Finally Connectix will be able to distribute updates, which I hear greatly enhance compatibility with current PSX games. I'm glad because I bought Gran Turismo 2 and I have CVGS v1.2. It's a trip to be sitting in a library with a portable PSX on my lap (PowerBook G3/266). The problem with the current software is that the GT2 cars look like they're covered in plastic wrap (understandable though because the last update was March 1999). Hope they fixed problems with InputSprockets so two ADB controllers of the same brand can work properly with the software.
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Yes, it's great that IBM is thinking ahead to new designs and it all looks great on paper but... how about sticking the damn problem at hand. Even the guys at IBM are having a bitchass problem working with Motorola to get the PowerPC 7400 (?) G4 to climb over its current 500MHz wall. At the moment, the G4 evolution timetable is well over 6 months behind schedule and yields of _stable_ 500MHz chips are unacceptable to sell to Apple (or anyone who can get a hand on one). Until these fundamental chip fabrication problems can be solved, how can IBM even think of pushing the envelope on an even faster design?
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For those worried that Bill Gates is making the move to introduce Windoze Muck Player to Linux and wondering why the hell QuickTime is stuck with its head up its ass.. have hope! It's logical to surmise that with the market pressure that Mr. Gates will bring into the streaming industry by proposing a Linux client, our pal Mr. Jobs will finally wake his ass up and port QuickTime QUICKLY. No offense to Stevie boy but he better realize that WMP will run over the market if it get to Linux users before QuickTime does. Apple has the opportunity to save its ass and maybe get some comraderie going with Linux users by porting more of its products over.
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Just today I jumped on Quake 3 servers to play and was greeted by cheating fools with an uncanny ability to aim the clumsy railgun and blast me left and right. Now this really annoyed me, considering at three out of the ten people were getting 30+ frags while everyone else had frags below 10. All the while they were laughing (chat) and telling us how lame we were because we didn't know their "secret." Somehow I don't see how this open sourcing of game software is working any better than closed source games. Apparently it's making cheating an awfully lot more simple because the inner works of games is open to exploitation. Before this, intelligent hackers had to work hard and reverse engineer code to get cheats. Why can't good game companies just hire out a boatload of smart coders who understand quality and keep the backdoors closed when they are broken into? With this open source trend, I'm seeing preteen script kiddies pick up on code and writing hacks and cheats like it was free candy. This isn't what open source was supposed to accomplish.
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I haven't installed the patch on either of my two Macs, one being a PowerBook G3. Unless the patch prevents a DoS attack against ME, then I have no use for it. It's kind of weird that it makes a Mac user have to reboot after a TCP/IP change.. that's wack. I don't want this to work like Windoze.. I always use my PowerBook on the road and I change TCP/IP, AppleTalk, Internet Config, signature, and Keychain settings etc. etc. multiple times per day just by one mouseclick on the Location Manager. No need to reboot. To have an OT patch "break" that functionality and ease of use on a Mac would be terrible. No thanks.
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instead of embarking on such massive tasks, why doesn't MS post how to delete its own files, or how to easily uninstall apps, shareware, whatever.. from a hard drive. I've used Windows98 enough to know that installing any app is like a near one-way experience: it dumps crap everywhere, overwrites all kinds of config files.. blah blah.. no easy way to get rid of it. At least on a Mac, if you install an app into a folder (say, "Neato Program Folder") 99.9% of the time all you need to do to uninstall it is toss the folder in the trash. Okay, yah maybe also toss the app's pref file in the trash if you want, but that's it. In Windows you need a whole Uninstaller application just for that function to weed out DLL files, rewrite configs, blah blah.. holy shiznit! I've used some UNIX and there AFAIK you can just "rm" the folder and it's gone.
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i put in a limit order around 6 a.m. for 30 shares/$50.... surprise.. the damn stock opened at $299.. WTF is an investor supposed to do to get into the game??? I mean if a share is priced at $30 dollars and opens at $299 who the hell is going to be able to buy anything? Who was able to get in at $30/share and I'd like to know HOW... I suppose it was either people with ties to the company or..*dumbfounded*..Does it have something to do with E*Trade or is it because my broker is Wells Fargo?
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How the hell are people supposed to get on this when the damn stock opens at $300?!?!?! I put my order in around 9:00 a.m. this morning to buy until the price reaches $50/share.. surprise!! the stock opens at an astronomical price!! Hell i thought I was rich when I came in to check the stock price.. NOPE.. the stock never opened even close to the priced number.. this is stupid. How can anyone get shares before the thing opens at a ridiculous price?
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AFAIK, you can only place a limit order on an IPO for the day. I'm on Wells Fargo's trading accounts so I can't speak for E-Trade (and E-Trade's damn system won't let me log on OR send me my forgotten password until I know my "secret word." Dammmit what if I forgot that too?? Just email me the damn thing!). You cannot place a Market order on an IPO.
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That's all I want to know. What day? I don't want to get caught off-guard again, like with Andover.Net, which went public without a date on any finanical news site I looked on. Yahoo Finance's last feature on ANDN was on Sunday and surprise! the stock was being sold Wednesday.. by the time I found out it was already at $62/share and the day was almost over. How do you find out when the shares are supposed be sold?? All they ever say is, "the stock offered to the public __this week__ should raise over $XX Million... " blah blah.. goddamnit.. just tell me what DAY! Can't believe how ambiguous it is!
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AMD does have a winner in its Athlon series. Its performance even outweighs setups that utilize dual Pentiums. It even gives the Motorola/IBM G4 a run for the money. According to Barefeats.com, the Athlon holds its own well against a 400 MHz G4 Macintosh (Yosemite motherboard) and a dual-600 MHz PIII WinNT machine.
I wonder how StarOffice will compete with AppleWorks 6, which is already in development and has a large feature set. In fact, looks like the thing is fully Carbon-compliant and is portable between 9.x and X. Check out the new features (although I dislike some of the MS Office-like "enhancements"):
is there any practical application of this solution. i'm not saying the puzzle was "impractical," i mean is there something we can apply this mathematical solution to? does this math somehow translate into finding better ways to make 3D cards faster or chips better at floating point processing? now that it's over is there something that this formula/theorem/complexity can contribute to scientific discovery or computer performance.. ? can it help speed up the development of warp technology?
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It's quite obvious that most of the damage from Y2K is going to be the result of human insanity. Sure, a few pieces of antiquated technology are going to fail but the majority of all disturbances come the new year will be from people going paranoid, acting beserk, and inciting anarchy. It's all psychological. I would only be freaked out about Y2K if my bank lost my money, electricity stopped coming, and water stopped flowing. Other than that it isn't a big deal. Well, okay, if my cable service died yeah I'd be pissed off. But planes falling from the sky and out-of-control nuclear missiles launching without warning.. no way. Unfortunately, the majority of people are technologically illiterate and will believe that Y2K will somehow turn their toaster ovens into killing machines. Most of the deaths and chaos will be only the result of people flipping out at Wal Mart, fighting to grab the last flashlight and jug of milk off the shelves. Oh yeah, watch out for homeowners sitting on their rooftops with sniper rifles, shooting people that they think are trying to loot their houses. In the end, technology really didn't go bad; a large number of people were just Y2K incompatible. I'll be laughing in my room while doing work on my Macintosh (all of which are Y2K compatible since they were first introduced). I sure hope Photoshop isn't gonna crash!
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Well maybe since this particular borg has been found guilty of crimes and is to be "reintegrated" into society, maybe we should change the icon to Seven of Nine!
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Just curious.. what is the estimated number of commercially-produced games that have been ported to Linux? I'm talking about games like Tomb Raider, Falcon, Quake, etc.. it'd be nice to know what the trend is.
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let's see. minimum 233 MHz G3. either a dvd-decoding device or mpeg-video decoder or software-based dvd-decoder. dvd drive. a pudgy iMac can push dvd movies using its built-in dvd software-based decoder. actually, any mac with a dvd-drive can play movies. the dvd software comes with every mac (not to mention a very cool control interface).
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Maybe the problem with Trek at the moment is that its original mission is played out and old. Space has already been explored and how much more can you discover? Maybe instead of focusing a main plot on exploration aspect of the series, maybe screenwriters should try other approaches.. How about a Starfleet Academy series? Lots of personalities, races, conflicts within the community, threats from infiltrating aliens, occasional away missions for training, etc. Maybe the point is not to make a series about ever-exploring ships; how about focusing on static environments with dynamic plots (like DS9 or Babylon 5). Of course, opening the series to missions and exploration adds ideas.. I find the Voyager series pretty cool.. maybe only because I missed a few seasons and the reruns I see every night now is like a season premiere! However, I did find some of the episodes lacking in depth and good conclusions (Demon, The Phage).
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Maybe you need to get your foot out of your ass.. so what about the cooperative multitasking. Bigots like you really just use flamebait to mask your ignorance. I was formerly an Amiga user of years back and I loved preemptive multitasking. I thought it crazy to move to a Mac considering it had "cooperative multitasking." Well, I made the move considering that I was getting nothing done on my old Amiga and I am in a field of graphic design (completely saturated with Macs and insanely loyal Mac users). I can tell you right now that it's barely noticeable that Macs seem to have this so-called multitasking limitation. You make it seem like I can only run one program at a time or something. Grow up. I don't see how limiting it is to be writing this post on a browser on a Mac, which is seamlessly AND simultaneously applying filters to high-resolution images in Photoshop, AND routing Internet access to several client machines on a LAN from a software router, AND playing MP3s in the background, AND watching an QuickTime movie (audio-muted) in the corner of the screen. Tell me, how fricking lame is this example of cooperative multitasking? Geez, YOU get real. If this is how "lame" cooperative multitasking is, I can't wait to see how mindblowing preemptive multitasking will be in MacOS X.
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Apparently, at least Apple has revived its gaming API, Game Sprockets. It is a highly advanced programming standard and is very well documented along with OpenGL. Hopefully some forward-thinking companies will catch on and try it in their next PC-Mac ports. For a cool description of what was shown at a recent Game DevCon... take a peek here!
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I believe that one of the reasons the Mac market is a lot smaller than it could be is the fact that developers release the Mac port of the PC game way too late. Think about it. For instance, the day "SuperDuperGame" comes out to the market, there is a load of fanfare. PC gamers rejoice. The commercials are all over television. PC game websites write their reviews. All of them mention that the game is compatible with Playstation and WINDOWS PCs.. no mention of Mac. INSTANT turn off to normal Mac consumers. These guys will never hear of it again, unless they're the few diehards that dig for info and know the port is coming out "next year" or so. Okay, well the game company just lost out on a few million potential Mac sales. They then port the game a year later and expect Mac people to buy it in droves.. BUT there is no damn fanfare... no commercials, no TV exposure, no more PC game magazines even have it mentioned in their archives anymore.. a typical consumer would have given up long ago and assumed that the title was never for the Mac and think that good games don't exist for the Mac. This is just B-S to put it bluntly. How can you expect millions of people to know about, recognize, go bezerk, and buy this "SuperDuperGame" a year late without alerting the mainstream press, TV, and such. Mac users are consumers too.. most don't go hunting in rumor sites for game info.. they watch TV and read mags to find out what's new. Marathon was a best-selling game for Macintosh.. why? Not only was it a great game, but it was released for the Mac FIRST, with a ton of fanfare. StarCraft sold to Mac users.. but only in disappointing numbers... well hell it shipped a YEAR late and lots of people assumed a Mac version didn't exist. Heck, do you think gaming magazines would start reprinting StarCraft ads in 1999 (and for that matter, mentioning it was for Mac)? I don't buy this smaller market crap. I would bet money that a company which released a great PC title along with the Mac version simultaneously AND advertised it as such (Mac and PC compatible! WOW!) would have Mac sales tremendously higher than if they ported it later.
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I find it annoying that other users besides Mac dudes don't find this incident disturbing. Game developers are increasingly ignoring markets like Macintosh and Linux because they're "small." It's very insulting to think that countless millions of users are ignored, and their potential revenue dismissed as petty. Some people think that the API that Apple uses is pathetic and we should all bow down to Microsoft's DirecctPlay. What is wrong with Apple's API acceptance of OpenGL? Plainly put, it is a portable, scalable, and industry standard gaming API that runs on any platform. With Half-Life being ditched from the Mac, it sends a heartless message to consumers and developers: You aren't anybody unless you use Windows(TM)... no matter how crappy, proprietary, and ugly the code.. it just makes more money for developers.. period. Bottom line is everything and consumer choice is irrelevant. Things need to change and I'm hoping that you Linux/Unix/whoever guys will realize that when Mac users get shafted by software developers it will eventually or indirectly affect you too! In some ways Mac users and Linux/Unix/other users share the same disadvantage of being underdogs in the marketing/corporate standpoint. Only by resisting such developer prejudice can we make the Windows-diluted press realize that there are "other" people on this planet. It's obvious that the mainstream press doesn't give a damn about Macs/unix.. CNN's online site list of top 10 budget pcs don't even mention the TOP SELLING iMac nor do does their top power PCs include any PowerPCs! They regard Unix and its variants as rogue software only used by hobbyist tinkers and not by people of productivity. We need to gain more public attention... we can't get ahead by just always watching for Microsoft's "daily bug and security flaw" (however it's so invigorating to constantly see this in the news). We need to contact developers and let them know what we think and tell them that dammit... WE DON'T USE WINDOWS AND WE ARE REAL PEOPLE.. AND WE DESERVE SOFTWARE!! OpenGL at Apple's site
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It really is a question of, how easy is it to control apps and access, and the ease of installation. The Mac solution is simple: It works out of the box and, with MacOS 9, you can set the user to use "panels" which is like At Ease. The user boots up and sees a panel with LARGE buttons which represent applications or documents which he has access to. The Mac solution to installing programs is simpler by far than any other OS. Insert CD-ROM. Double-click CD-ROMs icon and double-click installer. Windows 9x still suffers from software developers who want people to "go to start menu, enter drive letter for cd-rom, then colon, then run "setup.exe"... c'mon how much more archaic can you get??? When you insert a CD-ROM into a Mac, its icon appears immediately (wow! they even have names!!). Your hard drives aren't some letter, they're names like "Macintosh HD" or "Hard Drive" or whatever you think it should be like "Grandpa don't click this." Since Macintosh has built-in speech synthesis and speech recognition, your grandpa's commands can be used to control computer functions or the Mac can dictate documents, alerts, etc. AppleScripts can easily be written to automate functions on the system and Macs have always had the great ability to turn itself on and off at scheduled times to run scripts, applications, can automatically sync with time servers.. damn, you name it.. it can do it. Heck, it can even tell jokes to your grandpa using its Speakable Items scripts. Read all about it
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With MacOS 9 you can set up the machine with an administrator and a normal user.. your Grandpa could be setup as a "limited" user, with panels that contain buttons for the apps and folders that he can launch, with no access to any other parts of the OS. And, if you're any kind of programming guy, you should be able to write AppleScripts to automate any task that you see fit. Besides, there is no PPP to mess with once you config the machine initially. Just type in that info beforehand and the Mac with memorize these settings and autolaunch the dialer whenever your grandpa clicks on Netscape or whatever.
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Finally Connectix will be able to distribute updates, which I hear greatly enhance compatibility with current PSX games. I'm glad because I bought Gran Turismo 2 and I have CVGS v1.2. It's a trip to be sitting in a library with a portable PSX on my lap (PowerBook G3/266). The problem with the current software is that the GT2 cars look like they're covered in plastic wrap (understandable though because the last update was March 1999). Hope they fixed problems with InputSprockets so two ADB controllers of the same brand can work properly with the software.
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Yes, it's great that IBM is thinking ahead to new designs and it all looks great on paper but... how about sticking the damn problem at hand. Even the guys at IBM are having a bitchass problem working with Motorola to get the PowerPC 7400 (?) G4 to climb over its current 500MHz wall. At the moment, the G4 evolution timetable is well over 6 months behind schedule and yields of _stable_ 500MHz chips are unacceptable to sell to Apple (or anyone who can get a hand on one). Until these fundamental chip fabrication problems can be solved, how can IBM even think of pushing the envelope on an even faster design?
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For those worried that Bill Gates is making the move to introduce Windoze Muck Player to Linux and wondering why the hell QuickTime is stuck with its head up its ass.. have hope! It's logical to surmise that with the market pressure that Mr. Gates will bring into the streaming industry by proposing a Linux client, our pal Mr. Jobs will finally wake his ass up and port QuickTime QUICKLY. No offense to Stevie boy but he better realize that WMP will run over the market if it get to Linux users before QuickTime does. Apple has the opportunity to save its ass and maybe get some comraderie going with Linux users by porting more of its products over.
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I'm almost certain that someone else has posted this but, just in case, here it is:
QuickTime client for Linux petition
Hopefully enough interest will generate the kind of discussion at Apple's leadership that Linux needs to get some attention for a streaming client.
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Just today I jumped on Quake 3 servers to play and was greeted by cheating fools with an uncanny ability to aim the clumsy railgun and blast me left and right. Now this really annoyed me, considering at three out of the ten people were getting 30+ frags while everyone else had frags below 10. All the while they were laughing (chat) and telling us how lame we were because we didn't know their "secret." Somehow I don't see how this open sourcing of game software is working any better than closed source games. Apparently it's making cheating an awfully lot more simple because the inner works of games is open to exploitation. Before this, intelligent hackers had to work hard and reverse engineer code to get cheats. Why can't good game companies just hire out a boatload of smart coders who understand quality and keep the backdoors closed when they are broken into? With this open source trend, I'm seeing preteen script kiddies pick up on code and writing hacks and cheats like it was free candy. This isn't what open source was supposed to accomplish.
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I haven't installed the patch on either of my two Macs, one being a PowerBook G3. Unless the patch prevents a DoS attack against ME, then I have no use for it. It's kind of weird that it makes a Mac user have to reboot after a TCP/IP change.. that's wack. I don't want this to work like Windoze.. I always use my PowerBook on the road and I change TCP/IP, AppleTalk, Internet Config, signature, and Keychain settings etc. etc. multiple times per day just by one mouseclick on the Location Manager. No need to reboot. To have an OT patch "break" that functionality and ease of use on a Mac would be terrible. No thanks.
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instead of embarking on such massive tasks, why doesn't MS post how to delete its own files, or how to easily uninstall apps, shareware, whatever.. from a hard drive. I've used Windows98 enough to know that installing any app is like a near one-way experience: it dumps crap everywhere, overwrites all kinds of config files.. blah blah.. no easy way to get rid of it. At least on a Mac, if you install an app into a folder (say, "Neato Program Folder") 99.9% of the time all you need to do to uninstall it is toss the folder in the trash. Okay, yah maybe also toss the app's pref file in the trash if you want, but that's it. In Windows you need a whole Uninstaller application just for that function to weed out DLL files, rewrite configs, blah blah.. holy shiznit! I've used some UNIX and there AFAIK you can just "rm" the folder and it's gone.
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i put in a limit order around 6 a.m. for 30 shares/$50.... surprise.. the damn stock opened at $299.. WTF is an investor supposed to do to get into the game??? I mean if a share is priced at $30 dollars and opens at $299 who the hell is going to be able to buy anything? Who was able to get in at $30/share and I'd like to know HOW... I suppose it was either people with ties to the company or ..*dumbfounded* ..Does it have something to do with E*Trade or is it because my broker is Wells Fargo?
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How the hell are people supposed to get on this when the damn stock opens at $300?!?!?! I put my order in around 9:00 a.m. this morning to buy until the price reaches $50/share.. surprise!! the stock opens at an astronomical price!! Hell i thought I was rich when I came in to check the stock price.. NOPE.. the stock never opened even close to the priced number.. this is stupid. How can anyone get shares before the thing opens at a ridiculous price?
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AFAIK, you can only place a limit order on an IPO for the day. I'm on Wells Fargo's trading accounts so I can't speak for E-Trade (and E-Trade's damn system won't let me log on OR send me my forgotten password until I know my "secret word." Dammmit what if I forgot that too?? Just email me the damn thing!). You cannot place a Market order on an IPO.
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That's all I want to know. What day? I don't want to get caught off-guard again, like with Andover.Net, which went public without a date on any finanical news site I looked on. Yahoo Finance's last feature on ANDN was on Sunday and surprise! the stock was being sold Wednesday.. by the time I found out it was already at $62/share and the day was almost over. How do you find out when the shares are supposed be sold?? All they ever say is, "the stock offered to the public __this week__ should raise over $XX Million... " blah blah.. goddamnit.. just tell me what DAY! Can't believe how ambiguous it is!
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AMD does have a winner in its Athlon series. Its performance even outweighs setups that utilize dual Pentiums. It even gives the Motorola/IBM G4 a run for the money. According to Barefeats.com, the Athlon holds its own well against a 400 MHz G4 Macintosh (Yosemite motherboard) and a dual-600 MHz PIII WinNT machine.
Bare Feats comparison of Athlon, Dual PIIIs, and G4
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I wonder how StarOffice will compete with AppleWorks 6, which is already in development and has a large feature set. In fact, looks like the thing is fully Carbon-compliant and is portable between 9.x and X. Check out the new features (although I dislike some of the MS Office-like "enhancements"):
AppleInsider article on upcoming AppleWorks 6.0 suite
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is there any practical application of this solution. i'm not saying the puzzle was "impractical," i mean is there something we can apply this mathematical solution to? does this math somehow translate into finding better ways to make 3D cards faster or chips better at floating point processing? now that it's over is there something that this formula/theorem/complexity can contribute to scientific discovery or computer performance.. ? can it help speed up the development of warp technology?
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It's quite obvious that most of the damage from Y2K is going to be the result of human insanity. Sure, a few pieces of antiquated technology are going to fail but the majority of all disturbances come the new year will be from people going paranoid, acting beserk, and inciting anarchy. It's all psychological. I would only be freaked out about Y2K if my bank lost my money, electricity stopped coming, and water stopped flowing. Other than that it isn't a big deal. Well, okay, if my cable service died yeah I'd be pissed off. But planes falling from the sky and out-of-control nuclear missiles launching without warning.. no way. Unfortunately, the majority of people are technologically illiterate and will believe that Y2K will somehow turn their toaster ovens into killing machines. Most of the deaths and chaos will be only the result of people flipping out at Wal Mart, fighting to grab the last flashlight and jug of milk off the shelves. Oh yeah, watch out for homeowners sitting on their rooftops with sniper rifles, shooting people that they think are trying to loot their houses. In the end, technology really didn't go bad; a large number of people were just Y2K incompatible. I'll be laughing in my room while doing work on my Macintosh (all of which are Y2K compatible since they were first introduced). I sure hope Photoshop isn't gonna crash!
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Well maybe since this particular borg has been found guilty of crimes and is to be "reintegrated" into society, maybe we should change the icon to Seven of Nine!
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Just curious.. what is the estimated number of commercially-produced games that have been ported to Linux? I'm talking about games like Tomb Raider, Falcon, Quake, etc.. it'd be nice to know what the trend is.
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let's see. minimum 233 MHz G3. either a dvd-decoding device or mpeg-video decoder or software-based dvd-decoder. dvd drive. a pudgy iMac can push dvd movies using its built-in dvd software-based decoder. actually, any mac with a dvd-drive can play movies. the dvd software comes with every mac (not to mention a very cool control interface).
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Maybe the problem with Trek at the moment is that its original mission is played out and old. Space has already been explored and how much more can you discover? Maybe instead of focusing a main plot on exploration aspect of the series, maybe screenwriters should try other approaches.. How about a Starfleet Academy series? Lots of personalities, races, conflicts within the community, threats from infiltrating aliens, occasional away missions for training, etc. Maybe the point is not to make a series about ever-exploring ships; how about focusing on static environments with dynamic plots (like DS9 or Babylon 5). Of course, opening the series to missions and exploration adds ideas.. I find the Voyager series pretty cool.. maybe only because I missed a few seasons and the reruns I see every night now is like a season premiere! However, I did find some of the episodes lacking in depth and good conclusions (Demon, The Phage).
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Maybe you need to get your foot out of your ass.. so what about the cooperative multitasking. Bigots like you really just use flamebait to mask your ignorance. I was formerly an Amiga user of years back and I loved preemptive multitasking. I thought it crazy to move to a Mac considering it had "cooperative multitasking." Well, I made the move considering that I was getting nothing done on my old Amiga and I am in a field of graphic design (completely saturated with Macs and insanely loyal Mac users). I can tell you right now that it's barely noticeable that Macs seem to have this so-called multitasking limitation. You make it seem like I can only run one program at a time or something. Grow up. I don't see how limiting it is to be writing this post on a browser on a Mac, which is seamlessly AND simultaneously applying filters to high-resolution images in Photoshop, AND routing Internet access to several client machines on a LAN from a software router, AND playing MP3s in the background, AND watching an QuickTime movie (audio-muted) in the corner of the screen. Tell me, how fricking lame is this example of cooperative multitasking? Geez, YOU get real. If this is how "lame" cooperative multitasking is, I can't wait to see how mindblowing preemptive multitasking will be in MacOS X.
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Apparently, at least Apple has revived its gaming API, Game Sprockets. It is a highly advanced programming standard and is very well documented along with OpenGL. Hopefully some forward-thinking companies will catch on and try it in their next PC-Mac ports. For a cool description of what was shown at a recent Game DevCon...
take a peek here!
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I believe that one of the reasons the Mac market is a lot smaller than it could be is the fact that developers release the Mac port of the PC game way too late. Think about it. For instance, the day "SuperDuperGame" comes out to the market, there is a load of fanfare. PC gamers rejoice. The commercials are all over television. PC game websites write their reviews. All of them mention that the game is compatible with Playstation and WINDOWS PCs.. no mention of Mac. INSTANT turn off to normal Mac consumers. These guys will never hear of it again, unless they're the few diehards that dig for info and know the port is coming out "next year" or so. Okay, well the game company just lost out on a few million potential Mac sales. They then port the game a year later and expect Mac people to buy it in droves.. BUT there is no damn fanfare... no commercials, no TV exposure, no more PC game magazines even have it mentioned in their archives anymore.. a typical consumer would have given up long ago and assumed that the title was never for the Mac and think that good games don't exist for the Mac. This is just B-S to put it bluntly. How can you expect millions of people to know about, recognize, go bezerk, and buy this "SuperDuperGame" a year late without alerting the mainstream press, TV, and such. Mac users are consumers too.. most don't go hunting in rumor sites for game info.. they watch TV and read mags to find out what's new. Marathon was a best-selling game for Macintosh.. why? Not only was it a great game, but it was released for the Mac FIRST, with a ton of fanfare. StarCraft sold to Mac users.. but only in disappointing numbers... well hell it shipped a YEAR late and lots of people assumed a Mac version didn't exist. Heck, do you think gaming magazines would start reprinting StarCraft ads in 1999 (and for that matter, mentioning it was for Mac)? I don't buy this smaller market crap. I would bet money that a company which released a great PC title along with the Mac version simultaneously AND advertised it as such (Mac and PC compatible! WOW!) would have Mac sales tremendously higher than if they ported it later.
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I find it annoying that other users besides Mac dudes don't find this incident disturbing. Game developers are increasingly ignoring markets like Macintosh and Linux because they're "small." It's very insulting to think that countless millions of users are ignored, and their potential revenue dismissed as petty. Some people think that the API that Apple uses is pathetic and we should all bow down to Microsoft's DirecctPlay. What is wrong with Apple's API acceptance of OpenGL? Plainly put, it is a portable, scalable, and industry standard gaming API that runs on any platform. With Half-Life being ditched from the Mac, it sends a heartless message to consumers and developers: You aren't anybody unless you use Windows(TM)... no matter how crappy, proprietary, and ugly the code.. it just makes more money for developers.. period. Bottom line is everything and consumer choice is irrelevant. Things need to change and I'm hoping that you Linux/Unix/whoever guys will realize that when Mac users get shafted by software developers it will eventually or indirectly affect you too! In some ways Mac users and Linux/Unix/other users share the same disadvantage of being underdogs in the marketing/corporate standpoint. Only by resisting such developer prejudice can we make the Windows-diluted press realize that there are "other" people on this planet. It's obvious that the mainstream press doesn't give a damn about Macs/unix.. CNN's online site list of top 10 budget pcs don't even mention the TOP SELLING iMac nor do does their top power PCs include any PowerPCs! They regard Unix and its variants as rogue software only used by hobbyist tinkers and not by people of productivity. We need to gain more public attention... we can't get ahead by just always watching for Microsoft's "daily bug and security flaw" (however it's so invigorating to constantly see this in the news). We need to contact developers and let them know what we think and tell them that dammit... WE DON'T USE WINDOWS AND WE ARE REAL PEOPLE.. AND WE DESERVE SOFTWARE!!
OpenGL at Apple's site
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It really is a question of, how easy is it to control apps and access, and the ease of installation. The Mac solution is simple: It works out of the box and, with MacOS 9, you can set the user to use "panels" which is like At Ease. The user boots up and sees a panel with LARGE buttons which represent applications or documents which he has access to. The Mac solution to installing programs is simpler by far than any other OS. Insert CD-ROM. Double-click CD-ROMs icon and double-click installer. Windows 9x still suffers from software developers who want people to "go to start menu, enter drive letter for cd-rom, then colon, then run "setup.exe"... c'mon how much more archaic can you get??? When you insert a CD-ROM into a Mac, its icon appears immediately (wow! they even have names!!). Your hard drives aren't some letter, they're names like "Macintosh HD" or "Hard Drive" or whatever you think it should be like "Grandpa don't click this." Since Macintosh has built-in speech synthesis and speech recognition, your grandpa's commands can be used to control computer functions or the Mac can dictate documents, alerts, etc. AppleScripts can easily be written to automate functions on the system and Macs have always had the great ability to turn itself on and off at scheduled times to run scripts, applications, can automatically sync with time servers.. damn, you name it.. it can do it. Heck, it can even tell jokes to your grandpa using its Speakable Items scripts.
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With MacOS 9 you can set up the machine with an administrator and a normal user.. your Grandpa could be setup as a "limited" user, with panels that contain buttons for the apps and folders that he can launch, with no access to any other parts of the OS. And, if you're any kind of programming guy, you should be able to write AppleScripts to automate any task that you see fit. Besides, there is no PPP to mess with once you config the machine initially. Just type in that info beforehand and the Mac with memorize these settings and autolaunch the dialer whenever your grandpa clicks on Netscape or whatever.
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