Yeah but thats the wierd thing. When Ubuntu Linux Upgrades, I don't have to upgrade to 2 more gigs of RAM to get the same performance. Same thing with my Mac; Leopard is still performing as great as it did before. And we got all our patches in a month rather than a year later.
It's so odd that Windows users think this is normal and acceptable when professionals outside of Redmond consider this hideous and laughable.
As far as I am aware, Warcraft on my Mac is fairly sandboxed; it cant read all the programs that are running or other files on my system without my permission. It may be different on Windows but this is why you shouldn't run as root. It could read files that it has READ permissions for. Want to limit it? Run it under limited permissions... problem solved.
People are really too panicky. True this is a shitty thing to do and yes it sux... but they suck; afterall they quashed the open source warcraft server. I have just chosen to pick my battles and this isn't one that I'm fighting. They are supporting games on Mac and for that I have to support them. They've got my pint of blood.
Depends on alot of things: the size of the shop, the size of the project, the size of the fix, etc. Do you have an MVC framework? Do you have a centralized database architecture?
The better engineered the project is, the faster development will be. The worse engineered and less centralized, the harder it will be. Also, the larger the size of the project, the more time it will take. Also the size of the company adds extra time as well; smaller shops can fudge on steps to get a fix out but larger shops have alot more customers to support and therefore can't fudge on QA.
I agree. I don't want to discourage people from playing it on Linux with Cedega. It ran GREAT and the glitches I experienced were only due to occasional upgrades and didn't affect gameplay; they were EXTREMELY minor.
For those who don't experience glitches, all I can say is read the Cedega forums because there are 100 people who do experience glitches for every 1 person who experiences none.
and yes, it DOES run faster on Linux... most games do have a faster framerate but alot of Windows people will argue that for hours without even attempting to find out if you are right or not.
And now that I think about it, I dod remember that there was an opengl option but there was some sort of reason that emmert gave such as that it relied upon directX or some other MS technology and thats why it COULDN'T port. It's not that they won't... it's that they CAN'T
Then again, I may be confusing this with the Neverwinter Nights 2 flamewar awhile back so don't hold me to that.
I know several people here at work in Bellevue WA (right across from Redmond) who weren't happy with VISTA and I told them they could request XP installed from their OEM, they instantly brightened up and started asking how. LOL.
I had to send links to articles to about 5 different people talking about how they could return their Dells and get XP installed and they said they were planning on doing it that weekend.
Another guy I knew had the 90% bandwidth throttling problem and couldn't figure out what was going on and when I asked if he was streaming media at the same time as surfing the internet he said yeah and I explained the issue. He got so mad and said 'why would they do that? Thats so stupid!'
They lost touch with the consumer and now they are paying the price.
It's called Cedega and Wine and they have been on Linux forever and have been running WoW for a LOOOOOOONG time. and it runs GREAT! I can run COH too but it has glitches due to trying to emulate DirectX vs openGL being supported.
Yeah, Christianity isn't a religion... it's a TYPE of religion or a religious GROUPING. Like saying Trucks are the most commonly driven vehicle and the second most common is the Honda Accord. Comparing a specific make and model to a grouping is incorrect logic.
I found tons to group with. Had a lvl 50 hero and lvl 50 villain. Don't know your problem. As for critical mass, by your logic everyone in the world should be Islamic since thats the most popular religion. Critical mass explains mob mentallity, not the reason why people purchase a product; thats called a monopoly... like iPods and Microsoft. And last that I heard of, WoW was NOT a monopoly.
Bought my mac in January and dumped this game and moved to WoW. Theres a reason why WoW has a couple million players and these guys don't... it's because you can play Wow on ALL platforms due to them supporting openGL and not DirectX. More game developers should start learning that open game development especially now that VISTA has bombed is in their best interest; other OS sales numbers are not going down and we are just going to dump your game when we switch.
As an IT person... I run Linux, Mac and Windows. And to hear someone say that Vista is more stable and better than XP is laughable. Macs in our office setup are troublefree. Linux installs are mostly servers and developers (and they maintain their own systems) so again trouble free; sorry Windows lovefest but Linux still has 5-10X the uptime and it takes two Windows boxes to compete with one Linux box using the same resources).
Vista though has been a nightmare since day one changing the way they do everything, throttling bandwidth when someones does any kind of multimedia, changing where they place settings, hogging resources like they are going out of style, freeze ups, stalls, etc. We dumped all our and move back to XP within 6 months. Now we don't plan to move to Vista EVER due to their major screwups in decision making of 'the microsoft way or the highway' and forcing this on the consumers.
This is what caused the switch to Firefox, this is what is causing the switch to Open Office. And this is what is causing Dell to sell Ubuntu and Macs to sell 2 million in the first weekend of a new OS release as compared to 6 months with Vista. They need to understand how to get back in touch with the consumer rather that dictating to the consumer what they want.
Exactly. It's called imprinting and it's why people stay with software that they are first familiar with as well as why a baby duck thinks a football is it's mother (psyche ref). Getting people to imprint on new software usually means that the new software needs to be as similar to the software that they are already familiar with with only a few noticeable changes. Too many changes and the user is unable to imprint or doesn't WANT to imprint and they find the software unusable.
Yeah Xcode is perfect for creating code for Macs and hopefully the new version gets better. I'm interested to see what it looks like. Eclipse may not be your thing if you are ONLY developing for Mac because you don't have to worry about a cross platform IDE... but for those of us who do, templating in Xcode and then exporting to Eclipse is much easier.
p.But then again, like I said, I'm hoping the new release improves Xcode alot. Would be great if they just released a plugin for eclipse like the rest of the world.
Seriously, I got so fed up with Windows that I switched to Linux a while back but found myself still dual booted to do Flash and photoshop and games. I tried Cedega and it worked well most of the time but still had some glitches from time to time. So I when most of the Java developers in my shop started bringing in their Mac's, I started asking them about it; they have a BSD backend, run almost ALL open source applications natively plus I can still play my multimedia, most modern applications and play Warcraft.
I have not touched a Windows machine since January of 2007; it still sits idol by my desk and I just hook up my Mac laptop to my monitor now.
As to the argument that they are more expensive... when pricing something comparable from Dell, Dell sometimes comes across more expensive (when you take into consideration all peripherals and monitor and such) otherwise Macs are the same price. But in the long run you pay less; built in firewall and the unix based backend make all the added security software you need to buy for Windows ($300+) unnecessary.
I don't want to come across as a Mac zealot as I consider myself more of a Linux zealot but the Mac has been the best computing experience I have so far. However I DO think that Apple would quickly turn into Microsoft if it weren't for Microsoft.
I installed Xcode too but prefer Eclipse. And the fact that Apple just cut support for Cocoa bindings for Java just cinched that I won't be using Xcode for anything.
I use OpenOffice. I inquired about it at the Mac store but they made it seem like a big deal to install X11 (which comes in the bundled Mac software disc). Was super easy to install and I don't have any issues (just a tiny additional X11 windows in the background).
I've heard about NeoOffice but also heard about problems with it. Whether they are true or not, I am used to OpenOffice on Linux so just chose to stick with that.
Honestly I always save in ODF on my MAC and then just convert to whatever I need to when I need to send a file to someone else. I get people asking for PDF or Word so it's easiest if I save as ODF and convert from there rather than saving as WORD and losing some of my formatting to convert to something else.
There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. Both are incorrect. Google is stealing market share from Apache but is actually an Apache-based web server so it is irrelevant to call it something else. Microsoft's IIS gain is mostly erroneous as it is due to domain parkers being bribed to move to IIS machines.
Also, both statistic sites only give partial results; Netcraft deliberately filters it's results in some instances and securityspace just doesn't have a wide enough sample.
All in all, the correct stat is probably an average of the two.
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It's so odd that Windows users think this is normal and acceptable when professionals outside of Redmond consider this hideous and laughable.
No I meant pint of blood, oh ye of little penis.
People are really too panicky. True this is a shitty thing to do and yes it sux... but they suck; afterall they quashed the open source warcraft server. I have just chosen to pick my battles and this isn't one that I'm fighting. They are supporting games on Mac and for that I have to support them. They've got my pint of blood.
The better engineered the project is, the faster development will be. The worse engineered and less centralized, the harder it will be. Also, the larger the size of the project, the more time it will take. Also the size of the company adds extra time as well; smaller shops can fudge on steps to get a fix out but larger shops have alot more customers to support and therefore can't fudge on QA.
yeah... not that you'd remember, slut.
I agree. I don't want to discourage people from playing it on Linux with Cedega. It ran GREAT and the glitches I experienced were only due to occasional upgrades and didn't affect gameplay; they were EXTREMELY minor.
and yes, it DOES run faster on Linux... most games do have a faster framerate but alot of Windows people will argue that for hours without even attempting to find out if you are right or not.
And now that I think about it, I dod remember that there was an opengl option but there was some sort of reason that emmert gave such as that it relied upon directX or some other MS technology and thats why it COULDN'T port. It's not that they won't... it's that they CAN'T
Then again, I may be confusing this with the Neverwinter Nights 2 flamewar awhile back so don't hold me to that.
I had to send links to articles to about 5 different people talking about how they could return their Dells and get XP installed and they said they were planning on doing it that weekend.
Another guy I knew had the 90% bandwidth throttling problem and couldn't figure out what was going on and when I asked if he was streaming media at the same time as surfing the internet he said yeah and I explained the issue. He got so mad and said 'why would they do that? Thats so stupid!'
They lost touch with the consumer and now they are paying the price.
It's called Cedega and Wine and they have been on Linux forever and have been running WoW for a LOOOOOOONG time. and it runs GREAT! I can run COH too but it has glitches due to trying to emulate DirectX vs openGL being supported.
Even a moron understands that.
I found tons to group with. Had a lvl 50 hero and lvl 50 villain. Don't know your problem. As for critical mass, by your logic everyone in the world should be Islamic since thats the most popular religion. Critical mass explains mob mentallity, not the reason why people purchase a product; thats called a monopoly... like iPods and Microsoft. And last that I heard of, WoW was NOT a monopoly.
Bought my mac in January and dumped this game and moved to WoW. Theres a reason why WoW has a couple million players and these guys don't... it's because you can play Wow on ALL platforms due to them supporting openGL and not DirectX. More game developers should start learning that open game development especially now that VISTA has bombed is in their best interest; other OS sales numbers are not going down and we are just going to dump your game when we switch.
Vista though has been a nightmare since day one changing the way they do everything, throttling bandwidth when someones does any kind of multimedia, changing where they place settings, hogging resources like they are going out of style, freeze ups, stalls, etc. We dumped all our and move back to XP within 6 months. Now we don't plan to move to Vista EVER due to their major screwups in decision making of 'the microsoft way or the highway' and forcing this on the consumers.
This is what caused the switch to Firefox, this is what is causing the switch to Open Office. And this is what is causing Dell to sell Ubuntu and Macs to sell 2 million in the first weekend of a new OS release as compared to 6 months with Vista. They need to understand how to get back in touch with the consumer rather that dictating to the consumer what they want.
Exactly. It's called imprinting and it's why people stay with software that they are first familiar with as well as why a baby duck thinks a football is it's mother (psyche ref). Getting people to imprint on new software usually means that the new software needs to be as similar to the software that they are already familiar with with only a few noticeable changes. Too many changes and the user is unable to imprint or doesn't WANT to imprint and they find the software unusable.
Tell that to the anti-trust people from every state and country in the world who will tell you that there is no other game in town.
I'd probably be one of them. Switch to a mac in January and am playing Warcraft on the Mac. :)
Yeah Xcode is perfect for creating code for Macs and hopefully the new version gets better. I'm interested to see what it looks like. Eclipse may not be your thing if you are ONLY developing for Mac because you don't have to worry about a cross platform IDE... but for those of us who do, templating in Xcode and then exporting to Eclipse is much easier. p.But then again, like I said, I'm hoping the new release improves Xcode alot. Would be great if they just released a plugin for eclipse like the rest of the world.
I have not touched a Windows machine since January of 2007; it still sits idol by my desk and I just hook up my Mac laptop to my monitor now.
As to the argument that they are more expensive... when pricing something comparable from Dell, Dell sometimes comes across more expensive (when you take into consideration all peripherals and monitor and such) otherwise Macs are the same price. But in the long run you pay less; built in firewall and the unix based backend make all the added security software you need to buy for Windows ($300+) unnecessary.
I don't want to come across as a Mac zealot as I consider myself more of a Linux zealot but the Mac has been the best computing experience I have so far. However I DO think that Apple would quickly turn into Microsoft if it weren't for Microsoft.
I installed Xcode too but prefer Eclipse. And the fact that Apple just cut support for Cocoa bindings for Java just cinched that I won't be using Xcode for anything.
I've heard about NeoOffice but also heard about problems with it. Whether they are true or not, I am used to OpenOffice on Linux so just chose to stick with that.
Honestly I always save in ODF on my MAC and then just convert to whatever I need to when I need to send a file to someone else. I get people asking for PDF or Word so it's easiest if I save as ODF and convert from there rather than saving as WORD and losing some of my formatting to convert to something else.
Also, both statistic sites only give partial results; Netcraft deliberately filters it's results in some instances and securityspace just doesn't have a wide enough sample.
All in all, the correct stat is probably an average of the two.