And in Rising Stars, Joe's one comic book, you see similar themes play out. The 'specials', which are the first superheroes/villians the world has ever actually had, change the world. The cover of the latest issue has a picture of a city street and a poster on a subway exit that says 'Change the world, or we'll do it for you'. One of the characters was one they didn't think was special, but he turned out to have a serious brain on his shoulders instead of something flashy. He ends up solving the world's energy problems, creating the technology to make the first real starships, etc. All the while, an ignorant government is trying to find ways to kill them all.
Just because an app runs in OS X doesn't mean it's automatically Cocoa - most apps ported from OS 9 to X use Carbon, which, while it can still be a task, takes nowhere near the time it would take to port to Cocoa.
When they refer to Photoshop as native OS X, they do indeed mean Cocoa. Cocoa apps are completely native. Adobe could have carbonised the Photoshop app, but they would have done so months ago if that were the case.
Played it for two weeks. Hated it. Pined for Ultima of all things. At least people looked different there, and not everything would follow you for 15 screens to kill you.
Apple's design, size and OS integration with the hardware are what you are really paying for. And an athlon 800 is nowhere near a G4 800 in terms of processor bandwidth (think altivec)
Or Hondas or Toyotas as mechanic's cars. They don't want to mess under the hood, not because they are stupid, but because they already do so for a living.
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I second the hatred of Comcraps. Nothing but trouble, and the built-in 'internet keyboard' software locks up the OS often.
My mother and grandfather both bought a Compaq, and it was against my best advice. They now know why I told them to stay clear.
The PC market fights for prices instead of uncompromising quality. That is why my next machine is going to be a iMac. I gotta face facts: the latest upgrades to my aging PII450 (within the last year) were a CD-RW drive (VeloCD 24x), another 256MB RAM, and a SoundBlaster Live! audio card (to replace my rotten ISA card).
It was $20 for the ram, $60 for the soundcard, and 113 for the Burner. And the system would still need another 350 for a monitor, and I can't even find a DVD-R/CD-RW drive for the PC market yet (and if it does exist, I expect it to cost about $300+), and I'd also have to plunk down $80 for an optical mouse and $200 for a new motherboard (which, undoubtedly, cause millions of compatibility issues under losedose.)
All is not lost, I could convert this old beast into a web server, or a home.ogg player. Or it could go on the pile with my p200 and my multia.
The CDs of course. We don't know if it has retainer clips. But if you want heat death of the system, have fun mounting it on the wall. The holes are from normal bottom to normal top. It would be like laying a multia flat.
Perhaps this time the USONIAN broadcasters will realise that not all of us USONIANs only want to watch the US team, nor do we only want to watch sports that the US is good at...
My guess is they'll just lock coverage instead of providing fair coverage.
Beyond Petroleum has a major buy-in on some solar cell technology. They even use some prototype amorphous silicon cells at their newer stations to power pumps. They are poised to make a killing in the PV market as soon as AS cells are ready for mass production.
Try dBpowerAMP. It accepts line input and can buffer a high-quality wav to disk. Since you are coming over from an LP, 128kbps is probably the max recording you need for an mp3. Also, try ogg vorbis files, which dB writes as well.
I was expecting some sort of hi-res flat panel display with the sensors on the back to make a window ala _Red Planet_ and their map screens. Why this hasn't been done yet is beyond me.
I think that Pittsburgh would yield the 11-mile low-end range they talk about in the time article. But the city of Pittsburgh, as you well know, is mostly flat. This would be nice in my hometown (Cranberry Twp) but likely not so good on Rialto street.
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It's too expensive to leave in a parking lot?
You mean, like a CAR?
Seriously though, it can get locked up like a bike, put in a bike rack like a bike and generally treated like a bike. I have a feeling they'll have to come up with some sort of lock-down to store these buggers. I good job may come with a free Segway closet or something, just like a parking space leased by your company. When used in combination with a subway or or bus, this becomes quite a useful tool for the city and for those who live on those lines outside of the city.
I'd use it to go to the Shopping centre two miles away.. I'd love to have this instead of putting high-wear (short trips are bad for automobile engines) on the car.
I'm assuming you want to burn Data cds. It seems that you would be better off with some other form of file storage mechanism than DVD. I don't think you will find much in the way of video editing / authoring on your platform of choice.
Why would I not want to have caching of data on a hard drive rather than have to constantly hit the cd rom drive? Geez.. caching would be fantastic and most games would benifit from this.
Sarcasm aside, but the X-Box in the store that I saw took 1.5 minutes to load the 'Munch' demo. Methinks no caching is happening there.
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I thought I was watching a movie when I watched the intro to MGS2 a few months ago. It was completely amazing at what they put intot those scenes. The kicker is that the previous MGS used some other tricks like 4 frame animations interlaced to make PERFECT talking character portraits in comms mode. Tres Cool.
I just wish everyone would eat less of anything. Again, it comes to externalising costs. Fishers just catch bluefin tuna. They do this because the tuna is essentially free beside the operating cost of the boat.
Things would be better, safer if we just farmed the fish in tanks. Unfortunately, that would internalise cost, and the fish companies would go out of business.
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And in Rising Stars, Joe's one comic book, you see similar themes play out. The 'specials', which are the first superheroes/villians the world has ever actually had, change the world. The cover of the latest issue has a picture of a city street and a poster on a subway exit that says 'Change the world, or we'll do it for you'. One of the characters was one they didn't think was special, but he turned out to have a serious brain on his shoulders instead of something flashy. He ends up solving the world's energy problems, creating the technology to make the first real starships, etc. All the while, an ignorant government is trying to find ways to kill them all.
Just because an app runs in OS X doesn't mean it's automatically Cocoa - most apps ported from OS 9 to X use Carbon, which, while it can still be a task, takes nowhere near the time it would take to port to Cocoa.
When they refer to Photoshop as native OS X, they do indeed mean Cocoa. Cocoa apps are completely native. Adobe could have carbonised the Photoshop app, but they would have done so months ago if that were the case.
Played it for two weeks. Hated it. Pined for Ultima of all things. At least people looked different there, and not everything would follow you for 15 screens to kill you.
Apple's design, size and OS integration with the hardware are what you are really paying for. And an athlon 800 is nowhere near a G4 800 in terms of processor bandwidth (think altivec)
Computer User Non Technical was the offensive piece. Think about the first letter of every word and you'll see the troll.
Or Hondas or Toyotas as mechanic's cars. They don't want to mess under the hood, not because they are stupid, but because they already do so for a living.
I second the hatred of Comcraps. Nothing but trouble, and the built-in 'internet keyboard' software locks up the OS often.
.ogg player. Or it could go on the pile with my p200 and my multia.
My mother and grandfather both bought a Compaq, and it was against my best advice. They now know why I told them to stay clear.
The PC market fights for prices instead of uncompromising quality. That is why my next machine is going to be a iMac. I gotta face facts: the latest upgrades to my aging PII450 (within the last year) were a CD-RW drive (VeloCD 24x), another 256MB RAM, and a SoundBlaster Live! audio card (to replace my rotten ISA card).
It was $20 for the ram, $60 for the soundcard, and 113 for the Burner. And the system would still need another 350 for a monitor, and I can't even find a DVD-R/CD-RW drive for the PC market yet (and if it does exist, I expect it to cost about $300+), and I'd also have to plunk down $80 for an optical mouse and $200 for a new motherboard (which, undoubtedly, cause millions of compatibility issues under losedose.)
All is not lost, I could convert this old beast into a web server, or a home
The CDs of course. We don't know if it has retainer clips. But if you want heat death of the system, have fun mounting it on the wall. The holes are from normal bottom to normal top. It would be like laying a multia flat.
Perhaps this time the USONIAN broadcasters will realise that not all of us USONIANs only want to watch the US team, nor do we only want to watch sports that the US is good at...
My guess is they'll just lock coverage instead of providing fair coverage.
Yeah, I hear that also keeps those pesky Mac users from connecting to internal email.
Perhaps they should ban the cut and paste buffers if they want to prevent this sort of thing.
Beyond Petroleum has a major buy-in on some solar cell technology. They even use some prototype amorphous silicon cells at their newer stations to power pumps. They are poised to make a killing in the PV market as soon as AS cells are ready for mass production.
Try dBpowerAMP. It accepts line input and can buffer a high-quality wav to disk. Since you are coming over from an LP, 128kbps is probably the max recording you need for an mp3. Also, try ogg vorbis files, which dB writes as well.
I was expecting some sort of hi-res flat panel display with the sensors on the back to make a window ala _Red Planet_ and their map screens. Why this hasn't been done yet is beyond me.
I think that Pittsburgh would yield the 11-mile low-end range they talk about in the time article. But the city of Pittsburgh, as you well know, is mostly flat. This would be nice in my hometown (Cranberry Twp) but likely not so good on Rialto street.
It's too expensive to leave in a parking lot?
You mean, like a CAR?
Seriously though, it can get locked up like a bike, put in a bike rack like a bike and generally treated like a bike. I have a feeling they'll have to come up with some sort of lock-down to store these buggers. I good job may come with a free Segway closet or something, just like a parking space leased by your company. When used in combination with a subway or or bus, this becomes quite a useful tool for the city and for those who live on those lines outside of the city.
I'd use it to go to the Shopping centre two miles away.. I'd love to have this instead of putting high-wear (short trips are bad for automobile engines) on the car.
I read Mining on the moon, and immediately thought "Walking on the moon" by the police..
"I hope that my leg don't break, mining on the moon"
Thanks for the mp3, it's one of my favourite game tunes.
I'm assuming you want to burn Data cds. It seems that you would be better off with some other form of file storage mechanism than DVD. I don't think you will find much in the way of video editing / authoring on your platform of choice.
Windows itself is a big part of the overhead in mame. It's not all chip speed there.
Why would I not want to have caching of data on a hard drive rather than have to constantly hit the cd rom drive? Geez.. caching would be fantastic and most games would benifit from this.
Sarcasm aside, but the X-Box in the store that I saw took 1.5 minutes to load the 'Munch' demo. Methinks no caching is happening there.
I thought I was watching a movie when I watched the intro to MGS2 a few months ago. It was completely amazing at what they put intot those scenes. The kicker is that the previous MGS used some other tricks like 4 frame animations interlaced to make PERFECT talking character portraits in comms mode. Tres Cool.
They threw every ship they had at them in the Wolf 359 region. It barely worked.
You don't "bang" heroin, you "shoot" it, or "inject" it.
Not statistically, when you consider two of them were intentional. The odds don't count acts of man.
I just wish everyone would eat less of anything. Again, it comes to externalising costs. Fishers just catch bluefin tuna. They do this because the tuna is essentially free beside the operating cost of the boat.
Things would be better, safer if we just farmed the fish in tanks. Unfortunately, that would internalise cost, and the fish companies would go out of business.