Though I remember when XP came out people screamed (for over a year) "bloatware" "Suckware"....and now it is being touted as an great OS.
It's not touted as a great OS. It's just the best Windows OS available. I'd have used Windows 2000 for several more years if it ran on my laptop from 2002. Unfortunately, only XP did.
I doubt Snow Leopard has anything to do with it. Apple has barely mentioned it since the last WWDC, and when they did, it was to talk about how it was more of a polishing update.
WotLK is short, easy, and lacking in content. They even changed the dungeons so that no crowd control is required, and all tanks can hold threat on multiple targets easily. This makes for repetitive dungeon runs where everybody spams their AoE spells. Most of the new quest hubs are more of the same "collect 10 bear asses and return to me" quests, and the new battleground sucks. Wintergrasp slows down all of Northrend. Trade skills aren't finished, and some recipes couldn't even be made on release.
Mythic is offering two more new classes for free on top of the previous two they offered in an update. You might say they're reintroducing content they cut, but Blizzard promised hero classes like the Death Knight four years ago and just now got to it. Blizzard still hasn't even done Uldum, modern-day Hyjal, or the other incomplete old world content that's sitting there with non-functioning portals and gates. Aren't you tired of seeing that Emerald Dream portal in Ashenvale that doesn't go anywhere?
P.S. If you had clicked back two pages through that Apple documentation, you'd have seen the introduction page:
Quartz 2D is an advanced, two-dimensional drawing engine accessible from all Mac OS X application environments outside of the kernel. Quartz 2D is based on industry standardsâ"PostScript and PDF.
A PDF object graph only exists if you're drawing into a PDF context, which isn't how most on-screen drawing occurs.
Quartz is modeled on the PDF object graph.
If you're drawing into a bitmap or window graphics context, you're using C functions to put pixels on the screen; no PDF data exists anywhere along the way.
Quartz doesn't use pixels (QuickDraw does). I don't know where you're getting your information. The C functions you use are Core Graphics functions (aka, Quartz) that draw resolution-independent vector shapes (like move-to, line-to, curve-to, etc.). You even have to make sure you're pixel-aligned to avoid blurring between pixels.
See here. That doesn't describe a system for drawing to the screen by creating objects in a PDF object graph.
It simply describes the drawing order of commands in Quartz. How does that relate to this discussion?
If the contents of the screen were represented in memory as PDF data, one would instead expect to see those files contain separate bitmaps for each bitmap displayed on the screen, vector data for text and shapes drawn via Quartz, etc.
Obviously, it's rasterized to save space in the screenshot. However, you're still refusing to accept this--the Quartz object graph is based on the PDF object graph. Apple's own documentation even states this.
The problem is that we're currently led by a Democrat supermajority, so there is a real danger that the nanny government will butt in and demand this (meanwhile, Obama has publicly expressed his support for warrantless wiretapping...and the government grows ever more powerful).
But things that are drawn on screen by Quartz commands don't exist as PDF data anywhere along the way.
This is incorrect. Quartz models the PDF object graph. It even has the legacy bottom-left coordinate origin in its views which you must flip in your custom view (if you prefer). In the data sense, it does use PDF for screen drawing, which is why a PDF graphics context is available for any view that wishes to render one. It's also why a view can use the same drawing commands to render to a printer as it does to the screen, and why for many years, screenshots you took in OS X created PDF files on the desktop.
From Apple:
"Quartz's feature-rich drawing engine leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and offers Mac OS X applications professional-strength drawing functionality."
Doesn't sound like it if he's supporting warrantless wiretapping just like Bush did. Same old crap. You bought into the hype of a politician who broke his own campaign financing promise to forego public financing in order to raise as much as he wanted without any government oversight. Screw the campaign finance laws we passed after Nixon! Very, very bad precedent that will bite us in the ass in the future since all politicians will forego public funding having seen what Obama was able to accomplish with the backing of his millionaire Hollywood friends.
My Canadian friend isn't a part of any special interest group. He tells me all the time about the waiting lines in your country for his health issues.
In fact, your post sounds like the usual anti-capitalism propaganda. National health care is stupid. The government can't even make getting a driver's license renewed a smooth process. You want me to trust them with my health care. Sorry, I don't want DMV health care. I don't want the government running even more of my life. I'd rather be an individual participating in a capitalist process rather than a faceless unit in some government waiting list.
As for Cuba, Castro didn't even see his own Cuban doctors, which tells you all you need to know about their system.
I don't think he has anything to do with sequels or expansions. He hasn't even been very involved with SimCity or the Sims since their first releases. He seems like the kind of big-name developer who puts an idea out, has a software development team make it, and then gets bored with it and moves onto the next thing while his company makes money off sequels and expansions.
The starting premise is that, even though everyone thinks Windows 7's taskbar is cloning the Dock, it's not. It then goes on for several pages explaining the history of Windows' document management....and that's it. Somehow, explaining the history of the taskbar for several pages is supposed to be enough to convince you that the Windows 7 taskbar is not a clone of the Dock, even though it tries to behave the same way as the Dock.
Seriously, there's no real explanation of any differences between the Windows 7 taskbar and the Dock. You're just supposed to accept that they're not the same because of the history of the Windows taskbar that was given over the last several pages.
I would have been happy to continue using Windows 2000 at the time had it run properly on my laptop. XP had the drivers that 2000 did not. I might even still be using 2000 today if it had the driver support.
Pocket Gamer takes a look at how piracy affects the Nintendo DS console, along with the reasons so many gamers turn to piracy to play their games â" including the slew of inferior games, availability of flash carts and industry greed.
Why is the pirate's greed not mentioned as the #1 reason? Inferior games and industry greed don't force people to pirate games. Pirates just want something without having to pay for it. Simple and selfish.
There are plenty of good reasons why cross platform is an impossibility right now. One is that major game developers have already invested in making a game engine which relies heavily in windows API calls. Oblivion's Engine was used in Fallout 3. Valve has spent millions on their Source engine which they license to other game companies.
Oblivion and Fallout 3 both use the cross-platform Gamebryo engine, and Source is coming to Linux. Source is derived from Goldsrc, which was derived from Quake, which itself rendered both Direct3D and OpenGL. Given the current climate of releasing for PC and console platforms, not retaining some amount of cross-compatibility is a dumb design move.
As for Wine, every time I've tried running something meaningful, it's usually a subpar experience. I don't understand why you argue in favor of an API translation layer over a direct port that could fully take advantage of the target platform (for example, the Mac version of World of Warcraft has iTunes keybinding support and built-in Quicktime video recording).
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Originally, Windows 2000 was supposed to be the upgrade from Windows 9x for home users.
It's not touted as a great OS. It's just the best Windows OS available. I'd have used Windows 2000 for several more years if it ran on my laptop from 2002. Unfortunately, only XP did.
I doubt Snow Leopard has anything to do with it. Apple has barely mentioned it since the last WWDC, and when they did, it was to talk about how it was more of a polishing update.
WotLK is short, easy, and lacking in content. They even changed the dungeons so that no crowd control is required, and all tanks can hold threat on multiple targets easily. This makes for repetitive dungeon runs where everybody spams their AoE spells. Most of the new quest hubs are more of the same "collect 10 bear asses and return to me" quests, and the new battleground sucks. Wintergrasp slows down all of Northrend. Trade skills aren't finished, and some recipes couldn't even be made on release.
Mythic is offering two more new classes for free on top of the previous two they offered in an update. You might say they're reintroducing content they cut, but Blizzard promised hero classes like the Death Knight four years ago and just now got to it. Blizzard still hasn't even done Uldum, modern-day Hyjal, or the other incomplete old world content that's sitting there with non-functioning portals and gates. Aren't you tired of seeing that Emerald Dream portal in Ashenvale that doesn't go anywhere?
Democrats are in favor of large, centralized governments, so it is likely to be passed by the one-party supermajority running our country.
Again, highly debatable, especially given recent Microsoft news.
This is highly debatable, especially given recent Microsoft news.
P.S. If you had clicked back two pages through that Apple documentation, you'd have seen the introduction page:
Quartz 2D is an advanced, two-dimensional drawing engine accessible from all Mac OS X application environments outside of the kernel. Quartz 2D is based on industry standardsâ"PostScript and PDF.
No, I'm not wrong. Quartz is based on the PDF object graph, and Apple's own documentation even states this. End of story.
For some reason, there's this contingent of Slashdotters who absolutely refuse to accept that Quartz is based on PDF. I don't get it.
Obviously the screenshot is saved as a bitmap image to save space. My point was that views get free PDF contexts to draw to.
Quartz is modeled on the PDF object graph.
Quartz doesn't use pixels (QuickDraw does). I don't know where you're getting your information. The C functions you use are Core Graphics functions (aka, Quartz) that draw resolution-independent vector shapes (like move-to, line-to, curve-to, etc.). You even have to make sure you're pixel-aligned to avoid blurring between pixels.
It simply describes the drawing order of commands in Quartz. How does that relate to this discussion?
Obviously, it's rasterized to save space in the screenshot. However, you're still refusing to accept this--the Quartz object graph is based on the PDF object graph. Apple's own documentation even states this.
The problem is that we're currently led by a Democrat supermajority, so there is a real danger that the nanny government will butt in and demand this (meanwhile, Obama has publicly expressed his support for warrantless wiretapping...and the government grows ever more powerful).
This is incorrect. Quartz models the PDF object graph. It even has the legacy bottom-left coordinate origin in its views which you must flip in your custom view (if you prefer). In the data sense, it does use PDF for screen drawing, which is why a PDF graphics context is available for any view that wishes to render one. It's also why a view can use the same drawing commands to render to a printer as it does to the screen, and why for many years, screenshots you took in OS X created PDF files on the desktop.
From Apple:
"Quartz's feature-rich drawing engine leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and offers Mac OS X applications professional-strength drawing functionality."
Doesn't sound like it if he's supporting warrantless wiretapping just like Bush did. Same old crap. You bought into the hype of a politician who broke his own campaign financing promise to forego public financing in order to raise as much as he wanted without any government oversight. Screw the campaign finance laws we passed after Nixon! Very, very bad precedent that will bite us in the ass in the future since all politicians will forego public funding having seen what Obama was able to accomplish with the backing of his millionaire Hollywood friends.
My Canadian friend isn't a part of any special interest group. He tells me all the time about the waiting lines in your country for his health issues.
In fact, your post sounds like the usual anti-capitalism propaganda. National health care is stupid. The government can't even make getting a driver's license renewed a smooth process. You want me to trust them with my health care. Sorry, I don't want DMV health care. I don't want the government running even more of my life. I'd rather be an individual participating in a capitalist process rather than a faceless unit in some government waiting list.
As for Cuba, Castro didn't even see his own Cuban doctors, which tells you all you need to know about their system.
Thank goodness we built the LHC to provide science fiction authors another MacGuffin.
Maybe if there weren't so many tards pirating everything and inventing goofy reasons to justify it, DRM wouldn't be required to protect artist rights.
I don't think he has anything to do with sequels or expansions. He hasn't even been very involved with SimCity or the Sims since their first releases. He seems like the kind of big-name developer who puts an idea out, has a software development team make it, and then gets bored with it and moves onto the next thing while his company makes money off sequels and expansions.
The starting premise is that, even though everyone thinks Windows 7's taskbar is cloning the Dock, it's not. It then goes on for several pages explaining the history of Windows' document management. ...and that's it. Somehow, explaining the history of the taskbar for several pages is supposed to be enough to convince you that the Windows 7 taskbar is not a clone of the Dock, even though it tries to behave the same way as the Dock.
Seriously, there's no real explanation of any differences between the Windows 7 taskbar and the Dock. You're just supposed to accept that they're not the same because of the history of the Windows taskbar that was given over the last several pages.
I don't get it.
I would have been happy to continue using Windows 2000 at the time had it run properly on my laptop. XP had the drivers that 2000 did not. I might even still be using 2000 today if it had the driver support.
NeXTStep didn't exactly do all that great, either. It had some successes, but it would have faded into history if Apple hadn't bought it.
What about NeXTStep? They weren't exactly doing terribly well before Apple bought them out.
Tired counterculturalism that rejects anything that's popular, even though there are plenty of popular things that are good?
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Pocket Gamer takes a look at how piracy affects the Nintendo DS console, along with the reasons so many gamers turn to piracy to play their games â" including the slew of inferior games, availability of flash carts and industry greed.
Why is the pirate's greed not mentioned as the #1 reason? Inferior games and industry greed don't force people to pirate games. Pirates just want something without having to pay for it. Simple and selfish.
You know, people who respond to posts with "BZZT!" come off as somewhat obnoxious.
Oblivion and Fallout 3 both use the cross-platform Gamebryo engine, and Source is coming to Linux. Source is derived from Goldsrc, which was derived from Quake, which itself rendered both Direct3D and OpenGL. Given the current climate of releasing for PC and console platforms, not retaining some amount of cross-compatibility is a dumb design move.
As for Wine, every time I've tried running something meaningful, it's usually a subpar experience. I don't understand why you argue in favor of an API translation layer over a direct port that could fully take advantage of the target platform (for example, the Mac version of World of Warcraft has iTunes keybinding support and built-in Quicktime video recording).