Well, its not so much that there isn't other life out there, I know there is, its a matter of communication and travel. If Einstein is right about relativity, meaning that the fastest anything can travel is lightspeed, then the universe is realistically to big to be explored by any living creature with a finite life. Basically, to find life, either the aliens or us have to develop warp and subspace technology. If we can travel fast, or communcate fast, we will find life.
The other answer would be genetics. If we could engineer a human that could live indefinitely, that is also a possibility, however, said human would have to be launched with a self contained ecosystem that would have to support him/her for many thousands of years.
Star Trek is only possible if we can defeat relativity.
There are so many issues with this years 2k5 that the ESPN forums are crawling with bug reports and angry gamers. Never have I seen such dissatisfaction with a console game of any type...
The developer, Visual Concepts, refuses to acknowledge many of the reports and has only acted now out fear and liability.
More disheartening is the fact that almost all the online reviews for the game made no mention of the bug filled mess that is online play. NFL 2k5 recieved almost perfect rankings from most of the magazines I read, leading me to beleive that most review sites do little, if any homework on the games they review.
Also, no mention was ever made of the features removed from the game that were present in last years version. Chat capability and the ability to change playbooks have been REMOVED from this years game, yet the developers chose to add useless features for marketing and hype that detracted from 2k4's flawless gameplay.
This is clearly the last year for the ESPN videogames. It's unfortunate, but they don't have the resources to compete with EA. They can't even playtest their games.
The technique you mention is easily beaten by ken or ryu's uppercut, or guiles kick, its not a glitch at all.
SF2 did have glitches that allowed me to beat people 100% of the time, but that wasn't one of them.
If you really know SF2 then you can actually reset the game using the controller, there is also the Guile "shadow throw". Either one of these glitches made it possible for me to beat all opponents. No one ever played me twice, that was the only problem.
I know what you are all thinking... when will I be able to eat chinese food on the moon? Alas, there aren't a lot of things I want more than to have a Colonel Pao's chicken on the lunar surface. No, I'm not crazy, I just think chinese food and space go hand in hand, just like chinese food and MSG. Indeed, chinese food, because of the preservative properties of MSG, is probably ideally suited for space. Delicious.
No really, the chinese have launched their first man into outer space. This is good for a number of reasons:
1) It puts pressure on the Bush administration fund NASA as opposed to the war effort. 2) Fear of a red moon will jolt the American people out of their complacent attitude which holds as self-evident America's domination of outer space. 3) It will lead to the commercialization of space travel.
I have long been of the opinion that NASA (and the US government) has let down the people of our great country. I refer to some comments I made when the Columbia disaster occurred:
Regardless of whether the foam did it or not, I think the point is that the shuttle itself is a dinosaur. We need a newer/cheaper/faster method of getting into space. A few months ago on slashdot, someone wrote a comment that there are 5 shuttle orbiters, and 2 have crashed... that means NASA has lost 40% of its shuttle fleet. Sure the shuttles go on multiple dangerous missions etc... but 40% failure rate during a vehicles usable lifetime is an indication to me that NASA is very bad at what they do. I don't give a damn about the 60's and 70's, I am a child of the 80's... NASA has done nothing for me except TANG. Between the hubble mirror being faulty, the space shuttles going down, and the fact that NASA clearly has a policy that wants to keep the average joe from getting into space, I'm pissed. New management is necessary for me to beleive in NASA again. Every American should have a chance to view the earth from outer space in 100 years, thats the future I want, not scientists mucking around with earthworms... I want parties in space.
Lets hope that with China now in the race that I will be partying on the moon this time next year.
Um... Quake 3 came out on mac first... we have all the important games. Doom 3 will also be on mac, other games on pc that are actually worth playing are few and far between. PC players get a few FPS's and hardcore strategy games mac users don't, so what?
Consoles more than makeup for the shortfall, and can be had for little more than the cost of a few games. The number of pc games will decrease as the number of consoles increase, get used to it, pc AND mac users will soon be looking at gaming from the outside.
I had a cheap ISP nightmare. It was a $5 a month unlimited service. After paying for my first month in advance (and a $10 setup fee), they shut off my account after 15 days, stating that I was a "spammer", when I had only sent 3 emails from the account. Since they offered no dialup support, I was forced to call sales who told me to F$^%# off. After a report to the BBB I was finally able to get my money back, but only part of it. The company was stowetel.com. Beware, some of these ISP have usage policies that are designed to defraud customers by labeling them spammers, or abusive users. Because they offer very little support, getting help can be problematic, time-consuming, and a real pain in the rear. More trouble than its worth. BTW, I now use fastermac.net as my dialup ISP and its been a dream, at $6.50 a month.
I think that this is one of the better/. stories I have seen in a while because the comments are pretty well informed and involved a good degree of empirical evidence. Regardless of whether the foam did it or not, I think the point is that the shuttle itself is a dinosaur. We need a newer/safer/cheaper/faster method of getting into space. A few months ago someone wrote a comment that there are 5 shuttle orbiters, and 2 have crashed... that means NASA has lost 40% of its shuttle fleet. Sure the shuttles go on multiple dangerous missions etc... but 40% failure rate during a vehicles usable lifetime is an indication to me that NASA is very bad at what they do. I don't give a damn about the 60's and 70's, I am a child of the 80's... NASA has done nothing for me except TANG. Between the hubble mirror being faulty, the space shuttles going down, and the fact that NASA clearly has a policy that wants to keep the average joe from getting into space, I'm pissed. New management is necessary for me to beleive in NASA again. Every American should have a chance to view the earth from outer space in 100 years, thats the future I want, not scientists mucking around with earthworms... I want parties in space.
Well, that may be true, but the ballon itself would be sheilded by the best kevlar composites available, I am assuming multiple redundant layers, and possibly armoring in some places. Trust me, it won't be easy to shoot down, and a 30-06 makes a lot of noise, its federal time and a beat down with the patriot act if you get caught in the US, Nothing to sneeze at. In the UK guns are strictly controlled, very few people have 30-06's. Probably even less in other parts of europe. I'm not saying its impossible, but perhaps the thing is so damn cheap that if you dont tear a big ass hole in it, they just ease it back down to ground in a somewhat controlled manner, put up a spare, and patch the blimp you shot... the actual gondola, where the communications equipment seems to be housed, looks like it could be heavily sheilded to me. That would be tough to destroy, the blimp itself is merely a floatation device, and looks like it costs very little to make, even a kevlar reinforced version like the one I described. Also... I'm guessing the would have dummy/redundant blimps. Multiple shots from a 30-06 will attract everyone within a 5 mile radius. Good luck.
If I was the pirating type, I'd get unrestricted songs for $0. Zip, nada, zilch. If I'm going to use this service, it's because I want to buy songs and be honest about it. Given that I have access to the free, better, but dishonest alternative, why the f*** would you put restrictions on how I can use what I buy that are only to prevent me from being dishonest? If I'm going to be dishonest, I'll fire up Kazaa, not buy AACs and copy them hither thither and yon.
If this service sold MP3s or unrestricted media, I'd have bought some already. They don't, so I won't.
better my ass... can you honestly say you get good quality tracks? I doubt it. I've seen all the dishonest P2P stuff and you hardly ever get good rips... theres always audible crap, and mp3's in general (even LAME encoded ones) are much suckier and bigger than the AAC codec apple uses. The restriction are in place to prevent abuse... do you really need 10 cd's of your favorite album? No, of course not, but thats hardly restrictive, at least in my eyes. They are basically saying that you can't manufacture cd's which most rational people agree would be a bad thing.
Enjoy your pirated mp3's, they are free because they suck.
Some of the ideas being advanced here about remotes are ludicrous. I have tried all the remotes, everything. Here's what I learned:
1) Any remote with a touch screen is useless because it means you have to take your eyes off of what you are doing (hopefully sipping wine or fondling something). The remote has to be organized from the outset to fit all the requirements of a home entertainment center (TV, Tivo, DVD, CD, MD/DVD-R, and amplifier). Forget the x-10 stuff for now (manual blinds and lights).
2) The only remote I know that can juggle these tasks responsibly is the Sony RM-VL900, and it has to be programmed by hand. I mapped every single button for every single device manually. The sony took down everything. It took me about an hour. The remote has the ability to record 11 macros... more than I can remember, and more than anyone can realistically use (and yes it does the complex stuff seamlessly, ie macros that use 5 or six devices simultaneously).
3) Its cheap and real easy... no cables, no obsessive "cable from computer to remote" type behavior (yes, i know this defeasts the point of putting this post on/.)
4) My remote works fine after 4 years of heavy use. Sony is still selling the same remote (quite a testament to its ergonomic layout), and I can clone my remote at any time.
Actually, this isn't the case. Right now, with my Tivo, I can archive stuff to a DVD recorder as I watch it on my Tivo, which means as I watch, I FF through the commercials, and thats how my video gets saved. So, in essence, its very easy to have archival copies of all your favorite shows without the garbage. You can do it now for less than that Sony machine costs. All you need is a Tivo, $199, and a refurbished DVD-recorder, about $500, and you have your "magic box" right now.
When you acquire something that has value without compensating the owner, that is Stealing.
What if the owner of said content didn't distribute it in your country? Should you be forced to move? What if the only means available to seeing certain media is to do so illegally?
In other words, your view is completely US centric, what you are saying essentially is that the rich get to see movies and the poor are thieves. Most countries besides the US don't have a Muvico on every corner, because people can't afford the ridiculous prices companies in the US charge for their intellectual wares. The price of a movie ticket in the US is more than the monthly salary of many people of the world, did you even condsider this?
Now, I'm not advocating that every movie should be ripped off, but in poorer countries how is someone supposed to fork over a month's wage to see a flick? Not by using their brain.
What you fail to realize is that very few people in Asia have broadband, but many have access to burning facilities... including large scale ones. Just because "its not on the net" (therefore it doesn't exist) doesn't mean that it can't be true. In fact, most people would rather pay a buck or two to have a movie encoded with divx on two cd's than trying to download a 1GB+ file.
In China, and Asia in general, things work differently. People can openly buy wares without fear of prosecution, so people can pretty much sell whatever digital media they acquire. Here, in the US, where corporate fear is paramount to consumer rights, its not surprising to see that the only way we can see the new Two Towers movie is by doing so legally. In China, this isn't the case- if you dont protect your media, you deserve to get it ripped off. In a way, going down to your local "pirate" store in Shanghai or Hong Kong is a lot faster than getting stuff off the net, and you dont have to hide behind a a computer to get what you really want.
China (and Asia), in a sense, is far ahead of us as far as DRM goes... they just look the other way.
Lack of HDTV functionality isn't that big a deal, my Tivo works great with my HDTV. Lets face it, the powers that be won't let us time-shift HDTV signals until they work out anti-piracy issues (not to mention storage issues), and who knows when thats gonna happen (my bet is 3-5 years). The best we can do now is enjoy what we have, which is a lot better than what we used to have. Heck, 4 years ago, we didn't even have time-shifting, so I am pretty happy with the way things are right now. If you give me the choice of watching a show in HD, or watching a show on Tivo in "best quality" S-Video without the commercials, I take the Tivo every time. Once you stop watching commercials, thats it, there's no going back, even if it is HDTV.
I'm not sure what oil company you work for but you are flat out wrong.
Aside from that, it's illegal to inflate gasoline prices.
Maybe I am missing something, but doesn't the price of gas go up everytime we are about to go to war in the Middle East? OPEC doesn't change the price of a barrel of oil when that happens, gas stations do. Why? In order to artificially create a surge in profits. When we end up not going to war, do the gas prices rocket their way down the same way they shoot up, no. How many times have you heard of Mobil or Texaco getting sued for jacking up the price? Never. Why? Because the oil companies own congress, along with the companies that make gas guzzling SUV's. Apparently, oil companies also own the person who wrote the parent post.
Just watch enough RealTV and you will come across a few. Last night I saw two neandertals trying to sky dive to a wedding... one crashed into a parking lot, the other crashed into a tree, you could tell they weren't homosapiens because modern man is smart, right?
"Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following:
There are many intangible factors that could contribute to this discussion. I use OSX everyday and I love it, of course, I'm not compressing video or playing Quake 3. If you want to discuss productivity as opposed to raw computing horsepower, OSX wins everytime. Here's why:
1) No viruses. 2) I can clone my entire HD with a freeware utility (in other words, backing up is easy as pie) 3) With.mac, its possible to synchonize user preferences among any number of macs... this means that no matter where I go, or what mac I am on, my bookmarks stay the same, as do all my preferences for all my apps (did I mention it remembers all my passwords for all the sites I visit also). Its now possible to have a meteor (leonidas style) hit my HD and have an identical install in less than 1 hour (from cd), no fussing about with configuring everything again. 4) I can install or remove RAM in less than 5 seconds on any powermac. 5) OSX.2 boots very very quick on dual processor machines... its about 15-20 seconds. 6) Apple gives you, out of box, almost all the software you need to get productive, which in turn means very few installs from cd. 7) 802.11 networking is built into the OS and every new mac... no drivers necessary. 8) Almost every printer is supported in X.2, same with cd burners, again, no drivers or installs necessary. 9) Its cool watching my linux friends not use the GUI.
Sure I am biased, being a mac head, but what would compel me to use windows or linux... I hate installing stuff,I hate viruses, I hate it when my mom asks me why she can't open attachments (for fear of virus). About the only thing wrong with macs right now is the mouse, which imho would benefit from a few more buttons and a scroll wheel.
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Well, its not so much that there isn't other life out there, I know there is, its a matter of communication and travel. If Einstein is right about relativity, meaning that the fastest anything can travel is lightspeed, then the universe is realistically to big to be explored by any living creature with a finite life. Basically, to find life, either the aliens or us have to develop warp and subspace technology. If we can travel fast, or communcate fast, we will find life.
The other answer would be genetics. If we could engineer a human that could live indefinitely, that is also a possibility, however, said human would have to be launched with a self contained ecosystem that would have to support him/her for many thousands of years.
Star Trek is only possible if we can defeat relativity.
There are so many issues with this years 2k5 that the ESPN forums are crawling with bug reports and angry gamers. Never have I seen such dissatisfaction with a console game of any type...
The developer, Visual Concepts, refuses to acknowledge many of the reports and has only acted now out fear and liability.
More disheartening is the fact that almost all the online reviews for the game made no mention of the bug filled mess that is online play. NFL 2k5 recieved almost perfect rankings from most of the magazines I read, leading me to beleive that most review sites do little, if any homework on the games they review.
Also, no mention was ever made of the features removed from the game that were present in last years version. Chat capability and the ability to change playbooks have been REMOVED from this years game, yet the developers chose to add useless features for marketing and hype that detracted from 2k4's flawless gameplay.
This is clearly the last year for the ESPN videogames. It's unfortunate, but they don't have the resources to compete with EA. They can't even playtest their games.
SF2 did have glitches that allowed me to beat people 100% of the time, but that wasn't one of them.
If you really know SF2 then you can actually reset the game using the controller, there is also the Guile "shadow throw". Either one of these glitches made it possible for me to beat all opponents. No one ever played me twice, that was the only problem.
It sucks when you always win.
Apparently, you've never heard of Tivo.
I know what you are all thinking... when will I be able to eat chinese food on the moon? Alas, there aren't a lot of things I want more than to have a Colonel Pao's chicken on the lunar surface. No, I'm not crazy, I just think chinese food and space go hand in hand, just like chinese food and MSG. Indeed, chinese food, because of the preservative properties of MSG, is probably ideally suited for space. Delicious.
No really, the chinese have launched their first man into outer space. This is good for a number of reasons:
1) It puts pressure on the Bush administration fund NASA as opposed to the war effort.
2) Fear of a red moon will jolt the American people out of their complacent attitude which holds as self-evident America's domination of outer space.
3) It will lead to the commercialization of space travel.
I have long been of the opinion that NASA (and the US government) has let down the people of our great country. I refer to some comments I made when the Columbia disaster occurred:
Regardless of whether the foam did it or not, I think the point is that the shuttle itself is a dinosaur. We need a newer/cheaper/faster method of getting into space. A few months ago on slashdot, someone wrote a comment that there are 5 shuttle orbiters, and 2 have crashed... that means NASA has lost 40% of its shuttle fleet. Sure the shuttles go on multiple dangerous missions etc... but 40% failure rate during a vehicles usable lifetime is an indication to me that NASA is very bad at what they do. I don't give a damn about the 60's and 70's, I am a child of the 80's... NASA has done nothing for me except TANG. Between the hubble mirror being faulty, the space shuttles going down, and the fact that NASA clearly has a policy that wants to keep the average joe from getting into space, I'm pissed. New management is necessary for me to beleive in NASA again. Every American should have a chance to view the earth from outer space in 100 years, thats the future I want, not scientists mucking around with earthworms... I want parties in space.
Lets hope that with China now in the race that I will be partying on the moon this time next year.
Um... Quake 3 came out on mac first... we have all the important games. Doom 3 will also be on mac, other games on pc that are actually worth playing are few and far between. PC players get a few FPS's and hardcore strategy games mac users don't, so what?
Consoles more than makeup for the shortfall, and can be had for little more than the cost of a few games. The number of pc games will decrease as the number of consoles increase, get used to it, pc AND mac users will soon be looking at gaming from the outside.
I had a cheap ISP nightmare. It was a $5 a month unlimited service. After paying for my first month in advance (and a $10 setup fee), they shut off my account after 15 days, stating that I was a "spammer", when I had only sent 3 emails from the account. Since they offered no dialup support, I was forced to call sales who told me to F$^%# off. After a report to the BBB I was finally able to get my money back, but only part of it. The company was stowetel.com. Beware, some of these ISP have usage policies that are designed to defraud customers by labeling them spammers, or abusive users. Because they offer very little support, getting help can be problematic, time-consuming, and a real pain in the rear. More trouble than its worth. BTW, I now use fastermac.net as my dialup ISP and its been a dream, at $6.50 a month.
I think that this is one of the better /. stories I have seen in a while because the comments are pretty well informed and involved a good degree of empirical evidence. Regardless of whether the foam did it or not, I think the point is that the shuttle itself is a dinosaur. We need a newer/safer/cheaper/faster method of getting into space. A few months ago someone wrote a comment that there are 5 shuttle orbiters, and 2 have crashed... that means NASA has lost 40% of its shuttle fleet. Sure the shuttles go on multiple dangerous missions etc... but 40% failure rate during a vehicles usable lifetime is an indication to me that NASA is very bad at what they do. I don't give a damn about the 60's and 70's, I am a child of the 80's... NASA has done nothing for me except TANG. Between the hubble mirror being faulty, the space shuttles going down, and the fact that NASA clearly has a policy that wants to keep the average joe from getting into space, I'm pissed. New management is necessary for me to beleive in NASA again. Every American should have a chance to view the earth from outer space in 100 years, thats the future I want, not scientists mucking around with earthworms... I want parties in space.
Well, that may be true, but the ballon itself would be sheilded by the best kevlar composites available, I am assuming multiple redundant layers, and possibly armoring in some places. Trust me, it won't be easy to shoot down, and a 30-06 makes a lot of noise, its federal time and a beat down with the patriot act if you get caught in the US, Nothing to sneeze at. In the UK guns are strictly controlled, very few people have 30-06's. Probably even less in other parts of europe. I'm not saying its impossible, but perhaps the thing is so damn cheap that if you dont tear a big ass hole in it, they just ease it back down to ground in a somewhat controlled manner, put up a spare, and patch the blimp you shot... the actual gondola, where the communications equipment seems to be housed, looks like it could be heavily sheilded to me. That would be tough to destroy, the blimp itself is merely a floatation device, and looks like it costs very little to make, even a kevlar reinforced version like the one I described. Also... I'm guessing the would have dummy/redundant blimps. Multiple shots from a 30-06 will attract everyone within a 5 mile radius. Good luck.
better my ass... can you honestly say you get good quality tracks? I doubt it. I've seen all the dishonest P2P stuff and you hardly ever get good rips... theres always audible crap, and mp3's in general (even LAME encoded ones) are much suckier and bigger than the AAC codec apple uses. The restriction are in place to prevent abuse... do you really need 10 cd's of your favorite album? No, of course not, but thats hardly restrictive, at least in my eyes. They are basically saying that you can't manufacture cd's which most rational people agree would be a bad thing.
Enjoy your pirated mp3's, they are free because they suck.
1) Any remote with a touch screen is useless because it means you have to take your eyes off of what you are doing (hopefully sipping wine or fondling something). The remote has to be organized from the outset to fit all the requirements of a home entertainment center (TV, Tivo, DVD, CD, MD/DVD-R, and amplifier). Forget the x-10 stuff for now (manual blinds and lights).
2) The only remote I know that can juggle these tasks responsibly is the Sony RM-VL900, and it has to be programmed by hand. I mapped every single button for every single device manually. The sony took down everything. It took me about an hour. The remote has the ability to record 11 macros... more than I can remember, and more than anyone can realistically use (and yes it does the complex stuff seamlessly, ie macros that use 5 or six devices simultaneously).
3) Its cheap and real easy... no cables, no obsessive "cable from computer to remote" type behavior (yes, i know this defeasts the point of putting this post on /.)
4) My remote works fine after 4 years of heavy use. Sony is still selling the same remote (quite a testament to its ergonomic layout), and I can clone my remote at any time.
Actually, this isn't the case. Right now, with my Tivo, I can archive stuff to a DVD recorder as I watch it on my Tivo, which means as I watch, I FF through the commercials, and thats how my video gets saved. So, in essence, its very easy to have archival copies of all your favorite shows without the garbage. You can do it now for less than that Sony machine costs. All you need is a Tivo, $199, and a refurbished DVD-recorder, about $500, and you have your "magic box" right now.
An Apple a day keeps the IRS away.
Jobs for everyone.
iAmerica.
Lets all take acid.
What about a headless imac... i would buy it if the price is right.
Obviously you have never played Missile Command.
When you acquire something that has value without compensating the owner, that is Stealing.
What if the owner of said content didn't distribute it in your country? Should you be forced to move? What if the only means available to seeing certain media is to do so illegally?
In other words, your view is completely US centric, what you are saying essentially is that the rich get to see movies and the poor are thieves. Most countries besides the US don't have a Muvico on every corner, because people can't afford the ridiculous prices companies in the US charge for their intellectual wares. The price of a movie ticket in the US is more than the monthly salary of many people of the world, did you even condsider this?
Now, I'm not advocating that every movie should be ripped off, but in poorer countries how is someone supposed to fork over a month's wage to see a flick? Not by using their brain.
What you fail to realize is that very few people in Asia have broadband, but many have access to burning facilities... including large scale ones. Just because "its not on the net" (therefore it doesn't exist) doesn't mean that it can't be true. In fact, most people would rather pay a buck or two to have a movie encoded with divx on two cd's than trying to download a 1GB+ file.
In China, and Asia in general, things work differently. People can openly buy wares without fear of prosecution, so people can pretty much sell whatever digital media they acquire. Here, in the US, where corporate fear is paramount to consumer rights, its not surprising to see that the only way we can see the new Two Towers movie is by doing so legally. In China, this isn't the case- if you dont protect your media, you deserve to get it ripped off. In a way, going down to your local "pirate" store in Shanghai or Hong Kong is a lot faster than getting stuff off the net, and you dont have to hide behind a a computer to get what you really want.
China (and Asia), in a sense, is far ahead of us as far as DRM goes... they just look the other way.
Lack of HDTV functionality isn't that big a deal, my Tivo works great with my HDTV. Lets face it, the powers that be won't let us time-shift HDTV signals until they work out anti-piracy issues (not to mention storage issues), and who knows when thats gonna happen (my bet is 3-5 years). The best we can do now is enjoy what we have, which is a lot better than what we used to have. Heck, 4 years ago, we didn't even have time-shifting, so I am pretty happy with the way things are right now. If you give me the choice of watching a show in HD, or watching a show on Tivo in "best quality" S-Video without the commercials, I take the Tivo every time. Once you stop watching commercials, thats it, there's no going back, even if it is HDTV.
Do you get crank calls where someone yells "Kirk" and just hangs up?
Hereis the dealmac discussion...
Watson: Did you get it?
Bell: Yes, send more porn.
Maybe I am missing something, but doesn't the price of gas go up everytime we are about to go to war in the Middle East? OPEC doesn't change the price of a barrel of oil when that happens, gas stations do. Why? In order to artificially create a surge in profits. When we end up not going to war, do the gas prices rocket their way down the same way they shoot up, no. How many times have you heard of Mobil or Texaco getting sued for jacking up the price? Never. Why? Because the oil companies own congress, along with the companies that make gas guzzling SUV's. Apparently, oil companies also own the person who wrote the parent post.
Just watch enough RealTV and you will come across a few. Last night I saw two neandertals trying to sky dive to a wedding... one crashed into a parking lot, the other crashed into a tree, you could tell they weren't homosapiens because modern man is smart, right?
From the website:
"Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following:
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You Need Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP"
Guess no movies for me.
There are many intangible factors that could contribute to this discussion. I use OSX everyday and I love it, of course, I'm not compressing video or playing Quake 3. If you want to discuss productivity as opposed to raw computing horsepower, OSX wins everytime. Here's why:
.mac, its possible to synchonize user preferences among any number of macs... this means that no matter where I go, or what mac I am on, my bookmarks stay the same, as do all my preferences for all my apps (did I mention it remembers all my passwords for all the sites I visit also). Its now possible to have a meteor (leonidas style) hit my HD and have an identical install in less than 1 hour (from cd), no fussing about with configuring everything again.
1) No viruses.
2) I can clone my entire HD with a freeware utility (in other words, backing up is easy as pie)
3) With
4) I can install or remove RAM in less than 5 seconds on any powermac.
5) OSX.2 boots very very quick on dual processor machines... its about 15-20 seconds.
6) Apple gives you, out of box, almost all the software you need to get productive, which in turn means very few installs from cd.
7) 802.11 networking is built into the OS and every new mac... no drivers necessary.
8) Almost every printer is supported in X.2, same with cd burners, again, no drivers or installs necessary.
9) Its cool watching my linux friends not use the GUI.
Sure I am biased, being a mac head, but what would compel me to use windows or linux... I hate installing stuff,I hate viruses, I hate it when my mom asks me why she can't open attachments (for fear of virus).
About the only thing wrong with macs right now is the mouse, which imho would benefit from a few more buttons and a scroll wheel.