to me, that's only a slight advantage... the preciseness of the optical mice, and the lack of cleaning are the two biggest factors for me. A good (Logitech) ball mouse that's well maintained and has a good mousepad will be just as accurate as the current crop of optical mice IMO.
I still have a mousepad (it's kind of neat actually... glows blue around the outside "glass", with a black surface. You can get them at London Drugs if you decided you need to "rice" your computer more)
A lot of people I know still use mouse pads with their opticals.
I *believe* what the XBox SDK does is add the DirectX (8.0 I think?) libraries, and at compile time link them staticly. So it's almost like coding to the hardware in a sense that the directx layer is at the SDK level ONLY, and in the actual games it uses these compiled in libraries to hit the metal. There is no directx libraries on the xbox harddrive (although I often wonder why they didn't do that).
You know I always thought it sounded more like "Wadda wadda wadda"...
Where the 'dd"'s sound a little like a t.
A nurse was helping me with some bandages the other day and she mentioned Pac Man for some reason... so I figured she remembered it. I of course, immediately hummed the theme songs and proceeded to "wadda wadda wadda"
>> GATTACA was technically impressive, had good cinematography, a compelling story and characters, good acting, excellent pacing, and it was a thriller at times, without the use of violence. amazing.
Maybe you should volunteer to write some documentation for the OSS community, instead of wasting it whining on a forum where nobody cares about your opinion.
I believe the reason you couldn't run it on an AIX box had to do with the entire architecture of the AIX line... where as (IMO based on what I've read), Apple will be using standard x85 COMPONENTS as well as the processor.... except maybe the BIOS.
It seems Apple is crippling their OSX release to not use Apple branded computers, more a financial move then anything technical.
It's their OS, and they can do what they want... but it'd be nice to see more competition in the x86 desktop world (as others have stated).
While you and I can see this, Apple probably sees only the negatives.
Interestingly though, I (who am NOT an apple fanboy), would be willing to pay more for OSX then Windows (on my choice of x86) just for the simple fact it's something new to play with. Out of sheer boredom, really.
So make the retail version of OSX-x86 $300 and let's see what happens. Hell, people like me wouldn't need support for it anyways.
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to me, that's only a slight advantage... the preciseness of the optical mice, and the lack of cleaning are the two biggest factors for me.
A good (Logitech) ball mouse that's well maintained and has a good mousepad will be just as accurate as the current crop of optical mice IMO.
I still have a mousepad (it's kind of neat actually... glows blue around the outside "glass", with a black surface. You can get them at London Drugs if you decided you need to "rice" your computer more)
A lot of people I know still use mouse pads with their opticals.
better hurry up... you never know... this stupid backdoor might be put on NICs as well.
That's a shame really... the XBox Controller-S is the best controller I've ever used.
While the new one is similar... they moved the back/start buttons... and where are ther black/white buttons? I liked that layout.
I even use the XBox controllers on my PC for some games.
Get your xbox modded
Seriously... you can change the HDD and the DVD-ROM drive.
Then you can play Stepmania as well... and a whole shitload of new songs and DDR classics.
Plus you can use the excellent XBox Media Center... probably the best reason to own an XBox.
I *believe* what the XBox SDK does is add the DirectX (8.0 I think?) libraries, and at compile time link them staticly. So it's almost like coding to the hardware in a sense that the directx layer is at the SDK level ONLY, and in the actual games it uses these compiled in libraries to hit the metal. There is no directx libraries on the xbox harddrive (although I often wonder why they didn't do that).
I'll take it :)
ohh... do I have to buy it off you? Damn.
You know I always thought it sounded more like "Wadda wadda wadda"...
Where the 'dd"'s sound a little like a t.
A nurse was helping me with some bandages the other day and she mentioned Pac Man for some reason... so I figured she remembered it. I of course, immediately hummed the theme songs and proceeded to "wadda wadda wadda"
She looked at me kind of strangely after that.
>> ...and that game with the spys and the elevators...
Elevator Action!
Used to love that game
What if you were an expert knot tier, qutting a knot tying contest, right in the middle of trying a knot?
I think this is made by the same guy who made the floating laptop. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 13/0532234&from=rss
>> Dude man, the French in Canada are the best!
You're obviously not talking about Quebec City
Montreal is a paradise, yes... but Quebec City balances it out
Please shut up.
You're giving us a bad name.
Are you on crack?
I mean seriously... come clean with us...
what kind of drugs have you been smoking?
It's just not you man... it's just not you.
trying to fix everything by throwing vowels at it.
Enough is enough, people!
So what is it... Wind Walker or Wind Waker?
:)
I'm tired of you Nintendo fanbois flip flopping this issue!
Tell us how you really feel.
>> Noone wants to see a beloved game turned into a B-movie.
Isn't that what they did to Enter the Matrix?
>> GATTACA was technically impressive, had good cinematography, a compelling story and characters, good acting, excellent pacing, and it was a thriller at times, without the use of violence. amazing.
In other words... BORING.
or if you want linux with a GUI that's actually usable on the xbox, try xdsl... with the xbox's limited RAM, xdsl is the most usable one I've tried.
http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/XDSL_HOWTO
Reading your opinion was a waste of my time.
Maybe you should volunteer to write some documentation for the OSS community, instead of wasting it whining on a forum where nobody cares about your opinion.
does it run linux?
maybe reread his comment? I can't believe I have to explain this to you but..
The poster was talking about how Trusted Computing (TM) is required to boot OSX, not that the user is somehow made to only boot OSX.
While the GP was definately written as a flamebait... it's a valid poinr. I don't see why these Apple fanboys have such blind devotion.
There have been these type of mac followers for years though, now it's just worse because they have a decent OS.
yes... x85... the 15 bit edition of the processor line I guess.
stupid preview.
I believe the reason you couldn't run it on an AIX box had to do with the entire architecture of the AIX line... where as (IMO based on what I've read), Apple will be using standard x85 COMPONENTS as well as the processor.... except maybe the BIOS.
It seems Apple is crippling their OSX release to not use Apple branded computers, more a financial move then anything technical.
It's their OS, and they can do what they want... but it'd be nice to see more competition in the x86 desktop world (as others have stated).
While you and I can see this, Apple probably sees only the negatives.
Interestingly though, I (who am NOT an apple fanboy), would be willing to pay more for OSX then Windows (on my choice of x86) just for the simple fact it's something new to play with. Out of sheer boredom, really.
So make the retail version of OSX-x86 $300 and let's see what happens. Hell, people like me wouldn't need support for it anyways.