i don't have any QuartzGL capable machines, but i would think that shift or sift-control would slow it down, just like it does with most of the other effects.
if i think about it, i'll try that next time i'm in CompUSA, or an Apple Store.
...almost every single person I know in I.T. goes home to a Mac at the end of the day
it's funny, i'm currently in IT school (i don't care about the school, i care about the job placement!) and there is this one closed minded windows biggot in my current linux class who i think needs to be shot.
he's one of those people who thinks that if it says "Microsoft" on it, then it must be made of gold! it's quite funny watching him bitch and moan while the rest of the class gets on with it and has linux running smoothly.
not to mention people talking in your ears. i couldn't figure out if it was the other person run though some DSP or just a bunch of WAV files.
i do remember being able to see my body, and i found it was quite anoying that you couldn't straif! (cource the 'mushrooms' took 20 seconds to get from the other gun to mine so i could turn and walk out of the way)
i agree with the gripe a few posts up with the cable restricting you from turning 360 degrees. happily, i had a handler who would push me the other way when i tried to do that. lol
if i had the cash, i'd do the buy it now in a heart beat!
The last game I looked forward to seeing come out was... um... Wow - I can't even think of the last time I looked forward to a game coming out. And I'm not looking forward to anthing until Unreal 2004/DoomIII/Half-Life-II. Halo is a good filler game in the meantime.
point 1 - i personally was looking forward to the release of Halo, until Bungie was assimilated.
does anybody still care about halo? it shipped as a has-been product for a premium. if halo for the PC was released 2 years ago (as was the plan before bungie was assimilated) then i'm sure people might care. maybe
i had the exact same reaction when i heard about auto-adjusting cruse control. then someone pointed out the Automatic Transmission. now THAT is is something that lets you concentrate on driving.
an interesting thing with the Mac OS X boot is that all this service starting isn't driven by the init scripts like linux and *BSD. Mac OS X has a 'service' started by the BSD rc scripts, called SystemStarter, that does all the parallel service starting. there are still some services that are started serially, (like NetInfo, after the Mach bootstrap based services, and portmap) however most services are started by SystemStarter.
i don't need extra gimmicky stuff on my phone that i'll never use!
how easy is it to see in direct sunlight? most backlit color LCD screens are a bitch in direct sunlight.
i read another post in this thread about someone complaining that their modern phone takes a full 3 seconds to load he addressbook, and another 6 seconds to end a call. does the T610 have this issue?
i'm not likely to change phones, (my plan is up in 2 months and i can cancel the damn service! yay!( but i'd like to know the answer to the above questions.
Apparently, in America it's still like the olden days where somebody using a laptop was seen as "showing off". That will wear off with time, though.
i don't know what universe you're posting from, but when ever i take my laptop out, it get a bunch of attention that i can't stand having. can't people just leave me along to post to./?!
as far as ring tones go, people tend to shut up their phones quickly unless they just changed ring tones. when the ringtone is new, they'll play it all the way through, when they've heard it more than 3 times, the novelty wears off and they go back to answering quickly. i know i have some ringtones that are longer than the interval that it takes for voicemail to get it. it's quite annoying actually.
now for the phone that i want: i want a small phone like the Nokia 8260 (my current phone) with the addition of BlueTooth and GSM. i could care less about crap like a color screen or keys that are laid out in an apparently randomorder.
Anyone notice that the Mac versions of Microsoft software is usually better than the Windows counterparts?
with the exception of Outlook (not express) 2001, and any version of Windows Media Player (yes thats what it's called on the mac!) Microsoft software is even some of the best software available for the mac! (i do find myself fighting word and excel a lot though)
interesting, Outlook and WMP aren't products of the MBU, so they are allowed to suck.;)
DSL is great... As long as you don't mind paying more for less. Seriously, does any DSL provider offer 3MBps max for $50 a month? And without PPoE or some crap like that?
yes. my ISP is starting a promo next week - up to 6mbps down, and up to 608kbps up, with 8 static IP's. all for only $45/month. the caveat is that you have to sign up for a 1 year contract (an SBC requirement anyway) and after the 1st year it goes up to $70/month. they are working on pulling strings so that you can renew at the $45/month rate for an other year commitment indefinitely:)
for another 4 days, i pay $70/month for 1.5mbps down and 384kbps up. (with the same ISP, and same 8 IPs) sounds like a good deal to me:)
speaking of... that log must be getting pretty full after 4 years of this configuration...
interestingly, i only had 6 entries in that crash log... 4 of them were when i was trying to set up Apple Remote Desktop. (it crashes when i launch the setup app:\ ) the other 2 are from when the (buggy, and unstable) VNC server took down the OS.
The point is, there needs to be some software that will allow one to move to a mac, but provides some sort of transitional workaround until something native is available.
if your still stuck in Mac OS 9, you can try this or even try to find this
you have a lot of options, open your eyes!
*yes it's owned by Microsoft, but only recently. VirtualPC is still the product i would recomend if you need to run windows Software on the mac. G5 support is still an issue, but version 7 (shipping soon) should fix that.
Since you bought up the problem of cost why not make a PCI bus card or a firewire box that has a PC in it? A nice 386 PC or maybe even a pentium.
Orange Micro used to make a few cards that did this. i still have a OrangePC 550 laying around. it's a K6-2/233 with it's own dedicated 256 MiB of memory and all the external ports you'd expect on an AT PC coming off a cable 'octopus' (save keyboard) - this thing even had it's own BIOS. this card only cost $200 or $300 less then getting a full blown PC, of the era (AKA $850 for a PCI card!)
the trick is that it hijacked the mac monitor, keyboard, and mouse while it was in use. it had a mac program running that hosted hard disk images (like virtualPC) for the PC to actually work. the host application also provided a few other VPC features like clipboard shearing.
sadly, virtualPC running on a 500 MHz G4 is just as fast, and the card isn't even supported on Mac OS 9 anyway.
it'd be interesting if a darwine type project could act as a new host for this card, custom OS and all....
(Apple used to make a similar card and setup, and even bundled it with a few older macs - Performa 640, PowerMac 6100/DOS, ect. they even advertised this on TV!)
There was a big honking 'superior' video connector stuck on the back of Power Macs back in the late Nu-Bus era. Glad that one died and went away as well.
and now we have ADC... DVI+power+USB.... oooohhh!!!!
happily, an ADC -> DVI adapter is only about $15 (even if DVI -> ADC adapters are hella expensive)
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you take your snapshot and paste it over your avatar's face. now people can see who they are killing.
802.11(something something)
/me ducks
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i don't have any QuartzGL capable machines, but i would think that shift or sift-control would slow it down, just like it does with most of the other effects.
if i think about it, i'll try that next time i'm in CompUSA, or an Apple Store.
...almost every single person I know in I.T. goes home to a Mac at the end of the day
it's funny, i'm currently in IT school (i don't care about the school, i care about the job placement!) and there is this one closed minded windows biggot in my current linux class who i think needs to be shot.
he's one of those people who thinks that if it says "Microsoft" on it, then it must be made of gold! it's quite funny watching him bitch and moan while the rest of the class gets on with it and has linux running smoothly.
at least give credit where credit is do! (me) :)
in case you want proof, here is my 1st publishing of the above directions (including an example)
why do we need words like bad and evil when good- and good-- will work just fine?
awaken and inhale the fragrance of a well defined lexicon before news speak contaminates you too.
not to mention people talking in your ears. i couldn't figure out if it was the other person run though some DSP or just a bunch of WAV files.
i do remember being able to see my body, and i found it was quite anoying that you couldn't straif! (cource the 'mushrooms' took 20 seconds to get from the other gun to mine so i could turn and walk out of the way)
i agree with the gripe a few posts up with the cable restricting you from turning 360 degrees. happily, i had a handler who would push me the other way when i tried to do that. lol
if i had the cash, i'd do the buy it now in a heart beat!
The last game I looked forward to seeing come out was... um... Wow - I can't even think of the last time I looked forward to a game coming out. And I'm not looking forward to anthing until Unreal 2004/DoomIII/Half-Life-II. Halo is a good filler game in the meantime.
:P
point 1 - i personally was looking forward to the release of Halo, until Bungie was assimilated.
point 2 - you forgot about Duke Nukem Forever
does anybody still care about halo? it shipped as a has-been product for a premium. if halo for the PC was released 2 years ago (as was the plan before bungie was assimilated) then i'm sure people might care. maybe
i had the exact same reaction when i heard about auto-adjusting cruse control. then someone pointed out the Automatic Transmission. now THAT is is something that lets you concentrate on driving.
you can keep your clutch thanks.
no, i don't drive a pinto :P
good thing i use BurnProof(TM) on my DVD+/-RW drive :D
/. parsing cool characters into 3 or 4 ascii char strings?!)
(whats with
an interesting thing with the Mac OS X boot is that all this service starting isn't driven by the init scripts like linux and *BSD. Mac OS X has a 'service' started by the BSD rc scripts, called SystemStarter, that does all the parallel service starting. there are still some services that are started serially, (like NetInfo, after the Mach bootstrap based services, and portmap) however most services are started by SystemStarter.
doesn't that also include a camera? (*puke*)
i don't need extra gimmicky stuff on my phone that i'll never use!
how easy is it to see in direct sunlight? most backlit color LCD screens are a bitch in direct sunlight.
i read another post in this thread about someone complaining that their modern phone takes a full 3 seconds to load he addressbook, and another 6 seconds to end a call. does the T610 have this issue?
i'm not likely to change phones, (my plan is up in 2 months and i can cancel the damn service! yay!( but i'd like to know the answer to the above questions.
Apparently, in America it's still like the olden days where somebody using a laptop was seen as "showing off". That will wear off with time, though.
./?!
i don't know what universe you're posting from, but when ever i take my laptop out, it get a bunch of attention that i can't stand having. can't people just leave me along to post to
as far as ring tones go, people tend to shut up their phones quickly unless they just changed ring tones. when the ringtone is new, they'll play it all the way through, when they've heard it more than 3 times, the novelty wears off and they go back to answering quickly. i know i have some ringtones that are longer than the interval that it takes for voicemail to get it. it's quite annoying actually.
now for the phone that i want:
i want a small phone like the Nokia 8260 (my current phone) with the addition of BlueTooth and GSM. i could care less about crap like a color screen or keys that are laid out in an apparently random order.
if you hold the command key and type , i'll let you open up images that look like US Currency.
thankyouverrymuch
Anyone notice that the Mac versions of Microsoft software is usually better than the Windows counterparts?
;)
with the exception of Outlook (not express) 2001, and any version of Windows Media Player (yes thats what it's called on the mac!) Microsoft software is even some of the best software available for the mac! (i do find myself fighting word and excel a lot though)
interesting, Outlook and WMP aren't products of the MBU, so they are allowed to suck.
the one that is 2 clicks in from this flash based site. (Enemy Territory)
:)
it's based on the Return to Castle Wolfenstein engine, which in turn is based on the (already open source) Quake III engine.
i just did some poking around, and didn't see anything about mac support in Wolf:ET...
:(
i liked playing UT on my old Rage128 mac
DSL is great... As long as you don't mind paying more for less. Seriously, does any DSL provider offer 3MBps max for $50 a month? And without PPoE or some crap like that?
:)
:)
yes. my ISP is starting a promo next week - up to 6mbps down, and up to 608kbps up, with 8 static IP's. all for only $45/month. the caveat is that you have to sign up for a 1 year contract (an SBC requirement anyway) and after the 1st year it goes up to $70/month. they are working on pulling strings so that you can renew at the $45/month rate for an other year commitment indefinitely
for another 4 days, i pay $70/month for 1.5mbps down and 384kbps up. (with the same ISP, and same 8 IPs) sounds like a good deal to me
you could install gentoo with JUST X11 and WINE (and the dependancies) in virtual PC.
:)
compiling would be a bit slow, but thats what DistCC is for
speaking of... that log must be getting pretty full after 4 years of this configuration...
:\ ) the other 2 are from when the (buggy, and unstable) VNC server took down the OS.
interestingly, i only had 6 entries in that crash log... 4 of them were when i was trying to set up Apple Remote Desktop. (it crashes when i launch the setup app
The point is, there needs to be some software that will allow one to move to a mac, but provides some sort of transitional workaround until something native is available.
try this* or this
if your still stuck in Mac OS 9, you can try this or even try to find this
you have a lot of options, open your eyes!
*yes it's owned by Microsoft, but only recently. VirtualPC is still the product i would recomend if you need to run windows Software on the mac. G5 support is still an issue, but version 7 (shipping soon) should fix that.
Since you bought up the problem of cost why not make a PCI bus card or a firewire box that has a PC in it? A nice 386 PC or maybe even a pentium.
Orange Micro used to make a few cards that did this. i still have a OrangePC 550 laying around. it's a K6-2/233 with it's own dedicated 256 MiB of memory and all the external ports you'd expect on an AT PC coming off a cable 'octopus' (save keyboard) - this thing even had it's own BIOS. this card only cost $200 or $300 less then getting a full blown PC, of the era (AKA $850 for a PCI card!)
the trick is that it hijacked the mac monitor, keyboard, and mouse while it was in use. it had a mac program running that hosted hard disk images (like virtualPC) for the PC to actually work. the host application also provided a few other VPC features like clipboard shearing.
sadly, virtualPC running on a 500 MHz G4 is just as fast, and the card isn't even supported on Mac OS 9 anyway.
it'd be interesting if a darwine type project could act as a new host for this card, custom OS and all....
(Apple used to make a similar card and setup, and even bundled it with a few older macs - Performa 640, PowerMac 6100/DOS, ect. they even advertised this on TV!)
There was a big honking 'superior' video connector stuck on the back of Power Macs back in the late Nu-Bus era. Glad that one died and went away as well.
and now we have ADC... DVI+power+USB.... oooohhh!!!!
happily, an ADC -> DVI adapter is only about $15 (even if DVI -> ADC adapters are hella expensive)