The MacOS version requires XFree86 to run and work has slowed on the Aqua and Quartz tracks.
I'm quite certain that should this rumored office suite actually come to market that it will not require XF86 to run. This should please the average Mac user that finds the current OOo interface terrible looking, not to mention very interesting to use.
Don't get me wrong, I use OOo and am happy for it. I hope to help the porting along as much as I can. Right now, it's still scary for most (Mac) people.
Slashdot's Apple section: Rumors for Nerds. Speculation that matters.
Having just recently "switched" to using a Mac, I would like to know if Charles will be returning anytime soon. I really need more of that Apple-using/Gabe-hating attitude.
I voted in Columbus, Ohio on an electronic machine.
To me this damn well implies that there were machines in Ohio. I can't say if it was a Diebold (they didn't want me poking around) but about 45 seconds into this video there's a picture of one. They have membrane buttons, red LEDs and a green [VOTE!] button to confirm the selection; once pressed, the machine sounds a bell and appears to turn off. I couldn't notice any sort of paper trail.
I personally witnessed three problems involving the machines (I would chalk them up to operator error) including one that I was involved in:
The machine was setup to do a provisional ballot and then was not returned to normal operation after that ballot was cast. This caused the next voter's selection to not actually register when he pressed [VOTE!]. I was the next person sent to that machine and was able to see exactly what was selected. I informed the staff and the problem was fixed (after a dash to find the guy so he could verify his vote) but it could easily not have been.
If anyone has any info about what type of machine that was, I would love to know.
I had a similar problem and had purchased the Extended Warrenty Extortion. I sent it back to them and instead of fixing it, they responded with a letter saying it wasn't broken. It was a photocopy of a form letter; How's that for service?
I figured that it just wasn't worth my time to fight it. I'm sure lots of people do the same.
If this gets tried as a class action suit, I'll help. I'll dig up the letter and scan it in.
I was upgrading a laptop from Fedora Core 1 to Core 2 and encountered a problem with Fedora's support for the ATi Rage Mobility.
I remembered that with the install of Core 1 that text installation was needed as graphical installation would fail. Fortunately though, video would work after installation. Unfortunately, Core 2 wasn't so kind.
I grabbed my trusty Knoppix disc and copied the working video driver over and restarted X. Problem solved and with framebuffer support even.
It was much quicker than trying to find working drivers on-line, downloading, compiling, and then installing them. It may not have been the "correct" method, but it worked and is still working.
Look, I am not a Mac zealot. I toy with the idea of picking one up every now and then but it quickly goes away when I realize that I just don't need one; my (Linux and Windows) PCs work just fine.
However, I still to this day use my Newton. Sure I have started to use the iPaq a little more out of convenience (it syncs with my employer's Outlook) but it just means that I now use two PDAs; everything else is done on my Newton.
I've tried the Palm and Pocket PC as replacements but they are just lacking. I still continue to carry my Newton with me along with my laptop and my iPaq.
Honestly though, I would like to get rid of it. I love the functionality but the hardware is aging. Batteries are nearly impossible to find. I know that any sort of repair service is out of the question.
What I would like is a tablet Mac. This could not only replace the Newton but my laptop as well. All the functionality of the Newton and the Mac OSX would be It may even be able to replace the iPaq, which would really be great. Then I think about how a tablet PC could replace my laptop and my iPaq and wonder how long I can wait.
Unfortunately, the only thing stopping me from purchasing a tablet Mac is that Apple doesn't make them. Apple needs to realize that if they don't start releasing tablet Macs then the people who want a tablet system will go to Microsoft. Sadly, many of the people who do want a tablet system are the geeks, artists, and educators who traditionally fall into the Apple camp.
Forgive the "obligitory Simpsons reference" but when they had the "This Log is Your Log" song wouldn't that be exactly the same type of parody?
Did they pay royalties on it? If not, why weren't they sued?
Now that the song has been proven to be in the public domain, what of all the paid royalties that were demanded? Wouldn't that be some sort of "sell you the Brooklyn Bridge" situation? If so, the supposed copyright holder is nothing more than a con artist.
Heh, Our local FOX affiliate (serving a major metropolitan area) seemed bound and determined to cause even more problems. When airing "Ariel" they had sound and video problems for a good 15 minutes when Mal and Jayne were having a "chat".
The time slot sucked, the out-of-order airings sucked, the promos sucked ("and a girl in a box!") but the show turned out to be some of the best few hours of television ever made. That's really saying something.
Come April 22 of next year, I know I'll be donning overalls with a teddy bear sewn onto 'em and watching Serenity fly once more.
I'm a Nintendo advocate so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
There are 1GB flash cards available but I don't think that just because the technology exists that Nintendo should use it. It would simply be cost prohibitive.
Granted these "new" MC 1019 cards are 8MB which is the same as both the PS2 and Xbox standard cards, 8MB goes a lot farther on the GC. Why? Simply because developers should be used to not having scads of save RAM to use.
There are other reasons of course. The PS2 MC interface has at least one 3D model associated with each game. This model (and it's associated textures and other data) can be animated to even perform secondary animations when the save file is deleted. Talk about your waste of space. I seem to remember "Ridge Racer V" using close to 600k of space which would be bigger than an entire Nintendo MC 59 simply to store configuration data and high scores. Contrast this to several GC games ("Metroid Prime" being a fine example) that use 1 block to store 3 save files. I don't even want to talk about the Xbox "bloat saves" that can't even be copied to a memory card.
FYI, 1 block is 8kB just like the original 15 block PlayStation memory cards. Sony's list price is still $20 for those. Should we all scream foul?
Yes, Nintendo makes money off of memory cards and if you would've brought up the "incompatible" SD Card adapter then you would've had a point. But really, when the prices drop, and they soon will as when the MC 251 came out, it just means that customers will be getting more RAM for their buck. Is this really a bad thing?
This problem is similar to the Y2K issue. The coder's simply used 3 digits to store how many blocks were available on the memory card. When you have a card with 1000+ blocks, overflows start happening.
I don't know where the GC Linux team got this info, but if they can find it then developers should have access to is. About a quarter of the way down this page (Section 9.7 Memory Cards) is a list of memory cards including the 8MB Memory Card 1019 and others like the MC 507 and the MC 2043 which don't currently exist. Developers should have at least allowed for 4 digits for block size to be compatible with these psuedo-announced peripherals.
Your link doesn't work (vgmuseum doesn't like direct image links) but I get the idea.
What you're saying is that since "Super Mario World" is also "Super Mario Bros. 4", "Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island" could be listed as "Super Mario Bros. 5".
Why not also list it as:
"Super Mario World (Super Mario Bros. 4) 2 - Yoshi's Island (Super Mario Bros. 5)"
Just to make it longer, we could tack on "Super Mario Advance 3" to the beginning of that mess to make it the longest (and most complicated) game title ever.
Fortunately, people just refer to it simply as "Yoshi's Island" or "the cartoony one with baby Mario".
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I would use a Turion processor but I don't like all of those damn Metroids. Why couldn't they call it a Brinstar or a Norfair?
The MacOS version requires XFree86 to run and work has slowed on the Aqua and Quartz tracks.
I'm quite certain that should this rumored office suite actually come to market that it will not require XF86 to run. This should please the average Mac user that finds the current OOo interface terrible looking, not to mention very interesting to use.
Don't get me wrong, I use OOo and am happy for it. I hope to help the porting along as much as I can. Right now, it's still scary for most (Mac) people.
Slashdot's Apple section: Rumors for Nerds. Speculation that matters.
My computer meets all of the system requirements except for the Windows and DirectX.
/. afterall. You'll probably want to wait until you have a Mac or *nix version before you announce it here.
This is
Controllers at dawn?
What type of self respecting gamer gets up before the crack of noon.
But then again, neither architechture supports Blast Processing.
This post is brought to you in 100 percent digital quality.
The case is made of aluminium. Think about your breathing. It measures W80 x D140 x H14 mm in size and weighs 80 grams.
[inhale]
Whoa, aluminum. It will match my powerbook.
[exhale]
[inhale]
It's not really that big either. It's about the same size as a HD based audio player.
[exhale]
I've been using Mozilla for quite some time. While I have Firefox installed on many of my systems, I just prefer the Mozilla browser over it.
To me, Firefox looks like it tries to be like IE to ease the average Joe into using it. I don't really like IE but FF still has to win me over.
Having just recently "switched" to using a Mac, I would like to know if Charles will be returning anytime soon. I really need more of that Apple-using/Gabe-hating attitude.
P.S. Is he single?
I voted in Columbus, Ohio on an electronic machine.
To me this damn well implies that there were machines in Ohio. I can't say if it was a Diebold (they didn't want me poking around) but about 45 seconds into this video there's a picture of one. They have membrane buttons, red LEDs and a green [VOTE!] button to confirm the selection; once pressed, the machine sounds a bell and appears to turn off. I couldn't notice any sort of paper trail.
I personally witnessed three problems involving the machines (I would chalk them up to operator error) including one that I was involved in:
The machine was setup to do a provisional ballot and then was not returned to normal operation after that ballot was cast. This caused the next voter's selection to not actually register when he pressed [VOTE!]. I was the next person sent to that machine and was able to see exactly what was selected. I informed the staff and the problem was fixed (after a dash to find the guy so he could verify his vote) but it could easily not have been.
If anyone has any info about what type of machine that was, I would love to know.
I had a similar problem and had purchased the Extended Warrenty Extortion. I sent it back to them and instead of fixing it, they responded with a letter saying it wasn't broken. It was a photocopy of a form letter; How's that for service?
I figured that it just wasn't worth my time to fight it. I'm sure lots of people do the same.
If this gets tried as a class action suit, I'll help. I'll dig up the letter and scan it in.
You must be using Slackware. They have some sort of connection to the "Church of the Sub Pixel" or something.
What really impressed me was that Citi's site was also experiencing slowdown due to the /. effect simply by having their site used in an example.
I was upgrading a laptop from Fedora Core 1 to Core 2 and encountered a problem with Fedora's support for the ATi Rage Mobility.
I remembered that with the install of Core 1 that text installation was needed as graphical installation would fail. Fortunately though, video would work after installation. Unfortunately, Core 2 wasn't so kind.
I grabbed my trusty Knoppix disc and copied the working video driver over and restarted X. Problem solved and with framebuffer support even.
It was much quicker than trying to find working drivers on-line, downloading, compiling, and then installing them. It may not have been the "correct" method, but it worked and is still working.
This is an auction for 1300+ games related items. Sure there are over 300 game systems but there are only 5-7 games being sold in this lot.
Look, I am not a Mac zealot. I toy with the idea of picking one up every now and then but it quickly goes away when I realize that I just don't need one; my (Linux and Windows) PCs work just fine.
However, I still to this day use my Newton. Sure I have started to use the iPaq a little more out of convenience (it syncs with my employer's Outlook) but it just means that I now use two PDAs; everything else is done on my Newton.
I've tried the Palm and Pocket PC as replacements but they are just lacking. I still continue to carry my Newton with me along with my laptop and my iPaq.
Honestly though, I would like to get rid of it. I love the functionality but the hardware is aging. Batteries are nearly impossible to find. I know that any sort of repair service is out of the question.
What I would like is a tablet Mac. This could not only replace the Newton but my laptop as well. All the functionality of the Newton and the Mac OSX would be It may even be able to replace the iPaq, which would really be great. Then I think about how a tablet PC could replace my laptop and my iPaq and wonder how long I can wait.
Unfortunately, the only thing stopping me from purchasing a tablet Mac is that Apple doesn't make them. Apple needs to realize that if they don't start releasing tablet Macs then the people who want a tablet system will go to Microsoft. Sadly, many of the people who do want a tablet system are the geeks, artists, and educators who traditionally fall into the Apple camp.
While technically, not stolen, I just never paid the license fee to encode my CD collection to MP3 using LAME.
My hardware music player can only do MP3 and WMA, otherwise I would've used OGG.
Really though, it won't matter. If the Induce Act gets passed, we can kiss all of our iPods and similar devices goodbye.
That was useful. Chalk up another great /. review.
ThePrinceofWands writes "This DVD set will eviscerate you with pleasure. You will bleed to death."
...or all of Capcom's first gen DC games.
Yeah, I really want my icon changed to your stupid logo.
Yep. This is precisely why I always use a scroll wheel to navigate. I'm not going to be caught off guard by this sort of scam.
Ooh look! What a pretty JPEG.
Forgive the "obligitory Simpsons reference" but when they had the "This Log is Your Log" song wouldn't that be exactly the same type of parody?
Did they pay royalties on it? If not, why weren't they sued?
Now that the song has been proven to be in the public domain, what of all the paid royalties that were demanded? Wouldn't that be some sort of "sell you the Brooklyn Bridge" situation? If so, the supposed copyright holder is nothing more than a con artist.
I figured that the exclamation mark appeared over his head when he realized the problem.
Unfortunately, the associated sound effect couldn't be heard because it was a vaccuum.
Heh, Our local FOX affiliate (serving a major metropolitan area) seemed bound and determined to cause even more problems. When airing "Ariel" they had sound and video problems for a good 15 minutes when Mal and Jayne were having a "chat".
The time slot sucked, the out-of-order airings sucked, the promos sucked ("and a girl in a box!") but the show turned out to be some of the best few hours of television ever made. That's really saying something.
Come April 22 of next year, I know I'll be donning overalls with a teddy bear sewn onto 'em and watching Serenity fly once more.
You can't take the sky from me.
I'm a Nintendo advocate so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
There are 1GB flash cards available but I don't think that just because the technology exists that Nintendo should use it. It would simply be cost prohibitive.
Granted these "new" MC 1019 cards are 8MB which is the same as both the PS2 and Xbox standard cards, 8MB goes a lot farther on the GC. Why? Simply because developers should be used to not having scads of save RAM to use.
There are other reasons of course. The PS2 MC interface has at least one 3D model associated with each game. This model (and it's associated textures and other data) can be animated to even perform secondary animations when the save file is deleted. Talk about your waste of space. I seem to remember "Ridge Racer V" using close to 600k of space which would be bigger than an entire Nintendo MC 59 simply to store configuration data and high scores. Contrast this to several GC games ("Metroid Prime" being a fine example) that use 1 block to store 3 save files. I don't even want to talk about the Xbox "bloat saves" that can't even be copied to a memory card.
FYI, 1 block is 8kB just like the original 15 block PlayStation memory cards. Sony's list price is still $20 for those. Should we all scream foul?
Yes, Nintendo makes money off of memory cards and if you would've brought up the "incompatible" SD Card adapter then you would've had a point. But really, when the prices drop, and they soon will as when the MC 251 came out, it just means that customers will be getting more RAM for their buck. Is this really a bad thing?
This problem is similar to the Y2K issue. The coder's simply used 3 digits to store how many blocks were available on the memory card. When you have a card with 1000+ blocks, overflows start happening.
I don't know where the GC Linux team got this info, but if they can find it then developers should have access to is. About a quarter of the way down this page (Section 9.7 Memory Cards) is a list of memory cards including the 8MB Memory Card 1019 and others like the MC 507 and the MC 2043 which don't currently exist. Developers should have at least allowed for 4 digits for block size to be compatible with these psuedo-announced peripherals.
Your link doesn't work (vgmuseum doesn't like direct image links) but I get the idea.
What you're saying is that since "Super Mario World" is also "Super Mario Bros. 4", "Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island" could be listed as "Super Mario Bros. 5".
Why not also list it as:
"Super Mario World (Super Mario Bros. 4) 2 - Yoshi's Island (Super Mario Bros. 5)"
Just to make it longer, we could tack on "Super Mario Advance 3" to the beginning of that mess to make it the longest (and most complicated) game title ever.
Fortunately, people just refer to it simply as "Yoshi's Island" or "the cartoony one with baby Mario".