As someone else mentioned, "OS 9" is trademarked. Hence the jump to the name "OS X".
Also, bringing up the Apache bug is moot. It wasn't a "few" CGI scripts that was hard locking the server, as I recall, and I've seen a couple of reports *on here*, among other places, saying that people couldn't recreate it.
In any case, when did "Apache" become a buzzword? Last time I checked, it was just a web server. God forbid Apple should bundle a piece of software most web folk use.
I think it speaks to the power of open source software that this was caught
Dare I dispute the Awesome Magical Force of OSS and ask how OSS had anything to do with the catching of this worm?
The virus is a Macintosh virus; it was detected by Macintosh virus detectors. Last time I checked, none of them were in any sort of open-source licensing agreement. I'm sure the people who caught it were using one of the numerous AppleScripts I've seen, or a freeware app, or maybe even something commercial like Virex. But again, not open source stuff AFAIK.
OSS really has nothing to do with this, guys. I like OSS as much as the next guy, but just because someone caught a Mac virus on a Mac Linux distribution CD doesn't mean we should (as we always seem to do) go running in the streets shouting the praises of OSS.
Ultimately this merger has to take place. There is nowhere else for the company to go, with Microsoft owning most of the market, that is the lesson of almost two decades.
I'm sorry, I really don't the logic in this. So Microsoft has 90-something percent of the OS market share - good for them. Does that mean that instantly, every other company that makes an OS needs to sell to some other, larger company?
By your logic, most Linux distributions will now have to be sold off to some other computer company; Be Inc. will get sold to who, Adobe?; god forbid the old commercial Unix variants and any other alternate OSes out there (Where will Amiga go?).
Your argument sounds similar to what Microsoft said to IBM: Where else are you going to go? We're the only place in town. The fact is, no company has to or should sell out in light of this "owning of the market". Hell, if everyone STARTS selling out, then we WILL all end up under Microshaft. And what good is that?
This merger does not have to take place. Financially, Apple is standing well enough on their feet these days. Their stock is higher than AMD, 3DFX, Dell, Compaq, and is just slightly below Intel and Gateway. And I don't see anyone telling Compaq to sell off to another company.
"An emulator is a software program that is designed to allow game play on a platform that it was not created for."
You may recall that a few years back, Nintendo released a device called the Super Game Boy. This plugged into your SNES and emulated a Gameboy. It was a hardware/software program that is/was designed to allow game play on a platform that it was not created for.
I'm sure many of you are confused over this like I am - is Nintendo really selling an illegal product? I recommend you write to them at noalegal@noa.nintendo.com if you are as confused as I.;)
And no, my suggestion isn't mirror it immediately - I hope you will have already done that.
What I'm going to suggest is that if you want to test the game, try a server other than id's. The night that the Mac version of Q3Test came out, the test servers (which Tim Willits said were on the same machine as the FTP server, for some stupid reason) were severely lagged. I don't think anyone other than the id employees had under a 500 ping.
40 years ago, racism was starting to become a big problem in America's public schools. From what I've read, there was plenty of violence, half-assed attempts to fix the problems, and in the end...well, racism is still in the school system today, although to a lesser extent. Back when I was in high school (a few years ago), I saw some Neo-KKK guy start a fight with a kid whose skin tone the KKK guy obviously didn't like.
But what's happening now that's so different than the racism of old? People who are considered "different" are being shunned, kicked out of school over what they believe, and as Katz and the many people who posted comments have shown, living through hell - getting spit on, not being allowed to sit at tables during lunch, getting attacked, having their books stolen/burned, being verbally taunted - all while the administration of their schools sit and tell these poor people there's nothing that can be done.
What next? Is the Supreme Court going to rule that school systems can separate kids, as long as the two schools are "separate but equal"?
How long will it be till the geeks are being sent to different schools? How long until the National Guard has to come in to make sure the ones who dress in black can't go to the school they normally do? Or better yet - how long till someone comes along with an idea of how to fix this injustice?
Racism never went away. It just came back directed at another set of minorities.
As the old saying goes, those who do not remember the past are forced to repeat it.
Well, I can say that for a test, it lives up to its name.
Q3T contains two maps, one indoors and one sort of in space. There's no single player mode for the Test, so really you have to hop on a id server. Which isn't a bad thing - I got to frag Tim Willits a few times.:)
The maps look good, although I was getting a sub-par frame rate - the system requirements are through the roof for this one. Also, I was using generic GL drivers (despite what was said elsewhere, there is NO SOFTWARE RENDERING FOR Q3. Must be GL compatable.), so that probably had a lot to do with it.
The networking would've been fine but the server was on the same machine as the FTP server, so everyone's ping was at about 500. Still, it played alright.
It's looking good, outside the astronomical system requirements.
Wait wait wait wait. Because Jobs was the CEO of a company that specialized in computer-based animation, who happened to make a hit film, we should label him as a "Cartoon Maker" and make a judgement call that since he is associated with something as childish as CARTOONS (and hey, don't forget to hit User Friendly today!), you shouldn't 'work' with Apple?
While Steve Jobs very well might be an egotistical asshole at times, your judging of a company because of the former occupation of it's CEO...wait, strike that. Jobs has gone from being a CEO to being a CEO. There's nothing to argue about here.
You need to make the crucial step of realizing that trusting a company and doing business with a company are two different things. For instance: I don't TRUST Hotline Communications, but I use their software. I don't TRUST most web sites I go to, but I still read them. I don't TRUST UPS, but I (unfortunately) still use them occasionally.
but I don't support selling an emulator, if an emulation offers as much support as a hardware, who in their right mind will buy the hardware
Emulators have been sold as shareware for a while. And needless to say, some people actually want the hardware - like those without a computer equipped enough to run it.
this emulators is not 100% clean from original SONY information
And how do you know the bleem! team isn't clean? The guys at Connectix reportedly did it clean - do you have a source proving that bleem! is reverse engineered or whatever you're claiming?
no one is seeing a working emulator for PSX2 in the next 7 years
Speculating on the next 7 years is not a wise thing to do. People said we'd never have a PSX or N64 emu, but we do. Besides, is making the hardware specs go through the roof the same as making emulators 500 times harder to code?
Bleem claims that their emulator will only runs original CD, but this is crap
Not if they coded it right. CVGS was crackable at first to mod chip it, but I have yet to see a mod chip patch for version 1.2. Never mind this - is the bleem! team responsible if users crack their programs? Is that grounds for a lawsuit?
It's also worth noticing that Midway, the makers of Mortal Kombat, are not listed. Hell, the 3 video game companies being sued (according to the article) have very little, if anything, to do with the games listed.
It's unfortunate for those families that they are going to get the scorn of practically anyone who reads about their case. Maybe next they'll sue the world for mistreating them. Or they can go like that guy in Pennsylvania and try to sue God. No joke.
So let me get this straight...you can get a processor that's equivilant to a G3 333 (which elsewhere in this comment list was equated to a 400-450 Mhz P2 or whatever), a 6 gig HD, 32 Ram, 24x CD-Rom, 6 MB Vram on a Rage Pro, USB card, and a monitor (last time I checked it was 15") for $600?
Also worth noticing was the apparent-bar named, ironically, "Akbar", and the beer that Fry was drinking back in 1999 - Lobrau (there's an umlaut in there but I don't care enough to put it in). And if you don't get it, just pronounce it a few hundred times.
Now, who's going to start translating the "hidden letters" that Groening talked so much about in the press?
Besides, with Intel/Microsoft supporting USB 2, it's clearly the way of the future. That's right, I forgot how if MS supports it, that means it's bound to succeed. After all, let's not forget Bob! (P.S. Apple was supposedly going out of business last year, and every year before that back till about 1984. Your FUD, eet does not work here.)
The two kids who run TrayaNet registered appleimac.com and thus are supposedly giving Apple a bad name (not just because their site has nothing to do with iMac's, but because Apple is threatening a lawsuit).
Now some OTHER company - vecdev.com - has registered traya.net and SAYING that they are Apple Computer? Thus...giving Apple more of a bad name?
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As someone else mentioned, "OS 9" is trademarked. Hence the jump to the name "OS X".
Also, bringing up the Apache bug is moot. It wasn't a "few" CGI scripts that was hard locking the server, as I recall, and I've seen a couple of reports *on here*, among other places, saying that people couldn't recreate it.
In any case, when did "Apache" become a buzzword? Last time I checked, it was just a web server. God forbid Apple should bundle a piece of software most web folk use.
While we're doing corrections - the reviewer's name is Jon Katz, not Jon Kaz.
There's a moral here, and it's name is the Preview button.
I think it speaks to the power of open source software that this was caught
Dare I dispute the Awesome Magical Force of OSS and ask how OSS had anything to do with the catching of this worm?
The virus is a Macintosh virus; it was detected by Macintosh virus detectors. Last time I checked, none of them were in any sort of open-source licensing agreement. I'm sure the people who caught it were using one of the numerous AppleScripts I've seen, or a freeware app, or maybe even something commercial like Virex. But again, not open source stuff AFAIK.
OSS really has nothing to do with this, guys. I like OSS as much as the next guy, but just because someone caught a Mac virus on a Mac Linux distribution CD doesn't mean we should (as we always seem to do) go running in the streets shouting the praises of OSS.
But what do I know, I'm just a Mac user.
Ultimately this merger has to take place. There is nowhere else for the company to go, with Microsoft owning most of the market, that is the lesson of almost two decades.
I'm sorry, I really don't the logic in this. So Microsoft has 90-something percent of the OS market share - good for them. Does that mean that instantly, every other company that makes an OS needs to sell to some other, larger company?
By your logic, most Linux distributions will now have to be sold off to some other computer company; Be Inc. will get sold to who, Adobe?; god forbid the old commercial Unix variants and any other alternate OSes out there (Where will Amiga go?).
Your argument sounds similar to what Microsoft said to IBM: Where else are you going to go? We're the only place in town. The fact is, no company has to or should sell out in light of this "owning of the market". Hell, if everyone STARTS selling out, then we WILL all end up under Microshaft. And what good is that?
This merger does not have to take place. Financially, Apple is standing well enough on their feet these days. Their stock is higher than AMD, 3DFX, Dell, Compaq, and is just slightly below Intel and Gateway. And I don't see anyone telling Compaq to sell off to another company.
"An emulator is a software program that is designed to allow game play on a platform that it was not created for."
You may recall that a few years back, Nintendo released a device called the Super Game Boy. This plugged into your SNES and emulated a Gameboy. It was a hardware/software program that is/was designed to allow game play on a platform that it was not created for.
I'm sure many of you are confused over this like I am - is Nintendo really selling an illegal product? I recommend you write to them at noalegal@noa.nintendo.com if you are as confused as I. ;)
And no, my suggestion isn't mirror it immediately - I hope you will have already done that.
What I'm going to suggest is that if you want to test the game, try a server other than id's. The night that the Mac version of Q3Test came out, the test servers (which Tim Willits said were on the same machine as the FTP server, for some stupid reason) were severely lagged. I don't think anyone other than the id employees had under a 500 ping.
There's a good server list on the id page at:
http://underworld.idsoftwa re.com/cgi-win/q3aservers.exe/
40 years ago, racism was starting to become a big problem in America's public schools. From what I've read, there was plenty of violence, half-assed attempts to fix the problems, and in the end...well, racism is still in the school system today, although to a lesser extent. Back when I was in high school (a few years ago), I saw some Neo-KKK guy start a fight with a kid whose skin tone the KKK guy obviously didn't like.
But what's happening now that's so different than the racism of old? People who are considered "different" are being shunned, kicked out of school over what they believe, and as Katz and the many people who posted comments have shown, living through hell - getting spit on, not being allowed to sit at tables during lunch, getting attacked, having their books stolen/burned, being verbally taunted - all while the administration of their schools sit and tell these poor people there's nothing that can be done.
What next? Is the Supreme Court going to rule that school systems can separate kids, as long as the two schools are "separate but equal"?
How long will it be till the geeks are being sent to different schools?
How long until the National Guard has to come in to make sure the ones who dress in black can't go to the school they normally do?
Or better yet - how long till someone comes along with an idea of how to fix this injustice?
Racism never went away. It just came back directed at another set of minorities.
As the old saying goes, those who do not remember the past are forced to repeat it.
Well, I can say that for a test, it lives up to its name.
:)
Q3T contains two maps, one indoors and one sort of in space. There's no single player mode for the Test, so really you have to hop on a id server. Which isn't a bad thing - I got to frag Tim Willits a few times.
The maps look good, although I was getting a sub-par frame rate - the system requirements are through the roof for this one. Also, I was using generic GL drivers (despite what was said elsewhere, there is NO SOFTWARE RENDERING FOR Q3. Must be GL compatable.), so that probably had a lot to do with it.
The networking would've been fine but the server was on the same machine as the FTP server, so everyone's ping was at about 500. Still, it played alright.
It's looking good, outside the astronomical system requirements.
Wait wait wait wait. Because Jobs was the CEO of a company that specialized in computer-based animation, who happened to make a hit film, we should label him as a "Cartoon Maker" and make a judgement call that since he is associated with something as childish as CARTOONS (and hey, don't forget to hit User Friendly today!), you shouldn't 'work' with Apple?
While Steve Jobs very well might be an egotistical asshole at times, your judging of a company because of the former occupation of it's CEO...wait, strike that. Jobs has gone from being a CEO to being a CEO. There's nothing to argue about here.
You need to make the crucial step of realizing that trusting a company and doing business with a company are two different things. For instance: I don't TRUST Hotline Communications, but I use their software. I don't TRUST most web sites I go to, but I still read them. I don't TRUST UPS, but I (unfortunately) still use them occasionally.
D'yasee?
Emulators have been sold as shareware for a while. And needless to say, some people actually want the hardware - like those without a computer equipped enough to run it.
this emulators is not 100% clean from original SONY information
And how do you know the bleem! team isn't clean? The guys at Connectix reportedly did it clean - do you have a source proving that bleem! is reverse engineered or whatever you're claiming?
no one is seeing a working emulator for PSX2 in the next 7 years
Speculating on the next 7 years is not a wise thing to do. People said we'd never have a PSX or N64 emu, but we do. Besides, is making the hardware specs go through the roof the same as making emulators 500 times harder to code?
Bleem claims that their emulator will only runs original CD, but this is crap
Not if they coded it right. CVGS was crackable at first to mod chip it, but I have yet to see a mod chip patch for version 1.2. Never mind this - is the bleem! team responsible if users crack their programs? Is that grounds for a lawsuit?
It's also worth noticing that Midway, the makers of Mortal Kombat, are not listed. Hell, the 3 video game companies being sued (according to the article) have very little, if anything, to do with the games listed.
It's unfortunate for those families that they are going to get the scorn of practically anyone who reads about their case. Maybe next they'll sue the world for mistreating them. Or they can go like that guy in Pennsylvania and try to sue God. No joke.
So let me get this straight...you can get a processor that's equivilant to a G3 333 (which elsewhere in this comment list was equated to a 400-450 Mhz P2 or whatever), a 6 gig HD, 32 Ram, 24x CD-Rom, 6 MB Vram on a Rage Pro, USB card, and a monitor (last time I checked it was 15") for $600?
By all means, please show me where.
Cartoon Network moves there stuff to the archives quickly, it seems. Try here instead.
Also worth noticing was the apparent-bar named, ironically, "Akbar", and the beer that Fry was drinking back in 1999 - Lobrau (there's an umlaut in there but I don't care enough to put it in). And if you don't get it, just pronounce it a few hundred times.
Now, who's going to start translating the "hidden letters" that Groening talked so much about in the press?
Besides, with Intel/Microsoft supporting USB 2, it's clearly the way of the future. That's right, I forgot how if MS supports it, that means it's bound to succeed. After all, let's not forget Bob! (P.S. Apple was supposedly going out of business last year, and every year before that back till about 1984. Your FUD, eet does not work here.)
- Nintendo, who have previously said they're going to press legal action, have changed their minds, and...
- The authors of UltraHLE, who have previously said they've stopped development on the project, have also changed their minds?
What're the freaking odds, people?So let me get this straight.
The two kids who run TrayaNet registered appleimac.com and thus are supposedly giving Apple a bad name (not just because their site has nothing to do with iMac's, but because Apple is threatening a lawsuit).
Now some OTHER company - vecdev.com - has registered traya.net and SAYING that they are Apple Computer? Thus...giving Apple more of a bad name?
This is nutty.