The issue isn't that the good games aren't available. They eventually make it over, and they must be making money (or they wouldn't keep porting them.) The major issue that I see is that Mac users don't get the good games until at least a year after the PC release (like Neverwinter Nights, to name just one.)
I can understand not wanting to gamble on the Macintosh version before it is known if a new game will be a hit, but give me a break! Games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic were hits looooong before they were ported to the Mac.
In my opinion, the best we Mac users can hope for with mainstream games in the near future is shorter porting time with the switch to Intel processors looming.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't running OS X on an emulated PC using VMWare a totally different thing from actually installing it on the PC? Plus, weren't we told that the current dev kits didn't have the mac-only protection built into them yet?
With full anonymity, a white house staffer's word means nothing more than the average schmoe on the street. For the information to have value, someone needs to know the identity of the source. Once that has happened, full anonymity isn't possible.
Microsoft has never called their portable OS "PocketPC". A long time ago, it was "Windows for Pocket PCs", but the current version is "Windows Mobile 2003".
Well, if the license key you used has been previously used to register 10,000 copies of Windows, it is pretty safe to assume that your version is pirated...
Those are the leaders of the PC market. Perhaps you were expecting someone like eMachines? Had you looked at the article, you would have seen even former industry giants such as AMI and Phoenix, former creators of BIOSes.
Nope... I don't find it funny at all. Perhaps you think that a news outlet co-owned by NBC and Microsoft should just ignore good news about their competitors?
Of course 3 out of 5 of the ads are Microsoft related. You are on a Microsoft-owned website
Lets see... If we write a tool that immediately filters 100% of all e-mail, we can claim that our "Spam filtering tool" gets 100% of Spam with only a 10% false positive rate. Excellent!!!
Intel disabled a functional math coprocessor on their 486 chips and lowered the price to compete with AMD and Cyrix on the low end CPU market. They called it the 486 SX.
Long before that... Intel built chips with the math coprocessor disabled so they could justify lowering the price to compete with AMD and Cyrix. The CPUs with built-in math coprocessors that were disabled at the factory were called the 486 SX chips.
I was going for humor... The Motorola CEO obviously didn't say that 4 digits should be good enough for any phone model number, but has introduced models like the RAZR and SLVR.
I've found that for 99% security, the best solution is to unplug the ethernet cable on my server and just use it locally (kind of defeats the point, huh?)
The missing 1% is for the ninja squirrels... stupid squirrels...
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No need to buy an Xbox when I have a perfectly good PC to run it on.
Darn... you beat me to it!
I believe the correct term would be "Franken-nuggets". Let's leave Benjamin Franklin out of this...
The issue isn't that the good games aren't available. They eventually make it over, and they must be making money (or they wouldn't keep porting them.) The major issue that I see is that Mac users don't get the good games until at least a year after the PC release (like Neverwinter Nights, to name just one.)
I can understand not wanting to gamble on the Macintosh version before it is known if a new game will be a hit, but give me a break! Games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic were hits looooong before they were ported to the Mac.
In my opinion, the best we Mac users can hope for with mainstream games in the near future is shorter porting time with the switch to Intel processors looming.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't running OS X on an emulated PC using VMWare a totally different thing from actually installing it on the PC? Plus, weren't we told that the current dev kits didn't have the mac-only protection built into them yet?
I remember watching the first launch in grade school, and the first landing.
Wow, you're old!!!
How old are you? If you're younger than 27, then I can claim prior art. :P
Looks like the joke is on me. The summary says "before you ask", so he was just asking to be funny.
Look how the wording is exact. Perhaps he/she read the summary and posted that comment, then the summary was edited to answer the question.
With full anonymity, a white house staffer's word means nothing more than the average schmoe on the street. For the information to have value, someone needs to know the identity of the source. Once that has happened, full anonymity isn't possible.
Microsoft has never called their portable OS "PocketPC". A long time ago, it was "Windows for Pocket PCs", but the current version is "Windows Mobile 2003".
I want the flying cars we were promised!
Well, if the license key you used has been previously used to register 10,000 copies of Windows, it is pretty safe to assume that your version is pirated...
Those are the leaders of the PC market. Perhaps you were expecting someone like eMachines? Had you looked at the article, you would have seen even former industry giants such as AMI and Phoenix, former creators of BIOSes.
I do believe he was doing "the robot"...
Wow, someone forgot to close their bold tag...
Nope... I don't find it funny at all. Perhaps you think that a news outlet co-owned by NBC and Microsoft should just ignore good news about their competitors?
Of course 3 out of 5 of the ads are Microsoft related. You are on a Microsoft-owned website
Lets see... If we write a tool that immediately filters 100% of all e-mail, we can claim that our "Spam filtering tool" gets 100% of Spam with only a 10% false positive rate. Excellent!!!
You too can look like Jordy LaForge with Kopin CyberDisplay video eyewear!
Intel disabled a functional math coprocessor on their 486 chips and lowered the price to compete with AMD and Cyrix on the low end CPU market. They called it the 486 SX.
Long before that... Intel built chips with the math coprocessor disabled so they could justify lowering the price to compete with AMD and Cyrix. The CPUs with built-in math coprocessors that were disabled at the factory were called the 486 SX chips.
This case was settled, so no legal precedent was set. Intel should worry, but not because of this result...
I was going for humor... The Motorola CEO obviously didn't say that 4 digits should be good enough for any phone model number, but has introduced models like the RAZR and SLVR.
Get a sense of humor, dude...
"640k ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates.
"4 Letters is all anyone will ever need in a cell phone model number" - Motorola CEO.
I've found that for 99% security, the best solution is to unplug the ethernet cable on my server and just use it locally (kind of defeats the point, huh?)
... stupid squirrels...
The missing 1% is for the ninja squirrels