I take it that you don't own a Mac. There are a number of small software vendors that distribute their software as shareware with limitations, either on time or functionality. Most of this software comprises of neat little system or interface utilities or games. Panic is one of the better vendors, as is Ambrosia.
They lost Assassin's Creed, GTA, DMC and a whole host of other exclusives... Sure, they have the FF series, but the 360 has a bunch of exclusive Mistwalker RPG's coming out!
Assassin's Creed was first shown off for the 360 so people where confused when they were showing it off at E3 and only mentioned a PS3 release. GTA was never completely exclusive to the Playstation. GTA got a port to the GBC (not the greatest, but surprisingly good giving the limits of the handheld. GTA2 had a Dreamcast Port. GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas were all available for the XBox.
Similar thing happened to me when I tried to sell my PS3 (which actually led me to keeping it and I've actually been having fun). The first time it was with somebody who had a compromised account. The second time was pretty similar, but the person had bid on a number of higher end items and provided a fake address and phone number; though it was kind of fun to watch their rating drop like a rock.
You new fruity console lovers can keep your Master Chef and his queer-eye costume. His food sucks and the only thing he has is a decent story-line. I'll take Duke, a shotgun, pipe bombs and strippers any day of the week
...forgetting that Duke Nukem 3D was ported the the Playstation, N64, and Saturn. (Not to mention the Gameboy Advance.)
I have a Laserjet 5P as well. I picked it up off of eBay for like $40 4 years back. I'm still using the toner cartridge that came with the thing. Coupled with a wireless print server, the thing works perfectly with all of my systems. (I run Windows and Linux on a few systems, as well as OS X on my laptop.)
I've got a lot of the same concerns for ME2 and 3. What happens if somebody pics up Mass Effect 2, but doesn't have a save from the original? Also, potential end game spoiler it seems that depending on how you finish the game will depend on how much influence humanity has in the galactic council. If the effects from your end game decision will actually carry over two ME2.
Since Starcraft 2 is going to have a Mac port, the game will use OpenGL. The Windows version will default to a Direct X renderer, but Blizzard will probably include an OpenGL renderer like they did for Warcraft 3. (I can't speak for World of Warcraft as I haven't ever played it, but I'd like to assume that it did too.)
Lobo always spells Apple like that. He also spells Linux as Linuzzzz. It's much easier to mark him as a foe, knock down his people modifier and get on with your life.
If you go to dell.com and go to desktops for Home and Home Office, you have two links called "Still looking for Windows XP?" One is on the right banner, the other is on the left under "Essential Links". Interestingly enough, so is "Open-Source PCs," Dell's name for their systems that ship with Ubuntu or FreeDOS.
When Apple went from OS 9 to OS X, there was a major shift in a lot of the underlying technology; new kernel, new memory management, new APIs (granted, you could write you're app in Carbon and it would work fine in both). With the transition to Vista, the shift isn't nearly as dramatic. Granted Microsoft has added some new APIs, changed the way drivers and certain applications are handled, but a lot of the existing NT code is still there.
l2english! He said the GP meant that the only choice that many people have is one (maybe two) high speed connection in their area; the only other option being dial-up.
Are you using NBC direct or just watching the online episodes (noting that they are two distinct services)? I know on my systems at home, an iBook running OSX 10.4.10 and a desktop running Ubuntu 7.10 (both running Firefox), I can watch the episodes online. I haven't tried to use NBC direct yet.
Most of the times an application that resides in Preferences is stored in/Library/Prefpanes. At least that's how I remember it, I'm not currently at my Mac so I couldn't do a quick double check.
It's not like they have exclusivity for GTA3, Vice City, or San Andreas. They all came to the XBox eventually, even if they were only on the PS2 for a limited time.
Yeah, so do I. I played it on my 360. Of course, I could have played it through Wine like I did Half-Life 2. The orange box is also coming out for the PS3 too so it's not like you're completely limited in you're options to play it.
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I take it that you don't own a Mac. There are a number of small software vendors that distribute their software as shareware with limitations, either on time or functionality. Most of this software comprises of neat little system or interface utilities or games. Panic is one of the better vendors, as is Ambrosia.
They lost Assassin's Creed, GTA, DMC and a whole host of other exclusives... Sure, they have the FF series, but the 360 has a bunch of exclusive Mistwalker RPG's coming out!
Assassin's Creed was first shown off for the 360 so people where confused when they were showing it off at E3 and only mentioned a PS3 release. GTA was never completely exclusive to the Playstation. GTA got a port to the GBC (not the greatest, but surprisingly good giving the limits of the handheld. GTA2 had a Dreamcast Port. GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas were all available for the XBox.
Well, for what it's worth, Amazon has said they are working on a downloader for Linux. Whether or not it's a POS, we'll have to wait and see.
Similar thing happened to me when I tried to sell my PS3 (which actually led me to keeping it and I've actually been having fun). The first time it was with somebody who had a compromised account. The second time was pretty similar, but the person had bid on a number of higher end items and provided a fake address and phone number; though it was kind of fun to watch their rating drop like a rock.
He's probably running a hacked version of the Intel release of OSX. See http://wiki.osx86project.org/ for more info.
You new fruity console lovers can keep your Master Chef and his queer-eye costume. His food sucks and the only thing he has is a decent story-line. I'll take Duke, a shotgun, pipe bombs and strippers any day of the week
...forgetting that Duke Nukem 3D was ported the the Playstation, N64, and Saturn. (Not to mention the Gameboy Advance.)
Are you going to be complaining about Mario's age next, too?
Duke Nukem 3D supported resolutions up to 1024x768 using VESA.
Only the Japanese version was water cooled. The NA (and assuming PAL) version was fan cooled.
I have a Laserjet 5P as well. I picked it up off of eBay for like $40 4 years back. I'm still using the toner cartridge that came with the thing. Coupled with a wireless print server, the thing works perfectly with all of my systems. (I run Windows and Linux on a few systems, as well as OS X on my laptop.)
Because chefs know better than customers how to prepare a meal.
If I order what I want of the menu, the Chefs are still the ones preparing it.
But what about if you punch babies?
I've got a lot of the same concerns for ME2 and 3. What happens if somebody pics up Mass Effect 2, but doesn't have a save from the original? Also, potential end game spoiler it seems that depending on how you finish the game will depend on how much influence humanity has in the galactic council. If the effects from your end game decision will actually carry over two ME2.
No wonder Vista runs like crap, you only have half a gig of RAM. ;)
(Hint: GB != Gb)
Since Starcraft 2 is going to have a Mac port, the game will use OpenGL. The Windows version will default to a Direct X renderer, but Blizzard will probably include an OpenGL renderer like they did for Warcraft 3. (I can't speak for World of Warcraft as I haven't ever played it, but I'd like to assume that it did too.)
Lobo always spells Apple like that. He also spells Linux as Linuzzzz. It's much easier to mark him as a foe, knock down his people modifier and get on with your life.
If you go to dell.com and go to desktops for Home and Home Office, you have two links called "Still looking for Windows XP?" One is on the right banner, the other is on the left under "Essential Links". Interestingly enough, so is "Open-Source PCs," Dell's name for their systems that ship with Ubuntu or FreeDOS.
When Apple went from OS 9 to OS X, there was a major shift in a lot of the underlying technology; new kernel, new memory management, new APIs (granted, you could write you're app in Carbon and it would work fine in both). With the transition to Vista, the shift isn't nearly as dramatic. Granted Microsoft has added some new APIs, changed the way drivers and certain applications are handled, but a lot of the existing NT code is still there.
When I started reading your comment, I half expected it to end with "Ron Paul for President!" I might just be spending too much time at digg.
l2english! He said the GP meant that the only choice that many people have is one (maybe two) high speed connection in their area; the only other option being dial-up.
Are you using NBC direct or just watching the online episodes (noting that they are two distinct services)? I know on my systems at home, an iBook running OSX 10.4.10 and a desktop running Ubuntu 7.10 (both running Firefox), I can watch the episodes online. I haven't tried to use NBC direct yet.
Most of the times an application that resides in Preferences is stored in /Library/Prefpanes. At least that's how I remember it, I'm not currently at my Mac so I couldn't do a quick double check.
It's not like they have exclusivity for GTA3, Vice City, or San Andreas. They all came to the XBox eventually, even if they were only on the PS2 for a limited time.
Yeah, so do I. I played it on my 360. Of course, I could have played it through Wine like I did Half-Life 2. The orange box is also coming out for the PS3 too so it's not like you're completely limited in you're options to play it.
Sadly, I can see it now.