attacks miss. Maybe I'll go to the focus group I was invited to in Austin and ask them why? :)
I'm gonna start my own network! With blackjack...and hookers! In fact, forget the network!
(with all apologies to Futurama)
First Family Guy, now Futurama. Fox seems hell-bent on making sure I never watch their crappy network again. I have religiously watched both of these shows since their inception despite constant preemption, horrible timeslots (Family Guy went up against both Survivor *and* Friends), and lackluster promotion. I even have every episode in MPEG and my friends and I watch them all the time when we can't see new eps/reruns on TV. When people come over and I show them the shows most of them have never even *heard* of Family Guy (or sometimes even Futurama) yet when they leave they love it. I'm tellin' ya, there ain't no justice (tanj!).
As a beta tester of WC3 I can tell you that it leans HEAVILY away from this. A pop limit of 90, heros with levels/items/skills, and a thing called upkeep* all force you to use real strategy, not just hordes of units.
*Upkeep works like this. During the 0-30 food period you are in "no upkeep" and you get 10 gold for every 10 you mine. 30-60 is "low upkeep" and you get 7 gold for every 10. 60-90 is "high upkeep" and you get only 4 for every 10. This discourages you from building large armies and emphasizes strategy over quantity.
It's called HLTV and it is in use by quite a few CS servers out there already. You log into the HLTV server and you watch from a bunch of different angles as a spectator and you can get overhead view maps that show where everyone is and how they're moving, etc. That + a static movement behind every living player movement choice would make it the most interesting.
unless you are a MacOS freak who thinks that running Office 98 on MacOS really is "Thinking Different"
Is this a troll or do you really mean it? Office 98 has since been supplanted by Office 2001, and now just a few weeks ago by Office X for OS X. It would seem you need to either get your head screwed on straight or check your facts prior to posting.
Have you considered setting up some kind of system should this happen again in the future?
Pleeease can you spell it right? :) I swear it isn't hard!
MacCentral coverage of the iPod. It is basically an ultrathin mp3 player. Here are the specs...
.78" thick 6.5 ounces
.2 inches thick. 5 Gigabytes. 1000 songs at 160K bit rate.
* Apple design -- stainless steel also a FireWire hard drive
* iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by
* One hour recharge, 10 hour battery capacity charges over FireWire -- no charging cable needed
* 20 minute skip protection FireWire built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* "To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap when it comes to music. And iPod fits in your pocket. Never before possible."
* 3 breakthroughs in iPod: 1. Ultra-portable. Ultra-thin hard drive. 1.8 inch hard drive is