Okay, so what will be the mechanism keeping games from being easily ported to the Mac?
I'm not saying that an Xbox running a G5 would mean you could simply copy binaries off the CDs and run them on your iMac, but it would seem to me that this would remove most of the larger technological barriers that keep Carmack's crew from simply emitting Mach-0 executables at the flip of a switch.
The obvious one that springs to my mind is the lack of DirectX, but since they have obviously got the Xbox version of it running on a G5, that's not too much of a roadblock.
I keep one or more browser windows open on four of my eight desktops. Each of those browser windows has between one and ten tabs open. Unless something dreadful happens, my browser only launches after Software Update causes me to reboot.
Launch time is bandwidth-bound, so whichever one launches less wins. Unfortunately, Safari was crashing every month or two. FlamingCougar hasn't gone out once since I switched a few months ago *knock on space age composite*.
That was why I (somewhat reluctantly) switched, and extensions are why I'll never go back to Safari. Last time I used Camino (kept with it for about six months after Safari came out) it didn't support Mozilla or SmolderingChimp extensions. If that were to change some day, who knows?
Fisher 404 Quadraphonic Stereo Receiver, the kind with the joystick on the front, circa mid 70s. [image]
KLH Model Twenty-Four Series II, circa late 60s. [image] (That was back when they were truly great, not just mass market grade stuff with an expensive brand name. (I'm looking at you here too, Bose.))
But then you help to reinforce the mindbendingly unfortunate belief about computing that Microsoft has caused to become commonplace: sometimes a thing works, sometimes it doesn't.
They'll genuinely believe that the Big Blue E isn't nearly as bad as those people make it out to be, instead of telling their friends that the Blue and Orange Round Thing made things safe and fun again.
Essentially, just like the reason for not changing your user agent string to work around fucktarded browser sniffers. But different.
It's depressingly common that when U.S. motivations for attacking Iraq are questioned, disparaging remarks about France are thrown around. Kinda like the way certain people cannot (or will not) respond to criticisms of George W. Bush without mentioning Bill Clinton.
I simply cannot see either of these rhetorical tactics as anything other than inflammatory diversion, much like the white-hot flares ejected by aircraft to avoid heat seeking missiles.
When I was 12 my mother gave me a subscription for christmas. Her and my aunt took turns paying for it until I left home. She figured if I had a decent nudie magazine being delivered to me, I wouldn't seek out crap like Hustler, et. al.
So I can hopnestly say that even as a teenager, I read it for the articles, and generally didn't look at any of the pictorials until the second or third time through an issue. Which isn't to say I didn't look at them, of course I did! I was a teenage boy. But at least in the 80s, the writing was just that much more appealing.
I'm still acutely without iPod, but a friend let me take hers to the gym recently. I now consider the coolest feature being able to use the scroll wheel through fabric. I'm sure it wouldn't work with denim, but through typical cotton gym shorts, I could just reach down and draw circles on my thigh. Totally surreal. Between that and some fleshtone headphones, I could further reduce unnecessary interaction with humanity by a factor of 10!
Apple adds a NON STANDARD overlay to AAC --> Good Thing?
Well, it's not a bad thing. They didn't pollute the standard, and don't add their DRM to anything other than stuff bought from their store. Stuff you rip/import/whatever is either pure AAC or MP3, nothing funny added.
MS adds a NON STANDARD function to CD's or Windows --> Bad Thing?
Huh?
Apple decides to kill off competitors that try to interface with iTunes and their form of AAC --> Good Thing?
Who? Please tell me you're not referring to Real.
MS decides to kill off competitors that try to interface with their form of encoding --> Bad Thing.
Yes.
As always, Apple zealots mod and support each other with the vision impaired Steve Jobs glasses on.
All generalizations are false.
As ALWAYS, not a single Apple lover will reply to this, the only method zealots use to defend their point is to ignore the anti Apple negative post.
There's three of us in my office, and I'm the one smacking my colleagues if they don't run Windows Update in a timely manner. The day SP2 came out, I told them to hold off until those on the front lines had installed it and reported back via some web forum or other. Later that week, the shit hit the fan, and I acquired a sagely aura (which can be kinda awkward in a small office) for sparing us the pain.
So as far as I'm concerned, SP2 has convinced those around me that the things I say (and often scream, spittle and all) about Windows are to be obeyed promptly, which means that SP2 has already made the XP boxes at our organization measurably more secure.
Wouldn't it be cool to address _everything_ using a single, consistent scheme no matter where you are.
Yeah, you could just specify a protocol, then perhaps a colon and some slashes, and then, starting at the lowest level of the directory structure of this all-encompassing filesystem, you take the name of the directory the object is in, then use a character, perhaps a slash, do indicate that... oh, nevermind.
Wouldn't you need some additional resistance to keep it from being a brief electromagnetic field followed shortly thereafter by a rather localized power outage?
Glad you're not pissed. I saw that statement and just couldn't help myself. I suppose the fact that I used to have a business selling/installing security systems might have motivated me just a slight bit...
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And it will be posted here again a few more times as this worms its way to market.
Sing it with me now, the next time it comes around on the submission queue!
Okay, so what will be the mechanism keeping games from being easily ported to the Mac?
I'm not saying that an Xbox running a G5 would mean you could simply copy binaries off the CDs and run them on your iMac, but it would seem to me that this would remove most of the larger technological barriers that keep Carmack's crew from simply emitting Mach-0 executables at the flip of a switch.
The obvious one that springs to my mind is the lack of DirectX, but since they have obviously got the Xbox version of it running on a G5, that's not too much of a roadblock.
So what am I overlooking, other than licensing?
*Vote Cthulu/Hastur in 2004, or we'll eat your face*
I think you misspelled "Hastert."
Who convinced you that they were legislating *against* spam?
CAN-SPAM: It's not just a horrible backronym.
I keep one or more browser windows open on four of my eight desktops. Each of those browser windows has between one and ten tabs open. Unless something dreadful happens, my browser only launches after Software Update causes me to reboot.
Launch time is bandwidth-bound, so whichever one launches less wins. Unfortunately, Safari was crashing every month or two. FlamingCougar hasn't gone out once since I switched a few months ago *knock on space age composite*.
That was why I (somewhat reluctantly) switched, and extensions are why I'll never go back to Safari. Last time I used Camino (kept with it for about six months after Safari came out) it didn't support Mozilla or SmolderingChimp extensions. If that were to change some day, who knows?
iTunes
Fisher 404 Quadraphonic Stereo Receiver, the kind with the joystick on the front, circa mid 70s. [image]
KLH Model Twenty-Four Series II, circa late 60s. [image] (That was back when they were truly great, not just mass market grade stuff with an expensive brand name. (I'm looking at you here too, Bose.))
Various late model JVC and Polk Audio sattelites
But then you help to reinforce the mindbendingly unfortunate belief about computing that Microsoft has caused to become commonplace: sometimes a thing works, sometimes it doesn't.
They'll genuinely believe that the Big Blue E isn't nearly as bad as those people make it out to be, instead of telling their friends that the Blue and Orange Round Thing made things safe and fun again.
Essentially, just like the reason for not changing your user agent string to work around fucktarded browser sniffers. But different.
*sigh*
It's depressingly common that when U.S. motivations for attacking Iraq are questioned, disparaging remarks about France are thrown around. Kinda like the way certain people cannot (or will not) respond to criticisms of George W. Bush without mentioning Bill Clinton.
I simply cannot see either of these rhetorical tactics as anything other than inflammatory diversion, much like the white-hot flares ejected by aircraft to avoid heat seeking missiles.
When I was 12 my mother gave me a subscription for christmas. Her and my aunt took turns paying for it until I left home. She figured if I had a decent nudie magazine being delivered to me, I wouldn't seek out crap like Hustler, et. al.
So I can hopnestly say that even as a teenager, I read it for the articles, and generally didn't look at any of the pictorials until the second or third time through an issue. Which isn't to say I didn't look at them, of course I did! I was a teenage boy. But at least in the 80s, the writing was just that much more appealing.
I'm still acutely without iPod, but a friend let me take hers to the gym recently. I now consider the coolest feature being able to use the scroll wheel through fabric. I'm sure it wouldn't work with denim, but through typical cotton gym shorts, I could just reach down and draw circles on my thigh. Totally surreal. Between that and some fleshtone headphones, I could further reduce unnecessary interaction with humanity by a factor of 10!
Huh?
Who? Please tell me you're not referring to Real.
Yes.
All generalizations are false.
Oops.
What, I don't even get credit for leaving the '$' out of Microsoft?
"CDs of program available: $20."
Score: +17, Still-don't-get-it
There's three of us in my office, and I'm the one smacking my colleagues if they don't run Windows Update in a timely manner. The day SP2 came out, I told them to hold off until those on the front lines had installed it and reported back via some web forum or other. Later that week, the shit hit the fan, and I acquired a sagely aura (which can be kinda awkward in a small office) for sparing us the pain.
So as far as I'm concerned, SP2 has convinced those around me that the things I say (and often scream, spittle and all) about Windows are to be obeyed promptly, which means that SP2 has already made the XP boxes at our organization measurably more secure.
Thanks, Microsoft!
Heh. You know how people here at The Dot like to misread subject lines and report back to the masses on how humorously they misread things?
I totally misread 'Chong bit' in a way that really reminds one that it's a Friday afternoon.
Wouldn't it be cool to address _everything_ using a single, consistent scheme no matter where you are.
Yeah, you could just specify a protocol, then perhaps a colon and some slashes, and then, starting at the lowest level of the directory structure of this all-encompassing filesystem, you take the name of the directory the object is in, then use a character, perhaps a slash, do indicate that... oh, nevermind.
So where's the "set" controls?
Well first you'll need a virgin, a large bonfire, two cows and three hundred pounds of Crisco...
Yeah, it'd also be interesting if Hell started importing ice.
I think they already do that. It's the export market you wanna keep an eye on.
Because truth is infectious.
I used to think so, too.
Of course, Slashdot could obviate this issue entirely by cleaning up their HTML and using reasonable CSS for layout.
Heh, good one. You must be new here.
62 + 12 + 6 = 80%, which also tells us that 20% of your visitors aren't using a computer.
Wouldn't you need some additional resistance to keep it from being a brief electromagnetic field followed shortly thereafter by a rather localized power outage?
Glad you're not pissed. I saw that statement and just couldn't help myself. I suppose the fact that I used to have a business selling/installing security systems might have motivated me just a slight bit...
my inablity to oversell technology with a straight face is why I write software now
You forgot to enclose that statement in IRONY tags.
dunno how right i am
Not very.