I dont think playing Rise of Rome and having people whining or dropping games is exactly a fair comparison to people being able to see thru walls in q1-q3. Ok, maybe you and taco only play games like this with people you know. What about the other 95% of the community that doesn't play with just friends? What about tournaments, and leagues? Most of these are played remotely from all over the country, or even all over the world. I just think the whole philosophy of 'I only play online games with people I know' is detrimental to the whole idea of the internet gaming community. Playing with friends at a lan party is one thing, but most people dont do this, as the net provides much easier access to gaming oppurtunities. Anyway, the whole point of this ramble was that just because some people only play with friends they know, that doesn't mean the majority of the internet gaming community does, and these drivers are detrimental to the internet gaming community as a whole, neat technology or not.
programs in mac os9 can be written to take advantage of multiple processors. The 2nd processor isnt just sitting there. most commercial applications just were not written this way because dual processors were rare at the time. Thanks for playing though!
every single crisis didnt end up on my desk anyway. Unfortunately of the few people in our company, I am the only one with any technical know how it seems. If we did have a crisis day, it would just consist of me getting phone calls complaining that their email sends are going slow or they cant reach a website, just like an ordinary day. This is a crisis to these people. fear
I thought they were neat when i first got ICQ long ago, but for me, it quickly turned from an instant messenger to instant annoyer. I use irc for most online communications now, other than email. It tends to be more useful for conversations involving more than 1 person and you can run your own server, and not rely on the services of some faceless company. Plus, most irc clients are much more expandable thru scripting compared to most IM clients.
you also have to remember, those quarter million sales will depend pretty much on how well the xbox and games for it sells, since they arent allowed to release the games for any other platform for 6 months. its easy to say they could hit a quarter million doing games for xbox nintendo and ps2, but its too early to tell how well an unreleased system and it's games are really going to sell...
The thing I found interesting is the fact that MS lent the money, instead of giving them the money. I know the developer is strapped for cash, but I have a hard time seeing how giving $20 out of each unit sold to MS to repay the loan is going to fill their coffers. Im sure the game will be popular and all, but I dont think Interplay is getting the great deal they think they are.
The Mac versions of Explorer and Outlook dont support any of the exploits used on windows. No activex stuff or vb nastiness supported. I actually received a copy of iloveyou from someone. it opened as a text attachment, not any kind of executable
The Mac versions of Explorer and Outlook dont support any of the exploits used on windows. No activex stuff or vb nastiness supported. I actually received a copy of iloveyou from someone. it opened as a text attachment, not any kind of executable
doesnt work like that.
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The user's computer contacts apple to inquire for the updates. Apple doesnt send out notification to the program. There is no message or signal you can send to trigger it on someone else's computer.
My guess as to why you never heard the mac users you know complain about control over the os, might be the fact that the old mac os was actually crazy customizable. Most non mac users just dont realize how much control you could really have over your system. Between themes, kaleidescope, countless extensions and control panels, and resedit, you could change pretty much anything imaginable on your system. my 2 cents
Actually, I didnt get that info at macosrumors. Im not a moron. If it was listed on there, then I had no idea. I do not read the site, because as you said, the guy is full of shit
there have been rumors that AMD will start manufacturing G4 processors for Apple soon. If so, this would be great. Not only would it help lessen Apple's reliance on faultering Motorola, but hopefully AMD would be able to produce the chips faster, cheaper, and possibly also at a higher clock rate than Motorola has been able to reliably. Having AMD be a chip producer might help strengthen Apple's reputation as well. While this is still all rumor, it is a nice thought in my opinion. Carry on
oh my god. I *still* play that on my old Apple2e. Much more rewarding than playing thru an emulator. By the way, you probably know this already, but in case you dont.. in the original wizardry game: create a bishop, enter the maze and camp immediately, and cast identify 9 until it succeeds. Whammo! tons of experience points instantly. Now go turn yourself into a ninja, or samurai, or other cool class you cant be from the start.
Electronic Arts and Origin Systems have announced a plan that will increase their focus on Ultima Online and halt production of OWO: ORIGIN (UO2). The reason is simple, rather than creating OWO: ORIGIN (UO2) as a parallel world competing with UO, we've decided to put those resources into growing and improving the core offering for Ultima Online's 230,000 loyal subscribers. In the near future and with the release next week of Ultima Online: Third Dawn, players will see new lands, new creatures, and a world that is continually evolving within Ultima Online.
There ya go. They just decided there money would be better spent improving the current game, rather than creating a new one.
imho, the sponsor stuff in tony hawk helped add a lot to the atmosphere of the game. I would much rather ride around on a birdhouse or powell deck, than just get to choose between 'deck a or deck b'
I am running osx, on a dual g4 500, with 256mb ram. the damn thing flies. I had previously been running the beta on an ibook as a toy/experiment. the performance was lackluster, to say the least. I installed OSX on the tower about 5 minutes after I got it. and I too was disappointed with the speed. Altho it was on its own 20 gig partition, with it's own os9.1 system for classic, it seemed a bit sluggish. I just dumped everything I had installed on this fairly new machine onto a dvd-ram disk (oh so handy for backups!), reformatted, installed my apps, and it was like a whole new computer. There must have been a lot of debugging code in the beta still. heh. OSX does still have its flaws, and it is still teething, but it is plenty fast if installed right, at least on this machine, and it has plenty of room to grow. I cant wait...
He isnt saying the g4 is a bad processor (i think) he is saying motorola is having some troubles, which is totally true. They have had a few rounds of layoffs in the past 2 months, with probably more to come. The chip may rock, but that doesnt help us if the company making it goes under.
Carbon is the 'yellow brick road' to lead developers into OSX territory. It greatly diminishes porting time, allows developers to work with what is basically the same code base, and they can release a single binary that will run under OS8.6 and later with the carbon library, or that will run under OSX. While it is still semi-flakey at this point, it is still the path developers need, and are willing to take. Adobe isnt going to throw away years of code to support an OS that is mainly run by early adopters (at this point). With carbon, they dont have to. They can recode the 15-30% needed for carbon (probably a bit more for an adobe app), and be up and running within months at the most. At the same time, Apple can be introducing developers to cocoa, which is truly a nice dev environment. So they can use carbon to get their stuff up and running, while they develop cocoa versions of their app. This may sound unlikely, but I really think this is what will happen. Cocoa has some nice hooks into the system that carbon just can't provide, and developers of course will be the first to realize this and want to take advantage of it. IMHO Carbon is the initial path that devs will take, but cocoa will be the true road to the 'promised land'
actually, it is closer to $159.34 for the mlb fee, the program, and the subscription to the gold service from realplayer. That is a lot of $ to me, and defintely a lot to my friend, who is less well off than I. You can keep saying it still shouldnt be a big deal if he is a hardcore fan if you want, I guess it is just relative.
as someone else pointed out, it will also require the commercial realplayer client, which you have to pay for, as well as a *subsrcription* to realnetworks gold service. And it is quite possible that is $10 per team you want to listen to, and not for every broadcast. The MLB fee, the Realplayer client, and the Realplayer Gold subscription != $10 a year. Gee, it comes out to a lot more than that, doesnt it? Guess what else, this guy doesnt throw all his cash away on his 'workstation.' He has a low end p2 with like 32 megs of ram. He also has little/no money, and uses a free isp. So yes, I will be bummed for my friend. Thanks for the input
Im not a real big baseball fan, but one of my really good friends is. Being a fan of many teams, none of them in his state, he gets most of his baseball action using realplayer and the MLB website. While it isnt the end of the world or anything, Im sure there are a ton of people like him, who are going to be very disappointed that they have to pay for what has been a free service for quite a while now. Im sure there are also quite a few that will no longer be using the service because of this. A shame if you ask me
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someone must have seen my comment coming through a wall and modded me before i could react
I dont think playing Rise of Rome and having people whining or dropping games is exactly a fair comparison to people being able to see thru walls in q1-q3. Ok, maybe you and taco only play games like this with people you know. What about the other 95% of the community that doesn't play with just friends? What about tournaments, and leagues? Most of these are played remotely from all over the country, or even all over the world.
I just think the whole philosophy of 'I only play online games with people I know' is detrimental to the whole idea of the internet gaming community. Playing with friends at a lan party is one thing, but most people dont do this, as the net provides much easier access to gaming oppurtunities.
Anyway, the whole point of this ramble was that just because some people only play with friends they know, that doesn't mean the majority of the internet gaming community does, and these drivers are detrimental to the internet gaming community as a whole, neat technology or not.
programs in mac os9 can be written to take advantage of multiple processors. The 2nd processor isnt just sitting there. most commercial applications just were not written this way because dual processors were rare at the time.
Thanks for playing though!
every single crisis didnt end up on my desk anyway. Unfortunately of the few people in our company, I am the only one with any technical know how it seems. If we did have a crisis day, it would just consist of me getting phone calls complaining that their email sends are going slow or they cant reach a website, just like an ordinary day. This is a crisis to these people.
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I thought they were neat when i first got ICQ long ago, but for me, it quickly turned from an instant messenger to instant annoyer. I use irc for most online communications now, other than email. It tends to be more useful for conversations involving more than 1 person and you can run your own server, and not rely on the services of some faceless company. Plus, most irc clients are much more expandable thru scripting compared to most IM clients.
you also have to remember, those quarter million sales will depend pretty much on how well the xbox and games for it sells, since they arent allowed to release the games for any other platform for 6 months. its easy to say they could hit a quarter million doing games for xbox nintendo and ps2, but its too early to tell how well an unreleased system and it's games are really going to sell...
The thing I found interesting is the fact that MS lent the money, instead of giving them the money. I know the developer is strapped for cash, but I have a hard time seeing how giving $20 out of each unit sold to MS to repay the loan is going to fill their coffers. Im sure the game will be popular and all, but I dont think Interplay is getting the great deal they think they are.
i try to say something nice about mac explorer, and it goes and screws me with a double post. figures :D
The Mac versions of Explorer and Outlook dont support any of the exploits used on windows. No activex stuff or vb nastiness supported. I actually received a copy of iloveyou from someone. it opened as a text attachment, not any kind of executable
The Mac versions of Explorer and Outlook dont support any of the exploits used on windows. No activex stuff or vb nastiness supported. I actually received a copy of iloveyou from someone. it opened as a text attachment, not any kind of executable
The user's computer contacts apple to inquire for the updates. Apple doesnt send out notification to the program. There is no message or signal you can send to trigger it on someone else's computer.
My guess as to why you never heard the mac users you know complain about control over the os, might be the fact that the old mac os was actually crazy customizable. Most non mac users just dont realize how much control you could really have over your system. Between themes, kaleidescope, countless extensions and control panels, and resedit, you could change pretty much anything imaginable on your system.
my 2 cents
Actually, I didnt get that info at macosrumors. Im not a moron. If it was listed on there, then I had no idea. I do not read the site, because as you said, the guy is full of shit
there have been rumors that AMD will start manufacturing G4 processors for Apple soon. If so, this would be great. Not only would it help lessen Apple's reliance on faultering Motorola, but hopefully AMD would be able to produce the chips faster, cheaper, and possibly also at a higher clock rate than Motorola has been able to reliably. Having AMD be a chip producer might help strengthen Apple's reputation as well. While this is still all rumor, it is a nice thought in my opinion.
Carry on
oh my god. I *still* play that on my old Apple2e. Much more rewarding than playing thru an emulator.
By the way, you probably know this already, but in case you dont.. in the original wizardry game: create a bishop, enter the maze and camp immediately, and cast identify 9 until it succeeds. Whammo! tons of experience points instantly. Now go turn yourself into a ninja, or samurai, or other cool class you cant be from the start.
Electronic Arts and Origin Systems have announced a plan that will increase their focus on Ultima Online and halt production of OWO: ORIGIN (UO2). The reason is simple, rather than creating OWO: ORIGIN (UO2) as a parallel world competing with UO, we've decided to put those resources into growing and improving the core offering for Ultima Online's 230,000 loyal subscribers. In the near future and with the release next week of Ultima Online: Third Dawn, players will see new lands, new creatures, and a world that is continually evolving within Ultima Online.
There ya go. They just decided there money would be better spent improving the current game, rather than creating a new one.
imho, the sponsor stuff in tony hawk helped add a lot to the atmosphere of the game. I would much rather ride around on a birdhouse or powell deck, than just get to choose between 'deck a or deck b'
I am running osx, on a dual g4 500, with 256mb ram. the damn thing flies. I had previously been running the beta on an ibook as a toy/experiment. the performance was lackluster, to say the least.
I installed OSX on the tower about 5 minutes after I got it. and I too was disappointed with the speed. Altho it was on its own 20 gig partition, with it's own os9.1 system for classic, it seemed a bit sluggish. I just dumped everything I had installed on this fairly new machine onto a dvd-ram disk (oh so handy for backups!), reformatted, installed my apps, and it was like a whole new computer. There must have been a lot of debugging code in the beta still. heh.
OSX does still have its flaws, and it is still teething, but it is plenty fast if installed right, at least on this machine, and it has plenty of room to grow.
I cant wait...
He isnt saying the g4 is a bad processor (i think) he is saying motorola is having some troubles, which is totally true. They have had a few rounds of layoffs in the past 2 months, with probably more to come. The chip may rock, but that doesnt help us if the company making it goes under.
Carbon is the 'yellow brick road' to lead developers into OSX territory. It greatly diminishes porting time, allows developers to work with what is basically the same code base, and they can release a single binary that will run under OS8.6 and later with the carbon library, or that will run under OSX. While it is still semi-flakey at this point, it is still the path developers need, and are willing to take. Adobe isnt going to throw away years of code to support an OS that is mainly run by early adopters (at this point). With carbon, they dont have to. They can recode the 15-30% needed for carbon (probably a bit more for an adobe app), and be up and running within months at the most.
At the same time, Apple can be introducing developers to cocoa, which is truly a nice dev environment. So they can use carbon to get their stuff up and running, while they develop cocoa versions of their app. This may sound unlikely, but I really think this is what will happen. Cocoa has some nice hooks into the system that carbon just can't provide, and developers of course will be the first to realize this and want to take advantage of it. IMHO Carbon is the initial path that devs will take, but cocoa will be the true road to the 'promised land'
I think he was talking about application compatability between os releases with different kernels.....
wow, they actually won. For a full list of winners, hit this link
good job Daily Show
actually, it is closer to $159.34 for the mlb fee, the program, and the subscription to the gold service from realplayer. That is a lot of $ to me, and defintely a lot to my friend, who is less well off than I.
You can keep saying it still shouldnt be a big deal if he is a hardcore fan if you want, I guess it is just relative.
as someone else pointed out, it will also require the commercial realplayer client, which you have to pay for, as well as a *subsrcription* to realnetworks gold service. And it is quite possible that is $10 per team you want to listen to, and not for every broadcast. The MLB fee, the Realplayer client, and the Realplayer Gold subscription != $10 a year. Gee, it comes out to a lot more than that, doesnt it?
Guess what else, this guy doesnt throw all his cash away on his 'workstation.' He has a low end p2 with like 32 megs of ram. He also has little/no money, and uses a free isp.
So yes, I will be bummed for my friend. Thanks for the input
Im not a real big baseball fan, but one of my really good friends is. Being a fan of many teams, none of them in his state, he gets most of his baseball action using realplayer and the MLB website.
While it isnt the end of the world or anything, Im sure there are a ton of people like him, who are going to be very disappointed that they have to pay for what has been a free service for quite a while now. Im sure there are also quite a few that will no longer be using the service because of this. A shame if you ask me