Bingo. There was a deliberate marketing campaign by Microsoft, right about when Windows 3.0 was about to emerge, to push the personal-computer press to stop saying "IBM-Compatable" or "Clone" and start saying "PC" when speaking of the computers that would soon be running Windows.
It was thought at the time that IBM would soon be running a different OS than the so-called clone market, so the old labels didn't apply.
Most Apple & Commodore users (among others) thought it was the stupidest thing ever, but Microsoft managed to get it to stick.
Yes, and a tornado could pull my car out of the garage and send it spiraling into the air, but I still have no intention of lashing it to the rafters. To do so would be 1) A pain to bother with, and 2) Probably unhelpful if it was ever needed anyway.
Yeah, there is a real meaning behind "Christmas": the entire population of the temperate Northern Hemisphere deluding themselves into thinking that cold and lack of daylight are somehow jolly!
In case nobody's told you, your savior was born in April or May.
Christmas is the day of the Mass of Christ, not Jesus's birthday. The Catholic Church chose the day to coincide with an existing holy period in pagan Europe, since people were already in the habit of celebrating that week. Nobody knows (or particularly cares) what the exact date was. Christian scriptures only hint at the year by recording stuff like who was king at the time.
Hell they even gave it away with old.mac accounts. And apple support always had lines saying to use protection. How is it all of a sudden new? They have been saying to use protection for YEARS now.
Very true.
And I've been ignoring the recommendation for years now. Guess which AV app I'm going to install today.
That's right. None. Running an AV program on a Mac makes about as much sense as using a rope to tie down your car every time you park it in your garage.
Noooo! Don't give up the game! This whole discussion is proving to be a terrific honey-pot for identifying anti-Mac platform bigots! And here you had to go and ruin it by pointing out that the "news" story isn't actual news.
Don't those AV programs mostly scan for Windows viruses on the Mac so you don't pass around those viruses to Windows users?
I remember about a decade ago MS Office implementation on the mac was good enough that Macro virus would run. Fortunately, the file structures were different enough that they wouldn't do much, but at the same time we could also point out how the Macs structure made trojans more effective, and we'ver alreaqdy seen how OS X's Unix underpinnings and x86 architecture make it vulnerable to stuf old MacOS & 68k macs shrugged off
(Psst. The Mac file system is still different from what either Unix or Windows uses. But shhh! I'm really enjoying reading all this concerned hand-wringing as I continue to run my Macs on-line 24/7 with no AV software installed.)
The DLP rainbow is only perceptible to some people. Sounds like you're one of the unlucky few.
I don't see it, but I don't buy DLP sets because I like having people over frequently to watch TV, and some of my guests might be sensitive to the effect.
Last I heard the only things actually broadcast in HD are the World series and the Super Bowl, so yeah, I'd say that if you're watching a lot of broadcast TV but not much sports, you're just as well off getting a 720p anyway.
Did you fall asleep in 2004 and just wake up yesterday?
I've been watching digital TV exclusively for years, and have yet to see ANYTHING that was not broadcast in its Original Aspect Ratio.
Reruns of shows from before 16:9 was common always throws up the black bars.
Even relatively high-res shows like NBC's "Poker After Dark" gets a 4:3 picture with network logos on the sides. Nobody EVER stretches the screen out.
If you're watching the same broadcasts I am, I think you might have the settings on your TV misconfigured to fit images to the screen for you or something.
Depends on where you live. The $50 UHF antenna on my roof, with a signal booster, is just barely adequate for my digital tuner. If a windstorm knocks it 5 degrees off-target, I need to go up on the roof and point it back at my metro's antenna farm again or else I completely lose several channels.
That said, it's worth it to have free HDTV over the air. No way in hell I'm giving money to some cable or telecom company just to watch commercial-supported television.
A jump from just over 5% to just over 8% is fantastic news for Apple's bottom line.
A jump from 0.37% to 0.71% makes Linux fanboys' legs tingle.
But neither development is "dire" news for Microsoft, who continues to make money hand-over-fist, and continues to retain absolute dominance of the OS market.
Doesn't mean I would give up on the sub-industry, though. GTA III DID have spoken dialogue, just not by the main character. It was funny, it was gruesome (especially the radio jingles). It fit the game. The mute main character was kind of a Zelda style move it seemed, where you would "supply your own personality." But, you know, they threw that out the window with Vice and all the following games, and I think it lead to a much stronger experience.
Really?
I found playing GTA-3 a delightful experience. It was like living in a cheesy crime drama. GTA-VC, less so. I still played it to the final conclusion, but I thought the story kind of got in the way of some of the fun. I actually spent most of my time just doing side-missions and/or jumping vehicles off the local parking ramp in interesting new ways.
GTA-SA pretty much ended it for me. After spending about two hours between watching cut-scenes and riding around on a BICYCLE (because the "story" demanded that I not complete the game mission any other way, a move totally antithetical to what made GTA so great to begin with), I quit the game and never played it again. I have zero interest in buying any newer GTA titles.
Well-scripted writing ruined the GTA franchise, if you ask me.
Then buy one of those automatic card shuffling machines.
Next, photocopy the cliche book and use the shuffling machine to introduce "originality" to your creations.
Seriously, WTF? What writing is there for games that isn't complete (literary, not computer-y) hackery? You're not exactly competing with Dickens. You're not even competing with Dick.
Is the wrong answer.
Yes, 'computer games' (I personally prefer 'interactive fiction', but that may be pretentious) is a young artform. Yes, we're still struggling to learn how to create compelling interactive narratives. But unless you have an ambition not merely to compete with Dickens and Shakespeare, but to equal them don't even bother trying. The market for games is hard enough to break into anyway - there's no market at all for badly written games.
Correction.
There's no market at all for game writing.
The most popular games out there: Deer Hunter, Guitar Hero, Flash-based puzzle games, Texas Hold 'Em sims for phones, the latest FPS... Pretty much no "writing" required at all.
The closest you will get is writing "quests" for MMO games, and the demands there are shockingly light as well.
Most people play computer games for the action (and/or to socialize with each other), not for the storytelling. If they want a story, they will turn to a story-telling medium, such as film or books.
There are probably more people wanting to "write for video games" than there are people who want to play the games such people would write.
I don't really care either, not just because of how I get my content, but how I consume it.
I'm pretty much positive that I purchased my last MacBook (or laptop of any sort) two years ago. When I'm away from home, I now leave it behind and do everything with my phone.
A "desktop replacement" which you lug around has become an obsolete concept. The only time I really need a full-functioning "personal computer" in the traditional sense is when I'm *creating* content.
I've got a Mac mini driving my media center right now, but I could see a day when an "X-Box 4" (or whatever) could end up replacing that, too. Worst case, if Apple doesn't play nice with rights-management, I can always go back to Linux Purgatory (on the very same box) for a while until consumer demand shakes them back to their senses.
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Indeed your metaphor stands. But remember, the climate is changing. The likelihood of car-sucking tornadoes it on the rise.
And yet, I brashly leave my car untethered.
Madness, I know, but I like to live on the edge.
I think you meant to reply to somebody else. I never said it had anything to do with it being cold.
The reason it's a few days after the Solstice (instead of on the 21st) is because it's celebrating that the coldest, shortest days are now behind us.
Bingo. There was a deliberate marketing campaign by Microsoft, right about when Windows 3.0 was about to emerge, to push the personal-computer press to stop saying "IBM-Compatable" or "Clone" and start saying "PC" when speaking of the computers that would soon be running Windows.
It was thought at the time that IBM would soon be running a different OS than the so-called clone market, so the old labels didn't apply.
Most Apple & Commodore users (among others) thought it was the stupidest thing ever, but Microsoft managed to get it to stick.
For the love of $deity, its "couldn't care less" !
Yours sincerely,
QA.
Usage defines language.
"Could care less" is a frequently-used sarcastic inversion, and is a legitimate expression to mean "I don't care at all" in American English.
Don't like it? Learn Espiranto, or some other language that isn't used enough for illogical-seeming quirks and exceptions to creep into it.
Says you. I say IE is the alternative, and a poor one at that.
(Also, IE is Windows-only. I said I use it on "everything else", which include Linux boxen.)
Yes, and a tornado could pull my car out of the garage and send it spiraling into the air, but I still have no intention of lashing it to the rafters. To do so would be 1) A pain to bother with, and 2) Probably unhelpful if it was ever needed anyway.
My metaphor stands.
Yeah, there is a real meaning behind "Christmas": the entire population of the temperate Northern Hemisphere deluding themselves into thinking that cold and lack of daylight are somehow jolly!
In case nobody's told you, your savior was born in April or May.
Christmas is the day of the Mass of Christ, not Jesus's birthday. The Catholic Church chose the day to coincide with an existing holy period in pagan Europe, since people were already in the habit of celebrating that week. Nobody knows (or particularly cares) what the exact date was. Christian scriptures only hint at the year by recording stuff like who was king at the time.
Yep. An "alternative" browser is a classic case of a solution in search of a problem.
Last time I checked, I was pretty darn happy with Safari on my Mac and Firefox on everything else.
Wrong about what? The troll I was responding to ended up inventing time travel after all?
TNT is not an over-the-air broadcast network.
Kinda tough to build a good table of virus definitions when there are none out in the wild for you to define.
Hell they even gave it away with old .mac accounts. And apple support always had lines saying to use protection. How is it all of a sudden new? They have been saying to use protection for YEARS now.
Very true.
And I've been ignoring the recommendation for years now. Guess which AV app I'm going to install today.
That's right. None. Running an AV program on a Mac makes about as much sense as using a rope to tie down your car every time you park it in your garage.
Noooo! Don't give up the game! This whole discussion is proving to be a terrific honey-pot for identifying anti-Mac platform bigots! And here you had to go and ruin it by pointing out that the "news" story isn't actual news.
Oh well. This is slashdot. There will be more.
Don't those AV programs mostly scan for Windows viruses on the Mac so you don't pass around those viruses to Windows users?
I remember about a decade ago MS Office implementation on the mac was good enough that Macro virus would run. Fortunately, the file structures were different enough that they wouldn't do much, but at the same time we could also point out how the Macs structure made trojans more effective, and we'ver alreaqdy seen how OS X's Unix underpinnings and x86 architecture make it vulnerable to stuf old MacOS & 68k macs shrugged off
(Psst. The Mac file system is still different from what either Unix or Windows uses. But shhh! I'm really enjoying reading all this concerned hand-wringing as I continue to run my Macs on-line 24/7 with no AV software installed.)
The DLP rainbow is only perceptible to some people. Sounds like you're one of the unlucky few.
I don't see it, but I don't buy DLP sets because I like having people over frequently to watch TV, and some of my guests might be sensitive to the effect.
Last I heard the only things actually broadcast in HD are the World series and the Super Bowl, so yeah, I'd say that if you're watching a lot of broadcast TV but not much sports, you're just as well off getting a 720p anyway.
Did you fall asleep in 2004 and just wake up yesterday?
What country do YOU live in!?
I've been watching digital TV exclusively for years, and have yet to see ANYTHING that was not broadcast in its Original Aspect Ratio.
Reruns of shows from before 16:9 was common always throws up the black bars.
Even relatively high-res shows like NBC's "Poker After Dark" gets a 4:3 picture with network logos on the sides. Nobody EVER stretches the screen out.
If you're watching the same broadcasts I am, I think you might have the settings on your TV misconfigured to fit images to the screen for you or something.
Depends on where you live. The $50 UHF antenna on my roof, with a signal booster, is just barely adequate for my digital tuner. If a windstorm knocks it 5 degrees off-target, I need to go up on the roof and point it back at my metro's antenna farm again or else I completely lose several channels.
That said, it's worth it to have free HDTV over the air. No way in hell I'm giving money to some cable or telecom company just to watch commercial-supported television.
A jump from just over 5% to just over 8% is fantastic news for Apple's bottom line.
A jump from 0.37% to 0.71% makes Linux fanboys' legs tingle.
But neither development is "dire" news for Microsoft, who continues to make money hand-over-fist, and continues to retain absolute dominance of the OS market.
No, I'm saying they were largely out of the game until the anti-trust actions heated up during the 90s.
Doesn't mean I would give up on the sub-industry, though. GTA III DID have spoken dialogue, just not by the main character. It was funny, it was gruesome (especially the radio jingles). It fit the game. The mute main character was kind of a Zelda style move it seemed, where you would "supply your own personality." But, you know, they threw that out the window with Vice and all the following games, and I think it lead to a much stronger experience.
Really?
I found playing GTA-3 a delightful experience. It was like living in a cheesy crime drama. GTA-VC, less so. I still played it to the final conclusion, but I thought the story kind of got in the way of some of the fun. I actually spent most of my time just doing side-missions and/or jumping vehicles off the local parking ramp in interesting new ways.
GTA-SA pretty much ended it for me. After spending about two hours between watching cut-scenes and riding around on a BICYCLE (because the "story" demanded that I not complete the game mission any other way, a move totally antithetical to what made GTA so great to begin with), I quit the game and never played it again. I have zero interest in buying any newer GTA titles.
Well-scripted writing ruined the GTA franchise, if you ask me.
Then buy a photocopier.
Then buy one of those automatic card shuffling machines.
Next, photocopy the cliche book and use the shuffling machine to introduce "originality" to your creations.
Seriously, WTF? What writing is there for games that isn't complete (literary, not computer-y) hackery? You're not exactly competing with Dickens. You're not even competing with Dick.
Is the wrong answer.
Yes, 'computer games' (I personally prefer 'interactive fiction', but that may be pretentious) is a young artform. Yes, we're still struggling to learn how to create compelling interactive narratives. But unless you have an ambition not merely to compete with Dickens and Shakespeare, but to equal them don't even bother trying. The market for games is hard enough to break into anyway - there's no market at all for badly written games.
Correction.
There's no market at all for game writing.
The most popular games out there: Deer Hunter, Guitar Hero, Flash-based puzzle games, Texas Hold 'Em sims for phones, the latest FPS... Pretty much no "writing" required at all.
The closest you will get is writing "quests" for MMO games, and the demands there are shockingly light as well.
Most people play computer games for the action (and/or to socialize with each other), not for the storytelling. If they want a story, they will turn to a story-telling medium, such as film or books.
There are probably more people wanting to "write for video games" than there are people who want to play the games such people would write.
Being funny takes a LOT of intelligence, as most people who try to be funny for a living quickly discover.
"If you can leave any time you like, it's not a prison. It's just a really shitty hotel."
Except it's not a shitty hotel when you have to use windows at work or to play with your friends. Then it is a little less than a prison.
Very few people go into prisons in order to make money or have fun with others.
People go into shitty hotels for both reasons (sometimes simultaneously.)
I don't really care either, not just because of how I get my content, but how I consume it.
I'm pretty much positive that I purchased my last MacBook (or laptop of any sort) two years ago. When I'm away from home, I now leave it behind and do everything with my phone.
A "desktop replacement" which you lug around has become an obsolete concept. The only time I really need a full-functioning "personal computer" in the traditional sense is when I'm *creating* content.
I've got a Mac mini driving my media center right now, but I could see a day when an "X-Box 4" (or whatever) could end up replacing that, too. Worst case, if Apple doesn't play nice with rights-management, I can always go back to Linux Purgatory (on the very same box) for a while until consumer demand shakes them back to their senses.