People are stupid and the lobbyists/corporations have far too much influence. America has become a corporatocracy. The bankruptcy and energy bills are only two recent examples of legislation passed for corporate benefit and public detriment.
I can appreciate your skepticism, but when I've personally seen people selling 5 or 6 of the same epic equipment in the auction house I have to believe that this is a very real problem.
Anyone else disappointed w/ the iChat/Codec performance in Tiger? Hardly the 4x improvement touted for 1 on 1 chats advertised and multi-person chat quality, while usable, is quite poor. The Apple demos were obviously performed w/ a serious pipe. For mere mortals w/ more modest bandwidth the results aren't nearly as stellar.
Tip: If you're getting awful 1 FPS performance in iChat, make sure you've completely eliminated any vestiges of Virex and related processes, use the disk doctor "repair permissions" function, and reboot.
Well Blizzard kind of offered an olive branch. They're crediting all players w/ 2 days of free play due to the recent server problems - info on the official WoW page.
For what it's worth, play on my server has been nearly perfect. I've been a very happy customer so far.
Where are the "journalists" now? There are very very few actual journalists left in the US. We're left with personalities and pundits who exist to garner market share and have neither the integrity nor the time to be bothered with getting data, fact checking, and reporting. More frightening is the fact that the average American mistakes what the talking heads say for actual news, when in point of fact it's largely opinion.
It's a sad state of affairs when we're left to get our news from the foreign press. If you want to hear Karl Rove and company's daily talking points, you can simply flip on the TV. If you want to know what's really going on you have to dig.
I've picked up a "first/last name" and a "street address" from my kitchen. I thought the address thing was an interesting idea and the fellow had the good sense to enable WEP. (Not so w/ the guy who thought it was a good idea to use his name.)
I remember first learning Pascal w/ Tiny Pascal on my Trash-80 Model 1, then moving to an early version of Turbo Pascal under CP/M on my Model 4P. I wrote all the code for my M.S. and Ph.D. projects w/ Turbo Pascal on 386's. Good times...
I agree that Logic's UI needs work, but I think that's just its roots showing. It'll continue to improve with time - especially now that Apple's taking a more direct role in developing and distributing it. As for timestretch and bounce issues - I've experienced neither on my G5.
I'm still using my original first gen PS2 unit - and I've used it HEAVILY since I got it. It's not uncommon for me to leave the unit on for days at a time. I did have to replace the reader on my PS1 eventually - got tired of turning it upside down. Still, that was a cheap do-it-myself repair compared to buying a new unit.
I always thought physical RAM was a greater hurdle for people developing on consoles. There's not a lot there so you end up shuffling data in and out of RAM from optical media. Not the best arrangement...
I'll consider it because the optical reader in my first gen PS2 is showing its age. It's been a solid performer for me, but I think it's about time to put the old girl out to pasture.
I'm assuming you're listening to this in 5.1 surround? Might I suggest a good calibration disc like DVD Video Essentials and a sound level meter to properly set up your audio? It might be that your channel gains are simply out of balance with one another. I didn't find myself having to jack with the volume during any of the LOTR discs, and that includes getting my butt thumped quite excessively during the battles at Helm's Deep and the Pelenor Fields.
Yeah, the VESA adaptor gives you even more flexibility, but ditching the 3-point easel arrangement that gobbles up a huge chunk of your workspace is a big help in and of itself.
SWEET!!!! What an outstanding utility. I get my mouse focus AND virtual desktops under OS X! This G5 is feeling more like "home" all the time. Thanks so much for the recommendation! I'm going to test drive it for a bit, but I'm thinking this will be a must-purchase.
Yup, I'd already set it to generate a CMD-V, which gets me pretty close to the UNIX 3-button equivalent. I still miss just being able to highlight text and center click to paste it. Oh, and X11/terminals in OS X DO allow highlight/center paste, so that's nice, but the paradigm is inconsistent...
So I guess that leaves my only nits w/ OS X windowing being:
1) The single menu bar for all windows, which is a real pain for multi-monitor operation.
2) No ability to customize mouse/window focus behavior. I'm a "mouse-in-window" gives focus kinda guy. It's tough getting used to having to click in a window to bring it to the front and type in it. I guess I just need to change the focus behavior on my Linux boxen to avoid focus dementia.:)
btw - That tip for macosxhints was great. Some really good stuff there!
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People are stupid and the lobbyists/corporations have far too much influence. America has become a corporatocracy. The bankruptcy and energy bills are only two recent examples of legislation passed for corporate benefit and public detriment.
I can appreciate your skepticism, but when I've personally seen people selling 5 or 6 of the same epic equipment in the auction house I have to believe that this is a very real problem.
The chats in question were ic3-ic3. Oddly enough, ic3-ic2.1 framerates were at 30, then dropped to 15 once the ic2.1 person upgraded to ic3.
Ports are open.
My bad, I meant Disk Utility.
Anyone else disappointed w/ the iChat/Codec performance in Tiger? Hardly the 4x improvement touted for 1 on 1 chats advertised and multi-person chat quality, while usable, is quite poor. The Apple demos were obviously performed w/ a serious pipe. For mere mortals w/ more modest bandwidth the results aren't nearly as stellar.
Tip: If you're getting awful 1 FPS performance in iChat, make sure you've completely eliminated any vestiges of Virex and related processes, use the disk doctor "repair permissions" function, and reboot.
Which version of Safari are we talking about? The current release version w/ patches or the Tiger rev that's on its way to me as I post this?
Well Blizzard kind of offered an olive branch. They're crediting all players w/ 2 days of free play due to the recent server problems - info on the official WoW page.
For what it's worth, play on my server has been nearly perfect. I've been a very happy customer so far.
Where are the "journalists" now? There are very very few actual journalists left in the US. We're left with personalities and pundits who exist to garner market share and have neither the integrity nor the time to be bothered with getting data, fact checking, and reporting. More frightening is the fact that the average American mistakes what the talking heads say for actual news, when in point of fact it's largely opinion.
It's a sad state of affairs when we're left to get our news from the foreign press. If you want to hear Karl Rove and company's daily talking points, you can simply flip on the TV. If you want to know what's really going on you have to dig.
I've picked up a "first/last name" and a "street address" from my kitchen. I thought the address thing was an interesting idea and the fellow had the good sense to enable WEP. (Not so w/ the guy who thought it was a good idea to use his name.)
I remember first learning Pascal w/ Tiny Pascal on my Trash-80 Model 1, then moving to an early version of Turbo Pascal under CP/M on my Model 4P. I wrote all the code for my M.S. and Ph.D. projects w/ Turbo Pascal on 386's. Good times...
I agree that Logic's UI needs work, but I think that's just its roots showing. It'll continue to improve with time - especially now that Apple's taking a more direct role in developing and distributing it. As for timestretch and bounce issues - I've experienced neither on my G5.
I use Logic Pro and have no trouble w/ VST plugins using FXPansion's VST/AU converter. Works like a charm.
I'm still using my original first gen PS2 unit - and I've used it HEAVILY since I got it. It's not uncommon for me to leave the unit on for days at a time. I did have to replace the reader on my PS1 eventually - got tired of turning it upside down. Still, that was a cheap do-it-myself repair compared to buying a new unit.
I'll second MysticalFruit's kudos. Champions of Norrath was one of my favorite games of the past year. Great work from everyone involved!
I always thought physical RAM was a greater hurdle for people developing on consoles. There's not a lot there so you end up shuffling data in and out of RAM from optical media. Not the best arrangement...
I'll consider it because the optical reader in my first gen PS2 is showing its age. It's been a solid performer for me, but I think it's about time to put the old girl out to pasture.
LOL! Perhaps I should have worded that differently... ;)
I'm assuming you're listening to this in 5.1 surround? Might I suggest a good calibration disc like DVD Video Essentials and a sound level meter to properly set up your audio? It might be that your channel gains are simply out of balance with one another. I didn't find myself having to jack with the volume during any of the LOTR discs, and that includes getting my butt thumped quite excessively during the battles at Helm's Deep and the Pelenor Fields.
He's in the extended version.
I seem to recall there are already web-based office suites available - Hyperoffice comes to mind as one...
WAHHH! And I just bought a 20GB model! Admittedly I love it, but... :p
Yeah, the VESA adaptor gives you even more flexibility, but ditching the 3-point easel arrangement that gobbles up a huge chunk of your workspace is a big help in and of itself.
They've also ditched the easel-style mounting arrangement which provides greater installation flexibility.
SWEET!!!! What an outstanding utility. I get my mouse focus AND virtual desktops under OS X! This G5 is feeling more like "home" all the time. Thanks so much for the recommendation! I'm going to test drive it for a bit, but I'm thinking this will be a must-purchase.
Yup, I'd already set it to generate a CMD-V, which gets me pretty close to the UNIX 3-button equivalent. I still miss just being able to highlight text and center click to paste it. Oh, and X11/terminals in OS X DO allow highlight/center paste, so that's nice, but the paradigm is inconsistent...
:)
So I guess that leaves my only nits w/ OS X windowing being:
1) The single menu bar for all windows, which is a real pain for multi-monitor operation.
2) No ability to customize mouse/window focus behavior. I'm a "mouse-in-window" gives focus kinda guy. It's tough getting used to having to click in a window to bring it to the front and type in it. I guess I just need to change the focus behavior on my Linux boxen to avoid focus dementia.
btw - That tip for macosxhints was great. Some really good stuff there!