I hear you:-) I've not really considered Mac before, but now that I could dual boot, that completely changes things. Mac's are a wonderful combination of geekiness from its kernel, and innovation and usability. It's a remarkable system with *NIX heritage. And it surely seem to have the performance.
I have really nothing against using a Mac for my business apps, and I'm quite sure it would cover them, but it's been mostly about Windows games for me. Now I could go make a minimalist Windows install for just that and be quite happy.
What I'm wondering about though, being a gamer, is the future support of Windows Vista with this thing. That can be important, because DirectX 10 will only be made for that OS, and although the initial games may be backwards compatible for DirectX 9 and XP at least throghout this year and maybe next, clouded, the future is.
It would feel very reassuring to have official word on this that Apple will support Vista when that OS is done.
If you're requesting an abiogenesis viewpoint, I think the Miller-Urey experiment is an interesting experiment made to replicate these circumstances on an early Earth and its present basic components, and they actually made some quite surprising discoveries.
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And yet game engines are written in C/C++. Guess OOP isn't everything.
I thought they might release the fastest Apple computer ever
What do you mean? Apple claims they do this every time they release a new Apple computer. And they're usually right, because there's zero competition on Apple computers. So they quite liberally tell that it's the best computer they've ever made. Who can claim they're wrong. So looking for such a "surprise" would equal simply looking for the next computer model from Apple. Would that really be so amazing?
Strange as in "enjoy heavily commercialized music". I think that's a kind of strange many, particularly Slashdotters, aren't.:-) Or at least are willing to explore ways to not be a follower of it, given the usual heavy bias for freedom as opposed to closedness and tieing to DRM and their corporate customized copyright / fair use laws.
Just listen to / get free music legally from The Kahvi Collective, Magnatune, music.download.com, Electromancer,... or why not online "radio" services like last.fm or Pandora? You have to be pretty strange these days to like overcommercialized music but not anything from any of those.
Interesting logic: I must support Ian Clarke and his ideals of absolute freedom of speech, otherwise he might sue me for saying bad things about him?
No, but claiming false things about him can put you into trouble. Like saying he's actively spreading CP.
No, because child pornography isn't the killer app of AOL, but it is the killer app of Freenet.
So how does that make Clarke actively spreading child porn?
here and here
Those just show that he believe in freedom, and explains that CP can come as part of this, and that just because of this, his entire network shouldn't be taken down. Ask any ISP owner and you'll get the same answer. Finally, he gives a suggestion on how to limit the spread of CP. Again, how does this show that Clarke is an active distributor of CP? He just designed the net. That's all we know.
It only "encourages" it like it encourages Chinese people to make a web site about their oppressive government. Anonymity. It's a double edged sword. Blocking child porn and banning such users would imply a need for Freenet to not be anonymous and the project could just as well be ended.
Let's all be totally clear on this: Clarke has an absolute belief in free speech, including child pornography. Not only does he believe that government shouldn't be able to regulate any kind of speech, including child pornography, but he is actively helping people to distribute child pornography, and so are you if you run a Freenet node, whether you know it or not.
No, Clarke isn't *actively* helping to spread this any more than any other material. That's just how the protocol work. The eMule devs aren't actively helping to spread pirated material, Pirate Bay isn't actively helping to spread the latest DVD-R movies. They're just providing the service; it's people using it that spread the material.
And why the heck do you feel a need to mention "child pornography" at every chance you get? To make your point more clear? To show that you're against total free speech? Obviously, child porn is one of the things that appear on a network without censorship or easy tracking. Now, what do you think should be done with it while preserving anonymity? Try answering that instead of just throwing shit on the founder who just developed the purely technical service.
It would actually be interesting to see the whole thing as a movie, with all characters and their personalities, acted in the real world, and not as a cartoon. Here's a bit how it could look like, from the trailer for the latest Simpsons series season.
That would sure be more interesting to me than just MORE and MORE of the same, but now as a movie. *yaawn*
Hey, the upcoming Patch 1.11 is set to make the flight paths more interesting, so you'll have more to watch while you sit on your airborne creature and they milk you on your money!
Seriously, why else would flightpaths at all be used? It's an interesting coincidence that this highly boring game element is lacking in a game like Guild Wars, lacking monthly fees.
FYI, FST's post was copy & pasted from the Wisp article:
The introduction of Wisps allows a new and exciting game mechanic: permanent death. The ability that destroyed Archimonde is available to all Wisps as a racial ability. This power, Detonate, destroys the Wisp in an explosion of energy, sapping the mana of all surrounding adventurers, friend and foe alike. This should provide an extremely interesting addition to the many adventures of Warcraft, particularly when pitted against other players!
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Hopefully! Because then you have a lot more flexibility than a pure XP user ever had. :-)
(besides hack jobs to make it boot, more or less illegal)
I hear you :-) I've not really considered Mac before, but now that I could dual boot, that completely changes things. Mac's are a wonderful combination of geekiness from its kernel, and innovation and usability. It's a remarkable system with *NIX heritage. And it surely seem to have the performance.
I have really nothing against using a Mac for my business apps, and I'm quite sure it would cover them, but it's been mostly about Windows games for me. Now I could go make a minimalist Windows install for just that and be quite happy.
What I'm wondering about though, being a gamer, is the future support of Windows Vista with this thing. That can be important, because DirectX 10 will only be made for that OS, and although the initial games may be backwards compatible for DirectX 9 and XP at least throghout this year and maybe next, clouded, the future is.
It would feel very reassuring to have official word on this that Apple will support Vista when that OS is done.
Isn't Molyneaux's whole problem that he gets all of these wild ideas and then fails to actually execute them?
:-)
But then maybe he's just the right guy to balance a company who rarely have any wilds ideas, but often suceeed in executing them?
Where did the first matter come from?
If you're requesting an abiogenesis viewpoint, I think the Miller-Urey experiment is an interesting experiment made to replicate these circumstances on an early Earth and its present basic components, and they actually made some quite surprising discoveries.
And yet game engines are written in C/C++. Guess OOP isn't everything.
And neither are game engines.
I thought they might release the fastest Apple computer ever
What do you mean? Apple claims they do this every time they release a new Apple computer. And they're usually right, because there's zero competition on Apple computers. So they quite liberally tell that it's the best computer they've ever made. Who can claim they're wrong. So looking for such a "surprise" would equal simply looking for the next computer model from Apple. Would that really be so amazing?
Strange as in "enjoy heavily commercialized music". I think that's a kind of strange many, particularly Slashdotters, aren't. :-) Or at least are willing to explore ways to not be a follower of it, given the usual heavy bias for freedom as opposed to closedness and tieing to DRM and their corporate customized copyright / fair use laws.
Just listen to / get free music legally from The Kahvi Collective, Magnatune, music.download.com, Electromancer, ... or why not online "radio" services like last.fm or Pandora? You have to be pretty strange these days to like overcommercialized music but not anything from any of those.
Interesting logic: I must support Ian Clarke and his ideals of absolute freedom of speech, otherwise he might sue me for saying bad things about him?
No, but claiming false things about him can put you into trouble.
Like saying he's actively spreading CP.
No, because child pornography isn't the killer app of AOL, but it is the killer app of Freenet.
So how does that make Clarke actively spreading child porn?
here and here
Those just show that he believe in freedom, and explains that CP can come as part of this, and that just because of this, his entire network shouldn't be taken down. Ask any ISP owner and you'll get the same answer. Finally, he gives a suggestion on how to limit the spread of CP. Again, how does this show that Clarke is an active distributor of CP? He just designed the net. That's all we know.
It only "encourages" it like it encourages Chinese people to make a web site about their oppressive government. Anonymity. It's a double edged sword. Blocking child porn and banning such users would imply a need for Freenet to not be anonymous and the project could just as well be ended.
Let's all be totally clear on this: Clarke has an absolute belief in free speech, including child pornography. Not only does he believe that government shouldn't be able to regulate any kind of speech, including child pornography, but he is actively helping people to distribute child pornography, and so are you if you run a Freenet node, whether you know it or not.
No, Clarke isn't *actively* helping to spread this any more than any other material. That's just how the protocol work. The eMule devs aren't actively helping to spread pirated material, Pirate Bay isn't actively helping to spread the latest DVD-R movies. They're just providing the service; it's people using it that spread the material.
And why the heck do you feel a need to mention "child pornography" at every chance you get? To make your point more clear? To show that you're against total free speech? Obviously, child porn is one of the things that appear on a network without censorship or easy tracking. Now, what do you think should be done with it while preserving anonymity? Try answering that instead of just throwing shit on the founder who just developed the purely technical service.
I'd visit it, but I'm unsure if my work has an adult filter it will get trapped in. :-p
If you're suffering, then start fixing up your ponies thing in the sig. ;-)
It would actually be interesting to see the whole thing as a movie, with all characters and their personalities, acted in the real world, and not as a cartoon. Here's a bit how it could look like, from the trailer for the latest Simpsons series season.
That would sure be more interesting to me than just MORE and MORE of the same, but now as a movie. *yaawn*
I assume that Vista has a Win2K mode, that cuts away all the Aero Glass crap and lets me work.
Yes, like Windows XP, Vista has a Windows Classic mode.
I must credit them for their two fake screenshots.
Where's those 3D Starcraft characters from? Starcraft Ghost? That secret little Warcraft 3 map? Hmm...
Umm.. Congrats for the +5 Insightful on that one. Must be a new Slashdot record. :-)
An RIAA approved mp3 player?? Haha, this was the funniest April Fool's joke!
straight, redundant, gay, stupid (tagging beta)
Here's my meta-tag: wtf?
What's amazing is how effectively we've created 1984 and in how little time we've done it.
;-)
Depending on you how you look at that claim, one might say we've actually been quite slow though.
404 N. Found's? Wow, you must be popular!
This was such a funny coincidence with Slashdot's new girly style. :-)
Why is all posts, even the true ones, labelled as gay (??) and April Fool's?
Just because it was posted that day, doesn't mean it has anything to do with an April Fool's joke.
Hey, the upcoming Patch 1.11 is set to make the flight paths more interesting, so you'll have more to watch while you sit on your airborne creature and they milk you on your money!
Seriously, why else would flightpaths at all be used? It's an interesting coincidence that this highly boring game element is lacking in a game like Guild Wars, lacking monthly fees.
FYI, FST's post was copy & pasted from the Wisp article:
The introduction of Wisps allows a new and exciting game mechanic: permanent death. The ability that destroyed Archimonde is available to all Wisps as a racial ability. This power, Detonate, destroys the Wisp in an explosion of energy, sapping the mana of all surrounding adventurers, friend and foe alike. This should provide an extremely interesting addition to the many adventures of Warcraft, particularly when pitted against other players!