As someone who pvps in the "twink" brackets and has some high lvl enchants I personally think that blizzard could fix the problem simply by capping enchants. No enchants above 150 skill on items below lvl 20 req and no enchants above lvl 225 on items below lvl 30 req. That would solve the "Twink" problem. No +100 chest, no crusader, no +15 agi no fiery. the difference between a shadowfang and a cruel barb is not that great, its the +15 agi, crusader, fiery, lifestealing etc that make "twinks" so much more powerful.
As for skill, most people would call my 10-19 a "twink" (many blues +100 HP chest, +7 sta bracers n boots) that toon is revered and i have other exalted toons. I pvp alot, I know what I'm doing and I know how to win. As a horde, we're outgreared and outleveled in probably 60% of games, but for some reason I seem to win about 80% of the time. Before I get accused of being the 1000g rogue, I'm the 50g priest, healing the crap out of the untwinked war kicking your butt.
As the guy above said... if you guys think facing 10-19 twinks is bad, wait till you get to 60 in blues n greens and face off against guys n gals in tier 2.
Crowd control is a big part of the game. In objective based PvP and in higher level PvE encounters taking enemies out of the fight, even for a few seconds can mean the difference between winning and losing. As a priest (healer), I spend alot of time looking at "You cant do that while incapacitated" or some such message during PvP games.
The "capture the flag" warsong gulch pvp game at high skill levels is won on crowd control, especially in the 3 lower brackets where chasers dont easily have the ability to outrun the carrier.
I cant find a link to the details, but IIRC Hollywood used a Censor in Memphis, TN as the baseline. If he ok'd it, anyone would. William Faulkner, who wrote both literary works and screenplays, "immortalized" the guy by naming one of his characters' (a whore) dog after him.
Great, now all you need to do is figure out how to convince or compel people with more money than you to give you theirs and you'll have a business, protection racket or government!
I'm a competitive amateur bicycle racer. When I race on the weekends I line up next to guys wearing $250 shorts, $400 carbon fiber soled shoes $8000 carbon bicycles, $5000 carbon composite wheels. If they aint got the engine, none of that stuff means shit! You could put Lance Armstrong on a $300 discount store special and he'd tear them a new one.
That said... Money DOES matter. If you have enough income that you can spend 20 hrs a week riding a bike or hitting a golf ball, you're going to be better off than someone working 10 hour days to get ahead. Of course theres also the ski bum philosophy of living (very) modestly and spending all your time training. The other way is more comfortable.
In the world of Science research $40k US isnt really that much... This is $40k CDN which is quite a bit less than it sounds to us yankee's I'm sure. Besides, this is something you might actually want some data on. In the US some towns and states are potentially looking at protracted law suits over the issue. It might be interesting to note the effect this movement is having on Canadas leaders and whether or not similar suits are in their future.
The actual money this guy will get from the grant is way less than $40k CDN. The University has standard charges they skim off of grants, often partial salaries of the prof and students are included (university mandated). So the real ammount they will have to "spend" is only a fraction of the grant amount.
Some developers will do this, however, there will have to be a VERY compelling reason to run that app/game. Back when Apple switched to OSX Diablo2 was a hot game. For a period of time after OSX was released there was no carbon (OSX) version and you had to reboot into OS 9.x to run Diablo2. That was a huge PITA. People did it because they liked the game. It was a huge releief when the OSX native carbon version was released, and it was so compelling to Blizzard that they released OSX patches for Starcraft and Brood War (On the cheap rack well before OSX came out). The Bungie games Myth2 and Marathon, both "abandoned" prior to OSX's release have been community ported to OSX. Rebooting to run 1 app SUX and people will go to great lengths to avoid it.
Mac users don't like putting up with kludgy crap to run an app. If an OSX alternative is availbale, they will use it. Even when a "free" (as in beer) version is available using another method. A good example is the variety of apps available via X11 and fink/darwinports. A number of alternative apps are availble free for the taking from the X11 world and most Mac users hate to use them. (Before you fire up your keyboard to tear me a new one, the slashdot mac crowd is NOT most mac users, I use fink and I'd guess many other/.ing mac users do too).
On the flip side, if there IS a compelling reason to go boot windows, people will do it. At least for a while. During the OSX switch Quark took a long time to put out an OSX version. People stuck with Quark and they stuck with dual booting (or not upgrading to OSX) until Quark came around. As with linux, people make a conscious decision to run OSX. The "no-brainer" is to go to Best Buy and purchase a Windows PC. What that usually means is that Mac users, do not WANT to be running Windows. They might if they have to... for a while But a developer saying "Sure we support macs, boot into windows" is not going to fly if there are viable alternatives to her app.
>As far as we can tell, Nature might sent out edited and possibly unrepresentative >text out of context, falsely attributing it to Brittanica
...as part of a vast scientific conspiracy against Encyclopedia Brittanica? Without having the raw data we have to make some assumptions. You can choose to believe that EB is pointing out evidence that Nature is "out to get them". or you can believe that EB is grasping at straws trying to rebut an independent study that shows its source of revenue is no better than the "Free" alternative.
Nature is one of the most respected publications on the planet in a field where academic integrity is one of the primary measures of "success". You arent going to get far claiming that Nature is "cooking the books".
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However, why Jobs keeps "stealing" is beyond me - from the original GUI on down the line - to the music business copyright of Apple.
Xerox received Apple stock in exchange for showing Apple the details of its GUI. It was understood that Apple would apply that knowledge to creating its own GUI for the consumer market which Xerox had no interest in. "Stealing" was not involved.
As I understand the music disagreement, Apple Comp's position is that they are allowed to distribute digital content through their 1991 settlement. Apple Corp's position is that the current shift in the music business to non-physical media has changed the music climate and the settlement should allow for that.
I'd just point out that Apple's position on DRM has been decidely pro consumer. The "little guy stealing" you claim "Jobs" is against have quite a bit of freedom WRT Apple products. The iPod and iTunes happily play non-DRM'd music (iTunes even plays OGG with a codec extension). Apple has not gone out of their way to prevent users from copying DRM AAC music. There are numerous solutions for removing the DRM. Apple even featured your "victim" in the "Rip, Mix, Burn" ad campaign which I'm quite certain Steve-o signed off on.
With the likes of IBM and Novell behind linux and others such as Apple dependant on linux related technologies (webkit, gcc, etc.). Microsoft may not want to go slinging patents willy nilly in Linux's direction just yet. They may well find a few directed back at them.
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A move from OSX to Windows would be a sign that Apple really is dying. Think of it as equivalent to a company producing cheap garbage buying an established company to leverage the name selling cheap garbage. I cant think of any computer examples off hand (lenovo seems to be making good laptops) but in the 70's and 80's boys everywhere dreamed of owning a GT bicycle.. A few years ago Pacific Cycles purchased GT and you can now buy cheap GT's in Wal Mart.
If Apple switches to building commodity PC hardware running windows they will simply be leveraging the Apple and Macintosh name (one of the most recognized brands in the world) to stave off the inevitable end.
Personally, I hope this is a sign that Apple is taking performance VERY seriously. Apple needs to be able to show the mac creative community that they can produce hardware which makes sticking with Apple worthwhile. Apple actually has some economy of scale advantage in the high performance graphics workstation arena. Most Windows PC's sold are of the cheap variety. Apple's high end machines sell as fast they can produce them and they are the ONLY OSX high end workstation producer. I'm sure MORE Windows high end graphics workstations are sold overall, but no one company has huge production. Dont be surprised to see Apple produce an incredible high end machine CHEAPER than the competition.
I have two slower Macs, A G3 500 MHz iBook running 10.4.5 and a Blue and White G3 400 MHz running 10.3.9. The iBook is a bit faster for everyday tasks and that hasnt always been the case (the tower has a faster bus, faster graphics card, faster disk etc...). One thing you MUST do on older macs running Tiger OR Panther is upgade your RAM to a reasonable level, which usually means maxing it out. Even then I had to turn off dashboard on the iBook (I dont really use it on any of my macs anyway).
Both machines are still great for general desktop work and light development. I bumped the iBook to Tiger (OSX) to get Tiger (Java), and I havent really bothered to upgrade the tower because I havent had the time and its not a pressing concern for me. But given the results on the iBook, I dont expect a performance hit when I do upgrade.
>People do not need to use Windows at work, they are required to.
You might be right if youre talking about a developer or someone in administration. There are plenty of OSX and linux alternatives for dev tools, spreadsheets, word processors, etc. For some purposes there is simply no viable non-windows alternative.
As an example, I have a heart rate monitor I use for athletic performance evaluation. The software supplied by the HRM manufacturer is windows only. There is a linux/OSX cli tool that will download the data from the HRM to a text file, but thats it, and it only works with some models. Having Windows and OSX on the same laptop so that I can download and analyze data in the field would be a huge deal for me.
If the point were to find a FOSS OSX alternative, then your suggestion might be ok. But the point of running XP or Vista on a Mac isnt to dump OSX, its to allow us to use OSX and more easily/cheaply run any Windows apps we need to. Tomahawk dosent really help me run the latest Windows games does it?
If a FOSS alternative is what you want, you can already run Linux on the intel macs and you've been able to run linux on PPC macs longer than many/. readers have known linux existed.
I tried to give up admin on my primary OSX account but in the end it not worth the trouble considering the security risk to my firewalled home network. For an average user its probably not that big of a deal, but trying to do Java development in Eclipse, starting and stopping web servers and tomcat, moving files around, adjusting privs to get things to work right from a normal acct. It was just a huge hassle. It would take me literally 10 times longer to do some tasks. On OSX its not as simple as sudo this or that, and for me it wasnt worth the hassle.
Whats my exposure by using an admin acct? If I were a dumbass who opened every file emailed to me and couldnt see that there was something wrong with a jpg image needing my password, then I might be in trouble. But I'm not, so I'll risk it. As an admin user I havent found the need for the root acct. Anything I would need root to do is easily done via sudo.
>FOSS development has mostly depended on someone needing/wanting/linking a certain functionality and then trying to code it.
Exactly! If they want accessibility features they should compile gentoo and code it themselves. People whine about wanting FOSS to be easier to use and more accessible. Those people need to learn C/C++ and the FOSS API's's and help out. Lets move on to more pressing topics, like how we can attract more people to desktop linux!
Exactly... this guy should be fired or moved into some a department where he cant do any damage. If he truly believes that innovation is no longer possible then he has lost the ability (if he ever had it) to recognize innovation when he sees it, which is not what you want from the guy in charge of technology and innovation at your company. Give him a raise and move him into "Accounting" or make him a Microsoft liason or something.
Have you tried dontaing them to a charity who works in the region. They might not be willing the "give" the computers to an individual but perhaps having a computer for the village, school, medical clinic, etc would be better anyway. They'd be much more likely to already have a logistical system in place for getting supplies to the region. I'm gussing WAY cheaper per kg than DHL.
Aside from a few game developers (Blizzard) most Mac game versions trail the release of the Windows version by a significant margin. This could lower sales of mac games because gamers will already own Windows versions and will be reluctant to shell out full price for an "old" game.
I have my doubts that this will effect most of the titles that make it to the mac, though it will effect some. Most of the games ported to the mac are successful quality games. Games people play and keep playing, not something you play for a month and move on. Its a huge pain in the wazoo to have to reboot to play a game of Counter Strike, etc... Mac users have already been through this, recently. When Apple transitioned to OSX gamers had to reboot into classic MacOS to run most of their games, and it was a hassle. people switched to OSX native versions as soon as they were available. In the case of Diablo2, the OSX version never ran quite as fast as the OS9 version, but even with the slight slowdown and lower stability (of D2) it was better not to have to reboot in order to play a game.
I do think it will effect the garbage titles. If the game sucks Mac gamers might buy the PC version on impulse, but there will be no reson to get the Mac version when its available. Currently, some garbage games make it to the mac. That wont last.
>The concept is really really cool with the potential to completely change the UI as we know it.
I disagree... It looks neat, like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, but I dont think this is where the UI is going. I mean, thats not a UI thats exercise! I race bicycles for fun and I can hold my own against most people in the exercise department, but I dont want to be doing the "wax on, wax off" (showing my age) when I'm sitting at a computer.
Imagine having to reach out and hit a links with your finger everytime you wanted to follow a link in a web browser. Moving a mouse takes a tiny ammount of movement I can sit back and lounge and with a flick of my fingers and a click I can move files, click on links, etc... I'm hardly moving as I type this message. I agree, the video looks cool as hell, and this will definitely have its place in childrens/science museums (maybe even EPCOT!) but its not an effective UI, its DDR (that dancing thing) for the hands, and thats not how I want to work.
Theres a reason we're still using keyboards and mouse/pointing devices. They work extremely well together. The next revolutionary UI device will not require any movement at all... or perhaps subtle eye movement. Maybe some type of neural link. Dont bet on something that makes you work harder to get less done, no matter how cool the demo is.
I know this is a bit off topic, but has anyone tried Solaris x86? It would probably be more interesting to me to be able to dual boot Solaris/OSX than Windows XP.
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As someone who pvps in the "twink" brackets and has some high lvl enchants I personally think that blizzard could fix the problem simply by capping enchants. No enchants above 150 skill on items below lvl 20 req and no enchants above lvl 225 on items below lvl 30 req. That would solve the "Twink" problem. No +100 chest, no crusader, no +15 agi no fiery. the difference between a shadowfang and a cruel barb is not that great, its the +15 agi, crusader, fiery, lifestealing etc that make "twinks" so much more powerful.
As for skill, most people would call my 10-19 a "twink" (many blues +100 HP chest, +7 sta bracers n boots) that toon is revered and i have other exalted toons. I pvp alot, I know what I'm doing and I know how to win. As a horde, we're outgreared and outleveled in probably 60% of games, but for some reason I seem to win about 80% of the time. Before I get accused of being the 1000g rogue, I'm the 50g priest, healing the crap out of the untwinked war kicking your butt.
As the guy above said... if you guys think facing 10-19 twinks is bad, wait till you get to 60 in blues n greens and face off against guys n gals in tier 2.
Crowd control is a big part of the game. In objective based PvP and in higher level PvE encounters taking enemies out of the fight, even for a few seconds can mean the difference between winning and losing. As a priest (healer), I spend alot of time looking at "You cant do that while incapacitated" or some such message during PvP games.
The "capture the flag" warsong gulch pvp game at high skill levels is won on crowd control, especially in the 3 lower brackets where chasers dont easily have the ability to outrun the carrier.
I cant find a link to the details, but IIRC Hollywood used a Censor in Memphis, TN as the baseline. If he ok'd it, anyone would. William Faulkner, who wrote both literary works and screenplays, "immortalized" the guy by naming one of his characters' (a whore) dog after him.
Great, now all you need to do is figure out how to convince or compel people with more money than you to give you theirs and you'll have a business, protection racket or government!
I'm a competitive amateur bicycle racer. When I race on the weekends I line up next to guys wearing $250 shorts, $400 carbon fiber soled shoes $8000 carbon bicycles, $5000 carbon composite wheels. If they aint got the engine, none of that stuff means shit! You could put Lance Armstrong on a $300 discount store special and he'd tear them a new one.
That said... Money DOES matter. If you have enough income that you can spend 20 hrs a week riding a bike or hitting a golf ball, you're going to be better off than someone working 10 hour days to get ahead. Of course theres also the ski bum philosophy of living (very) modestly and spending all your time training. The other way is more comfortable.
In the world of Science research $40k US isnt really that much... This is $40k CDN which is quite a bit less than it sounds to us yankee's I'm sure. Besides, this is something you might actually want some data on. In the US some towns and states are potentially looking at protracted law suits over the issue. It might be interesting to note the effect this movement is having on Canadas leaders and whether or not similar suits are in their future.
The actual money this guy will get from the grant is way less than $40k CDN. The University has standard charges they skim off of grants, often partial salaries of the prof and students are included (university mandated). So the real ammount they will have to "spend" is only a fraction of the grant amount.
Rumor has it *wink wink* this is already possible... What do you want, official apple support?
>so I don't have to spend tons of cash on Apple hardware?
Doh! Associates in Business Adminstration from Online U?
>but why bother now? Just install XP!
/.ing mac users do too).
Some developers will do this, however, there will have to be a VERY compelling reason to run that app/game. Back when Apple switched to OSX Diablo2 was a hot game. For a period of time after OSX was released there was no carbon (OSX) version and you had to reboot into OS 9.x to run Diablo2. That was a huge PITA. People did it because they liked the game. It was a huge releief when the OSX native carbon version was released, and it was so compelling to Blizzard that they released OSX patches for Starcraft and Brood War (On the cheap rack well before OSX came out). The Bungie games Myth2 and Marathon, both "abandoned" prior to OSX's release have been community ported to OSX. Rebooting to run 1 app SUX and people will go to great lengths to avoid it.
Mac users don't like putting up with kludgy crap to run an app. If an OSX alternative is availbale, they will use it. Even when a "free" (as in beer) version is available using another method. A good example is the variety of apps available via X11 and fink/darwinports. A number of alternative apps are availble free for the taking from the X11 world and most Mac users hate to use them. (Before you fire up your keyboard to tear me a new one, the slashdot mac crowd is NOT most mac users, I use fink and I'd guess many other
On the flip side, if there IS a compelling reason to go boot windows, people will do it. At least for a while. During the OSX switch Quark took a long time to put out an OSX version. People stuck with Quark and they stuck with dual booting (or not upgrading to OSX) until Quark came around. As with linux, people make a conscious decision to run OSX. The "no-brainer" is to go to Best Buy and purchase a Windows PC. What that usually means is that Mac users, do not WANT to be running Windows. They might if they have to... for a while But a developer saying "Sure we support macs, boot into windows" is not going to fly if there are viable alternatives to her app.
One day, when you have kids and you've "watched the kid while you program" you'll understand how rediculously silly your comment was.
>As far as we can tell, Nature might sent out edited and possibly unrepresentative
...as part of a vast scientific conspiracy against Encyclopedia Brittanica? Without having the raw data we have to make some assumptions. You can choose to believe that EB is pointing out evidence that Nature is "out to get them". or you can believe that EB is grasping at straws trying to rebut an independent study that shows its source of revenue is no better than the "Free" alternative.
>text out of context, falsely attributing it to Brittanica
Nature is one of the most respected publications on the planet in a field where academic integrity is one of the primary measures of "success". You arent going to get far claiming that Nature is "cooking the books".
Xerox received Apple stock in exchange for showing Apple the details of its GUI. It was understood that Apple would apply that knowledge to creating its own GUI for the consumer market which Xerox had no interest in. "Stealing" was not involved.
As I understand the music disagreement, Apple Comp's position is that they are allowed to distribute digital content through their 1991 settlement. Apple Corp's position is that the current shift in the music business to non-physical media has changed the music climate and the settlement should allow for that.
I'd just point out that Apple's position on DRM has been decidely pro consumer. The "little guy stealing" you claim "Jobs" is against have quite a bit of freedom WRT Apple products. The iPod and iTunes happily play non-DRM'd music (iTunes even plays OGG with a codec extension). Apple has not gone out of their way to prevent users from copying DRM AAC music. There are numerous solutions for removing the DRM. Apple even featured your "victim" in the "Rip, Mix, Burn" ad campaign which I'm quite certain Steve-o signed off on.
With the likes of IBM and Novell behind linux and others such as Apple dependant on linux related technologies (webkit, gcc, etc.). Microsoft may not want to go slinging patents willy nilly in Linux's direction just yet. They may well find a few directed back at them.
A move from OSX to Windows would be a sign that Apple really is dying. Think of it as equivalent to a company producing cheap garbage buying an established company to leverage the name selling cheap garbage. I cant think of any computer examples off hand (lenovo seems to be making good laptops) but in the 70's and 80's boys everywhere dreamed of owning a GT bicycle.. A few years ago Pacific Cycles purchased GT and you can now buy cheap GT's in Wal Mart.
If Apple switches to building commodity PC hardware running windows they will simply be leveraging the Apple and Macintosh name (one of the most recognized brands in the world) to stave off the inevitable end.
Personally, I hope this is a sign that Apple is taking performance VERY seriously. Apple needs to be able to show the mac creative community that they can produce hardware which makes sticking with Apple worthwhile. Apple actually has some economy of scale advantage in the high performance graphics workstation arena. Most Windows PC's sold are of the cheap variety. Apple's high end machines sell as fast they can produce them and they are the ONLY OSX high end workstation producer. I'm sure MORE Windows high end graphics workstations are sold overall, but no one company has huge production. Dont be surprised to see Apple produce an incredible high end machine CHEAPER than the competition.
I have two slower Macs, A G3 500 MHz iBook running 10.4.5 and a Blue and White G3 400 MHz running 10.3.9. The iBook is a bit faster for everyday tasks and that hasnt always been the case (the tower has a faster bus, faster graphics card, faster disk etc...). One thing you MUST do on older macs running Tiger OR Panther is upgade your RAM to a reasonable level, which usually means maxing it out. Even then I had to turn off dashboard on the iBook (I dont really use it on any of my macs anyway).
Both machines are still great for general desktop work and light development. I bumped the iBook to Tiger (OSX) to get Tiger (Java), and I havent really bothered to upgrade the tower because I havent had the time and its not a pressing concern for me. But given the results on the iBook, I dont expect a performance hit when I do upgrade.
>People do not need to use Windows at work, they are required to.
You might be right if youre talking about a developer or someone in administration. There are plenty of OSX and linux alternatives for dev tools, spreadsheets, word processors, etc. For some purposes there is simply no viable non-windows alternative.
As an example, I have a heart rate monitor I use for athletic performance evaluation. The software supplied by the HRM manufacturer is windows only. There is a linux/OSX cli tool that will download the data from the HRM to a text file, but thats it, and it only works with some models. Having Windows and OSX on the same laptop so that I can download and analyze data in the field would be a huge deal for me.
If the point were to find a FOSS OSX alternative, then your suggestion might be ok. But the point of running XP or Vista on a Mac isnt to dump OSX, its to allow us to use OSX and more easily/cheaply run any Windows apps we need to. Tomahawk dosent really help me run the latest Windows games does it?
/. readers have known linux existed.
If a FOSS alternative is what you want, you can already run Linux on the intel macs and you've been able to run linux on PPC macs longer than many
I tried to give up admin on my primary OSX account but in the end it not worth the trouble considering the security risk to my firewalled home network. For an average user its probably not that big of a deal, but trying to do Java development in Eclipse, starting and stopping web servers and tomcat, moving files around, adjusting privs to get things to work right from a normal acct. It was just a huge hassle. It would take me literally 10 times longer to do some tasks. On OSX its not as simple as sudo this or that, and for me it wasnt worth the hassle.
Whats my exposure by using an admin acct? If I were a dumbass who opened every file emailed to me and couldnt see that there was something wrong with a jpg image needing my password, then I might be in trouble. But I'm not, so I'll risk it. As an admin user I havent found the need for the root acct. Anything I would need root to do is easily done via sudo.
Thats classic, great link! It illustrates the difference between Apple's and MS's philosophy perfectly.
>FOSS development has mostly depended on someone needing/wanting/linking a certain functionality and then trying to code it.
Exactly! If they want accessibility features they should compile gentoo and code it themselves. People whine about wanting FOSS to be easier to use and more accessible. Those people need to learn C/C++ and the FOSS API's's and help out. Lets move on to more pressing topics, like how we can attract more people to desktop linux!
Exactly... this guy should be fired or moved into some a department where he cant do any damage. If he truly believes that innovation is no longer possible then he has lost the ability (if he ever had it) to recognize innovation when he sees it, which is not what you want from the guy in charge of technology and innovation at your company. Give him a raise and move him into "Accounting" or make him a Microsoft liason or something.
Have you tried dontaing them to a charity who works in the region. They might not be willing the "give" the computers to an individual but perhaps having a computer for the village, school, medical clinic, etc would be better anyway. They'd be much more likely to already have a logistical system in place for getting supplies to the region. I'm gussing WAY cheaper per kg than DHL.
Aside from a few game developers (Blizzard) most Mac game versions trail the release of the Windows version by a significant margin. This could lower sales of mac games because gamers will already own Windows versions and will be reluctant to shell out full price for an "old" game.
I have my doubts that this will effect most of the titles that make it to the mac, though it will effect some. Most of the games ported to the mac are successful quality games. Games people play and keep playing, not something you play for a month and move on. Its a huge pain in the wazoo to have to reboot to play a game of Counter Strike, etc... Mac users have already been through this, recently. When Apple transitioned to OSX gamers had to reboot into classic MacOS to run most of their games, and it was a hassle. people switched to OSX native versions as soon as they were available. In the case of Diablo2, the OSX version never ran quite as fast as the OS9 version, but even with the slight slowdown and lower stability (of D2) it was better not to have to reboot in order to play a game.
I do think it will effect the garbage titles. If the game sucks Mac gamers might buy the PC version on impulse, but there will be no reson to get the Mac version when its available. Currently, some garbage games make it to the mac. That wont last.
Do not underestimate the power of scantily clad ladies to advance software design and development.
>The concept is really really cool with the potential to completely change the UI as we know it.
I disagree... It looks neat, like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, but I dont think this is where the UI is going. I mean, thats not a UI thats exercise! I race bicycles for fun and I can hold my own against most people in the exercise department, but I dont want to be doing the "wax on, wax off" (showing my age) when I'm sitting at a computer.
Imagine having to reach out and hit a links with your finger everytime you wanted to follow a link in a web browser. Moving a mouse takes a tiny ammount of movement I can sit back and lounge and with a flick of my fingers and a click I can move files, click on links, etc... I'm hardly moving as I type this message. I agree, the video looks cool as hell, and this will definitely have its place in childrens/science museums (maybe even EPCOT!) but its not an effective UI, its DDR (that dancing thing) for the hands, and thats not how I want to work.
Theres a reason we're still using keyboards and mouse/pointing devices. They work extremely well together. The next revolutionary UI device will not require any movement at all... or perhaps subtle eye movement. Maybe some type of neural link. Dont bet on something that makes you work harder to get less done, no matter how cool the demo is.
I know this is a bit off topic, but has anyone tried Solaris x86? It would probably be more interesting to me to be able to dual boot Solaris/OSX than Windows XP.