The best vehicle to use for this mission is the bulletproof Patriot you got for finishing all of Ray's missions.
Start the mission by driving around all three islands, so that you have the red dots for all of the booths on your map before you destroy any of them. I find it's easier if you take out the Columbians in the booth beforehand (either driveby 'em with the Uzis or use the "car shield" trick and snipe 'em.)
When you've visited all the booth locations, go back to Portland and go over to Salvatore's mansion. Park towards the edge of the driveway, not far from the two parked Sentinels. Climb on top of your Patriot and arm yourself with the rocket launcher. Aim through the trees and blow the first booth to kingdom come. Immediately hop into your Patriot and tear off to the next booth. As long as you don't get too hung up by the cops or flip your vehicle, you should be able to get to all the booths in the time you've got. Don't forget to pop into the Pay n'Spray to get your BP Patriot fixed if it gets too wasted (you'll almost certainly need to do this once, since the truck takes damage every time you flatten a booth.)
The people who get hardons over those games are already playing them on PC's. The "winner" in the console gaming online war (if it even reaches critical mass in this generation of console hardware) will be determined by who manages to take the game types that appeal to console gamers and make them a compelling experience online. Warmed over PC ports are not going to set the console world on fire.
Utter and complete bullshit. The only places a debit card like the cobranded ones my bank issues don't work are for things like rental car deposits. Hell, the thing looks just like a Visa card, and has a valid (4xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx) Visa-style number, so why the hell would any sentient retailer turn it away as long as there are funds in the account to cover the purchase?
Someone emails me an EPSF file created in Macromedia Freehand. I happen to own both Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand, both of which are capable of opening and editing the file. I prefer Illustrator to Freehand, so ordinarily I use it to edit vector graphics. So I set my system to open "unclaimed" (i.e. files that don't have a specific application creator signature) EPSF files in Illustrator, since 9 times out of 10, that's where I would want to work with them. On the other hand, if my friend edited his file with Freehand, I would probably just want to be able to double-click the file and have it open in Freehand (since that's the proggy that created it, it will probably be the one that will do the best job of preserving the file as he created it.) Keep in mind I still have the option of dragging the file's icon onto the icon for Illustrator and having it open there.
Does this make sense now? This is pretty much how it works now in Mac OS, Mac OS X, and BeOS (the implementation details are different, of course, but the general idea is the same.)
Of course, the way it was implemented in BeOS allowed you to set your default handler for given mimetypes, so as long as you had any program which handled a given filetype it would work fine. Any sane implementation that shows up of this elsewhere (OS X, mayhaps) would certainly provide a mechanism for setting default file handlers.
The prettier Core Graphics font antialiasing is available to Carbon apps (see here for an example), it's just harder to implement from Carbon apps. I wouldn't call this an OS flaw, it's just a place where the Carbon devkit needs some work.
Sounds like a cool idea. I did a search for "scrapbook" at Bugzilla and didn't see any existing requests. You could go file an RFE at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
If you don't feel comfortable with the (more than slightly arcane) Bugzilla interface, drop me an email (trapper@freeke.org) and I'll file it for you.
So if I were to consider Photoshop, what would it give me over Gimp?
1. Live CMYK editing (essential for real-world print publishing)
2. Font handling well beyond anything available within XFree86
3. Tight integration with tools like Illustrator (e.g. being able to specify vector masks using Illustrator's sophisticated Bezier tools and use them directly in Photoshop) and inDesign.
4. Peerless Postscript/PDF integration (i.e. produce Postscript that will actually rip on a professional imagesetter and produce usable output on the first try, instead of wasting hundreds/thousands of bucks on trial and error while your client stands around angrily looking at their watch)
5. Best of breed built-in algorithms for things like scaling, color correction, etc.
6. Polish.
I've used the Gimp, and I'm impressed by what it can do, but in a past life I also worked in a graphic arts shop, and I cannot stress enough the importance of some of the above items (particularly 1 and 4) in real-world paying applications.
If all you're doing is touching up vacation snaps, then Photoshop's big pricetag probably isn't worth it to you, but if you're trying to make a living pushing pixels, no other app comes close, and the Gimp (as cool as it is) isn't even in the ballpark.
The equivalent in the PC world was the shift to the Win32 API (debuted (really) in Windows 95) from 16-bit apps, which happened in 1995. The equivalent shift in the mac world is OSX with the Carbon and Cocoa API's, in 2001. What application running under Windows 3.1 are people still running without upgrading -- I'd like to know!
Ah, that makes sense -- I knew that there was a patch that disabled them at one point(~3 months ago?), but I imagine it's bitrotted quite severely since.
I hope they never remove tabbed browsing. I think it is one of the best features in Mozilla.
Tabbed browsing will never go away in base Mozilla proper, it's way too popular a feature of the current codebase. Some ranting UI crank (and I'm posting this as a Mac user) may get torqued off enough to do a custom build without them, but they're here to stay, like dragging a disk to the trash to eject it.
Nah, it's one of those blatantly obvious, easily automated tasks that just *screams* for a shell script, especially if you regularly test nightlies.... shell scripts on the FreeBSD and Solaris boxes, and an AppleScript on the OSX box (yeah, I could have used a shell script there too, but with AppleScript I can invoke it from the script menu in the menubar...)
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MicroSoft deserves credit for implementing anti-aliased fonts while both Mac and X people were convincing themselves it was impossible or too slow.
Um, MacOS >= 8.5 has supported antialiasing by default since 1998, and there was defacto support even earlier than that in Adobe Type Manager 3.x and up, IIRC. The CoreGraphics (Quartz) antialiasing in OSX is visually far superior to what was available in Classic, but AA in general certainly not a Johnny-come-lately feature on Apple's platforms.
Um, you forgot to search your post and replace every incidence of the words "first place" with the phrase "absolute last fucking place in the universe"
There's already a subculture of electronic musicians doing live sets from laptops (particularly in the guys doing "glitch" IDM.) I imagine this thing has them drooling.
--"System Preferences" ??? the background is not part of the "system"
For most end-users I've ever used, the definition of system is "this box I'm sitting in front of." I think the terminology is appropriate in this context.
Hell, even ripping CDs, is infinitely easier under KDE than under mac : drag and drop also.
Yeah it could, as OSX provided no options for selecting your own background graphic. I understand that this got fixed in the newer release. At that time you could only pick from the themes that Apple put together from anywhere in the control panels.
Every release of OSX since at least the Public Beta (and probably earlier, that was first version I used personally and can speak to from experience) has supported custom desktop pictures. And any Photoshop user worthy of the title knows how to create a 50% gray graphic sized to his/her screen in exactly 2 steps, approximate time required to do so is about 10 seconds.
Spent hours dinking around with it. I finally called up Apple tech support about this. According to Apple I had to create an 8gig partition in order for it to work.
A limitation in the version of Open Firmware used in beige G3's required that the first partition on those machines had to be under 8 gigs (not "exactly" 8 gigs.) Since this was prominently mentioned in the release notes for the OS X install, I have to wonder how much else you missed.
In contrast, I slapped a Mandrake install in a blank PC and it was the single sweetest installation routine I've ever seen
I've seen the Mandrake installer. I've used the Mandrake installer (I used Mandrake as my Linux distro for over a year.) And Mandrake Installer, you're no OSX.
Heck, Linux even has more apps NATIVE to it.
Hmm, are you counting all the Unix apps now "native" to OSX via Fink, GNU/Darwin and the ports system in your census?
Until Adobe starts porting apps to OSX like Photoshop and Illustrator I'm not even going to bother looking at another version of OSX.
The new version of the DevTools came out today.
http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.htm l
It's worth noting that the new free devtools that ship today include Applescript Studio, which, though I've only started glancing at the documentation, appears to be a really cool RAD tool for doing Delphi/VB/whatever-style protoyping and/or vertical-market stuff. People who have been playing around with it are quite impressed.
I think you're onto something. I have a fanless iMac, and while it's deadly silent compared to the towering dual Dell beige asswarts I use at work (Dell is truly the AntiApple when it comes to design sense), when I'm sitting in front of it the monitor hum and hard drive noises are quite noticeable, just because the rest of the thing is so darned quiet.
I've been an Emusic subscriber for over a year, and I love it. Most of the content on the service is nominally "indie", including some truly great labels: Matador, Fax, SpinArt, etc. There are large quantities of back catalogue for musicians as diverse as Thelonious Monk, Pete Namlook, Ennio Morricone, They Might Be Giants, Napalm Death, Kool Keith, The Apples In Stereo and Yo La Tengo. You're supporting forward-thinking artists and labels, not the Big [Six, Five, Four? -- I lost track a few mergers ago.]
What's cool about it is that Emusic trusts subscribers to be adults -- there is no usability-sapping copy protection, so I can burn CD's for the car, load them on my living room mp3 jukebox, or whatever.
Well, Applescript Studio looks a lot like what a modern Hypercard might have evolved into -- a very usable interface construction kit with hooks into the Cocoa API's, using natural language syntax (AppleScript)
What Quicktime got right (and it saddens me to see people falling over themselves to flame it B3KUZ 1TZ PRUHP1Et4RY) was that they spec'ed a really nice, solid API with architectural room to grow. When Quicktime was released, mainstream personal computers had 16-33 MHz CPU's, maxed out at 8-16 megabytes of RAM, a 32-bit video card cost >$1000, etc.
Quicktime's API was so clean that a video playing application (such as Popcorn or the original Simple Player) written for Quicktime 1.0 in 1991 can still run on top of Quicktime 5.x today, taking advantage of all the codecs written in the interim period. When Apple added PNG support to Quicktime, any program that relied on Quicktime for graphics file import immediately gained the ability to read PNG files, without even a recompile.
Quicktime is not a video player, it is not a streaming plugin, and it is not a replacement for MPEG.
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Selecting text in the location bar is instantaneous on my far from speedy G3. Try trashing your current profile and creating a new one.
Espresso 2 Go is frustrating.
The best vehicle to use for this mission is the bulletproof Patriot you got for finishing all of Ray's missions.
Start the mission by driving around all three islands, so that you have the red dots for all of the booths on your map before you destroy any of them. I find it's easier if you take out the Columbians in the booth beforehand (either driveby 'em with the Uzis or use the "car shield" trick and snipe 'em.)
When you've visited all the booth locations, go back to Portland and go over to Salvatore's mansion. Park towards the edge of the driveway, not far from the two parked Sentinels. Climb on top of your Patriot and arm yourself with the rocket launcher. Aim through the trees and blow the first booth to kingdom come. Immediately hop into your Patriot and tear off to the next booth. As long as you don't get too hung up by the cops or flip your vehicle, you should be able to get to all the booths in the time you've got. Don't forget to pop into the Pay n'Spray to get your BP Patriot fixed if it gets too wasted (you'll almost certainly need to do this once, since the truck takes damage every time you flatten a booth.)
The people who get hardons over those games are already playing them on PC's. The "winner" in the console gaming online war (if it even reaches critical mass in this generation of console hardware) will be determined by who manages to take the game types that appeal to console gamers and make them a compelling experience online. Warmed over PC ports are not going to set the console world on fire.
Utter and complete bullshit. The only places a debit card like the cobranded ones my bank issues don't work are for things like rental car deposits. Hell, the thing looks just like a Visa card, and has a valid (4xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx) Visa-style number, so why the hell would any sentient retailer turn it away as long as there are funds in the account to cover the purchase?
Someone emails me an EPSF file created in Macromedia Freehand. I happen to own both Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand, both of which are capable of opening and editing the file. I prefer Illustrator to Freehand, so ordinarily I use it to edit vector graphics. So I set my system to open "unclaimed" (i.e. files that don't have a specific application creator signature) EPSF files in Illustrator, since 9 times out of 10, that's where I would want to work with them. On the other hand, if my friend edited his file with Freehand, I would probably just want to be able to double-click the file and have it open in Freehand (since that's the proggy that created it, it will probably be the one that will do the best job of preserving the file as he created it.) Keep in mind I still have the option of dragging the file's icon onto the icon for Illustrator and having it open there.
Does this make sense now? This is pretty much how it works now in Mac OS, Mac OS X, and BeOS (the implementation details are different, of course, but the general idea is the same.)
Of course, the way it was implemented in BeOS allowed you to set your default handler for given mimetypes, so as long as you had any program which handled a given filetype it would work fine. Any sane implementation that shows up of this elsewhere (OS X, mayhaps) would certainly provide a mechanism for setting default file handlers.
The prettier Core Graphics font antialiasing is available to Carbon apps (see here for an example), it's just harder to implement from Carbon apps. I wouldn't call this an OS flaw, it's just a place where the Carbon devkit needs some work.
Sounds like a cool idea. I did a search for "scrapbook" at Bugzilla and didn't see any existing requests. You could go file an RFE at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
If you don't feel comfortable with the (more than slightly arcane) Bugzilla interface, drop me an email (trapper@freeke.org) and I'll file it for you.
1. Live CMYK editing (essential for real-world print publishing)
2. Font handling well beyond anything available within XFree86
3. Tight integration with tools like Illustrator (e.g. being able to specify vector masks using Illustrator's sophisticated Bezier tools and use them directly in Photoshop) and inDesign.
4. Peerless Postscript/PDF integration (i.e. produce Postscript that will actually rip on a professional imagesetter and produce usable output on the first try, instead of wasting hundreds/thousands of bucks on trial and error while your client stands around angrily looking at their watch)
5. Best of breed built-in algorithms for things like scaling, color correction, etc.
6. Polish.
I've used the Gimp, and I'm impressed by what it can do, but in a past life I also worked in a graphic arts shop, and I cannot stress enough the importance of some of the above items (particularly 1 and 4) in real-world paying applications.
If all you're doing is touching up vacation snaps, then Photoshop's big pricetag probably isn't worth it to you, but if you're trying to make a living pushing pixels, no other app comes close, and the Gimp (as cool as it is) isn't even in the ballpark.
No, you are wrong.
The equivalent in the PC world was the shift to the Win32 API (debuted (really) in Windows 95) from 16-bit apps, which happened in 1995. The equivalent shift in the mac world is OSX with the Carbon and Cocoa API's, in 2001. What application running under Windows 3.1 are people still running without upgrading -- I'd like to know!
Ah, that makes sense -- I knew that there was a patch that disabled them at one point(~3 months ago?), but I imagine it's bitrotted quite severely since.
Tabbed browsing will never go away in base Mozilla proper, it's way too popular a feature of the current codebase. Some ranting UI crank (and I'm posting this as a Mac user) may get torqued off enough to do a custom build without them, but they're here to stay, like dragging a disk to the trash to eject it.
Nah, it's one of those blatantly obvious, easily automated tasks that just *screams* for a shell script, especially if you regularly test nightlies. ... shell scripts on the FreeBSD and Solaris boxes, and an AppleScript on the OSX box (yeah, I could have used a shell script there too, but with AppleScript I can invoke it from the script menu in the menubar...)
Um, MacOS >= 8.5 has supported antialiasing by default since 1998, and there was defacto support even earlier than that in Adobe Type Manager 3.x and up, IIRC. The CoreGraphics (Quartz) antialiasing in OSX is visually far superior to what was available in Classic, but AA in general certainly not a Johnny-come-lately feature on Apple's platforms.
Um, you forgot to search your post and replace every incidence of the words "first place" with the phrase "absolute last fucking place in the universe"
There's already a subculture of electronic musicians doing live sets from laptops (particularly in the guys doing "glitch" IDM.) I imagine this thing has them drooling.
If it's easier than this, I'll eat my hat.
Every release of OSX since at least the Public Beta (and probably earlier, that was first version I used personally and can speak to from experience) has supported custom desktop pictures. And any Photoshop user worthy of the title knows how to create a 50% gray graphic sized to his/her screen in exactly 2 steps, approximate time required to do so is about 10 seconds.
A limitation in the version of Open Firmware used in beige G3's required that the first partition on those machines had to be under 8 gigs (not "exactly" 8 gigs.) Since this was prominently mentioned in the release notes for the OS X install, I have to wonder how much else you missed.
I've seen the Mandrake installer. I've used the Mandrake installer (I used Mandrake as my Linux distro for over a year.) And Mandrake Installer, you're no OSX.
Hmm, are you counting all the Unix apps now "native" to OSX via Fink, GNU/Darwin and the ports system in your census?
Duh.
Duh II, Electric Boogaloo
Duh 3D
And you support users. I weep for them.
Actually, there is progress being made.
Here is a development plugin that supports some (but not all) java pages.
It's worth noting that the new free devtools that ship today include Applescript Studio, which, though I've only started glancing at the documentation, appears to be a really cool RAD tool for doing Delphi/VB/whatever-style protoyping and/or vertical-market stuff. People who have been playing around with it are quite impressed.
I think you're onto something. I have a fanless iMac, and while it's deadly silent compared to the towering dual Dell beige asswarts I use at work (Dell is truly the AntiApple when it comes to design sense), when I'm sitting in front of it the monitor hum and hard drive noises are quite noticeable, just because the rest of the thing is so darned quiet.
I've been an Emusic subscriber for over a year, and I love it. Most of the content on the service is nominally "indie", including some truly great labels: Matador, Fax, SpinArt, etc. There are large quantities of back catalogue for musicians as diverse as Thelonious Monk, Pete Namlook, Ennio Morricone, They Might Be Giants, Napalm Death, Kool Keith, The Apples In Stereo and Yo La Tengo. You're supporting forward-thinking artists and labels, not the Big [Six, Five, Four? -- I lost track a few mergers ago.]
What's cool about it is that Emusic trusts subscribers to be adults -- there is no usability-sapping copy protection, so I can burn CD's for the car, load them on my living room mp3 jukebox, or whatever.
Well, Applescript Studio looks a lot like what a modern Hypercard might have evolved into -- a very usable interface construction kit with hooks into the Cocoa API's, using natural language syntax (AppleScript)
Hey, I was selling Amigas in 1991... :)
What Quicktime got right (and it saddens me to see people falling over themselves to flame it B3KUZ 1TZ PRUHP1Et4RY) was that they spec'ed a really nice, solid API with architectural room to grow. When Quicktime was released, mainstream personal computers had 16-33 MHz CPU's, maxed out at 8-16 megabytes of RAM, a 32-bit video card cost >$1000, etc.
Quicktime's API was so clean that a video playing application (such as Popcorn or the original Simple Player) written for Quicktime 1.0 in 1991 can still run on top of Quicktime 5.x today, taking advantage of all the codecs written in the interim period. When Apple added PNG support to Quicktime, any program that relied on Quicktime for graphics file import immediately gained the ability to read PNG files, without even a recompile.
Quicktime is not a video player, it is not a streaming plugin, and it is not a replacement for MPEG.
You're right -- I should have checked a branch build myself (I almost always run trunk builds so I was just going on the original poster's statement.)