In WoW perhaps, but the concept as a whole isn't quite so bad. Remember that they adopted it from XBox, where it's a platform-wide concept.
In games I already like, I find it fun to hunt (most) achievements as an added challenge. They don't keep me playing a game I'm not having fun with though.
As much as I hate to offer any defense of that mouse, the drag problem isn't quite true. You can lift it off the desk while dragging without releasing the drag, provided you lift it by the side-tabs. The same thing works on the pre-Mighty Mouse optical mice, and I think it's the only reason those tab things are there to begin with.
Having said that, the Mighty Mouse makes even those annoying by turning 'squeeze' into an action. Can't tell you how many times I've been on a user's machine trying to drag a file someplace and I squeeze a little too hard while lifting the mouse - poof Expose. Ugh.
Apple creates a good products -- some time. None the less most of their products are expensive -- way more expensive then they should be.
I paid for my Mini-Mac over $1000 Canadian dollar, that just is not right. Why? Because values of Canadian dollar is higher therefore Mac - Mini should've cost me no more then $400. This has been pointed out many times by many people in media -- even by mac-heads freaks.
No one can deny that OS-X is a wonderful operating system -- compare to Vista. And it's Unix core gives it a very strong security. Non-the-less we are paying very too much for the hardware. And TPM chip software consumes way too much resource. TPM is design to prevent OSX running on a typical x86 hardware. Their behavior is not only illegal but unethical.
Those of you who are not aware of TPM. Think of TPM like old South African government -- White didn't want non-white to have same right or live in a same community. The same way Mac doesn't want non-mac x86 to have OSX. So they created a software which will make sure osx only runs of x86 with TPM chip. TPM is an Apple version of apartheid.
They actually are documented. If you go to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab in the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane in System Preferences, there's a pretty long list of the default key sequences. You can even globally edit them, and add new ones. (It's even possible to say, globally override something like the "Copy" shotcut in all apps, or add shortcuts for common menu items that don't normally have them)
You can also turn on "Full Keyboard Access" there which enables tabbing between all controls like most non-Mac users expect.
It actually does, and has for awhile. You just have to enable it. Check out System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts, under "Full Keyboard Access". The setting you want is probably "All Controls". The only applications this doesn't work for are those that implement custom controls (badly), and those are few and far between.
By the way, I took the location from a Tiger (10.4) machine. I know the setting existed in 10.3, and exists in 10.5, but the precise location/wording might vary.
The problem there though, is that from the best action movie to the worst romantic comedy the animation is equivalently realistic. Because as you say, the actors are human, so their 'animations' can't help but be realistic. In games, this has hardly been the case. There's still a lot of room for improvement and, at least for me personally, playing a game with well done fluid, realistic animation is more immersive than otherwise. Similarly, I've been quite happy to see more and more realistic physics show up in games.
I agree that animation by itself isn't going to do the trick. If the characters behave in a ridiculous fashion it's going to be a turnoff. But I think that if they behave fairly intelligently yet look like they're ice skating or waddling or moonwalking, you might not notice the intelligence as much.
Essentially, games have a whole lot of areas where they've historically fallen very far short of realism. I think that as any area(s) start getting closer and closer to it, the laggards stand out just that much more.
It might be worth noting that Intel based Macs will *not* support Classic mode in any way. I seem to recall reading a knowledgeable article saying this directly, but I can't find it right now. However, if you refer to http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Co nceptual/universal_binary/index.html#//apple_ref/d oc/uid/TP40002217 you'll see that both older applications AND Classic itself are listed as things that Rosetta can not run. If Rosetta cannot run a Classic app, then it's not GOING to run as it's still PPC.
Now, I'm sure emulators will eventually appear, but this isn't the best example to present to demonstrate Apple backward compatibility =)
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The Mac version is a shim that exports your existing iTunes playlists and iPhoto Albums, while advertising the computer to the TiVo (over Renvezvous/ZeroConf) Since it merely uses existing subsystems on the Mac, it doesn't have much to do. On Windows, they have to provide a much more extensive UI for file selection etc.
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As opposed to the bountiful productivity that's normally to be found here?
In WoW perhaps, but the concept as a whole isn't quite so bad. Remember that they adopted it from XBox, where it's a platform-wide concept.
In games I already like, I find it fun to hunt (most) achievements as an added challenge. They don't keep me playing a game I'm not having fun with though.
As much as I hate to offer any defense of that mouse, the drag problem isn't quite true. You can lift it off the desk while dragging without releasing the drag, provided you lift it by the side-tabs. The same thing works on the pre-Mighty Mouse optical mice, and I think it's the only reason those tab things are there to begin with.
Having said that, the Mighty Mouse makes even those annoying by turning 'squeeze' into an action. Can't tell you how many times I've been on a user's machine trying to drag a file someplace and I squeeze a little too hard while lifting the mouse - poof Expose. Ugh.
Apple creates a good products -- some time. None the less most of their products are expensive -- way more expensive then they should be.
I paid for my Mini-Mac over $1000 Canadian dollar, that just is not right. Why? Because values of Canadian dollar is higher therefore Mac - Mini should've cost me no more then $400. This has been pointed out many times by many people in media -- even by mac-heads freaks.
No one can deny that OS-X is a wonderful operating system -- compare to Vista. And it's Unix core gives it a very strong security. Non-the-less we are paying very too much for the hardware. And TPM chip software consumes way too much resource. TPM is design to prevent OSX running on a typical x86 hardware. Their behavior is not only illegal but unethical.
Those of you who are not aware of TPM. Think of TPM like old South African government -- White didn't want non-white to have same right or live in a same community. The same way Mac doesn't want non-mac x86 to have OSX. So they created a software which will make sure osx only runs of x86 with TPM chip. TPM is an Apple version of apartheid.
Apple is an evil twin of Microsoft.
Sorry to interject some reality into a perfectly good rant, but your bit about TPM is rather off base. But I can't say it any better than this guy:
http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/tpmdrmmyth/
Macs don't use TPM. They don't even ship with a TPM chip these days. Yes, the early Intel ones did. No, it was not used.
They actually are documented. If you go to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab in the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane in System Preferences, there's a pretty long list of the default key sequences. You can even globally edit them, and add new ones. (It's even possible to say, globally override something like the "Copy" shotcut in all apps, or add shortcuts for common menu items that don't normally have them)
You can also turn on "Full Keyboard Access" there which enables tabbing between all controls like most non-Mac users expect.
It actually does, and has for awhile. You just have to enable it. Check out System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts, under "Full Keyboard Access". The setting you want is probably "All Controls". The only applications this doesn't work for are those that implement custom controls (badly), and those are few and far between.
By the way, I took the location from a Tiger (10.4) machine. I know the setting existed in 10.3, and exists in 10.5, but the precise location/wording might vary.
Note that the selling for a loss thing is no longer true, hasn't been since late November. Costs may even have come down more since then.
The problem there though, is that from the best action movie to the worst romantic comedy the animation is equivalently realistic. Because as you say, the actors are human, so their 'animations' can't help but be realistic. In games, this has hardly been the case. There's still a lot of room for improvement and, at least for me personally, playing a game with well done fluid, realistic animation is more immersive than otherwise. Similarly, I've been quite happy to see more and more realistic physics show up in games.
I agree that animation by itself isn't going to do the trick. If the characters behave in a ridiculous fashion it's going to be a turnoff. But I think that if they behave fairly intelligently yet look like they're ice skating or waddling or moonwalking, you might not notice the intelligence as much.
Essentially, games have a whole lot of areas where they've historically fallen very far short of realism. I think that as any area(s) start getting closer and closer to it, the laggards stand out just that much more.
It might be worth noting that Intel based Macs will *not* support Classic mode in any way. I seem to recall reading a knowledgeable article saying this directly, but I can't find it right now. However, if you refer to http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Co nceptual/universal_binary/index.html#//apple_ref/d oc/uid/TP40002217 you'll see that both older applications AND Classic itself are listed as things that Rosetta can not run. If Rosetta cannot run a Classic app, then it's not GOING to run as it's still PPC.
Now, I'm sure emulators will eventually appear, but this isn't the best example to present to demonstrate Apple backward compatibility =)
The Mac version is a shim that exports your existing iTunes playlists and iPhoto Albums, while advertising the computer to the TiVo (over Renvezvous/ZeroConf) Since it merely uses existing subsystems on the Mac, it doesn't have much to do. On Windows, they have to provide a much more extensive UI for file selection etc.