It's a high-wire balancing act, and while they're very good at it, they're going to slip eventually.
They don't necessarily have to slip. They just have to make a better, more intuitive, easy to use word processor. I can name quite a few things that are wrong with Word 2003 and OpenOffice. But I guess you can too:)
I can't imagine that if people already have a skewed perception of the physics of reality because of movies, they won't have a skewed perception of reality when it comes to violence.
Haha that would be really funny. The AutospaceLikeWindows95 function I don't understand. Why is it even in OOXML? Isn't one well-documented autospace function enough?
Yeah I just read here that Apple's iWork '08 supports OOXML very well, while MS is still struggling with their OOXML implementation in Office for the Mac. I can hardly believe that story; why would it be more difficult to implement OOXML on the Mac than on Windows? Does OOXML depend on some built-in properties of the Windows OS? If that is the case it will never be an open standard.
Wow that brings back memories. I used to do all my browsing with Lynx. Haven't used the program for four years, if not more. I bet it's still at the same version I used back then:-) There wasn't much to improve on Lynx anyways. Thanks for the screenshot!
Thank you for all the remarks about the HD 2600 Pro, and the comparison someone in this thread gave of that card to the X1600! I now think it's a waste of money for me to buy an iMac. I already have a MacBook Pro with an X1600 card, and I think I'm much better off when I buy a nice big screen for that machine so I can use it for playing adventure games. Then I can decide later what to do when the videocard in the MBP is not good enough for playing the adventure games anymore: buy a new MBP, or buy a cheaper Windows/Linux machine. You don't need a very good video card for playing most adventure games, and I think I will have fun with the MBP for quite some years.
I want to use the iMac for playing adventure games on, in Windows. The new iMac has an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro videocard. Does any one of you have experiences with this card? How good is it compared to other cards in its class? Although of course the highest number of frames/s is not very important in adventure games, I'd like to know how oldfashioned the video card in the iMac will be in three years' time.
I think my MBP will look like your Dell when I spill acid on it, but since I haven't done that in the year that I own it, it still looks brand new. Very nice machine, the MBP.
I'm also surprised that extra memory is still outrageously expensive when you buy it from Apple. Will the iMac have easy to reach memory slots, so I can buy my memory elsewhere? I guess not...
Thanks again for your comments. I'm sure I saw the files via AFP. I don't know exactly what the problem is, but I am certain that samba definitely doesn't serve my whole harddisk. As for the password handling in samba on my Mac, I'll look into that a bit more. It is confusing; I can't use the same smb.conf on my Mac as I have on my Linux box. For some reason that doesn't work properly. I'm at work now, and it has been a while since I last tried to configure Samba for the Mac, so unfortunately I can't tell you exactly how the Mac's behaviour differs from the Linux box.
You're right, I made a mistake. In my post I said that I had almost all file sharing switched on, and then I could see my harddisk with my Linux PC. That was wrong, I had it switched off. Only Samba and sshd were running. My sincere apologies for this stupid typing error and the confusion it caused. The fact that I could see my whole harddisk on my Linux PC even with Personal File Sharing switched off still puzzles me. I'm certain it was not a samba issue.
The password handling problems of Samba in OSX are known, see here, here, and here. I hope that will be fixed in Leopard.
So I'm modded Overrated and I have my sanity questioned by someone who didn't read my post well, just because I said something negative about Apple. What also is interesting is that the person who thinks I'm confused was modded Insightful. And I didn't get modded Offtopic. My post is Offtopic, because it's about the 'normal' version of OSX, not the server version. Way to go moderators.
In their obsession with keeping things simple Apple has IMO cut a few too many corners in the area of disk sharing. If you want to share a folder for use on a Windows computer, you can only share all home directories, or nothing. If I switch on Personal File Sharing suddenly all my applications and all data of all users is available for everyone to see. And a few days ago I discovered that even while I had everything but remote logon (which basically means sshd) and Windows Sharing (which uses a modified smb.conf so I only share the directories I want) switched on in the Preferences, I could still access my whole harddisk remotely from my Linux PC. Luckily I did need a password for that, but still... Shame on you Apple! And that's not all. On the samba implementation on OSX, password handling is so broken it's unusable. The command smbpasswd runs but it doesn't do anything. Any password you type seems to be totally ignored. So I have to share my directories with no password. Shame on you again Apple! Shame shame shame. Even Windows does better in this area. I hope they will fix all that in Leopard.
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You're right. This is more reliable.
It's a high-wire balancing act, and while they're very good at it, they're going to slip eventually.
:)
They don't necessarily have to slip. They just have to make a better, more intuitive, easy to use word processor. I can name quite a few things that are wrong with Word 2003 and OpenOffice. But I guess you can too
I can't imagine that if people already have a skewed perception of the physics of reality because of movies, they won't have a skewed perception of reality when it comes to violence.
Yep, that's so true it's sad. Poor Linux. Always the third runner-up.
Not everybody in Africa is hungry. Many people that we would consider poor have mobile phones there. They use them for their business.
Suddenly I'm reminded of a book that features someone lying in front of his house, trying to prevent it from being demolished by yellow bulldozers.
I said handle, not read and write. And the point of the article is, Apple supports MS's own OOXML earlier than MS do themselves.
Haha that would be really funny. The AutospaceLikeWindows95 function I don't understand. Why is it even in OOXML? Isn't one well-documented autospace function enough?
Yeah I just read here that Apple's iWork '08 supports OOXML very well, while MS is still struggling with their OOXML implementation in Office for the Mac. I can hardly believe that story; why would it be more difficult to implement OOXML on the Mac than on Windows? Does OOXML depend on some built-in properties of the Windows OS? If that is the case it will never be an open standard.
Haha I was right! Fantastic :D
Wow that brings back memories. I used to do all my browsing with Lynx. Haven't used the program for four years, if not more. I bet it's still at the same version I used back then :-) There wasn't much to improve on Lynx anyways. Thanks for the screenshot!
Thank you for all the remarks about the HD 2600 Pro, and the comparison someone in this thread gave of that card to the X1600! I now think it's a waste of money for me to buy an iMac. I already have a MacBook Pro with an X1600 card, and I think I'm much better off when I buy a nice big screen for that machine so I can use it for playing adventure games. Then I can decide later what to do when the videocard in the MBP is not good enough for playing the adventure games anymore: buy a new MBP, or buy a cheaper Windows/Linux machine. You don't need a very good video card for playing most adventure games, and I think I will have fun with the MBP for quite some years.
Cool, thanks! I have upgraded my old G3 iMac a few times, and that was complicated, but times have changed I see!
I want to use the iMac for playing adventure games on, in Windows. The new iMac has an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro videocard. Does any one of you have experiences with this card? How good is it compared to other cards in its class? Although of course the highest number of frames/s is not very important in adventure games, I'd like to know how oldfashioned the video card in the iMac will be in three years' time.
I think my MBP will look like your Dell when I spill acid on it, but since I haven't done that in the year that I own it, it still looks brand new. Very nice machine, the MBP.
I'm also surprised that extra memory is still outrageously expensive when you buy it from Apple. Will the iMac have easy to reach memory slots, so I can buy my memory elsewhere? I guess not...
I use Ubuntu. Apparently I have these packages installed.
Thanks again for your comments. I'm sure I saw the files via AFP. I don't know exactly what the problem is, but I am certain that samba definitely doesn't serve my whole harddisk.
As for the password handling in samba on my Mac, I'll look into that a bit more. It is confusing; I can't use the same smb.conf on my Mac as I have on my Linux box. For some reason that doesn't work properly. I'm at work now, and it has been a while since I last tried to configure Samba for the Mac, so unfortunately I can't tell you exactly how the Mac's behaviour differs from the Linux box.
You're right, I made a mistake. In my post I said that I had almost all file sharing switched on, and then I could see my harddisk with my Linux PC. That was wrong, I had it switched off. Only Samba and sshd were running. My sincere apologies for this stupid typing error and the confusion it caused. The fact that I could see my whole harddisk on my Linux PC even with Personal File Sharing switched off still puzzles me. I'm certain it was not a samba issue.
The password handling problems of Samba in OSX are known, see here, here, and here. I hope that will be fixed in Leopard.
So I'm modded Overrated and I have my sanity questioned by someone who didn't read my post well, just because I said something negative about Apple. What also is interesting is that the person who thinks I'm confused was modded Insightful. And I didn't get modded Offtopic. My post is Offtopic, because it's about the 'normal' version of OSX, not the server version. Way to go moderators.
In their obsession with keeping things simple Apple has IMO cut a few too many corners in the area of disk sharing. If you want to share a folder for use on a Windows computer, you can only share all home directories, or nothing. If I switch on Personal File Sharing suddenly all my applications and all data of all users is available for everyone to see. And a few days ago I discovered that even while I had everything but remote logon (which basically means sshd) and Windows Sharing (which uses a modified smb.conf so I only share the directories I want) switched on in the Preferences, I could still access my whole harddisk remotely from my Linux PC. Luckily I did need a password for that, but still... Shame on you Apple! And that's not all. On the samba implementation on OSX, password handling is so broken it's unusable. The command smbpasswd runs but it doesn't do anything. Any password you type seems to be totally ignored. So I have to share my directories with no password. Shame on you again Apple! Shame shame shame. Even Windows does better in this area. I hope they will fix all that in Leopard.
Haha that was the funniest troll about Linux I ever read. Thanks for the link!
I looked up Bioshock, and it seems like yet another FPS to me. Something that most avid adventure gamers are not at all interested in.
Wow that link contains almost less info than the original link! Thanks man!
Did the people who assigned the prizes not use criteria, or was the prize distribution a random process?
No adventure game category. Shame, the genre is doing so well compared to a few years ago.