I agree almost entirely with this review, except for this one bit:
Visually, Blazing Angels is a competent success. The 360's power is put to use creating a seamless and smooth combat experience and expansive observable vistas.
Yes, the game looks great, but it's not quite smooth. There is a, somewhat annoying, graphical glitch that looks not unlike the effect you get when you point a camera at a computer monitor and the two aren't on the same refresh rate. There's a band that scrolls across the screen that I can best describe as "off whack". Probably some variation on tearing. There's no excuse for that in a console game.
Other than that, though, it is a fun, albeit mindless game.
I was confused at first too, when rebooting my Mac always booted to Windows. Sure I could hold down the option key and select OS X, but that's a small consolation. It sounds like that's what's happening to these people. The solution is simple, if not poorly documented. Go into the Control Panel, Performance and Optimization (I think, it's under one of those things) and look for the "Startup Disk" control panel. This functions just like in OS X, and allows you to reset your default OS to OS X.
Most likely because they require a firmware update for this to work. My guess is they buckled-down and did the "proper" BIOS and VESA EFI-Plugin support. Which is definitely nicer, because, most likely, ANY Intel OS will work (provided you can find drivers for it).
RTFBlurb yourself. The phrase "dual-booting Windows XP and OS X 10.4" is hyperlinked to the article. If that doesn't imply that it was the article that mentions that, I don't know what does...
3)tax software. This is a big one for this, why bother buying a win machine for something you do once a year when you can just install win on your nice mac.
Why bother installing win on your nice mac when you can just go to turbotax.com and do your taxes on the web?
I don't know if anybody is still reading this thread, but my proposed solution has now been tested and verified to work (with a few minor tweaks) by the onmac.net contributors. You can read the revised instructions here.
It seems to me that the only reason you need a PC to do this is because the author is only familiar with Nero Burning-ROM to create bootable discs. It certainly isn't easy to do on the Mac, but if I've got it right, this should work. I don't have an Intel Mac to test on, can someone try this? First, install Fink. Then install the "mkisofs" package. From there, unzip the solution given and cd into that directory in terminal. Insert your XP install CD. Then run these commands:
Note that the mkisofs is long and may be wrapped on your screen. But it should be all one line... This will create an ISO that you should be able to burn with Disk Utility. I've taken the liberty of putting the xom.efi and howto instructions on the ISO as well to make things simple. Then, just follow the howto instructions in section II "The Installation". Hopefully that works! Let me know!
For me it's as simple as the split screen online play. Sure, playing against your friends in split screen is cool, but that gets old after a while. Going against other players online with your friends is even cooler. Halo (& Halo 2) is one of the only games I've ever seen with "split-screen online" play. Yes, most games have split-screen play (locally), and most have online (1 player per console), but Halo lets you and three of your buddies go in together. It's a great party game because of that.
Admittedly, this could work on the novice user. Hopefully one could be educated that anything looking like a software update should not originate on any website or email, but only through the Apple Software Update utility. While there are no guarantees in life, the truth is this kind of thing required much less effort on Windows as compared to OS X. Heck, even my wife (who pretty well knows better about such things) managed to get infected with spyware on her Windows computer, despite running Firefox, anti-spyware and anti-virus utilities. And we know darn well she didn't download and double click on some JPG file that actually ran a program...
Fortunately the Mac is 100% completely secure against virus, trojan or worms. So this flaw isn't really an issue.
While you're trying to be funny, there is an element of truth to this. Yes, this can trick a user into running arbitrary code, but that code will not be able to modify any system files without prompting for an admin password because of OS X's security. That is a critical distinction. The only thing such code could do without alerting you to its presence is wipe out YOUR user data. The OS itself would be unaffected. Other users files would be unaffected. Therefore, this could never be used to spawn a virus or worm. Only one-off malware...
Most sites ask you the geographic areas you want to work in, but the recruiters who troll the sites don't listen. I want a job site where when I check "Sacramento" I don't get called for jobs in San Jose or "the Bay Area". That's NOT Sacramento folks, learn to read! While you're at it, how about banning recruiters who aren't from the area they're hiring for? I hate it when some schmoe recruiter in North Carolina is trying to fill a job in California...
I suppose my objection is more to the way Outlook displays it. I don't have a problem with the information being there for anyone who *really* cares to look (I don't have much to hide), but it does make things look strange in Outlook.
I do this to aggregate several different emails in one inbox. There's one big flaw with this, though. Google sets the address of your choosing as the From: header, but also sets the gmail address itself as the Sender: header. This causes Outlook (not Express, though) to display "xxx@gmail.com On Behalf Of xxx@yyyy.com". This allows people to discover my "true" address as well as associate my multiple accounts with each other. I've asked them not to do this, but so far no response. Fortunately, most home mail readers don't seem to do this, only the full blown Outlook as far as I know.
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You definitely don't represent the majority. Everybody I know with a blinking 12:00 still has a working remote.
Yes, the game looks great, but it's not quite smooth. There is a, somewhat annoying, graphical glitch that looks not unlike the effect you get when you point a camera at a computer monitor and the two aren't on the same refresh rate. There's a band that scrolls across the screen that I can best describe as "off whack". Probably some variation on tearing. There's no excuse for that in a console game.
Other than that, though, it is a fun, albeit mindless game.
Dude, he was being funny. Which it was until you came along...
I'm absolutely certain that the engineers who coined this term had that in mind when they came up with it. It's far too relevant to be coincidence...
Indeed. That does seem like prior art to me...
I was confused at first too, when rebooting my Mac always booted to Windows. Sure I could hold down the option key and select OS X, but that's a small consolation. It sounds like that's what's happening to these people. The solution is simple, if not poorly documented. Go into the Control Panel, Performance and Optimization (I think, it's under one of those things) and look for the "Startup Disk" control panel. This functions just like in OS X, and allows you to reset your default OS to OS X.
Most likely because they require a firmware update for this to work. My guess is they buckled-down and did the "proper" BIOS and VESA EFI-Plugin support. Which is definitely nicer, because, most likely, ANY Intel OS will work (provided you can find drivers for it).
Same is true of the PowerBook G4's...
RTFBlurb yourself. The phrase "dual-booting Windows XP and OS X 10.4" is hyperlinked to the article. If that doesn't imply that it was the article that mentions that, I don't know what does...
Why bother installing win on your nice mac when you can just go to turbotax.com and do your taxes on the web?
I don't know if anybody is still reading this thread, but my proposed solution has now been tested and verified to work (with a few minor tweaks) by the onmac.net contributors. You can read the revised instructions here.
Isn't this guy reinventing the wheel? Why not just run a RAID 1 setup using iSCSI? Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing a lot easier?
For me it's as simple as the split screen online play. Sure, playing against your friends in split screen is cool, but that gets old after a while. Going against other players online with your friends is even cooler. Halo (& Halo 2) is one of the only games I've ever seen with "split-screen online" play. Yes, most games have split-screen play (locally), and most have online (1 player per console), but Halo lets you and three of your buddies go in together. It's a great party game because of that.
Admittedly, this could work on the novice user. Hopefully one could be educated that anything looking like a software update should not originate on any website or email, but only through the Apple Software Update utility. While there are no guarantees in life, the truth is this kind of thing required much less effort on Windows as compared to OS X. Heck, even my wife (who pretty well knows better about such things) managed to get infected with spyware on her Windows computer, despite running Firefox, anti-spyware and anti-virus utilities. And we know darn well she didn't download and double click on some JPG file that actually ran a program...
While you're trying to be funny, there is an element of truth to this. Yes, this can trick a user into running arbitrary code, but that code will not be able to modify any system files without prompting for an admin password because of OS X's security. That is a critical distinction. The only thing such code could do without alerting you to its presence is wipe out YOUR user data. The OS itself would be unaffected. Other users files would be unaffected. Therefore, this could never be used to spawn a virus or worm. Only one-off malware...
True that. My bad.
Most sites ask you the geographic areas you want to work in, but the recruiters who troll the sites don't listen. I want a job site where when I check "Sacramento" I don't get called for jobs in San Jose or "the Bay Area". That's NOT Sacramento folks, learn to read! While you're at it, how about banning recruiters who aren't from the area they're hiring for? I hate it when some schmoe recruiter in North Carolina is trying to fill a job in California...
Just great. Now we can hack a form of encrypted transmission we don't even have yet...
And me. I switched at home first, then at work, and now my wife is making motions about wanting to switch. Go figure.
I suppose my objection is more to the way Outlook displays it. I don't have a problem with the information being there for anyone who *really* cares to look (I don't have much to hide), but it does make things look strange in Outlook.
Granted. But 90% of the users out there don't know how to look for it. Nor would they have any reason to under normal circumstances.
I think you're exactly the kind of person they're doing this for...
I do this to aggregate several different emails in one inbox. There's one big flaw with this, though. Google sets the address of your choosing as the From: header, but also sets the gmail address itself as the Sender: header. This causes Outlook (not Express, though) to display "xxx@gmail.com On Behalf Of xxx@yyyy.com". This allows people to discover my
"true" address as well as associate my multiple accounts with each other. I've asked them not to do this, but so far no response. Fortunately, most home mail readers don't seem to do this, only the full blown Outlook as far as I know.
Oops. My bad.