I'm surprised more people haven't been talking about the recent Spy Hunter remake. I thought it would be a lame game at first, but it's actually pretty cool.
My Quicksilver came with a 32mb Radeon 7500. It's been fine for most games until Unreal Tournament 2003 came out. My Ti Geforce should be here some time next week . . .
Just to correct the article, he's not a psychologist, but a sociology professor, with a special interest in sociobiology. He taught me one of my undergraduate sociology courses.
However KaZaa has really gone down hill, mainly because of studio action. Most songs I try and download are "tweaked" with yelling in the middle or beeping or are of the wrong sound. It really isn't a good place to find music.
I'm wondering what kind of music/artists you're downloading? Of all the talk about fake mp3s on Kazaa, I've never actually encountered one in two years or so of using it. Maybe that's because I don't generally download the newest, most popular songs though . ..
About the lack of a Mac client, I fired up mlMac a few times. It's best characteristic in my opinion is its ability to search across more than one p2p network. It's very buggy though. Personally I prefer to just load Kazaa Lite in VPC with a copy of Win98 SE . .
Your options are a little more limited, since you only have PCI slots in that machine. However for $129 you can get a PCI Mac version of the Radeon 7000. I'm sure you could find even better deals on eBay.
So, I've been pretty happy with the Radeon 7000 that came with my PowerMac. It played most of the games I like well, but then UT2k3 came out last week and changed everything.
Now I'm looking to upgrade, with UT2k3 in mind. Apple offers a Ti Geforce for $400 -- out of my budget right now. However, I can get an ATI Radeon 9000 for $169. Buying a PC version of a card and flashing it isn't really an option, since I need an ADC port.
Right now I'm thinking a Ti Geforce might be overkill, since my CPU is only 800mhz. Yet, within the next year when upgrade prices drop I may move it to 1.4ghz. On the other hand, the only games that would need better than the Radeon 9000 would be Doom 3 and the likes, which probably will need better than a 1.4ghz CPU anyway.
So what would you do? I'm looking to spend under $200.
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http sites load okay, but https sites do not work at all.
Just curious, have you tried it recently? There was a bug in early builds of Safari where secure proxies simply didn't work; it's since been fixed.
Someone mentioned they thought the new cases were kind of ugly; I only partially agree. One of the nicest things about the Quicksilver G4's was how you could open it up with only one latch; that seems to have changed with this model. Also, the insides do not look nearly as elegant.
About the price, if you dump the optical drive and modem the intro system is only $1,770. As soon as the educational pricing gets updated it should be even cheaper.
The reason we changed the name is because we believe the majority of computer consumers are morons. "Numbers" confuse most people; and decimals even more so! Instead, we want to use words more in tune with American psyche. Words like blazing-fast, high-speed, ultra absorbent, axis of evil, etc. Already, I think you feel the excitement. I know I do!
Sincerely, Steve Ballmer
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Scary, that sounds just like me a lot of times. Actually, one of the reasons I think I did so well as an undergraduate was that I studied in places where I couldn't find anything to distract me. For example, a room with absolutely nothing in it but a chair -- and a book.
What you talk about though almost sounds obsessive-compulsive. For example, I can be studying and see something out of place on my desk, or a glass of water sitting there that I think has to be taken to the kitchen sink; that will immediately break my concentration. See, where this all gets scary for me is that if we break down our individual quirks, we'll probably find 50 disorders. Some people say I'm "depressed," others "absent-minded;" Like a lot of people here have already said, maybe it's those quirks that make us individuals, and the exceptions throughout history that do those really creative things.
I'm not criticizing what you're saying at all, but just throwing out some ideas. One of the biggest problems I feel right now is my inability to focus on a given task and make it my life. I'm the type of person who learns something with good proficiency then dumps it to move onto something else the next year. That was okay when I was a kid, but being in graduate school, I think every day "Can I really make myself do the same job every day?" Frankly I'm a little scared that I can't after graduation.
Apple would do well to publicise this little package of theirs. It's surprising how many people believe Apple doesn't sell an office suite. It's cheap too, and has a reasonable reputation.
Yeah, I know about it. Appleworks isn't really ready to be a Word killer yet though, let alone office.
I think you're being overly optimistic here. Modchips may increase interest in the physical console hardware, but the increased hardware sales likely won't be backed up with increased software sales
You're forgetting one thing though, most people either don't know, or care how to mod their consoles. The individuals that do, however, are generally the ones talking to their friends and family about all the newest games, and flaunting their game collection. In other words, the warez kiddies create neighborhood buzz about games and systems, and make the normal, paying gaming audience, go buy legitimate copies. That's how Wolf-3D and Doom got so large, from people playing warezed copies off BBS's, and less computer-savy folks buying legal copies.
I think PSX's sucesss was due largely to how easy it was to mod and copy games for it. On the other hand, N64 had no pirate scene, and it failed. Now you're seeing the same thing going on with Xbox and PS2, while the GC lags behind. Most of the kids I hear bash the GC bash it because they can't warez games for it . ..
Given that, I'm a GC fan. And even admire that Nintendo's come up with a copy protection scheme no one's broke yet. Unfortunately, it may hurt the system more than help it.
Blah, at $8 a CD and the aggravation of leeching a GC ISO off some warez channel I'd rather just pay the $40 for a legitimate copy. Especially for someone like me that only plays 3 or 4 games heavily during a console's life anyway.
You know if there's any decent Atari Jaguar emulator for Macintosh? It's one machine I always thought looked cool and wanted to try. I've been tempted to Ebay one.
OpenOffice I doubt, but I think at least one of the old Gobe developers now works for Apple. Gobe Productive on Mac could be interesting. The more likely scenario seems to be more apps like Keynote though.
Wow, when I was typing that I just realized "If Apple released their own Word Processor I'd probably go out and pay for it." Imagine that, liking a platform so much that I'm willing to support it with my own money. That never happened when I was running Windows:)
There were maybe two I think? I actually bought my Quicksilver May 2002, so I'm similar to you. At least one (maybe two) were some kind of security fix, then there was another after 10.2 was released to enable anti-aliasing.
But yeah, there were no significant changes to any Mac MS products in the past year (except Messenger).
Well, from the looks of his page he's not too concerned with his own culture. Unfortunately the sell-out to Microsoft mentality is all to common in the Middle East (at least in my experience).
It's kind of funny, because for the average Mac user there's a stigma before even using MS products that they're buggy and unreliable. You would think the MacBU would've went out of their way to alter that reputation. For example:
Windows Media Player for Mac - Feels like an absolute piece of Beta software. Moving the window, resizing it, or moving other windows on the screen usually makes the video disappear in WMP. Occasionally I run into a file that simply won't play in it. Since MacBU isn't working on a browser anymore, how about some Windows Media Plugins for Safari, and player that does more than "kind of work?"
IE for Mac - Great in OS 9; so slow that it was almost unusable in OS X. In comparison to other browsers it felt more like a beta release. Right to left language support was never attempted in any version, even after it was available with the release of Jaguar last year.
Office for Mac - For the most part, I have no complaints about Office X, and even think it's worth the money. My only complaint is it can't handle right to left languages, so exchanging Arabic or Hebrew documents with Windows users of Office is impossible. Fixing this would probably require a simple patch, one that could've been released a year ago since Jaguar was released. Also, my experience has been that Office X isn't nearly as stable as its Windows counterpart, so I chronically save any important documents (more so than I would if working in Windows). On a 800mhz PowerMac Office X still feels incredibly slow.
MSN Messenger for Mac - Works as advertised. The new version is actually great. I'm suspecting it's related to their release of MSN for Mac though, so that's probably why it's polished so nicely. With AIM and MSN supposedly merging, perhaps iChat users will be able to converse with MSN Messenger users too. If that happens, the importance of MSN Messenger on Mac may decrease.
The only significant thing MacBU has released this year has been an MSN client -- something the vast majority of Mac users could care less about. Instead of fixing important pieces of software, they decide to release their equivalent to AOL on Mac. Good versions of their most important products (Office, WMP, IE) might actually showcase how stable OS X is, and how friendly the Mac environment is in comparison to Windows. Of course, that wouldn't be good business for MS. Even though the MacBU supposedly operates independent of MS in Redmond, it still seems to make sure Gates' bottom line is always fulfilled -- make the Mac look like an inferior platform. MacBU hasn't released anything for OS X except buggy, unpolished, beta-like software (notice I left the OS 9 versions out of this).
Just to go back to the Arabic and Hebrew support in Mac Microsoft products for a second. For the longest time MacOS was the only choice for word processing in right to left languages. There were two things in my opinion that moved Arabic speakers from Mac, to Windows. The first, and most obvious, was that while MacOS supported the language, no browsers did. MS could have easily fixed this problem when they began working on IE for Mac, but never bothered. Secondly, Word documents became a de-facto standard, and while the PC version of Office supported Arabic, Mac Office didn't. On top of all that, instead of using the agreed upon standard for Arabic characters, Microsoft created their own. The result is total market domination in the Middle East, though I guess that's not too frightening since no one in the ME actually pays for Windows or Office anyway.
If Apple (or any other company for that matter) can release a product better than Microsoft Word, I'll use it in a second. Unfortunately OpenOffice just doesn't feel right to me (yet). It almost seems that Microsoft never expected Apple would release their own browser; perhaps they were expecting Mac users to remain dependent on the inferior Mac IE for a much longer time, and Apple's success with Safari has on
The only thing that I would miss are games. You get games for the Mac, but sure not the boatload you have for a PC. Although a Gamecube and an Xbox are in place to fill that gap now
Seriously, the game situation for Macs isn't nearly as bad as it seems. In fact, I was a little surprised the other night going through my CD envelopes and seeing that nearly more than half of my Mac software was games.
The nice thing about gaming on Macs is that if you do find a game, it's usually a tried and true title. Well, usually, anyway.
Yep, that's the same rebate they offered last year when I bought my Quicksilver, 2-3 months before they released the mirrored door PowerMacs. That, along with Apple demanding the removal of some information from a few rumors sites pretty much verifies something new will be coming out this summer (The rumors were all about the 970 BTW). Anytime Apple demands the removal of information it generally means it's true . . .
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I'm surprised more people haven't been talking about the recent Spy Hunter remake. I thought it would be a lame game at first, but it's actually pretty cool.
My Quicksilver came with a 32mb Radeon 7500. It's been fine for most games until Unreal Tournament 2003 came out. My Ti Geforce should be here some time next week . . .
Just to correct the article, he's not a psychologist, but a sociology professor, with a special interest in sociobiology. He taught me one of my undergraduate sociology courses.
However KaZaa has really gone down hill, mainly because of studio action. Most songs I try and download are "tweaked" with yelling in the middle or beeping or are of the wrong sound. It really isn't a good place to find music.
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I'm wondering what kind of music/artists you're downloading? Of all the talk about fake mp3s on Kazaa, I've never actually encountered one in two years or so of using it. Maybe that's because I don't generally download the newest, most popular songs though . .
About the lack of a Mac client, I fired up mlMac a few times. It's best characteristic in my opinion is its ability to search across more than one p2p network. It's very buggy though. Personally I prefer to just load Kazaa Lite in VPC with a copy of Win98 SE . .
Your options are a little more limited, since you only have PCI slots in that machine. However for $129 you can get a PCI Mac version of the Radeon 7000. I'm sure you could find even better deals on eBay.
So, I've been pretty happy with the Radeon 7000 that came with my PowerMac. It played most of the games I like well, but then UT2k3 came out last week and changed everything.
Now I'm looking to upgrade, with UT2k3 in mind. Apple offers a Ti Geforce for $400 -- out of my budget right now. However, I can get an ATI Radeon 9000 for $169. Buying a PC version of a card and flashing it isn't really an option, since I need an ADC port.
Right now I'm thinking a Ti Geforce might be overkill, since my CPU is only 800mhz. Yet, within the next year when upgrade prices drop I may move it to 1.4ghz. On the other hand, the only games that would need better than the Radeon 9000 would be Doom 3 and the likes, which probably will need better than a 1.4ghz CPU anyway.
So what would you do? I'm looking to spend under $200.
http sites load okay, but https sites do not work at all.
Just curious, have you tried it recently? There was a bug in early builds of Safari where secure proxies simply didn't work; it's since been fixed.
Someone mentioned they thought the new cases were kind of ugly; I only partially agree. One of the nicest things about the Quicksilver G4's was how you could open it up with only one latch; that seems to have changed with this model. Also, the insides do not look nearly as elegant.
About the price, if you dump the optical drive and modem the intro system is only $1,770. As soon as the educational pricing gets updated it should be even cheaper.
I would if I had any money myself . . .
Coming soon: Off shore shell accounts with pre-installed CLI p2p clients.
What's next? Perhaps CNBC will hire David Duke to do commentary.
Didn't Foxnews already do that?
Save yourself the time and download them like everyone else does. Most of the Genesis games were what, 512kb? Hit up a ROM channel on IRC.
Hi, I'm the reliable source you're looking for.
The reason we changed the name is because we believe the majority of computer consumers are morons. "Numbers" confuse most people; and decimals even more so! Instead, we want to use words more in tune with American psyche. Words like blazing-fast, high-speed, ultra absorbent, axis of evil, etc. Already, I think you feel the excitement. I know I do!
Sincerely,
Steve Ballmer
Scary, that sounds just like me a lot of times. Actually, one of the reasons I think I did so well as an undergraduate was that I studied in places where I couldn't find anything to distract me. For example, a room with absolutely nothing in it but a chair -- and a book.
What you talk about though almost sounds obsessive-compulsive. For example, I can be studying and see something out of place on my desk, or a glass of water sitting there that I think has to be taken to the kitchen sink; that will immediately break my concentration. See, where this all gets scary for me is that if we break down our individual quirks, we'll probably find 50 disorders. Some people say I'm "depressed," others "absent-minded;" Like a lot of people here have already said, maybe it's those quirks that make us individuals, and the exceptions throughout history that do those really creative things.
I'm not criticizing what you're saying at all, but just throwing out some ideas. One of the biggest problems I feel right now is my inability to focus on a given task and make it my life. I'm the type of person who learns something with good proficiency then dumps it to move onto something else the next year. That was okay when I was a kid, but being in graduate school, I think every day "Can I really make myself do the same job every day?" Frankly I'm a little scared that I can't after graduation.
Apple would do well to publicise this little package of theirs. It's surprising how many people believe Apple doesn't sell an office suite. It's cheap too, and has a reasonable reputation.
Yeah, I know about it. Appleworks isn't really ready to be a Word killer yet though, let alone office.
I think you're being overly optimistic here. Modchips may increase interest in the physical console hardware, but the increased hardware sales likely won't be backed up with increased software sales
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You're forgetting one thing though, most people either don't know, or care how to mod their consoles. The individuals that do, however, are generally the ones talking to their friends and family about all the newest games, and flaunting their game collection. In other words, the warez kiddies create neighborhood buzz about games and systems, and make the normal, paying gaming audience, go buy legitimate copies. That's how Wolf-3D and Doom got so large, from people playing warezed copies off BBS's, and less computer-savy folks buying legal copies.
I think PSX's sucesss was due largely to how easy it was to mod and copy games for it. On the other hand, N64 had no pirate scene, and it failed. Now you're seeing the same thing going on with Xbox and PS2, while the GC lags behind. Most of the kids I hear bash the GC bash it because they can't warez games for it . .
Given that, I'm a GC fan. And even admire that Nintendo's come up with a copy protection scheme no one's broke yet. Unfortunately, it may hurt the system more than help it.
Blah, at $8 a CD and the aggravation of leeching a GC ISO off some warez channel I'd rather just pay the $40 for a legitimate copy. Especially for someone like me that only plays 3 or 4 games heavily during a console's life anyway.
You know if there's any decent Atari Jaguar emulator for Macintosh? It's one machine I always thought looked cool and wanted to try. I've been tempted to Ebay one.
OpenOffice I doubt, but I think at least one of the old Gobe developers now works for Apple. Gobe Productive on Mac could be interesting. The more likely scenario seems to be more apps like Keynote though.
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Wow, when I was typing that I just realized "If Apple released their own Word Processor I'd probably go out and pay for it." Imagine that, liking a platform so much that I'm willing to support it with my own money. That never happened when I was running Windows
I might be wrong, but didn't the MacBU say at some point they were developing IE 6, and "committed" to releasing it or something?
There were maybe two I think? I actually bought my Quicksilver May 2002, so I'm similar to you. At least one (maybe two) were some kind of security fix, then there was another after 10.2 was released to enable anti-aliasing.
But yeah, there were no significant changes to any Mac MS products in the past year (except Messenger).
Well, from the looks of his page he's not too concerned with his own culture. Unfortunately the sell-out to Microsoft mentality is all to common in the Middle East (at least in my experience).
It's kind of funny, because for the average Mac user there's a stigma before even using MS products that they're buggy and unreliable. You would think the MacBU would've went out of their way to alter that reputation. For example:
Windows Media Player for Mac - Feels like an absolute piece of Beta software. Moving the window, resizing it, or moving other windows on the screen usually makes the video disappear in WMP. Occasionally I run into a file that simply won't play in it. Since MacBU isn't working on a browser anymore, how about some Windows Media Plugins for Safari, and player that does more than "kind of work?"
IE for Mac - Great in OS 9; so slow that it was almost unusable in OS X. In comparison to other browsers it felt more like a beta release. Right to left language support was never attempted in any version, even after it was available with the release of Jaguar last year.
Office for Mac - For the most part, I have no complaints about Office X, and even think it's worth the money. My only complaint is it can't handle right to left languages, so exchanging Arabic or Hebrew documents with Windows users of Office is impossible. Fixing this would probably require a simple patch, one that could've been released a year ago since Jaguar was released. Also, my experience has been that Office X isn't nearly as stable as its Windows counterpart, so I chronically save any important documents (more so than I would if working in Windows). On a 800mhz PowerMac Office X still feels incredibly slow.
MSN Messenger for Mac - Works as advertised. The new version is actually great. I'm suspecting it's related to their release of MSN for Mac though, so that's probably why it's polished so nicely. With AIM and MSN supposedly merging, perhaps iChat users will be able to converse with MSN Messenger users too. If that happens, the importance of MSN Messenger on Mac may decrease.
The only significant thing MacBU has released this year has been an MSN client -- something the vast majority of Mac users could care less about. Instead of fixing important pieces of software, they decide to release their equivalent to AOL on Mac. Good versions of their most important products (Office, WMP, IE) might actually showcase how stable OS X is, and how friendly the Mac environment is in comparison to Windows. Of course, that wouldn't be good business for MS. Even though the MacBU supposedly operates independent of MS in Redmond, it still seems to make sure Gates' bottom line is always fulfilled -- make the Mac look like an inferior platform. MacBU hasn't released anything for OS X except buggy, unpolished, beta-like software (notice I left the OS 9 versions out of this).
Just to go back to the Arabic and Hebrew support in Mac Microsoft products for a second. For the longest time MacOS was the only choice for word processing in right to left languages. There were two things in my opinion that moved Arabic speakers from Mac, to Windows. The first, and most obvious, was that while MacOS supported the language, no browsers did. MS could have easily fixed this problem when they began working on IE for Mac, but never bothered. Secondly, Word documents became a de-facto standard, and while the PC version of Office supported Arabic, Mac Office didn't. On top of all that, instead of using the agreed upon standard for Arabic characters, Microsoft created their own. The result is total market domination in the Middle East, though I guess that's not too frightening since no one in the ME actually pays for Windows or Office anyway.
If Apple (or any other company for that matter) can release a product better than Microsoft Word, I'll use it in a second. Unfortunately OpenOffice just doesn't feel right to me (yet). It almost seems that Microsoft never expected Apple would release their own browser; perhaps they were expecting Mac users to remain dependent on the inferior Mac IE for a much longer time, and Apple's success with Safari has on
The only thing that I would miss are games. You get games for the Mac, but sure not the boatload you have for a PC. Although a Gamecube and an Xbox are in place to fill that gap now
Seriously, the game situation for Macs isn't nearly as bad as it seems. In fact, I was a little surprised the other night going through my CD envelopes and seeing that nearly more than half of my Mac software was games.
The nice thing about gaming on Macs is that if you do find a game, it's usually a tried and true title. Well, usually, anyway.
Yep, that's the same rebate they offered last year when I bought my Quicksilver, 2-3 months before they released the mirrored door PowerMacs. That, along with Apple demanding the removal of some information from a few rumors sites pretty much verifies something new will be coming out this summer (The rumors were all about the 970 BTW). Anytime Apple demands the removal of information it generally means it's true . . .