I only own 2 games for my mac... Quake 3 and Warcraft 3. Both of those are networkable with PCs. So if I had a twisted view of the world, I could say that 100% of mac games are lannable with PC games.
But I won't make that statement with having played every networkable mac game.
can you give some examples so that others can avoid them?
the patent was granted in 96. It's taken All Computers own lawyers years just to make heads or tails of the claim. Then once they did understand it, they had to withstand several years of brainwashing to wipe their heads of everything that would qualify as prior art.
fuck, the people who replied to the longer interview have quoted the super long article about 8000 times. people should learn how to use bbs's/forums.. it's just disgusting to see. mind you, at least their replies are usually UNDER the quote, unlike the MS standard of replying ABOVE the quote.
I agree completely. UNIX based systems should all get rid of the rm, format, newfs, fdisk and dd commands.
windows should get rid of del, format, fdisk and deltree.
that should fix it.
until someone writes the code again and puts it on your machine. but the OS vendors could remove all the APIs which contain calls which could potentially be used for destructive purposes.
ok, we've established that he's retarded because he goes to Limewire to download "legit" software, then makes the news.
compound this with his security screening process involving nothing more than looking at a trustworthy icon.
already the guy deserves everything he gets.
But in defense of this badly placed story, ie; the Apple section, had he been using a non-UNIX OS, then his uid probably would have had access to everything.
However, this 'tard will have just entered the root password when asked by this app anyway because it had a legit icon. He got off lightly to only lose his home directory. Maybe the author of the trojan is related to him.
This is the sort of thing that gives Mac users a bad name. Not because "macs are finally getting viruses/trojans," but because of the limited mental capacity of both the malware authors and the people who run the malware.
nearly everyone already has a PS2, so of course the sales have dropped.
dumb fucks.
it's soon going to be time for PS3, and even tho xbox has a long way to go to reach saturation point, MS will probably release a new console very very close to the PS3 so that Sony don't reach saturation first.
if you go along with everyone else's well thought out MP3 player/CD player, then you'll have a couple of staff running around on busy days replacing batteries, overworked units, etc. why don't you guys have a bake sale to raise the damn money to buy equipment that was made for the task?
Add virtual desktops as a part of the window manager.
Never going to happen. Read any UI book (including the Apple Human Interface Guidelines), and it will tell you that modes are bad idea. Virtual desktops are about the most extreme form of mode you can get.
Actually this is interesting. I'm used to virtual desktops and I like them, but I like Expose better. I've actually bought a second monitor and I use that. I now wish there were more external video ports on my powerbook:)
or some sort of splitter that can take seperate video signals for each port..then I could be surrounded by LCD screens, matrix style..;)
Many of those languages, including the Internet's Java, have their roots in BASIC.
Internet's Java?
I'd be interested in knowing more about this. I always thought that Java was derived/inspired by C++. or is Internet Java different to Sun Microsystems's Java?
I beg to differ. that monstrosity is gigantic! the PC Engine was more portable than that. if people fall for that you may as well tell them a PSone with lcd screen attached is a handheld.
What I don't understand is why people need to give kids the latest greatest console, whether they can afford it or not.
on a local trading site (similar to ebay) you can get old segas - dreamcasts, megadrives (genesis in U.S.), master systems - old nintendos - SNES's, n64's - and old 2600's, all for very reasonable prices. The damn consoles and games are so cheap that I buy them and GIVE THEM AWAY or lend them to friends...
kids don't usually care, as long as they have games to play. young teens might, because johnny down the road has an xbox, but they'll get over it. especially when they learn they can have 10-20 games for every 1 that johnny buys for the same price.
yes and no...smaller companies still have to buy licenses from the console manufacturers. It's cheaper to publish a game for a PC/Mac because you just release a demo game on the net, let it be picked up by all the major gaming sites, and then let people register your game via PayPal or some other money laundering scheme.
The cost of producing the game is cheaper on the PC/Mac platform using the large number of free tools out there, and publishing costs nothing.
Not so in the console world. If you don't find a publisher prepared to give you an SDK license, you're pretty well hosed from day 0.
This makes it very friendly to smaller game companies and coders wanting to make a break and have a ready portfolio before moving to a big company or submitting samples to console manufacturers.
the original Pitfall! so much fun to play was 'because the game is so hard - brutally, temper-tamper inducing hard'
I don't see that as fun at all. When a game is so difficult that I want to smash things, I typically do. If I'm angry, then I'm not having fun.
Frustrating != fun
Impossibly hard != fun
however, if you do want impossibly hard, MOST games have Easy, Medium and Hard modes. Try changing them. Some games have a Nightmare/Insane mode. I think that's what you're after. Quoting one game as being too easy and using that to justify your statement of all modern games being too easy is just bullshit.
So the only people using free software are big corporations? Ever heard of non-profit organizations? You know, the ones that exist to help people and communities? The less they have to spend on their IT and technology, the more money they have to spend on helping people. Helping people live a happier life.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... that is one of the funniest, most misguided things I've ever read in my life. Non-Profit organisations still generate cash. The difference is they don't leave it sitting in banks. They spend it on whatever they do.
Let me give you an example - The Salvation Army. Now you probably think they do a lot of good in your community. Ignoring the fallacy of that statement, I can tell you now, they generate a SHITLOAD of cash globally. The money comes from charity drives, tithes, and from property. Here in NZ, the sallies are, I believe, the largest property owners in the country. This all generates cash cash and more cash.
Their IT budgets get blown on the latest and greatest of EVERYTHING. Their managers always have the best laptops, their desktops are always getting upgraded, etc. Now most other "for-profit" companies struggle to make their hardware last as long as they can because they are very cost conscious.
A few years ago, the local sallies had such an incompetant fuck as their IT manager that they got a range of new desktops from IBM for their whole building. He neglected to tell anyone that they were only HIRING them at great expense.
They didn't care. They have the money. They will get more.
And no, I never worked for them, but I know several people who have. And just for the record, most of the people they help have to be members of their religion for them to even pretend to care. OK, sure I may have picked the most corrupt non-profit organisation on the planet, but they definitely don't scrimp and save on their IT budgets.
They also don't use open source software unless it's miles better than anything commercial, AND they can get 24x7 support on it.
AMD didn't copy it, they licensed it. up until the 386/486 days, intel didn't really mind. when intel released the pentium and then got nasty with AMD. I don't know the exact story, but either they delayed the license to give them a major head start, or they initially refused to license the design, but AMD was at a major disadvantage back then.
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now those spammers that he pisses off will be on the other side of the world and won't be able to smash his car up..
since when does the license holder pay royalties to companies for use their brand?
people are still playing nethack.
draw your own conclusions.
I only own 2 games for my mac... Quake 3 and Warcraft 3. Both of those are networkable with PCs. So if I had a twisted view of the world, I could say that 100% of mac games are lannable with PC games.
But I won't make that statement with having played every networkable mac game.
can you give some examples so that others can avoid them?
the patent was granted in 96. It's taken All Computers own lawyers years just to make heads or tails of the claim. Then once they did understand it, they had to withstand several years of brainwashing to wipe their heads of everything that would qualify as prior art.
Now they're ready.
fuck, the people who replied to the longer interview have quoted the super long article about 8000 times. people should learn how to use bbs's/forums.. it's just disgusting to see. mind you, at least their replies are usually UNDER the quote, unlike the MS standard of replying ABOVE the quote.
god damn it I hate people.
I agree completely. UNIX based systems should all get rid of the rm, format, newfs, fdisk and dd commands.
windows should get rid of del, format, fdisk and deltree.
that should fix it.
until someone writes the code again and puts it on your machine. but the OS vendors could remove all the APIs which contain calls which could potentially be used for destructive purposes.
good idea dipshit.
ok, we've established that he's retarded because he goes to Limewire to download "legit" software, then makes the news.
compound this with his security screening process involving nothing more than looking at a trustworthy icon.
already the guy deserves everything he gets.
But in defense of this badly placed story, ie; the Apple section, had he been using a non-UNIX OS, then his uid probably would have had access to everything.
However, this 'tard will have just entered the root password when asked by this app anyway because it had a legit icon. He got off lightly to only lose his home directory. Maybe the author of the trojan is related to him.
This is the sort of thing that gives Mac users a bad name. Not because "macs are finally getting viruses/trojans," but because of the limited mental capacity of both the malware authors and the people who run the malware.
nearly everyone already has a PS2, so of course the sales have dropped.
dumb fucks.
it's soon going to be time for PS3, and even tho xbox has a long way to go to reach saturation point, MS will probably release a new console very very close to the PS3 so that Sony don't reach saturation first.
if you go along with everyone else's well thought out MP3 player/CD player, then you'll have a couple of staff running around on busy days replacing batteries, overworked units, etc. why don't you guys have a bake sale to raise the damn money to buy equipment that was made for the task?
Never going to happen. Read any UI book (including the Apple Human Interface Guidelines), and it will tell you that modes are bad idea. Virtual desktops are about the most extreme form of mode you can get.
Actually this is interesting. I'm used to virtual desktops and I like them, but I like Expose better. I've actually bought a second monitor and I use that. I now wish there were more external video ports on my powerbook :)
or some sort of splitter that can take seperate video signals for each port..then I could be surrounded by LCD screens, matrix style.. ;)
I won't buy this one.
if you want free, then go get linux.
if you want an OS which isn't constantly updated and improved, get windows.
if you like using old OS's, get a C64.
either way, nobody cares about stupid whiners like you.
They can't do a Lynx. Atari have already done that.
Internet's Java?
I'd be interested in knowing more about this. I always thought that Java was derived/inspired by C++. or is Internet Java different to Sun Microsystems's Java?
I beg to differ. that monstrosity is gigantic! the PC Engine was more portable than that. if people fall for that you may as well tell them a PSone with lcd screen attached is a handheld.
What I don't understand is why people need to give kids the latest greatest console, whether they can afford it or not.
on a local trading site (similar to ebay) you can get old segas - dreamcasts, megadrives (genesis in U.S.), master systems - old nintendos - SNES's, n64's - and old 2600's, all for very reasonable prices. The damn consoles and games are so cheap that I buy them and GIVE THEM AWAY or lend them to friends...
kids don't usually care, as long as they have games to play. young teens might, because johnny down the road has an xbox, but they'll get over it. especially when they learn they can have 10-20 games for every 1 that johnny buys for the same price.
yes and no...smaller companies still have to buy licenses from the console manufacturers. It's cheaper to publish a game for a PC/Mac because you just release a demo game on the net, let it be picked up by all the major gaming sites, and then let people register your game via PayPal or some other money laundering scheme.
The cost of producing the game is cheaper on the PC/Mac platform using the large number of free tools out there, and publishing costs nothing.
Not so in the console world. If you don't find a publisher prepared to give you an SDK license, you're pretty well hosed from day 0.
This makes it very friendly to smaller game companies and coders wanting to make a break and have a ready portfolio before moving to a big company or submitting samples to console manufacturers.
dude, you're so old school. a measly 32meg gfx card? how ever do you toast your bread?
I remember when games were about bashing the sit out of your fire button.
forget respect. you are right. I'm so sick of people using the phrase "next-generation" for stuff that clearly is current generation.
It really shows how clueless these idiots are.
I don't see that as fun at all. When a game is so difficult that I want to smash things, I typically do. If I'm angry, then I'm not having fun.
Frustrating != fun
Impossibly hard != fun
however, if you do want impossibly hard, MOST games have Easy, Medium and Hard modes. Try changing them. Some games have a Nightmare/Insane mode. I think that's what you're after. Quoting one game as being too easy and using that to justify your statement of all modern games being too easy is just bullshit.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... that is one of the funniest, most misguided things I've ever read in my life. Non-Profit organisations still generate cash. The difference is they don't leave it sitting in banks. They spend it on whatever they do.
Let me give you an example - The Salvation Army. Now you probably think they do a lot of good in your community. Ignoring the fallacy of that statement, I can tell you now, they generate a SHITLOAD of cash globally. The money comes from charity drives, tithes, and from property. Here in NZ, the sallies are, I believe, the largest property owners in the country. This all generates cash cash and more cash.
Their IT budgets get blown on the latest and greatest of EVERYTHING. Their managers always have the best laptops, their desktops are always getting upgraded, etc. Now most other "for-profit" companies struggle to make their hardware last as long as they can because they are very cost conscious.
A few years ago, the local sallies had such an incompetant fuck as their IT manager that they got a range of new desktops from IBM for their whole building. He neglected to tell anyone that they were only HIRING them at great expense.
They didn't care. They have the money. They will get more.
And no, I never worked for them, but I know several people who have. And just for the record, most of the people they help have to be members of their religion for them to even pretend to care. OK, sure I may have picked the most corrupt non-profit organisation on the planet, but they definitely don't scrimp and save on their IT budgets.
They also don't use open source software unless it's miles better than anything commercial, AND they can get 24x7 support on it.
yes! but Xbox first!!
maybe now that the stuff is no longer supported, the games will come down in price???
*hopeful look*
AMD didn't copy it, they licensed it. up until the 386/486 days, intel didn't really mind. when intel released the pentium and then got nasty with AMD. I don't know the exact story, but either they delayed the license to give them a major head start, or they initially refused to license the design, but AMD was at a major disadvantage back then.
I'm sure google will know the whole story..